Taking into account the feedback people have already given you, what you state is not clear cut and not without counter-arguments.
However, you entirely miss one big point of recycling: reducing landfill. Landfill is an incredibly wasteful, environmentally damaging (even in the short term - public health, habitats, aesthetically, even the smell it creates!) practice that should be avoided where it is possible to reuse rather than throw.
In places like the UK, there is simply not enough space outside of habitation or areas of natural beauty to landfill forever.
VAC, which is an Anti-Cheating platform for Steam. It's almost invisible, has been nurtured and developed by Valve since 2002 and is used on Third Party games using Steamworks (which means game devs plug it in from the get-go), and is surprisingly secure considering it's a widespread platform.
Aside from the fact that that is a different world record in itself, I would like to point you to TFA which goes to great lengths to explain to complexity of even keeping this thing on the ground, so it's hardly some trivial feat.
Clearly it is a wiser use of taxes, and it is a brilliant use of taxes (if you like the culture it funds!), but culture funding by it's very nature does not necessarily make anyone do any more than 'break even'.
I find it strange that people seem to be against someone turning a profit off their art. I make a strong effort to profit off my programming skills (and management skills, and anything else I possess) because, well, I want to buy more items of culture!... so why can't someone choose to profit from their art?
That 'model' would only be spread by increased taxes. I don't know why people will buy a book but the minute it's a film or a CD, it becomes like some contention point where they 'couldnt possibly pay for THAT!'.
I buy DVDs, games when I like the look of a film, have been recommended it, or have seen it before and want to own it. I buy it because I vote with my cash to say 'yes, I approve of this, nice one, have a beer on me!'.
Regardless of what anyone thinks of royalties etc etc, they DO, as well as falling in big boys pockets, also get passed to the rightful people, no matter how small, and that matters to me.
Yep, I played the trial and found the mining monotonous but the game still massively enthralling. I hung about a few areas and went on chat and a nice small corp actually handed me quite a LOT of cash to do something proper with.
Thing is, you have to know how to spend that money wisely to really benefit from it.
I decided that I may actually lose my entire free time (and job) (and girlfriend) if I carried on playing Eve anymore. It got me hook line and sinker. It's brilliant but I figured there MUST be better things to do with my spare time!
Yeah. That's right. Lets funnell all the money into spinal damage research, deafness fixing, blindness fixing, EVERYTHING. We'll fix em all in a year!
It's not really much harder to work out how to get someone onto floor two if they have wheels instead of legs. It's not like the architect is looking at a spec and going "pffffffffffffffff, that's going to take you 10 times as long as we need a RAMP not stairs!"
Simiarly we tend to work FASTER developing sites accessible to blind people than I did when I was farting around in dreamweaver years ago.
You're never going to prevent every disability so lets just live with it shall we?
It's not about valid code, it's about accessibility.
Your attitude is the same as some dick opening a shop with spiral stairs leading up to it 'cos it's prettier, right?' Yeah, except for those wheelchair users.
There not be many disabled people compared to 'able', but if you ever become disabled one day, you'll be shouting from the roof for more accessibility just like all the rest.
The issue is that it's a 'quick touch' system. Debit cards can behave as they do because they are not reliant on pure urgency. Oyster cards work in a way that you touch it to the reader for a second or 2, then it lets you in.
You're talking about picking an account out of ~8 million accounts on a server somewhere, checking it's balance. That's got to be a good second of simple database system look up as it is (from 'request' to 'result') even if you optimise it hugely. You then have the actual latency from the reader all the way down to the mainframe.
You then get the authentication issue - the card needs to send Name, Hash, UID, anything else to make sure someone can't just 'make their own card'... this increases lookup times... and even then, someone can just use a pocket scanner to nick a few people's card signals.
SO I doubt the 'mericans here are going to care much.
But regardless, even the first was weak. The mapping was absolutely incredible. Incredible. You could find your way around London perfectly. As a Londoner, this is and was cool to me.
The cars you could drive were wonderfully done and handled with a real sense of danger. Little touches like indicators when you turned just made it so convincing to play. And of course, it was just/so/ british, and/so/ spot on.
Unfortunately the game was, overall, lacking a hell of a lot to really bring it to the top and I'm surprised they kept this wanna-be-gta franchise going as long as they did...
But again, that's not what google is doing. It is showing in the main results the 'real' matches (just like a directory would do) such as Tesco.com, and then in the advertisements, other competitors. I see no problem with this...
I agree. My girlfriend works in online promotion at a record label and the impact of podcasts on her ability to promote bands through these is absolutely incredible. People like the guardian will happily run long interviews with extended ad-hoc live performances (complete with a few fluff ups) because fans want to listen to them and they simply don't have time limits like on radio.
Most people I know, geeks or not, also love to listen to their favourite radio shows on podcasts because it's EASIER and they don't have to worry about leaving the desk for 5 minutes half way through the show. In London here especially it's very handy as the radio doesn't work on the tube, but... a podcast does.
I don't quite understand how Twitter has gained the title of 'a technology', but there you go. It's effectively a flash in the pan to many people but it's not useless... then again I've never used it and probably never will, even as an avid techie.
Well I'm not sure if there's an argument, 'he' was AI, pure artificial intelligence. That was the point. It was a perfect example of how intelligence is somewhat limited by it's carrying body. HAL was just as intelligent as the humans on Discovery, however had different weaknesses. The key thing is that no matter how bright HAL was (and he was BRIGHT), you could still unplug him. Just like you can throw a human out a cargo door, you can pull tapes out of HAL.
Not really paranoid, I think NASA are the first to admit their previous mission's flaws; Whilst we put men on the moon, we threw them up there in a tin can, and we certainly didn't 'transport and settle' them there like we are looking to do these days.
I feel NASA are much more calculated in their choices of missions these days, however I do wonder what their 'final aim' really is. Colonisation of mars? Or is all of this just prep work so we're ready when (if) we eventually make a breakthrough to interstellar travel?
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Taking into account the feedback people have already given you, what you state is not clear cut and not without counter-arguments.
However, you entirely miss one big point of recycling: reducing landfill. Landfill is an incredibly wasteful, environmentally damaging (even in the short term - public health, habitats, aesthetically, even the smell it creates!) practice that should be avoided where it is possible to reuse rather than throw.
In places like the UK, there is simply not enough space outside of habitation or areas of natural beauty to landfill forever.
VAC, which is an Anti-Cheating platform for Steam. It's almost invisible, has been nurtured and developed by Valve since 2002 and is used on Third Party games using Steamworks (which means game devs plug it in from the get-go), and is surprisingly secure considering it's a widespread platform.
You can request for an account of a deceased person to be removed by providing proof of death (news articles/death certificate).
Aside from the fact that that is a different world record in itself, I would like to point you to TFA which goes to great lengths to explain to complexity of even keeping this thing on the ground, so it's hardly some trivial feat.
They probably had a brain, unlike you.
I wasn't talking about licensing.
They do well out of the business model of 'buy it, or download it for free on our website!'
Well RedHat seem to be doing pretty well out of it!
I imagine the original files didn't exist in the first place!
I think you'd be surprised just how impressionable some young people are by campaigns like this.
Not everyone is a cynical internet troll like you ;-)
Clearly it is a wiser use of taxes, and it is a brilliant use of taxes (if you like the culture it funds!), but culture funding by it's very nature does not necessarily make anyone do any more than 'break even'.
I find it strange that people seem to be against someone turning a profit off their art. I make a strong effort to profit off my programming skills (and management skills, and anything else I possess) because, well, I want to buy more items of culture! ... so why can't someone choose to profit from their art?
That 'model' would only be spread by increased taxes. I don't know why people will buy a book but the minute it's a film or a CD, it becomes like some contention point where they 'couldnt possibly pay for THAT!'.
I buy DVDs, games when I like the look of a film, have been recommended it, or have seen it before and want to own it. I buy it because I vote with my cash to say 'yes, I approve of this, nice one, have a beer on me!'.
Regardless of what anyone thinks of royalties etc etc, they DO, as well as falling in big boys pockets, also get passed to the rightful people, no matter how small, and that matters to me.
Yep, I played the trial and found the mining monotonous but the game still massively enthralling. I hung about a few areas and went on chat and a nice small corp actually handed me quite a LOT of cash to do something proper with.
Thing is, you have to know how to spend that money wisely to really benefit from it.
I decided that I may actually lose my entire free time (and job) (and girlfriend) if I carried on playing Eve anymore. It got me hook line and sinker. It's brilliant but I figured there MUST be better things to do with my spare time!
Yeah. That's right. Lets funnell all the money into spinal damage research, deafness fixing, blindness fixing, EVERYTHING. We'll fix em all in a year!
It's not really much harder to work out how to get someone onto floor two if they have wheels instead of legs. It's not like the architect is looking at a spec and going "pffffffffffffffff, that's going to take you 10 times as long as we need a RAMP not stairs!"
Simiarly we tend to work FASTER developing sites accessible to blind people than I did when I was farting around in dreamweaver years ago.
You're never going to prevent every disability so lets just live with it shall we?
It's not about valid code, it's about accessibility.
Your attitude is the same as some dick opening a shop with spiral stairs leading up to it 'cos it's prettier, right?' Yeah, except for those wheelchair users.
There not be many disabled people compared to 'able', but if you ever become disabled one day, you'll be shouting from the roof for more accessibility just like all the rest.
That's how the Oyster system works!
The issue is that it's a 'quick touch' system. Debit cards can behave as they do because they are not reliant on pure urgency. Oyster cards work in a way that you touch it to the reader for a second or 2, then it lets you in.
You're talking about picking an account out of ~8 million accounts on a server somewhere, checking it's balance. That's got to be a good second of simple database system look up as it is (from 'request' to 'result') even if you optimise it hugely. You then have the actual latency from the reader all the way down to the mainframe.
You then get the authentication issue - the card needs to send Name, Hash, UID, anything else to make sure someone can't just 'make their own card'... this increases lookup times... and even then, someone can just use a pocket scanner to nick a few people's card signals.
It would be a bold achievement!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Monopoly?
You keep using that word and you don't even know what it means.
What a silly post. You don't even understand the free market which you hark on about.
Most stores won't do that as it makes little sense given that someone would have come in 2 hours later and bought it anyway.
SO I doubt the 'mericans here are going to care much.
/so/ british, and /so/ spot on.
But regardless, even the first was weak. The mapping was absolutely incredible. Incredible. You could find your way around London perfectly. As a Londoner, this is and was cool to me.
The cars you could drive were wonderfully done and handled with a real sense of danger. Little touches like indicators when you turned just made it so convincing to play. And of course, it was just
Unfortunately the game was, overall, lacking a hell of a lot to really bring it to the top and I'm surprised they kept this wanna-be-gta franchise going as long as they did...
But again, that's not what google is doing. It is showing in the main results the 'real' matches (just like a directory would do) such as Tesco.com, and then in the advertisements, other competitors. I see no problem with this...
Incorrect!
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I count EIGHT years. Don't ever forget the golden zero...
You better go call up the scientists! I bet they didn't think about this!
I agree. My girlfriend works in online promotion at a record label and the impact of podcasts on her ability to promote bands through these is absolutely incredible. People like the guardian will happily run long interviews with extended ad-hoc live performances (complete with a few fluff ups) because fans want to listen to them and they simply don't have time limits like on radio.
Most people I know, geeks or not, also love to listen to their favourite radio shows on podcasts because it's EASIER and they don't have to worry about leaving the desk for 5 minutes half way through the show. In London here especially it's very handy as the radio doesn't work on the tube, but... a podcast does.
I don't quite understand how Twitter has gained the title of 'a technology', but there you go. It's effectively a flash in the pan to many people but it's not useless... then again I've never used it and probably never will, even as an avid techie.
Well I'm not sure if there's an argument, 'he' was AI, pure artificial intelligence. That was the point. It was a perfect example of how intelligence is somewhat limited by it's carrying body. HAL was just as intelligent as the humans on Discovery, however had different weaknesses. The key thing is that no matter how bright HAL was (and he was BRIGHT), you could still unplug him. Just like you can throw a human out a cargo door, you can pull tapes out of HAL.
Not really paranoid, I think NASA are the first to admit their previous mission's flaws; Whilst we put men on the moon, we threw them up there in a tin can, and we certainly didn't 'transport and settle' them there like we are looking to do these days.
I feel NASA are much more calculated in their choices of missions these days, however I do wonder what their 'final aim' really is. Colonisation of mars? Or is all of this just prep work so we're ready when (if) we eventually make a breakthrough to interstellar travel?