The West is now locked in a steel cage deathmatch with Radical Islam for world supremacy
It is precisely this "them and us" mentality that causes problems. There is no battle for world supremacy going on. What is going on is that there are some radical Islamics out there (but not as many as most people would have us believe) who hate the West, and particularly the USA. In recent times the USA has not endeared itself to the Muslim parts of the world, but this will only be solved by diplomacy and constructive actions, not war and war-like "them and us" sentiments.
Considering this is slashdot and all, I was surprised that their implementation does not appear to be open source (or indeed, freely available at all), though presumably such an implementation will be possible following the RFCs. It seems to work nicely alongside TCP using UDP, quite a cool idea. The question is whether it can break TCP's de facto stranglehold on reliable Internet communication. I'd love to play with it if I could.
I presumed that's what the original poster was referring to, Superboy/Steel/Eradicator (I think)/Cyborg, but they made it sound as if Wayne/Kent had gone for good, which was puzzling me... Although I don't remember Wayne dying, though his back did get broken by Bane and he got replaced for a bit... ah the joys of Marvel/DC continuities!
Concerning Batman, I also thought so but at least, they could convince me to go to the theater if it was made after the Dark Knight story (which sequel is also VERY impressive)
Ah, but the story is effectively based on Batman: Year One, which was also by Frank Miller, and considered by some (Jeph Loeb is one I believe) to be better than Dark Knight Returns. I prefer Dark Knight Returns but Year One probably makes for a better blockbuster action film.
Ah but the advantage of a tab over n spaces is that it can be removed with a single backspace, whereas n spaces can't. Unless you bind backspace to un-indent, but then it wouldn't delete normal characters...
Furthering a personal bugbear (apologies), which of those languages deals with concurrency in a non-bodged manner?
Aside from that, the wide variety of languages allows them to be specified for particular uses. For example, doing text-based conversions between files is something that Perl is perfectly suited to, and well worth using over other languages. I'm sure many other languages have similar applications.
I think it's much more the 4GB limit that is causing upgrades, rather than the 64-bit math. 0.5-1GB is a common amount of memory now, so it will soon hit the ceiling.
I believe that Bush would beat Bin Laden. Bin Laden has kept a low profile in recent times, whereas Bush has done the opposite. This is ignoring their respective deeds, but people have short memories.
I think that's quite accurate. I am very much the latter. During a recent upgrade I changed the UT2004 details from basically all off/low to almost all on/high and didn't really notice the difference. The vehicles still had the same shape, the weapons still did the same thing, no big difference as far as I'm concerned, except that my framerate was higher. I usually notice pretty graphics for the first few days of playing something, but after that I'm fairly indifferent to them. In fast-action games anyway.
I wasn't aware that the poster required the problems to be Mozilla's fault, I thought he was just asking what sites needed IE for whatever reason. I agree that it is of course Powerhouse's problem.
Slashdot (the rendering bug), Odeon (past the first page), Powerhouse are the ones I've tried in the past week or two that have Mozilla problems. I still use Firefox though, Powerhouse lost my custom because of their IE requirement.
Maybe because some of us wouldn't notice the difference between 16, 24 and 32 bit unless we looked for it? It's like audiophiles who complain about mp3s being lossy - a lot of people don't notice it, so don't care.
That said, the vast majority are in London (which visitors to the country think is typical - it couldn't be farther from the truth!)
I have noticed this tendency recently, after it was pointed out, of a lot of people (especially Londoners) to confuse London with Britain. Claims are made that "Britain...." but they really mean "London...". Whereas in fact I think that London is fairly dissimilar to the rest of the country. Just an observation.
Most people, me included, just don't notice them. Or care if they do notice them. What the article doesn't say is whereabouts the cameras are. In my experience the vast majority (if not all) are in town/city centres, exactly where they are needed most. It is not like they have full coverage of the whole country, just intense coverage of certain areas.
Indeed, I would not write a "computer programme". As for disc/disk - it was my belief that disc was for any round object (e.g. compact disc), but computer hard drives were hard disks. BTW, you can tell you program graphics too much if you start trying to use "color" everywhere, the US spelling being prevalent in all programming.
I wouldn't have thought a southern accent would be that hard to understand (compared to say geordie or mancunian), or does Portsmouth have its own dialect?
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It is precisely this "them and us" mentality that causes problems. There is no battle for world supremacy going on. What is going on is that there are some radical Islamics out there (but not as many as most people would have us believe) who hate the West, and particularly the USA. In recent times the USA has not endeared itself to the Muslim parts of the world, but this will only be solved by diplomacy and constructive actions, not war and war-like "them and us" sentiments.
At that point, instead of a refund, point the FSF in their direction ;-)
Considering this is slashdot and all, I was surprised that their implementation does not appear to be open source (or indeed, freely available at all), though presumably such an implementation will be possible following the RFCs. It seems to work nicely alongside TCP using UDP, quite a cool idea. The question is whether it can break TCP's de facto stranglehold on reliable Internet communication. I'd love to play with it if I could.
Indeed. If anything, Linux and F/OSS has shown us that the opposite is more likely to become the case.
I presumed that's what the original poster was referring to, Superboy/Steel/Eradicator (I think)/Cyborg, but they made it sound as if Wayne/Kent had gone for good, which was puzzling me... Although I don't remember Wayne dying, though his back did get broken by Bane and he got replaced for a bit... ah the joys of Marvel/DC continuities!
Ah, but the story is effectively based on Batman: Year One, which was also by Frank Miller, and considered by some (Jeph Loeb is one I believe) to be better than Dark Knight Returns. I prefer Dark Knight Returns but Year One probably makes for a better blockbuster action film.
Do you mean dead as in Captain America style (the mantle passes on), or dead as in he-died-but-then-he-came-back-what-a-shock?
Though they did say they would be using an existing engine, which should reduce the amount of testing needed by quite a bit to my mind.
Ah but the advantage of a tab over n spaces is that it can be removed with a single backspace, whereas n spaces can't. Unless you bind backspace to un-indent, but then it wouldn't delete normal characters...
Aside from that, the wide variety of languages allows them to be specified for particular uses. For example, doing text-based conversions between files is something that Perl is perfectly suited to, and well worth using over other languages. I'm sure many other languages have similar applications.
You forgot Street Fighter ;-). Seriously though, for what it was (a fun frivolous action movie), I thought Resident Evil was pretty good.
I think it's much more the 4GB limit that is causing upgrades, rather than the 64-bit math. 0.5-1GB is a common amount of memory now, so it will soon hit the ceiling.
I believe that Bush would beat Bin Laden. Bin Laden has kept a low profile in recent times, whereas Bush has done the opposite. This is ignoring their respective deeds, but people have short memories.
I think that's quite accurate. I am very much the latter. During a recent upgrade I changed the UT2004 details from basically all off/low to almost all on/high and didn't really notice the difference. The vehicles still had the same shape, the weapons still did the same thing, no big difference as far as I'm concerned, except that my framerate was higher. I usually notice pretty graphics for the first few days of playing something, but after that I'm fairly indifferent to them. In fast-action games anyway.
I wasn't aware that the poster required the problems to be Mozilla's fault, I thought he was just asking what sites needed IE for whatever reason. I agree that it is of course Powerhouse's problem.
Slashdot (the rendering bug), Odeon (past the first page), Powerhouse are the ones I've tried in the past week or two that have Mozilla problems. I still use Firefox though, Powerhouse lost my custom because of their IE requirement.
Maybe because some of us wouldn't notice the difference between 16, 24 and 32 bit unless we looked for it? It's like audiophiles who complain about mp3s being lossy - a lot of people don't notice it, so don't care.
Anyone got an exchange rate from Palmyra Atoll Dollars to US Dollars?
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I have noticed this tendency recently, after it was pointed out, of a lot of people (especially Londoners) to confuse London with Britain. Claims are made that "Britain ...." but they really mean "London ...". Whereas in fact I think that London is fairly dissimilar to the rest of the country. Just an observation.
Most people, me included, just don't notice them. Or care if they do notice them. What the article doesn't say is whereabouts the cameras are. In my experience the vast majority (if not all) are in town/city centres, exactly where they are needed most. It is not like they have full coverage of the whole country, just intense coverage of certain areas.
Indeed, I would not write a "computer programme". As for disc/disk - it was my belief that disc was for any round object (e.g. compact disc), but computer hard drives were hard disks. BTW, you can tell you program graphics too much if you start trying to use "color" everywhere, the US spelling being prevalent in all programming.
Nightclub in UK == discotheque as well
Until Disney gets hold of them, patents (software or not) expire after 25 years I believe it is. So ever is only that long.
I wouldn't have thought a southern accent would be that hard to understand (compared to say geordie or mancunian), or does Portsmouth have its own dialect?