You could just as easy turn the whole thing around and argue that the Overweight Gas Guzzlers are doing the damage therefore they are causing the problem.
My first thought was they still make PCs with game ports? My second thought was I wonder what they are using the game port for that it gets ruined... My third thought was I've been playing games on my PC for a long time... My fourth thought was I wonder if I can get Tie Fighter working on windows 7
When they first announced this course along with computing degree revamp around a year ago there was a lot of discussion amongst people that who had been planning on doing the course it replaces. A lot of people understandably didn't like how simplistic they were making it seem at the time.
The course is required to complete any of the named computing degrees offered by the Open University, however the featured device and other course material seems to be aimed at a 'this is a computer and it has flashing lights and beeps and there is this interweb thing you should know about' stuff I did when I was 14 and is not even close to what I would expect for a first year university computing course. Give me a real programming language C, Pascal, even VB would do at a pinch , teach me about data types, data structures, procedures, objects, etc. instead of drag and drop programming for a simple computer with a few sensors and lights attached, something that would be more suitable in a primary school.
The time to study the course (5-10 hours a week for the best part of a year), including assessments etc, along with the cost (£770) of the pointless required course and the completely uninteresting subject matter has put me in two minds if I should even bother studying a computing degree with them as it will begin with me wasting a year of my life. Especially as I was only planning on doing so to learn something new and interesting...
The biggest draw is once you have used the service a few times all the things you buy are on your favourites list (or similar named equivalent) so it takes you about ten minutes of clicking to do what would take you an hour or more of driving, wandering around, trying to resists impulse buys, queuing for the checkout, more driving and unloading the car...
Given they offer pre-selected small window delivery times here in the UK (20 minute slots), I can get the delivery when I will be home anyway, that's an hour and a half I can use to catch up on my TV, spend time with the kids, read a good book, play computer games etc... That alone is worth the £5 delivery fee
Yes the do.... they wander around the store for you with a hand scanner with a screen that tells them what to pick and in the optimum order to pick it... You can also give written instructions like 'I prefer bananas that are almost going black' if you really want... which they may or may not pay attention to.
Some of the fancier systems even let you enter the number from an old till receipt and let you easily choose items from it without having to search the online store four preferred brand of hair gel
I remember making my first backup... I spent a full weeks worth of lunch money to buy two boxes of 5.25 inch floppy disks and used pkzip's span disk function to backup my entire hard disk... MSDos, Windows 3.1 and all my files...
Stop squirming and die like an adult, or I'm going to delete your backup stop! Okay, enough, I deleted it. No matter what happens now, you're dead. You're still shuffling around a little, but believe me, you're dead.
Now zoom in on the reflection on his sunglasses and flip the image. Now show me the reflection on that cars fender and enhance it. Now we can see what was around the corner...
("There's an App for That" is a registered trademark of Apple Corporation.)
Strange how everyone here uses that phrase to make a dig at how useless most apps on the ipad/iphone (and the devices in general) are... for example...
"Want a cracked screen on your phone? There's an app for that!" "Got an upset stomach and run out of toilet paper? There's an app for that!" "Accidentally ran over your neighbours dog? There's an app for that!" "Can't remember your own name? There's an app for that!"
"The Phone Book" as an item, the specific implementation of a printed and bound document containing a list of names and numbers is copyrighted. It often contains layout, additional text, fonts, advertising, phone company logos and other graphics which are not public domain data such as advertising which are copyrightable.
The data it contains - the list of names and numbers is not copyrightable and can be freely copied and used elsewhere as long as you don't copy any of the copyrightable stuff along with it.
Basic file headers contain function decelerations, integer enumerations etc which are all in the same category as lists of names and numbers as they are 'facts' relating to the source code, hardware etc. If this wasn't the case you wouldn't be able to use any libraries that shipped with any OS without breaching copyright, making all OS useless.
If anything was copyrightable in the header files it would be the additional information that was contained in the comments... that were stripped out.
Actually its not that far form golf... but with larger targets. A game that involves moving an object over a distance while avoiding obstacles to hit a target is far from innovative. It's been around (in RL) for at least seven hundred years... and simulated in games since the earliest home computers.
And before the days of mobile phones many school kids played a game something like Angry Birds on the Wood&Elastic platform... sometimes even building the gaming device themselves.
To be truly innovative you need to come up with something new and not just copy something and add 'on a mobile phone' or 'on a computer' to the paten^h^h^h^h game.
A lot of the UK Tivo users were sold a 'lifetime' subscription which, costing more than the box itself, entitled the user to 'program information for the life of your Tivo' (from the original documentation). The original service agreement was worded significantly different from the current one but was changed bit by bit over the years.
That was YOUR Tivo and not what it was later twisted into 'as long as we can be bothered and don't want to use it as a stick to force you to sign up to a cable company service plan for a box you won't own'.
The 'subscription free' part is meaningless when you don't pay the subscription.
Most people DON'T use them to record crappy analogue broadcast TV, it wouldn't be worth it for just 5 channels. We use them to record TV from Cable and Satellite set top boxes via scart cables as the Tivo has a built in system to change channels on the STB. Even ignoring the ability to record the Tivo EPG was years ahead of the cable/satelite versions (and is STILL better than the Virgin Media EPG 8 years on as well as being better than most 'new' Digital TV PVRs).
It's also now possible (with a little hacking) to use series 1 Tivos with (specific) Freeview STB so they are far from obsolete due to the analogue switch off.
I'm one of the loyal UK Tivo customers... I currently have cable service from VM. I was considering updating purely so I could get HD channels, however since they announced the termination of the old service not only am I going to stick with my SD box, I'm going to downgrade my TV package to the 'free with other services' one, and actively discourage people I know from getting the VM Tivo. Since I'm the 'tech guy' amongst my group of friends/co-workers I guarantee Tivo/VM will lose out on some sales... and I guarantee that most other UK Tivo owners are in a similar situation.
There are already issues with the cable service as they only have a fraction of the *good* channels available from satellite and how they have treated the series 1 customers is just one more reason to switch...
Its fine when the choice of irreversible consequence is obvoiusly so...
It can be very annoying when you are give the choice of 'Go now' or 'wait a bit longer' and you chose the latter thinking you need to upgrade your armour before you go, spend half an hour at the vendor buying your bling just to find out that 'wait a bit longer' actually meant 'Never!' You missed your chance... you have to go do something else that doesn't fit they way you are playing the character.
Then you realise that after buying stuff you saved over the entirety of today's efforts... and faced with having to play several hours over or go down a story path you don't like you stop playing and sell the game on eBay.
Insurance doesn't give you protection from theft... Locked doors and laws relating to the ownership of property and restricted access to private property do that (when enforced by the police).
Insurance provides you with financial compensation for when the above protections failed to protect your house and belongings. If you fail to have basic protections such as locked doors then your insurance won't pay you a penny.
However now that I think about it, copyright and patents are more like insurance than a protection...
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Tanks kill people. Fact.
You could just as easy turn the whole thing around and argue that the Overweight Gas Guzzlers are doing the damage therefore they are causing the problem.
I read this as "How To Ruin Your PC's Game Port"
My first thought was they still make PCs with game ports?
My second thought was I wonder what they are using the game port for that it gets ruined...
My third thought was I've been playing games on my PC for a long time...
My fourth thought was I wonder if I can get Tie Fighter working on windows 7
When they first announced this course along with computing degree revamp around a year ago there was a lot of discussion amongst people that who had been planning on doing the course it replaces. A lot of people understandably didn't like how simplistic they were making it seem at the time.
The course is required to complete any of the named computing degrees offered by the Open University, however the featured device and other course material seems to be aimed at a 'this is a computer and it has flashing lights and beeps and there is this interweb thing you should know about' stuff I did when I was 14 and is not even close to what I would expect for a first year university computing course. Give me a real programming language C, Pascal, even VB would do at a pinch , teach me about data types, data structures, procedures, objects, etc. instead of drag and drop programming for a simple computer with a few sensors and lights attached, something that would be more suitable in a primary school.
The time to study the course (5-10 hours a week for the best part of a year), including assessments etc, along with the cost (£770) of the pointless required course and the completely uninteresting subject matter has put me in two minds if I should even bother studying a computing degree with them as it will begin with me wasting a year of my life. Especially as I was only planning on doing so to learn something new and interesting...
The biggest draw is once you have used the service a few times all the things you buy are on your favourites list (or similar named equivalent) so it takes you about ten minutes of clicking to do what would take you an hour or more of driving, wandering around, trying to resists impulse buys, queuing for the checkout, more driving and unloading the car...
Given they offer pre-selected small window delivery times here in the UK (20 minute slots), I can get the delivery when I will be home anyway, that's an hour and a half I can use to catch up on my TV, spend time with the kids, read a good book, play computer games etc... That alone is worth the £5 delivery fee
Yes the do.... they wander around the store for you with a hand scanner with a screen that tells them what to pick and in the optimum order to pick it...
You can also give written instructions like 'I prefer bananas that are almost going black' if you really want... which they may or may not pay attention to.
Some of the fancier systems even let you enter the number from an old till receipt and let you easily choose items from it without having to search the online store four preferred brand of hair gel
meant to add go to...
Health and beauty -> pharmacy -> durex (brand)
You also forgot the rejection cycle for it not being encrypted... followed by the rejection cycles for purchasing the required encryption software...
I remember making my first backup... I spent a full weeks worth of lunch money to buy two boxes of 5.25 inch floppy disks and used pkzip's span disk function to backup my entire hard disk... MSDos, Windows 3.1 and all my files...
Stop squirming and die like an adult, or I'm going to delete your backup stop! Okay, enough, I deleted it. No matter what happens now, you're dead. You're still shuffling around a little, but believe me, you're dead.
This sounds like something Top Gear would do.... but use a totally inappropriate car to do it...
Now zoom in on the reflection on his sunglasses and flip the image.
Now show me the reflection on that cars fender and enhance it.
Now we can see what was around the corner...
("There's an App for That" is a registered trademark of Apple Corporation.)
Strange how everyone here uses that phrase to make a dig at how useless most apps on the ipad/iphone (and the devices in general) are... for example...
"Want a cracked screen on your phone? There's an app for that!"
"Got an upset stomach and run out of toilet paper? There's an app for that!"
"Accidentally ran over your neighbours dog? There's an app for that!"
"Can't remember your own name? There's an app for that!"
Feel free to supply more examples...
How do you think they've been pumping water in?
Fire trucks with diesel pumps.
Not electrical generators/pumps.
Sorry...
"The Phone Book" as an item, the specific implementation of a printed and bound document containing a list of names and numbers is copyrighted. It often contains layout, additional text, fonts, advertising, phone company logos and other graphics which are not public domain data such as advertising which are copyrightable.
The data it contains - the list of names and numbers is not copyrightable and can be freely copied and used elsewhere as long as you don't copy any of the copyrightable stuff along with it.
Basic file headers contain function decelerations, integer enumerations etc which are all in the same category as lists of names and numbers as they are 'facts' relating to the source code, hardware etc. If this wasn't the case you wouldn't be able to use any libraries that shipped with any OS without breaching copyright, making all OS useless.
If anything was copyrightable in the header files it would be the additional information that was contained in the comments... that were stripped out.
Actually its not that far form golf... but with larger targets. A game that involves moving an object over a distance while avoiding obstacles to hit a target is far from innovative. It's been around (in RL) for at least seven hundred years... and simulated in games since the earliest home computers.
And before the days of mobile phones many school kids played a game something like Angry Birds on the Wood&Elastic platform... sometimes even building the gaming device themselves.
To be truly innovative you need to come up with something new and not just copy something and add 'on a mobile phone' or 'on a computer' to the paten^h^h^h^h game.
You got that wrong... they use SuperRand()...
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/SuperRand.aspx
defrag the disks!
A lot of the UK Tivo users were sold a 'lifetime' subscription which, costing more than the box itself, entitled the user to 'program information for the life of your Tivo' (from the original documentation). The original service agreement was worded significantly different from the current one but was changed bit by bit over the years.
That was YOUR Tivo and not what it was later twisted into 'as long as we can be bothered and don't want to use it as a stick to force you to sign up to a cable company service plan for a box you won't own'.
The 'subscription free' part is meaningless when you don't pay the subscription.
I love/hate how people don't get it.
Most people DON'T use them to record crappy analogue broadcast TV, it wouldn't be worth it for just 5 channels. We use them to record TV from Cable and Satellite set top boxes via scart cables as the Tivo has a built in system to change channels on the STB. Even ignoring the ability to record the Tivo EPG was years ahead of the cable/satelite versions (and is STILL better than the Virgin Media EPG 8 years on as well as being better than most 'new' Digital TV PVRs).
It's also now possible (with a little hacking) to use series 1 Tivos with (specific) Freeview STB so they are far from obsolete due to the analogue switch off.
Shame that isn't the case...
I'm one of the loyal UK Tivo customers... I currently have cable service from VM. I was considering updating purely so I could get HD channels, however since they announced the termination of the old service not only am I going to stick with my SD box, I'm going to downgrade my TV package to the 'free with other services' one, and actively discourage people I know from getting the VM Tivo. Since I'm the 'tech guy' amongst my group of friends/co-workers I guarantee Tivo/VM will lose out on some sales... and I guarantee that most other UK Tivo owners are in a similar situation.
There are already issues with the cable service as they only have a fraction of the *good* channels available from satellite and how they have treated the series 1 customers is just one more reason to switch...
I love how they clearly breached copyright law on page 170 of the PDF and made a duplicate of the floppy disk before giving the original back...
We are taking damage! The ODN relays on deck 8 have overloaded!
Its fine when the choice of irreversible consequence is obvoiusly so...
It can be very annoying when you are give the choice of 'Go now' or 'wait a bit longer' and you chose the latter thinking you need to upgrade your armour before you go, spend half an hour at the vendor buying your bling just to find out that 'wait a bit longer' actually meant 'Never!' You missed your chance... you have to go do something else that doesn't fit they way you are playing the character.
Then you realise that after buying stuff you saved over the entirety of today's efforts... and faced with having to play several hours over or go down a story path you don't like you stop playing and sell the game on eBay.
Insurance doesn't give you protection from theft... Locked doors and laws relating to the ownership of property and restricted access to private property do that (when enforced by the police).
Insurance provides you with financial compensation for when the above protections failed to protect your house and belongings. If you fail to have basic protections such as locked doors then your insurance won't pay you a penny.
However now that I think about it, copyright and patents are more like insurance than a protection...
-1, Pedantic. ?