As an old fart Brit I can tell you that successive UK governments have treated science and engineering with disdain, favouring financial services and property ownership over all. Look how well that has worked out for us.;)
"OS/2 tried to be a $500 way of running Windows applications while Windows was a $100 way of running Windows applications."
Excuse me, OS/2 $500? The Microsoft version may have cost that much but when IBM released OS/2 V2.0 it was £45 sterling which was about $80 to $90 and was probably even cheaper in the U.S.A.
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http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/visit/aafhistory.cfm
Mildenhall, Lakenheath, Shepherds' Grove and Tuddenham.
Bad as it is, the amount pales into insignificance when compared to what we have given banks.
I bet there are a lot of bankers breathing sighs of relief that the focus of the public's ire has switched away from them.
Or you could do it with sheep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDAM5lSPCwk
I seem to remember that stiction was mainly a Seagate problem?
It gives me a headache. ;)
As an old fart Brit I can tell you that successive UK governments have treated science and engineering with disdain, favouring financial services and property ownership over all. Look how well that has worked out for us. ;)
And how conveniently it has shifted all the ire from the bankers too.
if they tested "budget" cards on a "budget" system.
I'm sure lots of people that buy i7/X58 with 6GB of DDR3 put budget cards in their top end system. ;)
"while I enjoy mid-life"
Crysis?
Yep, but I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments on the other series.
http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?letter=O
They have a database listing all the games and are rated for how well they run.
"OS/2 tried to be a $500 way of running Windows applications while Windows was a $100 way of running Windows applications."
Excuse me, OS/2 $500? The Microsoft version may have cost that much but when IBM released OS/2 V2.0 it was £45 sterling which was about $80 to $90 and was probably even cheaper in the U.S.A.
"I'm guessing that knowing the Cayman Islands stands ready to retaliate will be small comfort."
Just like all these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience#List_of_Flags_of_Convenience
are sending their warships to combat Somali pirates? ;)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
Who needs google for BBC shows on iPlayer?
Now the UK government will be able to track me even though I'm dead.
And guess whose partner/husband may have a use for such a database.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/07/jacqui-smith-mps-expenses
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5999287.ece
"She always talked about competing for growth rates, and the bonuses that it included."
Is it just me, or does this sound awfully familiar?
"Apple called from the year 2000 and wants their legacy transition strategy back"
IBM called from 1992 with OS/2 2.x onwards. ;)
"You can say "fucking" here. Fake cursing is pretty silly in a forum that doesn't censor."
Yep, no problem saying it on here, actually doing it is a totally different matter. ;)
I'll second that, been using Foxit for a couple of years now with no complaints.
Q. How do confuse a Daily Mail reader?
A. Tell them that immigrants kill paedophiles.
Mornington Crescent?
Already done.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2175
There are none on my block.
"For eight years"
Enough said.