"I thought she was a sandwich, till she went spare on me hand": Ringo explains to John what transpired at the vending machine in the corner. To go spare means "go berserk"; Ahme had just tried to bite Ringo's ring off! There's a secondary meaning: a girl "going spare" is one who's sexually enthusiastic or available. A deliberate double entendre is entirely possible, especially in light of a long-standing music-hall tradition of having such lines delivered with complete innocence by a straight man (like Ringo).
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some of my family enjoy luxor quite a bit, and the new pac man is different in a good way for those who enjoyed the original, though I will say that coming with a measly 3 games is pretty pathetic.
I think they should have given the buyers of those units say 5 choices from the full catalog of xbox live arcade titles. There are some pretty decent ones up there, such as Small Arms (think super smash bros), Geometry wars (most excellent), Doom, Castlevania, and Assault Heroes just to name a few. Oh and why doesn't this version come with the small hard drive again? i mean you can't seriously tell me that the 20Gb HDD costs 80 bucks still? puhlease.
many people use IE happily if only because they are not even aware of the existence of firefox and opera
i'd similarly wonder how many mac OSX users use firefox instead of safari
for everyone to have a win-win situation, the OEMs need to start pre-installing firefox AND opera AND safari in the windows boxes. OpenOffice can come too:)
not much point in it really.. the only reason why they made a free xls viewer was because you have to pay to edit it. When editing is free, why make a separate viewer? Sure it may be a little faster, but you'd only be talking about maybe a second or two faster... not worth the year or so development time.
the only other alternative is for odf to be viewable in MS Office. course thatll happen when hell turns into a skating rink.
The only time i like translucency is when moving windows around, so I can see more clearly what I'll be placing my moving window over, or what my moving window is covering without having to move it completely out of the way first.
ok that may still be fairly useless, but boy does it look good, especially when its wobbling when i move it:)
i think they call it outreach. maybe desperation. who knows, the point is that offering sports as the only activity available for young people is going to leave out those who really don't care much about playing sports. So how do you bring in those who do not care for sports? Exactly. Its too simple.
what it comes down to is that a good number of people do want pre-installed... else they take their offerings to a Microsoft pre-installed server instead. I'll take a pre-install offering any day over only being given the option of pre-installing a Microsoft offering. Of course many people also desire the all in one warranty satisfaction also to ensure their dollars won't be spent in vain.
I say take them on their own turf and watch MS scramble in an attempt to keep from losing their ground in the server biz.
While I can agree choice is a good thing, and its nice to have high-end, mid-range, and low-end options... but it seems to be getting a little ridiculous. There's what, more than 7 different version of the thing to this date? xBox 360 has had about 5, the Wii has one.
whats the world coming to, honestly? I doubt most people, myself included, have the patience to select between more than three logically different units of what is essentially the same damn thing.
other examples:
Vista: too many editions, eek XP: Home or Pro, simple OSX: one version, easy Ubuntu: desktop or server, excleent
I find as a program gets more and more popular, no matter how spectacular it is, you'll still have all the same people nitpicking at all the same things. You want to know why they don't give a basic, intermediate, and advanced version of the same configuration screen (besides the fact that its more work)? Because some "basic" user will enter advanced mode, do something dumb, end up with a black screen, and whine until the cows come home.
I see the same thing myself in the programs I create, and even though sometimes the user may have a valid point, there are also times where I know what I've done is for the best in as many cases as possible.
anywho, all too often you just need to let the advanced users be their advanced selves and figure out how to do it from a command line/text file so if they screw up they more likely know how to fix it themselves.
a. vista only (remember, vista not selling so well right now)
b. secondary hardware considerations (even if they could rate a CPU or Vid card at some form of index, it doesn't mean a thing until it gets into your PC and can consider factors such as RAM amount, RAM speed, and FSB speed)
I have to wonder if we lived in a world opposite of today's where Windows was the underdog OS and Ubuntu was the top dog. I'm pretty certain there'd be just as much, and most likely more, to say about the difficulty in getting used to the new OS. Its all relative based on what the user is currently comfortable with.
but lets get past that shall we, as we can well assume that getting used to anything new is going to take time, and for some people it may well take too much time to be worth it. If anything this is a great excercise for the Ubuntu team, as they have the challenging task of making the OS more for everyone.
are tending to break more than play these days. I remember a few weeks ago I tried to load up Mechwarrior 4 under winXP only to find that the program would minimize to the task tray at the beginning and never maximize afterwards. Sure this had nothing to do with the 3D drivers, most likely a video codec or something, but regardless... old games are getting harder and harder to play on current systems that shouldn't have a problem with backwards compatibility.
No, it just installs a tool that's specifically intended to subvert an OS security mechanism (non-Admin user accounts). That's not a root kit, but it has a lot of the same security issues.
Which really isn't a big deal since pretty much everyone runs their Windows users as Admin users (its the default). My only real concern is the whole activation deal. But I assume if I ever run into a problem i can call up some tech support and raise havoc with a manager. Or crack it, whichever works best.
Probably also worth noting that an x3755 takes up 4 U of rack mount space. this opteron slice thing looks like it might be more dense than that if its similar to a blade.
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some of my family enjoy luxor quite a bit, and the new pac man is different in a good way for those who enjoyed the original, though I will say that coming with a measly 3 games is pretty pathetic.
I think they should have given the buyers of those units say 5 choices from the full catalog of xbox live arcade titles. There are some pretty decent ones up there, such as Small Arms (think super smash bros), Geometry wars (most excellent), Doom, Castlevania, and Assault Heroes just to name a few. Oh and why doesn't this version come with the small hard drive again? i mean you can't seriously tell me that the 20Gb HDD costs 80 bucks still? puhlease.
many people use IE happily if only because they are not even aware of the existence of firefox and opera
:)
i'd similarly wonder how many mac OSX users use firefox instead of safari
for everyone to have a win-win situation, the OEMs need to start pre-installing firefox AND opera AND safari in the windows boxes. OpenOffice can come too
not much point in it really.. the only reason why they made a free xls viewer was because you have to pay to edit it. When editing is free, why make a separate viewer? Sure it may be a little faster, but you'd only be talking about maybe a second or two faster... not worth the year or so development time. the only other alternative is for odf to be viewable in MS Office. course thatll happen when hell turns into a skating rink.
of course its not hackable, just like the Xbox, PS2, Xbox360, iPod, iPhone, TiVo, OSX, Vista, XP, and DRM.
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I used the upgrade feature for two of my computers I use on a daily basis, and both of them upgraded without any issues :) do the upgrade!
yeah but its like a 3 year old reading your mail... its only going to catch words it knows
Instead of pidgeons, how about swallows? what is the air velocity and weight capacity ratio of an unladen swallow again?
The only time i like translucency is when moving windows around, so I can see more clearly what I'll be placing my moving window over, or what my moving window is covering without having to move it completely out of the way first.
:)
ok that may still be fairly useless, but boy does it look good, especially when its wobbling when i move it
i think they call it outreach. maybe desperation. who knows, the point is that offering sports as the only activity available for young people is going to leave out those who really don't care much about playing sports. So how do you bring in those who do not care for sports? Exactly. Its too simple.
*sorry* try again
Unreal Tournament 3 demo will be dropping sometime in the next two weeks... and even an in-box Linux client
Maybe you're referring the the programmers which throw poop and are just as likely to write a shakespeare as they are to write a decent program.
thats right. codemonkeys.
"They don't have to 'make the US pay' to effect a win. They'll just take it out of what other countries owe the US."
except the money really comes from our tax dollars...
what it comes down to is that a good number of people do want pre-installed... else they take their offerings to a Microsoft pre-installed server instead. I'll take a pre-install offering any day over only being given the option of pre-installing a Microsoft offering. Of course many people also desire the all in one warranty satisfaction also to ensure their dollars won't be spent in vain.
I say take them on their own turf and watch MS scramble in an attempt to keep from losing their ground in the server biz.
While I can agree choice is a good thing, and its nice to have high-end, mid-range, and low-end options... but it seems to be getting a little ridiculous. There's what, more than 7 different version of the thing to this date? xBox 360 has had about 5, the Wii has one.
whats the world coming to, honestly? I doubt most people, myself included, have the patience to select between more than three logically different units of what is essentially the same damn thing.
other examples:
Vista: too many editions, eek
XP: Home or Pro, simple
OSX: one version, easy
Ubuntu: desktop or server, excleent
Get a mouse with two buttons. (granted, the new mouse emulates a right mouse click finally)
I find as a program gets more and more popular, no matter how spectacular it is, you'll still have all the same people nitpicking at all the same things. You want to know why they don't give a basic, intermediate, and advanced version of the same configuration screen (besides the fact that its more work)? Because some "basic" user will enter advanced mode, do something dumb, end up with a black screen, and whine until the cows come home.
I see the same thing myself in the programs I create, and even though sometimes the user may have a valid point, there are also times where I know what I've done is for the best in as many cases as possible.
anywho, all too often you just need to let the advanced users be their advanced selves and figure out how to do it from a command line/text file so if they screw up they more likely know how to fix it themselves.
a. vista only (remember, vista not selling so well right now)
b. secondary hardware considerations (even if they could rate a CPU or Vid card at some form of index, it doesn't mean a thing until it gets into your PC and can consider factors such as RAM amount, RAM speed, and FSB speed)
I have to wonder if we lived in a world opposite of today's where Windows was the underdog OS and Ubuntu was the top dog. I'm pretty certain there'd be just as much, and most likely more, to say about the difficulty in getting used to the new OS. Its all relative based on what the user is currently comfortable with.
but lets get past that shall we, as we can well assume that getting used to anything new is going to take time, and for some people it may well take too much time to be worth it. If anything this is a great excercise for the Ubuntu team, as they have the challenging task of making the OS more for everyone.
are tending to break more than play these days. I remember a few weeks ago I tried to load up Mechwarrior 4 under winXP only to find that the program would minimize to the task tray at the beginning and never maximize afterwards. Sure this had nothing to do with the 3D drivers, most likely a video codec or something, but regardless... old games are getting harder and harder to play on current systems that shouldn't have a problem with backwards compatibility.
Which really isn't a big deal since pretty much everyone runs their Windows users as Admin users (its the default). My only real concern is the whole activation deal. But I assume if I ever run into a problem i can call up some tech support and raise havoc with a manager. Or crack it, whichever works best.
Q: "What is your quest?"
A> "To Seek the holy grail!"
Q: "what is your favorite text base adventure game?"
A> "Colossal Cave Adventure... NO wait, blue!"
*Gets launched into the death pit*
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Probably also worth noting that an x3755 takes up 4 U of rack mount space. this opteron slice thing looks like it might be more dense than that if its similar to a blade.