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No, the public record is clear. It's not a "switch room", it's a splitter. And yes, the technical and expense implications of that have been debated and re-debated, re-hashed and triple-warmed-over.
But how do you know that they actually record everything (as you claim they do) rather than analyzing everything, discarding all the uninteresting stuff and only recording a subset of the traffic they've analyzed?
For most of the content in EVE, you simply need to be there, on site, to experience it to its fullest.
I disagree completely. You bring up Asakai as an example so let's run with that: Pressing F1 on whatever square bracket your FC tells you to while everything feels like you're moving through syrup (10% TiDi doesn't make a submarine sim any better) is not a fun or "full" experience. Dealing with lag, desync, bugs (drone control, argh), the terrible EVE UI,
To experience EVE to its fullest you need access to jabber, IRC and forums. Having an EVE subscription and logging in every now and then is strictly optional (*someone* has to log in because there's no metagame without a game but that someone emphatically doesn't have to be you).
As I write this I have a person in mind who cancelled all his accounts almost a year ago but is still a very active EVE player by staying super involved on kugu. He doesn't have to deal with "EVE Online: A Bad Game" in order to experience EVE. He probably has a much fuller EVE experience than those 80% of players who have never looked beyond shooting red crosses and white square boxes.
Being on site only makes you realize how flawed EVE is as a game. The core EVE experience - the politics, the scheming, the socializing,
From wiki: "Hastati (singular: Hastatus) were a class of infantry in the armies of the early Roman Republic who originally fought as spearmen, and later as swordsmen."
PRINCPES seems to be a misspelling of principes which were the early republic's heavy infantry.
The point is that if the NYT had received a mass of cables, they would have picked through them to identify the ones which actually had newsworthy material.
So we would have never learned how close an influential (far-left, anti-imperialist, pacifist) politician in my country is with the local US ambassador - to whom he openly admitted that some of his public positions are populist drivel.
The NYT's verdict for this and many dozen similar cases would invariably have been "not newsworthy enough to harm US interests" - despite the demasking of many politicians (who did in secret collaborate with the US while lambasting them in public) being extremely newsworthy in their respective counries.
What is so different?
It isn't - which is why TV stations started to display ads as overlays during the regular programming and do "just 30 seconds" ad blocks that are too short for you to change the channel.
No, not according to the more pro-active EU competition/monopoly laws or similar US laws. Apple's market share is too small to fall under "monopoly" in any or all European countries, where the distribution is quite varied from nation to nation. Scandinavia is not at all representative of the European handset market as a whole, my dear neighbor.
Monopoly questions tend depend mostly on the definition of "the market" - you are talking of the "handset market" which is the view someone who would not like Apple to be a monopolist would naturally choose, others would prefer to talk about "the smartphone market" or (even better) "the tablet market".
With some effort you will always find a market that is narrow enough to rationalize regulation on grounds of a monopoly- the question is whether you want to, and that's a political question first and foremost.
(Under US regulations this is a bit harder as there monopolies in themselves are legal and you have to show that the monopolist abuses his position to the detriment of the customers or competitors.)
We're calculating work time at roughly $20 per work hour for Tohyama, which is lower than what we usually bill him at. Even then half of that rate will go to paying Scroll Ninja lead developer Iwakawa so he can continue working on Scroll Ninja... since we didn't get funded but want to continue anyway.
"I just need marketing" is the same type of (flawed) sentiment that is displayed by someone who claims he has a great idea for the next facebook/myspace/... and "just" needs a programmer.
Marketing is not only advertising and sales work that you can tack on after the development process has been finished - the first goal of marketing is to ensure that you develop a marketable product and as such it is a process that starts with the way you set up your organization and which accompanies product development for its whole duration (how do you make sure your potential customers needs and wishes get communicated to the engineers? which (clearly defined) market(s) do you want to focus on? who are your competitors and how can you offer a better/cheaper/... product than them?
"We developed this product because we think it is cool but we have no idea who else be interested in it - now please do your "marketing" magic and make sure it's a commercial success" is a pitch that will only attract snakeoil salesmen and make competent marketing experts run screaming. Marketing is 80% about making sure that your engineers design a product to the market (rather than for themselves) and 20% about raising awareness/creating shiny ads/...
You act like everyone is really sick. Facts are there are morons who abuse the system because they don't want to go to work, and as a result everyone is punished for it. Those people force businesses to write Draconian sick day policies.
In Germany the employee has to provide his employer with a medical certification (confirming his illness) if he is on sick leave for more than three days.
However, the employer has the right to demand the certification earlier if he desires to do so and if the employment contract doesn't say otherwise (he can apply this right in a discriminatory fashion - e.g. demanding a medical certification on the first day only from employees whom he suspects of faking illness - as the Federal Labor Court recently found).
If the employer suspects that the medical certification provided by the employee is unreliable (maybe the doctor is very quick to certify illness without considering the possibility of a malingerer) he can demand a certification issued from a doctor appointed by the MDK (medical service of the health insurance, an official state-level institution that provides medical consulting to all health insurance companies) - these doctors have a strong reputation for not being deceived easily.
If the illness might impact the ways in which the employee can be used after his return to work the company physician has to issue a medical certificate.
All being said and done the average German employee still took 9.5 days of sick leave last year.
Somehow companies like Mathworks have been managing this happily for well over a decade without making up weird claims about standardisation. Oh and hey, I've done it too. It's easy.
Maybe MathWorks is doing a good job but you wouldn't believe the troubles I had trying to get Maple 7 to run on a current Linux distro in 2005 (4 years after its release). Maple required old versions of glibc and libstdc++, didn't work with the compatibility versions of these libraries supplied by the distro,
So from personal experience I don't agree with your claim taht everything is fine in the world of scientific computing on Linux.
An all-free no advertising internet might be a good thing. Kinda like a world with only FOSS computers, no Apple or Windows. Sure, the general public would miss their Twitter and Facebook but computer geeks would rejoice.
The computer geeks are the big winners of the present model - they get to use the ad-supported services that are paid for with the eye-balls of millions non-geeks while running an adblocker themselves. They only thing they (we) have to worry about is too widespread usage of adblockers.
So far the record in NATO member countries for the military obeying the dictates of the elected government has been exemplary.
if you want to call four military coups in Turkey since they joined NATO exemplary... ^^
In Old High German "gift" meant "that which has been given", very similar but slightly more neutral to the English gift; in modern German you can still see traces of that in "Mitgift" = dowry.
The modern meaning goes back to the word being used as an euphemism for poison ("the deathly gift") and that meaning becoming dominant over time. As the meaning changed the word also changed its genus from female "die Gift" (still "die Mitgift") over male to the neuter ("das Gift").
"Die Gift" = donation/present was still used (albeit archaic) when "das Gift" = poison was already established.
t. Unless your idea of "most of Europe" is one that doesn't include, France, Germany, Greece, the U.K., Italy, and I'm sure others that I don't feel like chasing down
Sadly, you're wrong. France? Check. Germany? Check.
How about you check your facts because gloating over others not checking theirs?
There is no same-sex marriage in Germany. Gay couples can enter a registered domestic partnership which is treated the same as marriage with regard to some issues (inheritance, social issues, pensions,
Most notably registered domestic partnerships are not intended to receive the same tax benefits as married couples (a couple of court judgements turned this over last year but the current government is already working to revise relevant law to circumvent the criticism) and cannot adopt children as a couple (one of them can of course adopt the child as an individual but in that case his/her partner is not legally considered a parent).
Registered partnerships are also not explicitly protected by the Grundgesetz (German constitution) the way marriage is (6.1 "Marriage and the family shall enjoy the special protection of the state.").
Some Chinese technical professionals can bypass it with a variety of methods and/or tools.
I've met quite a few Chinese in online games and what they tell is that circumventing the firewall is as easy as using a proxy or VPN, is basically risk-free (to the end-user) and is really nothing special amongst their peer-group (age 15-30, educated, typically upper middle class). Every now and then their preferred proxy or VPN provider gets blocked and they have to look for a new one but that's a minor hassle and not a deal-breaker.
So the emphasis when reading the summary should definetely be on the variety of tools that are available to sidestep the firewall, not on the level of technical competence that is required to do so.
Many are called, few volunteer.