there was an ebay-like service that opened like that about a year ago, ebid or something. Wouldn't let you withdraw money from the system. It folded like a sheet of giftwrap. There's no incentive to sell other than to work off debt from an earlier purchase - as such it relies on a constant influx of new users and is topologically equivalent to a pyramid scheme with a low rate of expansion.
Yeah, it works for us so I never really understand all the fuss americans kick up over it. Here in the UK, if you want a violent videogame underage just ask the clueless parents for it. My 11-yo cousin has already completed san andreas on the PS2.
Well, how much does it weigh? If a robot costing ten times as much weighs 10% less and does the same job, you've saved money. Getting there is the costly thing, compared to that design and construction is a trivial amount of money.
Yes, because obesity and diabetes are much better than headaches. I do agree that the next stage after switching to diet sodas is to drop them altogether, but I don't want to catch you running up to waddly mcfatfat and screaming "don't switch to diet soda, it'll kill you!".
And it's bloody java, so you're looking at 70 meg for a 10 fps "hello world" map. I wish people would stop wasting time and effort on java where it's clearly unsuitable just because that's what they were taught at university.
Before you mod me troll, see my regular attacks on holocaust deniers. I'm just saying, here and now in the UK in 2007, the f*ing gypsies steal everything.
I have no sympathy for holocaust deniers. Let me quote a good man:
Almost all of the survivors, verbally or in their written memoirs, remember a dream which frequently recurred during the nights of imprisonment, varied in its detail but uniform in its substance: they had returned home, and with passion and relief were describing their past sufferings, addressing themselves to a loved person, and were not believed, indeed were not even listened to. In the most typical (and most cruel) form, they interlocutor turned and left in silence. [Primo Levi: The Drowned and the Saved]
And the diatribe issued by a member of the SS to camp inmates upon arrival:
However this war may end, we have won the war against you; none of you will be left to bear witness, but even if someone were to survive, the world would not believe him. There will perhaps be suspicions, discussions, research by historians, but there will be no certainties, because we will destroy the evidence together with you. And even if some proof should remain and some of you survive, people will say that the events you describe are too monstrous to be believed: they will say that they are the exaggerations of Allied propoganda and will believe us, who will deny everything, and not you. We will be the ones to dictate the history of the [camps] [Simon Wiesenthal: The murderers are amongst us]
The nazis had such an effective shredding campaign, we only know the death toll is between 4 and 8 million. Inmates themselves were responsible for furnace operation and ash disposal, teams being regularly disposed of to prevent information leaks. The retreat at the end of the war was accompanied by systematic recall/slaughter of prisoners, and was given more importance than millitary strategy. Holocaust sympathisers are making the holocaust perpetrators win from beyond the noose. And yes, you may invoke godwin's law.
Yes, but you've not actually lost any data, you can pull the deleted files out of the repository. So at worst it would reintroduce a bug you would be able to find and fix later - but who merges without checking it worked?
Yes, because a bug report that's 9 days old is indicative of a deep flaw in the developer structure. You should have at least said you were the one who filed it in the interests of full disclosure. Anyway, it's safe practice to check in the trunk modifications before you merge.
That's what I mean. It would be exactly the same outfit and mode of operation, except not illegal so less reason to hide it and patrol the warehouse with gats:)
He has a valid point. Whilst those of us in the "know" could obtain materials for free legally under a short-term copyright system, most of the average-joe consumption of public domain material would be in the form of dodgy chinese pirate copies sold from the back of a van, and for books, publishers like "penguin classics" no longer paying license fees. Make no mistake, many companies would spring up to exploit the hell out of materials people want, which could now be legally bootlegged.
I had a discussion about this a few nights ago - I know we all have this magic utopia of lack of copyright in our heads, but let's be pragmatic. Consider copyright that expires only when a book/movie/game is out of print, such that anyone who wants to try and buy a copy could only do so second-hand. The lifespan of a created work usually ends with it being sold for a flat fee into some "classics" collection, a la sold-out software. Let's replace that phase of a work's life with public domain. This also has the advantage of not treading on disney's toes.
You're playing a closed source game. Any paranoia about steam spying on you is completely irrelevant in the face of the fact that halflife 2 could still do it anyway even if it was a conventional disk-in-drive protected game!
Damn, thanks man. I was just going to carry on skimming the comments, and in a week all I'd remember is that hybrids are ironically worse than regular cars.
This could be an accident of writing, but I'm calling it for astroturf. The grandparent is too eloquent and literate to have been from a troll or a moron who'd genuinely make these mistakes.
You are aware that the BBC, in practice, is independant of government influence? Having said that, if it came to war with scientology everyone would back it. It's a national institution and the only people who have anything bad to say about it are license-dodgers who watch it anyway.
I run an IRC server of sorts, and over 90% of my outgoing bandwidth bill is due to identical information being sent at the same time to many clients. Not a day goes by I don't wish there was some sort of error-correcting multicast protocol.
You sound like you know your rope, and I don't, so by no means do I think this is right, but...
When a traditional fiber breaks, it's slipping on a molecular level. With macroscale nanotubes, the breakage would be right down at the covalent bond level, theoretically giving it a tensile strength on the same order as a perfect diamond. Admittedly, I don't know if that's any good or not.
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there was an ebay-like service that opened like that about a year ago, ebid or something. Wouldn't let you withdraw money from the system. It folded like a sheet of giftwrap. There's no incentive to sell other than to work off debt from an earlier purchase - as such it relies on a constant influx of new users and is topologically equivalent to a pyramid scheme with a low rate of expansion.
Did you read the FAQ? they set up a system like ebay. Al gold comes from third party players.
And if they were selling the iPhone at a loss like all other contract cellphones, then driving you and your ilk off has saved them money. Just sayin'.
Yeah, it works for us so I never really understand all the fuss americans kick up over it. Here in the UK, if you want a violent videogame underage just ask the clueless parents for it. My 11-yo cousin has already completed san andreas on the PS2.
Not that I'm compelled to nitpick, but how does a man with no legs kick?
Well, how much does it weigh? If a robot costing ten times as much weighs 10% less and does the same job, you've saved money. Getting there is the costly thing, compared to that design and construction is a trivial amount of money.
Yes, because obesity and diabetes are much better than headaches. I do agree that the next stage after switching to diet sodas is to drop them altogether, but I don't want to catch you running up to waddly mcfatfat and screaming "don't switch to diet soda, it'll kill you!".
And it's bloody java, so you're looking at 70 meg for a 10 fps "hello world" map. I wish people would stop wasting time and effort on java where it's clearly unsuitable just because that's what they were taught at university.
Ok, so he wasn't all bad then ;)
Before you mod me troll, see my regular attacks on holocaust deniers. I'm just saying, here and now in the UK in 2007, the f*ing gypsies steal everything.
I want a tiny laptop to compensate for my gigantic penis.
Well, I was calling holocaust deniers nazi collaborators when I didn't have to, that's kinda the same thing.
I have no sympathy for holocaust deniers. Let me quote a good man:
Almost all of the survivors, verbally or in their written memoirs, remember a dream which frequently recurred during the nights of imprisonment, varied in its detail but uniform in its substance: they had returned home, and with passion and relief were describing their past sufferings, addressing themselves to a loved person, and were not believed, indeed were not even listened to. In the most typical (and most cruel) form, they interlocutor turned and left in silence. [Primo Levi: The Drowned and the Saved]
And the diatribe issued by a member of the SS to camp inmates upon arrival:
However this war may end, we have won the war against you; none of you will be left to bear witness, but even if someone were to survive, the world would not believe him. There will perhaps be suspicions, discussions, research by historians, but there will be no certainties, because we will destroy the evidence together with you. And even if some proof should remain and some of you survive, people will say that the events you describe are too monstrous to be believed: they will say that they are the exaggerations of Allied propoganda and will believe us, who will deny everything, and not you. We will be the ones to dictate the history of the [camps] [Simon Wiesenthal: The murderers are amongst us]
The nazis had such an effective shredding campaign, we only know the death toll is between 4 and 8 million. Inmates themselves were responsible for furnace operation and ash disposal, teams being regularly disposed of to prevent information leaks. The retreat at the end of the war was accompanied by systematic recall/slaughter of prisoners, and was given more importance than millitary strategy. Holocaust sympathisers are making the holocaust perpetrators win from beyond the noose. And yes, you may invoke godwin's law.
Yes, but you've not actually lost any data, you can pull the deleted files out of the repository. So at worst it would reintroduce a bug you would be able to find and fix later - but who merges without checking it worked?
Yes, because a bug report that's 9 days old is indicative of a deep flaw in the developer structure. You should have at least said you were the one who filed it in the interests of full disclosure. Anyway, it's safe practice to check in the trunk modifications before you merge.
And if we used the land for growing hemp, nobody would want to drive anywhere!
And let's not forget that all the privacy ranters are playing a closed-source game which could be spying on them ANYWAY.
That's what I mean. It would be exactly the same outfit and mode of operation, except not illegal so less reason to hide it and patrol the warehouse with gats :)
He has a valid point. Whilst those of us in the "know" could obtain materials for free legally under a short-term copyright system, most of the average-joe consumption of public domain material would be in the form of dodgy chinese pirate copies sold from the back of a van, and for books, publishers like "penguin classics" no longer paying license fees. Make no mistake, many companies would spring up to exploit the hell out of materials people want, which could now be legally bootlegged.
I had a discussion about this a few nights ago - I know we all have this magic utopia of lack of copyright in our heads, but let's be pragmatic. Consider copyright that expires only when a book/movie/game is out of print, such that anyone who wants to try and buy a copy could only do so second-hand. The lifespan of a created work usually ends with it being sold for a flat fee into some "classics" collection, a la sold-out software. Let's replace that phase of a work's life with public domain. This also has the advantage of not treading on disney's toes.
You're playing a closed source game. Any paranoia about steam spying on you is completely irrelevant in the face of the fact that halflife 2 could still do it anyway even if it was a conventional disk-in-drive protected game!
There's a scientology office on north bridge here in edinburgh, but I don't know of anyone who's seriously been there.
Damn, thanks man. I was just going to carry on skimming the comments, and in a week all I'd remember is that hybrids are ironically worse than regular cars.
This could be an accident of writing, but I'm calling it for astroturf. The grandparent is too eloquent and literate to have been from a troll or a moron who'd genuinely make these mistakes.
See the hutton inquiry for reference. For any other news organisation, that's business as usual.
You are aware that the BBC, in practice, is independant of government influence? Having said that, if it came to war with scientology everyone would back it. It's a national institution and the only people who have anything bad to say about it are license-dodgers who watch it anyway.
I run an IRC server of sorts, and over 90% of my outgoing bandwidth bill is due to identical information being sent at the same time to many clients. Not a day goes by I don't wish there was some sort of error-correcting multicast protocol.
You sound like you know your rope, and I don't, so by no means do I think this is right, but ...
When a traditional fiber breaks, it's slipping on a molecular level. With macroscale nanotubes, the breakage would be right down at the covalent bond level, theoretically giving it a tensile strength on the same order as a perfect diamond. Admittedly, I don't know if that's any good or not.