Their choices were between a corrupt Fatah and Hamas who runs the schools and hospitals.
Who would you have picked?
Multi-generational occupation and poverty leads to this. No one should be surprised.
I am not sure why it is so hard for you to see that I do not support the palestinians. I am only saying that it is not hard to see why this situation is like this and that none of the participants are blameless.
This
I do not support Fatah, I am against Hamas, but I have no ill will towards the Palestinians.
Violence and stupidity breed... more violence and stupidity.
Try meeting a Palestinian (or Iranian, Saudi, Israeli or other hated nation of your choice) outside of their own nation. They're normal people, the Palestinians I've met have been friendly and hard working but here in Australia we have an environment that encourages that. Try getting a good job or decent education in the Gaza strip. Its a shitty situation caused by corrupt and idiotic leadership so I cant bring my self to irrationally hate Palestinians for that no more than I can hate Americans for Bush.
Feel free to swap Palestinian for Israeli, I feel exactly the same.
What kind of dumbass would go pigeon hunting with slugs?
You're assuming they want to eat what they kill.
Most hunters dont want to eat it, they simply want to kill it. This is why Rabbit, Kangaroo, Brumby (horse) and pigeon aren't on the menu.
That in itself is illegal most places, FYI.
Something tells me this does not bother them.
If the hunters aren't doing anything illegal (last time I checked, pidgeons were not a protected species), why are they shooting down the drones as destruction of other people's property is a serious crime (the legality of taping the hunters aside, two wrongs don't make a right).
Also, if your company wants to hire "top 5% talent" then you need to be a top 5% employer. Top talent does not want to piss away their career in the IT department of Bank of America, for instance. If you're trying to hire top talent but are an average company, then you are the equivalent of an old fat bald dude trying to date young supermodels. It ONLY works if there's a lot of money involved.
Unless you go to a foreign country where the meaning of "a lot" is much lower.
Which some companies are fighting tooth and nail to do.
The CEO's pay had exactly nothing to do with the demise of the company and is nothing but a red herring.
Riiiiiight,
CEO's have nothing to do with companies failing.
They were giving exec's pay rises when they couldn't sort out a labour dispute. That has everything to do with why the company failed. Not unions, it demonstrates a culture of corruption and ignorance at the highest levels.
The more grunt the system has, the harder it becomes to make effective use of that grunt.
It's ridiculously easy to make effective use of that grunt. It's trivial to bring a modern octocore 4 GPU SLI machine to its knees. The PS3 was hard to program for because it was a weird and non-standard hardware model that had poor development tools.
You keep using that word, it does not mean what you think it means.
I have a 2L K20 engine in my car. It's a manual so I can do 90 KPH in 2nd gear (redline), whilst this works perfectly well it's not an effective use of a 2L K20 as it puts my fuel economy somewhere north of 30 L/100 KM. An effective use of my cars engine would be to drive at 90 KPH in 6th gear which works just as well but puts my fuel economy around 8.5 L/100 KM.
By the same token, if a program brings a modern 4 GPU machine to it's knees, it's almost always because the application was poorly coded. I have games from the 90's that can bring down my high end gaming box, not because they are GPU or CPU intensive but because they have so many bugs and memory leaks that they will slow down any system if running long enough.
The reason we had "monsters in corridors" games for so long was because that's all that we could render well.
Quiet you.
Now to the wayback machine, we need to go to the 90's to remember games like Outcast, System Shock, Operation Flashpoint and even something like Mean Streets which had huge, expansive open worlds (and sometimes we didn't even get maps).
What happened is the Xbox and Playstation. Developers took huge open worlds and were forced to cut them up due to the deficiencies and memory limitations of these consoles. There was no reason for KOTOR on PC to be cut up into such small segments... But the Xbox could never have handled such large maps. Deus Ex and Deus Ex Invisible War is the classic example. The Liberty Island level in DX was one level but DX was PC exclusive, they had to cut it into 3 in DX:IW to make it work on the Xbox.
Games that stayed PC Exclusive like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. maintained huge, expansive levels. Operation Flashpoint had 20 square KM of map without loading screens, I believe ARMA had larger maps. Why? they weren't limited by the hardware which to be 100% fair, ARMA and OpFlash required very grunty PC's. ARMA III might be the one game that makes me upgrade my 3 year old gaming boxen that can still handle any game I throw at it.
Because these days ads are not served from the same source as the content. They used to be in the past and likely will again in the future if this sort of thing catches on.
Rather, ad's will be served by proxy from remote location so FlashingAd.png served from ad.doucheclick.net looks like it's kitten.png being served from cutekittys.com to the browser.
Unless they've fixed it (doubtful), if you are redirected to the experts-exchange site through Google, you can scroll to the bottom and see the replies.
Yes, but how often has this result been correct or even remotely helpful?
Protip (that will likely blow your mind): people buy fashion magazines BECAUSE
ITS SOFT PORN.
Actually take some time to read a fashion magazine. Many of the articles are badly written erotic fiction interspersed with ads for make up and fashion products. If not soft porn, it's celebrity gossip (mostly about who's screwing who, so it's like a news report on soft porn).
My mate can only get telstra (unless he uses the mobile phone network) and he isn't very far out of Brisbane.
Probably on a property that's not in a township. BTW, he can get plans from other ISP's but due to some provisions in USO Telstra are allowed to charge extra for lines that are in rural or semi rural areas that are not in townships so other ISP's have to pass on this cost (Telstra also fight tooth and nail to prevent other ISP's from installing DSLAM's in smaller exchanges).
But in the US, telco's are given monopolies over certain areas, so you could be in the middle a major city and your only choice is AT&T as they have a legally enforced monopoly on the lines coming up to your house.
Fortunately, when Telstra was sold off, they were legally forbid from forming such monopolies.
I think this is what is going to work as well as they think is unlikely. If you try to translate your post from English to Japanese and back again, just for a while, we had a machine translation of the text.
Interesting numbers. Statcounter, however, seems to disagree with them considerably, showing Android leading by a significant margin. Not sure what to make of that exactly, but it's pretty clear that "Fact is most Android phones are the low-price, low-margin variety that are used almost exclusively for texting" probably isn't completely true.
Plus the "low-price, low-margin" market is starting to include the high end. The Nexus 4 is aiming at a $400 price point. Huawei and ZTE have been releasing phones that are not that far off from the high end Samsungs and HTC's with an A$350 price point for over 2 years now (the 2010 Huawei Ideos X5 was the same spec as the 2010 HTC desire but released 3 months later at half the price).
Plus, if you don't feel like paying A$700 for a high end Android phone at release you wait 3 months and get it for A$450. I bought my GNex for A$350 a few months after release. With Apple, if you don't feel like paying A$900 at release, you wait 6 months and still pay A$900. At this point you can safely assume Apple is gouging it's customers.
Basically, high cost are not keeping high end phone prices high. This is being reflected on Android but not on IOS.
"Further evidence of the coming fragmentation of personal transportation
Erm, the blogger doesn't not seem to understand the words.
* Fragmentation
* Evidence
* Personal Transportation
When was the car industry ever been unified and standardised. We have umpteen number of trademarked and patented systems for Variable Valve Timing (VTEC - Honda, CVVT - Hyundai, ZETEC - Ford, VVTi - Toyota, VEL - Nissan).
Also people have demanded, from Henry Fords first mass produced car, different types of cars. Some people like big 4WD's, others like sporty Japanese coupes, medium sized sedans, small hatchbacks and so forth (I still cant understand why people want SUV's). This concept is more about increasing choice to the customer whilst reducing the number of factories to produce the car. How many factories does Honda have to produce the various types of Civic?
If anything, this is an attempt at de-fragmentation of the car industry.
All these "commuter" cars are ugly as sin. Why can't we get "commuter" cars that aren't straight chairs with wheels? Get something sleek and futuristic looking and I'll consider buying it. (Like that Lamborghini in the icons above... a single seat, well performing low slung vehicle.)
I have such a beast.
It's called a Honda Integra (Acura RSX in North America) It cost a lot to run and insure.
People buy commuter cars to commute, not to look good. Cheap and cheery is more important to them than looks. If you want looks drop $85 K on a Porshce, aesthetics will always come second to practicality.
Not quite, in a lot of places people want a small personal commuter that is easy to park and wont use much fuel. Not everywhere is like the US where everyone drives massive mum-tanks (SUV's) across multiple lanes whilst on the phone and stuffing their face.
However this is a concept car by the looks of it.
I can see this becoming big in Asia, in Japan Kei Cars are already popular because they are cheap and small. This concept is perfect for a single commuter to go to and from work in, a good alternative to riding a motorbike and getting changed at work (no matter how much you prepare, it still sucks getting rained on). With a rising middle class in China and India and already congested streets, a smaller one man commuter would be very much in demand. Honda see's this (not to mention other companies like Tata)
But the swappable bodies would be more of a manufacturing boon. Build one wheel base, then 3 bodies. you benefit from having increased economies of scale with the wheel base production and fewer factories required to produce 3 different cars.
FRAND stands for Fair, Reasonable And Non Discriminatory. This means that Motorola does not have to give access to the patents for free, it just has to give access to the patents. When Google bought Motorola they told the FTC they would charge no more than 2.5% for FRAND patents and the FTC agreed. 2.25% is less than 2.5%.
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Their choices were between a corrupt Fatah and Hamas who runs the schools and hospitals.
Who would you have picked?
Multi-generational occupation and poverty leads to this. No one should be surprised.
I am not sure why it is so hard for you to see that I do not support the palestinians. I am only saying that it is not hard to see why this situation is like this and that none of the participants are blameless.
This
I do not support Fatah, I am against Hamas, but I have no ill will towards the Palestinians.
Violence and stupidity breed... more violence and stupidity.
Try meeting a Palestinian (or Iranian, Saudi, Israeli or other hated nation of your choice) outside of their own nation. They're normal people, the Palestinians I've met have been friendly and hard working but here in Australia we have an environment that encourages that. Try getting a good job or decent education in the Gaza strip. Its a shitty situation caused by corrupt and idiotic leadership so I cant bring my self to irrationally hate Palestinians for that no more than I can hate Americans for Bush.
Feel free to swap Palestinian for Israeli, I feel exactly the same.
Were standard rounds shot into the sky?
What kind of dumbass would go pigeon hunting with slugs?
You're assuming they want to eat what they kill.
Most hunters dont want to eat it, they simply want to kill it. This is why Rabbit, Kangaroo, Brumby (horse) and pigeon aren't on the menu.
That in itself is illegal most places, FYI.
Something tells me this does not bother them.
If the hunters aren't doing anything illegal (last time I checked, pidgeons were not a protected species), why are they shooting down the drones as destruction of other people's property is a serious crime (the legality of taping the hunters aside, two wrongs don't make a right).
Also, if your company wants to hire "top 5% talent" then you need to be a top 5% employer. Top talent does not want to piss away their career in the IT department of Bank of America, for instance. If you're trying to hire top talent but are an average company, then you are the equivalent of an old fat bald dude trying to date young supermodels. It ONLY works if there's a lot of money involved.
Unless you go to a foreign country where the meaning of "a lot" is much lower.
Which some companies are fighting tooth and nail to do.
Riiiiiight,
CEO's have nothing to do with companies failing.
They were giving exec's pay rises when they couldn't sort out a labour dispute. That has everything to do with why the company failed. Not unions, it demonstrates a culture of corruption and ignorance at the highest levels.
But nice try to blame unions.
The more grunt the system has, the harder it becomes to make effective use of that grunt.
It's ridiculously easy to make effective use of that grunt. It's trivial to bring a modern octocore 4 GPU SLI machine to its knees. The PS3 was hard to program for because it was a weird and non-standard hardware model that had poor development tools.
You keep using that word, it does not mean what you think it means.
I have a 2L K20 engine in my car. It's a manual so I can do 90 KPH in 2nd gear (redline), whilst this works perfectly well it's not an effective use of a 2L K20 as it puts my fuel economy somewhere north of 30 L/100 KM. An effective use of my cars engine would be to drive at 90 KPH in 6th gear which works just as well but puts my fuel economy around 8.5 L/100 KM.
By the same token, if a program brings a modern 4 GPU machine to it's knees, it's almost always because the application was poorly coded. I have games from the 90's that can bring down my high end gaming box, not because they are GPU or CPU intensive but because they have so many bugs and memory leaks that they will slow down any system if running long enough.
The reason we had "monsters in corridors" games for so long was because that's all that we could render well.
Quiet you.
Now to the wayback machine, we need to go to the 90's to remember games like Outcast, System Shock, Operation Flashpoint and even something like Mean Streets which had huge, expansive open worlds (and sometimes we didn't even get maps).
What happened is the Xbox and Playstation. Developers took huge open worlds and were forced to cut them up due to the deficiencies and memory limitations of these consoles. There was no reason for KOTOR on PC to be cut up into such small segments... But the Xbox could never have handled such large maps. Deus Ex and Deus Ex Invisible War is the classic example. The Liberty Island level in DX was one level but DX was PC exclusive, they had to cut it into 3 in DX:IW to make it work on the Xbox.
Games that stayed PC Exclusive like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. maintained huge, expansive levels. Operation Flashpoint had 20 square KM of map without loading screens, I believe ARMA had larger maps. Why? they weren't limited by the hardware which to be 100% fair, ARMA and OpFlash required very grunty PC's. ARMA III might be the one game that makes me upgrade my 3 year old gaming boxen that can still handle any game I throw at it.
I think the worst abuse of the "magic wand" sonic screwdriver was evident in "The Power of Three."
I said I'll explain later.
It's not the destination that matters, it's how you get there. Nothing stresses this as much as blowing up your destination when you get there.
Lord Shoggoth the Destroyer views this a feature, not a bug.
Because these days ads are not served from the same source as the content. They used to be in the past and likely will again in the future if this sort of thing catches on.
Rather, ad's will be served by proxy from remote location so FlashingAd.png served from ad.doucheclick.net looks like it's kitten.png being served from cutekittys.com to the browser.
Of course we'll find a way to block that too.
Unless they've fixed it (doubtful), if you are redirected to the experts-exchange site through Google, you can scroll to the bottom and see the replies.
Yes, but how often has this result been correct or even remotely helpful?
Ergo, I block or ignore Experts Exchange.
Protip (that will likely blow your mind): people buy fashion magazines BECAUSE
ITS SOFT PORN.
Actually take some time to read a fashion magazine. Many of the articles are badly written erotic fiction interspersed with ads for make up and fashion products. If not soft porn, it's celebrity gossip (mostly about who's screwing who, so it's like a news report on soft porn).
And yes, your brain will hate you for reading it.
caught banging some intern on Ballmer's desk.
Chances are all his boss saw
was just an ass hole
Even worse, when my stepdad is yelling at the footy it's going to search for Eagle or Hawk porn.
My mate can only get telstra (unless he uses the mobile phone network) and he isn't very far out of Brisbane.
Probably on a property that's not in a township. BTW, he can get plans from other ISP's but due to some provisions in USO Telstra are allowed to charge extra for lines that are in rural or semi rural areas that are not in townships so other ISP's have to pass on this cost (Telstra also fight tooth and nail to prevent other ISP's from installing DSLAM's in smaller exchanges).
But in the US, telco's are given monopolies over certain areas, so you could be in the middle a major city and your only choice is AT&T as they have a legally enforced monopoly on the lines coming up to your house.
Fortunately, when Telstra was sold off, they were legally forbid from forming such monopolies.
I think this is what is going to work as well as they think is unlikely. If you try to translate your post from English to Japanese and back again, just for a while, we had a machine translation of the text.
Why should he be worried? Innovation benefits everybody, no matter who does it!
Exactly, if Apple likes the innovation, they'll just patent it "on a smartphone" and claim they invented it.
His desire to become Australian is just another example of how sane, sensible and grounded the man is.
IIRC, didn't he want to live in Queensland? Not an example of sane, sensible and grounded.
this is the guy that thought the greatest thing he could do for an internet connection was move to Australia. The guy is a bit of a muppet.
He's wanted to be Australian even before the NBN. The faster internet connection would just be icing on the cake for him.
Even before the NBN our internet service provision was better than the US. You could live in any major city and chose your ISP.
Eliminate all Chinese phones: where does Android stand then.
We'd need to eliminate Europe too, because those evil Europeans get everything wrong.
Then we need to cut out parts of US sales.
Finally we have the real statistic, yes the real number that CANNOT be refuted.
100% of Iphone sales are Iphone 0% ARE ANDROID.
MY ARGUMENT IS FLAWLESS, MY NUMBERS ARE INDISPUTABLE. EXTERMINAAAAAAATE.
Interesting numbers. Statcounter, however, seems to disagree with them considerably, showing Android leading by a significant margin. Not sure what to make of that exactly, but it's pretty clear that "Fact is most Android phones are the low-price, low-margin variety that are used almost exclusively for texting" probably isn't completely true.
Plus the "low-price, low-margin" market is starting to include the high end. The Nexus 4 is aiming at a $400 price point. Huawei and ZTE have been releasing phones that are not that far off from the high end Samsungs and HTC's with an A$350 price point for over 2 years now (the 2010 Huawei Ideos X5 was the same spec as the 2010 HTC desire but released 3 months later at half the price).
Plus, if you don't feel like paying A$700 for a high end Android phone at release you wait 3 months and get it for A$450. I bought my GNex for A$350 a few months after release. With Apple, if you don't feel like paying A$900 at release, you wait 6 months and still pay A$900. At this point you can safely assume Apple is gouging it's customers.
Basically, high cost are not keeping high end phone prices high. This is being reflected on Android but not on IOS.
This isn't a fact.
In fact it's a bald faced lie.
This hasn't been true for several years.
From Kogan Australia
Iphone 4S 16 GB = A$599
Iphone 5 16 GB = A$779
Galaxy S 3 16 GB = A$449
From Expansys US.
= US$679
Iphone 5 16GB = US$1039
Galaxy S 3 16GB = US$549
So as you can clearly see, you're talking out of your arse.
Odd, given that Morris is a British brand.
Not really, British brands are notorious for bad engineering.
"Show me the MINI !"
Here you go
Just keep in mind they pretty much stop running if it rains.
Erm, the blogger doesn't not seem to understand the words.
* Fragmentation
* Evidence
* Personal Transportation
When was the car industry ever been unified and standardised. We have umpteen number of trademarked and patented systems for Variable Valve Timing (VTEC - Honda, CVVT - Hyundai, ZETEC - Ford, VVTi - Toyota, VEL - Nissan).
Also people have demanded, from Henry Fords first mass produced car, different types of cars. Some people like big 4WD's, others like sporty Japanese coupes, medium sized sedans, small hatchbacks and so forth (I still cant understand why people want SUV's). This concept is more about increasing choice to the customer whilst reducing the number of factories to produce the car. How many factories does Honda have to produce the various types of Civic?
If anything, this is an attempt at de-fragmentation of the car industry.
All these "commuter" cars are ugly as sin. Why can't we get "commuter" cars that aren't straight chairs with wheels? Get something sleek and futuristic looking and I'll consider buying it. (Like that Lamborghini in the icons above... a single seat, well performing low slung vehicle.)
I have such a beast.
It's called a Honda Integra (Acura RSX in North America) It cost a lot to run and insure.
People buy commuter cars to commute, not to look good. Cheap and cheery is more important to them than looks. If you want looks drop $85 K on a Porshce, aesthetics will always come second to practicality.
Pure car-show fodder.
Not quite, in a lot of places people want a small personal commuter that is easy to park and wont use much fuel. Not everywhere is like the US where everyone drives massive mum-tanks (SUV's) across multiple lanes whilst on the phone and stuffing their face.
However this is a concept car by the looks of it.
I can see this becoming big in Asia, in Japan Kei Cars are already popular because they are cheap and small. This concept is perfect for a single commuter to go to and from work in, a good alternative to riding a motorbike and getting changed at work (no matter how much you prepare, it still sucks getting rained on). With a rising middle class in China and India and already congested streets, a smaller one man commuter would be very much in demand. Honda see's this (not to mention other companies like Tata)
But the swappable bodies would be more of a manufacturing boon. Build one wheel base, then 3 bodies. you benefit from having increased economies of scale with the wheel base production and fewer factories required to produce 3 different cars.
How much exactly is FRAND?
FRAND is not a set cost, it is a negotiated cost.
FRAND stands for Fair, Reasonable And Non Discriminatory. This means that Motorola does not have to give access to the patents for free, it just has to give access to the patents. When Google bought Motorola they told the FTC they would charge no more than 2.5% for FRAND patents and the FTC agreed. 2.25% is less than 2.5%.