You mean apart from these critical flaws which let any website take over your machine by exploiting all the buffer overflows in it. The difference between IE and Firefox is that IE has a better automatic update system for patching security issues.
Whereas with Office Update (required today to stop Microsoft from executing all your JPG images) it gets halfway through updating it and then says "Please insert original CD-ROM".
Aargh! Sysadmin, where is that office CD you promised blind you had a copy of five minutes ago? Did it get lost in the move between offices?
India also no doubt has a "don't assassinate the prime minister" and a "don't let the parliament get invaded" policy but the practice and the theory don't always match up. I hope the protocols for those nukes are more secure than e.g. the lives of the leaders of the country.
Yup, don't knock on a door in Florida to ask for directions, as some deceased British tourists did. A few years back killing tourists (british and german) was their state sport.
According to that info at least (10 years old I know) Switzerland had one of the highest rates of gun deaths in europe: 5.31 per 100000. Of course this is still less than the USAs 14.24, but is much more than Englands 0.41 or Japans 0.05.
Yup, americans were 284 times as gun-crazy as the japanese in that year.
I have read more recent articles (this year) in paper magazines which mention switzerlands problems with guns also. But I do think that the restrictions on their use, and the military training both help switzerland compared to if the guns were there but the training wasn't.
I would have expected gun deaths to creep up a little in England since then (judging by the tastes in rap music) but not as high as an armed country.
It's a US website. They don't make anything in the US these days except guns, flags and movies. If you wanted technological advice you need to start reading Chinese or Japanese.
The standard way for americans to respond to someone hanging around their car is to send in a helicopter gunship to blow up as many of them as possible.
It also helps if at least one of the soon-to-be-dead guys is filming for a network news agency. That way you are guaranteed that the rest of the world will say "Hey, those americans are really nice guys. Let's help them in any way we can."
And this doesn't even look like a decent anthology of their stuff. Where're Dig Dug, Missile Command, Ms. Pac-Man, Moon Patrol, Defender? All missing due to legal issues? Shame.
Dig Dug - Namco
Ms Pac-man - Namco (originally a midway hack but I think namco bought back the rights)
Moon Patrol - Irem
Defender - Williams
Missile Command - Atari - well 1 out of 5 ain't bad! But there were several Ataris... (c.f. Tengen).
So yeah, generally to get official rereleases you need to get permission from the copyright holder; it's easier just to rerelease your own stuff instead of splitting the royalties.
Apparently not all airlines require passports for internal flights in the UK; some accept various other forms of photo id (such as an armed services card or a drivers license).
Here, you have to provide proof of entitlement to live in the country when you accept a job or open a bank account, enrol in a class or collect benefits. If a bank/employer finds out you don't have the right papers they in theory are supposed to tell on you. The "id card" debate in the uk is about making this all fit together using a master system, and many people object to it.
I would have assumed that whereever they find you using a Ruritanian passport here for serious ID checking (i.e. bank account rather than blockbuster account) they should check it to see if you are an overstayer, but IIRC they have rather a large backlog of that sort of thing.
US immigration does seem strange to me. They check you on the way in but not on the way out, so they don't know who is in the country.
North Korea: "violating the rules of the collective socialistic life" = 2years.
Iran, Mauritania, Sudan, Yemen, probably Saudi Arabia, possibly Pakistan, possibly northern Nigeria - death penalty. Because it's a religion of peace and good will.
(Having just attempted to play another "PC" game demo - thief3):
The standard method used by PC games if they detect a non-nvidia non-ati card is to crash the application. Mind you, according to the readmes, they probably do that anyway if you dare to press ALT-TAB while a game is running (you have to be admin, naturally).
Perhaps when microsoft got up to DirectX 8 or so they thought "nah, this multitasking thing will never catch on, lets go back to single-tasking".
I thought the bleeding edge graphics card is the Nvidia GeForce 6800 with its "unlimited" pixel shaders... but it seems nvidia don't make a decent mass-market card. So I guess the ATI one is sensible if I can find a decent price on it. It seems some internet companies i've never heard of sell them (for approx £75), but "high-street" shops don't seem to have much good stuff under £130.
The first place I looked that card (ATI 9600 XT) cost £130-£140 (128M/256M) which is $230 to $250. It must be nice when you get stuff at a third the price.
AFAIK no Intel chip supports the Athlon instructions (3dnow).
After just looking it up, it seems my new Athlon XP will run Pentium 3 instructions, but not all Pentium 4 instructions. If you had an Athlon or a Duron though you would be in trouble if you ran "Adobe Premiere", by at least one account on the net.
Well, I was hoping that DirectX 9.0 cards with fancy features (unlimited length pixel shaders) would come down in price and have a reasonable life-span. Not as long as a console perhaps but more than a year anyway! It didn't come with a decent graphics or sound card but I will move my old sound card into it and look at buying a new gfx card if any games merit the expense.
I've not done engine code recently on PC but some of those GeForce 6 features look tempting, if expensive.
I've bought several games over the years for PCs and quite a few of them didn't work. For starters the "copy protection" companies will knock out a significant proportion of PCs.
And since I have an AMD chip (which AFAIK do not support all Intel instructions, but have quite a few of their own extra instructions) I would be reluctant to spend money if it specifically claimed it required a pentium 3 chip (and didn't mention Athlon), when I could spend money on a game that will work (for PS2, GameCube or GBA), and doesn't require me to click on a huge EULA claiming that it probably won't. But the main thing discouraging me is that I tried a demo disk of another game recently (Medieval Lords) and it didn't work, so my mind was not in a positive mood.
When I buy a new graphics card, I will probably get a couple of (cheap) games and see if they work.
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Who just define up to 8 bad pixels as "not being defective".
You mean apart from these critical flaws which let any website take over your machine by exploiting all the buffer overflows in it. The difference between IE and Firefox is that IE has a better automatic update system for patching security issues.
Aargh! Sysadmin, where is that office CD you promised blind you had a copy of five minutes ago? Did it get lost in the move between offices?
India also no doubt has a "don't assassinate the prime minister" and a "don't let the parliament get invaded" policy but the practice and the theory don't always match up. I hope the protocols for those nukes are more secure than e.g. the lives of the leaders of the country.
Good point, but they just use the english acronyms e.g. DVI, TFT, LCD.
Visa Roster were dressed slighty more upmarket than Ben "Jonny Depp in Pirates of the Carribean" Daglish though. :-)
And Jon Hare did good on the bass...
I never did figure out how to insert a CD-ROM or an internet connection directly into a pentium chip like on the adverts...
Yup, don't knock on a door in Florida to ask for directions, as some deceased British tourists did. A few years back killing tourists (british and german) was their state sport.
According to that info at least (10 years old I know) Switzerland had one of the highest rates of gun deaths in europe: 5.31 per 100000. Of course this is still less than the USAs 14.24, but is much more than Englands 0.41 or Japans 0.05.
Yup, americans were 284 times as gun-crazy as the japanese in that year.
I have read more recent articles (this year) in paper magazines which mention switzerlands problems with guns also. But I do think that the restrictions on their use, and the military training both help switzerland compared to if the guns were there but the training wasn't.
I would have expected gun deaths to creep up a little in England since then (judging by the tastes in rap music) but not as high as an armed country.
It's a US website. They don't make anything in the US these days except guns, flags and movies. If you wanted technological advice you need to start reading Chinese or Japanese.
The standard way for americans to respond to someone hanging around their car is to send in a helicopter gunship to blow up as many of them as possible. It also helps if at least one of the soon-to-be-dead guys is filming for a network news agency. That way you are guaranteed that the rest of the world will say "Hey, those americans are really nice guys. Let's help them in any way we can."
Dracula
The Cheeky Girls.
Michael Howard, leader of the Official Evil Party in the UK.
O-zone... Mai ya hi, mai ya ho, mai ya hu, mai ya ha ha (ok they were originally moldovan, but the song is in romanian).
Yup, nothing scary at all. Nothing to be worried about.
Car alarms are based on proximity? I thought they were just on a timer, set to go off at 3am.
Don't they ever vote in Chicago?
So yeah, generally to get official rereleases you need to get permission from the copyright holder; it's easier just to rerelease your own stuff instead of splitting the royalties.
Apparently not all airlines require passports for internal flights in the UK; some accept various other forms of photo id (such as an armed services card or a drivers license).
Here, you have to provide proof of entitlement to live in the country when you accept a job or open a bank account, enrol in a class or collect benefits. If a bank/employer finds out you don't have the right papers they in theory are supposed to tell on you. The "id card" debate in the uk is about making this all fit together using a master system, and many people object to it.
I would have assumed that whereever they find you using a Ruritanian passport here for serious ID checking (i.e. bank account rather than blockbuster account) they should check it to see if you are an overstayer, but IIRC they have rather a large backlog of that sort of thing.
US immigration does seem strange to me. They check you on the way in but not on the way out, so they don't know who is in the country.
Iran, Mauritania, Sudan, Yemen, probably Saudi Arabia, possibly Pakistan, possibly northern Nigeria - death penalty. Because it's a religion of peace and good will.
If your intelligence services work correctly (and they know *who* the bad guys are) then knowing *where* they are might be of benefit.
On the other hand, most people accept credit cards signed "Mickey Mouse" so it all depends.
The standard method used by PC games if they detect a non-nvidia non-ati card is to crash the application. Mind you, according to the readmes, they probably do that anyway if you dare to press ALT-TAB while a game is running (you have to be admin, naturally).
Perhaps when microsoft got up to DirectX 8 or so they thought "nah, this multitasking thing will never catch on, lets go back to single-tasking".
That law was changed a few months ago - orgies have been legalised in England as of this year. Go to a DVD shop for more details...
I thought the bleeding edge graphics card is the Nvidia GeForce 6800 with its "unlimited" pixel shaders... but it seems nvidia don't make a decent mass-market card. So I guess the ATI one is sensible if I can find a decent price on it. It seems some internet companies i've never heard of sell them (for approx £75), but "high-street" shops don't seem to have much good stuff under £130.
The first place I looked that card (ATI 9600 XT) cost £130-£140 (128M/256M) which is $230 to $250. It must be nice when you get stuff at a third the price.
After just looking it up, it seems my new Athlon XP will run Pentium 3 instructions, but not all Pentium 4 instructions. If you had an Athlon or a Duron though you would be in trouble if you ran "Adobe Premiere", by at least one account on the net.
S3/VIA used to be a well-known manufacturer :-/
Well, I was hoping that DirectX 9.0 cards with fancy features (unlimited length pixel shaders) would come down in price and have a reasonable life-span. Not as long as a console perhaps but more than a year anyway! It didn't come with a decent graphics or sound card but I will move my old sound card into it and look at buying a new gfx card if any games merit the expense.
I've not done engine code recently on PC but some of those GeForce 6 features look tempting, if expensive.
And since I have an AMD chip (which AFAIK do not support all Intel instructions, but have quite a few of their own extra instructions) I would be reluctant to spend money if it specifically claimed it required a pentium 3 chip (and didn't mention Athlon), when I could spend money on a game that will work (for PS2, GameCube or GBA), and doesn't require me to click on a huge EULA claiming that it probably won't. But the main thing discouraging me is that I tried a demo disk of another game recently (Medieval Lords) and it didn't work, so my mind was not in a positive mood.
When I buy a new graphics card, I will probably get a couple of (cheap) games and see if they work.