True, but console piracy is a tiny issue compared to the extent of it on the pc.
Unknown. Ever since GTA3, the PC version has followed the consoles, but that was before Hot Coffee.
Of course, if GTA stuck to it's roots, it would be out on PC first. The rampant piracy on the PC platform also makes them less liekly to bother converting it, imho.
But... what CPUs do is maths. Lots of it.
I may be wrong but I can't envisage any such degree as what you seem to be describing. Understanding exactly how microchips work almost at a switch/path/block level would only be relevant if you were learning how to design and create the things. That in turn would almost entirely be maths, and would surely also require an intimate knowledge of how software operates at the machine level.The thing is, computer hardware is a hobby for you, which doesn't make it degree-worthy.
Then again I may be wrong, as you can get f*cking mickey mouse degrees in any old shit these days.
That's because if you don't mention any gradings, the prospective employer kind of knows that they're not worth mentioning.
Eh? A degree in computer hardware? What's one of those then? Unless it's about designing transistors, chips and PCBs, which I'm pretty confident is maths, maths, maths, then some more maths, topped off with a sprinkling of maths. And not easy maths either.
No. Because the central column is, well... a column. Unless I'm severely misunderstanding the structure of WTC 1&2, the floors gave no strength to the column - rather, the column gave strength to the floors. I'm just not quite sure how a load-bearing column neatly collapsed on itself when faced with the uncoupled weight (with little initial momentum) of the above column which, being roughly 1/3rd of the building, would have 50% of the weight of the lower column.
In my mind, if you drop a 1kg weight on top of 20 100g weights from just a slight height so that the velocity of the 1kg weight is negligible, the 1kg weight wouldn't displace twice it's own mass.
Falling on something light? I thought the debate was how the smaller, lighter top half of the building managed to flatten the lower, bigger, heavier part of the building, including the central column which is all of the same density. Therefore, the analogy of a bowling ball on top of styrofoam is completely irrelevant. Assuming the bowling ball is meant to represent the ~1/3rd of the WTC tower above the impact point, and the styrofoam represents the lower 2/3rds including the central column, it has no relevance. You can't hit an apple with a watermelon and then claim that an apple would do the same thing to an apple.
Does your NForce 4 have a built-in firewall on the LAN port? I believe that often caused problems. I'd guess it would be enabled/disabled in the BIOS.
Also are you running any security software? I had problems with LFS on my new computer a couple of months ago which I eventually traced to my security suite interfering with my web traffic and "stealing" packets.
Also are you running any security software? I had problems with LFS on my new computer a couple of months ago which I eventually traced to my security suite interfering with my web traffic and "stealing" packets.
I loved the exchange between James 'Stop The Cock!' Allen and martin Brundle, with Allen trying to be all politically correct.
I paraphrase slightly...
Allen: "Some say those Dumbo wings are ugly, but in the world of F1, if it gives you speed then it's beautiful."
Brundle: "Well they'd look a lot better if they fell off..."
I paraphrase slightly...
Allen: "Some say those Dumbo wings are ugly, but in the world of F1, if it gives you speed then it's beautiful."
Brundle: "Well they'd look a lot better if they fell off..."
Fair enough. Any 8800GT will do, basically. I'd suggest either get an expensive one from the likes of EVGA if you want excellent support and overclocking/modder-friendly warranty. Otherwise, just get a cheap 8800GT. There isn't much point in going for the "middle ground" of 8800GTs.
And I noticed your mobo uses the nForce chipset. Noooooo. Get a mobo with an Intel chipset instead. Modern nForces have quite a few problems, or so I've read, anyway.
And I noticed your mobo uses the nForce chipset. Noooooo. Get a mobo with an Intel chipset instead. Modern nForces have quite a few problems, or so I've read, anyway.
Be careful with the XFX YDF4 8800GT - some models of it have the older PCB and apparently have the fan locked at 100%. I suffered the purchase of a different XFX 8800GT variant that had the fan locked at 100%, and had to immediately return it due to the rediculous noise it made.
I don't really have much opinion on the cause of the towers collapsing, especially after reading nearly everything in this thread. Imho there are compelling thoeries both for and against the official explanation that jet fuel fire triggered the collapse of WTC 1 & 2.
What sets alarm bells ringing is what happened after the attacks.
Dubya sat in a Florida primary school for nearly quarter of an hour after being told that the US was under attack. He's the president of the United States. Why wasn't he bundled into his armoured limo and whisked off to a command & control centre? The authorities couldn't account for many, many aircraft for a good while after the first impact, which led to the grounding of every flight in the US. So who knew that the Florida airspace was safe, and that Dubya was safe to sit there? there was absolutely no panic or urgency to get him out of that room and onto Air Force 1 and into safety.
Then there's the issue of the Air National Guard. Put simply, what the hell was happening? Andrews Air Force base is only ten miles from the Pentagon, and not a single jet scrambled. IIRC, the two (2!) aircraft responsible for covering the entire eastern seaboard were off playing wargames elsewhere with no weapons attached, and in the end the fighters circling New York had travelled from the southern states or the Midwest (this is only based on my memory, so please correct me if I'm wrong on this). But isn't it a bit odd that not one plane could be scrambled from Andrews throughout the events of 11/9?
There's so many other questions. Why, when every aircraft in the US was grounded, were the Bin Ladens allowed to fly out of the country in secrecy?
Why was the debris trucked away from "ground zero" and never examined or anyone allowed near it?
Why did Dubya refuse to testify in front of the investigative commission, and only answered selected questions when sat alongside Cheney? What was there to hide? Why was the govt unco-operative and unwilling in many aspects of the 11/9 investigation?
And most of all, is it really a coincidence that the two wars that followed, directly benefitted in a fairly huge way the corporations that members of Dubya's govt were previously involved in?
What sets alarm bells ringing is what happened after the attacks.
Dubya sat in a Florida primary school for nearly quarter of an hour after being told that the US was under attack. He's the president of the United States. Why wasn't he bundled into his armoured limo and whisked off to a command & control centre? The authorities couldn't account for many, many aircraft for a good while after the first impact, which led to the grounding of every flight in the US. So who knew that the Florida airspace was safe, and that Dubya was safe to sit there? there was absolutely no panic or urgency to get him out of that room and onto Air Force 1 and into safety.
Then there's the issue of the Air National Guard. Put simply, what the hell was happening? Andrews Air Force base is only ten miles from the Pentagon, and not a single jet scrambled. IIRC, the two (2!) aircraft responsible for covering the entire eastern seaboard were off playing wargames elsewhere with no weapons attached, and in the end the fighters circling New York had travelled from the southern states or the Midwest (this is only based on my memory, so please correct me if I'm wrong on this). But isn't it a bit odd that not one plane could be scrambled from Andrews throughout the events of 11/9?
There's so many other questions. Why, when every aircraft in the US was grounded, were the Bin Ladens allowed to fly out of the country in secrecy?
Why was the debris trucked away from "ground zero" and never examined or anyone allowed near it?
Why did Dubya refuse to testify in front of the investigative commission, and only answered selected questions when sat alongside Cheney? What was there to hide? Why was the govt unco-operative and unwilling in many aspects of the 11/9 investigation?
And most of all, is it really a coincidence that the two wars that followed, directly benefitted in a fairly huge way the corporations that members of Dubya's govt were previously involved in?
Unless you have a second VM box, you'll always be stuck watching the channel being shown in the living room.
Just to play devil's advocate, here is what a controlled demolition of a tower looks like.
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/f ... rk-tower-implosion-p1.php
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/f ... rk-tower-implosion-p1.php
That would be a Boeing 767-200, which has a maximum take-off weight of just 143 metric tons? (And in pratice is always less, unless the aircraft is operating to the very limits of it's range).
Just try superglue on the keyboard. It'll have the desired result.
First I've heard of that. Linkage?
Erm, no, they wouldn't. What the sweet f*ck are you on about? Since when did telecoms have anything to do with airlines?
Well, no problems here whatsoever (touch wood) - but a colleague who lives less than a couple of miles away from me (and is presumably connected to the same UBR) has had all sorts of connection problems lately. Maybe I'm just lucky too, as my services are pretty much rock solid.
I thought they'd dropped the premium rate broadband support. I got an email about it and read it on digitalspy a fair while ago. You can call them free again (on 150 I think from a VM phone).
Have to agree with you there. No connection problems but their email servers appear to keep falling over or suffering delays every other week. I still use my VM mail, but only 'cause it's just for personal, social mail - nothing business related.
The Indian call centres are a ****ing joke, pardon my French. It's all very much down to the individual though as sometimes I've been put through to India and got excellent service from someone that was literate and obviously able to understand what I was talking about, other times I've been almost barked at by a women with a high pitched, very strong Indian accent. I think there's a knack to phoning at the tight time so that you get put through to Liverpool instead. Which, let's face it, is definitely the lesser of two evils.
Yes, you used to be able to dial the general enquiries (free) number, and they'd transfer you. I read that they'd stopped that though, and they told you to redial the premium rate number. Doesn't matter now though, as it's free again.
C'mon Sam, you work with the Interwebs, you know you're paying for a contended service. Want your own line with a 1:1 contention ratio? It'll cost you. The service is unlimited in terms of the fact that they don't stop you when you exceed the stated amount, they just slow you down. I can understand them doing it, and support it - stupid leechers that expect to run their connection flat out 24/7 can piss off - but as you say the STM kicks in rediculously early for the 20meg connection. I'm on 4meg and it's not so bad - with torrents I have to be trying really hard to get STM to kick in (although it's easily done with newsgroups). But although the 20meg customers have five times my speed, they don't get five times my peak-time full-speed download allowance.
I thought they'd dropped the premium rate broadband support. I got an email about it and read it on digitalspy a fair while ago. You can call them free again (on 150 I think from a VM phone).
Have to agree with you there. No connection problems but their email servers appear to keep falling over or suffering delays every other week. I still use my VM mail, but only 'cause it's just for personal, social mail - nothing business related.
The Indian call centres are a ****ing joke, pardon my French. It's all very much down to the individual though as sometimes I've been put through to India and got excellent service from someone that was literate and obviously able to understand what I was talking about, other times I've been almost barked at by a women with a high pitched, very strong Indian accent. I think there's a knack to phoning at the tight time so that you get put through to Liverpool instead. Which, let's face it, is definitely the lesser of two evils.
Yes, you used to be able to dial the general enquiries (free) number, and they'd transfer you. I read that they'd stopped that though, and they told you to redial the premium rate number. Doesn't matter now though, as it's free again.
C'mon Sam, you work with the Interwebs, you know you're paying for a contended service. Want your own line with a 1:1 contention ratio? It'll cost you.
The service is unlimited in terms of the fact that they don't stop you when you exceed the stated amount, they just slow you down. I can understand them doing it, and support it - stupid leechers that expect to run their connection flat out 24/7 can piss off - but as you say the STM kicks in rediculously early for the 20meg connection. I'm on 4meg and it's not so bad - with torrents I have to be trying really hard to get STM to kick in (although it's easily done with newsgroups). But although the 20meg customers have five times my speed, they don't get five times my peak-time full-speed download allowance.No kids myself but last time my lovely two year old nephew was round at mine, I sat him on my knee and let him steer a variety of cars around the autocross car park while I did the pedals and gears. He managed to pick it up too, by the end of it he seemed to figure out to turn the wheel in the direction he wanted to go.
flymike, where do you pull this shit from? And why do you have a chip on your shoulder the size of Persia?
For starters, the Archbishop of Canterbury does not speak on behalf of the government, let alone the entire friggin' UK. The current Archbishop is renowned for being a complete left-wing bearded loony. This is the twat that recently suggested that Sharia law be applicable for Muslims in the UK. He's so off the mark of the "general opinion" in the streets and pubs of Britain that he's taken much flak even from his religious peers over his comments.
That said, I do agree about his comments about empire building in Iraq. If you still believe Dubya's lies about [s]WMD[/s] [s]terrorism[/s] spreading freedom then I can only laugh at your blinkered nationalism, but I digress as that is a topic for another, err, topic.
Secondly, I thought this thread was about the European Constitution, not (yet another) rant about how everyone owes America so much for their existence and help and aid, yada yada yada. Well, I think many people in the world would prefer it if the US just kept itself to itself for a bit. Iraqis, mainly.
I don't actually disagree with many of the principles you subscribe to, but your angst and perceived injustices over the US' role in the world surfaces it's head again and again, ad nauseum.
That said, I don't agree with Kev either. There's a very good reason for having separate nationalities with different borders. I don't subscribe to the theory of opening my house up to unknown, uninvited visitors for them to benefit. Why should I? It's mine. I worked for it. I feel no guilt in protecting my own living standards, and that also extends to a national level. Speaking of the UK, many people want to come here to benefit from our institutions (freedom, health care, the usual "perks" of living in a Western democracy). But the UK wasn't always this well off. We used to be in poverty and toiling in the fields just to survive, with barbaric kings and rulers running amok. But we didn't all just run off to the other side of the fence for the greener grass. The UK got built as we know it today, but wouldn't have if we'd all just travelled elsewhere and expected someone else to provide it all for us. Which is effectively what economic migrants are doing today in all parts of the world. Maybe if they stayed put and worked on improving their own country/area/town/village, they wouldn't have to drag down the wealth/living standards of others.
Oh, and my vote on a Euro constitution would also be an emphatic NO. We have quite enough crooks, scum, and leechers (technically known as "MP"s) damaging Britain as it is. We don't need any more, and definitely need a lot less.
For starters, the Archbishop of Canterbury does not speak on behalf of the government, let alone the entire friggin' UK. The current Archbishop is renowned for being a complete left-wing bearded loony. This is the twat that recently suggested that Sharia law be applicable for Muslims in the UK. He's so off the mark of the "general opinion" in the streets and pubs of Britain that he's taken much flak even from his religious peers over his comments.
That said, I do agree about his comments about empire building in Iraq. If you still believe Dubya's lies about [s]WMD[/s] [s]terrorism[/s] spreading freedom then I can only laugh at your blinkered nationalism, but I digress as that is a topic for another, err, topic.
Secondly, I thought this thread was about the European Constitution, not (yet another) rant about how everyone owes America so much for their existence and help and aid, yada yada yada. Well, I think many people in the world would prefer it if the US just kept itself to itself for a bit. Iraqis, mainly.
I don't actually disagree with many of the principles you subscribe to, but your angst and perceived injustices over the US' role in the world surfaces it's head again and again, ad nauseum.
That said, I don't agree with Kev either. There's a very good reason for having separate nationalities with different borders. I don't subscribe to the theory of opening my house up to unknown, uninvited visitors for them to benefit. Why should I? It's mine. I worked for it. I feel no guilt in protecting my own living standards, and that also extends to a national level. Speaking of the UK, many people want to come here to benefit from our institutions (freedom, health care, the usual "perks" of living in a Western democracy). But the UK wasn't always this well off. We used to be in poverty and toiling in the fields just to survive, with barbaric kings and rulers running amok. But we didn't all just run off to the other side of the fence for the greener grass. The UK got built as we know it today, but wouldn't have if we'd all just travelled elsewhere and expected someone else to provide it all for us. Which is effectively what economic migrants are doing today in all parts of the world. Maybe if they stayed put and worked on improving their own country/area/town/village, they wouldn't have to drag down the wealth/living standards of others.
Oh, and my vote on a Euro constitution would also be an emphatic NO. We have quite enough crooks, scum, and leechers (technically known as "MP"s) damaging Britain as it is. We don't need any more, and definitely need a lot less.
Yes - you want to mod the game. But you can't I'm afraid, as Quicksilver said.
I'd also bet good hard-earned money that most people, devs included, know when to take a post with a hefty dose of salt and with one's tongue planted firmly in one's cheek. Smileys or no smileys.
Well, you get on with killing Scots carrying a bow and arrow then.
But why are all bombers minging? It's just a Vulcan. It's not as if the Enola Gay was taking to the skies again.
I'm not an aircraft nerd. But I thought it looked beautiful, and it's part of our history.
Although Scawen's account has logged some miles, I would imagine that, as God of the LFS universe, if Scawen wants to play online he will simply create himself a new S2 username. Or maybe he already has several.
After all, you don't think he'd actually get a race in if Scawen actually appeared on a busy public server, do you? Nobody would dare risk getting close to him in case they wipe out Our Creator.
Mind you, with a newborn and a little boy, I doubt he has time to play LFS right now.
After all, you don't think he'd actually get a race in if Scawen actually appeared on a busy public server, do you? Nobody would dare risk getting close to him in case they wipe out Our Creator.
Mind you, with a newborn and a little boy, I doubt he has time to play LFS right now.
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