You: I just want to get from A to B quickly and easily. That's why I take a cab: that way I don't have to worry about fuel, looking after the vehicle, road tax etc etc.
Me: I want to get from A to B on my own terms and in style. That's why I've got my own custom-built, tuned and tweaked muscle car. I can see the appeal of just getting a cab but i don't mind getting my hands dirty - the results are worth it for me and I'm good enough at tweaking the thing that I can keep it running smoothly without having to pull over and stop every time I fill up the tank (i.e. get new game - I think this metaphor has gone as far as it can.)
It's a license fee. You can technically call it a tax but that will just confuse the discussion. The BBC does not receive taxpayer pounds (where "taxpayer pounds" means pounds paid in tax to the government).
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I don't know about any studies but I do know that if I read white-on-black on a monitor (lcd or crt) for any length of time I end up seeing lines across my vision. Much more so and much after much less reading than from black-on-white. I've tried coding using light-on-dark but my eyes just can't deal with it.
You'd have thought that a CERN scientist wouldn't have penned such an inaccurate song, although "Things will get more and more random" probably wouldn't have achieved the same chart success.
That depends on your stance on randomness. He's obviously in favour of it.
Well, Mr Clever Man, DSLRs can have big lenses on them. How can you tell whether or not its got an RPG hidden inside it without stopping them and searching their cavities? ANSWER ME THAT!
Downloads are convenient because it's easy, quick and you don't have to go into the big blue room. Physical media is good for collecting, saving disc space, lending and reselling. Why don't companies give the option of shipping a CD when you buy a download? Maybe for a slightly increased fee, but still less than buying both separately and not much than ordering a cd should be.
I thought the gravity gun worked quite well. Most of the things it didn't work on were either nailed down or too heavy to pick up/move. If you use a console command to increase the max power of the gravity gun you can even pick up cars and throw them.
I'm no expert but I think you'd basically need one bigger than earth. They are working on a way to use several smaller telescopes that are somehow linked to each other so that they act as one big telescope but this won't be online for a while yet (2015 or so IIRC). I feel you frustration but they are trying!
(note: all 'facts' in this comment come from a New Scientist article I read about 6 months ago)
Isn't that the status quo? I currently have a relatively low-power computer that can calculate Pi to an impressive amount of decimal places in less than a second - considerably better than I can! However it still can't hold a decent conversation.
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Hmmm....how about a car analogy?
You: I just want to get from A to B quickly and easily. That's why I take a cab: that way I don't have to worry about fuel, looking after the vehicle, road tax etc etc.
Me: I want to get from A to B on my own terms and in style. That's why I've got my own custom-built, tuned and tweaked muscle car. I can see the appeal of just getting a cab but i don't mind getting my hands dirty - the results are worth it for me and I'm good enough at tweaking the thing that I can keep it running smoothly without having to pull over and stop every time I fill up the tank (i.e. get new game - I think this metaphor has gone as far as it can.)
It's a license fee. You can technically call it a tax but that will just confuse the discussion. The BBC does not receive taxpayer pounds (where "taxpayer pounds" means pounds paid in tax to the government).
That is funded by the BBC Television License Fee, not by taxes.
profitable & popular != good
The Telegraph - 2nd March
New Scientist - 2nd March
Fox News - 2nd March
Popsci - 3rd March
Huffington Post - 2nd March
The Economist - 22nd April
The Daily Mail - 2nd March
Time - 10th March
Etc etc.
I've not used an iPad myself but from the reviews I've read it is in fact particularly bad for outside use.
Then a cheesy no-emotion love story?
FTFY
This has been circulating since at least February.
Interesting but not really relevant.
The article is not about being outside in the sunlight but about being in a forest (i.e. "in nature") as opposed to a city.
I've never thought of that before but now that you mention it, it is very similar. Totally different feel to it though...
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Yes because they tout, i.e. flaunt, the tickets.
Tout: advertize in strongly positive terms; "This product was touted as a revolutionary invention"
Tote: Lug: carry with difficulty; "You'll have to lug this suitcase"
I don't know about any studies but I do know that if I read white-on-black on a monitor (lcd or crt) for any length of time I end up seeing lines across my vision. Much more so and much after much less reading than from black-on-white. I've tried coding using light-on-dark but my eyes just can't deal with it.
You'd have thought that a CERN scientist wouldn't have penned such an inaccurate song, although "Things will get more and more random" probably wouldn't have achieved the same chart success.
That depends on your stance on randomness. He's obviously in favour of it.
I think to be sure we should take off and do it from orbit...
Or get the guy that gave them permission to go on a photoshoot with them. That'd be fun.
Well, Mr Clever Man, DSLRs can have big lenses on them. How can you tell whether or not its got an RPG hidden inside it without stopping them and searching their cavities? ANSWER ME THAT!
Remind me never to let you make me a website.
Downloads are convenient because it's easy, quick and you don't have to go into the big blue room. Physical media is good for collecting, saving disc space, lending and reselling. Why don't companies give the option of shipping a CD when you buy a download? Maybe for a slightly increased fee, but still less than buying both separately and not much than ordering a cd should be.
The new iMacs should've come with a USB multitouch pad instead of the new mouse.
There's an app for that.
There certainly seems to be a polarised reaction from the Slashdot crowd.
I thought the gravity gun worked quite well. Most of the things it didn't work on were either nailed down or too heavy to pick up/move. If you use a console command to increase the max power of the gravity gun you can even pick up cars and throw them.
Well, that should be enough to convince the creationists....surely.
I'm no expert but I think you'd basically need one bigger than earth. They are working on a way to use several smaller telescopes that are somehow linked to each other so that they act as one big telescope but this won't be online for a while yet (2015 or so IIRC). I feel you frustration but they are trying!
(note: all 'facts' in this comment come from a New Scientist article I read about 6 months ago)
Isn't that the status quo? I currently have a relatively low-power computer that can calculate Pi to an impressive amount of decimal places in less than a second - considerably better than I can! However it still can't hold a decent conversation.