Here in Australia (well Victoria at least) police radar cameras are now very small hood mounted devices on unmarked police cars, with no flash required to catch you in daylight hours.
Outside of that, more often than not major streets/freeways/highways that you are likely to speed on are sufficiently lit to allow them to continue nabbing you anyway.
From my experience with.NET to date, I'd say "language independent" is a big stretch. It seems a more accurate representation to say that you can have different skins on C#, as thats what seems to happen with most ".NET Languages". They just substitute for the equivalent C# version of funtions, commands, etc.
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Coins are more convenient than paper? I'd have to disagree. They are small, difficult to store, heavy and just plain inconvenient. Compare that to notes which I can just put in my wallet, dont weigh me down, and aren't likely to fall out of my wallet should I turn it upside down.
Here in Australia, I dont think we are susceptible to most of the problems the american "paper" currency is affected by. Our notes are actually some polymer. So they dont tear as easy as paper, are machine washable, and immensely difficult to forge.
The problem with fixation of the head, as indy and F1 researchers can attest to is it increases the chance of permanent brain injury
Because the neck/spine if no longer given the room to decelerate over a period time, the only portion of the body still carrying momentum on impact is the brain, making it slam hard against the skull. Not an ideal situation either:(
Not sure how things work in the US, but over here (Australia) I've worked for a telemarketer and can tell you a few things:
- There is no "sucker" list - They dont track what time you typically answer the phone, unless it's for the same company/product it's illegal due to privacy regulations much like the reason there is no "sucker" list - That being said, data is datamined and business numbers will usually be called during the day, home numbers left until later - If you regularly get calls with nobody on the other end, stop answering the phone with long winded welcomes that make you sound like an answering machine;) - Typically, a "no answer" call result wouldn't be tried again for >1 hour, with answering machines >3 hours... although these can be changed at a whim thats whats standard practice. - If there is a few second delay between being connected, they need a new switch or to upgrade their predictive dialer.
Ho hum.... still I hate getting the phone calls, thankfully we do very little cold calling. It's always fun messing with the operators heads when they call and you start telling them what buttons to push hehe
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Bleh! Google AdWords have been around for months now (as I requested costing and almost used them myself at the start of this year). AdWord results are quite clearly displayed at the top of the page in a different colour, or down the right hand side (can't remember which one was which on the costings originally sent).
Quit your whining, you'll still get the same service just scroll down two lines.
For the record, Ebay seems to have bought a tonne of them as they almost always come up on my searches
Now remember y'all Aussie and Poms out there, the vote is on in Florida today so you better high-tail it over there and get yer vote in quick smart!!
Slashdot doesn't field just an American audience incase you were not aware, I think I'm more than justified in assuming that for the greater populus of slashdot users an election reminder for somewhere in the states is no more "stuff that matters" than the killing of a chicken for someones dinner in Cyprus. Yeah yeah so most (all?) the editors come from the US...
Back online? isn't this the same story as posted on the 16th here?
Seems they've been back for a few weeks, despite the attempts at slashdotting them previously
But does anybody have any advice on creating a small portable mp3 player? I'd love to create one that I could mod and add to myself as time allowed and need required. Possibly adding an 802.11b adapter, bluetooth headset just for the sake of it, etc. At this stage all I'd want was a small HDD, and interface, and somewhere to plug in headphones. Ideas on where to start anybody?
Or of course there is the possibility that MS believed $350m for 2-3 games a year was well priced. Let see.... 2games x $30game means they only need to sell 5 million games worldwide to break even on the purchase price (more would be good so you can conver operating expenses).
You now have a mario-esque flagship title or two from an established developer, one which will probably also get you a nice big foot in the Japanese door too.
So you've now got a company that has a history of producing high quality games that are almost capable of supporting a system in their own right, it recovers it's cost within the first year (even if it doesn't make a profit), but increases your market share at the same time because everyone needs your console to play your exclusive must-have game.
I actually posted a story on this a fortnight ago. The local national radio station here (Australia: JJJ) run a story on the 19th of last month from memory outlining how the Australian Wholesale Music Distribution industry was achieving record highs in sales, but ARIA (the Australian RIAA) is trying to keep quiet about it. They are supporting the RIAA with the P2P crack down, when profits are soaring.
Essentially early-mid 90's the Australian music industry had to smarten it's game because with our high level of sales tax on CDs, strong conversion rate, and the internet allowing easy access to the highly competitive American market place CDs could now be imported at a significant discount to purchasing locally. So local runs of CDs included bonus tracks, extra material, whatever they could to make them more inticing to buy than the overseas counterparts.
Now the sales tax has been replaced with a lower GST, our dollar isn't as strong against the US, and purchasing internationally is no longer a very economic decision for Australians. However, the distribution channels have maintained their previous practices. Locally produced CDs still contain more material than the US releases, but with a weaker dollar it's now usually cheaper for US citizens to import into America from Australia. It's meant Australian sales are at an all time high, and US sales appear to have slumped. In reality, the volume of sales probably hasn't changed at all, it's just where they are transacted has shifted.
Why is it unethical? I remember as a newbie I had lots of problems getting X up and running in slackware, and just generally having how I want. So I tried RedHat, that was a lot easier. Then I gave KDE a shot, and woah!! Wasn't that a breeze!!
I fail to see why just because it was easier, it was "unethical". Things shouldn't have to be difficult just because they can be.
I think many other newbies are the same as me, and maybe it's a sad reflection of my generation, but slackware (and at times redhat) took too long to do what I wanted when I was learning. I want to make some changes, compile, see the difference. I dont want hours upon hours of trawling config files when I'm learning, I want immediate reflection of my actions so I can learn it quicker.
Once I'm learning it, and starting to actually understand what I'm doing... then I'm willing to spend hours understanding it in more depth.
More power to KDE, if it wasn't for them I probably would have walked away altogether, and I'm sure many others are the same.
Really shouldn't be that shocking? Damn... if somebody started talking about a computer game at our dinner table you'd be likely to lose an eye to a brussell sprout!!
It's fed a set of instructions, apparently 20/sec, and is asked to remember which one got it the highest.
Execute instruction
Lift higher than others?
YES - Remember this instruction
NO - Get next instruction
Repeat until no instructions
keep repeating successful instruction
Seems pretty basic to me and hardly learning, just a new spin on analysing the effeciency of algorithms.
Actual content is certainly key, but there are still things to do to improve your google ranking beyond that alone. It is quite an art-form and something that needs be constantly adjusted and monitored.
I'm suprised this thread has surfaced again, considering the beating it gets with the way CoS have been able to manipulate google.
This is a pretty disgusting trend to start, and I hope for our sake that Alcatel doesn't win out here.
As the article mentions, the ideas first started long before he was employed by Alcatel and merely came to completion while he was employed there. Imho, the fact they were never written down should mean they never belonged to Alcatel regardless of when he conceived them... but the fact that development (and most of it) occurred long before his employment should strengthen that.
If it is found to be Alcatel's IP then it will cause a lot of other issues. What if you sign a similar agreement with a previous company? Develop a concept, never write it down, move over to company b and finish the concept... who owns it?
While I dont condone this idea as I personally busted my ass through high-school to pay for legal versions of all my software, I think your view is a little narrow minded and completely unrealistic.
Seriously, what employer is going to offer a job requesting COM, VB, and Photoshop experience and go... well, you've used GIMP and can apparently do a bit of cgi/perl... heck lets just hire you anyways!
Most the managers and the MD have them here, I never realised they had voice rec on them though. Thats probably more due to the fact that the way they make a phone call is:
"Secretary! Get Bob from Company A on the line now and put him through to me"
And how exactly do they measure that? Are you lying: Yes
No
Random
Obviously you then discount everyone who said no, because only the ones that answered yes can be certain to have told the truth, but then they... oh dear
And in related news, 74% of all statistics are made up.
Probably terribly off-topic and not entirely relevant in any thread I've read on here to date, but none-the-less I still found it an incredibly insightful and interesting read.
Any chance of this guy getting a few cents from slashdot or at least some exposure? I found this far more enjoyable than anything I've read from Katz in recent memory.
No the real reason (well for me anyways) is that, although a big fan of his previous album, this latest one stinks. I didn't mind the single that has been released (we are all made of stars), but a friend of mine bought it and was severely disappointed. I borrowed it for a couple of days, and I'm quite glad I didn't purchase it, I wont be wasting my bandwidth downloading it either.
If you produce an album, that by your previous standards, is trash... dont blame P2P networks.
A horse racing game where you jump on a horse and bob up and down and try to keep pace with the pack, prevent yourself being boxed in, and then sprint to the finish.
The bobing for 40secs or so really puts quite a strain on your quads and calves, and then the final 10 secs for the sprint point will bring your biceps and pecs close to point of failure.
All of my friends play a sport at at least a semi-professional level (basketball, australian rules football, soccer, and a triathlete)... and I'm yet to see anybody play more than twice in a row.
I had a SpaceOrb some years ago that I couldn't bear to live without for all my first-person shooter games. Basically a little ball that you push/pull/swivel for the direction you wanted to run, walk, or jump/duck. And being fully analog, meant that a hard push forward was running and a moderate push was a jog or walk. Unfortunately no product support since win98 has meant I've had to go back to a mouse now.
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Here in Australia (well Victoria at least) police radar cameras are now very small hood mounted devices on unmarked police cars, with no flash required to catch you in daylight hours.
Outside of that, more often than not major streets/freeways/highways that you are likely to speed on are sufficiently lit to allow them to continue nabbing you anyway.
From my experience with .NET to date, I'd say "language independent" is a big stretch. It seems a more accurate representation to say that you can have different skins on C#, as thats what seems to happen with most ".NET Languages". They just substitute for the equivalent C# version of funtions, commands, etc.
Coins are more convenient than paper? I'd have to disagree. They are small, difficult to store, heavy and just plain inconvenient. Compare that to notes which I can just put in my wallet, dont weigh me down, and aren't likely to fall out of my wallet should I turn it upside down.
Here in Australia, I dont think we are susceptible to most of the problems the american "paper" currency is affected by. Our notes are actually some polymer. So they dont tear as easy as paper, are machine washable, and immensely difficult to forge.
The problem with fixation of the head, as indy and F1 researchers can attest to is it increases the chance of permanent brain injury
:(
Because the neck/spine if no longer given the room to decelerate over a period time, the only portion of the body still carrying momentum on impact is the brain, making it slam hard against the skull. Not an ideal situation either
Not sure how things work in the US, but over here (Australia) I've worked for a telemarketer and can tell you a few things:
;)
- There is no "sucker" list
- They dont track what time you typically answer the phone, unless it's for the same company/product it's illegal due to privacy regulations much like the reason there is no "sucker" list
- That being said, data is datamined and business numbers will usually be called during the day, home numbers left until later
- If you regularly get calls with nobody on the other end, stop answering the phone with long winded welcomes that make you sound like an answering machine
- Typically, a "no answer" call result wouldn't be tried again for >1 hour, with answering machines >3 hours... although these can be changed at a whim thats whats standard practice.
- If there is a few second delay between being connected, they need a new switch or to upgrade their predictive dialer.
Ho hum.... still I hate getting the phone calls, thankfully we do very little cold calling. It's always fun messing with the operators heads when they call and you start telling them what buttons to push hehe
Bleh! Google AdWords have been around for months now (as I requested costing and almost used them myself at the start of this year). AdWord results are quite clearly displayed at the top of the page in a different colour, or down the right hand side (can't remember which one was which on the costings originally sent).
Quit your whining, you'll still get the same service just scroll down two lines.
For the record, Ebay seems to have bought a tonne of them as they almost always come up on my searches
Now remember y'all Aussie and Poms out there, the vote is on in Florida today so you better high-tail it over there and get yer vote in quick smart!!
Slashdot doesn't field just an American audience incase you were not aware, I think I'm more than justified in assuming that for the greater populus of slashdot users an election reminder for somewhere in the states is no more "stuff that matters" than the killing of a chicken for someones dinner in Cyprus. Yeah yeah so most (all?) the editors come from the US...
Back online? isn't this the same story as posted on the 16th here? Seems they've been back for a few weeks, despite the attempts at slashdotting them previously
But does anybody have any advice on creating a small portable mp3 player? I'd love to create one that I could mod and add to myself as time allowed and need required. Possibly adding an 802.11b adapter, bluetooth headset just for the sake of it, etc. At this stage all I'd want was a small HDD, and interface, and somewhere to plug in headphones. Ideas on where to start anybody?
Or of course there is the possibility that MS believed $350m for 2-3 games a year was well priced. Let see.... 2games x $30game means they only need to sell 5 million games worldwide to break even on the purchase price (more would be good so you can conver operating expenses).
You now have a mario-esque flagship title or two from an established developer, one which will probably also get you a nice big foot in the Japanese door too.
So you've now got a company that has a history of producing high quality games that are almost capable of supporting a system in their own right, it recovers it's cost within the first year (even if it doesn't make a profit), but increases your market share at the same time because everyone needs your console to play your exclusive must-have game.
Sounds fair enough to me
I actually posted a story on this a fortnight ago. The local national radio station here (Australia: JJJ) run a story on the 19th of last month from memory outlining how the Australian Wholesale Music Distribution industry was achieving record highs in sales, but ARIA (the Australian RIAA) is trying to keep quiet about it. They are supporting the RIAA with the P2P crack down, when profits are soaring.
Essentially early-mid 90's the Australian music industry had to smarten it's game because with our high level of sales tax on CDs, strong conversion rate, and the internet allowing easy access to the highly competitive American market place CDs could now be imported at a significant discount to purchasing locally. So local runs of CDs included bonus tracks, extra material, whatever they could to make them more inticing to buy than the overseas counterparts.
Now the sales tax has been replaced with a lower GST, our dollar isn't as strong against the US, and purchasing internationally is no longer a very economic decision for Australians. However, the distribution channels have maintained their previous practices. Locally produced CDs still contain more material than the US releases, but with a weaker dollar it's now usually cheaper for US citizens to import into America from Australia. It's meant Australian sales are at an all time high, and US sales appear to have slumped. In reality, the volume of sales probably hasn't changed at all, it's just where they are transacted has shifted.
Well, I found it interesting at least
Yep
Why is it unethical? I remember as a newbie I had lots of problems getting X up and running in slackware, and just generally having how I want. So I tried RedHat, that was a lot easier. Then I gave KDE a shot, and woah!! Wasn't that a breeze!!
I fail to see why just because it was easier, it was "unethical". Things shouldn't have to be difficult just because they can be.
I think many other newbies are the same as me, and maybe it's a sad reflection of my generation, but slackware (and at times redhat) took too long to do what I wanted when I was learning. I want to make some changes, compile, see the difference. I dont want hours upon hours of trawling config files when I'm learning, I want immediate reflection of my actions so I can learn it quicker.
Once I'm learning it, and starting to actually understand what I'm doing... then I'm willing to spend hours understanding it in more depth.
More power to KDE, if it wasn't for them I probably would have walked away altogether, and I'm sure many others are the same.
Really shouldn't be that shocking? Damn... if somebody started talking about a computer game at our dinner table you'd be likely to lose an eye to a brussell sprout!!
It's fed a set of instructions, apparently 20/sec, and is asked to remember which one got it the highest.
Execute instruction
Lift higher than others?
YES - Remember this instruction
NO - Get next instruction
Repeat until no instructions
keep repeating successful instruction
Seems pretty basic to me and hardly learning, just a new spin on analysing the effeciency of algorithms.
Actual content is certainly key, but there are still things to do to improve your google ranking beyond that alone. It is quite an art-form and something that needs be constantly adjusted and monitored.
I'm suprised this thread has surfaced again, considering the beating it gets with the way CoS have been able to manipulate google.
This is a pretty disgusting trend to start, and I hope for our sake that Alcatel doesn't win out here.
As the article mentions, the ideas first started long before he was employed by Alcatel and merely came to completion while he was employed there. Imho, the fact they were never written down should mean they never belonged to Alcatel regardless of when he conceived them... but the fact that development (and most of it) occurred long before his employment should strengthen that.
If it is found to be Alcatel's IP then it will cause a lot of other issues. What if you sign a similar agreement with a previous company? Develop a concept, never write it down, move over to company b and finish the concept... who owns it?
I hope some common sense prevails here
I might actually have a chance of working out how to use vi! :)
While I dont condone this idea as I personally busted my ass through high-school to pay for legal versions of all my software, I think your view is a little narrow minded and completely unrealistic.
Seriously, what employer is going to offer a job requesting COM, VB, and Photoshop experience and go... well, you've used GIMP and can apparently do a bit of cgi/perl... heck lets just hire you anyways!
I'm a vb developer:
e ar)))
;)
Dim vDay as variant
Dim vMonth as variant
Dim vYear as variant
MsgBox(WeekDayName(WeekDay(vDay&"-"&vMonth&"-"&vY
Exception
Most the managers and the MD have them here, I never realised they had voice rec on them though. Thats probably more due to the fact that the way they make a phone call is:
"Secretary! Get Bob from Company A on the line now and put him through to me"
... of all survey answers are bogus
And how exactly do they measure that? Are you lying:
Yes
No
Random
Obviously you then discount everyone who said no, because only the ones that answered yes can be certain to have told the truth, but then they... oh dear
And in related news, 74% of all statistics are made up.
Probably terribly off-topic and not entirely relevant in any thread I've read on here to date, but none-the-less I still found it an incredibly insightful and interesting read.
Any chance of this guy getting a few cents from slashdot or at least some exposure? I found this far more enjoyable than anything I've read from Katz in recent memory.
No the real reason (well for me anyways) is that, although a big fan of his previous album, this latest one stinks. I didn't mind the single that has been released (we are all made of stars), but a friend of mine bought it and was severely disappointed. I borrowed it for a couple of days, and I'm quite glad I didn't purchase it, I wont be wasting my bandwidth downloading it either.
If you produce an album, that by your previous standards, is trash... dont blame P2P networks.
A horse racing game where you jump on a horse and bob up and down and try to keep pace with the pack, prevent yourself being boxed in, and then sprint to the finish.
The bobing for 40secs or so really puts quite a strain on your quads and calves, and then the final 10 secs for the sprint point will bring your biceps and pecs close to point of failure.
All of my friends play a sport at at least a semi-professional level (basketball, australian rules football, soccer, and a triathlete)... and I'm yet to see anybody play more than twice in a row.
I had a SpaceOrb some years ago that I couldn't bear to live without for all my first-person shooter games. Basically a little ball that you push/pull/swivel for the direction you wanted to run, walk, or jump/duck. And being fully analog, meant that a hard push forward was running and a moderate push was a jog or walk. Unfortunately no product support since win98 has meant I've had to go back to a mouse now.