Yes, the acting was rather poor. The big exception being Ian McDiarmid who was superb at reprising his role as Palpatine/Sidious and stole the show IMO. Samuel L was rather wooden and Natalie Portman didn't deserve such a high billing for her few weepy lines.
I still have a problem with Ewan McGregor. For me he'll always be Renton from Trainspotting. I spent much of the film waiting for him to come out with something like 'Master Yoda, I want a fucking hit now!'.
I moved to O2 late last year after a number of happy years with Vodafone and all I can say is that they suck donkey ballz. Coverage is poorer, with Voda I used to get a signal virtually everywhere. Also voicemail and text messages now often arrive anything up to three days after they were sent. Having no timestamps on the messages or the option to return the call doesn't help either. Even one2one (RIP) eight years ago was better than this.
I'm just waiting for my contract to expire then it's back to Vodafone for me.
Indeed. Much as it pains me to say it, MSDNAA is very good value for money. The CS department in which I work pays UKP 250 ($480) a year for all client and server operating systems and all apps (except Office) with free copies for the students.
Compare that with the obscene prices we (used to) pay Borland ($12,000), Macromedia ($7,000) and Symantec ($5,000).
Although we do have a number of Linux machines, the cost and effort to move over entirely is prohibitive for the reasons you described. Now it never used to be like this. Microsoft used to be one of our greatest expenses and if they were charging now what they charged a few years ago, today we would be using OSS exclusively.
Not quite as extreme as you think. According to Pat Gelsinger (Intel VP), the surface area power dissipation of a modern CPU *is* rapidly approaching that of a nuclear reactor (around 150-300W/cm2)
Of course even when that becomes the case it doesn't justify the use of sodium or lead to cool them. Si starts to break down at 120 degrees C and the primary concern for CPU makers is to maintain temperatures well below this. Sealed water cooling systems will become widespread within the next couple of years but for now liquid metal is just a gimmick for the overclocking crowd.
Usenet doesn't cost anything last time I checked. The sense of community in many groups is just as good as a closed forum. Sure, you get more than your fair share of trolls and off-topic posts but that's why most newsreaders were blessed with a killfile.
Spam levels on Usenet also seems to have peaked now, while the problem seems to be getting worse in subscription forums.
Here in the UK you can walk into your average supermarket and pick up a set top digi-box for around £30 ($55US). For the benefits you get that price is a steal, even if you have to buy one for every television in your home.
I know Sweden is an expensive place to live but I can't imagine you paying 'hundreds of dollars' for a box.
I work as a BOFH at a university's CS department. We too are suffering from the overall decline in interest in the subject.
The problem is that the whole concept of CS is becoming increasing irrelevent as IT is such a diverse field. If you study chemistry, you graduate as a chemist, a mathematics graduate is also entitled to call himself a mathematician. But what about computer science? How many job ads have you seen that are calling for computer scientists? A degree that specialises in programming, networking etc would be far more valuable as the student would not be labelled a 'jack of all trades' which is exactly what we are turning out now.
Personally even though I don't have a degree I'm in a far better position with regards to my employment prospects than most of our graduates. My experience, together with a CCNA and MCSE (don't laugh, an MCSE backed up with experience is still valuable), puts me in greater stead than someone who has only studied a wide range of concepts and quite frankly, has mastered none of them.
All the employers we liase with talk about is a candidate's experience and not what pieces of paper they may possess. The job advertisements I now see reflect this too, very few seem to call for CS degrees and the ones that do only see it as a benefit, rather than a requirement of employment.
This idiot 'redswinglinestapler' is copying comments from previous articles and posting them verbatim. Please add to your foes list and mod the shithead into oblivion whenever you get the chance.
This idiot 'redswinglinestapler' is copying comments from previous articles and posting them verbatim. Please add to your foes list and mod the shithead into oblivion whenever you get the chance.
The poker sites themselves are not directly to blame, however it's their affiliate programs such as this one which encourage the spamsters.
As you can see they can be quite lucrative. Spammers also post poker site's software to Usenet and p2p networks together with a bonus code that benefits their account, with some steady play these bonuses can be cleared in no time leaving themselves a tidy profit.
Remember the BBC Micro? That was an initiative by the BBC to bring computing to schools and the masses. The impact of that initiative was huge and we are still reaping the benefits today, ask any IT professional which machine they cut their teeth on and many will tell you of fond memories of the Model B. Dare I say it but it but I believe it had greater impact than the Sinclair Spectrum, which I always regarded as a programmable games console.
Seriously, if it wasn't for the BBC Micro I probably wouldn't be posting here today.
I small concern I would have is the size of the power supply, most Shuttles only come with a 250W PSU and there could be problems driving the latest PCIe gfx cards.
On the other hand, power supply ratings are very subjective with many cheap ~500W PSUs having no greater capacity that a quality 300W unit.
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Surely there is a better time for them to be ordering Italian pasta dishes?
Seriously, IANAL and I have no idea what this means.
Yes but I hate Macromedia almost as much as Macrovision, so if the two get associated that's a good thing in my book :p
Does Midge Ure know about this?
Putting the 'F' in TFA since 1998.
Yes, the acting was rather poor. The big exception being Ian McDiarmid who was superb at reprising his role as Palpatine/Sidious and stole the show IMO. Samuel L was rather wooden and Natalie Portman didn't deserve such a high billing for her few weepy lines.
I still have a problem with Ewan McGregor. For me he'll always be Renton from Trainspotting. I spent much of the film waiting for him to come out with something like 'Master Yoda, I want a fucking hit now!'.
As soon as the sound system initialises it has to play that irritating Nokia theme tune.
..like metric time and the Paris meridian?
..except the women.
Brilliant my arse.
I moved to O2 late last year after a number of happy years with Vodafone and all I can say is that they suck donkey ballz. Coverage is poorer, with Voda I used to get a signal virtually everywhere. Also voicemail and text messages now often arrive anything up to three days after they were sent. Having no timestamps on the messages or the option to return the call doesn't help either. Even one2one (RIP) eight years ago was better than this.
I'm just waiting for my contract to expire then it's back to Vodafone for me.
Indeed. Much as it pains me to say it, MSDNAA is very good value for money. The CS department in which I work pays UKP 250 ($480) a year for all client and server operating systems and all apps (except Office) with free copies for the students.
Compare that with the obscene prices we (used to) pay Borland ($12,000), Macromedia ($7,000) and Symantec ($5,000).
Although we do have a number of Linux machines, the cost and effort to move over entirely is prohibitive for the reasons you described. Now it never used to be like this. Microsoft used to be one of our greatest expenses and if they were charging now what they charged a few years ago, today we would be using OSS exclusively.
Not quite as extreme as you think. According to Pat Gelsinger (Intel VP), the surface area power dissipation of a modern CPU *is* rapidly approaching that of a nuclear reactor (around 150-300W/cm2)
Of course even when that becomes the case it doesn't justify the use of sodium or lead to cool them. Si starts to break down at 120 degrees C and the primary concern for CPU makers is to maintain temperatures well below this. Sealed water cooling systems will become widespread within the next couple of years but for now liquid metal is just a gimmick for the overclocking crowd.
Usenet doesn't cost anything last time I checked. The sense of community in many groups is just as good as a closed forum. Sure, you get more than your fair share of trolls and off-topic posts but that's why most newsreaders were blessed with a killfile.
Spam levels on Usenet also seems to have peaked now, while the problem seems to be getting worse in subscription forums.
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms neon.winchester.local [192.168.0.19]
i now know ur IP adress, prepair 2 b h4x0red!
i will pwn ur hard drv!
Gentoo, the ultimate geek distro and it still hasn't got its own /. icon.
Here in the UK you can walk into your average supermarket and pick up a set top digi-box for around £30 ($55US). For the benefits you get that price is a steal, even if you have to buy one for every television in your home. I know Sweden is an expensive place to live but I can't imagine you paying 'hundreds of dollars' for a box.
I work as a BOFH at a university's CS department. We too are suffering from the overall decline in interest in the subject.
The problem is that the whole concept of CS is becoming increasing irrelevent as IT is such a diverse field. If you study chemistry, you graduate as a chemist, a mathematics graduate is also entitled to call himself a mathematician. But what about computer science? How many job ads have you seen that are calling for computer scientists? A degree that specialises in programming, networking etc would be far more valuable as the student would not be labelled a 'jack of all trades' which is exactly what we are turning out now.
Personally even though I don't have a degree I'm in a far better position with regards to my employment prospects than most of our graduates. My experience, together with a CCNA and MCSE (don't laugh, an MCSE backed up with experience is still valuable), puts me in greater stead than someone who has only studied a wide range of concepts and quite frankly, has mastered none of them.
All the employers we liase with talk about is a candidate's experience and not what pieces of paper they may possess. The job advertisements I now see reflect this too, very few seem to call for CS degrees and the ones that do only see it as a benefit, rather than a requirement of employment.
I know this one!! Wait, what are those big yellow things in the sky?
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The poker sites themselves are not directly to blame, however it's their affiliate programs such as this one which encourage the spamsters.
As you can see they can be quite lucrative. Spammers also post poker site's software to Usenet and p2p networks together with a bonus code that benefits their account, with some steady play these bonuses can be cleared in no time leaving themselves a tidy profit.
Now if you can get that shhutle syystem to ruun in SLLI mode I would be most immpressed.
"..as well as pressing its software designers to embrace its 64-bit architecture."
Should read 'embrace AMD's architecture'.
Remember the BBC Micro? That was an initiative by the BBC to bring computing to schools and the masses. The impact of that initiative was huge and we are still reaping the benefits today, ask any IT professional which machine they cut their teeth on and many will tell you of fond memories of the Model B. Dare I say it but it but I believe it had greater impact than the Sinclair Spectrum, which I always regarded as a programmable games console.
Seriously, if it wasn't for the BBC Micro I probably wouldn't be posting here today.
The obsession with snazzy boxes is even more puzzling considering most users would spend 99% of their time looking at the screen.
:)
Mind you a replacement for hideous 36" tall server case that I've constantly upgraded for the last six years would be most welcome
I small concern I would have is the size of the power supply, most Shuttles only come with a 250W PSU and there could be problems driving the latest PCIe gfx cards.
On the other hand, power supply ratings are very subjective with many cheap ~500W PSUs having no greater capacity that a quality 300W unit.