That may be true but I'm not sure its a significant danger in the UK. The green party and the BNF (British National Front, extreme right) might grap a few seats but not enough to actually affect the overall balance, it would just be the big three as usual.
Do you know of any countries currently using proportional representation? Just out of interest.
Off-topic I know, but is there a list anywhere (that is more concise and plain than Microsoft's official site) of what all these odd Microsoft inventions/names are?
I just about get what COM is, ActiveX took me a while but I think I have the gist, I found out very recently that.NET is like Java (not just a new brand name like I thought!), but Active Directory and various others still elude me... anyone else have this problem?
Reminds me a bit of proportional representation (which some, but not all, say is the fairest way). If it was introduced in the UK, the Liberal Democrats would almost inevitably come into power... but since they haven't been in power since before the Second (and maybe First?) World War, it hasn't happened because the other parties would lose out!
On the original planet, he creates a parlimentry democracy with power balanced between The Queen, The House of Lords (aristocrats desecneded from the original settlers), and The House of Commons(elected representatives of the people). (Can you say British Parlimentry with a twist?)
There's not really much of a twist there... except that the Queen probably has more power in that scenario.
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Maybe instead of using the common outlook of not worth my time to bother chasing it (like the Bill Gates shouldn't bother to pick up a dollar in the street etc.), we should all view it as not worth their time (if we can engage their employees during this chasing) to keep making mistakes.
If enough people complain then wages spent chasing the problems for the customer (or just fending off the customer, trying to ignore them) will begin to cost more than the revenue from the spurious charges, and business will correct itself.
Here's dreaming!
I have a netgear FA311 in my epox (8kha+), no problems like yours but I used to have a problem that often the network interface wouldnt work on boot (had to disable then enable the conn in win2k) and before that the drivers used to blue screen 2k (which is actually quite rare!) under heavy load of connections, though a patch fixed that.
And on the (very long) note of mispluralising, the word agenda (and similar gerunds) only have English plurals because they are in fact already Latin plurals.
Patents are the best way to protect your IP while trying to sell ideas. Find a patentable idea, outlay to patent it, then you have a solid basis to try and and sell it/licence it.
I'm running a bsd box on hmmm a K6-2 machine somewhere around 300 mhz (can't actually remember now...) and it acts a router for my USB ADSL modem serving two other PCs with NAT and packet filter, a web server (that admittedly sees little traffic) and gets bittorrents with no visible signs of ever slowing down, so the 133 should be fine I reckon.
While The Scar does have some original imagery, you should be warned that none of the main characters are very sympathetic so it can be tough going unless you really love the world around them.
Then again I bought this (hardback) for 4 quid in a bargain bookship to held prop up a bowing bookshelf, so I didn't mind!
Some very good points. I had considered going into games with my CS degree but backed off when I realised much of the above points, particularly the long hours (things like working 30 days solid including weekends before deadlines), poor pay (less than the job I now have) because of a large supply of applicants, and in some cases poor management (particularly small start-up studios that are so focused on profit they only view in the short-term, and it will kill them eventually).
Bottom line on this stuff - you can get into games with a straight CS degree but often the opposite is not true, why restrict yourself!
While your numbers do show the exponential pattern, as a Windows user I have noticed no particular speedup over the years of loading a document in say Word or Acrobat Reader;-(
I have always liked the definition of addiction that is: to be having such a strong desire to do the thing you are addicted to that the rest of your life suffers.
For example, if I play a computer game so much that I skip work, thats an addiction. I dont agree with the feel normal/better thing. How do you draw the line?
I like to talk to my girlfriend every day but if I didnt I wouldnt feel "abnormal", so therefore I'm not addicted to her. But if I don't wear brush my teeth every day its feel odd so I am addicted to brushing my teeth? I'd feel abnormal if I didnt do most of my daily routine each day, so I must be addicted to turning on my PC, getting dressed, looking at slashdot etc?
I do understand your take-it-or-leave-it point but I think addictions should be limited to damaging behaviour - if someone can't live without the internet its not an addiction necessarily, just a dependency. Addiction would be more along the lines of if you chose the internet over everything else in your life.
Depends how you define young... I know many university computer science students who have released or are working on open source stuff, but I'm guessing you probably meant secondary (high) school anyway.
Definitely subtitles are best, no-one would argue with that surely, except for cheesy70s kung fu movies;) Though having said that, I know a lot of people who can't cope with subtitles because of dyslexia or generally not being able to read too quickly.
Bottom line -- dubbing is anaethema to anime fans;)
I don't think there is a justification for more than 50 *fps* as long as it stays that high as other people have pointed out. Having your monitor at say 100 hz refresh rate along with taht is justifiable though due to it being kinder on the eyes...
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Do you know of any countries currently using proportional representation? Just out of interest.
I just about get what COM is, ActiveX took me a while but I think I have the gist, I found out very recently that .NET is like Java (not just a new brand name like I thought!), but Active Directory and various others still elude me... anyone else have this problem?
Reminds me a bit of proportional representation (which some, but not all, say is the fairest way). If it was introduced in the UK, the Liberal Democrats would almost inevitably come into power... but since they haven't been in power since before the Second (and maybe First?) World War, it hasn't happened because the other parties would lose out!
Totally off-topic, but both links in your sig are broken. Thought you might like to know...
I can't believe it, that one actually made me laugh out loud...
On the original planet, he creates a parlimentry democracy with power balanced between The Queen, The House of Lords (aristocrats desecneded from the original settlers), and The House of Commons(elected representatives of the people). (Can you say British Parlimentry with a twist?) There's not really much of a twist there... except that the Queen probably has more power in that scenario.
Maybe instead of using the common outlook of not worth my time to bother chasing it (like the Bill Gates shouldn't bother to pick up a dollar in the street etc.), we should all view it as not worth their time (if we can engage their employees during this chasing) to keep making mistakes. If enough people complain then wages spent chasing the problems for the customer (or just fending off the customer, trying to ignore them) will begin to cost more than the revenue from the spurious charges, and business will correct itself. Here's dreaming!
I have a netgear FA311 in my epox (8kha+), no problems like yours but I used to have a problem that often the network interface wouldnt work on boot (had to disable then enable the conn in win2k) and before that the drivers used to blue screen 2k (which is actually quite rare!) under heavy load of connections, though a patch fixed that.
And on the (very long) note of mispluralising, the word agenda (and similar gerunds) only have English plurals because they are in fact already Latin plurals.
Patents are the best way to protect your IP while trying to sell ideas. Find a patentable idea, outlay to patent it, then you have a solid basis to try and and sell it/licence it.
I'm running a bsd box on hmmm a K6-2 machine somewhere around 300 mhz (can't actually remember now...) and it acts a router for my USB ADSL modem serving two other PCs with NAT and packet filter, a web server (that admittedly sees little traffic) and gets bittorrents with no visible signs of ever slowing down, so the 133 should be fine I reckon.
Let me guess - it ran fine the first time but failed the second time saying "rm: command not found"? ;-)
I am indeed familiar with the other CSP, having studied it. I know it can cause confusion but that's life when it comes to TLAs!
My own personal recommendation would be the original book on CSP (it is an expanded paper essentially), an idea that is well worth-while, and also look at some of the useful applications
It is becoming illegal in the UK (or has become), through hands-free speakers are allowed, Im not sure about headsets...
On a serious note, sounds good, and Dec 2nd is better than the early 2004 dates I had seen when it originally got delayed :)
While I admit that sentence does look crazy, it was only one letter out (held -> help)
Then again I bought this (hardback) for 4 quid in a bargain bookship to held prop up a bowing bookshelf, so I didn't mind!
Bottom line on this stuff - you can get into games with a straight CS degree but often the opposite is not true, why restrict yourself!
While your numbers do show the exponential pattern, as a Windows user I have noticed no particular speedup over the years of loading a document in say Word or Acrobat Reader ;-(
I know it wasn't meant to be - but nice plug!
For example, if I play a computer game so much that I skip work, thats an addiction. I dont agree with the feel normal/better thing. How do you draw the line?
I like to talk to my girlfriend every day but if I didnt I wouldnt feel "abnormal", so therefore I'm not addicted to her. But if I don't wear brush my teeth every day its feel odd so I am addicted to brushing my teeth? I'd feel abnormal if I didnt do most of my daily routine each day, so I must be addicted to turning on my PC, getting dressed, looking at slashdot etc?
I do understand your take-it-or-leave-it point but I think addictions should be limited to damaging behaviour - if someone can't live without the internet its not an addiction necessarily, just a dependency. Addiction would be more along the lines of if you chose the internet over everything else in your life.
Depends how you define young... I know many university computer science students who have released or are working on open source stuff, but I'm guessing you probably meant secondary (high) school anyway.
Bottom line -- dubbing is anaethema to anime fans ;)
I don't think there is a justification for more than 50 *fps* as long as it stays that high as other people have pointed out. Having your monitor at say 100 hz refresh rate along with taht is justifiable though due to it being kinder on the eyes...