While 'kleenex' may be rather ubiquitous, is it used as a verb? I've certainly never heard of it used like that.
As for 'Xerox', it's known of here in the UK, but is rarely (if ever) used as a verb. Google, on the other hand, certainly has been verbed and has entered common usage over here - even non-techies now know that it's the best available and seem to be incorporating it into their speech just like the/. crowd.
I happen to like the new look interface. Although the loss of our beloved tabs may take a little getting used to, it all seems to look a bit 'cleaner'. Much better than some search engines, who seem to place more emphasis on their adverts than on the actual reason people come to their site in the first place - to search. Good to see Google know what users want.
This is, of course, despite the fact that knowingly admitting a minor to a film in a cinema, or selling one from, say, your local branch of Smith's, is illegal and can result in prosecution for the involved party? While it is perfectly legal for, say, a 16-year-old to watch a film with certificate 18 in his or her own home, shops and cinemas are legally bound to obey the BBFC classification.
Throwing Acorns away? Give me that girl's name and address. I'll fetch No. 2 hammer and let her know what us RISC OS users think of such disgraceful manners...
I've recently discovered, to my cost, something very similar to what's been described here. Despite paying 30/month for a 512kb/s connection, it would appear that I'm not allowed to use this connection as much as I would like during a month. Tiscali believe that I've been using it excessively, and have taken the rather drastic step of slashing my connection speed to just under 100kb/s. Surely this isn't on? If I'm paying for what is advertised as 512kb/s, shouldn't I have also been told in those adverts that I can't use much during the month?
Finally, a little bit of decent information on this HP iPod. Instead of speculating, we can at least comment on the fact that Apple's gonna be making money despite the HP branding, not to mention getting iTunes onto the desktops of HP's WinTel line. Cheers for the link.
Oddly enough, despite having lived here for 17 years, I've yet to have even seen a gun, let alone been "peppered with lead" by one... maybe I'm just lucky?
The best thing about the Honda "Cogs" advert, is the fact that absolutely none of it is CG. Everything was performed live, in one final take (although it took one hell of a lot beforehand to get it all working).
Knowing this, and seeing the advert again, it all seems much more 'special'.
I had a friend in school tell me that New Labour's not just a government, but a way to run life, it dictates everything, who you can and can't vote for when you do what. Even under Thatcher 20 years ago people had more rights than they do in Blairite Britain now.
Only the first few batches of Pentium IIIs carried a CPU ID. People soon started complaining about privacy, so the 'feature' was removed. Also, Intel made available a program to disable the CPU from reporting its ID. Nothing to worry about.
Recently SNK Playmore releases have been using the MVS-1a board, which combines the MVS cart with a JAMMA PCB - thus rendering those games JAMMA. Simply plug in the board and power up. This has so far been seen with SNK vs Capcom: Chaos, Metal Slug 5, and KOF 2003. Metal Slug 5 has also had an MVS cart release, and SVC Chaos is rumoured to be rereleased on MVS cart soon. (You may want to check here to have a look at the JAMMA board for SVC Chaos)
Elite, Lemmings, even Doom and Quake... all games one can find on the classic Acorn home computers. Elite started out on the BBC Micro and to this date is an excellent game, while the port of Lemmings from the Amiga to Archimedes was nothing less than stellar. (To this date I prefer the Acorn version)
Shame the latter pair won't run on much less than a RISC PC, but I digress...
But the N64DD did come out. Well, in Japan, anyway. Quite a nice little add-on, although too little, too late really. It wasn't at all as successful as the Famicom Disc System, but some of the games released for it were promising - then again, some of the promised games weren't released, such as Ura Zelda.
Sorry, but the IQue doesn't 'emulate' an N64. It is an N64, albiet one downsized into a controller and using flash cards instead of cartridges.
In response to other posts: yes, it is switchable to use PAL or NTSC - just solder the correct points on the PCB and you're away. Hopefully though, we won't need to - I would love to see these in shops outside China as a budget games solution, much like those Atari Controller-esque machines. Of course, with much better games...
Judging on the usual reactions of most/. trolls, open source is clearly infallible and shall never die. There is absolutely nothing wrong with anything from attempting to convert Windows users to making clones of original apps. Move along.
Well, Sega certainly loves its subscribers to its games. Yup, loves 'em enough to turn of the Dreamcast servers to paying customers.
Hmm. Stopping people who want to pay from paying...
I love how business works.
"This is a friendly virus. It has done no damage to your computer. Perhaps this will serve as a warning not to copy commercial software in the future!"
Ah, the good old days, running copies of Lemmings from dubious sources...
IIRC, the adverts claimed the G5 was the most powerful _personal_ computer. I'm not entirely sure how many people's desktops carry Xeons, but I'm willing to bet it's not enough to consider them PCs.
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While 'kleenex' may be rather ubiquitous, is it used as a verb? I've certainly never heard of it used like that.
As for 'Xerox', it's known of here in the UK, but is rarely (if ever) used as a verb. Google, on the other hand, certainly has been verbed and has entered common usage over here - even non-techies now know that it's the best available and seem to be incorporating it into their speech just like the /. crowd.
I happen to like the new look interface. Although the loss of our beloved tabs may take a little getting used to, it all seems to look a bit 'cleaner'. Much better than some search engines, who seem to place more emphasis on their adverts than on the actual reason people come to their site in the first place - to search. Good to see Google know what users want.
Considering it was the old Napster they mentioned, I'll take a guess at 'free and illegal'.
because I was not a trade anarchists.
Oh, please... next you'll be telling me they've got unions, too.Here in Britain, we tend to be traditionalists too. So the Monarchy stays.
This is, of course, despite the fact that knowingly admitting a minor to a film in a cinema, or selling one from, say, your local branch of Smith's, is illegal and can result in prosecution for the involved party? While it is perfectly legal for, say, a 16-year-old to watch a film with certificate 18 in his or her own home, shops and cinemas are legally bound to obey the BBFC classification.
Throwing Acorns away? Give me that girl's name and address. I'll fetch No. 2 hammer and let her know what us RISC OS users think of such disgraceful manners...
I've recently discovered, to my cost, something very similar to what's been described here. Despite paying 30/month for a 512kb/s connection, it would appear that I'm not allowed to use this connection as much as I would like during a month. Tiscali believe that I've been using it excessively, and have taken the rather drastic step of slashing my connection speed to just under 100kb/s. Surely this isn't on? If I'm paying for what is advertised as 512kb/s, shouldn't I have also been told in those adverts that I can't use much during the month?
Finally, a little bit of decent information on this HP iPod. Instead of speculating, we can at least comment on the fact that Apple's gonna be making money despite the HP branding, not to mention getting iTunes onto the desktops of HP's WinTel line. Cheers for the link.
Oddly enough, despite having lived here for 17 years, I've yet to have even seen a gun, let alone been "peppered with lead" by one... maybe I'm just lucky?
The best thing about the Honda "Cogs" advert, is the fact that absolutely none of it is CG. Everything was performed live, in one final take (although it took one hell of a lot beforehand to get it all working). Knowing this, and seeing the advert again, it all seems much more 'special'.
I had a friend in school tell me that New Labour's not just a government, but a way to run life, it dictates everything, who you can and can't vote for when you do what. Even under Thatcher 20 years ago people had more rights than they do in Blairite Britain now.
Only the first few batches of Pentium IIIs carried a CPU ID. People soon started complaining about privacy, so the 'feature' was removed. Also, Intel made available a program to disable the CPU from reporting its ID. Nothing to worry about.
Recently SNK Playmore releases have been using the MVS-1a board, which combines the MVS cart with a JAMMA PCB - thus rendering those games JAMMA. Simply plug in the board and power up. This has so far been seen with SNK vs Capcom: Chaos, Metal Slug 5, and KOF 2003. Metal Slug 5 has also had an MVS cart release, and SVC Chaos is rumoured to be rereleased on MVS cart soon. (You may want to check here to have a look at the JAMMA board for SVC Chaos)
Or at least you would be, if you could play anything more advanced than Tetris on it...
Elite, Lemmings, even Doom and Quake... all games one can find on the classic Acorn home computers. Elite started out on the BBC Micro and to this date is an excellent game, while the port of Lemmings from the Amiga to Archimedes was nothing less than stellar. (To this date I prefer the Acorn version)
Shame the latter pair won't run on much less than a RISC PC, but I digress...
But the N64DD did come out. Well, in Japan, anyway. Quite a nice little add-on, although too little, too late really. It wasn't at all as successful as the Famicom Disc System, but some of the games released for it were promising - then again, some of the promised games weren't released, such as Ura Zelda.
Sorry, but the IQue doesn't 'emulate' an N64. It is an N64, albiet one downsized into a controller and using flash cards instead of cartridges.
In response to other posts: yes, it is switchable to use PAL or NTSC - just solder the correct points on the PCB and you're away. Hopefully though, we won't need to - I would love to see these in shops outside China as a budget games solution, much like those Atari Controller-esque machines. Of course, with much better games...
JOB OR OCCUPATION
Are you a journalist?
> I am NOT a journalist
> I am a journalist
Taken from questionaire upon entry into the USA:
Are you a member of, or have you ever been associated with, the Communist Party?
I see a pattern forming...
Judging on the usual reactions of most /. trolls, open source is clearly infallible and shall never die. There is absolutely nothing wrong with anything from attempting to convert Windows users to making clones of original apps. Move along.
And they said 'open source' didn't pay... *runs*
Well, Sega certainly loves its subscribers to its games. Yup, loves 'em enough to turn of the Dreamcast servers to paying customers. Hmm. Stopping people who want to pay from paying... I love how business works.
Does 'overkill' mean nothing to these people?
"This is a friendly virus. It has done no damage to your computer. Perhaps this will serve as a warning not to copy commercial software in the future!" Ah, the good old days, running copies of Lemmings from dubious sources...
IIRC, the adverts claimed the G5 was the most powerful _personal_ computer. I'm not entirely sure how many people's desktops carry Xeons, but I'm willing to bet it's not enough to consider them PCs.