I seem to recall an arguement implying that if an ISP filters their traffic, they're not being neutral about which data they allow, and this may cause some legal problems. I can't seem to find the article about it though, and I'm not sure what its called. What kind of problems might happen with this? Could a publisher sue a UK ISP for blocking/banning or even reducing speed (through QoS, etc) of his software because it favours other methods?
I'm with a company who is part of part of Pipex (Freedom2Surf) and never had any problems with torrents, but have had plenty of warnings about downloading;)
I'd love to know what problems you had.
I'm now using a server somewhere else and downloading via it. It's a lot easier, and quicker even though its indirect.
Slightly leading question... but isn't non-monopolistic competition healthy?
From Wikipedia - it is estimated that 25-30% of all cigarettes smoked in the [UK] country avoid UK taxes.
From the BPI - 10% - estimated UK music piracy rate, of which Internet comprises of 5% of that 10% (yeah, thats 0.5% of the total population).
Maybe the RIAA/MPAA should move into cigarette taxation. Seriously, is 5% a major amount? Markets, Car Boot Sales & Street Vendors apparently contribute to 31% of that 10% (that's 3.1% of the total population, obviously). Why are Internet users and students being attacked the most? Easy targets?
I completely agree with you - but you don't take a copy of the cigarettes, make a copy of them yourself and pay nothing to the manufacturers do you?;)
Although actually, I'd be interested to hear of a comparison between what percent of music is pirated and what percentage of cigarettes have not had their tax paid.
wait until they have a version of DOSBox for Vista?
Please, explain to me again, why Qbix and the rest of the DOSBox crew should be making emulation software for Microsoft, when they chose not to implement it themselves? It's not really DOSBox's duty to ensure compatibility for Vista.
The fact that DOSBox and Wine are around as packages to help install and run older software is a bonus.
Fact is, this software USED to work in older Microsoft Operating Systems... Yet, the article is saying that alternative software such as Wine and DOSBox work better than XP and Vista in some respects - despite the claim they XP and Vista are (apparently) a little backwards compatible.
"Studies of identical twin brothers show that in 52% of cases where one twin is gay the other twin is also gay. This is a much higher concordance than the 2% to 10% distribution of gay people in the general population, as recorded by various sex surveys." from Gene Genie
Disclaimer: I am a gay man, last born and I'm not sure if its environmental, genetic or a combination. The thing about gay men having a bigger cock is true though. Honest.
10. Commodore 64 (1982)
The Commodore 64 sits on a mile-high pedestal in the adolescent memories of millions of people, but its keyboard design--shared by Commodore's earlier VIC-20--was incredibly clumsy. One glance at it reveals three major flaws. It was visually confusing, with too many symbols printed on each key. The computer's anti-ergonomic 2-inch height made it extremely hard on the wrists of untrained typists. And the keyboard's layout leaves much to be desired, with numerous examples of poor key placement. For example, the Home/Clear key sat directly to the left of Delete (Backspace), resulting in users' making repeated accidental hits and sending the cursor back up to the top of the screen. In addition, the layout was peppered with an unusually large number of nonstandard keys such as Run/Stop and Restore. Luckily, most C64 owners remained oblivious to these problems: More often than not, they used the C64 for playing games with joysticks, saving the heavy computing work for dad's IBM PC.
9. Timex Sinclair 2068 (1983)
In the process of "improving" the wildly successful Sinclair ZX Spectrum for the United States market, Timex ruined the line with a bastardized version known as the Timex Sinclair 2068. But the 2068 shared one significant feature with its progenitor that it should have left behind: an atrocious keyboard. It's no exaggeration to say that using the 2068's keyboard without training was like trying to type while drunk and blindfolded. Some of the keys controlled as many as six different functions. Just to rub it all in, the unit had no Backspace key, a fault of many other early home computers. Did the designers assume that typists would never make mistakes? I bet the masterminds behind the 2068's keyboard backspaced over this part of their design history long ago.
8. Commodore PET 2001-32-N (1978)
Critics hailed the revised, full-stroke keyboard of the updated Commodore PET (model 2001-32-N) as a huge improvement over Commodore's first PET keyboard. But Commodore still got a few layout points terribly wrong. For one thing, the design repeated the old "Run/Stop key placed directly to the left of the Return key" trick. For another, it went with the ever-popular "lack of Backspace" maneuver; to perform something resembling a Backspace, you had to hold Shift and the left/right cursor key above the numeric keypad. And since the creators of this keyboard included a numeric keypad in the design, they cleverly omitted numbers from the primary keyboard area altogether--if you pressed keys that would conjure up numbers on any other remotely semistandard QWERTY keyboard, you'd get symbols instead. And hey, has anyone seen the period key? Oh, it's over there on the numeric keypad.
7. Texas Instruments TI-99/4 (1979)
With the release of the TI-99/4 in 1979, integrated-circuit pioneer TI took its first shaky steps into the home computer market with a $1150 package that included a special monitor and a calculator-like Chiclet keyboard. Like the original Apple II, the 99/4 did not support lowercase letters. Because of this limitation, the Shift key served as a function modifier, with the functions typically marked on a plastic overlay. The most frustrating of these key combinations was Shift-Q, which would quit a program or reset the computer, much to the chagrin of users who lost a day's work while erroneously trying to capitalize the letter Q. The 99/4's layout problems extended beyond the Q conundrum: The Enter key sat where a Right Shift key would normally reside on a standard layout. Also, the keyboard had a space key instead of a spacebar, and it was located in an odd position. The design had no dedicated Backspace key,
1. Most tanks are BIGGER than 15 gallons. 2. Say you fill up once a week with 15 gallons (I use twice that) 3. Thats $111.80 a year (or $223 a year for someone like me). Personally, thats quite a bit of money. 4. If you've got a trailer, you'll be less efficient and you'll want cheaper fuel:P 5. The cheaper station might be on the way to your destination... hard to know if you don't check is it?
In the UK prices can vary by about 30 pence per litre (60 cents) - so multiply all the figures above by four:)
If you're happy to just go to your cheapest petrol station, good luck to you. Personally I like to save money when its easy to do so.
Why do I always have to comment on petrol related comments....?
Also remember that US Petrol costs around 38p a litre (roughly, please correct if I've worked this out wrong) compared to over 100p a litre in the UK. Still, my 1997 Ford Escort gets around 35mpg (I do about 60-100 miles a day).
On a full tank, thats about £22 vs. £60 (thats $46 vs. $122!)
If they sold it with the express knowledge that the iPhone is only permitted to be inserted, into, say, Goatse's anus, and you insert it into your own and it fails the next time it updates, that'd be different.
I don't see it should make any difference, the hardware and software is still compatible for your own anus, or Goatse's anus, its just that Apple won't allow you to put it into your own anus, only into AT&T.
If the battery is running out too fast, then make sure you've inserted the charging cable firmly into the hole. Unfortunately its not covered under warranty as its a consumable item. Apparently.
Mine's been trying to install the same patch on shutdown for about 3 days now... is it related? How can I find out what its trying to install? Should I just install Gentoo again!?!
Yeah, you can. This is the line I'm going down because I thought smoking helped me relax but actually it made me more stressed. I'm definitely not a normal guy, I've been on antidepressants for 6 years and don't seem to be able to find a good reason for it.
If you're paranoid and think they're out to get you, you must think you matter.:)
Smoking isn't helping you, its just an excuse you use. Put that effort and money into finding out whats making you feel this way.
For now I know I am no longer a smoker, sure I get pangs of denial that it helped, and get depressed because I feel I've lost something, and anger because I feel I have nothing to keep me calm, but one day I will accept its for the best and I'll be glad I never smoked.
If you wanna chat, feel free to shoot me an email cos I'm pretty sure this is off-topic:)
Thanks BluBrick, you're absolutely right. The first 36 hours were the worst but its over with now and I feel like a non-smoker. Even got a page on my website about it:
Dug has been an non-smoker for
01 Days, 20 Hours, 39 Minutes, 48 Seconds.
has saved £11.10 so far & will save £2190 per year
Carbon monoxide gone from body. Lungs clearing.
Dug knows every day gets easier.
Since I wrote that bit of software I've found it pretty easy but you're right about language and how you think about things. Can I ask, did you try hypnotherapy, as I did and was told exactly what you said but its a habit to *think* like its denying myself something. Feel free to contact me offline if you're willing?
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I seem to recall an arguement implying that if an ISP filters their traffic, they're not being neutral about which data they allow, and this may cause some legal problems. I can't seem to find the article about it though, and I'm not sure what its called. What kind of problems might happen with this? Could a publisher sue a UK ISP for blocking/banning or even reducing speed (through QoS, etc) of his software because it favours other methods?
Dug
I'm with a company who is part of part of Pipex (Freedom2Surf) and never had any problems with torrents, but have had plenty of warnings about downloading ;)
I'd love to know what problems you had.
I'm now using a server somewhere else and downloading via it. It's a lot easier, and quicker even though its indirect.
Slightly leading question... but isn't non-monopolistic competition healthy?
From Wikipedia - it is estimated that 25-30% of all cigarettes smoked in the [UK] country avoid UK taxes.
From the BPI - 10% - estimated UK music piracy rate, of which Internet comprises of 5% of that 10% (yeah, thats 0.5% of the total population).
Maybe the RIAA/MPAA should move into cigarette taxation. Seriously, is 5% a major amount? Markets, Car Boot Sales & Street Vendors apparently contribute to 31% of that 10% (that's 3.1% of the total population, obviously). Why are Internet users and students being attacked the most? Easy targets?
I completely agree with you - but you don't take a copy of the cigarettes, make a copy of them yourself and pay nothing to the manufacturers do you? ;)
Although actually, I'd be interested to hear of a comparison between what percent of music is pirated and what percentage of cigarettes have not had their tax paid.
Similar situation?
The fact that DOSBox and Wine are around as packages to help install and run older software is a bonus.
Fact is, this software USED to work in older Microsoft Operating Systems... Yet, the article is saying that alternative software such as Wine and DOSBox work better than XP and Vista in some respects - despite the claim they XP and Vista are (apparently) a little backwards compatible.
It's not *too* vague! :)
"Studies of identical twin brothers show that in 52% of cases where one twin is gay the other twin is also gay. This is a much higher concordance than the 2% to 10% distribution of gay people in the general population, as recorded by various sex surveys." from Gene Genie
originally from a very interesting article: in the Guardian.
Disclaimer: I am a gay man, last born and I'm not sure if its environmental, genetic or a combination. The thing about gay men having a bigger cock is true though. Honest.
I do something similar. Apart from for ExpertsExchange - Google Cache works nicely for that site :)
10. Commodore 64 (1982)
The Commodore 64 sits on a mile-high pedestal in the adolescent memories of millions of people, but its keyboard design--shared by Commodore's earlier VIC-20--was incredibly clumsy. One glance at it reveals three major flaws. It was visually confusing, with too many symbols printed on each key. The computer's anti-ergonomic 2-inch height made it extremely hard on the wrists of untrained typists. And the keyboard's layout leaves much to be desired, with numerous examples of poor key placement. For example, the Home/Clear key sat directly to the left of Delete (Backspace), resulting in users' making repeated accidental hits and sending the cursor back up to the top of the screen. In addition, the layout was peppered with an unusually large number of nonstandard keys such as Run/Stop and Restore. Luckily, most C64 owners remained oblivious to these problems: More often than not, they used the C64 for playing games with joysticks, saving the heavy computing work for dad's IBM PC.
9. Timex Sinclair 2068 (1983)
In the process of "improving" the wildly successful Sinclair ZX Spectrum for the United States market, Timex ruined the line with a bastardized version known as the Timex Sinclair 2068. But the 2068 shared one significant feature with its progenitor that it should have left behind: an atrocious keyboard. It's no exaggeration to say that using the 2068's keyboard without training was like trying to type while drunk and blindfolded. Some of the keys controlled as many as six different functions. Just to rub it all in, the unit had no Backspace key, a fault of many other early home computers. Did the designers assume that typists would never make mistakes? I bet the masterminds behind the 2068's keyboard backspaced over this part of their design history long ago.
8. Commodore PET 2001-32-N (1978)
Critics hailed the revised, full-stroke keyboard of the updated Commodore PET (model 2001-32-N) as a huge improvement over Commodore's first PET keyboard. But Commodore still got a few layout points terribly wrong. For one thing, the design repeated the old "Run/Stop key placed directly to the left of the Return key" trick. For another, it went with the ever-popular "lack of Backspace" maneuver; to perform something resembling a Backspace, you had to hold Shift and the left/right cursor key above the numeric keypad. And since the creators of this keyboard included a numeric keypad in the design, they cleverly omitted numbers from the primary keyboard area altogether--if you pressed keys that would conjure up numbers on any other remotely semistandard QWERTY keyboard, you'd get symbols instead. And hey, has anyone seen the period key? Oh, it's over there on the numeric keypad.
7. Texas Instruments TI-99/4 (1979)
With the release of the TI-99/4 in 1979, integrated-circuit pioneer TI took its first shaky steps into the home computer market with a $1150 package that included a special monitor and a calculator-like Chiclet keyboard. Like the original Apple II, the 99/4 did not support lowercase letters. Because of this limitation, the Shift key served as a function modifier, with the functions typically marked on a plastic overlay. The most frustrating of these key combinations was Shift-Q, which would quit a program or reset the computer, much to the chagrin of users who lost a day's work while erroneously trying to capitalize the letter Q. The 99/4's layout problems extended beyond the Q conundrum: The Enter key sat where a Right Shift key would normally reside on a standard layout. Also, the keyboard had a space key instead of a spacebar, and it was located in an odd position. The design had no dedicated Backspace key,
Oh wait.. Yeah, it does exist! It's right on The Register.
(Belkin 5ghz wireless HDMI transmitter at CES)
1. Most tanks are BIGGER than 15 gallons. :P
:)
2. Say you fill up once a week with 15 gallons (I use twice that)
3. Thats $111.80 a year (or $223 a year for someone like me). Personally, thats quite a bit of money.
4. If you've got a trailer, you'll be less efficient and you'll want cheaper fuel
5. The cheaper station might be on the way to your destination... hard to know if you don't check is it?
In the UK prices can vary by about 30 pence per litre (60 cents) - so multiply all the figures above by four
If you're happy to just go to your cheapest petrol station, good luck to you. Personally I like to save money when its easy to do so.
Why do I always have to comment on petrol related comments....?
DugUK
Also remember that US Petrol costs around 38p a litre (roughly, please correct if I've worked this out wrong) compared to over 100p a litre in the UK. Still, my 1997 Ford Escort gets around 35mpg (I do about 60-100 miles a day).
On a full tank, thats about £22 vs. £60 (thats $46 vs. $122!)
Yeah. We brits get a great deal!
What about combining both together and having one giant superboob?
Shush and use this one then
Download link or this link.
Login: b44ccd21@myway.com
Passwd: donuts
Cheers bugmenot...
or screw waiting in a queue and Google Search for SetupUT3Demo.exe.
Looks like there's plenty of torrents.
If you're serious, I can get it done for about £21
:P
If you're offering a free phone, I'll have an iPhone please and I'll pay the £21 myself
Yes, I am serious.
Dug
If they sold it with the express knowledge that the iPhone is only permitted to be inserted, into, say, Goatse's anus, and you insert it into your own and it fails the next time it updates, that'd be different.
I don't see it should make any difference, the hardware and software is still compatible for your own anus, or Goatse's anus, its just that Apple won't allow you to put it into your own anus, only into AT&T.
If the battery is running out too fast, then make sure you've inserted the charging cable firmly into the hole. Unfortunately its not covered under warranty as its a consumable item. Apparently.
Dug
There are two types of people in the world. Those who put people into one of two groups, and those who don't. I'm one of the one's who don't.
Won't someone think of the children? Lets blow it up like we did the whale.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Mine's been trying to install the same patch on shutdown for about 3 days now... is it related? How can I find out what its trying to install? Should I just install Gentoo again!?!
Yeah, you can. This is the line I'm going down because I thought smoking helped me relax but actually it made me more stressed. I'm definitely not a normal guy, I've been on antidepressants for 6 years and don't seem to be able to find a good reason for it.
:)
:)
If you're paranoid and think they're out to get you, you must think you matter.
Smoking isn't helping you, its just an excuse you use. Put that effort and money into finding out whats making you feel this way.
For now I know I am no longer a smoker, sure I get pangs of denial that it helped, and get depressed because I feel I've lost something, and anger because I feel I have nothing to keep me calm, but one day I will accept its for the best and I'll be glad I never smoked.
If you wanna chat, feel free to shoot me an email cos I'm pretty sure this is off-topic
Thanks BluBrick, you're absolutely right. The first 36 hours were the worst but its over with now and I feel like a non-smoker. Even got a page on my website about it:
Dug has been an non-smoker for
01 Days, 20 Hours, 39 Minutes, 48 Seconds.
has saved £11.10 so far & will save £2190 per year
Carbon monoxide gone from body. Lungs clearing.
Dug knows every day gets easier.
Since I wrote that bit of software I've found it pretty easy but you're right about language and how you think about things. Can I ask, did you try hypnotherapy, as I did and was told exactly what you said but its a habit to *think* like its denying myself something. Feel free to contact me offline if you're willing?
Thank you for the support!
I gave up on Sunday and NOW this comes up? C'mon guys, be fair! Its hard enough as it is!
Hey not so much of ALL the blokes, please! Some of us are otherly inclined. Plus Adam is cute :D
Oh, yeah. I'm gay you insensitive clod!
Thats why I have emo grass