When I walked around some computer games show, I saw some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles running around, fully done up in foam costume. Also I saw Mario walking around. I kept thinking, you've got to jump on their shells man, you might get a gold coin... I guess he wasn't being paid enough.
from sending porn out to every email address in the world (including kids).
On an unrelated note, the US of course won't sign the UN kids convention (which every other country except Somalia has) because that would in theory prevent them from executing kids - just now they have called for the death penalty for the 17 yo Jamaican boy arrested for sniping in Washington.
So it seems "Think of the children" really means "Pass law xxx without reading it".
Where all mobile phones are in the "07" area. The networks are all nation-wide, so different call charges may depend on which network you call (i.e. it is more expensive to call a different mobile network than the same network, or a landline) but the location of the phone is irrelevant, unless it is out of the country. In which case the US system applies ("Roaming rates") and both the caller and callee pay for the call. This means if you are in greece and your friend is in greece and you both use your UK phones to call each other, the operators think "Ka-ching!". But at least you get to meet up easily.
Do you pay for receiving long-distance calls also?
And do you pay for receiving foreign letters?
I know in NZ rural dwellers have to pay to receive mail, but this is a fixed fee yearly amount, and they get pickup as well. It still upsets my mum (she trekked to the "local" post office to pick up her mail for months in protest).
Avaya is a company in the same way that the Balkans is a country.
There are/were several switches, not just Definity.
I worked with the INDeX switch, which to my mind had a much better user interface on the handsets than the Definity. I understand it was more reasonably priced too. We tried making decent APIs for call centres using Windows (though since we went from RS-232 to ethernet other O/Ss would be feasible if anyone used them). Even so, the software teams and firmware teams did lack coordination, so the code underneath the API was a bit like a swan madly paddling under water.
At my new job we have an INDeX switch; it would seem a shame if it got swallowed by Avaya into a big amorphous Definity mess.
Hint to new boss: don't fire me. Every time I leave a job the stock price goes through the floor a few months afterwards!
After all, they had to come to an arrangement with Apple records when the macintosh got sound capabilities, so I guess now Infogrammes' lawyers (who own the Atari and Jaguar trademarks in the context of computers) are rubbing their hands with glee.
That's when I go to the loo, buy some popcorn etc.
for example a 20:00 movie goes like so
20:00 ads for banks/beer etc.
20:10 trailers for upcoming movies
20:20 the film
I aim to sit down between 20:10 and 20:20 (earlier if there is a good trailer expected like LOTR). It is trivial to arrive at the right time. And since I generally sit in the front row I don't have to step over people.
I actually miss intervals; generally I go to the loo in the quiet "emotion" scene near the end of Act 2 where they say nothing of importance:-)
I can't hear you, because your floppy drive is going "*tac*... *tac*.. *tac*.."
LOL! So true...
The thing I remember about the Amoeba (which I thought was a downgrade from the C64, since all the scrolling games ran slower) was that it took longer to list a directory of a floppy disk than the PC took to copy the entire disk (if there were many small files the amiga had to read the entire disk several times to display a directory).
Although it at least had long filenames at the time unlike the PC (and multitasking). And unlike the ST it didn't pause for two seconds whenever you clicked the mouse (a tip for GUI designers, when using a "mouse click" event remember to include the position it was clicked at) and require you to change monitors when you ran different programs.
And yeah, the C64 was silent, unless you had a 1541 with the "daisy daisy" program:-)
If he or she had tried this in Texas, he or she would have been long dead. ..
I have wondered how carrying a pistol was supposed to protect you from a sniper rifle. I guess if you carried it in the right place it might stop the bullet (depends how fast it is going by the time it reaches you). But Kevlar might be a tad more effective.
in the arcades: Dance Dance Revolution. In arcades you see girls dancing on the machines in pairs (even if it is in one-player mode). Sometimes there are three dancing in line (when there are only two pads). Methinks social interaction plays a part there.
I wonder if Core's 5 females out of 85 employees happen to be receptionist 1, receptionist 2, human resources manager, accounts, and CEO's PA? (like here, but we have a female artist too, woah!)
But you do get a huge military out of it. Which Dubya wants to increase in size. And you can afford to lock up 3% of your males of working age (which obviously helps the unemployment figures).
In any case "Semitic" has always more or less meant "Jewish"
I am sure I have seen Arabic (and less usefully Aramaic) referred to as being a semitic language, in the context of it being written right-to-left like Hebrew (and thus making i18n of operating systems slightly harder).
If anti-semitism has always been used the current way, it's just confusing. But then many Germans/Scandinavians who speak great English think that "funny" has the meaning "to be enjoyable" (that rollercoaster was very funny) so English is hardly a language free of such complications. Perhaps it means different things in different fields. Pah! If the word wasn't used to justify human rights abuses I would probably be less peeved.
But thanks for the explanations. BTW I read that some people used the curse of Ham's descendants (Noah didn't curse Ham himself bizarrely) to justify slavery etc. so it all seems complicated to me:-(
I think you will find that "select-all, copy" merely copies the contents of the window (if it is a window of an application that allows that) rather than the graphical representation of the window.
It does not copy the scroll bars or title of the window, which was the keypress sequence I was alluding to and the task required in the class.
The corresponding sequence in Windows is "Alt-Print Screen" which you can do one handed, and is easier to remember.
Semitic - from the middle east. As in like the palestians and some Israelis are. Not from Russia or the USA as many other Israelis are.
When did the word change to mean "Jewish" and disenfranchise other semitic peoples? According to USians, palestinians are anti-semitic? What, they don't like themselves???
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OTOH some football mascots have had punch-ups.
On an unrelated note, the US of course won't sign the UN kids convention (which every other country except Somalia has) because that would in theory prevent them from executing kids - just now they have called for the death penalty for the 17 yo Jamaican boy arrested for sniping in Washington. So it seems "Think of the children" really means "Pass law xxx without reading it".
Where all mobile phones are in the "07" area. The networks are all nation-wide, so different call charges may depend on which network you call (i.e. it is more expensive to call a different mobile network than the same network, or a landline) but the location of the phone is irrelevant, unless it is out of the country. In which case the US system applies ("Roaming rates") and both the caller and callee pay for the call. This means if you are in greece and your friend is in greece and you both use your UK phones to call each other, the operators think "Ka-ching!". But at least you get to meet up easily.
And do you pay for receiving foreign letters?
I know in NZ rural dwellers have to pay to receive mail, but this is a fixed fee yearly amount, and they get pickup as well. It still upsets my mum (she trekked to the "local" post office to pick up her mail for months in protest).
What war?
I thought that was one point of view?
There are/were several switches, not just Definity.
I worked with the INDeX switch, which to my mind had a much better user interface on the handsets than the Definity. I understand it was more reasonably priced too. We tried making decent APIs for call centres using Windows (though since we went from RS-232 to ethernet other O/Ss would be feasible if anyone used them). Even so, the software teams and firmware teams did lack coordination, so the code underneath the API was a bit like a swan madly paddling under water.
At my new job we have an INDeX switch; it would seem a shame if it got swallowed by Avaya into a big amorphous Definity mess.
Hint to new boss: don't fire me. Every time I leave a job the stock price goes through the floor a few months afterwards!
Biotech companies have been submitting patents of 140,000 pages in length. These may take some time to examine thoroughly.
After all, they had to come to an arrangement with Apple records when the macintosh got sound capabilities, so I guess now Infogrammes' lawyers (who own the Atari and Jaguar trademarks in the context of computers) are rubbing their hands with glee.
The naff cinema ads have a cult following.
e.g. Beware.... thieves are watching...
[audience/snake with umbrella fetish] Hsssssss.....
I aim to sit down between 20:10 and 20:20 (earlier if there is a good trailer expected like LOTR). It is trivial to arrive at the right time. And since I generally sit in the front row I don't have to step over people.
I actually miss intervals; generally I go to the loo in the quiet "emotion" scene near the end of Act 2 where they say nothing of importance :-)
I can't hear you, because your floppy drive is going "*tac*... *tac*.. *tac*.."
LOL! So true...
The thing I remember about the Amoeba (which I thought was a downgrade from the C64, since all the scrolling games ran slower) was that it took longer to list a directory of a floppy disk than the PC took to copy the entire disk (if there were many small files the amiga had to read the entire disk several times to display a directory).
Although it at least had long filenames at the time unlike the PC (and multitasking). And unlike the ST it didn't pause for two seconds whenever you clicked the mouse (a tip for GUI designers, when using a "mouse click" event remember to include the position it was clicked at) and require you to change monitors when you ran different programs.
And yeah, the C64 was silent, unless you had a 1541 with the "daisy daisy" program :-)
I have wondered how carrying a pistol was supposed to protect you from a sniper rifle. I guess if you carried it in the right place it might stop the bullet (depends how fast it is going by the time it reaches you). But Kevlar might be a tad more effective.
in India (Bhopal), and be harboured by the USA, remaining free to wander between your various mansions.
trenchcoats to complete the image?
I've never heard a mobile ring in a movie. Is leaving on ring just a US thing?
Or perhaps they release the film in US cinemas before the VHS release :-)
in the arcades: Dance Dance Revolution. In arcades you see girls dancing on the machines in pairs (even if it is in one-player mode). Sometimes there are three dancing in line (when there are only two pads). Methinks social interaction plays a part there.
I wonder if Core's 5 females out of 85 employees happen to be receptionist 1, receptionist 2, human resources manager, accounts, and CEO's PA? (like here, but we have a female artist too, woah!)
But you do get a huge military out of it. Which Dubya wants to increase in size. And you can afford to lock up 3% of your males of working age (which obviously helps the unemployment figures).
Woah, there are women in porn movies? Maybe I've been redirected to goatse.cx too many times...
I am sure I have seen Arabic (and less usefully Aramaic) referred to as being a semitic language, in the context of it being written right-to-left like Hebrew (and thus making i18n of operating systems slightly harder).
If anti-semitism has always been used the current way, it's just confusing. But then many Germans/Scandinavians who speak great English think that "funny" has the meaning "to be enjoyable" (that rollercoaster was very funny) so English is hardly a language free of such complications. Perhaps it means different things in different fields. Pah! If the word wasn't used to justify human rights abuses I would probably be less peeved.
But thanks for the explanations. BTW I read that some people used the curse of Ham's descendants (Noah didn't curse Ham himself bizarrely) to justify slavery etc. so it all seems complicated to me :-(
Well since elections in the US don't get won by the person with the most votes, I guess the other feats could be amazing.
It does not copy the scroll bars or title of the window, which was the keypress sequence I was alluding to and the task required in the class.
The corresponding sequence in Windows is "Alt-Print Screen" which you can do one handed, and is easier to remember.
When did the word change to mean "Jewish" and disenfranchise other semitic peoples? According to USians, palestinians are anti-semitic? What, they don't like themselves???