It was a joke. In the colonization & US revolution era, englishman used a ton of commas and it made it very hard to read and follow by today's standards. It is uncommon to see more than two or three commas in a sentence in english today, and you used 14. I was saying I'll stay away from your lawn b/c you write like a dinosaur ("get off my lawn" joke). Apparently it failed.
True, but if Firefox has shown us anything in recent years, it has shown us that marketshare makes you a target. Even with their relatively low penetration (compared to Windows), you can clearly see a correlation in # of vulnerabilities/exploits discovered vs. increased market share. Yes, the number is minor compared to Windows vulnerabilities, but it still proves the statement in your post partially true.
Parent's last paragraph says it all. At a retailer I worked for as a kid, electronics extended warranties were used in less than 5% of all warranty purchases, but the warranties could go up to 20-30% retail price. If you spend a decent amount on electronics every year, you're better off taking the money you'd spend on the warranty and setting it aside until something breaks. Over time you'd net positive.
The only item I've seen it worthwhile on is inkjet printers. Inkjet printer's wear & tear is usually covered under extended warranty, and if it is commonly used for school/work and is around $75-150, there is a very high chance it will break in under 3 years. The retailers typically give you the newer model at the same price point and you can just buy another 3 year warranty. In cases where color is needed & laser isn't practical, you can make money on this one by not being lazy. I'm on my 4th inkjet for for a total of $170 in 6 years.
The fact that he moved up from an intern position tells them that he has the ability to adapt. This is the most important aspect of an employee. Some peoply only know how to do as they are told, others are problem solvers and seek to answer the great "Why?". After experiencing the working world and seeing my mother's small business employees in action, I can tell you that a critical thinker is a rare thing indeed.
Parent has a good point. I bought a WRT54G when I moved into my new condo and had connection issues when torrenting. The WRT54G has 2MB on board and would crap out during hefty throughput and restart. I bought a WRT54GL (8MB I think?) and this problem went away. Might wanna give it a shot.
If that doesn't work, I had packet loss issues on my line at my old house which would drop the connection fequently due to a poor line. Time Warner had rigged the box behind our house with a splitter so 6 people were on 5 lines, and it was causing bandwith problems. Many phone calls and 6 free months of cable + 5 tech visits later, they finally upgraded the damn thing.
Being at the top of an FPS community causes a lot of accusations. I was banned from a large percentage of old NS servers because of accusations, but unlike my competitive counterparts I didn't even use a pistol script (which was allowed in competitive play). Ignorance is bliss. If they were honest, they'd simply say they don't want people of a certain skill level on their server.
I won't get, I need no treatment, i may live 5-10 years shorter, but i enjoyed every single day of what i had.
And herein lies the problem. Like 99% of other smokers, you justify your habit with this line. However, when the time actually comes, your line no longer holds ground because your opinion changes once you're in the situation and you get treatment anyways. If someone forced you to sign a paper to no medical treatment for smoking ailments right now for 20 years in the future, I can guarantee you you'd start sweating when you picked up the pen.
Baseless promises about the future are the same reason the US has a giant deficit and slackers go bankrupt for getting too deep in debt.
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Windows did not dominate the OS market by superior design, but by superior approach. MS built a platform and let any hardware manufacturer use it. Google apparently read their tech history and is taking the same approach MS did a few decades ago, with the open factor as icing on the cake. I expect the rewards to be huge.
It isn't a 5000-fold increase, its 5000% increase, which amounts to 50 times more data usage. They used that data representation to make it seem overwhelming when in fact it could have easily been projected with the first 6 months of iPhone usage. I usually play the devil's advocate, but I will never give AT&T that benefit. They are one of the sleaziest companies in the US. Getting angry because you are spending your customer's money on frivolous bullshit rather than increasing capacity in what they paid for is pathetic.
Same age? I'm 24 and I can relate to everything in the GP's post, except I had decent video games as well and was in middle school during AOL's prime. Its not all lost, just depends on the parents, the kids, and the environment.
That gave me a really cool idea that I hope someone has implemented already. In your scenario, imagine easy/normal mode would have you doing what your post suggested where hard mode would have you mobilize on the ground or get penalized in some way for hitting the civs. It would give people a moral incentive to play the game on a harder difficulty and could make the experience much more rewarding. I haven't played the game so if this seems off then forgive me.
I came in this thread to post about my IT background and ending up in Finance. I am in Finance paying the "union tax" parent speaks of. Labor costs for longshoreman in the US much much higher as anywhere else in the world (including Europe). The return on your US investment is poor if not negative for the shipping & terminal industry solely because of the astronomical price of the union workers. Also, since this union runs down the entire east coast, if you tick them off you have the possibility of them not working any of your ships/terminals and putting you out of business (trying to automate some of their outdated/redundant positions is a big no-no). The US shipping industry is an ugly mark on every shipping companies' books due to the insane labor cost. To be fair, GP's union is a lot better than the west coast ILWU, which makes the ILA look like saints.
Regarding switching positions, I went from IT to Finance, and I found that the computer illiteracy rate in the finance world is staggering. My IT knowledge has saved my company millions by eliminating pointless routines and by mining tracking data for gold nuggets. Knowing both Finance and IT allows you to either implement necessary small IT solutions without IT's help or be a proper language bridge between the two depts. Many failed IT projects are due to poor guidelines from the dept requesting help because they "don't speak techie". Sometimes a square peg is a good fit for a round hole.
Also, rails and cables don't make sense for a stop that will enver see more than 10 passengers in the outskirts of a city. The economics allow these buses better scalability. This would be nice in the US where suberbia reigns supreme. The only form of mass transit that really works in a city with low land value like mine is buses, because the houses are so spread out.
I think a lot of apple's success has to do with the so-called RDF (don't stop fanboys, read on, I'll explain it). Apple heavily markets everything they sell, and they market it with adjectives "easy", "simple", and so on. It is marketed so heavily it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Their UI really isn't much better than their competitors in every market if you look at it from a skeptic's point of view. People became pre-disposed to thinking apple's products will be easy, and as a result it is, because they don't freeze up when they need to do something, they figure it out. Its exactly like how a quitter will always lose because they stop putting effort in at the first sight of failure, except in the opposite direction.
Now I'll give them credit for using intuitive controls and whatnot, but using the iPod as an example, it is not simpler than other brand's MP3 players. I really hope verizon doesn't cripple this phone because I want a phone on their network (company discount) that I don't have to flash to another OS.
Off topic, but I can't seem to understand why Polanski is being defended at all. Defending him is like saying money should buy you out of crime. Yes, the defendant received large sums of money and wants the case dropped...but he still commited a major crime. Is it OK to murder when you have money? Rape? DUI Manslaughter? Dog fighting? No, it is not.
Polanski is a criminal who deserves to be punhished under law like any other pedo. He is not above the law.
All of my discussion is based on the law. Is the law just or sensible? I think it is. Some interpretations of this law are not, like the teenies sending pics to each other and going to jail over it. Malicious and irresponsible interpretation of a law by some lawyers or judges does not make the law bad.
I know you asked for recommendations, but I figured bring these up because any oversight on these will make the class boring regardless of the quality of lit you choose.
Popular titles will possibly have been read by a portion of the class. This could create a lot of boredom. If you could take a good compiled list and survey potential students on whether they've read them or not, that would be very beneficial. You could even survey on the first day of class if you build a few good lesson plan templates beforehand. That would definitely make them feel more engaged.
Doing a book that was turned into a movie or two might be good. In some of my classes we watched the movie after reading the book, and it was a nice break in routine and helped outline differences in media. Sphere comes to mind.
In my opinion, lit classes can be either incredibly engaging or incrediby boring. If you follow a formula for each work its going to be boring. As an elective, its something students choose because they want to. If its treated like a core subject, it may turn that interest off.
I played this game at the top tiers of league play, and I can tell you that it had of the most brutal learning curve of all FPSes I've ever played. It's the reason the game never caught on, it couldn't retain new players because pub strats were not logically linked to pro strats, causing stagnation.
The game style has a lot of potential. Hopefully this will be good, as well as Natural Selection 2 (coming soon), and widen our gaming horizons.
The summary deeply disturbs me. Their definition of "Horrifying" in this situation is due to confusion about who is doing DNA and isotope analyses and that the agency has not cited any scientific papers that validate it. It is HORRIFYING that they would do something like this at all! It doesnt matter who is doing it and what validates it, the fact that they are doing it AT ALL, even if they have scientific validation, is WRONG.
That vessel, the Emma Maersk and her sisters, save 1200 metric tons of fuel a year with environmentally friendly silicone paint used up to the high water line. 1200mt * $300/mt = $360,000 * 8 ships = 2.88 million a year. The fuel savings is a little over 1% of yearly operation. 1% is serious business. It is in their best interest to chase fuel efficiency, and they do so with millions in R&D.
Full sail is not physically possible for the size of ships today. Large container ships are orders of magnitude more dense, and also carry orders of magnitude more cargo. Even if you could sail, tight control is needed due to high winds in ports with small channels blowing ships off course, not possible with sails. Large shipping companies pour millions into R&D to reduce fuel costs because even a 1% reduction in fuel cost nets millions of dollars in savings for these companies. The reason you don't see sails is that they are not feasible.
Margins are razor thin, as shown by the shipping sector posting billions in losses for the first half of the year. Over 5% of capacity is idle. Your sailboat does not amuse me.
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It was a joke. In the colonization & US revolution era, englishman used a ton of commas and it made it very hard to read and follow by today's standards. It is uncommon to see more than two or three commas in a sentence in english today, and you used 14. I was saying I'll stay away from your lawn b/c you write like a dinosaur ("get off my lawn" joke). Apparently it failed.
If your writing style is any indication of your age, your enlightenment-era lawn might be the oldest on slashdot. I'll keep my distance.
True, but if Firefox has shown us anything in recent years, it has shown us that marketshare makes you a target. Even with their relatively low penetration (compared to Windows), you can clearly see a correlation in # of vulnerabilities/exploits discovered vs. increased market share. Yes, the number is minor compared to Windows vulnerabilities, but it still proves the statement in your post partially true.
Parent's last paragraph says it all. At a retailer I worked for as a kid, electronics extended warranties were used in less than 5% of all warranty purchases, but the warranties could go up to 20-30% retail price. If you spend a decent amount on electronics every year, you're better off taking the money you'd spend on the warranty and setting it aside until something breaks. Over time you'd net positive.
The only item I've seen it worthwhile on is inkjet printers. Inkjet printer's wear & tear is usually covered under extended warranty, and if it is commonly used for school/work and is around $75-150, there is a very high chance it will break in under 3 years. The retailers typically give you the newer model at the same price point and you can just buy another 3 year warranty. In cases where color is needed & laser isn't practical, you can make money on this one by not being lazy. I'm on my 4th inkjet for for a total of $170 in 6 years.
The fact that he moved up from an intern position tells them that he has the ability to adapt. This is the most important aspect of an employee. Some peoply only know how to do as they are told, others are problem solvers and seek to answer the great "Why?". After experiencing the working world and seeing my mother's small business employees in action, I can tell you that a critical thinker is a rare thing indeed.
IP is not a failed idea. Our system is what's broken (or more likely, those who are in charge of the system).
If the system can be broken by having the wrong people in charge of it, then it is a broken system. A proper system has checks and balances for that.
Parent has a good point. I bought a WRT54G when I moved into my new condo and had connection issues when torrenting. The WRT54G has 2MB on board and would crap out during hefty throughput and restart. I bought a WRT54GL (8MB I think?) and this problem went away. Might wanna give it a shot.
If that doesn't work, I had packet loss issues on my line at my old house which would drop the connection fequently due to a poor line. Time Warner had rigged the box behind our house with a splitter so 6 people were on 5 lines, and it was causing bandwith problems. Many phone calls and 6 free months of cable + 5 tech visits later, they finally upgraded the damn thing.
You lose the battle the instant you roll over.
Being at the top of an FPS community causes a lot of accusations. I was banned from a large percentage of old NS servers because of accusations, but unlike my competitive counterparts I didn't even use a pistol script (which was allowed in competitive play). Ignorance is bliss. If they were honest, they'd simply say they don't want people of a certain skill level on their server.
I won't get, I need no treatment, i may live 5-10 years shorter, but i enjoyed every single day of what i had.
And herein lies the problem. Like 99% of other smokers, you justify your habit with this line. However, when the time actually comes, your line no longer holds ground because your opinion changes once you're in the situation and you get treatment anyways. If someone forced you to sign a paper to no medical treatment for smoking ailments right now for 20 years in the future, I can guarantee you you'd start sweating when you picked up the pen.
Baseless promises about the future are the same reason the US has a giant deficit and slackers go bankrupt for getting too deep in debt.
Windows did not dominate the OS market by superior design, but by superior approach. MS built a platform and let any hardware manufacturer use it. Google apparently read their tech history and is taking the same approach MS did a few decades ago, with the open factor as icing on the cake. I expect the rewards to be huge.
Shiny and marketing only go so far.
It isn't a 5000-fold increase, its 5000% increase, which amounts to 50 times more data usage. They used that data representation to make it seem overwhelming when in fact it could have easily been projected with the first 6 months of iPhone usage. I usually play the devil's advocate, but I will never give AT&T that benefit. They are one of the sleaziest companies in the US. Getting angry because you are spending your customer's money on frivolous bullshit rather than increasing capacity in what they paid for is pathetic.
... and now you have your own support fire shooting you in the ass or worse, not providing the cover its supposed to.
Man, I always thought getting shot was way worse than not having cover fire. Thanks for enlightening me.
I can't imagine what kind of hell you must have gone through to learn such devilspeak. Any manager who sees that is bound to have multiple orgasms.
Same age? I'm 24 and I can relate to everything in the GP's post, except I had decent video games as well and was in middle school during AOL's prime. Its not all lost, just depends on the parents, the kids, and the environment.
That gave me a really cool idea that I hope someone has implemented already. In your scenario, imagine easy/normal mode would have you doing what your post suggested where hard mode would have you mobilize on the ground or get penalized in some way for hitting the civs. It would give people a moral incentive to play the game on a harder difficulty and could make the experience much more rewarding. I haven't played the game so if this seems off then forgive me.
From taking the energy gained from regenerative braking and putting it through an inefficient (not even close to 100%) electric engine.
I came in this thread to post about my IT background and ending up in Finance. I am in Finance paying the "union tax" parent speaks of. Labor costs for longshoreman in the US much much higher as anywhere else in the world (including Europe). The return on your US investment is poor if not negative for the shipping & terminal industry solely because of the astronomical price of the union workers. Also, since this union runs down the entire east coast, if you tick them off you have the possibility of them not working any of your ships/terminals and putting you out of business (trying to automate some of their outdated/redundant positions is a big no-no). The US shipping industry is an ugly mark on every shipping companies' books due to the insane labor cost. To be fair, GP's union is a lot better than the west coast ILWU, which makes the ILA look like saints.
Regarding switching positions, I went from IT to Finance, and I found that the computer illiteracy rate in the finance world is staggering. My IT knowledge has saved my company millions by eliminating pointless routines and by mining tracking data for gold nuggets. Knowing both Finance and IT allows you to either implement necessary small IT solutions without IT's help or be a proper language bridge between the two depts. Many failed IT projects are due to poor guidelines from the dept requesting help because they "don't speak techie". Sometimes a square peg is a good fit for a round hole.
Also, rails and cables don't make sense for a stop that will enver see more than 10 passengers in the outskirts of a city. The economics allow these buses better scalability. This would be nice in the US where suberbia reigns supreme. The only form of mass transit that really works in a city with low land value like mine is buses, because the houses are so spread out.
I think a lot of apple's success has to do with the so-called RDF (don't stop fanboys, read on, I'll explain it). Apple heavily markets everything they sell, and they market it with adjectives "easy", "simple", and so on. It is marketed so heavily it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Their UI really isn't much better than their competitors in every market if you look at it from a skeptic's point of view. People became pre-disposed to thinking apple's products will be easy, and as a result it is, because they don't freeze up when they need to do something, they figure it out. Its exactly like how a quitter will always lose because they stop putting effort in at the first sight of failure, except in the opposite direction.
Now I'll give them credit for using intuitive controls and whatnot, but using the iPod as an example, it is not simpler than other brand's MP3 players. I really hope verizon doesn't cripple this phone because I want a phone on their network (company discount) that I don't have to flash to another OS.
Off topic, but I can't seem to understand why Polanski is being defended at all. Defending him is like saying money should buy you out of crime. Yes, the defendant received large sums of money and wants the case dropped...but he still commited a major crime. Is it OK to murder when you have money? Rape? DUI Manslaughter? Dog fighting? No, it is not.
Polanski is a criminal who deserves to be punhished under law like any other pedo. He is not above the law.
All of my discussion is based on the law. Is the law just or sensible? I think it is. Some interpretations of this law are not, like the teenies sending pics to each other and going to jail over it. Malicious and irresponsible interpretation of a law by some lawyers or judges does not make the law bad.
I know you asked for recommendations, but I figured bring these up because any oversight on these will make the class boring regardless of the quality of lit you choose.
Popular titles will possibly have been read by a portion of the class. This could create a lot of boredom. If you could take a good compiled list and survey potential students on whether they've read them or not, that would be very beneficial. You could even survey on the first day of class if you build a few good lesson plan templates beforehand. That would definitely make them feel more engaged.
Doing a book that was turned into a movie or two might be good. In some of my classes we watched the movie after reading the book, and it was a nice break in routine and helped outline differences in media. Sphere comes to mind.
In my opinion, lit classes can be either incredibly engaging or incrediby boring. If you follow a formula for each work its going to be boring. As an elective, its something students choose because they want to. If its treated like a core subject, it may turn that interest off.
I played this game at the top tiers of league play, and I can tell you that it had of the most brutal learning curve of all FPSes I've ever played. It's the reason the game never caught on, it couldn't retain new players because pub strats were not logically linked to pro strats, causing stagnation.
The game style has a lot of potential. Hopefully this will be good, as well as Natural Selection 2 (coming soon), and widen our gaming horizons.
The summary deeply disturbs me. Their definition of "Horrifying" in this situation is due to confusion about who is doing DNA and isotope analyses and that the agency has not cited any scientific papers that validate it. It is HORRIFYING that they would do something like this at all! It doesnt matter who is doing it and what validates it, the fact that they are doing it AT ALL, even if they have scientific validation, is WRONG.
That vessel, the Emma Maersk and her sisters, save 1200 metric tons of fuel a year with environmentally friendly silicone paint used up to the high water line. 1200mt * $300/mt = $360,000 * 8 ships = 2.88 million a year. The fuel savings is a little over 1% of yearly operation. 1% is serious business. It is in their best interest to chase fuel efficiency, and they do so with millions in R&D.
Full sail is not physically possible for the size of ships today. Large container ships are orders of magnitude more dense, and also carry orders of magnitude more cargo. Even if you could sail, tight control is needed due to high winds in ports with small channels blowing ships off course, not possible with sails. Large shipping companies pour millions into R&D to reduce fuel costs because even a 1% reduction in fuel cost nets millions of dollars in savings for these companies. The reason you don't see sails is that they are not feasible. Margins are razor thin, as shown by the shipping sector posting billions in losses for the first half of the year. Over 5% of capacity is idle. Your sailboat does not amuse me.