I find that VLC struggles with windows media files, quicktime and realplayer files and streams. However, if the choice is between doing without and installing realplayer/quicktime/windows media player, i will do without.
Man, i dread the day that they isolate the maybe 10,000 people on the planet who actually respond positively to advertising. What will we do with all the trees and bandwidth then?:-(
Fantastic! Start issuing shares! Will they be on pallets? I have access to a forklift truck. What is a good day for you to start? Will there be package tracking info availible? Can i get a credit note for dups? Do you take visa?
Seeing as tv over the intarwebs will be plagued with DRM and propriatery code, why not have the shitty pointless advertising and tedious channel logo 'establishing shots' cached locally? Hey presto, a 80% reduction in traffic.
to settle bets on whether patents are just a crazy foreign legend. 'No way, man. Someone is just messing with you!' 'I swear it is true, you just find something that isn't yet patented, like breathing or clicking on a triangle instead of a box, then get a patent on that, then sue everybody' 'Bullcrap!' 'Ok, I will patent something myself. That will show you.'
Being a grumpy old git there are many businesses whose crappy advertising annoys me. With this new system i can write a script to hit all their websites 50 times a day and it will then cost them money every time i walk past their outlet. I may even go into the shop to say 'muahahahaha, pwned'
What do you mean 'if you give' the government more power? The government (whatever party is in charge) allocates more power to itself, and erodes rights of citizens. What you gonna do? Protest marches have to have police approval. Ownership of weapons is illegal.
There are many people who get paid a lot to make new laws. Would you expect them to say 'Okay, society has enough laws now, lets close this department down and go flip burgers for minimum wage'?
So.. instead of using radar to measure where aircraft are, you trust the aircraft to tell you where it is? Real reassuring. Why can't we extend this system to cars? Scrap all the cops' speed measuring equipment and just wait for phone calls from speeding gps equipment wanting to fess up?
Crap! Really? I will have to find the thing in the junk pile now:-) I am sure the cd that came with it was os 7.5doodah, so it will be most amusing if i am wrong.
Funny you should say that, but i recenty got a couple of old bondi blue imacs. I had never used one, but can remember when they were new and being praised as so much better than the equivalent windows boxes. I was surprised to find they seemed as crash-prone and craptacular as win 95. This was os 7.5.something. Now i am curious if os X is as shabby as XP. And OS/2 2.1 knocked them both into a cocked hat. I still miss Neko.
The Japanese must be very law abiding. I remember cigarette vending machines on the street here (UK). I think even bubble gum machines would now have to be heavily armoured to last long, and even then the coin slots would rapidly be put out of service.
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I find that VLC struggles with windows media files, quicktime and realplayer files and streams. However, if the choice is between doing without and installing realplayer/quicktime/windows media player, i will do without.
Pff. I could easily do a better job of being a starfish than Patrick. The guy is an idiot.
Man, i dread the day that they isolate the maybe 10,000 people on the planet who actually respond positively to advertising. What will we do with all the trees and bandwidth then? :-(
Fantastic! Start issuing shares! Will they be on pallets? I have access to a forklift truck. What is a good day for you to start? Will there be package tracking info availible? Can i get a credit note for dups? Do you take visa?
Seeing as tv over the intarwebs will be plagued with DRM and propriatery code, why not have the shitty pointless advertising and tedious channel logo 'establishing shots' cached locally? Hey presto, a 80% reduction in traffic.
Maybe they were surprised that the fault didn't go away when that pc was powered down, so decided to test the card alone?
to settle bets on whether patents are just a crazy foreign legend.
'No way, man. Someone is just messing with you!'
'I swear it is true, you just find something that isn't yet patented, like breathing or clicking on a triangle instead of a box, then get a patent on that, then sue everybody'
'Bullcrap!'
'Ok, I will patent something myself. That will show you.'
Being a grumpy old git there are many businesses whose crappy advertising annoys me. With this new system i can write a script to hit all their websites 50 times a day and it will then cost them money every time i walk past their outlet. I may even go into the shop to say 'muahahahaha, pwned'
i doubt it. i have been told that oil and water don't mix. You might get an excitingly crunchy mayonnaise, though.
Surely, statistically, if you are offered insurance you are unlikely to need it.
Here in the uk it seems (although i cannot be arsed to look for stats) that shootings are steadily increasing in frequency, too.
Easily fixed. Get a job in a steel mill and your home will seem much quieter by comparison.
What do you mean 'if you give' the government more power? The government (whatever party is in charge) allocates more power to itself, and erodes rights of citizens. What you gonna do? Protest marches have to have police approval. Ownership of weapons is illegal.
There are many people who get paid a lot to make new laws. Would you expect them to say 'Okay, society has enough laws now, lets close this department down and go flip burgers for minimum wage'?
Another evil terrorist plot foiled! Tax me some more so i can be even safer!
is iFatwah copyrighted yet?
.. to make the bodyshell corrode faster, to conform with the trend for everything to be made as craply as possible out of the worst materials.
Oh noes!! (desperately tries to cram cat back in bag)
I recall the same thing said about space invaders. Before that, it was probably tv.
One man's pastime is another's OCD.
So.. instead of using radar to measure where aircraft are, you trust the aircraft to tell you where it is? Real reassuring.
Why can't we extend this system to cars? Scrap all the cops' speed measuring equipment and just wait for phone calls from speeding gps equipment wanting to fess up?
No, i didn't rtfa
Crap! Really? I will have to find the thing in the junk pile now :-)
I am sure the cd that came with it was os 7.5doodah, so it will be most amusing if i am wrong.
Funny you should say that, but i recenty got a couple of old bondi blue imacs. I had never used one, but can remember when they were new and being praised as so much better than the equivalent windows boxes. I was surprised to find they seemed as crash-prone and craptacular as win 95. This was os 7.5.something. Now i am curious if os X is as shabby as XP. And OS/2 2.1 knocked them both into a cocked hat. I still miss Neko.
The Japanese must be very law abiding. I remember cigarette vending machines on the street here (UK). I think even bubble gum machines would now have to be heavily armoured to last long, and even then the coin slots would rapidly be put out of service.
..the nine assed monkey?
Someone should call Heisenberg and Lorenz and tell them 'Hah! Losers! The US military have out-thought the pair of you!'