that may be, but Seth McFarlane has been quoted as working on new Family Guy:
... at the very least it [the new series] will be on Cartoon Network, which is great, because at the end of the day, that's where we built our biggest fan base.
My biggest problem with outsourcing is that it is the product of a system which is skewed in favour of corporates, and screws the little guy. The problem as I see it is that one of the reasons why wage costs are so high in developed nations is because our cost of living is equally high. And one of the reasons for the cost of living being so high is because people cost too much to hire. But the problem we are getting now is that companies don't want to hire expensive people so they outsource. But the prices don't go down to reflect this. So as a labour force we still can't compete because our cost of living remains too high.
you've bought the right to that particular issue of the soundtrack. If you can derive lossy or exact duplicates of it, then you should be allowed to, as the essence of what you have got is the same. You don't have the right to the new stunning 5.1 surround mix, as you haven't actually paid for that. That would be my assumption anyway...
although not limited to china just invading tawain, I recently finished reading Dragon Fire by Humphrey Hawksley, which puts forward a scenario in which a surgical strike is carried out against taiwanese leadership when they attempt to declare independence. The background of it is the power struggle between india and china to become the dominant nation in asia, with tibet and kashmir both involved.
Something that came out of it which I thought was interesting was the question of will. There is a difference between saying that the US would respond to any attack by China on Taiwan, and actually carrying out that response. If China demonstrate a willingness to use nuclear weapons by firing on, say, Delhi, then how willing is the US going to be to risk an attack on a US city just because a few strategically placed missiles have been launched against Taiwan?
Anyway, I am by no means an expert on any of this, but the book is definitely well worth checking out
For me, that isn't a good reason. Tell me how long it is beforehand, keep it good and interesting and you can make it as long as you want.
in the meantime Peter Jackson has to live in the real world, and satisfy the various people who have a financial interest in making the movies, rather than an artistic one. Frankly I think that a superb job has been done of balancing what are often quite conflicting points of view - almost certainly due to the strength of the original source material, and the strength of Peter Jackson's (and that of his team) vision.
Because it is an employee of the company, and it appears to reflect a position that someone working for such a company should hopefully not have.
But it's just a sig!!! If I was working for a company that was building a voting system, I'd probably be inclined to have something sarcastic along those lines in my sig. Frankly I think there are far more worrying things in the diebold case than someone having a (slightly warped?) sense of humour in the company.
some archives may go online, but it will be unlikely to include anything that has resale value. In spite of their public broadcasting mandate, they have to be very careful not to breach their worldwide licensing arrangements - they have already had trouble when they switched to a different satellite broadcasting system and wound up transmitting stuff to Ireland/France unencrypted.
it was reported in the times the day before... witness the strange connection news corp connection.
being slightly optimistic, I reckon someone leaked this cos they figured it was a complete waste of time doing a feasibility study on something that would never be accepted by the general public. Brits are slow to anger, but when they do, they really go ballistic... the poll tax and the more recent fuel strikes are two that come to mind - if anyone tried to introduce this, I would expect a similar reaction...
well, you don't know me but I have broadband purely for convenience. I never have to wait for a connection, and I can browse in a normal fashion (i.e. not having to only have one window at a time, that kinda thing). That and working from home is a helluva lot easier with a decent connection...
from what I understand, all the cowparade cows are made from fibreglass aren't they? The ones in Milton Keynes are concrete (and nothing to do with raising money, they just sit in a field next to a dual carriageway and a housing estate)
bah - I got this when I first moved to london, but it seems to have passed now... my theory is that my body is working out a way to get me some super powers out of it. Hopefully it will involve flying, so I can skip the crappy commute.
Of course, the more likely explanation is that I am ingesting it all, and am now slowly dying... looking on the bright side, I still won't have to worry about traffic!
I've got this, and I can safely say it works really well. The only trouble is, that if you come into the movie half way through when your flat mate is watching it, you get really confused, and have no idea what has happened and what is going to happen next.
From what I understand, the laws are a lot more lax in the US than in the UK. I work for a company which holds data on me in the US, and there was a clause in my acceptance letter which stated that the Data Protection Act would not apply, and I could effectively go screw myself!!(alright, they actually said they would take reasonable efforts to protect my data, but essentially it seems that I would not have legal protection).
I found Computer: A History of the Information Machine, by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray gave a good overview of the history of computing... not too detailed but gives enough to lead you to know what you want to find out more about...
This is true, but it could be something which is an added feature rather than the only way it works. ie if you use the same digit for repeated keypresses, then it will cycle through the characters in the same way. If you want to use the one finger one character approach, you can use more than one digit.
It shouldn't be too tricky to develop this so that it can allow both modes... providing enhanced functionality for those who can be arsed to get used to a new way of typing.
Regardless of whether the face scanning software was 100% accurate (as pointed out already by various people and the article itself, we aren't even close to that), who says that potential terrorists/criminals are even going to be in the comparison database. All you have to do is ensure that this is going to be your first offence, and you won't even be in there.
Again we are attempting to find a series of high tech solutions (at very high expense), when we really need to be applying a bit more low tech, hands-on investigative work. You can't automate everything (certainly not yet anyway)...
I wasn't going to reply to this, but my irritation with your attitude got the better of me. First off, if you are one of the 100 who are dead, do you think the total really makes much difference to you? Dead people is dead people, and frankly it sucks (I am not trying to lessen the scale of the tragedy, merely pointing out that innocents being killed is all in the same ball park)
Second, I am curious to know wtf pampered teenagers have to do with anything? If your implication is that I am a pampered teenager, fraid you are a few years too late...
Also is it sacrificing their lives for the ideals of freedom, or sacrificing them to save the lives of others. (ie if you are refering to the sacrifice made by those passengers, then I would argue it was more the latter). In case you were wondering what the difference was:
- The ideals of freedom are subjective, and to a certain extent are based on the ideals of the society which you are brought up in. Personally speaking I don't necessarily agree with the all the ideals of the society I have been brought up, in spite of it being considered one of the more free, but I have work to do, so I am not going to go into that now.
- sacrificing your life for others is a moral decision, one which I like to think I would be willing to do , but will not until (if) I am put in that situation.
anyway, that's enough rambling, I am not sure if I have made a particularly coherent point, or just wasted 10 minutes, but it makes me feel better;-)
You have missed my point. People still die, the only difference is the numbers. And of course, if you shoot them down, there's a chance stuff is going to land on people, unless you plan on asking the nice terrorist to fly over some countryside where they can neatly be blown up
According to this article from the UK's guardian, cryptography wasn't even used, so it's all bunch scaremongering crap anyway...
"FBI investigators had been able to locate hundreds of email communications, sent 30 to 45 days before the attack. Records had been obtained from internet service providers and from public libraries. The messages, in both English and Arabic, were sent within the US and internationally. They had been sent from personal computers or from public sites such as libraries. They used a variety of ISPs, including accounts on Hotmail.
According to the FBI, the conspirators had not used encryption or concealment methods. Once found, the emails could be openly read."
How would you plan on diverting a plane load of civilians? Shoot it down? you can't efffectively divert a plane if the people in control are willing to die... so you've still got 100+ dead people.
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that may be, but Seth McFarlane has been quoted as working on new Family Guy:
... at the very least it [the new series] will be on Cartoon Network, which is great, because at the end of the day, that's where we built our biggest fan base.
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My biggest problem with outsourcing is that it is the product of a system which is skewed in favour of corporates, and screws the little guy. The problem as I see it is that one of the reasons why wage costs are so high in developed nations is because our cost of living is equally high. And one of the reasons for the cost of living being so high is because people cost too much to hire. But the problem we are getting now is that companies don't want to hire expensive people so they outsource. But the prices don't go down to reflect this. So as a labour force we still can't compete because our cost of living remains too high.
you've bought the right to that particular issue of the soundtrack. If you can derive lossy or exact duplicates of it, then you should be allowed to, as the essence of what you have got is the same. You don't have the right to the new stunning 5.1 surround mix, as you haven't actually paid for that. That would be my assumption anyway ...
although not limited to china just invading tawain, I recently finished reading Dragon Fire by Humphrey Hawksley, which puts forward a scenario in which a surgical strike is carried out against taiwanese leadership when they attempt to declare independence. The background of it is the power struggle between india and china to become the dominant nation in asia, with tibet and kashmir both involved.
Something that came out of it which I thought was interesting was the question of will. There is a difference between saying that the US would respond to any attack by China on Taiwan, and actually carrying out that response. If China demonstrate a willingness to use nuclear weapons by firing on, say, Delhi, then how willing is the US going to be to risk an attack on a US city just because a few strategically placed missiles have been launched against Taiwan?
Anyway, I am by no means an expert on any of this, but the book is definitely well worth checking out
For me, that isn't a good reason. Tell me how long it is beforehand, keep it good and interesting and you can make it as long as you want.
in the meantime Peter Jackson has to live in the real world, and satisfy the various people who have a financial interest in making the movies, rather than an artistic one. Frankly I think that a superb job has been done of balancing what are often quite conflicting points of view - almost certainly due to the strength of the original source material, and the strength of Peter Jackson's (and that of his team) vision.
Because it is an employee of the company, and it appears to reflect a position that someone working for such a company should hopefully not have.
But it's just a sig!!! If I was working for a company that was building a voting system, I'd probably be inclined to have something sarcastic along those lines in my sig. Frankly I think there are far more worrying things in the diebold case than someone having a (slightly warped?) sense of humour in the company.
some archives may go online, but it will be unlikely to include anything that has resale value. In spite of their public broadcasting mandate, they have to be very careful not to breach their worldwide licensing arrangements - they have already had trouble when they switched to a different satellite broadcasting system and wound up transmitting stuff to Ireland/France unencrypted.
it was reported in the times the day before ... witness the strange connection news corp connection.
... the poll tax and the more recent fuel strikes are two that come to mind - if anyone tried to introduce this, I would expect a similar reaction ...
being slightly optimistic, I reckon someone leaked this cos they figured it was a complete waste of time doing a feasibility study on something that would never be accepted by the general public. Brits are slow to anger, but when they do, they really go ballistic
well, you don't know me but I have broadband purely for convenience. I never have to wait for a connection, and I can browse in a normal fashion (i.e. not having to only have one window at a time, that kinda thing). That and working from home is a helluva lot easier with a decent connection ...
a lot of the people I know have similar reasons.
from what I understand, all the cowparade cows are made from fibreglass aren't they? The ones in Milton Keynes are concrete (and nothing to do with raising money, they just sit in a field next to a dual carriageway and a housing estate)
bah - I got this when I first moved to london, but it seems to have passed now ... my theory is that my body is working out a way to get me some super powers out of it. Hopefully it will involve flying, so I can skip the crappy commute.
... looking on the bright side, I still won't have to worry about traffic!
Of course, the more likely explanation is that I am ingesting it all, and am now slowly dying
I've got this, and I can safely say it works really well. The only trouble is, that if you come into the movie half way through when your flat mate is watching it, you get really confused, and have no idea what has happened and what is going to happen next.
From what I understand, the laws are a lot more lax in the US than in the UK. I work for a company which holds data on me in the US, and there was a clause in my acceptance letter which stated that the Data Protection Act would not apply, and I could effectively go screw myself!!(alright, they actually said they would take reasonable efforts to protect my data, but essentially it seems that I would not have legal protection).
Anyone got a bit more detail on these things?
yeah, me too ... turned out to be one of the most enjoyable courses I studied - it makes so much difference when a lecturer is into his subject
I found Computer: A History of the Information Machine, by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray gave a good overview of the history of computing ... not too detailed but gives enough to lead you to know what you want to find out more about ...
This is true, but it could be something which is an added feature rather than the only way it works. ie if you use the same digit for repeated keypresses, then it will cycle through the characters in the same way. If you want to use the one finger one character approach, you can use more than one digit.
... providing enhanced functionality for those who can be arsed to get used to a new way of typing.
It shouldn't be too tricky to develop this so that it can allow both modes
cheers
Mike
Regardless of whether the face scanning software was 100% accurate (as pointed out already by various people and the article itself, we aren't even close to that), who says that potential terrorists/criminals are even going to be in the comparison database. All you have to do is ensure that this is going to be your first offence, and you won't even be in there.
...
Again we are attempting to find a series of high tech solutions (at very high expense), when we really need to be applying a bit more low tech, hands-on investigative work. You can't automate everything (certainly not yet anyway)
I wasn't going to reply to this, but my irritation with your attitude got the better of me. First off, if you are one of the 100 who are dead, do you think the total really makes much difference to you? Dead people is dead people, and frankly it sucks (I am not trying to lessen the scale of the tragedy, merely pointing out that innocents being killed is all in the same ball park)
...
;-)
Second, I am curious to know wtf pampered teenagers have to do with anything? If your implication is that I am a pampered teenager, fraid you are a few years too late
Also is it sacrificing their lives for the ideals of freedom, or sacrificing them to save the lives of others. (ie if you are refering to the sacrifice made by those passengers, then I would argue it was more the latter). In case you were wondering what the difference was:
- The ideals of freedom are subjective, and to a certain extent are based on the ideals of the society which you are brought up in. Personally speaking I don't necessarily agree with the all the ideals of the society I have been brought up, in spite of it being considered one of the more free, but I have work to do, so I am not going to go into that now.
- sacrificing your life for others is a moral decision, one which I like to think I would be willing to do , but will not until (if) I am put in that situation.
anyway, that's enough rambling, I am not sure if I have made a particularly coherent point, or just wasted 10 minutes, but it makes me feel better
You have missed my point. People still die, the only difference is the numbers. And of course, if you shoot them down, there's a chance stuff is going to land on people, unless you plan on asking the nice terrorist to fly over some countryside where they can neatly be blown up
"FBI investigators had been able to locate hundreds of email communications, sent 30 to 45 days before the attack. Records had been obtained from internet service providers and from public libraries. The messages, in both English and Arabic, were sent within the US and internationally. They had been sent from personal computers or from public sites such as libraries. They used a variety of ISPs, including accounts on Hotmail.
According to the FBI, the conspirators had not used encryption or concealment methods. Once found, the emails could be openly read."
How would you plan on diverting a plane load of civilians? Shoot it down? you can't efffectively divert a plane if the people in control are willing to die ... so you've still got 100+ dead people.
if you don't believe the reporting, why not check out the website, instead?!?!