Motor racing teams and racing tracks haven't set up "exclusive deals" on who can do what.
Oh yes they have. Formula 1, Ferrari, NASCAR, Collin McRae, etc. The names of the drivers, the colour of the track surrounds, etc. are certainly targets for lawsuits based on trademarks or "passing off".
IIRC the publishers of a superhero game got sued by marvel/dc because users were able to use the costume designer to create heroes that looked similar to their trademarked comic book characters.
They probably mean the public internet, hence the p in panix. IIRC there was a political decision made at some point which let the public get access to the internet (not just universities). This makes the world.std.com the first to provide public (dialup) internet service in 1990. Before then, the public had to make do with BBSs.
Not really. To run a Windows game you have to have either an nvidia card or an ati card, not just a card that supports windows, e.g. what a "mainstream" pc (schoolwork/web browsing/office work) or a laptop would have.
Then you have to have a cd-rom drive that supports SecuROM and various other "copy protection" schemes that violate all hardware standards and microsoft guidelines. Strangely enough, they don't tell you that in the shops, so games like "Pirates" just don't work on lots of PCs.
Whereas a playstation game generally works on all playstations (from the same region anyway).
I already knew it was "least significant bit". Those newbie operating systems should pick their own TLA:-) OIIJSIMUJFIOS (otherwise it is just some idiots making up jargon for its own sake).
Hey, I use IFF too... However I don't register my chunks with Electronic Arts so I suppose they are not really that valid.
What is slightly annoying about IFF though is that it is based on the 68000 chip so you're supposed to align stuff to 16 bits and put the bytes around backwards. Naturally Microsoft ignored those parts of the spec when they wrote.wav files.
Hmm, all I know about Sri Lankan politics I learned from the Ramayana, which may be somewhat out of date (and yup, some guy wants to rebuild the causeway by pumping sulphuric acid into limestone:-).
The point is if the IRA or Al-Quaida did a cash appeal (instead of robbing a bank) I wouldn't be so keen on funding them.
And the Tamil Tigers make the IRA look like pussies (having killed Rajiv Ghandi the Prime Minister of India, and various other people, including several in the United Kingdom).
So without knowing the full details of what they would do with the money, I would be very reluctant to give it to them, even if I think they have a point about the central government.
That's why I haven't posted for the past few weeks anyway. It reads OK, but whenever I post it says "message XXXX not found" in red so I'm waiting for them to fix that.
Well, the Tamil Tigers were collecting money in Trafalgar Square (London) this weekend, with pamphlets explaining that they thought the Sinhalese (Sri Lankan government) was biased in aid distribution. I was uneasy about that so I think I might stick to NGOs like OxFam and the Red Cross/Crescent.
Well, I worry about the centre ring of DVDs, since every case seems to have a different method of holding onto the discs and most of them bend scarily when you try to get it out of its case.
IIRC nintendo got it right with gamecube disks though.
Well, the behaviour was that the program no longer operated after the timebomb date, as intended. But simply changing the timebomb constant did not work, since the logic was faulty probably due to me not understanding what the function/interrupt call was guaranteed to return (couldn't afford manuals in those days)...
Unlike unix, the usual DOS time/date calls are in day/month/year/century, not seconds since 1970.
/* Get BIOS date & time via interrupt */
regs.h.ah = 0x4;
int86(0x1A,®s,®s);
bcdDD = regs.h.dl;
bcdMM = regs.h.dh;
bcdYY = regs.h.cl;
bcdCC = regs.h.ch;
Well Y2K stopped our overtime system from working - we had to enter dates in from 28 years ago. It also stopped a (time-limited) graphics editor that I wrote from working - it was due to stop at 31/12/1999 but the time-bomb code didn't handle further dates properly anyway! Dang DOS API calls...
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And boots up instantly and doesn't sound like a Boeing 747 taxiing.
Oh yes they have. Formula 1, Ferrari, NASCAR, Collin McRae, etc. The names of the drivers, the colour of the track surrounds, etc. are certainly targets for lawsuits based on trademarks or "passing off".
IIRC the publishers of a superhero game got sued by marvel/dc because users were able to use the costume designer to create heroes that looked similar to their trademarked comic book characters.
They probably mean the public internet, hence the p in panix. IIRC there was a political decision made at some point which let the public get access to the internet (not just universities). This makes the world.std.com the first to provide public (dialup) internet service in 1990. Before then, the public had to make do with BBSs.
Carlton and United Breweries (55%): Victorian Bitter, Fosters Lite Ice, Carlton Cold, Crown Lager, Mildara wine.
Lion Nathan (42%): Tooheys, Castlemaine XXXX, Swan, S.A.B.
Then you have to have a cd-rom drive that supports SecuROM and various other "copy protection" schemes that violate all hardware standards and microsoft guidelines. Strangely enough, they don't tell you that in the shops, so games like "Pirates" just don't work on lots of PCs.
Whereas a playstation game generally works on all playstations (from the same region anyway).
They might not have them in cattle class, but they do exist (Virgin Atlantic as it happens).
Only because, as Columbus found out, it's in the way. 24hr flights LHR-AKL and 2 hours @!*& queueing in LAX...
I already knew it was "least significant bit". Those newbie operating systems should pick their own TLA :-) OIIJSIMUJFIOS (otherwise it is just some idiots making up jargon for its own sake).
But not FIFA 64? That version sucked I guess!
Titan has a reasonably dense atmosphere. This means that things like parachutes work better than on e.g. mars.
Well, in New Zealand anyway, the IV League is the association of IntraVenous drugs users, concerned for their wellbeing.
Perhaps horse-care is "stable" in the USA, but less secure in the UK now that they have banned hunting with dogs...
What is slightly annoying about IFF though is that it is based on the 68000 chip so you're supposed to align stuff to 16 bits and put the bytes around backwards. Naturally Microsoft ignored those parts of the spec when they wrote .wav files.
The point is if the IRA or Al-Quaida did a cash appeal (instead of robbing a bank) I wouldn't be so keen on funding them.
And the Tamil Tigers make the IRA look like pussies (having killed Rajiv Ghandi the Prime Minister of India, and various other people, including several in the United Kingdom).
So without knowing the full details of what they would do with the money, I would be very reluctant to give it to them, even if I think they have a point about the central government.
That's why I haven't posted for the past few weeks anyway. It reads OK, but whenever I post it says "message XXXX not found" in red so I'm waiting for them to fix that.
Well, the Tamil Tigers were collecting money in Trafalgar Square (London) this weekend, with pamphlets explaining that they thought the Sinhalese (Sri Lankan government) was biased in aid distribution. I was uneasy about that so I think I might stick to NGOs like OxFam and the Red Cross/Crescent.
With Apaches? Dang you don't want to piss off some people over there...
yes it can
IIRC nintendo got it right with gamecube disks though.
In germany I saw them sold as "Nederlandse frites" (dutch fries). I don't think the Belgians call them "french fries" either :-)
Unlike unix, the usual DOS time/date calls are in day/month/year/century, not seconds since 1970.
/* Get BIOS date & time via interrupt */
regs.h.ah = 0x4;
int86(0x1A,®s,®s);
bcdDD = regs.h.dl;
bcdMM = regs.h.dh;
bcdYY = regs.h.cl;
bcdCC = regs.h.ch;
Yup, should have known about the ch register.
Well Y2K stopped our overtime system from working - we had to enter dates in from 28 years ago. It also stopped a (time-limited) graphics editor that I wrote from working - it was due to stop at 31/12/1999 but the time-bomb code didn't handle further dates properly anyway! Dang DOS API calls...
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Learn English from Beatles songs.
Learn French from Asterix comics.
Learn Italian from music scores.
Learn Japanese from Arcade games.
Learn German from pr0n videos.