I think the result of a targeted drone strike would be the total annihilation of Korea (north and south).
What worries me is not the leaders at the top, who are knowledgeable of the outside world and act quite rationally (in a dictatorial sense, wanting to maintain their power and not be obliterated). It's all the generals in the military who have grown up with the propaganda, know little about the outside world and have total allegiance to their ideology.
These generals would already have standing orders to retaliate should North Korea be attacked.
This is a complete media beat up about Australians pirating GOT more than any country. The source of the information https://torrentfreak.com/game-... quoted its statistics after collecting only HALF A DAY'S worth of data - ie. while Australia was awake and the rest of the English speaking world asleep.
The exact same controversy happened last year, with the exact same source and statistical integrity.
Right now, the shipyard is in the process of making eight more Triple Es, all in various stages of completion
But what is way more impressive is this:
the Triple E is just one small part of the output of the shipyard, as around 100 other vessels including oil rigs are in various stages of completion at the any time
Having been a bit of a North Korean watcher for a few years I don't think this will change much. There is already internet access available to certain groups of people in North Korea with restrictions applying to each group. Examples include:
Tourists who are allowed to bring in mobile phones, and for an exorbitant fee can have a North Korean SIM card with access to the wider internet - even less restricted than China's firewalled internet access
Certain students, academics and professionals may access the internet in a supervised format. Areas of research and specific websites must be submitted to a human monitor who must approve the sites and who remains in the computer room to ensure users only access what has been approved
And of course the higher level officials are assumed to have internet access
Other than that, the general population only has access to the North Korean intranet - which among other things has government sites, game sites and even a dating website. Any new access to the wider internet is surely going to come with very strict controls and monitoring.
What does writing a paper about finding out who is gay reveal about the author of the paper? Hmmm..
And what does writing this comment about the author of the paper reveal about myself? DAMN - I think I just outed myself.
I must say that "my friend" is an avid downloader of games/music/movies/everything from bittorrent sites, and he never thought he would ever pay for any IP that he can get for free. But ever since he installed Steam, he has actually surprised even himself and has bought many games legitimately.
The reason is its just so simple, you never have to worry about patches and updates, everything just works. Not only that but "he" can install steam on his laptop, and desktop, and work computer and play his games wherever he wants to. Yes, he is concerned about the fact that his games could potentially be pulled from him at any point, but the benefits outweigh the concern in my opinion (err.. i mean "his" opinion).
And it also provides opportunity for great offers. The other day he picked up Half Life original for 99c. Now you wouldn't find that in any store.
In other news, the IPCC has issued a statement saying that its original estimates for global warming were miscalculated and were "approximately double" the corrected estimates due to a "technical issue".
This reminds me of an article on wikipedia about Hyperinflation that I was reading yesterday. It has an image of a German woman feeding her stove with banknotes because the burning power of the notes is greater than the burning power of the wood that she could buy with the money
These types of glasses have been around for a long time now. But the main sticking points with games remain:
You get half the FPS (each frame needs to be rendered once for each eye)
Motion sickness is often a problem
Games can appear blurred
Edges of screen cannot be rendered properly in 3D (you get images only one eye can see)
Only 3D aspects of games are supported. Dialog boxes, text, HUDs all will not work properly unless they are drawn as part of the 3D model (which they usually never are)
They would be a novelty for a few minutes, but no self respecting gamer would use them.
I think a number of people are missing the point of the article - it isnt really explained well. The tax office is not simply saying that if you make real dollar profits after making the conversion from virtual dollars to real dollars then you pay tax.
They are saying that if you make profit in virtual dollars and even if you do not convert virtual dollars to real dollars, then you are still liable to pay tax (in real dollars!). The reasoning behind this is that theoretically everyone in australia could convert all their money into virtual dollars and then buy and sell services for the rest of their lives in virtual dollars never paying the tax office any money.
A similar system existed a number of years ago in Australia where a group of people set up a service sharing community. When you performed a service (or provided goods) to the community you received "Geckos" (their term for virtual money). If you were a plumber and you performed services for someone in the group you might receive a few hundred Geckos. You could then spend those Geckos on other goods/services that the community provided. The tax office realised that by using this virutal money system they were being deprived of taxation revenue that they would have otherwise received if the goods and services were being traded using real world money. They handed down a ruling stating that anyone using a system such as this was liable to add any virtual income to their real world income.
The $50,000 limit is for the additional GST component. If you earn over $50,000 in a business you need to charge (and pay to the tax office) GST on your goods/services.
If you make under that amount you are still going to have to declare the amount as part of your taxable income and will still pay tax on it, but you do not need to register for GST or charge customers GST. So this will affect everyone who uses gaming as a business whether they are making $50,000 or not.
My guess is that they are doing this in the hope the open source community will build on and improve OCR technology. This would be in Google's interest, as it can then index text from images (such as their own Books project) more accurately and efficiently.
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I think the result of a targeted drone strike would be the total annihilation of Korea (north and south).
What worries me is not the leaders at the top, who are knowledgeable of the outside world and act quite rationally (in a dictatorial sense, wanting to maintain their power and not be obliterated). It's all the generals in the military who have grown up with the propaganda, know little about the outside world and have total allegiance to their ideology.
These generals would already have standing orders to retaliate should North Korea be attacked.
This is a complete media beat up about Australians pirating GOT more than any country. The source of the information https://torrentfreak.com/game-... quoted its statistics after collecting only HALF A DAY'S worth of data - ie. while Australia was awake and the rest of the English speaking world asleep. The exact same controversy happened last year, with the exact same source and statistical integrity.
In one of the articles..
Right now, the shipyard is in the process of making eight more Triple Es, all in various stages of completion
But what is way more impressive is this:
the Triple E is just one small part of the output of the shipyard, as around 100 other vessels including oil rigs are in various stages of completion at the any time
enough space to transport 864 million bananas
I'm so happy to see we have finally converted to the banana scale. I've been waiting for this since horsepower was invented!
Having been a bit of a North Korean watcher for a few years I don't think this will change much. There is already internet access available to certain groups of people in North Korea with restrictions applying to each group. Examples include:
Tourists who are allowed to bring in mobile phones, and for an exorbitant fee can have a North Korean SIM card with access to the wider internet - even less restricted than China's firewalled internet access
Certain students, academics and professionals may access the internet in a supervised format. Areas of research and specific websites must be submitted to a human monitor who must approve the sites and who remains in the computer room to ensure users only access what has been approved
And of course the higher level officials are assumed to have internet access
Other than that, the general population only has access to the North Korean intranet - which among other things has government sites, game sites and even a dating website. Any new access to the wider internet is surely going to come with very strict controls and monitoring.
Salary = job type X seniority X experience + location
So I guess productivity and contribution to the business doesn't count. Great. Time to sit back and eat pretzels!
The IOC and Russia are a perfect match. No freedom of the press and endemic corruption.
In Soviet Russia, games watch you!
I for one... oh never mind, you Slashdotters are too young these days!
For those who haven't RTFA, here is my favourite photo: http://photos.oregonlive.com/oregonian/2012/07/pdx_stripper_is_acquitted_1.html
In Soviet Russia, ICQ buys YOU!
What does writing a paper about finding out who is gay reveal about the author of the paper? Hmmm.. And what does writing this comment about the author of the paper reveal about myself? DAMN - I think I just outed myself.
He has now joined the "Don't pick up the soap" group
Silly browser.. as i was saying.. This must finally mean an end to pork barreling!
tHI
I must say that "my friend" is an avid downloader of games/music/movies/everything from bittorrent sites, and he never thought he would ever pay for any IP that he can get for free. But ever since he installed Steam, he has actually surprised even himself and has bought many games legitimately. The reason is its just so simple, you never have to worry about patches and updates, everything just works. Not only that but "he" can install steam on his laptop, and desktop, and work computer and play his games wherever he wants to. Yes, he is concerned about the fact that his games could potentially be pulled from him at any point, but the benefits outweigh the concern in my opinion (err.. i mean "his" opinion). And it also provides opportunity for great offers. The other day he picked up Half Life original for 99c. Now you wouldn't find that in any store.
In other news, the IPCC has issued a statement saying that its original estimates for global warming were miscalculated and were "approximately double" the corrected estimates due to a "technical issue".
Tiberium?
This reminds me of an article on wikipedia about Hyperinflation that I was reading yesterday. It has an image of a German woman feeding her stove with banknotes because the burning power of the notes is greater than the burning power of the wood that she could buy with the money
Cant wait for the Hot Coffee mod!
- Only 3D aspects of games are supported. Dialog boxes, text, HUDs all will not work properly unless they are drawn as part of the 3D model (which they usually never are)
They would be a novelty for a few minutes, but no self respecting gamer would use them.They are saying that if you make profit in virtual dollars and even if you do not convert virtual dollars to real dollars, then you are still liable to pay tax (in real dollars!). The reasoning behind this is that theoretically everyone in australia could convert all their money into virtual dollars and then buy and sell services for the rest of their lives in virtual dollars never paying the tax office any money.
A similar system existed a number of years ago in Australia where a group of people set up a service sharing community. When you performed a service (or provided goods) to the community you received "Geckos" (their term for virtual money). If you were a plumber and you performed services for someone in the group you might receive a few hundred Geckos. You could then spend those Geckos on other goods/services that the community provided. The tax office realised that by using this virutal money system they were being deprived of taxation revenue that they would have otherwise received if the goods and services were being traded using real world money. They handed down a ruling stating that anyone using a system such as this was liable to add any virtual income to their real world income.
If you make under that amount you are still going to have to declare the amount as part of your taxable income and will still pay tax on it, but you do not need to register for GST or charge customers GST. So this will affect everyone who uses gaming as a business whether they are making $50,000 or not.
They must have been using a HP. It was realistic after all!
My guess is that they are doing this in the hope the open source community will build on and improve OCR technology. This would be in Google's interest, as it can then index text from images (such as their own Books project) more accurately and efficiently.
Yes, but they have both your work and home address plus your phone number so I can imagine a scenario such as:
Thief: "Hello is that Mr Smith?"
Mr Smith: "Yes, I'm at work at the moment"
Thief (thinking): 'His work is an hour from home. I have an hour to steal what I want without getting caught'
or maybe i'm just paranoid 8-)