At least here, you can easily get an Android phone on a barebone plan, but all iPhones require a top-tier plan with data (or you pay the full price, which people are never prepared to do).
What the hell is that for a comparison? Next you'll say Angry Birds is comparable to Skyrim?
As much as I find pricing to be on the high side, this is just an absurd comparison. Actually play the damn games before commenting on how much they should cost. Plus, saying PC gamers are "used" to paying $60 for a game.... I don't know where you live, but I'm used to paying less than $15 for just about every game by doing the extremely difficult exercise of waiting a few months, at worst a year, after the game's initial release. I can get away with even less by playing absolutely stellar indie titles.
I don't know on what planet you're living, but the Windows 7 I use is rather spartian in its look and feel. You have the Start menu, a paradigm around since the early 90s, perhaps earlier (I wasn't really aware of such things back then...) and a series of docked programs.
Then the desktop, another decades-old convention, with desktop icons on it.
So far I see nothing confusing or cluttered. It's clean, efficient, and in fact it's perhaps the best desktop UI I've used to date. It certainly beats Unity or GNOME 3.
They'd certainly be better if they weren't jacked up to the maximum possible volume. Yes, loudness gives the *impression* of a richer sound, but not when it also causes distortion, shaking and other such nonsense!
The question is: who is doing the rewriting? Is it the GP or the governments who dictated the history books and history curricula?
I think this just reinforces the fact that knowledge is power and thus the rulers want you to have as little of it as possible. If they can make you throw your hands in the air and say "Well it was always that way, what can we do?", then they've won.
Be wary with software like LanSchool. Having been on the receiving end of this particular one, I can say that it is definitely not a tool I would suggest to any self-respecting teacher. If you need such tools to get the students' attention, something's wrong. All you manage to do with them is aggravate students and make them hostile towards you, on top of giving a challenge to the curious ones (how to beat the software).
This isn't about must. Probabilities make us think that life should exist, because probabilities say it could. In fact, the probability that we are unique is much smaller than the probability that we are not.
There is an estimated 3e23 stars in the observable universe. To say that our solar system is unique in this respect is to say that the probability of life is for all intents and purposes zero.
Depends entirely where you live and what you've set up. If you have solar panels/geothermal/whatever or live in one of the better (luckier?) countries of the world on the energy front, you can do much better than ~10% renewables.
I had to look up the exact definition from the Oxford dictionary, just out of curiosity: "favouring confrontational or violent methods in support of a political or social cause". They're definitely confrontational, even though they're non-violent.
Do you really think all those tablet manufacturers make money from showing big numbers? No, they make money from selling, and if it doesn't sell, they pull it, just like Dell did. The same argument was raised about Android smartphones, but oddly enough we don't hear it all that much nowadays.
From what I've read by glancing at French reports, the EDF says they had detected the intruders and followed them throughout the complex on the security systems, but decided not to intervene because they were "obviously" pacifist militants.
The question is whether we can trust the EDF's PR department.
It isn't in their interests? Surely siding against the web design community, a very large source of domain registrations, isn't the brightest of ideas?
To be fair, I'd argue that physics and astronomy topics haven't really changed. It's just that/. (and the world itself) has been overrun with corporate and political bullshit and other such less than insightful topics. They have to be covered so that we know what is happening on that side, but that doesn't mean the premise is any better.
And if you tell me to browse the site with filtering, this doesn't change the amount of insightful stories getting posted up.
Give lots of subsidies to developers and publishers establishing studios in your country and support high-level art and design trade schools. The former attracts them, the latter keeps them around.
It's certainly more simple than reconstructing the curriculum from elementary school up and it definitively paid off in a lot of cases; just look at Montreal. However, I'd say Britain is far from bad. Studios like Creative Assembly, Media Molecule, Studio Liverpool or Codemasters are all excellent.
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At least here, you can easily get an Android phone on a barebone plan, but all iPhones require a top-tier plan with data (or you pay the full price, which people are never prepared to do).
I actually like that name. It certainly reflects the wishes of the politicians better.
What the hell is that for a comparison? Next you'll say Angry Birds is comparable to Skyrim?
As much as I find pricing to be on the high side, this is just an absurd comparison. Actually play the damn games before commenting on how much they should cost. Plus, saying PC gamers are "used" to paying $60 for a game.... I don't know where you live, but I'm used to paying less than $15 for just about every game by doing the extremely difficult exercise of waiting a few months, at worst a year, after the game's initial release. I can get away with even less by playing absolutely stellar indie titles.
I don't know on what planet you're living, but the Windows 7 I use is rather spartian in its look and feel. You have the Start menu, a paradigm around since the early 90s, perhaps earlier (I wasn't really aware of such things back then...) and a series of docked programs.
Then the desktop, another decades-old convention, with desktop icons on it.
So far I see nothing confusing or cluttered. It's clean, efficient, and in fact it's perhaps the best desktop UI I've used to date. It certainly beats Unity or GNOME 3.
So what you're saying is that the US shouldn't use boats?
When the rules are stacked against you, change the rules.
They'd certainly be better if they weren't jacked up to the maximum possible volume. Yes, loudness gives the *impression* of a richer sound, but not when it also causes distortion, shaking and other such nonsense!
The question is: who is doing the rewriting? Is it the GP or the governments who dictated the history books and history curricula?
I think this just reinforces the fact that knowledge is power and thus the rulers want you to have as little of it as possible. If they can make you throw your hands in the air and say "Well it was always that way, what can we do?", then they've won.
Iraq and Afghanistan totally needed to be saved. The populace just loves Americans now.
Be wary with software like LanSchool. Having been on the receiving end of this particular one, I can say that it is definitely not a tool I would suggest to any self-respecting teacher. If you need such tools to get the students' attention, something's wrong. All you manage to do with them is aggravate students and make them hostile towards you, on top of giving a challenge to the curious ones (how to beat the software).
Samsung Series 9. Asus Zenbook. If you want to get extreme, Sony VAIO Z.
Unless obviously you meant it in the way that it runs OSX, in which case I'll just shrug.
You mean you pay for every single site you use?
Because that's what you're saying. Sites can't survive on good wishes and nice comments.
Upon being granted a patent, you must immediately sue any infringer that you are aware of or risk losing said patent.
Additionally, you should be unable to give preferential licensing to any company.
That still means roughly a trillion solar systems throughout the observable universe.
This isn't about must. Probabilities make us think that life should exist, because probabilities say it could. In fact, the probability that we are unique is much smaller than the probability that we are not.
There is an estimated 3e23 stars in the observable universe. To say that our solar system is unique in this respect is to say that the probability of life is for all intents and purposes zero.
And it encourages sex changes!
Absolutely disgusting.
Depends entirely where you live and what you've set up. If you have solar panels/geothermal/whatever or live in one of the better (luckier?) countries of the world on the energy front, you can do much better than ~10% renewables.
I had to look up the exact definition from the Oxford dictionary, just out of curiosity: "favouring confrontational or violent methods in support of a political or social cause". They're definitely confrontational, even though they're non-violent.
Fuck this absolutely stupid argument.
Do you really think all those tablet manufacturers make money from showing big numbers? No, they make money from selling, and if it doesn't sell, they pull it, just like Dell did. The same argument was raised about Android smartphones, but oddly enough we don't hear it all that much nowadays.
From what I've read by glancing at French reports, the EDF says they had detected the intruders and followed them throughout the complex on the security systems, but decided not to intervene because they were "obviously" pacifist militants.
The question is whether we can trust the EDF's PR department.
It isn't in their interests? Surely siding against the web design community, a very large source of domain registrations, isn't the brightest of ideas?
You do realize that with your second sentence you've just reduced your "public" to about 5% of the population?
To be fair, I'd argue that physics and astronomy topics haven't really changed. It's just that /. (and the world itself) has been overrun with corporate and political bullshit and other such less than insightful topics. They have to be covered so that we know what is happening on that side, but that doesn't mean the premise is any better.
And if you tell me to browse the site with filtering, this doesn't change the amount of insightful stories getting posted up.
And what would you do, then? It's not like it can magically decide which of the two companies you want to see when you input the URL.
Give lots of subsidies to developers and publishers establishing studios in your country and support high-level art and design trade schools. The former attracts them, the latter keeps them around.
It's certainly more simple than reconstructing the curriculum from elementary school up and it definitively paid off in a lot of cases; just look at Montreal. However, I'd say Britain is far from bad. Studios like Creative Assembly, Media Molecule, Studio Liverpool or Codemasters are all excellent.
Cannibalizing people who may be infected with a potent virus? Now that's a recipe for success.