See http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/23/205 0249&tid=93&tid=155 for original story. This posting is actually referring to the earlier news - but the above link refers to Nikons response...
I live in Sweden - and whilst I have got 10mb/sec broadband in my current appartment, I'm actually in the process of moving appartments - and one of the criteria I have is - does the appartment have high speed broadband?
I would say about 80% of appartments that I have seen do not in my town - and it is not available without your appartment building paying quite a hefty premium for installation into the building. So the lines maybe laid - but not so many are using it - in my opinion. I'm not so sure we're ahead with broadband - but as for 3G networks- we practically have a transmitting antenna on every other rooftop!
Or you could try the Swedish approach of taxing top earners for %55 of their income and invest that tax into a solid welfare system that provides for those of middle / low wealth and thus totally eliminating health insurance from the equation completely. It makes little sense to earn much more than $30K per year in Sweden as you can divide by 2 all the money you earn over that amount - so we in general have lower salaries - better welfare, plus less reason to outsource jobs as wage demands here are not so huge - not to mention the language benefits - not so many folks offshore speaks Swedish (yet - I have a hunch that the language barrier is protecting much of Europe from the US style offshoring of IT worker) - I propose that everyone in the US start speaking one or even better all of the following languages: http://www.native-languages.org/ that would perhaps temporarily delay the offshore effect - only trouble with that is that I reckon the offshore workers would learn the new languages faster...
Please choose your avatar... will you be Warlock, wizard, magician, theif, lawyer, policeman, taxman...
A crime in the virtual world is a crime in the real world too. You steal game credits and you're stealing real money. So the first time you see any crime in this mmorpg report it to the police immediately at: http://www.polisen.se/PSUser/frameset.jsp?nodeid=1 461&pageversion=1
I know what I'm gonna do - hack into city bank - transfer as much money as possible to a swiss bank account somewhere - and when they come to arrest me I'll say - oh - I'm sorry - but I thought that citybank was just a mmorpg - and surely this is just a virtual theft - where's the harm in that. Seriously though - the second you can turn mmorpg income back to real income - you have a lot of very serious ethical questions. If someone steals from me online - do they pay tax on that income or not. If I hack the code to generate income - is that tax deductible, is it a crime? Is a crime in the virtual world not a crime in the real world too?
Try playing Colin Mcrae Rally 2 without concentrating for more than 2 seconds - you'll have a very close encounter with a tree - there's just no way to relax and play that at the same time.
They've got a good UK games mag now - its called PCZone - and their reviews are usually spot on - they rip the crap outa some games - for instance Shiny softwares 'Sacrifice' was so slated that the publishers said they wouldn't be talking to PCZone anymore - check it out www.pczone.co.uk - its parent mag is CVG and own the website- multiformat - but pcz reviews can be found there in abundance.
I can recall a real life memorable example against this argument - i.e. that traditional photographic media ain't so great. 1945 - Robert Capa - one of the greatest Magnum photographers shot at the D-Day Normandy landings - the films were rushed back to the UK - where the lab technician who developed them - was in such a rush to get results that he melted most of the negatives in the process of drying them - only a few shots survived - and one of these is probably the most famous/memorable image from any war photographer - who's to know what was on the melted film... Now they didn't have digital back in 45 I know - but the point is that traditional media has plenty of failings - use the wrong concentration of fixer and your negs'll fade in no time, they also scratch - and are easily damaged in all sorts of ways.
That said though - my personal preference is for good old iford XP2 in my Nikon FE...
hmmm perhaps it was somewhere in your second sentence I read Swedish newspapers [aftonbladet.se], American newspapers [cnn.com], independant newspapers [indymedia.org] and _I_ then judge based on lots of facts and opinions what I want to believe in.
if you read one opinion poll - and then hold it as gospel that it represents the opinions of an entire population - you are appear very gullible and not the rational/ read all sources and make up my mind type of person that you claim in your post. Q What was the survey size? Q what orginasation conducted it? Q Was it a one off poll? Q Was it a web vote?
Well I've lived in Sweden and the US and followed the news media in both countries - and whilst I agree that the Censored News Network sucks - and they save their "World News" in the US for 2am broadcast - the rest of the American media is pretty good - and Aftonbladet isn't exactly where I'd go for a good reliable independent news report.
Last night there was a Swedish TV program where a Swedish student was busy paralleling the Afgan crisis with the situation in Northern Ireland - and that comes to mind as a particular example of a rather badly informed Swede on international affairs, but I wouldn't for instance take this one example and say therefore all Swedes think the same - I agree with other comments here - to generalise like you do for all Americans is really just showing you're own ignorance of world affairs.
Another alternative read... Rapid Development...
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I was on a Death March project - and I "accidentally" for a laugh dropped a copy of Mr Jourdon's book on the project managers desk - don't think he got the hint though.
Steve McConnells got another really good book (and I think its way better than Death March) for software project management - Rapid Development - recommended reading for anyone thinking of managing a software development project.
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/23/205 0249&tid=93&tid=155
See http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/23/205 0249&tid=93&tid=155 for original story.
This posting is actually referring to the earlier news - but the above link refers to Nikons response...
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I live in Sweden - and whilst I have got 10mb/sec broadband in my current appartment, I'm actually in the process of moving appartments - and one of the criteria I have is - does the appartment have high speed broadband?
I would say about 80% of appartments that I have seen do not in my town - and it is not available without your appartment building paying quite a hefty premium for installation into the building.
So the lines maybe laid - but not so many are using it - in my opinion. I'm not so sure we're ahead with broadband - but as for 3G networks- we practically have a transmitting antenna on every other rooftop!
Or you could try the Swedish approach of taxing top earners for %55 of their income and invest that tax into a solid welfare system that provides for those of middle / low wealth and thus totally eliminating health insurance from the equation completely. It makes little sense to earn much more than $30K per year in Sweden as you can divide by 2 all the money you earn over that amount - so we in general have lower salaries - better welfare, plus less reason to outsource jobs as wage demands here are not so huge - not to mention the language benefits - not so many folks offshore speaks Swedish (yet - I have a hunch that the language barrier is protecting much of Europe from the US style offshoring of IT worker) - I propose that everyone in the US start speaking one or even better all of the following languages: http://www.native-languages.org/
that would perhaps temporarily delay the offshore effect - only trouble with that is that I reckon the offshore workers would learn the new languages faster...
and what 2 states will benefit most from this increase in funding for NASA... Florida and Texas... so not at all electioneering then.
And if you've got slightly unbalanced eyesight - ie one eye stronger than the other - then this technology just don't work at all.
Please choose your avatar... will you be Warlock, wizard, magician, theif, lawyer, policeman, taxman...
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A crime in the virtual world is a crime in the real world too. You steal game credits and you're stealing real money. So the first time you see any crime in this mmorpg report it to the police immediately at: http://www.polisen.se/PSUser/frameset.jsp?nodeid=
I know what I'm gonna do - hack into city bank - transfer as much money as possible to a swiss bank account somewhere - and when they come to arrest me I'll say - oh - I'm sorry - but I thought that citybank was just a mmorpg - and surely this is just a virtual theft - where's the harm in that.
Seriously though - the second you can turn mmorpg income back to real income - you have a lot of very serious ethical questions. If someone steals from me online - do they pay tax on that income or not. If I hack the code to generate income - is that tax deductible, is it a crime? Is a crime in the virtual world not a crime in the real world too?
The brits have been using them to defuse / Disarm terrorist bombs for at least 2 decades.
Try playing Colin Mcrae Rally 2 without concentrating for more than 2 seconds - you'll have a very close encounter with a tree - there's just no way to relax and play that at the same time.
And the minute it adapts you've lost your primordial Martian life and got something thats been altered thanks to our presence there.
They've got a good UK games mag now - its called PCZone - and their reviews are usually spot on - they rip the crap outa some games - for instance Shiny softwares 'Sacrifice' was so slated that the publishers said they wouldn't be talking to PCZone anymore - check it out www.pczone.co.uk
- its parent mag is CVG and own the website- multiformat - but pcz reviews can be found there in abundance.
I can recall a real life memorable example against this argument - i.e. that traditional photographic media ain't so great. 1945 - Robert Capa - one of the greatest Magnum photographers shot at the D-Day Normandy landings - the films were rushed back to the UK - where the lab technician who developed them - was in such a rush to get results that he melted most of the negatives in the process of drying them - only a few shots survived - and one of these is probably the most famous/memorable image from any war photographer - who's to know what was on the melted film... Now they didn't have digital back in 45 I know - but the point is that traditional media has plenty of failings - use the wrong concentration of fixer and your negs'll fade in no time, they also scratch - and are easily damaged in all sorts of ways.
That said though - my personal preference is for good old iford XP2 in my Nikon FE...
hmmm perhaps it was somewhere in your second sentence I read Swedish newspapers [aftonbladet.se], American newspapers [cnn.com], independant newspapers [indymedia.org] and _I_ then judge based on lots of facts and opinions what I want to believe in.
if you read one opinion poll - and then hold it as gospel that it represents the opinions of an entire population - you are appear very gullible and not the rational/ read all sources and make up my mind type of person that you claim in your post. Q What was the survey size? Q what orginasation conducted it? Q Was it a one off poll? Q Was it a web vote?
Well I've lived in Sweden and the US and followed the news media in both countries - and whilst I agree that the Censored News Network sucks - and they save their "World News" in the US for 2am broadcast - the rest of the American media is pretty good - and Aftonbladet isn't exactly where I'd go for a good reliable independent news report.
Last night there was a Swedish TV program where a Swedish student was busy paralleling the Afgan crisis with the situation in Northern Ireland - and that comes to mind as a particular example of a rather badly informed Swede on international affairs, but I wouldn't for instance take this one example and say therefore all Swedes think the same - I agree with other comments here - to generalise like you do for all Americans is really just showing you're own ignorance of world affairs.
I was on a Death March project - and I "accidentally" for a laugh dropped a copy of Mr Jourdon's book on the project managers desk - don't think he got the hint though. Steve McConnells got another really good book (and I think its way better than Death March) for software project management - Rapid Development - recommended reading for anyone thinking of managing a software development project.