You are comparing the price of keeping your old car to buying a new one, regardless of whether it is a hybrid or gasoline. No matter what car you buy, buying a new car will cost you more money than keeping your existing car.
I can not see any way in which the parent post is insightful or even interesting. They need a new mod, "-1, DUH".
Despite the stupidly made-for-moron marketing terms that Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 are, and despite the fact that they don't actually exist, at least they have a definitive attempt at a label. Unlike "next" which is a term based purely on situational perspective.
The "next train" is no longer the next train once it arrives, but the "3.45pm train" is still the 3.45pm train after it departs the platform - even if it wasn't a train and didn't arrive at 3:45pm (as in Web 2.0, which is not the Web and is not version 2.0).
Or, if they insist on calling the current generation as next-generation then what comes after the next-generation? Uber-generation? Deep-Space-9-generation?
In 2012 what will they call the current generation next-generation when it becomes last-generation?
This has always been a major gripe for me with multiclassing in 3rd and 3.5ed, particularly when it comes to caster classes.
Consider a group of character-level 15s coming across your everyday 18CR demon. A level 15 wizard tossing around chain lightning and a level 15 fighter getting 6 attacks will wipe the floor with the demon.
A 7/8 fighter/wizard in this group will be doing less than half the damage per round, tossing around low powered (5d6?) fireballs, trying (poorly) to beat the demon's spell resistance, or making 3 piss-damage melee attacks per around, whilst trying to beat the demon's damage reduction.
Your best bet in any original-rules 3.5ed D&D game is single class, or, at the very most, take 1-2 levels of some class whose abilities scale well with character level. Unless you are a munchiken.
Just did a search and some of them seem to be returning errors now - nothing like getting your problems published on slashdot to motivate people to fix them!
Not only some of them - in sprint's case it now appears to be all of them:
From Sprint:
The site is temporarily unavailable due to routine maintenance and enhancements. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please come back soon!
Looks like the voyeur in all of us (come on, admit it) will have to search for other freely available, published invasions of privacy.
The advertisement before the linked LA Times video news story is the monstrously-sized, climate-changing, CO2-producing Chevrolet Silverado MONSTER UTILITY VEHICLE (with added cheesy "be-a-man and destroy the earth with our monster truck" low-pitch voiceover and all).
Whilst what you say is true regarding supply and support, and I absolutely love my Macbook Pro, saying that the hardware is "Apple-only" is something of a misnomer that Apple-philes tend to state a tad too liberally. It's the equivalent to saying that a Dell-branded and supported notebook is Dell hardware only.
My MBP has an Intel CPU, Intel Audio chip, Intel SATA controller, a Seagate hard drive, an LG DVD-RW, a Nvidia GeForce GPU, an Atheros ethernet controller, not to mention unknown manufacturers for the LCD screen and RAM.
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Why are bus and train routes on time more often than planes?
Why are so many flights cancelled?
- Much higher safety and maintenance standards (remember you're dealing with highly pressurized tubes that hurtle through the sky 30,000 feet above the earth's surface at 450 miles per hour)
- Much more reliant on weather (storms, snow, winds, visibility)
- Delays caused by even just varation in good weather (a strong headwind versus a strong tailwind for a long haul flight will vary the flight time by something like an hour).
- A very limited number of airport runways requires intense scheduling. Air Traffic Controllers are amongst the most hellishly stressful jobs in the world.
Combine poor weather with the need to meet stringent aircraft safety checks, along with scheduling thousands of planes per day to either depart, land or simply just taxi across just 2-4 runways WITHOUT causing collisions.
Delays and cancellations are inevitable, and once there is just a few simple delays it causes an entire chain reaction that not only affects the current airport but also all the connecting destination airports of the delayed airport.
Also according to the article, production techniques are similar to paper and thus the expect it to be considerably cheaper.
Of course, patent capitalism will disagree.
especially with the hot debate over whether or not [guitar hero] hinders people's musical instruction. The OP is just providing a definitive answer to the hot debate. The answer being YES.
I hate to play devil's advocate here but I also hate seeing facts distorted just for argument's sake. I'll bite.
Gates originally suggested that IBM go to CP/M and buy their operating system but Kildall refused to sign an NDI. True, Paterson's QDOS was written by replicating the functionality described in the CP/M manual, but it wasn't stolen by Microsoft... they just bought it from Seattle. The distinction is there, however thin.
Flying cars are amongst the most ill-considered ideas ever to come out of science fiction.
I don't trust your everyday loonies even on the road, let alone hurtling through the sky. Imagine a drunk or incompetent drivers crash landing on your house or a driver who forgets to refuel plowing into a crowded pedestrian mall.
Imagine the results of an accident at 3000 ft and how common such accidents will be once there are a couple of hundred million people hurtling through the skies.
Let alone terrorists with free reign to crash into buildings and bridges. Gives a new meaning to car-bomb.
You really DON'T want to give free access to the skies to the idiotic, incompetent Joe Schmoes that make up the general populace. Seriously.
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I used to work as an applications developer at an Australian telco.
The official term the bosses used for SMS and the like was "Value Added Services".
This is basically telco-speak for "free money".
To summarise in slashdot terms:
1) Telco
2) SMS
3) Profit!!!
The Space stage will keep you occupied as long as you're still entertained by it.
So to summarize, I will be entertained for as long as I am entertained?
You are comparing the price of keeping your old car to buying a new one, regardless of whether it is a hybrid or gasoline. No matter what car you buy, buying a new car will cost you more money than keeping your existing car.
I can not see any way in which the parent post is insightful or even interesting. They need a new mod, "-1, DUH".
Despite the stupidly made-for-moron marketing terms that Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 are, and despite the fact that they don't actually exist, at least they have a definitive attempt at a label. Unlike "next" which is a term based purely on situational perspective.
The "next train" is no longer the next train once it arrives, but the "3.45pm train" is still the 3.45pm train after it departs the platform - even if it wasn't a train and didn't arrive at 3:45pm (as in Web 2.0, which is not the Web and is not version 2.0).
Or, if they insist on calling the current generation as next-generation then what comes after the next-generation? Uber-generation? Deep-Space-9-generation?
In 2012 what will they call the current generation next-generation when it becomes last-generation?
I have a headache...
Yes!! iMUSE was a generation ahead of its time and took X-Wing from being an already outstanding game to being an all-time great.
NEWSFLASH: Slashdot armchair critic makes assumptions about research based on sensationalist newspaper article.
Story at eleven.
However the country started as a convict colony 200 years ago, so we're all prisoners at heart. :P
If I were a bookie I'd accept odds of about 140000:1
"It is not in the character of Nigerians to be engaged in this kind of scam."
Professor Olu Agbi said there were almost 140 million people in Nigeria and fewer than 0.1 per cent were involved.
140,000 scammers? Gee is that all? :P
Consider a group of character-level 15s coming across your everyday 18CR demon. A level 15 wizard tossing around chain lightning and a level 15 fighter getting 6 attacks will wipe the floor with the demon.
A 7/8 fighter/wizard in this group will be doing less than half the damage per round, tossing around low powered (5d6?) fireballs, trying (poorly) to beat the demon's spell resistance, or making 3 piss-damage melee attacks per around, whilst trying to beat the demon's damage reduction.
Your best bet in any original-rules 3.5ed D&D game is single class, or, at the very most, take 1-2 levels of some class whose abilities scale well with character level. Unless you are a munchiken.
In Surveillance UK, Olympic events watch you.
Just did a search and some of them seem to be returning errors now - nothing like getting your problems published on slashdot to motivate people to fix them!
Not only some of them - in sprint's case it now appears to be all of them: From Sprint:
The site is temporarily unavailable due to routine maintenance and enhancements. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please come back soon!
Looks like the voyeur in all of us (come on, admit it) will have to search for other freely available, published invasions of privacy.
The advertisement before the linked LA Times video news story is the monstrously-sized, climate-changing, CO2-producing Chevrolet Silverado MONSTER UTILITY VEHICLE (with added cheesy "be-a-man and destroy the earth with our monster truck" low-pitch voiceover and all).
OSX comes with Apple hardware only.
Whilst what you say is true regarding supply and support, and I absolutely love my Macbook Pro, saying that the hardware is "Apple-only" is something of a misnomer that Apple-philes tend to state a tad too liberally. It's the equivalent to saying that a Dell-branded and supported notebook is Dell hardware only.
My MBP has an Intel CPU, Intel Audio chip, Intel SATA controller, a Seagate hard drive, an LG DVD-RW, a Nvidia GeForce GPU, an Atheros ethernet controller, not to mention unknown manufacturers for the LCD screen and RAM.
Why are bus and train routes on time more often than planes?
Why are so many flights cancelled?
- Much higher safety and maintenance standards (remember you're dealing with highly pressurized tubes that hurtle through the sky 30,000 feet above the earth's surface at 450 miles per hour)- Much more reliant on weather (storms, snow, winds, visibility)
- Delays caused by even just varation in good weather (a strong headwind versus a strong tailwind for a long haul flight will vary the flight time by something like an hour).
- A very limited number of airport runways requires intense scheduling. Air Traffic Controllers are amongst the most hellishly stressful jobs in the world.
Combine poor weather with the need to meet stringent aircraft safety checks, along with scheduling thousands of planes per day to either depart, land or simply just taxi across just 2-4 runways WITHOUT causing collisions.
Delays and cancellations are inevitable, and once there is just a few simple delays it causes an entire chain reaction that not only affects the current airport but also all the connecting destination airports of the delayed airport.
Games are most commonly used as an escape from reality. If a game imitates the annoying & shitty things about reality, why bother playing?
Also according to the article, production techniques are similar to paper and thus the expect it to be considerably cheaper. Of course, patent capitalism will disagree.
what a savings.
I hate to play devil's advocate here but I also hate seeing facts distorted just for argument's sake. I'll bite.
Gates originally suggested that IBM go to CP/M and buy their operating system but Kildall refused to sign an NDI. True, Paterson's QDOS was written by replicating the functionality described in the CP/M manual, but it wasn't stolen by Microsoft... they just bought it from Seattle. The distinction is there, however thin.
Flying cars are amongst the most ill-considered ideas ever to come out of science fiction.
I don't trust your everyday loonies even on the road, let alone hurtling through the sky. Imagine a drunk or incompetent drivers crash landing on your house or a driver who forgets to refuel plowing into a crowded pedestrian mall.
Imagine the results of an accident at 3000 ft and how common such accidents will be once there are a couple of hundred million people hurtling through the skies.
Let alone terrorists with free reign to crash into buildings and bridges. Gives a new meaning to car-bomb.
You really DON'T want to give free access to the skies to the idiotic, incompetent Joe Schmoes that make up the general populace. Seriously.
*whoosh*
/sarcasm.
I may be wrong, but you may have missed the parent's implied
Wireless providers are overhyped. They only tell you the theoretical speeds, not the actual ones.
Here in Australia we have had wireless broadband for years and let me tell you, if the download speeds were any slower you'd be uploading.