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I occassionally keep my mobile on in the cinema (never in the opera or theatre) because I AM SO BUSY AND IMPORTANT. I do, however, only use vibrate, so that I do not disturb anyone else; I take the call outside. Cars are, amongst other things, steerable, lockable compartments. A few journeys on the lovely British Victorian-age mass transit system is enough to demonstrate its many flaws. (Chiefly punctuality, cost and convenience; but apart from that it is great.)

I had just begun a five-year-long period of no games, iirc. Previously I had just been playing PSone stuff (like Tombraider and Crash Bandicoot ... the sequel pushed me over the edge, I think).

Mob rule is a beautiful thing to watch.

Playboy Mansion and Leisuresuit Larry: Magna C

fanboi?

Polygon gravy?

You are still looking at the console market in one dimension: it's not about games! The XBox 360, for example, is a much better PVR than anything else on the market: that's M$'s beachhead strategy to pwn the living room. Sony is betting on the Blu-Ray loss-leader to establish a bigger, more unassailable beachhead in the living room: good games are a secondary consideration, and precisely why Ninty has no way of pwning the console gaming market because they just make good games consoles that do nothing else but play good games.

I don't even want to think about what you need a phallic keyboard-substitute for ...

As soon as I read my way out of the barrel of books I have just purchased in my latest frenzy ...

Do we get to work out the damage ourselves ... shock, loss of blood, septic

No, but the "Rich and who-gives-a-stale-f

It's all GRAVY!

Sounds pretty exciting ... :D

Only for the true geek. :D

Remakes of classic films.

Latin is the basis of ALL the Romantic languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, which are all just modern local dialects of what classical latin has become), so it makes sense to teach that ... additionally, it has also been a major influence on English, first through the Norman conquest and the use of French at the beginning of the last millennium, and subsequently, during the renaissance when vocabulary was borrowed directly from the classics to help explain the latest inventions and discoveries, to supplement the germanic Anglo-Saxon base. Biggest mistake of the hippy-touchy-feely 70s, when "teachers" decided that, to learn English, students didn't need all that unnecessary grammar and silly rules. Stupid morons.

Different tasks require different RAID solutions. But remember, RAID 0 doesn't provide ANY redundancy, and in fact makesw the data more vulnerable. RAID 0+1 stripes and mirrors the data, but your are really trying to speed up the mirror rather than vice versa. If you want the ability to recover from a disk crash, i.e. if the data is MISSION CRITICAL, then RAID 5 is really the only option. Comapq made their drives hot-swappable to meet the demand. Responding to a large volume of write traffic is a different ball of wax, and needn't be handled with the hard-drive technology (batch writing from memory, Flash-RAM cache, etc). The solutions I designed didn't need speed over data security; we weren't doing a bajillion credit card transaction a minute for Visa ...

PS It's Post Scriptum and Post Post Scriptum, and so abbreviated to PS and PPS. PPS French is madatory in British schools as a second language. Just about every European learns a second European language: the Dutch are practically born with four languages. It's only the US where the Earth's languages are reduced to Sesame Street version of English, only.

Bioware merged with Pandemic. Rockstar is American to the core. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, it's not. Or at least it wasn't. There was an award programme on and Rockstar was one of the finalists in BRITISH DESIGN.

Your choice of wallet is perfect (read: you have nothing worth keeping secure).

Yeah, I haven't had one for years (they are really a student ready-meal facilitator). I have been tempted recently because they are necessary to heat this one desert I like (chocolate pudding), and also I can see the benefit in steaming in a microwave oven, too. PS You did mean the ovens, right? Not just EMR of a wavelength greater than 1mm and less than 30cm ...

For those that know, no explanation is necessary; for those that don't, no explanation is possible. Be careful not to drink too much (as you recover from the grief); it is an easy trap to fall into and one that will not do you any good in the long term. Be there for your family, and let them support you when you need it. This is a family time.

jagermeister is EVIL :ph34r:

Telephones don't MAKE people into arsehats, anymore than guns kill people. What you object to is not the 'phone, but the fact that it enables said arsehats to irritate you. Technology that empowers of the arsehats: that's what you hate! Secondly, you are looking at the wrong end of the lens: the reason printers are the cost of the cartridges is because the cartridges sell the printer: the printer is sold at a loss to create the revenue stream. Re-use your old printer cables, I haven't had a problem since about 1980 with cables. If you would keep your cell phone off, why would you need one in the first place? One carries a cell phone so that others can reach him/her. It is very rare that when one needs to reach someone it cannot wait until he/she finds a payphone or a store or even getting home. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It is a convenience thing. I choose to turn my telephone on and use it. I don't have to, and I certainly don't answer it if I don't want to. Maybe if you bought your own 'phone, rather than have one given to you for work ... You obviously aren't a woman and haven't been broken down on a dark laneway.