Ironically, a music Tax (ala BBC) was something I've been predicting for some time now as the only possible way for the record industry to go... (Especially with the advent of city-wide wireless - imagine a pair of headfones that link wirelessly to all the music ever produced...)
No no, you've got it all wrong... BitTorrent is just the psudonym for Osama - he's really a clever AI hiding out on the net (why else do you think St. George of Bush hasn't managed to catch him yet?)
And to think I'd gotten away from downloading movies:( then they go and encourage it by telling everyone - it's like holding whisky in front of a drunk - JUST NOT FAIR:( That said, I wasn't going to see it before, and still intend not too... I'll save my £££ for serenity thanks...
Is training on simulators that teach them to nuke the crap out of anything that moves, then send in civvies to clean up the fallout (Civ 1 & 2)? Is training on simulators to pimp, have sex with prostitutes, become the mafia, kill indescrimatly and have no respect for the law (GTA 3)? Is training on simulators to kill the scientists best able to contain a dimension breach purely because it's bad for their image not to (Half-Life)? I'm disturbed... Alternatively, maybe computer games are an art form - albeit one that some people find distasteful... I vote that anyone who believes video games are not at least as good as novels as art forms be made to read the entire Harry Potter series and *then* play the entire Final Fantasy series for comparison.
Actually, the government employing everybody is Socialism... Albeit a bastardised version... Communism is where everyone works for themselves, dumps all their output in one big pot & then takes an equal share out (as opposed to anarchy where they trade what they have for what they want - similar thing)...
Gaaa now I need to download Rebel w/o a cause and buy myself a harley... damn yous!!!!
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And/.'ing will *still* manage to crash the servers, despite that being theoretically impossible with quantom computers and fusion-powered network switches;)
Probably... although, I doubt somehow even the mighty half-life 2 will generate the same fanboy-esq worship in 25 years time... Not sure if i should be glad or worried by that...
Paying £3 (roughly converted) for unlimited downloads is unappealing because you can't keep a copy? Presumably in the same manner that paying £15 a month for unlimited SkyTv is unappealing bc you don't own a vcr and so can't keep a copy? (Not saying I find it attractive either, just pointing out how it could be to some people).
Conspiricy-Theorist Magazine Bi-Planetary (famous for it's heretical article "Blue Planet People - Civilized Life?") ran with the headline "R-3 weaponry - the third deadly antenna the Council don't want you to know about"...
I thought I'd reply here to everyone that's currently bashing the idea of using cheaper software in schools as somehow being bad for childrens education. IT'S NOT. Schools (in the UK at least) have a very limited budget to spend, which doesn't just cover software - it has to manage teachers (of whom we currently have a shortage due to the abysmal wage they get), school dinners, visits and trips - even things like the bus to school in some places. Now, if this was aimed at the government as some "magic tax-saving measure" (get OSS for schools, save £1-2Bn tax) then I'd be worried. However, as it's aimed at schools, it means that they can free up sizable chunks of their budget to concentrate on other areas (Teachers for instance) - other areas which, in all honesty, probably do more for a childs education than M$ Super-dooper-text-ed-2025++ edition OR Open-tux-GNU-codehacker-6000.
Ahh ty... I *was* running from hazy memories from my childhood (having managed to pretty much escape windows since 2000 - both the year and the version;) ) so I *think* I got it a bit confused with one or two other programs I was hacking at the time...
That's been possible since Win95 - you just need a hex editor and a *lot* of patience (plus the magic offset - google for it...) Personally, I always like pink screens of death myself...
"I say, have a Mac, a Winbox, and linux box all running side by side and let the students decide which one they want to use." - at our university, the comp sci department does just that - and I choose 'nux;) The rest of the uni has to make do with 2k boxes (badly set up at that) & a room of ageing sun boxes...
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no. try this: egrep AA
Flaming Death we need to see, yeahs!
Ironically, a music Tax (ala BBC) was something I've been predicting for some time now as the only possible way for the record industry to go... (Especially with the advent of city-wide wireless - imagine a pair of headfones that link wirelessly to all the music ever produced...)
That does seem to be good sense...
No no, you've got it all wrong... BitTorrent is just the psudonym for Osama - he's really a clever AI hiding out on the net (why else do you think St. George of Bush hasn't managed to catch him yet?)
And to think I'd gotten away from downloading movies :( then they go and encourage it by telling everyone - it's like holding whisky in front of a drunk - JUST NOT FAIR :(
That said, I wasn't going to see it before, and still intend not too... I'll save my £££ for serenity thanks...
I prefer to paint my supercomputer's red... because as everyone knows, Red onez go fasta!
You. Utter. Bastard. :(
There goes nearly a year's worth of not thinking about the game
Is training on simulators that teach them to nuke the crap out of anything that moves, then send in civvies to clean up the fallout (Civ 1 & 2)?
Is training on simulators to pimp, have sex with prostitutes, become the mafia, kill indescrimatly and have no respect for the law (GTA 3)?
Is training on simulators to kill the scientists best able to contain a dimension breach purely because it's bad for their image not to (Half-Life)?
I'm disturbed... Alternatively, maybe computer games are an art form - albeit one that some people find distasteful... I vote that anyone who believes video games are not at least as good as novels as art forms be made to read the entire Harry Potter series and *then* play the entire Final Fantasy series for comparison.
Better than that - for sheer irony's sake I hope at least a few hundred send in badly edited cuts of the old 1984 apple adverts ;)
Actually, the government employing everybody is Socialism... Albeit a bastardised version... Communism is where everyone works for themselves, dumps all their output in one big pot & then takes an equal share out (as opposed to anarchy where they trade what they have for what they want - similar thing)...
Gaaa now I need to download Rebel w/o a cause and buy myself a harley... damn yous!!!!
And /.'ing will *still* manage to crash the servers, despite that being theoretically impossible with quantom computers and fusion-powered network switches ;)
Probably... although, I doubt somehow even the mighty half-life 2 will generate the same fanboy-esq worship in 25 years time... Not sure if i should be glad or worried by that...
more likely 52x16x12x5x4x4x4x16x16x DV/C/HD DV/D+-*RW-ROM ;)
kinda reads like a regex doesn't it?
I thought we were supposed to get perpendicular? So I have to choose between being smart and being able to remember?
Paying £3 (roughly converted) for unlimited downloads is unappealing because you can't keep a copy? Presumably in the same manner that paying £15 a month for unlimited SkyTv is unappealing bc you don't own a vcr and so can't keep a copy? (Not saying I find it attractive either, just pointing out how it could be to some people).
Yes... They keep trying to get rid of talkie.... (I fed mine to the tribbles)...
Conspiricy-Theorist Magazine Bi-Planetary (famous for it's heretical article "Blue Planet People - Civilized Life?") ran with the headline "R-3 weaponry - the third deadly antenna the Council don't want you to know about"...
I thought I'd reply here to everyone that's currently bashing the idea of using cheaper software in schools as somehow being bad for childrens education.
IT'S NOT. Schools (in the UK at least) have a very limited budget to spend, which doesn't just cover software - it has to manage teachers (of whom we currently have a shortage due to the abysmal wage they get), school dinners, visits and trips - even things like the bus to school in some places. Now, if this was aimed at the government as some "magic tax-saving measure" (get OSS for schools, save £1-2Bn tax) then I'd be worried. However, as it's aimed at schools, it means that they can free up sizable chunks of their budget to concentrate on other areas (Teachers for instance) - other areas which, in all honesty, probably do more for a childs education than M$ Super-dooper-text-ed-2025++ edition OR Open-tux-GNU-codehacker-6000.
Ahh ty... I *was* running from hazy memories from my childhood (having managed to pretty much escape windows since 2000 - both the year and the version ;) ) so I *think* I got it a bit confused with one or two other programs I was hacking at the time...
That's been possible since Win95 - you just need a hex editor and a *lot* of patience (plus the magic offset - google for it...)
Personally, I always like pink screens of death myself...
I misread that as Physisists and it *still* made sense :S
"I say, have a Mac, a Winbox, and linux box all running side by side and let the students decide which one they want to use." - at our university, the comp sci department does just that - and I choose 'nux ;) The rest of the uni has to make do with 2k boxes (badly set up at that) & a room of ageing sun boxes...
And, consistent with ethics, I'll be downloading, watching *then* still going to the cinema several times...