I'm not sure how difficult free pay as you go sims cards are to get in other countries, but they're easily available in the UK. Pop a "disposable" sim card into your phone, create a fake Google account and verify it with that number and then throw the sim card away.
You could get the DVB-T version of the HD Homerun and hook that up to the inconveniently placed aerial and then stream Freeview over your network, either direct to a device or to a MythTV box. One thing to note is that as it's only capable of DVB-T reception it doesn't actually get any of the Freeview HD channels.
But Afghanistan never had warlike intentions towards other countries in the first place.
Which is irrelevant for the discussion at hand. I would assume that most countries invaded by a theoretical combined US, Russian and Chinese army in a quest to create a single planet wide totalitarian government would never have had warlike intentions either.
But there are two big problems with a USSAC Empire -
1) Of countries most likely to stab each other in the back, the US, Russia and China top the list.
2) Both the US and Russia/USSR more or less failed at containing Afghanistan. If they can't contain a forsaken country like that, I don't see what hope they have of conquering the entire planet, even in the highly unlikely event that they pooled their resources. They could probably get away with pushing Europe around, but I think the rest of the planet would give them a lot of trouble.
Anyway, how is it for employers in Germany compared to England? Both Eurozone so presumabley similar ground rules for business and labour.
England (and the rest of the UK) is not in the Eurozone. We're in the EU, but we do not use the euro.
My understanding is that Germany tends to take employee involvement more seriously (so you get works councils and the like) but people are generally on lower wages.
It's fairly easy, especially if you get a company formation company to handle most of the work. Basically, fill in a form on a web site, pay around 30 quid (last time I checked) and in a couple hours you'll have a limited company.
My previous employer had a non compete clause, but then they were an American company (though they waived it when they moved our dev jobs out of the UK and made us redundant). My current employer (which is British) doesn't, and I don't remember any British company that I worked for having one.
"Imagine if some of those 'self-driving cars' would use them."
If a self driving car was using the data from my Garmin GPS, then it would merrily drive me down single lane country roads (with high hedges on either side) at 60 mph instead of the nearby (though theoretically slower) main highway. That would be pretty much guaranteed to end up in disaster.
With OSM data (especially the tagging bit) it would be a lot easier for the self driving car to think twice before choosing those routes.
I would like to agree with you but one of the most popular apps for the iPad is called GoodReader.
Your argument does agree with the parent poster. In GoodReader's case, finding another hit is easier than porting GoodReader to Android. The find another hit vs difficulty of porting ratio is going to be different for each app (and each developer). I'd be surprised if you couldn't find an Android app that is so tightly tied to Android that porting to iOS would be more or less impossible.
In much the same way that desktop devs may prefer to develop for the Mac or Linux but end up writing code for Windows. If the people in marketing decide that it's better to go where the mass market is then you're going to end up having to develop for it, like it or not.
If you're a small developer you can probably get away with continuing to be iOS only, in much the same way there have been small Mac only developers since the Mac was first released. I can't see many medium to large developers remaining iOS only, no matter how much it pains them, in exactly the same way that companies like Adobe started releasing Windows products.
I'm less than convinced by there being an upper limit to the amount of bitcoins that will ever be created. Look at Spain before the New World was founded - they didn't have enough money because they lacked enough precious metals so they had a terrible economy compared to places that did have an adequate money supply (like the middle east). It's hard to see how the bitcoin economy wouldn't eventually dry up, especially as there no new world to get more bitcoins from.
1)" Interesting that/. is making such a big deal of recognizing 1st time contributors. It's an "interesting" editorial policy."
I've noticed that. I guess they're trying to make up for when it seemed like it was always the say people getting their stories posted. I hope it stops soon (not the more people getting their subs posted, but the hornblowing over it).
2) "what are the odds/my/ question will be answered"
Seeing whose running the course + what it's about, I would expect the probability of your question being answered is quite high - except that your question will be being answered by an AI.
"Does anyone here doubt Acacia is assessing its patient portfolio in light of this now becoming a startup?"
"Calculators are wonderful but should not be assumed to give the correct answer."
No, you can assume that a calculator has given you a correct answer for whatever you have entered into it. However, you can't assumed that what you've entered into it is correct.
No, the odds are that if somebody is using Linux they're using it as part of an operating system cobbled together from various parts from various sources released under several different Free and/or Open Source licences, thus Linux.
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I'm not sure how difficult free pay as you go sims cards are to get in other countries, but they're easily available in the UK. Pop a "disposable" sim card into your phone, create a fake Google account and verify it with that number and then throw the sim card away.
As long as it sounds like a name you can use it.
Which is why the whole nymwars saga was a pointless waste of time. If anything, the only thing their policy achieved was to stunt the growth of G+.
YouTube seems to have finally stopped asking me to start using my real name, but it did ask me why I didn't want to use my real name.
You could get the DVB-T version of the HD Homerun and hook that up to the inconveniently placed aerial and then stream Freeview over your network, either direct to a device or to a MythTV box. One thing to note is that as it's only capable of DVB-T reception it doesn't actually get any of the Freeview HD channels.
But Afghanistan never had warlike intentions towards other countries in the first place.
Which is irrelevant for the discussion at hand. I would assume that most countries invaded by a theoretical combined US, Russian and Chinese army in a quest to create a single planet wide totalitarian government would never have had warlike intentions either.
Have you actually read the complete thread?
But there are two big problems with a USSAC Empire -
1) Of countries most likely to stab each other in the back, the US, Russia and China top the list.
2) Both the US and Russia/USSR more or less failed at containing Afghanistan. If they can't contain a forsaken country like that, I don't see what hope they have of conquering the entire planet, even in the highly unlikely event that they pooled their resources. They could probably get away with pushing Europe around, but I think the rest of the planet would give them a lot of trouble.
But where is a military large enough to crush all dissent planet wide going to come from? How would it be paid for?
Also, unlike Tibet with China, some of those factions have nukes (and lots of them). There's not much point in having dominion over a dead planet.
But you won't get a single planetary government - some faction (or even multiple factions) will break out and try to screw over the rest.
They can't even manage to get regional government working - they don't have an ice cubes chance in hell at getting world government up and running.
Anyway, how is it for employers in Germany compared to England? Both Eurozone so presumabley similar ground rules for business and labour.
England (and the rest of the UK) is not in the Eurozone. We're in the EU, but we do not use the euro.
My understanding is that Germany tends to take employee involvement more seriously (so you get works councils and the like) but people are generally on lower wages.
and a disposable income that lets you enjoy life
Doing what? OK, London is expensive as hell but at least there's stuff to do.
How easy is it to register a new business?
It's fairly easy, especially if you get a company formation company to handle most of the work. Basically, fill in a form on a web site, pay around 30 quid (last time I checked) and in a couple hours you'll have a limited company.
Pretty much everyone signs away their working time directive rights away in order to get employed.
That is unless the government in UK is planning to get rid of regulations, taxes, labour laws and inflation of-course.
They're working on it. Be patient.
You won't get an entire planet of high taxes - some countries will have low taxes to try and screw over other countries.
My previous employer had a non compete clause, but then they were an American company (though they waived it when they moved our dev jobs out of the UK and made us redundant). My current employer (which is British) doesn't, and I don't remember any British company that I worked for having one.
You could try an Allwinner A10 based tablet. Apparently they can be flashed with a version of Ubuntu
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?6,8491
If they can be made to run Ubuntu, then they can be made to run Fedora. Not sure how well Gnome 3 runs on them though.
"Imagine if some of those 'self-driving cars' would use them."
If a self driving car was using the data from my Garmin GPS, then it would merrily drive me down single lane country roads (with high hedges on either side) at 60 mph instead of the nearby (though theoretically slower) main highway. That would be pretty much guaranteed to end up in disaster.
With OSM data (especially the tagging bit) it would be a lot easier for the self driving car to think twice before choosing those routes.
I would like to agree with you but one of the most popular apps for the iPad is called GoodReader.
Your argument does agree with the parent poster. In GoodReader's case, finding another hit is easier than porting GoodReader to Android. The find another hit vs difficulty of porting ratio is going to be different for each app (and each developer). I'd be surprised if you couldn't find an Android app that is so tightly tied to Android that porting to iOS would be more or less impossible.
In much the same way that desktop devs may prefer to develop for the Mac or Linux but end up writing code for Windows. If the people in marketing decide that it's better to go where the mass market is then you're going to end up having to develop for it, like it or not.
If you're a small developer you can probably get away with continuing to be iOS only, in much the same way there have been small Mac only developers since the Mac was first released. I can't see many medium to large developers remaining iOS only, no matter how much it pains them, in exactly the same way that companies like Adobe started releasing Windows products.
That's the point, really. M$ is a PC OS company trying to make phones.
I always think of them as a games company with a side line in developer tools, trying to make PC and Phone OSs and Office software.
I'm less than convinced by there being an upper limit to the amount of bitcoins that will ever be created. Look at Spain before the New World was founded - they didn't have enough money because they lacked enough precious metals so they had a terrible economy compared to places that did have an adequate money supply (like the middle east). It's hard to see how the bitcoin economy wouldn't eventually dry up, especially as there no new world to get more bitcoins from.
1)" Interesting that /. is making such a big deal of recognizing 1st time contributors. It's an "interesting" editorial policy."
I've noticed that. I guess they're trying to make up for when it seemed like it was always the say people getting their stories posted. I hope it stops soon (not the more people getting their subs posted, but the hornblowing over it).
2) "what are the odds /my/ question will be answered"
Seeing whose running the course + what it's about, I would expect the probability of your question being answered is quite high - except that your question will be being answered by an AI.
"Does anyone here doubt Acacia is assessing its patient portfolio in light of this now becoming a startup?"
Who?
"Calculators are wonderful but should not be assumed to give the correct answer."
No, you can assume that a calculator has given you a correct answer for whatever you have entered into it. However, you can't assumed that what you've entered into it is correct.
No, the odds are that if somebody is using Linux they're using it as part of an operating system cobbled together from various parts from various sources released under several different Free and/or Open Source licences, thus Linux.
Surprise, you can't run your Linux binary blob compiled for x86 on ARM
Actually, you can with the QEMU User space emulator