Boss: There's no point in killing a dead horse. Dilbert: Why would anyone kill a *dead* horse? Boss: It might kick you. Dilbert: ITS DEAD! Boss: And so is every person that used our product.
I created my hotmail account a long time ago now. Back then there were very few alternatives it was Hotmail or Yahoo. I chose hotmail mainly because a lot of my friends also used MSN Messenger and at the time, having a Hotmail account was the only way to access it (the Passport service hadn't been introduced then).
As to why I haven't changed, its for the same reason you don't move house unless you actually have to. I use my hotmail address to deal with a number of online retailers and personal friends. Changing it would only waste a lot of time for no real reason. For a free e-mail service, it is perfectly adequate.
I think he knows full well that plagiarism is wrong. However, his point is that the university waited until the last possible opportunity before kicking him out. By this time, they'll have already collected all the fees off him.
If he had been copying all his papers from the internet, then I'm sure the university must have known he was doing it for quite some time. In which case, why did they wait before kicking him out?
"they hope that such a standard will allow 3D data to be more easily incorporated into other apps, such as web browsers, to make 3D imagery more widespread"
Web browsers?!? I really hope not. I find the idea of a banner ad requiring a minimum of a GeForce 4 and pixel shader support offensive.
"Shoot the 3D rendered monkey in each limb and win a prize!"
*shudder*
Why would people care if its backwards compatible or not? If you already own XBox games, then I'm guessing (unless you're a compulsive shopper) you have an XBox.
If you don't have an XBox and get an XBox 2 the majority of people can't afford to finance buying games for what is essentially 2 platforms.
Finally (and I know I'm only going from personal experience here) how many PS2 owners have bought a PS1 game specifically for their PS2? Certainly not me.
If it would involve too many sacrifices to get the XBox 2 to be backward compatible. Please ditch the old games. Supporting old hardware/software has held the PC industry back for too long. Don't let the same happen to consoles.
Open your eyes man. This game would've been delayed whether or not the code had been leaked. What was actually leaked was a reasonably small percentage of the game. What we have here is a very convienient excuse for developers to fix bugs that would've been patched had the game been released on schedule. If this prevents me from not having to download a 250MB patch from FilePlanet just to be able to play the damn game, I'm all for waiting.
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Hopefully am EULA of a later version of Flash will contain the restriction:
"You may not use this software to shock monkeys, shoot ducks, squash spiders or obtain free iPods"
Must get juicer... Drink juice... won't get chest pains from answering the phone anymore.
"...the service will require Windows XP, Internet Explorer 5 or higher, and Windows Media Player 10..." ...and a United States billing address.
From the dilbert cartoon series:
Boss: There's no point in killing a dead horse.
Dilbert: Why would anyone kill a *dead* horse?
Boss: It might kick you.
Dilbert: ITS DEAD!
Boss: And so is every person that used our product.
"No word on pricing, yet."
Oooh! Oooh! I have a word.
Expensive.
...Maybe the strict control of your people hits a little too close to home :-)....
Actually, its probably because the game defaults to having free will enabled.
I created my hotmail account a long time ago now. Back then there were very few alternatives it was Hotmail or Yahoo. I chose hotmail mainly because a lot of my friends also used MSN Messenger and at the time, having a Hotmail account was the only way to access it (the Passport service hadn't been introduced then).
As to why I haven't changed, its for the same reason you don't move house unless you actually have to. I use my hotmail address to deal with a number of online retailers and personal friends. Changing it would only waste a lot of time for no real reason. For a free e-mail service, it is perfectly adequate.
I ruined the last piece of digital paper I had by using correction fluid to erase my mistakes.
Windows users will be shit out of luck then until it stops temporarily turning off the USB ports as part of the boot sequence.
I think he knows full well that plagiarism is wrong. However, his point is that the university waited until the last possible opportunity before kicking him out. By this time, they'll have already collected all the fees off him.
If he had been copying all his papers from the internet, then I'm sure the university must have known he was doing it for quite some time. In which case, why did they wait before kicking him out?
I think Worms 3D uses voxels. Or so I have been led to believe.
So if the solution is as simple as a pair of rubber gloves, why the fuss?
Because they'd still have to touch a metal door to get to the safety switch.
10 PRINT "Happy Birthday to you"
11 PRINT "Happy Birthday to you"
12 PRINT "Happy Birthday dear BASIC"
13 END
Dammit... Missed out a line. Now I remember why I should always increment line numbers by 10.
"they hope that such a standard will allow 3D data to be more easily incorporated into other apps, such as web browsers, to make 3D imagery more widespread" Web browsers?!? I really hope not. I find the idea of a banner ad requiring a minimum of a GeForce 4 and pixel shader support offensive. "Shoot the 3D rendered monkey in each limb and win a prize!" *shudder*
Why would people care if its backwards compatible or not? If you already own XBox games, then I'm guessing (unless you're a compulsive shopper) you have an XBox. If you don't have an XBox and get an XBox 2 the majority of people can't afford to finance buying games for what is essentially 2 platforms. Finally (and I know I'm only going from personal experience here) how many PS2 owners have bought a PS1 game specifically for their PS2? Certainly not me. If it would involve too many sacrifices to get the XBox 2 to be backward compatible. Please ditch the old games. Supporting old hardware/software has held the PC industry back for too long. Don't let the same happen to consoles.
Open your eyes man. This game would've been delayed whether or not the code had been leaked. What was actually leaked was a reasonably small percentage of the game. What we have here is a very convienient excuse for developers to fix bugs that would've been patched had the game been released on schedule. If this prevents me from not having to download a 250MB patch from FilePlanet just to be able to play the damn game, I'm all for waiting.
Yes this is wasted effort, but I'm more concerned about the wasted effort going in to creating the table of page conversions between editions.
Note how the link brings you back to the same page.
There is no escape.