All this hype about new 4G and it only does 21Mbps? Telstra have had that for a quite a while here in little ol' Australia (as a theoretical lab speed, at least), and I thought that was 3.5G at most. Very much the same thinking on data allotments, alas.
You appear to be unfamiliar with Bigpond's excessive multi-year lock-in contracts that they rely heavily on once customers realise the full cost of their plan after the honeymoon period of half-price access that made them look competitive to the layman.
Yeah, there's a reason the Aussie film industry is suffering. But it's because so many of its films are depressing arthouse stuff that no one thinks of in association with the word 'entertainment'. Consequently, I sincerely doubt there have been thousands of downloads of Australian movies.
"or 2) increase company profit by trying to coerce hackers into buying a copy by not allowing them this download. Since the latter will never happen, all MS is really doing is simply missing an opportunity to increase security because they *think* they can increase profit."
Ok, 2 points there:
1) Since when are hackers the only ones with illegitimate copies of Windows?
2) Will *never* happen? Really? Big claim, no evidence.
Wow. Your local computer store is pretty cheap. EB out my way generally charges about $110 for any new title. I don't think they sell COD4 for less than $100 yet. Initial price seems to be on the rise too.
Don't get me wrong, it is a useful feature. It can be really annoying to write out a new file name only to have it wiped for forgetting the file extension, for which you have to restore the original file name to discover.
The really frustrating thing however is that Windows simply refuses to let you discover what that file extension is without making you go through the tedious task of turning them all on. How hard could it be to list it in the properties window for that file? Or perhaps be wildly radical and actually even let you change the file extension there! In fact, if it unequivocally told the average user what the real file extension on a maliciously named.exe actually was, it may just be helpful to some of them. Instead, they just tell you which program has been associated with that extension. I honestly can't believe no one at Microsoft has ever even considered this. It's one of my most common grievances.
The other day I had a small business for a client and was amazed to discover that they were running a significant network through a 10Mbps hub. Being able to upgrade that to a (rather affordable) Gigabit switch was quite satisfying.
Windows 2000? Might be pushing your luck there. Compatibility mode in WinXP generally works though (You have to use it on setup.exe). Although you lose LAN I think.
Is this going to be the latest in the recent spate of games that really should have been designed primarily for PC, but instead have been detrimentally console-based? What's the deal with that anyway? Are console games harder to pirate or something?
The real test is convincing your friends that you're actually a bot. I was once lanning Counterstrike with some mates, using a dodgy 3rd party utility to provide bots. These bots had some pretty amusing chatter, and after a while I decided to change my name to one similar to the bots. I pretended my name wasn't showing up due to a bug (which wasn't hard to believe with this program), and then started dropping increasingly more personal messages directed at my mates. Had them quite freaked out until I couldn't stop myself laughing any more.
Yeah, my IM buddy may be a bot, but I gotta say, Skynet made his real world counterpart pretty bloody convincing. He does have a habit of trying to kill my dog though.
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It honestly seems that some stations try to commit suicide in Australia, Channel 7 in particular. So far, they have licensed Scrubs, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Firefly, Boston Legal, Futurama, Family Guy and probably some others. All of these have either been removed or are randomly thrown on at around midnight on varying nights of the week. I never would have discovered Arrested Development if I hadn't fortunately stayed up late enough to watch Scrubs one night. It premiered right after it at some crazy hour. Meanwhile, what was Channel 7 putting on primetime? Hope & Faith. Yes, you heard me.
I always found it amusing as a kid that if normal school kids were filmed just doing what they do, the material would probably end up being rated too high for them to watch on TV.
I was once killing time outside a chemist in a shopping centre. In doing so I started reading a pamphlet advertising a new probiotic, as I figured they might be useful to me. However, as it turned out, the pamphlet went to great lengths to explain that any competent doctor would (successfully) treat a person with the flu with antibiotics. The idea of ingesting live organisms from a company that fails high school biology has me pretty worried to say the least.
It's cool, it's cool. We'll just make them all female and irradiate the reproductive organs so they can't breed. Just as long as we don't use frog DNA...
The limited activation thing reminds me of Bioshock. My brother bought the game legit, but when I decided to install it again recently for a bit of fun I realised I couldn't find the damn booklet with the serial number. So I grabbed a simple crack. No serial, activation or anything. Just got to have some of the fun we'd paid for. Of course, this was made possible by activation occurring after installation. I don't know how Spore handles it.
Having not been made by natural evolutionary forces, it's unlikely they would be fit to survive in any natural environment.
Earth is a very different place now compared to when life began. It is extremely unlikely that life could be begin in any modern environment.
Having not been made by natural evolutionary forces, it's unlikely they would be fit to survive in any natural environment. These things have not been instilled with any defenses against things looking to eat them including bacteria. Didn't read the article, but I would guess they aren't capable of digesting molecules, they probably have to be presented with ready to go "nutrients" to replicate, move or do anything. You don't find that anywhere in the real world, in fact, as I recall you don't even find that in your bloodstream. ATP is what your molecules use for power, but you only get that once your cells import glucose and your mitochondria turn it into ATP.
You appear to be thinking specifically of oxidative phosphorylation in advanced eukaryotic cells which arose from the proliferation of oxygen in the atmosphere by prokaryotic cells and the symbiotic engulfing of smaller specialised prokaryotic cells (ie mitochondria, chloroplasts) by larger prokaryotic cells. This is the most efficient way to produce ATP, but certainly not the only way, and definitely not going to happen in a very primitive cell. Rather, you'd be looking at good old reliable fermentation.
Can't speak for everyone in the world, but when games consistently carry a whopping $110 price tag in Australia but merely $50 in the US despite a near equal exhange rate, it can be a just a *little* discouraging. And it's even worse when online services that would normally negate this problem, such as Steam, are made to follow suit by publishers, artificially raising prices based on detected region.
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All this hype about new 4G and it only does 21Mbps? Telstra have had that for a quite a while here in little ol' Australia (as a theoretical lab speed, at least), and I thought that was 3.5G at most. Very much the same thinking on data allotments, alas.
You appear to be unfamiliar with Bigpond's excessive multi-year lock-in contracts that they rely heavily on once customers realise the full cost of their plan after the honeymoon period of half-price access that made them look competitive to the layman.
Yeah, there's a reason the Aussie film industry is suffering. But it's because so many of its films are depressing arthouse stuff that no one thinks of in association with the word 'entertainment'. Consequently, I sincerely doubt there have been thousands of downloads of Australian movies.
I can't help but notice that Firefox is taking great liberties to make sure I understand that connecting to that site may not be safe for me.
"or 2) increase company profit by trying to coerce hackers into buying a copy by not allowing them this download. Since the latter will never happen, all MS is really doing is simply missing an opportunity to increase security because they *think* they can increase profit."
Ok, 2 points there:
1) Since when are hackers the only ones with illegitimate copies of Windows?
2) Will *never* happen? Really? Big claim, no evidence.
Wow. Your local computer store is pretty cheap. EB out my way generally charges about $110 for any new title. I don't think they sell COD4 for less than $100 yet. Initial price seems to be on the rise too.
Don't get me wrong, it is a useful feature. It can be really annoying to write out a new file name only to have it wiped for forgetting the file extension, for which you have to restore the original file name to discover.
.exe actually was, it may just be helpful to some of them. Instead, they just tell you which program has been associated with that extension. I honestly can't believe no one at Microsoft has ever even considered this. It's one of my most common grievances.
The really frustrating thing however is that Windows simply refuses to let you discover what that file extension is without making you go through the tedious task of turning them all on. How hard could it be to list it in the properties window for that file? Or perhaps be wildly radical and actually even let you change the file extension there! In fact, if it unequivocally told the average user what the real file extension on a maliciously named
"She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene."
The other day I had a small business for a client and was amazed to discover that they were running a significant network through a 10Mbps hub. Being able to upgrade that to a (rather affordable) Gigabit switch was quite satisfying.
Windows 2000? Might be pushing your luck there. Compatibility mode in WinXP generally works though (You have to use it on setup.exe). Although you lose LAN I think.
Is this going to be the latest in the recent spate of games that really should have been designed primarily for PC, but instead have been detrimentally console-based? What's the deal with that anyway? Are console games harder to pirate or something?
Bah. My dodgy dial-up connection is so painfully slow that I find it amusing to install trojans and watch "hackers" try and control my computer.
The real test is convincing your friends that you're actually a bot. I was once lanning Counterstrike with some mates, using a dodgy 3rd party utility to provide bots. These bots had some pretty amusing chatter, and after a while I decided to change my name to one similar to the bots. I pretended my name wasn't showing up due to a bug (which wasn't hard to believe with this program), and then started dropping increasingly more personal messages directed at my mates. Had them quite freaked out until I couldn't stop myself laughing any more.
Yeah, my IM buddy may be a bot, but I gotta say, Skynet made his real world counterpart pretty bloody convincing. He does have a habit of trying to kill my dog though.
Being forced to look at Telstra Wireless as my only option for "broadband", I gotta ask, what is Siebel, and why is it bad?
Just in case.
It honestly seems that some stations try to commit suicide in Australia, Channel 7 in particular. So far, they have licensed Scrubs, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Firefly, Boston Legal, Futurama, Family Guy and probably some others. All of these have either been removed or are randomly thrown on at around midnight on varying nights of the week. I never would have discovered Arrested Development if I hadn't fortunately stayed up late enough to watch Scrubs one night. It premiered right after it at some crazy hour. Meanwhile, what was Channel 7 putting on primetime? Hope & Faith. Yes, you heard me.
I always found it amusing as a kid that if normal school kids were filmed just doing what they do, the material would probably end up being rated too high for them to watch on TV.
Until some bastard reveals that Bruce Willis was dead all along.
I was once killing time outside a chemist in a shopping centre. In doing so I started reading a pamphlet advertising a new probiotic, as I figured they might be useful to me. However, as it turned out, the pamphlet went to great lengths to explain that any competent doctor would (successfully) treat a person with the flu with antibiotics. The idea of ingesting live organisms from a company that fails high school biology has me pretty worried to say the least.
It's cool, it's cool. We'll just make them all female and irradiate the reproductive organs so they can't breed. Just as long as we don't use frog DNA...
The limited activation thing reminds me of Bioshock. My brother bought the game legit, but when I decided to install it again recently for a bit of fun I realised I couldn't find the damn booklet with the serial number. So I grabbed a simple crack. No serial, activation or anything. Just got to have some of the fun we'd paid for. Of course, this was made possible by activation occurring after installation. I don't know how Spore handles it.
Having not been made by natural evolutionary forces, it's unlikely they would be fit to survive in any natural environment.
Earth is a very different place now compared to when life began. It is extremely unlikely that life could be begin in any modern environment.
Having not been made by natural evolutionary forces, it's unlikely they would be fit to survive in any natural environment. These things have not been instilled with any defenses against things looking to eat them including bacteria. Didn't read the article, but I would guess they aren't capable of digesting molecules, they probably have to be presented with ready to go "nutrients" to replicate, move or do anything. You don't find that anywhere in the real world, in fact, as I recall you don't even find that in your bloodstream. ATP is what your molecules use for power, but you only get that once your cells import glucose and your mitochondria turn it into ATP.
You appear to be thinking specifically of oxidative phosphorylation in advanced eukaryotic cells which arose from the proliferation of oxygen in the atmosphere by prokaryotic cells and the symbiotic engulfing of smaller specialised prokaryotic cells (ie mitochondria, chloroplasts) by larger prokaryotic cells. This is the most efficient way to produce ATP, but certainly not the only way, and definitely not going to happen in a very primitive cell. Rather, you'd be looking at good old reliable fermentation.
Awesome. I was worried my computer was going too fast.
Can't speak for everyone in the world, but when games consistently carry a whopping $110 price tag in Australia but merely $50 in the US despite a near equal exhange rate, it can be a just a *little* discouraging. And it's even worse when online services that would normally negate this problem, such as Steam, are made to follow suit by publishers, artificially raising prices based on detected region.