Can anyone explain why in a game that features cartoon murder, cartoon theft and cartoon dangerous driving the addition of cartoon nudity would increase it's "maturity rating"?
I think someone's got their priorities mixed up somewhere.
Is it illegal in the US to get a contract to say that you will pay a certain percentage of the cost of the training if you leave within a certain time?
I'm pretty certain it isn't in the UK as we've had deals like that before - although usually for things less immediately applicable to your role (such as MBAs, or learning a foreign language).
There are plenty of apps out there that only run on Windows. You may not use any of them, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist.
As a user of a combination of PC, Mac and Linux for my 'home' development stuff, the most obvious app that has kept me doing a fair amount of the work on Windows is the EMS Postgresql Manager. Sure there are Mac/Linux apps for developing on Postgresql databases, but in my view there's none that even remotely come close for user friendliness. And I'm not going to use clunky apps to do my work simply to avoid using Windows.
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Chess for Kids?
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I think you're missing the point. I don't think (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) that they are suggesting that a chess program should replace family time together playing the game. I think they are looking for a good program for her to learn from in between that family time.
As a parent, you aren't going to be available every second that the kid wants to play, and sometimes they will want to play/study on their own anyway (I know I did, but then my dad stopped playing me once I could beat him).
I find it fascinating that you link to an article and then ignore the first line of it "Third World was a term first coined by Jawaharlal Nehru (First Prime Minister of India), originally to distinguish nations that aligned with neither the West or with the East during the Cold War, including many members of the Non-Aligned Movement." (unless, of course, someone has added it since you posted the link).
The term Third World has been used in both senses (non-aligned and poor) although the latter one is what most people are referring to when they say "Third World".
I'm assuming by "countries where change will happen" you are referring to Souvy's (who, I believe, actually coined it) third estate comparison and the idea that like the poor in France, the Third World is exploited, and that its destination is revolution.
Don't know whether they've changed the registration or not, but I've just tried registering with hobart.prof and hobartprof - when I first went to register, it told me both were still available. I then registered one of them, went back to register the other, and it told me it had been taken. So presumably it is now preventing ab and a.b both being taken.
Assuming I've understood it correctly, I'll be getting one of these. 90% of my computer usage at home is on my laptop, sat on my sofa. I've got various USB devices, such as an external drive, an iPod and a digital camera that I have plugged in. It's a real pain to have the cable from the drive trailing across my lap, and whatever other device I'm using crammed in somewhere on the sofa.
It would be so much move convenient if I could put the device on a table nearby, plug my devices into that and just have dongle attached at the side of my laptop.
Unfortunately, that doesn't work particularly effectively when you're walking (or at least doesn't for me). I regularly miss phone calls when I'm walking home with my headphones on.
Now, if I could link the phone and the iPod up through bluetooth or something similar, that would solve the problem. Ooh, I might patent that idea...
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It's funny. Every time there's an article about Java, someone posts a comment like this, and every time I respond by pointing out that at my company, we build enterprise scale Java applications - usually developing on Windows, and then moving (in the test/live environments) to HP/UX or Solaris, and not beginning to do some on Linux. In the 4 years I've been involved in these projects, we've had a grand total of 1 bug that related to different JVMs.
Doesn't prove that incompatibility doesn't happen, but does demonstate that cross-platform is entirely possible.
Good gadget, but definitely happier in wired mode than wireless, I have found.Really? What problems have you had? I was amazed by how easy it was to set up. I had to press the right key about 4 times to accept the default, and apart from typing my network passkey in, everything was pretty much automatic.
I've never had it drop a connection, the sound quality seems pretty much perfect to my ears, and it even copes gracefully when I reboot the wireless router (shows Network Unavailable message for a few seconds until the router is back up, and then reconnects automatically).
You've missed one of my favourite features - the live music archive. Not sure if this is available through any other method, but I discovered it through the SqueezeBox. It's a huge collection of concerts that you can play through it. I think there's about 1000 different artists available there at the moment, and most of them have several gigs. They aren't the most famous artists but the fact that I can get access to about 30 different Warren Zevon gigs is just fantastic.
Also, you've mentioned that you want lyrics and stuff displayed through your TV - I know it's not quite what you're after but I'm assuming you've downloaded the Lyrics plugin that allows you to scroll through them on the display.
You can do it for.AAC tracks, but not for the protected.M4P tracks that you get from iTunes Music store. I'll go and have a look on my Mac to see if it lets me convert them on there.
Backup shouldn't be a problem. Joe User who buys the odd album every now and then can use a nice cheap blank CD to copy the music (either as an audio CD or put several albums on as data) whenever he buys new tracks. For the nerd who's ripped his entire music collection onto his computer (like me), an external hard drive is the perfect way to back it up.
My problem with DRM is that the tracks that I bought from iTunes last week (and they will be the only ones I ever buy from there while they insist on DRM) will not play on my Squeezebox wi-fi music player. I had to put them onto CD and then re-rip them as MP3 before I could use them.
The breathing thing was just the most obvious example. There's a million and one things that are easy but worth doing. There are also things that are difficult and worth doing.
The problem is that the true meaning of the statement is just rubbish. It comes from the same school as "If it ain't hurting, it ain't working", or "what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger", and is usually used to justify things that are far harder (or more painful) than they should be.
I wouldn't worry about it if people didn't regularly use it in this way, and actually believe it. You wouldn't believe the amount of times I've been told this kind of platitude when I've complained about things like a stupidly complex new process that's been put in at work.
This saying always amuses me. Personally, I find breathing relatively easy (very rarely have to actively remember to do it), but I suspect it's probably worth doing.
Now most people are buying these big computers again. It's stupid! I'd much rather have my 12 inch iBook. If you want a big computer with more power, get a desktop for less that would have much better specs.
I always find this kind of comment amusing. "I personally have no use for one, so how could anyone else need one".
I've got a 17" laptop and 95% of its use is while sat on the sofa at home watching TV. A desktop (which I have as well) would be absolutely useless for this - the monitor would keep falling off my lap for one thing!
The other 5% is either sat in the conservatory or out in the garden - although in both instances it's on a table, I really wouldn't fancy lugging my entire desktop PC to the bottom of the garden.
I can understand that other people may not use their portables this way, and may be far better off with a tiny 12" one (my wife used to have one of the really small Sony Vaios, and it was great because she used to work on the train with it, so being small was pretty important), but there are many people who want to use a high spec PC with a big screen, but that they can also carry around the house with them.
How does it feel when you button the collor of your shirt? Is it comfortable or confining?
The way to wear a tie comfortably is to make sure your shirt collars are the right size. You should be able to get two or three fingers under the collar without difficulty, while it is buttoned. With a collar like this, your tie will fit snugly against the collar, but will not be choking you.
Nope. I've got shirts like that. They are a little better, but I think it's partially a psychological thing - with a tie, I can feel the collar pressing against the side of my neck, and I hate it.
And how much difference does it do to your ability to do your job to wear a suit/tie?
I absolutely hate ties - I feel like I'm being choked. I could wear a tie loose enought so that it doesn't feel like that, but then I look far more scruffy than just wearing an open collared shirt. I have left at least one job partly on the grounds that I had to wear a tie, and the fact that we can wear (reasonably) casual clothes (polo shirts/smart black jeans etc - and there are people in all departments, not just IT, dressed like that, including our CIO) here is one of the reasons that I've not left this job yet.
I don't turn up in dirty t-shirts, and these days I wouldn't even if the company allowed it, but so long as someone is doing their job, and the clothes aren't so dirty that they smell, I don't really see what the problem.
I don't see anything in the article suggesting that anyone asked the woman to do it. To carry on your analogy, if you saw a secretary wearing bright red lipstick and acting slutty, would you automatically assume that she's been pressured into doing it by her boss?
Not according to my dictionary - "That which is sung". There may well be a legal term "musical work", but that refers to other things as well as songs.
"There are some copyright issues involved, so read the notice that pops up. Giving this away is an experiment. I'm interested to see what comes of it, what issues are raised and what the results are."
Can't remember what the copyright notice said - I only tried it a couple of times. My mac was not really powerful enough for it to be much use but it was certainly an interesting idea.
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Can anyone explain why in a game that features cartoon murder, cartoon theft and cartoon dangerous driving the addition of cartoon nudity would increase it's "maturity rating"?
I think someone's got their priorities mixed up somewhere.
Is it illegal in the US to get a contract to say that you will pay a certain percentage of the cost of the training if you leave within a certain time?
I'm pretty certain it isn't in the UK as we've had deals like that before - although usually for things less immediately applicable to your role (such as MBAs, or learning a foreign language).
Does your 60 hour week not break the European Working Time Directive by about 12 hours? Or did The Netherlands not sign up?
There are plenty of apps out there that only run on Windows. You may not use any of them, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist.
As a user of a combination of PC, Mac and Linux for my 'home' development stuff, the most obvious app that has kept me doing a fair amount of the work on Windows is the EMS Postgresql Manager. Sure there are Mac/Linux apps for developing on Postgresql databases, but in my view there's none that even remotely come close for user friendliness. And I'm not going to use clunky apps to do my work simply to avoid using Windows.
I think you're missing the point. I don't think (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) that they are suggesting that a chess program should replace family time together playing the game. I think they are looking for a good program for her to learn from in between that family time.
As a parent, you aren't going to be available every second that the kid wants to play, and sometimes they will want to play/study on their own anyway (I know I did, but then my dad stopped playing me once I could beat him).
I find it fascinating that you link to an article and then ignore the first line of it "Third World was a term first coined by Jawaharlal Nehru (First Prime Minister of India), originally to distinguish nations that aligned with neither the West or with the East during the Cold War, including many members of the Non-Aligned Movement." (unless, of course, someone has added it since you posted the link).
The term Third World has been used in both senses (non-aligned and poor) although the latter one is what most people are referring to when they say "Third World".
I'm assuming by "countries where change will happen" you are referring to Souvy's (who, I believe, actually coined it) third estate comparison and the idea that like the poor in France, the Third World is exploited, and that its destination is revolution.
Don't know whether they've changed the registration or not, but I've just tried registering with hobart.prof and hobartprof - when I first went to register, it told me both were still available. I then registered one of them, went back to register the other, and it told me it had been taken. So presumably it is now preventing ab and a.b both being taken.
Assuming I've understood it correctly, I'll be getting one of these. 90% of my computer usage at home is on my laptop, sat on my sofa. I've got various USB devices, such as an external drive, an iPod and a digital camera that I have plugged in. It's a real pain to have the cable from the drive trailing across my lap, and whatever other device I'm using crammed in somewhere on the sofa.
It would be so much move convenient if I could put the device on a table nearby, plug my devices into that and just have dongle attached at the side of my laptop.
Unfortunately, that doesn't work particularly effectively when you're walking (or at least doesn't for me). I regularly miss phone calls when I'm walking home with my headphones on.
Now, if I could link the phone and the iPod up through bluetooth or something similar, that would solve the problem. Ooh, I might patent that idea...
It's funny. Every time there's an article about Java, someone posts a comment like this, and every time I respond by pointing out that at my company, we build enterprise scale Java applications - usually developing on Windows, and then moving (in the test/live environments) to HP/UX or Solaris, and not beginning to do some on Linux. In the 4 years I've been involved in these projects, we've had a grand total of 1 bug that related to different JVMs.
Doesn't prove that incompatibility doesn't happen, but does demonstate that cross-platform is entirely possible.
Good gadget, but definitely happier in wired mode than wireless, I have found.Really? What problems have you had? I was amazed by how easy it was to set up. I had to press the right key about 4 times to accept the default, and apart from typing my network passkey in, everything was pretty much automatic.
I've never had it drop a connection, the sound quality seems pretty much perfect to my ears, and it even copes gracefully when I reboot the wireless router (shows Network Unavailable message for a few seconds until the router is back up, and then reconnects automatically).
You've missed one of my favourite features - the live music archive. Not sure if this is available through any other method, but I discovered it through the SqueezeBox. It's a huge collection of concerts that you can play through it. I think there's about 1000 different artists available there at the moment, and most of them have several gigs. They aren't the most famous artists but the fact that I can get access to about 30 different Warren Zevon gigs is just fantastic.
Also, you've mentioned that you want lyrics and stuff displayed through your TV - I know it's not quite what you're after but I'm assuming you've downloaded the Lyrics plugin that allows you to scroll through them on the display.
But you do get to "enjoy" their products second-hand whenever you sit near someone who is smoking.
You can do it for .AAC tracks, but not for the protected .M4P tracks that you get from iTunes Music store. I'll go and have a look on my Mac to see if it lets me convert them on there.
Backup shouldn't be a problem. Joe User who buys the odd album every now and then can use a nice cheap blank CD to copy the music (either as an audio CD or put several albums on as data) whenever he buys new tracks. For the nerd who's ripped his entire music collection onto his computer (like me), an external hard drive is the perfect way to back it up.
My problem with DRM is that the tracks that I bought from iTunes last week (and they will be the only ones I ever buy from there while they insist on DRM) will not play on my Squeezebox wi-fi music player. I had to put them onto CD and then re-rip them as MP3 before I could use them.
The breathing thing was just the most obvious example. There's a million and one things that are easy but worth doing. There are also things that are difficult and worth doing.
The problem is that the true meaning of the statement is just rubbish. It comes from the same school as "If it ain't hurting, it ain't working", or "what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger", and is usually used to justify things that are far harder (or more painful) than they should be.
I wouldn't worry about it if people didn't regularly use it in this way, and actually believe it. You wouldn't believe the amount of times I've been told this kind of platitude when I've complained about things like a stupidly complex new process that's been put in at work.
This saying always amuses me. Personally, I find breathing relatively easy (very rarely have to actively remember to do it), but I suspect it's probably worth doing.
I always find this kind of comment amusing. "I personally have no use for one, so how could anyone else need one".
I've got a 17" laptop and 95% of its use is while sat on the sofa at home watching TV. A desktop (which I have as well) would be absolutely useless for this - the monitor would keep falling off my lap for one thing!
The other 5% is either sat in the conservatory or out in the garden - although in both instances it's on a table, I really wouldn't fancy lugging my entire desktop PC to the bottom of the garden.
I can understand that other people may not use their portables this way, and may be far better off with a tiny 12" one (my wife used to have one of the really small Sony Vaios, and it was great because she used to work on the train with it, so being small was pretty important), but there are many people who want to use a high spec PC with a big screen, but that they can also carry around the house with them.
The way to wear a tie comfortably is to make sure your shirt collars are the right size. You should be able to get two or three fingers under the collar without difficulty, while it is buttoned. With a collar like this, your tie will fit snugly against the collar, but will not be choking you.
Nope. I've got shirts like that. They are a little better, but I think it's partially a psychological thing - with a tie, I can feel the collar pressing against the side of my neck, and I hate it.
And how much difference does it do to your ability to do your job to wear a suit/tie?
I absolutely hate ties - I feel like I'm being choked. I could wear a tie loose enought so that it doesn't feel like that, but then I look far more scruffy than just wearing an open collared shirt. I have left at least one job partly on the grounds that I had to wear a tie, and the fact that we can wear (reasonably) casual clothes (polo shirts/smart black jeans etc - and there are people in all departments, not just IT, dressed like that, including our CIO) here is one of the reasons that I've not left this job yet.
I don't turn up in dirty t-shirts, and these days I wouldn't even if the company allowed it, but so long as someone is doing their job, and the clothes aren't so dirty that they smell, I don't really see what the problem.
Would that be your 'freedom of speech' in action?
I don't see anything in the article suggesting that anyone asked the woman to do it. To carry on your analogy, if you saw a secretary wearing bright red lipstick and acting slutty, would you automatically assume that she's been pressured into doing it by her boss?
Not according to my dictionary - "That which is sung". There may well be a legal term "musical work", but that refers to other things as well as songs.
I'm surprised that no one else has yet mentioned Nine Inch Nails release of The Hand That Feeds in Garage Band format.
"There are some copyright issues involved, so read the notice that pops up. Giving this away is an experiment. I'm interested to see what comes of it, what issues are raised and what the results are."
Can't remember what the copyright notice said - I only tried it a couple of times. My mac was not really powerful enough for it to be much use but it was certainly an interesting idea.
I'd think it was reasonably obviously a thing with singing in it, and not particularly a grey area at all.