Actually we do have a constitution, it's just not all written down, and the bits that are written are spread over multiple documents, ranging from the Magna Carta and our own bill of rights to the recent Human rights act. With various Acts of Union, acts of settlement and back to devolved powers again in between.
hot/nice telephone operator How can you tell she's* hot over the phone? And if you do have an automagical way of seeing down phone lines, can you tell us about it;P
*or indeed he if you're female, or otherwise that way inclined.
What's not mentioned in TFA is that MS were handing out Chairs in London as well as their stunt in Paris. [insert oblig. Ballmer joke here]
Seems like they were doing their best to ruin Sony's night.:
At the Virgin Megastore in London's Oxford Street, the software giant handed out chairs to those queuing that had a website address printed on them.
Anyone visiting the webpage saw an Xbox 360 branded site that "welcomes" Sony to the next generation and chides the electronics giant for being "late". Microsoft's Xbox 360 launched in late 2005.
Teaching abstinence helps no one, teaching safe sex helps everyone. I agree 99%. You have to teach of the existence of abstinence as a choice. Personally I've chosen to abstain, not through any moral, ethical or religious* reasons, but because no sex is the only way to be 100% sure of avoiding STDs and\or getting someone pregnant. I'll wait untill I'm married to do the latter.
However I'd never dream of trying to impose my choice on anyone else.
*just FYI I'm a lax Hindu, but have no strong views on the ethics of sex outside marriage.
I live in the UK, I haven't even seen a PS3 yet, my "vitriol" as you put it (I call it annoyance), is not directed at the product itself, but rather at Sony for thinking they can take a large dump on it's consumers. We get the product last with worse backwards compatibility, but have to pay the most(£425\~$825); how does that add up?
Not to be flippant but the UK gets short end of the stick a lot. In fact the EU in general gets things last, gets things at a 100% mark up, and You get thing in quantities that are lower then most states. Partly it's because EU/UK governments are much more protectionist with their trade then US/CA. I don't know how much of that £425 pricetag is sony being arrogant or hidden tarrifs and VAT. The more limited BC is likely for the same reasons. They need to bring the price down as much as possible and still not lose their shirts in hardware. Sony will not take losses like MS does on hardware.
I don't think Sony did the Ps3 right. They should have launched this cheaper, earlier, and with better games if they hoped to repeat their last gen success. But it's nto as bad as others make it out to be. I own one and it serves me well. I basically bought a cheap linux boxen with some blu ray player capability and happens to play my PS2 games well. I have a HD TV, I know linux well enough to install the yellow dog, and I have enough spending cash to need little rationalization for the cost. Canada has very low cost of living. 17.5% is VAT, the rest is Sony; as for the UK being "protectionist", don't make me laugh, the UK has one of the freest markets in the world, in many ways more so than even the USA. You're confusing us with France or Germany.
Back to the PS3, I'd love to get one, but I'm going to wait until they drop the price to something more reasonable, I can afford one; however I don't think that £425 is a reasonable price for what is essentially a toy. I'm happy with my Wii, until the PS3 comes down to ~£200, or they remove the restrictions on the graphics to yellow dog, at which point I'll consider buying it as a myth TV box and media centre. I might even get some Blu-ray discs if they do that.
it succinctly makes the point that Sony thinks it's consumers are idiots and that they would buy a turd with the Sony brand stamped on it.
If you've played with the PS3, you'd know that the hardware is good. But not good enough for most people to justify the price tag yet. the masses or hardware failure both the xbox/360/Ps2 had don't seem to be effecting the PS3. the features are nice and well integrated but they need a compelling reason to get one aside from blu-ray. Right now all they got is a couple good games, a couple third stringers and blu ray. Your vitrol at their product is undeserved. It's not a bad product, just not one with a niche yet. I live in the UK, I haven't even seen a PS3 yet, my "vitriol" as you put it (I call it annoyance), is not directed at the product itself, but rather at Sony for thinking they can take a large dump on it's consumers. We get the product last with worse backwards compatibility, but have to pay the most(£425\~$825); how does that add up?
I live in a medium sized city on the South coast; the rental cost was for shared accommodation, not an apartment. With the cost of housing sky high here (a "cheap" flat is over £100,000; yes, one hundred thousand pounds) shared accommodation is very popular. As per my previous post £60\week per room is an average price, studio flats start from £100\week, so a PS3 would still be over a months rent.
So far this has to be the best question I've read; it succinctly makes the point that Sony thinks it's consumers are idiots and that they would buy a turd with the Sony brand stamped on it. Since the question "Do you think that your consumers are morons and would buy a turd with the Sony Brand" wouldn't be asked, and if it was wouldn't generate a meaningful reply, this question should be asked as it will force Phil to answer for it's past antics(as far as it's possible to force someone to give a straight answer).
That would be a waste of a question as all you'd get was a PR sales pitch, a sibling AC just posted that for you, so there really is no reason to ask Phil, unless you're hoping for some sort of accedental PR blunder on the/. front page.
Uhh, why? Is there some unwritten law that states that there can be only one console? I think he means one console in the LoTR sense: One Console to rule them all, One Console to find them; One Console to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
Sure the you can have the consoles of the elves or dwaves, but we all know that everyone really wants the One Console.;P
in the UK where it is £425. Just to be clear, that's ~$825. £60\week in rent isn't a bad price where I live, is a PS3 really worth almost 2 months rent?
Nintendo, sadly, doesn't seem to have learned and will be using "friend codes" again on the Wii, with reports that each game will use different codes. They will be using friend codes, but Each Wii has a unique code (IIRC you can find it on the notice board), AFAIK it's not game by game as with the DS. You can already use it to let your Mii's "mingle" on other Wiis.
On the basis that the truth is almost always stranger than fiction, I suggest that Quantum theory is wrong, and what really goes on is beyond the wildest imaginations of slashdotters.
Damn it, I don't think I will ever understand this quantum mechanics stuff - every time I look into it I fear I will genocide cats. Except, of course, in some other universe you do understand it, or something like that anyway. I think.
Apologies to the poster further down the thread, but it's actually overdue by quite some time:http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/sup ervolcanoes.shtml
Scientists have revealed that it has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago... so the next is overdue.
The IRA would give warnings (usually coded, and largely useless) before many of their attacks, IIRC they claimed their primary aim was to destroy property, not people (though they didn't care much if people were caught up). This causes just as much terror, but when people died they can do as the military does and label it collateral damage (I don't think they ever used that term, but the sentiment was the same). So things like the 11\09\01 attack were condemned by their political wing (Sinn Fein) immediately. However this was no surprise as the peace process was well under way by the time of 11\09\01 and the IRA had been under ceasefire for quite a few years.
Not saying you PERSONALLY were doing anything illegal. But if you're a bit afraid of our enforcement/police agencies, then I'd say good for them... I've never personally had an encounter with them, but US Police always seem a bit overzealous (e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6251431.stm) in all the media exposure they get in this country.
The point of terrorism is just that, to cause terror, not necessarily deaths. With the IRA, we never knew if a bomb would go off in our city for 30 years. They kept a lot of people scared for a long time. Al Quieda are no where near the league that the IRA was in. As a terrorist organisation, the IRA was very successful, Al Quieda has not been. During the recent Northern Ireland elections I've still been cautious and alert for IRA splinter group (such as the "real" IRA) activities; I haven't given a second thought to Al Quieda cells, everything I've seen and heard about them shows that they are both inept and that the security services seem to overplay their significance (almost all arrests seem to end with the vast majority of people being released).
making adults demand to be treated as children? I don't know if it's anything to do with socialism, but the adult population in this country (the UK) is substantially infantalised. No one is willing to accept responsibility for anything any more, everything is always someone else's fault; and it's usually one of a few narrow groups: "the government", "the media" or "do-gooders\Political correctness". Never "me", everyone thinks that they are totally helpless to change anything, and of course Big-brother takes advantage of this apathy. Personally, I'm working on leaving the country like a coward. I can still get to Eire without a passport, and they currently have a booming economy. Hopefully before that time comes we will have replaced this labour government, and ID cards will be no more (all major opposition parties have pledged to scrap ID cards and the associated database).
That's like an american getting views on the democratic party from Fox News. That was my first thought as well, but the summary has articles from the Independent and Guardian (the other end of the political spectrum) as well, it just goes to show that NuLabour hasn't got support from any paper on this issue, except perhaps the Sun.
Personally, I lost faith in the British press long ago, and only buy Private Eye, IMO the least bias news organ in this country.
This needs modding +5 "Sad but true", as anyone who's even had a cursory glimpse at our government's software projects will be only too wel aware. c.f the CSA or NHS IT systems.
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FP?
Actually we do have a constitution, it's just not all written down, and the bits that are written are spread over multiple documents, ranging from the Magna Carta and our own bill of rights to the recent Human rights act. With various Acts of Union, acts of settlement and back to devolved powers again in between.
*or indeed he if you're female, or otherwise that way inclined.
Seems like they were doing their best to ruin Sony's night.: At the Virgin Megastore in London's Oxford Street, the software giant handed out chairs to those queuing that had a website address printed on them.
Anyone visiting the webpage saw an Xbox 360 branded site that "welcomes" Sony to the next generation and chides the electronics giant for being "late". Microsoft's Xbox 360 launched in late 2005.
However I'd never dream of trying to impose my choice on anyone else.
*just FYI I'm a lax Hindu, but have no strong views on the ethics of sex outside marriage.
Not to be flippant but the UK gets short end of the stick a lot. In fact the EU in general gets things last, gets things at a 100% mark up, and You get thing in quantities that are lower then most states. Partly it's because EU/UK governments are much more protectionist with their trade then US/CA. I don't know how much of that £425 pricetag is sony being arrogant or hidden tarrifs and VAT. The more limited BC is likely for the same reasons. They need to bring the price down as much as possible and still not lose their shirts in hardware. Sony will not take losses like MS does on hardware.
I don't think Sony did the Ps3 right. They should have launched this cheaper, earlier, and with better games if they hoped to repeat their last gen success. But it's nto as bad as others make it out to be. I own one and it serves me well. I basically bought a cheap linux boxen with some blu ray player capability and happens to play my PS2 games well. I have a HD TV, I know linux well enough to install the yellow dog, and I have enough spending cash to need little rationalization for the cost. Canada has very low cost of living. 17.5% is VAT, the rest is Sony; as for the UK being "protectionist", don't make me laugh, the UK has one of the freest markets in the world, in many ways more so than even the USA. You're confusing us with France or Germany.
Back to the PS3, I'd love to get one, but I'm going to wait until they drop the price to something more reasonable, I can afford one; however I don't think that £425 is a reasonable price for what is essentially a toy. I'm happy with my Wii, until the PS3 comes down to ~£200, or they remove the restrictions on the graphics to yellow dog, at which point I'll consider buying it as a myth TV box and media centre. I might even get some Blu-ray discs if they do that.
If you've played with the PS3, you'd know that the hardware is good. But not good enough for most people to justify the price tag yet. the masses or hardware failure both the xbox/360/Ps2 had don't seem to be effecting the PS3. the features are nice and well integrated but they need a compelling reason to get one aside from blu-ray. Right now all they got is a couple good games, a couple third stringers and blu ray. Your vitrol at their product is undeserved. It's not a bad product, just not one with a niche yet. I live in the UK, I haven't even seen a PS3 yet, my "vitriol" as you put it (I call it annoyance), is not directed at the product itself, but rather at Sony for thinking they can take a large dump on it's consumers. We get the product last with worse backwards compatibility, but have to pay the most(£425\~$825); how does that add up?
I live in a medium sized city on the South coast; the rental cost was for shared accommodation, not an apartment. With the cost of housing sky high here (a "cheap" flat is over £100,000; yes, one hundred thousand pounds) shared accommodation is very popular. As per my previous post £60\week per room is an average price, studio flats start from £100\week, so a PS3 would still be over a months rent.
So far this has to be the best question I've read; it succinctly makes the point that Sony thinks it's consumers are idiots and that they would buy a turd with the Sony brand stamped on it. Since the question "Do you think that your consumers are morons and would buy a turd with the Sony Brand" wouldn't be asked, and if it was wouldn't generate a meaningful reply, this question should be asked as it will force Phil to answer for it's past antics(as far as it's possible to force someone to give a straight answer).
That would be a waste of a question as all you'd get was a PR sales pitch, a sibling AC just posted that for you, so there really is no reason to ask Phil, unless you're hoping for some sort of accedental PR blunder on the /. front page.
Sure the you can have the consoles of the elves or dwaves, but we all know that everyone really wants the One Console.
On the basis that the truth is almost always stranger than fiction, I suggest that Quantum theory is wrong, and what really goes on is beyond the wildest imaginations of slashdotters.
They did in *England*, from further up the same Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_genera l_election_2005#England"Despite getting about 60,000 fewer votes than the Conservatives in England, Labour still ended up with a 90-MP English plurality.",
of course, with the Scottish Parliament and Welsh assembly, this brings up the whole West Loathian question.
The IRA would give warnings (usually coded, and largely useless) before many of their attacks, IIRC they claimed their primary aim was to destroy property, not people (though they didn't care much if people were caught up). This causes just as much terror, but when people died they can do as the military does and label it collateral damage (I don't think they ever used that term, but the sentiment was the same). So things like the 11\09\01 attack were condemned by their political wing (Sinn Fein) immediately. However this was no surprise as the peace process was well under way by the time of 11\09\01 and the IRA had been under ceasefire for quite a few years.
The point of terrorism is just that, to cause terror, not necessarily deaths. With the IRA, we never knew if a bomb would go off in our city for 30 years. They kept a lot of people scared for a long time. Al Quieda are no where near the league that the IRA was in. As a terrorist organisation, the IRA was very successful, Al Quieda has not been. During the recent Northern Ireland elections I've still been cautious and alert for IRA splinter group (such as the "real" IRA) activities; I haven't given a second thought to Al Quieda cells, everything I've seen and heard about them shows that they are both inept and that the security services seem to overplay their significance (almost all arrests seem to end with the vast majority of people being released).
That's like an american getting views on the democratic party from Fox News.
That was my first thought as well, but the summary has articles from the Independent and Guardian (the other end of the political spectrum) as well, it just goes to show that NuLabour hasn't got support from any paper on this issue, except perhaps the Sun.
Personally, I lost faith in the British press long ago, and only buy Private Eye, IMO the least bias news organ in this country.
This needs modding +5 "Sad but true", as anyone who's even had a cursory glimpse at our government's software projects will be only too wel aware. c.f the CSA or NHS IT systems.
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