It may be blue collar, but it's skilled blue collar. There are professionals in the UK who quit their careers to train as plumbers because it pays more money.
You carry over your unused bandwidth to the next month as well, up to a maximum which I forget. I'm also on Nildram, but I have a business subscription which actually is uncapped (afaict).
CU was the "Combat Upgrade", which was the first time Sony changed the game and NGE was the "New Game Experience" which was the second time they did it.
In the case of the NGE they might as well have just called it a "New Game" and be done with it.
Surely the choice between a Latin (I'm guessing) plural and an English one is just a choice to use a particular writing style. I bet you don't like split infinitives either.
Greek. Although the spirit of your reply is correct; the same applies to words such as "virus": the Anglicized plural "viruses" is acceptable, even though in the original Latin there is no plural form (it's a mass noun).
I am squeeing in fanboyish delight. Hopefully I can stop before I have to catch the train; this is probably a disturbing thing for a 30 year old software developer to be doing on public transport.
Why would anyone flame for that? I never got to play pre-CU, but all I ever heard were good things. I got in to SWG pre-NGE and I loathe the NGE - I quit playing shortly after it was rolled out on the live servers.
Hmm, reading that article what I find myself thinking is "I wish there was a Hardee's somewhere in London", because that Monster Thickburger is making me hungry. I suspect there's something about computers in there too, but now I'm just hungry.
Is there an English speaking country left on this bloody planet which has a sane government? I'm about ready to vote with my feet and quit the UK, assuming I can find anyone stupid enough to take me.
Unless the submitter is in mainland Europe; most, if not all, of them use . as the thousands separator and , as the decimal separator. The UK seems to be alone in Europe, in having them the other way around.
I have a BluRay player and a TrueHD telly; I just don't see the point in buying all the stuff I have on DVD again on BluRay, not unless it's something I really like and the HD version would be worth it - everything else just upscales fine.
I think the only DVD/BluRay duplicate I've done so far is Bladerunner - I'm losing track of the number of copies of that I have. Star Wars I'd probably buy as well, if they ever release them on BluRay.
So really the only things I'm interested in buying are new films on BluRay; there's only a limited number of those I actually like enough to want to buy them. Otherwise I shall just rent them from LoveFilm. Same as for DVDs, really.
I have the same problem where I work, the problem is I am the dev with real commercial experience; I just can't convince them that we need to do things in a manner that I would consider correct - it's all ad-hoc development and it's all driving me nuts.
The problem is, if our software doesn't work correctly, then the data we collect and process using it becomes screwed up, which is a major issue for the core business - data is our crown jewels.
My current solution to the problem is looking for a new job in a company that actually takes software development seriously. I just can't see any way of getting things here working the way I want. There wasn't even any revision control in place on the source code when I started.
The problem I'm finding is that the lack of structured development and design here is actually beginning to hurt me professionally: prospective employers, who have software development as a core aspect of their business, actually ask about this kind of thing. If you're looking to hire someone who takes their profession serious, for god's sake make sure they're actually going to be able to do their job - otherwise your company is just going to turn in to a blot on their CV.
No, he's talking about separating the View from the Controller, ie changing the browser so it is no longer concerned with deciding what to display, just how to display it. In fact he specifically mentions the Model-View-Controller design pattern (one I'm particularly fond of myself).
Such as the guests of one of the companies we have to share our office building with; they're a job skills company that get people sent to them from the job centre next door - people who really don't want to be there.
We actually have two sets of toilets with key coded doors, so we have some that at least aren't totally trashed.
They'll be paying the ISP's for their dedicated links; I suspect they're essentially just standard transit agreements, albeit with most of the data staying inside the ISP's network.
I believe the 9 months to undo is taking in to account that when the budget is approved you have to give all the employees the back-pay they missed out on during the time it took them to approve a budget. Given I have no idea how the system works, I'm not even going to try and guess what that would involve.
Aye; I'm nosing around for jobs closer to home right now. The other alternative is moving to West London, but that just isn't going to happen - I loathe London with a passion.
In this case what it did was cause the system to fall over once a day and need rebooting; fortunately all that meant was they couldn't change the lane assignments on a conveyor belt system until it came back up again.
I come from the old school of thought that says that a SCADA system should be able to fail without adversely affecting the safety of the overall system. You lose your overview and control, but the automatic controls and safeties should continue to operate and make sure nothing really bad happens - I like having hardware based panel controls to fall back on.
Mind you software based safety seems to be the way it's going nowadays; last factory based job I worked on was using PLC based safety controls like AB's GuardPLC and GuardLogix series. And had a safety curtain that auto-reset; that resulted in quite a few people going "WTF!? What do you mean that was by design?" Especially the fitter who was stood on the shadow board trying to unjam a panel when the safety reset and the board spun round. Queue quick witted people jumping for the nice red buttons.
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It may be blue collar, but it's skilled blue collar. There are professionals in the UK who quit their careers to train as plumbers because it pays more money.
You carry over your unused bandwidth to the next month as well, up to a maximum which I forget. I'm also on Nildram, but I have a business subscription which actually is uncapped (afaict).
CU was the "Combat Upgrade", which was the first time Sony changed the game and NGE was the "New Game Experience" which was the second time they did it.
In the case of the NGE they might as well have just called it a "New Game" and be done with it.
Greek. Although the spirit of your reply is correct; the same applies to words such as "virus": the Anglicized plural "viruses" is acceptable, even though in the original Latin there is no plural form (it's a mass noun).
I am squeeing in fanboyish delight. Hopefully I can stop before I have to catch the train; this is probably a disturbing thing for a 30 year old software developer to be doing on public transport.
LucasArts? None. Bioware on the other hand most likely will; it popped up in KoTOR and KoTOR II, iirc.
Why would you bother to SecurROM a game than can only be played online with a subscription? Assuming it follows normal MMO patterns.
Then again with EA you never know wtf they're going to do.
Why would anyone flame for that? I never got to play pre-CU, but all I ever heard were good things. I got in to SWG pre-NGE and I loathe the NGE - I quit playing shortly after it was rolled out on the live servers.
Hmm, reading that article what I find myself thinking is "I wish there was a Hardee's somewhere in London", because that Monster Thickburger is making me hungry. I suspect there's something about computers in there too, but now I'm just hungry.
Is there an English speaking country left on this bloody planet which has a sane government? I'm about ready to vote with my feet and quit the UK, assuming I can find anyone stupid enough to take me.
Yeah it is. We've had one since 1689 and we've had the Magna Carta since 1215.
You saved me asking that. Not that I use my phone on the train - I hate people who do that.
It did occur to me that you might have been the OP. Mainland Europeans are weird, with their using . as a thousands separator. I'm also from the UK :)
Unless the submitter is in mainland Europe; most, if not all, of them use . as the thousands separator and , as the decimal separator. The UK seems to be alone in Europe, in having them the other way around.
I have a BluRay player and a TrueHD telly; I just don't see the point in buying all the stuff I have on DVD again on BluRay, not unless it's something I really like and the HD version would be worth it - everything else just upscales fine.
I think the only DVD/BluRay duplicate I've done so far is Bladerunner - I'm losing track of the number of copies of that I have. Star Wars I'd probably buy as well, if they ever release them on BluRay.
So really the only things I'm interested in buying are new films on BluRay; there's only a limited number of those I actually like enough to want to buy them. Otherwise I shall just rent them from LoveFilm. Same as for DVDs, really.
Does that mean I can't post re-enactment videos then? Even though all the firearms I use for that are licensed and legally held...
It was one of the first things I rolled out when I started here; my CV does say something along those lines :)
I have the same problem where I work, the problem is I am the dev with real commercial experience; I just can't convince them that we need to do things in a manner that I would consider correct - it's all ad-hoc development and it's all driving me nuts.
The problem is, if our software doesn't work correctly, then the data we collect and process using it becomes screwed up, which is a major issue for the core business - data is our crown jewels.
My current solution to the problem is looking for a new job in a company that actually takes software development seriously. I just can't see any way of getting things here working the way I want. There wasn't even any revision control in place on the source code when I started.
The problem I'm finding is that the lack of structured development and design here is actually beginning to hurt me professionally: prospective employers, who have software development as a core aspect of their business, actually ask about this kind of thing. If you're looking to hire someone who takes their profession serious, for god's sake make sure they're actually going to be able to do their job - otherwise your company is just going to turn in to a blot on their CV.
No, he's talking about separating the View from the Controller, ie changing the browser so it is no longer concerned with deciding what to display, just how to display it. In fact he specifically mentions the Model-View-Controller design pattern (one I'm particularly fond of myself).
Actually from what the guy was saying, I think the torso is the timing point for a track race.
Such as the guests of one of the companies we have to share our office building with; they're a job skills company that get people sent to them from the job centre next door - people who really don't want to be there.
We actually have two sets of toilets with key coded doors, so we have some that at least aren't totally trashed.
They'll be paying the ISP's for their dedicated links; I suspect they're essentially just standard transit agreements, albeit with most of the data staying inside the ISP's network.
I believe the 9 months to undo is taking in to account that when the budget is approved you have to give all the employees the back-pay they missed out on during the time it took them to approve a budget. Given I have no idea how the system works, I'm not even going to try and guess what that would involve.
Aye; I'm nosing around for jobs closer to home right now. The other alternative is moving to West London, but that just isn't going to happen - I loathe London with a passion.
In this case what it did was cause the system to fall over once a day and need rebooting; fortunately all that meant was they couldn't change the lane assignments on a conveyor belt system until it came back up again.
I come from the old school of thought that says that a SCADA system should be able to fail without adversely affecting the safety of the overall system. You lose your overview and control, but the automatic controls and safeties should continue to operate and make sure nothing really bad happens - I like having hardware based panel controls to fall back on.
Mind you software based safety seems to be the way it's going nowadays; last factory based job I worked on was using PLC based safety controls like AB's GuardPLC and GuardLogix series. And had a safety curtain that auto-reset; that resulted in quite a few people going "WTF!? What do you mean that was by design?" Especially the fitter who was stood on the shadow board trying to unjam a panel when the safety reset and the board spun round. Queue quick witted people jumping for the nice red buttons.