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" Fine after the first few times...but then I start getting a strong urge to beat Tom Hanks to death with a box of chocolates. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You have obviously watched it too often, then. The US Surgeon General recommends no more than 1000Dpm, which equates to 1 Hanks/year (the older unit of irritability was the Beckinsale (Bk), defined as 3.7

Nope, it'll be a software switch that changes the CD drive to an old backward-compatible state (sometimes copy protection software, like StarForce, does this). Can't recall the details at the moment ... there is a registry switch, too, but it is buried deep (I'll look it up later if someone else doesn't post it first). Not sure about music CDs, though, that shouldn't be affected, IIRC ...

Can I say touch

Not a Forrest Gump fan, then?

The biggest problem with futures (and derivatives in general) is that there is no guarantee that the short-term price fluctuations will show any positive correlation with the long-term trends ...

Kirottu, meet hard business reality. Hard business reality, meet kirottu.

Yep. Complicated stuff, though, lots of fiddly details and blame when things go wrong: and as a network engineer when things go bad, they go spectacularly wrong ...

^ What a surprise! "

NO! Don't give up! Run, Forrest, run!

Nice concept, pity it is unmanageable.

Eh ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think he meant Ike Turner ...

With Steam, it's not just on one harddrive, it's on t3h interN3tz!

If only I could still lose my Grim Fandango virginity. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I am just about to re-commence my Grim play (and I haven't forgotten you, Kafty ... )

Says the guy who "supposedly" doesn't work for Sega <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Zing!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Chess.

Super Fly Swatting!

@Lonewolf: Right, see how much easier that is to read, for us out here?

The UT3 engine will utilize it (and that means just about every game, because nearly every current commercial game uses the current Unreal Tournament 2 Engine). wikipedia

Nah, it's just used as an impotent (yet strangley effective) geopolitical pressure-release used by the countries of "Europe" to demonstrate their "friends" and "foes" (all the Nordic nations vote for their neighbours, all the Baltic states vote for each other, all the Balkan states vote along religio-alliance lines, all of the (other) former Soviet nations vote for each other, etc ...). A good act (well, let's say the best of the awful bunch) will normally score well; other than that all the voting is done on partisan lines. (This is the source of much mirth for Sir Terry Wogan, and why he is persona non grata at these events.) This is also why Britain (unless they have the best act) come dead last. (They scored nil point after Blair invaded Iraq, two years ago.)

Yes, I can see how that is equally as serious as hearing voices in your head telling you to take a bread knife and stab that random pregnant woman walking down the street. Oh, but it's serious because it's YOUR problem! Right. Because egoists devoid of empathy believe that all their problems are more important than everyone elses ...

It's just Petrol Futures for the small investor (see Derivatives). Bear in mind that the futures market is like roulette on crack: that's what brought Bearings Bank down, and it can cost exponential amounts of money compared to the time gambled. For example, it would be better to keep the $2 petrol for much later. Petrol isn't going to go down in price (long term trend), so keeping that for later, when petrol climbs over $6, will help dollar-cost-average the future petrol.

But ... aren't those two little dollies in your sig related to you? It's pretty obvious why the Chinese have a population problem, when their children are living dollies and almost fatally cute.

Cruel and unusual gruel?