Stop being so stubborn. I was raised on Celsius temps, so I know weather and cooking temps in Celsius.
I know Celsius temps in the 20s are hot weather (at least for England), and in the 200s is typical cooking temps. I have no clue where hot begins in a Fahrenheit scale. I know freezing point is somewhere around (exactly?) 32F, but no idea what human temp is (~37C), boiling point is (100C) and so on in Fahrenheit.
If someone tells me how hot it is somewhere in Fahrenheit, I won't understand. 78F, is that hot? And you want to get rid of Celsius in favour of Fahrenheit? Yeah, that's a sensible plan. - Sarcasm -
Microsoft Classic Optical Mouse. It was so popular that they brought it back, after trying to replace it. Wired, optical, and one of the most reliable mice I've ever used. 2nd only to my current Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0.
Not so much to remove the telecoms monopoly, just to make sure that their monopoly on phone lines doesn't translate to a monopoly on broadband internet as well.
Though they are technically just a brand of Centrica now, but that matters little because Centrica is one of the companies that the original British Gas split into, so they are still (indirectly) the original British Gas. The sourcing side of British Gas split to become BG, but that side of the company wasn't what most people in the UK would understand as "British Gas" anyway.
Heheh, that's the car from the horrifically bad US Mythbusters commercials, denouncing the myths about diesels being noisy ("sound like tractors!"), smelly, underpowered, etc.
I especially liked how they said it was quieter than an average washing machine. That doesn't sound particularly quiet to me. The car is quiet, they could have just said it a little better.
Also check out the picture of the inside of the boot compared to the "Neat wheels" picture from the outside, it's like a tardis, at least twice as big inside as it looks from the outside.
I currently have a ticket on my license for doing 96mph past a motorway speed camera (70mph speed limit).
This was in a completely unmodified 1.4l peugeot 306 (70hp?). The only thing I'd want a more powerful car for is climbing the hills around where I currently live.
You don't really need antivirus on Windows unless you are using the machine as a desktop, or the machine serves arbitrary files (i.e. it's a fileserver, email server etc) in which case the AV is there to protect the users, not the server, and would be just as needed on a linux server.
Either: 1: The infection relies on someone receiving an email or visiting a web site, in which case a server shouldn't be affected. 2: Or it is a vulnerability in a public service on the machine, in which case an anti-virus program won't keep the infection out.
Antivirus isn't as necessary as it used to be, I don't remember the last time I had a positive from my virus scanner. I keep some actually infected files around to test it every so often, so it does still work:)
I never said you can't blame Microsoft, but I doubt that they really had much input into the project, and just jumped on it as a marketing opportunity.
Similar to how video games always have the logo of the publisher on the front of the box, and the actual developer is only credited on the back. "EA made this terrible game" etc in reviews normally means "EA published this terrible game which was made by someone else".
Regardless, there is nothing to suggest (except this terrible article and fanboys) that the LSE has any issue with Windows itself, just with their trading software.
It's TradElect vs MarketPrizm, which happen to run on Windows vs Linux respectively.
TradElect never managed its performance promises, which suggests lies from marketing and / or programmers unable to deliver what they were asked to. Despite what the Linux fanboys love to say, inferior software isn't Windows-only, and does exist on Linux too.
This could easily have been the other way around, ditching Linux and a shit piece of trades software for Windows and a good bit of trades software. The OS is irrelevant here, except to fanboys of either side.
Can we PLEASE get a horizontal layout tag or property in HTML like all good resizable UIs? Getting divs to go next to each other horizontally without using float: left and float: clear is difficult, and using that approach is misusing floats and feels unclean.
I have wanted to make computer games since I was single-digits years old.
About 15 years of working towards that goal later, I got a games programming job. Now, a little later still, I have my name in the credits of an pretty successful tri-platform game, hopefully the first of many.
If you really want to do something, you'll work as hard as you need to to do it.
College / Uni games courses are to help you get educated, not to get you a job.
As parent said, you probably won't get into a games job with just qualifications, you need to show that you actually LIKE it, and that you're actually good at it, which normally means working on games in your own time.
Three years ago I got my first games programming job while still waiting to find out if I'd passed my final year and got my BSc Games Programming degree:)
Now, I'm days away from losing my job to the studio I work for closing... It's not a good time to get into the industry.
"Overlord" didn't, at least on XP x64, at release. It turned out to be the game's DRM. As I cracked it immediately (fixing the problem), I've never bothered to look for a patch since.
There are also a few old "16 bit" Win9x games I can't run, even under dosbox.
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Stop being so stubborn. I was raised on Celsius temps, so I know weather and cooking temps in Celsius.
I know Celsius temps in the 20s are hot weather (at least for England), and in the 200s is typical cooking temps. I have no clue where hot begins in a Fahrenheit scale. I know freezing point is somewhere around (exactly?) 32F, but no idea what human temp is (~37C), boiling point is (100C) and so on in Fahrenheit.
If someone tells me how hot it is somewhere in Fahrenheit, I won't understand. 78F, is that hot? And you want to get rid of Celsius in favour of Fahrenheit? Yeah, that's a sensible plan. - Sarcasm -
Microsoft Classic Optical Mouse. It was so popular that they brought it back, after trying to replace it.
Wired, optical, and one of the most reliable mice I've ever used. 2nd only to my current Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0.
Not so much to remove the telecoms monopoly, just to make sure that their monopoly on phone lines doesn't translate to a monopoly on broadband internet as well.
Though they are technically just a brand of Centrica now, but that matters little because Centrica is one of the companies that the original British Gas split into, so they are still (indirectly) the original British Gas. The sourcing side of British Gas split to become BG, but that side of the company wasn't what most people in the UK would understand as "British Gas" anyway.
Also, wtf they have a youtube channel.
British Gas is still British Gas.
Though confusingly they're an "energy" company now, not just gas. They do my electricity.
10/10Mbps?
10/0.5Mbps surely...
Heheh, that's the car from the horrifically bad US Mythbusters commercials, denouncing the myths about diesels being noisy ("sound like tractors!"), smelly, underpowered, etc.
I especially liked how they said it was quieter than an average washing machine. That doesn't sound particularly quiet to me. The car is quiet, they could have just said it a little better.
I looked it up, it's 74hp.
At least, it was when new.
According to this: http://www.ukcar.com/road_tests/peugeot/peugeot.306.turbo.d/
The 1.6l version is around 1000kg and has a three star crash safety rating. I imagine the 1.4l version isn't much different.
Also check out the picture of the inside of the boot compared to the "Neat wheels" picture from the outside, it's like a tardis, at least twice as big inside as it looks from the outside.
I currently have a ticket on my license for doing 96mph past a motorway speed camera (70mph speed limit).
This was in a completely unmodified 1.4l peugeot 306 (70hp?). The only thing I'd want a more powerful car for is climbing the hills around where I currently live.
Anyone else?
Yeah, but the people she shared to would share too, and that's clearly her fault. They would never have got the songs and shared them without her.
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You don't really need antivirus on Windows unless you are using the machine as a desktop, or the machine serves arbitrary files (i.e. it's a fileserver, email server etc) in which case the AV is there to protect the users, not the server, and would be just as needed on a linux server.
Either:
1: The infection relies on someone receiving an email or visiting a web site, in which case a server shouldn't be affected.
2: Or it is a vulnerability in a public service on the machine, in which case an anti-virus program won't keep the infection out.
Antivirus isn't as necessary as it used to be, I don't remember the last time I had a positive from my virus scanner. I keep some actually infected files around to test it every so often, so it does still work :)
And my closing comment is "The OS is irrelevant here, except to fanboys of either side."
Judging from THIS, you clearly fall under that. What are you, nine years old?
I never said you can't blame Microsoft, but I doubt that they really had much input into the project, and just jumped on it as a marketing opportunity.
Similar to how video games always have the logo of the publisher on the front of the box, and the actual developer is only credited on the back.
"EA made this terrible game" etc in reviews normally means "EA published this terrible game which was made by someone else".
Regardless, there is nothing to suggest (except this terrible article and fanboys) that the LSE has any issue with Windows itself, just with their trading software.
It's not Windows vs Linux.
It's TradElect vs MarketPrizm, which happen to run on Windows vs Linux respectively.
TradElect never managed its performance promises, which suggests lies from marketing and / or programmers unable to deliver what they were asked to. Despite what the Linux fanboys love to say, inferior software isn't Windows-only, and does exist on Linux too.
This could easily have been the other way around, ditching Linux and a shit piece of trades software for Windows and a good bit of trades software. The OS is irrelevant here, except to fanboys of either side.
An "inner join" never results in more rows than are in either table, if you're joining on something that's unique in one table, e.g. customer id.
No product about it.
It shouldn't need to be commented due to being in a tag which is only allowed in the <head> tag of the document. Same for script.
Can we PLEASE get a horizontal layout tag or property in HTML like all good resizable UIs? Getting divs to go next to each other horizontally without using float: left and float: clear is difficult, and using that approach is misusing floats and feels unclean.
Thanks.
Peggle.
I have wanted to make computer games since I was single-digits years old.
About 15 years of working towards that goal later, I got a games programming job. Now, a little later still, I have my name in the credits of an pretty successful tri-platform game, hopefully the first of many.
If you really want to do something, you'll work as hard as you need to to do it.
College / Uni games courses are to help you get educated, not to get you a job.
As parent said, you probably won't get into a games job with just qualifications, you need to show that you actually LIKE it, and that you're actually good at it, which normally means working on games in your own time.
Three years ago I got my first games programming job while still waiting to find out if I'd passed my final year and got my BSc Games Programming degree :)
Now, I'm days away from losing my job to the studio I work for closing...
It's not a good time to get into the industry.
Strange, Overlord's pretty much the only game, in fact it's the only anything-at-all, I've had trouble with running on XP x64.
With the exception of trying to play an old "16-bit" Win9x game, which can't be done on any 64-bit version of Windows.
*spock-style raised eyebrow*
I use XP x64 on my HOME pc, and I haven't found anything bad about it.
What are your complaints?
"Overlord" didn't, at least on XP x64, at release. It turned out to be the game's DRM.
As I cracked it immediately (fixing the problem), I've never bothered to look for a patch since.
There are also a few old "16 bit" Win9x games I can't run, even under dosbox.