That's true, however given that it improves the traffic flow, whether the people running up the outside are malicious or stupid, I think it's worth doing anyway!
That said, it's not entirely in the absence of other information. If he's driving a BMW, the odds are good that he's an arsehole!
I don't think it's that they don't know the lane's going to end, they just don't care, and think they can get slightly further ahead by staying in it until the last minute.
To do something about this, I've taken to sitting in the right hand lane (I'm British) when it's about to vanish, but staying at the same speed as the person to my left. This means that nobody can fly up the lane, and cause congestion when they merge. I've had a few enraged BMW drivers behind me, but the traffic has always started to flow much more quickly a couple of minutes after I start.
I encourage everyone else to do the same.
That's probably why you weren't picked... Not only did you actually want to serve, but you also wanted to make a point!
Lawyers can smell that, you know...
I'm not an American, or a lawyer, but...
In respect to point 1, ripping a CD is not circumventing a copy protection system because CDs aren't copy protected. DVDs are (just - it's now at the stage where it's only a legal barrier, rather than a technical one), but CDs don't even have that.
And they bought the James Bond franchise, and immediately produced an awful film bearing the name, but wasn't remotely a Bond film... As far as I could tell, it was an overlong advert for Sony cameras, phones... Oh, and Ford.
Speaking/as/ an English person, 02/07 could only mean Feb 07, if one is known to be a year.
The confusion arises with the UK using day/month(/year), and the US using month/day(/year). I feel our way makes more sense as you've got the three in ascending order.
Of course, being a geek, I frequently use year/month/day as it can be easily sorted.
I had an Amstrad CPC 6128, which had an internal disk drive, but could also load from tape, so I had an old cassette player hooked up to it. This was great, at least once I'd got the volume and balance settings/just//right/, 'cos you could pick up games on tape for under £4, so I got used to setting it going and then wandering off for a while. I'd come back, and the tape'd have rolled to the end, and the game (if I was lucky!) would have loaded.
The problem was the multi-load games (of which I had a few - Hero Quest being the only one I can think of off the top of my head). Those required me to keep an eye on it, and when it stopped making noise, I had to stop the tape. Otherwise, it'd carry on playing through the level data, and I'd never be able to find the right place to start from again.
Eventually, I started using the counter on the cassette player to keep track of where the start and end of each level sequence was... I have to say, I'm glad we've moved on from that!
I've said that sort of thing ("If I bought a lottery ticket, I'd pick 1,2,3,4,5,6 because nobody else would") to a few people, and the responses have been divided. Some people (the ones with limited Maths background) say "But that'd never come up!" and are hard to convince that it's just as likely as 11, 25, 28, 33, 38, 41. Other people (with a better grounding in Maths!) agree with me, but have sufficiently good grounding in Maths that they wouldn't buy a lottery ticket anyway.
The only time I've played the lottery was at a party where someone was giving out scratch cards as prizes in the games, and I lost all 4 times, so I don't really feel it's worth trying again!
We need more games like that... Might teach some of the dozy sods out there on the internet to spell properly!
(not in any way directed against parent poster!)
Whilst I think you might be right, the example given there isn't an especially good one - part of the reason it's so hard to call the US elections is that there's so little difference between the parties.
In the long run (and the short run, if you're not part of either party yourself), which sides win will have very little effect indeed.
Sadly not, you have to either give the backup to the person you give the CD to with it, or destroy it. The law actually makes sense in this area, amazingly!
You might be unlikely to get any money from the scheme, but you still get to use other people's wifi, including (apparently) BT Openzone points. I'd say it'd be worth it for that alone, if I wasn't on faster broadband than BT provide.
You can also have a certain amount of warm fuzzies for helping people get online where it would have been awkward before, but I'm sure that doesn't show up on your bottom line...
Sadly the new series isn't quite as good as the first. We think we've worked out why too... It's because the first series was mostly a sitcom set in an IT department, the second series seems to be more a sitcom about the people who work in an IT department.
Shame really. That said, it's still better than most of TV!
That's not true. I'm an Ubuntu user myself, but I put Windows XP (Pro) on my girlfriend's computer recently 'cos she wants to play games. I had all kinds of problems getting DVD playback to work - had a couple of Power DVD bundled CDs around, but they didn't like the drive, or were tied to Dell machines or something. Eventually resorted to using VLC.
So, no. Windows XP Pro does/not/ play DVDs from a vanilla install.
I was wondering the same actually!
Wii games/are/ transferrable between Wiis. I've done it myself (specifically to get all the Rabbids games unlocked on someone else's console).
Is the version of DX used by the XBox360 anything like the one used by Windows? If so, that might drop developers into the position of having to choose between: (XBox360 and Windows with DX) or (Windows and Linux with OGL), and sadly, I think there are a lot more gamers out there with the X360 than Linux...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkzhVHTXgS4/
I suspect there isn't enough Linuxy bits in the PS3 (or enough PS3s in the marketplace!) for that to help sway the other way.
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That's true, however given that it improves the traffic flow, whether the people running up the outside are malicious or stupid, I think it's worth doing anyway! That said, it's not entirely in the absence of other information. If he's driving a BMW, the odds are good that he's an arsehole!
I don't think it's that they don't know the lane's going to end, they just don't care, and think they can get slightly further ahead by staying in it until the last minute. To do something about this, I've taken to sitting in the right hand lane (I'm British) when it's about to vanish, but staying at the same speed as the person to my left. This means that nobody can fly up the lane, and cause congestion when they merge. I've had a few enraged BMW drivers behind me, but the traffic has always started to flow much more quickly a couple of minutes after I start. I encourage everyone else to do the same.
I tend to think of that more as a converted.
That's probably why you weren't picked... Not only did you actually want to serve, but you also wanted to make a point! Lawyers can smell that, you know...
I'm not an American, or a lawyer, but... In respect to point 1, ripping a CD is not circumventing a copy protection system because CDs aren't copy protected. DVDs are (just - it's now at the stage where it's only a legal barrier, rather than a technical one), but CDs don't even have that.
Oh, very much so. I think it's /because/ he's an arsehole that he's so funny.
Then you can rest in confidence that she can't do a worse job...
I tend to refer to the Fischer Price theme as the "Big Print for the Hard of Thinking" theme, but either's good!
And they bought the James Bond franchise, and immediately produced an awful film bearing the name, but wasn't remotely a Bond film... As far as I could tell, it was an overlong advert for Sony cameras, phones... Oh, and Ford.
You're already at plus five funny, but I just felt I had to say "Bravo!", at an annoyingly loud volume.
Speaking /as/ an English person, 02/07 could only mean Feb 07, if one is known to be a year.
The confusion arises with the UK using day/month(/year), and the US using month/day(/year). I feel our way makes more sense as you've got the three in ascending order.
Of course, being a geek, I frequently use year/month/day as it can be easily sorted.
I had an Amstrad CPC 6128, which had an internal disk drive, but could also load from tape, so I had an old cassette player hooked up to it. This was great, at least once I'd got the volume and balance settings /just/ /right/, 'cos you could pick up games on tape for under £4, so I got used to setting it going and then wandering off for a while. I'd come back, and the tape'd have rolled to the end, and the game (if I was lucky!) would have loaded.
The problem was the multi-load games (of which I had a few - Hero Quest being the only one I can think of off the top of my head). Those required me to keep an eye on it, and when it stopped making noise, I had to stop the tape. Otherwise, it'd carry on playing through the level data, and I'd never be able to find the right place to start from again.
Eventually, I started using the counter on the cassette player to keep track of where the start and end of each level sequence was... I have to say, I'm glad we've moved on from that!
This: "Paying for exclusive contracts is a normal business practice." Doesn't automatically imply this: "Nothing unethical about it."
I've said that sort of thing ("If I bought a lottery ticket, I'd pick 1,2,3,4,5,6 because nobody else would") to a few people, and the responses have been divided. Some people (the ones with limited Maths background) say "But that'd never come up!" and are hard to convince that it's just as likely as 11, 25, 28, 33, 38, 41. Other people (with a better grounding in Maths!) agree with me, but have sufficiently good grounding in Maths that they wouldn't buy a lottery ticket anyway. The only time I've played the lottery was at a party where someone was giving out scratch cards as prizes in the games, and I lost all 4 times, so I don't really feel it's worth trying again!
We need more games like that... Might teach some of the dozy sods out there on the internet to spell properly! (not in any way directed against parent poster!)
Out of /beta/. :-) Hence the releasing on time.
You have to pronounce beta the American (I think) way though.
Whilst I think you might be right, the example given there isn't an especially good one - part of the reason it's so hard to call the US elections is that there's so little difference between the parties. In the long run (and the short run, if you're not part of either party yourself), which sides win will have very little effect indeed.
Sadly not, you have to either give the backup to the person you give the CD to with it, or destroy it. The law actually makes sense in this area, amazingly!
You might be unlikely to get any money from the scheme, but you still get to use other people's wifi, including (apparently) BT Openzone points. I'd say it'd be worth it for that alone, if I wasn't on faster broadband than BT provide. You can also have a certain amount of warm fuzzies for helping people get online where it would have been awkward before, but I'm sure that doesn't show up on your bottom line...
Sadly the new series isn't quite as good as the first. We think we've worked out why too... It's because the first series was mostly a sitcom set in an IT department, the second series seems to be more a sitcom about the people who work in an IT department. Shame really. That said, it's still better than most of TV!
That's not true. I'm an Ubuntu user myself, but I put Windows XP (Pro) on my girlfriend's computer recently 'cos she wants to play games. I had all kinds of problems getting DVD playback to work - had a couple of Power DVD bundled CDs around, but they didn't like the drive, or were tied to Dell machines or something. Eventually resorted to using VLC. So, no. Windows XP Pro does /not/ play DVDs from a vanilla install.
I was wondering the same actually! Wii games /are/ transferrable between Wiis. I've done it myself (specifically to get all the Rabbids games unlocked on someone else's console).
Sorry, don't know where that YouTube link came from - please disregard! (it's broken anyway!)
Is the version of DX used by the XBox360 anything like the one used by Windows? If so, that might drop developers into the position of having to choose between: (XBox360 and Windows with DX) or (Windows and Linux with OGL), and sadly, I think there are a lot more gamers out there with the X360 than Linux... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkzhVHTXgS4/ I suspect there isn't enough Linuxy bits in the PS3 (or enough PS3s in the marketplace!) for that to help sway the other way.
Better keep worrying... The next one's called Hairy Hardon.