After seeing the link on my RSS feed I wondered what MIT had against Brian and why they wanted to shut him down...
Just as well I've read the article now
So the geek community not known for getting their fair share of exercise have no reason to walk/cycle 15 minutes to work anymore when they can just get the elevator/company transport.
My bed is three miles away from my desk which makes for an enjoyable - if often cold and damp - 30 minute round trip to work each day.
There needs to be some work/life balance here and not the unhealthy aspect of living where you work.
Actually its coming sooner than you think Telewest Trials
for cable customers
and Sky Trials for satellite (if the site would work!)
Can't get cable where I am and don't want to pay for Sky so Digital will have to do with digital terrestrial (or freeview) for now. Like the poster says, this is pasted on the BBC calendar for 2010!.
Come on UK, pull the finger out or we will all have these HDTVs with nothing to watch on them.
Here in Edinburgh, Scotland we broke a shoplifters leg when he tried to run away from a shop I used to work in.
Okay we didn't do it deliberately he ran away, tripped and broke a leg that was only just out of plaster. Sounds better in the previous paragraph though:)
I've phsically restrained drunk/drugged customers before who have been a threat to customers. We've had 4 people sit on a particularly wild thief until the police arrived.
It all relieved the monotony of selling WWF videos to teens and Daniel O'Donnell CDs to grannies.
If you've seen the start of Trainspotting where Renton runs along Princes Street shedding CDs from his pockets then you've seen what we used to do on a weekly if not daily basis. We were just sales staff too, not security
I don't know if I'm being simplistic about it but I've tended to go with www.download.com for anything extra I need - like an avi converter or free audio editor package like audacity.
Judge the download by other peoples reviews as to whether it does the job without installing any nasties.
GnS
Not sure why I would want to play my GBA games at a resolution of 240x160 on my 32inch widescreen TV. Heck, even the humble ZX Spectrum managed 256x192
CS was never about the graphics for me, it was all about the gameplay. If it had bleeding-edge graphics then we wouldn't be able to play it on our 500-600MHz NT machines in OpenGL or software mode here in the office at lunchtimes.
In fact we have even been known to replace the poor graphics of the Ts and CTs with square edged hitbox shaped skins to increase framerate and playability.
I was just thinking that myself Drakin. Are we that desperate for information on HL2 that we will dissect any tiny bit of info from what could easily be a fake interview. How many more conclusions can we jump to from this article?
We need some solid proof on the points raised and not these Chinese Whispers
The solution is here - about halfway down the page - not a cheat but a walkthrough.(is there a difference?)
I remember taking many, many goes to get through that level but can't remember having to use the walkthrough, honest.
Re:Havenco an interesting case...
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HavenCo In Trouble?
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· Score: 4, Interesting
My old office used to have an "inert gas" fire suppresion system that meant you could only enter the server room with special dongles. If any of the dongles were in use then the system would not flood the room until they were all back in the slots outside the room. Can't remember what the gas was though, but there were certainly emergency gas masks in the room for use in case the system failed.
This was in a fairly old server room in a fairly old fashioned office so don't know how commonplace these things are.
Sorry if this is slightly off-topic but thought it meritted a reply.
Can't say I've ever worn my kilt to any LAN gaming, but the sporran is always a handy thing for keeping your phone/wallet/keys in. Being right up against your privates you would notice anyone trying to pick-pocket (or pick-sporran?) you. Gets round the fact that carrying a "man-bag" makes you look like a girl - anyone who says wearing what amounts to a skirt make you look even more like a girl will have a bunch of hairy-@rsed Scots to deal with!
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Why the AC? I would be happy to post a heartfelt comment like that.
After seeing the link on my RSS feed I wondered what MIT had against Brian and why they wanted to shut him down... Just as well I've read the article now
So the geek community not known for getting their fair share of exercise have no reason to walk/cycle 15 minutes to work anymore when they can just get the elevator/company transport. My bed is three miles away from my desk which makes for an enjoyable - if often cold and damp - 30 minute round trip to work each day. There needs to be some work/life balance here and not the unhealthy aspect of living where you work.
Actually its coming sooner than you think
Telewest Trials for cable customers
and
Sky Trials for satellite (if the site would work!)
Can't get cable where I am and don't want to pay for Sky so Digital will have to do with digital terrestrial (or freeview) for now. Like the poster says, this is pasted on the BBC calendar for 2010!.
Come on UK, pull the finger out or we will all have these HDTVs with nothing to watch on them.
Here in Edinburgh, Scotland we broke a shoplifters leg when he tried to run away from a shop I used to work in.
Okay we didn't do it deliberately he ran away, tripped and broke a leg that was only just out of plaster. Sounds better in the previous paragraph though :)
I've phsically restrained drunk/drugged customers before who have been a threat to customers. We've had 4 people sit on a particularly wild thief until the police arrived.
It all relieved the monotony of selling WWF videos to teens and Daniel O'Donnell CDs to grannies.
If you've seen the start of Trainspotting where Renton runs along Princes Street shedding CDs from his pockets then you've seen what we used to do on a weekly if not daily basis. We were just sales staff too, not security
GnS
I don't know if I'm being simplistic about it but I've tended to go with www.download.com for anything extra I need - like an avi converter or free audio editor package like audacity. Judge the download by other peoples reviews as to whether it does the job without installing any nasties. GnS
For the non-Americans out there (including me),
Chutes and Ladders is the American equivalent of
Snakes and Ladders link goes to online version at the BBC
Hi-ho-cherry-o is a new one on me.
Not sure why I would want to play my GBA games at a resolution of 240x160 on my 32inch widescreen TV. Heck, even the humble ZX Spectrum managed 256x192
CS was never about the graphics for me, it was all about the gameplay. If it had bleeding-edge graphics then we wouldn't be able to play it on our 500-600MHz NT machines in OpenGL or software mode here in the office at lunchtimes.
In fact we have even been known to replace the poor graphics of the Ts and CTs with square edged hitbox shaped skins to increase framerate and playability.
I was just thinking that myself Drakin. Are we that desperate for information on HL2 that we will dissect any tiny bit of info from what could easily be a fake interview. How many more conclusions can we jump to from this article?
We need some solid proof on the points raised and not these Chinese Whispers
The solution is here - about halfway down the page - not a cheat but a walkthrough.(is there a difference?)
I remember taking many, many goes to get through that level but can't remember having to use the walkthrough, honest.
My old office used to have an "inert gas" fire suppresion system that meant you could only enter the server room with special dongles. If any of the dongles were in use then the system would not flood the room until they were all back in the slots outside the room. Can't remember what the gas was though, but there were certainly emergency gas masks in the room for use in case the system failed. This was in a fairly old server room in a fairly old fashioned office so don't know how commonplace these things are. Sorry if this is slightly off-topic but thought it meritted a reply.
Can't say I've ever worn my kilt to any LAN gaming, but the sporran is always a handy thing for keeping your phone/wallet/keys in. Being right up against your privates you would notice anyone trying to pick-pocket (or pick-sporran?) you. Gets round the fact that carrying a "man-bag" makes you look like a girl - anyone who says wearing what amounts to a skirt make you look even more like a girl will have a bunch of hairy-@rsed Scots to deal with!