Please/. do not use this glorified toilet roll to source news. It's a racist, right wing paper that confuses opinion with fact.
The fact is these kids did serious damage to an ornamental tree. You simply don't build tree houses in cherry trees. They weren't just 'climbing' a tree, they were vandalising it and by the sounds of it they did huge amounts of damage. Then there's building a tree house on public land "generations of children" have played there, why should the kids make it so that it's their own private play area and ruin what is usually a beautiful kind of tree when it's in bloom
It takes 3 tonnes of corn to produce 1 ton of ethanol. The US currently produces around 300million tonnes of corn. That's 100million tonnes of ethanol.
The US uses around 880 millionTonnes of oil. However it's important to remember that when refined, 47% is gasoline.
I'm not sure about how the efficiency of ethanol compares but i'd estimate if has an energy density of around 75% of gasoline.
So to meet the US' needs for gasoline, it'd need 1.5billion tonnes of corn or 500million tonnes of ethanol. That doesn't seem an unreasonable target if the US ramps up it's corn production (more demand = more money = more farms). What it can't produce it can import from agricultural nations.
They can even be brute forced, however almost every car which has a system like this embedded in the car, has an imobiliser integrated into the engine. While it used to be a case of just disconnecting the immobiliser, they're now very tricky to disable. If you force the ignition without an RFID, the imobiliser would activate before the car got down the road.
If the thieves were able to clone the RFID key system they wouldn't need to force the ignition in that way. If they forced the ignition without the code, the imobiliser would have gone off. Sounds like either a defective imobiliser or insurance fraud to me.
continual forced unpaid overtime + extremely stressfull working conditions for some of the lowest paid programmers in IT. Unions have the power to do something known as a strike to stop workers being abused...
Companies should follow EA's tactics. Say to the coders "you'll have an easy schedule during the majority of a project but at crunch time, you're expected to work huge hours with minimal overtime pay"
You start the coders on a project nearing crunch time, have them slave away till it's finished then move them onto another project that's nearing crunch time. If no projects are nearing crunch time move ahead the schedule on one knowing full well you can't meet the new date but still force the overworked coders to give 110% to attempt to meet this impossible target.
You keep all the experienced programmers doing the stress free base work and once the outline is done, you move them to start another project. The vital experienced coders stay happy and stick with the company and the dime-a-dozen average coders have all the work they could possibly give squeezed out of them for minimal pay.
Gotta love an industry with few/weak unions...
the BPI KNOW that what a british court says about allofmp3 doesn't matter to the company.
They'll get the site declared illegal then british customers who buy from them. 'Simply' get a court order forcing ISPs to hand over details about who've been getting lots of data from allofmp3 and sue random people who've been using it.
Yes you (the US) created the networking protocols but guess what, The world wide web was created by CERN which is comprised of European countries. Without Europe websites WOULD NOT EXIST.
The government is acting in an extremely stupid manner. Supposing they get rid of ICANN and put in place a system controlled by the US government. Will Europe and most of the rest of the world like that? Not a chance. Supposing that net neutrality bill comes through and European ISPs suddenly have to pay to send their traffic to the US, I'll imagine they'll like that even less. With the net suddenly controlled by a single government and business from that country, I'd give it... 3 months before the US net becomes isolated and the rest of the world has it's own net.
Remember the great depression? One of the leading reasons for it was isolationism. Considering how much the net it worth to businesses, having the US net seperate from the rest of the world would hit overseas business hugely. These companies stop making money, share prices go down, investment funds start to devalue, smaller banks start getting uneasy and calling in loans and selling assets.... Oh lookie, a stock market crash!
Is a unifying standard.
You should be able to use a DRM'ed piece of media in every electronics device you own, not one or two which happen to share a DRM standard out of chance. MS to be fair seem to have made reasonable efforts to unify DRM with it's 'plays for sure' thingy (although I've no experience on how restrictive it actually is)
If you can register devices as belonging to a household and buy a variety of different forms of DRMed media that understands you're just switching it between devices in your own home, I think most people would be fairly accepting of it. However at the moment we've endless forms of DRM that don't recognise owners as needing to play something on more than one device (ESPECIALLY a competitors device). VHS, CDA, DVD all were successfull because they'd play on devices you'd want them to play on (if you had the equiptment/software), DRM'ed digital media needs to recognise that people don't care if it's sony, apple or MS' software. They just want to play their games/videos/music when they want and how they want.
no.9 is not an accident.
That plant deliberately uses it's stickyness to transport its seeds. The scientist deliberately set out to replicate its effects. Pretty much every aspect of its invention is deliberate.
The UK's BBFC system works well
Independant from the government and from studios, non profit organisation that receives it's funding from review fees. It ratings for individual titles aren't influenced by media or public pressure but for its overal guidelines it surveys the public to see what they think is acceptable.
Bascially if someone goes "who thought XXXX was a film suitable for 12 and unders?!?!" the BBFC can essentially say "you did".
Nintendo are extremely strict when it comes to profiteering. Any supplier found to be selling above the SRP will find it extremely difficult to get any future stock. This includes mass Ebay sellers
If you were to go to france and ask people on the street if they knew who RMS was, I'd be suprised if 5% of people could tell you. Ask to name the French Prime Minister, I'd bet you'd get 85%+.
When all the biggest selling games tend to be licences and/or sports games developed with the intention of making a quick buck rather than being memorable, of course you're not going to remember the people behind it.
It's another parallel to hollywood. You may be able to remember who directed Saving private ryan but can you name the director of American Pie 2 without using IMDB? We remember names when a person has specifically crafted a good game and it bears his trademarks. We don't remember mass produced stuff that could've been made by any number of software houses around the globe
protests get the issue in the public domain. Do you think the general public (who dont visit tech news sites) will hear anything about this denied meeting? DRM relies on public ignorance to propogate, if a good portion of the country take offence to it, it can't survive. Look at the Sony fiasco for a good example of this
Disgruntled man stopped by security when he barged his way to French parliment and demanded to see a top MP!
This is really a piece of non-news. Just because he's got a petition doesn't give him the right to see them. If he really wanted action to take place he'd organise a series of protests that can't just be turned away.
But I'd be willing to be that blogging increasingly becomes a source for viral marketing where supposedly former disgruntled employees who continually moan about things that don't really matter at a workplace "our monitors are sony! I want a panasonic monitor!!!!!" suddenly become full of praise for said company in a sneaky method of giving said company good PR when they really need it and giving it "any press is good press" type coverage when it just needs brand recognition
Nothing gets people reading like a controversial opinion. When ad services pay per view, writing something that goes against popular opinion and getting it posted endlessly on "I can't believe this guy" theads on forums. Who cares if you have to write something that isn't inline with your own views if it can earn you a quick buck?
There's a system in the UK where you can go out clubbing, here a song you like, dial a number and hold the phone out to the music and it'll text you the name of the song.
Assuming they don't hire scores of extremely knowledgable music buffs with quick fingers, surely it's a very similar system. TV dialogue may be less distinctive to the human ear but to a computer it just means a larger amount of data to search through.
When people don't join unions.
Is paying $2 a week and attending a meeting once every 6 months really that much of a bother? It's certainly make them think twice about doing stuff like that (which would be illegal in a number of other countries)
despite being on an intel optimised PC.
It's the equilivant of being on a fresh install of a PC built by a talented system builder with a high budget. There may be comparissons between a lesser AMD system but most of the benchmarks so far have been ones directly comparable to other benchmarks performed by regular sites on systems they've built.
I'm looking forward to the conroes because they seem to be bringing the price of CPUs down again which to me seem to offer less bang for buck than in the 2800xp days.
Have they released a price list for every upcoming CPU yet?
Because targeting the player himself opens up all sorts of nasty data privacy issues. Could you trust Blizzard/Squeenix/Codemasters not to sell/provide your registration info to in game marketers?
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The fact is these kids did serious damage to an ornamental tree. You simply don't build tree houses in cherry trees. They weren't just 'climbing' a tree, they were vandalising it and by the sounds of it they did huge amounts of damage. Then there's building a tree house on public land "generations of children" have played there, why should the kids make it so that it's their own private play area and ruin what is usually a beautiful kind of tree when it's in bloom
Sounds discreet
The US uses around 880 millionTonnes of oil. However it's important to remember that when refined, 47% is gasoline.
I'm not sure about how the efficiency of ethanol compares but i'd estimate if has an energy density of around 75% of gasoline.
So to meet the US' needs for gasoline, it'd need 1.5billion tonnes of corn or 500million tonnes of ethanol. That doesn't seem an unreasonable target if the US ramps up it's corn production (more demand = more money = more farms). What it can't produce it can import from agricultural nations.
They can even be brute forced, however almost every car which has a system like this embedded in the car, has an imobiliser integrated into the engine. While it used to be a case of just disconnecting the immobiliser, they're now very tricky to disable. If you force the ignition without an RFID, the imobiliser would activate before the car got down the road. If the thieves were able to clone the RFID key system they wouldn't need to force the ignition in that way. If they forced the ignition without the code, the imobiliser would have gone off. Sounds like either a defective imobiliser or insurance fraud to me.
The is a linux port... Of sorts A version of onscripter has been released on the GP2X which runs Linux
continual forced unpaid overtime + extremely stressfull working conditions for some of the lowest paid programmers in IT. Unions have the power to do something known as a strike to stop workers being abused...
Companies should follow EA's tactics. Say to the coders "you'll have an easy schedule during the majority of a project but at crunch time, you're expected to work huge hours with minimal overtime pay" You start the coders on a project nearing crunch time, have them slave away till it's finished then move them onto another project that's nearing crunch time. If no projects are nearing crunch time move ahead the schedule on one knowing full well you can't meet the new date but still force the overworked coders to give 110% to attempt to meet this impossible target. You keep all the experienced programmers doing the stress free base work and once the outline is done, you move them to start another project. The vital experienced coders stay happy and stick with the company and the dime-a-dozen average coders have all the work they could possibly give squeezed out of them for minimal pay. Gotta love an industry with few/weak unions...
*dons flamesuit*
They'll get the site declared illegal then british customers who buy from them. 'Simply' get a court order forcing ISPs to hand over details about who've been getting lots of data from allofmp3 and sue random people who've been using it.
Yes you (the US) created the networking protocols but guess what, The world wide web was created by CERN which is comprised of European countries. Without Europe websites WOULD NOT EXIST. The government is acting in an extremely stupid manner. Supposing they get rid of ICANN and put in place a system controlled by the US government. Will Europe and most of the rest of the world like that? Not a chance. Supposing that net neutrality bill comes through and European ISPs suddenly have to pay to send their traffic to the US, I'll imagine they'll like that even less. With the net suddenly controlled by a single government and business from that country, I'd give it... 3 months before the US net becomes isolated and the rest of the world has it's own net. Remember the great depression? One of the leading reasons for it was isolationism. Considering how much the net it worth to businesses, having the US net seperate from the rest of the world would hit overseas business hugely. These companies stop making money, share prices go down, investment funds start to devalue, smaller banks start getting uneasy and calling in loans and selling assets.... Oh lookie, a stock market crash!
Is a unifying standard. You should be able to use a DRM'ed piece of media in every electronics device you own, not one or two which happen to share a DRM standard out of chance. MS to be fair seem to have made reasonable efforts to unify DRM with it's 'plays for sure' thingy (although I've no experience on how restrictive it actually is) If you can register devices as belonging to a household and buy a variety of different forms of DRMed media that understands you're just switching it between devices in your own home, I think most people would be fairly accepting of it. However at the moment we've endless forms of DRM that don't recognise owners as needing to play something on more than one device (ESPECIALLY a competitors device). VHS, CDA, DVD all were successfull because they'd play on devices you'd want them to play on (if you had the equiptment/software), DRM'ed digital media needs to recognise that people don't care if it's sony, apple or MS' software. They just want to play their games/videos/music when they want and how they want.
no.9 is not an accident. That plant deliberately uses it's stickyness to transport its seeds. The scientist deliberately set out to replicate its effects. Pretty much every aspect of its invention is deliberate.
The UK's BBFC system works well Independant from the government and from studios, non profit organisation that receives it's funding from review fees. It ratings for individual titles aren't influenced by media or public pressure but for its overal guidelines it surveys the public to see what they think is acceptable. Bascially if someone goes "who thought XXXX was a film suitable for 12 and unders?!?!" the BBFC can essentially say "you did".
Nintendo are extremely strict when it comes to profiteering. Any supplier found to be selling above the SRP will find it extremely difficult to get any future stock. This includes mass Ebay sellers
If you were to go to france and ask people on the street if they knew who RMS was, I'd be suprised if 5% of people could tell you. Ask to name the French Prime Minister, I'd bet you'd get 85%+.
When all the biggest selling games tend to be licences and/or sports games developed with the intention of making a quick buck rather than being memorable, of course you're not going to remember the people behind it. It's another parallel to hollywood. You may be able to remember who directed Saving private ryan but can you name the director of American Pie 2 without using IMDB? We remember names when a person has specifically crafted a good game and it bears his trademarks. We don't remember mass produced stuff that could've been made by any number of software houses around the globe
protests get the issue in the public domain. Do you think the general public (who dont visit tech news sites) will hear anything about this denied meeting? DRM relies on public ignorance to propogate, if a good portion of the country take offence to it, it can't survive. Look at the Sony fiasco for a good example of this
Disgruntled man stopped by security when he barged his way to French parliment and demanded to see a top MP! This is really a piece of non-news. Just because he's got a petition doesn't give him the right to see them. If he really wanted action to take place he'd organise a series of protests that can't just be turned away.
But I'd be willing to be that blogging increasingly becomes a source for viral marketing where supposedly former disgruntled employees who continually moan about things that don't really matter at a workplace "our monitors are sony! I want a panasonic monitor!!!!!" suddenly become full of praise for said company in a sneaky method of giving said company good PR when they really need it and giving it "any press is good press" type coverage when it just needs brand recognition
Nothing gets people reading like a controversial opinion. When ad services pay per view, writing something that goes against popular opinion and getting it posted endlessly on "I can't believe this guy" theads on forums. Who cares if you have to write something that isn't inline with your own views if it can earn you a quick buck?
This isn't att all because she wants to make a bit of money on the side giving lectures at universities or being a talking head?
There's a system in the UK where you can go out clubbing, here a song you like, dial a number and hold the phone out to the music and it'll text you the name of the song. Assuming they don't hire scores of extremely knowledgable music buffs with quick fingers, surely it's a very similar system. TV dialogue may be less distinctive to the human ear but to a computer it just means a larger amount of data to search through.
When people don't join unions. Is paying $2 a week and attending a meeting once every 6 months really that much of a bother? It's certainly make them think twice about doing stuff like that (which would be illegal in a number of other countries)
despite being on an intel optimised PC. It's the equilivant of being on a fresh install of a PC built by a talented system builder with a high budget. There may be comparissons between a lesser AMD system but most of the benchmarks so far have been ones directly comparable to other benchmarks performed by regular sites on systems they've built. I'm looking forward to the conroes because they seem to be bringing the price of CPUs down again which to me seem to offer less bang for buck than in the 2800xp days. Have they released a price list for every upcoming CPU yet?
Because targeting the player himself opens up all sorts of nasty data privacy issues. Could you trust Blizzard/Squeenix/Codemasters not to sell/provide your registration info to in game marketers?