Along with 2/3 the voting public I was voting against the current regime.
Along with sadly almost none of the voting public I'll be writing to my MP regarding this Home Office proposal. Unfortunately it would be foolish to express to my MP the true natuer of my feelings on this matter, as threats of violence against the cabinet tend to be taken quite seriously.
Use your 2nd amendment granted firearms against the Government and you will become prey.
The Afghans are far better armed than civilians in the US, far more experienced in using those arms, have very good terrain for conducting guerilla warfare and are extremely motivated. They have also successfully used violence resistance against pretty much every government they've had for the past 30 years - including one backed by the US military.
They also have a lousy kill ratio, they hide from helicopters, they keep running when hunted.
he's not being extradited, he was arrested in Dallas.
Whether the firm's operations are liable for US tax is very questionable. Use of extradition in a case such as this would cause a massive amount of bad feeling towards the extradition laws and work badly against future US prosecutions of actual crimes.
Write and run the tests _before_ you touch the code. Otherwise how do you know what the code you're changing does, and that it does it properly?
But otherwise, yeah - rewrite from scratch runs a tremendous risk of losing a lot of subtle behaviour and error checking. Although the technique of legacy isolation (which has a proper name that I can't remember) can often help here - isolate the old system, and start implementing new capabilities in a new system. Stop updating the old system and eventually you'll be able to turn it off. This is easy to say of course, but unfortunately isn't easy to achieve in practice.
Going the other way, I have a BSc (hons) in Accounting and Financial Analysis and my job title is now "Enterprise Architect".
I find that much of the IT industry still values experience and skills ahead of qualifications.
Having said that, if you can afford to go and get a PhD, grab it - it'll help get the initial interviews and it impresses members of the opposite sex. Apparently.
Doom (whichever incarnation) is a monster flick. Maybe a top-edge horror one. I don't know, I don't care.
It sure as shit isn't a Lars von Trier film. I've yet to see a video game that treads remotely close to "Breaking the Waves" or "Dogma".
Those films are not mass market. They are not comfortable to watch. Hell, Donnie Darko is strange and curious but nowhere near disturbing compared to them. And most people think Donnie Darko is disturbing.
Forget "I'm scared to go to sleep tonight", where are the games that make you sit staring blankly at the screen in emotional shock.
Sure, some people may be easily disturbed. But give me a game that hits the emotions like "Lilya 4ever", or "Come and See". Truly challenge me intellectually and emotionally, make a game that I know I _have_ to play, even though it hurts.
It's very unlikely I found all the secret areas. It's very certain that I'm not prepared to spend hours quartering the levels to do so.
Finding a secret area to avoid a fight I can't win is fun and rewarding and a great facet of the gameplay. Finding them all to be able to celebrate finding them is to me tedium.
Yes, I have a little regret that I haven't found them all. Yes, I have a degree of respect for anybody that has found them all. However, the reward for finding them would have to be pretty spectacular to make it worth the time and effort for me.
My time is limited, my patience short. Perhaps I'm a child with low attention span, and maybe that means I get less value from the games I buy. I accept these things and seek games that entertain and delight me, that interest and stimulate me, that I can find fun. I suspect those goals are no different to many peoples, yet meeting them will be different for most.
I have a few hundred books. I've read them on average 3-4 times each. Some much more than that, a few only once.
The reward from a book is the way it's written, the storytelling aspect.
Going back to Deus Ex or Max Payne may be fun, as it is now several years since I played them. Going back to Baldur's Gate would not. There's too much legwork to progress the story - the story may be interesting, but it's not worth the 80 hours of playing that I'd need to see it. I can read ten books with better stories in that time, or 5 such books and 40 hours of gameplay on a game that gives me a new experience. I just picked up SW:KOTOR for the first time and I'm greatly enjoying the opening parts to that..
Incidentally, the Wheel of Time series just leaves me cold. It's a big epic tale in a massive complex world.. but narrative is poor, the rewards too few. I'd rather read Robin Hobb, Ian Irvine or even George RR Martin.
Except that if you do read the article, it mentions seeding the xbox 360 with new algorithms designed for Halo 2 that would achieve the upgrade.
It would be an automatic upgrade to the user, but only because someone had sat and written the new algorithms and deployed them to the user (on the xbox 360 hard disk).
Congratulations - you've taken the/. standard of "not reading the article" to heart.
I find the replay value of games with a big storyline very low. I already know the story.
If I want to read a story, I'll read a book. If I want to watch a story, I'll watch a film.
Games with story can be truly excellent - I love Baldur's Gate (and II) and Max Payne and Deus Ex - but knowing what's going to happen means I don't want to play them again.
So you don't like to play for hours to uncover locked content, but you do want the reward for getting further to be getting to a cool level?
You don't want games to be storytelling, but you like adventure games?
You don't want games that need simultaneous use of 12 buttons, but you like simulations (which can need precise ordered use of 80 buttons)?
Games can have story, it can drive them; Max Payne is one of the best games I've ever played. Minimal replay value, sure, but that first time through was king. Project Gotham Racing has no story, immediate accessibility, much replay value, also a great game. Angband has no graphics, a very basic plotline and immense replayability.
All have gameplay. That seems to be what you're after. Everything else is candy. But I'd rather play Project Gotham Racing than Power Drift, because although both had top-end graphics (for their day) and both had great gameplay, PGR is much prettier and takes advantage of the extra CPU power and controller capability to give a far better gaming experience.
That's odd. I haven't had my SkyDigital decoder hooked up to a phone line for about 14 months.
Wonder how my Sky Sports, Sky Movies, Prem Plus and Film Four channels manage to keep working, give the encryption keys changed 14 months (minus 3 minutes) ago.
Shit, you want humiliation, hark back to my anglo-saxon ancestry and the grotesque embarrassment of being conquered by a bunch of normans.
Discrimination on the basis of colour is racism. That includes favouring black over white, brown over yellow, white over that beautiful chocolate colour of the girl in the canteen in Luton.
* Whether the payment service has a substantial historical track record of providing safe and reliable financial and/or banking related services (new services without such a track record generally cannot be promoted on eBay)
I just spent around $650 on a new phone - a Nokia E70. It arrived this morning.
For the use I'm going to get from it, the convenience it gives me, the fact it fits into my trouser pocket (when two separate devices wont), the satisfaction I get from owning it, and the opportunity cost involved (i.e. what else I would have spent the money on) I don't think my spending priorities are out of kilter.
I am not on crack.
Next big purchases: - $3600 boiler replacement for my house - $1800 refurbishment of my Indiana Jones Pinball Adventures table - $35000 three wheeled motor vehicle
I suspect there'll be other large cash outlays (the automatic gearbox on my car is likely to die in the next few months, etc) but shit, I have a degree in accounting. Responsible handling of my personal finances is the easy part of my life.
My E70 arrived this morning. It's rather nice. Extremely rather nice.
Known issues: - Can't currently use SIP based VOIP through NAT; Nokia apparently working on resolution - Web browser can run out of memory; N80 had same issue, Nokia resolved with new firmware
It's a very elegant device, I've been a fan of Symbian since my Psion MX5 and Revo and being a Nokia, it's got 5 hours talk time, 10 days standby and great voice quality.
I'm sure I'll find more I don't like about it, but I'm also sure I'll find more that I do like about it.
Now to find out how to get my personal email pushed to it without paying money to Blackberry..
If I follow the ethics and morality in the bible, I'm going to be imprisoned for assault and murder within minutes.
I can't receive god's mercy, as there is no god. In other news (and with equivalent legitimacy) there is no Father Christmas and no Soul Cake Tuesday Duck.
The thing is, MS can either - pay up - pull out of Europe
Longer term, they can - pay up - satisfy the EU
If they don't want to pull out of Europe, and don't publish the APIs, then the fines will continue.
If non-compliance continues, because MS decides the profit margin is worth the expense, the EU can raise the fines. I believe the maximum fine is 20% of revenue.
That's global revenue.
The EU really do have the ability to break MS over this one.
The big problem with the Matilda's is that if you use them in battle, every single gun on the other side goes "shit, there goes our minefield" and targets them.
Hence a very dead Matilda being on display at Overloon (http://www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/uk/)
>> The US does not deploy land mines that way and our land mines can be destroyed when they are past their usefulness.
How do you destroy them if you don't know where they are? (Mines move, especially in heavy rain or heavy artillery; maps can be inaccurate; people with maps can die) How do you destroy them when you aren't there to do it? (Vietnam. Somalia.) How do you destroy a mine that's already blown up a child? (Every fucking war since the things were invented)
Don't get me wrong, if I was tasked with the defence of a fixed position, I'd want landmines to help me. But I also wouldn't pretend they have no consequences.
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Along with 2/3 the voting public I was voting against the current regime.
Along with sadly almost none of the voting public I'll be writing to my MP regarding this Home Office proposal. Unfortunately it would be foolish to express to my MP the true natuer of my feelings on this matter, as threats of violence against the cabinet tend to be taken quite seriously.
Use your 2nd amendment granted firearms against the Government and you will become prey.
The Afghans are far better armed than civilians in the US, far more experienced in using those arms, have very good terrain for conducting guerilla warfare and are extremely motivated. They have also successfully used violence resistance against pretty much every government they've had for the past 30 years - including one backed by the US military.
They also have a lousy kill ratio, they hide from helicopters, they keep running when hunted.
They're still prey.
As I understand it, conviction of a civil offense is not required to give someone an ASBO. I'll check with my mother, she hands them out like candy.
he's not being extradited, he was arrested in Dallas.
Whether the firm's operations are liable for US tax is very questionable. Use of extradition in a case such as this would cause a massive amount of bad feeling towards the extradition laws and work badly against future US prosecutions of actual crimes.
You need to pick up Refactoring by Martin Fowler.
Write and run the tests _before_ you touch the code. Otherwise how do you know what the code you're changing does, and that it does it properly?
But otherwise, yeah - rewrite from scratch runs a tremendous risk of losing a lot of subtle behaviour and error checking. Although the technique of legacy isolation (which has a proper name that I can't remember) can often help here - isolate the old system, and start implementing new capabilities in a new system. Stop updating the old system and eventually you'll be able to turn it off. This is easy to say of course, but unfortunately isn't easy to achieve in practice.
Going the other way, I have a BSc (hons) in Accounting and Financial Analysis and my job title is now "Enterprise Architect".
I find that much of the IT industry still values experience and skills ahead of qualifications.
Having said that, if you can afford to go and get a PhD, grab it - it'll help get the initial interviews and it impresses members of the opposite sex. Apparently.
Doom (whichever incarnation) is a monster flick. Maybe a top-edge horror one. I don't know, I don't care.
It sure as shit isn't a Lars von Trier film. I've yet to see a video game that treads remotely close to "Breaking the Waves" or "Dogma".
Those films are not mass market. They are not comfortable to watch. Hell, Donnie Darko is strange and curious but nowhere near disturbing compared to them. And most people think Donnie Darko is disturbing.
Forget "I'm scared to go to sleep tonight", where are the games that make you sit staring blankly at the screen in emotional shock.
Sure, some people may be easily disturbed. But give me a game that hits the emotions like "Lilya 4ever", or "Come and See". Truly challenge me intellectually and emotionally, make a game that I know I _have_ to play, even though it hurts.
That's what I'm after.
It's very unlikely I found all the secret areas. It's very certain that I'm not prepared to spend hours quartering the levels to do so.
Finding a secret area to avoid a fight I can't win is fun and rewarding and a great facet of the gameplay. Finding them all to be able to celebrate finding them is to me tedium.
Yes, I have a little regret that I haven't found them all. Yes, I have a degree of respect for anybody that has found them all. However, the reward for finding them would have to be pretty spectacular to make it worth the time and effort for me.
My time is limited, my patience short. Perhaps I'm a child with low attention span, and maybe that means I get less value from the games I buy. I accept these things and seek games that entertain and delight me, that interest and stimulate me, that I can find fun. I suspect those goals are no different to many peoples, yet meeting them will be different for most.
I have a few hundred books. I've read them on average 3-4 times each. Some much more than that, a few only once.
The reward from a book is the way it's written, the storytelling aspect.
Going back to Deus Ex or Max Payne may be fun, as it is now several years since I played them. Going back to Baldur's Gate would not. There's too much legwork to progress the story - the story may be interesting, but it's not worth the 80 hours of playing that I'd need to see it. I can read ten books with better stories in that time, or 5 such books and 40 hours of gameplay on a game that gives me a new experience. I just picked up SW:KOTOR for the first time and I'm greatly enjoying the opening parts to that..
Incidentally, the Wheel of Time series just leaves me cold. It's a big epic tale in a massive complex world.. but narrative is poor, the rewards too few. I'd rather read Robin Hobb, Ian Irvine or even George RR Martin.
Don't bet on it. Play angband and bump into a D at 1000 feet. It's damn scary shit.
Except that if you do read the article, it mentions seeding the xbox 360 with new algorithms designed for Halo 2 that would achieve the upgrade.
It would be an automatic upgrade to the user, but only because someone had sat and written the new algorithms and deployed them to the user (on the xbox 360 hard disk).
Congratulations - you've taken the
I find the replay value of games with a big storyline very low. I already know the story.
If I want to read a story, I'll read a book. If I want to watch a story, I'll watch a film.
Games with story can be truly excellent - I love Baldur's Gate (and II) and Max Payne and Deus Ex - but knowing what's going to happen means I don't want to play them again.
Games with good gameplay are replayable.
So you don't like to play for hours to uncover locked content, but you do want the reward for getting further to be getting to a cool level?
You don't want games to be storytelling, but you like adventure games?
You don't want games that need simultaneous use of 12 buttons, but you like simulations (which can need precise ordered use of 80 buttons)?
Games can have story, it can drive them; Max Payne is one of the best games I've ever played. Minimal replay value, sure, but that first time through was king. Project Gotham Racing has no story, immediate accessibility, much replay value, also a great game. Angband has no graphics, a very basic plotline and immense replayability.
All have gameplay. That seems to be what you're after. Everything else is candy. But I'd rather play Project Gotham Racing than Power Drift, because although both had top-end graphics (for their day) and both had great gameplay, PGR is much prettier and takes advantage of the extra CPU power and controller capability to give a far better gaming experience.
That's odd. I haven't had my SkyDigital decoder hooked up to a phone line for about 14 months.
Wonder how my Sky Sports, Sky Movies, Prem Plus and Film Four channels manage to keep working, give the encryption keys changed 14 months (minus 3 minutes) ago.
Actually, Holland _is_ filled with Pot, Clogs, Dykes and Windmills.
I love Holland.
Get a grip.
Shit, you want humiliation, hark back to my anglo-saxon ancestry and the grotesque embarrassment of being conquered by a bunch of normans.
Discrimination on the basis of colour is racism. That includes favouring black over white, brown over yellow, white over that beautiful chocolate colour of the girl in the canteen in Luton.
* Whether the payment service has a substantial historical track record of providing safe and reliable financial and/or banking related services (new services without such a track record generally cannot be promoted on eBay)
Then how the hell did Paypal ever get through?
I just spent around $650 on a new phone - a Nokia E70. It arrived this morning.
For the use I'm going to get from it, the convenience it gives me, the fact it fits into my trouser pocket (when two separate devices wont), the satisfaction I get from owning it, and the opportunity cost involved (i.e. what else I would have spent the money on) I don't think my spending priorities are out of kilter.
I am not on crack.
Next big purchases:
- $3600 boiler replacement for my house
- $1800 refurbishment of my Indiana Jones Pinball Adventures table
- $35000 three wheeled motor vehicle
I suspect there'll be other large cash outlays (the automatic gearbox on my car is likely to die in the next few months, etc) but shit, I have a degree in accounting. Responsible handling of my personal finances is the easy part of my life.
My E70 arrived this morning. It's rather nice. Extremely rather nice.
Known issues:
- Can't currently use SIP based VOIP through NAT; Nokia apparently working on resolution
- Web browser can run out of memory; N80 had same issue, Nokia resolved with new firmware
It's a very elegant device, I've been a fan of Symbian since my Psion MX5 and Revo and being a Nokia, it's got 5 hours talk time, 10 days standby and great voice quality.
I'm sure I'll find more I don't like about it, but I'm also sure I'll find more that I do like about it.
Now to find out how to get my personal email pushed to it without paying money to Blackberry..
I seem to recall Hitler asserting that your god was on his side. Lucky we did have the guns.
Incidentally, check Godwin's law. This thread is over.
If I follow the ethics and morality in the bible, I'm going to be imprisoned for assault and murder within minutes.
I can't receive god's mercy, as there is no god. In other news (and with equivalent legitimacy) there is no Father Christmas and no Soul Cake Tuesday Duck.
The thing is, MS can either
- pay up
- pull out of Europe
Longer term, they can
- pay up
- satisfy the EU
If they don't want to pull out of Europe, and don't publish the APIs, then the fines will continue.
If non-compliance continues, because MS decides the profit margin is worth the expense, the EU can raise the fines. I believe the maximum fine is 20% of revenue.
That's global revenue.
The EU really do have the ability to break MS over this one.
The big problem with the Matilda's is that if you use them in battle, every single gun on the other side goes "shit, there goes our minefield" and targets them.
Hence a very dead Matilda being on display at Overloon (http://www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/uk/)
Whoa? They're not the same thing?
>> The US does not deploy land mines that way and our land mines can be destroyed when they are past their usefulness.
How do you destroy them if you don't know where they are? (Mines move, especially in heavy rain or heavy artillery; maps can be inaccurate; people with maps can die)
How do you destroy them when you aren't there to do it? (Vietnam. Somalia.)
How do you destroy a mine that's already blown up a child? (Every fucking war since the things were invented)
Don't get me wrong, if I was tasked with the defence of a fixed position, I'd want landmines to help me. But I also wouldn't pretend they have no consequences.