The UK has banned lead solder for decades. What's interesting is that anything made for military purposes is exempt from the law, so military equipment rerely fails.
Wouldn't this be a good thing? Less languages will mean more people speaking the same one, thus promoting better communication. On the face of it, yes. Then again, think of all the films Mel Gibson could make then using shitty lost languages.
Oh God! The thought of a new film featuring Yak Farmers from Kyrgyzstan makes me cry manly tears of hopelessness.
Because i was accessing it from a non-american IP address, they locked me out, citing no advertisers for my region (New Zealand) Just run your browser through an American proxy, or use Tor and keep trying till it works.
Does it really matter what OS a phone runs when, for the majority of people, they're going to be stuck using the shitty, feature stripped firmware the phone ships with?
I'd say it does, I specifically bought my Motorola Rokr E6 on the basis that it runs Linux. My naivety made me think that the homebrew scene would be rife with apps, but I was very wrong though. Thanks to Motorola's lack of documentation and slow uptake of the phone, mine remains pretty much standard.
Think I may go back to windows mobile after this phone, unless something decent, tried and tested comes out.
The iPod, if not the best sounding music player, is easily one of the best.
You sell their "marketing speak" very well. I could have sworn you were quoting an advert.
More likely you'll want to "emerge xf86-video-ati", that's the free one, and the one we need to stop sucking.
Or you could install sabayon, seeing as it works without 3 days of compiling packages, fixing inevitable issues duing installation, dependencies, etc.
Bologna. Children fear heights from a very early age.
Yeah, they learn it by falling a lot. If it was truly innate, parents wouldn't need to buy all those plastic fences to keep their kids from falling over ledges and down stairs.
Have you ever thought that maybe the reverse is true, that toddlers DO have innate fear, but they overcome it quickly when they realise every time they've done something dangerous their parents/carers have saved and protected them?
You have millions of years of evolution teaching you to be scared of the sound of gunfire? Uh, no, I bet the sound of gunfire and exploding bombs scares you because you've seen on TV what they can do. If you had no idea what a hand grenade was ("here, check out my new cell phone"), you probably wouldn't be afraid to hold one in your hand, or even pull the pin.
I'm pretty certain that if you were to put a baby in a soundproof environment for the first 6 months, then introduce a loud bang, they would jump and cry, that's if they weren't paralyzed with shock for the first few minutes. As with your answer, i doubt anyone can prove it either way until they do some very inhumane tests.
See, I used to think along those lines, that during POST the PC would check the bios itself, then the video card, then CPU, ram, etc. But that's only the visual elements of the POST process.
You can find a general sequnce of events here... Award Boot Procedure.
They all (ie. Ami, Phoenix, dell, etc) follow pretty much the same steps, the 1st being to check the flags in the CPU. If it fails here, then you won't see any error as the visual part of post hasn't occured yet.
Sunshine has all manner of things wrong with it, but it's still probably headed to this years scifi blockbuster.
I resent any film that says "Re-ignite the Sun".
Of course it will, think about how much they'll learn when they spend 3 days trying to get a game to work in a usable X window, having to check the gentoo forums every 5 minutes to see if anyone can help.
I can't think of a better way to spend my hard earned £550 when they come out in the UK.
Well, according the BBC financial report, it seems that of the £4 Billion income, £3 Billion is provided by the licence (24 million UK homes x £11 x12 months or thereabouts), the rest is from all the other methods (ie, sales to other broadcasters, DVDs).
I don't see it as particularly unfair for them to provide free video downloads for the UK, in much the same way that Sky currently offer, restricting the content or not. After all, the TV Licence fee we're coerced into paying should cover this.
The moral objection may well be the fact that you're forced to pay a TV licence even if you don't watch the BBC. I for one only watch Sky one, (Lost and the odd rerun of Simpsons/Futurama), E4 (Smallville and Scrubs), every now and then the sports, movie and music channels, all the other content coming from DVD/PC. The last time I watched anything on the Beeb was when the world cup was on. Even then I didn't watch it at home, most of it was watched in pubs in Tenerife and the UK, a couple of them were watched at someone elses house as they had Sky HD. Is it really fair that I pay £130 a year for the option to watch an episode of something that may be on the air? It's bad enough that sky charges £40 a month for the odd bit of decent content wedged in between the endless amounts of advertising.
(Probably should have <rant></rant> quotes in there somewhere.)
Although it says that Zudeo can offer HD content, it doesn't say that the BBC programs will be in HD, it says they will release high quality versions.
Besides, as Red Dwarf was filmed in traditional film (AFAIK 35mm, seversal goog), it wouldn't be too tricky to remaster it in HD. The problem there would not be the original film quality, but the production quality of the program, effects and camerawork, meaning you've just got an expensive remake of a man in a cheap costume that's not in proper focus.
Yeah, that's pretty silly. Nobody really acknowledges the individual "cells" in a battery anymore unless they're engineers anyway. I'm afraid pushing to shift the meaning of "cell" that direction is going to go over as well as a man with a PhD in English Literature standing up when someone shouts "is there a doctor in the house?"Funny you should say that, I have a friend who got a doctorate in quantum physics just in case that scenario arose.
Of course, he does use his qualification for more than just jokes nowadays.
I can remember reading an article about mefloquine (AKA Lariam) in an old issue of Gear magazine. They used to give it to the soldiers in the Gulf War to prevent malaria, but the adverse effects from it included paranoia, hallucinations, mood swings, etc.
One soldier in particular, went completely crazy and beat a young boy to death, then killed himself. It was blamed on the Mefloquine.
So you have a choice, suffer the toxin of the spider venom, or eat 16 million Scoville pure capsaicin crystals and lose the feeling in your face forever?
Fuck it, I'll take my chances with the spiders!
If by not too costly you mean £110'000'000 (using UK site play.com as a guide).
Besides, there's a chance that being so hard to get hold of and so sought after, it may only add to the hype of the machine.
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I was tempted to buy a domain name, something like www.SonyAreABunchOfCunts.org, and set the DNS to my IP.
The UK has banned lead solder for decades. What's interesting is that anything made for military purposes is exempt from the law, so military equipment rerely fails.
Hey, priapism is serious stuff. Warning labels should be put on more things, from that Backdoor Sluts 9 DVD to Natalie Portman's swimwear.
Oh God! The thought of a new film featuring Yak Farmers from Kyrgyzstan makes me cry manly tears of hopelessness.
OK, this is getting less hot, we need more "fsck" and "mount" action going on.
I'd say it does, I specifically bought my Motorola Rokr E6 on the basis that it runs Linux. My naivety made me think that the homebrew scene would be rife with apps, but I was very wrong though. Thanks to Motorola's lack of documentation and slow uptake of the phone, mine remains pretty much standard.
Think I may go back to windows mobile after this phone, unless something decent, tried and tested comes out.
You sell their "marketing speak" very well. I could have sworn you were quoting an advert.
Or you could install sabayon, seeing as it works without 3 days of compiling packages, fixing inevitable issues duing installation, dependencies, etc.
Yes, thank the heavens that you have two low-end/cheap video cards from different manufacturers.
Bologna. Children fear heights from a very early age.
Yeah, they learn it by falling a lot. If it was truly innate, parents wouldn't need to buy all those plastic fences to keep their kids from falling over ledges and down stairs.
Have you ever thought that maybe the reverse is true, that toddlers DO have innate fear, but they overcome it quickly when they realise every time they've done something dangerous their parents/carers have saved and protected them?
You have millions of years of evolution teaching you to be scared of the sound of gunfire? Uh, no, I bet the sound of gunfire and exploding bombs scares you because you've seen on TV what they can do. If you had no idea what a hand grenade was ("here, check out my new cell phone"), you probably wouldn't be afraid to hold one in your hand, or even pull the pin.
I'm pretty certain that if you were to put a baby in a soundproof environment for the first 6 months, then introduce a loud bang, they would jump and cry, that's if they weren't paralyzed with shock for the first few minutes. As with your answer, i doubt anyone can prove it either way until they do some very inhumane tests.
See, I used to think along those lines, that during POST the PC would check the bios itself, then the video card, then CPU, ram, etc. But that's only the visual elements of the POST process.
You can find a general sequnce of events here... Award Boot Procedure.
They all (ie. Ami, Phoenix, dell, etc) follow pretty much the same steps, the 1st being to check the flags in the CPU. If it fails here, then you won't see any error as the visual part of post hasn't occured yet.
See "Wife", Read "self".
See "just to see it in action", read "to replace the electric toothbrush".
Sorry, saw the joke and took it.
Sunshine has all manner of things wrong with it, but it's still probably headed to this years scifi blockbuster.
I resent any film that says "Re-ignite the Sun".
Of course it will, think about how much they'll learn when they spend 3 days trying to get a game to work in a usable X window, having to check the gentoo forums every 5 minutes to see if anyone can help.
I can't think of a better way to spend my hard earned £550 when they come out in the UK.
Well, according the BBC financial report, it seems that of the £4 Billion income, £3 Billion is provided by the licence (24 million UK homes x £11 x12 months or thereabouts), the rest is from all the other methods (ie, sales to other broadcasters, DVDs).
I don't see it as particularly unfair for them to provide free video downloads for the UK, in much the same way that Sky currently offer, restricting the content or not. After all, the TV Licence fee we're coerced into paying should cover this.
The moral objection may well be the fact that you're forced to pay a TV licence even if you don't watch the BBC.
I for one only watch Sky one, (Lost and the odd rerun of Simpsons/Futurama), E4 (Smallville and Scrubs), every now and then the sports, movie and music channels, all the other content coming from DVD/PC. The last time I watched anything on the Beeb was when the world cup was on. Even then I didn't watch it at home, most of it was watched in pubs in Tenerife and the UK, a couple of them were watched at someone elses house as they had Sky HD.
Is it really fair that I pay £130 a year for the option to watch an episode of something that may be on the air? It's bad enough that sky charges £40 a month for the odd bit of decent content wedged in between the endless amounts of advertising.
(Probably should have <rant></rant> quotes in there somewhere.)
Although it says that Zudeo can offer HD content, it doesn't say that the BBC programs will be in HD, it says they will release high quality versions.
Besides, as Red Dwarf was filmed in traditional film (AFAIK 35mm, seversal goog), it wouldn't be too tricky to remaster it in HD. The problem there would not be the original film quality, but the production quality of the program, effects and camerawork, meaning you've just got an expensive remake of a man in a cheap costume that's not in proper focus.
OS/2 Warp-speed edition?
Yeah, that's pretty silly. Nobody really acknowledges the individual "cells" in a battery anymore unless they're engineers anyway. I'm afraid pushing to shift the meaning of "cell" that direction is going to go over as well as a man with a PhD in English Literature standing up when someone shouts "is there a doctor in the house?"Funny you should say that, I have a friend who got a doctorate in quantum physics just in case that scenario arose.
Of course, he does use his qualification for more than just jokes nowadays.
I can remember reading an article about mefloquine (AKA Lariam) in an old issue of Gear magazine. They used to give it to the soldiers in the Gulf War to prevent malaria, but the adverse effects from it included paranoia, hallucinations, mood swings, etc.
One soldier in particular, went completely crazy and beat a young boy to death, then killed himself. It was blamed on the Mefloquine.
Ok, so you can see that Maxim from space, but how'd you turn the pages?
So you have a choice, suffer the toxin of the spider venom, or eat 16 million Scoville pure capsaicin crystals and lose the feeling in your face forever?
Fuck it, I'll take my chances with the spiders!
If by not too costly you mean £110'000'000 (using UK site play.com as a guide). Besides, there's a chance that being so hard to get hold of and so sought after, it may only add to the hype of the machine.
Seems almost as wasteful as when the Kazakhs sent Borat to the U S and A.