As for its classification as an android, really, it's not even a talking head, just little more than an animated wax dummy, able to blink and sigh but incapable of a decent conversation.
I thought you said it WASN'T a realistic depiction of a man.
Yeah. They could've formed a coalition with Labour, and the only problem would've been that they wouldn't have had a majority. Oh, and that Labour were pretty sketchy about whether they'd even be able to get all their MPs to vote for an AV referendum. And Labour are infamous for treating their manifesto pledges like toilet paper. Apart from that, no problems.
all so they can sue when some otherwise kind black guy finally has enough and just kicks one of their asses.
To put a rather fine point on it: they profit on the essential protections the Framers imagined in order to give people the right to be an asshole. It's like the arbitrage of liberty or something.
All depends on how much he kicked their asses. Dead people don't tend to sue.
The Lib Dems probably had no option but to go along with the raise in tuition fees, or the Tories would break up the coalition. Breaking up the coalition meant no AV referendum, and no chance of electoral reform - a once in a generation opportunity. They had the Lib Dems over a barrel. Once electoral reform is in place, more left wing parties can get into parliament and reverse tuition fee increases. Maybe.
Out of interest, what do the BBC produce nowadays that you want to watch?
I honestly watch none of their new stuff. Plenty of internet content instead, and decent comedy has totally gone the way of the dodo on the BBC. Even decent documentaries tend to be on Channel 4 or something.
Oh, and I find their news biased and dumbed-down. I prefer a multitude of internet sources.
Yeah yeah, I know I'm the only guy on this site who hates Dr. Who.:-)
Disagree. I've been experiencing this with a recent nightly of FF4 (Minefield) for a while now, and whilst it's OK, I find it distracting having the UI regularly appear/disappear. I preferred the static status bar.
You can't get too much real estate. Firefox got rid of the status bar - good on them - but that's the tip of the iceberg. Once we've figured out a way to get rid of tabs and navbar, we can start to look at getting rid of the window title. After that, I believe Firefox and Chrome need to start working on getting the real estate larger than the actual monitor. I'm sure it can be done somehow. But it's not goo enough until I can read the whole of War And Peace on one line, damnit!
I completely agree. This stuff makes my blood boil, and the mainstream media only ever put the "let's move clocks forward" side of the story, as if nobody opposed it. Leave my fucking GMT *ALONE*!
That's not the problem. It's when they only put them back 1 hour for winter, so winter ends up being GMT+1 rather than GMT, and the winter mornings pitch dark.:-(
While I wouldn't call this terrible so long as it would actually work, it seems like something that would break at the slightest change to the websites it's designed to support, which ranks it up there somewhere near "worst idea ever" in my estimation.
They'll do it anyway. From my interactions with Mozilla in the last year or so, the UX/UI team do what the hell they want now and some people check it in. And if you dare to question it they tell you to piss off.
We have an EXTREMELY functional interstate system for local travel, and for all other domestic travel we have airplanes (very efficient and low cost if tickets are bought in advance. Don't like fees? Fly southwest).
Documentary Narrator: Fortunately, our handsomest politicians came up with a cheap, last minute way to combat peak oil. Ever since 2010, we simply tap a new Canadian oilfield for more oil now and again. Suzie: Just like daddy puts in his car every morning. Then he gets mad. Documentary Narrator: Of course, because the oil in the ground is decreasing, it takes more and more money to drill each time, thus solving the problem once and for all. Suzie: But... Documentary Narrator: Once and for all!
Looks like dd-wrt has ZERO support for ADSL modem routers, which is kind of a bitch considering a vast number of people rely on them to get decent speed access to the net.
Is there any hope for those of us out there who need to use ADSL modem routers?
30 years is not 'relatively recent' in computing terms. In computing terms, Tetris is an old granddad who's about to keel over and die of old age. PCs have barely been around that long.
Even by the original copyright term, 30 years is way longer than the game would've been able to stay in copyright.
And, you're saying that your gut moral instinct is that a big 'Tetris Corp' should be able to go around successfully suing people for releasing games whose names are a *bit like* Tetris - though not similar enough that anyone with a braincell would actually confuse them? Even in a world with sane copyright laws, my moral gut instinct would disagree strongly with yours, sir.
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As for its classification as an android, really, it's not even a talking head, just little more than an animated wax dummy, able to blink and sigh but incapable of a decent conversation.
I thought you said it WASN'T a realistic depiction of a man.
Slow and expensive, but you should be able to access Twitter and Facebook.
Ahmed is now: in hospital. Shot in street. Given 10% of living. :-(
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Yeah. They could've formed a coalition with Labour, and the only problem would've been that they wouldn't have had a majority. Oh, and that Labour were pretty sketchy about whether they'd even be able to get all their MPs to vote for an AV referendum. And Labour are infamous for treating their manifesto pledges like toilet paper. Apart from that, no problems.
all so they can sue when some otherwise kind black guy finally has enough and just kicks one of their asses.
To put a rather fine point on it: they profit on the essential protections the Framers imagined in order to give people the right to be an asshole. It's like the arbitrage of liberty or something.
All depends on how much he kicked their asses. Dead people don't tend to sue.
The Lib Dems probably had no option but to go along with the raise in tuition fees, or the Tories would break up the coalition. Breaking up the coalition meant no AV referendum, and no chance of electoral reform - a once in a generation opportunity. They had the Lib Dems over a barrel. Once electoral reform is in place, more left wing parties can get into parliament and reverse tuition fee increases. Maybe.
They're interchangeable nowadays.
And it used to be called 'Fullscreen'.
Out of interest, what do the BBC produce nowadays that you want to watch?
I honestly watch none of their new stuff. Plenty of internet content instead, and decent comedy has totally gone the way of the dodo on the BBC. Even decent documentaries tend to be on Channel 4 or something.
Oh, and I find their news biased and dumbed-down. I prefer a multitude of internet sources.
Yeah yeah, I know I'm the only guy on this site who hates Dr. Who. :-)
But taken too far, I can see UI's being without any chrome at all
Chrome with no chrome? The irony...
Disagree. I've been experiencing this with a recent nightly of FF4 (Minefield) for a while now, and whilst it's OK, I find it distracting having the UI regularly appear/disappear. I preferred the static status bar.
Maybe one day we'll need a Firefox extension to restore a sane browser UI. It's already getting a bit that way with FF4. :-(
Nah,
You can't get too much real estate. Firefox got rid of the status bar - good on them - but that's the tip of the iceberg. Once we've figured out a way to get rid of tabs and navbar, we can start to look at getting rid of the window title. After that, I believe Firefox and Chrome need to start working on getting the real estate larger than the actual monitor. I'm sure it can be done somehow. But it's not goo enough until I can read the whole of War And Peace on one line, damnit!
I completely agree. This stuff makes my blood boil, and the mainstream media only ever put the "let's move clocks forward" side of the story, as if nobody opposed it. Leave my fucking GMT *ALONE*!
That's not the problem. It's when they only put them back 1 hour for winter, so winter ends up being GMT+1 rather than GMT, and the winter mornings pitch dark. :-(
Oh fuck you, Lighter Later campaigners.
While I wouldn't call this terrible so long as it would actually work, it seems like something that would break at the slightest change to the websites it's designed to support, which ranks it up there somewhere near "worst idea ever" in my estimation.
They'll do it anyway. From my interactions with Mozilla in the last year or so, the UX/UI team do what the hell they want now and some people check it in. And if you dare to question it they tell you to piss off.
We have an EXTREMELY functional interstate system for local travel, and for all other domestic travel we have airplanes (very efficient and low cost if tickets are bought in advance. Don't like fees? Fly southwest).
Documentary Narrator: Fortunately, our handsomest politicians came up with a cheap, last minute way to combat peak oil. Ever since 2010, we simply tap a new Canadian oilfield for more oil now and again.
Suzie: Just like daddy puts in his car every morning. Then he gets mad.
Documentary Narrator: Of course, because the oil in the ground is decreasing, it takes more and more money to drill each time, thus solving the problem once and for all.
Suzie: But...
Documentary Narrator: Once and for all!
I'd rather show papers than deal with the TSA. :-D
Looks like dd-wrt has ZERO support for ADSL modem routers, which is kind of a bitch considering a vast number of people rely on them to get decent speed access to the net.
Is there any hope for those of us out there who need to use ADSL modem routers?
>>>Since when has Fox employed "news reporters?"
About the same time MSNBC hired reporters.
So, your response to criticism of Fox is 'there's a second wrong.' Two wrongs presumably make a right?
Hint: There's no such things as bad publicity for computer games.
How about about "Fox News and Concerned Mothers For America approve of this game"?
30 years is not 'relatively recent' in computing terms. In computing terms, Tetris is an old granddad who's about to keel over and die of old age. PCs have barely been around that long.
Even by the original copyright term, 30 years is way longer than the game would've been able to stay in copyright.
And, you're saying that your gut moral instinct is that a big 'Tetris Corp' should be able to go around successfully suing people for releasing games whose names are a *bit like* Tetris - though not similar enough that anyone with a braincell would actually confuse them? Even in a world with sane copyright laws, my moral gut instinct would disagree strongly with yours, sir.
It is up to the end points to apply the proper cryptography to verify they are talking to the right people.
which means they have to swap some information out-of-band first. This could get pretty unfeasible pretty quickly for mass communication.
So does this bug not happen on XP SP2, or do they just not give a shit about users who're using it?
I don't deny that there's a risk in open elections -- certainly, you run the risk of electing kooks and crazies in every election
See: Hezbollah.
Wait for Sarah Palin.