Just download a bittorrent release. At least the scene groups will nuke a bad release and fix it ASAP. That won't help you if Spore itself is buggy, but my downloaded version is running fine with the purchased key.
It's probably the DRM screwing you over. Securom has to be some of the least stable malware out there.
Ahh, but Microsoft has all the money. That's why the DOJ's punishment of them for monopoly was to make them give away stuff they can't sell to schools and to spread their O/S and office products even further.
Now when it's M/S bringing the cash-backed complaints, let's see what happens.
Where's the -1 deluded asshat mod ?
Sure, texting while driving is perfectly safe. I'm sure you whack off too and through lots of practice you can do it safely every time in the car while driving.
I'm deluded enough to think I'd drive just as well when talking on the phone but not stupid enough to try texting while in moving traffic. I have texted at red lights though.
Oops, you got it completely wrong. studies have shown that women want to marry supportive men to care for them and their babies but when they are fertile they want to go out and cheat with the non-supportive jock type.
Which I guess is good news for all the single geeks since they can get married and have some sex and raise (someone's) kids!
I've been told "OMG TURN THAT OFF" for using a portable CD player. The airline passenger assistance personnel (or whatever they call hostesses these days) was a bit annoyed at me for listening while the plane was taxiing prior to takeoff. I didn't think we'd crash too badly while we were on the ground but I guess she assumed I'd keep using it while we were taking off.
I think the device you're looking for is known as a chastity belt but you'd need to couple it with a personal GPS tracking device
Or you could just hire a Private Eye.
Of course, whether she continues to like you after all this is not my responsibility.
I don't know how your original post got modded troll, but you're right. Trying to do something while the kids are bugging you doesn't work for anyone. Either pay attention to the kids or tell them you'll be with them when you can.
By the way, I was kidding about the tantrums. I know what you actually meant.
Yeah, I can understand with your kids being at that age why you still have the occasional tantrum.
Kids are hard work. I get frustrated myself, but I give myself a little time and calm down.
Exactly. There is goofing off and then there is taking a break to refresh your mind. Sometimes I get "in the zone" and work flat out for hours forgetting to have lunch and sometimes I find that there's a typo and I stare at the code and I just can't see it. Staring for another hour won't help. Wandering off to think about something else, get a coffee, talk to the receptionist or "goofing off" means I come back with a fresh outlook.
Then there's stuff that has to be done between 9 and 5 (or 10 and 4 for government stuff) and if you're fretting about whether that important personal government document is ever going to get done, how do you concentrate on work ? Place that call, work while you're on hold, deal with the matter and everyone's happy.
At least that's how I see it. My boss seems to agree. We both get our work done and we both keep our lives, family and sanity together.
I love it. I could have skipped so many darned boring classes, though it would probably be a good idea to spend a few days going through the whole curriculum to make sure there isn't anything you've missed. At least once one gets to university that can be done on courses that are 100% final exam. Turn up for the first class, get the curriculum, make sure you know it, do useful stuff all semester during that class time, ace the exam, win !
XBMC is absolutely one of my favourite uses of my XBOX. It was incredible back a year or so ago and it just keeps on getting better. It blows the socks of Windows Media Center Edition.
I guess, just like so many, you didn't read the article ? It's all about how Viewsonic are making 120Hz LCDs and how Mitsubishi are making 120Hz stereoscopic 3D capable LCD TVs.
Yes, this will give you 60Hz per eye with shutter glasses but it also mentions other methods of simulating 3D including a method which uses 2 LCD screens polarised at 90 degrees to one another and built into a regular form factor monitor (for this you wear passive, clear polarised glasses)
Most likely it was a combination of low volume and pressure from Microsoft. If M/S keeps the pressure on and the sales don't make it worthwhile fighting then they drop the line.
That is such crap. The Great FSM created the universe with a wave of his noodly appendages and placed the Celestial Teapot out there as proof to the faithful.
On a timescale of billions of years, however, the luminosity of the Sun has increased substantially, and if that accelerates radioactive decays by some neutrino interaction then the uranium-lead clock would be off and the Earth might be considerably older than we thought.
Some people do, honestly have a medical condition, but they're in the minority. I know I've put on 20lb in the last 5 years and I feel wretched and know I'd be better off without it and yet, here I am. I imagine it's worse for folks without great jobs or 2 income families "forced" to eat cheap junk food instead of the healthy organic meat and vegetables I can enjoy.
Except that being obese is usually a life-long project one has to work towards and adapt to as it happens. Getting stuck to that obese person is not a choice most folks would want to make and is suddenly forced upon you unprepared.
Scoring is only exciting if it doesn't happen constantly. Here's a the first example of soccer I found with a quick youtube search. Tell me basketball commentators get this excited when a team scores.
Maybe you need to find people with the same hobbies as you have (assuming your hobbies aren't extreme soldering and optimising machine code for obscure CPUs)
Or you need to find married geeks. There are plenty of us geeks wearing suicide rings out there along with their SOs (who can obviously socialise with geeks) and they're likely to know other people too.
So there's a possible start for you:) HTH.
You obviously don't remember the days of Xterms running over 10baseT from a Sun server. Fully graphical workstations playing xtank and so on remotely on less bandwidth than high speed wireless.
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Just download a bittorrent release. At least the scene groups will nuke a bad release and fix it ASAP. That won't help you if Spore itself is buggy, but my downloaded version is running fine with the purchased key. It's probably the DRM screwing you over. Securom has to be some of the least stable malware out there.
Ahh, but Microsoft has all the money. That's why the DOJ's punishment of them for monopoly was to make them give away stuff they can't sell to schools and to spread their O/S and office products even further. Now when it's M/S bringing the cash-backed complaints, let's see what happens.
Where's the -1 deluded asshat mod ? Sure, texting while driving is perfectly safe. I'm sure you whack off too and through lots of practice you can do it safely every time in the car while driving. I'm deluded enough to think I'd drive just as well when talking on the phone but not stupid enough to try texting while in moving traffic. I have texted at red lights though.
Oops, you got it completely wrong. studies have shown that women want to marry supportive men to care for them and their babies but when they are fertile they want to go out and cheat with the non-supportive jock type.
Which I guess is good news for all the single geeks since they can get married and have some sex and raise (someone's) kids!
I've been told "OMG TURN THAT OFF" for using a portable CD player. The airline passenger assistance personnel (or whatever they call hostesses these days) was a bit annoyed at me for listening while the plane was taxiing prior to takeoff. I didn't think we'd crash too badly while we were on the ground but I guess she assumed I'd keep using it while we were taking off.
I think the device you're looking for is known as a chastity belt but you'd need to couple it with a personal GPS tracking device Or you could just hire a Private Eye.
Of course, whether she continues to like you after all this is not my responsibility.
Great. She's that near mythical 0.5% that keeps email spammers in business.
I don't know how your original post got modded troll, but you're right. Trying to do something while the kids are bugging you doesn't work for anyone. Either pay attention to the kids or tell them you'll be with them when you can. By the way, I was kidding about the tantrums. I know what you actually meant.
Yeah, I can understand with your kids being at that age why you still have the occasional tantrum. Kids are hard work. I get frustrated myself, but I give myself a little time and calm down.
Flowcharts, and keep it simple. Visual aids really help.
He's talking to 4th graders. They aren't down at the level of C*Os yet.
Exactly. There is goofing off and then there is taking a break to refresh your mind. Sometimes I get "in the zone" and work flat out for hours forgetting to have lunch and sometimes I find that there's a typo and I stare at the code and I just can't see it. Staring for another hour won't help. Wandering off to think about something else, get a coffee, talk to the receptionist or "goofing off" means I come back with a fresh outlook. Then there's stuff that has to be done between 9 and 5 (or 10 and 4 for government stuff) and if you're fretting about whether that important personal government document is ever going to get done, how do you concentrate on work ? Place that call, work while you're on hold, deal with the matter and everyone's happy. At least that's how I see it. My boss seems to agree. We both get our work done and we both keep our lives, family and sanity together.
I love it. I could have skipped so many darned boring classes, though it would probably be a good idea to spend a few days going through the whole curriculum to make sure there isn't anything you've missed. At least once one gets to university that can be done on courses that are 100% final exam. Turn up for the first class, get the curriculum, make sure you know it, do useful stuff all semester during that class time, ace the exam, win !
XBMC is absolutely one of my favourite uses of my XBOX. It was incredible back a year or so ago and it just keeps on getting better. It blows the socks of Windows Media Center Edition.
How can XBMC be available for everything except the XBOX ?
I guess, just like so many, you didn't read the article ? It's all about how Viewsonic are making 120Hz LCDs and how Mitsubishi are making 120Hz stereoscopic 3D capable LCD TVs. Yes, this will give you 60Hz per eye with shutter glasses but it also mentions other methods of simulating 3D including a method which uses 2 LCD screens polarised at 90 degrees to one another and built into a regular form factor monitor (for this you wear passive, clear polarised glasses)
He simplified the concepts down to the latest level of /. subscriber intelligence (he maked it in small wordz wot y'all can unnerstand)
Most likely it was a combination of low volume and pressure from Microsoft. If M/S keeps the pressure on and the sales don't make it worthwhile fighting then they drop the line.
That is such crap. The Great FSM created the universe with a wave of his noodly appendages and placed the Celestial Teapot out there as proof to the faithful.
...
On a timescale of billions of years, however, the luminosity of the Sun has increased substantially, and if that accelerates radioactive decays by some neutrino interaction then the uranium-lead clock would be off and the Earth might be considerably older than we thought.
So, like 7000 years then ?
Some people do, honestly have a medical condition, but they're in the minority. I know I've put on 20lb in the last 5 years and I feel wretched and know I'd be better off without it and yet, here I am.
I imagine it's worse for folks without great jobs or 2 income families "forced" to eat cheap junk food instead of the healthy organic meat and vegetables I can enjoy.
Hey, they're out of just about everyone's reach.
Except that being obese is usually a life-long project one has to work towards and adapt to as it happens.
Getting stuck to that obese person is not a choice most folks would want to make and is suddenly forced upon you unprepared.
Scoring is only exciting if it doesn't happen constantly. Here's a the first example of soccer I found with a quick youtube search.
Tell me basketball commentators get this excited when a team scores.
Maybe you need to find people with the same hobbies as you have (assuming your hobbies aren't extreme soldering and optimising machine code for obscure CPUs) Or you need to find married geeks. There are plenty of us geeks wearing suicide rings out there along with their SOs (who can obviously socialise with geeks) and they're likely to know other people too. So there's a possible start for you :) HTH.
You obviously don't remember the days of Xterms running over 10baseT from a Sun server. Fully graphical workstations playing xtank and so on remotely on less bandwidth than high speed wireless.