I think Dick Dastardly and Muttley were on their own eponymous show, and Wacky Races, and Stop the Pidgeon. You can get all that stuff on VHS - just look in the Hanna Barbera section.
even on the very rare occasion that I want the product! For example (well, the only example really) there was a spam advert for the iraqi pack of cards. I'd like to get that. But since it was advertised via spam i'd rather buy it at a dodgy "car-boot" sale. At least there its only financing crack cocaine distribution, not spammers!
Argh, that's not the heyday, that was the nadir! Oh well, at least someone liked watching commercials; personally I couldn't stomach it when I watched CNN and it was 12 minutes of ads between (repeated) news items, so watching a couple of hours of ads didn't really appeal to me. I liked the muppet show though (I guess that was repeats when it was on saturday morning).
You're not with the same company as me then, because there are a lot of us coding in our 30s. There are some people in their 20s but I think they might be in the minority. Quite a few of us have been coding/drawing games since the 1980s. Admittedly not very many in their 40s though. Sheesh, everyone else keeps popping sprogs.
There is a town in New Zealand called Urenui. In Maori, this means "big penis". But no-one thinks it funny, compared to names of towns with quite innocent derivations...
Some companies chose instead to merge with EAs one time rivals, Acclaim. Look what happened to them. Other companies were taken over by Infogrammes (renamed "Atari" as of today). Look what happened to them. It is a rough industry for developers.
I heard that the law (relating what quality grade vegetables of various degrees of curvature were allowed to be labelled as) replaced a UK law that said exactly the same thing.
More interesting to me was the Great Chocolate Battle, whether UK milk chocolate was allowed to be labelled as chocolate, or vegetable fat with chocolate flavouring:-) that lasted for years. I doubt Hersheys (a US brand of chocolate) would even be considered as chocolate flavoured:-)
On a side note, the metric system has been legal in the UK for over a hundred years, but some people are a bit slow.
I've seen enough "human rights" cases going before the EU Court to make me want to retch.
Minor niggle, although the British Conservative party seems unaware of this (or anything else), they usually go in front of the European Court of human Rightswhich has nothing to do with the EU courts (European Court of Justice and European Court of auditors), since it includes countries that are not part of the EU although they both were setup to stop WW2 having an encore.
And like the US Supreme Court,
the executives are sometimes very slow and reluctant to obey court rulings.
In fact, if IP is truly property it should also be inheritable.
I'm not keen on aristocrats owning so much of the land just because their ancestors were in with the winning side. Nor that you should inheirit the presidency like in kingdoms with real power (e.g. Saudi)/USA/India. (Symbolic/backstop kings/queens like in europe/thailand are ok though).
It seems that normally wealth and power concentrates itself in fewer and fewer people,
So that's why we have death taxes.
I don't think the authors of those two books are making much money from those great books, on account of them being dead.
And as for the popular tune "Happy Birthday", written in the 19th century still being owned by AOL, well that's really stretching things!
But I like the sound of min(Life+14,50) for books/music. Of course Iraq had life+25 years but the US is sending Hilary Rosen over to install perpetual copyright there, so that won't last:-(
Yeah, but calling a couple of DirectX interfaces is a lot easier than writing a COM object that supports IDispatch and connection points (whose bright idea was that?), not to mention that DCOM didn't even work when it came out. COM is a big world, and using it is easier in vanilla C++ than writing it. Visual Basic is another matter but they have threading issues.
I have bought a number of DVDs where the fast-forward and rewind options don't work. It's as if there were no key-frames in the entire scene. (I'm not sure how DVD works but I imagine that deltas come into it). Fast-forward by 2x works, but by 4x goes to the next scene.
So I went back to buying videos instead. At least the video player is under my control, not the control of the content producer. I am assuming that this was done because of incompetance at the (small) production company, but it shows that the format has serious problems from a users' point of view. What is the point of perfect pause if you have to watch the entire scene to get up to where you left off last time?
So I can drop by and crash on your sofa if I run in the open door while you're down the driveway getting your mail? Sweet! Let me call a few friends and we'll be right over
I lock my door even when I'm just taking the garbage out. I'm not Canadian! (And not living in NZ either).
But if you're cute you could try knocking on my door...
And in the UK they have this stupid idea of mail-slots in peoples' front doors. This means that
Bad guys/racists find it easier to put something nasty into people's houses, since there's a ready made slot.
Postal workers and delivery people have to walk up flights of stairs, go down alleys and the back of houses etc. to deliver mail. And get their fingers bitten by dogs who wait by the slots. Boy did I hate dogs when I delivered leaflets. And that's gotta be inefficient.
Amazon.com/co.uk uses such vast cardboard boxes that they don't fit into standard mail-slots so you have to go to the post office to pick up your books anyway, usually going past a book-shop in the process.
But at least I'm allowed to criticise the things that are wrong with my country without being treated as an unpatriotic heretic:-) I just find it strange that when USians criticise stuff about the UK, they usually miss the easy targets (sclerotic planning permissions, lack of investment in R&D, splits over Europe, etc.) in favour of things UKians are agreed on (e.g. killing people is bad, even if you are the governer, straight line speed is not the be-all and end-all in a sports car, etc.).
The systems varies by Canton, but I thought each adult there had to vote on every major issue. So it has somewhat of a democracy (as opposed to an elected aristocracy).
Not to mention that when they raided one of those sub-contractors, they found the majority of them (15 of 19 IIRC) were illegal immigrants. So much for security checking people airside.
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BTW Aotearoa means land of the long white cloud.
Get trousers with two pockets, e.g. a left one and a right one.
Is there an X as well?
Did you just spill my Heineken?
I think Dick Dastardly and Muttley were on their own eponymous show, and Wacky Races, and Stop the Pidgeon. You can get all that stuff on VHS - just look in the Hanna Barbera section.
even on the very rare occasion that I want the product! For example (well, the only example really) there was a spam advert for the iraqi pack of cards. I'd like to get that. But since it was advertised via spam i'd rather buy it at a dodgy "car-boot" sale. At least there its only financing crack cocaine distribution, not spammers!
Argh, that's not the heyday, that was the nadir! Oh well, at least someone liked watching commercials; personally I couldn't stomach it when I watched CNN and it was 12 minutes of ads between (repeated) news items, so watching a couple of hours of ads didn't really appeal to me. I liked the muppet show though (I guess that was repeats when it was on saturday morning).
You're not with the same company as me then, because there are a lot of us coding in our 30s. There are some people in their 20s but I think they might be in the minority. Quite a few of us have been coding/drawing games since the 1980s. Admittedly not very many in their 40s though. Sheesh, everyone else keeps popping sprogs.
There is a town in New Zealand called Urenui. In Maori, this means "big penis". But no-one thinks it funny, compared to names of towns with quite innocent derivations...
I thought most slashdot readers were too young to vote?
Some companies chose instead to merge with EAs one time rivals, Acclaim. Look what happened to them. Other companies were taken over by Infogrammes (renamed "Atari" as of today). Look what happened to them. It is a rough industry for developers.
More interesting to me was the Great Chocolate Battle, whether UK milk chocolate was allowed to be labelled as chocolate, or vegetable fat with chocolate flavouring :-) that lasted for years. I doubt Hersheys (a US brand of chocolate) would even be considered as chocolate flavoured :-)
On a side note, the metric system has been legal in the UK for over a hundred years, but some people are a bit slow.
Well its only the USians fault for chopping bits off in the first place when they were babies. Just to stop them from enjoying sex too much I guess.
Bruce Parens and Bruce Perens are both involved with open source, according to google. I guess that must confuse some people.
Velcro was invented by a Swiss guy walking his dog in the 1940s, according to velcro.com
1 euro ~ 1 US dollar. This is intentional. Whether it will stay that way is another matter.
Minor niggle, although the British Conservative party seems unaware of this (or anything else), they usually go in front of the European Court of human Rightswhich has nothing to do with the EU courts (European Court of Justice and European Court of auditors), since it includes countries that are not part of the EU although they both were setup to stop WW2 having an encore.
And like the US Supreme Court, the executives are sometimes very slow and reluctant to obey court rulings.
If doctors of medicine have to take the Hippocratic oath, do doctors of law have to take the Hippocritic oath?
I'm not keen on aristocrats owning so much of the land just because their ancestors were in with the winning side. Nor that you should inheirit the presidency like in kingdoms with real power (e.g. Saudi)/USA/India. (Symbolic/backstop kings/queens like in europe/thailand are ok though).
It seems that normally wealth and power concentrates itself in fewer and fewer people, So that's why we have death taxes.
I don't think the authors of those two books are making much money from those great books, on account of them being dead.
And as for the popular tune "Happy Birthday", written in the 19th century still being owned by AOL, well that's really stretching things!
But I like the sound of min(Life+14,50) for books/music. Of course Iraq had life+25 years but the US is sending Hilary Rosen over to install perpetual copyright there, so that won't last :-(
Yeah, but calling a couple of DirectX interfaces is a lot easier than writing a COM object that supports IDispatch and connection points (whose bright idea was that?), not to mention that DCOM didn't even work when it came out. COM is a big world, and using it is easier in vanilla C++ than writing it. Visual Basic is another matter but they have threading issues.
Wrong wrong wrong.
I have bought a number of DVDs where the fast-forward and rewind options don't work. It's as if there were no key-frames in the entire scene. (I'm not sure how DVD works but I imagine that deltas come into it). Fast-forward by 2x works, but by 4x goes to the next scene.
So I went back to buying videos instead. At least the video player is under my control, not the control of the content producer. I am assuming that this was done because of incompetance at the (small) production company, but it shows that the format has serious problems from a users' point of view. What is the point of perfect pause if you have to watch the entire scene to get up to where you left off last time?
I lock my door even when I'm just taking the garbage out. I'm not Canadian! (And not living in NZ either).
But if you're cute you could try knocking on my door...
And in the UK they have this stupid idea of mail-slots in peoples' front doors. This means that
But at least I'm allowed to criticise the things that are wrong with my country without being treated as an unpatriotic heretic :-) I just find it strange that when USians criticise stuff about the UK, they usually miss the easy targets (sclerotic planning permissions, lack of investment in R&D, splits over Europe, etc.) in favour of things UKians are agreed on (e.g. killing people is bad, even if you are the governer, straight line speed is not the be-all and end-all in a sports car, etc.).
The systems varies by Canton, but I thought each adult there had to vote on every major issue. So it has somewhat of a democracy (as opposed to an elected aristocracy).
Not to mention that when they raided one of those sub-contractors, they found the majority of them (15 of 19 IIRC) were illegal immigrants. So much for security checking people airside.