There are extra costs associated with refurbishing an existing location and the costs might be as high as building from scratch. There is however ONE important difference. Planning permissions. The old building is already there, nobody can complain about it being build anymore because it has already been build.
For some locations there might even be restrictions on tearing it down.
Constructing from new would also have the expense of first tearing the old stuff down. All in all, re-using a building is often very attractive.
In this case, an old bunker is very expensive to build it again. The bunker is there, you either let it rot (WW2 bunkers are still standing beause they are WAY to expensive to tear down) or use it again. The costs wouldn't even be that high, it is a big concrete building, what extra costs are there compared to outfitting a newly build building?
But the beez fly around crazy when you light them and don't last very long at all. Perhaps it would be smarter to use the wax, that burns. If you put some kind of wick in it you could have a very controable burn. Might patent it!
Compulsive shopping is most certainly regonized as an adiction. As for OCD, that is often called a woman's disease.
And gaming hasn't been male dominated for a long time. According to some survey's there are even more female gamers then male gamers.
Certainly in the MMO I play voicechat seems to be female roughly 1/3 to 1/2 the time. Considering that some females might be reluctant to reveal their are females online and the percentage of females playing Lotro might be as high as half the population if not more.
Yes they do. People HAVE died from taking sports to extremes. Long distance runners who die from exhaustion or getting lost. Weight lifters who are crushed under weights. What about racers who go just a bit to fast? Taking the sport to extremes, same as gaming for 18 hours is extreem.
Except that I gamed for longer then that this easter weekend and did NOT die. Sure, I took some brakes for the toilet but more or less spent a full day from dawn to past midnight in the game.
Anyway, wouldn't it be more logical to connect addiction to games to addiction to being a sports FAN (as in a watcher of sports)? Is Holland alone in coming to a standstill because of mysterious illness whenever the national team plays?
The lightening rod is just for silly editors. If the idea works, it is a thundercloud discharger, grounding it. The idea being that it would stop strikes where you don't want them.
A lightening rod works after the fact and only on a very small area.
Say a thundercloud approaches, you can A: have lots of very tall spikes penetrate it so it discharges. B: create a grounding effect with some kind of plasma arc or C: put lightening rods all along the storms path hoping that the thunder will hit the rod, not something else.
So no, lightening rods are not an alternative in the same way that crash barriers are not an alternative to safe driving or safety belts.
These are ROCKET-SCIENTISTS! They are not going to do something as silly as measure the cable in yards and the distance in meters. Rocket-scientists don't do that.
But the company I work DOES pay the top salaries and we get high quality people for it. That is why I know I prefer a specialist over a jack of all trades. They might be more expensive but their skills pay for themselves.
The end of the advertisement based internet, prediction #102212211. Allow me to file it with all the other IT predictions, I had a heavy lunch so need to go to the filing room anyway.
Housewives spend their time cooking. Yet many a cook makes a living doing that as well. you suggest being a cook is a not a real proffesion?
How about child care? No money to be made there either?
Give me someone who can do proper HTML anytime over some jack of all trades who can do everything a little bit but is master of none.
Sure, if you think slashdot layout is good, then perhaps you don't need a html/css wizard but some of us have higher standards.
If you are serious about web apps you need just a good a HTML "coder" as a database expert and sysadmin as a coder and project manager.
But what to call it? No idea, the job is pretty rare on its own but as long as HTML is constantly evolving standard raped by every browser, only a handfull will be really good in it.
And seeing as he made everyone who played Daikatana his bitch, I presume at least some of them were female and so he had a chance at pro-creating. What you mean nobody but me played Daikatana?
Bad debt happens on country level all the time. What are you going to do, send the bailiffs on someone who can answer the question "and whose army?"
Much is made of the Chinese calling in the US debts, but what would China be without exports to the US? The world has become far to complex for childish tricks. Unless someone has a compelling reason to create turmoil, then the system can go on forever. That is the one part of the middle class idea that really works. The more middle class chinese there are who earn their living with trade, the less the will to upset this style of living with something as silly as calling in debt.
Granted, the current system is extreem but if the US economy collapses to many other economies will as well. The last thing the Chinese goverment right now wants is to tell its own people the economic welfare their communist leaders have created is about to end. Rich with no freedom is a lot easier to swallow then becoming poor with still no freedoms.
You can't build missles with iTunes. Fair enough, but what kind of missles? Say I am working on an amateur rocket, one of the simple kits you used to be able to buy and I listen to my iPod (not that I got an iPod, I got an iRiver all the cool of the small i in front without the cost) am I in violation?
Is iTunes banned for NASA? Note that the language states things US laws forbids INCLUDING work on missles, this reads as including legal work on missles.
EULA's, yet another sign lawyers should be shot. Why people need another sign I don't know, the sheer fun of it should be enough for any red blooded male.
For decades, cigarettes were sold as healthy, by doctors (or at least actors in white coats) and their users denied any harmful side-effects even when their lungs were 50% tar and 50% cancer.
Do you REALLY want to link the denials of smokers and the tobacco industry witht the denials of gamers and the game industry?
In my mind, that just ain't smart. Not only are you by association making yourself suspicious of being in denial, you also show that the only way to curb an activity harmful to some (who cares if YOU die from smoking it is the second hand smoke that is leading to the most stringent laws) is to legislate it to death. Stay away from the smokers, tarred witht the same brush and all that.
Maintenance costs? As if desktop apps have no maintenance costs. Do you know how easy it is to have just ONE piece of software to worry about? Any patch, any change, any data is centeral. Right there for you to control, not distributed accross dozens or hundreds or even thousands of machines.
Sure, really big apps like photoshop,they are hard to reproduce but simple stuff like email programs? Check the complexity of adminning outlook in your organsiation vs web-email. Hell, if you got outlook you are going to need a webapp anyway if someone is allowed to use a non-windows OS.
If you app is client-server based then the web is a logical place to put it. Yes it is harder to program for but so what? Coders ain't all that more expensive then windows admins but coders actually finish their task sometimes. Windows adminning just seems to grow and grow until you have a larger IT then production department.
While you MIGHT want to link pro-gaming with pro-sports, the simple fact is that very few sports can be done on a pro-level. Especially the kind of pro-level that hands out small fortunes in prize money.
I read a story just recently about a dutch soccer player who played for one of the smaller but still big enough to matter teams, who in between matches worked as a constructor and now does once again. Okay, so his team wasn't in the top, but still, soccer is HUGE and he could NOT earn enough with the sport to make it his full time occupation.
The top darter in holland drives a tram. I am sure there are many other examples of sports that are at times aired on tv, where an individual might even be famous and they still need an ordinary day job to pay the bills.
You also have to consider the audience. Yachting attracts big sponsers because the people who watch it spend big money. Is gaming like that? Would you slap down several thousand bucks for a seat at a programing event? Did you buy the new X-fi soundcards? Gamers are two markets anyway, the geeks and the new MTV crowd. Cater to one and you loose the other. Doesn't happen with soccer. The geek gaming crowd isn't going to spend a fortune on a branded item. They know the deal and will get something cheaper instead. The MTV crowd? They got lots more to spend it on, you are competing with all other entertainment and mobile phones and clothes for their money.
So no, I don't think pro-gaming has a future, it will always be like one of those small sports where sometimes someone gets their 15 minutes of fame and if they are smart make enough to live comfortably for the rest of their lives but equal to say Soccer or baseball or whatever is your countries big sport. No.
A one party system, right-wing capatalists, with the party machine (wall-street) fronting two men to choose from? A russian journalist commented on a past US election that it was almost like back in the days of the soviet empire and their "free" elections. Pick any guy, just as long as we support him.
US democracy where the number of voting irregularities would have any other election in the world condemend as invalid by the "free" world?
The US is far from the worsed exampel of democracy but holding it up as an example for the world to follow shows that slashdot editors REALLY need to start reading their own stories a bit more.
As for the internet helping democracy. Mmmm, we got plenty of democracies around the world, most far older then the internet. Exactly how many democracies have come about SINCE the internet? I think that is pretty much your answer right there.
You weren't a geek, you were a virgin. There is a difference. While there is a large number of virgins among geeks not all virgins are geeks. The way to tell the difference? We can spell anyone and for that matter geek.
True geeks read books and don't think the lord of the rings could have been a hell of lot of shorter if only Tolkien had used leet speak. (Note the spelling of leet, no numbers involved.)
Linux is linux because it is linux. CHange it and it won't be linux anymore.
What is Linux anyway? Is it Linux from scratch or Ubuntu or Linpus (the Linux Acer used to put on its netbooks).
They are all linux but radically different products. Some distro's go for cutting edge, compiling straight from Linus keyboard, others present a product as unchangebale as your VCR "OS".
The linux that most geeks use is probably the cutting edge stuff, we can deal with the problems it gives because, well we grew up on it and we accept that it is the price to pay for having the features we require. I KNOW my linux desktop is not as smooth as Vista's is (firefox especially is a bitch) but I have become so accustomed to the X way of presenting a desktop I would quit any job that told me to use windows.
This however makes it hard for linux to ever kill windows which is what some seem to desire. Linux but its nature is a niche market. How can you sell a product that is free and where the users have no need of tech support or even worse, give said tech support for free? Oh and are also high resistant to adds being displayed. So, you can't sell a boxed product, can't sell support and can't run it add supported.
That is why there is no linux desktop startup.
As for mass market, support is expensive. Sell a $50 profit product, get one support call and watch your profit fly away. How does MS do it? Simple, they don't. MS does NOT give consumer support, that they leave up to dell.
Since linux is not yet capable of being 100% windows (and its current niche market audience has no desire for it to be windows) you can count on any boxed product customer generating at least one support call to find out why their windows software don't run on it.
Simple put, linux is linux because it is a product by nerds for nerds. It can't go mainstream in a similar way that kit-planes can't. Not everyone has the knowledge to build their own plane and if it became so easy any idiot could, one of the kit-plane fans would buy it and the idiots don't have the pilot license needed anyway.
Some things are just meant to be niche.
What would help Linux far more if the world came to accept that windows is not the only OS. I therefor like Apple (despite hating almost everything about them) as any Mac sold means 1 more PC that ain't windows, doesn't do windows and won't do windows. 1 more user wanting opensource or at least portable apps. 1 more user against windows only "standards". 1 more twit railing against wind-mills.
It excells at exporting. Its nature series are famous around the world. Dutch and belgian tv can easily be used by those brits who have big enough atena's as re-run channels.
America however is a rather unique market. It doesn't need foreign imports the way smaller EU countries need it. It can afford to create all its own content.
But most important is that america is radically different from the EU.
Red Dwarf works in the EU because it is a bunch of losers losing out. American's don't like that and this can be clearly seen by their version of Red Dwarf, the red dwarf movie changes or for that matter the talks Terry Pratchett had about having his books turns into hollywood movies (loose death from Mort).
Other series are the same. Only Fools and Horses doesn't really translate either. Or for that matter Porridge. Both have had US versions and both times they were changed to suit the american taste which just doesn't seem to accept the underdog being the underdog and staying the underdog.
British humor I think is also different in another way. Just how many british comerdians went to Oxford vs how many US comedians to harvard?
I am not sure exactly how the hell a police officer with reflective lettings driving a white with red and yellow (reflective again) markings and more bells and whistes then a carnival ride is supposed to be secret.
Criminals aint' all that high tech. If criminals were smart, they wouldn't be criminals. Oh and if some criminals do come to rely on tracking patrols then they will be easy marks for arrest teams. nobody says that ALL cops will wear trackers. Patrol cops are a deterrent, if a criminals spots one and does not commit a crime because of it then the job is done. The best cop deters crime, not solve them.
Don't blame the news for pampering to the customers tastes. If the customer wants celebrity gossip to be on the front page, then the customer gets just that.
If you don't want the press to dance to their customers wishes, then make an independent press. How? No idea. Sooner or later everyone has to be paid and will listen to the one doing the paying. Only wives don't follow that golden rule.
It is just that being french she has to talk dismissily to americans, it is in the EU constitution. Brits suck up, Italians rob you blind, we dutch sell you drugs and the french talk down to you. Oh and the germans start wars you arrive to late.
Sorry, but you have been missing out on a lot of free and high quality foreign babe sex.
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There are extra costs associated with refurbishing an existing location and the costs might be as high as building from scratch. There is however ONE important difference. Planning permissions. The old building is already there, nobody can complain about it being build anymore because it has already been build.
For some locations there might even be restrictions on tearing it down.
Constructing from new would also have the expense of first tearing the old stuff down. All in all, re-using a building is often very attractive.
In this case, an old bunker is very expensive to build it again. The bunker is there, you either let it rot (WW2 bunkers are still standing beause they are WAY to expensive to tear down) or use it again. The costs wouldn't even be that high, it is a big concrete building, what extra costs are there compared to outfitting a newly build building?
But the beez fly around crazy when you light them and don't last very long at all. Perhaps it would be smarter to use the wax, that burns. If you put some kind of wick in it you could have a very controable burn. Might patent it!
Compulsive shopping is most certainly regonized as an adiction. As for OCD, that is often called a woman's disease.
And gaming hasn't been male dominated for a long time. According to some survey's there are even more female gamers then male gamers.
Certainly in the MMO I play voicechat seems to be female roughly 1/3 to 1/2 the time. Considering that some females might be reluctant to reveal their are females online and the percentage of females playing Lotro might be as high as half the population if not more.
Stop being such a sexist prick.
Yes they do. People HAVE died from taking sports to extremes. Long distance runners who die from exhaustion or getting lost. Weight lifters who are crushed under weights. What about racers who go just a bit to fast? Taking the sport to extremes, same as gaming for 18 hours is extreem.
Except that I gamed for longer then that this easter weekend and did NOT die. Sure, I took some brakes for the toilet but more or less spent a full day from dawn to past midnight in the game.
Anyway, wouldn't it be more logical to connect addiction to games to addiction to being a sports FAN (as in a watcher of sports)? Is Holland alone in coming to a standstill because of mysterious illness whenever the national team plays?
The lightening rod is just for silly editors. If the idea works, it is a thundercloud discharger, grounding it. The idea being that it would stop strikes where you don't want them.
A lightening rod works after the fact and only on a very small area.
Say a thundercloud approaches, you can A: have lots of very tall spikes penetrate it so it discharges. B: create a grounding effect with some kind of plasma arc or C: put lightening rods all along the storms path hoping that the thunder will hit the rod, not something else.
So no, lightening rods are not an alternative in the same way that crash barriers are not an alternative to safe driving or safety belts.
Green-on-black means you are an anonymous coward.
These are ROCKET-SCIENTISTS! They are not going to do something as silly as measure the cable in yards and the distance in meters. Rocket-scientists don't do that.
But the company I work DOES pay the top salaries and we get high quality people for it. That is why I know I prefer a specialist over a jack of all trades. They might be more expensive but their skills pay for themselves.
The end of the advertisement based internet, prediction #102212211. Allow me to file it with all the other IT predictions, I had a heavy lunch so need to go to the filing room anyway.
How about child care? No money to be made there either?
Give me someone who can do proper HTML anytime over some jack of all trades who can do everything a little bit but is master of none.
Sure, if you think slashdot layout is good, then perhaps you don't need a html/css wizard but some of us have higher standards.
If you are serious about web apps you need just a good a HTML "coder" as a database expert and sysadmin as a coder and project manager.
But what to call it? No idea, the job is pretty rare on its own but as long as HTML is constantly evolving standard raped by every browser, only a handfull will be really good in it.
And seeing as he made everyone who played Daikatana his bitch, I presume at least some of them were female and so he had a chance at pro-creating. What you mean nobody but me played Daikatana?
Bad debt happens on country level all the time. What are you going to do, send the bailiffs on someone who can answer the question "and whose army?"
Much is made of the Chinese calling in the US debts, but what would China be without exports to the US? The world has become far to complex for childish tricks. Unless someone has a compelling reason to create turmoil, then the system can go on forever. That is the one part of the middle class idea that really works. The more middle class chinese there are who earn their living with trade, the less the will to upset this style of living with something as silly as calling in debt.
Granted, the current system is extreem but if the US economy collapses to many other economies will as well. The last thing the Chinese goverment right now wants is to tell its own people the economic welfare their communist leaders have created is about to end. Rich with no freedom is a lot easier to swallow then becoming poor with still no freedoms.
*me* shoots DeltaQH
You can't build missles with iTunes. Fair enough, but what kind of missles? Say I am working on an amateur rocket, one of the simple kits you used to be able to buy and I listen to my iPod (not that I got an iPod, I got an iRiver all the cool of the small i in front without the cost) am I in violation?
Is iTunes banned for NASA? Note that the language states things US laws forbids INCLUDING work on missles, this reads as including legal work on missles.
EULA's, yet another sign lawyers should be shot. Why people need another sign I don't know, the sheer fun of it should be enough for any red blooded male.
For decades, cigarettes were sold as healthy, by doctors (or at least actors in white coats) and their users denied any harmful side-effects even when their lungs were 50% tar and 50% cancer.
Do you REALLY want to link the denials of smokers and the tobacco industry witht the denials of gamers and the game industry?
In my mind, that just ain't smart. Not only are you by association making yourself suspicious of being in denial, you also show that the only way to curb an activity harmful to some (who cares if YOU die from smoking it is the second hand smoke that is leading to the most stringent laws) is to legislate it to death. Stay away from the smokers, tarred witht the same brush and all that.
Maintenance costs? As if desktop apps have no maintenance costs. Do you know how easy it is to have just ONE piece of software to worry about? Any patch, any change, any data is centeral. Right there for you to control, not distributed accross dozens or hundreds or even thousands of machines.
Sure, really big apps like photoshop,they are hard to reproduce but simple stuff like email programs? Check the complexity of adminning outlook in your organsiation vs web-email. Hell, if you got outlook you are going to need a webapp anyway if someone is allowed to use a non-windows OS.
If you app is client-server based then the web is a logical place to put it. Yes it is harder to program for but so what? Coders ain't all that more expensive then windows admins but coders actually finish their task sometimes. Windows adminning just seems to grow and grow until you have a larger IT then production department.
While you MIGHT want to link pro-gaming with pro-sports, the simple fact is that very few sports can be done on a pro-level. Especially the kind of pro-level that hands out small fortunes in prize money.
I read a story just recently about a dutch soccer player who played for one of the smaller but still big enough to matter teams, who in between matches worked as a constructor and now does once again. Okay, so his team wasn't in the top, but still, soccer is HUGE and he could NOT earn enough with the sport to make it his full time occupation.
The top darter in holland drives a tram. I am sure there are many other examples of sports that are at times aired on tv, where an individual might even be famous and they still need an ordinary day job to pay the bills.
You also have to consider the audience. Yachting attracts big sponsers because the people who watch it spend big money. Is gaming like that? Would you slap down several thousand bucks for a seat at a programing event? Did you buy the new X-fi soundcards? Gamers are two markets anyway, the geeks and the new MTV crowd. Cater to one and you loose the other. Doesn't happen with soccer. The geek gaming crowd isn't going to spend a fortune on a branded item. They know the deal and will get something cheaper instead. The MTV crowd? They got lots more to spend it on, you are competing with all other entertainment and mobile phones and clothes for their money.
So no, I don't think pro-gaming has a future, it will always be like one of those small sports where sometimes someone gets their 15 minutes of fame and if they are smart make enough to live comfortably for the rest of their lives but equal to say Soccer or baseball or whatever is your countries big sport. No.
A one party system, right-wing capatalists, with the party machine (wall-street) fronting two men to choose from? A russian journalist commented on a past US election that it was almost like back in the days of the soviet empire and their "free" elections. Pick any guy, just as long as we support him.
US democracy where the number of voting irregularities would have any other election in the world condemend as invalid by the "free" world?
The US is far from the worsed exampel of democracy but holding it up as an example for the world to follow shows that slashdot editors REALLY need to start reading their own stories a bit more.
As for the internet helping democracy. Mmmm, we got plenty of democracies around the world, most far older then the internet. Exactly how many democracies have come about SINCE the internet? I think that is pretty much your answer right there.
You weren't a geek, you were a virgin. There is a difference. While there is a large number of virgins among geeks not all virgins are geeks. The way to tell the difference? We can spell anyone and for that matter geek.
True geeks read books and don't think the lord of the rings could have been a hell of lot of shorter if only Tolkien had used leet speak. (Note the spelling of leet, no numbers involved.)
Linux is linux because it is linux. CHange it and it won't be linux anymore.
What is Linux anyway? Is it Linux from scratch or Ubuntu or Linpus (the Linux Acer used to put on its netbooks).
They are all linux but radically different products. Some distro's go for cutting edge, compiling straight from Linus keyboard, others present a product as unchangebale as your VCR "OS".
The linux that most geeks use is probably the cutting edge stuff, we can deal with the problems it gives because, well we grew up on it and we accept that it is the price to pay for having the features we require. I KNOW my linux desktop is not as smooth as Vista's is (firefox especially is a bitch) but I have become so accustomed to the X way of presenting a desktop I would quit any job that told me to use windows.
This however makes it hard for linux to ever kill windows which is what some seem to desire. Linux but its nature is a niche market. How can you sell a product that is free and where the users have no need of tech support or even worse, give said tech support for free? Oh and are also high resistant to adds being displayed. So, you can't sell a boxed product, can't sell support and can't run it add supported.
That is why there is no linux desktop startup.
As for mass market, support is expensive. Sell a $50 profit product, get one support call and watch your profit fly away. How does MS do it? Simple, they don't. MS does NOT give consumer support, that they leave up to dell.
Since linux is not yet capable of being 100% windows (and its current niche market audience has no desire for it to be windows) you can count on any boxed product customer generating at least one support call to find out why their windows software don't run on it.
Simple put, linux is linux because it is a product by nerds for nerds. It can't go mainstream in a similar way that kit-planes can't. Not everyone has the knowledge to build their own plane and if it became so easy any idiot could, one of the kit-plane fans would buy it and the idiots don't have the pilot license needed anyway.
Some things are just meant to be niche.
What would help Linux far more if the world came to accept that windows is not the only OS. I therefor like Apple (despite hating almost everything about them) as any Mac sold means 1 more PC that ain't windows, doesn't do windows and won't do windows. 1 more user wanting opensource or at least portable apps. 1 more user against windows only "standards". 1 more twit railing against wind-mills.
It excells at exporting. Its nature series are famous around the world. Dutch and belgian tv can easily be used by those brits who have big enough atena's as re-run channels.
America however is a rather unique market. It doesn't need foreign imports the way smaller EU countries need it. It can afford to create all its own content.
But most important is that america is radically different from the EU.
Red Dwarf works in the EU because it is a bunch of losers losing out. American's don't like that and this can be clearly seen by their version of Red Dwarf, the red dwarf movie changes or for that matter the talks Terry Pratchett had about having his books turns into hollywood movies (loose death from Mort).
Other series are the same. Only Fools and Horses doesn't really translate either. Or for that matter Porridge. Both have had US versions and both times they were changed to suit the american taste which just doesn't seem to accept the underdog being the underdog and staying the underdog.
British humor I think is also different in another way. Just how many british comerdians went to Oxford vs how many US comedians to harvard?
I am not sure exactly how the hell a police officer with reflective lettings driving a white with red and yellow (reflective again) markings and more bells and whistes then a carnival ride is supposed to be secret.
Criminals aint' all that high tech. If criminals were smart, they wouldn't be criminals. Oh and if some criminals do come to rely on tracking patrols then they will be easy marks for arrest teams. nobody says that ALL cops will wear trackers. Patrol cops are a deterrent, if a criminals spots one and does not commit a crime because of it then the job is done. The best cop deters crime, not solve them.
Don't blame the news for pampering to the customers tastes. If the customer wants celebrity gossip to be on the front page, then the customer gets just that.
If you don't want the press to dance to their customers wishes, then make an independent press. How? No idea. Sooner or later everyone has to be paid and will listen to the one doing the paying. Only wives don't follow that golden rule.
...alright...why terminal? Raw socket is the way to go!
It is just that being french she has to talk dismissily to americans, it is in the EU constitution. Brits suck up, Italians rob you blind, we dutch sell you drugs and the french talk down to you. Oh and the germans start wars you arrive to late.
Sorry, but you have been missing out on a lot of free and high quality foreign babe sex.