I'm voting lib dem, labour had some good mps but they didnt hold back the bloodthirsty blair so they must go. Lib dems may be no better but they havent let me down yet.
Well I gave it a go and it said I didnt have the right version of flash to play it (I do have flash installed and judging by all the ads I see in it, it works fine) so I gave up too.
So much for seamless eh! Thats the problem with flash, it goes against how the web works in so many ways.
Your argument is flawed anyway, flash is not needed for flash movies unless they are interactive. Give me a divx movie any day.
Let me start by saying, "Thank you!" to id Software and NVIDIA for making this article possible. It is truly an honor to be included in an opportunity of this magnitude.
made me laugh. "Thanks for letting us be dumb patsies to your lies!".
I stopped reading hardocp a while ago, when there seemed to be more chest beating about war and jingoism than hardware reviews. I can see I haven't missed out.
I'm using a firebird extension called "remove this object", its handy for removing ads on an ad hoc basis, I found it in the mozillazine.org forums. Just thought i'd point it out for anyone who would like to add it to their browsing toolbox.
I predict in the next film neo will wake up.. wander to the shower and find Bobby Ewing is still alive and it was all a dream:-)
I loved the animatrix, much much better than MR. MR was too full of the cliches, love scene, car chase and none of the main characters die (well they do but to add the hollywood cherry on the cake they somehow survive).
yes this will also change the fridge magnet industry beyond recognition.
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I was on metacrawler before google. Google is great esp. with the newsgroups they rescued from deja. One thing though for the googleguy/gals reading (and i'm sure they are) please do something about the spam on google, I cant search for anything without fucking "kelkoo" appearing in the listings, they are doing a fantastic job of shitting all over google listings. Not just kelkoo either, search for houses and you get urls like www.buy-houses-property-homes.com and www.search-property-buy-cheap.com and a few others that all link to the same site, last time I checked the source code to one of these it was a js redirect - I thought google would have coded around that exploit by now. Ditto with the keywords seperated by dashes bollocks as in the examples above. Would anybody register those domains for any other reason than spamming search engines, they are hardly easy to tell someone about otherwise. My less tech savvy partner has allready noticed the amount of noise on google seems to be increasing over the signal.
I did try alltheweb as I heard good things about it. It does return some other results but is also less accurate with its relevancy.
Agreed. One of our systems is so anal that its very hard to make up passwords for it (and you have to change it every month, to something you've never used before). It can't start with numbers, have duplicates, and more stupid conditions. Even a password like w4Pl3w2abn would be rejected because it contains "w" twice and a and b in order. The result is I and many people write it down.
The funniest thing is to get the password reset all you need is your 5 digit pin!
I thought vba was part of windows as part of the Windows Scripting Host.
Yes this time it was a MS *application* but thats not normally the case, look at the effects from the last one. If you were running any modern windows installation then *bam* you were infected.
Something like that actually happened with Visual Studio, one of the service packs was the full program and only did cursory checks to make sure it was installing on a PC that allready had VS. It was easily fooled by making a directory in program files. To add to the humilation it was featured on a magazine coverdisk one month, the next month featured an article about it!
Here is the real problem.. there are two things at play here and its not how the **AA want it to appear.
People have always shared music, just as they share other items, like you might lend a set of ladders to someone. The problem arises with the internet - suddenly people's friendship groups and contact circles became much, much bigger.
So thats the real problem for them, but they would rather not draw attention to peoples natural propensity to share.
The other problem grew with the internet - the digital age, not only can someone lend but they can keep a perfect copy of it too. Once the matter is copying rather than lending it takes on a much different air - people call it stealing and copyright is stage front. They evoke the feelings of "that person got something for free instead of paying" whereas if you knew someone bought a single item and lent that single item to someone else only the most rapid pro-**aa people would have a problem with that.
So whats the solution? perhaps actually swapping rather than sharing music. A p2p client that deletes a file as someone new uploads it, then there is only that single copy on the network.
There is a "flaw" in this system, again the digital copying thing. Someone could just copy the file before it gets re-uploaded.
However they cannot target the p2p software because its principle is swapping a single copy. They cannot target downloaders who won't know if the server is dodgy or not. They can target the sharers but only by trying to request the same file multiple times - something a normal user wouldnt do. There are still ways to do it of course but its a much harder task than they have now.
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Also as usual you have to look at the question. Yes they may not be an idiot but they may be clueless by choice.
My boss, for example, was a programmer, yet now you try and show him some code or new software or something and he just glazes over.
All he cares about now is talking about work rather that actually doing any work. The more meetings the better!
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I agree about the clunkiness. Sometimes the graphical bars seem to quadruple in size for no reason (though you can switch them off).
I've just tried it (windows build) and can't get it to send any email, they just sit in the outbox:-(
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I'm voting lib dem, labour had some good mps but they didnt hold back the bloodthirsty blair so they must go.
Lib dems may be no better but they havent let me down yet.
Well I gave it a go and it said I didnt have the right version of flash to play it (I do have flash installed and judging by all the ads I see in it, it works fine) so I gave up too.
So much for seamless eh! Thats the problem with flash, it goes against how the web works in so many ways.
Your argument is flawed anyway, flash is not needed for flash movies unless they are interactive. Give me a divx movie any day.
made me laugh. "Thanks for letting us be dumb patsies to your lies!".
I stopped reading hardocp a while ago, when there seemed to be more chest beating about war and jingoism than hardware reviews. I can see I haven't missed out.
I'm using a firebird extension called "remove this object", its handy for removing ads on an ad hoc basis, I found it in the mozillazine.org forums.
Just thought i'd point it out for anyone who would like to add it to their browsing toolbox.
I predict in the next film neo will wake up.. wander to the shower and find Bobby Ewing is still alive and it was all a dream :-)
I loved the animatrix, much much better than MR. MR was too full of the cliches, love scene, car chase and none of the main characters die (well they do but to add the hollywood cherry on the cake they somehow survive).
Alert! most movies are fiction, that doesnt excuse films that are inconsistent.
Thats what I thought.
The CG was unrealistic, they might aswell have put wile coyote in it it was so silly.
Whats the point in CG when it totally breaks suspension of disbelief.
Sorry had to get that rant in, watched it multiple times and its a poor film for many reasons.
Yeah I hate this caching too, makes some sites very annoying to use.
yes this will also change the fridge magnet industry beyond recognition.
I was on metacrawler before google.
Google is great esp. with the newsgroups they rescued from deja.
One thing though for the googleguy/gals reading (and i'm sure they are) please do something about the spam on google, I cant search for anything without fucking "kelkoo" appearing in the listings, they are doing a fantastic job of shitting all over google listings.
Not just kelkoo either, search for houses and you get urls like www.buy-houses-property-homes.com and www.search-property-buy-cheap.com and a few others that all link to the same site, last time I checked the source code to one of these it was a js redirect - I thought google would have coded around that exploit by now.
Ditto with the keywords seperated by dashes bollocks as in the examples above. Would anybody register those domains for any other reason than spamming search engines, they are hardly easy to tell someone about otherwise.
My less tech savvy partner has allready noticed the amount of noise on google seems to be increasing over the signal.
I did try alltheweb as I heard good things about it. It does return some other results but is also less accurate with its relevancy.
MOOT not mute. Is this the latest american fuck up with the english language?
So... mr empathy... what wouldnt you do for money?
Fist level support? I like the idea of that, pummel the (l)users around the head until they get a clue :-)
Agreed.
One of our systems is so anal that its very hard to make up passwords for it (and you have to change it every month, to something you've never used before). It can't start with numbers, have duplicates, and more stupid conditions. Even a password like w4Pl3w2abn would be rejected because it contains "w" twice and a and b in order. The result is I and many people write it down.
The funniest thing is to get the password reset all you need is your 5 digit pin!
thanks for sharing.
:-(
firefly was excellent.
lots of little touches verbal and otherwise made it great. Enterprise looked so fake in comparison, I couldn't watch it and I was a ST fan
I thought vba was part of windows as part of the Windows Scripting Host.
Yes this time it was a MS *application* but thats not normally the case, look at the effects from the last one. If you were running any modern windows installation then *bam* you were infected.
Miss it out by accident? Or is in because you are in MS fanboy mode.
When you started posting I thought you were humorous but now I think you are a subtle troll.
Something like that actually happened with Visual Studio, one of the service packs was the full program and only did cursory checks to make sure it was installing on a PC that allready had VS.
It was easily fooled by making a directory in program files.
To add to the humilation it was featured on a magazine coverdisk one month, the next month featured an article about it!
Thats good news.
Its the memory usage that has stopped me using it until now.
guys at mozillazine seem to concur it takes less mem and is faster.
yay.
Does it still use about 20MB ram and 30mb virtual mem?
Thats why i'm not using it, you might as well use mozilla mail with that memory footprint.
Exactly.
Here is the real problem..
there are two things at play here and its not how the **AA want it to appear.
People have always shared music, just as they share other items, like you might lend a set of ladders to someone. The problem arises with the internet - suddenly people's friendship groups and contact circles became much, much bigger.
So thats the real problem for them, but they would rather not draw attention to peoples natural propensity to share.
The other problem grew with the internet - the digital age, not only can someone lend but they can keep a perfect copy of it too. Once the matter is copying rather than lending it takes on a much different air - people call it stealing and copyright is stage front. They evoke the feelings of "that person got something for free instead of paying" whereas if you knew someone bought a single item and lent that single item to someone else only the most rapid pro-**aa people would have a problem with that.
So whats the solution?
perhaps actually swapping rather than sharing music. A p2p client that deletes a file as someone new uploads it, then there is only that single copy on the network.
There is a "flaw" in this system, again the digital copying thing. Someone could just copy the file before it gets re-uploaded.
However they cannot target the p2p software because its principle is swapping a single copy. They cannot target downloaders who won't know if the server is dodgy or not. They can target the sharers but only by trying to request the same file multiple times - something a normal user wouldnt do. There are still ways to do it of course but its a much harder task than they have now.
Also as usual you have to look at the question. Yes they may not be an idiot but they may be clueless by choice.
My boss, for example, was a programmer, yet now you try and show him some code or new software or something and he just glazes over.
All he cares about now is talking about work rather that actually doing any work. The more meetings the better!
I agree about the clunkiness. Sometimes the graphical bars seem to quadruple in size for no reason (though you can switch them off).
:-(
I've just tried it (windows build) and can't get it to send any email, they just sit in the outbox
Its a bit buggy..
Well thats literate in their own language.
So there are about 400 million people?
So the question is how many of those speak english.
I do however agree that those who can speak english can probably speak it better than Americans.
Yeah we have bollocks like that where I work.
When the server(s)/network goes down nobody can do any work at all because they can't even log in.