Other than the olympics (and tennis), you would think that women don't play sport if you read UK newspapers. I mean the english team got a placing in the womens rubgy world cup and the only paper it made the front pages of was New Zealand News UK.
Of course, if a woman marries a male football player and then does something newsworthy like has a haircut or visits a shop, that gets the front pages.
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Sure, why don't I build an xbox myself too:-) xgamestation maybe (if their site comes back up) but what I am usually running on a PC is not polygon bound.
The point is that looking around at PCs sold today (this was a good deal judging by the prices in computer shopper) that PCs as sold today do not run doom 3 as fast as my Commodore 64 ran games that were released for it*. Maybe by christmas some of them will. To buy a suitable graphics card will cost more than buying an xbox or ps2, so it is a brave gamble by Activision to release a game for what is effectively a new platform. Since I will have to buy a new card anyway, why not use onboard graphics until decent cards become mainstream? Then, if I remember, perhaps I will get it.
I remember that Wolf3d and Doom 1 actually ran on existing PCs.
* you can attack that point I guess; not many early c64 games were smooth compared to later ones...
I am going to buy a new PC today for more than
$1000. It will be three times faster than my current pc (3000+), but will not play doom 3 at an acceptable quality (13fps maybe). I guess I will buy doom 3 when I buy a new pc in two or three years time, when it will be in the bargain bucket but might actually run on mainstream PCs. Or maybe when it gets ported to a console. And some people claim that id know how to optimise code:-)
Well, my experience when I was helping to hire programmers was as follows: looking through the hundred or so CVs we had been sent there was just one person with a female name. She would have automatically got an interview, for rarity value if nothing else, but was no longer at that contact address. I hear stories about how there are 50% women in IT and I am wondering if the news stories are coming through from some alternate reality.
As on breakfast television today, the music industry decried the terrible state of UK copyright law, whereby sound recordings are only copyright for 50 years (the songs themselves are still under copyright, natch), which means that some of Elvis's recordings are about to become public domain in the UK. How could such a thing be allowed they asked indignantly? People would only have to pay royalties to the songwriter and not to Elvis! The recording industry would lose a valuable revenue stream which is their property, and the pirates will have won!
Well I can say from experience that Gay Days at Disney Orlando are very tame events compared to pride at most other events, for example yesterday at Brighton
which was overcrowded with people of all ages (from papoose upwards) but had certain ummm DVD stars signing autographs outside a stall selling their work. But the fairground rides were a bit scarier than the Disney ones...
Pooh is Disney's in the same way that the Harry Potter books were written by Warner Bros, except that Warner is paying up for their usage (Disney has a problem with Pooh regarding whether the profits from computer games etc. should go to the descendants of the author or the descendants of his agent).
And IIRC the Jungle Book was still under copyright in some territories when Disney did a rip-off of it (US copyright was shorter at the time).
Judging from recent films (Spiderman 2, 9/11 etc.) every american home is issued with a large flag. Sheesh, it looks like Pyong Yang. When do the billboards of the glorious leader go up?
You mean the Shogun? Or the RangeRover? A few tons of metal 4x4 so that they can crawl along the (flat) suburban road at walking pace to take a kid to school...
OK, lets try a really simple task, one of the first things you might try to do. I have two bitmaps (.bmp files; really simple to read). I want to join them up into one bitmap.
I load both images into the same instance of Gimp. One one of them I go right-click:image:canvas size... I click on the mystery link icon (no tooltip there) and enter a new size. So far so good, apart from a lot of menu hunting. On the other image I go right-click:edit:copy and then on the big image I go right-click:edit:paste. The image is now there. I drag it to the right (god knows how you set up the grid size). Lo and behold, the new image is hidden underneath some great big chessboard instead of appearing next to the original image
This is a task that you can do with microsoft paint (which admitedly might munge everything into true-colour) so why does it not work like I expect in gimp (version 1.2.5)? Surely they can aim at least as high as Paint!
Flash git! I had 5K of RAM and a 1Mhz processor and I loved it. By using the entire memory and loading text from tape I got it to display 40 columns of text! (4 pixel wide characters)...:-)
You need to talk to the people that want a Pr1me emulator.
Like a C standard fanatic... "the standard does not specify all bits zero for a null pointer - you should not use memset on structs that include pointers":-)
I hear that if code runs on a pr1me someone has actually read the standard/documentation instead of assuming various silly things...
All, that is, 100%, of them were caught fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan.
That is just plain false. I saw Bush say that on a TV interview which shows his attitude to truth. Many of them were arrested in countries other than afghanistan - mostly pakistan, but at least one was arrested in africa, which is considerably far away from afghanistan. Next thing you'll be telling me that the 9/11 hijackers were all Iraqi...
The US media gets upset about whether a blowjob counts as sex or not but not whether africa is part of afghanistan...
Despite climate change, you may find that August is not the depths of winter in the UK. They had three months to, for example, get an electric heater or a blanket, or be noticed by neighbours etc., or of course pay the gas bill with the cash in the house (more than enough).
I am trying to remember if the gas contract requires you to put in your date of birth... I guess it does since most banks seem to think a gas bill is a form of ID. Should basic utilities (gas, electricity, water) tell social services if something happens? I guess that is what the debate is about. Seeing as last year I got rang up every week by someone asking me to switch gas provider or electricity provider I am not sure I would have wanted the authorities to kick offif I had agreed. But no doubt that will come (along with TV license and car tax now putting the burden on the customer rather than the govt.) - it does seem to be the general direction Blunkett wants us to progress in.
I'm pretty sure that sort of thing (minor crimes decades ago) is wiped out by law in the UK, so that saying you had no criminal record would become true. Maybe Canada needs to think harder about that.
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Inspector: May I ask why you don't have a TV licence?
Him: (brief pause, then in a puzzled voice) Because we don't have a TV.
(wait for it...) tinkle tinkle WHOOMP!
Funny how much glass there is lying around council estates these days...
Of course, if a woman marries a male football player and then does something newsworthy like has a haircut or visits a shop, that gets the front pages.
I remember that Wolf3d and Doom 1 actually ran on existing PCs.
* you can attack that point I guess; not many early c64 games were smooth compared to later ones...
I am going to buy a new PC today for more than $1000. It will be three times faster than my current pc (3000+), but will not play doom 3 at an acceptable quality (13fps maybe). I guess I will buy doom 3 when I buy a new pc in two or three years time, when it will be in the bargain bucket but might actually run on mainstream PCs. Or maybe when it gets ported to a console. And some people claim that id know how to optimise code :-)
Oh wait...
Well, my experience when I was helping to hire programmers was as follows: looking through the hundred or so CVs we had been sent there was just one person with a female name. She would have automatically got an interview, for rarity value if nothing else, but was no longer at that contact address. I hear stories about how there are 50% women in IT and I am wondering if the news stories are coming through from some alternate reality.
Or 3DO with their mascot, a Dodo.
As on breakfast television today, the music industry decried the terrible state of UK copyright law, whereby sound recordings are only copyright for 50 years (the songs themselves are still under copyright, natch), which means that some of Elvis's recordings are about to become public domain in the UK. How could such a thing be allowed they asked indignantly? People would only have to pay royalties to the songwriter and not to Elvis! The recording industry would lose a valuable revenue stream which is their property, and the pirates will have won!
Well I can say from experience that Gay Days at Disney Orlando are very tame events compared to pride at most other events, for example yesterday at Brighton which was overcrowded with people of all ages (from papoose upwards) but had certain ummm DVD stars signing autographs outside a stall selling their work. But the fairground rides were a bit scarier than the Disney ones...
And IIRC the Jungle Book was still under copyright in some territories when Disney did a rip-off of it (US copyright was shorter at the time).
However, cat owners are not held legally responsible for their felines actions (in England anyway) :-)
Judging from recent films (Spiderman 2, 9/11 etc.) every american home is issued with a large flag. Sheesh, it looks like Pyong Yang. When do the billboards of the glorious leader go up?
You mean the Shogun? Or the RangeRover? A few tons of metal 4x4 so that they can crawl along the (flat) suburban road at walking pace to take a kid to school...
I load both images into the same instance of Gimp. One one of them I go right-click:image:canvas size... I click on the mystery link icon (no tooltip there) and enter a new size. So far so good, apart from a lot of menu hunting. On the other image I go right-click:edit:copy and then on the big image I go right-click:edit:paste. The image is now there. I drag it to the right (god knows how you set up the grid size). Lo and behold, the new image is hidden underneath some great big chessboard instead of appearing next to the original image
This is a task that you can do with microsoft paint (which admitedly might munge everything into true-colour) so why does it not work like I expect in gimp (version 1.2.5)? Surely they can aim at least as high as Paint!
Alternatively, have the recent debacle in Greece where they banned all computer and video games in the process of outlawing online gambling...
Saying things that are untrue isn't considered bad in the English-speaking world, unless it's about sex.
Flash git! I had 5K of RAM and a 1Mhz processor and I loved it. By using the entire memory and loading text from tape I got it to display 40 columns of text! (4 pixel wide characters)... :-)
The stress test for any word-wrapping routine (I speak from experience)...
Like a C standard fanatic... "the standard does not specify all bits zero for a null pointer - you should not use memset on structs that include pointers" :-)
I hear that if code runs on a pr1me someone has actually read the standard/documentation instead of assuming various silly things...
That is just plain false. I saw Bush say that on a TV interview which shows his attitude to truth. Many of them were arrested in countries other than afghanistan - mostly pakistan, but at least one was arrested in africa, which is considerably far away from afghanistan. Next thing you'll be telling me that the 9/11 hijackers were all Iraqi...
The US media gets upset about whether a blowjob counts as sex or not but not whether africa is part of afghanistan...
Whereas google enables employees of other companies to spend considerably more time than that on their hobbies...
But now we have Twice-Resigned-Mandy to take the commision by its throat and instill glasnost and perestroika...
I am trying to remember if the gas contract requires you to put in your date of birth... I guess it does since most banks seem to think a gas bill is a form of ID. Should basic utilities (gas, electricity, water) tell social services if something happens? I guess that is what the debate is about. Seeing as last year I got rang up every week by someone asking me to switch gas provider or electricity provider I am not sure I would have wanted the authorities to kick offif I had agreed. But no doubt that will come (along with TV license and car tax now putting the burden on the customer rather than the govt.) - it does seem to be the general direction Blunkett wants us to progress in.
I was told they did that in California (moving them out of county boundaries).
I'm pretty sure that sort of thing (minor crimes decades ago) is wiped out by law in the UK, so that saying you had no criminal record would become true. Maybe Canada needs to think harder about that.