Who cares about pissing of the USA? Weak and falling currency, weak and falling manufacturing industry. And they can't threaten us as we have enough nukes to take out the USA several times over.
I don't think your last paragraph is right. I dont think there's a laptop out there that even comes close to the Macbook Pro (or even the Macbook) in terms of "quality" even if you ignore OSX: and how long has the Macbook been out now (and before it the Al Powerbook)? You get what you pay for.
Declaring a class "final" in Java stops you sub-classing it, Re-opening is not sub-classing.
For every day use I'd agree re-opening is not a good idea but for libraries it's great.
Oh and the reason most Java core classes are final? The developers were too lazy to do the extra work to make them sub-class-able. An OO language where you can't sub-class the core classes? I think that says a lot about Java.
It's not bogus at all.
I've used Handbrake, the tool recommended not 3 posts above yours, and it sucks. Every single rip the audio and video are out of synch.
As for other free software people get so excited about: OpenOffice? God awful piece of software. Reminds me of Wordperfect for Windows. NeoOffice: close, but no cigar as it screws up all kind of formatting when you try and read a Word document (the de facto document standard). In contrast, Pages, (which I got along with Numbers and Keynote for the bank breaking total of 60GBP, which is what $120) works perfectly. The time I dont have to spend getting it to work is worth far more than that.
If I was an OS hobbyist, GNU/Linux would be my first choice (actually perhaps FreeBSD, I like to be contrarian and I don't much like Torvalds). But I'm not, I'm a senior techy with a job to do and I can't afford to waste time working around poor quality open source apps to get my work environment working.
That said, I use a whole bunch of good quality free software every day: Subversion, emacs, bash are top of the list.
Get your facts straight. HMRC enjoy crown immunity and cannot be prosecuted.
Personally I think it was honourable of Paul Grey (HMRC's Chairman) to resign. And in sharp contrast to the reaction of the Metropolitan police chief, Blair, how's organisation murders innocent members of the public and he feels no need to resign. Or the government in general who never resign regardless of their behaviour.
You miss the point.
The issue is that the USA discriminates between internal and external "suppliers" of gambling. if gambling were illegal in the US then there wouldnt be a problem with banning foreign gambling "suppliers" from "trading".
In the UK there is the concept of a vexatious litigant, if the court decides you are one then you can no-longer initiate legal action of any kind. I assume that is the case in the US and was wondering if there were moves afoot to have Jack Thompson declared one?
He's a clever geek, no doubt but he owes everything to the good fortune of meeting Steve Jobs. Without him Woz would still be a calculator engineer at HP.
And frankly I find it difficult to take him seriously when he calls his biography "iWoz" when he had nothing to do with the Mac let alone any of the "i" products.
Publicity hungry empty vessel. Who cares what he thinks: he has no particular insight.
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I agree. Zero replay. And whilst I thought playing through the game was great I thought the end was a huge, huge let down.
Seems a bizzare setup to me. It should be synching to everything through iSync. Why on earth they've decided to make iTunes do it is beyond me (and bad design).
You're mistaken on 2 counts. Firstly it's LGPL not the GPL that the library is licensed under. And secondly the obligation is to actively distribute (which they havent: I know as I have a copy of 3.0).
Well I bought 2.0 partly because I they gave the impression 3D graphics would be a free upgrade to 2.0. So when it turns out you have to pay (there's not even upgrade discount) to get it I decided to hold off. I downloaded the demo of 3.0 and whilst I like the fact it can mount my bootcamp Windows partition the fact is 3D is incomplete/flawed. I don't know or care about HL2, but I do care about Company of Heroes and that will not work:( So until they get 3D actually, you know, working, I plan on holding off on even thinking about paying for something I thought I'd already bought.
You've missed the point. The cameras are not to keep an eye on the police it's to gather evidence against everyone else. Yet another example of the police using technology to avoid having to do their job.
No the trouble has nothing to do with a lack of cameras. There were no CCTVs 20 years ago and you know what, policemen did their job and, shock horror, caught thieves.
The actual problem is the competence of the police, or lack thereof. They've become over-reliant on the law bullying the populace. Since the beginning of the year littering has become an arrestable offence and if Tony "Uncle Joe Stalin" Blair has his way before he leaves we'll have the "Suss laws" returning: police can arrest and question you on suspicion of doing something.... no evidence, you just have to look a bit shifty, in the police's opnion.
Actually it's slightly misleading because 2-3 CDs wouldn't actually breach the customs and excise limits (basically they dont bother charging if it's less than something like £25).
WOW does not require skill to advance. Sure there are skilled players but the main asset a player needs is time (or to put it another way, stamina).
So what gold buyers are actually doing is paying cash instead of time to obtain their epic sword of leetness. Perfectly reasonable imo and the only people whom 've heard whinge about it are the adolescents supported by their parents who can afford to spend their lives in WoW.
So don't mistake stamina for skill. The latter is more than just playing 24x7 and being able to endure WoW farming. (Personally I think WoW grinders are pretty much the same creature as WoW Gold farmers: except the farmers get paid for their time where as the grinders are just waisting theirs).
>>I've read the thread, but just because the driver didn't have alcohol personally, doesn't mean alcohol didn't play a role.
You've completely missed the point. The thread is about putting a big brother drink detector into cars. This has nothing to do with drunk pedestrians or passengers or any other non-drink-driver issue.
You think a computer could decide whether you were driving erratically and not, for example, swerving wildly to avoid a child that's run out into the road? "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you swerve like that."
>>You wear all the costs of any damage or injuries in the event of a collision.
No! Consider the case where the person causing the accident isn't capable of paying damages from their own pockets: e.g. a 17 year old or a pensioner: how does the victim get compensated? Or if the guilty party simply declares themselves bankrupt? Or does a runner? The insurance companies should pay up.
Have to admit I have zero sympathy for poor old raid organisers who won't be able to plan their raids around them. Blizzard already panders far too much to the uber guilds who spend months raiding the same dungeons over and over and over again. There have been numerous content additions for these sad bastards who waste their lives on this game and fuck all for the casual gamer (re-cycled content, e.g. taking existing dungones and lowering the required group size, does not count).
I quit the game because I got fed up with a lack of end-game for non-loser gamers.
Uhm no Pentium does not mean "5 heads" it's an Intel trademark derived from Penta (because courts ruled you couldn't trademark a number e.g. 586). No mention of heads.
And the lesson is: if you're going to be a pedant expect the same treatment back. Oh and the gp was making a joke.
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Not quite right. Every UK household with a TV or computer screen pays the BBC over £100 a year: it's a criminal offence (!) not to.
Who cares about pissing of the USA? Weak and falling currency, weak and falling manufacturing industry. And they can't threaten us as we have enough nukes to take out the USA several times over.
I think you've missed the point. Hard drive encryption *is* supposed to protect against someone having physical access to your machine.
I don't think your last paragraph is right. I dont think there's a laptop out there that even comes close to the Macbook Pro (or even the Macbook) in terms of "quality" even if you ignore OSX: and how long has the Macbook been out now (and before it the Al Powerbook)? You get what you pay for.
For every day use I'd agree re-opening is not a good idea but for libraries it's great.
Oh and the reason most Java core classes are final? The developers were too lazy to do the extra work to make them sub-class-able. An OO language where you can't sub-class the core classes? I think that says a lot about Java.
It's not bogus at all. I've used Handbrake, the tool recommended not 3 posts above yours, and it sucks. Every single rip the audio and video are out of synch. As for other free software people get so excited about: OpenOffice? God awful piece of software. Reminds me of Wordperfect for Windows. NeoOffice: close, but no cigar as it screws up all kind of formatting when you try and read a Word document (the de facto document standard). In contrast, Pages, (which I got along with Numbers and Keynote for the bank breaking total of 60GBP, which is what $120) works perfectly. The time I dont have to spend getting it to work is worth far more than that. If I was an OS hobbyist, GNU/Linux would be my first choice (actually perhaps FreeBSD, I like to be contrarian and I don't much like Torvalds). But I'm not, I'm a senior techy with a job to do and I can't afford to waste time working around poor quality open source apps to get my work environment working. That said, I use a whole bunch of good quality free software every day: Subversion, emacs, bash are top of the list.
Get your facts straight. HMRC enjoy crown immunity and cannot be prosecuted.
Personally I think it was honourable of Paul Grey (HMRC's Chairman) to resign. And in sharp contrast to the reaction of the Metropolitan police chief, Blair, how's organisation murders innocent members of the public and he feels no need to resign. Or the government in general who never resign regardless of their behaviour.
You miss the point. The issue is that the USA discriminates between internal and external "suppliers" of gambling. if gambling were illegal in the US then there wouldnt be a problem with banning foreign gambling "suppliers" from "trading".
In the UK there is the concept of a vexatious litigant, if the court decides you are one then you can no-longer initiate legal action of any kind. I assume that is the case in the US and was wondering if there were moves afoot to have Jack Thompson declared one?
He's a clever geek, no doubt but he owes everything to the good fortune of meeting Steve Jobs. Without him Woz would still be a calculator engineer at HP. And frankly I find it difficult to take him seriously when he calls his biography "iWoz" when he had nothing to do with the Mac let alone any of the "i" products. Publicity hungry empty vessel. Who cares what he thinks: he has no particular insight.
I agree. Zero replay. And whilst I thought playing through the game was great I thought the end was a huge, huge let down.
Seems a bizzare setup to me. It should be synching to everything through iSync. Why on earth they've decided to make iTunes do it is beyond me (and bad design).
You're mistaken on 2 counts. Firstly it's LGPL not the GPL that the library is licensed under. And secondly the obligation is to actively distribute (which they havent: I know as I have a copy of 3.0).
Well I bought 2.0 partly because I they gave the impression 3D graphics would be a free upgrade to 2.0. So when it turns out you have to pay (there's not even upgrade discount) to get it I decided to hold off. I downloaded the demo of 3.0 and whilst I like the fact it can mount my bootcamp Windows partition the fact is 3D is incomplete/flawed. I don't know or care about HL2, but I do care about Company of Heroes and that will not work :( So until they get 3D actually, you know, working, I plan on holding off on even thinking about paying for something I thought I'd already bought.
You've missed the point. The cameras are not to keep an eye on the police it's to gather evidence against everyone else. Yet another example of the police using technology to avoid having to do their job.
The actual problem is the competence of the police, or lack thereof. They've become over-reliant on the law bullying the populace. Since the beginning of the year littering has become an arrestable offence and if Tony "Uncle Joe Stalin" Blair has his way before he leaves we'll have the "Suss laws" returning: police can arrest and question you on suspicion of doing something.... no evidence, you just have to look a bit shifty, in the police's opnion.
Even better. Here in Birmingham (central England) we have Policeman and Traffic Wardens equipped with cameras in their hats/ helmets. Seriously.
Actually it's slightly misleading because 2-3 CDs wouldn't actually breach the customs and excise limits (basically they dont bother charging if it's less than something like £25).
WOW does not require skill to advance. Sure there are skilled players but the main asset a player needs is time (or to put it another way, stamina).
So what gold buyers are actually doing is paying cash instead of time to obtain their epic sword of leetness. Perfectly reasonable imo and the only people whom 've heard whinge about it are the adolescents supported by their parents who can afford to spend their lives in WoW.
So don't mistake stamina for skill. The latter is more than just playing 24x7 and being able to endure WoW farming. (Personally I think WoW grinders are pretty much the same creature as WoW Gold farmers: except the farmers get paid for their time where as the grinders are just waisting theirs).
I'm curious to know how a US judge would have any jurisdiction over a wreck 40 miles off the English coast?
>>I've read the thread, but just because the driver didn't have alcohol personally, doesn't mean alcohol didn't play a role. You've completely missed the point. The thread is about putting a big brother drink detector into cars. This has nothing to do with drunk pedestrians or passengers or any other non-drink-driver issue.
You think a computer could decide whether you were driving erratically and not, for example, swerving wildly to avoid a child that's run out into the road? "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you swerve like that."
>>You wear all the costs of any damage or injuries in the event of a collision. No! Consider the case where the person causing the accident isn't capable of paying damages from their own pockets: e.g. a 17 year old or a pensioner: how does the victim get compensated? Or if the guilty party simply declares themselves bankrupt? Or does a runner? The insurance companies should pay up.
Have to admit I have zero sympathy for poor old raid organisers who won't be able to plan their raids around them. Blizzard already panders far too much to the uber guilds who spend months raiding the same dungeons over and over and over again. There have been numerous content additions for these sad bastards who waste their lives on this game and fuck all for the casual gamer (re-cycled content, e.g. taking existing dungones and lowering the required group size, does not count).
I quit the game because I got fed up with a lack of end-game for non-loser gamers.
And the lesson is: if you're going to be a pedant expect the same treatment back. Oh and the gp was making a joke.