I've seen BSOD on monitors at London train stations (also one constantly rebooting to a desktop) and also on a money machine for a major bank at a train station.
and Nintendo was quite popular in the USA with the NES and SNES.
According to the US patent office
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unmodified human stem cells are innovations.
The European patent office at least requires them to be modified in some way before being patented (also it lets the process of obtaining them be patented).
We develop (in London) during the day, then send code off to the people paying us in the USA, who test it (through our night). (Testers must be cheaper than programmers).
when these "clone" machines came out (such as Compaq), that didn't perfectly emulate the IBM original.
At the time win95 came out, two PCs with the same motherboard could have every-so-slightly different BIOSes (same version numbers of course) with different bugs.
With my current machine, it could be an overheating CPU (its an athlon), faulty RAM (these days they don't even have parity bits), stretched motherboard (I bought the PC from a high street shop), dodgy device driver (which claims to be written by a US company, who has denied that they ever wrote it), a microsoft bug, or poor quality control by the games publisher.
And as I said, copy protection technology is *not* claimed to work on all CD/DVD drives even by the company that wrote it!
FWIW things improved for games when I upgraded from ME to XP, but that killed music programs like Cubasis.
With a console I generally don't have to worry about any of those (although the Famicom (NES) came in several different versions in Japan).
for earthquakes, not so good for hurricanes (or floods). Brick/stone is ok for hurricanes, rubbish for earthquakes. Reinforced concrete is good for both earthquakes and hurricanes, unless the construction company is illegally cutting corners.
they work, whereas PC games, if they even install, crash after you've got halfway through a level. This has happened to me on many machines over the last 10 years, and I don't see it stopping soon. Even the developer ads for the CD "protection" systems used by most games claim that they won't work on 5% of PCs.
there was a general election which the winning party won by one seat. And that seat was held by a single vote! Boy, that person must have felt important:-)
After all, helping to crack Enigma, win WW2, invent Turing Test and Turing Machine etc. was enough to make the (UK) govt. pump him full of hormones until he committed suicide.
where do you live? In London there are speed-cameras, red-light cameras, bus-lane cameras etc. every ten yards. Speeding and other traffic offenses are seen as a major revenue centre for local authorities and enforced accordingly!
When they get connected to face-recognition software this will have major security implications.
Of course, you can opt-out of junk mail and unsolicited phone calls (and treat any offenders as a revenue centre at £500 ($750?) a time yourself).
Many people did vote for Bush 2nd. Not as many as voted for Al Gore of course (about 500,000 less), but the choice of the most number of people was "no particular preference, I can't be arsed to vote". So either candidate could have been appointed; but having a president as dad outranks having a senator as dad, so the better connected person was appointed, as announced by his cousin (at Fox) and helped by his brother (in Florida).
EX: US kicked off human rights committee while rights violators stay.. Pathetic.
Well, not a lot of countries execute the mentally retarded AND children. Just the USA and maybe Yemen. That's why the USA won't sign the convention on protecting the rights of the child, since it has a clause in there about not killing them.
Wow! That works, shrinking "This is a test" from 19456 bytes (.doc) to 2573 bytes (.rtf) to 173 bytes (slimline.rtf). And if you rename it to *.doc word still loads it in fine.
Don't put screen captures directly into.DOCs, as they will probably be stored as uncompressed 24 bit RGB images. Simply convert them into 256 colour images before pasting them into the file and they will be stored with run length encoding.
Also turn off "fast save" (otherwise known as "corrupt my data").
Alas I think it is harder to get rid of the rest of the crap it puts in there (unless you save as RTF and manually trim it:-)
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in C++... let's find some of those old IBM keyboards with all the symbols on them...
I've seen BSOD on monitors at London train stations (also one constantly rebooting to a desktop) and also on a money machine for a major bank at a train station.
Thats Nürnberg.
If you are going to be pedantic, at least use the correct spelling yourself.
and Nintendo was quite popular in the USA with the NES and SNES.
unmodified human stem cells are innovations.
The European patent office at least requires them to be modified in some way before being patented (also it lets the process of obtaining them be patented).
not only are white shirts cooler, you can also wash them at a temperature which kills bacteria rather than just giving them a warm bath.
BTW I am wearing an olive shirt and bright blue cotton trousers (since they are thin and it is hot today). My white shirts are all drying :-)
We develop (in London) during the day, then send code off to the people paying us in the USA, who test it (through our night). (Testers must be cheaper than programmers).
when these "clone" machines came out (such as Compaq), that didn't perfectly emulate the IBM original.
At the time win95 came out, two PCs with the same motherboard could have every-so-slightly different BIOSes (same version numbers of course) with different bugs.
With my current machine, it could be an overheating CPU (its an athlon), faulty RAM (these days they don't even have parity bits), stretched motherboard (I bought the PC from a high street shop), dodgy device driver (which claims to be written by a US company, who has denied that they ever wrote it), a microsoft bug, or poor quality control by the games publisher. And as I said, copy protection technology is *not* claimed to work on all CD/DVD drives even by the company that wrote it!
FWIW things improved for games when I upgraded from ME to XP, but that killed music programs like Cubasis.
With a console I generally don't have to worry about any of those (although the Famicom (NES) came in several different versions in Japan).
for earthquakes, not so good for hurricanes (or floods). Brick/stone is ok for hurricanes, rubbish for earthquakes. Reinforced concrete is good for both earthquakes and hurricanes, unless the construction company is illegally cutting corners.
they work, whereas PC games, if they even install, crash after you've got halfway through a level. This has happened to me on many machines over the last 10 years, and I don't see it stopping soon. Even the developer ads for the CD "protection" systems used by most games claim that they won't work on 5% of PCs.
there was a general election which the winning party won by one seat. And that seat was held by a single vote! Boy, that person must have felt important :-)
with "repetitive beats", e.g. the bolero (or dance music)
(recruiter) So what was your previous job experience?
(exec) I ran a huge company into the ground and lost them everything.
(recruiter) Ah, so you're experienced. How would you like to do it again? You're hired!
So when is it available on my Game Boy Advance?
After all, helping to crack Enigma, win WW2, invent Turing Test and Turing Machine etc. was enough to make the (UK) govt. pump him full of hormones until he committed suicide.
Mainframes - designed for the benefit of the machine.
PCs - designed for the benefit of the user.
Unix - designed for the benefit of hunt-and-peck administrators and obscure language designers.
Since JVMs can be written by people like Sun with backdoors in them.
where do you live? In London there are speed-cameras, red-light cameras, bus-lane cameras etc. every ten yards. Speeding and other traffic offenses are seen as a major revenue centre for local authorities and enforced accordingly!
When they get connected to face-recognition software this will have major security implications.
Of course, you can opt-out of junk mail and unsolicited phone calls (and treat any offenders as a revenue centre at £500 ($750?) a time yourself).
Many people did vote for Bush 2nd. Not as many as voted for Al Gore of course (about 500,000 less), but the choice of the most number of people was "no particular preference, I can't be arsed to vote". So either candidate could have been appointed; but having a president as dad outranks having a senator as dad, so the better connected person was appointed, as announced by his cousin (at Fox) and helped by his brother (in Florida).
EX: US kicked off human rights committee while rights violators stay.. Pathetic.
Well, not a lot of countries execute the mentally retarded AND children. Just the USA and maybe Yemen. That's why the USA won't sign the convention on protecting the rights of the child, since it has a clause in there about not killing them.
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well it comes installed on all PCs, whereas you have to download open office which costs money in bandwidth charges! :-)
Wow! That works, shrinking "This is a test" from 19456 bytes (.doc) to 2573 bytes (.rtf) to 173 bytes (slimline .rtf). And if you rename it to *.doc word still loads it in fine.
Don't put screen captures directly into .DOCs, as they will probably be stored as uncompressed 24 bit RGB images. Simply convert them into 256 colour images before pasting them into the file and they will be stored with run length encoding.
Also turn off "fast save" (otherwise known as "corrupt my data").
Alas I think it is harder to get rid of the rest of the crap it puts in there (unless you save as RTF and manually trim it :-)
Still cant believe the amount of adverts on US telly as it is. Is is possible to watch more than 5 minutes of a programme without ads?
No, but it is possible to watch 5 minutes of ads without any programme!