I remember reading a tech article long ago, where they showcased an LG Android phone where it was running an a visualised Android instance within the actual phone, which you could switch at the swipe of a button.
Because it's a "notgame", or as I believe, more of a interactive demonstration.
For example, in this "notgame" he can either tell you how lonely people feel, or you can let you experience it yourself. Single box represents you, the other clumps of boxes represent people doing their own thing and enjoying, only to disperse whenever you approach them...
I think this allows for a deeper experience.
There are others, with similar deeper themes, like Freedom Bridge (you cross multiple barbed wires, all cut and bleeding, but you persevere, you reach a bridge and BAM! you are shot...let's you feel how a escapee of repressive regimes feel...) or The Killer (you take a person through a long through a picturesque scenery, only to shoot him at the end...)
These allow you feel the immerse in the situation and feel the conflicts on a slightly deeper level. These could be described, or presented in video form, but in these "notgames" you actually participate in the activity, and realise the consequences of an action first hand.
YMMV, but I like this games as a way to present a view point. You don't have to play them if you don't like, but if you want some one to *actually* understand the conflict, these "notgames" can be an interesting tool.
Speaking as an Anosmiac, the world *stills* fucking stinks... only I can't use my nose to avoid the stink...
Count your blessings bro/sis because you have never experienced the other side...my eating habits are a total mess because what seems perfectly normal and delectable to others feels absolutely disgusting to eat for me... I never know when I am danger of gas leaks, and I have sat still with the gas leaking, only for a relative to come in and start a panic. My dreams of chemistry education dashed because I could never smell those darn chemicals (Once my beaker of H2S leaked, and here I was standing wondering what the hell is going on, while every one runs away from the lab....)I have been tricked into disgusting things, and once have been pranked by having been sprayed on by a stink-spray, and not realising I was walking around the school being as aromatically pleasing as Pepe le Peu...
The PTA (Pakistan Telecommunications Authority) has been on a MASSIVE crackdown to block unregistered SIMs...but with a zillion unregistered sims floating around (it was so bad that *hawkers* used to sell sims with attractive numbers on stands everywhere...) that nothing short of a blanket ban is effective.
They do this, things are cordoned off, barb wires, military snipers, the works, etc.
But you underestimate terrorists. My neighbour could be a terrorist and I would never know until I went BOOM.
Police have discovered cellphone-bombs in dustbins, and even bins used to house torn piece with Islamic words on them (they are then disposed of separately)...terrorists are like honeybadgers, they don't give a shit.
Thanks for the kind explanation, you highlight the difference between studies and experience:)
My text clearly outlined the the various tax scheme categories -evasion,avoidance,reduction. Only Approved HMRC reduction schemes could be followed, and that evasion and avoidance were not allowed. Evasion was described as outright illegal acts, whilst avoidance was described as utilising loopholes(the double Irish and Dutch sandwich, plus tax havens etc were given as an example of various tax avoidance tactics)
Btw, I posted a reply to my comment, where I posted a wiki [1] link, where it says the UK govt and HMRC are starting to retrospectively attack tax avoidance schemes, so I guess the text was pre-emptively deciding the whole thing is bad? Then again, the whole course is about ethical moral fibre or whatever, so I guess they ward us off the bad streets of tax avoidance:D
Also, the whole ACCA course is full of American rule-based vs British principles-based approaches, and love to compare them, so I don't discount them dragging American troubles in British tax texts:D
Sorry, That was a horrible typo, I meant if a tax *avoidance* scheme is technically legal...
I have studied Tax law in ACCA (paper F6), and there *is* a distinction; tax avoidance are pseudo-legal scheme, which are apparently legal, but HMRC *can* nab them if they can make a case, and apparently do so. Tax reduction are obviously legal schemes. My text pointed out the "Double Irish" as an example of a tax avoidance scheme, that while using legal "loopholes", is forbidden and can be penalised if caught.
I did questions on this shit, so at least theoretically possible, but if it is different in practice, then that's a separate story.
According to UK tax law, there is tax evasion(outright breaking the law), tax avoidance(using legal loopholes) and tax reduction(using approved tax reduction schemes). Only Tax reduction is allowed.
So even if Tax evasion is *technically* legal, HMRC (UK version of IRS) can and *will* nab you for contorting in thirty zillion angles just to avoid getting taxed.
ALL dependants are covered: women, Children (both boys and girls) *and* all workers whose work visa you have given.
If they are on your ID card (women and children don't get separate ID cards) or their Passport (as their "kafeel" caretaker, or visa giver, as it were), you need the Saudi man's permission to leave, and they will now be informed of it.
I think this system was made for the "worker" part of the category in mind; they want to know where their slaves^H^H^H^H^H^H are going, and if they are escaping. Poor labourers are practically indentured slaves, kept in live via the sword of heavy debt; I have know people try to escape by leaving everything behind with just the clothes on their backs. This is to prevent that.
Mr. Park, who is 24 years old, had told the court he spread the messages as a way of lampooning North Korea....
“There is something left to be desired in the court ruling that (my act was) intended to benefit the enemy though,” he added. “The National Security Law should be revised as quickly as possible.
In a North Korean post that he tweaked and sent out on Twitter, he replaced a swarthy North Korean soldier’s face with a downcast version of his own and the soldier’s rifle with a bottle of whiskey.
In his ruling, the presiding judge, Shin Jin-woo, acknowledged that some of Mr. Park’s posts were parody. But he said Mr. Park’s overall acts were tantamount to “supporting and joining forces with an antistate entity.” The justice said his court suspended the prison term, however, because Mr. Park promised not to repeat his act.
Prosecutors argued that Mr. Park’s Twitter posts served as a dangerous tool for spreading North Korean propaganda.
Will Sailfish SDK be available for Linux and Windows?
Yes Sailfish SDK is based on QtCreator and will be available in Windows, Linux and OSX.
When will Sailfish SDK be available?
The version presented at Slush will be available very soon. In the meantime you can follow the steps on the merproject.org page and build most of the SDK yourself.
Will you support HTML5?
Yes we are studying Cordova Qt which is an open source version of PhoneGap.
Will you support DRM
No.
What APIs (application programming interface) will Jolla / Sailfish provide from device platform?
Qt APIs (QtQuick, QtMobility, QtWebkit and more) should be used by typical Sailfish OS applications. Also standard Linux APIs within reason for mobile usage will be available.
Do you use in-house patched Qt version with Jolla specific modifications?
We use the fully open version of Qt delivered by Mer; like many distributions this carries small patches to fix bugs, enhance performance or backport features. Mer tracks upstream Qt very closely.
What is the relationship of Sailfish OS and Nemo Mobile project?
We are using parts of Nemo Mobile in Sailfish OS. Specifically Nemo Mobile has a UI and a set of applications that we won't use in the final Jolla product nor in Sailfish OS. We are contributing to Nemo Mobile and our intention is to keep Sailfish OS compatible with Nemo Mobile and vice versa.
Will you have a developer program and if, what are the benefits for a developer?
We will disclose more information regarding this during next year.
What is your open source contribution model?
Sailfish OS is based on Mer and Qt which are already existing and known open-source projects with good contribution policies.
What do the Android app developers need to do get their apps run on Jolla devices / devices based on the Sailfish OS?
Many Android(TM) applications will run on Jolla devices unchanged (Android is a trademark of Google Inc.). If you want to take advantage of all UI and other features of Sailfish OS and make your applications fast, you can port your applications to native QT/QML. There are extensive guides available on how to do that.
What does Sailfish OS have on top of Mer?
Mer provides a functional core Linux stack that boots up to the screen. Mer does not provide HW adaptation nor a functional UI. There is where Sailfish fills the gap and provide you with a productized mobile OS.
You are such a whiny bunch, sometimes I wonder I am still on slashdot...
I mean, if we can be happy with a zillion Linux OS alone, then we can be happy with many mobile OS, I mean, it's the same thing. Choice to fit all, right? Not mention all the other alternatives (Haiku, React OS etc...)
I *like* it, and promote it, just like I like and promote Jolla's Sailfish OS, and Tizen and whatever else is out there... because more competition means a happy *me* (consumer).
I have a couple of smaller Android phones (~700 MHz processors...) that I would love to outfit with this OS. I downloaded the xpi and tested it on my nightly, and I can't wait to test on my phone. It is promising. I am not a app-crazy guy, and a few basic apps will suffice, as long as this brings a new life to old phones.
That's a horrible analogy. Your solution would imply we should remove all the *cables*(hindrances) from the floor, but that would deprive us of the benefit those *cables*(resources) were to provide! (see the paradox?)
A better analogy would be deceleration mechanisms on roads; improperly designed and placed speed bumps are a *major* annoyance, but the solution is NOT to eliminate them all together; since they are also what stop a speeding car from killing a silly kid crossing the road.
What we need are better made and placed speed-breakers etc.
The opposite of bad regulations/red-tapeism is NOT de-regularization or out-right elimination of relevant regulations. It's actually making the *effort*, for *proper* regulations.
It is true that popular Pakistani singers are invited by bollywood for vocals. (Most popular being Rahat Fateh Ali Khan...he ran into a bit of trouble with both the Indian and Pakistani tax depratments....) so that's Indian music with Pakistani vocals.
However, it's equally true that popular Pakistani songs are reworked for bollywood movies, composition and all, so that means atleast some music is definately Pakistani. Good Movie Producers ask the singer him/herself to rework the music (usually replacing urdu words with hindi equivalents, remixed for a faster beat, etc...) or atleast ask their permission. Bad ones steal them outright (I mean, it's not like Pakistani Singers can pursue copytight cases across the border...)
Anyways, this is not supposed to be a Indian-vs-Pakistan pissing contest; I just wanted to point out that Pakistani music has an international scope.
And before you ask, yes, Pakistan has a thriving music scene, heck, quite a significant amount of popular *indian* music is actually Pakistani singers hired to sing for Indian movies.
We have everything from soft Classical to hard metal and every other shade in that gradient.
One of the funniest moment was when the VICE guide visited Karachi, and as a contrast to the ever present violence, they decide to hit the local music scene...
The problem is, most of the music in Pakistan is from Indie bands, who are in it more for the passion than money; for those you will have to scour youtube and other fansites.
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Non, Désolé. S'il vous plaît obtenir votre propre motif. Hein ! :D
(on a separate note, what's with the Opera-Bing love? Opera offers right click Bing translation...But not Google Translate)
I remember reading a tech article long ago, where they showcased an LG Android phone where it was running an a visualised Android instance within the actual phone, which you could switch at the swipe of a button.
Here:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/15/vmware-android-handset-virtualization-hands-on/
Because it's a "notgame", or as I believe, more of a interactive demonstration.
For example, in this "notgame" he can either tell you how lonely people feel, or you can let you experience it yourself. Single box represents you, the other clumps of boxes represent people doing their own thing and enjoying, only to disperse whenever you approach them...
I think this allows for a deeper experience.
There are others, with similar deeper themes, like Freedom Bridge (you cross multiple barbed wires, all cut and bleeding, but you persevere, you reach a bridge and BAM! you are shot...let's you feel how a escapee of repressive regimes feel...) or The Killer (you take a person through a long through a picturesque scenery, only to shoot him at the end...)
These allow you feel the immerse in the situation and feel the conflicts on a slightly deeper level. These could be described, or presented in video form, but in these "notgames" you actually participate in the activity, and realise the consequences of an action first hand.
YMMV, but I like this games as a way to present a view point. You don't have to play them if you don't like, but if you want some one to *actually* understand the conflict, these "notgames" can be an interesting tool.
Holy google link, batman :D
Here is the actual link:
http://www.necessarygames.com/my-games
And damn, that was depressing. (parent had linked to the game "loneliness") But I see what you are getting at.
Speaking as an Anosmiac, the world *stills* fucking stinks... only I can't use my nose to avoid the stink...
Count your blessings bro/sis because you have never experienced the other side...my eating habits are a total mess because what seems perfectly normal and delectable to others feels absolutely disgusting to eat for me... I never know when I am danger of gas leaks, and I have sat still with the gas leaking, only for a relative to come in and start a panic. My dreams of chemistry education dashed because I could never smell those darn chemicals (Once my beaker of H2S leaked, and here I was standing wondering what the hell is going on, while every one runs away from the lab....)I have been tricked into disgusting things, and once have been pranked by having been sprayed on by a stink-spray, and not realising I was walking around the school being as aromatically pleasing as Pepe le Peu...
Life sucks, so grin and bear it.
Yes there is, try being a religious minority in Saudi Arabia(frankly, all non-wahabi), in Burma(muslims), In Srilanka(hindus)...
My country is a miserable, miserable place, but trust me, I have seen worse.
The PTA (Pakistan Telecommunications Authority) has been on a MASSIVE crackdown to block unregistered SIMs...but with a zillion unregistered sims floating around (it was so bad that *hawkers* used to sell sims with attractive numbers on stands everywhere...) that nothing short of a blanket ban is effective.
They do this, things are cordoned off, barb wires, military snipers, the works, etc.
But you underestimate terrorists. My neighbour could be a terrorist and I would never know until I went BOOM.
Police have discovered cellphone-bombs in dustbins, and even bins used to house torn piece with Islamic words on them (they are then disposed of separately)...terrorists are like honeybadgers, they don't give a shit.
Hence the blanket downage.
Thank you once again for the extremely detailed explanation, I wish I had a teacher half as good as you, then I wouldn't be scrapping passes at 50.
Thanks for the kind explanation, you highlight the difference between studies and experience :)
My text clearly outlined the the various tax scheme categories -evasion,avoidance,reduction. Only Approved HMRC reduction schemes could be followed, and that evasion and avoidance were not allowed. Evasion was described as outright illegal acts, whilst avoidance was described as utilising loopholes(the double Irish and Dutch sandwich, plus tax havens etc were given as an example of various tax avoidance tactics)
Btw, I posted a reply to my comment, where I posted a wiki [1] link, where it says the UK govt and HMRC are starting to retrospectively attack tax avoidance schemes, so I guess the text was pre-emptively deciding the whole thing is bad? Then again, the whole course is about ethical moral fibre or whatever, so I guess they ward us off the bad streets of tax avoidance :D
Also, the whole ACCA course is full of American rule-based vs British principles-based approaches, and love to compare them, so I don't discount them dragging American troubles in British tax texts :D
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_avoidance#Government_and_judicial_response
Right-click the search entry field, select "Create search", enter keyword in the pop-up, Done.
(check the checkboxes in the pop-up if you want to make default (else it just add it into your list))
To search a word, just select it and right click, it offers to search both the default or select from your entire list.
Yet another reason why Opera is awesome :D
Sorry, That was a horrible typo, I meant if a tax *avoidance* scheme is technically legal...
I have studied Tax law in ACCA (paper F6), and there *is* a distinction; tax avoidance are pseudo-legal scheme, which are apparently legal, but HMRC *can* nab them if they can make a case, and apparently do so. Tax reduction are obviously legal schemes. My text pointed out the "Double Irish" as an example of a tax avoidance scheme, that while using legal "loopholes", is forbidden and can be penalised if caught.
I did questions on this shit, so at least theoretically possible, but if it is different in practice, then that's a separate story.
According to UK tax law, there is tax evasion(outright breaking the law), tax avoidance(using legal loopholes) and tax reduction(using approved tax reduction schemes). Only Tax reduction is allowed.
So even if Tax evasion is *technically* legal, HMRC (UK version of IRS) can and *will* nab you for contorting in thirty zillion angles just to avoid getting taxed.
ALL dependants are covered: women, Children (both boys and girls) *and* all workers whose work visa you have given.
If they are on your ID card (women and children don't get separate ID cards) or their Passport (as their "kafeel" caretaker, or visa giver, as it were), you need the Saudi man's permission to leave, and they will now be informed of it.
I think this system was made for the "worker" part of the category in mind; they want to know where their slaves^H^H^H^H^H^H are going, and if they are escaping. Poor labourers are practically indentured slaves, kept in live via the sword of heavy debt; I have know people try to escape by leaving everything behind with just the clothes on their backs. This is to prevent that.
Make of it as you will.
Thanks!
I heard it uses alien dalvik to achieve this (but don't quote me on this)
From the articles:
Mr. Park, who is 24 years old, had told the court he spread the messages as a way of lampooning North Korea. ...
“There is something left to be desired in the court ruling that (my act was) intended to benefit the enemy though,” he added. “The National Security Law should be revised as quickly as possible.
In a North Korean post that he tweaked and sent out on Twitter, he replaced a swarthy North Korean soldier’s face with a downcast version of his own and the soldier’s rifle with a bottle of whiskey.
In his ruling, the presiding judge, Shin Jin-woo, acknowledged that some of Mr. Park’s posts were parody. But he said Mr. Park’s overall acts were tantamount to “supporting and joining forces with an antistate entity.” The justice said his court suspended the prison term, however, because Mr. Park promised not to repeat his act.
Prosecutors argued that Mr. Park’s Twitter posts served as a dangerous tool for spreading North Korean propaganda.
https://sailfishos.org/wiki/QA
Will Sailfish SDK be available for Linux and Windows?
Yes Sailfish SDK is based on QtCreator and will be available in Windows, Linux and OSX.
When will Sailfish SDK be available?
The version presented at Slush will be available very soon. In the meantime you can follow the steps on the merproject.org page and build most of the SDK yourself.
Will you support HTML5?
Yes we are studying Cordova Qt which is an open source version of PhoneGap.
Will you support DRM
No.
What APIs (application programming interface) will Jolla / Sailfish provide from device platform?
Qt APIs (QtQuick, QtMobility, QtWebkit and more) should be used by typical Sailfish OS applications. Also standard Linux APIs within reason for mobile usage will be available.
Do you use in-house patched Qt version with Jolla specific modifications?
We use the fully open version of Qt delivered by Mer; like many distributions this carries small patches to fix bugs, enhance performance or backport features. Mer tracks upstream Qt very closely.
What is the relationship of Sailfish OS and Nemo Mobile project?
We are using parts of Nemo Mobile in Sailfish OS. Specifically Nemo Mobile has a UI and a set of applications that we won't use in the final Jolla product nor in Sailfish OS. We are contributing to Nemo Mobile and our intention is to keep Sailfish OS compatible with Nemo Mobile and vice versa.
Will you have a developer program and if, what are the benefits for a developer?
We will disclose more information regarding this during next year.
What is your open source contribution model?
Sailfish OS is based on Mer and Qt which are already existing and known open-source projects with good contribution policies.
What do the Android app developers need to do get their apps run on Jolla devices / devices based on the Sailfish OS?
Many Android(TM) applications will run on Jolla devices unchanged (Android is a trademark of Google Inc.). If you want to take advantage of all UI and other features of Sailfish OS and make your applications fast, you can port your applications to native QT/QML. There are extensive guides available on how to do that.
What does Sailfish OS have on top of Mer?
Mer provides a functional core Linux stack that boots up to the screen. Mer does not provide HW adaptation nor a functional UI. There is where Sailfish fills the gap and provide you with a productized mobile OS.
You are such a whiny bunch, sometimes I wonder I am still on slashdot...
I mean, if we can be happy with a zillion Linux OS alone, then we can be happy with many mobile OS, I mean, it's the same thing. Choice to fit all, right? Not mention all the other alternatives (Haiku, React OS etc...)
I *like* it, and promote it, just like I like and promote Jolla's Sailfish OS, and Tizen and whatever else is out there... because more competition means a happy *me* (consumer).
I have a couple of smaller Android phones (~700 MHz processors...) that I would love to outfit with this OS. I downloaded the xpi and tested it on my nightly, and I can't wait to test on my phone. It is promising. I am not a app-crazy guy, and a few basic apps will suffice, as long as this brings a new life to old phones.
HEAVENS NO!
That's a horrible analogy. Your solution would imply we should remove all the *cables*(hindrances) from the floor, but that would deprive us of the benefit those *cables*(resources) were to provide! (see the paradox?)
A better analogy would be deceleration mechanisms on roads; improperly designed and placed speed bumps are a *major* annoyance, but the solution is NOT to eliminate them all together; since they are also what stop a speeding car from killing a silly kid crossing the road.
What we need are better made and placed speed-breakers etc.
The opposite of bad regulations/red-tapeism is NOT de-regularization or out-right elimination of relevant regulations. It's actually making the *effort*, for *proper* regulations.
Fair enough, I think I should clarify.
It is true that popular Pakistani singers are invited by bollywood for vocals. (Most popular being Rahat Fateh Ali Khan...he ran into a bit of trouble with both the Indian and Pakistani tax depratments....) so that's Indian music with Pakistani vocals.
However, it's equally true that popular Pakistani songs are reworked for bollywood movies, composition and all, so that means atleast some music is definately Pakistani. Good Movie Producers ask the singer him/herself to rework the music (usually replacing urdu words with hindi equivalents, remixed for a faster beat, etc...) or atleast ask their permission. Bad ones steal them outright (I mean, it's not like Pakistani Singers can pursue copytight cases across the border...)
Anyways, this is not supposed to be a Indian-vs-Pakistan pissing contest; I just wanted to point out that Pakistani music has an international scope.
Nice troll AC, look at all the fucks I don't give...
Bro we are talking *legally*, otherwise even I know a zillion fansites :D
And before you ask, yes, Pakistan has a thriving music scene, heck, quite a significant amount of popular *indian* music is actually Pakistani singers hired to sing for Indian movies.
We have everything from soft Classical to hard metal and every other shade in that gradient.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_music
One of the funniest moment was when the VICE guide visited Karachi, and as a contrast to the ever present violence, they decide to hit the local music scene...
http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/the-vice-guide-to-karachi-full-length
For a sample of great Pakistani music (Legally!), visit Coke Studios:
http://www.cokestudio.com.pk/
As for buying, try the website of a label. One of the biggest labels is FireRecords:
http://www.firerecords.com.pk/
I will post more links as I find them.
The problem is, most of the music in Pakistan is from Indie bands, who are in it more for the passion than money; for those you will have to scour youtube and other fansites.