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Kasumi-Astra Flurry                  Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days |
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Hehe, sorry, I was very tired when I posted that 
Colin: Yeah, we're doing very well at the moment. Shame I missed Sheffield United vs Reading the other day, United's ground is only five minutes' walk away from me |
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Kasumi-Astra |
Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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Sexual Orientation is just a convenient invention of society. Social rules and taboos cause a lot of people a great deal of pain in their lives, and it's sad to see people enforcing their beliefs on others as law or social pressure. Law is designed to stand for people, not the other way around. |
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Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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I hate any porn where a woman has a pouty or lustful look on her face. It's so unnatractive. Looking lustful for me is only a way of portraying women as weak and submissive. I only find women attractive as equals, as people that have a spirit and personality of their own, not a mindless sex-slave. |
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Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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You're right there, I don't like porn, so I don't watch it. All I see of it are the adverts in the back of games mags like Games TM (the very fact that they're in this magazine annoys the heck out of me too). Seeing photos of women in these ads with overly-pouty, lustful faces is digusting. It's certainly not what I find to be attractive in a woman, and I don't find the liking of it very attractive either.
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If people want to do that, that's their call. I most certainly did not suggest that this behaviour is stereotypical of either gender, simply that photographing women like that in the media is distasteful and does them no justice.
Kasumi-Astra |
Flurry  Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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Are you there, Acmlm? It's me, Kasumi...
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(Not sure if he can make my boobs bigger, though :-\)
Kasumi-Astra |
Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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Originally posted by Thoughtless Pfft, I got there first 
I must, I must increase my
Kasumi-Astra |
Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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You're just a constant reminder of what we lost. Go away! |
Kasumi-Astra |
Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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It's been ages since the last one...
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So seeing as I've just had a new hair cut and I'm wearing my best teeshirt, and through the awesome power of Photo Booth... 
Kasumi-Astra |
Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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If any of you come to London sometime, take the time to ride the Jubilee Line extention to Canary Wharf. The stations are spectacular, and are so grand and modern that they the Canary Wharf station was chosen for a scene in Batman Begins.
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To get to the point, the Jubilee Line extention has barriers between the tracks and the platform. Solid, tall, plexiglass windows. There are doors in them that match the tube trains exactly, so you can get on and off as usual. If you ever come, you can't miss it, it's fantastic.
Kasumi-Astra |
Flurry  Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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All Creative Zen players come highly recommended, automatically. Not by me though, because I've never had one and can't really say which ones are good or not. The Zen Vision M plays video like the iPod video, but there are mixed reactions about it. I've heard it's won awards, but then again the new Pink Panther film managed to find a critic that would say it was hillarious just for the goddamned poster. Just look around for reviews.
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I'm in the market for a new player too, and I'm going to get an iPod Video. I hate the price you pay for the Apple brand, I hate the way iTunes won't support other players, and I hate every single trendy twat on the high street having one. The only thing I want is unhindered support for the iTunes Music Store, Podcasts, Music and Video. Unfortunately only one player has that, and it's the iPod. Boo sucks to be me :-(
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Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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The hottest news in internetland at the moment is Apple Bootcamp! It allows Macintosh users that have Intel powered Macintoshes to dual-boot Windows onto their machine! It comes with all the neccessary bootloaders and drivers, so Windows is fully functional and native now.
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Just wanted to say that I'm off to install Half-Life 2 now, and bask in the sunshine that is DirectX... 
Kasumi-Astra |
Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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Well, I'm sure you completely re-itterated what Taryn said, still |
Windows was absolutely fine last night. I ran into trouble when I first tried to partition my disk because of a few things that Disk Utility complained about. I just booted into the installation disk and ran Disk Utility from there. After that I was away. The Windows setup utility was slower than usual. It probably only had support for single core processors and ran on only one core of my Intel Core Duo. After that, the installation was a bit faster. Windows never takes 39 minutes to install these days, and the iMac was no exeption. Oddly, it didn't seem quite as fast as my original Athlon... After getting all the drivers installed Windows was absolutely fine. The first thing I did was burn a disk in OS X that contained Zone Alarm, Avast! some wallpapers and lololol, before connecting to the internet. Has the relative security of OS X made me wary of using Windows? The answer would appear to be yes. So... Here's the question. Would I be running all my apps in Windows now? Hell no. The only thing I'm using it for is gaming, because honestly that's all Windows is good for! Starting up and shutting down is clunky, configuring and maintenance takes up far to much time and when running demanding games you can start to see the wholes in the operating system. When changing the settings and quitting out of Half Life 2, I didn't expect it to take so long. It took about 10-20 seconds to do what OS X does instantly. Direct comparisons between running WoW on Windows and on OS X have shown it to run significantly better on Windows. No comparisons have been made between running the game using OpenGL on Windows and on the Mac, but I'd expect it to be a much fairer fight. For me, what OS X lacks in raw gaming power it makes up in convenience. Starting and closing WoW happens almost instantly and smoothly. When you start it and stop it, the desktop fades away and fades in without fail. When switching between WoW and Thottbot in a browser, it never needs to take the time to think about it. I can even watch digital TV, encode MPEG 4 video and play WoW at the same time, and the performance of each will scale down smoothly. One performance hit in one will not cause the others to stutter. So runnng Windows on my Mac is only a device that allows me to run games on my Mac. It's still a bona-fide Macintosh to me. The only improvement I can imagine is an advanced, revolutionary vitrualisation technology for running Windows applications in OS X flawlessly. This technology was actually on the design board of Openstep, the third-party OS project that eventually became OS X. Could this have stayed on the cards as long as Intel compiled versions of OS X has been? Who knows. I'll be darn sure to be keeping an eye out for a "One More Thing..." from Steve when he finally announces OS X 10.5 Leopard in August though. At the very least, it would be interesting to see any extra functionality in the full version of Boot Camp.
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Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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Yeah, it's no secret that finder is in for improvements. I think it was a job description that gave it away. Personally I'm looking forward to a interface theme overhaul to syncronise the brushed metal and the new iTunes looks, as well as improvements to OpenGL. Spotlight could use an upgrade, to allow search queries.
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Of course, my favorite bit is always the bit you shouldn't hope for... The "One More Thing"...
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Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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I also want to point out that very few MP3 players these days look jaw droppingly gorgeous. After buying top of the range Minidisc players for a while, for me most are just dull and boring. All Zens look ugly in my opinion, that iAudio is just dull and unimaginative. I honestly think only Apple and Sony are actually pushing the boundaries, design-wise. |
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Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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Originally posted by Colin True, but I found Kwan by accident, seriously. Playing under Silvey's username. Hmmm? HMMMM? Nudge, nudge, wink wink. Say no more! *cough* My main is in an alt's guild with Jizz and Sophie, but I don't play my main much any more because Chad never plays on our server anymore.
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Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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The biggest advantage you can give to exploiters is the source code itself. PHPBB has stuff that's still not fixed last time I heard, and is by no means safe. Another example is the latest exploit in OS X, that was found by trying out a recently patched hole in Unix on OS X. Of course, Apple hadn't fixed the common problem, and it was exploitable in OS X.
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Another problem is probably all the people who contributed to the board cut their teeth at one time on it. You can only learn how to patch possible vulnerabilities with experience, and if you ask them all to come back and do things differently, they probably would. You can argue until the cows come home about the problems the board has been through, and it's obvious that at no one point has the board been perfect. People have worked very hard to bring their own ideas to the table, and taken terrible flak for it as well. I have very little respect for someone who has the cheek to criticise the work that people have put in without stepping up to the task themselves. The source code has always been ugly, and many stupid mistakes have been made. But it's important to remember that without the people that did step in, the board development would still be dead. My own projects have carried on a lot of the work I talked about with ||bass, building a basic board system that has clear, commented, structured, object oriented code. If I was working on the board today, that's what I would want to bring to it.
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Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days
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I don't think we've ever had the luxury of organising things. Many of the people who've worked on the main code-base have taken up things where others have left off, it's not as if we've always done it together. Lots of different styles is also always something you're going to get with more than one person working on a project, you just have to work with them and adapt.
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There are parts of Acmlm's code that I think are crazy and weird, but I don't think that's a reflection on him (that's just a co-incidence, hehe  ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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