I didn't mean that there is no such law - if you look at the post you replied to, you'll see that I said "I expect there's an old law on the books from when electricity was some new-fangled thing." I meant some old law that hasn't been repealed, but is never enforced - exactly as you said.
I did some searches online, and it looks like you're right (at least, it's listed in a few "stupid laws" lists), and the penalty is apparently 10 pounds. I suspect if you were charged under this law a good defence would be that pounds haven't been legal tender in Australia for some time...
Perhaps you should get your info about Australia from more reputable sources. Yes, our pollies are often backwards, technologically-illiterate idiots (esp. our current prime minister) but even the Liberal party contains a few intelligent people.
The proposed Australian legislation is based on efficiency requirements - it does *not* mandate a specific technology.
And no states in Australia are stupid enough to require an electrician to replace a *general-purpose* light bulb. I expect there's an old law on the books from when electricity was some new-fangled thing. And I could understand if there are some *specific* lighting systems that require a licensed electrician to change them - for example, traffic lights...
Actually, the proposed Australian laws are based on efficiency levels. If incandescants can achieve these efficiency levels, they will be legal. Hence the incentive is there for incandescant research.
It's a central plot device, so it's obvious that it's not the player screwing up. I was going through the game thinking "this is too easy" and then... BAM. I loved it - it completely rejuvenated the game.
<spoiler> The central character is taken out and the one character I had available to use hadn't been levelled properly for the tasks she needed to perform. When I got the central character back, he was crippled, and unable to use his most important power for quite some time. </spoiler>
How the hell does Oblivion get nominated for *writing*? Does writing simply mean that it's got text? Because there sure as hell isn't any story worth mentioning, nor is there any quality writing in any of the quests.
Maybe you should have noticed the *title* of the post you were replying to. Bad grammar, but understandable nonetheless...
"Except for all the country..." -> except for all the countries (i.e. not US) that have laws that hold that if any part of the contract (or EULA) is unenforceable, the entire contract is unenforceable.
We all know that that's not the case in the US - we have morons blaring it every time this topic comes up. But there *are* countries (fewer and fewer as time goes by unfortunately) where it is the case.
Interesting - I hadn't thought of that (I don't play WoW).
If that's the real cause, it should be fixable by using cFosSpeed: http://www.cfos.de/speed/cfosspeed_e.htm or some other QoS that prioritises ACKs. cFosSpeed makes a huge difference for my normal torrent downloading - don't need to set any limits, torrent traffic is given the lowest priority, and ACKs are the highest priority.
If you are not a "professional gambler" you do not pay taxes on winnings of any kind. So if you win the lottery, you can happily keep it all.
A "professional gambler" is someone who is in the "business" of gambling, decided on a case-by-case basis (by the courts if the gambler challenges the decision). There are not many people classified as "professional gamblers".
Sorry - you're right. What I was thinking of was *unlisting* which is linked to right near the bottom of that same page (and reproduced here for convenience):
If you'd bothered to RTFA (which I did a month or so ago) you would notice that the secondary server will only accept mail which was first rejected by the primary.
This means that servers *must* be RFC-compliant to deliver mail to a no-listed server - they must try to deliver to servers in the published order, and must try at least two.
The big advantage with no-listing is that if the sending server immediately tries the secondary after the primary fails, here is almost no delivery delay.
The big disadvantage of course is that an RFC-compliant spammer gets almost no delay either.
The number of *people* who need to convert old documents may well be small, but the number of *documents* that need to be converted/imported is *huge*. And you can guarantee that if one of their documents hits an undocumented legacy feature, all their documents will.
It performs QoS on every connection to/from your machine - and in particular, it gives the highest priority to ACKs. They've got a 30-day uncrippled trial - I only needed 2 days before I paid for it (a whole 9 euros!). If you're the first person to use it with a particular ISP you can even get it for free (but chances are someone's already done that on your ISP...).
I can now download torrents with my upload bandwidth unlimited, and browse the web at the same time with the highest torrent download speeds I've ever achieved (still not great of course - I've got a 12Mb down/256kb up cable connection). Previously, I'd had to cap at about 50% of my upload to be able to do any browsing, and even then lots of pages timed out. Hell - I can even carry on a Skype conversation with no loss of quality while torrenting.
It only works properly if all your traffic is going through one machine, so I'm using ICS on my server and all traffic is going through that (and then through my router). It's really interesting to watch the torrent uploads and downloads dip when requesting a pile of web pages all at once, then quickly climb back up when the pages have all been retrieved.
A *very* happy customer - the best-value thing I've bought in a long time.
I don't think so. As another poster pointed out, "hallows" can mean "relics". Now, what would qualify as a "relic" in the previous book, that's associated with death?
Perhaps a good translation of the title might be... "Harry Potter and the Horcruxes".
Guns are used in 71% of murders in the US? And you see that as "only 71%".
I see it as "the vast majority of murders in the US are committed with guns."
Which suggests to me that guns are probably the easiest way to kill someone.
Which further suggests that if there were fewer guns, people would have to try harder to kill other people.
Which suggests that there would be fewer people killed.
Now, I'm not sure if the stats for "numbers of homicides" means individual deaths, or "incidents" (which may involve multiple deaths). An interesting way to break down the stats would be to look at the number of deaths per "incident" for each type of weapon (or non-weapon). I think you'll find that statistically there are a *lot* more deaths per "incident" when guns are involved.
It also depends heavily on whether you're using idiomatic Python. If you're doing a straight translation of algorithms from another language, chances are you're unnecessarily introducing performance problems. Quite often, the optimal approach in C/C++/Java is not the same as it is in Python. Often the "obvious" approach in Python is the fastest (in particular - use the built-in types!).
For example, in C/C++/Java a switch is often the fastest way to make a multi-choice decision. Python does not have a switch, and so Python beginners tend to use an of if/elif[/elif...]/else statement. A better way to do this is to encapsulate each branch into a function, then build a dictionary of values to functions (once - there's no point building the dictionary every time), then simply do a dictionary lookup and call the result.
However, most of the time Python will be significantly slower than well-optimised C/C++/Java. OTOH, because Python is so easy to write, it's a lot simpler to get it right first, then optimise.
I don't think I need to explain for the above three - anyone who likes them will understand why I keep going back.
Summoner
This is just fun. Sure - there are a couple of areas that are annoying (like the Wolong caves) and there's a lot of fedex stuff, but overall it's just a fun game with a great twist in the middle.
I don't think I've got a fifth. Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines and The Temple of Elemental Evil both come close, but in the end neither quite makes it as a "comfort" game.
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Yes, but there are plenty of apes who then went and experimented *on other apes*, extrapolating the results to themselves.
I didn't mean that there is no such law - if you look at the post you replied to, you'll see that I said "I expect there's an old law on the books from when electricity was some new-fangled thing." I meant some old law that hasn't been repealed, but is never enforced - exactly as you said.
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I did some searches online, and it looks like you're right (at least, it's listed in a few "stupid laws" lists), and the penalty is apparently 10 pounds. I suspect if you were charged under this law a good defence would be that pounds haven't been legal tender in Australia for some time
Perhaps you should get your info about Australia from more reputable sources. Yes, our pollies are often backwards, technologically-illiterate idiots (esp. our current prime minister) but even the Liberal party contains a few intelligent people.
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The proposed Australian legislation is based on efficiency requirements - it does *not* mandate a specific technology.
And no states in Australia are stupid enough to require an electrician to replace a *general-purpose* light bulb. I expect there's an old law on the books from when electricity was some new-fangled thing. And I could understand if there are some *specific* lighting systems that require a licensed electrician to change them - for example, traffic lights
Actually, the proposed Australian laws are based on efficiency levels. If incandescants can achieve these efficiency levels, they will be legal. Hence the incentive is there for incandescant research.
The two posts simply take the same aspects for each, and reverse whether they're good or bad.
I haven't read through the comments, but there are plenty. With this success, I suspect the original poster is now trying the experiment on Slashdot.
It's a central plot device, so it's obvious that it's not the player screwing up. I was going through the game thinking "this is too easy" and then ... BAM. I loved it - it completely rejuvenated the game.
<spoiler>
The central character is taken out and the one character I had available to use hadn't been levelled properly for the tasks she needed to perform. When I got the central character back, he was crippled, and unable to use his most important power for quite some time.
</spoiler>
Uh - what part of "uniquely configured ... from certified sources" confuses you?
How the hell does Oblivion get nominated for *writing*? Does writing simply mean that it's got text? Because there sure as hell isn't any story worth mentioning, nor is there any quality writing in any of the quests.
Ridiculous.
Maybe you should have noticed the *title* of the post you were replying to. Bad grammar, but understandable nonetheless ...
"Except for all the country..." -> except for all the countries (i.e. not US) that have laws that hold that if any part of the contract (or EULA) is unenforceable, the entire contract is unenforceable.
We all know that that's not the case in the US - we have morons blaring it every time this topic comes up. But there *are* countries (fewer and fewer as time goes by unfortunately) where it is the case.
Interesting - I hadn't thought of that (I don't play WoW).
If that's the real cause, it should be fixable by using cFosSpeed: http://www.cfos.de/speed/cfosspeed_e.htm or some other QoS that prioritises ACKs. cFosSpeed makes a huge difference for my normal torrent downloading - don't need to set any limits, torrent traffic is given the lowest priority, and ACKs are the highest priority.
Australia makes this very simple.
If you are not a "professional gambler" you do not pay taxes on winnings of any kind. So if you win the lottery, you can happily keep it all.
A "professional gambler" is someone who is in the "business" of gambling, decided on a case-by-case basis (by the courts if the gambler challenges the decision). There are not many people classified as "professional gamblers".
Sorry - you're right. What I was thinking of was *unlisting* which is linked to right near the bottom of that same page (and reproduced here for convenience):
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http://www.joreybump.com/code/howto/unlisting.htm
If you'd bothered to RTFA (which I did a month or so ago) you would notice that the secondary server will only accept mail which was first rejected by the primary.
This means that servers *must* be RFC-compliant to deliver mail to a no-listed server - they must try to deliver to servers in the published order, and must try at least two.
The big advantage with no-listing is that if the sending server immediately tries the secondary after the primary fails, here is almost no delivery delay.
The big disadvantage of course is that an RFC-compliant spammer gets almost no delay either.
It took a long time for me to get this joke originally, and it still always requires me to take a second look.
Because here in a civilised country, we pronounce "surely" as "shore-ly".
The number of *people* who need to convert old documents may well be small, but the number of *documents* that need to be converted/imported is *huge*. And you can guarantee that if one of their documents hits an undocumented legacy feature, all their documents will.
Are you using Windows? If so, I *highly* recommend cFosSpeed:
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http://www.cfos.de/speed/cfosspeed_e.htm
It performs QoS on every connection to/from your machine - and in particular, it gives the highest priority to ACKs. They've got a 30-day uncrippled trial - I only needed 2 days before I paid for it (a whole 9 euros!). If you're the first person to use it with a particular ISP you can even get it for free (but chances are someone's already done that on your ISP
I can now download torrents with my upload bandwidth unlimited, and browse the web at the same time with the highest torrent download speeds I've ever achieved (still not great of course - I've got a 12Mb down/256kb up cable connection). Previously, I'd had to cap at about 50% of my upload to be able to do any browsing, and even then lots of pages timed out. Hell - I can even carry on a Skype conversation with no loss of quality while torrenting.
It only works properly if all your traffic is going through one machine, so I'm using ICS on my server and all traffic is going through that (and then through my router). It's really interesting to watch the torrent uploads and downloads dip when requesting a pile of web pages all at once, then quickly climb back up when the pages have all been retrieved.
A *very* happy customer - the best-value thing I've bought in a long time.
Indeed. For example, this quote ... "Definitely, Vista is very very improved OS over the previous versions ..."
I don't think so. As another poster pointed out, "hallows" can mean "relics". Now, what would qualify as a "relic" in the previous book, that's associated with death?
... "Harry Potter and the Horcruxes".
Perhaps a good translation of the title might be
I am Australian. I'd like to bring your attention to this:1 75.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200612/s1811
People are a lot less likely to die in knifings and beatings. The gun ban works.
Guns are used in 71% of murders in the US? And you see that as "only 71%".
I see it as "the vast majority of murders in the US are committed with guns."
Which suggests to me that guns are probably the easiest way to kill someone.
Which further suggests that if there were fewer guns, people would have to try harder to kill other people.
Which suggests that there would be fewer people killed.
Now, I'm not sure if the stats for "numbers of homicides" means individual deaths, or "incidents" (which may involve multiple deaths). An interesting way to break down the stats would be to look at the number of deaths per "incident" for each type of weapon (or non-weapon). I think you'll find that statistically there are a *lot* more deaths per "incident" when guns are involved.
Did this alloted time include testing that all links still worked?
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I presume that the links were changed along with the filenames
Australia makes it simple. All voting is done on a Saturday. The vast majority of people do not work on a Saturday.
Provisions are made for people who have religious beliefs preventing them voting on a Saturday.
It also depends heavily on whether you're using idiomatic Python. If you're doing a straight translation of algorithms from another language, chances are you're unnecessarily introducing performance problems. Quite often, the optimal approach in C/C++/Java is not the same as it is in Python. Often the "obvious" approach in Python is the fastest (in particular - use the built-in types!).
For example, in C/C++/Java a switch is often the fastest way to make a multi-choice decision. Python does not have a switch, and so Python beginners tend to use an of if/elif[/elif...]/else statement. A better way to do this is to encapsulate each branch into a function, then build a dictionary of values to functions (once - there's no point building the dictionary every time), then simply do a dictionary lookup and call the result.
Also, check out Psyco: http://psyco.sourceforge.net/ - it can often give a significant speedup.
However, most of the time Python will be significantly slower than well-optimised C/C++/Java. OTOH, because Python is so easy to write, it's a lot simpler to get it right first, then optimise.
So it's not lying to push a "think of the children" campaign while "thinking" of the children?
Fallout
Fallout 2
Arcanum
I don't think I need to explain for the above three - anyone who likes them will understand why I keep going back.
Summoner
This is just fun. Sure - there are a couple of areas that are annoying (like the Wolong caves) and there's a lot of fedex stuff, but overall it's just a fun game with a great twist in the middle.
I don't think I've got a fifth. Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines and The Temple of Elemental Evil both come close, but in the end neither quite makes it as a "comfort" game.