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No wonder certain members of the industry are so keen on all this on-line verification stuff - lets them dictate what you play, when you play it, and for how long (want people to buy a new game? switch the old one off!). Old, off-line games last forever.
I suppose they could always hand it over to the enthusiasts, but would they still want it after all of the licensed content had been stripped out?
with integrated iPlayer, itvPlayer, 4oD and Demand5? That's really all I want (along with the usual PVR functions, but I've no chance of getting that built into a TV) - on demand films/streaming off a network/playback from USB is icing. Even Vista Media Centre can't handle this, which is beyond disappointing.
I get the feeling that I'll end up having to build my own HTPC, but that it'll fail the family acceptance test, as no one wants to fire up a web browser just to catch up on a missed programme.
with the Joggler (bleh!) - family use, so it functions as a shared calendar/noticeboard. Still, it wouldn't hurt to give people the option, would it? Unless it mucks up instant-on, or whatever.
The troll in me says you're just worried about hiding your porn!
I had a horrible feeling that this was going to end in some utilitatian arguement, such that the rape of one child would be a good thing, if distributing footage of the act would prevent more such crimes being committed.
As to the wider content of the article, I think rape is the wrong subject, and women's wider sexual experience should be considered. In normalising the treatment of women as they are in porn, women may well come to have a considerably less satisfying time in the bedroom, and expectations of men may well be such that the treatment of their sexual partners comes to border on abuse (without necessarily straying over into rape).
(as you say, can't prove a negative), but he should be able to refute the evidence presented in support of the claim that he did do it?
Otherwise, all acquisitive crimes would go unpunished (the defence of "I've always owned this Mars bar/Lexus/fortune in unmarked sequential bills" would be foolproof).
I couldn't buy my son a 'droid, because it wouldn't run the apps we'd bought for his iPhone? What kind of a complaint is that? My copy of MSOffice for Windows wouldn't install under Mint, and neither Windows nor Mint was able to run games I had bought for my PS2; this is normal, I expected it, and, somehow, I coped.
Mind you, I naively assume that, since 'droid is Linux-based, and nominally open source, all the apps for it will be free, so perhaps I should cut you a little slack.
to make their products universally available, and at a fair price. They failed to do this, and now piracy is normalised for large swathes of their target market (ie. young people).
As an older person (ie. over 30), I'm not in the habit of downloading (because my formative, internet years, were over dial-up) but, attempting to buy an album recently, I found that the only people willing to sell it to me were some dodgy-looking Russian site, or I could have a massively overpriced import through Amazon; so I googled further, downloaded it elsewhere, and kept my credit card clean.
Time for the big players in the film and music industry to curl up and die.
= people paid to visit places, experience their services, then give an honest opinion.
Reviews written by professionals = people paid to write the reviews that the customer wants.
Yes, internet forums etc. are full of badly written rubbish, and they will generally be whingeing (people rarely feel the need to comment on a satisfactory experience) but that's not really the point of this article,.
OK, the guitar is irreplaceable, but the financial compensation for the loss would probably have eased the pain somewhat (who knows, maybe his son would rather inherit 25k?). And, yes, talking about "my sound" does sound like a contender for pseuds corner (but it's probably meaningful to those who have an interest in guitar music).
Losing a collection of anything will always be devestating to the collector, and calling his son a crack-head is hardly going to help matters, is it? Then again, appealing to the better nature of someone who broke in, trashed your studio and made off with your stuff, is unlikely to help matters, either.
I hope he gets his guitar back. Troll icon for you, AC.
"By 1982, the year suffixes had reached Y and so from 1983 onwards the sequence was reversed again, so that the year letter — starting again at "A" — preceded the numbers then the letters of the registration. The available range was then A21 AAA to Y999 YYY, the numbers 1–20 being held back for the government's proposed, and later implemented, DVLA select registration sales scheme."
http://bit.ly/hyDPUw
I would argue that being part of the "DVLA select registration sales scheme" qualifies as a non-standard numberplate. Point taken, though, as the P4EDO plate may not be quite as unlikely as I assumed (I'll bet it's either unsold or withdrawn, though!).
was my first DVD player, and has outlived 2 DVD/home theatre systems (and one VHS player), thus proving itself invaluable. I think Nintendo are missing a trick here, as I would welcome some sort of integrated home entertainment system - something like the PS3 offers, perhaps - and I think many other families would, too (families are Nintendo's target market, right?).
than tying up my bank login, my facebook login and any activity with public services. A big sign marked "Please rob me" affixed to my back would be just as desirable.
If we must have a unified ID, then the National Insurance database will probably suffice (the NHS already has its own system for identifying us).
"The implication is that the government is such a big client that suppliers will want to accommodate procurement requests if at all possible." is the funnies thing I've read in a long while.
Consultancy firms will happily sell any old shit to the NHS, and the NHS will throw money at consultancy firms. The recent london ambulance debacle has amply demonstrated that the public sector cannot procure the correct IT solution to save its (or anyone else's) life.