In the current price driven OEM market, using the cheapest components and shipping paid junkware is competing.
Competing on price rather than quality is still competing. Anyway competing on quality hasn't seemed to have worked out that well for PC OEMs overall either.
Exactly. Python has a few libraries available like pygame, pyglet, panda3d etc that would help someone ease into game development.
To the OP: I wouldn't try any C++ or C# game development until you feel you've made real progress with something simpler. It sounds like you'll need lots of small self contained projects you can succeed with. Ongoing success with small steps of increasing complexity is going to be better than failing at something too big and ambitious.
Bill was also king of vapourware (Cairo anyone?). And the whole Longhorn/Vista development and redevelopment debacle was on his watch as chief software architect.
My 10yr old mountain bike is getting to be like that. The only original bits left on it are the rear wheel rim, the front wheel (rim,spokes and hub), the handlebars, grips and gear shifters. Which is only a tiny fraction of the original bike, and mostly bits that don't really affect how it rides.
Everything else (including the frame itself) has been replaced at least once. Which raises the question can it still be called a 10 yr old bike?
Effectively its a rolling (sorry) release like Debian Sid.
Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.
Anyway, the original was a perfectly cromulent embiggened plupluperfect you pedantic Johnson (as in 'cock' rather than 'Samuel') who can't tell the difference between a sarcastic contrafibularity in a casual discussion and an english essay.
Then I realized that this entertainment-ephemera was merely conceptual but buying diapers was real. So I went in, bought diapers, brought the diapers home and quit hacking (for the most part).
Good for you. Some guy I know went to do the same thing, but ended up robbing the place and getting left there by his wife while the police were arriving. That sumbitch!
What does conceptual entertainment-ephemera mean anyway?
Is it because children have to be sat down and gently told the truth, like about Santa Claus?
Now that you mention children - my five year old is in denial. He still insists that Pluto is a planet. Even if the reclassification was just before he was born. The set of plastic planets hanging from his ceiling (his first ever Solar System experience) included Pluto, and no new library book or educational dinner table placemat since has managed to convince him otherwise.
I'm sure he would be far less upset after learning the truth about Santa (I think he was always a bit sceptical about that as a concept).
If only I had accidentally 'lost' Pluto when hanging up his planets all those years ago...
Yep. It is also why (in temperate regions at least - ie no real freezing) resealing work is ideally always done at the hottest time of the year.
There's an optimal viscosity for laying the stuff. So by sealing in summer they can then use a mix with the highest possible melting temp to hopefully avoid these sticky summer situations. Sealing roads etc when its colder requires a runnier mix, which then doesn't handle summers quite as well.
Of course places with a very wide seasonal temperature range make this much more challenging.
Well the flipside of that argument could be: if they don't know enough about the iPad to tell the difference, how do they/we really know they wanted an "iPad" instead of "a tablet" anyway?
They could just be using iPad as the only name they know of for a new fangled flat computer. And even then - if "iPad" is the only name they know of to ask for in the store or the only name to look for on the box, why weren't they sold one?
If similar looks are really such an issue, wouldn't these people who just grab something in the store (without asking for an iPad or looking for "iPad" on the box) be in danger of accidentally walking out with an electronic picture frame or something? Should the judge get involved there too?
This is all moot though - from the sound of things it was Siri search patents rather than looks that are behind the injunction.
I wonder, when the dust settles, as I suppose it one day must, will anyone add up the appalling costs to the NZ taxpayers to play out this farce?
I'm OK with the expense of all this.
I reckon that this was a useful exercise for the NZ public (and the Police) to find out who they're dealing with. NZ got to try out cooperating with US authorities on a case that doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things. Especially when NZs sovereignty over IP matters is at stake with the current trans pacific trade negotiations with the US.
The fact that it spectacularly and publicly (ie plenty of coverage on the mainstream news) failed while showing up how US authorities and content holders work is even better.
The next time the NZ Police get asked to cooperate like this (and it might be an NZ citizen or business in trouble next time), you can bet they are going to be a lot more reluctant about it after being burnt this time. And it also hopefully makes the general public a bit more aware about the imperialistic approach to IP law that the US is forcing onto other countries via 'free' trade agreements.
Consider the intent of Facebook's email service: To remove people's need or desire to use Google services (Gmail, in this case). The big picture goal is that Facebook effectively becomes the Internet for people, the way AOL used to be.
Excellent. "We" just might get the rest of the internet back.
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You eat a whole pig for breakfast?!?
I would've thought that the pig was at most a few percent committed to your breakfast.
Oh how I hated that show when I was a kid. Granted, I wasn't really in the target demographic...
In the current price driven OEM market, using the cheapest components and shipping paid junkware is competing.
Competing on price rather than quality is still competing. Anyway competing on quality hasn't seemed to have worked out that well for PC OEMs overall either.
Has Google given up on Chrome OS yet? Just curious - it's been quiet for a while in that dept. Maybe x86 Android some day?
(Yes I know they both use the Linux kernel, but they aren't a Linux Desktop in the usual sense)
As long as they don't get ill-tempered everything should be ok.
Exactly. Python has a few libraries available like pygame, pyglet, panda3d etc that would help someone ease into game development.
To the OP: I wouldn't try any C++ or C# game development until you feel you've made real progress with something simpler. It sounds like you'll need lots of small self contained projects you can succeed with. Ongoing success with small steps of increasing complexity is going to be better than failing at something too big and ambitious.
So you want a distro that only does bug fixes and security fixes, but doesn't end up with old software? How does that work?
Bill was also king of vapourware (Cairo anyone?). And the whole Longhorn/Vista development and redevelopment debacle was on his watch as chief software architect.
Weather. A specific atmospheric condition (a heat dome - never heard that one before) moving over a specific area over a specific time is weather.
Climate is trends and cycles in longer term averages of weather statistics and the probabilities of stuff happening.
eg the el nino / la nina cycle and how that relates to the probabilities of storm frequencies or intensities is climate - any actual storm is weather.
My 10yr old mountain bike is getting to be like that. The only original bits left on it are the rear wheel rim, the front wheel (rim,spokes and hub), the handlebars, grips and gear shifters. Which is only a tiny fraction of the original bike, and mostly bits that don't really affect how it rides.
Everything else (including the frame itself) has been replaced at least once. Which raises the question can it still be called a 10 yr old bike?
Effectively its a rolling (sorry) release like Debian Sid.
Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.
Anyway, the original was a perfectly cromulent embiggened plupluperfect you pedantic Johnson (as in 'cock' rather than 'Samuel') who can't tell the difference between a sarcastic contrafibularity in a casual discussion and an english essay.
Terribly sorry...
Now if only RMS had of patented his ideas.
Better?
That's only because the bad guys look at what he fears for some good ideas.
Now if only RMS had've patented his ideas :)
Good for you. Some guy I know went to do the same thing, but ended up robbing the place and getting left there by his wife while the police were arriving. That sumbitch!
What does conceptual entertainment-ephemera mean anyway?
Ummm that was implied - it was Derek that made LOTR after all.
Dereks don't run!
Surely the social media subject could've at least justified a Tweety pun in there somewhere...
Now that you mention children - my five year old is in denial. He still insists that Pluto is a planet. Even if the reclassification was just before he was born. The set of plastic planets hanging from his ceiling (his first ever Solar System experience) included Pluto, and no new library book or educational dinner table placemat since has managed to convince him otherwise.
I'm sure he would be far less upset after learning the truth about Santa (I think he was always a bit sceptical about that as a concept).
If only I had accidentally 'lost' Pluto when hanging up his planets all those years ago...
Yep. It is also why (in temperate regions at least - ie no real freezing) resealing work is ideally always done at the hottest time of the year.
There's an optimal viscosity for laying the stuff. So by sealing in summer they can then use a mix with the highest possible melting temp to hopefully avoid these sticky summer situations. Sealing roads etc when its colder requires a runnier mix, which then doesn't handle summers quite as well.
Of course places with a very wide seasonal temperature range make this much more challenging.
I'm not sure I would be able to tell the difference. I've never knowingly dined on human flesh before.
OK, with you so far...
But you're still trying to teach your dog to sail using sailing terms!
Now if on the other hand your dog was Japanese...
Water has no thermal expansion? Really? Basic physics huh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water#Density_of_water_and_ice
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2007/AllenMa.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ww6BIy3nc0
And water is actually slightly compressible:
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/compressibility.html
Well the flipside of that argument could be: if they don't know enough about the iPad to tell the difference, how do they/we really know they wanted an "iPad" instead of "a tablet" anyway?
They could just be using iPad as the only name they know of for a new fangled flat computer. And even then - if "iPad" is the only name they know of to ask for in the store or the only name to look for on the box, why weren't they sold one?
If similar looks are really such an issue, wouldn't these people who just grab something in the store (without asking for an iPad or looking for "iPad" on the box) be in danger of accidentally walking out with an electronic picture frame or something? Should the judge get involved there too?
This is all moot though - from the sound of things it was Siri search patents rather than looks that are behind the injunction.
I'm OK with the expense of all this.
I reckon that this was a useful exercise for the NZ public (and the Police) to find out who they're dealing with. NZ got to try out cooperating with US authorities on a case that doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things. Especially when NZs sovereignty over IP matters is at stake with the current trans pacific trade negotiations with the US.
The fact that it spectacularly and publicly (ie plenty of coverage on the mainstream news) failed while showing up how US authorities and content holders work is even better.
The next time the NZ Police get asked to cooperate like this (and it might be an NZ citizen or business in trouble next time), you can bet they are going to be a lot more reluctant about it after being burnt this time. And it also hopefully makes the general public a bit more aware about the imperialistic approach to IP law that the US is forcing onto other countries via 'free' trade agreements.
Excellent. "We" just might get the rest of the internet back.
And he built my hotrod! (previous to his career as a prophet)
Ding a ding dang a dang a long ling long!