Two days after Marco Pantani's death was announced, this is not a good thing for sport. The exact cause of Pantani's death has not yet been determined, but what is known is that he was depressed and being treated for drug addiction after being hounded for years over doping allegations. Unfortunately new "treatments" appear all the time and techniques to detect them are usually slow to catch up or ineffective (the EPO test involves measuring haemocrit levels in the blood, which can easily give false positives). Most professional cyclists are probably on something or other, and there are many who will leap at the chance to use another, as yet undetectable, performance boosting substance.
The stupid thing is that if they were just in it for the prize money, they could have taken up golf and got paid far more for the onerous duty of wearing a particular brand of patterned sweater.
Lead free solder is already mandatory in the UK for drinking water supplies (it's OK for central heating pipes), and I can tell you it really isn't as good to use as the lead stuff. Overheat it slightly and it runs straight out of the joint and drips on the floor.
I too remember the days of 1980s home computers, when the choice was glacially slow interpreted BASIC or "machine code", which, as compiled BASIC was also pretty bad, meant assembler.
I never managed to do much beyond a few fancy screen scrolls and a very fast encryption program, but in my Computer Studies coursework, I was God - no-one else submitted 6809 assembler listings:-)
Nowadays with gigabytes of RAM and fast CPUs, I believe the emphasis is on easily created and reusable code, rather than the days of 1MHz CPUs and 32K of RAM, where the object was to bum the code into the fastest, smallest possible form. Sad to see it go, really.
The words "deckchairs", "rearranging" and "Titanic" spring to mind. Kazaa may be today's Napster, but unless I'm very much mistaken, P2P is just as popular as in the Napster days. The **AA can shut it down and it won't make the slightest bit of difference. I'm sure the big sharers were making plans to move to a different P2P network anyway, what with the lawsuits flying round.
Actually, it isn't...it's just that Windoze displays all fonts larger than other operating systems. A frequent problem when designing web pages that will also be viewed by Mac and *nix users.
But why TF can't all the drive mounting screws be the same? Even better, why can't they be standard M3 screws that you can pick up anywhere? And he left out the little brass spacers that go between the chassis and the mobo.
Now what really confuses me are the white plastic drawing-pin sized things they sometimes give you. Their function is as mysterious as that paper handkerchief the barber gives you after cutting your hair.
If you followed a link from a geek discussion site and were presented with a man exposing the interior of his hermaphrodite love tunnel Hustler-style, this is probably not mozilla.org, as the original URL promised.
Please upgrade your gullibility filter to version 2.1.
Apart from Apple, AOL/Nullsoft and Real Networks, who cares about Media Player being bundled, except that it's a pile of overblown crap?
Microsoft has done much worse things like preventing the sale of naked PCs (do that, and your OEM licence discounts miraculously shrink), embracing and extending everything from Java to HTML and, of course, spreading FUD left right and centre about anything that might threaten Bill's plans for world domination. These are the issues the EU should be focusing on, not whether they bundle a Windows app that plays MP3s.
Oh yeah, and Bill gives loads of money to charity, but there are more tax-efficient ways of giving to charity than overpaying for mediocre software.
Or, in the case of Sheryl Crow, WalMart sold a special version of her album without the track "Love Is A Good Thing" because it contains the line "a gun they bought from a WalMart store".
This is very, very wrong and the record company should be ashamed of bowing to them.
It's not the higher prices that are the only problem - it's the copy-protected CDs that are foisted on UK customers by the likes of BMG. I managed to get an unprotected version of the Dido album (for my wife, I hasten to add) from play.com, because they source the Arista version from Canada. The UK version is crippled. If I didn't have the choice I would not have bought the album and would have downloaded and burned it instead - I am not buying ANY copy protected crap, and that's final.
Unfortunately the EFF campaign hasn't had much impact here - the Dido album was the biggest selling of the year despite being corrupted.
AFAIK Kazaa Lite will also be kicked off FastTrack following the latest Kazaa upgrade, which KL can't follow because the lawyers have shut it down.
These things go in fashions - Napster lost it and Kazaa probably will too. People will use whatever is easiest, safest and has the most files, and if the major pirates^H^H^H^H^H^H^H sharers hated spyware and were using KL, they'll up sticks and move to eDonkey or whatever when KL gets switched off. The effort of doing so is negligible.
The Maltese lira is a massive currency unit - about the same relation to the UKP and the UKP is to the USD. They'd be paying about 2.50 USD if the tracks were priced at 0.99 lira.
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No, because it has no muscles, but I'm sure that won't put off the spammers.
The stupid thing is that if they were just in it for the prize money, they could have taken up golf and got paid far more for the onerous duty of wearing a particular brand of patterned sweater.
Lead free solder is already mandatory in the UK for drinking water supplies (it's OK for central heating pipes), and I can tell you it really isn't as good to use as the lead stuff. Overheat it slightly and it runs straight out of the joint and drips on the floor.
I never managed to do much beyond a few fancy screen scrolls and a very fast encryption program, but in my Computer Studies coursework, I was God - no-one else submitted 6809 assembler listings :-)
Nowadays with gigabytes of RAM and fast CPUs, I believe the emphasis is on easily created and reusable code, rather than the days of 1MHz CPUs and 32K of RAM, where the object was to bum the code into the fastest, smallest possible form. Sad to see it go, really.
The words "deckchairs", "rearranging" and "Titanic" spring to mind. Kazaa may be today's Napster, but unless I'm very much mistaken, P2P is just as popular as in the Napster days. The **AA can shut it down and it won't make the slightest bit of difference. I'm sure the big sharers were making plans to move to a different P2P network anyway, what with the lawsuits flying round.
Imagine...the closer you zoom in, it's still pr0n!
Actually, it isn't...it's just that Windoze displays all fonts larger than other operating systems. A frequent problem when designing web pages that will also be viewed by Mac and *nix users.
I thought they might have something to do with P4 heatsinks. Oh well, they don't seem to be particularly necessary :-)
Now what really confuses me are the white plastic drawing-pin sized things they sometimes give you. Their function is as mysterious as that paper handkerchief the barber gives you after cutting your hair.
Please upgrade your gullibility filter to version 2.1.
So they're not going to fix the spoofed URL bug then? Well, I guess a KB page is cheaper than paying developers to figure it out!
Nah...that would be silly.
If only they'd used an Athlon, the planet would have been habitable in Bermuda shorts by the end of the week.
Modern superscalar (pipelined) processors have a lot more MIPS than megahertz.
Hehe. Mule.
Microsoft has done much worse things like preventing the sale of naked PCs (do that, and your OEM licence discounts miraculously shrink), embracing and extending everything from Java to HTML and, of course, spreading FUD left right and centre about anything that might threaten Bill's plans for world domination. These are the issues the EU should be focusing on, not whether they bundle a Windows app that plays MP3s.
Oh yeah, and Bill gives loads of money to charity, but there are more tax-efficient ways of giving to charity than overpaying for mediocre software.
Here. The Austin Allegro Vanden Plas is truly appalling. Every couple of years you still see one on the roads in the UK.
I'm going to Mars to start a new life.
Why else would they name it after the lardarse, ex-boxer, mulleted-Welsh-pikey-thumping British deputy PM?
This is very, very wrong and the record company should be ashamed of bowing to them.
Unfortunately the EFF campaign hasn't had much impact here - the Dido album was the biggest selling of the year despite being corrupted.
These things go in fashions - Napster lost it and Kazaa probably will too. People will use whatever is easiest, safest and has the most files, and if the major pirates^H^H^H^H^H^H^H sharers hated spyware and were using KL, they'll up sticks and move to eDonkey or whatever when KL gets switched off. The effort of doing so is negligible.
It's not nudity per se, it's moresome jizzfests and barnyard love that you probably don't want them to see.
These ads will probably be served from some central server - not the actual news site - that's easy to block. I rarely even see Flash ads on my PC.
The Maltese lira is a massive currency unit - about the same relation to the UKP and the UKP is to the USD. They'd be paying about 2.50 USD if the tracks were priced at 0.99 lira.