drakeandrews

Intellij keeps telling me it has the feature. Although I've never managed to use it on purpose.

I can make coffee with a £5 cafétiere that far outstrips what you get in a cheap coffee maker. Also, pretty much every PC with an optical drive comes with a CD/DVD burner these days. Coffee makers aren't attached to anything else.

Is ammo particularly cheap at the minute? Are they trying to hedge against future price rises in ammunition costs? Maybe it's a game of brinkmanship between federal departments "I can buy more bullets than you."

I think you've gotten your definition of progressive muddled. Property taxes are considered to be progressive because property values are widely considered to correlate strongly with income and wealth. Spending those taxes locally (or apportioning funds for local amenaties based on local tax revenue) is regressive, because increased benefit is then therefore correlated strongly with increased wealth and income. Therefore, your example represents a most regressive distribution of tax distribution.

This, yet again, reinforces my view that funding schools through property taxes is a perverse and ultimately damaging idea. I understand the ideals behind it (schools are funded locally, playing into the strange american fixation with avoiding distributing tax revenues). Affirmative action is mentioned as outdated, but perhaps it is a sign that american society still feels guilty over the fact that not sixty years ago large swathes were still arguing against the integration of schools.

(As an aside, isn't there a thing where the titles of links are changed when they don't match the content that everyone keeps complaining about? Wouldn't this be a prime example of a link whose title should be changed to match the article within?)

There was a company in the UK that did that, and got pounced on by Trading Standards. They now say something equally stupid, but less offensive to the powers that be.

But then the average user is likely to take it to any number of computer repair shops who might try the recovery partition, or they might just reimage from an OEM install disk they have lying around/available.

The official line has always been fuzzy. A lot of the more quota-led managers would bring out the "no-proxy" rules a lot. But then there is a very blurred line between a "converted" figure and a plain old handmade one. In this regard, HQ was much more lenient than other stores.

I know several of the staff at GWHQ in Nottingham had what was basically their own separate ruleset cobbled together from what they considered the best parts of the games over the prior 25 years. Most clubs had enough house rules that they were basically playing separate games. Although with the current player-unfriendly stance any ruleset distributed as "for GW figures" would find its self on the wrong side of a legal team.

And then a lot of players have very, very irrational attitudes towards proxy figures. I couldn't turn up with a Warmachine army sheet and my Imperial Guard army and play, or vice versa. In fact, that'd get you kicked out of a lot of hobby shops.

Because Games Workshop employs the kind of lawyers that consider petty things like the truth and other peoples IP to be inconveniences to be worked around.

I knew this was going to happen some day. Games Workshop is essentially two separate companies, the raving legal department/copyright trolls (A couple of years ago they regularly put full page colour adverts in all the British wargaming magazines warning that they would enforce their IP with the full power afforded to them by the law, it was generally considered a bad joke by most.) and the (for a lack of a better term) hobbyists who make most of the miniatures and write most of the rules. And it seems like they take turns running the company. For ages, there'll be lots of player-friendly new things and shiny new figures and the terrible quota-driven managers at the shops will be replaced with the people who are there because they love their hobby. And then everything'll change and they'll start enforcing stupid dictats on IP, change the rules of the games to excessively favour those with bigger wallets, bump up the prices of everything and fire those people that sacrifice short term gains for cultivating a long term base of customers and fans.

I find it really sad, I grew up near their HQ in Nottingham. A number of my dad's friends work for them. And I'd love for this to be the push that means that all the other wargaming companies (who in the past couple of years have really progressed in professionalism and quality) will find even more traction. (Although they all still suffer from a lack of space to sell things, there is a GW in almost every town in the UK. They've all but squeezed out the independent hobby shops.) But a lot of people just won't care. And an equal number of people are too locked in, they've spent a lot of money on the GW armies. All their friends have GW armies. You can't just splurge two, three hundred pounds on warmahordes unless all your friends do the same.

All I can hope is that GW gets their arse handed to them and the hobbyists get put back in charge.

Jettisoning ones leg into a door sounds painful. Unless one has a prosthetic, then I must wonder why one is throwing it at a door. Do they not need it to stand?

They will however be able to call Boeing/Airbus/whatever and get them to talk you through it.

I'm surprised no-one has taken note of the assertion in the title and at the end of the article, that "a good apology is better than no mistakes". Yes sure not making stupid, sexist decisions and never get all the publicity. However when a [person/group/company (delete as appropriate)] does something bigoted, even the best apology still leaves them several notches below where they started beforehand.

Completely irrelevant, but I must say I like the phrase "everybody is pissing on everyone's curtains".

In what world could this ever be considered a thing that shouldn't be opposed?

Or the plethora of ancillary benefits to getting a university education. The actual education in many areas is negligible, instead you get up to four years to defer having to do any real work, spending a sizable chunk of your time around intelligent, like minded peers. And for a lot of people, it provides a relatively safe way of experiencing life on their own.

Okay, so sue me. How would you have phrased that sentence?

I like my books, thank you very much. I've never felt fearful over my safety reading a book on the train. I've never had the sudden urge to put a book away lest someone try and take it from me. And it is still orders of magnitude easier for me to lend someone a book than it is to (legally) give them a copy of one of the many ebooks I own for a while.

In addition, I am currently at a (supposedly) top university in London. Everything in my lectures I could adequately teach myself with the books on the course, Wikipedia and Wolfram Mathworld. This isn't why I'm paying ten thousand pounds a year (roughly, including living costs). I'm paying ten thousand pounds a year to get an excuse to be around smart people my age for three years in London. I've met so many brilliant people in my time here and despite a brief period where I was almost committed to dropping out I ultimately decided otherwise (partly because I'd already sunk eighteen months and twenty thousand pounds into it, partly because completing it would only be another eighteen months and another ten thousand pounds plus a degree whose value may be questionable but if anyone can point out any downsides, considering the already large investment I've made, I'd be more than happy to hear them). I'd get none of these upsides had I merely done a bunch of online courses and read some books on maths and programming.

It's considered general good behaviour to blur the faces of bystanders, license plates (and I know at least in the UK they attempted to algorithmically blur windows).

However, there are no laws involved (at least in the UK). The people involved are not the subject of the work nor do they have any reasonable expectation to privacy on the street. Windows were another issue and I do remember some outrage over it. Google said they were trying to blur it and people went "Okay" and then it died down.

So I take it you have signed affidavits from every federal prosecutor to that effect? And proof that drug possession and distribution are always entirely victimless.

The fact is that I generally support decriminalisation, and that I acknowledge the fact that prosecution tends to treat those of lesser socioeconomic standing (such as the poor and those belonging to minorities) badly. But blanket statements generally don't help. Especially those calling for the blanket punishment of a wide ranging group of people whom are most likely doing that which they feel is right (never attribute to malice what can adequately attributed to ignorance).

Edit: Accidentally a word (The fact that -> The fact is that)

By an large, candles. Candles and long hair are a bad combination.

On a serious note, a piece piece of software called Player/Stage which I am working with is driving me up the wall. Learning how three.js and the collada spec work to try and get the two playing nicely. Cross-browser CSS3/HTML5. Weirdness troubleshooting a flash app running with a PHP backend on a hundred android 1.6 tablets you don't have code access to.

Over the past year and a half I've had it drummed into me that fast hashing is bad and slow hashing is good. If this is so, why have they optimised this new hashing algorithm to be as fast as possible?

They are providing the service of making your money available for payment without you having to think about the logistics of moving the money (plus credit facilities, chargebacks, fraud protection (If I have a wallet full of money and someone spends it I'm down that cash. If I have a wallet full of cards and someone spends with them, I'm covered.)). It only seems fair that they get paid for their work.

Whether the amount they charge is worth the services they provide is another question entirely.

In the UK Mt. Gox have had issues with several banks who've basically disavowed them and all but refuse to do service with them. Having a certified payment processor means banks can't do that.

Every time I see a new batch of features graduated from labs I still look to see if they've deigned to bring back the right-click-and-hold navigation to labs. It broke my usage habits for months when they "retired" it (and still does, every now and then).

Israel have built an anti-radar missile that has cruise capability, allowing it to loiter above a theatre waiting for something to make an active radar lock. I think (but am not sure) that it can even land safely for reuse after a set time frame if unused.

Having lived inside London for the past year and a half, the M25 is a decent psychological barrier between London and the rest of the country but seeing it as a pretty distinct glowing line was something else.

MI6 do wonderful full page adverts in most of the major UK newspapers (Economist, Times, Independent etc.) that point out that they'll need to create a convincing cover story for you, but that you'll be able to tell a few trusted friends and family.