You really should read to the end of the post. It aids comprehension, and adds context. You're posting as AC, though, so I'll forgive you this one time.
Brussels being the EU parliament, right? And I didn't hear on the news, not two weeks ago, David Cameron rejecting the new eurozone bailout agreement? Nope, we're totally beholden to Brussels. I'm amazed that I haven't noticed that I'm buying my pint of ale in Euro's.
On a less snarky note, the Commons rejects new legislation on an almost daily basis, including that from Europe. Go read Hansard for an idea of how many new laws are proposed each year (it's in the low thousands). These aren't newsworthy, but they contradict your point. As for the Queen signing new laws, yes she does that. However, again, if she refused to sign a law passed by Parliament, it would be her last act as the monarch of the United Kingdom. We look to the Lords for our objective eye on legislation nowadays.
At least out authoritarian overlords won't bomb the crap out of everyone because their imaginary sky friend said so; Nobody would be left to watch the adverts between X-Factor and TOWIE.
Of course these things go in cycles. Or more accurately, they shift from one medium to another. Previously we worshipped at the church of the bearded dude in the sky, now we worship at the church of the bald-headed dude with the polo-neck. The difference is that our new gods are corporeal, and don't tell us to blow up heathens and stone women who show their faces in public.
Hahaha, theocratic monarchy... You clearly aren't from the UK. The "ruling" monarch has such important duties as welcoming foreign dignitaries, visiting poor people, and talking rubbish at Christmas. We're run by a parliament, and if the Queen ever decided that wasn't going to work out, dissolution of the monarchy would be instantaneous.
Think of the royal family of the UK as a tourist attraction, and something to talk about in the tabloid press, and you wouldn't be far wrong.
Thanks for the clarification. No doubt every post contradicting my point will use this error as a stick to beat me with, so best to say "sorry" before it starts.
Consider the issues with religious extremism in the Middle East, and compare that with our own issues with religious extremism during The Crusades.
Now, imagine that we had nukes back then. The world would have either been Christian or irradiated. This is why we're not happy about Iran, South Korea, Iraq etc having WMDs in this period of their civilisations' evolution; They need their Enlightenment first, and the Arab Spring is the start.
Religion still plays a significant part of their political climates, and a fundamentalist with their finger on a world-ending bomb is nobody's idea of a happy Christmas. Unfortunately, the only way we can try and stop these people from getting such cataclysmically lethal weaponry (short of turning the place to glass) is to stop buying their crap so they get really poor and have to end their nuclear programmes. Hey, it's better than sending our sons over to be maimed by a roadside bomb, right?
The shift to digital projectors is screwing that option up. Even at if shot and projected in full 4K (unlikely), a 30' wide screen will have pixels 1/10" wide. Being anywhere near the fist three rows of the cinema seating will result in you having flashbacks to the days of 800x600 gaming. As it is right now, sitting at the front results in a stiff neck and an un-natural viewing angle which ruins any chance of immersion. I try and put myself at the front of the tiered seating instead, sacrificing some peripheral vision involvement in favour of comfort. I am going to be sat there for a couple of hours, after all.
As I've said before. I'd welcome the shift up from 24fps over any resolution enhancements at the moment.
I went to see The Dark Knight on release day in IMAX. The screen was so big I couldn't take in the whole scene without moving my head. Maybe that's just the poor design of my local IMAX cinema, but I'll pass.
If I want to reproduce that effect, I'll press my face up against my TV screen.
Please don't perpetuate stereotypes, yes sometimes they do hold some truth but that's no reason to write off so many other really cool things out there.
You can pause and replay any point of a video that you don't understand. Try doing that four or five times during a live lecture, and see if some idiot doesn't accuse you of racism.
Which means you then have help in avoiding giving your money to the theater industry in the future. Hell, you can download the damn movie for free and watch it at home, in comfort, with people whose company your enjoy, with a cool beer and your favourite topping pizza, and you can pause it to go for a pee any time you want, you don't need to pay for parking or wait in queues, and you've lost nothing if it's a POS or the best bits were in the trailer, and you can buy the DVD / Blu-Ray release for better quality if you enjoyed it.
I signed up for the LoveFilm fortnight trial around a year ago to see what streaming content I could get, fully expecting to completely give up downloading or streaming unlicensed content. Steam replaced piracy of games for the same reason; Easy to use, convenient, good quality. Yes, I understand the DRM restrictions, and accept them as part of the service. As such don't pay full release-day price for any games on Steam.
The streaming selection on LoveFilm was so small that I'd browsed THE WHOLE THING in under 10 minutes, and there were maybe 4 or 5 movies that I would watch. Next to none of the blockbuster DVD / Blu-Ray releases were available as streams, and no reasonable TV series; It was either B-movies or TV-release movies, neither of which I was interested in paying to see. The trial was cancelled within the hour (they make you call up and try the hard-sell when you cancel. "Your streaming selection is utter rubbish. Close my account NOW." seems to work well) and I still visit the various sites offering streams unlicensed of series, often putting up with shot-with-a-potato quality video just to be able to watch a show where I am.
Anecdote: I first watched House as an unlicensed stream, around the time series 5 was released on DVD. I now own series 1 - 7 on DVD. I also subscribed to Spotify Unlimited for over a year before they linked up with Facebook. I want to pay for a good service. All they need to to is provide it.
I don't answer the questions. I say "I'll save us both some time. If this is a sales call, I'm not interested, and you should remove my details from your marketing list. If there is an issue with my accounts, I'll call the number on my bank statement, because frankly I don't trust cold callers. Which is it?"
They seem quite accommodating. They've done their job by contacting me, and I avoid all social engineering attacks.
I cannot comprehend the reason for punishing somebody who isn't religious. It's like they want to foster an environment of blind, unquestioning obedience to a higher authority, even in the face of logical inconsistency bordering on outright fallacy.
I would say that they don't see Jediism as a religion either, but more a belief system like Bushido. They don't have to believe they actually have midichlorians rushing around their bloodstream or that they can actually push stuff over by staring at it. They can just follow the parts which state loosely "don't act like a douchebag."
I've had this happen to me, so I know the pain. Saying that, though, if your users are leaving their workstations for 15 minutes without saving their work, they're asking for trouble.
Ctrl + S, WinKey + L, get up from desk. It should be in muscle memory.
Dude has put one PC gamer sat by himself in front of the door. This is a classic example of how not to set up your games room.
If I were putting money into a project like this, the PC desks would be in an incomplete ring with backs to a central munchies table. This keeps everyone close to each other and the snacks, and greasy crap away from your gear. Bin through hole in centre of central table to throw napkins and empty tins / cartons (wheel-out system for emptying optional). Have the TV and sofa in another room; It's for chilling out. Have a channel for watching the current game on the LAN if you wish, but offer media PC functionality too to watch a movie or episode of something easy to let you recuperate.
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You really should read to the end of the post. It aids comprehension, and adds context. You're posting as AC, though, so I'll forgive you this one time.
Spain is bankrupt. Putting them on an international trade blacklist is like refusing to serve homeless people in Harrod's.
Brussels being the EU parliament, right? And I didn't hear on the news, not two weeks ago, David Cameron rejecting the new eurozone bailout agreement? Nope, we're totally beholden to Brussels. I'm amazed that I haven't noticed that I'm buying my pint of ale in Euro's.
On a less snarky note, the Commons rejects new legislation on an almost daily basis, including that from Europe. Go read Hansard for an idea of how many new laws are proposed each year (it's in the low thousands). These aren't newsworthy, but they contradict your point. As for the Queen signing new laws, yes she does that. However, again, if she refused to sign a law passed by Parliament, it would be her last act as the monarch of the United Kingdom. We look to the Lords for our objective eye on legislation nowadays.
You have 1.5*10^7 seconds warning (seconds until 30th June).
At least out authoritarian overlords won't bomb the crap out of everyone because their imaginary sky friend said so; Nobody would be left to watch the adverts between X-Factor and TOWIE.
Of course these things go in cycles. Or more accurately, they shift from one medium to another. Previously we worshipped at the church of the bearded dude in the sky, now we worship at the church of the bald-headed dude with the polo-neck. The difference is that our new gods are corporeal, and don't tell us to blow up heathens and stone women who show their faces in public.
Judicious use of ~ here.
Hahaha, theocratic monarchy... You clearly aren't from the UK. The "ruling" monarch has such important duties as welcoming foreign dignitaries, visiting poor people, and talking rubbish at Christmas. We're run by a parliament, and if the Queen ever decided that wasn't going to work out, dissolution of the monarchy would be instantaneous.
Think of the royal family of the UK as a tourist attraction, and something to talk about in the tabloid press, and you wouldn't be far wrong.
Thanks for the clarification. No doubt every post contradicting my point will use this error as a stick to beat me with, so best to say "sorry" before it starts.
Consider the issues with religious extremism in the Middle East, and compare that with our own issues with religious extremism during The Crusades.
Now, imagine that we had nukes back then. The world would have either been Christian or irradiated. This is why we're not happy about Iran, South Korea, Iraq etc having WMDs in this period of their civilisations' evolution; They need their Enlightenment first, and the Arab Spring is the start.
Religion still plays a significant part of their political climates, and a fundamentalist with their finger on a world-ending bomb is nobody's idea of a happy Christmas. Unfortunately, the only way we can try and stop these people from getting such cataclysmically lethal weaponry (short of turning the place to glass) is to stop buying their crap so they get really poor and have to end their nuclear programmes. Hey, it's better than sending our sons over to be maimed by a roadside bomb, right?
The shift to digital projectors is screwing that option up. Even at if shot and projected in full 4K (unlikely), a 30' wide screen will have pixels 1/10" wide. Being anywhere near the fist three rows of the cinema seating will result in you having flashbacks to the days of 800x600 gaming. As it is right now, sitting at the front results in a stiff neck and an un-natural viewing angle which ruins any chance of immersion. I try and put myself at the front of the tiered seating instead, sacrificing some peripheral vision involvement in favour of comfort. I am going to be sat there for a couple of hours, after all.
As I've said before. I'd welcome the shift up from 24fps over any resolution enhancements at the moment.
I'm not even a developer, and even I know the phrase "Sanitise your inputs".
There's no excuse for injection vulnerabilities. None.
I went to see The Dark Knight on release day in IMAX. The screen was so big I couldn't take in the whole scene without moving my head. Maybe that's just the poor design of my local IMAX cinema, but I'll pass.
If I want to reproduce that effect, I'll press my face up against my TV screen.
Welchia brought the internet to a stand-still in 2003 while trying to remove Blaster. This is a problem resolved by education, not technology.
Please don't perpetuate stereotypes, yes sometimes they do hold some truth but that's no reason to write off so many other really cool things out there.
You can pause and replay any point of a video that you don't understand. Try doing that four or five times during a live lecture, and see if some idiot doesn't accuse you of racism.
When DNF was supposed to come out WE HAD NINE PLANETS IN THIS SOLAR SYSTEM.
When DNF was supposed to come out, The Matrix didn't exist and Y2K was 2 years away.
Which means you then have help in avoiding giving your money to the theater industry in the future. Hell, you can download the damn movie for free and watch it at home, in comfort, with people whose company your enjoy, with a cool beer and your favourite topping pizza, and you can pause it to go for a pee any time you want, you don't need to pay for parking or wait in queues, and you've lost nothing if it's a POS or the best bits were in the trailer, and you can buy the DVD / Blu-Ray release for better quality if you enjoyed it.
Who goes to the cinema anymore?
I signed up for the LoveFilm fortnight trial around a year ago to see what streaming content I could get, fully expecting to completely give up downloading or streaming unlicensed content. Steam replaced piracy of games for the same reason; Easy to use, convenient, good quality. Yes, I understand the DRM restrictions, and accept them as part of the service. As such don't pay full release-day price for any games on Steam.
The streaming selection on LoveFilm was so small that I'd browsed THE WHOLE THING in under 10 minutes, and there were maybe 4 or 5 movies that I would watch. Next to none of the blockbuster DVD / Blu-Ray releases were available as streams, and no reasonable TV series; It was either B-movies or TV-release movies, neither of which I was interested in paying to see. The trial was cancelled within the hour (they make you call up and try the hard-sell when you cancel. "Your streaming selection is utter rubbish. Close my account NOW." seems to work well) and I still visit the various sites offering streams unlicensed of series, often putting up with shot-with-a-potato quality video just to be able to watch a show where I am.
Anecdote: I first watched House as an unlicensed stream, around the time series 5 was released on DVD. I now own series 1 - 7 on DVD. I also subscribed to Spotify Unlimited for over a year before they linked up with Facebook. I want to pay for a good service. All they need to to is provide it.
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+1 Uncomfortable Truth.
I don't answer the questions. I say "I'll save us both some time. If this is a sales call, I'm not interested, and you should remove my details from your marketing list. If there is an issue with my accounts, I'll call the number on my bank statement, because frankly I don't trust cold callers. Which is it?"
They seem quite accommodating. They've done their job by contacting me, and I avoid all social engineering attacks.
I cannot comprehend the reason for punishing somebody who isn't religious. It's like they want to foster an environment of blind, unquestioning obedience to a higher authority, even in the face of logical inconsistency bordering on outright fallacy.
Oh, wait...
I would say that they don't see Jediism as a religion either, but more a belief system like Bushido. They don't have to believe they actually have midichlorians rushing around their bloodstream or that they can actually push stuff over by staring at it. They can just follow the parts which state loosely "don't act like a douchebag."
More "religions" should be like like this.
Two different style of car, bub.
- Hatchback: Rear windscreen part of boot / trunk lid.
- Saloon / Sedan (US): Rear windscreen not part of boot / trunk lid.
It's difficult to make a compact car with an extra 3 feet of space on the back. Kind of makes it... Big.
I've had this happen to me, so I know the pain. Saying that, though, if your users are leaving their workstations for 15 minutes without saving their work, they're asking for trouble.
Ctrl + S, WinKey + L, get up from desk. It should be in muscle memory.
Dude has put one PC gamer sat by himself in front of the door. This is a classic example of how not to set up your games room.
;)
If I were putting money into a project like this, the PC desks would be in an incomplete ring with backs to a central munchies table. This keeps everyone close to each other and the snacks, and greasy crap away from your gear. Bin through hole in centre of central table to throw napkins and empty tins / cartons (wheel-out system for emptying optional). Have the TV and sofa in another room; It's for chilling out. Have a channel for watching the current game on the LAN if you wish, but offer media PC functionality too to watch a movie or episode of something easy to let you recuperate.
IMHO
Find the lyrics, sing them yourself, and auto-tune it.
It's what Big Media is doing nowadays anyway.
enough money in investment accounts that I could have bought the house outright
Just more proof that Bob Hope was +5 Insightful.