Really, I thought that 3G was basically a flop in the UK so far, and that after 3 initially tried to tout the benefits of fast data: 'woo football highlights and movie trailers on your phone' they basically had to give up and resort to 'woo really cheap phone calls'.
Gears is in development for Safari OS X, so I would expect that Jobs and co. Will be doing everything they can to get it on the iPhone/Windows version.
Interesting logical fallacy you have there. Do you think campaigning is some sort of zero-sum game? PI has frequently critiqued UK and European privacy policies. Just because it's home country has problematic privacy issues, does not mean it has to exclusively focus on UK privacy issues.
the thing I took away from this, is that even some well educated people don't know the difference between "less" and "fewer". The rest of the article didn't really match up to that exciting insight.
Presumably MS would argue that in making a free limited version of the product less limited, he will be eroding sales of the full-featured product. Ergo, he is not helping their business.
Certainly in the UK, most houses have residential natural gas supplies for cooking and heating. I've been waiting for several years for a small residential combined heat-and-power boiler to become available so I could heat the house and generate electricity as a by-product. However all the companies I have investigated have been stuck at the 'we will be producing prototypes for you to install next month' stage for the last two years:-(
Ummm, I can tell you now that many publishers will get away with the oldest hardware available, outside of the art and layout department. And yes, the do a lot of document interchange with authors.
Biology used to be a soft science, but no more. One of my favourite quotes when I was a biologist was from one of the 1950s particle physicists - Rutherford, I think. "There are three sorts of science: Biology. Chemistry and stamp collecting"
I really don't understand the continuing antipathy to the basic, free version. I'm running the basic version on OS X and it is great. It lets me watch and listen to the BBC stuff I want, it integrates nicely with other apps, it installs itself cleanly and it doesn't incorporate unnecessary bling or bloat. It works well, it's unobtrusive. What's not to like now?
I would invite to you to listen to the directors' commentary on the extended versions of the film where a lot of credit is given to Tolkien, by Jackson, but especially by Fran Walsh. FWIW, I thought the films were fine, but like all fans there were things that irked me. I hated the changed end of the Fellowship, I disliked intensely the way they hacked about with Denethor's character. But overall, I though they were great. I think of them as a retelling of the same story, but written by different authors... i.e this was no longer an account written by the arch elf-lover Frodo.
You seem very sure that Tolkien would have objected, but I can see no evidence. The man wasn't averse to an animated film after all. He may well have been intrigued by the idea of a multiplayer computer games based upon his work. He may well have embraced the whole idea with enthusiasm as a way to build a detailed world in the way that he loved, and making available to people in a way that they could interact with. Who knows.
Without knowing what version you used, we can't tell what version you used, or how long ago that was. v2.1 isn't bad and that's where we are now. I have yet to have it crash on me. To be honest, I think it would be absolutely fine for most school kids.
I'm not a player. But I think you are completely misunderstanding the way that the word 'work' was used in this context. When people enjoy games enough to want to progress and win, be it football or an MMORPG, they expend effort playing them. This expending of effort can reasonably termed work. They expend the effort partly because they enjoy winning. If the game rules are arbitrarily changed in such a way as to invalidate the effort expended, they will be annoyed.
From the Oxford dictionary:
noun: activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result
... the CO2 we are producing is likely to be around even longer. The nice thing about nuclear waste is that people actually appreciated that it is dangerous.
Slashdot Mirror
Indeed. That final link is appalling. The first link is the one you want, it has the full set of e-mails and makes for an interesting read. http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/06/14/an-ifpi-b pi-board-member-writes/
Really, I thought that 3G was basically a flop in the UK so far, and that after 3 initially tried to tout the benefits of fast data: 'woo football highlights and movie trailers on your phone' they basically had to give up and resort to 'woo really cheap phone calls'.
So presumably, you think that all questions on - say - Slashdot should be answerable with one of those answers?
Go on then - implement Skype in AJAX.
Can you find one that is vastly cheaper and comes with something of the quality of iLife bundled in?
Gears is in development for Safari OS X, so I would expect that Jobs and co. Will be doing everything they can to get it on the iPhone/Windows version.
Have you played with the freeware InquisitorX?
http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/
Interesting logical fallacy you have there. Do you think campaigning is some sort of zero-sum game? PI has frequently critiqued UK and European privacy policies. Just because it's home country has problematic privacy issues, does not mean it has to exclusively focus on UK privacy issues.
the thing I took away from this, is that even some well educated people don't know the difference between "less" and "fewer". The rest of the article didn't really match up to that exciting insight.
And they were jumped on by the regulators and the BBC Trustees. The BBC had to commit to them to not do any such thing in the future.
(It was the full set of symphonies, actually).
Presumably MS would argue that in making a free limited version of the product less limited, he will be eroding sales of the full-featured product. Ergo, he is not helping their business.
Certainly in the UK, most houses have residential natural gas supplies for cooking and heating. I've been waiting for several years for a small residential combined heat-and-power boiler to become available so I could heat the house and generate electricity as a by-product. However all the companies I have investigated have been stuck at the 'we will be producing prototypes for you to install next month' stage for the last two years :-(
Ummm, I can tell you now that many publishers will get away with the oldest hardware available, outside of the art and layout department. And yes, the do a lot of document interchange with authors.
Biology used to be a soft science, but no more. One of my favourite quotes when I was a biologist was from one of the 1950s particle physicists - Rutherford, I think. "There are three sorts of science: Biology. Chemistry and stamp collecting"
Oops, your prejudices are showing.
I really don't understand the continuing antipathy to the basic, free version. I'm running the basic version on OS X and it is great. It lets me watch and listen to the BBC stuff I want, it integrates nicely with other apps, it installs itself cleanly and it doesn't incorporate unnecessary bling or bloat. It works well, it's unobtrusive. What's not to like now?
I would invite to you to listen to the directors' commentary on the extended versions of the film where a lot of credit is given to Tolkien, by Jackson, but especially by Fran Walsh. FWIW, I thought the films were fine, but like all fans there were things that irked me. I hated the changed end of the Fellowship, I disliked intensely the way they hacked about with Denethor's character. But overall, I though they were great. I think of them as a retelling of the same story, but written by different authors ... i.e this was no longer an account written by the arch elf-lover Frodo.
You seem very sure that Tolkien would have objected, but I can see no evidence. The man wasn't averse to an animated film after all. He may well have been intrigued by the idea of a multiplayer computer games based upon his work. He may well have embraced the whole idea with enthusiasm as a way to build a detailed world in the way that he loved, and making available to people in a way that they could interact with. Who knows.
Absolutely agreed. You should be honest with your kids and they should know that their use of the computer is not private.
Without knowing what version you used, we can't tell what version you used, or how long ago that was. v2.1 isn't bad and that's where we are now. I have yet to have it crash on me. To be honest, I think it would be absolutely fine for most school kids.
From the Oxford dictionary:
Hope this helps.
To, to summarise:
"it's not that strange... actually it is pretty strange."
Let's see. Have I ever had to sleep without an evening meal? Yes. It wasn't particularly pleasant, and I ate a big breakfast the next morning.
Establishing authority in a non-threatening manner suggests to me that you would like the to never be any 'or else' attached to a parental request.
Not a fan of The Office then? Or The Green Wing?
... the CO2 we are producing is likely to be around even longer. The nice thing about nuclear waste is that people actually appreciated that it is dangerous.