What, and wipe out Scottish cuisine? What would the world be reduced to without such delicacies as deep-fried sausage, deep-fried haggis, deep-fried pizza, deep-fried chicken or deep-fried deep-fried sausage?
I do. Do you realise that the LHC isn't in the UK? What would be the point in using a plug that there isn't even a socket for in the country you're using the device in? You'd have to plug the LHC in through one of those cheap airport socket converters, and we all know how prone they are to being knocked out of the socket.
As for why people compare UK plugs to 'gimped' US plugs and not 'standard' 3-prongs, that would probably be because most US electrical devices they come into contact with don't have 3-prong plugs.
Um. It's the UK that has superior plugs. If only they'd had the common sense to build the damned thing in Scotland like I told them, it wouldn't keep having all these failures.
We take an infinite number of monkeys, and an infinite number of parchments, and eventually one of them will write a new play by that Shakespeare fellow...
No, it isn't. Claiming that the burglar is then responsible for fitting a proper lock and providing round-the-clock security guards and attack dogs is also ridiculous, and that appears to be part of the case against him here.
Actually, if you publish a critical article about eg. China (or, say, a large US corporation), you're more likely to be sued for libel in London. Regardless of whether the article was published there.
Your analogy is horrible. Because in this case, Person A is also suing Person B for the installation of a lockable cage around the wire on the alarm and the wages of a chauffeur who will guard the car in future.
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There was a patch for the Archimedes version to give you fluffy dice in the cockpit and a 'My other ship is a Thargoid' bumper sticker. This alone makes it the ultimate version.
Had to go into the CLI or chosen to go into the CLI because it's the best way to carry out a lot of tasks? The second, many times, both on Linux boxes and using Cygwin on Windows. The first, once, to check some settings when I had to run a live CD of Ubuntu to try and recover data from a Windows machine that had got stuck in a permanent loop of trying to install updates.
That's a hideous analogy. There are some programs - and some types of coverage - that are exclusive to Sky, and you won't get on Freesat. If you want to watch particular TV programs then you're locked in to that channel or forced to obtain access to them through less-than-legal approaches, which believe it or not some people choose not to do. If you want to watch a lot of sporting events, you're tied in to Sky. Or perhaps you can tell me where I get my season-round live NFL coverage on Freesat?
Why? Do we have a genuine shortage of somewhat dishonest documentary makers who twist the facts so badly that it distorts the validity of the point they're trying to make?
That's the end goal, sure. But a lot of that you will learn through working, not through theoretical study or practice on toy products.
At the end of the day, you need none of the things listed above. What you need is a willingness and an ability to learn on the job, an ability to think through problems rather than give up because you don't know the answer, and the ability to explain your thinking, especially when you're disagreeing with people who in theory should know more than you do.
If I could find a graduate with all of those skills, I wouldn't much care whether he/she had experience in the target environment.
I did a few searches of UK jobs paying reasonable salaries recently (as part of a discussion of job availability in languages, not because I'm looking, obviously), and Java came out (marginally) on top, over C/C++ with C# a reasonable chunk back. Wouldn't be surprised to see the same breakdown for entry level jobs.
With Harmonix/EA/MTV continuing their campaign of silence on the European launch of Rock Band 2, they're gifting the European market to Activision. Nice one, guys.
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And the ones who lost their bets with Stephen Hawking about whether they'd find the Higgs Boson.
If you were using Chrome, you'd just have typed 'guff' into your Omnibox and found a definition. Is it really that hard to use a search engine before boasting about your own ignorance?
You can't. But you can use the same instruments to play both games - they're cross-compatible on all platforms (at last).
This means that you can pick the game with the better value instruments (that would be the ones for the game that doesn't have a >100% mark-up on the price outside the US and doesn't have a track record of massive failure rates) but still get the other game by buying the disc version only.
I'm using 'import' in a more traditional sense than you, I suspect. I mean buying from another country.:P
And some retailers are refusing to stock it when it is released, because of the price EA are charging and the minimum order they're imposing.
Simple solution: buy Guitar Hero: World Tour for PS3 instead. Then import the Rock Band disc only from the US.
Or, if you're stuck with X360, buy Guitar Hero: World Tour anyway, then import the Rock Band disc only from the UK. (More expensive, more delay, but hey, at least you get the game, and probably get it at a sane price, which isn't the case for the extortionately overpriced instrument packs from MTV/EA/Harmonix...)
Thankfully this is an option now that both the PS3 and X360 versions are confirmed to have compatible instruments across the two titles.
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What, and wipe out Scottish cuisine? What would the world be reduced to without such delicacies as deep-fried sausage, deep-fried haggis, deep-fried pizza, deep-fried chicken or deep-fried deep-fried sausage?
I do. Do you realise that the LHC isn't in the UK? What would be the point in using a plug that there isn't even a socket for in the country you're using the device in? You'd have to plug the LHC in through one of those cheap airport socket converters, and we all know how prone they are to being knocked out of the socket.
As for why people compare UK plugs to 'gimped' US plugs and not 'standard' 3-prongs, that would probably be because most US electrical devices they come into contact with don't have 3-prong plugs.
Um. It's the UK that has superior plugs. If only they'd had the common sense to build the damned thing in Scotland like I told them, it wouldn't keep having all these failures.
We take an infinite number of monkeys, and an infinite number of parchments, and eventually one of them will write a new play by that Shakespeare fellow...
No, it isn't. Claiming that the burglar is then responsible for fitting a proper lock and providing round-the-clock security guards and attack dogs is also ridiculous, and that appears to be part of the case against him here.
Actually, if you publish a critical article about eg. China (or, say, a large US corporation), you're more likely to be sued for libel in London. Regardless of whether the article was published there.
How about for abuse of the word 'grammatical'? The part of his sentence you're apparently objecting to is perfectly grammatical.
Your analogy is horrible. Because in this case, Person A is also suing Person B for the installation of a lockable cage around the wire on the alarm and the wages of a chauffeur who will guard the car in future.
There was a patch for the Archimedes version to give you fluffy dice in the cockpit and a 'My other ship is a Thargoid' bumper sticker. This alone makes it the ultimate version.
Had to go into the CLI or chosen to go into the CLI because it's the best way to carry out a lot of tasks? The second, many times, both on Linux boxes and using Cygwin on Windows. The first, once, to check some settings when I had to run a live CD of Ubuntu to try and recover data from a Windows machine that had got stuck in a permanent loop of trying to install updates.
That's a hideous analogy. There are some programs - and some types of coverage - that are exclusive to Sky, and you won't get on Freesat. If you want to watch particular TV programs then you're locked in to that channel or forced to obtain access to them through less-than-legal approaches, which believe it or not some people choose not to do. If you want to watch a lot of sporting events, you're tied in to Sky. Or perhaps you can tell me where I get my season-round live NFL coverage on Freesat?
Because people always forget about lozenge?
If you want to mock an actual comment from the almighty one, I prefer "What's a network?"
Inforkmative, surely?
Why? Do we have a genuine shortage of somewhat dishonest documentary makers who twist the facts so badly that it distorts the validity of the point they're trying to make?
I have not found this to be the case, having been involved in a port of a large and complex mobile app to Android. Good design helps. :P
That's the end goal, sure. But a lot of that you will learn through working, not through theoretical study or practice on toy products.
At the end of the day, you need none of the things listed above. What you need is a willingness and an ability to learn on the job, an ability to think through problems rather than give up because you don't know the answer, and the ability to explain your thinking, especially when you're disagreeing with people who in theory should know more than you do.
If I could find a graduate with all of those skills, I wouldn't much care whether he/she had experience in the target environment.
I did a few searches of UK jobs paying reasonable salaries recently (as part of a discussion of job availability in languages, not because I'm looking, obviously), and Java came out (marginally) on top, over C/C++ with C# a reasonable chunk back. Wouldn't be surprised to see the same breakdown for entry level jobs.
No. In this case it's got to be Anastasia, Boris, Katya and Taras.
With Harmonix/EA/MTV continuing their campaign of silence on the European launch of Rock Band 2, they're gifting the European market to Activision. Nice one, guys.
And the ones who lost their bets with Stephen Hawking about whether they'd find the Higgs Boson.
If you were using Chrome, you'd just have typed 'guff' into your Omnibox and found a definition. Is it really that hard to use a search engine before boasting about your own ignorance?
You can't. But you can use the same instruments to play both games - they're cross-compatible on all platforms (at last).
This means that you can pick the game with the better value instruments (that would be the ones for the game that doesn't have a >100% mark-up on the price outside the US and doesn't have a track record of massive failure rates) but still get the other game by buying the disc version only.
I'm using 'import' in a more traditional sense than you, I suspect. I mean buying from another country. :P
And some retailers are refusing to stock it when it is released, because of the price EA are charging and the minimum order they're imposing.
Simple solution: buy Guitar Hero: World Tour for PS3 instead. Then import the Rock Band disc only from the US.
Or, if you're stuck with X360, buy Guitar Hero: World Tour anyway, then import the Rock Band disc only from the UK. (More expensive, more delay, but hey, at least you get the game, and probably get it at a sane price, which isn't the case for the extortionately overpriced instrument packs from MTV/EA/Harmonix...)
Thankfully this is an option now that both the PS3 and X360 versions are confirmed to have compatible instruments across the two titles.
Beauty may be the in the eye of the (be)holder, but licensing constraints aren't.