Those Swiss cantons may be more finely grained when it comes to laws than most countries, but it still doesn't sound like the actual public vote directly on issues.
Well, it was proper fresh crab I had as a kid, and I didn't much like it then either!
I had mini soft shelled crabs before at a Japanese restaurant, and they were very tasty indeed. I don't know if that's just an actual difference in the meat, or just how they cooked them?
Well, we don't have true democracy anywhere in the world. We vote for leaders, rather than vote on issues. I usually think that I'd much prefer to vote on issues, but considering how ignorant or misinformed people are on scientific issues, it would in fact be a bad idea to let the general public best decide on issues like this.
Thinking that Democracy is the ideal solution in all situations is rather foolish.
Crab.. I bought a tin of it a little while back to see if I like it now (didn't like it much as a kid).. I managed to finish it, but I felt like puking half the time. Just ate it because it would have been a waste of money otherwise, and protein is protein.
Kind of what I was thinking. I try not to eat corn any more, though it's damn near impossible since everything seems to contain "maize starch", so I haven't eliminated it entirely.
If you've got confidence in your abilities and can truly work under your own initiative
Check and check!
you're confident in interviews and you're confident networking
Damn. I'm one of those stereotypically shy geeky types. I've never actually had an interview in my life so it's a bit of an unknown for me.. and I'd say I suck at interpersonal relationships, especially with people I've only just met:p
True, I only had to pay something like £6000 in total to go through University. Still, land and housing in the US is generally dirt cheap compared to here, so that probably balances it out a bit.
Tuna and mayo is actually really nice if you buy something decent (ie freshly made at a bakery) and not something that's been lying in a packet for a day or two.
6 years out and not in the range yet:p Though still doing better than the arbitrary goal I'd set of making over £30k a year by the time I hit 30. I make enough that I don't really have to worry about money any more, that's good enough for me. I spent some time last year worrying that I wasn't making as much as I should be, but discovered all these really high paying wages tend to be in much richer areas, and for much more high stress/responsibility jobs than being the head "IT guy"/programmer for a small/medium sized business. As it is I have it pretty good.
I'm not a games programmer like I wanted to be when I was a kid, but by all accounts games programmers are generally treated like shit for little pay, so that turned me off the idea. And at least when I write specific internal apps for the company I work for, I do get some sense of pride and accomplishment because I can see the direct results of my work. One day one of the admin staff loudly proclaimed her love for me simply because the equipment tracking system I wrote made life so much easier for her than using the mess of spreadsheets they had before.
I thought all the stupid romance crap was in the second, sorry. From the third I just remember some sneaky Jedi action, a whole bunch of clone troopers, and Anakin going DO NOT WAAAAAAAAAANT
The fact that a certain behavior will be detrimental to the future of the group doesn't cause cooperative individuals to be selected for, they are only selected for if their behavior immediately benefits themselves and their cousins.
This is true over the short term, but over the long term any groups that tend toward cooperation and benefit each other will have a better chance of survival. I haven't looked into it much, but there are some really interesting symbiotic relationships in nature, where one species has developed to depend on another.
At a basic level I guess that applies to things like certain viruses and bacteria, but it also happens with some larger species that I can't remember right now. I think perhaps some bird/bee combo, or for example insects and birds being used to propagate pollen and seeds. There are even plants which mimic the look and scent of female bees to encourage people to mate with them. That's pretty mind boggling to me, and is enough to at least make you wonder about some higher power at work, but still possible and plausible via simple natural selection, given a lot of time, which life on earth has indeed had. Even if individual species are doing these things for selfish reasons, it still results in cooperation and mutual benefits.
a Dell Streak without service is still very expensive (twice the price of iPod touch or Archos 43).
Indeed, but it's bigger, it's in the gap between the iPhone and the iPad, and I do consider it worth it (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't have bought it!). I might still get a 9 inch tablet at some point, since the Kindle reader isn't available for Linux, but the 5 inch Streak is fine for now, even for reading eBooks.
Even primary-school children, whose parents make much of the market for E-rated games?
Actually, yes. I don't know many kids that young, but I have heard of kids that young having iPhones..
Such a time horizon is off the radar of home entertainment product makers.
I wasn't offering them any advice, I was just considering what will likely be possible by then:p
iPod touch, these can't run any app not in the App Store without a jailbreak. Would Apple accept game controller apps in the App Store?
I don't know, I don't pay much attention to the details of what Apple are doing, but there will definitely be plenty of Android devices around. Whether they'll be able to run the apps using an older version of the OS might be an issue though. There are many apps that shouldn't technically need the latest version, yet do anyway.
My TV is 40" and the difference with blu-rays is still noticeable - I think the ratio of size of TV, current resolution, and viewing distance probably have a larger importance than the actual size of your TV.
Yeah I always thought the same, until I just gave up on the blu-ray, since it took so incredibly long to even bring out a DVD version, or at least that's what I thought.
Ah, the good old "put half of my post in the title, even though a lot of people skim past the titles since they're usually full of Re:re:re:re:re:". Oops.
Hmm. With my Dell Streak I tried it in an O2 store to see if I'd like it, then ordered online. Thankfully our company uses O2 anyway so there was no unlocking to bother with. I do appreciate being able to browse on the go with my phone at a decent resolution, and can read books on the Kindle app etc. There will probably always be people who just want a simple rugged phone, but I think the majority of folks will have smartphones in 10 years. There must be a lot of cheap used iPhones and the like around already.
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I'm not from America.
Those Swiss cantons may be more finely grained when it comes to laws than most countries, but it still doesn't sound like the actual public vote directly on issues.
Well, it was proper fresh crab I had as a kid, and I didn't much like it then either!
I had mini soft shelled crabs before at a Japanese restaurant, and they were very tasty indeed. I don't know if that's just an actual difference in the meat, or just how they cooked them?
I didn't claim those were the only two options, but I do think they're the best ones.
Well, we don't have true democracy anywhere in the world. We vote for leaders, rather than vote on issues. I usually think that I'd much prefer to vote on issues, but considering how ignorant or misinformed people are on scientific issues, it would in fact be a bad idea to let the general public best decide on issues like this.
Thinking that Democracy is the ideal solution in all situations is rather foolish.
On the other hand, prawns are TASTY, so I hope they go more down that route :)
Crab.. I bought a tin of it a little while back to see if I like it now (didn't like it much as a kid).. I managed to finish it, but I felt like puking half the time. Just ate it because it would have been a waste of money otherwise, and protein is protein.
A non-squeamish person sometime in the future: "Hey wait a minute guys! This tastes just like chicken!"
Kind of what I was thinking. I try not to eat corn any more, though it's damn near impossible since everything seems to contain "maize starch", so I haven't eliminated it entirely.
In the short term we also have to factor in the costs of making our fences fucking huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge
Eating is a selfish act. Pretty much all of life is a selfish competition.
Either get over it, or take your argument to its logical conclusion and stop living.
I hope you were just trolling.
If you've got confidence in your abilities and can truly work under your own initiative
Check and check!
you're confident in interviews and you're confident networking
Damn. I'm one of those stereotypically shy geeky types. I've never actually had an interview in my life so it's a bit of an unknown for me.. and I'd say I suck at interpersonal relationships, especially with people I've only just met :p
True, I only had to pay something like £6000 in total to go through University. Still, land and housing in the US is generally dirt cheap compared to here, so that probably balances it out a bit.
Tuna and mayo is actually really nice if you buy something decent (ie freshly made at a bakery) and not something that's been lying in a packet for a day or two.
Agreed. If money was the only concern, I'd be working offshore or down a mine or something.
6 years out and not in the range yet :p Though still doing better than the arbitrary goal I'd set of making over £30k a year by the time I hit 30. I make enough that I don't really have to worry about money any more, that's good enough for me. I spent some time last year worrying that I wasn't making as much as I should be, but discovered all these really high paying wages tend to be in much richer areas, and for much more high stress/responsibility jobs than being the head "IT guy"/programmer for a small/medium sized business. As it is I have it pretty good.
I'm not a games programmer like I wanted to be when I was a kid, but by all accounts games programmers are generally treated like shit for little pay, so that turned me off the idea. And at least when I write specific internal apps for the company I work for, I do get some sense of pride and accomplishment because I can see the direct results of my work. One day one of the admin staff loudly proclaimed her love for me simply because the equipment tracking system I wrote made life so much easier for her than using the mess of spreadsheets they had before.
You might make a lot of money. You might have a lot of time to look at slashdot and try to get one of the first five posts.
I'm still trying to find out if the two are mutually exclusive.
Yeah, they'll only get the fart when they pull out their cardboard Steve ;)
I thought all the stupid romance crap was in the second, sorry. From the third I just remember some sneaky Jedi action, a whole bunch of clone troopers, and Anakin going DO NOT WAAAAAAAAAANT
The fact that a certain behavior will be detrimental to the future of the group doesn't cause cooperative individuals to be selected for, they are only selected for if their behavior immediately benefits themselves and their cousins.
This is true over the short term, but over the long term any groups that tend toward cooperation and benefit each other will have a better chance of survival. I haven't looked into it much, but there are some really interesting symbiotic relationships in nature, where one species has developed to depend on another.
At a basic level I guess that applies to things like certain viruses and bacteria, but it also happens with some larger species that I can't remember right now. I think perhaps some bird/bee combo, or for example insects and birds being used to propagate pollen and seeds. There are even plants which mimic the look and scent of female bees to encourage people to mate with them. That's pretty mind boggling to me, and is enough to at least make you wonder about some higher power at work, but still possible and plausible via simple natural selection, given a lot of time, which life on earth has indeed had. Even if individual species are doing these things for selfish reasons, it still results in cooperation and mutual benefits.
In that case I must say that it's quite impressive that he knew I'd reply before he posted.
a Dell Streak without service is still very expensive (twice the price of iPod touch or Archos 43).
Indeed, but it's bigger, it's in the gap between the iPhone and the iPad, and I do consider it worth it (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't have bought it!). I might still get a 9 inch tablet at some point, since the Kindle reader isn't available for Linux, but the 5 inch Streak is fine for now, even for reading eBooks.
Even primary-school children, whose parents make much of the market for E-rated games?
Actually, yes. I don't know many kids that young, but I have heard of kids that young having iPhones..
Such a time horizon is off the radar of home entertainment product makers.
I wasn't offering them any advice, I was just considering what will likely be possible by then :p
iPod touch, these can't run any app not in the App Store without a jailbreak. Would Apple accept game controller apps in the App Store?
I don't know, I don't pay much attention to the details of what Apple are doing, but there will definitely be plenty of Android devices around. Whether they'll be able to run the apps using an older version of the OS might be an issue though. There are many apps that shouldn't technically need the latest version, yet do anyway.
My TV is 40" and the difference with blu-rays is still noticeable - I think the ratio of size of TV, current resolution, and viewing distance probably have a larger importance than the actual size of your TV.
Yeah I always thought the same, until I just gave up on the blu-ray, since it took so incredibly long to even bring out a DVD version, or at least that's what I thought.
Ah, the good old "put half of my post in the title, even though a lot of people skim past the titles since they're usually full of Re:re:re:re:re:". Oops.
Hmm. With my Dell Streak I tried it in an O2 store to see if I'd like it, then ordered online. Thankfully our company uses O2 anyway so there was no unlocking to bother with. I do appreciate being able to browse on the go with my phone at a decent resolution, and can read books on the Kindle app etc. There will probably always be people who just want a simple rugged phone, but I think the majority of folks will have smartphones in 10 years. There must be a lot of cheap used iPhones and the like around already.
I thought that was just jamming, and I also saw someone else saying they had to stop doing that to allow emergency calls from movie theaters?