I once swore off MS Office since it was so slow and bloated. It would sometimes crash and I'd lose all my work that was in memory and not saved to disk (unless it made it to the temp file). I converted to OpenOffice and adjusted to life without the paper clip (yay!).
However, after about a week, I was working on a spreadsheet, when it crashed. Just like MS Office I thought. But to my horror, not only did I lose my unsaved data, my data file was corrupted! I lost everything, and it was very important financial data.
So I swore off OpenOffice. I can tolerate loosing my unsaved data, but I don't want to have to remember to make a copy of the file every 10 minutes!
Wow, not only is Slashdot getting slower at reporting news, and repeating the same stories over and over again, now it's reporting news from other news sites. It's like watching Ted Koppel sit and watch CNN!
If some individuals would spend the time they do hunting down negative comments about Linux, to actually fix Linux, you wouldn't have to worry about people exposing how difficult Linux is for the average user. I'm all for bringing Linux to the mainstream and replacing Windows as the dominant OS, but that just won't happen until the average person can install their video games without calling tech support.
The Master tried this in "The Deadly Assassin". He just needed to be exposed to the "Eye Of Harmony" (basically a self contained black hole) to get 12 more regenerations.
According the 1996 TV movie, the Doctor Now possesses the EoH (in his TARDIS), so he could reset his regeneration whenever he wants. It would be against the Laws of Galifrey to do this, but since they are all gone now, the Doctor can do whatever he wants.
And let us not forget that we still don't know how The Doctor managed to survive when his entire race was wiped out in the Time Wars. Perhaps he's not a normal Time Lord. I've always suspected he was Rassilon...
Actually the doctor didn't regenerate between Patrick Troughton and John Pertwee. The Timelords simply changed his appearance at the end of "The War Games".
What I've always wondered is if the President gets spam, and if so, does he buy the penis enlargers (or did capturing Saddam do the trick). I'm sure the spammers would know.
The SX was the same as the DX, but with the Math Coprocessor disabled (for one reason or another). You could then add a seperate Math Coprocessor chip which was just a DX with different pins. Once installed, the Math Coprocessor chip would disable the SX chip and take over as the CPU.
...so does this mean that if I've already payed the Record Companies for their music via the levy, I can go ahead and download to my hearts content for free?
The Mechs made perfect sense. Even if the pilot was fully enclosed, they wouldn't have much protection from the Sentinels anyway (those nasty tentacles). The idea of the Mechs is that the piloting system allowed for faster targeting that could keep up with the Sentinels. They could literally just "point" where they wanted to shoot. The legs may not have been much use in that particular battle, but who's to say that that battle was all they were designed for? Perhaps they were originally intended for a ground assault on the surface.
The characters in The Matrix don't know they're in a movie!
As for the EMP, it was useless in Zion itself as it would do just as much damage to their own system as it would the machines (it would be like having an armed warhead in the Whitehouse). That's why they only had EMP on their ships. They only ended up using it because they had already lost the docks already (which they made quite clear in the movie).
Problem with a lot of game guides now-a-days (I'm looking at you Prima), they are rushed and full of errors and ommissions (not unlike the games they cover). They offer lots of colourful pictures and pull out maps, but the underlying content isn't always worth $20.
Sometimes this has to do with the type of game being covered. Game guides are very handy for most RPGs, but for Racers and Shooters, they don't have much to add. But even when the game offers a gold mine of potential content, the publisher gets lazy and pads them with redundant information and pictures.
A classic example is the guide for Everquest Online Adventures for PS2. All it really covers is the creation of your character. After that you're on your own...
Isn't a lack of games what killed platforms such as the Atari Jaguar and Sega's Game Gear? Even if the games that do come out for the GAMECUBE are sensational, it will still have to compete with a platform like the PS2 that has a massive catalog of PS2 and PSX games available. I guess it comes down to quality vs. quantity. And quality didn't help the BetaMax.
So now you can lose you're job for reporting people with child pornography, but get a freaking medal for reporting people with mp3's of the work of musicians that get caught with child pornography?
So now instead of renting a DVD and making a copy that sits on your shelf in a generic looking package, then having to drive back to the store to return it, you can now buy a nifty looking package to sit on your self, just make a quick copy of the DVD before it expires. After all, isn't the packaging one of the reasons to buy legitimate media?
I'm suprised no one has mentioned Everquest yet. The more you play it, the more you think of your life as a series of MOBs. I find myself sometimes "con"-ing people and trying to level.
Wait, am I still in the game?
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I once swore off MS Office since it was so slow and bloated. It would sometimes crash and I'd lose all my work that was in memory and not saved to disk (unless it made it to the temp file). I converted to OpenOffice and adjusted to life without the paper clip (yay!).
However, after about a week, I was working on a spreadsheet, when it crashed. Just like MS Office I thought. But to my horror, not only did I lose my unsaved data, my data file was corrupted! I lost everything, and it was very important financial data.
So I swore off OpenOffice. I can tolerate loosing my unsaved data, but I don't want to have to remember to make a copy of the file every 10 minutes!
Wow, not only is Slashdot getting slower at reporting news, and repeating the same stories over and over again, now it's reporting news from other news sites. It's like watching Ted Koppel sit and watch CNN!
If some individuals would spend the time they do hunting down negative comments about Linux, to actually fix Linux, you wouldn't have to worry about people exposing how difficult Linux is for the average user. I'm all for bringing Linux to the mainstream and replacing Windows as the dominant OS, but that just won't happen until the average person can install their video games without calling tech support.
The Master tried this in "The Deadly Assassin". He just needed to be exposed to the "Eye Of Harmony" (basically a self contained black hole) to get 12 more regenerations.
According the 1996 TV movie, the Doctor Now possesses the EoH (in his TARDIS), so he could reset his regeneration whenever he wants. It would be against the Laws of Galifrey to do this, but since they are all gone now, the Doctor can do whatever he wants.
And let us not forget that we still don't know how The Doctor managed to survive when his entire race was wiped out in the Time Wars. Perhaps he's not a normal Time Lord. I've always suspected he was Rassilon...
Actually the doctor didn't regenerate between Patrick Troughton and John Pertwee. The Timelords simply changed his appearance at the end of "The War Games".
I can't wait to hear the mashup with Paul Simon's "The Sound of Silence"
Is it a really obscure remix of "Enjoy The Silence"?
Yes, especially considering the contenders
What I've always wondered is if the President gets spam, and if so, does he buy the penis enlargers (or did capturing Saddam do the trick). I'm sure the spammers would know.
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The SX was the same as the DX, but with the Math Coprocessor disabled (for one reason or another). You could then add a seperate Math Coprocessor chip which was just a DX with different pins. Once installed, the Math Coprocessor chip would disable the SX chip and take over as the CPU.
Crazy, eh?
IANAL, but doesn't this just beg Rockstar to sue? I mean they even knock their shares.
If you don't like the game, don't play it. But there's far worse behaviour in the Bible than in GTA. To each their own.
...so does this mean that if I've already payed the Record Companies for their music via the levy, I can go ahead and download to my hearts content for free?
What if an alien civilization out there has done the same thing, and some alien has claimed the Earth. Do we get squatters rights?
The characters in The Matrix don't know they're in a movie!
As for the EMP, it was useless in Zion itself as it would do just as much damage to their own system as it would the machines (it would be like having an armed warhead in the Whitehouse). That's why they only had EMP on their ships. They only ended up using it because they had already lost the docks already (which they made quite clear in the movie).
Sometimes this has to do with the type of game being covered. Game guides are very handy for most RPGs, but for Racers and Shooters, they don't have much to add. But even when the game offers a gold mine of potential content, the publisher gets lazy and pads them with redundant information and pictures.
A classic example is the guide for Everquest Online Adventures for PS2. All it really covers is the creation of your character. After that you're on your own...
Too late! If you've ever handled a penny, they've already got it. Why do you think they still keep them in circulation?
Offending Christians is as easy as making teenagers depressed!
Step 1: Patent obvious idea
Step 2:
Step 3: Profit!
I'm a guy, so I find romance novels boring, cheezy, and fairly degrading toward men. ;-)
Isn't a lack of games what killed platforms such as the Atari Jaguar and Sega's Game Gear? Even if the games that do come out for the GAMECUBE are sensational, it will still have to compete with a platform like the PS2 that has a massive catalog of PS2 and PSX games available. I guess it comes down to quality vs. quantity. And quality didn't help the BetaMax.
So now you can lose you're job for reporting people with child pornography, but get a freaking medal for reporting people with mp3's of the work of musicians that get caught with child pornography?
So now instead of renting a DVD and making a copy that sits on your shelf in a generic looking package, then having to drive back to the store to return it, you can now buy a nifty looking package to sit on your self, just make a quick copy of the DVD before it expires. After all, isn't the packaging one of the reasons to buy legitimate media?
Is that like Pluto's Kiss? Or am I thinking of .hack?
...all I want to know is when is Pong 2 finally gonna come out?
I'm suprised no one has mentioned Everquest yet. The more you play it, the more you think of your life as a series of MOBs. I find myself sometimes "con"-ing people and trying to level. Wait, am I still in the game?