The Grauniad in the UK amused me; they didn't mention their names or publish a link to the article, because it's also published in Germany. They did carefully give you all the information you needed to go and look it up on Wikipedia yourself (specifically they gave you the name of the victim).
Franklin was never President. He was part of the Committee Of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence and the first Postmaster General though. He was also a polymath.
If a spammer can easily spoof a legitimate user's cryptographic signature on a given block of text I would be very surprised. The only practical way that could happen would be if the user's private key was compromised - if that's the case you just issue a revocation certificate for the compromised key.
Requiring users to sign up using their public key and then requiring all posts to be signed isn't completely ridiculous. It may be a OTT for most groups and possibly beyond the ken of a lot of users, but it could be done. You would just have to parse the all incoming mail to make sure they had a valid signature and that the signature was made using a key that matched a register group member. Although I couldn't comment on how much processing overhead that would create.
As ideas go it's really in the same tradition as various others than have been created over the years, including OHP, as someone else mentioned.
I think the only thing I really don't like about it is the clunky dice rolling. I'd far rather it just showed the result of a dice roll, rather than doing a laborious animation of the rolling dice. In fact I'd rather it just showed the damage over the monster.
I would also point out that Surface units cost something like £8,500 ea. for a commercial unit. Your other choice is the developer unit, which is £10,000. Something tells me this is very much a "play with and figure out stuff we can do with it" project. It's not exactly going to be a practical solution for your average gaming group - maybe a gaming shop as a novelty.
If I was reviewing your application, and you had worked in the gambling industry, my thought process would be along the lines of:
Has worked in an industry which is heavy regulated.
Has probably been vetted by the local gambling authority, so most likely reliable.
The software they worked on has to conform to external standards, most likely requiring that it be as close to zero defect and as error tolerant as you can possibly get.
So, all in all, you would be a win.
Of course you will also get people who see "but gambling is evil and therefore so are they". You'll also get the same reaction from other people if they see you've worked in any number of other industries, like pharma or petro-chem. Right about now there are probably people who consider anything to do with finance to be equal to living in sin with Satan.
If you spend all your time worrying about how other people will view your previous employers you'll never take any job. If you're OK with working for them, then go for it. Personally I'd love to work for VideoBox, because their content delivery network has to be fucking awesome.
VAT sounds like a very good reason to continue to buy dead trees then. In the UK at least, paper books are zero rated for VAT. It's only e-books and audio books the you pay VAT on.
They pay money to the PRS (Performing Rights Society) in the UK, afaik, the same as broadcasters, pubs, clubs, etc. do. It's possible they have a direct agreement with some labels, bypassing the PRS (quite possible, it would increase the label's take).
Mind you, the PRS sucks from a lot of artist's point of view. Payments to them by broadcasters are compulsory, but the artist has to prove that their music has been played in order to get any money out of them. Unless they're with a major label or are otherwise big enough for the PRS to care, it can be nearly impossible to get the PRS to fork over your money (gleaned from talking to a friend who is a musician).
Why have you put an editorial "sic" in there? "i.e." is perfectly valid in the context in which it was used, it's an abbreviation of the Latin, "id est", or "that is".
The quote, if read in a manner expanding the abbreviation, would read "...and not scale to massive hardware. That is, it is a desktop orientated scheduler..." I would probably have changed the full stop after "hardware" to a semicolon, but that's me.
You only need one license, you can have as many tellies as you like. Portable tellies used in caravans and the like will be covered by the license for your home as well.
If you have two houses, you will need two licenses though, afaicr - which is why students away at Uni need to buy a license - including if they're in halls - even though their permanent residence might still be their parent's house.
I find the BBC great value and love it dearly. I suspect people will say that's because I'm white, middle class and liberal or something.
United Kingdom, actually. Britain is not a legal entity and really just means "that bunch of islands", including ones - and parts of ones - which aren't a part of the UK (The Isle of Man and the ROI, for example).
The government has been saying they can't, I'm not entirely sure on what legal basis they're asserting that though.
Logically if a law is invalid because something wasn't done when it was passed, that will always have been the case. It's possible there's a clause which makes only future cases, after the omission was discovered, invalid. It seems unlikely though.
Time sinks do not make me want to stick around, they make me want to go elsewhere. I already have a time sink in my life, it's called work. It regularly consumes 13 hours of my day, factor in an average 8 hours of sleep and that leaves me with 3 hours in which to do things like play games, eat food, etc. If the game wants me to spend time essentially doing nothing, then I'm not playing.
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If it's cheaper than the Fat Duck one - which was over £100 last time I checked - I shall pick up a copy. If only for entertainment purposes.
The Grauniad in the UK amused me; they didn't mention their names or publish a link to the article, because it's also published in Germany. They did carefully give you all the information you needed to go and look it up on Wikipedia yourself (specifically they gave you the name of the victim).
I shall throw autodidact your way as well then :)
Franklin was never President. He was part of the Committee Of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence and the first Postmaster General though. He was also a polymath.
If a spammer can easily spoof a legitimate user's cryptographic signature on a given block of text I would be very surprised. The only practical way that could happen would be if the user's private key was compromised - if that's the case you just issue a revocation certificate for the compromised key.
Requiring users to sign up using their public key and then requiring all posts to be signed isn't completely ridiculous. It may be a OTT for most groups and possibly beyond the ken of a lot of users, but it could be done. You would just have to parse the all incoming mail to make sure they had a valid signature and that the signature was made using a key that matched a register group member. Although I couldn't comment on how much processing overhead that would create.
As ideas go it's really in the same tradition as various others than have been created over the years, including OHP, as someone else mentioned.
I think the only thing I really don't like about it is the clunky dice rolling. I'd far rather it just showed the result of a dice roll, rather than doing a laborious animation of the rolling dice. In fact I'd rather it just showed the damage over the monster.
I would also point out that Surface units cost something like £8,500 ea. for a commercial unit. Your other choice is the developer unit, which is £10,000. Something tells me this is very much a "play with and figure out stuff we can do with it" project. It's not exactly going to be a practical solution for your average gaming group - maybe a gaming shop as a novelty.
If I was reviewing your application, and you had worked in the gambling industry, my thought process would be along the lines of:
So, all in all, you would be a win.
Of course you will also get people who see "but gambling is evil and therefore so are they". You'll also get the same reaction from other people if they see you've worked in any number of other industries, like pharma or petro-chem. Right about now there are probably people who consider anything to do with finance to be equal to living in sin with Satan.
If you spend all your time worrying about how other people will view your previous employers you'll never take any job. If you're OK with working for them, then go for it. Personally I'd love to work for VideoBox, because their content delivery network has to be fucking awesome.
VAT sounds like a very good reason to continue to buy dead trees then. In the UK at least, paper books are zero rated for VAT. It's only e-books and audio books the you pay VAT on.
And Cashmere wool. I like soft comfy wool, rather than hard scratchy wool.
Except the border with India.
Doesn't mater, the law only requires proof that the notice was served/sent. Not that the person got it.
And how many people will have mirrored it before then?
They pay money to the PRS (Performing Rights Society) in the UK, afaik, the same as broadcasters, pubs, clubs, etc. do. It's possible they have a direct agreement with some labels, bypassing the PRS (quite possible, it would increase the label's take).
Mind you, the PRS sucks from a lot of artist's point of view. Payments to them by broadcasters are compulsory, but the artist has to prove that their music has been played in order to get any money out of them. Unless they're with a major label or are otherwise big enough for the PRS to care, it can be nearly impossible to get the PRS to fork over your money (gleaned from talking to a friend who is a musician).
Any decent compiler will create identical assembly for while(true) { ... } and for(;;) { ... }
Why have you put an editorial "sic" in there? "i.e." is perfectly valid in the context in which it was used, it's an abbreviation of the Latin, "id est", or "that is".
The quote, if read in a manner expanding the abbreviation, would read "...and not scale to massive hardware. That is, it is a desktop orientated scheduler..." I would probably have changed the full stop after "hardware" to a semicolon, but that's me.
That's pretty much what I was saying. Just not very well, it seems.
You only need one license, you can have as many tellies as you like. Portable tellies used in caravans and the like will be covered by the license for your home as well.
If you have two houses, you will need two licenses though, afaicr - which is why students away at Uni need to buy a license - including if they're in halls - even though their permanent residence might still be their parent's house.
I find the BBC great value and love it dearly. I suspect people will say that's because I'm white, middle class and liberal or something.
If a member of the Murdoch family is criticizing you, you're probably doing something right.
Just for the record, I love the BBC and I love the NHS; nuts to anyone who thinks they're somehow evil.
Only to people who sell the currency IRL and transfer the ISK to you in-game; it's gold farming, essentially.
United Kingdom, actually. Britain is not a legal entity and really just means "that bunch of islands", including ones - and parts of ones - which aren't a part of the UK (The Isle of Man and the ROI, for example).
Great Britain is another matter entirely.
The government has been saying they can't, I'm not entirely sure on what legal basis they're asserting that though.
Logically if a law is invalid because something wasn't done when it was passed, that will always have been the case. It's possible there's a clause which makes only future cases, after the omission was discovered, invalid. It seems unlikely though.
I believe that's the British government's preferred backup system, ensure everyone has a copy of it.
Fortunately it's still called SciFi in the UK, which is good; I would have to stop watching it on principle if they renamed it to ScyFy.
Time sinks do not make me want to stick around, they make me want to go elsewhere. I already have a time sink in my life, it's called work. It regularly consumes 13 hours of my day, factor in an average 8 hours of sleep and that leaves me with 3 hours in which to do things like play games, eat food, etc. If the game wants me to spend time essentially doing nothing, then I'm not playing.
Unless the modder post on the thread, like you just did :)