This has been true for years, not just for fruit machines but also quiz machines. And it's a great thing - if you know the machine, 50p will tell you if it is in the mood to pay or not.
A couple of well timed quid in quiz machines where stupid people hang out bought me a lot of my university beers.
Anyway, sorry. Generalisations are the best way of dealing with large groups, but they fall down with individuals. By and large Americans are self-obsessed (creating what would be a micro-culture if it wasn't so pervasive), and are ignorant. Your original comment made me think you weren't... then your response to my post made me think you were again... but I guess I was wrong.
Aaanyway, I thought the Magritte response was pretty appropriate given that he was one of the original questioners of the mass opinion of art's uselessness, and strove to have it recognised as a view onto reality that expressed things that couldn't be expressed nearly as succinctly or powerfully through other means.
It seems like 90% of my comments these days include the phrase 'Bloody Americans'.
It's not Frenglish. It's French. And it's not an insult, it's backing you up. I assumed you knew *something* about art given the comment you posted, but I guess not.
Really? My god, how exploitable is that. Give me a week and any searches for sex, news, books, shopping, flatulence, football or art will all lead directly to my ad-filled spamsite. Where's my IDE..?
The Computer That Said Yes To Drugs, in which two kids and a sentient laptop orchestrate a gigantic smuggling operation, but the laptop double-crosses the kids and retires to the carribean with a massive stock of dope, some rizlas and an n64 emulator.
Remember iPlanet? Approaching 0 on the latest web surveys as Apache dominates that space.
iPlanet was rebranded by Sun as the Sun ONE line - not just the webserver but the appserver, webserver, mail.. sorry 'Messaging' server, and also includes their new IM server talked about here.
Admittedly still at 1% in the webserver space (from here), but you can be sure that that 1% is SME and greater - paying customers. Sun do just fine out many of the large chunks of business software like these that they sell (naturally together with their hardware).
I've used the word for years, calling it 'bumph' though... and never knew that's what it was. I shall stop saying 'thanks for the bumph' when people give me stuff - it explains some looks...
God Almighty! Where's the fucking 'colour this comment white, hide it before the anger overwhelms me and i go fucking postal and start slaying americans JUST IN CASE they think like you' button?
Take it a step further and you can express any algorythm in the world as '1'. You just need the right compiler/interpreter/whatever. DeCSS algorythm anyone?
I kind of agree... but given that you can't have cops everywhere, speed cameras do act as an incentive to people (even drunk ones) NOT to speed in the first place.
Whatever else you have against cameras, they're cheap and at least partially effective at stopping speeders (ignoring the fact that ours are purely an incentive since 99% of them have no film in anyway).
But the key difference in terms of this argument is that they only go off if you're speeding. Whereas the congestion charge ones photograph everybody, in order to ensure that you're not dodging the congestion fees, and that data is then stored even if you weren't dodging the fees. Which is arguably an invasion of privacy.
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This doesn't really matter at all to anybody ever, except the jokers who go and register the funny domains as fast as possible. Losers.
(By the way, $50 a shot for: www.icans.eu www.wouldntwannab.eu www.ph.e u www.nobodysgonnabuythiscrapexceptmayb.eu
This isn't really about enforcing traffic laws by video - it's about the inner London congestion charging.
I fully agree that snapping speeders is an excellent idea. If you're doing 120 mph in a 70 zone, then you should be photographed, and ticketed.
What PI are talking about is the fact that every driver who enters central London is photographed. While this is ostensibly in order to catch offenders who haven't paid their (£5) congestion charge for that day, the result is that the time and location of their entry into London is stashed in a database, regardless of whether they paid or not.
The government currently say they won't use that information for anything, but it seems to me that having such a superb source of tracking info available is going to mean that this database gets requested by the police and/or defendants in all manner of cases to prove where people were at particular times. Welcome to the start of the Big Brother age in Britain.
...Of course, having said that it's not really practical for the Transport For London crew to actually throw that data away... that wouldn't make sense unless they were actively trying to promote individual privacy. Which they aren't. Hence the award.
Yeah, but everyone knows banks are the spawn of satan. That's why I use a building society.
These guys don't have the same kind of power - I can't back it up, obviously, but I reckon they'd do better by sticking to one source or the other, rather than a mush of both with the benefits of neither.
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IE's dominance has also created fallout for Web standards, because Microsoft delivers the Web to roughly nine out of every 10 people who use it.
I wonder what it delivers to the other 1 in 10?
Java >= 1.2 == Java 2
and so transitivity gives us Java >= Java 2. I always suspected, thanks for the proof.
like everything they make bar windows OS and office for windows?
Aha.
This has been true for years, not just for fruit machines but also quiz machines. And it's a great thing - if you know the machine, 50p will tell you if it is in the mood to pay or not.
A couple of well timed quid in quiz machines where stupid people hang out bought me a lot of my university beers.
You mean pretentious ;)
Anyway, sorry. Generalisations are the best way of dealing with large groups, but they fall down with individuals. By and large Americans are self-obsessed (creating what would be a micro-culture if it wasn't so pervasive), and are ignorant. Your original comment made me think you weren't... then your response to my post made me think you were again... but I guess I was wrong.
Aaanyway, I thought the Magritte response was pretty appropriate given that he was one of the original questioners of the mass opinion of art's uselessness, and strove to have it recognised as a view onto reality that expressed things that couldn't be expressed nearly as succinctly or powerfully through other means.
It was obscure, yeah. I give you that.
Oh. Sorry, it is Frenglish. Um... never mind. Sorry I was in a bad mood.
It seems like 90% of my comments these days include the phrase 'Bloody Americans'.
It's not Frenglish. It's French. And it's not an insult, it's backing you up. I assumed you knew *something* about art given the comment you posted, but I guess not.
Art. By Magritte. He's a painter you know.
+1 bitter truth
Ceci n'est pas un good point
Ever watch / listen to BBC? Probably not. Bloody Americans. But even you must have bought a book in your life?
the client is open-source
Really? My god, how exploitable is that. Give me a week and any searches for sex, news, books, shopping, flatulence, football or art will all lead directly to my ad-filled spamsite.
Where's my IDE..?
This DEMANDS to be parodied.
The Computer That Said Yes To Drugs, in which two kids and a sentient laptop orchestrate a gigantic smuggling operation, but the laptop double-crosses the kids and retires to the carribean with a massive stock of dope, some rizlas and an n64 emulator.
Remember iPlanet? Approaching 0 on the latest web surveys as Apache dominates that space.
iPlanet was rebranded by Sun as the Sun ONE line - not just the webserver but the appserver, webserver, mail.. sorry 'Messaging' server, and also includes their new IM server talked about here.
Admittedly still at 1% in the webserver space (from here), but you can be sure that that 1% is SME and greater - paying customers. Sun do just fine out many of the large chunks of business software like these that they sell (naturally together with their hardware).
Define 'productive'.
This one seems to have gone down. Man, those nyt admins are good.
8 is a bad estimate but parent still ain't flamebait.
This is redundant, I grant you.
I've used the word for years, calling it 'bumph' though... and never knew that's what it was. I shall stop saying 'thanks for the bumph' when people give me stuff - it explains some looks...
...with the focus largely on the former.
God Almighty! Where's the fucking 'colour this comment white, hide it before the anger overwhelms me and i go fucking postal and start slaying americans JUST IN CASE they think like you' button?
Take it a step further and you can express any algorythm in the world as '1'. You just need the right compiler/interpreter/whatever. DeCSS algorythm anyone?
I kind of agree... but given that you can't have cops everywhere, speed cameras do act as an incentive to people (even drunk ones) NOT to speed in the first place.
Whatever else you have against cameras, they're cheap and at least partially effective at stopping speeders (ignoring the fact that ours are purely an incentive since 99% of them have no film in anyway).
But the key difference in terms of this argument is that they only go off if you're speeding. Whereas the congestion charge ones photograph everybody, in order to ensure that you're not dodging the congestion fees, and that data is then stored even if you weren't dodging the fees. Which is arguably an invasion of privacy.
www.allmybasearebelongto.eu?
This doesn't really matter at all to anybody ever, except the jokers who go and register the funny domains as fast as possible. Losers.
e u
(By the way, $50 a shot for:
www.icans.eu
www.wouldntwannab.eu
www.ph.
www.nobodysgonnabuythiscrapexceptmayb.eu
any takers?)
This isn't really about enforcing traffic laws by video - it's about the inner London congestion charging.
...Of course, having said that it's not really practical for the Transport For London crew to actually throw that data away... that wouldn't make sense unless they were actively trying to promote individual privacy. Which they aren't. Hence the award.
I fully agree that snapping speeders is an excellent idea. If you're doing 120 mph in a 70 zone, then you should be photographed, and ticketed.
What PI are talking about is the fact that every driver who enters central London is photographed. While this is ostensibly in order to catch offenders who haven't paid their (£5) congestion charge for that day, the result is that the time and location of their entry into London is stashed in a database, regardless of whether they paid or not.
The government currently say they won't use that information for anything, but it seems to me that having such a superb source of tracking info available is going to mean that this database gets requested by the police and/or defendants in all manner of cases to prove where people were at particular times.
Welcome to the start of the Big Brother age in Britain.
Yeah, but everyone knows banks are the spawn of satan. That's why I use a building society.
These guys don't have the same kind of power - I can't back it up, obviously, but I reckon they'd do better by sticking to one source or the other, rather than a mush of both with the benefits of neither.