Part way through the article, there's a big quote that says, "Without Windows 95 there would be no Steam or XBox and we would still be playing Pong." That's just nonsense.
Absolutely. Doom predated Windows 95, which was in turn predated by wolfenstein 3D which was arguably the most influential game of all time. How many FPS games owe their look and feel to those two games?
I'm not having much sympathy for the sites operators or its actual users, so that pretty much wipes out the rest of the options.
So, basically because the site provides a service you don't agree with, they are fair game for an illegal intrusion? I don't agree with their business model either, but I don't agree that they somehow "deserved" the breach.
Continuity is something that only popped up very recently when viewers started to want such a thing. And it's still a rather small (but very vocal) minority that cares about such things, at least in shows where it simply does not matter.
Is that a function of the way we consume our media these days? Back in the 50s-90s people watched shows on broadcast; the series-binge is only a recent phenomenon corresponding with torrents and then streaming services.
Just because you pay for it in a different way doesn't mean that costs don't matter. Granted, the US system necessarily means higher cost (because you need to pay for the care AND a profit for any company involved in the transaction) but with a socialized system you still have to pay for people, equipment and pharmaceuticals. Being cheaper does not make it free.
Agreed; however in an Australian context this poll is essentially meaningless, in that most people do not know or care what the cost of the various procedures are, because they simply do not see them.
If, on the other hand, the poll were "If I could reduce the waiting time on one medical..." then it might be a different matter.
What my insurance covers is irrelevant. It actually did cover that $900 ambulance ride. How is it better that the insurance company was ripped off $900? How is it better for me or you, since that money ultimately comes out of our premiums?
This is actually relevant. If you took your SO to the hospital yourself you would have been triaged in emergency; the fact (s)he rode there in an ambulance means being seen straight away. Here in Queensland, Australia, all ambulance rides are free, thanks to a small levy charged on our electricity accounts of all things. We also have a functional public hospital service, too, despite the current government's efforts to dismantle it, making this poll relatively meaningless for us.
In some wild life parks the "good guys" cut the horns from rhinoceros as a way to protect them from the "bad guys", so a "prosthetic horn" is dangerous idea actually.
...Unless the prosthetic horn looks nothing like the original horn, be it by colour or whatever.
I've written Python for years and have never used any special editor. The one problem I've had is when commenting out several lines of Python code -- you need to add a # character to the beginning of each line. It's a minor inconvenience.
What about using the """ triple-quote format? That works for multi-line comments, but may be "special" in that it's interpreted by other tools.
Without life, Biology itself would be impossible.
