I have to ask.
Will it run CrysisPacman?
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A commentard-to-commentard message capability. An opt-in system for registered commentards only, with the capability to wield the banhammer on individual commentards at the receiving end[1]. Basic forward to the target's email would do the trick[2], option to add local inbox/outbox/reply capability later if it proves popular and people want it.
[1] Something like: "You can't message ${commentard} as he's already decided you're not worth listening to. You may publicly grovel for forgiveness in the User Forums if you like."
[2] Manual reply process via the same PM process, unless the sender wishes to divulge a return email address of course.
So it's previously managed to delete itself.
Now it's managed to delete the O/S.
Next week: "AVIRA DELETES TEH INTERNETS!!!111!!!!"
> And MS is supposed to have their "system protection", etc..
Yes, but you granted your A/V suite system level privilege when you installed it, precisely so it could clean up infected system files. That's what the UAC warning you got on installation was for.
ISTR that MS did want to restrict that level of access purely to the O/S itself, but the A/V vendors threatened legal action......
I wonder if there's a loophole in that?
Say a user had a Google account and had elected to use persistant login. There would be a gCookie around for this. Now that would give 'em enough, when combined with the user's account info, to target ads very accurately without referring to any cookies bar their own and without collecting any additional data ..........
Yup, spot on. The real fucktards in this area are MS with their "Live" services. You can set the language, but it has a habit of reverting to its geo-derived default at the drop of a hat.
Speaking as an expat, I'd like to find the person responsible for IP geolocation and remove his bollocks with a blowtorch.
"...the reputation loss and potential law suits outweigh the cost of this recall."
Makes no odds that. Ford did something similar and found that the recall cost was higher. That did not go well for them when a court considering a compensation claim found that Ford had already decided it was cheaper to let their customers burn than fix their cars.......
They had to find some way of making the touchy, slidey, wavey Metro interface work on the desktop somehow. A touchscreen monitor and leaning across the desk isn't it.
They're still going to be disappointed when the Corp market refuses point blank to ditch millions of 4:3 screens in favour of doppler enabled, handwaft-detecting widescreen ones en masse though.
A USB waft sensor might do the trick if it were cheap enough, but there's still the pesky problem of the fact that it's as widescreen fixated as the office ribbon to consider.
Also: "...an inaudible tone between 18 and 22kHz...". The countdown to a class action lawsuit from those claiming it gives 'em a headache, if there's the chance of a quick buck in it, starts now.
Yup. In Belgium (where else?) yesterday, I was disturbed from my reverie in slow-moving traffic by a cacophony of horns to the rear. That would be a Belgian performing a "Belgian lane change" (indicate and go, look straight ahead throughout, ignore mirrors) into the half-a-car's-length gap between me and the extremely pissed off articulated truck behind.
".....it was the first browser to properly handle updates."
Hmm, not sure about that. My experience is it'll sit there, all out of date like, in perpetuity until you hit "help/about", at which point it'll update itself without asking.
A worst of both worlds approach in my book.
The Israelis rather cunningly built a bottle opener into the base of every ammo clip. This prevents grunts resorting to using the clips incorrectly when they've lost their seperate opener.
The problem's rife on the venerable AK47 and is possibly that weapon's only serious fault. The hasp at the front of the clip is perfect for opening beer bottles. Doing this means that the clip will likely fail to, er, clip into place when attempting to reload, leaving the idiot who did it staring at the clip now lying on the floor with a puzzled expression while everyone on the other side takes a free potshot.
This proves that drinking beer can kill you.
They can feel free. Nothing they do could be as obstructive as the barriers Europe currently has in place to getting anything made in Europe in the first place.
Have a look at the "why it's made in China" explanation for the Raspberry Pi.
Anyone know how much in total this bit of "git orf moi laaand" cost? Presumably it went through a variety of registration / appeals processes, national courts and such before getting to the ECJ.
Nice to see that they have their priorities right, lengthily debating the nit-pickery of who gets to have ".eu" on a web address, while the EU itself picks up speed on its continuing journey to hell in a bucket.
I can't help feeling that the bloke who coordinated the movement of deckchairs on the Titanic had a more productive job.
Many years ago, Private Eye printed a spotlight piece on Keith Vaz. The general gist was that he was a fairly ordinary, talentless, arse-licking, party machine toady, who'd sell his own grandmother for a favourable couple of column inches in the press.
I have not seen anything since to suggest that they may have been in any way incorrect in their assessment.
Ignore anything he says. Everyone else does.
Try hitting the web service for more gadgets in Windows 7.
Rather than the comprehensive gadget gallery, you now get a brief selection of "more popular" ones, along with an explanation that says something like; "Fuck you, get Windows 8".
So, no gadgets in 8 + people find gadgets useful = pretend they don't exist.