I was still at work Monday night when it was released, and I'm still at work now when I'm supposed to be playing at a friend's house. That's what you get for buying the "take one for the team" line. Your dedication to your company will be briefly noted, if at all, with a verbal pat on the back. When the company's in dire straits, your friends *may* be let go before you, but in the end, it won't make any difference. Remember, the team will never 'take one' for you.
...will be a machine, which may or may not be controlled by a techie in an air-conditioned office. Not until said machine is cheaper, more reliable and more versatile than a human in a flak jacket. Which is to say that, for ground work, the infantry are here to stay. Now, if they'd only hurry up and design some workable Mobile Infantry suits...;)
so you live in the same place, drive the same value car with the same amt of coverage, use the same amt of electricity in your home and use your phone the same amount? I'm in a similar position to the GP. I drive the same car, pay the same on insurance, use the same electricity, and pay the same for internet. I'm now living with my fiancee so food and power are slightly up but for the same reason my booze costs have gone down by more than enough to compensate.:P My rent, however, has gone up by 130%, petrol costs about 50%-60% more than it did when I bought my current car, food is maybe 50% more.
Overall I'm earning $7.5k more per year than I was at my last job two years ago, and I'm struggling to save more than a few hundred a month (down from over a grand a month at my last job). I don't buy much that's not necessary. Price of living in Australia has gone up massively in the last 2 years, let alone 10. It's definitely more than the 3-4% annually that they claim.
Like the "Meg White sex tape"? Now we all know that there is no Meg White sex tape... Oh, thank god! For a moment there I thought you said "Meg Griffin sex tape"... =(
Because the chair with both seat and back used to have a gigantic spike sticking up from the middle of the seat. And it's a different colour to either of the others, although it's getting slightly more similar to both. Lots of people remember trying the Linux chair in the past and getting spiked, and aren't keen to do so again, even though with the advent of user-friendly distros like Ubuntu, the spike is gone in almost all circumstances.
Well, I can guarantee you it's not genuinely advantageous.:P
"The default Web browser will be started and the user will be presented with an option to purchase a new product key. There is no start menu, no desktop icons, and the desktop background is changed to black. [...] After one hour, the system will log the user out without warning". (from here)
That's different. That's blocking you from a *service* that they provide for users of unmodified XBox 360s.
It's like you buy a Toyota that's designed to only run on Toyota fuel. You modify it to run on any petrol (since Toyota fuel is just petrol with colouring in it). MS's approach with the XBox is to ban you from filling your modded car up at Toyota petrol stations. Apple's approach is to pour sugar in your petrol tank.
Actually I was thinking about the story where the Ramans do everything in threes. Did anyone else read this and think "three packets of ramen, yummy!":P
Interestingly, wiki says:
The average IQ scores for many populations were rising at an average rate of three points per decade during the 20th century with most of the increase in the lower half of the IQ range: a phenomenon called the Flynn effect. IQ is, however, renormalised occasionally to keep the average score at 100.
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Actually, they still call techies 'nerds' because that's the word to describe the type of people that techies are. However, the meaning of the word has changed. Well, rather, those of us in the know call us 'geeks'. Difference? A geek knows the difference between geek and nerd, a nerd doesn't.:P It used to be that 'geek' meant 'reject', now it means 'smart, technically inclined person who is likely to be rich and/or interesting'. Or maybe it's different in the US...
Or maybe he starred in that damn piranha movie. *shrug* Or possibly simply watched it on his big screen TV - I never said that there can't be a link between traumatic, life-destroying experiences and subsequent depression.
Half of this post is dead serious. The other half isn't.;)
The answer to this is typically nothing, except for a brain that isn't working correctly. Agreed. Is this not, in fact, the definition of depression? If you're pissed off and unhappy because a swarm of killer bees killed your kids, or piranhas ate your testicles, that's a perfectly normal reaction, and quite natural. If you have a good life, loving wife, happy kids, and live in a nice house with a big screen TV and drive a fancy car... and you still can't stop crying and get off the sofa? That's not a bad attitude, it's a chemical problem. Unhappy and depressed are two totally different things.
As to GP, gtfo my planet. It's chumps like you that make it hard for us normal, non-offensive-bile-spewing-zealot vegetarians to actually admit their dietary preference. If you have such a problem with the world, get a job in biotech or something, to try and fix it constructively. Telling people that they're evil for doing something they've always done will just piss them off.
You do realise that he was right? You're going to get slammed for this, but you're dead on. Advances in agriculture can only increase the available food so far, and populations intrinsically grow exponentially. The only thing that allows birth rates to decline in the western world is the easy availability of reliable contraception, which in his time, was not available. Humans are going to have sex, frequently, because it's a basic natural drive. They're built to. The only way the human population is not going to grow exponentially until we're overpopulated enough to starve and equalise the birth and death rates is via contraception. Education, improved living conditions etc. will all help, but in the end it all comes down to the ability to get jiggy without makin' babies.
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OK, depressing defeatism over.
...will be a machine, which may or may not be controlled by a techie in an air-conditioned office. Not until said machine is cheaper, more reliable and more versatile than a human in a flak jacket. Which is to say that, for ground work, the infantry are here to stay. Now, if they'd only hurry up and design some workable Mobile Infantry suits...- Is not expecting to receive a paycheck in 2007.
I can see how that would limit your job satisfaction.- Has had a stapler taken away by his manager.
<peter_griffin_voice> WHOA whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa... whoa! Now just a minute!</peter_griffin_voice>Overall I'm earning $7.5k more per year than I was at my last job two years ago, and I'm struggling to save more than a few hundred a month (down from over a grand a month at my last job). I don't buy much that's not necessary. Price of living in Australia has gone up massively in the last 2 years, let alone 10. It's definitely more than the 3-4% annually that they claim.
Because the chair with both seat and back used to have a gigantic spike sticking up from the middle of the seat. And it's a different colour to either of the others, although it's getting slightly more similar to both. Lots of people remember trying the Linux chair in the past and getting spiked, and aren't keen to do so again, even though with the advent of user-friendly distros like Ubuntu, the spike is gone in almost all circumstances.
That's different. That's blocking you from a *service* that they provide for users of unmodified XBox 360s.
It's like you buy a Toyota that's designed to only run on Toyota fuel. You modify it to run on any petrol (since Toyota fuel is just petrol with colouring in it). MS's approach with the XBox is to ban you from filling your modded car up at Toyota petrol stations. Apple's approach is to pour sugar in your petrol tank.
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. :)
ZOMG THAT! I'd forgotten about that! Part 12 on youtube. :)
I was thinking of this: 1234 by Feist.
And your rather funny (but not insightful) post will get modded as... bah, nevermind. :P
Anyone else read this and think "one two three four five six nine and ten"?
...you know who you are...
Gunnerites leave 'gunneor' craters, which lead to blood loss and internal injury, leading to heart failure.
As Heinlein would tell you, all forms of death (save massive trauma) can be ultimately traced to heart failure.
Strangely appropriate given all the talk of tripods, that your quip should bring to mind 'deep roots'. ;)
Yes. I mean no. I mean maybe... I won't know unless we ask him.
Well, technically...
Actually, they still call techies 'nerds' because that's the word to describe the type of people that techies are. However, the meaning of the word has changed. Well, rather, those of us in the know call us 'geeks'. Difference? A geek knows the difference between geek and nerd, a nerd doesn't. :P It used to be that 'geek' meant 'reject', now it means 'smart, technically inclined person who is likely to be rich and/or interesting'. Or maybe it's different in the US...
Half of this post is dead serious. The other half isn't.
As to GP, gtfo my planet. It's chumps like you that make it hard for us normal, non-offensive-bile-spewing-zealot vegetarians to actually admit their dietary preference. If you have such a problem with the world, get a job in biotech or something, to try and fix it constructively. Telling people that they're evil for doing something they've always done will just piss them off.
Every sperm is sacred!
Tase him!