That is certainly not what the article says. It basically mentions that while a repair shop has your car, they're going to do an inspection on possibly accident-unrelated things. In the USA we call that a state-inspection. We're subject to this yearly.
I should be allowed to silence dissent. I should be able to bully people through seemingly legal means so that their use of the first ammendment doesn't go unpunished. The first step is getting their names.
If they've done nothing wrong, there's nothing to hide, right?
Always do hourly. Scope-creep will instantly ruin any fixed quotes you have. Even without scope-creep, the client will take a few looks, make you re-do everything because of some stupid reason.
Always bill hourly.
And, yes, upfront is good. I personally prefer pre-paid time blocks.
The fact is, I started off very optimistic, years ago, and believed that all men were created equal. I believed that the only obstacles were people's can-do attitude.
Years in the tech industry (specifically tech support) have definitely jaded me. I cannot help but agree with you completely! And after a while, you realize, despite your attempt to be humble about it- you can't help but realize your thoughts seem a bit conceited and elitist.
I personally try not to be elitist, or too self involved. But it's hard to ignore the facts. There are so many people who don't have basic critial thinking skills, let alone the desire to develop them, I cannot help but start to think poorly of my fellow species.
It's frustrating, and lonely, and annoying- all rolled into one. It's hard to relate to people in general.
I'd say problem solving skills, at the basic level, is a very accurate indication of overall intelligence.
Being able to read, memorize, and recite stupid facts from a book does not require intelligence. Being able to read, understand, and utilize concepts- that's intelligence.
Yeah, being nice to tech support allows them to continue reading their scripts. The problem with scripts is that the tech didn't listen to me, and is asking the same questions I just answered.
CGI children are not, due to freedom of expression.
Actually, heh, in the US, I'm not so sure that's the case. In fact, it's kinda up in the air. I certainly wouldn't try right now... PROTECT ACT 2003 LOLICON
I dunno. I run vista. I have yet to see even close to the same performance that I did with xp. Oh hang on a second, I have to restart 3 programs that mysteriously went "white," and then reset the video subsystem timeout so it doesn't crash next time I load a game.
I don't think sp2 will fix these issues. A 3 mb file copy is still as long as a 300mb file copy in xp for me.
Trying to cash in on XP sp2's stigma, they're pushing vista as an aged operating system, that's been through the ropes. Now we've got a mature system, unlike that horrible old Vista RTM, that didn't do well.
Have no fear! SP2 is here! Really, though. It's safe now! It's the standard!
Most of those requests are stupid, and don't dig down to the core of the issue. They all are asking for special circumstances to do various fair-use related activities.
The exception needs to be "except for in fair-use situations."
Imagine ripping DVDs being illegal unless you're only going to make a mashup video for youtube? Sure that's part of fair-use, but if that's all you ask for, and that's what they grant, then we're all retarded. What the hell are these people thinking?
So many times people try to fight fires at the top of the flames, and wonder why they never go out. Talk about slippery slopes, eh? See? We're fair! We can remove your right of second sales, because look- we agreed to dvd rips for youtube mashups only!
If we don't, corruption is a systemic inevitability. Which should be abundantly obvious to anyone who has been paying attention to the events of humanity.
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The next patch coming out is supposed to support SLI, non-xbox controllers, but says very little about the graphics performance.
I'm personally waiting to see how the forums react to the new patch before purchasing.
(This is coming from a gamer who is nervous about game performance- despite the fact that he plays crysis on full quality at 1440 x 900 resolution.)
That is certainly not what the article says. It basically mentions that while a repair shop has your car, they're going to do an inspection on possibly accident-unrelated things. In the USA we call that a state-inspection. We're subject to this yearly.
I should be allowed to silence dissent. I should be able to bully people through seemingly legal means so that their use of the first ammendment doesn't go unpunished. The first step is getting their names.
If they've done nothing wrong, there's nothing to hide, right?
This is a dupe. We had a story about this a year ago!
Come to think about it..
Maybe .. herpes is passed down?
Always do hourly. Scope-creep will instantly ruin any fixed quotes you have. Even without scope-creep, the client will take a few looks, make you re-do everything because of some stupid reason.
Always bill hourly.
And, yes, upfront is good. I personally prefer pre-paid time blocks.
Perfect, you've written my next proposal for my boss. Woot! He'll love it.
Yay opera users represent! We're not very popular it seems. I loooove opera, I'm just not usually very vocal and proud like ..*ehem* firefox fanbois.
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The fact is, I started off very optimistic, years ago, and believed that all men were created equal. I believed that the only obstacles were people's can-do attitude.
Years in the tech industry (specifically tech support) have definitely jaded me. I cannot help but agree with you completely! And after a while, you realize, despite your attempt to be humble about it- you can't help but realize your thoughts seem a bit conceited and elitist.
I personally try not to be elitist, or too self involved. But it's hard to ignore the facts. There are so many people who don't have basic critial thinking skills, let alone the desire to develop them, I cannot help but start to think poorly of my fellow species.
It's frustrating, and lonely, and annoying- all rolled into one. It's hard to relate to people in general.
I'd say problem solving skills, at the basic level, is a very accurate indication of overall intelligence.
Being able to read, memorize, and recite stupid facts from a book does not require intelligence. Being able to read, understand, and utilize concepts- that's intelligence.
Same goes for computers.
Yeah, being nice to tech support allows them to continue reading their scripts. The problem with scripts is that the tech didn't listen to me, and is asking the same questions I just answered.
I just want someone who speaks english please!
Ah, see, I agree.. We must both be from the US.
CGI children are not, due to freedom of expression.
Actually, heh, in the US, I'm not so sure that's the case. In fact, it's kinda up in the air. I certainly wouldn't try right now...
PROTECT ACT 2003
LOLICON
What if I make a mashup of that - take the first half then the second half and use the soundtrack from the original.
That clearly isn't covered by fairuse.
Holy crap. Well that explains that. See? If they just told me this...
Apple.
I dunno. I run vista. I have yet to see even close to the same performance that I did with xp. Oh hang on a second, I have to restart 3 programs that mysteriously went "white," and then reset the video subsystem timeout so it doesn't crash next time I load a game.
I don't think sp2 will fix these issues. A 3 mb file copy is still as long as a 300mb file copy in xp for me.
Trying to cash in on XP sp2's stigma, they're pushing vista as an aged operating system, that's been through the ropes. Now we've got a mature system, unlike that horrible old Vista RTM, that didn't do well.
Have no fear! SP2 is here! Really, though. It's safe now! It's the standard!
Guys? Guys? Is anybody listening?
Most of those requests are stupid, and don't dig down to the core of the issue. They all are asking for special circumstances to do various fair-use related activities.
The exception needs to be "except for in fair-use situations."
Imagine ripping DVDs being illegal unless you're only going to make a mashup video for youtube? Sure that's part of fair-use, but if that's all you ask for, and that's what they grant, then we're all retarded. What the hell are these people thinking?
So many times people try to fight fires at the top of the flames, and wonder why they never go out. Talk about slippery slopes, eh? See? We're fair! We can remove your right of second sales, because look- we agreed to dvd rips for youtube mashups only!
GAAAAAWD! I get so angry. I need some pie brb.
The act of circumventing ANY protection scheme is what the DMCA outlawed. Jailbreaking an Iphone could be construed as such.
If we don't, corruption is a systemic inevitability. Which should be abundantly obvious to anyone who has been paying attention to the events of humanity.
Fixed that for you.
Yeah, I haven't heard any radiohead yet. LAME.
Lies! You know a girl!?
I'd pay extra for the guaranteed allotted bandwidth.
I liked Sirius Disorder, seems it wasn't more than a few weeks ago that dissapeared. Anyway, try "the loft" apparently that's their new disorder.
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