I haven't played Monopoly since my whole family refused to play it with me. I seem to remember the term "ruthless bastard" was involved in the explanation.
"as many people simply didn't know that copying a floppy was piracy"
I find this rather amusing, back then near enough every bit of software that I had on floppy explicitly said that I was allowed to copy it for backup purposes.
Slashdot Mirror
"How funny is that"
Yea, I creased up.
This is only the written part of the test, she still has to pass the actual driving part.
I've always thought the term "infant" meant that they had already been born?
Haha, so wrong on all fronts.
"The rise in allowances comes at a time of rapidly growing pay for town hall officials, the most senior of whom now earn more than £200,000."
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23394395-councillors-pay-up-by-twice-the-inflation-rate.do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-NAZcgHNoA
Some light relief. :)
My last two digital cameras had mini-usb ports, neither was physically the same.
Cheers, I've just lost an hour and a half on that site.
Can somebody remind what the difference in hardware there is between a Mac and a PC these days. Shiny white plastic boxes don't count. ;)
with the fact that you have already hosted them twice in the last twenty five years?
Actually, I watched the tv programme that was originally broadcast and if you watch a clip from the show
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2009/09/playstation3_and_the_yellow_li.html
Take special note on the "Ian Lee may be a self confessed xbox man with a regular column on the microsoft network".
Also take particular notice that he says nothing about red rings of death.
I haven't played Monopoly since my whole family refused to play it with me. I seem to remember the term "ruthless bastard" was involved in the explanation.
They'll learn.
If somebody finds it and claims salvage?
"Furthermore, he wasn't leader of the Labour party in 2005, so those people did not elected him as PM they elected him as Chancellor."
Did you vote for John Major as prime minister? Ah yes, I thought not.
It's just you showing total ignorance of how the Uk political system works, you vote a political party into power not a person.
I tend to use this source/tracker.
http://linuxtracker.org/
12 cat years would make it granny porn.
There are a few good total conversions for it too.
http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Total_conversions
"Brits eat waste?"
It was full of McDonalds, Burger King, KFC and Pizza Hut then. ;)
"There was really no reason for them not to be able to bundle their own software in their own OS."
From all that I've read on the subject, the EU has never said that they can't bundle their own software with their own OS.
This "feature" has been implemented by Microsoft and Microsoft alone.
"as many people simply didn't know that copying a floppy was piracy"
I find this rather amusing, back then near enough every bit of software that I had on floppy explicitly said that I was allowed to copy it for backup purposes.
"The conservatives have said they'll scrap the database as well as the cards themselves."
And we all know politicians always do what they say they are going to do, don't we? ;)
"(P.S. this is all tongue-in-cheek. I actually wish I had a Speccy - there was a ton of great software for that little beast)"
You can still enjoy it even without the hardware.
http://www.spectaculator.com/
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/
http://www.tzxvault.org/
"So yeah, by all means let's throw a party and hope it isn't us that ends up on the barbecue..."
I vote for Slim Whitman's Indian Love Call for the music.
That'll show em we mean business.
Everyone knows we Brits have our very own esoteric units of measurement.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/
"My point is, how do we know the apes are laughing?"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8083230.stm
I think the ape in the video would have ripped the guys arms off if he didn't like it.