"People hailing from Western Africa have darker skin than those from Western Europe" Yes but that doesn't take into account that some people from Western Africa have lighter skin then some people in Western Europe
Maybe they can't handle all the inevitable tech support calls from the entire world at once? You also gotta figure that any internationalization teams are automatically always lagging the main version a bit during development. Firstly I doubt they would seriously get that many tech support calls.
Secondly any calls would be distributed throughout the day due to timezone differences.
Thirdly there have always been international call centers handling tech support,so I doubt they would be overloaded.
Fourthly the internationalization would have been well and truly complete before the DVD's were pressed.
I can honestly not comprehend why they would delay the game for days in different regions when the delivery medium is online. What possible reason could they have for making the rest of us wait? What harm is it to release the game on the same day everywhere?
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The only problem I have with using Opera is that there is just no substitute for Adblock plus, something that allows me to subscribe to a list of blocked urls and html and have it do its thing in the background. If someone has found one please let me know.
The situation is quite a bit better now, as I said my above post Shepherd combines a number of scrapers together and as such is very resilient. It gets data from multiple sources so even if one or two change the way they do things you still get data, some scripts are even starting to use TOR now to get around sites refresh limits.
Australia, as far as I know, only has one major cable provider (Foxtel) but that is only available in the capital cities. Outside capital cities there is one major commercial satellite television provider (Austar) a bunch of smaller commercial satellite providers (SelectTV etc.). There is also free to air satellite television (Aurora) that services all areas that are too remote to have proper over the air FTA, this map here shows some areas where it is possible to get service, however there are in actual fact many more areas that are transmitted on Aurora for people who live in places that make it impossible to get the over the air broadcasts they would otherwise be able to.
That about covers the bulk of the sat services available to most Australians. Next there are the FTA stations, these are basically broken up into capital city zones and regional zones, so there is a Melbourne schedule and a Regional Victoria schedule for example. This doesn't fully reflect the situation though because many regional broadcasters deviate slightly from the major network schedules, especially in the larger states such as Queensland or Western Australia. An example of this is that the Townsville/Mackay/Cairns television schedule differs slightly from the Rockhampton Schedule.
So yes we have many many different providers and it is all a very complex system, and it is indeed possible to drive 20 minutes in one direction and have your television schedule ever so slightly screwed.
Screen scraping will always be a game of cat and mouse, however a bunch of scripts like Shepherd will always work faster then the television sites can change their designs, and they would all have to make their script breaking changes simultaneously to even take down a persons data for even a day.
Whilst a pay service might work well the fact is that site scraping can be very effective and provide very good results.
Australian users have never really had guide data available to them, so we have basically relied on either IceTV, a (very well done) for-pay data source, or ozTivo. Recently Australian users have had a new resource, Shepherd.
Shepherd is basically a bunch of scripts that are automatically updated and designed to read quite a few websites and data sources (including IceTV and ozTivo) and provides the best quality data I've seen so far. The set up is relatively easy, if you can get MythTv set up you can certainly get Shepherd set up, and doesn't require ongoing maintenance, once you get it working the script will keep itself up to date.
The TLDR version: Site Scraping can and does work well.
This page catalogs some mistakes and omissions in Encyclopædia Britannica (EB) and shows how they have been corrected in Wikipedia. Some errors have already been corrected in Britannica's online version. For many reasons, this page should not be taken too seriously as a comparison; it's just a little bit of fun. It does not mean one is better than the other. I'd say RTFA but for all I know when you looked at the page it could have said something completely different.
You've just described two forms of electronic voting. If a machine is doing the reading then it is electronic voting, even if there is paper involved.
A paper ballot designed to be read by humans is by far a superior option, it scales well, is easy to check and leaves a verifiable trail.
No machines at all are involved, and regardless of what you say a human brain is a great deal more accurate when it comes to reading a piece of paper.
Votes have always been hand counted in my country, and it is very difficult to game the system on a massive scale. Electronic voting machines are a scam.
Wow, thanks for that. I was totally lost when Mr. Slashdot started talking about "bitorrents".
Its lucky you dropped in to expand on the totally vague summary, up until this point I had no idea on how to search for this Harold Potter fellow and where I would even go to look for something such as this.
Thank you again for gracing us with your wisdom.
As if, I have to look at my screen all day, there is no way I'm going to be putting my greasy mits all over it. As it is now I can't stand when people touch my screen, the only thing worse is post-its.
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How is that any different to how TA was played?
Woah there, you need to get some perspective. I would LOVE an affordable 100GB plan. Where I live 40GB a month sets me back about 100USD a month.
I agree the situation there sucks with invisible caps but don't be complaining about only having 100GB a month to play with.
Secondly any calls would be distributed throughout the day due to timezone differences.
Thirdly there have always been international call centers handling tech support,so I doubt they would be overloaded.
Fourthly the internationalization would have been well and truly complete before the DVD's were pressed.
I can honestly not comprehend why they would delay the game for days in different regions when the delivery medium is online. What possible reason could they have for making the rest of us wait? What harm is it to release the game on the same day everywhere?
The only problem I have with using Opera is that there is just no substitute for Adblock plus, something that allows me to subscribe to a list of blocked urls and html and have it do its thing in the background. If someone has found one please let me know.
The situation is quite a bit better now, as I said my above post Shepherd combines a number of scrapers together and as such is very resilient. It gets data from multiple sources so even if one or two change the way they do things you still get data, some scripts are even starting to use TOR now to get around sites refresh limits.
Australia, as far as I know, only has one major cable provider (Foxtel) but that is only available in the capital cities. Outside capital cities there is one major commercial satellite television provider (Austar) a bunch of smaller commercial satellite providers (SelectTV etc.). There is also free to air satellite television (Aurora) that services all areas that are too remote to have proper over the air FTA, this map here shows some areas where it is possible to get service, however there are in actual fact many more areas that are transmitted on Aurora for people who live in places that make it impossible to get the over the air broadcasts they would otherwise be able to. That about covers the bulk of the sat services available to most Australians. Next there are the FTA stations, these are basically broken up into capital city zones and regional zones, so there is a Melbourne schedule and a Regional Victoria schedule for example. This doesn't fully reflect the situation though because many regional broadcasters deviate slightly from the major network schedules, especially in the larger states such as Queensland or Western Australia. An example of this is that the Townsville/Mackay/Cairns television schedule differs slightly from the Rockhampton Schedule. So yes we have many many different providers and it is all a very complex system, and it is indeed possible to drive 20 minutes in one direction and have your television schedule ever so slightly screwed. Screen scraping will always be a game of cat and mouse, however a bunch of scripts like Shepherd will always work faster then the television sites can change their designs, and they would all have to make their script breaking changes simultaneously to even take down a persons data for even a day.
Whilst a pay service might work well the fact is that site scraping can be very effective and provide very good results.
Australian users have never really had guide data available to them, so we have basically relied on either IceTV, a (very well done) for-pay data source, or ozTivo. Recently Australian users have had a new resource, Shepherd.
Shepherd is basically a bunch of scripts that are automatically updated and designed to read quite a few websites and data sources (including IceTV and ozTivo) and provides the best quality data I've seen so far. The set up is relatively easy, if you can get MythTv set up you can certainly get Shepherd set up, and doesn't require ongoing maintenance, once you get it working the script will keep itself up to date.
The TLDR version: Site Scraping can and does work well.
Bullshit, your premiums will never ever go down. They may stay the same but insurance companies have absolutely no incentives to lower their rates.
You're disappointed!? My families horse rental business has been getting nuisance calls for decades now.
But I just prefer a good dose of skelegrow.
Just a quick question? Why call it a half dollar? Why not call it "50 Cents" or just "a half"
Actually it's QANTAS, so it would be 240vac if anything.
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Much better statistics and much more relevant to gamers.
I'm going to hold out on commenting until Unicorn confirms that the story is legit and that he isn't going to post a retraction.
Wow the use of Firefox by Elephants has doubled over the past month!
You've just described two forms of electronic voting. If a machine is doing the reading then it is electronic voting, even if there is paper involved.
A paper ballot designed to be read by humans is by far a superior option, it scales well, is easy to check and leaves a verifiable trail.
No machines at all are involved, and regardless of what you say a human brain is a great deal more accurate when it comes to reading a piece of paper.
Votes have always been hand counted in my country, and it is very difficult to game the system on a massive scale. Electronic voting machines are a scam.
Why don't you add some decent feeds to it.
Wow, thanks for that. I was totally lost when Mr. Slashdot started talking about "bitorrents". Its lucky you dropped in to expand on the totally vague summary, up until this point I had no idea on how to search for this Harold Potter fellow and where I would even go to look for something such as this. Thank you again for gracing us with your wisdom.
Can someone who has it please tell me if it is suitable for OCR?
May I be the first one to call the GP Mario.
Ofcourse the next logical step is to strip the salt out of what remains of the urine so they can flavour their Astronaut food.
As if, I have to look at my screen all day, there is no way I'm going to be putting my greasy mits all over it. As it is now I can't stand when people touch my screen, the only thing worse is post-its.