We'd have to have half the population of the city sitting in front of the monitoring screens!
Nobody's watching, most of the time, which is probably why they aren't much of a deterrant to crime. Their main use seems to be after the crime has occurred, when some grainy, indistinct footage is pulled out of some archive or other.
Don't get me wrong, I hate the CCTV situation in my home city, but it's not as if you have to go around thinking you're being watched. You aren't, the government (thank god) hasn't managed to increase tax to the point where it has the budget for that. Yet.
I just don't find it as interesting as the rest of my life. If you do then you're in a tiny, tiny minority of people, even in the US.
Would you do your job by choice if you didn't have to? If you didn't need the money? I'd probably write open source software as a hobby, sure, but I wouldn't do it 37 hours a week, let alone however many the folks complaining about unpaid overtime here
"As for vacations, well I plan to take a many month long vacation in a couple years"
Again, tiny minority, how many folks are EVER in a position to give up their employment to do that? When they have families to support? Very very few. If you can do that then well done, but don't pretend for a second that that's representative.
I'm also wondering just why the fact that one New York bank paid out 16 billion in bonuses should make any difference to anyone. I mean, it's not like ti gave them out randomly and benevolently to people in need, it gave them to a very small set of people who are doing very well. Great for them, not so much for the rest of us.
And if you're reaction to that is "look at the bigger picture", I prefer to say no. There is no bigger picture than my own life. I only get one and I don't believe in spending all the hours I have chasing the unlikely dream that one day I could be one of those bankers. Because I'll take definitely having "All my weekends and holidays with friends and family" over a 0.1% chance of "making it big".
And believe me, I've seen what happens to people who do get high up in the world of business. They can't ever slow down and they have problems with blood pressure.
Err, whilst there is nothing personality-wise that is displayed by one gender and is found nowhere in the other, there are definitely traits more common in one than the other.
Males are more likely to take risks and indulge in competition (testosterone does that). It's just a fact of life.
I don't know if that behaviour is linked to liklihood to be good at software/IT, but it's a perfectly valid example of a personality difference between the genders.
It's a shame that in most people's minds homeopathy has become mixed up with "natural remedies", some of which do contain useful compounds.
Herbalism and natural remedies aren't suitable for everything, but some of them can help and have been proven to. Some of them are the source of things like aspirin.
Liberals aren't the folks who got so wound up in paranoia and fear that they cheered on the POTUS to invade a country that had fark all to do with any attacks on the US. Liberals aren't the ones constantly bleating about terrorists and alert levels and all the other nonsense.
But yeah, it's liberals that are the wussy scaredy cats....
The censorship (in the UK at any rate) must be resisted and disobeyed!
I will, of course be buying the retail version when it hits the stores, but I might just have to check out some of these "warez" things. They sound interesting.
Like which language we're talking about, because as far as C is concerned that's nonsense. Unless you mean a do{}while loop, but those aren't used very often and are not the same as a while loop.
Don't know about the rest of Europe but brits buy phones that are "free" anyway.
The market for expensive phones without a contract is tiny. If there's a two year contract attached, brits will expect the handset to be free, or nearly so.
Selling a phone for that much cash just won't fly here when we have a huge selection of phones available for nothing over contract price.
Many are using 3G now as well (another thing the iPhone missed), the US really is a ways behind on this due to mistaking a cornered market with a high entry boundary (national network) for a free market.
When the UK government caught on that we were going that way they made it illegal for phones to be permanently locked, your provider has to unlock them on demand at the end of the contract. Possibly before, I'm not sure.
As for being crippled, not to my knowledge. I've been able to do things like transfer music back and forth freely over cable/IR/BlueTooth for many years/phones.
Actually, name calling was the refuge I took when well reasoned argument failed to penetrate the thick outer shell of idiocy that seem to surround your brain.
But that's ok, tell yourself I'm the pathetic one when you came to slashdot just to piss off other people, what s asad little life you must have.
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...IS around 13. These are noticeably not the countries with massive alcohol problems. The age of 21 is crazy...
We'd have to have half the population of the city sitting in front of the monitoring screens!
Nobody's watching, most of the time, which is probably why they aren't much of a deterrant to crime. Their main use seems to be after the crime has occurred, when some grainy, indistinct footage is pulled out of some archive or other.
Don't get me wrong, I hate the CCTV situation in my home city, but it's not as if you have to go around thinking you're being watched. You aren't, the government (thank god) hasn't managed to increase tax to the point where it has the budget for that. Yet.
I just don't find it as interesting as the rest of my life. If you do then you're in a tiny, tiny minority of people, even in the US.
Would you do your job by choice if you didn't have to? If you didn't need the money?
I'd probably write open source software as a hobby, sure, but I wouldn't do it 37 hours a week, let alone however many the folks complaining about unpaid overtime here
"As for vacations, well I plan to take a many month long vacation in a couple years"
Again, tiny minority, how many folks are EVER in a position to give up their employment to do that? When they have families to support? Very very few. If you can do that then well done, but don't pretend for a second that that's representative.
As a follow-up:
I'm also wondering just why the fact that one New York bank paid out 16 billion in bonuses should make any difference to anyone. I mean, it's not like ti gave them out randomly and benevolently to people in need, it gave them to a very small set of people who are doing very well. Great for them, not so much for the rest of us.
And if you're reaction to that is "look at the bigger picture", I prefer to say no. There is no bigger picture than my own life. I only get one and I don't believe in spending all the hours I have chasing the unlikely dream that one day I could be one of those bankers. Because I'll take definitely having "All my weekends and holidays with friends and family" over a 0.1% chance of "making it big".
And believe me, I've seen what happens to people who do get high up in the world of business. They can't ever slow down and they have problems with blood pressure.
Personally I don't want to wait until I'm a used up has-been to enjoy my money.
Money isn't an end in and of itself, you know, it's just a way of facilitating other things, like quality of life.
With a 37 hour week and 30 days (plus public holidays), I prefer my way to yours.
Some might say that Manhunt 2 garnered more attention.
... without a doubt". It's not correct english.
The summary does use bizarre praseology. "From a certain point of view
Whilst Halo 3 might be one of the most expensively launched games in recent memory, I'm not that fussed. You can't have a proper FPS on a console.
Sure, women don't compete in the same way true. I don't believe they compete anywhere near as much, either.
The risk taking is very much a male attribute.
But the assholes ALWAYS get more tail. What does this tell us?
The human race is generally pretty fucked up.
The ability to install third party apps, like just about any other smartphone EVER would be good.
Decent (3G) connection would also go a long way, replaceable battery, SIM...
The thing is locked down it's ridiculous. But people stillbuy them...
Maybe she'll understand what "traits more common in one than the other" means.
You obviously didn't.
Err, whilst there is nothing personality-wise that is displayed by one gender and is found nowhere in the other, there are definitely traits more common in one than the other.
Males are more likely to take risks and indulge in competition (testosterone does that). It's just a fact of life.
I don't know if that behaviour is linked to liklihood to be good at software/IT, but it's a perfectly valid example of a personality difference between the genders.
Not I, there are better phones and much cheaper.
I'm sure it'll sell to morons, but not that many folks will care to pay that much for this crippled piece of arse.
It's a shame that in most people's minds homeopathy has become mixed up with "natural remedies", some of which do contain useful compounds.
Herbalism and natural remedies aren't suitable for everything, but some of them can help and have been proven to. Some of them are the source of things like aspirin.
Homeopathy on the other hand is total quackery.
I remember playing TF over quakeworld, all the different iterations as the y worked through the betas.
Two castles... Alcatraz. Such fun, so long ago.
Maybe I oughta pickup HL2 and TF2 and see if I've still got it as a sniper.
And proved it nicely.
Liberal, socialist and communist are all very different things.
And no, TFA says you're a liberal because you're open to considering new ideas, and a conservative because you don't or can't.
Liberals aren't the folks who got so wound up in paranoia and fear that they cheered on the POTUS to invade a country that had fark all to do with any attacks on the US. Liberals aren't the ones constantly bleating about terrorists and alert levels and all the other nonsense.
But yeah, it's liberals that are the wussy scaredy cats....
Right.
The censorship (in the UK at any rate) must be resisted and disobeyed!
I will, of course be buying the retail version when it hits the stores, but I might just have to check out some of these "warez" things. They sound interesting.
Like which language we're talking about, because as far as C is concerned that's nonsense. Unless you mean a do{}while loop, but those aren't used very often and are not the same as a while loop.
Assuming you're teaching a maths/science class.
Use mathematica to display graphs, mutable by parameters input in various fields etc.
It's a very good visual tool.
Don't know about the rest of Europe but brits buy phones that are "free" anyway.
The market for expensive phones without a contract is tiny.
If there's a two year contract attached, brits will expect the handset to be free, or nearly so.
Selling a phone for that much cash just won't fly here when we have a huge selection of phones available for nothing over contract price.
Is that all you've got? OMG! U R Fat!
It's clear who's the child in this exchange, both to its participants and observers. And it's not me bub.
Most UK/euro mobile phones are now quad band.
Many are using 3G now as well (another thing the iPhone missed), the US really is a ways behind on this due to mistaking a cornered market with a high entry boundary (national network) for a free market.
Sometimes regulation is good.
When the UK government caught on that we were going that way they made it illegal for phones to be permanently locked, your provider has to unlock them on demand at the end of the contract. Possibly before, I'm not sure.
As for being crippled, not to my knowledge. I've been able to do things like transfer music back and forth freely over cable/IR/BlueTooth for many years/phones.
You?
Really, how do you decide? What do you reference to to decide?
Keep it open and flat as it is now. The moment you start putting restrictions on you'll lose contributors.
Actually, name calling was the refuge I took when well reasoned argument failed to penetrate the thick outer shell of idiocy that seem to surround your brain.
But that's ok, tell yourself I'm the pathetic one when you came to slashdot just to piss off other people, what s asad little life you must have.