Absolutely. None of this "taking cover" bullshit - just keep firing until you or the literal thousands of enemies are gone, or run away to wherever that last health pack you saw was.
I'll suggest Serious Sam 2 though - 1 wasn't -bad-, I just didn't like the level design in a lot of places. YMMV, etc.
Oh, I'm way the hell removed from retail now. They started offering these services back in... 2008, I think? And I was out of there by 2009. Now I've got a small userbase that I keep nicely in line. Now, if only I could get some budget...
Me personally? No. Others though, especially when they're less-computer-literate business travelers (or tourists) and need a quick turnaround? I'm not saying it's smart, but it's understandable why they'd do it.
If they'd actually hired people on the ground who knew what they were doing (or let existing employees who knew what they were doing actually DO something,) it might have actually been a worthwhile service. As it was when I worked there though, if anything needed to be done, you connected it up to a remote session to India and let who-the-hell-knows-who-they-are do whatever work was "required." Having watched them do their thing, it's something that even 7 years ago I could have done in half the time it took them.
I sold the services when necessary, if only because I needed some minor piddly things like food and housing, but GTFO'd as soon as I could.
... yeah. Not surprised at all. The encouragement to flat-out lie to meet unrealistic sales goals (for the extended warranties and services) is about 90% of the reason I quit back when they started offering these services.
Bonus points: It's supported pretty much all the addons I typically used with FF (Noscript is the big one,) and there are a few replacements for the ones it doesn't (AdBlock Plus -> AdBlock Latitude.)
I don't remember where I spotted it first, but PaleMoon is a FF fork that's dumped a lot of the stupid design decisions and supports 64-bit. I've been quite happy with it since I discovered it, and it can't be worse than the newest FF versions.
In fact, I started smoking because of the military. I did a lot of bitching of my own about my mother's smoking when I was a kid, then turned around and started doing it once I was an "adult." Anything to take the edge off that stress.
I'm a bit late on this, but something he should keep in mind is that the Lucky Starr books are a bit dated in their science. I'm not sure if you're going for "fun read" or "get the kid into genuine science," but there are parts of some of them that are flat-out wrong.
"Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus" is the most obviously incorrect one, but I seem to recall that the original one ("Lucky Starr - Space Ranger") got some things wrong as well. Just something to keep in mind - a lot of Asimov's stuff has aged extremely well, but that particular series didn't.
Also, the pen name was Paul French - but the volume I have also has Asimov's name on it.
I worked with high-power RF in the military for 5 years, and it was "common knowledge" that the SHF curse was alive and well. Men who worked with the radios had the "curse" of only having female children when they had kids at all. As such, I'm totally unsurprised at reading this.
I'm just imagining Lou Piniella shouting at a robot umpire, taking off his cap, throwing it on the ground at the robot's feet, picking up a base, throwing it down the right field line, picking up the robot ump, carrying it with him, throwing the base some more, and repeating.
... it's funny, but it doesn't quite have the same impact.
The first thought when I read that was "... is this a P-47 or something?"
Is it possible this thing's major failing is that few people have heard of it? (ignoring that if it comes from Apple, it's probably a proprietary standard with licensing fees to match...)
Golly gee! This law being passed is going to screw EVERYTHING up for me!
Or not. I'll keep doing what I've done in the past - if I want to hear something, I'll listen to it on the radio or do without. Most of the movies coming out these days? I wouldn't spend money on those either.
Let's hope that they keep spending their money on bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign contributions, and eventually go broke. Fuck 'em.
The nation has been at Yellow, "an elevated significant risk of terrorist attacks" for three years. International and domestic flights have been at an Orange "high risk of terrorist attacks" for the same period.
A proposal by the Homeland Security Advisory Council, unveiled late Tuesday, recommends removing two of the five colors, with a standard state of affairs being a "guarded" Yellow. The Green "low risk of terrorist attacks" might get removed altogether, meaning stay prepared for your morning subway commute to turn deadly at any moment.
I'll grant, I might be missing^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsuck and apparently missed something in the whole mess, but calling it a "guarded" yellow implied that they were going to use the current blue "guarded" definition for the new "yellow".
Take note that if they go to three colors, the current Blue would be the new Yellow - that is to say "A general risk of terrorist attack". Methinks the summary's a bit off.
I actually read TFA! "Churn" is apparently when people switch from one carrier to another, presumably at the end of the contract. (This answers both the parent poster, and one in this same thread)
That being said, it looks like they'd be using this data to identify who's likely to switch over, and sweeten their deals a bit to keep them - at least, in the context of cell phone companies and the like. Obviously, this has other implications outside of cell companies, but I'm sticking with the original thought on this one.
So how do we game this system? Find people who have recently changed carriers and start having them call you. Free better phone for staying with a carrier you'd probably have already stayed with!
Oh god yes. I hear this at least two or three times a week, selling computers at a retail location. The only thing worse is when you tell someone "You're getting this new computer - you should get antivirus software. The crap it comes with is a 60 day trial, and you're not really going to be protected if you don't get -something-."
And then three months later, they roll in with "Fix my computer! It's broken!"
"Sure! We'll fix it for $170. $200 if you want us to install antivirus software for you."
And then the teeth gnashing, anger, railing about how "it should just work"... and then the payment, because they want their internets back. And relating these stories still doesn't affect the people too cheap/stupid to get it when it's recommended to them when they're buying the thing.
+1 for truth (I have mod points, but I wanted to pipe in on this discussion)
(Note, since this has come up before: Yes, us here on./ are typically savvy enough to use some sort of free(or paid) antivirus and remove any crap that ends up on the computer despite it. But if you think those prices are steep for the regular computer user, you haven't dealt with them before - consider it an idiot tax, if nothing else)
I had the same thought, and I'm surprised it took this long in the discussion to come up.
On the note of the whole thread, I feel -really- young. I got my first computer at the age of ~8 or so (in Christmas of 1990), took a year fucking it up before I figured everything out, got CS at something like 10, and lost it 4 or 5 months later because I racked up a $150 bill on CB chat and my parents cancelled the service.
And all that being said, a tip of the hat to the service that showed me that my computer wasn't -just- for reinstalling Windows every three days. (don't ask)
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Absolutely. None of this "taking cover" bullshit - just keep firing until you or the literal thousands of enemies are gone, or run away to wherever that last health pack you saw was.
I'll suggest Serious Sam 2 though - 1 wasn't -bad-, I just didn't like the level design in a lot of places. YMMV, etc.
Oh, I'm way the hell removed from retail now. They started offering these services back in... 2008, I think? And I was out of there by 2009. Now I've got a small userbase that I keep nicely in line. Now, if only I could get some budget...
Me personally? No. Others though, especially when they're less-computer-literate business travelers (or tourists) and need a quick turnaround? I'm not saying it's smart, but it's understandable why they'd do it.
If they'd actually hired people on the ground who knew what they were doing (or let existing employees who knew what they were doing actually DO something,) it might have actually been a worthwhile service. As it was when I worked there though, if anything needed to be done, you connected it up to a remote session to India and let who-the-hell-knows-who-they-are do whatever work was "required." Having watched them do their thing, it's something that even 7 years ago I could have done in half the time it took them.
I sold the services when necessary, if only because I needed some minor piddly things like food and housing, but GTFO'd as soon as I could.
More like "I used to work at one of the stores shown in the video."
... yeah. Not surprised at all. The encouragement to flat-out lie to meet unrealistic sales goals (for the extended warranties and services) is about 90% of the reason I quit back when they started offering these services.
... that the dispute is about purrsonality rights?
This is truly news for nerds. Good job, editors.
Tumblr would -love- this idea.
Bonus points: It's supported pretty much all the addons I typically used with FF (Noscript is the big one,) and there are a few replacements for the ones it doesn't (AdBlock Plus -> AdBlock Latitude.)
I don't remember where I spotted it first, but PaleMoon is a FF fork that's dumped a lot of the stupid design decisions and supports 64-bit. I've been quite happy with it since I discovered it, and it can't be worse than the newest FF versions.
http://www.palemoon.org/
Even Canadian earthquakes are nice and overly polite.
Oh, if only I had mod points.
In fact, I started smoking because of the military. I did a lot of bitching of my own about my mother's smoking when I was a kid, then turned around and started doing it once I was an "adult." Anything to take the edge off that stress.
I'm a bit late on this, but something he should keep in mind is that the Lucky Starr books are a bit dated in their science. I'm not sure if you're going for "fun read" or "get the kid into genuine science," but there are parts of some of them that are flat-out wrong.
"Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus" is the most obviously incorrect one, but I seem to recall that the original one ("Lucky Starr - Space Ranger") got some things wrong as well. Just something to keep in mind - a lot of Asimov's stuff has aged extremely well, but that particular series didn't.
Also, the pen name was Paul French - but the volume I have also has Asimov's name on it.
... as a rumor, at least.
I worked with high-power RF in the military for 5 years, and it was "common knowledge" that the SHF curse was alive and well. Men who worked with the radios had the "curse" of only having female children when they had kids at all. As such, I'm totally unsurprised at reading this.
I'm just imagining Lou Piniella shouting at a robot umpire, taking off his cap, throwing it on the ground at the robot's feet, picking up a base, throwing it down the right field line, picking up the robot ump, carrying it with him, throwing the base some more, and repeating.
I'm sure it'll be hard for you to overstate your satisfaction.
The first thought when I read that was "... is this a P-47 or something?"
Is it possible this thing's major failing is that few people have heard of it? (ignoring that if it comes from Apple, it's probably a proprietary standard with licensing fees to match...)
... if you're going to do something dodgy, you put fake names into your software registration fields. :p
Woosh!
Golly gee! This law being passed is going to screw EVERYTHING up for me!
Or not. I'll keep doing what I've done in the past - if I want to hear something, I'll listen to it on the radio or do without. Most of the movies coming out these days? I wouldn't spend money on those either.
Let's hope that they keep spending their money on bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign contributions, and eventually go broke. Fuck 'em.
The nation has been at Yellow, "an elevated significant risk of terrorist attacks" for three years. International and domestic flights have been at an Orange "high risk of terrorist attacks" for the same period.
A proposal by the Homeland Security Advisory Council, unveiled late Tuesday, recommends removing two of the five colors, with a standard state of affairs being a "guarded" Yellow. The Green "low risk of terrorist attacks" might get removed altogether, meaning stay prepared for your morning subway commute to turn deadly at any moment.
I'll grant, I might be missing^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsuck and apparently missed something in the whole mess, but calling it a "guarded" yellow implied that they were going to use the current blue "guarded" definition for the new "yellow".
So yes, ignore me. I'ma go back to sleep now.
Take note that if they go to three colors, the current Blue would be the new Yellow - that is to say "A general risk of terrorist attack". Methinks the summary's a bit off.
I actually read TFA! "Churn" is apparently when people switch from one carrier to another, presumably at the end of the contract. (This answers both the parent poster, and one in this same thread)
That being said, it looks like they'd be using this data to identify who's likely to switch over, and sweeten their deals a bit to keep them - at least, in the context of cell phone companies and the like. Obviously, this has other implications outside of cell companies, but I'm sticking with the original thought on this one.
So how do we game this system? Find people who have recently changed carriers and start having them call you. Free better phone for staying with a carrier you'd probably have already stayed with!
Silly, yes, I know. Thanks.
Oh god yes. I hear this at least two or three times a week, selling computers at a retail location. The only thing worse is when you tell someone "You're getting this new computer - you should get antivirus software. The crap it comes with is a 60 day trial, and you're not really going to be protected if you don't get -something-."
And then three months later, they roll in with "Fix my computer! It's broken!"
"Sure! We'll fix it for $170. $200 if you want us to install antivirus software for you."
And then the teeth gnashing, anger, railing about how "it should just work"... and then the payment, because they want their internets back. And relating these stories still doesn't affect the people too cheap/stupid to get it when it's recommended to them when they're buying the thing.
+1 for truth (I have mod points, but I wanted to pipe in on this discussion)
(Note, since this has come up before: Yes, us here on ./ are typically savvy enough to use some sort of free(or paid) antivirus and remove any crap that ends up on the computer despite it. But if you think those prices are steep for the regular computer user, you haven't dealt with them before - consider it an idiot tax, if nothing else)
I had the same thought, and I'm surprised it took this long in the discussion to come up.
On the note of the whole thread, I feel -really- young. I got my first computer at the age of ~8 or so (in Christmas of 1990), took a year fucking it up before I figured everything out, got CS at something like 10, and lost it 4 or 5 months later because I racked up a $150 bill on CB chat and my parents cancelled the service.
And all that being said, a tip of the hat to the service that showed me that my computer wasn't -just- for reinstalling Windows every three days. (don't ask)