Not least of all because the face of our monarch, Queen Elizabeth II is on every banknote and social reformer Elizabeth Fry is on the current £5 note. On the £10 note, before Charles Darwin was Charles Dickens and before that? Florence Nightingale...
I suppose it is a solution to their (perhaps contrived) example:
"...the 'what3words' for the famous Peter Pan statue in London's Hyde Park is 'union.prop.enjoy'."
If your friend wants to meet you in Hyde Park (it's a big place) and you don't know where the statue of Peter Pan is, he can say "union.prop.enjoy" and w3w can guide you there...
Of course, since both of you would have to have smartphones for this to work, quite why a long/lat wouldn't also work is beyond me...especially given the prospect of missed encounters between young lovers: "Sorry, I thought you said 'onion.pope.enjoy'!!"
On how democratic "charging" to stand is, I always thought that if someone seriously thought they'd be able to get 5% of the vote then raising £500 for the deposit should be easy, if not outright trivial. The average constituency is ~60k, so 5% of the vote is 3000. If you can get a quarter of those to give you 70p, that's your deposit with some money left over to photocopy more leaflets.
Reading that information might be all they need to do. If you have a bunch of co-conspirators on the same plane, you only need one to go through the lighter-screening channel smuggling the box-cutters/drugs/microfilm or whatever; whoever has the magic barcode gets to wear the shoes with the false heels. Alternately, if you know you're not going to be waved through the less-intensive security channel you could cancel your flight or take the flight and just postpone your nefarious deeds for another day.
Not necessarily the whole thing, just the picture painted of Herb Asher living in an isolated dome on a remote planet, detached from the world and reality, obsessing over a female singer and resenting the terminally ill woman who lives in the dome next to his when she reaches out to him for help. Everything that follows is unsettling/detestable, but that image stayed with me.
"Overrated"
Not sure if this is trolling or not, but I grew up hearing this:
"Someone once asked Paul McCartney if he thought Ringo Starr was the best drummer in the world. McCartney replied: 'He's not even the best drummer in The Beatles'"
So..yeah...nah...I never thought Ringo was that good a drummer. Overrated?
Not quite anyone. You cannot be a bone marrow donor or even a blood donor in some countries, like New Zealand, if you lived in the UK during the outbreak of BSE/CJD.
Explain New Zealand then? Our dollar is weaker, and we earn less than the average Australian household. And we're not just talking about retail, where you could explain away the difference as the cost of transport of physical goods to a small island country, we're also talking about Steam/Digital prices. Steam lumps us into the same region with Australia, by virtue of geographical proximity alone.
Secondly, can you explain why, with only a 20% difference between the average Australian and the average American household, rip-offs like these exist? Is it really fair that publishers are setting prices for Australia/New Zealand up to 80% higher than for America/UK?
What a peculiar example. I never thought of Usain Bolt as someone who was that bothered about what he wore on his feet. The man ran an Olympic-record-destroying time with his left shoelace untied after all...
It affects risk management, increasing risk-taking behaviour, so part of that "killed by cars" number could also be attributed to T.Gondii...in fact I remember reading about other studies that have explicitly linked (or tried to link) the two.
Working from home is nigh on impossible unless you have a door to close.
I get by just fine without a door. You can put your headphones on and tune out the rest of the world.
I find it difficult sometimes even with a door. I guess it's an extra barrier to interruptions, but it doesn't stop them. Unless I got a lock on the door or a divorce, I don't know how I'd change that. Regardless, I find I still have fewer interruptions and distractions than when I worked in an office.
Nah, there's lots of scope. Instead of two simple bars, you have two 3d-rendered "bats", held by 3d-rendered "people". Instead of a plain black background, you have a blue or green "table" with white markings on all 4 sides to accentuate the edges and one thinner line down the centre of the "table" dividing each player's play area either side of a realistic looking 3-dimensional "net" into 2. Also, instead of a box moving back-and-forth, you could have a 3d-rendered white "ball". Something like this maybe?
Exactly, if you're one of the sem-finalists, put in all the work to produce a playable demo and a trailer but fail get through to the final, Atari owns everything you've submitted and you get nothing.
If you are "lucky" enough to be one of the 10 finallists, go on to develop your idea into a full game, and don't win one of the top 3 prizes, you only get $5000 and Atari still own everything you've submitted.
You'd have to be either desperate or stupid to enter.
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Possible exception of the Queen Mother, I suppose.
And still, Adolf Hitler described her as "the most dangerous woman in Europe"...
What about 11x11?
Why in the name of jiggery pokery would you need to memorise 110 + 11?
That was using a communications satellite and a stolen, top secret, "GPS encoder"...outside their $3000 budget, I'd wager.
Not least of all because the face of our monarch, Queen Elizabeth II is on every banknote and social reformer Elizabeth Fry is on the current £5 note. On the £10 note, before Charles Darwin was Charles Dickens and before that? Florence Nightingale...
If your friend wants to meet you in Hyde Park (it's a big place) and you don't know where the statue of Peter Pan is, he can say "union.prop.enjoy" and w3w can guide you there...
Of course, since both of you would have to have smartphones for this to work, quite why a long/lat wouldn't also work is beyond me...especially given the prospect of missed encounters between young lovers: "Sorry, I thought you said 'onion.pope.enjoy'!!"
Send it to LettersOfNote.com
On how democratic "charging" to stand is, I always thought that if someone seriously thought they'd be able to get 5% of the vote then raising £500 for the deposit should be easy, if not outright trivial. The average constituency is ~60k, so 5% of the vote is 3000. If you can get a quarter of those to give you 70p, that's your deposit with some money left over to photocopy more leaflets.
I'm also in New Zealand. I love PaperMate's gel pens. Have a set of 0.7s and they're great. Will check out the Pilot's.
Reading that information might be all they need to do. If you have a bunch of co-conspirators on the same plane, you only need one to go through the lighter-screening channel smuggling the box-cutters/drugs/microfilm or whatever; whoever has the magic barcode gets to wear the shoes with the false heels. Alternately, if you know you're not going to be waved through the less-intensive security channel you could cancel your flight or take the flight and just postpone your nefarious deeds for another day.
Not sure -- IANAL, after all -- but don't they risk some other, more nefarious, party hijacking their trademark if they don't defend it?
Not necessarily the whole thing, just the picture painted of Herb Asher living in an isolated dome on a remote planet, detached from the world and reality, obsessing over a female singer and resenting the terminally ill woman who lives in the dome next to his when she reaches out to him for help. Everything that follows is unsettling/detestable, but that image stayed with me.
Not sure if this is trolling or not, but I grew up hearing this:
So..yeah...nah...I never thought Ringo was that good a drummer. Overrated?
Not quite anyone. You cannot be a bone marrow donor or even a blood donor in some countries, like New Zealand, if you lived in the UK during the outbreak of BSE/CJD.
You have no such right.
Ooh-la-la!
Exactly, if Steam doesn't start catering for the majority of people who rely on satellite for their internet service they risk falling by the wayside.
Explain New Zealand then? Our dollar is weaker, and we earn less than the average Australian household. And we're not just talking about retail, where you could explain away the difference as the cost of transport of physical goods to a small island country, we're also talking about Steam/Digital prices. Steam lumps us into the same region with Australia, by virtue of geographical proximity alone.
Secondly, can you explain why, with only a 20% difference between the average Australian and the average American household, rip-offs like these exist? Is it really fair that publishers are setting prices for Australia/New Zealand up to 80% higher than for America/UK?
What a peculiar example. I never thought of Usain Bolt as someone who was that bothered about what he wore on his feet. The man ran an Olympic-record-destroying time with his left shoelace untied after all...
It affects risk management, increasing risk-taking behaviour, so part of that "killed by cars" number could also be attributed to T.Gondii...in fact I remember reading about other studies that have explicitly linked (or tried to link) the two.
Not sure if funny or insightful. -.-
Mods? Funny? 100% Insightful/Painful.
Working from home is nigh on impossible unless you have a door to close.
I get by just fine without a door. You can put your headphones on and tune out the rest of the world.
I find it difficult sometimes even with a door. I guess it's an extra barrier to interruptions, but it doesn't stop them. Unless I got a lock on the door or a divorce, I don't know how I'd change that. Regardless, I find I still have fewer interruptions and distractions than when I worked in an office.
Nah, there's lots of scope. Instead of two simple bars, you have two 3d-rendered "bats", held by 3d-rendered "people". Instead of a plain black background, you have a blue or green "table" with white markings on all 4 sides to accentuate the edges and one thinner line down the centre of the "table" dividing each player's play area either side of a realistic looking 3-dimensional "net" into 2. Also, instead of a box moving back-and-forth, you could have a 3d-rendered white "ball". Something like this maybe?
Clickable. Mod parent up. </thread>
Exactly, if you're one of the sem-finalists, put in all the work to produce a playable demo and a trailer but fail get through to the final, Atari owns everything you've submitted and you get nothing.
If you are "lucky" enough to be one of the 10 finallists, go on to develop your idea into a full game, and don't win one of the top 3 prizes, you only get $5000 and Atari still own everything you've submitted.
You'd have to be either desperate or stupid to enter.