As the above poster said, Goldeneye is a very good example of film -> game going well. But that's because the game was innovative, interesting and challenging, as well as having great multiplayer.
Turn to today and you get a load of film-based games, often sequals, all the same shoot-people-and-then-win style games. There's nothing interesting and no reason to play the newer games.
A Money Programme investigation into Tesco mentioned the store planning permission information (It may not be on that page, it was in the broadcast). 3 June 05
A Tunnel Collapse at Gerrards Cross, where the store was being built (See Tesco quote near bottom). 1 July 05
It's useful for other stuff though, like the article says, customer profiles means you can send a specific set of discount vouchers to each customer based on their preferences.
On a recent TV programme about Tesco they covered this scheme. When they send out their vouchers on a 3 month basis they get a sales boom equivalent to Christmas!
And by using the loyalty card scheme, their store profiles match the UK consumer profiles (By income) almost exactly.
I had no music tastes this time last year, i wouldn't have bought a thing. Now i've started to download various groups, find types of music i like, take reccommendations from friends. Last week i purchased my first CD (One i've had downloaded for a while too), something i think will happen a lot more often in the future.
So i've now moved into the "someone that purchases music" category, slowly, but i'm buying it. A few years ago £10 seemed like a lot of money to me, now it's not that much, although still prohibative to buying all the music i'd want to.
Seriously, with quality services such as iTunes out there, what legitimate reasons do people have to download mass quantities of music they haven't paid for?
Well, i can't for a start. No credit card. The teenagers that are often the ones who have large collections of pirated music either can't afford or access it. If i had a job and earnt £20,000 per year, perhaps a £10+ CD would seem reasonable, but my Summer job of £700 won't stretch to that extortionate a price.
Looking at London, i see a label with a massive expance of blank map around it. No London boroughs, areas, regions, anything. If i tried to find my house it wouldn't go very far. You can't even zoom in very far.
At least Google had a great service for the areas they had up, then expanded it to the rest of the world. The MS map seems to have poor support all round.
And setting aside the international support, this was very slow and seemed "clunky" compared to the Google interface. I do like the scrollwheel support and the use of the same images for various zoom levels, as you don't reload the map on every zoom.
However, if someone is walking around wearing a hat and heavy jacket in the middle of summer when it's 85 degrees and 80% humidity, and seeming to deliberately avoid the security apparatus, there may be some interest in talking to him. It's still profiling, because his behavioral profile is suspicious.
Ten years ago, you would never, ever let an unattended bag go ignored, and you would never leave bags unattended. Until three days ago, you saw both happening all the time.
In the last 6 years of going to school via the rail network in London on non-majour stations (I go the opposite direction to the rush hour too), i still hear the security announcements about bags once a week (Although it's about once every 5 mins now). It's not that we don't know, but it's the same sort of "It won't happen to me" and "Daily routine" mentality.
You're also getting a new generation using the transport networks. I've not experienced the IRA in such a way, and to me it just seems like the past.
Oh, i've forgotten my sports kit once on the way to school, so it's been on a train going back into London. I never heard of it again.
Russel Square tube has 1 entrance, Elephant and Castle tube has 2 entrances, Tottenham Court Road tube has 3 and Oxford Circus has at least 4. These are just the ones i can think of, i don't commute to Central London.
I also read that's the cost per station, not the profit per station in The Times. Don't go ranting about things being plucked from the air when your accusations are just as bad.
1) People are interested in seeing what happened, i know that some of the footage of the bus was unbelievable, and today there was the first footage of one of the tube blasts. 2) There's lots of interest here, people can't get home, what will happen tomorrow, what's the tube network doing? 3) Yes, major terrorist attack in the UK, worst since the Lockerbie aircraft bombing in 1988, obviously not important. 4) Obedient to what exactly?
I think the BBC coverage was excellent, i was informed at school on TV and the net, on the way home via radio, and at home by the TV and net.
No, they didn't take out all the lines. See this map: London Bomb Map
They affected 3 or 4 lines, missing the Bakerloo, Northern, Central and Jubilee lines, some of the most major lines.
Although one line would be enough to shut the network, they've not screwed the most major lines for the future. Remarkably, trains are running pretty normally in the suburbs of London, my route home (The train goes into the City) was fine.
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't that Tube and major stations only?
As the above poster said, Goldeneye is a very good example of film -> game going well. But that's because the game was innovative, interesting and challenging, as well as having great multiplayer.
Turn to today and you get a load of film-based games, often sequals, all the same shoot-people-and-then-win style games. There's nothing interesting and no reason to play the newer games.
A Money Programme investigation into Tesco mentioned the store planning permission information (It may not be on that page, it was in the broadcast). 3 June 05
A Tunnel Collapse at Gerrards Cross, where the store was being built (See Tesco quote near bottom). 1 July 05
What's the point? Take the following example:
It's useful for other stuff though, like the article says, customer profiles means you can send a specific set of discount vouchers to each customer based on their preferences.
On a recent TV programme about Tesco they covered this scheme. When they send out their vouchers on a 3 month basis they get a sales boom equivalent to Christmas!
And by using the loyalty card scheme, their store profiles match the UK consumer profiles (By income) almost exactly.
Woo! Two day weekend!
I'd like to see how the hell they're going to enforce such a stupid thing.
I had no music tastes this time last year, i wouldn't have bought a thing. Now i've started to download various groups, find types of music i like, take reccommendations from friends. Last week i purchased my first CD (One i've had downloaded for a while too), something i think will happen a lot more often in the future.
So i've now moved into the "someone that purchases music" category, slowly, but i'm buying it. A few years ago £10 seemed like a lot of money to me, now it's not that much, although still prohibative to buying all the music i'd want to.
A time for Yes Minister quotage i think:
Sir Humphrey: "Bernard, the Official Secrets Act was not put in place to protect the secrets, it's there to protect the officials."
And
Sir Humphrey: "In the spirit of "Open Government", one should always make public anything that can easily be discovered by some other way."
Seriously, with quality services such as iTunes out there, what legitimate reasons do people have to download mass quantities of music they haven't paid for?
Well, i can't for a start. No credit card. The teenagers that are often the ones who have large collections of pirated music either can't afford or access it. If i had a job and earnt £20,000 per year, perhaps a £10+ CD would seem reasonable, but my Summer job of £700 won't stretch to that extortionate a price.
It may not have been right for him to be shot and killed, but you can see the reasoning as to why.
I agree with his sentiments, and i don't. We pay the licence fee and get ad free BBC TV, with the other commercial channels supported by ads.
Granted, we're still paying, but not paying for the ads, by paying we get 2 (8 on digital) channels without adverts.
I did it manually, but it was interesting to see London disappear for several zoom levels. What the hell?!
Looking at London, i see a label with a massive expance of blank map around it. No London boroughs, areas, regions, anything. If i tried to find my house it wouldn't go very far. You can't even zoom in very far.
At least Google had a great service for the areas they had up, then expanded it to the rest of the world. The MS map seems to have poor support all round.
And setting aside the international support, this was very slow and seemed "clunky" compared to the Google interface. I do like the scrollwheel support and the use of the same images for various zoom levels, as you don't reload the map on every zoom.
However, if someone is walking around wearing a hat and heavy jacket in the middle of summer when it's 85 degrees and 80% humidity, and seeming to deliberately avoid the security apparatus, there may be some interest in talking to him. It's still profiling, because his behavioral profile is suspicious.
That seems so right, until they shoot him 5 times and then issue an apology.
blaming my 14-year-old cousin having sex with his girlfriend on GTA: SA, which he purchased a few weeks ago.
If it actually did that then i'm sure this game would fly off the shelves!
No, the last season was the fourth. There were four production seasons stretched to air over 5 airing seasons.
I thought that the BBC collected the fee themselves, they include the costings for collection on how they spend the fees.
Licence Fee
There are two types of poverty:
Absolute Poverty: The inability to live off you income, afford food etc.
Relative Poverty: Those earning under 25% of the median income of a country.
Ten years ago, you would never, ever let an unattended bag go ignored, and you would never leave bags unattended. Until three days ago, you saw both happening all the time.
In the last 6 years of going to school via the rail network in London on non-majour stations (I go the opposite direction to the rush hour too), i still hear the security announcements about bags once a week (Although it's about once every 5 mins now). It's not that we don't know, but it's the same sort of "It won't happen to me" and "Daily routine" mentality.
You're also getting a new generation using the transport networks. I've not experienced the IRA in such a way, and to me it just seems like the past.
Oh, i've forgotten my sports kit once on the way to school, so it's been on a train going back into London. I never heard of it again.
Thanks for that, i use Pipx but i didn't know of those feeds. That News24 feed is excellent!
Russel Square tube has 1 entrance, Elephant and Castle tube has 2 entrances, Tottenham Court Road tube has 3 and Oxford Circus has at least 4. These are just the ones i can think of, i don't commute to Central London.
I also read that's the cost per station, not the profit per station in The Times. Don't go ranting about things being plucked from the air when your accusations are just as bad.
1) People are interested in seeing what happened, i know that some of the footage of the bus was unbelievable, and today there was the first footage of one of the tube blasts.
2) There's lots of interest here, people can't get home, what will happen tomorrow, what's the tube network doing?
3) Yes, major terrorist attack in the UK, worst since the Lockerbie aircraft bombing in 1988, obviously not important.
4) Obedient to what exactly?
I think the BBC coverage was excellent, i was informed at school on TV and the net, on the way home via radio, and at home by the TV and net.
No, they didn't take out all the lines. See this map:
London Bomb Map
They affected 3 or 4 lines, missing the Bakerloo, Northern, Central and Jubilee lines, some of the most major lines.
Although one line would be enough to shut the network, they've not screwed the most major lines for the future. Remarkably, trains are running pretty normally in the suburbs of London, my route home (The train goes into the City) was fine.
"The BBC grants you a 7-day, non-exclusive licence to download this Beethoven Experience audio."
Note the use of "download" and not "store", "use" etc...