Don't call it 'Merry old England'. Seriously. There is a stereotype that of Americans being ignorant of anything outside their own country and who think that England is as portrayed in US TV shows such as the episodes of Friends and Bones which were set here. Using the phrase 'Merry old England' makes you sound like you conform to that and will not make you any friends here. If you're not already aware, spend ten minutes reading something like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uk [wikipedia.org] so that you realise that England is not the same as the UK and that not all British people are English. People from Scotland are no more English than someone from New York state is a Texan.
Come on, the best part about going to the UK is mortally offending Brits. They try so hard to put off this careless air, but get sooo defensive about any criticisms...
Contrary to popular believe you'll be able to find good food in London/England/UK (To be honest - this includes a visit to an an indian and a chinese restaurant. But they're much better than across the channel.)
UK Indian food is amazing, but the chinese food is sub-par.
The pies served in pubs are great,
If you're allergic to flavor.
If you want oriental food, then Chinatown (Soho), just off Leicester Square and a 3-minute walk from Picadilly Circus, does exactly what it says on the tin.
I don't think you should be allowed to call a place in your city a Chinatown if it's like 2 blocks. By the way, stick with Indian food in London, the chinese food is terrible, though the poor brits don't seem to realize just how bad it is.
You're kind of missing the point. All I'm saying is that it's kind of an inconsistent philosophy, not that I think they're remotely comparable. But let's tone down the hyperbole a bit, alright? A kernel is an incredibly complicated thing, but it's not like there are just a handful of superhumanly talented programmers on Earth who know how to design one. It didn't require all that IBM and Red Hat and Oracle support to get a perfectly fine linux kernel. By the way, your driver issue argument is silly, both Chrome and Android are aimed at a narrow set of software, so niether is going to need to support every piece of hardware ever made.
Why reinvent the wheel? Use those resources to work on the "improved".
Yeah, that phrase comes from the free software community a lot, though funnily enough people have no problem writing 70 mp3 programs that all mimic each other's functionality...The reason to do it, from Google's standpoint would be a) they would have more freedom when it comes to how they license the product, and b) they could do something new instead of just jumping on the 30 year old UNIX paradigm. I think if they got the best people and let them start from scratch they could come up with something a little better than linux, that's all.
Speaking of which, I wonder why they went with the linux kernel and didn't try doing something new? I mean, you'd think with the ridiculous resources they have and all the top-flight programmers they hire, they could have come up with something new and improved.
Greed, it strikes me, is one of the great moral questions of our time (considering how it has brought to the world economy into its worst position in 80 years). Exploiting a broken patent system to gain ludicrous patents to use to stifle competition is as much a cause and/or symptom of the insane push for profit regardless of cost or merit. I doubt very much that anyone thought patents would simply become one vast extortion racket.
Only they didn't. Slashdot skews peoples' perceptions of patent issues. It's like, I've known a couple of NYPD cops who have an incredibly cynical view of humanity and the danger that's out there. Why? Probably because they're called when there's a problem, so that's what they see day in and day out. The same thing here, slashdot basically aggregates the negative stories, exaggerates them, then pumps them out to us day in and day out.
You have the spine of wet spaghetti. If principles can be easily sacrificed for a few bucks here and there, you tacitly approve of the evil you describe.
Oh come on, the moral issues regarding patents, despite the outrage on slashdot, are insignificant compared to the real moral questions of our time.
Are we? What evidence backs up this claim of a 6C rise in global temperature? Looks to me like we can still wait a few decades to see if this global warming appears. If it's going to rise that much, we should see some effect in that time period. The problem is that we're being asked to spend at least a trillion dollars a pig in a poke. There are other problems that we know will get worse, if we do that. It is reasonable then to get better evidence (like actual evidence for 6C global warming, carbon sink exhaustion, or tipping points), before we commit to such a huge restructuring of society.
Ridiculous. First of all, a trillion dollars is not that much money in terms of the global economy, and it's a hell of a lot less than the damage that would be caused by shore regions where 70% of the earth's population live suddenly being uninhabitable. Secondly, by the time we get that evidence you're waiting for it might be way too late. I don't know why all the global warming skeptics are perfectly willing to gamble with humanity in order to save a few percentage points of an economy.
Well you're a moron because 99% of the time it's the exact same components, except you might get 3D drive guard with a "business" machine. You think there's some lab somewhere where scientists in lab coats with clipboards take "business class" laptops and hit them with rubber mallets, drop them off counter tops and let cats urinate on them?
Eh, you never know, Dell is notorious for having a fairly reliable business line and a much less reliable home line. I don't necessarily think it will be the same components, in fact it might be a different company actually fabricating it.
Huh, weird. I've found HP notebooks I've used (granted, a small sample size) to be extremely durable and reliable (though I probably wouldn't go near HP's desktops). But this was a couple of years ago, did they just slap the HP label on the lousy Compaq ones?
But even if the law firm gets 90% of the cache, the money still comes from the defendant.
Attorneys fees in class actions have to be approved by the court, and they generally run around 25%-33%. And class actions are hideously expensive to run, a decent sized one will consume several thousand hours of the plaintiffs' lawyer's time, and at least a few hundred thousand dollars.
Cuoldn't California just lay people off, and cut their costs for 2010? That's why companies do when they face a financial crisis.
No, because Californians live in a statewide, narcissistic reality-distortion field where they use referendums to increase services yet limit what they pay in taxes. The politicians are limited in what they can do.
China has something like $1 trillion of our debt. If they dumped it - and they're not against this tactic - we'd all long for last year's economic downturn.
Eh, they'd be killing themselves too, it would ruin their economy (and the world's).
but sometimes I go into my game and decide to say, "Go away, government, go away news, go away famiily, go away anyone and anything that isn't in the game."
"Go away, hurricane, go away brush fires, go away rioting, go away tidal wave!"
It's a fucking gaming network. People are focused on playing the game, not on your emergency announcement. Unless you have a way to literally stop the game (pissing anyone off that isn't affected by the alert) you're wasting your time sending the message.
Come on, if you've spent 5 hours playing a game, and then suddenly a message box pops up at the bottom of the screen that you never even knew could exist, you're going to notice that.
As a Blender fanboy, I will tell you it's not confusing. Maybe complex, or downright mystery to people who don't understand the settings they are changing, but the GUI along with the keyboard shortcuts is great. I would not change it in any way. Perhaps you are confusing the advanced control Blender is giving you over various options with bad interface design because you don't understand why the options are there and/or used for?
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Don't call it 'Merry old England'. Seriously. There is a stereotype that of Americans being ignorant of anything outside their own country and who think that England is as portrayed in US TV shows such as the episodes of Friends and Bones which were set here. Using the phrase 'Merry old England' makes you sound like you conform to that and will not make you any friends here. If you're not already aware, spend ten minutes reading something like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uk [wikipedia.org] so that you realise that England is not the same as the UK and that not all British people are English. People from Scotland are no more English than someone from New York state is a Texan.
Come on, the best part about going to the UK is mortally offending Brits. They try so hard to put off this careless air, but get sooo defensive about any criticisms...
but what the hell is a tweet going to do?
Might keep him from getting arrested for one.
I know, just messin' with you.
The Japanese restaurants, however, which tend towards nearby areas, are pretty top-notch IMHO. Particularly the sushi.
Fresh from the Thames!
speak to people LOUDLY and ask them if England is anywhere near London because they're all deaf and stupid just like you see on American TV.
Yes, all those American sitcoms about...stupid deaf British people? Am I missing something here?
Contrary to popular believe you'll be able to find good food in London/England/UK (To be honest - this includes a visit to an an indian and a chinese restaurant. But they're much better than across the channel.)
UK Indian food is amazing, but the chinese food is sub-par.
The pies served in pubs are great,
If you're allergic to flavor.
fish & chips....
Not too bad.
If you want oriental food, then Chinatown (Soho), just off Leicester Square and a 3-minute walk from Picadilly Circus, does exactly what it says on the tin.
I don't think you should be allowed to call a place in your city a Chinatown if it's like 2 blocks. By the way, stick with Indian food in London, the chinese food is terrible, though the poor brits don't seem to realize just how bad it is.
You're kind of missing the point. All I'm saying is that it's kind of an inconsistent philosophy, not that I think they're remotely comparable. But let's tone down the hyperbole a bit, alright? A kernel is an incredibly complicated thing, but it's not like there are just a handful of superhumanly talented programmers on Earth who know how to design one. It didn't require all that IBM and Red Hat and Oracle support to get a perfectly fine linux kernel. By the way, your driver issue argument is silly, both Chrome and Android are aimed at a narrow set of software, so niether is going to need to support every piece of hardware ever made.
Why reinvent the wheel? Use those resources to work on the "improved".
Yeah, that phrase comes from the free software community a lot, though funnily enough people have no problem writing 70 mp3 programs that all mimic each other's functionality...The reason to do it, from Google's standpoint would be a) they would have more freedom when it comes to how they license the product, and b) they could do something new instead of just jumping on the 30 year old UNIX paradigm. I think if they got the best people and let them start from scratch they could come up with something a little better than linux, that's all.
Speaking of which, I wonder why they went with the linux kernel and didn't try doing something new? I mean, you'd think with the ridiculous resources they have and all the top-flight programmers they hire, they could have come up with something new and improved.
Greed, it strikes me, is one of the great moral questions of our time (considering how it has brought to the world economy into its worst position in 80 years). Exploiting a broken patent system to gain ludicrous patents to use to stifle competition is as much a cause and/or symptom of the insane push for profit regardless of cost or merit. I doubt very much that anyone thought patents would simply become one vast extortion racket.
Only they didn't. Slashdot skews peoples' perceptions of patent issues. It's like, I've known a couple of NYPD cops who have an incredibly cynical view of humanity and the danger that's out there. Why? Probably because they're called when there's a problem, so that's what they see day in and day out. The same thing here, slashdot basically aggregates the negative stories, exaggerates them, then pumps them out to us day in and day out.
You need to grow a garden, mate, and have children to win the game.
Sorry, I am a slashdotter who prefers SOME plausilibity in my strategy games.
You have the spine of wet spaghetti. If principles can be easily sacrificed for a few bucks here and there, you tacitly approve of the evil you describe.
Oh come on, the moral issues regarding patents, despite the outrage on slashdot, are insignificant compared to the real moral questions of our time.
Are we? What evidence backs up this claim of a 6C rise in global temperature? Looks to me like we can still wait a few decades to see if this global warming appears. If it's going to rise that much, we should see some effect in that time period. The problem is that we're being asked to spend at least a trillion dollars a pig in a poke. There are other problems that we know will get worse, if we do that. It is reasonable then to get better evidence (like actual evidence for 6C global warming, carbon sink exhaustion, or tipping points), before we commit to such a huge restructuring of society.
Ridiculous. First of all, a trillion dollars is not that much money in terms of the global economy, and it's a hell of a lot less than the damage that would be caused by shore regions where 70% of the earth's population live suddenly being uninhabitable. Secondly, by the time we get that evidence you're waiting for it might be way too late. I don't know why all the global warming skeptics are perfectly willing to gamble with humanity in order to save a few percentage points of an economy.
Well you're a moron because 99% of the time it's the exact same components, except you might get 3D drive guard with a "business" machine. You think there's some lab somewhere where scientists in lab coats with clipboards take "business class" laptops and hit them with rubber mallets, drop them off counter tops and let cats urinate on them?
Eh, you never know, Dell is notorious for having a fairly reliable business line and a much less reliable home line. I don't necessarily think it will be the same components, in fact it might be a different company actually fabricating it.
Huh, weird. I've found HP notebooks I've used (granted, a small sample size) to be extremely durable and reliable (though I probably wouldn't go near HP's desktops). But this was a couple of years ago, did they just slap the HP label on the lousy Compaq ones?
But even if the law firm gets 90% of the cache, the money still comes from the defendant.
Attorneys fees in class actions have to be approved by the court, and they generally run around 25%-33%. And class actions are hideously expensive to run, a decent sized one will consume several thousand hours of the plaintiffs' lawyer's time, and at least a few hundred thousand dollars.
Does this suggest that Bill Gates and Paul Allen should also get the Nobel Peace Prize?
Their philanthropic efforts (while not making them deserve the prize) give them slightly more claim to one than Torvalds.
Cuoldn't California just lay people off, and cut their costs for 2010? That's why companies do when they face a financial crisis.
No, because Californians live in a statewide, narcissistic reality-distortion field where they use referendums to increase services yet limit what they pay in taxes. The politicians are limited in what they can do.
China has something like $1 trillion of our debt. If they dumped it - and they're not against this tactic - we'd all long for last year's economic downturn.
Eh, they'd be killing themselves too, it would ruin their economy (and the world's).
Alerts should be for things that require expedient action. When the levy breaks, for example.
Or during the Battle of Evermore?
but sometimes I go into my game and decide to say, "Go away, government, go away news, go away famiily, go away anyone and anything that isn't in the game."
"Go away, hurricane, go away brush fires, go away rioting, go away tidal wave!"
It's a fucking gaming network. People are focused on playing the game, not on your emergency announcement. Unless you have a way to literally stop the game (pissing anyone off that isn't affected by the alert) you're wasting your time sending the message.
Come on, if you've spent 5 hours playing a game, and then suddenly a message box pops up at the bottom of the screen that you never even knew could exist, you're going to notice that.
As a Blender fanboy, I will tell you it's not confusing. Maybe complex, or downright mystery to people who don't understand the settings they are changing, but the GUI along with the keyboard shortcuts is great. I would not change it in any way. Perhaps you are confusing the advanced control Blender is giving you over various options with bad interface design because you don't understand why the options are there and/or used for?
If it's so great, why are they changing it?
To be fair, Blender is getting a complete interface overhaul to make it more compliant with mainstream 3D apps.
...and more compliant with carbon-based neurological systems I hope too.