To test these they want to use them into a massively multi-player online games like World of Warcraft or Eve online.
There's no science here... they just want to play more games. I can imagine the staff meeting :
Any ideas how we can get more time off to farm uber gear?
No sir, all our team are working on high tech projects, sir!
Any chance we could combine my WoW playing with these "hitec" projects, and everyone will be happy?
Sir yes sir!
It's not legal if it's not fit for purpose. If the reasonable expectation of a consumer is for the router to be able to connect to the internet via the router, and the router does not do as intended, then there is a problem. If the router has been programmed deliberately to restrict access, then there is a _big_ problem with selling it as a router to consumers. This is a similar issue I brought up here. Even if there is fineprint to waive the company's resposibilities, it does not stick, and it should not stick. Anyone who reads all the fine print they are given has more time than I do. Expectation of function is a core premise in UK law at least (though "unlimited" broadband seems to have immunity at the moment for some reason).
Erm.... Breaking and entering is exactly what it says. Just entering is call trespassing, and just breaking is called criminal damage. Don't ask me how I know:).
If you know you're going to that site anyway, why use google? With Gamefaqs, their search just works, and works _better_ than google for a faq search. YMMV, but in my opinion Gamefaqs searches get me what I'm looking for a hell of a lot quicker than googling it,
Don't assume life will automatically exist where there is water and light. Just because the conditions for life are there, doesn't mean it's not a massive improbability that it starts. If the start of life was easy, we would have replicated it centuries ago. Personally, I would be very suprised if we see life in our solar system (apart from Earth). I do still hope to be suprised though... but not by a face consuming alien killer virus, obviously.
Bookmarking is most definitely not obselete. Google is getting worse IMO in many ways - have you tried searching for a walkthrough for a game with google? You end up with about 20 sites referencing each other, each providing advertisments and general useless information, and then a link you might want. Or you could just go to Gamefaqs, which you have bookmarked.
Anyway, back OT - FTA : it's extraordinarily difficult to find the hacker behind a cyberattack today. Well, no it's not if you have enough time and clout. If you really really want to find which computer something came from, you can. It just takes a while. Of course, then you've got the problem of deciding who was using that computer, but that's not an internet problem really.
Get a first time headshot!
Mentally say "Headshot" as if it were counterstrike
Realise you've shot your 85 year old deaf granny bringing you round some cookies.
???
Profit?
If women could not vote, no democrat would have served as president of the United States in the previous 50 years.
Wow, that's odd... in the UK it's the other way around. I heard that if women could not vote, we would not have had a majority Conservative government in the last 50 years. Conservatives are right wing, Labour left wing (very approximately - see this page for a really interesting analysis of the UK's parties, and Labour's movement in the last 35 years). Of course, this is just what I read somewhere, but it was vaguely authorative otherwise I would have dismissed it out of hand. Definitely treat with a pinch of salt, especially since even the best sources rely on exit polls which are never 100% accurate.
From that previous link : Voter turnout is highest when ideological differences are most significant. This helps explain why the voter turnout is lower in the US than in all other western democracies , most of which have a multiplicity of parties and proportional representation. In the UK, voter turnout may continue to fall to US levels. Lowering the voting age isn't likely to excite participation in elections when the choice is less and less to do with a clash of visions than mere managerial competence. And without those traditionally big choices, one might well wonder where this is going to ultimately leave democracy.
Women are forbidden from registering with the SS (even if they want to for whatever odd reason).
Well, of course they are forbidden. As are blacks and gays. I never saw any in Castle Wolfenstein, anyway. Oh, wait... you don't mean that SS... gotcha....
People don't realise how much freedom we have in the EU either. If I decided tomorrow that I wanted to go live in Slovakia, I could hop on a flight, go down there and buy a house. All I'd actually _need_ would be my passport, you shouldn't be taxed if you're not earning or living in the UK. Any member of the EU can buy anything anywhere in the EU. See the Four Freedoms and more specifically the freedom of movement for workers, which makes it illegal to discriminate against foreigners from the EU.
Heh, I went to the download page, and found these gems in big type just above the download and buy now buttons:
If you have an opportunity to download Linux XP Desktop from Internet, it is the fastest way will get acquainted with system.
If you wish to get the box version of Linux XP Desktop and to get support on installation and initial adjustment ok so far... wait for it - address to our partners Internet-shops.
Good to see they're a professional outfit (and if they actually are, wtf is up with that Engrish). I don't have any problem with poor English per se, but if I were buying a product which needed decent English to function well, I would steer well clear of something that uses such crappy English to sell itself.
Note that the machine-readable numbers at the bottom of the check have been randomly swapped or modified, so that no personal information about Don Knuth's personal bank account is leaked through this image.
Unfortunately, I think they may have used ROT26:P.
No, people skipped 2000 because it was not intended as a stzndard consumer OS. 2000 was never marketed as a replacement for those running 95 or 98, it was aimed at the business community and the "pro" users. XP brought the 2 OS lines under one roof, replacing both 2000 and 98. Anyway, 2000 is probably microsoft's best OS to date IMO - XP holds absolutely no significant advantage over it for 99%+ of users.
Vista works absolutely fine for me. I've had network copying problems (I just use robocopy now, and it was a bitch to install fully, but now it works flawlessly. It boots in 15 seconds from boot manager too (I still dual boot win2k, and was going to install Ubuntu, but it don't like fakeraid much - I'll have to spend a solid day trying to get that to work). I don't get a lot of this Vista hate - I guess perhaps it is that it requires a decent machine, and is sold with machines that simply don't have the horsepower for it. Anyway, I'm sure Ubuntu will fly when I get around to installing it.
Come on, that was most of the fun! Once you managed to convince your system to boot and still retain 620k of basic memory, and you could play the game, you quickly got bored with it. And of course 640k was enough for anyone, it was just that everything wanted a piece of it:P. I do remember having at least 5 boot options depending on what I was doing - by the end, the load all boot option managed to take almost 1/2 of that 640k IIRC.
Anyway - I know it's not practical, but in some ways I really wish that games on all systems were as hard to run now as they were then - You'd only get players that really wanted to play. If you spend 2 weeks tinkering with your system, trying everything known to man (and some things not), you're unlikely to log on to the game servers for the first time and proclaim, after much pondering, "LOLLLLLZ U SUXXORS ADMINS KISS MY ASS I'M A 1337 H4X0R FUCK U N00BZ"
My Vista 64 installation boots from the boot manager to usable desktop in about 15 seconds. It is a quick system though, probably the biggest factor to boot speed being the striped hard drives. YMMV etc.
Of course! You're forgetting the Football War. I do guess that if anything is worth going to war over, it is football. Far more worthwhile than money, anyway. And of course The War of Jenkin's Ear (Its unusual name relates to Robert Jenkins, captain of a British ship, who exhibited his severed ear in Parliament, sparking outrage that Spanish coast guards had cut it off.) Not to mention the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years War, The Hyphen War, and the Pig War. There's also the Cod Wars, which, as wikipedia helpfully points out, are not to be confused with the Cold War.
ps. Yes I do know the underlying cause for these wars were generally profit driven (for the humour impaired:P)
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What's up with the 'words' tag? Perhaps we should also tag this 'letters'?
I know, bad form replying to myself... But Microsoft also gave us Windows 1.0... with a clock! And Reversi!
not suitable for normal users and not suitable for average users.
Ok, I agree it wasn't suited for average users, but surely it was suitable for normal users. Or was that the other way around?
And of course the developers developers developers developers :).
To test these they want to use them into a massively multi-player online games like World of Warcraft or Eve online.
There's no science here... they just want to play more games. I can imagine the staff meeting :
Any ideas how we can get more time off to farm uber gear?
No sir, all our team are working on high tech projects, sir!
Any chance we could combine my WoW playing with these "hitec" projects, and everyone will be happy?
Sir yes sir!
Ok, I'm going to lose major Karma for this.... but what the hell..
This is not only the first cancer genome published, it is the first female genome as well.
Wait, wait, wait.... you mean they're different?
It's not legal if it's not fit for purpose. If the reasonable expectation of a consumer is for the router to be able to connect to the internet via the router, and the router does not do as intended, then there is a problem. If the router has been programmed deliberately to restrict access, then there is a _big_ problem with selling it as a router to consumers. This is a similar issue I brought up here. Even if there is fineprint to waive the company's resposibilities, it does not stick, and it should not stick. Anyone who reads all the fine print they are given has more time than I do. Expectation of function is a core premise in UK law at least (though "unlimited" broadband seems to have immunity at the moment for some reason).
Erm.... Breaking and entering is exactly what it says. Just entering is call trespassing, and just breaking is called criminal damage. Don't ask me how I know :).
If you know you're going to that site anyway, why use google? With Gamefaqs, their search just works, and works _better_ than google for a faq search. YMMV, but in my opinion Gamefaqs searches get me what I'm looking for a hell of a lot quicker than googling it,
Don't assume life will automatically exist where there is water and light. Just because the conditions for life are there, doesn't mean it's not a massive improbability that it starts. If the start of life was easy, we would have replicated it centuries ago. Personally, I would be very suprised if we see life in our solar system (apart from Earth). I do still hope to be suprised though... but not by a face consuming alien killer virus, obviously.
Bookmarking is most definitely not obselete. Google is getting worse IMO in many ways - have you tried searching for a walkthrough for a game with google? You end up with about 20 sites referencing each other, each providing advertisments and general useless information, and then a link you might want. Or you could just go to Gamefaqs, which you have bookmarked.
Anyway, back OT - FTA : it's extraordinarily difficult to find the hacker behind a cyberattack today. Well, no it's not if you have enough time and clout. If you really really want to find which computer something came from, you can. It just takes a while. Of course, then you've got the problem of deciding who was using that computer, but that's not an internet problem really.
Get a first time headshot!
Mentally say "Headshot" as if it were counterstrike
Realise you've shot your 85 year old deaf granny bringing you round some cookies.
???
Profit?
I know, bad form replying to myself, but here's the Political Compass for the US elections tomorrow.
If women could not vote, no democrat would have served as president of the United States in the previous 50 years.
Wow, that's odd... in the UK it's the other way around. I heard that if women could not vote, we would not have had a majority Conservative government in the last 50 years. Conservatives are right wing, Labour left wing (very approximately - see this page for a really interesting analysis of the UK's parties, and Labour's movement in the last 35 years). Of course, this is just what I read somewhere, but it was vaguely authorative otherwise I would have dismissed it out of hand. Definitely treat with a pinch of salt, especially since even the best sources rely on exit polls which are never 100% accurate.
From that previous link : Voter turnout is highest when ideological differences are most significant. This helps explain why the voter turnout is lower in the US than in all other western democracies , most of which have a multiplicity of parties and proportional representation. In the UK, voter turnout may continue to fall to US levels. Lowering the voting age isn't likely to excite participation in elections when the choice is less and less to do with a clash of visions than mere managerial competence. And without those traditionally big choices, one might well wonder where this is going to ultimately leave democracy.
Women are forbidden from registering with the SS (even if they want to for whatever odd reason).
Well, of course they are forbidden. As are blacks and gays. I never saw any in Castle Wolfenstein, anyway. Oh, wait... you don't mean that SS... gotcha....
People don't realise how much freedom we have in the EU either. If I decided tomorrow that I wanted to go live in Slovakia, I could hop on a flight, go down there and buy a house. All I'd actually _need_ would be my passport, you shouldn't be taxed if you're not earning or living in the UK. Any member of the EU can buy anything anywhere in the EU. See the Four Freedoms and more specifically the freedom of movement for workers, which makes it illegal to discriminate against foreigners from the EU.
Yeah, that Anonymous Coward is such an idiot - I bet he's got loads of mod points now, but because he posts to every discussion, he can't use them!
If I was a convicted felon in the US, I'd refuse to pay taxes - remember that old saying, no taxes without representation?
Heh, I went to the download page, and found these gems in big type just above the download and buy now buttons :
If you have an opportunity to download Linux XP Desktop from Internet, it is the fastest way will get acquainted with system.
If you wish to get the box version of Linux XP Desktop and to get support on installation and initial adjustment ok so far... wait for it - address to our partners Internet-shops.
Good to see they're a professional outfit (and if they actually are, wtf is up with that Engrish). I don't have any problem with poor English per se, but if I were buying a product which needed decent English to function well, I would steer well clear of something that uses such crappy English to sell itself.
From that page :
Note that the machine-readable numbers at the bottom of the check have been randomly swapped or modified, so that no personal information about Don Knuth's personal bank account is leaked through this image.
Unfortunately, I think they may have used ROT26 :P.
No, people skipped 2000 because it was not intended as a stzndard consumer OS. 2000 was never marketed as a replacement for those running 95 or 98, it was aimed at the business community and the "pro" users. XP brought the 2 OS lines under one roof, replacing both 2000 and 98. Anyway, 2000 is probably microsoft's best OS to date IMO - XP holds absolutely no significant advantage over it for 99%+ of users.
Vista works absolutely fine for me. I've had network copying problems (I just use robocopy now, and it was a bitch to install fully, but now it works flawlessly. It boots in 15 seconds from boot manager too (I still dual boot win2k, and was going to install Ubuntu, but it don't like fakeraid much - I'll have to spend a solid day trying to get that to work). I don't get a lot of this Vista hate - I guess perhaps it is that it requires a decent machine, and is sold with machines that simply don't have the horsepower for it. Anyway, I'm sure Ubuntu will fly when I get around to installing it.
And then that 400lb tattooed trucker drives past with his CB radio, and thing get _really_ interesting ;)
Come on, that was most of the fun! Once you managed to convince your system to boot and still retain 620k of basic memory, and you could play the game, you quickly got bored with it. And of course 640k was enough for anyone, it was just that everything wanted a piece of it :P. I do remember having at least 5 boot options depending on what I was doing - by the end, the load all boot option managed to take almost 1/2 of that 640k IIRC.
Anyway - I know it's not practical, but in some ways I really wish that games on all systems were as hard to run now as they were then - You'd only get players that really wanted to play. If you spend 2 weeks tinkering with your system, trying everything known to man (and some things not), you're unlikely to log on to the game servers for the first time and proclaim, after much pondering, "LOLLLLLZ U SUXXORS ADMINS KISS MY ASS I'M A 1337 H4X0R FUCK U N00BZ"
My Vista 64 installation boots from the boot manager to usable desktop in about 15 seconds. It is a quick system though, probably the biggest factor to boot speed being the striped hard drives. YMMV etc.
Of course! You're forgetting the Football War. I do guess that if anything is worth going to war over, it is football. Far more worthwhile than money, anyway. And of course The War of Jenkin's Ear (Its unusual name relates to Robert Jenkins, captain of a British ship, who exhibited his severed ear in Parliament, sparking outrage that Spanish coast guards had cut it off.) Not to mention the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years War, The Hyphen War, and the Pig War. There's also the Cod Wars, which, as wikipedia helpfully points out, are not to be confused with the Cold War.
ps. Yes I do know the underlying cause for these wars were generally profit driven (for the humour impaired :P)