It was announced in December 2009, so less than 13 months ago, and if NotionInk had business acumen they would have filed for a patent as soon as they came up with the idea. Either they didn't, or the implementation is different enough that it is granted anyway. Or, y'know, Sony filed before them, and thus has the legalities beat even if NotionInk was the first with a working model.
That's just it - the MOT test is enforced by the Ministry of Transport. If the analogy applied, it would be like requiring you to take your 3 year old computer into a Ministry of Communications approved Geek Squad office for approval to connect to the internet. Fortunately we don't have to pay for an internet licence/registration yet, but now that the idea has come into my head it's only a matter of time...
It'd be good to get some up to date numbers, but if it is tracking the numbers there it's certainly something that I would expect true deficit hawks would be looking at.
You would have thought we could learn from history that fighting against a guerrilla force is hard, but it looks like we just marched on in there expecting the Taliban to line up on the field of battle in nice uniforms that you could target. Even the commies in 'Nam had the decency to do that.
Proof that Pakistan has nukes, or proof that Israel does?
Pakistan has acknowledged nukes, and has performed tests with them.
Israel has never clarified one way or the other as to whether they have native nuclear technology and weapons, but international political relations more or less operate on the assumption that they do, and given Israel's treatment of a nuclear scientist who leaked a story, was jailed for it, and was looking to get out of the country following his release, it's pretty sure that if they don't they could weaponise rapidly. Plus they pretty much have access to America's weaponry in the event of war, given the close ties (is there a formal treaty? I don't know).
For Iran's practical purposes, they're bordering with one nuclear state and are at loggerheads with another one, possibly two, following Bush's Axis of Evil speech. Not that I agree with it, but you can see where even semi-logical conclusions with those preconditions could lead.
yeah, and for 249,500 years our average lifespan barely reached 40, and child mortality rates were astronomical compared to today.
Not that I'm advocating a cleanroom future, but the logic that "we lived through the dark ages" is hardly an adequate argument against over-sanitsation. You could far more easily just point to the mid 20th century and make an effective point that you can have major benefits to health without going overboard like we are increasingly now.
Yeah, and I'd like unicorns too when I get around to learning how to ride a horse.
Timeliness matters. You can't "insist" on a community around a game existing at some arbitary point in the future, if only because developers & publishers have no control over the activity in the community once a game is released.
Some games are the type that you pick up, play, master, and move on. Some games aren't, and have a longevity in the community. Just because you can't "get around to becoming able to run" or "even consider buying" a game doesn't give you the right to demand the company behind it is still running matchmaking servers - you want to play 5 years after a game is released and there isn't a significant community playing it any more? too bad chump, should have thought about that 5 years ago.
Yet explain how a Disney subsidiary green-lit Kill Bill.
I think the key word there is subsidiary. It's not like you saw the Disney logo on the Kill Bill poster.
So they are quite strict about what they allow to be published for the Wii.
MadWorld anyone?
Yep, GP was posting with old stereotype in mind. The Wii is a little more grown up these days, though I guess there's something of a confirmation bias given the volume of less realistic-violence games on the console. The only thing that could possibly shake that perception for some out there would be seeing a CoD on the Wii.
I'm in Australia - we don't have subsidies, and as a result our access to the American market is hampered by the American subsidy, but are able to compete internationally through economies of scale and selling a lot of our produce to land-strapped Japan. There's absolutely no reason for a subsidy, though it'll be a brave politician who steps up to piss off a fair chunk of the geographical population (electoral colleges and senates appearing to run your politics and all).
There is something of a national-interest factor to it though; some industries are worth subsidising in the event of trade breakdowns or even outright war, as we've seen with rare earth metals no longer being available domestically.
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but if you're still at college, look for internships, part time work and graduate roles, where experience isn't a criteria. If you're out of college but looking to change careers, or just plain out of a job, volunteer with local NGOs, charities and associations. You might not get the 3 years experience they're looking for exactly in the roles you want exactly, but often you can get your foot in the door with less experience but a demonstrated ability to go out and chase opportunities yourself.
And remember at all times, the criteria listed is for "ideal" candidates, so if the same job is still listed a month later, chances are if you hit some of the requirements you're in with a pretty strong chance - basically, don't let the listed requirements put you off.
If you offer $100k to your farmhands, you have to sell your goods at a price which allows you to recover that cost. So you raise the wages you're paying by increasing your sale price, and all that results in is a bucket load of inflation, assuming you've convinced all your competitors to raise their prices, or you fail to sell anything because you're undercut by someone paying their farmhands less.
A bucket load of inflation is good for nothing since the people queued up for the $100k jobs would find them suddenly worth the same as $30k jobs were before the inflation. And the "someone paying less" is what has got us into the state we are today. Competition and capitalism at work.
The redline is the maximum RPM at which the engine is "safe", in that it is within design tolerances. Operating above the redline is possible, but basically at that point they're saying "you're on your own." Cutting off right at the redline would be keeping everything safe, but doesn't allow for the occasional need to go over, such as in the accidental example of missing a gear on the downshift - far better to allow a 5 - 10% overrun than to punish that with an immediate limit.
You know you can turn off the autocorrect, right? And that there's a backspace key just like a regular keyboard?
The iPad might not be the best tool for other reasons (check out the corresponding iPhone adapter linked in TFS), but it's not for the lack of a real keyboard.
I'd put Google on the list for Browser too. Chrome kicked everyone's ass on javascript speed and individual process plugins to make it less crash happy.
the "why" of it is not my point - with the Tea Partiers holding sway over the political climate right now, it'd be a near impossibility. Their call to "respect the constitution as it intended by the founders" (paraphrasing, but you get my point) flies in the face of the fact that there are 27 amendments to it that we currently live with, and makes it highly unlikely that further amendments that carry the perception of increased government control would ever go through.
Besides, the governance of interstate commerce and the ability to tax & regulate that is already granted to the Federal government through the Commerce Clause.
No LAN means problems for tournaments. It's only few months and there were many tournament disasters already,
Yep, exactly - just in Australia recently, we had a tournament which failed because BattleNet blocked the single public IP through which all the connections were going, assuming it was an attack. Eventually got some action, but only the pros could play because of limited connections. There needs to be some allowance for these things, a local p2p style play even if it requires the login & occasional ping to BNet.
Yep, and major trading firms will do anything to get closer to the exchange servers. I worked for a Major Bank which had a major data centre well outside London which hosted all the "slow" apps, and a small (but well cooled) server room in the City a few blocks from the LSE building. Each and every app in the central data room had to justify its need, and every so often you would hear about acquisitions of real estate closer still.
This is of course pre-2008; I'm no longer so intimate with the details of server rooms at major banks. C'est la vie.
I respect your optimism and idealism when it comes to these things, but Index Arb desks are making some of the most effective, near-risk-free profits for the big banks, and it's little wonder the LSE wants to be at the forefront of this market. You don't have to pay a computer a bonus, and the programmers behind this hardly see the same kind of money as the big swinging dick traders who try to spot the macro inefficiencies. Furthermore, the same strategies and speed advantages are used for algo traders to allow big blocks of trades to go through as best possible without shifting the market, making more cash when the trades are billed to the client at a weighted average instead of the true cost.
But then you don't see these numbers in the breakdown of the Goldmans profit numbers, and you never will. In the casino of the share market, the dealer is helping the sharks fleece the sheep.
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It was announced in December 2009, so less than 13 months ago, and if NotionInk had business acumen they would have filed for a patent as soon as they came up with the idea. Either they didn't, or the implementation is different enough that it is granted anyway. Or, y'know, Sony filed before them, and thus has the legalities beat even if NotionInk was the first with a working model.
That's just it - the MOT test is enforced by the Ministry of Transport. If the analogy applied, it would be like requiring you to take your 3 year old computer into a Ministry of Communications approved Geek Squad office for approval to connect to the internet. Fortunately we don't have to pay for an internet licence/registration yet, but now that the idea has come into my head it's only a matter of time...
Getting rid of less than half of the defense budget would be sufficient to balance the budget, at least going on the numbers shown here: Robert J. Samuelson - Our burgeoning budget and the politics of avoidance.
It'd be good to get some up to date numbers, but if it is tracking the numbers there it's certainly something that I would expect true deficit hawks would be looking at.
You would have thought we could learn from history that fighting against a guerrilla force is hard, but it looks like we just marched on in there expecting the Taliban to line up on the field of battle in nice uniforms that you could target. Even the commies in 'Nam had the decency to do that.
Proof that Pakistan has nukes, or proof that Israel does?
Pakistan has acknowledged nukes, and has performed tests with them.
Israel has never clarified one way or the other as to whether they have native nuclear technology and weapons, but international political relations more or less operate on the assumption that they do, and given Israel's treatment of a nuclear scientist who leaked a story, was jailed for it, and was looking to get out of the country following his release, it's pretty sure that if they don't they could weaponise rapidly. Plus they pretty much have access to America's weaponry in the event of war, given the close ties (is there a formal treaty? I don't know).
For Iran's practical purposes, they're bordering with one nuclear state and are at loggerheads with another one, possibly two, following Bush's Axis of Evil speech. Not that I agree with it, but you can see where even semi-logical conclusions with those preconditions could lead.
yeah, and for 249,500 years our average lifespan barely reached 40, and child mortality rates were astronomical compared to today.
Not that I'm advocating a cleanroom future, but the logic that "we lived through the dark ages" is hardly an adequate argument against over-sanitsation. You could far more easily just point to the mid 20th century and make an effective point that you can have major benefits to health without going overboard like we are increasingly now.
Yeah, and I'd like unicorns too when I get around to learning how to ride a horse.
Timeliness matters. You can't "insist" on a community around a game existing at some arbitary point in the future, if only because developers & publishers have no control over the activity in the community once a game is released.
Some games are the type that you pick up, play, master, and move on. Some games aren't, and have a longevity in the community. Just because you can't "get around to becoming able to run" or "even consider buying" a game doesn't give you the right to demand the company behind it is still running matchmaking servers - you want to play 5 years after a game is released and there isn't a significant community playing it any more? too bad chump, should have thought about that 5 years ago.
Yet explain how a Disney subsidiary green-lit Kill Bill.
I think the key word there is subsidiary. It's not like you saw the Disney logo on the Kill Bill poster.
So they are quite strict about what they allow to be published for the Wii.
MadWorld anyone?
Yep, GP was posting with old stereotype in mind. The Wii is a little more grown up these days, though I guess there's something of a confirmation bias given the volume of less realistic-violence games on the console. The only thing that could possibly shake that perception for some out there would be seeing a CoD on the Wii.
I believe they've got their names listed above.
I'm in Australia - we don't have subsidies, and as a result our access to the American market is hampered by the American subsidy, but are able to compete internationally through economies of scale and selling a lot of our produce to land-strapped Japan. There's absolutely no reason for a subsidy, though it'll be a brave politician who steps up to piss off a fair chunk of the geographical population (electoral colleges and senates appearing to run your politics and all).
There is something of a national-interest factor to it though; some industries are worth subsidising in the event of trade breakdowns or even outright war, as we've seen with rare earth metals no longer being available domestically.
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but if you're still at college, look for internships, part time work and graduate roles, where experience isn't a criteria. If you're out of college but looking to change careers, or just plain out of a job, volunteer with local NGOs, charities and associations. You might not get the 3 years experience they're looking for exactly in the roles you want exactly, but often you can get your foot in the door with less experience but a demonstrated ability to go out and chase opportunities yourself.
And remember at all times, the criteria listed is for "ideal" candidates, so if the same job is still listed a month later, chances are if you hit some of the requirements you're in with a pretty strong chance - basically, don't let the listed requirements put you off.
If you offer $100k to your farmhands, you have to sell your goods at a price which allows you to recover that cost. So you raise the wages you're paying by increasing your sale price, and all that results in is a bucket load of inflation, assuming you've convinced all your competitors to raise their prices, or you fail to sell anything because you're undercut by someone paying their farmhands less.
A bucket load of inflation is good for nothing since the people queued up for the $100k jobs would find them suddenly worth the same as $30k jobs were before the inflation. And the "someone paying less" is what has got us into the state we are today. Competition and capitalism at work.
Maybe if they start now we can get it before 2022?
Maybe?
The redline is the maximum RPM at which the engine is "safe", in that it is within design tolerances. Operating above the redline is possible, but basically at that point they're saying "you're on your own." Cutting off right at the redline would be keeping everything safe, but doesn't allow for the occasional need to go over, such as in the accidental example of missing a gear on the downshift - far better to allow a 5 - 10% overrun than to punish that with an immediate limit.
You mean the Synchromesh?
You know you can turn off the autocorrect, right? And that there's a backspace key just like a regular keyboard?
The iPad might not be the best tool for other reasons (check out the corresponding iPhone adapter linked in TFS), but it's not for the lack of a real keyboard.
I'd put Google on the list for Browser too. Chrome kicked everyone's ass on javascript speed and individual process plugins to make it less crash happy.
the "why" of it is not my point - with the Tea Partiers holding sway over the political climate right now, it'd be a near impossibility. Their call to "respect the constitution as it intended by the founders" (paraphrasing, but you get my point) flies in the face of the fact that there are 27 amendments to it that we currently live with, and makes it highly unlikely that further amendments that carry the perception of increased government control would ever go through.
Besides, the governance of interstate commerce and the ability to tax & regulate that is already granted to the Federal government through the Commerce Clause.
Amend the Constitution? Inter-state federally administered taxes?! Good luck getting that through in the current political climate.
if you're skipping sleep to read slashdot comments, you need to reassess your priorities.
No LAN means problems for tournaments. It's only few months and there were many tournament disasters already,
Yep, exactly - just in Australia recently, we had a tournament which failed because BattleNet blocked the single public IP through which all the connections were going, assuming it was an attack. Eventually got some action, but only the pros could play because of limited connections. There needs to be some allowance for these things, a local p2p style play even if it requires the login & occasional ping to BNet.
Yep, and major trading firms will do anything to get closer to the exchange servers. I worked for a Major Bank which had a major data centre well outside London which hosted all the "slow" apps, and a small (but well cooled) server room in the City a few blocks from the LSE building. Each and every app in the central data room had to justify its need, and every so often you would hear about acquisitions of real estate closer still.
This is of course pre-2008; I'm no longer so intimate with the details of server rooms at major banks. C'est la vie.
I respect your optimism and idealism when it comes to these things, but Index Arb desks are making some of the most effective, near-risk-free profits for the big banks, and it's little wonder the LSE wants to be at the forefront of this market. You don't have to pay a computer a bonus, and the programmers behind this hardly see the same kind of money as the big swinging dick traders who try to spot the macro inefficiencies. Furthermore, the same strategies and speed advantages are used for algo traders to allow big blocks of trades to go through as best possible without shifting the market, making more cash when the trades are billed to the client at a weighted average instead of the true cost.
But then you don't see these numbers in the breakdown of the Goldmans profit numbers, and you never will. In the casino of the share market, the dealer is helping the sharks fleece the sheep.
I thought there were 6 - up, down, strange, charm, top and bottom?
ah, that makes a lot of sense!