We claim to be one of the most scientifically advanced countries in the world, but we can't adopt a useful standard that the _rest_ of the scientific community uses.
No what usually happens is the rest of the world capitulates and starts using your standards instead. Whatever happened to the Thousand-Million?
Oh right, that's a Billion now. So what's a Billion?
Oh that's now a Trillion....
What do you mean by modding this as funny. It's insightful. The Guinness book of Records is filled to bursting with pathetic 'qualified' records. So if you're never going to get the world record for the 100 metres maybe you can get in as the world's fastest at the hundred metres while holding a cup in your left hand. If you weren't the first person in the world to sail single handedly around the world then claim to be the first person to sail singlehandly around the world after setting out on a Tuesday. And most pathetic of all. Weren't the first person to climb Mount Everest? How about the first American? Ok the first Woman? Or the first American Woman, no the first British Woman, oh has that already gone. The first British Woman to climb Mount Everest starting out on a Tuesay whilst holding a cup in your left hand then.
Dagnabit. You waited until now to tell me that AllAdvantage had finished. I just thought I hadn't built up enough points yet. Damned thing's been taking up 80 pixels of my monitor height. I'm startin' to get screen burn there.
How the hell is this any different to how Yell or Scoot work? I was expecting it to work out my geographic location based on my IP address (possible?) and give me local results for local people. What? I have to type something ELSE in? What if I didn't know where I was?
I don't normally bother to correct people's spelling but I'm in a bad mood. Forgive me. Am I in a minority of people now who know how to spell the word LOSE? It's LOSE not LOOSE. LOOSE means slack and RHYMES WITH NOOSE as in rope to kill yourself with. LOSE RHYMES WITH BOOZE. LOOSER is what something is when it is made not quite so tight. LOSER is probably the name people are now going to throw in my general direction. Screw my karma rating. Learn to fricking spell people, you're (that's "you're" with an apostrophe because it's ("it's" with an apostrophe because it's short for "it is") short for "you are" and not "your" because it belongs to you) supposed to be educated.
My dad's got a VHS recording of the ONLY EVER showing of Star Wars (original version) on UK Terrestrial TV. Maybe I could supply them with that copy to restore those worn out tapes.
Mind you it was on ITV so they'd have to cut the adverts out.
I can't be bothered reading all those comments to see if anyone else has made the point already. I came late to this party. I think it has a little more to do with getting AAC out there as the standard instead of WMP. People have been complaining for months how the iPod is incomatible with other music stores and how all the other manufacturers are using WMA audio alongside MP3 and they don't want WMA to become the standard. Looks like Apple found a way to increase the viability of AAC as THE alternative.
I had a similar problem here in the UK. Within the space of 3 weeks I got stung with an old 10 and an old 5 pound note. I hadn't noticed and assumed that by the time a note was taken out of circulation that all the old ones should have been recovered by the banks. The problem was the new notes were the same colour and size as the old notes (last time they changed there were size alterations) which I bet means there are still a lot more of the old ones lurking around. Anyway, the woman in Focus is a right officious cow and took delight in informing me both times so now it looks like I'm doing it on purpose. Fortunately the people in B&Q were less fussy.
And that raises the point that as long as someone is prepared to take it off your hands in exchange for goods then IT IS CURRENCY. There's no reason why you can't start your own currency today. Provided someone's willing to accept your scrawled IOU they can then pass this on to someone else. You can go around handing out your own pink post-it notes willy nilly and before long the country will be flooded with your paper money to the point that it is traded on the big exchanges and becomes the money of choice for crooks and tin pot countries the world over. Mwahahahahah.
I used to drive that way regularly. Joined J21 (M1) exit J16 (A40). I assume you're talking about the drive home. I know of what you speak. I had two approaches. Either get out into lane 3 well before the exit from the M25 or stay in lane 1 and adopt a laid back attitude and let a 100 to 150 yard gap open up between myself and the truck (invariably) in front. I'd then match the speed of the truck accelerating occasionally to discourage opportunists from lane 2 racing past across lane 1 over the hatch markings and into the acceleration lane and on into the hard shoulder (A$$HOLES) to undertake everybody. I'd then proceed to let in as many cars as possible. And this would usually even out the flow of the traffic and things would move along a lot more freely. However self-righteous driver that I am, if I saw anybody in the acceleration lane go beyond the approprate merging speed and race on toward the end of the lane hoping to join the traffic a lot further up I would make life extremely difficult for them on purpose by matching their road position in an attempt to force them to comply.
Oh, there was a third approach which I found worked best and is by far the most relaxed way of getting from J21 to J16 even if it may take a little longer. I'm not kidding. This is an almost traffic free route on most days. The only exception being Wednesday when Watford have a home game.
Stay on M1 South to J5 Take road into Watford town centre, no really it's not bad at all. Follow ring road around harlequinn centre and exit at Vicarage road (football club). Turn left at the end of Vicarage road. Kepp going until you hit traffic lights of four-way crossroads. Take right hand lane and turn right. Stay on that road for a few miles until you get to a mini roundabout where you must turn left or right. Turn left. Immediately follow road round 90 degree bend to the right and turn left at the end of the road. There is an iron bridge to the right at that junction. Drive straight on for half a mile or so until you get to the roundabout at the top of Northwood high street. Turn right into Northwood and keep driving through to Eastcote and Northolt.
Probably OT but who cares, we all need to rant once in a while. I'm in the UK and seem to be in a dwindling minority of people who know that you're supposed to MATCH THE SPEED of the traffic on the motorway when you are joining the flow. DON'T STOP, JUST PUT YOUR F-ING FOOT DOWN. The problem is that joining a motorway ISN'T EVEN PART OF THE TEST for fricks sake!!! It's in the highway code and left up to the newly passed driver to read up on it later or take further lessons. Yeah, like that's ever going to happen. I've even seen people sitting STATIONARY on the hard shoulder (emergency/recovery lane) indicating their intention to pull out when a big enough gap emerges. NO NO NO NO NO. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO ACCELERATE TO A SENSIBLE MEGING SPEED WITHIN THAT LANE. MORONS FRICKING EVERYWHERE
Releases like Matrix Revolutions proved that the distribution and promotion can support even a crap movie well enough to release it simultaneously across the world, and this is the way things'll go pretty soon.
I always thought it was supposed to work that way around - the worse a movie is the closer to simultaneous worldwide release it will get. Well at least the big budget losers anyway, since it gives less time for word to get around that the movie is crap and people to stop going to see it.
I thought of that first. Where's the SMTP coming from was the sticking point. Couldn't use sendmail running on the laptop.
That's not the point I was making though. I still needed them to get online for either method to even work. And I needed them to get online with my settings intact, hence the no-password-needed account.
Running Jaguar I set up a fake account with no password on purpose. If my laptop was stolen I WANTED the thief to use it to get online. My real accounts were hidden from the login screen and my home folder was invisible. I had a penny-per-minute dialup ISP set up to make it easy for the thief to get connected. Using DNS update software I would be able to see the IP address at Dyndns.org if it was ever used. If the thief was to find the computer locked down from the start then they'd be far more likely to wipe and restore making this a lot more difficult. Unfortunately, now running Panther and making user account invisible makes the fast user switching a buggy nightmare. So in spite of the extra security features like FileVault I think it less likely I would ever see it again if it were stolen. I liked my security through obscurity.
This press release is a desperate move. Like anyone is going to think Hey, I was in the market for an iPod which I can get here and now or perhaps during the holiday season, but now I'll wait another 9 months to see what MS has to offer. Rest assured Apple will have released another iteration of their glorious device by then, perhaps even two and they won't be telling anyone about it almost a year in advance.
Don't know about the US, but in the UK you can purchase the install CDs ONLY. So as long as you're willing to forgoe[?] the beautiful shiny shiny box and dox you can pick up Panther for 10 UKP plus VAT (15 USD ish) through the Apple store for Education.
I don't think you can order it online but it is on the downloadable price list so you can place orders by phone.
To add to your point. iTunes lets you put your purchased AAC encoded music onto UNLIMITED iPods. The authorisation doesn't come into it because an iPod cannot connect to the internet to get authorisation to play its tracks. So presumably the iPod is just ignoring the DRM part of the file. So I see no reason why any other player might also not play the AAC files. Once they have AAC capablilty of course.
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No what usually happens is the rest of the world capitulates and starts using your standards instead.
Whatever happened to the Thousand-Million?
Oh right, that's a Billion now.
So what's a Billion?
Oh that's now a Trillion....
Just reminded me of this weekends London Marathon.
You know why they're called wheelchairs.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! is the sound you inevitably have to make when travelling downhill.
Call that a sport?
Yeah I know, karma.
What do you mean by modding this as funny. It's insightful.
The Guinness book of Records is filled to bursting with pathetic 'qualified' records.
So if you're never going to get the world record for the 100 metres maybe you can get in as the world's fastest at the hundred metres while holding a cup in your left hand.
If you weren't the first person in the world to sail single handedly around the world then claim to be the first person to sail singlehandly around the world after setting out on a Tuesday.
And most pathetic of all. Weren't the first person to climb Mount Everest? How about the first American? Ok the first Woman? Or the first American Woman, no the first British Woman, oh has that already gone. The first British Woman to climb Mount Everest starting out on a Tuesay whilst holding a cup in your left hand then.
Dagnabit. You waited until now to tell me that AllAdvantage had finished. I just thought I hadn't built up enough points yet. Damned thing's been taking up 80 pixels of my monitor height. I'm startin' to get screen burn there.
How the hell is this any different to how Yell or Scoot work?
I was expecting it to work out my geographic location based on my IP address (possible?) and give me local results for local people.
What? I have to type something ELSE in?
What if I didn't know where I was?
I don't normally bother to correct people's spelling but I'm in a bad mood. Forgive me.
Am I in a minority of people now who know how to spell the word LOSE?
It's LOSE not LOOSE. LOOSE means slack and RHYMES WITH NOOSE as in rope to kill yourself with.
LOSE RHYMES WITH BOOZE.
LOOSER is what something is when it is made not quite so tight.
LOSER is probably the name people are now going to throw in my general direction. Screw my karma rating. Learn to fricking spell people, you're (that's "you're" with an apostrophe because it's ("it's" with an apostrophe because it's short for "it is") short for "you are" and not "your" because it belongs to you) supposed to be educated.
But does it have Rack and Peanut steering?
Maybe it's like the stupid phrase. "Cheap at half the price." and means the opposite of what it actually says.
I'm willing to bet their website had nothing at all to do with the decision to litigate.
They were probably the first people they found with a big picture ad in Yellow Pages.
AAA Auto Supplies will get caught on the second round.
All these worlds are yours with the exception of Essex. Never go there.
My dad's got a VHS recording of the ONLY EVER showing of Star Wars (original version) on UK Terrestrial TV.
Maybe I could supply them with that copy to restore those worn out tapes.
Mind you it was on ITV so they'd have to cut the adverts out.
Sod the font. Have they chosen the border decoration?
I can't be bothered reading all those comments to see if anyone else has made the point already. I came late to this party.
I think it has a little more to do with getting AAC out there as the standard instead of WMP.
People have been complaining for months how the iPod is incomatible with other music stores and how all the other manufacturers are using WMA audio alongside MP3 and they don't want WMA to become the standard.
Looks like Apple found a way to increase the viability of AAC as THE alternative.
I had a similar problem here in the UK. Within the space of 3 weeks I got stung with an old 10 and an old 5 pound note. I hadn't noticed and assumed that by the time a note was taken out of circulation that all the old ones should have been recovered by the banks. The problem was the new notes were the same colour and size as the old notes (last time they changed there were size alterations) which I bet means there are still a lot more of the old ones lurking around. Anyway, the woman in Focus is a right officious cow and took delight in informing me both times so now it looks like I'm doing it on purpose. Fortunately the people in B&Q were less fussy.
And that raises the point that as long as someone is prepared to take it off your hands in exchange for goods then IT IS CURRENCY. There's no reason why you can't start your own currency today. Provided someone's willing to accept your scrawled IOU they can then pass this on to someone else. You can go around handing out your own pink post-it notes willy nilly and before long the country will be flooded with your paper money to the point that it is traded on the big exchanges and becomes the money of choice for crooks and tin pot countries the world over. Mwahahahahah.
I used to drive that way regularly. Joined J21 (M1) exit J16 (A40). I assume you're talking about the drive home.
I know of what you speak. I had two approaches. Either get out into lane 3 well before the exit from the M25 or stay in lane 1 and adopt a laid back attitude and let a 100 to 150 yard gap open up between myself and the truck (invariably) in front. I'd then match the speed of the truck accelerating occasionally to discourage opportunists from lane 2 racing past across lane 1 over the hatch markings and into the acceleration lane and on into the hard shoulder (A$$HOLES) to undertake everybody.
I'd then proceed to let in as many cars as possible. And this would usually even out the flow of the traffic and things would move along a lot more freely. However self-righteous driver that I am, if I saw anybody in the acceleration lane go beyond the approprate merging speed and race on toward the end of the lane hoping to join the traffic a lot further up I would make life extremely difficult for them on purpose by matching their road position in an attempt to force them to comply.
Oh, there was a third approach which I found worked best and is by far the most relaxed way of getting from J21 to J16 even if it may take a little longer. I'm not kidding. This is an almost traffic free route on most days. The only exception being Wednesday when Watford have a home game.
Stay on M1 South to J5
Take road into Watford town centre, no really it's not bad at all.
Follow ring road around harlequinn centre and exit at Vicarage road (football club).
Turn left at the end of Vicarage road.
Kepp going until you hit traffic lights of four-way crossroads.
Take right hand lane and turn right.
Stay on that road for a few miles until you get to a mini roundabout where you must turn left or right.
Turn left.
Immediately follow road round 90 degree bend to the right and turn left at the end of the road. There is an iron bridge to the right at that junction.
Drive straight on for half a mile or so until you get to the roundabout at the top of Northwood high street.
Turn right into Northwood and keep driving through to Eastcote and Northolt.
Probably OT but who cares, we all need to rant once in a while.
I'm in the UK and seem to be in a dwindling minority of people who know that you're supposed to MATCH THE SPEED of the traffic on the motorway when you are joining the flow. DON'T STOP, JUST PUT YOUR F-ING FOOT DOWN.
The problem is that joining a motorway ISN'T EVEN PART OF THE TEST for fricks sake!!!
It's in the highway code and left up to the newly passed driver to read up on it later or take further lessons. Yeah, like that's ever going to happen.
I've even seen people sitting STATIONARY on the hard shoulder (emergency/recovery lane) indicating their intention to pull out when a big enough gap emerges. NO NO NO NO NO. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO ACCELERATE TO A SENSIBLE MEGING SPEED WITHIN THAT LANE.
MORONS FRICKING EVERYWHERE
I always thought it was supposed to work that way around - the worse a movie is the closer to simultaneous worldwide release it will get. Well at least the big budget losers anyway, since it gives less time for word to get around that the movie is crap and people to stop going to see it.
So are you suggesting that the thief could get some highly paid lawyer to prosecute me for entrapment?
Well, I am in Britain, so they could probably do it with financial aid and I'd end up behind bars.
I thought of that first.
Where's the SMTP coming from was the sticking point.
Couldn't use sendmail running on the laptop.
That's not the point I was making though. I still needed them to get online for either method to even work. And I needed them to get online with my settings intact, hence the no-password-needed account.
Running Jaguar I set up a fake account with no password on purpose. If my laptop was stolen I WANTED the thief to use it to get online. My real accounts were hidden from the login screen and my home folder was invisible. I had a penny-per-minute dialup ISP set up to make it easy for the thief to get connected. Using DNS update software I would be able to see the IP address at Dyndns.org if it was ever used.
If the thief was to find the computer locked down from the start then they'd be far more likely to wipe and restore making this a lot more difficult.
Unfortunately, now running Panther and making user account invisible makes the fast user switching a buggy nightmare. So in spite of the extra security features like FileVault I think it less likely I would ever see it again if it were stolen. I liked my security through obscurity.
This press release is a desperate move.
Like anyone is going to think Hey, I was in the market for an iPod which I can get here and now or perhaps during the holiday season, but now I'll wait another 9 months to see what MS has to offer.
Rest assured Apple will have released another iteration of their glorious device by then, perhaps even two and they won't be telling anyone about it almost a year in advance.
They had to ask whether it was hosted on their own servers or not.
What, they couldn't find anyone who knew how to look it up?
He's not wrong.
Apple did offer 10.2 for FREE to educators after it had already been out for a few months.
Don't know about the US, but in the UK you can purchase the install CDs ONLY.
So as long as you're willing to forgoe[?] the beautiful shiny shiny box and dox you can pick up Panther for 10 UKP plus VAT (15 USD ish) through the Apple store for Education.
I don't think you can order it online but it is on the downloadable price list so you can place orders by phone.
To add to your point. iTunes lets you put your purchased AAC encoded music onto UNLIMITED iPods.
The authorisation doesn't come into it because an iPod cannot connect to the internet to get authorisation to play its tracks.
So presumably the iPod is just ignoring the DRM part of the file. So I see no reason why any other player might also not play the AAC files. Once they have AAC capablilty of course.