So the smaller fall before the larger. Is that a surprise? Game was pretty much the only video game retailer on the high street (HMV has a large presence but not much of a video game selection; PC World is mainly out of town, not high street, and doesn't have much of a video game selection). Unless there is a buyer for Game there will be practically no high street video game outlets in the UK. If that can happen in the UK then it can happen in the USA, and Gamestop's size won't help it.
It will drive games sales down. Sony will claim that games sales have gone down because of piracy, and will press for piracy taxes on all storage media (like some countries already have) and heavier penalties for piracy, and will apply even more intrusive DRM.
Gamestop doesn't enter the equation. The nearest UK equivalent, Game, has just gone bust, and Sony won't care a bit if Gamestop follows.
The article is vague on what it means by "trust in science". Do they mean trust in science to determine matters of fact about how the universe works? Then distrust in science would indeed be stupid. Or do they mean distrust in science's occasional near-messianic promises to usher in a utopia and to be the only endeavour worth undertaking (which is what the liberal reaction was against in the 1960s)? In that case, distrust in it would suggest a healthy degree of scepticism about unwarranted claims. And yes, I'm aware that there are two different meanings of science there; one is the process, the other is the institution. But the general public (outside the geek community) uses science in both senses, and probably doesn't even make the distinction, so we can't tell which they were responding to in this study. That's even before we start looking at the question of whether there is any bias in the choice of questions that the scientific community chooses to investigate. So the study tells us nothing useful: the distrust in "science" reported might be good or bad.
It means that Glik is likely to get hauled in on a jaywalking charge if the light ever changes when he's partway across the road, and he'd better make sure his vehicle never ever has a bust light.
So you target the "hits from the musicals" collections at the gay men, the diaper ads at the heterosexual with kids demographic and the (str8) dating ads at the heterosexual without kids demographic. And of course that leads to lots of misdirected ads, but far fewer than blasting them out to the general population. Heck, if they just targeted the breast enlargement ads to women only then the amount of spam I got would go down by about 30%.
Corporations are chartered by the government. Simple solution, revoke their charters when the violations stack on like we've seen with News Corp. Force the assets into auction, require revenues to pay legal damages and then distribute what remains proportionally to those stockholders that weren't also employed in the company and engaging in the wanton illegal activity or directly managing those who were.
But then where will the bribes -- er, campaign donations -- come from?
Before the whole "war on heaven" business, Satan was a good guy if you remember. He was given dominion over the earth. When God decided to give "grace" to humanity (basically meaning humanity could disobey him and still receive his forgiveness) Satan got pissed and turned. Well, the idea is that the bible is very specific that Satan was given dominion over the earth... so much so that it sounds like other angels had dominion over other areas... other planets maybe?
The Christians are now using Milton instead of the Bible as their source???
the old guys (my age) are too stuck in their ways and they'll never give up their idea of 'ownership' of internet things.
Sorry, but those old guys are the very ones who came up with the idea that "internet things" couldn't be owned. And they have given up that idea. Not all of the old guys, of course, just the ones in power, and that's not coincidence. And guess what? I'd lay good money that a whole pile of the idealistic "information has to be free" youth will give give up those ideals too, and that the ones who end up in power will be the ones who gave up those ideals, and that won't be coincidence either.
I'd guess I've done of the order of 10, none of them to my satisfaction. I've probably done about twice that number of MS Windows installations (and quite a dew MS-DOS, a couple of DR-DOS and one VMS installation), and only one gave me trouble (due to a BIOS incompatibility, and it went fine once I upgraded the BIOS). That's a high number of OS installations if I'm comparing with Joe User. I'd guess that by the time I'd done 1500 I'd be getting good at sorting out installation problems, but that's not the situation most users will be in.
I'm not sure, but I seem to remember that it was Araucaria who laid down the general rules that most British setters are nowadays expected to follow. In which case he probably feels somewhat at liberty to bend them:-)
First get a product that is as good as Microsoft's and Apple's for that particular job. I think Linux is the go-to OS of choice for back ends, but geeks tend to overlook just how hard it is to get Linux working. Every Linux installation I've done there have been problems getting it to work with the hardware that have involved typing arcane incantations into obscure configuration files. Geeks will do that; Joe User won't. And I still haven't got sound or wi-fi working properly on my current Ubuntu installation (nobody on the Ubuntu forums can work out the problems, and all the hardware is listed as supported and works fine when I boot Windows). Not an issue for a backend, but a killer on the desktop. It's not marketing that Linux needs for the desktop, at least not marketing to users -- marketing to hardware manufacturers to persuade them to support it would be a different matter.
That would be considered an exceptionally poor cryptic clue, though, because one of the "rules" is that there should be some allusion to the -- or an -- actual meaning of the answer, however misleading. A better version of the clue would be "V is a source of strength".
As it was presented at the rail industry safety group meeting I attended, the issue wasn't that the costs would be excessive, it was that the delays in getting fresh royal assent would be excessive. And that the issue wasn't extra capacity, it was compliance with European free-trade law.
If you knew anything about aviation safety management (it's my job, by the way) then you would know that a large part of it consists precisely in dreaming up "OMG WHAT IF" scenarios, and then determining whether they're fantastical or not. And if we can't tell then we play safe, because we'd rather inconvenience the 300 people who want to phone home and say "Hello mum, I'm on the plane" than kill them.
They're not all that screwed. They don't need to use comms continuously or refer to charts continuously. "John, could you just switch off the chart for a moment while I speak to ATC?" Besides, the interference from one isn't going to be the same as interference from a hundred. (And what difference would the GPS failing make? They'd still have inertial, and apart from wilderness areas they'd have VOR/DME and ATC would be able to tell them, from the SSR, where they were, what their minimum safe altitude was and which way to go -- we've not gone completely over to ADS yet!)
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So the smaller fall before the larger. Is that a surprise? Game was pretty much the only video game retailer on the high street (HMV has a large presence but not much of a video game selection; PC World is mainly out of town, not high street, and doesn't have much of a video game selection). Unless there is a buyer for Game there will be practically no high street video game outlets in the UK. If that can happen in the UK then it can happen in the USA, and Gamestop's size won't help it.
It will drive games sales down. Sony will claim that games sales have gone down because of piracy, and will press for piracy taxes on all storage media (like some countries already have) and heavier penalties for piracy, and will apply even more intrusive DRM.
Gamestop doesn't enter the equation. The nearest UK equivalent, Game, has just gone bust, and Sony won't care a bit if Gamestop follows.
The article is vague on what it means by "trust in science". Do they mean trust in science to determine matters of fact about how the universe works? Then distrust in science would indeed be stupid. Or do they mean distrust in science's occasional near-messianic promises to usher in a utopia and to be the only endeavour worth undertaking (which is what the liberal reaction was against in the 1960s)? In that case, distrust in it would suggest a healthy degree of scepticism about unwarranted claims. And yes, I'm aware that there are two different meanings of science there; one is the process, the other is the institution. But the general public (outside the geek community) uses science in both senses, and probably doesn't even make the distinction, so we can't tell which they were responding to in this study. That's even before we start looking at the question of whether there is any bias in the choice of questions that the scientific community chooses to investigate. So the study tells us nothing useful: the distrust in "science" reported might be good or bad.
It means that Glik is likely to get hauled in on a jaywalking charge if the light ever changes when he's partway across the road, and he'd better make sure his vehicle never ever has a bust light.
No, but if there were a "death to all gays" party there just might be a negative correlation between membership and homosexual orientation.
So you target the "hits from the musicals" collections at the gay men, the diaper ads at the heterosexual with kids demographic and the (str8) dating ads at the heterosexual without kids demographic. And of course that leads to lots of misdirected ads, but far fewer than blasting them out to the general population. Heck, if they just targeted the breast enlargement ads to women only then the amount of spam I got would go down by about 30%.
Given that 10% of the population would be vulnerable, and most parties have more than 10 members
But party members are unlikely to be a random sample from the population.
Corporations are chartered by the government. Simple solution, revoke their charters when the violations stack on like we've seen with News Corp. Force the assets into auction, require revenues to pay legal damages and then distribute what remains proportionally to those stockholders that weren't also employed in the company and engaging in the wanton illegal activity or directly managing those who were.
But then where will the bribes -- er, campaign donations -- come from?
I don't think any countries use it. Japanese speakers probably use it, whatever country they're in.
How may angels can you fit on the head of a pin?
That one's easy. As many as want to be fitted on the head of a pin. Even the atheists agree.
Before the whole "war on heaven" business, Satan was a good guy if you remember. He was given dominion over the earth. When God decided to give "grace" to humanity (basically meaning humanity could disobey him and still receive his forgiveness) Satan got pissed and turned. Well, the idea is that the bible is very specific that Satan was given dominion over the earth... so much so that it sounds like other angels had dominion over other areas... other planets maybe?
The Christians are now using Milton instead of the Bible as their source???
It would probably turn out to be a rerun of "I Love Lucy" anyway.
Er.. the best minds with a grant to buy wine, that is?
Well, how many of us have managed that? Got to respect the mind of anybody who can figure that out.
Not allowed here in the UK, but I've found judicious application of suitable poisons has proved effective.
the old guys (my age) are too stuck in their ways and they'll never give up their idea of 'ownership' of internet things.
Sorry, but those old guys are the very ones who came up with the idea that "internet things" couldn't be owned. And they have given up that idea. Not all of the old guys, of course, just the ones in power, and that's not coincidence. And guess what? I'd lay good money that a whole pile of the idealistic "information has to be free" youth will give give up those ideals too, and that the ones who end up in power will be the ones who gave up those ideals, and that won't be coincidence either.
I'd guess I've done of the order of 10, none of them to my satisfaction. I've probably done about twice that number of MS Windows installations (and quite a dew MS-DOS, a couple of DR-DOS and one VMS installation), and only one gave me trouble (due to a BIOS incompatibility, and it went fine once I upgraded the BIOS). That's a high number of OS installations if I'm comparing with Joe User. I'd guess that by the time I'd done 1500 I'd be getting good at sorting out installation problems, but that's not the situation most users will be in.
It's the Hobbit pub. It comes in half pints, you insensitive clod!
I'm not sure, but I seem to remember that it was Araucaria who laid down the general rules that most British setters are nowadays expected to follow. In which case he probably feels somewhat at liberty to bend them :-)
First get a product that is as good as Microsoft's and Apple's for that particular job. I think Linux is the go-to OS of choice for back ends, but geeks tend to overlook just how hard it is to get Linux working. Every Linux installation I've done there have been problems getting it to work with the hardware that have involved typing arcane incantations into obscure configuration files. Geeks will do that; Joe User won't. And I still haven't got sound or wi-fi working properly on my current Ubuntu installation (nobody on the Ubuntu forums can work out the problems, and all the hardware is listed as supported and works fine when I boot Windows). Not an issue for a backend, but a killer on the desktop. It's not marketing that Linux needs for the desktop, at least not marketing to users -- marketing to hardware manufacturers to persuade them to support it would be a different matter.
That would be considered an exceptionally poor cryptic clue, though, because one of the "rules" is that there should be some allusion to the -- or an -- actual meaning of the answer, however misleading. A better version of the clue would be "V is a source of strength".
I'm not exactly sure where one would stick the label saying "Exposure to war has been linked to aggressive behavior."
As it was presented at the rail industry safety group meeting I attended, the issue wasn't that the costs would be excessive, it was that the delays in getting fresh royal assent would be excessive. And that the issue wasn't extra capacity, it was compliance with European free-trade law.
If you knew anything about aviation safety management (it's my job, by the way) then you would know that a large part of it consists precisely in dreaming up "OMG WHAT IF" scenarios, and then determining whether they're fantastical or not. And if we can't tell then we play safe, because we'd rather inconvenience the 300 people who want to phone home and say "Hello mum, I'm on the plane" than kill them.
I think you would have been accused of a sense of humour failure. Considering Muslims don't wear turbans, I think the passenger had your number.
They're not all that screwed. They don't need to use comms continuously or refer to charts continuously. "John, could you just switch off the chart for a moment while I speak to ATC?" Besides, the interference from one isn't going to be the same as interference from a hundred. (And what difference would the GPS failing make? They'd still have inertial, and apart from wilderness areas they'd have VOR/DME and ATC would be able to tell them, from the SSR, where they were, what their minimum safe altitude was and which way to go -- we've not gone completely over to ADS yet!)