uhh us CODERS? a touchscreen offers nothing to a coder. The same way a 7 inch tablet or even 11 inch netbook tablet is insufficient space to develop on. Some of us actually do work requiring larger screens. WIDE Screens rotated vertically to maximize the amount of code you can see etc.;) Last I checked your smartphone still has at best a 1.0 ghz single core. My desktop has 2.83ghz quad core... when do you think you can start compiling on your smartphone? Oh.
I'm one of the few people that refuse to even upgrade to a smartphone. I require my phone to make phone calls and text nothing more. Would it be convenient to have "apps" on it? maybe. But considering how much I use the apps on my current phone, chances are I would be like most people. Install apps and use them once or twice then forget about them for months until I have some use for it.
Am I watching the market and development of apps for the new smartphone platforms carefully? Yes indeed. But we are still a long way off from the time where your phone can double as your computer if you need to actually get work DONE.
The bigger problem with PC games: the majority are crap I wouldnt pirate even if they had no DRM. I'd pay for good games but not the stuff they are putting out these days. They release the same games with better graphics... and thats it.
Same with alot of the pop trash music that gets played 50 times a day on top 40 music radio stations. I have no idea what would possess people to download that stuff. But the main factor is they actually enjoy it (or at least thats why I listen to music) Personally I find it annoying enough it gets played 50 times a day already, you would have to pay me to put the some of those song on anything I own.
No no. Ninjas vs Samurai. You musta missed the part where Ellison was getting armor as well. And we know that Steve's black turtle neck is actually part of his ninja uniform.
Yea most site wont get you anywhere close to 30/30. But its when you are doing multiple things at the same time that it is useful. Batch upload to say picasa, downloading your uhh latest linux distros, streaming your Hulu plus.
Sure 95% of the time you arent using most of that 30/30. But assuming you don't work at home, have a day job, chances are you are doing several things when you first get home. Thats where the extra bandwidth is useful. That and within the last 2 years you can already see websites upgrading their streams. Even youtube which had HORRIBLE video quality originally now offers 1080p? (or was it 720p max?I know I've seen some stuff where you can at least watch 720p).
Microsoft just wants you to associate them with soft blankets. They also want tax deductions from governments for setting up this blanket license (that no one will qualify for) e.g. Registered as a non-profit with microsoft AND recognized by the US government as ____ AND has less than 3 people in your organisation but more than 1!:p
Then they can say oh we donated 5 bajeeeellion dollars worth of software to nonprofits! (Except no one qualified for them.) Can I has tax reductions?
try mobile weapons: battlestations they have flash animated battle sequences!
the game play consists of press to explore, press battle, repair, repeat! wooo...... yea.. mindless stupid games. you are now level 160! and people pay for stuff like extra AP (Action points.. to do more of the above), weapons (different animations with bigger numbers!). Sure they have clan wars. but its the same.
There was also a 4 of a kind rule to limit how many of those cards you could put into your deck. Sure you could own 5000 copies but you can only put 4 in to play with. And even with the minimum amount of 60 cards thats 1/15. Plus the cards are balanced so there is no instant win. If you actually look at more recent sets, the rares are now BIGGER in terms of power difference compared to older cards. Most people playing tournaments in MTG tend to be able to afford 4ofs whatever they need anyways. Its not a pay to win situation as there are very strict limits as to the cards.
Zynga is totally different. its directly proportional to how much money you spend. MTG once you get 4 of every card, its pointless buying more. You could buy the MINIMUM $500 package from zynga a couple times and you could still buy more.
How then would you know the police department isn't shopping for new shoes?
All the data they really need would be tread marks. I mean what they use it for is probably just to help identify suspects based on the imprint to determine height/weight (based off size and depth of imprint). Then the wear of the tread to tell how old the shoes are roughly. What does finding the brand and exact style of the shoes have to do with everything? If a suspect leaves shoe prints, they have most of the data they need already.
Better check the tags on all the items you own for made in china, assembled in china etc. then? It's gonna be a while till they stop supplying a good bulk of US goods.
Oh and BTW, most of our national debt is also owed to China. Assuming you are paying your taxes, a portion (I hope) will go to repaying that debt. So I don't know how you are going to get past that. (Not pay taxes?)
My point is, a good chunk of the US economy is based off of trade and debt to China. I don't think its possible for your money to NOT flow the China. You might need to move to a less industrialized country for that to happen.
Yet there are people like me who would probably buy a new copy for my personal library (if the book was that good). New because I would prefer a copy that hasn't been all over and is falling apart, dirty, possibly written in.
I sure dont know about that. I graduated 2 years ago. finally got a job about 3 months ago. You can do the math as to how long I was unemployed. Problem is education doesn't give you a whole lot of experience in everything. I get out and "entry" level jobs I find require 5 years of something I never learned at school. Great. If the school taught it at all I might have 2 years worth of experience (since you don't use it ALL the time) I picked up PHP and MySQL in my unemployed time to improve my "skillset" but it doesn't change the fact I didn't have the 5 years people wanted. Much less of everything else they wanted ASP.net, C# etc.
So yea.. there are job listings... but they aren't even reasonable. Not to mention over my nearly 2 years of unemployment, I sent out literally hundreds of resumes. I could count the number of calls AND emails I got on my fingers and toes. Granted, I did apply to a good chunk of those jobs I was underqualified for but it seems people aren't even remotely interested in hiring entry level unless you are somewhat of an expert in your field to begin with. The biggest disconnect I think its the difference between my B.S. and the "entry" level jobs requiring 5 years+ of stuff I've never heard of (or had a chance to work with). Where does one get 5+ years of experience without first getting a job? Its not like you can achieve 5 years of experience in 5 years on your own (you would have to start in the last year of high school and do it through college). Or are you suggesting you go 5 years unemployed?
Yes there are jobs. Yes there are listings. Yes they are "entry level" but the requirements are not but the pay sure is.
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uhh us CODERS? a touchscreen offers nothing to a coder. The same way a 7 inch tablet or even 11 inch netbook tablet is insufficient space to develop on. Some of us actually do work requiring larger screens. WIDE Screens rotated vertically to maximize the amount of code you can see etc. ;) Last I checked your smartphone still has at best a 1.0 ghz single core. My desktop has 2.83ghz quad core... when do you think you can start compiling on your smartphone? Oh.
I'm one of the few people that refuse to even upgrade to a smartphone. I require my phone to make phone calls and text nothing more. Would it be convenient to have "apps" on it? maybe. But considering how much I use the apps on my current phone, chances are I would be like most people. Install apps and use them once or twice then forget about them for months until I have some use for it.
Am I watching the market and development of apps for the new smartphone platforms carefully? Yes indeed. But we are still a long way off from the time where your phone can double as your computer if you need to actually get work DONE.
Have you tried turning off and on again?
I wonder what they are gonna name release 26. 'z'______? I cant think of anything sweet that begins with z.
The bigger problem with PC games: the majority are crap I wouldnt pirate even if they had no DRM. I'd pay for good games but not the stuff they are putting out these days. They release the same games with better graphics... and thats it.
Same with alot of the pop trash music that gets played 50 times a day on top 40 music radio stations. I have no idea what would possess people to download that stuff. But the main factor is they actually enjoy it (or at least thats why I listen to music) Personally I find it annoying enough it gets played 50 times a day already, you would have to pay me to put the some of those song on anything I own.
While you are at it, ask Obama if we can do it.
Obama: Yes we can! but unfortunately we won't cause the NASA budget is gone!
What we need is a perpetual motion machine.
Umm, movie theaters here in SoCal cost $12 for standard tickets. And yes. that comes with the commercials and trailers.
Look out behind you! a three headed snake!
We just need to put a score on the HUD.
Woo Hoo! scored another hit! Put a highscore table in the break room.
"how do you get hundreds of men with shotguns up into the tree canopy?"
JETPACKS.
FTFY
No no. Ninjas vs Samurai. You musta missed the part where Ellison was getting armor as well. And we know that Steve's black turtle neck is actually part of his ninja uniform.
Dude. you were arrested for disturbing the peace and public indecency. Not intent to drive drunk :p
Yea most site wont get you anywhere close to 30/30. But its when you are doing multiple things at the same time that it is useful. Batch upload to say picasa, downloading your uhh latest linux distros, streaming your Hulu plus.
Sure 95% of the time you arent using most of that 30/30. But assuming you don't work at home, have a day job, chances are you are doing several things when you first get home. Thats where the extra bandwidth is useful. That and within the last 2 years you can already see websites upgrading their streams. Even youtube which had HORRIBLE video quality originally now offers 1080p? (or was it 720p max?I know I've seen some stuff where you can at least watch 720p).
Microsoft just wants you to associate them with soft blankets. :p
They also want tax deductions from governments for setting up this blanket license (that no one will qualify for) e.g. Registered as a non-profit with microsoft AND recognized by the US government as ____ AND has less than 3 people in your organisation but more than 1!
Then they can say oh we donated 5 bajeeeellion dollars worth of software to nonprofits! (Except no one qualified for them.) Can I has tax reductions?
try mobile weapons: battlestations
they have flash animated battle sequences!
the game play consists of press to explore, press battle, repair, repeat! wooo...... yea.. mindless stupid games. you are now level 160! and people pay for stuff like extra AP (Action points.. to do more of the above), weapons (different animations with bigger numbers!). Sure they have clan wars. but its the same.
There was also a 4 of a kind rule to limit how many of those cards you could put into your deck. Sure you could own 5000 copies but you can only put 4 in to play with. And even with the minimum amount of 60 cards thats 1/15. Plus the cards are balanced so there is no instant win. If you actually look at more recent sets, the rares are now BIGGER in terms of power difference compared to older cards. Most people playing tournaments in MTG tend to be able to afford 4ofs whatever they need anyways. Its not a pay to win situation as there are very strict limits as to the cards.
Zynga is totally different. its directly proportional to how much money you spend. MTG once you get 4 of every card, its pointless buying more. You could buy the MINIMUM $500 package from zynga a couple times and you could still buy more.
mario is older than me by a month and a day!
Space positioning system?to track the satellites in orbit of earth!
How then would you know the police department isn't shopping for new shoes?
All the data they really need would be tread marks. I mean what they use it for is probably just to help identify suspects based on the imprint to determine height/weight (based off size and depth of imprint). Then the wear of the tread to tell how old the shoes are roughly. What does finding the brand and exact style of the shoes have to do with everything? If a suspect leaves shoe prints, they have most of the data they need already.
Better check the tags on all the items you own for made in china, assembled in china etc. then? It's gonna be a while till they stop supplying a good bulk of US goods.
Oh and BTW, most of our national debt is also owed to China. Assuming you are paying your taxes, a portion (I hope) will go to repaying that debt. So I don't know how you are going to get past that. (Not pay taxes?)
My point is, a good chunk of the US economy is based off of trade and debt to China. I don't think its possible for your money to NOT flow the China. You might need to move to a less industrialized country for that to happen.
Yet there are people like me who would probably buy a new copy for my personal library (if the book was that good). New because I would prefer a copy that hasn't been all over and is falling apart, dirty, possibly written in.
These robots are already in production and interact with each of us already. They are called politicians and lawyers.
FTFY
Digitize? People have been sharing music since tape recorders and radio were put on the same hardware. You know.. the original mixTAPE?
In what part of today's world would Shakespearean English even be RELEVANT?
I for one welcome our Jelly filled overlords!
I sure dont know about that. I graduated 2 years ago. finally got a job about 3 months ago. You can do the math as to how long I was unemployed. Problem is education doesn't give you a whole lot of experience in everything. I get out and "entry" level jobs I find require 5 years of something I never learned at school. Great. If the school taught it at all I might have 2 years worth of experience (since you don't use it ALL the time) I picked up PHP and MySQL in my unemployed time to improve my "skillset" but it doesn't change the fact I didn't have the 5 years people wanted. Much less of everything else they wanted ASP.net, C# etc.
So yea.. there are job listings... but they aren't even reasonable. Not to mention over my nearly 2 years of unemployment, I sent out literally hundreds of resumes. I could count the number of calls AND emails I got on my fingers and toes. Granted, I did apply to a good chunk of those jobs I was underqualified for but it seems people aren't even remotely interested in hiring entry level unless you are somewhat of an expert in your field to begin with. The biggest disconnect I think its the difference between my B.S. and the "entry" level jobs requiring 5 years+ of stuff I've never heard of (or had a chance to work with). Where does one get 5+ years of experience without first getting a job? Its not like you can achieve 5 years of experience in 5 years on your own (you would have to start in the last year of high school and do it through college). Or are you suggesting you go 5 years unemployed?
Yes there are jobs. Yes there are listings. Yes they are "entry level" but the requirements are not but the pay sure is.