If google were seriously considering this, you'd be right.
But "ridiculous indulgence, aristocratic nonsense" has often given people opportunities they wouldn't have had otherwise.
Many very influential scientists had aristocratic patrons, and many of those sponsored science as a form of status symbol.
Good, some of those vehicles must stay on the road - how else are oil companies supposed to continue funding their quest for world domination?
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It took too long for the market to regulate itself. Higher taxes that type of vehicle might have kept a lot of them off the road - something that would have been in everybody's interest.
Well, at least it worked that way in Europe ^_^
Hm. Maybe you're right, and the casual gamer - iphone user intersection is a big enough crowd to make producing games for that plattform worthwhile.
But crappy cameras and mp3 players are something that's in pretty much every phone, they're not really something that makes one choose one brand over the other. iPhone gaming would be exclusive to one brand of phones, and as far as I know no phone company has ever succeeded in binding their customers this strongly.
Also, gadget lovers aren't generally opposed to buying a dedicated gadget to play games with..
Look at it this way: the smartphone gaming market is pretty much empty. Its existence has yet to be shown. Right now, dedicated gaming handhelds are far superior to anything phones in their current state can even hope to accomplish.
Kind of like GPS navigation - the versions on cellphones just don't compare to standalone devices.
Well, the cell phone market is a lot older, and more settled, than the mp3 player market was when the iPod was introduced.
And even under those initially more favorable market conditions, in Europe at least the iPod is far from dominating the mp3 player market.
OTOH, the US imports a lot more than it exports. Probably that's because, until recently, the dollar was too expensive.
Importing more than you export isn't a good sign for the economy as such though (trace deficit is one of the characteristics of an underdeveloped country), and it's a probably a good thing the US is kind of forced to change that.
But switching from an import to an export based economy won't be easy, and most likely will hurt a lot of people.
But that's going to change as soon as you come across a game you'd want to play that wasn't made in a language you know.
And in the interest of cultural diversity and all that, I hope that will happen at some point.
Caller IDs are a harder to fake, harder than an e-mails From header anyways.
And if your fax arouses suspicion, it's easier to verify, as all it takes is a call to the phone company to find the real caller id.
Not so easy with an e-mail's From header..
A major company I worked at had someone from IT talk to us about using unauthorized software.
He actually compared installing software on a computer to shortening the handle of a hammer - customizing the tool, but making it useless for anybody else who might want to use it.
At that company, using Portable Firefox - even though it isn't installed to the harddrive (semantics, really) - wouldn't get you many friends.
...but we are Americans...we don't really give a damn what the rest of the world thinks. Laugh all you want. Don't think you're alone with that sentiment - no country's people I know really seems to care what some other country's people might think of them.
Even if they care, it doesn't have any real impact on their behavior.
Americans might get criticised more than other people for that kind of behavior, but as far as I can tell that's just because people feel that America, given its status in the world, should somehow be more responsible.
Kind of hypocritical, yes.
If I want to give money to a friend for a special event (for example, they get married, graduate college, new child, etc), what choices are there beyond cash or check? Is there a 3rd option I'm missing beyond cash and check? For person to person transactions, check can be easier and safer than cash. How are checks safer than cash?
You give the person the cash, and the transaction's done with. You give him a check, it still might bounce.
Where I'm from person to person transactions are done via cash if there's a personal relationship between sender and receiver, and otherwise via credit transfer.
While I wouldn't want to trade my relatively comfortable life in modern society for those guys lifestyle either, the GP has a point - food is abundant in the jungle, and the native Southern American tribes always had lots spare time.
That fact did play its part in the early European settler's very negative image of those "lazy savages" - laziness was a predominant characteristic in many European paintings of the New World and its inhabitants.
My english is probably better than most other people Italian anyways. Probably, but looking at the global significance of Italy and its modern day culture, can you really blame them?
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If google were seriously considering this, you'd be right.
But "ridiculous indulgence, aristocratic nonsense" has often given people opportunities they wouldn't have had otherwise.
Many very influential scientists had aristocratic patrons, and many of those sponsored science as a form of status symbol.
Good, some of those vehicles must stay on the road - how else are oil companies supposed to continue funding their quest for world domination?
It took too long for the market to regulate itself. Higher taxes that type of vehicle might have kept a lot of them off the road - something that would have been in everybody's interest.
Well, at least it worked that way in Europe ^_^
Hm. Maybe you're right, and the casual gamer - iphone user intersection is a big enough crowd to make producing games for that plattform worthwhile.
But crappy cameras and mp3 players are something that's in pretty much every phone, they're not really something that makes one choose one brand over the other. iPhone gaming would be exclusive to one brand of phones, and as far as I know no phone company has ever succeeded in binding their customers this strongly.
Also, gadget lovers aren't generally opposed to buying a dedicated gadget to play games with..
You're not getting "ripping off" when you're trying to rip someone off and fail.
Kind of like GPS navigation - the versions on cellphones just don't compare to standalone devices.
Well, the cell phone market is a lot older, and more settled, than the mp3 player market was when the iPod was introduced.
And even under those initially more favorable market conditions, in Europe at least the iPod is far from dominating the mp3 player market.
OTOH, the US imports a lot more than it exports. Probably that's because, until recently, the dollar was too expensive.
Importing more than you export isn't a good sign for the economy as such though (trace deficit is one of the characteristics of an underdeveloped country), and it's a probably a good thing the US is kind of forced to change that.
But switching from an import to an export based economy won't be easy, and most likely will hurt a lot of people.
~$0.23 per sentence? :(
No wonder translations often suck so bad..
But that's going to change as soon as you come across a game you'd want to play that wasn't made in a language you know.
And in the interest of cultural diversity and all that, I hope that will happen at some point.
At least the German localisations suck so bad I can't imagine they spent much money or time on them.
Anime fansubs are of higher quality...
And no, there doesn't seem to be an EU wide regulation forbidding the sale of non-localised media. If there is, it's not getting enforced.
Yeah well, his analogy was based on the computer as such being the tool, not just the app.
IT people can get nasty. Root access brings out delusions of power in some people...
Caller IDs are a harder to fake, harder than an e-mails From header anyways.
And if your fax arouses suspicion, it's easier to verify, as all it takes is a call to the phone company to find the real caller id.
Not so easy with an e-mail's From header..
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No. E-mail stands for electronic mail, what Morse did was purely electrical in nature
A major company I worked at had someone from IT talk to us about using unauthorized software.
He actually compared installing software on a computer to shortening the handle of a hammer - customizing the tool, but making it useless for anybody else who might want to use it.
At that company, using Portable Firefox - even though it isn't installed to the harddrive (semantics, really) - wouldn't get you many friends.
...but we are Americans...we don't really give a damn what the rest of the world thinks. Laugh all you want. Don't think you're alone with that sentiment - no country's people I know really seems to care what some other country's people might think of them.Even if they care, it doesn't have any real impact on their behavior.
Americans might get criticised more than other people for that kind of behavior, but as far as I can tell that's just because people feel that America, given its status in the world, should somehow be more responsible.
Kind of hypocritical, yes.
You give the person the cash, and the transaction's done with. You give him a check, it still might bounce.
Where I'm from person to person transactions are done via cash if there's a personal relationship between sender and receiver, and otherwise via credit transfer.
Let's hope it does a little better than 'balance out'. Probably will though - oil isn't going to get any cheaper.
While I wouldn't want to trade my relatively comfortable life in modern society for those guys lifestyle either, the GP has a point - food is abundant in the jungle, and the native Southern American tribes always had lots spare time.
That fact did play its part in the early European settler's very negative image of those "lazy savages" - laziness was a predominant characteristic in many European paintings of the New World and its inhabitants.
#include int main() { gohere: printf("GOTOs don't make a language\n"); goto gohere; return 0; }
Oh, really?
-1 smartass.
Given the context, I don't think there are many people who don't know what was meant. Among this crowd, probably none at all.
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I don't think that's nearly enough to really keep yourself busy.
You'll probably need some more diverse activities than that...