I think i've found something far more disturbing reading the ms KB article,
under the list of formats that you can selectively unblock by setting windows registry keys (yes, this will be VERY administratively friendly, don't let the user do this, don't let the IT dept be able to write an easy 'howto':S ) it quietly says "Word 2004 for Macintosh".
what the fuck? office 2008 for mac isn't even RELEASED yet, it will be in a couple of days. Shock horror, mac users getting the shaft again.
there goes the productivity between PC/Mac integrated networks.
why do I have the feeling admins are just going to nullify this for ease of use and set the registry key to 0?
how many attack vectors are there for ancient formats? and even if there are loads, wouldn't they be well documented by now, and any decent admin would be running a virus scanner if they use windows?
it's an old troll, I've seen it loads of times. I don't even think it's relevant anymore.
I haven't tried q3 on linux, if I want some quakey action I load up cube or sauerbraten:).
I'm Australian, he was a national embarrasment; A walking, talking list of stereotypes we could have done without that turned into a (inter?) National hero because of a terrible freakish death.
Also, I think the joke is funny.:)
also, see Too Soon. link not safe for work unless you have forgiving colleagues. So I'd go with a No.
I heard about this on boingboing a while ago. it's a shame really, there's been bugger all media coverage at all, all I've seen is some major news outlets talk about a "new law that... may make ipods illegal *newscaster raises brow and tone*".
a PS2 > USB adapter I picked up from ebay and a preference HID plugin called GamePad Companion. google it. although it SEEMS like there's a slight delay between pressing the button and the 'fret' registering. I don't know if it's the experimental mac build, the shareware plugin (a preference for key response is greyed out, i don't know why). it's still a crapload of fun.
Bark at the moon is a bastard. I save up all my star power until right at the end and even that isn't enough:(
I shelled out for a ps2 just for this game. guitar hero and singstar rocks are the only games I own.
I saw frets on fire first, and that prompted me to get guitar hero. playing it on a keyboard is crappy to begin with, half the fun is grappling over the largish (in comparison to most games) silly coloured buttons. I've finished guitar hero on every difficulty except expert (GARRRRR cowboys from hell and bark at the moon at the ~80% mark!)
Last night I managed to get frets on fire to work with my macbook pro and guitar hero controller.
the two are inseparable and act completely differently than using the keyboard, even when you're doing essentially the EXACT same thing
I'm definitely getting guitar hero II. I too play bass and leccy guitar, they're nothing like playing the game. I hate DDR, love guitar hero, apart from requiring rhythm and a bit of finger dexterity on the later levels (which most people don't seem to have) it's not like playing an instrument at all, it's still craploads of fun. Afterwards I often find myself on my real guitar playing the same song I just played.
stop reading so much into an awesome game.
frets on fire is probably harder to get used to than guitar hero first, but they're both awesome, so if you have some disposable income, I'd recommend guitar hero. and if you want to mod and have some fun on your computer, I'd do frets on fire.
In a previous job of mine for a small computer shop, I once quoted for a life support system for a local hospital (who knows WHY they rang us.). I asked them what system they were running it on (expecting some form of linux or SOME weird proprietary special purpose thing)
it was running windows 95.
We were a windows shop, I couldn't reccomend anything else.
Thankfully I don't work there anymore, but I know I'm not reccomending anybody to that particular hospital in the future.
Does anyone have this show in a format a bit more friendly to mac/other users? Everytime I foray into the world of WMV on a mac it often ends in disaterous results.
0.08. christ, where I live, you can get your licence taken away immediately for over 0.05. although, I'd rather it that way. drinking under the limit is a pain in the ass anyway, I either generally drink, or I don't. I don't know about waking up is like being drunk. I think perhaps mental capacity is at least slowed, lord knows, any question more complicated than "where are the car keys?" is beyond me when I'm waking up.
just put my wife's photography site online yesterday, and it's hosted via domain masking/redirection from godaddy. Anyone with Oprah or Safari have trouble getting to it?
hmm, with Oprah I seem to be getting reccomended books and deals for a free car.
In a series of obscenity-laced tirades, the bloggers, among other things, pointed to Cahill's "obvious mental deterioration," and made several sexual references about him and his wife, including using the name "Gahill" to suggest that Cahill, who has publicly feuded with Smyrna Mayor Mark Schaeffer, is homosexual.
Article above
In two messages from September of 2004, Proud Citizen discussed a member of the Smyrna Town Council, Patrick Cahill, referring to Cahill's "character flaws," "mental deterioration," and "failed leadership," and stated that "Gahill [sic] is...paranoid."
which is insane, when I pay about the same price to OWN it on dvd and watch as many times as I like! (~$30 AU if i want it straight away) All that you're paying for is the privelege to watch it first, and to watch it in a theatre. Where you most often have to sit through them giving you a lecture on you "stealing" "their" movies, and about 10 minutes of advertising.
I have a decent home theatre setup (sans huge screen tv) at home, and most movies these days aren't good enough to warrant the money of seeing them at the cinema first and having to put up with all the aforementioned crap.
I think I've seen about 2 movies at the cinema this year, and I'm an avid movie goer. Those were Sin City and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
These days I just can't be bothered going to the cinema when a better experience is offered in my own home.
IE: make better movies and be more cost effective, then I might "go back" to the cinemas.
There is no way in hell I will ever use gprs other than dire emergencies (so far, that's consisted of a scrabble argument and dictionary.com, once) I am never going to use GPRS until Telstra come to their senses.
I haven't looked into that iMode thing yet, which looks like yet ANOTHER subscription service, but knowing telstra, it will be overpriced and generally useless.
I was originally hired at my organisation to sort folders and lower level admin support.
I saw most things done were just pure repedative production of exported csv's from filemaker (prodominantly mac environment). So I just automated them with external data. excel formulas were completely alien to people here (!). people had been hired and paid thousands of dollars to produce simple excel worksheets (I'm talking SUM functions).
Then I find out that we're meant to be reporting on all this data entered into this filemaker database, for which upon investigation there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING PLANNED that I had seen to generate results.
I didn't know filemaker backwards, I'm not a programmer. I probably could be if I could be bothered, but we needed results there and then.
My most logical conclusion was to create an excel file importing all of the data which could be refreshed, which i did. this enabled me to produce actual results and charts about the project.
It took me about a month, I hadn't done so many sumif and countif's in my life, validating everything but basically it provided an insight into the projects status that hadn't been achieved before. Which doesn't sound like much to this crowd, but the data gained from basically converting a filemaker database to an excel report probably determined the future funding of the project. A worthwhile nation-wide (AU) Government project.
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under the list of formats that you can selectively unblock by setting windows registry keys (yes, this will be VERY administratively friendly, don't let the user do this, don't let the IT dept be able to write an easy 'howto' :S ) it quietly says "Word 2004 for Macintosh".
what the fuck? office 2008 for mac isn't even RELEASED yet, it will be in a couple of days. Shock horror, mac users getting the shaft again.
there goes the productivity between PC/Mac integrated networks.
why do I have the feeling admins are just going to nullify this for ease of use and set the registry key to 0?
how many attack vectors are there for ancient formats? and even if there are loads, wouldn't they be well documented by now, and any decent admin would be running a virus scanner if they use windows?
gahhh.
Update: The account that I linked to has just been suspended.
That is, the official ABC yotube account.
What's more amusing, and not picked up by the slashdot article or the ninemsn story is that:
it looks like ALL of the chaser clips released by the OFFICIAL account of ABC Australia have also been removed "due to copyright violations".
I find it bloody hilarious.
here's a link to the profile and a couple of videos.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=abcaustralia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICTP3NednF4
Pity you can't really use Herbivore at all currently.
I doubt they'd move now.
Currently the adobe suite still runs powerpc versions translated that run terribly slow and chew up the ram + cpu.
So, Push out those Intel version Adobe!
it's an old troll, I've seen it loads of times. I don't even think it's relevant anymore. I haven't tried q3 on linux, if I want some quakey action I load up cube or sauerbraten :).
I'm Australian, he was a national embarrasment; A walking, talking list of stereotypes we could have done without that turned into a (inter?) National hero because of a terrible freakish death.
Also, I think the joke is funny. :)
also, see Too Soon. link not safe for work unless you have forgiving colleagues. So I'd go with a No.
I heard about this on boingboing a while ago. it's a shame really, there's been bugger all media coverage at all, all I've seen is some major news outlets talk about a "new law that... may make ipods illegal *newscaster raises brow and tone*".
*sigh* it's so much more.
Bark at the moon is a bastard. I save up all my star power until right at the end and even that isn't enough :(
MUST FINISH!
I saw frets on fire first, and that prompted me to get guitar hero. playing it on a keyboard is crappy to begin with, half the fun is grappling over the largish (in comparison to most games) silly coloured buttons. I've finished guitar hero on every difficulty except expert (GARRRRR cowboys from hell and bark at the moon at the ~80% mark!)
Last night I managed to get frets on fire to work with my macbook pro and guitar hero controller.
the two are inseparable and act completely differently than using the keyboard, even when you're doing essentially the EXACT same thing
I'm definitely getting guitar hero II. I too play bass and leccy guitar, they're nothing like playing the game. I hate DDR, love guitar hero, apart from requiring rhythm and a bit of finger dexterity on the later levels (which most people don't seem to have) it's not like playing an instrument at all, it's still craploads of fun. Afterwards I often find myself on my real guitar playing the same song I just played.
stop reading so much into an awesome game.
frets on fire is probably harder to get used to than guitar hero first, but they're both awesome, so if you have some disposable income, I'd recommend guitar hero. and if you want to mod and have some fun on your computer, I'd do frets on fire.
it was running windows 95.
We were a windows shop, I couldn't reccomend anything else.
Thankfully I don't work there anymore, but I know I'm not reccomending anybody to that particular hospital in the future.
It happens.
Above is the reason for Tomb Raiders success.
MPG, DivX or XviD would be nice.
0.08. christ, where I live, you can get your licence taken away immediately for over 0.05. although, I'd rather it that way. drinking under the limit is a pain in the ass anyway, I either generally drink, or I don't. I don't know about waking up is like being drunk. I think perhaps mental capacity is at least slowed, lord knows, any question more complicated than "where are the car keys?" is beyond me when I'm waking up.
hmm, with Oprah I seem to be getting reccomended books and deals for a free car.
Article above In two messages from September of 2004, Proud Citizen discussed a member of the Smyrna Town Council, Patrick Cahill, referring to Cahill's "character flaws," "mental deterioration," and "failed leadership," and stated that "Gahill [sic] is...paranoid."
EFF Article
One article makes it sound like its teenagers calling each other fags, and the other points to actual political opinions.
Either way, this is how NOT to react. Don't these people know how to take anything lightly?
You forgot to throw a chair.
11.52 US, around $15 AU regular movie price.
which is insane, when I pay about the same price to OWN it on dvd and watch as many times as I like! (~$30 AU if i want it straight away) All that you're paying for is the privelege to watch it first, and to watch it in a theatre. Where you most often have to sit through them giving you a lecture on you "stealing" "their" movies, and about 10 minutes of advertising.
I have a decent home theatre setup (sans huge screen tv) at home, and most movies these days aren't good enough to warrant the money of seeing them at the cinema first and having to put up with all the aforementioned crap.
I think I've seen about 2 movies at the cinema this year, and I'm an avid movie goer. Those were Sin City and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
These days I just can't be bothered going to the cinema when a better experience is offered in my own home.
IE: make better movies and be more cost effective, then I might "go back" to the cinemas.
https://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/products/wireles s/whatiswap.cfm#cost
The following call charges apply for WAP GSM & CDMA Mobile calls*:
16.5 cents per 30 seconds for calls made in peak times.
8.25 cents per 30 seconds for calls made in off-peak times.+
All WAP calls will incur a 22 cent call connection fee.
This is what we get charged for GPRS, either PAYG or Subscription, it's outlandish, forget downloading a song! that'll cost you around $40 AU: http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/networks/info/gpr s.htm
There is no way in hell I will ever use gprs other than dire emergencies (so far, that's consisted of a scrabble argument and dictionary.com, once) I am never going to use GPRS until Telstra come to their senses.
I haven't looked into that iMode thing yet, which looks like yet ANOTHER subscription service, but knowing telstra, it will be overpriced and generally useless.
I thought that was the world I was living in.
also it's at the TOP OF THE DAMN STORY.
*sigh*
20 dollars a year is a bit much for a pc forum IMO.
People In The Real World Use Excel.
I am one of those people; this is my story.
I was originally hired at my organisation to sort folders and lower level admin support.
I saw most things done were just pure repedative production of exported csv's from filemaker (prodominantly mac environment). So I just automated them with external data. excel formulas were completely alien to people here (!). people had been hired and paid thousands of dollars to produce simple excel worksheets (I'm talking SUM functions).
Then I find out that we're meant to be reporting on all this data entered into this filemaker database, for which upon investigation there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING PLANNED that I had seen to generate results.
I didn't know filemaker backwards, I'm not a programmer. I probably could be if I could be bothered, but we needed results there and then.
My most logical conclusion was to create an excel file importing all of the data which could be refreshed, which i did. this enabled me to produce actual results and charts about the project.
It took me about a month, I hadn't done so many sumif and countif's in my life, validating everything but basically it provided an insight into the projects status that hadn't been achieved before. Which doesn't sound like much to this crowd, but the data gained from basically converting a filemaker database to an excel report probably determined the future funding of the project. A worthwhile nation-wide (AU) Government project.
Sometimes Excel just has to be used.
what is the name of said anti-FCC song? I haven't heard of it.
but I too have had a similar feeling,
I once had to do a system quote for a system which I was told somehow supported a life support machine that was running windows 95.
I was really quite annoyed that I wasn't allowed to reccommend a *nix/bsd/blah solution.
Oh well, I dont work there anymore anyway :)
I disagree with the drug analogy.
*cop waives over car*
cop: "Excuse me sir, we're conducting random Internet tests, will you please hand over your Internet?"
you can't test for internet use.