I liked Doom 3 too. Genuinely scary stuff, very atmospheric, and a good update of the original.
Half-life 2 was good as well, but felt a bit directionless in comparison. (What? I have to go on another long journey? Is there a reason for this one? No? Oh.)
Obviously the system will have to come with a facility to tweak the scanned model a little bit... just, you know, to fix the bits where the system obviously got confused...
In 1990 Dr. Wolfgang Schaeper from Germany set the world distance record in a closed circuit for a small (Category F5) solar Radio Controlled Flight UAVs. Schaeper's 190km record approved by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) stood unchallenged for more than 17 years, but now a team of nine students from the Technion is developing what they believe might be the next contender.
That's a long way for a small aircraft, but a full-sized one would be more exciting.... (and I bet it'd go further).
Hmm, I was mostly going off the general mood in the last few slashdot articles:)
Personally, I haven't yet bought a mobile phone of any kind. When the iPhone was first announced I thought: maybe this is what will finally persuade me to get one. Now I'm not so sure -- it has lots of features that I just don't see myself using. And while I wouldn't be too worried about the cost of buying one, I would be worried about becoming an obvious target for muggers...
Somehow I get the impression that the iPhone's future... destiny, if you will... is already determined, and anything Apple's competitors might do at this point is more or less irrelevant. Nothing is going to steal the iPhone's thunder if it turns out there actually is a market for it. And if there isn't... it'll sink without a trace, as will any rivals.
As cool as I think the iPhone is, I'm currently leaning toward the second option. Too expensive, too little demand.
The legal issues are kinda scary but it looks like they have them under control. All respect to them for attempting the impossible... and from the look of it, they're a good way to succeeding:)
I think probably the people who make financial decisions affecting schools have their feet on the ground, so to speak. And so won't care too much one way or the other.
The UK government has paid up to 48,000GBP ($92K) to save someone for a "year" (as they count it -- quality of life measures etc). According to that article 20,000GP ($38K) is easy to justify for giving someone a year more life. So if you can actually cure a patient -- meaning they live considerably longer -- it's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, at least.
My thoughts exactly. I spend 1h every day walking to/from work and I see plenty of people taking stupid risks, no iPod needed. (Including a guy who walked right into the path of a motorbike -- he was hit but it was a glancing blow and he wasn't hurt).
Here in the UK society doesn't seem to care about pedestrians getting themselves into trouble -- I'm not sure if jaywalking is even illegal.
Anyway it's something I get annoyed about. Reason being, I was once a stupid pedestrian, and did get hit by a car. It was entirely my fault -- I didn't understand the road layout and walked out into a lane I thought was clear without looking. Concussion, a week in hospital -- the experience has nothing much to recommend it. Now I realise that most people have no conception of how much it's going to hurt when one of those things hits you. I certainly didn't. And when I see people taking stupid risks on the road I think: if they knew what they were risking, they wouldn't be doing that.
Ah well. I would love to see a society where the accepted thing to do is to cross sensibly. That said, I'd be even happier to see a society where cars and pedestrians are kept completely separate. Since neither of these is going to happen any time soon, I suppose I'll just carry on glaring at people who take stupid risks and hoping I don't see any serious accidents...
Any database of personally identifiable information falls under the data protection act, and that comes with a whole host of requirements. The data has to be collected with the consent of the subjects, for one specified purpose; it can't be held longer than is needed for that purpose; subjects can request to see the data held on them, and to have mistakes corrected; and the data can't be given to anyone else (unless this is necessary for the originally specified purpose, and the recipient follows the same rules).
So the giving of addresses is partially irrelevant. Just having a database of addresses without the consent of the people who own the addresses may be illegal.
There is a serious flaw in your argument: you are asserting that by raising prices the producers can make more profit, and that they would have chosen not to if there was less piracy.
This is incorrect. A business will always raise prices if it leads to more profit. They certainly don't need forcing into it.
Living as we do in the information age, there's clearly a lot more that can be done with voting than we're doing at the moment.
For example, we could have 'continuous voting'. Everybody who is eligible to vote can log into a website at any time, on any day of the year, and change their standing vote. Every day the totals and trends are made public, and a sufficient shift in opinion changes who is in power. (With some buffering, obviously -- e.g. you need a majority of 60% for six months to cause a switch, but a majority of 80% will cause power to change hands in a month).
Instead of voting on parties, why not vote on issues? Then let the parties declare their positions on each issue, and match the one to the other.
I'm not saying these would work better than current systems, necessarily -- but think of the possibilities! Of course there's vast scope for broken systems that lead to bad things happening... but then, that's nothing new.
That's what I suspected... it's always been the case that you're marked on what you're able to demonstrate that you know. If text speak demonstrates the required knowledge/understanding, that's fine.
It seems unlikely that it would work in an English exam, obviously. You'd lose marks for spelling/grammar, even if it's technically possible to get the marks for understanding.
It's quite similar to the fact that I can get away with having atrocious handwriting as long as it's good enough to be understood. Something which I'm quite thankful for, incidentally.
It sounds like the guy needs help. Trolling is one thing, but trolling on website dedicated to the memory of a recently murdered teenager? Combined with the child pornography aspect, it's very worrying indeed.
So how does locking the guy up help anyone? He may have problems but that doesn't mean he's dangerous now; conversely, if he is dangerous now, then he needs psychiatric help, not prison. In either case prison is not the answer.
Yes... it's very sad. Still worth buying second-hand, but unfortunately the risk of hardware failure becomes an issue and they're even more expensive...
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I find it hard to be too sympathetic :)
They're making money on PC games and they're making money on console games. This is not a bad position to be in...
I liked Doom 3 too. Genuinely scary stuff, very atmospheric, and a good update of the original.
Half-life 2 was good as well, but felt a bit directionless in comparison. (What? I have to go on another long journey? Is there a reason for this one? No? Oh.)
Sounds like a blast :)
Obviously the system will have to come with a facility to tweak the scanned model a little bit... just, you know, to fix the bits where the system obviously got confused...
For a small solar radio controlled flight:
That's a long way for a small aircraft, but a full-sized one would be more exciting.... (and I bet it'd go further).
Hmm, I was mostly going off the general mood in the last few slashdot articles :)
Personally, I haven't yet bought a mobile phone of any kind. When the iPhone was first announced I thought: maybe this is what will finally persuade me to get one. Now I'm not so sure -- it has lots of features that I just don't see myself using. And while I wouldn't be too worried about the cost of buying one, I would be worried about becoming an obvious target for muggers...
You should have cleaned the temp folders out with bleach before launching it again :p
Somehow I get the impression that the iPhone's future... destiny, if you will... is already determined, and anything Apple's competitors might do at this point is more or less irrelevant. Nothing is going to steal the iPhone's thunder if it turns out there actually is a market for it. And if there isn't... it'll sink without a trace, as will any rivals.
As cool as I think the iPhone is, I'm currently leaning toward the second option. Too expensive, too little demand.
Because Opera uses persistent browsing there's little point in having a home page.
You just always have the pages open you had last time. If you were reading slashdot, you're still reading slashdot.
It's one of those features that you don't think about until you use it, then you can't live without it :)
I live in London, a bicycle would make me deathly afraid of my daily commute ;)
Actually I walk to work (takes me a little over half an hour). But I feel my coworkers' pain.
The legal issues are kinda scary but it looks like they have them under control. All respect to them for attempting the impossible... and from the look of it, they're a good way to succeeding :)
I'm sure lots of professionals feel the pain of a daily commute. Anything that improves it is a fairly major perk.
Obviously the next step is to found the Googleopolis... or perhaps just purchase an existing city outright...
I think probably the people who make financial decisions affecting schools have their feet on the ground, so to speak. And so won't care too much one way or the other.
Or at least I hope so.
I've been unable to reach my Yahoo! mail since early afternoon (GMT), and it's broken at the moment.
Server us.f516.mail.yahoo.com is refusing connections. Good thing I read slashdot or I might have thought it was just me :)
First you fight them, then you laugh at them, then you ignore them, then you win.
(With apologies to Gandhi).
$10K per patient is not a lot of money.
The UK government has paid up to 48,000GBP ($92K) to save someone for a "year" (as they count it -- quality of life measures etc). According to that article 20,000GP ($38K) is easy to justify for giving someone a year more life. So if you can actually cure a patient -- meaning they live considerably longer -- it's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, at least.
And that's before private health cover.
Congratulations on making the first insightful+relevant post!
(To Slashdot, I mean. Not this article in particular.)
Seriously, though, thanks for pointing that out...
Just google for instructions.
My thoughts exactly. I spend 1h every day walking to/from work and I see plenty of people taking stupid risks, no iPod needed. (Including a guy who walked right into the path of a motorbike -- he was hit but it was a glancing blow and he wasn't hurt).
Here in the UK society doesn't seem to care about pedestrians getting themselves into trouble -- I'm not sure if jaywalking is even illegal.
Anyway it's something I get annoyed about. Reason being, I was once a stupid pedestrian, and did get hit by a car. It was entirely my fault -- I didn't understand the road layout and walked out into a lane I thought was clear without looking. Concussion, a week in hospital -- the experience has nothing much to recommend it. Now I realise that most people have no conception of how much it's going to hurt when one of those things hits you. I certainly didn't. And when I see people taking stupid risks on the road I think: if they knew what they were risking, they wouldn't be doing that.
Ah well. I would love to see a society where the accepted thing to do is to cross sensibly. That said, I'd be even happier to see a society where cars and pedestrians are kept completely separate. Since neither of these is going to happen any time soon, I suppose I'll just carry on glaring at people who take stupid risks and hoping I don't see any serious accidents...
Any database of personally identifiable information falls under the data protection act, and that comes with a whole host of requirements. The data has to be collected with the consent of the subjects, for one specified purpose; it can't be held longer than is needed for that purpose; subjects can request to see the data held on them, and to have mistakes corrected; and the data can't be given to anyone else (unless this is necessary for the originally specified purpose, and the recipient follows the same rules).
So the giving of addresses is partially irrelevant. Just having a database of addresses without the consent of the people who own the addresses may be illegal.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3417045.stm
:)
It's interesting, but it ain't news
There is a serious flaw in your argument: you are asserting that by raising prices the producers can make more profit, and that they would have chosen not to if there was less piracy.
This is incorrect. A business will always raise prices if it leads to more profit. They certainly don't need forcing into it.
Living as we do in the information age, there's clearly a lot more that can be done with voting than we're doing at the moment.
For example, we could have 'continuous voting'. Everybody who is eligible to vote can log into a website at any time, on any day of the year, and change their standing vote. Every day the totals and trends are made public, and a sufficient shift in opinion changes who is in power. (With some buffering, obviously -- e.g. you need a majority of 60% for six months to cause a switch, but a majority of 80% will cause power to change hands in a month).
Instead of voting on parties, why not vote on issues? Then let the parties declare their positions on each issue, and match the one to the other.
I'm not saying these would work better than current systems, necessarily -- but think of the possibilities! Of course there's vast scope for broken systems that lead to bad things happening... but then, that's nothing new.
That's what I suspected... it's always been the case that you're marked on what you're able to demonstrate that you know. If text speak demonstrates the required knowledge/understanding, that's fine.
It seems unlikely that it would work in an English exam, obviously. You'd lose marks for spelling/grammar, even if it's technically possible to get the marks for understanding.
It's quite similar to the fact that I can get away with having atrocious handwriting as long as it's good enough to be understood. Something which I'm quite thankful for, incidentally.
It sounds like the guy needs help. Trolling is one thing, but trolling on website dedicated to the memory of a recently murdered teenager? Combined with the child pornography aspect, it's very worrying indeed.
So how does locking the guy up help anyone? He may have problems but that doesn't mean he's dangerous now; conversely, if he is dangerous now, then he needs psychiatric help, not prison. In either case prison is not the answer.
Yes... it's very sad. Still worth buying second-hand, but unfortunately the risk of hardware failure becomes an issue and they're even more expensive...