"Seriously guys, we haven't found this subatomic particle that we have no idea if it exists or how to observe it in the first five years of the project, so it must not exist at all."
How long did they think the world was flat again? And how long before that did they believe thunder was anger from the gods? And how long before that was fire worshiped as magic?
anyone who still shops @ brick and mortar stores is asking for this sort of thing. Steam and NewEgg don't remove vouchers. Nor do they require gas $ to take a trip to the store. Or charge tax. Or require you to deal with annoying sales people.
Yes, but when I want a game NOW....I want it fucking *NOW*...not in three to six business days, or for an extra $30 for super-rushed shipping on a 1lbs package.
WISE scanned the entire sky for these and other objects
I don't think people realize how ludicrous this claim is. To scan the entire sky would require either a wide-angled telescope roughly the size of Mt. Everest and decades, or more likely an average-sized telescope and hundreds of years.
The sky is big. Really fucking big. Your little telescope can scan at most like 0.000000025% of it at once.
Disassembled from antitrust and patent settlements: CHECK
Donated millions to chief competitor: CHECK
Extreme DRM on Windows and Software: CHECK
Worthless failures like the Zune and Win7 phone: CHECK It's clear why consumers continue to flock to real companies like Google.
Head-On works...if the desired result is a fleeting cool sensation on your forehead. Enzyte does nothing. Nor does Stacker, nor does Worx, or any of those get-rich-quick drug attempts.
Isn't it sort of the government's responsibility to crack down on illegal activity, and not the search engines'? Is Google now the police? Should they be expected to recognize every crime online and somehow thwart it? If they index a security camera, which happens to record a crime, and Google could have reasonably logged in and watched it happen, should they be accountable for not stopping it?
For fuck's sake...
Sometimes I think Google would do a better job running this country than the fucktards we elect. Do your fucking job for once, government.
College is a different beast entirely. (Most of)The students are (sort of) adults, and are expected to be managing their own time and education.
Failing a class costs a LOT of money at the college level, so there is a financial incentive to the parents to make the students succeed, as well as the "If you fail too much you wasted your time and have no degree" aspect for the students.
I think the problem is that people as a whole are cheap and ignorant, and they will rail against taxes even if they're necessary and avoiding them will cost more in the way of child care or private education. Your average joe-schmoe citizen doesn't understand that an extra $50/year in taxes or whatever could save them thousands and thousands of dollars. It just doesn't occur to them...probably because they are products of the same failing education system as the rest of the kids.
Why don't they try threatening the kids/parents into success? It worked for me.
If your attendance is below 90%, you fail the class immediately.
If your grade is below a C-, you fail the class.
If you fail three classes, you fail the entire grade.
If you fail the class, you(your parents) must pay a $500 fee to retake the class.
Half the challenge is making it worthwhile for the parents to actually work with their kids. I think many people would be surprised how many parents just say "Do your homework" and then don't think about it anymore. Maybe a little monetary fine if their kids fail would motivate them similarly.
Ostracizing students for not doing what they are expected is a great way to motivate them. Who wants to sit at home four-five days a week and not be able to see any of your friends? Not a whole lot of 12-year-olds would choose that, even the lazy ones.
Killing all republicans would be a good start to just 'fix' the school system. Privatization, ignorance, and greed is what ALL of this is about, and it's sure not being spearheaded by the Democrats(they only want to steal your medically-oriented money like health insurance).
Republicans just want it all, at no cost to themselves, and without having to deal with those pesky 'poor people' they keep hearing about. $5000/semester private school? Sure, as long as there is nobody there who offends my WASP sensibilities!
It would seem there is a simple, obvious solution to these 'unavailable' components - import them while you work on being able to build them locally. Your profit margin will take a brief hit, and then continue to rise faster with the company taking in ALL profit instead of just the profit from assembly onward.
The flex circuit connectors are made in China because the US supplier base migrated to Asia.
Just import the damned things. I'm sure shipping on a few thousand flex-connectors is less than one of the products' costs.
The electrophoretic display is made in Taiwan because the expertise developed from producting flat-panel LCDs migrated to Asia with semiconductor manufacturing.
Import them, or seek out a domestic manufacturer that can do it for you. There are certainly manufacturers in the US which can make electrophoretic displays, but their costs would be inevitably higher until they geared up for mass production.
The highly polished injection-molded case is made in China because the US supplier base eroded as the manufacture of toys, consumer electronics and computers migrated to China.
Give me a break. There's a plastic parts manufacturer down the street from me, and a few in the next town over. If you really wanted to, you could make these in the US no problem.
The wireless card is made in South Korea because that country became a center for making mobile phone components and handsets.
Well, this is probably one of the easiest ones to come by in the US. There are several circuit board manufacturers that can easily make you a WiFi card, and again once mass production kicks in the prices will come down and the quality will be streets ahead from the beginning.
The controller board is made in China because US companies long ago transferred manufacture of printed circuit boards to Asia.
Ok, that one's true. I don't think a decent semiconductor has been manufactured in the US in at least a decade.
The Lithium polymer battery is made in China because battery development and manufacturing migrated to China along with the development and manufacture of consumer electronics and notebook computers.
Waaah. Call the wahmbulance. Most battery technology, large and small, is owned and patented by the US oil companies to prevent competition from electric vehicles. If they wanted to, it would take maybe a week to begin domestic production.
It's all bitching and complaining. Just make it yourself, or realize you will have a shitty mass-produced plastic piece of Chinese shit.
Well, that's actually quite different. There was immediate and factual evidence on his person, and he admitted to placing it there. Whether or not it was his, by putting it on his person he is now responsible for it. He might have been able to argue the crack wasn't his if he left it on the floor under the passenger seat or something.
Both Ceglia and Facebook have no solid evidence, and as two technically-inclined parties, they are basically having a he-said-she-said fight about fabricated evidence on both sides.
So...the secure proxy in Hong Kong that changes all my default Google sites to google.com.hk? Considering I'm in the middle of the US I'd say I feel safe.
There is no real conversion between EVE I$K and real money other than the one players put on it, just like any other MMO game. It is against the TOS to actually buy or sell I$K for real money, though they give you a way to legitimately do it by buying game time cards and 'selling' those for in-game currency.
A 30-day time code will net you between 200Million I$K and 600Million I$K depending on where and when you sell it in the game. Like everything in EVE, there are wide market fluctuations for even the game time items.
You don't spend real-world money on in-game items. The only thing you have to pay for is the monthly subscription.
This is talking about someone who accrued a shitload of in-game currency, completely in-game. There was no real-world currency involved, except the article's comparison to $50,000 in subscription fees(because you can trade in-game currency for game time).
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Tell that to...the people and institutions which suffered billions of dollars in damage...
Don't bother. Nobody likes Donald Trump anyway.
"Seriously guys, we haven't found this subatomic particle that we have no idea if it exists or how to observe it in the first five years of the project, so it must not exist at all."
How long did they think the world was flat again? And how long before that did they believe thunder was anger from the gods? And how long before that was fire worshiped as magic?
anyone who still shops @ brick and mortar stores is asking for this sort of thing. Steam and NewEgg don't remove vouchers. Nor do they require gas $ to take a trip to the store. Or charge tax. Or require you to deal with annoying sales people.
Yes, but when I want a game NOW....I want it fucking *NOW*...not in three to six business days, or for an extra $30 for super-rushed shipping on a 1lbs package.
That was the Left4Dead: Garbage Truck Edition right?
WISE scanned the entire sky for these and other objects
I don't think people realize how ludicrous this claim is. To scan the entire sky would require either a wide-angled telescope roughly the size of Mt. Everest and decades, or more likely an average-sized telescope and hundreds of years.
The sky is big. Really fucking big. Your little telescope can scan at most like 0.000000025% of it at once.
Good job, Microsoft.
Disassembled from antitrust and patent settlements: CHECK
Donated millions to chief competitor: CHECK
Extreme DRM on Windows and Software: CHECK
Worthless failures like the Zune and Win7 phone: CHECK
It's clear why consumers continue to flock to real companies like Google.
Say NO to inferior products. Say NO to Microsoft.
Head-On works...if the desired result is a fleeting cool sensation on your forehead. Enzyte does nothing. Nor does Stacker, nor does Worx, or any of those get-rich-quick drug attempts.
Isn't it sort of the government's responsibility to crack down on illegal activity, and not the search engines'? Is Google now the police? Should they be expected to recognize every crime online and somehow thwart it? If they index a security camera, which happens to record a crime, and Google could have reasonably logged in and watched it happen, should they be accountable for not stopping it?
For fuck's sake...
Sometimes I think Google would do a better job running this country than the fucktards we elect. Do your fucking job for once, government.
College is a different beast entirely. (Most of)The students are (sort of) adults, and are expected to be managing their own time and education.
Failing a class costs a LOT of money at the college level, so there is a financial incentive to the parents to make the students succeed, as well as the "If you fail too much you wasted your time and have no degree" aspect for the students.
Climb up on that rock.
See where the ground in front of us just stops and drops away?
That's called a cliff. We're approaching it. Now you see it, so do something about it.
I think the problem is that people as a whole are cheap and ignorant, and they will rail against taxes even if they're necessary and avoiding them will cost more in the way of child care or private education. Your average joe-schmoe citizen doesn't understand that an extra $50/year in taxes or whatever could save them thousands and thousands of dollars. It just doesn't occur to them...probably because they are products of the same failing education system as the rest of the kids.
Why don't they try threatening the kids/parents into success? It worked for me.
If your attendance is below 90%, you fail the class immediately.
If your grade is below a C-, you fail the class.
If you fail three classes, you fail the entire grade.
If you fail the class, you(your parents) must pay a $500 fee to retake the class.
Half the challenge is making it worthwhile for the parents to actually work with their kids. I think many people would be surprised how many parents just say "Do your homework" and then don't think about it anymore. Maybe a little monetary fine if their kids fail would motivate them similarly.
Ostracizing students for not doing what they are expected is a great way to motivate them. Who wants to sit at home four-five days a week and not be able to see any of your friends? Not a whole lot of 12-year-olds would choose that, even the lazy ones.
Killing all republicans would be a good start to just 'fix' the school system. Privatization, ignorance, and greed is what ALL of this is about, and it's sure not being spearheaded by the Democrats(they only want to steal your medically-oriented money like health insurance).
Republicans just want it all, at no cost to themselves, and without having to deal with those pesky 'poor people' they keep hearing about. $5000/semester private school? Sure, as long as there is nobody there who offends my WASP sensibilities!
The way most games are constructed the 'skybox' or 'skydome' is attached to the camera so it is impossible to 'hit it'.
It would seem there is a simple, obvious solution to these 'unavailable' components - import them while you work on being able to build them locally. Your profit margin will take a brief hit, and then continue to rise faster with the company taking in ALL profit instead of just the profit from assembly onward.
The flex circuit connectors are made in China because the US supplier base migrated to Asia.
Just import the damned things. I'm sure shipping on a few thousand flex-connectors is less than one of the products' costs.
The electrophoretic display is made in Taiwan because the expertise developed from producting flat-panel LCDs migrated to Asia with semiconductor manufacturing.
Import them, or seek out a domestic manufacturer that can do it for you. There are certainly manufacturers in the US which can make electrophoretic displays, but their costs would be inevitably higher until they geared up for mass production.
The highly polished injection-molded case is made in China because the US supplier base eroded as the manufacture of toys, consumer electronics and computers migrated to China.
Give me a break. There's a plastic parts manufacturer down the street from me, and a few in the next town over. If you really wanted to, you could make these in the US no problem.
The wireless card is made in South Korea because that country became a center for making mobile phone components and handsets.
Well, this is probably one of the easiest ones to come by in the US. There are several circuit board manufacturers that can easily make you a WiFi card, and again once mass production kicks in the prices will come down and the quality will be streets ahead from the beginning.
The controller board is made in China because US companies long ago transferred manufacture of printed circuit boards to Asia.
Ok, that one's true. I don't think a decent semiconductor has been manufactured in the US in at least a decade.
The Lithium polymer battery is made in China because battery development and manufacturing migrated to China along with the development and manufacture of consumer electronics and notebook computers.
Waaah. Call the wahmbulance. Most battery technology, large and small, is owned and patented by the US oil companies to prevent competition from electric vehicles. If they wanted to, it would take maybe a week to begin domestic production.
It's all bitching and complaining. Just make it yourself, or realize you will have a shitty mass-produced plastic piece of Chinese shit.
Online education is ok, but there's no substitute for being able to ask questions in realtime and address issues with an actual teacher.
CEOs have no idea what's going on with their companies and they're just in it for the money. Who would have thought.
Well, that's actually quite different. There was immediate and factual evidence on his person, and he admitted to placing it there. Whether or not it was his, by putting it on his person he is now responsible for it. He might have been able to argue the crack wasn't his if he left it on the floor under the passenger seat or something.
Both Ceglia and Facebook have no solid evidence, and as two technically-inclined parties, they are basically having a he-said-she-said fight about fabricated evidence on both sides.
Given the copyright laws in most of the developed world, I'd say most Slashdotters are smart criminals...
It wasn't a bomb, he had a crush on her and wanted to give her some high-tech jewelry!
So...the secure proxy in Hong Kong that changes all my default Google sites to google.com.hk? Considering I'm in the middle of the US I'd say I feel safe.
Where can I find a good, higher-quality Guy Fawkes mask? The ones I see online are just plastic shell molds that suck nuts.
There is no real conversion between EVE I$K and real money other than the one players put on it, just like any other MMO game. It is against the TOS to actually buy or sell I$K for real money, though they give you a way to legitimately do it by buying game time cards and 'selling' those for in-game currency.
A 30-day time code will net you between 200Million I$K and 600Million I$K depending on where and when you sell it in the game. Like everything in EVE, there are wide market fluctuations for even the game time items.
There's always PVP, using the scams only as a funding method for said PVP. Then it's still fun.
You don't spend real-world money on in-game items. The only thing you have to pay for is the monthly subscription.
This is talking about someone who accrued a shitload of in-game currency, completely in-game. There was no real-world currency involved, except the article's comparison to $50,000 in subscription fees(because you can trade in-game currency for game time).