Ah, but have any of their heirs to the throne been barred from G.A.Y. nightclub in London for fighting? Now that's liberal:-) (if he doesn't get executed anyway).
Hardly. I remember they contacted publishers of SNES games over 10 years ago to tell them not to do so (I'm thinking of you, Alien 3). So health pickups were changed to the Swiss flag or to a green cross. You have to wonder if their lawyers have kept all their letters on the subject, but I would guess so.
IIRC the russians complained a couple of years ago when the US govt. supplied them with the Excel spreadsheet/Access database they used to track US nuclear material, to help the russians keep track of theirs as they decommissioned some nuclear materials. "But there are bugs in the scripts!" they complained.
quick google later... (a pity the washington post link no longer works).
According to an article in *The Washington Post*, the US lent Russia programs with a bug that loses track of nuclear materials over a period of time. The software has been in use for 10 years, and the latest patch did not create a fix for the issue. Apparently, the Russians initially thought the bug was a trojan horse authored by the US. Then, after applying several patches, they realized it was an inherent flaw in the program, and most likely exists in the Los Alamos version as well.
[...] The article goes on to say that the U.S. was warned of the security risks but has made no public comment on the matter. The article also points out that the U.S. no longer maintains (and indeed has destroyed) backup paper copies of their inventory: "To reconstruct a reliably accurate accounting record, the Energy Department may need to inspect all of America's nuclear materials -- a huge task that could cost more than $1 billion and still might not detect the diversion of some material, should it have occurred."
Among other obvious risks is -- always look gift horses in the mouth.
Hmm, in the late 90s the major banks in the UK tried charging customers for using ATMs. That didn't last long - customers protested, and the charges were dropped, except for third-party machines (not major banks). Its easy enough to cost the banks money by tying up their physical branches if they try it again, so they all came to an agreement. However, you do get charged for using ATMs overseas.
I hear that american customers accept being charged to receive telephone calls, which seems odd.
On the other hand, comparing prices for goods between the UK and US shows an incredible disparity in favour of the US, so I don't know why USians let themselves get ripped off in services.
Also, note that under English law (and hence perhaps in some of the colonies) the offense of "passing off" rather than copyright is what causes video game makers to have to pay to use real player names in their games (since it can be seen as the players "endorsing" the game). Electronic Arts for one pays big money to get the rights to use real player names.
Yes, I have two set top boxes. One for recording and one for watching another channel (if two good programs are on at once). One box mutes the sound on digital errors, the other (Panasonic) blasts static through the speakers.
what good things Paul Allen has done with his money
Well he's hardly Bill Gates in the generousity stakes, but IIRC he did put up some money ($100m or so) to reverse engineer the human brain, which is kinda cool.
I thought it was odd that Microsoft released a new version of flight simulator on 9/11/2001 (9th of november that is) with a double page magazine poster that had the release date printed that way. They could have changed the release date by a day to avoid that.
Well I went for Panasonic over Sony in a recent purchase. But that is due not just to the rootkit thing; Sony is getting a reputation for producing low-quality rubbish these days, so that influenced my decision. Samsung and LG will overtake its reputation soon (after all, they actually make their own products don't they?).
Yeah right, like anyone would believe that a SUV was ever used off-road rather than for ferrying joshua and camilla to kindergarten 200 yards down the road.
The british did not eliminate slavery, give people the right to vote, reduce powers of the landed gentry etc. by shooting up the government as americans seem to think. There were people who had the ability to talk rationally, and who had the conviction of their beliefs to put their reputation, time, personal safety at risk. Are you telling me that all human rights were observed in 19th century wild west USA? That is a fantasy! The ethics of "might is right" don't scale well to a civilised society.
And by the publishers definition of "theft", the bosses of various major retail stores should be jailed for selling second-hand "pre-owned" versions of games (especially at the expense of new games). The retailer makes more selling second hand games but the publisher and the developer get nothing. The games industry is in fact arguing this at the moment, but is restricted by the inconvenient fact that "theft" is not defined the way many people would have you believe.
How often do you hear about how Saddam Hussein reformed Iraq into a secular state instead of a theocracy, or how he increased equality and women's rights?
Well now that Dubya has reversed that, we do hear a little about it in discerning newspapers.
But why would the US worry about a few gays complaining that they are weekly threatened with death under Sharia law. After all the GOP would probably want that introduced into the USA too.
Although it does annoy some of us in the UK that the US used us to help them reduce human rights in Iraq and move them towards religious fundamentalism.
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Well, it's the linkers that have the problem really. Blame IBM and their poxy 6 character limit on function names for mainframes for much grief. I'm annoyed at the current (modern) linker I am using which has a 32 character limit, which is very annoying for generated labels (coming from filenames from content creators).
Well a senior colleague of mine did write extensively commented code that had explanations after each closing brace. I think he found it useful in finding his way around the code, since he was completely blind, making graphical editor highlighting less useful.
You obviously need to choose better pr0n! The most logical way is to meet the stars in real life and look them over closely in order to see if they are blue-ray suitable!
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Jak and Daxter was famously written in a LISP variant, and it was a fun game (I didn't like the sequels as much though).
What is the point of upgrading film technology when for a large number of films, every pixel in that film has gone through a computer anyway?
But that strategy worked so well for the Soviet Union! Oh wait...
Ah, but have any of their heirs to the throne been barred from G.A.Y. nightclub in London for fighting? Now that's liberal :-) (if he doesn't get executed anyway).
Lemme guess, you're married to a Mac developer :-)
Everyone else develops on PC, and have done for years (since the Amiga days).
So how did that Pippin launch go then?
(for my development I use a mixture of tools).
Hardly. I remember they contacted publishers of SNES games over 10 years ago to tell them not to do so (I'm thinking of you, Alien 3). So health pickups were changed to the Swiss flag or to a green cross. You have to wonder if their lawyers have kept all their letters on the subject, but I would guess so.
IIRC the russians complained a couple of years ago when the US govt. supplied them with the Excel spreadsheet/Access database they used to track US nuclear material, to help the russians keep track of theirs as they decommissioned some nuclear materials. "But there are bugs in the scripts!" they complained.
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quick google later... (a pity the washington post link no longer works).
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:14:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dudi Feuer
Subject: Microsoft bug causing serious nuclear risk?
According to an article in *The Washington Post*, the US lent Russia
programs with a bug that loses track of nuclear materials over a period of
time. The software has been in use for 10 years, and the latest patch did
not create a fix for the issue. Apparently, the Russians initially
thought the bug was a trojan horse authored by the US. Then, after
applying several patches, they realized it was an inherent flaw in the
program, and most likely exists in the Los Alamos version as well.
[Source: *The Washington Post*, 11 Jul 2001, A19
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/A440
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:43:21 -0400
From: Levi_M
Subject: Microsoft bug causing serious nuclear risk?
[...] The article goes on to say that the U.S. was warned of the security
risks but has made no public comment on the matter. The article also points
out that the U.S. no longer maintains (and indeed has destroyed) backup
paper copies of their inventory: "To reconstruct a reliably accurate
accounting record, the Energy Department may need to inspect all of
America's nuclear materials -- a huge task that could cost more than $1
billion and still might not detect the diversion of some material, should it
have occurred."
Among other obvious risks is -- always look gift horses in the mouth.
I hear that american customers accept being charged to receive telephone calls, which seems odd.
On the other hand, comparing prices for goods between the UK and US shows an incredible disparity in favour of the US, so I don't know why USians let themselves get ripped off in services.
Also, note that under English law (and hence perhaps in some of the colonies) the offense of "passing off" rather than copyright is what causes video game makers to have to pay to use real player names in their games (since it can be seen as the players "endorsing" the game). Electronic Arts for one pays big money to get the rights to use real player names.
I thought that was the french although that has had odd effects.
Yes, I have two set top boxes. One for recording and one for watching another channel (if two good programs are on at once). One box mutes the sound on digital errors, the other (Panasonic) blasts static through the speakers.
Well he's hardly Bill Gates in the generousity stakes, but IIRC he did put up some money ($100m or so) to reverse engineer the human brain, which is kinda cool.
I thought it was odd that Microsoft released a new version of flight simulator on 9/11/2001 (9th of november that is) with a double page magazine poster that had the release date printed that way. They could have changed the release date by a day to avoid that.
Well I went for Panasonic over Sony in a recent purchase. But that is due not just to the rootkit thing; Sony is getting a reputation for producing low-quality rubbish these days, so that influenced my decision. Samsung and LG will overtake its reputation soon (after all, they actually make their own products don't they?).
Yeah right, like anyone would believe that a SUV was ever used off-road rather than for ferrying joshua and camilla to kindergarten 200 yards down the road.
The british did not eliminate slavery, give people the right to vote, reduce powers of the landed gentry etc. by shooting up the government as americans seem to think. There were people who had the ability to talk rationally, and who had the conviction of their beliefs to put their reputation, time, personal safety at risk. Are you telling me that all human rights were observed in 19th century wild west USA? That is a fantasy! The ethics of "might is right" don't scale well to a civilised society.
And by the publishers definition of "theft", the bosses of various major retail stores should be jailed for selling second-hand "pre-owned" versions of games (especially at the expense of new games). The retailer makes more selling second hand games but the publisher and the developer get nothing. The games industry is in fact arguing this at the moment, but is restricted by the inconvenient fact that "theft" is not defined the way many people would have you believe.
*Ahem* commodore pet; one model legendarily could do it in software :-)
Well now that Dubya has reversed that, we do hear a little about it in discerning newspapers. But why would the US worry about a few gays complaining that they are weekly threatened with death under Sharia law. After all the GOP would probably want that introduced into the USA too.
Although it does annoy some of us in the UK that the US used us to help them reduce human rights in Iraq and move them towards religious fundamentalism.
Well, it's the linkers that have the problem really. Blame IBM and their poxy 6 character limit on function names for mainframes for much grief. I'm annoyed at the current (modern) linker I am using which has a 32 character limit, which is very annoying for generated labels (coming from filenames from content creators).
Well a senior colleague of mine did write extensively commented code that had explanations after each closing brace. I think he found it useful in finding his way around the code, since he was completely blind, making graphical editor highlighting less useful.
Well, the sysadmin couldn't be bothered to create a new account so the new guy just used the olds guys password :-)
Gah! Wash your hands, e.coli boy! I wish we bowed in the west instead of shook hands, there are so many dirty people out there.
You obviously need to choose better pr0n! The most logical way is to meet the stars in real life and look them over closely in order to see if they are blue-ray suitable!
My parents have a shellac recording of edisons actual voice from 1918, talking about WW1, which I found interesting.