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Good advice. I would add that programmers should always make an effort to learn additional languages when the opportunity arises, and that's what the OP has: look on it as an opportunity to advance your skillset, not as a problem. It's especially useful to learn languages that are substantially...

IIRC it had a lot of issues when released, both with the game and the company who run it. Not heard much about it since.

I like the last bit in this quote about respecting privacy: "The Army admitted Thursday to not only restricting access to The Guardian news website at the Presidio of Monterey... but Armywide. Presidio employees said the site had been blocked since The Guardian broke stories on data...

The mysterious rotating statue from a mummy's tomb: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...play-case.html

Sammo Hung fighting monkey-style @ 1h30 or so: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dXq8u4PG6E Chinese sorcery, 80s style.

There've been a few people on, but as others have said, where do you even start with the Church?

The stories do have similarities running through them (to the point where it becomes almost an in-joke with societies forbidding entry to a Special Circumstances agent with accompanying drone) but the books aren't really about the Culture "winning". Instead they explore questions about what...

A bit more on the Mad Max game: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...y-to-the-wilds "Max's iconic car, a heavily modded 1974 Ford Falcon XB sedan, is no more and Max needs to craft his new ride. The Magnum Opus may start out a rickety ol' jalopy, but throughout the course of Avalanche's...

So my girl was looking over my shoulder as I did a quick tour of the sights and she asked "what's with all the dicks?" Did someone go reverse Victorian on the statues?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013...dies-59-cancer "His announcement of his terminal illness provoked an outpouring of dismay and affection from his readers ... It was striking how many of those who responded to the news spoke of having encountered him in person, often after a reading or...

It's not so much they feel entitled, it's that their business model isn't otherwise sustainable, and they believe people are dumb enough to go along with it. I believe the cut of used games sales is a largely a mirage anyway; people buy them because they are cheap, do anything to make them...

If I can get whitelisted I'd give it a bash. I haven't played that much though...

If that's the way they go with used games then I think the XB1 used games market is going to be virtually non-existent. Game publishers might be thinking along the same lines as the recording industry with the assumption that if you block access to cheap material people will fork out the cash...

It won't remain the case. The PS3 was a fundamentally different architecture and difficult to program for, so it simply wasn't worth the effort to exploit the power. This time around the PS4 and Xbox 1 are very similar so ports will take far less time, and it will be easier to optimise for both...

The Merc is terrible on the tyres. I think Rosberg suffered in Bahrain like Hamilton did in the previous two races by trying to keep up with the front runners when the car is heavy on fuel, and destroying the tyres in the process.

From what we've been told of what happened, I think it's unlikely there's a mastermind behind this attack. No-one claimed responsibility and everything about it seems... amateurish. Hell, according to CNN they told the person whose car they jacked that they were the marathon bombers, and having...

I thought they had him cornered. I think the lockdown will be because they are worried the brothers aren't the only members of the cell. I don't know how long they can keep people off the streets though.

"U.S. law-enforcement officials said the two brothers came to the U.S. at different times-one with his parents in 2002 and the other on his own in 2004. Intelligence and counterterrorism officials have been scouring records to look for intersections with the two men, officials said. Records...

The older brother might have been able to remember something about what was happening before the family came to the States, but he was too young to do anything at the time. The younger brother would have been 7, and possibly never lived in Chechnya. If this is an Islam thing, they picked it up...

The IJU isn't an al-Qaeda offshoot, it's an IMU offshoot, and the IMU are Uzbeks, not Chechens.

Another take on this: https://twitter.com/BBCDanielS "Ahem! If you are a Chechen from Kyrgyzstan, lived briefly in Dagestan, then lived in America for 10 yrs+. The connection to Chechnya is slim" Seems they may have been in the US since 2001?

Kyrgyzstan is where that US air base is that supports operations in Afghanistan.

I doubt they are Russians if they're from Chechnya. Those guys have been rebelling against the Russians for about 200 years now. *edit* OK near Chechnya, not from Chechnya. Not sure what they'd be bombing the US for.

Start a diversion. Put explosives on a timer, move away, and hope to break the cordon in the confusion. Very unlikely you'll get away at this point though, and even if you do, where are you going to go?

The US and Canada studied Ricin bombs during WW2 but obviously never deployed or used them, so it can be done. AFAIK the only reason they stopped was because they came up with chemicals that were more "economical." Terrorists are definitely interested in it *edit* won't repeat the link in the...

The first thing that came to mind for me was the nutcase in London a few years later, mainly because the devices seem similar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_nail_bomber They caught him relatively quickly from CCTV footage.

Back on the NK stuff: US recovery of North Korean satellite exposed nuclear progress "While the DIA assessment does not represent the view of all 16 US intelligence agencies, the recovered satellite rocket helped move CIA analysts away from their scepticism about North Korea's ability to...

Didn't Shadowbane try that?

A wealth of small text covering everything outside of the nuclear option: "The Conventional Military Balance on the Korean Peninsula" http://www.iiss.org/publications/str...e-on-the-kore/ "North Korea cannot invade the South without inviting a fatal counter-attack from the US and...

And in other news: "A study just completed by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency says North Korea may have nuclear weapons that could be delivered by ballistic missiles, a congressman said Thursday. The revelation came from Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado, during a House Armed Services...

"Before his escape from North Korea, Lee Gi-chul served as a lieutenant in the Korean People's army, part of the second war training unit responsible for guerrilla warfare. He said that although the outside world might not enjoy growing animosities between North Korea and the west, it was...

It's not the only deterrent, but that's exactly what the US keeps it's nuclear arsenal for: to deter nuclear attacks on the US or its allies. As far as I know the following (from 2010) is still true: "I want to take the bulk of my time before I turn it over to General Cartwright, and that's...

Sadly, and it's a horrifying thought, I think the principle of deterrence would mean a nuke for a nuke. And continuing on the grim theme, doesn't NK have chemical and biological warheads for their missiles? They might not be able to drop a nuke on a target (yet) but a chemical (or biological)...

The insanity continues... "We've just been told that the British embassy has, like their Russian counterparts, been advised to leave Pyongyang. Britain is reportedly considering the advice" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

This is very sad newsone day someone will film a Culture novel but I bet they fuck it up. Until then we have a short fan-made riff on the Player of Games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET8IFxPo61w

As I understand it the most likely "invasion" scenario would not be a direct assault across the DMZ but the infiltration of NK special forces into Seoul to seize a few buildings and areas and maybe set up some kind of bargaining position with hostages. Such an operation would be a desperate...

From the article you quoted: "Although drivers so blatantly ignoring team orders is rare" You don't get many punishments handed out because in every other team, the drivers do as they are told. Red Bull seems to be the exception at the moment, because Horner is weak. As for examples...

The McLaren looked a lot better on a nice flat track. It would have been uncomfortable for the Mercs if Button hadn't had the pit lane disaster, but then such mishaps were the bane of McLaren last season. I'm not sure where Lotus lost their pace between practice and qualifying, but they did...

But that's the problem. There was a rule, and not even an unwritten one, and Vettel unilaterally decided to break it. It's not the rule itself that's important, it's the fact that Vettel has decided that if he doesn't like a rule, he won't follow it. In the short term, yes. In the long run it...

The biggest loser may be Christian Horner; if he can't control his drivers then he can't do his job. When Webber leaves Red Bull will have a job finding someone as quick as him because every driver will know Vettel runs the team and not Horner. If Horner tries to assert authority and suspend...