Only it wasn't 130 GBP, because no one could find one for sale. We had to wait a good 6 months for ours. It now gathers dust because the games are so poor.
I had a user last week who complained his (my) spreadsheet kept asking for the database password. Knowing that the database didn't have a user password, I needed to investigate.
He was confident that he needed a password even though it seemed like a connection problem to me. Me the author of both spreadsheet and database.
I sent him a simple link to a folder where the DB sat and asked him to copy the contents back in an email. \\domain\dbfolder\test.txt
That obviously didn't seem like a fix to him and he wouldn't click it.
I too am excited about wasting more of my life playing addictive games:-)
CIV4 only just plays on my laptop with most of the settings turned down. So how much money am I going to need to purchase a laptop capable of playing CIV5?
Seriously, my mother, who just about manages gmail, likes to play those Pop Cap games. She also warmed to 1 vs 100 on Xbox live and would have loved to have played it more. Last season, in the UK, there were 80,000 players online during the live events.
Yeah, those figures look stuffed, but probably not that stuffed.
My mother would never vote for a party called "The Pirate party". An image of Captain Pugwash springs to her mind every time I mention the word.
Us nerds and geeks get it, but how does The Pirate Party aim to convince normal people that this political party is more than a modern Monster Raving Looney Party?
We call that "6 mil" pipe here. It's not hard. In fact, I'd even go as far as saying that's it's quicker and easier to say. Suits you Yanks down to the ground.
I like to think of swearing as colourful. I particularly like the use of tmesis - the art of injection a swearword in the middle of another word. Not your common, ordin-fucking-ary swearword injection, it's got to be funny. The Australians do it best.
But no swearing on the TV during the day please. It's vulgar. There's a time and place for it. With people you trust. It's nasty hearing a young child effin and jeffin...
Why aren't people offended when I say "do one"? Everyone knows what I'm really saying.
I'm not far off your age and it's true, fun is fun. I just wish the kids wouldn't play some of these 18+ games. I can't stand their high pitched voices and their constant nagging to shoot this, go here and go there. That's when fun is no longer fun.
Around here they'll fix a new front to the ATM, making sure they cover the camera lens, rent the flat above a shop opposite and place a camcorder facing out the window.
I'm still amazing that people don't cover the num-pad when in shops. There are CCTV cameras everywhere.
I was charged by police horses during a march against the Criminal Justice Bill about 15 years ago. Tanks, no. 2 metre horses with full body armour, yes.
I was shown the Bradford City stadium fire on video last week. 56 people died on Saturday 11 May 1985. You could see burning dead people. You could see people burning who were about to die.
It was shown to me as part of a safety training excercise. Things like this should not be forgotten or hushed-up.
hmmm... not sure they can stop us in Europe, and that's 50 countries. I even have a card in my wallet that entitles me free healthcare anywhere in Europe.
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Only it wasn't 130 GBP, because no one could find one for sale. We had to wait a good 6 months for ours. It now gathers dust because the games are so poor.
Seems normal to me.
I had a user last week who complained his (my) spreadsheet kept asking for the database password. Knowing that the database didn't have a user password, I needed to investigate.
He was confident that he needed a password even though it seemed like a connection problem to me. Me the author of both spreadsheet and database.
I sent him a simple link to a folder where the DB sat and asked him to copy the contents back in an email. \\domain\dbfolder\test.txt
That obviously didn't seem like a fix to him and he wouldn't click it.
He's now on my 20/80 list.
We'll save you a seat, don't worry. In fact, you can sit next to me, big boy.
I too am excited about wasting more of my life playing addictive games :-)
CIV4 only just plays on my laptop with most of the settings turned down. So how much money am I going to need to purchase a laptop capable of playing CIV5?
Facebook is a MMORPG, no?
Seriously, my mother, who just about manages gmail, likes to play those Pop Cap games. She also warmed to 1 vs 100 on Xbox live and would have loved to have played it more. Last season, in the UK, there were 80,000 players online during the live events.
Yeah, those figures look stuffed, but probably not that stuffed.
Your definition of a MMOG is a little off.
My mother would never vote for a party called "The Pirate party". An image of Captain Pugwash springs to her mind every time I mention the word.
Us nerds and geeks get it, but how does The Pirate Party aim to convince normal people that this political party is more than a modern Monster Raving Looney Party?
We call that "6 mil" pipe here. It's not hard. In fact, I'd even go as far as saying that's it's quicker and easier to say. Suits you Yanks down to the ground.
Stop the thread, we have a winner!
Those 'patches' are Windows Defender updates. They are 100-200kb each. They don't interupt anything.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Road Rage.
I often smile at people on the road and say "Can you read lips, cunt?"
Yes, I am a bad, bad person.
And that would be your first mistake.
Pay someone else to push the keys.
Gee thanks mister!
How to I make help files open in Firefox by only pressing the F1 key?
If I see 705 one more time this week, it'll cease being funny!
I like to think of swearing as colourful. I particularly like the use of tmesis - the art of injection a swearword in the middle of another word. Not your common, ordin-fucking-ary swearword injection, it's got to be funny. The Australians do it best.
But no swearing on the TV during the day please. It's vulgar. There's a time and place for it. With people you trust. It's nasty hearing a young child effin and jeffin...
Why aren't people offended when I say "do one"? Everyone knows what I'm really saying.
Oh, oh, oh, please let it be Bobby DropTables, please, please.
I'm not far off your age and it's true, fun is fun. I just wish the kids wouldn't play some of these 18+ games. I can't stand their high pitched voices and their constant nagging to shoot this, go here and go there. That's when fun is no longer fun.
If it looks right, it is right.
They all look fine to me, Joe Average.
I know you're Yank because you used the word "Britain" - no one here says that. Few people here will even claim to be British.
We laugh at the Daily Mail for blowing things up out of all proportion. It's nicknamed the Daily Fail for a reason.
I stopped reading your post after that link, sorry Yankee-doodle-dandy.
Say UK next time. We'll even let you off if you say England.
Around here they'll fix a new front to the ATM, making sure they cover the camera lens, rent the flat above a shop opposite and place a camcorder facing out the window.
I'm still amazing that people don't cover the num-pad when in shops. There are CCTV cameras everywhere.
You lot have no imagination.
Print a tiny 3mm picture of the Goatse at tape that to the lens.
(Lens focus doesn't exist in my imagination land)
I was charged by police horses during a march against the Criminal Justice Bill about 15 years ago. Tanks, no. 2 metre horses with full body armour, yes.
Never been so scared in my life.
No.
I was shown the Bradford City stadium fire on video last week. 56 people died on Saturday 11 May 1985. You could see burning dead people. You could see people burning who were about to die.
It was shown to me as part of a safety training excercise. Things like this should not be forgotten or hushed-up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_City_stadium_fire
Go and hunt for the video.
The green ones are the best. New batch. Double drop man.
He said they recovered two presumably stolen laptops from within a classroom. He also said the 'heartbeat' only worked outside the LAN.
Double-plus unpossible?
hmmm... not sure they can stop us in Europe, and that's 50 countries. I even have a card in my wallet that entitles me free healthcare anywhere in Europe.
Move to a country with almost 100% coverage and stop complaining.
I'll sell you a phone like that for £20. BNIB. 30 day contract. No ID needed.