Jeff: They revoked my lawyer licence over some qualifications
Duncan: I thought you had a bachelor's from Columbia?
Jeff: Yes, and now I need to get one from America
The problem is that even though it may seem like it gives you more freedom, this type of game will cost you a lot more time than you'd want. I used to play on the first french universe, the raider game style forced me to have a fleet, that other users wanted. As the universe matured and gamers became more experienced, the tactics and techniques developed quickly outpaced the easy going playing style.
Before I retired from the game, I inherited an account in the top30 of the universe, which meant in order to keep an edge over other players, the number of hours I had to put in was insane. The worst nights meant I would sleep for 40 minutes, and take care of the account for 10-20 minutes. The number of people who did this was quite ridiculous as well. I can't speak for every universe out there, but in uni 1.fr, at least a hundred players would do this very regularly (near daily basis). I have no idea how many universes there are in total (french realm has 73, german (oldest) has 85, english realm has 49, etc, etc)
In other words: Don't believe that a real-time based game will cost you less effort; quite the contrary. At least other games, you know your character is safe while you're away.
If an entire nation stopped going to work, if they just ate whatever was in their fridge and spent time taking walks, talking with their friends, and just flat out relaxing, what the hell could corporations do besides finally realize they can't bend us over and rape us?
First of all,./ readers would be pretty lonely, and second, I don't fancy eating mustard and jalapeno for a week.
In all seriousness, how do you chose which corporations you would still humour? Electricity company? Gas? TV? Are there any government-funded TV channels in the US? (seriously, I don't know). Would you go out with your friends? Would restaurants still be active [= would those people be working?]. If not, what would you do with your friends? Just walk? Now, I really love my fiancee, and have a few very good friends, but I'm pretty sure I couldn't stand spending a week just looking deeply into their eyes.
It seems a bit easy to say "Let's boycott x and y", but the problem is that there's a gazillion other corporations who would go "Meh, not my problem".
Heh. Last year I was working in London, in a small top-floor office just across the road from Waterloo. Absolutely excellent team, thoroughly enjoyed my time there. On average, there were maybe 2-4 people in on a daily basis, even though the UK team was mode up of roughly 20 people.
I was part of a division that meant my immediate boss was in Holland, and his boss in Sweden. What it meant that I had nearly no supervision, and was free to manage my hours as I saw fit. I would come in between 9 and 11 on slow days, and leave around 1-2 AM. When things got tough, I would come in around 4AM, but leave around the same time. I even got a room at the local hotel a few times (because I missed the trains), or slept in one of the comfy architects' chairs.
Thing is, the office, all "Open Plan", had hardwood on the whole floor. Everytime one of the girls would come in, anyone on the phone could sonar-position them just by the resonating sound of their heels. Same for some sales people, who enjoy a nice leather sole/wooden heel on their 300 GBP pairs of shoes (I shouldn't slam them, I have 'em too).
My team used to use Skype for cheap communication (team being spread all over Europe and all), but Dell's microphones are utter crap. They will record anything that happened within a 40m radius, and then some. What you end up with, is a conversation with a guy who speaks in a very low voice, covered by the printer, the paper shredder, the scanner, the clicking-resonating heels, the door slamming shut (and first squeeking nicely), and the bariton-voiced German father-christmas-laughing his way through your customer conf call.
There's a reason I loved working between 6PM and 2AM. The utter quietness just allowed me to get in "the zone", and get some work done. Headphones didn't work either, as sales people, answering phones, and the simple fact that a stray look will take your attention in an open-plan hotdesking situation will do.
Where am I know? I burnt out, and am now taking the easy route and going to recover with the family in the south of France. Working like an idiot never pays off.
Separating these two is a huge thing. As it is with Chrome, Google knows everything you've typed in and what websites you have visited. With other browsers (with separated address and search bars) they only know what you're typing to the search query box. Major difference.
No, it's not. Any developer knows that you could very well have both inputs being sent continuously to whomever they want. Also, you'd be amazed at the number of people who type the URL in the search box anyway. You'd be even more amazed at the sheer number of people who type their URLs in the search box of their Google homepage.
People don't like URLs. Google has become the new DNS.
The main problem is that historically, Flash developers have been extremely bad at implementing graceful degradation, or even content description targetted specifically at users who do not have the capabilities (physical or technical) to comply with a specific technology.
A common example of this are menus which show will display a submenu when hovered, but still work as a proper HTML link if clicked (intentionally or because the user's browser is unable to display the submenu). I have seen quite a few websites where the navigation relied extensively on Flash, and there was no way to browse anything else than the index if Flash was unavailable.
I think everyone realises that Flash is a dying technology. Its proprietary nature, lack of openness, CPU-hungry cycles and history of poor design have made it the black sheep of webdesign; the only reason it still is popular is because of YouTube. As a few in here have said, Joe Bloggs doesn't care about what technology powers the fancy and shiny flashing buttons on the interwebs. So, whether it's Flash or something else, they'll adopt anything as long as it just works. We just need to wait for websites to stop providing it.
Unless we're talking about very fancy vector drawing, there rarely is anything about content disposition in Flash that provides an advantage over HTML/Javascript. A few examples of this are LivePipe and JQuery Tools. Most of these are available through Content Delivery Networks, which drastically reduces load times.
Not the fastest in the world, unless you're on Free (the ISP)'s network, but by far one of the best. Files are limited to 1GB if you use the HTTP upload feature, or 10GB if you use the FTP upload feature. Files are retained for 30 days from last download, no download limit.
FTP requires valid email address (username), and temporary password (user defined) which creates a 48h "session", used for resuming the upload in case it fails initially. Once the upload is complete they send an email containing the link to the file (and no, no spam -- they're a massively successful ISP, not some dodgy company).
The company saw revenue rise by 25% year-on-year to EUR 1.95 billion in the year, while net profit jumped 75.2% year-on-year to EUR 175.9 million in 2009
I think you'll find that IT stands for Information Technology, and I really don't understand what you're been trying to achieve by spreading your fallacies.
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I live in Canada, so I'm quite experienced with being useless :-)
There, fixed that for you.
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Jeff: They revoked my lawyer licence over some qualifications
Duncan: I thought you had a bachelor's from Columbia?
Jeff: Yes, and now I need to get one from America
Another game that has been using this is OGame.
The problem is that even though it may seem like it gives you more freedom, this type of game will cost you a lot more time than you'd want. I used to play on the first french universe, the raider game style forced me to have a fleet, that other users wanted. As the universe matured and gamers became more experienced, the tactics and techniques developed quickly outpaced the easy going playing style.
Before I retired from the game, I inherited an account in the top30 of the universe, which meant in order to keep an edge over other players, the number of hours I had to put in was insane. The worst nights meant I would sleep for 40 minutes, and take care of the account for 10-20 minutes. The number of people who did this was quite ridiculous as well. I can't speak for every universe out there, but in uni 1.fr, at least a hundred players would do this very regularly (near daily basis). I have no idea how many universes there are in total (french realm has 73, german (oldest) has 85, english realm has 49, etc, etc)
In other words: Don't believe that a real-time based game will cost you less effort; quite the contrary. At least other games, you know your character is safe while you're away.
If an entire nation stopped going to work, if they just ate whatever was in their fridge and spent time taking walks, talking with their friends, and just flat out relaxing, what the hell could corporations do besides finally realize they can't bend us over and rape us?
First of all, ./ readers would be pretty lonely, and second, I don't fancy eating mustard and jalapeno for a week.
In all seriousness, how do you chose which corporations you would still humour? Electricity company? Gas? TV? Are there any government-funded TV channels in the US? (seriously, I don't know). Would you go out with your friends? Would restaurants still be active [= would those people be working?]. If not, what would you do with your friends? Just walk? Now, I really love my fiancee, and have a few very good friends, but I'm pretty sure I couldn't stand spending a week just looking deeply into their eyes.
It seems a bit easy to say "Let's boycott x and y", but the problem is that there's a gazillion other corporations who would go "Meh, not my problem".
OK. Fair point, we should've known /. would be pedantic.
Realistic first assignment:
for(int i=1;i=50;i++){System.out.println(i);}
Dutch is fun too:
- zandzeepsodemineraalwatersteenstralen
- Hottentottententententoonstellingsmakersopleidingsprogramma
- hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliofobie
- Halfautomatischeautobandenventieldopjesetiketplakmachinehulpreperateur
FWIW, these languages don't really have a "longest word", as you can automatically spoon them together.
A few hundred years ago, they used "crowsourcing" to know what was going to happen.
Looks to me like someone just misread.
Heh. Last year I was working in London, in a small top-floor office just across the road from Waterloo. Absolutely excellent team, thoroughly enjoyed my time there. On average, there were maybe 2-4 people in on a daily basis, even though the UK team was mode up of roughly 20 people.
I was part of a division that meant my immediate boss was in Holland, and his boss in Sweden. What it meant that I had nearly no supervision, and was free to manage my hours as I saw fit. I would come in between 9 and 11 on slow days, and leave around 1-2 AM. When things got tough, I would come in around 4AM, but leave around the same time. I even got a room at the local hotel a few times (because I missed the trains), or slept in one of the comfy architects' chairs.
Thing is, the office, all "Open Plan", had hardwood on the whole floor. Everytime one of the girls would come in, anyone on the phone could sonar-position them just by the resonating sound of their heels. Same for some sales people, who enjoy a nice leather sole/wooden heel on their 300 GBP pairs of shoes (I shouldn't slam them, I have 'em too).
My team used to use Skype for cheap communication (team being spread all over Europe and all), but Dell's microphones are utter crap. They will record anything that happened within a 40m radius, and then some. What you end up with, is a conversation with a guy who speaks in a very low voice, covered by the printer, the paper shredder, the scanner, the clicking-resonating heels, the door slamming shut (and first squeeking nicely), and the bariton-voiced German father-christmas-laughing his way through your customer conf call.
There's a reason I loved working between 6PM and 2AM. The utter quietness just allowed me to get in "the zone", and get some work done. Headphones didn't work either, as sales people, answering phones, and the simple fact that a stray look will take your attention in an open-plan hotdesking situation will do.
Where am I know? I burnt out, and am now taking the easy route and going to recover with the family in the south of France. Working like an idiot never pays off.
Interesting first-hand account. I'd love to hear your excuse as to why you were dressing up a 'roo.
It scares me when someone from a military force says they came back from any war saying they had "a lot of spare time".
There are no books of tactile pictures of nudes for adults, at least the last time I looked around
Har har har. You couldn't resist the pun, eh? Thanks. -- The Blind.
I want to set up three kids, 12, 14 and 15
Not only that, but those are seriously crappy names for kids.
At least point to the correct article.
Right here.
Looking back at lonelier episodes in my life and looking at the lonely episodes,
... we can definitely see that the lonelier episodes were definitely lonelier than the lonely episodes, which were only lonely. Sometimes millenia.
I think you'll find that's condescending.
Aerobic life was fairly early in the phylogenic tree.
So that's how you call those stupid shows at 6AM.
Separating these two is a huge thing. As it is with Chrome, Google knows everything you've typed in and what websites you have visited. With other browsers (with separated address and search bars) they only know what you're typing to the search query box. Major difference.
No, it's not. Any developer knows that you could very well have both inputs being sent continuously to whomever they want. Also, you'd be amazed at the number of people who type the URL in the search box anyway. You'd be even more amazed at the sheer number of people who type their URLs in the search box of their Google homepage.
People don't like URLs. Google has become the new DNS.
The main problem is that historically, Flash developers have been extremely bad at implementing graceful degradation, or even content description targetted specifically at users who do not have the capabilities (physical or technical) to comply with a specific technology.
Javascript, over the years, has become extremely good at graceful degradation. Toolkits such as JQuery really stress the fact that Javascript should be used to augment a user's experience, without making support for said toolkit or language a requirement.
A common example of this are menus which show will display a submenu when hovered, but still work as a proper HTML link if clicked (intentionally or because the user's browser is unable to display the submenu). I have seen quite a few websites where the navigation relied extensively on Flash, and there was no way to browse anything else than the index if Flash was unavailable.
I think everyone realises that Flash is a dying technology. Its proprietary nature, lack of openness, CPU-hungry cycles and history of poor design have made it the black sheep of webdesign; the only reason it still is popular is because of YouTube. As a few in here have said, Joe Bloggs doesn't care about what technology powers the fancy and shiny flashing buttons on the interwebs. So, whether it's Flash or something else, they'll adopt anything as long as it just works. We just need to wait for websites to stop providing it.
Unless we're talking about very fancy vector drawing, there rarely is anything about content disposition in Flash that provides an advantage over HTML/Javascript. A few examples of this are LivePipe and JQuery Tools. Most of these are available through Content Delivery Networks, which drastically reduces load times.
Wait, wut? Did I get that wrong?
Major corporations don't play April's fools? Seriously? Not even a little bit?
Godwin's law!
Not the fastest in the world, unless you're on Free (the ISP)'s network, but by far one of the best. Files are limited to 1GB if you use the HTTP upload feature, or 10GB if you use the FTP upload feature. Files are retained for 30 days from last download, no download limit.
FTP requires valid email address (username), and temporary password (user defined) which creates a 48h "session", used for resuming the upload in case it fails initially. Once the upload is complete they send an email containing the link to the file (and no, no spam -- they're a massively successful ISP, not some dodgy company).
The company saw revenue rise by 25% year-on-year to EUR 1.95 billion in the year, while net profit jumped 75.2% year-on-year to EUR 175.9 million in 2009
Oracle has a market penetration of nearly 100% in the Fortune 500 list.
Somehow I don't believe the banks would be happy if we asked them to participate in "The Biggest Loser"
I think you'll find that IT stands for Information Technology, and I really don't understand what you're been trying to achieve by spreading your fallacies.