Well, there's Sony. I think that after the Manchester Cathedral incident they promised not to use Anglican buildings, but Notre Dame is a Catholic cathedral...
It depends on why you liked the game. If it was the graphics or the musical score then it's unlikely to hold up today. If it was the gameplay, it might. I recently replayed Escape from Monkey Island and it was as good as the first time. Similarly Worms - the original Amiga game is still eminently playable, even though most of the sequels aren't.
To me it's the gameplay vs presentation distinction which is core to making a good game, and that hasn't changed in a generation.
I can't see why you have a problem with a guy in a casual group proxying cards he has. Proxying cards you don't have is a different matter; I tend to feel that should be reserved for playtesting decks for things like the Magic Invitational's Auction of the People, where you don't intend to play with the deck longterm.
The British equivalent is the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, which has had a handful of policy successes - most notably the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18.
I realise that it's not always wise to assume that a name means anything, but you'd hope a party with "Democratic" in its name would allow its rules, regulations and candidates to be debated and voted upon by its members rather than its committee.
If a business is large enough to have to register with the equivalent of Companies House in the country it's based in then it must make some contact information available through that registration. However, small businesses (e.g. sole traders) which don't have to register with the government shouldn't have to invite spam.
What you say about OSS is true but entirely irrelevant. It's one thing to restrict the way in which your product may be used, but entirely another to say that if your product is to be used to fulfil one contract with a third party then it must be used to fulfil all such contracts. That's abuse of a dominant market position, and it's astonishing that anyone should get away with it.
Scientists believe knowledge comes from evidence and the logical conclusions derivable from that evidence.
Religious people believe knowledge comes from "faith" (aka "it is written"), which is the polar opposite of evidence.
And all real people have far more complex epistemologies than either of those, applying a mixture of intuition and reasoning from axioms based on a mixture of observation and claims made by authorities.
Apart from lack of inclination, at least the following:
The necessity of doing a good job, because as I said previously it's standardised, which means that people who handle a lot of them will subconsciously notice if it isn't a good job.
Following on from that, the expense and difficulty. I don't have paper stock with a DVLA watermark or equipment for making it. I haven't a clue how I'd achieve the effect of the gold lettering on the card.
I suspect that if you take your licence to the police station they check it against the DVLA database.
A driver's licence is a standardised form of documentation. How many policemen do you think will be able to verify whether I'm telling the truth when I say that I have a username and password? In particular, if I'm using Linux, how many will be able to work out where to look? And what's to stop me from faking the interface?
I wasted hours trying to be able to develop java software for my PocketPC, and never did get it to work decently. There's no JRE preinstalled, no freely available JRE available for download, and to target a device you need some sort of device profile - which I never found for a plain old PocketPC!
If you're aiming for CDC/PP then you just need to target Java 1.3-compatible class files.
I ended up with IBM's J9 runtime, which I realized is designed for OEM's to preinstall on cellphones, and a big headache to get working on a PocketPC.
It would be nice if the installer created the four registry entries necessary to associate.jars with J9. It's not that hard for someone technical to do, but that doesn't help end users, so you end up having to create the registry entries in your application's installer. Other than that, I'm not sure what your problem was.
After all that, it doesn't support Swing (or even AWT) anyways!
It does support AWT. If you want to use Swing, you can find jars for it. If you're using J9 you can target SWT as well, because that's what it uses under the hood to implement AWT.
There's a confusing alphabet soup of device types (CLDC?) and no matter what you do, all applications are forced into a cellphone template (MIDlets).
The alphabet soup isn't massively confusing - an hour or two to sort through. You only need to use MIDlets if you're targetting MIDP. If you're targetting PP then you can use applications - static void main(String[]), jar file with manifest naming the main class, just like J2SE.
Long story short, I thought Java would be perfect for developing an app I could run on the desktop or PocketPC; instead it is a nightmare.
The subjunctive is certainly heavily underused in (British) English, but it does exist. The first line of the UK's national anthem has a subjunctive. Unfortunately you won't learn that there is such a thing as a subjunctive mood in a British school unless you study GCSE Latin or an A-level in a language which has it, or are sufficiently advanced at a modern foreign language GCSE that your teacher introduces it even though it isn't on the syllabus.
I'm five years younger than you, but I was taught at school. A maths teacher mentioned that he'd found some slide rules while digging through a cupboard, and my class (Further Maths A-level) persuaded him to teach us how to use them. He ended up giving us one each, because the school had no further use for them.
Oops. Yes, I lost track a bit there. I stand by the statement that Vista Business doesn't include DVD codecs, though, on two bases. Firstly, that of personal experience - I had an embarrassing moment a week ago when a new laptop with Vista Business couldn't play a DVD presentation. Secondly, that of Microsoft documentation.
Grandparent did specify Vista Business, which doesn't include any DVD codecs by default. If you want to play DVDs you need Vista Home Premium, Vista Ultimate, or a third party codec. I suspect the audio recording length is the same issue.
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Well, there's Sony. I think that after the Manchester Cathedral incident they promised not to use Anglican buildings, but Notre Dame is a Catholic cathedral...
To me it's the gameplay vs presentation distinction which is core to making a good game, and that hasn't changed in a generation.
I can't see why you have a problem with a guy in a casual group proxying cards he has. Proxying cards you don't have is a different matter; I tend to feel that should be reserved for playtesting decks for things like the Magic Invitational's Auction of the People, where you don't intend to play with the deck longterm.
The British equivalent is the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, which has had a handful of policy successes - most notably the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18.
I realise that it's not always wise to assume that a name means anything, but you'd hope a party with "Democratic" in its name would allow its rules, regulations and candidates to be debated and voted upon by its members rather than its committee.
That may be the case, but the world is larger than the USA.
If a business is large enough to have to register with the equivalent of Companies House in the country it's based in then it must make some contact information available through that registration. However, small businesses (e.g. sole traders) which don't have to register with the government shouldn't have to invite spam.
What you say about OSS is true but entirely irrelevant. It's one thing to restrict the way in which your product may be used, but entirely another to say that if your product is to be used to fulfil one contract with a third party then it must be used to fulfil all such contracts. That's abuse of a dominant market position, and it's astonishing that anyone should get away with it.
Still, at least he didn't ask for a fixed percentage of the profit.
Shorts don't do much if the power supply is cut.
A driver's licence is a standardised form of documentation. How many policemen do you think will be able to verify whether I'm telling the truth when I say that I have a username and password? In particular, if I'm using Linux, how many will be able to work out where to look? And what's to stop me from faking the interface?
I think it's better.
It's part one and part the other, in that the penalty scale is set out in statute but the court selects a punishment from the range specified.
Amoebic dysentery can kill you whether or not you have an appendix, unless you receive adequate medical treatment.
3. Does the law set proportionate punishment?
As Roy from the I.T. crowd put it: "Man, these anti-piracy ads are getting really mean."
The subjunctive is certainly heavily underused in (British) English, but it does exist. The first line of the UK's national anthem has a subjunctive. Unfortunately you won't learn that there is such a thing as a subjunctive mood in a British school unless you study GCSE Latin or an A-level in a language which has it, or are sufficiently advanced at a modern foreign language GCSE that your teacher introduces it even though it isn't on the syllabus.
I'm five years younger than you, but I was taught at school. A maths teacher mentioned that he'd found some slide rules while digging through a cupboard, and my class (Further Maths A-level) persuaded him to teach us how to use them. He ended up giving us one each, because the school had no further use for them.
Oops. Yes, I lost track a bit there. I stand by the statement that Vista Business doesn't include DVD codecs, though, on two bases. Firstly, that of personal experience - I had an embarrassing moment a week ago when a new laptop with Vista Business couldn't play a DVD presentation. Secondly, that of Microsoft documentation.