they're about the only British gangster films going
Sadly, that's not true. There was a period (when the National Lottery funded large numbers of films, and tax breaks made them a good dodge for investors), and so there was a sudden rush to accept any script they could get their hands on, which meant a sudden onrush of gangster films, almost all of them utterly crap - especially the ones with Sadie Frost in.
On the other hand, Gangster No 1 and Sexy Beast are OK.
Not at first anyway. They'll rush out a bugged version to make the marketing schedule, then a stream of patches to fix the worst bugs. After a bit, they'll collect the bug fixes together and release an 'expansion' that costs nearly as much as the original game, along with a couple of graphical and gameplay addons they should have released in the first place. After another while, they'll release a second expansion, and then release an OldGame IV Deluxe, which is finally the debugged, playtested version that should have been released in the first place.
By waiting for this, I either get a stable version or sufficient warning not to buy the game (journalists reviews aren't enough - they said Black and White was good when it first came out...)
Note this is just big names with marketing budgets. If I genuinely think a game has been released when it's ready, rather than when marketers say go, then I may consider buying it early.
You might want to check BT don't still have a trademark on that name - it was their old software marque. They've shown a willingness to try silly lawsuits in the past.
Uh... from my apalling understanding of French and the not much better automatic translators, I get the distinct impression this isn't another software company claiming the name. This is a cartoon strip. And it appears the owners of the copyright are claiming complete and exclusive use of the name of a plant, which has been used for centuries.
they can make crippled products that won't print money, or they can make money you can't print.
I'd think that if the government of any country is having enough of a problem with fake money they should move to digital money.
Or you could just put foil inserts and watermarks on the notes, like on the British pounds. Or holograms and raised printing like on the Euros.
From Colorado University, the original press release is here.
If you want the actual paper, and have access to the journal, it's published on the online version of Physics Review Letters Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040403 (2004)
The BBC claimed the weapons dossier was sexed up, and claimed to have a HIGH RANKING official who told them this
The actual phrase was 'senior official in charge of compiling the dossier'. Not 'high-ranking', which implies cabinet level. The actual embellishment (in my opinion at least) which Gilligan unjustifiably made was not the use of the word 'senior', but 'in charge' (Kelly, after all, was a former senior UN weapons inspector, so there is just enough wriggle room to call him senior). Gilligan's loose use of language, and the BBC's failure to act on this either before the broadcast or before they'd issued a strong statement of support is their failure, and one I fully expect Lord Hutton to have taken them to task for.
OK, this is being pedantic, but if you're accusing someone else of being loose with language, you have to be pretty accurate yourself.
If you believe that they meant a cabinet level official from that, well then I'd suggest that's your problem. If they said it elsewhere, well I'd like to see a transcript of when they did.
Well, Sim City is quite accurate. They all want to drive, but they whinge about the numbers of cars on the road.
I tend to stock up huge amounts of cash (a well designed little village can be quite profitable if you ignore the Sims whinging for a decade or two), muck around with the land to allow myself to build a road runnel under a decent stretch, and then flatten that bit and zone it, leaving the tunnel in place, with smaller roads joining to the entrance of the tunnel. Now there is a long, straight express route with no traffic lights from A to B, and the residents above can't hear it. Costs a bomb though, and one error in the flattening can lose the tunnel. And of course, if you make the mistake of putting a surface road that gets from A to B anywhere as quickly, they'll all drive on that.
Well, the ESA one will be a hell of a lot cheaper, getting the cargo into space without wasting all that weight having to haul humans up into orbit and get them down again safely.
Not to be too harsh on the English (although they deserve it - fortunately my ancestors either had just enough cash or enough crops to survive, or were paid enough by their landlords to leave that they could get passage on a ship out of Ireland), but the reason they got all the food is that they could pay for it. The owners of food-producing land in Ireland who had food were free to sell it to whoever they wanted to. Which meant those with cash, which meant the English. Pretending it was all down to the English being evil rather ignores the fact that what they did was callously do nothing while the free market starved people to death. Which the West basically still does today - the World Health Organisation estimates 6-14 million die every year from malnutrition.
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But I can't see any way to declare that it is the US. Sorry. Just saying it is, or singing that it is, doesn't make it true.
No, you're not. Finland is.
Sadly, that's not true. There was a period (when the National Lottery funded large numbers of films, and tax breaks made them a good dodge for investors), and so there was a sudden rush to accept any script they could get their hands on, which meant a sudden onrush of gangster films, almost all of them utterly crap - especially the ones with Sadie Frost in.
On the other hand, Gangster No 1 and Sexy Beast are OK.
By waiting for this, I either get a stable version or sufficient warning not to buy the game (journalists reviews aren't enough - they said Black and White was good when it first came out...)
Note this is just big names with marketing budgets. If I genuinely think a game has been released when it's ready, rather than when marketers say go, then I may consider buying it early.
You might want to check BT don't still have a trademark on that name - it was their old software marque. They've shown a willingness to try silly lawsuits in the past.
Uh... from my apalling understanding of French and the not much better automatic translators, I get the distinct impression this isn't another software company claiming the name. This is a cartoon strip. And it appears the owners of the copyright are claiming complete and exclusive use of the name of a plant, which has been used for centuries.
Not in Europe...
And would need to cover 140 acres, which is the size of the parking lot...
Or you could just put foil inserts and watermarks on the notes, like on the British pounds. Or holograms and raised printing like on the Euros.
Suriviving is one thing, thriving is another.
If you're lucky, it would freeze the nerves so fast you wouldn't feel the pain.
If you want the actual paper, and have access to the journal, it's published on the online version of Physics Review Letters Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040403 (2004)
abstract here for those with access.
Ahem. You may find this link useful...
The actual phrase was 'senior official in charge of compiling the dossier'. Not 'high-ranking', which implies cabinet level. The actual embellishment (in my opinion at least) which Gilligan unjustifiably made was not the use of the word 'senior', but 'in charge' (Kelly, after all, was a former senior UN weapons inspector, so there is just enough wriggle room to call him senior). Gilligan's loose use of language, and the BBC's failure to act on this either before the broadcast or before they'd issued a strong statement of support is their failure, and one I fully expect Lord Hutton to have taken them to task for.
OK, this is being pedantic, but if you're accusing someone else of being loose with language, you have to be pretty accurate yourself.
I'm not aware of when they did that. Gilligan said
I've spoken to a British official who was involved in the preparation of the dossier
quote taken directly from Transcript of Gilligan's report on the Today programme
If you believe that they meant a cabinet level official from that, well then I'd suggest that's your problem. If they said it elsewhere, well I'd like to see a transcript of when they did.
Yes, but then again many people appear to define 'biased' as 'not agreeing with me'.
He stopped copying Kurosawa whenever he could and thought he was smart enough to do it his way and keep the quality up. Sadly, he isn't.
Are you talking about Baroness Thatcher here? If so, do try to keep up. She got in the House of Lords ages ago.
I tend to stock up huge amounts of cash (a well designed little village can be quite profitable if you ignore the Sims whinging for a decade or two), muck around with the land to allow myself to build a road runnel under a decent stretch, and then flatten that bit and zone it, leaving the tunnel in place, with smaller roads joining to the entrance of the tunnel. Now there is a long, straight express route with no traffic lights from A to B, and the residents above can't hear it. Costs a bomb though, and one error in the flattening can lose the tunnel. And of course, if you make the mistake of putting a surface road that gets from A to B anywhere as quickly, they'll all drive on that.
You've never been to Morecambe, have you?
Well, the ESA one will be a hell of a lot cheaper, getting the cargo into space without wasting all that weight having to haul humans up into orbit and get them down again safely.
How dare you! Men have just as much right as women to chat on cell phones, swat at their children, and apply make up!
Which they'd done since the 14th century. The corn law of 1815 was repealed in 1846, which is when the Irish famine started.
Not to be too harsh on the English (although they deserve it - fortunately my ancestors either had just enough cash or enough crops to survive, or were paid enough by their landlords to leave that they could get passage on a ship out of Ireland), but the reason they got all the food is that they could pay for it. The owners of food-producing land in Ireland who had food were free to sell it to whoever they wanted to. Which meant those with cash, which meant the English. Pretending it was all down to the English being evil rather ignores the fact that what they did was callously do nothing while the free market starved people to death. Which the West basically still does today - the World Health Organisation estimates 6-14 million die every year from malnutrition.