As an unwashed Yank, I gotta tell my fellow compatriots who don't know (of which there are more than I imagined) that Harrod's is a large department store in London, in the Knightsbridge section of town. Now, that is also like saying that Microsoft is a profitable company.
Harrod's is an amazing store, 8 stories high if I remember correctly, owned by an Arab oil family who's son died in the car crash with Princess Diana. The first floor houses a food court the like of which you have never seen, with every food imaginable. The next couple of floors is devoted to clothing, which is someone boring, although Mrs. Scalesinger got herself a fine looking hat in their haberdashery. Then the floors start to get interesting again, with a large section devoted to true antiques for purchase, going all the way back to the stone age. That depaertment made me somewhat nervous, as it is museum quality with the added spice of "you break, you buy" hanging over the department. Oh yeah, a pub in the basement of the store wheeeee!
If they have an electronics department (which I guess they have to, from TFA) I don't recall it, as I was so overwhelmed from the rest of the store. Highly pricey and eminently touristy, it is stil a can't miss experience that I enjoy every time I am fortunate enough to be on that side of the big drink.
OMG u r rite - can you believe that a government body is overseeing network traffic from one government authority to another government authority? Grab your tinfoil hats and start the looting - there go the last vestigates of our rights! Jesus, people overreact on this website without even reading TF summary at the top of this page - no wonder you posted this AC. It is indeed proper to look around and observe where the US is going, but this story shouldn't be ringing a lot of alarms.
It's more like you run up and light a fuse, then see if a cannonball explodes 5 minutes later. Nah - it's not as bad as that:) They have early versions of tanks and armored cars, trench combat, flyable zepplins and biplanes, etc. Yeah it is indeed an adjustment from the normal "set plasma cannon to 50 megawatt range" that most FPS give you, but it balance out when you realize the other guy as equipment as arachic as you. Moreso, serious war history buffs spend a lot of time critiquing the accuracy of layout of this vehicle or that, which some people get into...
These three mods (and many more out there) took BF42 to new places, especially DC. Glad to hear that they are giving modders even more tools with BF2 - I can't mod or skin my way out of a paper bag, but I am grateful to those who can and give their talents to their community gratis.
Yeah, I have played MMORPGs since 1999. I was referring to the boards DB being linked to the login server DB, which is ridiculous. On this point, there has been no communication as to unlinking this or even that they acknowledge the issue, even though it has been reported hundreds of times as a suggestion. I don't care whether you listen to me or not - seems you are having a bad morning if all you wanna do is lash out and be a fanboi that wants to be blind to major issues such as not being able to post your concerns on a boards that their staff reads because their massive login system will neither allow you to play nor post comments about it. I love the game, but there are still major concerns that need to be addressed, and we as paying customers deserve to have them acknowledged. Why don't you step away from the keyboard, get some coffee and settle down a bit...
"Login server down" in? It seems to be one of their favorites as they appear to have every Blizz system hooked into their Access DB haxxored together authentication system. Prepare yourselves Europe - our beta test is still going on here, 3 months after Blizz went to retail.
With that smal tirade out of the way (the login server thing really does annoy me), Blizz is set to rake in even more cash. Europe seems to like RPGs, especially in the UK and Germany, both lands of various fairy tales. Welcome to Azeroth Europe - Dark Lady watch over you!
Holy crap you're right! He is now longer listed on the games pages. Anyone have a story or link posted anywhere about michael leaving? Jesus that guy annoyed me. The lower case spelling of his name alone like some idiotic e.e. cummings wannabe was enough to drive me batshit.
The news itself might be interest, but in the realm of well written articles this will not make the list. A choice nugget from TFA:
<<< The password stealing Troj/BankAsh-A Trojan, discovered yesterday, is a spyware. It keeps a track of user activities on the computer. It spies on you. >>>
Er, didn't we cover the spying part two sentences ago? Is A spyware? A spyware what?
<<< The Trojan also removes important entries of the antispyware in the registry and thus literal kills the antispyware. >>>
Literal? Come on - this reads worse than half of the AC posts in YRO. I hate playing the grammar nazi, but this was painful to read...
I sincerely hope you are trying for a laugh in your post. If not, you live in a sad world of corporate language and gobbleygook sentences and are probably mocked by your peers when you are not around (unless they are as equally brainwashed). Please please please tell me this was a joke...
With 10K a month you can buy a T-1 line pretty much anywhere in the US and still have plenty left over to pay the both the payment and insurance on your Ferrari...
Read the bottom of the article - it says they are launching drums of Agent Orange to Mars in order to hatch this scheme starting next week! Dubya himself is sending the launch codes! Quick - move this to YRO!
See - it is much more fun to get carried away with a hairbrained theory than to RTFA and remained balanced:)
We can't seem to get our outdated shuttles off the ground safely, or keep a permanent space staion running effectively. Is now a good time to tinker with another planet's atmosphere?
It wasn't that bad. It basically ended with Sam going back and meeting Al's wife, who in their present time divorced Al because she had presumed he was dead/MIA forever as a POW in Nam and had moved on with her life.
Sam met Al's wife during the Vietnam war and told her that Al was alive and was coming home. The unleft premise is that Al's wife then waited for him and they lived happily ever after, with Al not doing the Quantum Leap project. Since there was no project, there would be no way for Sam to go home (but wait, doesn't that mean that Sam then never left??? Gawd time travel scenarios drive me batty)
Anyhew, the TV then read their fates (Al goes home, Sam never does) and ended with Sam and Al with their arm around each other's shoulder, both smiling into the camera and the show ended. It actually did make an big statement about true friendship and what friends do for each other to a sappy young impressionable geek like myself - enough so that I remember it vividly lo these 15 years later...
I went googling for thumb scanners and the like but didn't come up with anything concrete (besides people's blogs where they relate their SF dreams of bypassing a thumb scanner and breaking into the Pentagon). Does anyone have a link to a body part scanner (thumb or finger is HIGHLY preferable to um, other things) that they have used successfully and is available on the open market?
Your title at least sounds interesting, as does the premise (I love WWII). The chapter I mentioned sounds like an AM seminar at a chemical engineering trade show in Duluth.
Indeed, unfortunately - practically all of my gaming is done online. NWN, BF42/DC/BF1918, WoW...true a properly firewalled network should not be vulnerable, and I do have a stand alone 'nix firewall box running interference to my network, but I recently built a new gaming box. When the time came for the OS, whether to purchase or pirate, I figured this time, why not spend the dough and do it properly, and not roll the dice on the OS when I had taken the time to do everything else right on the new system.
The other reason? Meebe I'm just getting older, but I figured that MS did provide me with the OS so I can play my favorite games and relax when I get home. I use OO, even on Windows, so an office suite is taken care of. I donate money to open source projects that I use, why not to the vendor of my OS? (let the flames on that last comment begin wheee!)
The main gist is that people who have their Windows Update set to automatically download the latest critical patches (through the Windows Security Center - insert oxymoron comment here) will not be affected at this time. If you manually go to Windows Update you will need to provide some sort of credentials (allow software to snoop on yer box or provide your key) to access content. I myself bought a copy of XP recently from Newegg for this exact purpose. I like Linux a lot and if I didn't game, I'd use it exclusively. Since I do game, Windows is a necessity, and I don't want to have a haxxored box because MS tightened down on allowing pirates (which I freely admit I was one) to patch their systems. Newegg has copies of XP pro for about $150.00 with the purchase of any hardware, which is a far cry from their $300.00 MSRP.
Korea's monthly fee is more than $15 US. I forget how much exactly, but enought that in six months they will have payed more than we did for $50.00 + the $15 per month.
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Duly noted, and thanks. The wiki article you so kindly posted explains where the monies came from too. I gotta go to wikipedia more...
As an unwashed Yank, I gotta tell my fellow compatriots who don't know (of which there are more than I imagined) that Harrod's is a large department store in London, in the Knightsbridge section of town. Now, that is also like saying that Microsoft is a profitable company.
Harrod's is an amazing store, 8 stories high if I remember correctly, owned by an Arab oil family who's son died in the car crash with Princess Diana. The first floor houses a food court the like of which you have never seen, with every food imaginable. The next couple of floors is devoted to clothing, which is someone boring, although Mrs. Scalesinger got herself a fine looking hat in their haberdashery. Then the floors start to get interesting again, with a large section devoted to true antiques for purchase, going all the way back to the stone age. That depaertment made me somewhat nervous, as it is museum quality with the added spice of "you break, you buy" hanging over the department. Oh yeah, a pub in the basement of the store wheeeee!
If they have an electronics department (which I guess they have to, from TFA) I don't recall it, as I was so overwhelmed from the rest of the store. Highly pricey and eminently touristy, it is stil a can't miss experience that I enjoy every time I am fortunate enough to be on that side of the big drink.
Crap - I raced to the comments page, visions of altered sharks dancing in my head, only to be thwarted...curse you Caspian!
OMG u r rite - can you believe that a government body is overseeing network traffic from one government authority to another government authority? Grab your tinfoil hats and start the looting - there go the last vestigates of our rights! Jesus, people overreact on this website without even reading TF summary at the top of this page - no wonder you posted this AC. It is indeed proper to look around and observe where the US is going, but this story shouldn't be ringing a lot of alarms.
It's more like you run up and light a fuse, then see if a cannonball explodes 5 minutes later. Nah - it's not as bad as that :) They have early versions of tanks and armored cars, trench combat, flyable zepplins and biplanes, etc. Yeah it is indeed an adjustment from the normal "set plasma cannon to 50 megawatt range" that most FPS give you, but it balance out when you realize the other guy as equipment as arachic as you. Moreso, serious war history buffs spend a lot of time critiquing the accuracy of layout of this vehicle or that, which some people get into...
To those who made BF42 so much fun:
Desert Combat - http://www.desertcombat.com/
Battlefield 1918 - http://www.bf1918.com/
Forgotten Hope - http://forgottenhope.bf1942files.com/main.html
These three mods (and many more out there) took BF42 to new places, especially DC. Glad to hear that they are giving modders even more tools with BF2 - I can't mod or skin my way out of a paper bag, but I am grateful to those who can and give their talents to their community gratis.
Yeah, I have played MMORPGs since 1999. I was referring to the boards DB being linked to the login server DB, which is ridiculous. On this point, there has been no communication as to unlinking this or even that they acknowledge the issue, even though it has been reported hundreds of times as a suggestion. I don't care whether you listen to me or not - seems you are having a bad morning if all you wanna do is lash out and be a fanboi that wants to be blind to major issues such as not being able to post your concerns on a boards that their staff reads because their massive login system will neither allow you to play nor post comments about it. I love the game, but there are still major concerns that need to be addressed, and we as paying customers deserve to have them acknowledged. Why don't you step away from the keyboard, get some coffee and settle down a bit...
"Login server down" in? It seems to be one of their favorites as they appear to have every Blizz system hooked into their Access DB haxxored together authentication system. Prepare yourselves Europe - our beta test is still going on here, 3 months after Blizz went to retail.
With that smal tirade out of the way (the login server thing really does annoy me), Blizz is set to rake in even more cash. Europe seems to like RPGs, especially in the UK and Germany, both lands of various fairy tales. Welcome to Azeroth Europe - Dark Lady watch over you!
Holy crap you're right! He is now longer listed on the games pages. Anyone have a story or link posted anywhere about michael leaving? Jesus that guy annoyed me. The lower case spelling of his name alone like some idiotic e.e. cummings wannabe was enough to drive me batshit.
The news itself might be interest, but in the realm of well written articles this will not make the list. A choice nugget from TFA:
<<< The password stealing Troj/BankAsh-A Trojan, discovered yesterday, is a spyware. It keeps a track of user activities on the computer. It spies on you. >>>
Er, didn't we cover the spying part two sentences ago? Is A spyware? A spyware what?
<<< The Trojan also removes important entries of the antispyware in the registry and thus literal kills the antispyware. >>>
Literal? Come on - this reads worse than half of the AC posts in YRO. I hate playing the grammar nazi, but this was painful to read...
*tries to picture computers and anonymous cowards in a furious climate battle...*
I sincerely hope you are trying for a laugh in your post. If not, you live in a sad world of corporate language and gobbleygook sentences and are probably mocked by your peers when you are not around (unless they are as equally brainwashed). Please please please tell me this was a joke...
With 10K a month you can buy a T-1 line pretty much anywhere in the US and still have plenty left over to pay the both the payment and insurance on your Ferrari...
Read the bottom of the article - it says they are launching drums of Agent Orange to Mars in order to hatch this scheme starting next week! Dubya himself is sending the launch codes! Quick - move this to YRO!
:)
See - it is much more fun to get carried away with a hairbrained theory than to RTFA and remained balanced
You are correct of course - what was I thinking? :)
We can't seem to get our outdated shuttles off the ground safely, or keep a permanent space staion running effectively. Is now a good time to tinker with another planet's atmosphere?
You're kidding, right? I've patched my Suse installation twice in the last week. Jesus, take off your blinders man,
It wasn't that bad. It basically ended with Sam going back and meeting Al's wife, who in their present time divorced Al because she had presumed he was dead/MIA forever as a POW in Nam and had moved on with her life.
Sam met Al's wife during the Vietnam war and told her that Al was alive and was coming home. The unleft premise is that Al's wife then waited for him and they lived happily ever after, with Al not doing the Quantum Leap project. Since there was no project, there would be no way for Sam to go home (but wait, doesn't that mean that Sam then never left??? Gawd time travel scenarios drive me batty)
Anyhew, the TV then read their fates (Al goes home, Sam never does) and ended with Sam and Al with their arm around each other's shoulder, both smiling into the camera and the show ended. It actually did make an big statement about true friendship and what friends do for each other to a sappy young impressionable geek like myself - enough so that I remember it vividly lo these 15 years later...
I went googling for thumb scanners and the like but didn't come up with anything concrete (besides people's blogs where they relate their SF dreams of bypassing a thumb scanner and breaking into the Pentagon). Does anyone have a link to a body part scanner (thumb or finger is HIGHLY preferable to um, other things) that they have used successfully and is available on the open market?
Your title at least sounds interesting, as does the premise (I love WWII). The chapter I mentioned sounds like an AM seminar at a chemical engineering trade show in Duluth.
A sneak peek at chapter 7:
Solution of polygraphic substitution systems polyalphabetic substitution systems
and that's just the title. Pack a lunch for this one...
Who's the **AA? The GNAA? I wasn't aware that they had taken up the cause of copyright infrigement...
Indeed, unfortunately - practically all of my gaming is done online. NWN, BF42/DC/BF1918, WoW...true a properly firewalled network should not be vulnerable, and I do have a stand alone 'nix firewall box running interference to my network, but I recently built a new gaming box. When the time came for the OS, whether to purchase or pirate, I figured this time, why not spend the dough and do it properly, and not roll the dice on the OS when I had taken the time to do everything else right on the new system.
The other reason? Meebe I'm just getting older, but I figured that MS did provide me with the OS so I can play my favorite games and relax when I get home. I use OO, even on Windows, so an office suite is taken care of. I donate money to open source projects that I use, why not to the vendor of my OS? (let the flames on that last comment begin wheee!)
The main gist is that people who have their Windows Update set to automatically download the latest critical patches (through the Windows Security Center - insert oxymoron comment here) will not be affected at this time. If you manually go to Windows Update you will need to provide some sort of credentials (allow software to snoop on yer box or provide your key) to access content. I myself bought a copy of XP recently from Newegg for this exact purpose. I like Linux a lot and if I didn't game, I'd use it exclusively. Since I do game, Windows is a necessity, and I don't want to have a haxxored box because MS tightened down on allowing pirates (which I freely admit I was one) to patch their systems. Newegg has copies of XP pro for about $150.00 with the purchase of any hardware, which is a far cry from their $300.00 MSRP.
Korea's monthly fee is more than $15 US. I forget how much exactly, but enought that in six months they will have payed more than we did for $50.00 + the $15 per month.