The incentive may lie in that many European nations are increasingly reluctant to furnish contracts with employers who pull out of their territories.
"the cost" of a job is not just what gets paid to the contractee
And there's be nothing wrong with that, as you indeed said, "IBM is going to do what's right for IBM"
BTW - nobody in the EU gets 5-7 weeks paid leave. "Phenomenal benefits paid through employer subsidies" is just nonsense. Please give a concrete example.
It is improper for one individual to use extraordinary means (going on strike in this case)
Where exactly are the extraordinary means here? Their right to strike is enshrined by law, provided due ballots have taken place (which I believe is the case)
Illegal price colluding by cinema chains should just be ignored.
Illegal price colluding by DVD distributers should just be ignored.
Illegal pressure on overseas retailers with regard to "you supply different countries and we'll cut off your supply", all within the European "free-trade" market should be ignored.
But illegal downloading of movies over P2P... That's the 5UCk3R! Clamp down n0W! It's ruining the industry...
What really dimmed the "magic of the movies" for me was that our two local cinemas are mysteriously both pricing this film at exactly 6 pounds. (One charges a uniform 4.50 for everything else, the other 4 pounds exactly for everything else). Oooh - how that nasty "competition" gets in the way of colluding and fat profits.
Me? Downloaded it off of IRC... watched it... loved it. But I won't pay rip-off prices to see it at the cinema. Especially when our local "movie magic" means out-of-sync video/audio and chav's talking and mobile phoning thoughout the film.
L. S. Penrose. ``Self-reproducing machines.'' Scientific American, Vol. 200, No. 6., pages 105-114, June 1959.
Quote: In fanciful terms, we visualized the process of mechanical self-replication proceeding somewhat as follows: Suppose we have a sack or some other container full of units jostling one another as the sack is shaken and distorted in all manner of ways. In spite of this, the units remain detached from one another. Then we put into the sack a prearranged connected structure made from units exactly similar to those already within the sack... Now we agitate the sack again in the same random and vigorous manner, with the seed structure jostling about among the neutral units. This time we find that replicas of the seed structure have been assembled from the formerly neutral or ``lifeless'' material.''
Videos of the above exist, but I have no sources. They were shown on a 1980's BBC "Tomorrows World"
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Did Pac-man introduce the cutscene to the gameplaying world
No.
Space Invaders Part II (Taito 1979) has a cut-scene between levels... A mothership grabs your "base" and flies around the screen as you "scream" SOS!
I was clearing out boxes of my childhood toys/books at the weekend and came across the Choose your own adventure book "Inside UFO 54-40".
(The only reason I can quote the title is that I saved it from the local dump and have it here right now). Been flicking through it all day.
Loved this particular book as a child, since I found (and was very proud of the fact aged 9) that the only really good ending has no pages linking to it.
The only way you get to page 101/102 is if you cheat:(
the toFixed() method belongs to the Number prototype object, not Numbers themselves. Regardless, what's the problem you're having with it - and on what browser?
If you need to pass structs around, you're supposed to "box" them by casting the struct to an "object". This creates a heap object containing the structs contents. You then pass around a reference to the object. To get at it again, you "unbox" by casting back to a struct.
In C# you can always declare an unsafe region of code, where you've got access to pointers as you generally expect under C/C++. You'd do this if you needed to pass the address of a struct to some 3rd party C/C++ library.
However, you can't generally take the address of a class object, since they're managed and may get moved around whilst garbage collecting. So you have to start using "fixed" blocks telling the GC not to mess with certain objects whilst you've got pointers to 'em.
(It's not the easiest thing to get your hard round, and I haven't done any.NET crap for over a year but hopefully the basics of the above are right.)
Just use an older video recorder, one released before Macrovision was introduced. Records fine. Macrovision relies on extra hardware built into the recorder to work, it doesn't exercise an "artefact" common to all recorders.
if you visit Google's No Country Redirect page, it'll set a cookie to stop you being redirected to your national page when visiting google.com Not sure why you end up at different fr/dk/... domains though
FACT The Koran does not say such a thing, implicitly or explicitly. You quote the utterly warped views of a few insane "mullahs" to try and make some effect - and falsely generalise against 750m honest peaceful muslims. The bible "states" that PI is (exactly) "3 and one quarter". This is the same type of utterly ridiculous out-of-context quotation that the US media so loving reports. Ask yourslef WHY they report it, what's in it for them?
The most downloaded item from the BBC website is Fighting Talk, a Radio 5-Live programme. It's so popular, it's uniquely available as an MP3, as opposed to the regular WMA/Real streams used by the BBC. It's a topical "sport quiz"/rant show. Basically the 5 or 6 panel guests just make cheap gags about anything sports related, whilst the host plays a range of comical samples. I find it very funny, but obviously a lot of the gags will make no sense outside the UK.
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The incentive may lie in that many European nations are increasingly reluctant
to furnish contracts with employers who pull out of their territories.
"the cost" of a job is not just what gets paid to the contractee
And there's be nothing wrong with that, as you indeed said, "IBM is going to
do what's right for IBM"
BTW - nobody in the EU gets 5-7 weeks paid leave. "Phenomenal benefits
paid through employer subsidies" is just nonsense. Please
give a concrete example.
It is improper for one individual to use extraordinary means (going on strike in this case)
Where exactly are the extraordinary means here?
Their right to strike is enshrined by law, provided due ballots have taken place (which I believe is the case)
Ah, I get it.
Illegal price colluding by cinema chains should just be ignored.
Illegal price colluding by DVD distributers should just be ignored.
Illegal pressure on overseas retailers with regard to "you supply different countries and we'll cut off your supply", all within the European "free-trade" market should be ignored.
But illegal downloading of movies over P2P... That's the 5UCk3R! Clamp down n0W! It's ruining the industry...
What really dimmed the "magic of the movies" for me was that our two local cinemas are mysteriously both pricing this film at exactly 6 pounds. (One charges a uniform 4.50 for everything else, the other 4 pounds exactly for everything else). Oooh - how that nasty "competition" gets in the way of colluding and fat profits.
If that wasn't enough, we also have the (not really a shock) report that UK is ripped off over DVD prices compared to the rest of Europe.
Me? Downloaded it off of IRC... watched it... loved it. But I won't pay rip-off prices to see it at the cinema. Especially when our local "movie magic" means out-of-sync video/audio and chav's talking and mobile phoning thoughout the film.
Windows hiding extensions when it recognizes the file type? You can turn that off...
.shs portion
.pif, .url, .shb, .mad and .mam
Really?
Try this...
Create a file called dummy.txt.shs - then try and get Windows to display the
Also try
The shell hides the extension, regardless of your view settings.
Cough... 1959 Cough...
L. S. Penrose. ``Self-reproducing machines.'' Scientific American, Vol. 200, No. 6., pages 105-114, June 1959.
Quote:
In fanciful terms, we visualized the process of mechanical self-replication proceeding somewhat as follows: Suppose we have a sack or some other container full of units jostling one another as the sack is shaken and distorted in all manner of ways. In spite of this, the units remain detached from one another. Then we put into the sack a prearranged connected structure made from units exactly similar to those already within the sack... Now we agitate the sack again in the same random and vigorous manner, with the seed structure jostling about among the neutral units. This time we find that replicas of the seed structure have been assembled from the formerly neutral or ``lifeless'' material.''
Videos of the above exist, but I have no sources. They were shown on a 1980's BBC "Tomorrows World"
Did Pac-man introduce the cutscene to the gameplaying world
No.
Space Invaders Part II (Taito 1979) has a cut-scene between levels...
A mothership grabs your "base" and flies around the screen as you "scream" SOS!
Wow.
:(
I was clearing out boxes of my childhood toys/books at the weekend and came across the Choose your own adventure book "Inside UFO 54-40".
(The only reason I can quote the title is that I saved it from the local dump and have it here right now). Been flicking through it all day.
Loved this particular book as a child, since I found (and was very proud of the fact aged 9) that the only really good ending has no pages linking to it.
The only way you get to page 101/102 is if you cheat
the toFixed() method belongs to the Number prototype object, not Numbers themselves.
Regardless, what's the problem you're having with it - and on what browser?
They could do it as a flick book
If you need to pass structs around, you're supposed to "box" them by casting the struct to an "object".
.NET crap for over a year but hopefully the basics of the above are right.)
This creates a heap object containing the structs contents. You then pass around a reference to the object.
To get at it again, you "unbox" by casting back to a struct.
In C# you can always declare an unsafe region of code, where you've got access to pointers as you generally expect under C/C++.
You'd do this if you needed to pass the address of a struct to some 3rd party C/C++ library.
However, you can't generally take the address of a class object, since they're managed and may get moved around whilst garbage collecting. So you have to start using "fixed" blocks telling the GC not to mess with certain objects whilst you've got pointers to 'em.
(It's not the easiest thing to get your hard round, and I haven't done any
Maybe you should read up on .NET a bit more :)
.NET structs are always created on the stack. Only classes get created on the heap and need garbage collecting.
Points are structs, under
Just use an older video recorder, one released before Macrovision was introduced.
Records fine.
Macrovision relies on extra hardware built into the recorder to work, it doesn't exercise an "artefact" common to all recorders.
I'm not going to risk $1 on a machine
Most modern pinball machines display a period/full-stop after the number of credits to indicate that it has detected a fault.
Oooooooh! I got myself a Slashdot "day pass"
Now I can see pending Java-shite postings 10 mins early!
Weeeh Heey!
color-coordinated for any and every occasion
I don't see no black there. Not good for a funeral.
Obligatory Star Wars Kid remix videos link
if you visit Google's No Country Redirect page, it'll set a cookie to stop you being redirected to your national page when visiting google.com
Not sure why you end up at different fr/dk/... domains though
FACT The Koran does not say such a thing, implicitly or explicitly.
You quote the utterly warped views of a few insane "mullahs" to try and make some effect - and falsely generalise against 750m honest peaceful muslims.
The bible "states" that PI is (exactly) "3 and one quarter". This is the same type of utterly ridiculous out-of-context quotation that the US media so loving reports.
Ask yourslef WHY they report it, what's in it for them?
Hmm. I read your gibberish post, and then examined the opening statement of your last post...
I am a high school history teacher...
I'd be fuckin' scared/annoyed/upset if you taught my children.
You're so stupid, it's almost funny
Drunken one-night stand?
Obviously this rarely applies on Slashdot...
Fair enough - In Our Time is a very recent addition.
There are no, and there have never been any official MP3 HHG2G downloads
Interesting reply, ta. If you know good sources of articles regarding BBC performing rights policies/issues please post 'em here...
The most downloaded item from the BBC website is Fighting Talk, a Radio 5-Live programme.
It's so popular, it's uniquely available as an MP3, as opposed to the regular WMA/Real streams used by the BBC.
It's a topical "sport quiz"/rant show. Basically the 5 or 6 panel guests just make cheap gags about anything sports related, whilst the host plays a range of comical samples.
I find it very funny, but obviously a lot of the gags will make no sense outside the UK.
His brother "Rom" knows a lot more, but it's all out of date now...