Exactly my problem - I wouldn't mind the cost of localisation if it wasn't for two issues:
1) They rarely localise to British English.
2) Changing "-ize" to "-ise" is not difficult. I would do it for free over a weekend if it meant my fellow UK-ers didn't get buggered for the costs.
I guess there's not much that can be don- just kidding! If the EU can sue Microsoft and win, I think we can beat smaller, less monolithic companies.
Oh man, I'm just waiting for all competing providers to declare 79 cents fuel - then Mr CEO would have to pay you 21 cents for using each gallon of his fuel. Won't happen, but a schadenfreudist can dream...
The short story is that the odds of someone you care about dying as a result of a terrorist attack here in the US are quite slim (e.g., even in 2001 there were something like 40,000 fatalities from traffic accidents and a little more than 3000 from terrorism in the US).
That's 3000 families my heart goes out to. True, though, you mention how America is land of the free... I would not know what that means, and neither do I totally wish to find out - while I do no believe humans should live in totalitarian conditions, I still think people have come to draw this grand illusion of total free will. The problem is people do not spread this evenly... it is your free will to wish to murder someone, but it is against their free will to live to truly do so. Freedom cannot exist because people will always encroach upon others' freedom. Such is the world. Occasionally having a government agent hearing a weekly call home between mother and son is hardly "removing my freedom" so much. Maybe it's their freedom to do what it takes to keep their "land of the free" safe, like the patriots they wish to be?
I swear it was advertised, several years back, that E3 was to be cancelled and discontinued completely. Can a spiral really go farther down than 'rock bottom'? If anything this looks like a(n albeit it slightly shaky) step up.
I wish I could mod you higher, Parent, but alas... people these days seem to hear the word "surveillance" and immediately their buttocks clench and they rant about how the government is watching their every move and stealing their children.
These are the same people who get upset when terrorist attacks take away people they love. I'm not sure about the people here, but I, for one, would rather lose a little bit of privacy than risk losing the people I care about. As the Parent says, intercepts of US citizens are accidental and discarded. What can you be sending in emails or saying over the phone that's so important that you can't even let someone (potentially, and still an extraoridnarily rare occurance at that) listen to it by accident and then discard the information. Heck, I say more important things on the internet that get heard and then discarded.
Whereas Browser Sync is in the interest of technology/simplicity, I'd see the source code of Windows ME being released in the interest of tragic comedy more than anything...
It was a critically aclaimed Point-and-Click adventure - one of the last before the genre croaked its terrible dying curse. Y'know the one, it's the reason Halo is popular.
In all fairness you should try playing it... if you liked the Monkey Island series then you'll like Broken Sword. The main character is also a proper American, too. The clever kind. We Brits don't feel the need to portray every American as dumb at every possible opportunity, you know. (insert suspicious eye movement here)
Now it's my turn to wow: an Earthsea fan? I read that... I have no idea how many years ago but I still always keep it on my bedside bookshelf (should I be worried I have a bedside bookshelf?).
I can't even begin describe how much I loved that quartet, especially 'The Tombs of Atuan.'
Wait did you say Trilogy? It's a Sextet, now, plus three non-canonical short stories, according to Wikipedia... I guess I'd better get reading.
Indeed, if they had to go out of their way to assure students it was confidential then it would give the students the opportunity to wonder why they'd need to assure them... was it a survey by their school for instance?
Besides, I can't think of any students who don't clam up when the thought of potentially getting into trouble is raised. It's like handing a kid an armed bomb and swearing you won't detonate it, if you ask me... would you blame them being nervous?
When your metabolism is working, it produces heat, which then speeds up your metabolism (think: collision theory - more particles with more energy so more collisions/reactions). This is a form of positive feedback (deviation from a normal level of temperature leads to further deviation) which can cause you to get hotter and hotter until unpleasant things happen to you. Our optimum body temperature is higher than standard "room temperature" to prevent the positive feedback loop as we lose heat at roughly the same speed we gain it.
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Think of it like an Amy Winehouse concert.
Thanks to QoS I sometimes find video streaming is certainly a steaming something...
What the parent said - The Daily Mail are always lampooned for reporting exaggerations, mistruths and downright lies!
http://www.voiceoftheturtle.org/dictionary/dict_h1.php#hurrah for instance, and...
They report a lot of things out of context... for instance compare
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7471724.stm
with
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1027990/Invasion-bobby-snatchers-Police-helicopter-close-encounter-UFO.html
and then tell me you can trust them?
Exactly my problem - I wouldn't mind the cost of localisation if it wasn't for two issues:
1) They rarely localise to British English.
2) Changing "-ize" to "-ise" is not difficult. I would do it for free over a weekend if it meant my fellow UK-ers didn't get buggered for the costs.
I guess there's not much that can be don- just kidding! If the EU can sue Microsoft and win, I think we can beat smaller, less monolithic companies.
They generally have to speak Chav here in the UK branches.
Or "interesting content" in general. Rejoice at E3 where we show you more trailers that you've already seen at lower resolution on the internet!
...who thought up as many "genes made like jeans" jokes as possible when they saw sewing mentioned?
I see this ending very, very badly.
Who else imagines a Parking Lot edition of Wacky Races? "Race to the space, Mutley!"
Oh man, I'm just waiting for all competing providers to declare 79 cents fuel - then Mr CEO would have to pay you 21 cents for using each gallon of his fuel. Won't happen, but a schadenfreudist can dream...
Fine, I declare the War on Spammerism. Suggestions on where to invade, plz. Other than peoples' inboxes...
Assuming the code doesn't compromise the stability of the site and cause frequent, intermittant downtimes...
Cursed code... *shudder*
The short story is that the odds of someone you care about dying as a result of a terrorist attack here in the US are quite slim (e.g., even in 2001 there were something like 40,000 fatalities from traffic accidents and a little more than 3000 from terrorism in the US).
That's 3000 families my heart goes out to. True, though, you mention how America is land of the free... I would not know what that means, and neither do I totally wish to find out - while I do no believe humans should live in totalitarian conditions, I still think people have come to draw this grand illusion of total free will. The problem is people do not spread this evenly... it is your free will to wish to murder someone, but it is against their free will to live to truly do so. Freedom cannot exist because people will always encroach upon others' freedom. Such is the world. Occasionally having a government agent hearing a weekly call home between mother and son is hardly "removing my freedom" so much. Maybe it's their freedom to do what it takes to keep their "land of the free" safe, like the patriots they wish to be?
Maybe it's just me...
I always considered 'Eternal Borrower' or 'Stonking great Thief' as accurate ways of naming 'pirates.'
How the hell am I gonna demand my money back if it sucks?
Quite easily; they'll just fork over a nice handful of air.
I swear it was advertised, several years back, that E3 was to be cancelled and discontinued completely. Can a spiral really go farther down than 'rock bottom'? If anything this looks like a(n albeit it slightly shaky) step up.
I wish I could mod you higher, Parent, but alas... people these days seem to hear the word "surveillance" and immediately their buttocks clench and they rant about how the government is watching their every move and stealing their children.
These are the same people who get upset when terrorist attacks take away people they love. I'm not sure about the people here, but I, for one, would rather lose a little bit of privacy than risk losing the people I care about. As the Parent says, intercepts of US citizens are accidental and discarded. What can you be sending in emails or saying over the phone that's so important that you can't even let someone (potentially, and still an extraoridnarily rare occurance at that) listen to it by accident and then discard the information. Heck, I say more important things on the internet that get heard and then discarded.
Whereas Browser Sync is in the interest of technology/simplicity, I'd see the source code of Windows ME being released in the interest of tragic comedy more than anything...
It was a critically aclaimed Point-and-Click adventure - one of the last before the genre croaked its terrible dying curse. Y'know the one, it's the reason Halo is popular.
In all fairness you should try playing it... if you liked the Monkey Island series then you'll like Broken Sword. The main character is also a proper American, too. The clever kind. We Brits don't feel the need to portray every American as dumb at every possible opportunity, you know. (insert suspicious eye movement here)
I think it's because TDM is all about getting away with murder while TSMD is more of a bildungsroman. Also I prefer the ending of Stars.
I can't even begin describe how much I loved that quartet, especially 'The Tombs of Atuan.'
Wait did you say Trilogy? It's a Sextet, now, plus three non-canonical short stories, according to Wikipedia... I guess I'd better get reading.
I found Alfred Bester's works to be timeless classics. Especially "The Stars My Destination."
You shouldn't be ashamed of France, as the rejection of the three-strikes bill shows. It's just sad that this Nicolas Sarkozy won't admit defeat.
But common sense is there, just use your own common sense and don't look to politicians for it.
Indeed, if they had to go out of their way to assure students it was confidential then it would give the students the opportunity to wonder why they'd need to assure them... was it a survey by their school for instance?
Besides, I can't think of any students who don't clam up when the thought of potentially getting into trouble is raised. It's like handing a kid an armed bomb and swearing you won't detonate it, if you ask me... would you blame them being nervous?
Germs don't, but influenza is a virus, which is different from a germ. (Other people have explained about viruses but this might need clarifying.)
When your metabolism is working, it produces heat, which then speeds up your metabolism (think: collision theory - more particles with more energy so more collisions/reactions). This is a form of positive feedback (deviation from a normal level of temperature leads to further deviation) which can cause you to get hotter and hotter until unpleasant things happen to you. Our optimum body temperature is higher than standard "room temperature" to prevent the positive feedback loop as we lose heat at roughly the same speed we gain it.