Oh blah, the comparison in TFA was not between having a retailer install upgrades and buying + installing them yourself, it was between having two different retailers install the same upgrades. It doesn't help to use analogies to make your point clear when your point is irrelevant in the first place.
Well, that's interesting actually. I'll probably get a bit of extra memory for my Mac Pro soon enough, so I was looking into my options. I noticed that the user manual that came with the Mac says you should install 800 MHzz ddr2, but what's actually in there now, straight from the factory as far as I can tell, is 667 MHz sticks... At least that's what the labels say they are.
Also, if anything external to the way you work (i.e. the promise of more money) can make you work better, you're slacking off in your daily work: why don't you deliver peak performance without the extra money?
There's two ways to look at performance vs. compensation. Employees, ideally (at least from the employer's viewpoint) will look at it the way you do: you're being paid to do your best, so you should need no extra incentive to do so. Project management, on the other hand, should be pragmatic about it. Sure, employees SHOULD do their best no matter what, but maybe cash incentives can add motivation. If that is found to be the case, a good manager will choose results over principles.
That's interesting. I haven't ever heard of such a condition. Are you able to describe how your visual perception works, then? Do you need to keep one eye closed to get a coherent view? Or do the eyes just not provide you with a sense of depth, but still work together well enough to use them at the same time? If it's the latter, I can't begin to imagine what that would be like.
Well, no wonder you in the US seem to have such a hard time weeding the liberalist cancer out of your system, since those damnable liberalists - Thomas Jefferson, James Madison et al. - were infecting your nation with the ideas of, among other liberalist thinkers, John Locke and Adam Smith, from the very beginning.
(sorry for feeding the trolls, I just couldn't quite pass this one by. I can't fathom how the term "liberal" can be so mangled in contemporary USA.)
Democracy may not always guarantee the best result, but, when it actually works, it does also tend to protect against the worst result. Putting your faith in autocratic rulers may yield results in the short term, but in the long term, you tend to find your own interests are at odds with the interests of the rulers - and you have no influence.
I could live with that start if the games didn't invariably involve: -Nausea-inducingly pompous dialogue (Oblivion) -NPCs you mainly want to kill because they keep annoying the living shit out of you, even though without them all that's left in the game is hideously repetitive action (Half-life 2) -Absurdly generic design coupled with bottom-of-the-B-movie-barrel writing and characters whose main feature is their total lack of intelligence whatsoever (Mass Effect)
I want to like playing games. I really do. The games we get nowadays just seem to go out of their way to make that impossible.
Parent has it right. I'd like to add that this doesn't necessarely imply any ill will on the part of individual members of government at large. It is simply the nature of the beast. Governments govern, and to do that they must have authority. They are structured to inherently resist anything that undermines their authority, otherwise they would not exist.
The article is a good read. It basically covers how incredibly narrow the limits are concerning the laws of nature. If any one of them was just an astronomically small amount different, then the Universe would not exist as we know it, and certainly life would not form. Which leads your budding C/ID believer to ask, "what are the odds of this happening by chance?" There's no way to know. There may be an unfathomable number of universes other than ours, or this may be the only one. To ask what the odds are assumes the universe was created with the goal of giving birth to (human) life. If the universe was incapable of existing or sustaining life, we would not be here to wonder about it. In a sense the chances of any universe with life being suitable for life are 100%.
More insightful than funny. Creationism has nothing to do with a balanced look at the facts, and everything to do with strong personal beliefs. No amount of proof will turn the head of a devout creationist, since God, via the Bible (or the creationist's interpretation of it) is the ultimate authority.
As long as the trucks were selling well, even if they knew the end was coming, what did you expect the industry to do? Stop production of a profitable product?
That just sounds like anti-piracy FUD to me. "Don't download the PRO version from torrent sites, you'll get viruses and trojans and it's not even the real deal!"
Saying CCTV is eroding rights is ridiculous - no-one has the right not to be looked at in the street. Just how closely can I be looked at? Is it OK for someone to "look at" me while following me around town? That's basically CCTV, except you don't see a person, just the lenses.
Law enforcement is imperfect, and the police can't know everything. That's a good thing, because the more the police know, the more control they and thus the state have over citizens. There's a balance to be found between security and privacy, and pervasive surveillance is tipping that balance in a sinister direction.
You may not worry about what your government wants with you now, but if the time comes when you do need to worry about that, do you think they will not use the surveillance tech you OK'd in the good old days?
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Oh blah, the comparison in TFA was not between having a retailer install upgrades and buying + installing them yourself, it was between having two different retailers install the same upgrades. It doesn't help to use analogies to make your point clear when your point is irrelevant in the first place.
Well, that's interesting actually. I'll probably get a bit of extra memory for my Mac Pro soon enough, so I was looking into my options. I noticed that the user manual that came with the Mac says you should install 800 MHzz ddr2, but what's actually in there now, straight from the factory as far as I can tell, is 667 MHz sticks... At least that's what the labels say they are.
Also, if anything external to the way you work (i.e. the promise of more money) can make you work better, you're slacking off in your daily work: why don't you deliver peak performance without the extra money?
There's two ways to look at performance vs. compensation. Employees, ideally (at least from the employer's viewpoint) will look at it the way you do: you're being paid to do your best, so you should need no extra incentive to do so. Project management, on the other hand, should be pragmatic about it. Sure, employees SHOULD do their best no matter what, but maybe cash incentives can add motivation. If that is found to be the case, a good manager will choose results over principles.
Actually,
Fuck you, EU
signed, EU Citizens
That's interesting. I haven't ever heard of such a condition. Are you able to describe how your visual perception works, then? Do you need to keep one eye closed to get a coherent view? Or do the eyes just not provide you with a sense of depth, but still work together well enough to use them at the same time? If it's the latter, I can't begin to imagine what that would be like.
Well, no wonder you in the US seem to have such a hard time weeding the liberalist cancer out of your system, since those damnable liberalists - Thomas Jefferson, James Madison et al. - were infecting your nation with the ideas of, among other liberalist thinkers, John Locke and Adam Smith, from the very beginning.
(sorry for feeding the trolls, I just couldn't quite pass this one by. I can't fathom how the term "liberal" can be so mangled in contemporary USA.)
Democracy may not always guarantee the best result, but, when it actually works, it does also tend to protect against the worst result. Putting your faith in autocratic rulers may yield results in the short term, but in the long term, you tend to find your own interests are at odds with the interests of the rulers - and you have no influence.
Clarification/sources on the Germany claim? Do you mean to say running an open wi-fi hotspot is illegal in .de?
I could live with that start if the games didn't invariably involve:
-Nausea-inducingly pompous dialogue (Oblivion)
-NPCs you mainly want to kill because they keep annoying the living shit out of you, even though without them all that's left in the game is hideously repetitive action (Half-life 2)
-Absurdly generic design coupled with bottom-of-the-B-movie-barrel writing and characters whose main feature is their total lack of intelligence whatsoever (Mass Effect)
I want to like playing games. I really do. The games we get nowadays just seem to go out of their way to make that impossible.
Actually, that sounds like a great pitch.
So what laws would you prefer to see applied in Guantanamo?
Parent has it right. I'd like to add that this doesn't necessarely imply any ill will on the part of individual members of government at large. It is simply the nature of the beast. Governments govern, and to do that they must have authority. They are structured to inherently resist anything that undermines their authority, otherwise they would not exist.
You say that like there's a difference between "micro" and "macro" evolution...
No, it's not. The simplest answer to any question has to be "Bah."
More insightful than funny. Creationism has nothing to do with a balanced look at the facts, and everything to do with strong personal beliefs. No amount of proof will turn the head of a devout creationist, since God, via the Bible (or the creationist's interpretation of it) is the ultimate authority.
As long as the trucks were selling well, even if they knew the end was coming, what did you expect the industry to do? Stop production of a profitable product?
That just sounds like anti-piracy FUD to me. "Don't download the PRO version from torrent sites, you'll get viruses and trojans and it's not even the real deal!"
Law enforcement is imperfect, and the police can't know everything. That's a good thing, because the more the police know, the more control they and thus the state have over citizens. There's a balance to be found between security and privacy, and pervasive surveillance is tipping that balance in a sinister direction.
You may not worry about what your government wants with you now, but if the time comes when you do need to worry about that, do you think they will not use the surveillance tech you OK'd in the good old days?
Haven't you ever heard the phrase "feel the beat"?
I think they mean the end with the bit of plastic, not the pointy end.
That's too believable to be funny.
You got me...
A little after posting that I thought: "Wait. Did I really write 'dorsal'?"
Then I saw I had and I thought: "Quiet now, maybe no-one will notice..."