Heh, my ex-boss shows up on our local news programs from time to time as a Person Who Knows About the Internet (mainly because he's married to one of their reporters), and he knows as much about the internet/IP networking/etc. as I do about reconstructive plastic surgery. Another talking-head that proves empty vessels really *do* make the most noise. Besides, if it was *really* Thompson's effigy in the game wouldn't they have come-up with a better way to shut him up? Tree-mincer, Fargo-style? Plastic explosive nappy? I'm sure there are more inventive ways to ash the imbecile's avatar.
Next Christmas, assuming Bethesda's release date of Autumn 2008 is accurate. Just in time for the Geforce 10 series, no doubt. ISTR reading it won't be DX10-only too, so XP owners should still be able to play it.
A friend of mine told me about this Cheney episode the other day and my first thought was that perhaps Ol' Dick is in need of some help from the nice men and women in the white coats? And he'll get his own little room, bright and airy, with lovely thick, soft wallpaper too. If he isn't part of the executive he's a trespasser in the halls of government and, as such, should be tried for his trespass.
Land of the Free, they call it? Yeah, right. A friend of mine emigrated to the USA a few years back and has offered me floorspace for as long as I'd like to visit, but shortly after he left the 'security' applied to air-travellers went bananas; as such it looks like I'll be unable to take him up on this generous offer as I could happily live my whole life without subjecting myself to minute observation by people who, before this whole US 'terrorism' debacle (one event! We lived with the threat of IRA bombings for *decades*!), would have been sweeping floors and flipping burgers, but are now given actual *power*. Utter madness. The lunatics have truly taken over the asylum.
Perhaps the knowledge that this is the same idiot the BPI have wheeled-out - along with Cliff Bloody Richard - to speak to the UK parliament about drastically increasing the length of copyright will help you feel even worse.
I saw him and his band performing tracks from that album last Friday; he looks like a three-week drowned corpse and sounds godawful, and by the gods he *needs* to up the ante to make us forget about Wings. A friend of mine also saw the show and commented that McCartney is 'turning into George Formby', something that's sadly close to reality.
Turned out crap again, hasn't it?
On reading this story I thought what a great shame it is that IBM don't release video games (or 'murder simulators' in Jackspeak). That's one fight he'd be odds-on to lose, and you can bet that part of his settlement would be that he wears a ball-gag until 30 years after he's died. I wonder if he's ever heard of Mary Whitehouse? Seems like a soul-sister if ever there was one.
While Clarkson[1] is a tosspot and Hammond[1] should stick to Brainiac (Mythbusters with less science, for anyone who hasn't seen it), May[3] could possibly turn the show into one more in-tune with the average British motorist. The problem is that such a change means the show wouldn't be pandering to the vroom-tits-explosion market (heh, the VTE market. I've invented a new marketing phrase) that has become the BBC's main audience in recent years.
[1] A 1970s roadie who dropped-out of public school and bought a second-hand thesaurus [2] A manchild who seems to have been experiencing a mid-life crisis for his entire adult life [3] A somewhat tedious pipe-and-slippers man, but watchable enough
(I'll apologise for the expletive in advance, should anyone reading this be of a nervous disposition) I've said variations of this before and I'll repeat another here: The only way an ID card can protect us from the 'terrorist menace' is if it's six feet tall, six feet wide, four feet deep, and made of reinforced concrete. If you think an ID card will make your life one iota more secure you are a knuckle-dragging fucktard. Blair/Brown/Reid are trying to feed the British public the same siege-mentality codswallop about Evil Foreigners with designs on our jobs/men/women/freedom (hah!), but there's a small (yet increasing) minority putting the word around as to the utter uselessness of the ID card/database; and make no mistake, it's the DB that has the greatest scope for abuse. A single point of failure, where one compromise could bring the country to its knees? No thanks. Keep barracking your representatives, ask your friends their opinion when it comes up in conversation (and it will; there are a lot of not-too-subtle mentions of the ID card in the news ATM. No doubt we'll be told how they would have stopped this maniac in Ipswich before he committed a single murder), and encourage them to write to their MPs. Security theatre, now playing on the world stage. And we're all paying for it.
Audiophiles, in my experience, are attributing differences in sound to the perceived quality of the components playing that sound. I'd like to see a bunch of them[1] involved in a blind test of audio gear to see how they'd rate different equipment without any visual indication as to its price (and therefore perceived quality). The amount of pseudo-science and meaningless jargon in the hi-fi world is amazing, showing the IT world to be rank amateurs. Flicking through 'What Hi-fi' always reminds me that there really is 'one born every minute'.
[1] No idea what the collective noun would be. A delusion of audiophiles, perhaps?
Exactly... None of the pubs in this rural area would go for it despite our 'local' force being one of those quoted as "taking an interest", mainly because it would *kill* their business. I'd be quite happy to see more police - i.e. more than the zero we have at present - on the beat at closing-time but that's unlikely to happen any time soon.
"Utter crap" is right... Sharon and Olmert are both just as bloodthirsty and stiff-necked as Arafat was. Hezbollah were *elected* because they were seen as being able to protect their people and, hopefully, drive the ever-expanding country of Israel back behind its rightful borders. No other country on Earth would be given as much freedom to terrorise and invade other nations as that given to Israel. And they've been allowed to develop nuclear weapons. Like we don't have enough right-wing religious zealots with their fingers on the doomsday button already.
"In the latest Israeli trial, the system caught 85% of the role-acting terrorists...
So I'm guessing this would be a bunch of Israelis from the developers' marketing department wearing comedy fake beards and calling each other Al?[1] Oh, and they'll probably have their collars turned-up, theatrically shifty eyes, and long, twirlable moustaches.
I suspect the accuracy may not be as great as the company PR would suggest.
Sounds more like file-versioning from the OpenVMS filesystem. It's a great idea but might be a wee big greedy on HD space, unless they're saving file differences rather than whole files. No doubt we'll be told in the fullness of time.
Like Richard Tomlinson? He's been hounded by MI6 lackeys despite moving to France, and recently had a bunch of equipment taken by police investigating a somewhat-dodgy allegation.
ASBOs are imposed for 'unreasonable' behaviour, so repeated infringements are unlikely to result in anything more than one of those ridiculous tags... The ASBO legislation is hideous, seemingly designed to be a catch-all method for criminalisation of any given behaviour. e.g. wearing a particular type of hat/clothing, using any language more explicit than 'darn', etc. The original idea had some merit but, as ever with Blair's government, it was perverted into a tool to criminalise the wrong sort of people; ATM this is people wearing hooded sweatshirts and, in general, anyone under the age of 40. Cynical? You're damn right. Every time Blair and Reid use the word 'respect' - which, incidentally, makes them sound like Tim Westwood's dad - I have to suppress the urge to vomit. I have no respect for the corrupt and morally-bankrupt shower of slurry we call our government, and I find it laughable that they presume they could possibly earn that respect.
Great to see the UK judiciary bending-over for a foreign power. Maybe there's a some sort of medal in it for you too? McKinnon committed a crime here too and, as a UK citizen, he should be tried here. Of course, the USUK 'special relationship' is the most important factor here so the extradition order was signed without so much as a second glance. "Britons never shall be slaves?" Not in this day and age.
So I need to buy an entirely new OS to play a distinctly average FPS? I think not. Vista will need to offer a more compelling reason than this to make me part with my money, I'm afraid.
Two guitar-playing mates of mine are hooked on the game, and recently had a competition to determine the better 'player'. The older bloke, a guitarist of some 15 years' experience, was not too impressed when he didn't win!
Sadly, Reid will happily extradite him. Bush will *tell* Blair, and Reid would never think of opposing The Anointed One. Much as I think McKinnon is an idiot he should be tried and, if found guilty, punished in the UK: he stands some tiny chance of a fair trial here, along with a proportionate sentence. All that crap about causing so much damage to a network that it "took more than a month to repair" (quote taken from the BBC News story) has the strong smell of bullshit. I suspect this is more concerned with the US military being shown, once again, to be incompetent and entirely incapable of securing anything than with the alleged damage this plonker caused. Shame he didn't want anything from our own MoD: if he'd hung around long enough I'm sure he could have picked-up one of the many laptops they've left lying around over the years.
Now you know why Bush is so friendly with Hu Jintao: he has plans to implement the same sort of constant surveillance of the American people that Jintao enjoys of the Chinese. Perhaps this explains the recent meeting between Bill Gates and Jintao?
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Heh, my ex-boss shows up on our local news programs from time to time as a Person Who Knows About the Internet (mainly because he's married to one of their reporters), and he knows as much about the internet/IP networking/etc. as I do about reconstructive plastic surgery. Another talking-head that proves empty vessels really *do* make the most noise.
Besides, if it was *really* Thompson's effigy in the game wouldn't they have come-up with a better way to shut him up? Tree-mincer, Fargo-style? Plastic explosive nappy? I'm sure there are more inventive ways to ash the imbecile's avatar.
Eight hours per day in a field with a horse and a ho? What the hell kind of industry do you work in?
Next Christmas, assuming Bethesda's release date of Autumn 2008 is accurate. Just in time for the Geforce 10 series, no doubt. ISTR reading it won't be DX10-only too, so XP owners should still be able to play it.
A friend of mine told me about this Cheney episode the other day and my first thought was that perhaps Ol' Dick is in need of some help from the nice men and women in the white coats? And he'll get his own little room, bright and airy, with lovely thick, soft wallpaper too.
If he isn't part of the executive he's a trespasser in the halls of government and, as such, should be tried for his trespass.
Land of the Free, they call it? Yeah, right.
A friend of mine emigrated to the USA a few years back and has offered me floorspace for as long as I'd like to visit, but shortly after he left the 'security' applied to air-travellers went bananas; as such it looks like I'll be unable to take him up on this generous offer as I could happily live my whole life without subjecting myself to minute observation by people who, before this whole US 'terrorism' debacle (one event! We lived with the threat of IRA bombings for *decades*!), would have been sweeping floors and flipping burgers, but are now given actual *power*. Utter madness. The lunatics have truly taken over the asylum.
Perhaps the knowledge that this is the same idiot the BPI have wheeled-out - along with Cliff Bloody Richard - to speak to the UK parliament about drastically increasing the length of copyright will help you feel even worse.
I saw him and his band performing tracks from that album last Friday; he looks like a three-week drowned corpse and sounds godawful, and by the gods he *needs* to up the ante to make us forget about Wings. A friend of mine also saw the show and commented that McCartney is 'turning into George Formby', something that's sadly close to reality.
Turned out crap again, hasn't it?
On reading this story I thought what a great shame it is that IBM don't release video games (or 'murder simulators' in Jackspeak). That's one fight he'd be odds-on to lose, and you can bet that part of his settlement would be that he wears a ball-gag until 30 years after he's died.
I wonder if he's ever heard of Mary Whitehouse? Seems like a soul-sister if ever there was one.
While Clarkson[1] is a tosspot and Hammond[1] should stick to Brainiac (Mythbusters with less science, for anyone who hasn't seen it), May[3] could possibly turn the show into one more in-tune with the average British motorist. The problem is that such a change means the show wouldn't be pandering to the vroom-tits-explosion market (heh, the VTE market. I've invented a new marketing phrase) that has become the BBC's main audience in recent years.
[1] A 1970s roadie who dropped-out of public school and bought a second-hand thesaurus
[2] A manchild who seems to have been experiencing a mid-life crisis for his entire adult life
[3] A somewhat tedious pipe-and-slippers man, but watchable enough
I hope not, as that would make the originals 'regular Septic flavo(u)r'.
Make them learn Chinese?
(I'll apologise for the expletive in advance, should anyone reading this be of a nervous disposition)
I've said variations of this before and I'll repeat another here:
The only way an ID card can protect us from the 'terrorist menace' is if it's six feet tall, six feet wide, four feet deep, and made of reinforced concrete.
If you think an ID card will make your life one iota more secure you are a knuckle-dragging fucktard.
Blair/Brown/Reid are trying to feed the British public the same siege-mentality codswallop about Evil Foreigners with designs on our jobs/men/women/freedom (hah!), but there's a small (yet increasing) minority putting the word around as to the utter uselessness of the ID card/database; and make no mistake, it's the DB that has the greatest scope for abuse. A single point of failure, where one compromise could bring the country to its knees? No thanks.
Keep barracking your representatives, ask your friends their opinion when it comes up in conversation (and it will; there are a lot of not-too-subtle mentions of the ID card in the news ATM. No doubt we'll be told how they would have stopped this maniac in Ipswich before he committed a single murder), and encourage them to write to their MPs.
Security theatre, now playing on the world stage. And we're all paying for it.
Audiophiles, in my experience, are attributing differences in sound to the perceived quality of the components playing that sound. I'd like to see a bunch of them[1] involved in a blind test of audio gear to see how they'd rate different equipment without any visual indication as to its price (and therefore perceived quality). The amount of pseudo-science and meaningless jargon in the hi-fi world is amazing, showing the IT world to be rank amateurs. Flicking through 'What Hi-fi' always reminds me that there really is 'one born every minute'.
[1] No idea what the collective noun would be. A delusion of audiophiles, perhaps?
A paedophile, perhaps? 'Pedophile' suggests something to do with feet.
Exactly...
None of the pubs in this rural area would go for it despite our 'local' force being one of those quoted as "taking an interest", mainly because it would *kill* their business. I'd be quite happy to see more police - i.e. more than the zero we have at present - on the beat at closing-time but that's unlikely to happen any time soon.
Doesn't really matter if the land in question is a foreign land, does it?
"Utter crap" is right...
Sharon and Olmert are both just as bloodthirsty and stiff-necked as Arafat was. Hezbollah were *elected* because they were seen as being able to protect their people and, hopefully, drive the ever-expanding country of Israel back behind its rightful borders. No other country on Earth would be given as much freedom to terrorise and invade other nations as that given to Israel. And they've been allowed to develop nuclear weapons. Like we don't have enough right-wing religious zealots with their fingers on the doomsday button already.
"In the latest Israeli trial, the system caught 85% of the role-acting terrorists...
So I'm guessing this would be a bunch of Israelis from the developers' marketing department wearing comedy fake beards and calling each other Al?[1] Oh, and they'll probably have their collars turned-up, theatrically shifty eyes, and long, twirlable moustaches.
I suspect the accuracy may not be as great as the company PR would suggest.
[1] ObPratchett, of course. Jingo, IIRC.
Sounds more like file-versioning from the OpenVMS filesystem. It's a great idea but might be a wee big greedy on HD space, unless they're saving file differences rather than whole files. No doubt we'll be told in the fullness of time.
Like Richard Tomlinson? He's been hounded by MI6 lackeys despite moving to France, and recently had a bunch of equipment taken by police investigating a somewhat-dodgy allegation.
ASBOs are imposed for 'unreasonable' behaviour, so repeated infringements are unlikely to result in anything more than one of those ridiculous tags...
The ASBO legislation is hideous, seemingly designed to be a catch-all method for criminalisation of any given behaviour. e.g. wearing a particular type of hat/clothing, using any language more explicit than 'darn', etc. The original idea had some merit but, as ever with Blair's government, it was perverted into a tool to criminalise the wrong sort of people; ATM this is people wearing hooded sweatshirts and, in general, anyone under the age of 40.
Cynical? You're damn right. Every time Blair and Reid use the word 'respect' - which, incidentally, makes them sound like Tim Westwood's dad - I have to suppress the urge to vomit. I have no respect for the corrupt and morally-bankrupt shower of slurry we call our government, and I find it laughable that they presume they could possibly earn that respect.
Great to see the UK judiciary bending-over for a foreign power. Maybe there's a some sort of medal in it for you too?
McKinnon committed a crime here too and, as a UK citizen, he should be tried here. Of course, the USUK 'special relationship' is the most important factor here so the extradition order was signed without so much as a second glance.
"Britons never shall be slaves?"
Not in this day and age.
So I need to buy an entirely new OS to play a distinctly average FPS? I think not. Vista will need to offer a more compelling reason than this to make me part with my money, I'm afraid.
Two guitar-playing mates of mine are hooked on the game, and recently had a competition to determine the better 'player'. The older bloke, a guitarist of some 15 years' experience, was not too impressed when he didn't win!
Sadly, Reid will happily extradite him. Bush will *tell* Blair, and Reid would never think of opposing The Anointed One.
Much as I think McKinnon is an idiot he should be tried and, if found guilty, punished in the UK: he stands some tiny chance of a fair trial here, along with a proportionate sentence. All that crap about causing so much damage to a network that it "took more than a month to repair" (quote taken from the BBC News story) has the strong smell of bullshit. I suspect this is more concerned with the US military being shown, once again, to be incompetent and entirely incapable of securing anything than with the alleged damage this plonker caused.
Shame he didn't want anything from our own MoD: if he'd hung around long enough I'm sure he could have picked-up one of the many laptops they've left lying around over the years.
Now you know why Bush is so friendly with Hu Jintao: he has plans to implement the same sort of constant surveillance of the American people that Jintao enjoys of the Chinese.
Perhaps this explains the recent meeting between Bill Gates and Jintao?