True, the 1930s in europe were worse than the 1960s in the US. My afghan comment was triggered by news reports about hundreds of people being secretly held on unspecified or immigration charges; nowhere near the scale of internment of japanese during WW2.
you have the right to describe how to kill someone (free speech) and the right to possess the means to do so (bear arms).
unfortunately you don't have the right to live, since that was just in the preamble:-)
The german (and european) courts have to balance these, which is the (intractable) root cause of the problems (and gives policitians and judges lots of wriggle room).
once someone uses that info to steal a flask of nuclear material and lets it off in Los Angeles (hey might as well do it somewhere useful:-), some americans might argue less forcefully for free speech... I am unsure on this myself though.
However this is the country where you can get denied the vote (a few years ago) or locked up just depending on your ancestry (afghan is not a good one to have at the moment) so I'm not sure the constitution is always followed 100%. Hey, according to the constitution you have not been at war since Korea (?), but there are a lot of dead people who might disagree (well, if they weren't dead of course!)
Of course, if the govt. of a country was sneaky, they could publish bomb-making manuals themselves, with a few slight minor mistakes in them;-)
obviously DB can't ask nicely for *other peoples pages* to be removed - google would remove the pages if the terrorists* asked to, but not if the target of the terrorism asked. So they have to ask using lawyers. (* = supporters of direct action if you prefer to be more precise). But moving radioactive stuff around the country is going to cause controversy whether it is via train, truck (even scarier!) or barge. All of those crash at times.
I just walk past all the cars and SUVs smiling smugly that I am moving faster than them (except on school holidays, when the traffic moves faster than me, in which case I catch a bus).
I do long for the clean (lack of) smell of natural gas though; petrol and diesel both stink... (avgas/kerosene has a certain intoxicating smell though:-)
...as seen on any Hollywood movie, if a US car is in a 5 mile per hour collision with another car or a lamppost etc. it instantly explodes into a huge fireball! You don't see Volvos doing that in Swedish movies:-) admitedly the cars tend to be stationary in the relevant scenes;-)
From www.zzap64.co.uk, if only they can get enough orders (they need 100 for the print run). So it's been a few years since their last issue, but I'm impressed that they've got a new one out there.
If a tester is put on a project early, he or (hi vicky!) she can influence the gameplay in a lot of ways, e.g. by changing the balance of the various elements. If the basic design is sound (i.e. all the necessary elements are there, just not in the right proportions), this can turn a badly balanced game into something that is fun.
When the rest of the testers are put on the project later (for bugtesting) it is often too late for big changes to be made.
And of course being a good tester lets you get promoted to being a mapper or a deputy trainee assistant junior producer. It's the main way into the development side of the industry for people with no coding/art/music training (journalism being another entry point, c.f. the Garys Liddon, Penn and Whitta).
the junket for that was to send all the journos to Bangkok, to see the authentic muay thai kickboxing. When they gave glowing scores to an unfinished game, who would have thought they were biased? Of course the game was no doubt great when it was finished, since the coder is a top bloke, but I wonder if any journos have "mementos" of their fact-finding trip;-)
but that didn't stop their manufacturers from complaining to the president (clinton) that the japanese weren't buying them... Hey, it must be the entrenched distribution network that means they don't want our clunky gas-guzzlers, not cos we didn't customise them for the market...
Microsoft has already designed two console systems previously, both called "X". So it's quite clearly version 3 already. And they even kept the silly name!
I think the first one had a Z80 (8 bit with some 16 bit instructions) processor and was based on the Spectravideo computer, but my memory is fuzzy so far back.
for months and months until the trial (e.g. the guy who wanted to walk around London naked). Then when the jury lets him off, what has he gained? He's been in jail for just as long anyway. I think some student did that at Berkley without getting jailed, so maybe they have more freedom there (I wouldn't try it in Salt Lake City though).
That's not much use to those of us who have been on the web for a while (though I my case not very intensively), and had set up homepages with email addresses on them before this recent crop of spam became a problem. Even as late as 1996, I was not getting any spam, but that's all changed now:-(
Nah, I just hang around with lots of gorgeous and uninhibited teenagers (18+) and when I want to see pr0n, simply ask them to remove their clothes. It's a great system!;-)
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As opposed to blind luck? Guessing that two 16 or 32 bit magic numbers created by all the programmers in the world over all the lifetime of unix will never clash, when there is no central repository (ala IFF/RIFF)? *That's* madness. At least Apple stores its metadata somewhere
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I like being able to open a.txt file and not have to worry that it is an executable which is going to trash my hard drive. Macintosh's DO HAVE file extensions (in the resource fork), they just aren't visible to the user unless you bring up properties. This is similar to windows' newbie mode, which is what all the virus spreaders (CEO, HR, marketing, etc.) within a company run in. One of the first things I do when setting up my new machine is to turn file extensions on, then go into the registry and change various settings to say "yes, I really mean it, show me the **** extensions".
some poor old mainframes only like 8.3 filenames (when talking to PCs). They also only like 7 character variable/function names, which puts a bit of a dent into using the STL in C++. And they use EBCDIC which is not pretty. And you have to specify the length of a file before you create it, instead of using a sector based system. Am I sounding prejudiced enough yet?:-)
because they think stealing other people's land and then killing them is the way you form a country - it's what the USA was based on after all! Afterwards you can create lots of propaganda movies (Westerns) to show yourself in a better light.
Of course, I am on shaky ground here myself since the Taranaki land confiscation was a blatent breach of the treaty of Waitangi (and dumb to boot, treating rebel tribes and loyalists alike) but at least the govt. is trying to sort that out...
in the palistian military is a terrorist (they've already arrested 1200, which they think of as just a start). By that logic, since every israeli is in the military (apart from a few conscientious objectors), every israeli is a terrorist. I don't agree with that logic.
that people who are abused as children tend to abuse their children later on. (Not guaranteed, but it increases the chances). They think that's how life is and that's how you should behave.
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True, the 1930s in europe were worse than the 1960s in the US. My afghan comment was triggered by news reports about hundreds of people being secretly held on unspecified or immigration charges; nowhere near the scale of internment of japanese during WW2.
you have the right to describe how to kill someone (free speech) and the right to possess the means to do so (bear arms).
unfortunately you don't have the right to live, since that was just in the preamble :-)
The german (and european) courts have to balance these, which is the (intractable) root cause of the problems (and gives policitians and judges lots of wriggle room).
However this is the country where you can get denied the vote (a few years ago) or locked up just depending on your ancestry (afghan is not a good one to have at the moment) so I'm not sure the constitution is always followed 100%. Hey, according to the constitution you have not been at war since Korea (?), but there are a lot of dead people who might disagree (well, if they weren't dead of course!)
Of course, if the govt. of a country was sneaky, they could publish bomb-making manuals themselves, with a few slight minor mistakes in them ;-)
obviously DB can't ask nicely for *other peoples pages* to be removed - google would remove the pages if the terrorists* asked to, but not if the target of the terrorism asked. So they have to ask using lawyers. (* = supporters of direct action if you prefer to be more precise). But moving radioactive stuff around the country is going to cause controversy whether it is via train, truck (even scarier!) or barge. All of those crash at times.
The GUI which ran in 64K competing quite nicely with the Mac and Windows.
I do long for the clean (lack of) smell of natural gas though; petrol and diesel both stink... (avgas/kerosene has a certain intoxicating smell though :-)
...as seen on any Hollywood movie, if a US car is in a 5 mile per hour collision with another car or a lamppost etc. it instantly explodes into a huge fireball! You don't see Volvos doing that in Swedish movies :-) admitedly the cars tend to be stationary in the relevant scenes ;-)
From www.zzap64.co.uk, if only they can get enough orders (they need 100 for the print run). So it's been a few years since their last issue, but I'm impressed that they've got a new one out there.
when the US chapter launched its campaign against forgeign programmers working in the US (under H1-B visas).
If a tester is put on a project early, he or (hi vicky!) she can influence the gameplay in a lot of ways, e.g. by changing the balance of the various elements. If the basic design is sound (i.e. all the necessary elements are there, just not in the right proportions), this can turn a badly balanced game into something that is fun.
When the rest of the testers are put on the project later (for bugtesting) it is often too late for big changes to be made.
And of course being a good tester lets you get promoted to being a mapper or a deputy trainee assistant junior producer. It's the main way into the development side of the industry for people with no coding/art/music training (journalism being another entry point, c.f. the Garys Liddon, Penn and Whitta).
the junket for that was to send all the journos to Bangkok, to see the authentic muay thai kickboxing. When they gave glowing scores to an unfinished game, who would have thought they were biased? Of course the game was no doubt great when it was finished, since the coder is a top bloke, but I wonder if any journos have "mementos" of their fact-finding trip ;-)
Sheesh!
or were you asleep in the 1980s?
Microsoft has already designed two console systems previously, both called "X". So it's quite clearly version 3 already. And they even kept the silly name!
I think the first one had a Z80 (8 bit with some 16 bit instructions) processor and was based on the Spectravideo computer, but my memory is fuzzy so far back.
tried so hard (and succeeded) to have a profoundly deaf baby! - they were anticipating the hearing tax! Clever women!
that would be considered an illegal rave (more than two people listening to repetitive music) so you could get done under the criminal justice act :-)
for months and months until the trial (e.g. the guy who wanted to walk around London naked). Then when the jury lets him off, what has he gained? He's been in jail for just as long anyway. I think some student did that at Berkley without getting jailed, so maybe they have more freedom there (I wouldn't try it in Salt Lake City though).
That's not much use to those of us who have been on the web for a while (though I my case not very intensively), and had set up homepages with email addresses on them before this recent crop of spam became a problem. Even as late as 1996, I was not getting any spam, but that's all changed now :-(
Nah, I just hang around with lots of gorgeous and uninhibited teenagers (18+) and when I want to see pr0n, simply ask them to remove their clothes. It's a great system! ;-)
As opposed to blind luck? Guessing that two 16 or 32 bit magic numbers created by all the programmers in the world over all the lifetime of unix will never clash, when there is no central repository (ala IFF/RIFF)? *That's* madness. At least Apple stores its metadata somewhere
Well, that's what we tell the French anyway :-)
I like being able to open a .txt file and not have to worry that it is an executable which is going to trash my hard drive. Macintosh's DO HAVE file extensions (in the resource fork), they just aren't visible to the user unless you bring up properties. This is similar to windows' newbie mode, which is what all the virus spreaders (CEO, HR, marketing, etc.) within a company run in. One of the first things I do when setting up my new machine is to turn file extensions on, then go into the registry and change various settings to say "yes, I really mean it, show me the **** extensions".
some poor old mainframes only like 8.3 filenames (when talking to PCs). They also only like 7 character variable/function names, which puts a bit of a dent into using the STL in C++. And they use EBCDIC which is not pretty. And you have to specify the length of a file before you create it, instead of using a sector based system. Am I sounding prejudiced enough yet? :-)
because they think stealing other people's land and then killing them is the way you form a country - it's what the USA was based on after all! Afterwards you can create lots of propaganda movies (Westerns) to show yourself in a better light.
Of course, I am on shaky ground here myself since the Taranaki land confiscation was a blatent breach of the treaty of Waitangi (and dumb to boot, treating rebel tribes and loyalists alike) but at least the govt. is trying to sort that out...
in the palistian military is a terrorist (they've already arrested 1200, which they think of as just a start). By that logic, since every israeli is in the military (apart from a few conscientious objectors), every israeli is a terrorist. I don't agree with that logic.
that people who are abused as children tend to abuse their children later on. (Not guaranteed, but it increases the chances). They think that's how life is and that's how you should behave.