A road I often travel down used to have no speed limit, then it was 40mph, then 30mph and soon it will be 20mph. I have no doubt that the speed limit will eventually be a rigidly enforced 5mph and I can happily watch tv to while away the many hours on the road.
Condoms are the biggest con around. You have to buy them in a three pack, you use one to test for fit, then you notice they have a use-by date only four years away!!
If you want to save energy and the planet, don't install a traffic light at all. I have never seen traffic queues at broken traffic lights as long as the queues at working traffic lights.
Surely in keeping with the apple philosophy, he would have been operated on by the BEST-LOOKING people (with the glossiest P.R.) available, with technical ability of secondary importance.
I don't like this analogy. I went to the police because I was witnessing some teens trespassing on an old foundry and lighting fires amongst the rubbish. I could see them doing it as I rang the police station a mile away. Cops' reaction? 'Why are you ringing us? Shouldn't you be ringing the Fire Brigade?'.
While I applaud the growing market for games of the complexity and graphic resolution of twenty years ago, I am holding off from buying an iPhone until someone develops an app which monitors the motion sensors and battery level and bills me every time i charge up the phone or take it out of my pocket, and maybe it could bill me every time I change from one cell reception area to the next.
I am totally stoked about Virgin Media's forthcoming music download system and fully believe that it won't be an overhyped sack of crap at all. The downloads will certainly be unlimited, fast, cheap, not watermarked and of at least cd quality from an enormous library of popular, familiar tunes the exact same recordings of which will be currently or formerly available in record shops on cd.
That presupposes that the minimum subscription period is a month or two. It may be £40 a month for 12 months, £20 a month for 24 months, £10 a month for 5 years etc.
Bloke: Hey, you're a gadget freak, you must have a bluray player. What are they like? Is it worth buying one? Me: I can't buy bluray stuff. Bloke: Really, why not? Me: Because FUCK SONY, that's why. Bloke: Ah. This is a one of those religious things again, isn't it? Ok.
Blu-Ray will keep on improving as time goes on, you say? That's what I was hoping for with ordinary DVD. They are cutting it a bit fine if they are going to bring in all the different camera angles and alternate endings and stuff that we were promised when DVD came out.
Well, they don't have to explicitly state that you can't copy it for personal use, since they've restricted such that you can't. And if you bypass their restrictions you should already know what you're getting into.
Then surely, by the same reasoning, if they make something that can be seen and heard by humans in an age when recording of audio and video by(and of) citizens is commonplace, they should already know what they are getting into?
Unlike the content providers, I do not have the financial wherewithall to purchase a government representative.
Well, when I am asked to part with my money for content, the vendor keeps quiet about exactly what i am buying in terms of what the content provider intends to allow me to do. It is all 'BUY EXPLODATRON II - THE RECKONING only £18.99'. Maybe the law should mandate a big poster listing what i get for my money?
EXPLODATRON II - THE RECKONING You can watch the film in your own home with a couple of your immediate family, unless our DRM glitches or is no longer availible. Oh and if it is working you are forced to watch a load of ads, propaganda etc which you can't fastwind through. If you scratch the disk, although you are buying the right to watch the film, you will have to pay full price for a new disk. No matter what happens, we keep your money, ha ha ha, fuck you, peasant! ONLY £18.99
Regarding e), the west should stop trying to fight a land war and build some bloody strong fortresses to which the Afghan farmers can sell their opium for cash (dollars, euros, whatever they want) and from which the Afghan people can buy stuff like food, fuel, generators, building materials, plumbing supplies, consumer goods etc.
Thus the west goes from being 'those foreign infidel bastards who are throwing their weight around on OUR turf' to 'those foreign bastards that run that big shop where i get all those cool things'. The ordinary dirt-poor Afghans get a chance to improve their lives, the evil terrorists lose a revenue stream and we get shitloads of opium for rock bottom prices at the source.
What do we do with the cheap opium? Refine and sell it cheaply to our western heroin addicts, thus taking the profits of the drug and also reducing the amount of crimes committed by the addicts to service their addiction.
Profit! In the propaganda, moral, social and financial sense.
I seem to recall that the plane was in 'try-to-land mode' and saw the crew's attempts to power up as a mistake to be ignored as it determinedly and successfully put itself on the ground. I don't know if or at what point the mode was changed to 'go-around'. This isn't what it says in the above report though. Hmmm. Am I misremembering, remembering a false rumour or is it that vast conspiracy again? Stupid low grade modern tinfoil.
NCR used OS/2 on their ATMs until replacing it with XP. Hilariously the XP ATMs had 8x the MHz, 10x the ram and took twice as long to boot. Once it has booted, the XP machines are slightly less responsive to the (unchanged) keypad. When power cycling kills XP, it takes a couple of hours to reinstall. OS/2 reinstalls in 20 minutes. The rest of the ATM remained unchanged.
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A road I often travel down used to have no speed limit, then it was 40mph, then 30mph and soon it will be 20mph. I have no doubt that the speed limit will eventually be a rigidly enforced 5mph and I can happily watch tv to while away the many hours on the road.
Condoms are the biggest con around. You have to buy them in a three pack, you use one to test for fit, then you notice they have a use-by date only four years away!!
If you want to save energy and the planet, don't install a traffic light at all. I have never seen traffic queues at broken traffic lights as long as the queues at working traffic lights.
Surely in keeping with the apple philosophy, he would have been operated on by the BEST-LOOKING people (with the glossiest P.R.) available, with technical ability of secondary importance.
I don't think I shall need a Blu-ray player as I have no plans to buy any Blu-ray disks because FUCK SONY.
Lowering the price of the PS3? Hmmm... It is an impressive spec, but I don't think I shall buy one because FUCK SONY!
Profitable? But..but..but.. I thought the movie companies were losing $billions per second to Teh Evil Copyright Infringers?
I don't like this analogy. I went to the police because I was witnessing some teens trespassing on an old foundry and lighting fires amongst the rubbish. I could see them doing it as I rang the police station a mile away. Cops' reaction? 'Why are you ringing us? Shouldn't you be ringing the Fire Brigade?'.
While I applaud the growing market for games of the complexity and graphic resolution of twenty years ago, I am holding off from buying an iPhone until someone develops an app which monitors the motion sensors and battery level and bills me every time i charge up the phone or take it out of my pocket, and maybe it could bill me every time I change from one cell reception area to the next.
If I stayed home in bed every time I felt ill, I would have bedsores and no job and no money.
I am totally stoked about Virgin Media's forthcoming music download system and fully believe that it won't be an overhyped sack of crap at all. The downloads will certainly be unlimited, fast, cheap, not watermarked and of at least cd quality from an enormous library of popular, familiar tunes the exact same recordings of which will be currently or formerly available in record shops on cd.
That presupposes that the minimum subscription period is a month or two. It may be £40 a month for 12 months, £20 a month for 24 months, £10 a month for 5 years etc.
Yes, and when your girlfriend leaves, she takes your cds and hifi with her.
Yep! I keep having this conversation;
Bloke: Hey, you're a gadget freak, you must have a bluray player. What are they like? Is it worth buying one?
Me: I can't buy bluray stuff.
Bloke: Really, why not?
Me: Because FUCK SONY, that's why.
Bloke: Ah. This is a one of those religious things again, isn't it? Ok.
Blu-Ray will keep on improving as time goes on, you say?
That's what I was hoping for with ordinary DVD.
They are cutting it a bit fine if they are going to bring in all the different camera angles and alternate endings and stuff that we were promised when DVD came out.
I think they use teh 1337 haxxings.
Then surely, by the same reasoning, if they make something that can be seen and heard by humans in an age when recording of audio and video by(and of) citizens is commonplace, they should already know what they are getting into?
Unlike the content providers, I do not have the financial wherewithall to purchase a government representative.
Well, when I am asked to part with my money for content, the vendor keeps quiet about exactly what i am buying in terms of what the content provider intends to allow me to do. It is all 'BUY EXPLODATRON II - THE RECKONING only £18.99'. Maybe the law should mandate a big poster listing what i get for my money?
EXPLODATRON II - THE RECKONING
You can watch the film in your own home with a couple of your immediate family, unless our DRM glitches or is no longer availible. Oh and if it is working you are forced to watch a load of ads, propaganda etc which you can't fastwind through. If you scratch the disk, although you are buying the right to watch the film, you will have to pay full price for a new disk. No matter what happens, we keep your money, ha ha ha, fuck you, peasant!
ONLY £18.99
Oblig: WHAT YOU SAY !!
Regarding e), the west should stop trying to fight a land war and build some bloody strong fortresses to which the Afghan farmers can sell their opium for cash (dollars, euros, whatever they want) and from which the Afghan people can buy stuff like food, fuel, generators, building materials, plumbing supplies, consumer goods etc.
Thus the west goes from being 'those foreign infidel bastards who are throwing their weight around on OUR turf' to 'those foreign bastards that run that big shop where i get all those cool things'.
The ordinary dirt-poor Afghans get a chance to improve their lives, the evil terrorists lose a revenue stream and we get shitloads of opium for rock bottom prices at the source.
What do we do with the cheap opium? Refine and sell it cheaply to our western heroin addicts, thus taking the profits of the drug and also reducing the amount of crimes committed by the addicts to service their addiction.
Profit! In the propaganda, moral, social and financial sense.
Ah, thank you!
Erm, you might want to RTFA.
I seem to recall that the plane was in 'try-to-land mode' and saw the crew's attempts to power up as a mistake to be ignored as it determinedly and successfully put itself on the ground. I don't know if or at what point the mode was changed to 'go-around'. This isn't what it says in the above report though. Hmmm. Am I misremembering, remembering a false rumour or is it that vast conspiracy again? Stupid low grade modern tinfoil.
So.. function follows form?
NCR used OS/2 on their ATMs until replacing it with XP. Hilariously the XP ATMs had 8x the MHz, 10x the ram and took twice as long to boot. Once it has booted, the XP machines are slightly less responsive to the (unchanged) keypad. When power cycling kills XP, it takes a couple of hours to reinstall. OS/2 reinstalls in 20 minutes.
The rest of the ATM remained unchanged.