Well, argentina did invade the falklands since they thought there was oil there. It must have turned out to be more expensive than people thought though.
Speaking of disputed areas with oil, I wonder how the Spratly islands (between china, phillipines, vietnam) are going at the moment...
Um, don't forget that Sep 11th was the largest terrorist attack on Britons ever. IIRC more British citizens died in that attack than in any IRA/Provisional IRA/Real IRA attack.
I also forgot about the UK: kick all the unionists out of Northern Ireland back to England, give NI back to Ireland, and split Scotland off.
I am no expert but IIRC the unionists are scots, not english. And scots are originally Irish, i.e. the Scots (an irish people) invaded scotland/caledonia/whatever, displacing the locals, and then (after taking over the english throne with King James 1/6) some of them went back to ireland. The english colonists were mainly around "the pale" of dublin.
I never studied that so would be happy to hear an improved version:-)
Perhaps you could split off scotland and ireland together:-) but that might not be so peaceful...
You could go down the route sadly used in new zealand and divide the country by watershed... teach the californians for building a 1000 square mile city in the middle of a desert.
Seriously rich is treating your national health service as your private health service. I heard a story that Kerry Packer once had his life saved by a piece of equipment in an ambulance in Australia. When he heard that most ambulances didn't have them, he put up half the money to have them installed on every ambulance in the country:-)
However, that's more impressive than obscene.
The gameboy is designed to run off cartridge 100% of the time. It will still work in 10 years time. Cheap PC CD-ROMs are not designed to be running 100% of the time, and will fail due to moving parts.
Scenario 4). Use a CD/DVD rom drive from a manufacturer that SecuROM doesn't work on, e.g. Philips (who only *invented* the CD standard). Watch the spinny icon as the stupid code fails to work, and the game that you bought is just an expensive coaster.
Your helpdesk would be absolutely flooded with people who bought legitimate copies of the game.
And this would bother publishers how? They put technical help-lines on premium rate phone lines after all. The more bugs in their code, the more money they make from people ringing up for help.
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People who tell you how great they are, are never close to as good as they say.
A few years ago I thought it was ludicrous when you saw on Hollywood films someone deleting a small text file and it would take 30 seconds, complete with cheery animation and progress bar... I thought "sheesh, its only changing a sector or too, that would be done in 20ms in real life".
Now of course microsoft has changed their operating system to match the Hollywood expectations, and I have seen it take ~30 seconds to delete a 1K text file...
You assume there is no time-of-day/date chip or communication system within the voting machine. The date of the real election was known to the developers/any putative hackers in advance.
Thank you! My point actually was that those companies have already gone out of business (filed for bankruptcy/receivership) and are selling off their assets...
However the CEOs of both companies (Rod Cousens, Jez San) are trying to buy some of the assets back themselves.
Yes, I did know that Vivendi is actually the Paris sewerage company (companie generale des eaux). They bought up the local train company (Connex) and lost the franchise for being too crap. And since I lost many colleagues over that mess (Worlds Scariest Police Chases 2 being cancelled) that was rather the point I was making.
The likelihood of Acclaim going out of business is what?
Acclaim is actually doing well?...
No, as I thought everyone knew, Acclaim filed for bankruptcy on Sep 1 2004. So they are not doing well. Argonaut has gone bust too, as has been covered extensively in the games news. They were just the most recent examples of companies going bust I thought of.
They are kinda handy for tracking down murderers though. London has a 90 something percent clearup rate while Paris and New York are 60 something percent.
The big problem comes when face recognition technology comes down in price/up in accuracy enough for it to be routinely used, instead of requiring lots of expensive live people to use the system.
Well lots of people own consoles and lots of people own PCs. The odds reflect what those people think will sell more that week (in the UK).
I think that San Andreas was more anticipated by the general public than half-life 2. And amongst PC games it was equally anticipated with Doom 3 (which has been out for a while now). Heck, I might even buy it myself once the price comes down if the registration is made less offensive.
If you think they're wrong you have the option of putting your money on it. I'm not a gambler so I won't.
I'm slightly surprised that their odds of Hilary Clinton becoming president in 2008 are 5 to 1 though.
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Speaking of disputed areas with oil, I wonder how the Spratly islands (between china, phillipines, vietnam) are going at the moment...
Yeah, but that Webster fellow wanted Americans to make up their own language instead of using English, and had some success.
Um, Argentina invaded them, the locals called for backup as they were entitled to, it came, the invaders were repulsed.
I am sure that if e.g. venuzuala invaded puerto rico, the united states would intervene if the puerto ricans asked for help.
Um, don't forget that Sep 11th was the largest terrorist attack on Britons ever. IIRC more British citizens died in that attack than in any IRA/Provisional IRA/Real IRA attack.
I think the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Seas has recognised it (and tibet) but I doubt any country recognises it.
I am no expert but IIRC the unionists are scots, not english. And scots are originally Irish, i.e. the Scots (an irish people) invaded scotland/caledonia/whatever, displacing the locals, and then (after taking over the english throne with King James 1/6) some of them went back to ireland. The english colonists were mainly around "the pale" of dublin.
I never studied that so would be happy to hear an improved version :-)
Perhaps you could split off scotland and ireland together :-) but that might not be so peaceful...
You could go down the route sadly used in new zealand and divide the country by watershed... teach the californians for building a 1000 square mile city in the middle of a desert.
Average Joe is using the national health service.
Wealthy is having a private doctor/hospital.
Seriously rich is treating your national health service as your private health service. I heard a story that Kerry Packer once had his life saved by a piece of equipment in an ambulance in Australia. When he heard that most ambulances didn't have them, he put up half the money to have them installed on every ambulance in the country :-)
However, that's more impressive than obscene.
The gameboy is designed to run off cartridge 100% of the time. It will still work in 10 years time. Cheap PC CD-ROMs are not designed to be running 100% of the time, and will fail due to moving parts.
Scenario 4). Use a CD/DVD rom drive from a manufacturer that SecuROM doesn't work on, e.g. Philips (who only *invented* the CD standard). Watch the spinny icon as the stupid code fails to work, and the game that you bought is just an expensive coaster.
And this would bother publishers how? They put technical help-lines on premium rate phone lines after all. The more bugs in their code, the more money they make from people ringing up for help.
Peter Molyneaux has got problems then! :-)
Now of course microsoft has changed their operating system to match the Hollywood expectations, and I have seen it take ~30 seconds to delete a 1K text file...
Compare:
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Yeah, that's why you're poking zero to them huh? :-)
53280 == $D020
And remember that BASIC has an inclusive "for" command, unlike C or C++, so you should use 4095 rather than 4096.
The famous patent on XOR (^) for one... (using xor to draw sprites on monochrome bitmap screens).
You assume there is no time-of-day/date chip or communication system within the voting machine. The date of the real election was known to the developers/any putative hackers in advance.
A. Because Floridans are saying "Yeah Global Warming... let's get me some more of that!" :-)
However the CEOs of both companies (Rod Cousens, Jez San) are trying to buy some of the assets back themselves.
Yes, I did know that Vivendi is actually the Paris sewerage company (companie generale des eaux). They bought up the local train company (Connex) and lost the franchise for being too crap. And since I lost many colleagues over that mess (Worlds Scariest Police Chases 2 being cancelled) that was rather the point I was making.
Acclaim is actually doing well?...
No, as I thought everyone knew, Acclaim filed for bankruptcy on Sep 1 2004. So they are not doing well. Argonaut has gone bust too, as has been covered extensively in the games news. They were just the most recent examples of companies going bust I thought of.
The likelihood of Acclaim going out of business is what?
The likelihood of Argonaut going out of business is what?
The likelihood of Virgin/Vivendi/Fox being sold to another company is what?
The big problem comes when face recognition technology comes down in price/up in accuracy enough for it to be routinely used, instead of requiring lots of expensive live people to use the system.
I think that San Andreas was more anticipated by the general public than half-life 2. And amongst PC games it was equally anticipated with Doom 3 (which has been out for a while now). Heck, I might even buy it myself once the price comes down if the registration is made less offensive.
If you think they're wrong you have the option of putting your money on it. I'm not a gambler so I won't.
I'm slightly surprised that their odds of Hilary Clinton becoming president in 2008 are 5 to 1 though.
So it can be that much anticipated by the mass market...
Funny, I remember when a Commodore 64 video game system was used to run an accounting package by my dentist. That was, oh, twenty years ago.