Actually, a Portuguese ISP (who was the market leader for broadband Internet) had exactly this policy almost ten years ago. There was a 2GB cap for international downloads, a 20 GB cap for national downloads, and transfers between its clients didn't count toward that. Of course, nowadays, data caps are pretty much extinct here (except for mobile), but some ISPs do throttle torrents.
The same kind of thing happens with books here in Portugal. Now, Portuguese publishers like to excuse themselves with localization costs, but even books sold in English here cost like 40% more than ordering from Amazon UK.
As someone who is neither French nor American, nor particularly fond of either France or the US, can someone explain to me where the hell does the French surrender meme come from? 'Cause it certainly has no basis in reality...
Anyhow, if you're looking at this as a learning experience, XNA seems to be the thing where you could put your skillset to work the fastest. Python also seems like a good choice, if you're willing to learn it. As for graphics/physics/whatever, there should be libraries to help you, and surely some other Slashdotter will drop a few names shortly.
I do it to practice guitar. I'd like to take the opportunity to give a shoutout to GuitarPractice. I have nothing to do with them, but it's a great little program I use somewhat often.
Many European cities, and many elsewhere, have a single website with a routeplanner for that city. I expect many, many people still use these websites rather than Google.
Spot on. That's exactly how it works here in Lisbon. You head to here and you get your route. Now if only the coordination between services was any good...
If they charge the same as their competitors, they're guilty of "price fixing."
Riddle me this, then: where I live, different gas pumps from different companies in different places are charging the same price for gas down to the tenth of a (euro) cent. What am I supposed to think about this?
Those games were cool because of their writing, not their design (I've documented my problems with adventure games elsewhere). Psychonauts, on the other hand, that's a good one.
The problem with that slip of paper is that it then exposes your identity and how you voted. Making e-voting secure shouldn't be that hard. Making it secure while retaining anonymoity is a whole 'nother story.
Someone needs to go back to his high-school physics class.
There's double the kinetic energy in the "two moving cars" system than in the "single moving car" system. When a crash ends, the kinetic energy is 0. That energy had to go somewhere...
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Actually, a Portuguese ISP (who was the market leader for broadband Internet) had exactly this policy almost ten years ago. There was a 2GB cap for international downloads, a 20 GB cap for national downloads, and transfers between its clients didn't count toward that. Of course, nowadays, data caps are pretty much extinct here (except for mobile), but some ISPs do throttle torrents.
My pet peeve is really on Calc. Why the hell can't I merge cells which were previously merged?
Sounds like DLC Quest.
The same kind of thing happens with books here in Portugal. Now, Portuguese publishers like to excuse themselves with localization costs, but even books sold in English here cost like 40% more than ordering from Amazon UK.
Why anyone would set anything important to happen on April Fools' day is beyond me.
As someone who is neither French nor American, nor particularly fond of either France or the US, can someone explain to me where the hell does the French surrender meme come from? 'Cause it certainly has no basis in reality...
I'm pretty sure i76 is on GoG. Check that out, if you want to.
Hello, fellow Portuguese guy!
Google Voice actually became available in Portugal a few months ago! Go give it a try!
You're well on your way to recreating Slingshot!
Anyhow, if you're looking at this as a learning experience, XNA seems to be the thing where you could put your skillset to work the fastest. Python also seems like a good choice, if you're willing to learn it. As for graphics/physics/whatever, there should be libraries to help you, and surely some other Slashdotter will drop a few names shortly.
I do it to practice guitar. I'd like to take the opportunity to give a shoutout to GuitarPractice. I have nothing to do with them, but it's a great little program I use somewhat often.
There must be something right about that place... you chose to live there!
Spot on. That's exactly how it works here in Lisbon. You head to here and you get your route. Now if only the coordination between services was any good...
Splash screens are useful. Always on top splash screens are an abomination and need to be killed in every single app where they exist.
Riddle me this, then: where I live, different gas pumps from different companies in different places are charging the same price for gas down to the tenth of a (euro) cent. What am I supposed to think about this?
Same in Portugal. I've never even heard of what the parent is saying unitl now.
There's plenty of computer vision research coming out of China, for instance.
That immediately reminded me of this.
Those games were cool because of their writing, not their design (I've documented my problems with adventure games elsewhere). Psychonauts, on the other hand, that's a good one.
Wait, what? How would they do that? Wouldn't they need the Gov's private key for that?
Come on, you're in the right here. You don't need to be posting stupid, melodramatic shit like this.
You mean kg, not Kelvin grams.
Well... Hitler DID declare war to the US. Maybe he was just kidding...
The problem with that slip of paper is that it then exposes your identity and how you voted. Making e-voting secure shouldn't be that hard. Making it secure while retaining anonymoity is a whole 'nother story.
Duh, you're right. I guess I didn't think that one through. Apologies to the AC.
Someone needs to go back to his high-school physics class.
There's double the kinetic energy in the "two moving cars" system than in the "single moving car" system. When a crash ends, the kinetic energy is 0. That energy had to go somewhere...