Unless there are problems I've not heard about, Valve are more than "semi-cool". Every game I've bought is still showing in the list and I've redownloaded my whole library more than once without so much as a single email to Valve.
.exes were also mentioned further up. Depending on the game, a simple no-cd crack is all that's needed to de-Steam them.
What puzzles me is how users are expected to sift the crap without already having bought the game from somewhere else; if they have then why would they vote to add it to the Steam store?
One would think BA would have learnt from Starbucks' mistake. Scratch that, British Airways should already be fully aware of the British people's contempt for such phoney chumminess. By and large, we just want to be given our coffee or shown to our seat and then left in peace.
I'm sure the flight attendants are nice people, but they're not my friends and they ought not to act like they are. They should act like professionals instead.
Oh no, that'll be so much worse than the random piercings, tattoos, surgically inserted eye decorations, or any of the other drek that people do to get attention!
Except you could turn them off. Personally, I'd pay good money for an implantable watch that ran on energy from glucose in the blood or some such.
Personally, I want the new body-alteration craze to be glow in the dark/blacklight tattoos. In normal lighting, some observant people might notice a mild discoloration, but once you go to the UV flooded rave, the art shines clearly. (also fun on certain Disney rides)
These things, along with metallic inks, already exist though they are somewhat rare and the ink formulations still have some issues such as longevity and brightness.
No it doesn't, but hepatitis isn't a virus anyway. Hepatitis can be caused by a number of different pathogens and viruses are only one kind. Off the top of my head, Listeria can cause it and so can Cryptosporidium (bacteria and protozoa respectively). Of course this is all academic since your analogy was doomed from the start. You'd have had better luck if you compared it to kissing a person with a cold sore (Herpes) on their lips.
If you count the Fremen's caches, then yes there is. They must have had quite a lot stored there if they thought they could change the face of their world.
And air is a great insulator, and by definition an air bearing has a layer of air insulating one side from the other.
Air sitting still ins indeed a good insulator, but that lessens dramatically when you start to churn the air about. As I understand the paper (I've had some time to peruse it, after all:P) their goal was actually to side-step the problem with the boundary layer that forms on normal heatsinks, where a thin layer of air tends to "stick" and hamper heat transfer. In their prototype the spinning motion of the heatsink/impeller combined with the small gap between that and the base plate acts to significantly reduce the insulating effect of the boundary layer. If you assume the area between impeller and baseplate is roughly the same as the area of a conventional heatsink - it's actually much, much smaller by the way - then reducing the boundary layer really does help heat transfer. A similar principle applies to the impeller itself, where the constant motion of the blades serves to reduce the boundary layer there too.
The paper is pretty accessible, I suggest you take a look.
Iran uses XP as desktops for their top nuclear physicists. I think that's all we need to know about their IT technical proficiency and operations security. They're the Wile-E-Coyote of secret technology.
You're saying they'd be slightly more competent if they used Vista?
I haven't seen the figures for the CCTV per capita but it wouldn't surprise me if Britain was among the highest, DM scaremongering notwithstanding.
they are happily extraditing any of their fellas to any country claiming IP infringement
That's news to me. Scary if true.
In a country with a lot of parliamentary direct democracy (they vote individual people, not party lists, and the one with most votes wins)
I'm guessing you aren't a Briton, because people do tend to vote for parties. Hell, I'd be surprised if more than one in ten voters could actually name their MP a week after the election; the only reason I can (it's Chi Onwurah, by the way) is that I read Hansard a lot. When I last checked there were less than a dozen independent MPs. Britain has representative democracy, not direct democracy.
I don't know about y'all, but I like my cats dead when I open the box.
Agreed.
Considering the default state of a cat, which is a cold hatred for all human life, dead is infinitely preferable to the third alternative: bloody furious.
In what way does the existence of signs make it in any way OK?
I didn't say it did, but clearly marked cameras aren't really comparable to the near-omnipresent electronic panopticon* that was portrayed in Nineteen Eighty-Four (a minor niggle: the book isn't called 1984). Besides which, there's a big difference between surveillance of certain public places/roads and a telescreen in every home. There's also a difference between looking for "thoughtcrime" amongst the public and catching uninsured drivers on the roads or violent criminals in the streets.
Invoking Nineteen Eighty-Four should be counted alongside Godwinning.
*This part is important. Party members could never know whether or not they were being observed.
Why aren't their riots in the streets over this? For years I have heard about Europe being very pro-privacy. I have even worked with their privacy standards from a professional standpoint.
Because this is a bill that hasn't been voted on, much less passed and will more than likely be knocked back by the House of Lords so many times it'll be re-drafted into something impotent. The summary isn't merely wrong, it's practically as bad as the Daily Mail in terms of hyperbole:
"You might not be so happy to find out that from now, every single thing you do online will be recorded and stored by the good old Internet Service providers (ISP)." (emphasis mine)
What went wrong? Seriously, how on earth did this ever happen? Your cars and your online activities are all being monitored by your government with your blessing!
By cars, I expect you mean the ANPR cameras that check for valid tax and insurance. These are always accompanied by signs letting you know they're there, just like speed cameras.
The communists never had it that good, all they got were phone calls and letters.
Indeed, I imagine that very few people in Soviet Bloc countries had access to the Internet or their own cars
You gave your own government a blessing to invade your privacy at a level the East German's could have only dreamed of.
Yeah... sure.
Something is very, very wrong in UK today. What the hell happened?
Nothing happened; the press still use sensationalism and the people are still subject to about the same level of surveillance as in most other First World countries. And before someone trots out the millions of CCTV cameras thing again, let me just say that it's been debunked so many times it doesn't even merit a citation.
I think destroying someone's career because of his sexual orientation counts as persecution in most modern societies.
Indeed, but the question was whether or not he was persecuted for being a genius. He wasn't; he was persecuted for being gay... or to be more precise committing the then-crime of "gross indecency".
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1 they are semi cool about redownloading games
Unless there are problems I've not heard about, Valve are more than "semi-cool". Every game I've bought is still showing in the list and I've redownloaded my whole library more than once without so much as a single email to Valve.
.exes were also mentioned further up. Depending on the game, a simple no-cd crack is all that's needed to de-Steam them.
What puzzles me is how users are expected to sift the crap without already having bought the game from somewhere else; if they have then why would they vote to add it to the Steam store?
Yeah, all you would need is a bunch of ground up trout noses.
Or the ability to check which story you're commenting on.
I've got an uncle with a wooden leg and an aunt with a cedar chest.
How does she smell?
One would think BA would have learnt from Starbucks' mistake. Scratch that, British Airways should already be fully aware of the British people's contempt for such phoney chumminess. By and large, we just want to be given our coffee or shown to our seat and then left in peace.
I'm sure the flight attendants are nice people, but they're not my friends and they ought not to act like they are. They should act like professionals instead.
I think this is close to Aristotle's idea of democracy.
Quite.
It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election. - Aristotle
No, there's no rewriting in business as usual, just changing the colours in the diagrams and the picture on the cover.
weight != mass
No shit.
Take an object and reduce its mass, then tell me what happens to its weight.
Maybe with a little luck it'll get people interested in clockless systems again.
Oh no, that'll be so much worse than the random piercings, tattoos, surgically inserted eye decorations, or any of the other drek that people do to get attention!
Except you could turn them off. Personally, I'd pay good money for an implantable watch that ran on energy from glucose in the blood or some such.
Personally, I want the new body-alteration craze to be glow in the dark/blacklight tattoos. In normal lighting, some observant people might notice a mild discoloration, but once you go to the UV flooded rave, the art shines clearly. (also fun on certain Disney rides)
These things, along with metallic inks, already exist though they are somewhat rare and the ink formulations still have some issues such as longevity and brightness.
I respectfully disagree. XP SP 3 runs shittier than a stock Windows 7 when the UI dialed down and the background processes tamed.
*Emphasis mine*
I'm curious, was XP similarly optimised when you did that comparison?
No it doesn't, but hepatitis isn't a virus anyway. Hepatitis can be caused by a number of different pathogens and viruses are only one kind. Off the top of my head, Listeria can cause it and so can Cryptosporidium (bacteria and protozoa respectively). Of course this is all academic since your analogy was doomed from the start. You'd have had better luck if you compared it to kissing a person with a cold sore (Herpes) on their lips.
If you count the Fremen's caches, then yes there is. They must have had quite a lot stored there if they thought they could change the face of their world.
It sort of felt like Seth was simply a masochist, relishing in the abuse of his audience.
FYI, that's sadism. Masochism is what Seth would be into if he watched any of his own shows.
Put them on the B Ark!
That's fine by me, so long as we keep a few telephone sanitisers around.
And air is a great insulator, and by definition an air bearing has a layer of air insulating one side from the other.
Air sitting still ins indeed a good insulator, but that lessens dramatically when you start to churn the air about. As I understand the paper (I've had some time to peruse it, after all :P) their goal was actually to side-step the problem with the boundary layer that forms on normal heatsinks, where a thin layer of air tends to "stick" and hamper heat transfer. In their prototype the spinning motion of the heatsink/impeller combined with the small gap between that and the base plate acts to significantly reduce the insulating effect of the boundary layer. If you assume the area between impeller and baseplate is roughly the same as the area of a conventional heatsink - it's actually much, much smaller by the way - then reducing the boundary layer really does help heat transfer. A similar principle applies to the impeller itself, where the constant motion of the blades serves to reduce the boundary layer there too.
The paper is pretty accessible, I suggest you take a look.
The cake is a lie.
Spoilers! Shame on you.
Iran uses XP as desktops for their top nuclear physicists. I think that's all we need to know about their IT technical proficiency and operations security. They're the Wile-E-Coyote of secret technology.
You're saying they'd be slightly more competent if they used Vista?
they are happily extraditing any of their fellas to any country claiming IP infringement
That's news to me. Scary if true.
In a country with a lot of parliamentary direct democracy (they vote individual people, not party lists, and the one with most votes wins)
I'm guessing you aren't a Briton, because people do tend to vote for parties. Hell, I'd be surprised if more than one in ten voters could actually name their MP a week after the election; the only reason I can (it's Chi Onwurah, by the way) is that I read Hansard a lot. When I last checked there were less than a dozen independent MPs. Britain has representative democracy, not direct democracy.
Your sig seems oddly appropriate there.
I don't know about y'all, but I like my cats dead when I open the box.
Agreed. Considering the default state of a cat, which is a cold hatred for all human life, dead is infinitely preferable to the third alternative: bloody furious.
You've got a lot of work ahead of you, Sergeant; there are quite a few butlers in Her Majesty's service.
In what way does the existence of signs make it in any way OK?
I didn't say it did, but clearly marked cameras aren't really comparable to the near-omnipresent electronic panopticon* that was portrayed in Nineteen Eighty-Four (a minor niggle: the book isn't called 1984). Besides which, there's a big difference between surveillance of certain public places/roads and a telescreen in every home. There's also a difference between looking for "thoughtcrime" amongst the public and catching uninsured drivers on the roads or violent criminals in the streets.
Invoking Nineteen Eighty-Four should be counted alongside Godwinning.
*This part is important. Party members could never know whether or not they were being observed.
Why aren't their riots in the streets over this? For years I have heard about Europe being very pro-privacy. I have even worked with their privacy standards from a professional standpoint.
Because this is a bill that hasn't been voted on, much less passed and will more than likely be knocked back by the House of Lords so many times it'll be re-drafted into something impotent. The summary isn't merely wrong, it's practically as bad as the Daily Mail in terms of hyperbole:
"You might not be so happy to find out that from now, every single thing you do online will be recorded and stored by the good old Internet Service providers (ISP)." (emphasis mine)
What went wrong? Seriously, how on earth did this ever happen? Your cars and your online activities are all being monitored by your government with your blessing!
By cars, I expect you mean the ANPR cameras that check for valid tax and insurance. These are always accompanied by signs letting you know they're there, just like speed cameras.
The communists never had it that good, all they got were phone calls and letters.
Indeed, I imagine that very few people in Soviet Bloc countries had access to the Internet or their own cars
You gave your own government a blessing to invade your privacy at a level the East German's could have only dreamed of.
Yeah... sure.
Something is very, very wrong in UK today. What the hell happened?
Nothing happened; the press still use sensationalism and the people are still subject to about the same level of surveillance as in most other First World countries. And before someone trots out the millions of CCTV cameras thing again, let me just say that it's been debunked so many times it doesn't even merit a citation.
I'm not doing a bunch of groundbreaking work in physics to be treated like a bitch.
Please, no! The world needs a versatile quark!
I think destroying someone's career because of his sexual orientation counts as persecution in most modern societies.
Indeed, but the question was whether or not he was persecuted for being a genius.
He wasn't; he was persecuted for being gay... or to be more precise committing the then-crime of "gross indecency".