Nobody said you actually had to listen to them or buy them. There's this new-fangled thing, people call it "remote control",
helps in, think about it, changing tv channels or radio stations (it depends on the "remote"). Damn kids these days.
From the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy (movie version):
Barman: Did you say the world is coming to an end? Shouldn't we all lie on the floor or put paper bags over our heads?
Ford: If you like.
Barman: Will it help?
Ford: Not at all.
Is your doctype strict or transitional? I seem to remember IE 7 will only do "the right thing" if the doctype is stated as strict, so you might want to try that.
Just got a Nokia 1100i, almost the same, cost me 60 euros (in Italy), nice. So far, it's worked well. Its T9 Italian dictionary isn't great for me (or maybe my vocabulary is too dense for mobiles) but with a little training...
I might be talking nonsense, feel free to correct me, but isn't iTunes the only "intrinsecally" DRM'd part of an iPod? Had I one (student, poor, no money, no need), I could load any files on it I wanted, but the mp3s I buy from iTunes are DRM'd. Magnatune & co. offer me a similar, unencumbered, less comfortable, less synced method for mp3 or other music files.
We scientists do have something known as "statistically correct sampling" which should help reducing that kind of biases to a minimum. A climatologist wouldn't just grab the first piece coming out of the glacier and be done with it.
But your association between 800000 years old ice and your freezer's deposit made me laugh, so it's all right.
I used to "admin" a celeron that would only recognize the full amount of RAM on the second consecutive boot. It'd only see half of the available memory the first time one powered it up after the night, and all of it the second time. I guess something had to heat up a bit to connect.
To correct myself: if the licenses of the software included forbid redistribution, you can't sell multiple copies. You can, however, sell your own copy of the software. I hope.
I doubt the situation is the same between official mandriva discs and openbsd official cds. For the former, the discs contain some non free programs which have limitations to redistribution, and that's one reason you can't do what the seller did. The official openbsd cds, as far as I know, can be redistributed (it's all open source software) but they'd be glad you didn't, since it pays for their efforts. It's not _that_ bad, since you aren't being a burden on their servers, though.
For redhat, the situation might be similar to Mandriva. There's always the "Well, yes, you can, but we'd really like it if you didn't" thing, in addition or instead of the proprietary software thing.
I think you might have problems with verbs: "can you get" refers to the present. "Did not include" refers to the past. So, can you, right now, get (i.e. buy) a legal copy of Windows 3.1 from Microsoft? Do they, right now, distribute it in some way?
My biggest problem with soccer (futbal?) is that it seems too random. It takes almost shear coincidence to get the ball into the goal.
It's "Football". While luck does play a part -as in any other game- football is not "random" by a large stretch.
Low scores don't have enough occurences to factor out coincidence. It is hard to see strategy and skill turn directly into scores (or lack of scores in the case of defense).
Sorry, but you're not looking enough then. Catch a tape of Argentina-Serbia to see the effect of good teamplay and experience in the field. You'll also see how a _bad_ tactical and strategical preparation can hurt your team: Serbia ought to have done much better than losing 6-0. They were playing like they didn't know who they were against. I was actually surprised at how _badly_ they were doing.
It is almost like large-scale pin-ball where the paddles barely affect the direction of the ball. I would suggest widening the gaol box.
It only seems so because you're not sufficiently acquainted with the game. To make an example: Watching some FPS or RTS pro players having a go at CounterStrike or Starcraft leaves me with my mouth hanging open. It's like they were provided with a different version of the game. Sometimes, it looks like magic, or cheating. It's not. It's sheer experience and ability. Same here.
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Nobody said you actually had to listen to them or buy them. There's this new-fangled thing, people call it "remote control", helps in, think about it, changing tv channels or radio stations (it depends on the "remote"). Damn kids these days.
There's always a Homer Simpson in sector 7G.
From the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy (movie version):
Is your doctype strict or transitional? I seem to remember IE 7 will only do "the right thing" if the doctype is stated as strict, so you might want to try that.
Just got a Nokia 1100i, almost the same, cost me 60 euros (in Italy), nice. So far, it's worked well. Its T9 Italian dictionary isn't great for me (or maybe my vocabulary is too dense for mobiles) but with a little training...
I might be talking nonsense, feel free to correct me, but isn't iTunes the only "intrinsecally" DRM'd part of an iPod? Had I one (student, poor, no money, no need), I could load any files on it I wanted, but the mp3s I buy from iTunes are DRM'd. Magnatune & co. offer me a similar, unencumbered, less comfortable, less synced method for mp3 or other music files.
Except any common mp3 player can download and play any non-DRM'd mp3 files. You must be thinking about iTunes.
There is nothing that prevents HP, Dell or any other hardware company from doing this also...
They (for some values of "them") do, for laptops: you wouldn't want to use one of their laptop recovery discs to install Win XP on another computer.
Spineal Tap (The umlaut goes over the n).
That comment evidences someone living under a rock for the last 10 years. Please, inform yourself a bit more.
Of course, trolls do live under bridges, who knows...
We scientists do have something known as "statistically correct sampling" which should help reducing that kind of biases to a minimum. A climatologist wouldn't just grab the first piece coming out of the glacier and be done with it.
But your association between 800000 years old ice and your freezer's deposit made me laugh, so it's all right.
I used to "admin" a celeron that would only recognize the full amount of RAM on the second consecutive boot. It'd only see half of the available memory the first time one powered it up after the night, and all of it the second time. I guess something had to heat up a bit to connect.
They are upset that their computer is not working, but become even more upset when it suddenly works again.
That's because 99% of the time, the problem comes back as soon as the expert leaves. I've experienced it too.
Well, the bit about the virgins is true, but if you sacrifice the nerd, who will complete the installation?
To correct myself: if the licenses of the software included forbid redistribution, you can't sell multiple copies. You can, however, sell your own copy of the software. I hope.
I doubt the situation is the same between official mandriva discs and openbsd official cds. For the former, the discs contain some non free programs which have limitations to redistribution, and that's one reason you can't do what the seller did. The official openbsd cds, as far as I know, can be redistributed (it's all open source software) but they'd be glad you didn't, since it pays for their efforts. It's not _that_ bad, since you aren't being a burden on their servers, though.
For redhat, the situation might be similar to Mandriva. There's always the "Well, yes, you can, but we'd really like it if you didn't" thing, in addition or instead of the proprietary software thing.
I'm voting for Windows Genuine Advantage. Strangely, that did ship on time. On time to what, I'll be buggered if I know.
Argh. "Plain old text" just doesn't work like it oughta. Why does it interpret as HTML but not ?
Nevermind, I already posted a message with a working link.
This might help: Painless Software Schedules.
This might help:
Painless Software Schedules.
a video game based on a movie based on an arcade game? That approaches a level of suckitude that almost cannot be measured.
They must have bet on it sucking so much it'd actually be cool.
Someone posting as anonymous coward should be less flippant asking for references. But I love shutting assholes up.
The "joke" ended with "Take that, sucker!". It lost its fun right there. Plus, correcting the corrector is always fun to me.
I think you might have problems with verbs:
"can you get" refers to the present. "Did not include" refers to the past.
So, can you, right now, get (i.e. buy) a legal copy of Windows 3.1 from Microsoft? Do they, right now, distribute it in some way?
Didn't think so.
My biggest problem with soccer (futbal?) is that it seems too random. It takes almost shear coincidence to get the ball into the goal.
It's "Football". While luck does play a part -as in any other game- football is not "random" by a large stretch.
Low scores don't have enough occurences to factor out coincidence. It is hard to see strategy and skill turn directly into scores (or lack of scores in the case of defense).
Sorry, but you're not looking enough then. Catch a tape of Argentina-Serbia to see the effect of good teamplay and experience in the field. You'll also see how a _bad_ tactical and strategical preparation can hurt your team: Serbia ought to have done much better than losing 6-0. They were playing like they didn't know who they were against. I was actually surprised at how _badly_ they were doing.
It is almost like large-scale pin-ball where the paddles barely affect the direction of the ball. I would suggest widening the gaol box.
It only seems so because you're not sufficiently acquainted with the game. To make an example: Watching some FPS or RTS pro players having a go at CounterStrike or Starcraft leaves me with my mouth hanging open. It's like they were provided with a different version of the game. Sometimes, it looks like magic, or cheating. It's not. It's sheer experience and ability. Same here.