I see it as more of a high-end gambling. You're trying to make money, with money, hoping to outguess someone else. It's really not all that different than going to vegas and playing the poker table. If you can find a few suckers, and avoid being one yourself, you can make money.
You have been suckered. This is not the above. It is a Ponzi sceme - these people are not gambling their own money, they are gambling someone else's and get a percentage of both wins and loses The faster they go, the more times they take a percentage. There is NO commercial benefit, there is no social benefit. Its a scam. These people should be in jail, but they have friends in high places.
This is the same scam that caused the rpesent recession, (perhaps wearing a different dinner jacket)
The blinker stalk is almost always on the left, down for left turn, up for right turn. Windshield wiper stalk on the right.
Unfortunately not on my planet. Ford one way, Nissan other way. Turn wiper stalk towards on one, away on other. AND WHERE IS THE F'ing HORN GONE? Squirts self in eye while cyclist emerges from side road!
People who sell cars with the horn not in the centre of the steering should be charged with wilfully causing accidents.
This is the most infuriating idea since computers were invented - a UI that you cannot tell what app it relates to? How frigging stupid is that? These people should be shoved in a bowl of boiling oil. It is one of the reasons why OSX is only fit for people who cannot manage more than one app at a time?
The worst feature is that you cannot be sure which app you will close (if you manage to find the menu bar in Gnome on my machine, it somehow decides to hide at times) when you click on the little X - assuming you can find it - I have a high resolution screen, and the menu bar is too damn small. I expect there is a way to increase its size, but the computer KNOWS DAMN WELL HOW MANY PIXELS PER INCH and ought to know that icons 1/20" across are NO BLOODY GOOD TO MAN OR BEAST!
You are obviously too young to remember "Home Rule for the Isle of Ely".
Get off my lawn.
More relevantly, funding of tech in the UK avoids anything that might actually exist. It is a giant Ponzi scheme. Real inventions/engineering are aplenty in the UK, but no one will fund them because "Ponzi schemes are more profitable in the short term".
I like the smell of diesel. Partly because the combination of raw sewage, diesel and dead fish brings back memories of going to the seaside when I was young!
I live in London. We have loads of convenience stores which employ no staff that speak English, and are more than happy to be paid in cash (Unlike previous posters, I have not found any that take cache). Many will take a random mix of Euros and pounds. I doubt they contribute to any databases, and if they do, it will be completely illegible and probably gibberish - like their tax returns.
If you remember the 1950's - you will know it was not necessarily nice knowing that the store staff knew all your business - and could add salt and pepper to the truth knowing what would fly and what would not, and then pass it on. People rushed to supermarkets as soon as they opened to avoid this. Perhaps there is a lesson for someone here?
You might want to have them read http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006QMXYEA "The Floppy Disk Story - which describes the evolution of the FD from the user's end
The problem is that it's too easy for many people to independently come on a good algorithm to use in an application.
No, the problem is that if many people come up with the same or similar solutions then THE SOLUTION IS OBVIOUS TO ANYONE SUFFICIENTLY SKILLED IN THE ART and is not a valid patent, but the US patent office is stuffed with morons and the US legal system is a joke, so the patents are not thrown out and massive costs payable by the people who were attempting to defend the bogus patent.
a) Realising that you don't drive a diesel like petrol
b) Driving anything with a manual transmission
So this wont save them.
I used to have a Nissan X-trail (4x4 with 2.2 litre diesel with 6-speed manual box) and it did over 55MPG normal driving, (near 70MPG at a steady 56MPH - ie if stuck behind a speed limited truck) and 25MPG towing a caravan, but those are UK gallons, and I normally obey the speed limits.
Electronics is normally washed as a final step in assembly - partly to remove the flux from soldering. The only things that would not like it are speakers with cardboard cones and batteries of all kinds. If you are certain the device has neither, there will be no problem washing it. However, if you want to remove carpet fluff and other large objects, dismantling is generally a good idea.
I have washed a lot of Cisco kit, Sun servers, etc, and I recommend, "In the Bath, with Fairy Liquid and a large back brush" but always clean the bath before using it for bathing!
I was not arguing that making a living off a half-way descent game was difficult. I was arguing that almost all the people who pirate it would NEVER pay for any game. Either they pirate it or they do without. They might pay if their income depended on it, but for a game, no! Income is limited. The supply of free games is not.
I could be working full time on my game by now if only 1/3 of those users legally purchased the game.
I could be on a space tourist trip to Mars if even 10% of those people were prepared to spend 1c on an any Android software whatsoever. You live in cloud cuckoo land.
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I see it as more of a high-end gambling. You're trying to make money, with money, hoping to outguess someone else. It's really not all that different than going to vegas and playing the poker table. If you can find a few suckers, and avoid being one yourself, you can make money.
You have been suckered. This is not the above. It is a Ponzi sceme - these people are not gambling their own money, they are gambling someone else's and get a percentage of both wins and loses The faster they go, the more times they take a percentage. There is NO commercial benefit, there is no social benefit. Its a scam. These people should be in jail, but they have friends in high places.
This is the same scam that caused the rpesent recession, (perhaps wearing a different dinner jacket)
I suspected Win8 was dickless, thanks for confirming it!
(Desktop switching fails massively in "Gnome classic with effects".)
Unfortunately not on my planet. Ford one way, Nissan other way. Turn wiper stalk towards on one, away on other. AND WHERE IS THE F'ing HORN GONE? Squirts self in eye while cyclist emerges from side road!
People who sell cars with the horn not in the centre of the steering should be charged with wilfully causing accidents.
Crash on Thinkpads
By removing the ability to do useful things!
and shove the lameness filter where the sun don't shine. How are we supposed to yell if we cant use caps?
The worst feature is that you cannot be sure which app you will close (if you manage to find the menu bar in Gnome on my machine, it somehow decides to hide at times) when you click on the little X - assuming you can find it - I have a high resolution screen, and the menu bar is too damn small. I expect there is a way to increase its size, but the computer KNOWS DAMN WELL HOW MANY PIXELS PER INCH and ought to know that icons 1/20" across are NO BLOODY GOOD TO MAN OR BEAST!
ok, I promise to take the meds now!
Please, please - where can I get a smartphone that runs OpenBSD-on-VAX? (With Gnome-2)
The answer is NO. Next question
Get off my lawn.
More relevantly, funding of tech in the UK avoids anything that might actually exist. It is a giant Ponzi scheme. Real inventions/engineering are aplenty in the UK, but no one will fund them because "Ponzi schemes are more profitable in the short term".
I like the smell of diesel. Partly because the combination of raw sewage, diesel and dead fish brings back memories of going to the seaside when I was young!
I live in London. We have loads of convenience stores which employ no staff that speak English, and are more than happy to be paid in cash (Unlike previous posters, I have not found any that take cache). Many will take a random mix of Euros and pounds. I doubt they contribute to any databases, and if they do, it will be completely illegible and probably gibberish - like their tax returns.
If you remember the 1950's - you will know it was not necessarily nice knowing that the store staff knew all your business - and could add salt and pepper to the truth knowing what would fly and what would not, and then pass it on. People rushed to supermarkets as soon as they opened to avoid this. Perhaps there is a lesson for someone here?
You might want to have them read http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006QMXYEA "The Floppy Disk Story - which describes the evolution of the FD from the user's end
No, the problem is that if many people come up with the same or similar solutions then THE SOLUTION IS OBVIOUS TO ANYONE SUFFICIENTLY SKILLED IN THE ART and is not a valid patent, but the US patent office is stuffed with morons and the US legal system is a joke, so the patents are not thrown out and massive costs payable by the people who were attempting to defend the bogus patent.
Surely the idea is that you are tried "by a jury of your peers" and that means that all the jurors should be patent holders
a) Realising that you don't drive a diesel like petrol
b) Driving anything with a manual transmission
So this wont save them.
I used to have a Nissan X-trail (4x4 with 2.2 litre diesel with 6-speed manual box) and it did over 55MPG normal driving, (near 70MPG at a steady 56MPH - ie if stuck behind a speed limited truck) and 25MPG towing a caravan, but those are UK gallons, and I normally obey the speed limits.
Me too. I also want OpenBSD support.
Oh, wait...
Yes, with early (stepper motor actuator) HDs the heads would hit the platter on spin-down! This would cause a head crash after the first few events.
They you had very little experience of DOS 2.1. The only DOS versions that even slightly worked were 3.3 and 5.0.
I have washed a lot of Cisco kit, Sun servers, etc, and I recommend, "In the Bath, with Fairy Liquid and a large back brush" but always clean the bath before using it for bathing!
I was not arguing that making a living off a half-way descent game was difficult. I was arguing that almost all the people who pirate it would NEVER pay for any game. Either they pirate it or they do without. They might pay if their income depended on it, but for a game, no! Income is limited. The supply of free games is not.
I could be on a space tourist trip to Mars if even 10% of those people were prepared to spend 1c on an any Android software whatsoever. You live in cloud cuckoo land.