So, bravo that you can imagine worse kinds of torture than having to listen to loud music 24 hours a day or waterboarding.
I guess that makes everything all right then!
Pssst, you know the difference between sex and rape? It's kind of like the difference between your weekend at the frat party and the way the American Military tortures.
"In most of continental Europe, if you ask for a cup of coffee you get a watered down expresso, and it comes in a cup that is approximately the size of the "cup" you see on your pot."
Ehm, nice of you to have come to Europe, but generalising the coffee culture of say Italy where people like to drink really strong expresso's standing at the bar and the coffee culture in the Netherlands where most coffee is indeed drip coffee to 'most of continental Europe' is ehm stupid.
I think there are even countries in Europe where _instant coffee_ isn't viewed with disgust, but I wouldn't dare take a vow on that:D
The syntax of a programming language is not English, as typically you never use a complete sentence in English while programming (apart from comments obviously if you make these in english).
So you're saying the 30 or so words like if-then-else, define, switch etc etc will force you to learn english?
Come on, that's rediculous and completely rebunked by all the Chinese, Russians, Hungarians, Polish etc that program daily in these languages and don't have any English fluency.
I've never had problems with the French, and I come there at least 3 times a year. I speak moderately bad French, so when I start a conversation in French they go 'oh my god my ears hurt' and quickly switch to any foreign language they think I understand...:D
Seriously though, asking politely if a person speaks english or better still, at least trying to address a person in his native language is the polite thing to do when travelling abroad. Starting off in English is rude and does not confer respect for a persons own culture and language.
I come from a country where almost everybody speaks two or more languages (Netherlands: dutch - english - german - frisian - french - maroccan - turkish most common) so this would seemingly rule out the former -- almost anyone can learn a second language if they are exposed to it at a young enough age.
I switched to ET:QuakeWars when it was released and really haven't looked back (much:D ). I find it has the same level of teamplay and I enjoy the vehicle play.
Oh please, SUV's being big and heavy isn't helping them any getting through terrain, even if we do assume that most americans driving these things use them for off terrain driving more than once a year or ever.
It's perfectly possible to make a small 4x4 that'll do rough terrain with reasonable mileage.
My point is that your buick still only does 21 mpg, which would be considered a very very poor mileage for any car sold in Europe or Japan.
And yes, there are SUV made by every brand nowadays, but the american ones are still bigger, more powerfull and thus more gas consuming that the European and Japanese. Also the relative percentage of these big cars to more reasonably sized cars is much higher in the states than in either Europe or Japan.
I'm not saying Europe or Japan aren't too blame, it's just that the States have been very late to admit to the enviromental impact they're making and later still to actually start reducing it.
Y'all are still using roughly twice as much resource per capita as Europeans or Japanese, guys. Wake up and smell the coffee.
I'm guessing he's an inhabitant of the country that has been churning out rediculously large gas guzzlers for the last few decades -- so indeed please shut up or trade in your SUV/pickup for a car with reasonable mileage. On the gas saved an Indian could probably drive around all year in one of these without the net world oil consumption going up.
Preferably, keep him available as freelancer, or have a freelancing 'Josh' available.
That way, you can quickly have something to show if you're competing with another company for a contract or if you're doing a one-off 'yes-we're-very-sure-we-won't-have-to-maintanence-this-ever'.
However, if you're a small to medium sized company and you have need of a 'Josh' fulltime, you have a problem with planning and realistic deadlines and the need for Joshes is only a symptom.
As I said, international travel is one of the reasons to own a credit card, which is why you see them all over the place when traveling.
But, sure, if you want to hear it more with more nuance, I know that the prevalence of CC's outside the US is much lower than inside the US and most people in the Netherlands and Europe would not think of using their cc (if they have one) for buying train tickets or paying at a supermarket.
Moreover, note that most of the large CC companies are american, which is a telltale sign of which markets are important for CC companies.
... most ppl outside of the US don't have one. I only have one for my internet purchases and international travels.
And I'm not quite sure how you do your payments with credit card, but I haven't ever used it by just waving it. I always have to use it by swiping it through something to read the magnetic strip, a technique which is well overdue for replacing as it is prone to misreadings and wear and tear.
Moreover, I think paying by mobile phone does not require the person payed to to actually check you balance, it's a kind of load the thing with credits payment. So it speeds up transactions.
I think the advantages over credit cards and magnetic strip cards in general are numerous.
"David Braben, chairman of UK-based developer Frontier Development had this to say: "Five years ago, a great game would have sold for a longer period of time than for a bad game â" which was essentially our incentive to make great games. But no longer."
So, David, you're essentially stating that you don't care if the games you make are good or bad... just as long as you get the greenbacks for them?
Shame on you. Have you no pride in making good games?
I for one never resell a game I really enjoy... even if it's a play through game (e.g. Half Life 2) I'd still keep it around in case I want to replay it some day.
Sounds like the game industry's found another bogeyman to blame their problems on.
That's the question that comes to me... I mean, they sell me a copy of the game, right? Since when do they have a legal right to prohibit me from reselling it? I can't think of another type of product where this can be done legally...
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I have.
It seems to have been said by some dumb ass.
Oh well sorry Mr. Rambo there of course you have tons of experience at being held prisoner and being humiliated and sleep depriven for weeks on end.
Thanks for your input cowboy. Now go bak to crawling in the mud please.
So, bravo that you can imagine worse kinds of torture than having to listen to loud music 24 hours a day or waterboarding.
I guess that makes everything all right then!
Pssst, you know the difference between sex and rape? It's kind of like the difference between your weekend at the frat party and the way the American Military tortures.
"In most of continental Europe, if you ask for a cup of coffee you get a watered down expresso, and it comes in a cup that is approximately the size of the "cup" you see on your pot."
Ehm, nice of you to have come to Europe, but generalising the coffee culture of say Italy where people like to drink really strong expresso's standing at the bar and the coffee culture in the Netherlands where most coffee is indeed drip coffee to 'most of continental Europe' is ehm stupid.
I think there are even countries in Europe where _instant coffee_ isn't viewed with disgust, but I wouldn't dare take a vow on that :D
Hey, this is Italy. An inspector finding structural problems with a building is just asking for a donation.
Corruption is rampant and institutionalized in Italy, just look at their complete and utter failure to solve the garbage problem round Palermo.
Rest in piece Richard, thanks for all the good work, strength to the family and relatives.
The syntax of a programming language is not English, as typically you never use a complete sentence in English while programming (apart from comments obviously if you make these in english).
So you're saying the 30 or so words like if-then-else, define, switch etc etc will force you to learn english?
Come on, that's rediculous and completely rebunked by all the Chinese, Russians, Hungarians, Polish etc that program daily in these languages and don't have any English fluency.
I've never had problems with the French, and I come there at least 3 times a year. I speak moderately bad French, so when I start a conversation in French they go 'oh my god my ears hurt' and quickly switch to any foreign language they think I understand ... :D
Seriously though, asking politely if a person speaks english or better still, at least trying to address a person in his native language is the polite thing to do when travelling abroad. Starting off in English is rude and does not confer respect for a persons own culture and language.
I come from a country where almost everybody speaks two or more languages (Netherlands: dutch - english - german - frisian - french - maroccan - turkish most common) so this would seemingly rule out the former -- almost anyone can learn a second language if they are exposed to it at a young enough age.
I switched to ET:QuakeWars when it was released and really haven't looked back (much :D ). I find it has the same level of teamplay and I enjoy the vehicle play.
Just wondering, what puts you off in QuakeWars?
I believe there's pretty strong evidence that sex is correlated to creating life.
I'll leave it up to your judgement if that's beneficial or not.
Yeah and it's not like driving a car is the only way it polutes.
It costs energy and resources to make a car, you know.
Oh please, SUV's being big and heavy isn't helping them any getting through terrain, even if we do assume that most americans driving these things use them for off terrain driving more than once a year or ever.
It's perfectly possible to make a small 4x4 that'll do rough terrain with reasonable mileage.
My point is that your buick still only does 21 mpg, which would be considered a very very poor mileage for any car sold in Europe or Japan.
And yes, there are SUV made by every brand nowadays, but the american ones are still bigger, more powerfull and thus more gas consuming that the European and Japanese. Also the relative percentage of these big cars to more reasonably sized cars is much higher in the states than in either Europe or Japan.
I'm not saying Europe or Japan aren't too blame, it's just that the States have been very late to admit to the enviromental impact they're making and later still to actually start reducing it.
Y'all are still using roughly twice as much resource per capita as Europeans or Japanese, guys. Wake up and smell the coffee.
And why do you need a V6 anyway?
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/FEG/noframes/15079.shtml
I'm guessing he's an inhabitant of the country that has been churning out rediculously large gas guzzlers for the last few decades -- so indeed please shut up or trade in your SUV/pickup for a car with reasonable mileage. On the gas saved an Indian could probably drive around all year in one of these without the net world oil consumption going up.
Preferably, keep him available as freelancer, or have a freelancing 'Josh' available.
That way, you can quickly have something to show if you're competing with another company for a contract or if you're doing a one-off 'yes-we're-very-sure-we-won't-have-to-maintanence-this-ever'.
However, if you're a small to medium sized company and you have need of a 'Josh' fulltime, you have a problem with planning and realistic deadlines and the need for Joshes is only a symptom.
What's the use of running 2 virtual webservers on one piece of hardware?
So, did you post any of those pictures to a internet photo site? And have you checked to make sure it's password or otherwise protected?
I mean, not that I care, but posting them on a publicly accesable site might be construed as publishing them.
I assume this is dragging the boat after you.
What exactly are the advantages over just simply using a boat?
"Picking the right things to subsidise is non trivial.
Hell if planned economies worked"
Subsidizing some stuff planned economy
As I said, international travel is one of the reasons to own a credit card, which is why you see them all over the place when traveling.
But, sure, if you want to hear it more with more nuance, I know that the prevalence of CC's outside the US is much lower than inside the US and most people in the Netherlands and Europe would not think of using their cc (if they have one) for buying train tickets or paying at a supermarket.
Moreover, note that most of the large CC companies are american, which is a telltale sign of which markets are important for CC companies.
And I'm not quite sure how you do your payments with credit card, but I haven't ever used it by just waving it. I always have to use it by swiping it through something to read the magnetic strip, a technique which is well overdue for replacing as it is prone to misreadings and wear and tear.
Moreover, I think paying by mobile phone does not require the person payed to to actually check you balance, it's a kind of load the thing with credits payment. So it speeds up transactions.
I think the advantages over credit cards and magnetic strip cards in general are numerous.
"David Braben, chairman of UK-based developer Frontier Development had this to say: "Five years ago, a great game would have sold for a longer period of time than for a bad game â" which was essentially our incentive to make great games. But no longer."
So, David, you're essentially stating that you don't care if the games you make are good or bad ... just as long as you get the greenbacks for them?
Shame on you. Have you no pride in making good games?
I for one never resell a game I really enjoy ... even if it's a play through game (e.g. Half Life 2) I'd still keep it around in case I want to replay it some day.
Sounds like the game industry's found another bogeyman to blame their problems on.
That's the question that comes to me ... I mean, they sell me a copy of the game, right? Since when do they have a legal right to prohibit me from reselling it? I can't think of another type of product where this can be done legally ...