Posts by Dave

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Your Gimp test results states that a longer bar is better, I would have thought that the less time it takes to render the blur is better?

Don't worry the pedant squad is here to keep you right.

Pre-order?

Anyone know anywhere offering pre-ordering on these babies yet? Tried google, but computer says no.

Dick Jones...

"Here just point this gun at it".

*Bang*

This can only serve to do one thing!

What will happen if they cant meet kids online anymore? What will be next? Only one thing....Paedophiles disguising themselves as schools.

re: a modest proposal

Using a criminal brain is a terrible idea, you'll end up with a drug addicted psychopathic killing machine.

As long as we can make a 'good' robot with a dead hero cop's brain maybe we can turn the tide of the stain on our good society that is nuke.

Better drivers

I remember when the Audigy was reasonably new I bought one to use while studying music technology.

The drivers sucked. The latency I got from ASIO was horrendous.

The only way I got it working was using some 'dodgy' drivers from a forum. (Very possibly Daniel_K's I cant remember what they were called)

Guess not much changes over at Creative HQ 'cept those cats getting fatter.

Sadly after an intial out pouring of venom and maybe losing some sales in the short term eventually people will forget and they'll be pimping their shite to some other sucker.

Alt-tab

Dale,

There are a number of Alt-tab replacement programs which give you features similar to vistas.

Microsoft even have their own one in their 'power toys' section which is quite nice.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TaskswitchPowertoySetup.exe

When I worked in IT I had the opposite power

Everytime I was there the user couldn't make their computer which is 'completely broken' show any faults at all. Funny that.

More companies already have this covered...

http://www.bjservices.com/ (SFW- Unless you find 'coiled tubing' a bit seedy)

Thoughts from an oil whore

I myself work within the industry. the cost of the incident is not so crazy. Bear in mind 18 choppers were sent out to evac people. These choppers are not just 'sitting around' all operators agree that in the event of a disaster they will all spare any available chopper to fly out to assist. No-one wants to the be the one to say 'you cant have my helicopter, I need it' when people are being burned to death. They will however charge a substancial amount of money for the priviledge. Add to this the fact that most of the costs which are being printed in the press probably include costs for staff (think how much a day some of these fuckers are getting) which were evac'd and you have your figure. I agree that johnny taxpayer should not pay for this. Its about time the rich pricks at the top of the food chain payed out, however given that its really the oil industry and those who make real money from oil who make sure people they can coerce into doing their bidding who get voted into positions of power its of little doubt that they *somehow* pass the cost on to everyone else.

Flame icon because I'm a couple of MMscf/d over the allowable limit.

I'm drunk so I'm going to bed.

This puts an end..

..to all the harmless, fun gasoline fights we all know & love.

</blue steel>

RE: Corporatism and socialism

"I don't understand why socialism is deemed so bad yet corporatism so good. In a corporation, everyone works for the good of the whole."

Generally though for a corporation the only thing which matters is the bottom line therefore ALL other factors are un-important. It doesnt matter what happens to those working for the company / the enviroment etc. as long as money is made. People are working to make the company more money so only for the good of the company. If they fired after 10 years of service with no pension because they've become injured at work the corporation will not help them live.

Corporate responsibilty is nothing but a buzz word to encourage people to spend more money with that company because 'These guys DO care'.

'The Corporation' is a very interesting film in which the Canadian filmmakers discuss the fact that a Corporation often has the rights of a human being. They then look at the fact that if a Corporation was a human being it would in fact be a psychopath.

Not that in practice socialism is any better, generally because they are run by facists instead of someone really working for the common good, but if it was done right then the 'greater good' of the whole of society would be the goal instead of thegrater good of the amount of money lining the shareholders & fat cats pockets.

Dates?

"completely free for two weeks from 19 December .....on 26 December, it'll be made available via pay-per-view platforms and on DVD"

If its free for 2 weeks why would you pay to see it on the 26th?

Also will we see Steve-o performing a horrifically risky feat such as having unprotected sex with a certain heir(head)-ess??

Even better yet..

Don't know if it will get rid of HP info centre but the PC Decrapifier seems to do a good job on Dells

http://pcdecrapifier.com/

I'd vote it number 1 in the best named app as well :)

Man rides sexy motor cycle

Perhaps he has been watching Vroom Vroom Vroom

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114879/

@ Nic

""He should have used Truecrypt: http://www.truecrypt.org."

It's now an offence in the UK not to hand over your encryption keys to the police so that won't help much."

Truecrypt lets you have a hidden volume within your encypted volume which they cannot prove even exists.

You can put some dodgy porn in here & pretend to the fuzz that was all you had to hide.