I will not make any assumptions as to whether that is a joke or not, but if you were being serious, you may like to know that members of many continental European countries use a comma as their decimal point and vice versa. Alas 13,000.00 would be written as 13.000,00. As the original poster's name includes the word 'dutch' it may give an indication along this line.
But Xara is more than 10 years old, it was the name given in 1995 to the PC orientated side of Computer Concepts, an Acorn orientated company started in 1981. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xara
What ADSL are you talking about? I'm on plusnet ADSL and get a static IP, 8Mb/s, all for less than 20 squid! Also my traffic isn't shafted through an array of transparent proxies and monitoring equipment like it is on ntl. It's much more reliable too, and better ping responses.
He clicked on a banner add to donate to the UK's Disasters Emergency Committee's appeal for the December tsunami in Asia, and got no confirmation page. His first thought was that this was a phising site and he'd been scammed. So he panicked and tried the directory traversal...
So he clicked on a banner ad in lynx? Sounds fishy to me.
No, the obvious question to ask is...How long will we have to wait to actually buy a PSP?
I live in the UK you see and Sony don't like importers and haven't released the blighter yet! Grrrr!
That's as long as the PSP is available by Christmas! How much more can they delay it by? I am tired of hearing about you guys in America messing about with one before I evn get a chance to touch one.
(I'm in the UK BTW)
Who said anything about a better system. I would prefer an Itanium than my x86-64 box. Only thing is incompatibilities and cost. The actual technology is far superior. Another Betamax is what it is. Long live marketing.
Not really comparable though. Print is usually based on 3-7 colours whereas these screens (I haven't looked in detail) are likely to have upwards of 1000's of colours. This will allow you to do things like antialiasing that improve the image on a like for like resolution.
Not so wide of the mark. The person that sold the computers did so because he wanted to raise money to go to the US. Why? So that he could meet American girls. He's going to have a shock when he gets there;-)
Yeah, but will the thick muggers know that? I don't think they will believe what someone else tells then and so it would take about 5 failed attempts before they realise that severed fingers don't work. Multiply that by the number of muggers and you get a lot of ruined lives.
Just because something is impossible, doesn't mean people won't try it!
I suppose if you are going to take notes in lectures, something that is quick to write with and enables you to draw sketches as and when necessary can be more than easily found in a tablet.
Then, in the really boring lectures just whip open Spider Solitaire and away you go!
It's like me choosing a Renault over a Jaguar just because they woop their ass in Formula 1. Tweaking the OS on a souped up server is not the same as using an out of the box distro on bog standard hardware.
What's the bet the 'tweaking' involves recompiling every component with hardware optimised CFLAGS etc.?
I just tried to enter 1:30 on 13/May (won't say which year) and the confirmation page said I had entered around 11 on the 12/May. Perhaps he just did the same thing.
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I will not make any assumptions as to whether that is a joke or not, but if you were being serious, you may like to know that members of many continental European countries use a comma as their decimal point and vice versa. Alas 13,000.00 would be written as 13.000,00. As the original poster's name includes the word 'dutch' it may give an indication along this line.
Yeah, but how exactly is it a mesh?
But Xara is more than 10 years old, it was the name given in 1995 to the PC orientated side of Computer Concepts, an Acorn orientated company started in 1981. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xara
What ADSL are you talking about? I'm on plusnet ADSL and get a static IP, 8Mb/s, all for less than 20 squid! Also my traffic isn't shafted through an array of transparent proxies and monitoring equipment like it is on ntl. It's much more reliable too, and better ping responses.
What about people who ride horses? That'll confuse the little blighter!
Off Topic? Gogs are the welsh name for people from North Wales. Blydu Tydu is faux Welsh spelling for Bloody Tidy, a welsh saying!
Save The Gogs!
Count yourselves lucky! I just did the calculations and our fuel costs the equvalent of just under $6 a gallon! (GBP 0.90 / litre)
And you still won't get laid!
No, the obvious question to ask is...How long will we have to wait to actually buy a PSP? I live in the UK you see and Sony don't like importers and haven't released the blighter yet! Grrrr!
That's as long as the PSP is available by Christmas! How much more can they delay it by? I am tired of hearing about you guys in America messing about with one before I evn get a chance to touch one. (I'm in the UK BTW)
Solid black and white shading??? Which one is it? Solid or shaded?
Actually Swansea is obscured completely by the word Cardiff. Typical really as when anything happens in Wales, people can't see past Cardiff.
Who said anything about a better system. I would prefer an Itanium than my x86-64 box. Only thing is incompatibilities and cost. The actual technology is far superior. Another Betamax is what it is. Long live marketing.
Are you sure these drives still work?
Here's some targeted marketing that will hopefully have an effect on you. Buy a dictionary, it will affect your spelling!
Not really comparable though. Print is usually based on 3-7 colours whereas these screens (I haven't looked in detail) are likely to have upwards of 1000's of colours. This will allow you to do things like antialiasing that improve the image on a like for like resolution.
Not so wide of the mark. The person that sold the computers did so because he wanted to raise money to go to the US. Why? So that he could meet American girls. He's going to have a shock when he gets there ;-)
Just because something is impossible, doesn't mean people won't try it!
The answer to this is...
Yes! (2) and Yes! (4)
I suppose if you are going to take notes in lectures, something that is quick to write with and enables you to draw sketches as and when necessary can be more than easily found in a tablet.
Then, in the really boring lectures just whip open Spider Solitaire and away you go!
Is it obvious I was a bum at Uni? ;-)
This is daft!
It's like me choosing a Renault over a Jaguar just because they woop their ass in Formula 1. Tweaking the OS on a souped up server is not the same as using an out of the box distro on bog standard hardware.
What's the bet the 'tweaking' involves recompiling every component with hardware optimised CFLAGS etc.?
Could be a bug in his time calculator.
I just tried to enter 1:30 on 13/May (won't say which year) and the confirmation page said I had entered around 11 on the 12/May. Perhaps he just did the same thing.
Anybody else get this?