If this doesn't kick-start HD-DVD, nothing will. The last obstacle to conventional DVD piracy has been overcome. Never mind the speed - now we can copy^H^H^H^Hmake fair-use backups of full commercial DVDs, including extras and without further compression.
If you applied last month's critical patches OR you have a working firewall - even the basic XP one - you won't get it.
Everyone with a Windows machine should sign up for MS's monthly security e-mail or religiously check Windows Update on the second Tuesday of each month. I won't go as far as recommending automatic updates, though.
in bullet points, which is not particularly healthy.
A university lecturer once explained to us that a housefly's brain can process hundreds of simultaneous inputs and outputs. After going through 16 years of formal education, the human brain can cope with a single input and a single output. I'm sure bulleted presentations reinforce this.
This is going way [OT], but "American English" spelling is basically British English circa 1776, not a a decaying version of the Queen's English as most of us in the UK seem to believe. "British English" is the one that has evolved most. Some words had additional letters added to them by typesetters who wanted to fill a line, and these spellings stuck. There is also an obvious European influence. Remember that in the 18th century there wasn't really such a thing as correct spelling, and English had only really been a written language for a few hundred years (since Chaucer).
The UK can take a "holier than thou" attitude on global warming because (for simple economic reasons) there has been a massive shift from coal-fired power plants to gas-fired ones, which emit relatively more steam and less CO2. This happy accident means we are one of the few countries to meet the Kyoto rules.
Meanwhile, the government is doing bugger all in other polluting aspects that might piss off the voters. 3 million more cars on the road since Labour came to power, for example, and the scrapping of the escalator in fuel taxes.
Have a Google for this (and Quake 2 Done Quick and Quake III Arena Done Quick - which is the single player levels with bots). Basically they're beautifully recammed recordings of the game played as fast as possible on Nightmare/Hard+ difficulty.
I wonder how much billg paid Lucas to include that? Still, it'll be a talking piece in 20 years' time when you're watching ANH for the nth time and your grandkids ask you what an XBox was.
The network install of XP SP2 is said to be several hundred MB. Even with GetRight or similar, that's not an easy download on a modem (besides the slow speed, a lot of unmetered ISPs kick you every 2 hours even if the connection is busy).
I clean up/rebuild [1] a lot of old PCs for people, and if the box doesn't have a network card so I can plug it into my LAN/DSL router, I buy one or borrow one out of another machine. It's just not practical otherwise. A workaround for dial-up users might be for MS to issue frequent Service Packs as freely as AOL CDs, but somehow I don't expect that in the foreseeable future.
Yup, that would be the same L0pht Heavy Industries that sold out and became @stake, Inc. I mean, FFS, they could have at least called themselves @st4k3, 1nc.
Using a camera to pirate movies has always struck me as being kind of desperate. It's a bit like taking a cassette recorder and a microphone round your friend's house to copy his CD collection. I don't think there's anything here to worry the serious film lover (and face it, the quality is so crap that everyone buys the DVD when it comes out 6 months later).
OK, I'll bite. Cut and pasted from Comcast's acceptable usage policy, you may not
'(xi) transmit unsolicited bulk or commercial messages or "spam." This includes, but is not limited to, unsolicited advertising, promotional materials or other solicitation material, bulk mailing of commercial advertising, chain mail, informational announcements, charity requests, and petitions for signatures;'
Most ISPs prohibit this in their T&Cs. So unless you have a direct pipe to the Internet, you're surely going to be cut off as soon as they realise what all that 24/7 traffic is?
The purpose usually appears to be to confirm (a) what mode of transport the speaker is using; (b) where the user is and (c) what time they will be home.
Typically, "Hello.....I'm on the train...just gone through Ealing Broadway...see you about seven."
Most of these conversations are largely pointless, probably intended to show everyone else in the area that the speaker (a) has a mobile and (b) knows at least one other human being.
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If this doesn't kick-start HD-DVD, nothing will. The last obstacle to conventional DVD piracy has been overcome. Never mind the speed - now we can copy^H^H^H^Hmake fair-use backups of full commercial DVDs, including extras and without further compression.
Everyone with a Windows machine should sign up for MS's monthly security e-mail or religiously check Windows Update on the second Tuesday of each month. I won't go as far as recommending automatic updates, though.
About a particularly nasty form of spyware.
- talk
- think
- and act
in bullet points, which is not particularly healthy.A university lecturer once explained to us that a housefly's brain can process hundreds of simultaneous inputs and outputs. After going through 16 years of formal education, the human brain can cope with a single input and a single output. I'm sure bulleted presentations reinforce this.
This is going way [OT], but "American English" spelling is basically British English circa 1776, not a a decaying version of the Queen's English as most of us in the UK seem to believe. "British English" is the one that has evolved most. Some words had additional letters added to them by typesetters who wanted to fill a line, and these spellings stuck. There is also an obvious European influence. Remember that in the 18th century there wasn't really such a thing as correct spelling, and English had only really been a written language for a few hundred years (since Chaucer).
Hey buddy.. got a dead cat in there or what?
The Slashdot poster considers possible responses:
>YES/NO
>FP!
>IN SOVIET RUSSIA...
>IMAGINE A BEOWULF CLUSTER OF THOSE!
>FSCK YOU
>FSCK YOU, WINDOZE LUSER
SP:
Fsck you, Windoze luser.
How did they do this? They picketed four or five oil refineries. The French are also rather good at this type of protest.
Meanwhile, the government is doing bugger all in other polluting aspects that might piss off the voters. 3 million more cars on the road since Labour came to power, for example, and the scrapping of the escalator in fuel taxes.
Of course - women can't whistle properly.
Have a Google for this (and Quake 2 Done Quick and Quake III Arena Done Quick - which is the single player levels with bots). Basically they're beautifully recammed recordings of the game played as fast as possible on Nightmare/Hard+ difficulty.
Polymer records? Someone tell Artie Fufkin!
Linux doesn't kill people. It's people that kill people.
I wonder how much billg paid Lucas to include that? Still, it'll be a talking piece in 20 years' time when you're watching ANH for the nth time and your grandkids ask you what an XBox was.
Us Brits will also willingly cough them up for a cheap pen. Every man has his price, you know.
I clean up/rebuild [1] a lot of old PCs for people, and if the box doesn't have a network card so I can plug it into my LAN/DSL router, I buy one or borrow one out of another machine. It's just not practical otherwise. A workaround for dial-up users might be for MS to issue frequent Service Packs as freely as AOL CDs, but somehow I don't expect that in the foreseeable future.
Yup, that would be the same L0pht Heavy Industries that sold out and became @stake, Inc. I mean, FFS, they could have at least called themselves @st4k3, 1nc.
Because I often go upstairs and can't remember what I went there for.
Using a camera to pirate movies has always struck me as being kind of desperate. It's a bit like taking a cassette recorder and a microphone round your friend's house to copy his CD collection. I don't think there's anything here to worry the serious film lover (and face it, the quality is so crap that everyone buys the DVD when it comes out 6 months later).
'(xi) transmit unsolicited bulk or commercial messages or "spam." This includes, but is not limited to, unsolicited advertising, promotional materials or other solicitation material, bulk mailing of commercial advertising, chain mail, informational announcements, charity requests, and petitions for signatures;'
Most ISPs prohibit this in their T&Cs. So unless you have a direct pipe to the Internet, you're surely going to be cut off as soon as they realise what all that 24/7 traffic is?
Typically, "Hello.....I'm on the train...just gone through Ealing Broadway...see you about seven."
Most of these conversations are largely pointless, probably intended to show everyone else in the area that the speaker (a) has a mobile and (b) knows at least one other human being.
No thanks. I *hate* the personalized menus in Windows and Office XP, and they seem to have removed the ability to turn them off now.
I ported Quake II to INTERCAL years ago. I claim the first use, in a FPS, of "COME FROM" and colored lighting ;-)
"Enjoyed"...now there's a new euphemism for it.
I believe it's a SmartFilter rule. The guy probably slagged off their censorware in the past so they blocked him. Allegedly it happens.