Well, if the optimal speed for driving over these "music roads" is 28mph for every road, I don't see the huge problem in handling performance. A quick Google of 28mph = 45.061632 kph. IMO driving under 30mph affords more than enough reaction time for almost any situation... So perhaps those crazy engineers did think of everything;-)
To be honest, I don't think the US has the "balls" to launch a nuke against a country it may be at war with. With the obvious exception for if the war was going badly and was knocking on US shores OR if our enemy had launched nukes.
This is not WWII. Millions of men are not fighting a war against an aggressor that had killed/enslaved millions of innocent civilians and posed a threat to the entire world. As little as we have to lose in terms of respect from the international community, IMO I know that US citizens would riot in a manner never before seen over such a horrific use of force.
With the cold war over, and the major super powers having no one to have air battles with, is it really necessary to spend huge amounts of money to fight an enemy that doesn't exist? I mean, back in the Cold War, it made sense-ish, but since the current battle is against "terror", and "terror" doesn't have an air force...
It's not so much about getting ready for war, as it is deterrence. Making sure the potential aggressor is aware of the risk so that he refrains from aggression. (See Iran). You don't need another cold war for a reason to have bigger guns than the next guy...
Well you dont see those
adverts at the beginning of a game (eg for NVidia, the publisher, Intel, etc) until you buy the game, install and run it do you!! Gotcha!
I agree they are annoying, but it could be worse. Like, wouldnt it be annoying if they put ads in game while you play?! oh wait...
Look, if that dumb kid had anysense she would have worn something else INSIDE AN AIRPORT. The next time someone walks in wearing something like it might not be "harmless". I'd want police to shoot first and ask questions later if you want my opinion.
We can fight back against M$, "You have the right to bear arms, you have the right to arm bears, what ever the hell you want to do!"
Personally, my guns come in the *nix caliber;)
Bingo.
The only problem is that there are millions of teenage dumbasses who will be more than willing to spend the cash from mommy, daddy and their part time jobs at McDonalds on these overpriced pieces of trash.
Not my idea of worthwhile gaming, what about all your buddies you end up grouping up with? What will happen when they have purchased content you haven't and vice versa? Well, of course you will both have to purchase the missing content to play everything together!
Here would be the process; Develop game, beta test(get everyone clamoring for the full game), dismantle-scrap-cherrypick all the fun and otherwise entertaining pieces, charge the sorry bastards.
If you aren't a director or higher in title, and your duties don't include justifying expenses and planning resources for solutions, then it isn't really your realm to measure something like productivity. If this guy has an MBA or similar qualifications, it is he who should know how to measure productivity. I completely agree with what youre saying. But try telling the new Overlord how to do his job, that'll go over well. Perhaps anonymously send him a link to this article, he will of course take the idea as his own and the day is saved!
Copy, paste, email... profit!
I just damn near choked to death after reading your post. Who might be able to come to my aid? Perhaps Jesus if he is not too busy with the whole lawsuit thing... Well done sir.
I don't think i'll take my music purchases from brick&mortar to online @ $1 for a new hit song... I will however wait a few months and buy the whole album for $0.50. Will this happen? We shall see.
I don't let ad agencies checkout the inside of my house to target me for ads... And i ain't going to let MS do it to my HD. grrr. take that corporate evil doers...
-1 not wholly accurate... where did you come up with that?
Example of programs: Boston College: Course - Boston University: Course different schools.
We can just let Wikipedia settle this:-)
For the UK
In general use, a "college" is an institution between secondary school and university, a college of further education and adult education. These institutions were usually called technical colleges, or tech. Recently, however, with the differences in functionality between universities and colleges becoming less clear-cut, and with the phasing out of polytechnical colleges, many people are starting to call such institutions "universities". Many types of institutions have "college" in their names but are not colleges in the general use of the word
For the US
In American English, the word, in contrast to its many and varied British meanings, often refers to liberal arts colleges which provide education primarily at the undergraduate level. It can also refer to schools which vocational, business, engineering, or technical curriculum. The term can either refer to both a self-contained institution that has no graduate studies or to the undergraduate school of a full university (i.e. that also has a graduate school). And btw, those "traffic circles" - Most of us call them a "rotary" and we got'm all over Massachusetts and the greater part on New England:-)
Problem is WE know this stuff and can make an informed decision not to purchase. Everyother teenybopper and vain sob on the block will buy the "brand" without a second thought.
... i'm not sure what weapon you're referring to with a 7.92mm slug, but China's current service rifle QBZ-95 is 5.8mm. The current service pistol from what i'm aware is the QSZ-92 and is 5.8mm, but is also found in 9mm variety.
Hell, either way this guy is toast! We are just figuring out what size hole will be in his head:-)
But here is the question;
By upgrading the battery and changing the plastic screen to glass, how heavy is this thing now?
If i feel like i'm working out with free weights everytime i pick the thing up i think i'd just assume go with a phone smaller and more practical.
Bluetooth headsets aside, you still gotta find a pocket to put that thing in when youre walking around...
You might have forgotten what community your post is being read by... I'd say 99% of wouldnt mind the
constant tweaks and upgrades, failed components, trying to figure out odd configuration files, languages, and protocols to get things to work correctly and with each other
I do agree sometimes things like that get tedious.. but if your passionate about it, and this guy seems to be, its very satisfying come end of the project. It's yours, you made it, you conquered the problem, you, are all that is man:-)
I want to see them try and sue the Sun for all those nasty UV rays and whatnot that burn peoples skin! That'll teach the Sun to provide light and fuel for life on this planet!
Here's a question, what guarantee do you have from your ISP that the 1 GB of data and the X you pay for thereafter is not being throttled or otherwise "punished"?
I'm not trying to say your ISP is bending you over the table, but does your ISP offer that guarantee? It would seem silly to me if they limit your bandwidth and throttle it and have the balls to charge you when you run over.
Just curious.
Being one of the poor souls who commute to and from Boston, I can say a GPS device that uses traffic speed estimates for best routes won't do much good. I know the city in and out, northbound, southbound, westbound, your only hope is to *1 from your cell phone to check current traffic your side of the commute. If it's jammed more than usual, either wait it out and look good at the office, or pretend your backroad shortcut saved you time (hint, it's always 6 of one, halfdozen of another)
I'd be happy if my TomTom would allow me a free update to makeup for the oneway roads it has tried to kill me on putting me in the reverse direction. The machines have intelligence, and a sense of humor....
When's the last time you actually heard music on the radio? For cry'n out loud, you get 2, maybe 3 songs before a commercial break lasting what? 2-3 minutes? So carry the 2..... Radio stations will not be forking over uber amounts of cash from this it would seem. The only tragedy here is the likely death of the "40 Minute Rock blocks" that happen on occasion.
That said I am totally against this and the RIAA, but I hate radio too. If we thought radio was bad enough now, can't wait for this to take effect. The RIAA is shooting the artists and the consumers looking for some damn variety in the foot.
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Well, if the optimal speed for driving over these "music roads" is 28mph for every road, I don't see the huge problem in handling performance. A quick Google of 28mph = 45.061632 kph. IMO driving under 30mph affords more than enough reaction time for almost any situation... So perhaps those crazy engineers did think of everything ;-)
To be honest, I don't think the US has the "balls" to launch a nuke against a country it may be at war with. With the obvious exception for if the war was going badly and was knocking on US shores OR if our enemy had launched nukes.
This is not WWII. Millions of men are not fighting a war against an aggressor that had killed/enslaved millions of innocent civilians and posed a threat to the entire world. As little as we have to lose in terms of respect from the international community, IMO I know that US citizens would riot in a manner never before seen over such a horrific use of force.
It's not so much about getting ready for war, as it is deterrence. Making sure the potential aggressor is aware of the risk so that he refrains from aggression. (See Iran). You don't need another cold war for a reason to have bigger guns than the next guy...
I agree they are annoying, but it could be worse. Like, wouldnt it be annoying if they put ads in game while you play?! oh wait...
Look, if that dumb kid had anysense she would have worn something else INSIDE AN AIRPORT. The next time someone walks in wearing something like it might not be "harmless". I'd want police to shoot first and ask questions later if you want my opinion.
We can fight back against M$, "You have the right to bear arms, you have the right to arm bears, what ever the hell you want to do!" ;)
Personally, my guns come in the *nix caliber
Bingo.
The only problem is that there are millions of teenage dumbasses who will be more than willing to spend the cash from mommy, daddy and their part time jobs at McDonalds on these overpriced pieces of trash.
Not my idea of worthwhile gaming, what about all your buddies you end up grouping up with? What will happen when they have purchased content you haven't and vice versa? Well, of course you will both have to purchase the missing content to play everything together!
Here would be the process; Develop game, beta test(get everyone clamoring for the full game), dismantle-scrap-cherrypick all the fun and otherwise entertaining pieces, charge the sorry bastards.
I just damn near choked to death after reading your post. Who might be able to come to my aid? Perhaps Jesus if he is not too busy with the whole lawsuit thing...
Well done sir.
I don't think i'll take my music purchases from brick&mortar to online @ $1 for a new hit song... I will however wait a few months and buy the whole album for $0.50. Will this happen? We shall see.
FYI: Command and Conquer is now produced by EA. Most of the original Westwood team left in '99 after they were absorbed into EA.
I don't let ad agencies checkout the inside of my house to target me for ads... And i ain't going to let MS do it to my HD. grrr. take that corporate evil doers...
Example of programs: Boston College: Course - Boston University: Course different schools.
We can just let Wikipedia settle this
For the UK In general use, a "college" is an institution between secondary school and university, a college of further education and adult education. These institutions were usually called technical colleges, or tech. Recently, however, with the differences in functionality between universities and colleges becoming less clear-cut, and with the phasing out of polytechnical colleges, many people are starting to call such institutions "universities". Many types of institutions have "college" in their names but are not colleges in the general use of the word
For the US In American English, the word, in contrast to its many and varied British meanings, often refers to liberal arts colleges which provide education primarily at the undergraduate level. It can also refer to schools which vocational, business, engineering, or technical curriculum. The term can either refer to both a self-contained institution that has no graduate studies or to the undergraduate school of a full university (i.e. that also has a graduate school).
And btw, those "traffic circles" - Most of us call them a "rotary" and we got'm all over Massachusetts and the greater part on New England
Problem is WE know this stuff and can make an informed decision not to purchase. Everyother teenybopper and vain sob on the block will buy the "brand" without a second thought.
... i'm not sure what weapon you're referring to with a 7.92mm slug, but China's current service rifle QBZ-95 is 5.8mm. The current service pistol from what i'm aware is the QSZ-92 and is 5.8mm, but is also found in 9mm variety.
:-)
Hell, either way this guy is toast! We are just figuring out what size hole will be in his head
But here is the question;
By upgrading the battery and changing the plastic screen to glass, how heavy is this thing now?
If i feel like i'm working out with free weights everytime i pick the thing up i think i'd just assume go with a phone smaller and more practical.
Bluetooth headsets aside, you still gotta find a pocket to put that thing in when youre walking around...
Wow, i never saw that coming, lol. Nice observation.
Now lets see if she makes an analysis on a war with Iran...
I do agree sometimes things like that get tedious.. but if your passionate about it, and this guy seems to be, its very satisfying come end of the project. It's yours, you made it, you conquered the problem, you, are all that is man
I want to see them try and sue the Sun for all those nasty UV rays and whatnot that burn peoples skin! That'll teach the Sun to provide light and fuel for life on this planet!
Unbelievable...
Yea, I can remember playing Warcraft 1, alone, in my basement...
And now I play World of Warcraft, alone, in my basement...
I don't think RPGs have anything to worry about.
Can I have sum gold plz?
;-)
Gotcha!
Here's a question, what guarantee do you have from your ISP that the 1 GB of data and the X you pay for thereafter is not being throttled or otherwise "punished"?
I'm not trying to say your ISP is bending you over the table, but does your ISP offer that guarantee? It would seem silly to me if they limit your bandwidth and throttle it and have the balls to charge you when you run over.
Just curious.
Being one of the poor souls who commute to and from Boston, I can say a GPS device that uses traffic speed estimates for best routes won't do much good. I know the city in and out, northbound, southbound, westbound, your only hope is to *1 from your cell phone to check current traffic your side of the commute. If it's jammed more than usual, either wait it out and look good at the office, or pretend your backroad shortcut saved you time (hint, it's always 6 of one, halfdozen of another)
I'd be happy if my TomTom would allow me a free update to makeup for the oneway roads it has tried to kill me on putting me in the reverse direction. The machines have intelligence, and a sense of humor....
Here's something to think about...
When's the last time you actually heard music on the radio? For cry'n out loud, you get 2, maybe 3 songs before a commercial break lasting what? 2-3 minutes? So carry the 2..... Radio stations will not be forking over uber amounts of cash from this it would seem. The only tragedy here is the likely death of the "40 Minute Rock blocks" that happen on occasion.
That said I am totally against this and the RIAA, but I hate radio too. If we thought radio was bad enough now, can't wait for this to take effect. The RIAA is shooting the artists and the consumers looking for some damn variety in the foot.