If you're into such figurines, yeah, it's not a bad price at all. If you don't, then it is. If you're not into such figurines then the price doesn't matter.:)
If you always wanted such a figurine, yeah, it beats sculpting one yourself. But even there it forks. For some people it's doing it that's the fun, not the owning the figurine. Well, certainly that's something I can relate to. Generally I'd rather build than buy. But even among people who spend a lot of time building, painting, even modifying models, the idea of actually building one from scratch remains a significant hurdle - whether because they lack the skills to do it right or because the idea of trying simply intimidates them...
Basically anybody, whether they're a builder or not, has to deal with their own limitations in something like this. Like, yeah, I could build a model of just about anything I like - but how much time does that take? How many other projects have to be put on hold for that? So I can't actually build everything I might want...
I think both modelers and free software programmers have this problem: occasional excess of "do-it-yourself" approach... We write off the value of paying to have work done for us, figure it's something we could do ourselves - but then when the time comes to actually get it done, it's not such a simple task...
Not in my mind: $115 could get me more than 10 months worth of game time. Well, the alternatives, if you want something like this, are either learn to sculpt and paint a figure yourself, or pay someone else to do it.
If you were to hire a modeler to do it, most likely they'd be able to take some shortcuts to reduce their workload (for instance, using recast parts from existing figure kits to make the basic body form) but it'd still represent a whole lot of work. $100 would probably be a bargain if you went this route... The results you get would depend on how much you're willing to pay, and how committed the modeler is to getting it right.
If you were to learn to do it yourself - obviously this is a significant investment of time and effort for most people. You could very likely wind up with a lesser monetary cost, but a much higher cost in terms of effort and time spent on the project.
As someone who's accustomed to $30-$40 mass-produced model kits (and first-run resin kits priced over $100) I'd say a custom-manufactured figure for about $100 ain't too shabby, if you want one.
I know this is a terrible excuse, but paying for a solution *may* make the ignorant masses feel better.
taxpayer: "hey you could have prevented this disaster without spending an assload of money? WTF!" More to the point, if there's another incident after they buy the software, they can blame McAffee...
Free Software Fails: "Thrifty" fellow who decided to use it gets burned ("Why did you cut corners on important security stuff? Why didn't you shell out some money for a real solution?") McAffee Software Fails: Buyer takes some heat ("why did you buy that crap?") but seller takes more heat (their product is demonstrated ineffective in a widely published story...)
The fact that there's a software company motivated to not have a failure of their security product become a national news story, and motivated to get more licensing fees in the future is an asset, basically. That company will answer questions, and if solutions are needed they'll provide solutions - because the person asking has already thrown a metric buttload of money their way and likely will again in the future...
That would be because the cig at that point is 3/4 of cotton and a piece of paper smaller then a dime.
Oh dear. Most cig filters are cellulose acetate, not cotton, and they can take upwards of 10 years to decompose. That is why people get pissed off at them being tossed on the ground. There is that. Also just the more general issue of showing respect for a public space by not making a mess of it. The fact that a piece of litter is small doesn't make a difference - it still adds up.
There are places for garbage, "wherever I happen to be at any given moment" is not, as a rule, one of them. I just wish more people would show a bit of responsibility in that regard. (It's not just smokers, of course...)
What a load of PR crap! We know why you can only "buy in bulk", it's because very few things on XBL come out in 500 point increments. You almost always buy more than you need, but then next time if you're 20 points short for what you want to purchase, you get more and have a 480 point surplus. It's obviously specifically designed to be a vicious cycle of always having either too much or being just short. Hm, I bet it's a conspiracy. Probably the hot dog people are involved...
If C-A-% is beyond your manual dexterity (what's C-A-M-%?) I'd recommend M-x replace-regexp...
I don't think the alt key is bound to anything in Emacs by default.* Certainly neither A-C-% nor A-C-M-% exist as default keybindings. You may be thinking of C-M-%, which is query-replace-regexp. Yeah, I did in fact mean to say what you just said...
I for one would rather use emacs, but if key combinations like ctrl+alt+meta+% are beyond your manual dexterity, the best vi clone is vigor
If C-A-% is beyond your manual dexterity (what's C-A-M-%?) I'd recommend M-x replace-regexp... M-x commands are handy that way, and this approach is also somewhat helpful if you can't remember the shortcut key for a command but you maybe have a guess of what the command might be called...
Most "foreign" cars are still built here in the USA. Nissan, Toyota, Honda, etc. Besides that, cars sold in the US are designed for US drivers. They make different cars for other countries. Your claim that your car wasn't American is false in pretty much every way. Whatever. I'm just saying it's not an American brand. I thought that's what you were talking about.
Try buying a recent model US car with an ash tray in it... Huh, I had no idea that was a problem. My most recent car purchase wasn't American...
'Course, it's no excuse. If you're going to smoke in your own car you should provide a solution for your own garbage. If your car doesn't have an ashtray, then get one. (Same goes for people who eat in their cars... That's another major source of street litter...)
it has to be thrown away somewhere, maybe he thought spreading the organic matter around would help furtalise the country instead of it all ending up in landfill. Ah, well then he did a good job, then. Asphalt is a notoriously bad environment for growing crops: but thanks to his forward-thinking generosity, Main Street can once again become a garden paradise...
one example would be a man who was handed a £60 fine for littering when he threw a used match stick out of his car window. That is harsh... But why did he throw it out his car window? Isn't that what the ashtray is for? (Drivers in the US never seem to bother using their ashtrays. Burning cigarettes dangle out the window, and then are cast aside when they're finished. It's like, what the hell, people? Why do you think that's OK?)
Even more so: since you do not have to be found guilty, I think that would very clearly be an unconstitutional Government "Taking" denial of Due Process. It's one thing to ask if corporate lobbiests... Let's take a moment to check your spelling...
Hm... Lobby, lobbier, lobbiest...
OK, it all checks out... You can go about your business. Move along.
"Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property": PRO-IP
I mean, the shorthand name is useful in a way, since it (in this case, at least) gives you a pretty good idea of what the thing is about - but it really seems like the long form has no purpose other than to create the acronym. Specifically, "Prioritizing Resources and Organization" for what reason regarding "Intellectual Property"? "In Defense Of" might be nice. But then it'd spell "PROIDOIP", and we can't have that...
Now what I wonder is, what would happen if some new malware came out that would make a user's computer seek out and download random torrents? Man, that could be some real chaos, right there... (Oh, and I'm sure WHIPER would be simply heartbroken about it as they take the hapless victim's computer away to fund their agency...)
There's more than one city named San Francisco, yet nobody ever needs "disambiguation" there. Nobody ever hears the words "San Francisco" and immediately thinks of "San Francisco, New Mexico." And, oddly enough, when I hear "Portland" I immediately think of "Portland, Maine" - so somehow that assertion doesn't apply to "Portland"...
Portland, Oregon: population 537,081 Nevertheless, a little disambiguation would be nice. When the headline has no mention of what Portland you're talking about, and I have to dig around in the article to find out which Portland they're talking about - it's a bit annoying, you know?
With Linux the application writers get plenty of notice. Mainstream distros will never see changes for about 6 months. You woud have found that the cd burning program (it name escapes me atm) had been fixed long before you found the problem. Your distro should have updated it with the kernel. That's not the point. I dealt with this particular hassle and moved on. My post was more about the Nero situation on Vista.
The point is that the change to the Linux kernel effectively broke my CD writing apps - and when that happens it is not the CD writing app's fault! The point is, if you're inclined to blame somebody in situations like those, lay it where it's due - at the OS change that broke compatibility.
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Oh, wait, I forgot to put in a smiley face. Now there's no possibility that anyone will understand that this is a joke! How cursed be this fate!
Basically anybody, whether they're a builder or not, has to deal with their own limitations in something like this. Like, yeah, I could build a model of just about anything I like - but how much time does that take? How many other projects have to be put on hold for that? So I can't actually build everything I might want...
I think both modelers and free software programmers have this problem: occasional excess of "do-it-yourself" approach... We write off the value of paying to have work done for us, figure it's something we could do ourselves - but then when the time comes to actually get it done, it's not such a simple task...
If you were to hire a modeler to do it, most likely they'd be able to take some shortcuts to reduce their workload (for instance, using recast parts from existing figure kits to make the basic body form) but it'd still represent a whole lot of work. $100 would probably be a bargain if you went this route... The results you get would depend on how much you're willing to pay, and how committed the modeler is to getting it right.
If you were to learn to do it yourself - obviously this is a significant investment of time and effort for most people. You could very likely wind up with a lesser monetary cost, but a much higher cost in terms of effort and time spent on the project.
As someone who's accustomed to $30-$40 mass-produced model kits (and first-run resin kits priced over $100) I'd say a custom-manufactured figure for about $100 ain't too shabby, if you want one.
taxpayer: "hey you could have prevented this disaster without spending an assload of money? WTF!" More to the point, if there's another incident after they buy the software, they can blame McAffee...
Free Software Fails: "Thrifty" fellow who decided to use it gets burned ("Why did you cut corners on important security stuff? Why didn't you shell out some money for a real solution?")
McAffee Software Fails: Buyer takes some heat ("why did you buy that crap?") but seller takes more heat (their product is demonstrated ineffective in a widely published story...)
The fact that there's a software company motivated to not have a failure of their security product become a national news story, and motivated to get more licensing fees in the future is an asset, basically. That company will answer questions, and if solutions are needed they'll provide solutions - because the person asking has already thrown a metric buttload of money their way and likely will again in the future...
Oh dear. Most cig filters are cellulose acetate, not cotton, and they can take upwards of 10 years to decompose. That is why people get pissed off at them being tossed on the ground. There is that. Also just the more general issue of showing respect for a public space by not making a mess of it. The fact that a piece of litter is small doesn't make a difference - it still adds up.
There are places for garbage, "wherever I happen to be at any given moment" is not, as a rule, one of them. I just wish more people would show a bit of responsibility in that regard. (It's not just smokers, of course...)
I for one would rather use emacs, but if key combinations like ctrl+alt+meta+% are beyond your manual dexterity, the best vi clone is vigor
If C-A-% is beyond your manual dexterity (what's C-A-M-%?) I'd recommend M-x replace-regexp... M-x commands are handy that way, and this approach is also somewhat helpful if you can't remember the shortcut key for a command but you maybe have a guess of what the command might be called...Well I bet you're in league! Yeah, and you're all out to get me!
Uh, or else I just botched it. Heh, sorry.
'Course, it's no excuse. If you're going to smoke in your own car you should provide a solution for your own garbage. If your car doesn't have an ashtray, then get one. (Same goes for people who eat in their cars... That's another major source of street litter...)
Hm... Lobby, lobbier, lobbiest...
OK, it all checks out... You can go about your business. Move along.
...and stupid acronyms?
"Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property": PRO-IP
I mean, the shorthand name is useful in a way, since it (in this case, at least) gives you a pretty good idea of what the thing is about - but it really seems like the long form has no purpose other than to create the acronym. Specifically, "Prioritizing Resources and Organization" for what reason regarding "Intellectual Property"? "In Defense Of" might be nice. But then it'd spell "PROIDOIP", and we can't have that...
Now what I wonder is, what would happen if some new malware came out that would make a user's computer seek out and download random torrents? Man, that could be some real chaos, right there... (Oh, and I'm sure WHIPER would be simply heartbroken about it as they take the hapless victim's computer away to fund their agency...)
Portland, Oregon: population 537,081 Nevertheless, a little disambiguation would be nice. When the headline has no mention of what Portland you're talking about, and I have to dig around in the article to find out which Portland they're talking about - it's a bit annoying, you know?
Bunch of goddamn stoners.
What bugs me is people always just call it "Portland" - they feel no need to disambiguate."Portland", as far as I'm concerned, is in Maine... Nice of Oregon to name their city after it, though.
...not EMCA? But it's fun to stae and the EMCA...9/12! .81818181818181818? 3/4?
You woud have found that the cd burning program (it name escapes me atm) had been fixed long before you found the problem.
Your distro should have updated it with the kernel. That's not the point. I dealt with this particular hassle and moved on. My post was more about the Nero situation on Vista.
The point is that the change to the Linux kernel effectively broke my CD writing apps - and when that happens it is not the CD writing app's fault! The point is, if you're inclined to blame somebody in situations like those, lay it where it's due - at the OS change that broke compatibility.