If you are looking for an open language with plenty of open source libraries, an efficient open source implementation, and no legal strings attached, C# is pretty much the only game in town right now.
I think you missed some more good points in there. Otherwise C, C++ and even FORTRAN fit that bill;-)
Do you know where I could get a keyboard without a numpad? Minimal arrangement of other keys is preferable. I was intrigued by the idea when I read your post but can't seem to find many options out there. And the ones I did find are all over the equivalent of $100 - bit more than I'd want to pay for a keyboard!
People who, through no fault of their own, are in a position where their income disappears.
In particular, people falling into the latter category should only receive benefits while they actively search for work and/or contribute back to society (ie: work for the Dole).
Surely the game play should provide rewards for balanced characters? In your situation it is the design of the game that allows those three types to be better than the others - something the designers should fix! In MUDs, they should make characters need all their skills in some way at one point to make sure the characters balance themselves out.
I concur. Recently I've been very into Natural Selection (a team-based Half-Life mod). It encourages teamplay like no other game I've played, and is very fun. Get voice going on there with your friends and it really is just as good as any sport. It is also one of the few games where I only care if my team won, and not who on the team was best.
Can anyone explain what makes them like the show? I've caught bits before but I couldn't see much in the characters or visuals that was particularly good or new. This is not meant to be a flame - loads of people seem to like it but I can't see why.
It is my misunderstanding then. When the original poster said that (paraphrasing) "government should not be responsible for education" I took that as meaning all forms of government (not being from the US I read government as all forms of government, not specifically the federal government as all the Americans seem to have) and hence mine was a general political point, rather than a point about the divide between local and national government.
Your constitution may well consider them separate but my point is that they are both forms of government, sorry if I wasn't clear. Both of them govern you in some way.
Lol yep sorry I did mean iBook, must have had iPods on the brain or something.
Apples are very expensive, even more so I believe than the usual US/UK price differences (usually explained away by us having higher living costs or something, but as the economy becomes more global people are beginning to suspect companies do it just because they used to be able to get away with it). Also Apple have very tight distributor-pricing control. A friend recently searched high and low for a cheap Apple here but the cheapest any distributor sold it was only ten pounds cheaper than Apple's price (i.e. the RRP).
So Apple seem to be aiming for the high end ("luxury"?) market here, which is fine by me but they can't expect people like me to buy Apple if they do.
Well... Assessing the costs of the main parts over the last 4 years (leaving out hard disks etc as they were not necessary for performance) in GBP, rough prices:
Graphics card x 2 - 80 quid
CPU x 3 - 180 quid
M/board x 3 - 150 quid
Case x 2 - 100 quid
Monitor x 1 - 100 quid
Memory x ? - 50 quid
So all that totals 650 pounds, still only just over half the cost of a Mac iBook. And out of the spare parts of that (plus a few other bits scrounged for free) I have a total of 3 PCs, two of which are Athlon XPs. So for me personally it clearly isn't a good idea to have saved for a Mac. Maybe one day though...
You'll notice that your x86 which you've had since before Win95 has come out has had the graphics card, sound card, power supply, hard drives, motherboard, cpu, network card, and probably the case replaced multiple times. I'm sorry, at that point it is not the same PC, you have just bought a new one in parts.... In other words, the implication that an x86 is a better investment because it has stayed around for the past 10 years is a false one, as nothing of the original machine remains.
Just to clarify.. it is indeed a totally different machine now but I guess the point I was really trying to make was that I upgraded piece by piece, and at each stage this was cheaper than buying a new PC - hence I was sort of "locked in" to using the PC framework from way back then, as at no point have I had sufficient money to buy a whole new PC, just upgrading it every now and then. I admit a lot of people buy them whole although usually people will upgrade them in one or two ways before binning them for the next one
Interesting idea, although people who have just moved into a new house will often find themselves not listed on such a database for a good while. Also addresses can be tricky to match - do you say "The Willows, The Road, Sometown" is invalid despite the fact that the local postie knows that "The Willows" is in fact "21, The Road". I just have a vision of ICANN striking off all those that didn't match closely enough...;-)
godaddy offer such a service as part of registering with them (for a little extra). They put their details in and forward all mail on to you. Great solution really:) This way you are contactable but your address remains private
I always thought that Mac OS suffered in the marketplace because it ran on propietary hardware that only came from one manufacturer, whereas x86 PC hardware was produced by loads of companies and hence the competition drove the price down. If Mac OS X was available for x86 I'd buy it. But it's not, and I don't have the money to shell out to buy a Mac, as well as my x86 PC that I've effectively had (via loads of upgrades) since a while before Windows 95 came out...
Different strokes for different folks really:-) My PC is worth around twice as much as my car, but I spend more time at my PC than in my car so that arrangement suits me fine! But to car enthusiasts that would be madness. Meanwhile the person with a collection of 1,000 CDs would be wondering why either of us was wasting our money...
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I think you missed some more good points in there. Otherwise C, C++ and even FORTRAN fit that bill ;-)
IIRC, isn't that because air travel is heavily subsidised by the government?
Do you know where I could get a keyboard without a numpad? Minimal arrangement of other keys is preferable. I was intrigued by the idea when I read your post but can't seem to find many options out there. And the ones I did find are all over the equivalent of $100 - bit more than I'd want to pay for a keyboard!
Which of these single mothers do you support, which do you not support?
In particular, people falling into the latter category should only receive benefits while they actively search for work and/or contribute back to society (ie: work for the Dole).
Do you include single mothers in this category?
Surely the game play should provide rewards for balanced characters? In your situation it is the design of the game that allows those three types to be better than the others - something the designers should fix! In MUDs, they should make characters need all their skills in some way at one point to make sure the characters balance themselves out.
Whats wrong with puter? Or is it better as pooter?
I concur. Recently I've been very into Natural Selection (a team-based Half-Life mod). It encourages teamplay like no other game I've played, and is very fun. Get voice going on there with your friends and it really is just as good as any sport. It is also one of the few games where I only care if my team won, and not who on the team was best.
Can anyone explain what makes them like the show? I've caught bits before but I couldn't see much in the characters or visuals that was particularly good or new. This is not meant to be a flame - loads of people seem to like it but I can't see why.
It is my misunderstanding then. When the original poster said that (paraphrasing) "government should not be responsible for education" I took that as meaning all forms of government (not being from the US I read government as all forms of government, not specifically the federal government as all the Americans seem to have) and hence mine was a general political point, rather than a point about the divide between local and national government.
It's just a matter of letting the appropriate amount of time pass really! And avoiding the political taboos of the time.
Your constitution may well consider them separate but my point is that they are both forms of government, sorry if I wasn't clear. Both of them govern you in some way.
As I pointed out in another post, surely States, Counties, School Districts and Cities are all forms of local government?
I'd count states as government, they are just a local government effectively aren't they?
Neither of these should be the business of the government in my book. Sadly, both major parties disagree...
Who's responsibility is education if not the government's?
I'm just hoping Christmas Island joins in too.
Apples are very expensive, even more so I believe than the usual US/UK price differences (usually explained away by us having higher living costs or something, but as the economy becomes more global people are beginning to suspect companies do it just because they used to be able to get away with it). Also Apple have very tight distributor-pricing control. A friend recently searched high and low for a cheap Apple here but the cheapest any distributor sold it was only ten pounds cheaper than Apple's price (i.e. the RRP).
So Apple seem to be aiming for the high end ("luxury"?) market here, which is fine by me but they can't expect people like me to buy Apple if they do.
Middle of the range iPod is 1000 pounds, which comes out to $1800.
Graphics card x 2 - 80 quid
CPU x 3 - 180 quid
M/board x 3 - 150 quid
Case x 2 - 100 quid
Monitor x 1 - 100 quid
Memory x ? - 50 quid
So all that totals 650 pounds, still only just over half the cost of a Mac iBook. And out of the spare parts of that (plus a few other bits scrounged for free) I have a total of 3 PCs, two of which are Athlon XPs. So for me personally it clearly isn't a good idea to have saved for a Mac. Maybe one day though...
That may well be true for the US... but is it necessarily the case elsewhere in the world?
Just to clarify.. it is indeed a totally different machine now but I guess the point I was really trying to make was that I upgraded piece by piece, and at each stage this was cheaper than buying a new PC - hence I was sort of "locked in" to using the PC framework from way back then, as at no point have I had sufficient money to buy a whole new PC, just upgrading it every now and then. I admit a lot of people buy them whole although usually people will upgrade them in one or two ways before binning them for the next one
Interesting idea, although people who have just moved into a new house will often find themselves not listed on such a database for a good while. Also addresses can be tricky to match - do you say "The Willows, The Road, Sometown" is invalid despite the fact that the local postie knows that "The Willows" is in fact "21, The Road". I just have a vision of ICANN striking off all those that didn't match closely enough... ;-)
godaddy offer such a service as part of registering with them (for a little extra). They put their details in and forward all mail on to you. Great solution really :) This way you are contactable but your address remains private
I always thought that Mac OS suffered in the marketplace because it ran on propietary hardware that only came from one manufacturer, whereas x86 PC hardware was produced by loads of companies and hence the competition drove the price down. If Mac OS X was available for x86 I'd buy it. But it's not, and I don't have the money to shell out to buy a Mac, as well as my x86 PC that I've effectively had (via loads of upgrades) since a while before Windows 95 came out...
Different strokes for different folks really :-) My PC is worth around twice as much as my car, but I spend more time at my PC than in my car so that arrangement suits me fine! But to car enthusiasts that would be madness. Meanwhile the person with a collection of 1,000 CDs would be wondering why either of us was wasting our money...