We have to beat into the ground until people admit making a rectangle with rounded corners is about the only way to make a tablet. It's not about someone stealing someone else's design.
Look - if there were lots of other ways to make a tablet PC that were not a rectangle with rounded corners, that would be fine.
The issue is not that there are protections on specific shapes or designs (that's another argument), the issue is that Apple tried to enforce these protections on a rectangle with round corners. Tablets basically can only be rectangles with round corners.
How many times do we have to beat this into the ground?
My core 2 duo with 2gb RAM booted Vista in 15 seconds. What operating system do you need more cores or RAM to boot with? For that matter, how do more cores and RAM really help booting that much?
It only had 2gb because of a bug in which it would not install with 4gb with my motherboard. It was soon upgraded to 4gb after a hotfix, and now has 8gb because one of the original sticks died, and there were 2 4gb sticks floating about. I'm not sure how long it takes to boot now, but it'll probably be a lot longer than 15 seconds. However, my current uptime is 1649 hours.
As much as I, like most people here grin with a certain kind of glee* when something this big goes down, the fact is that doing it yourself is nearly always less reliable.
Also, there's nothing necessarily exclusive about the cloud - you can back up your data too, right?
*Yes, it's evil - but it's because I've had the adrenaline in the past and know what it is like - despite it being one of the worst times, it can also be one of the best for loads of people.
This goes to show how pointless prosecuting this guy is - the Streisand effect ensures that the law is worse than counterproductive, it's actively resulting in what the law was trying to do, which is prevent these kinds of jokes being made on the internet (which is a bit of a stupid fucking law, IMO). If I repeat it, will I be arrested too (yes I am a UK national)? If not, why not?
Only one way to find out...
What's the difference between Mark Bridger and Santa Claus? Mark Bridger comes in April.
Numerous posts in this thread have made jokes along these lines : "$315 for a pair of sneakers? I'm going to kill LeBron James". Should they be prosecuted?
If not, why not? Why might the same reasoning not be made for the quote this guy who got arrested made? Remember, we don't actually know what he said yet, nor the context it was said in.
If you do want the people who made these jokes arrested, I don't really know what else to say...
Do you live in the real world? Honestly, have you met any of these fat people who care more about American Idol & random sport than their paycheck?
I really don't know where you're coming from with the sports angle - Sports have been interconnected with political movements since their inception. Those most fanatical about their sports are often most fanatical politically.
I've got no problem in saying I have no musical talent. I learnt the saxophone for 3 years when at school. By the end, I was still worse than most people after their first year, and I was never going to get very good at it.
Programming _is_ designing. You can't programme something without a design, and if you are getting the design handed to you from someone else, it would be quicker for them to programme it than employ you. Programmers are almost by definition designers. If writing code was simple, most people would be able to do it.
I personally have just grown up with code. I learnt basic, then taught myself HTML, PHP, Javascript, and C and Java (and machine code, to some extent). But I'm an amateur - I know how to hack together a simple website or script, but I have not a clue how to work in a large development. My code is usually a complete mess, I know that - I don't care. If it works, it works.
This doesn't make me a programmer.
If you don't know the difference between someone like me, who can write code in numerous languages, and someone who is adept at doing so, that is your fundamental miscomprehension.
I'd consider somebody rich if: (1) They pay for a full-time household staff-person, such as a housekeeper or nanny
There are plenty of examples of families living about 1900 who lived in absolute squalor, yet employed someone full time, who lived with them. By absolute squalor, I mean 1 room for the entire family, no running water, etc. I learnt about this through a radio programme which concerned crime - one of these maids was accused (and convicted) of theft. Originally sentenced to death, her sentence was commuted (some would say;)) to expatriation to Australia.
Anyway, the point I was making was that there have been plenty of situations in the past in which employing a person full time most definitely did not qualify you as rich. There are not as extreme examples now, but there are still countries in the world now in which a large proportion of families employ someone full time, and these families are not considered rich.
They're already interdependent, but states arrange deals independently. A big UN marketplace just could not work, because of the reasons uranium trading is going on now. It's impossible to regulate, at least with countries that allow some kind of private transactions.
The UK is oil independent - It doesn't need imports. Uranium, I'm guessing we have big contracts with Australia.
It doesn't. Basically the reasoning for dark matter is this:
Under Newtonian or Einsteinian physics, galaxies should rotate a lot slower on the outside, and quicker in the middle than than they actually do (a little like our solar system behaves). No one can explain why they do not, satisfactorily yet.
Dark matter is an explanation which proposes that there is undetectable matter causing the gravity interference which does explain the mechanics of galactic movements. Trouble is, we haven't got a hold of dark matter yet, so although it's an explanation, it's not concrete by any means. If you want a definite explanation, you're probably going to have to go to your priest.
Black holes don't fit. There aren't that many black holes, and despite the name, they are observable. If there were enough black holes to cause galaxies to rotate like they do, we'd have seen them already.
If I pay $3.50 in gas, I get to go 20 miles. About 50 kilometers (VERY roughly, but gas prices fluctuate so much, the cost is close enough).
Yes, very roughly. 20 miles is closer to 30km (divide by 5, multiply by 8 = 32km). You'd have been closer saying if you bought $7 of gas, and go 40 miles that's about 50km (VERY roughly).
That being said, 20mpg isn't that good - plenty of cars which aren't dinky toys hit double that (my Integra type r averages almost 30, and I drive like an idiot).
GP wasn't claiming Wikileaks is investigative journalism (at least that's my reading of it), it was claiming that it fills a similar role that investigative journalism used to. Back in the day investigative journalism used to be used to hold governments to account a lot more effectively than it does now - without it being effective, the government has carte blanche to do what they like and control the media. Wikileaks and sites like it, whether you love or loathe them, do mean governments are more accountable for their actions. Without both sites like these and investigative journalism, governments could be completely unaccountable to the populace.
When did they do that? I personally hated 13, loved 12, liked 10, hated 9, loved 8, quite liked 7, and after (or before) this it's not about affection for the gaming public, because very few people have actually played 1-6.
You'll get loads of people disagreeing with my personal opinion about FF, but IMO FF12 was the best they've done. Yeah, they fucked up 13 (IMO), but they've fucked up in the past and come back. It's still a franchise I'll buy into.
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Consoles used to do everything best,
I've not lived in this world. PC games have always been better, technically and in other ways.
Some console games have not been ported to the PC - these are the games that console players focus upon.
We have to beat into the ground until people admit making a rectangle with rounded corners is about the only way to make a tablet. It's not about someone stealing someone else's design.
Look - if there were lots of other ways to make a tablet PC that were not a rectangle with rounded corners, that would be fine.
The issue is not that there are protections on specific shapes or designs (that's another argument), the issue is that Apple tried to enforce these protections on a rectangle with round corners. Tablets basically can only be rectangles with round corners.
How many times do we have to beat this into the ground?
My core 2 duo with 2gb RAM booted Vista in 15 seconds. What operating system do you need more cores or RAM to boot with? For that matter, how do more cores and RAM really help booting that much?
It only had 2gb because of a bug in which it would not install with 4gb with my motherboard. It was soon upgraded to 4gb after a hotfix, and now has 8gb because one of the original sticks died, and there were 2 4gb sticks floating about. I'm not sure how long it takes to boot now, but it'll probably be a lot longer than 15 seconds. However, my current uptime is 1649 hours.
Some major websites go down.... the internet has stayed rock solid throughout this.
Those major websites will be back up in a few hours.
You expect the internet to be infallible? Not going to happen.
Yeah - it's like availability and uptime is getting worse, rather than better.
What do you mean, it's not...
As much as I, like most people here grin with a certain kind of glee* when something this big goes down, the fact is that doing it yourself is nearly always less reliable.
Also, there's nothing necessarily exclusive about the cloud - you can back up your data too, right?
*Yes, it's evil - but it's because I've had the adrenaline in the past and know what it is like - despite it being one of the worst times, it can also be one of the best for loads of people.
This goes to show how pointless prosecuting this guy is - the Streisand effect ensures that the law is worse than counterproductive, it's actively resulting in what the law was trying to do, which is prevent these kinds of jokes being made on the internet (which is a bit of a stupid fucking law, IMO). If I repeat it, will I be arrested too (yes I am a UK national)? If not, why not?
Only one way to find out...
What's the difference between Mark Bridger and Santa Claus? Mark Bridger comes in April.
Money is never WASTED.
Sounds to me like you're falling victim to the broken window fallacy.
I don't think it's a nod to Gibson personally, the similarities just aren't quite there - it could be a nod to Scott Brown though.
You do know that Portugal and Spain are different countries, right?
Many families in London get a lot more than 10,000 GBP per year on housing allowance alone.
Numerous posts in this thread have made jokes along these lines : "$315 for a pair of sneakers? I'm going to kill LeBron James". Should they be prosecuted?
If not, why not? Why might the same reasoning not be made for the quote this guy who got arrested made? Remember, we don't actually know what he said yet, nor the context it was said in.
If you do want the people who made these jokes arrested, I don't really know what else to say...
Do you live in the real world? Honestly, have you met any of these fat people who care more about American Idol & random sport than their paycheck?
I really don't know where you're coming from with the sports angle - Sports have been interconnected with political movements since their inception. Those most fanatical about their sports are often most fanatical politically.
Fat stupid people aren't sports fans, generally.
I've got no problem in saying I have no musical talent. I learnt the saxophone for 3 years when at school. By the end, I was still worse than most people after their first year, and I was never going to get very good at it.
Why would this be different with coding?
Programming itself doesn't require anything special. Designing does.
Programming _is_ designing. You can't programme something without a design, and if you are getting the design handed to you from someone else, it would be quicker for them to programme it than employ you. Programmers are almost by definition designers. If writing code was simple, most people would be able to do it.
I personally have just grown up with code. I learnt basic, then taught myself HTML, PHP, Javascript, and C and Java (and machine code, to some extent). But I'm an amateur - I know how to hack together a simple website or script, but I have not a clue how to work in a large development. My code is usually a complete mess, I know that - I don't care. If it works, it works.
This doesn't make me a programmer.
If you don't know the difference between someone like me, who can write code in numerous languages, and someone who is adept at doing so, that is your fundamental miscomprehension.
You cannot "give" someone a game you purchased for yourself at some point in the past.
That's the problem for lots of people.
Personally, I can see why this would be an issue for steam, but I also can see why it is an issue for the consumer.
These licenses haven't really been tested in UK law, so I don't know how they'd hold out.
I'd consider somebody rich if: (1) They pay for a full-time household staff-person, such as a housekeeper or nanny
There are plenty of examples of families living about 1900 who lived in absolute squalor, yet employed someone full time, who lived with them. By absolute squalor, I mean 1 room for the entire family, no running water, etc. I learnt about this through a radio programme which concerned crime - one of these maids was accused (and convicted) of theft. Originally sentenced to death, her sentence was commuted (some would say ;)) to expatriation to Australia.
Anyway, the point I was making was that there have been plenty of situations in the past in which employing a person full time most definitely did not qualify you as rich. There are not as extreme examples now, but there are still countries in the world now in which a large proportion of families employ someone full time, and these families are not considered rich.
No, it didn't happen, but there is a story/fable/legend where the correct answer is two.
According to the bible, the correct answer is not 2. I think the correct answer is 7 for sheep, but I may be mistaken. That's why it was on QI.
It's China Mieville, not Melville. I originally read it at Melville, too. Have to go pick up Embassytown soon, have read all his others.
They're already interdependent, but states arrange deals independently. A big UN marketplace just could not work, because of the reasons uranium trading is going on now. It's impossible to regulate, at least with countries that allow some kind of private transactions.
The UK is oil independent - It doesn't need imports. Uranium, I'm guessing we have big contracts with Australia.
It doesn't. Basically the reasoning for dark matter is this :
Under Newtonian or Einsteinian physics, galaxies should rotate a lot slower on the outside, and quicker in the middle than than they actually do (a little like our solar system behaves). No one can explain why they do not, satisfactorily yet.
Dark matter is an explanation which proposes that there is undetectable matter causing the gravity interference which does explain the mechanics of galactic movements. Trouble is, we haven't got a hold of dark matter yet, so although it's an explanation, it's not concrete by any means. If you want a definite explanation, you're probably going to have to go to your priest.
Black holes don't fit. There aren't that many black holes, and despite the name, they are observable. If there were enough black holes to cause galaxies to rotate like they do, we'd have seen them already.
If I pay $3.50 in gas, I get to go 20 miles. About 50 kilometers (VERY roughly, but gas prices fluctuate so much, the cost is close enough).
Yes, very roughly. 20 miles is closer to 30km (divide by 5, multiply by 8 = 32km). You'd have been closer saying if you bought $7 of gas, and go 40 miles that's about 50km (VERY roughly).
That being said, 20mpg isn't that good - plenty of cars which aren't dinky toys hit double that (my Integra type r averages almost 30, and I drive like an idiot).
the Coelacanth has arms and legs with similar bones to ours.
No, it doesn't have arms and legs. None of the Coelacanth's ancestors lived on land, so having arms and legs instead of fins would be a little odd.
GP wasn't claiming Wikileaks is investigative journalism (at least that's my reading of it), it was claiming that it fills a similar role that investigative journalism used to. Back in the day investigative journalism used to be used to hold governments to account a lot more effectively than it does now - without it being effective, the government has carte blanche to do what they like and control the media. Wikileaks and sites like it, whether you love or loathe them, do mean governments are more accountable for their actions. Without both sites like these and investigative journalism, governments could be completely unaccountable to the populace.
When did they do that? I personally hated 13, loved 12, liked 10, hated 9, loved 8, quite liked 7, and after (or before) this it's not about affection for the gaming public, because very few people have actually played 1-6.
You'll get loads of people disagreeing with my personal opinion about FF, but IMO FF12 was the best they've done. Yeah, they fucked up 13 (IMO), but they've fucked up in the past and come back. It's still a franchise I'll buy into.