Not always true. There were bots for Quake 3 that were absolutely spooky. they never got stuck and could make decisions to go a different route as well as adding some randomness to throw you off.
The reaper bot was good, but several guys made modifications that would fool people into thinking they were players. One of the bots would actually rocket jump successfully.
Try applying for a job without the internet. Cant be done as all HR people are lazy as hell. Very soon you will need internet access as much as needing a telephone. Most executives orgasm at the though of firing all CSR's and require all payments and support to go through the internet.
There is a requirement that you have a child, if you don't then they don't want you. At comcast we feel that families without children are a scourge of humanity and should be eradicated....
I am betting they are getting a government kickback thus the child requirement.
Hp is a sinking ship that cant attract anyone that has any management skills. The current guy has a bad track record, and the possible replacement they are looking at, she's not much better.
This is what happens when your products suck, your service sucks, and most people say, "HP? that stuff is crap, dont buy it"
The only way to turn it around is to start "not sucking"....
Step 1 - Fire every designer in the laptop division. Whoever green lighted the seamless trackpad should be tied up and whipped in front of all the other employees as an example.
Step 2 - Fire every stylist in the PC division. Sorry but trendy = dumb and that failure of a removable drive bay needs to go. Anyone that says the word "proprietary" or "custom designed" needs to be smacked in the face without hesitation and the word "NO" yelled in their face.
Step 3 - Fire everyone in the Printer driver division. IF the driver is not a simple small single file then it's garbage. No I dont want to install 160meg of helpers. Nobody does.
And that is the answer. the latest WH40K game utterly kicks the butt of the ENTIRE halo series and Gears series hard. Sorry, but when I can give up on the high tech partical weapon picking off enemies at a distance and then spend 20 minutes swinging an axe in the middle of a horde heading for me and end up painting everything on screen red.... that game wins, it UTTERLY wins.
Bullshit. Halo is tired. Halo Reach was the one release that pissed everyone off as it's a 20 minute storyline game and the rest is just for online play.
Black Ops kicks Halo's butt so hard that Master Chief is crying under his bunk wanting his mommy.
"Then there's the cost of getting services to your chosen site. It costs a bit to get electricity, water, and sewerage to a building site, or to provide a drilled well and septic system in a site that's too remote for municipal services."
Mostly due to corrupt laws. Yes a pit Privy can be done properly, but a simple septic leech field is not that hard to engineer and build. Electricity is easy enough to do with very low cost scavenged parts to make wind power and heating can also be done simply by making the place solar efficient.. in Texas you really dont need heat just insulation and a central fireplace for the 2 days a year it drops below 60.
LAW states you must have X outlets per room, and XX amp of electrical service in the house. Hell they even dictate the number of Cable TV outlets required nowdays.
A 500SQ foot pinwheel home is large enough for a family of 4 to live comfortably. If you are not the typical american slob you can get away with a pair of $200.00 Harbor Freight Solar panel kits and a couple of deep cycle batteries for electricity to give you lighting for the entire home and a couple of outside lights, and if you are lucky you can charge that OLPC laptop that is used for the rich kids. if your well is properly sized you can run it also off of the solar+battery system. a propane tank outside will supply cooking, heat for home and water.
This is the trick to get around the obtuse American building laws. Make it a trailer. Still a lot more than $1000.00 if you go nuts, but you could build one for around that price if you were good with scavenging and built it yourself.
Out of the 10 competitors that were in the market as on 2006 I am down to 2 competitors and one of them is drowning in debt and is asking for NET120 from it's suppliers.
Middle class and lower have to spend 75% or more of their income for basic survival. rent/mortgage payment, utilities, food, taxes... no car payment because they cant afford anything but a dangerous wreck.
While the rich can do a one time purchase and avoid paying rent/mortgage, electric is significantly reduced as they can afford to buy a $25,000 solar+wind system, well for water, etc...
If someone made $22,000 a year had 1 wife and 1 child they could easily survive on that if they did not have to drop $12,000 of it into rent alone with another $2500 in heating and electric and $5200 in food assuming spending a very low $100.00 a week for groceries. this does not count gasoline and expenses for working. Gasoline alone for someone that owns a worn out 1993 subcompact that get's 35mpg is $2080 if you buy 10 gallons a week.
Suddenly that person CANT MAKE IT. They are spending more than they take in without accounting for taxes alone. they are not buying movies, or cable TV. The above numbers are real numbers.
The rich in the country are greedy idiots with their heads in the sand. EIC is desperately needed for the above family of which there are a huge number of. Some of the rednecks blow it on beer and a big screen tv, some on spinner rims for their hoopdie... but most of them spend it to do silly things like... Dental care for the kid who has 2 rotten teeth that need root canals because the free school lunches are 60% sugar, a set of tires for the car and replace the brakes that have not worked for 3 months,. Just those 3 can wipe out a $5500 tax refund check.
The non earners spend every single dollar they get because they have to. they do not have an option to save anything at all. Mostly because the Rich that hold the rental homes gladly rape people with ridiculous rents like $1000.00 a month for a 2 bedroom in a neighborhood that is mostly safe.
Showing up at the rich neighborhoods with torches and rifles looting the Mansion is Class warfare. Anything else is a bunch of whiny babies trying to make people feel bad for them.
You are falling for the fallacy that the CEO has a clue while in fact he is a complete moron.
A major rate hike is only done by a complete and utter moron. You do smaller less noticeable hikes over time where people do not notice it. They would not have lost HALF the people that left if Netflix's leadership had any clue at all on how to run a business.
The Bible , New Testament. in the original writings, not the catholic church modified versions to add in more hatred.
I'm picking on the Catholics only because they have done more historical damage to Christianity than any other church. Mostly because of the Roman Catholic church and it's desire for power and control was far above that of purity and worship.
Honestly ALL The phone OS's suck at one thing. Multitasking.
Why cant i white list what multitasks and everything else is forced to close down when I close it? there are very few apps that I want running all the time. No I do not need my shopping list and angry birds running in the background. I want them crashed closed.
There are a total of 5 apps that I would want to ever stay resident and running in the background, everything else I wand dead.
Why cant they do this? it would increase performance and remove the damned problem of some apps fighting each other (iOS camera apps will fight, Android camera and bluetooth apps will also fight)
How about fixing the damn bugs that cause battery waste in the first place?
I use only D-link professional stuff (metal case SOHO stuff) and I have never ever had those problems. in fact a wrt54g will slow down over time using stock firmware AND dd-wrt, once every 3 months it needs a reboot.
I dont use anyone's router anymore. I use a PC configured with iPCop over the past 2 years and have had far fewer problems than most. D-Link pro AP's in the house (3 of them) and D-Link's 10/100/1000 managed switches. All have not had a problem in 2 years. Although I run all network gear on a UPS (AP's are ran off of POE)
IF you buy low grade consumer, you get low grade consumer quality. Spend $350.00 on your home network and eliminate the problems.
That is google's fault. if they would have OSS'ed the platform and left it unlocked the "blocking" on website would have been bypassed in 30 seconds. all you needed to do was change the browser user agent string. in fact if they were smart they should have reported as Internet Explorer 9.0 running on Vista and that would have screwed the content providers hard.
Yup. and Microsoft wont gain me back because of their $70.00 a year extortion to use any online apps. I bought a RoKu box and only pay the hulu plus fee.
Hay MSFT, I'll consider yours if you drop the gold membership fee.
"What I want more than a digital wallet is an app on my phone that unlocks and starts my car, instead of using my physical keys. " then stop being cheap and buy that. Several car alarm systems out there already do this. Viper has one that will do the remote start as well.
Then they should not have used Windows Mobile and AT&T for their radio system... Takes forever to reacquire a signal after it blacks out for a short time....
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Not always true. There were bots for Quake 3 that were absolutely spooky. they never got stuck and could make decisions to go a different route as well as adding some randomness to throw you off.
The reaper bot was good, but several guys made modifications that would fool people into thinking they were players. One of the bots would actually rocket jump successfully.
Dont NEED it?
Try applying for a job without the internet. Cant be done as all HR people are lazy as hell.
Very soon you will need internet access as much as needing a telephone. Most executives orgasm at the though of firing all CSR's and require all payments and support to go through the internet.
There is a requirement that you have a child, if you don't then they don't want you.
At comcast we feel that families without children are a scourge of humanity and should be eradicated....
I am betting they are getting a government kickback thus the child requirement.
Hp is a sinking ship that cant attract anyone that has any management skills. The current guy has a bad track record, and the possible replacement they are looking at, she's not much better.
This is what happens when your products suck, your service sucks, and most people say, "HP? that stuff is crap, dont buy it"
The only way to turn it around is to start "not sucking"....
Step 1 - Fire every designer in the laptop division. Whoever green lighted the seamless trackpad should be tied up and whipped in front of all the other employees as an example.
Step 2 - Fire every stylist in the PC division. Sorry but trendy = dumb and that failure of a removable drive bay needs to go. Anyone that says the word "proprietary" or "custom designed" needs to be smacked in the face without hesitation and the word "NO" yelled in their face.
Step 3 - Fire everyone in the Printer driver division. IF the driver is not a simple small single file then it's garbage. No I dont want to install 160meg of helpers. Nobody does.
And that is the answer. the latest WH40K game utterly kicks the butt of the ENTIRE halo series and Gears series hard. Sorry, but when I can give up on the high tech partical weapon picking off enemies at a distance and then spend 20 minutes swinging an axe in the middle of a horde heading for me and end up painting everything on screen red.... that game wins, it UTTERLY wins.
Bullshit. Halo is tired. Halo Reach was the one release that pissed everyone off as it's a 20 minute storyline game and the rest is just for online play.
Black Ops kicks Halo's butt so hard that Master Chief is crying under his bunk wanting his mommy.
"Then there's the cost of getting services to your chosen site. It costs a bit to get electricity, water, and sewerage to a building site, or to provide a drilled well and septic system in a site that's too remote for municipal services."
Mostly due to corrupt laws. Yes a pit Privy can be done properly, but a simple septic leech field is not that hard to engineer and build. Electricity is easy enough to do with very low cost scavenged parts to make wind power and heating can also be done simply by making the place solar efficient.. in Texas you really dont need heat just insulation and a central fireplace for the 2 days a year it drops below 60.
LAW states you must have X outlets per room, and XX amp of electrical service in the house. Hell they even dictate the number of Cable TV outlets required nowdays.
A 500SQ foot pinwheel home is large enough for a family of 4 to live comfortably. If you are not the typical american slob you can get away with a pair of $200.00 Harbor Freight Solar panel kits and a couple of deep cycle batteries for electricity to give you lighting for the entire home and a couple of outside lights, and if you are lucky you can charge that OLPC laptop that is used for the rich kids. if your well is properly sized you can run it also off of the solar+battery system. a propane tank outside will supply cooking, heat for home and water.
Very comfortable and sustainable.
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/
This is the trick to get around the obtuse American building laws. Make it a trailer. Still a lot more than $1000.00 if you go nuts, but you could build one for around that price if you were good with scavenging and built it yourself.
Actually quite well.
Out of the 10 competitors that were in the market as on 2006 I am down to 2 competitors and one of them is drowning in debt and is asking for NET120 from it's suppliers.
It's more insidious than that.
Middle class and lower have to spend 75% or more of their income for basic survival. rent/mortgage payment, utilities, food, taxes... no car payment because they cant afford anything but a dangerous wreck.
While the rich can do a one time purchase and avoid paying rent/mortgage, electric is significantly reduced as they can afford to buy a $25,000 solar+wind system, well for water, etc...
If someone made $22,000 a year had 1 wife and 1 child they could easily survive on that if they did not have to drop $12,000 of it into rent alone with another $2500 in heating and electric and $5200 in food assuming spending a very low $100.00 a week for groceries. this does not count gasoline and expenses for working. Gasoline alone for someone that owns a worn out 1993 subcompact that get's 35mpg is $2080 if you buy 10 gallons a week.
Suddenly that person CANT MAKE IT. They are spending more than they take in without accounting for taxes alone. they are not buying movies, or cable TV.
The above numbers are real numbers.
The rich in the country are greedy idiots with their heads in the sand. EIC is desperately needed for the above family of which there are a huge number of. Some of the rednecks blow it on beer and a big screen tv, some on spinner rims for their hoopdie... but most of them spend it to do silly things like... Dental care for the kid who has 2 rotten teeth that need root canals because the free school lunches are 60% sugar, a set of tires for the car and replace the brakes that have not worked for 3 months,. Just those 3 can wipe out a $5500 tax refund check.
The non earners spend every single dollar they get because they have to. they do not have an option to save anything at all. Mostly because the Rich that hold the rental homes gladly rape people with ridiculous rents like $1000.00 a month for a 2 bedroom in a neighborhood that is mostly safe.
Showing up at the rich neighborhoods with torches and rifles looting the Mansion is Class warfare.
Anything else is a bunch of whiny babies trying to make people feel bad for them.
You are falling for the fallacy that the CEO has a clue while in fact he is a complete moron.
A major rate hike is only done by a complete and utter moron. You do smaller less noticeable hikes over time where people do not notice it. They would not have lost HALF the people that left if Netflix's leadership had any clue at all on how to run a business.
Yes
The Bible , New Testament. in the original writings, not the catholic church modified versions to add in more hatred.
I'm picking on the Catholics only because they have done more historical damage to Christianity than any other church. Mostly because of the Roman Catholic church and it's desire for power and control was far above that of purity and worship.
No, just to be further away from the filthy poor.
Those icky icky urchins that make less than $300,000 a year simply have an odour to them that is undesirable...
Honestly ALL The phone OS's suck at one thing. Multitasking.
Why cant i white list what multitasks and everything else is forced to close down when I close it? there are very few apps that I want running all the time. No I do not need my shopping list and angry birds running in the background. I want them crashed closed.
There are a total of 5 apps that I would want to ever stay resident and running in the background, everything else I wand dead.
Why cant they do this? it would increase performance and remove the damned problem of some apps fighting each other (iOS camera apps will fight, Android camera and bluetooth apps will also fight)
How about fixing the damn bugs that cause battery waste in the first place?
"is an app on my phone that unlocks and starts my car, instead of using my physical keys."
or did you forget what you said?
DUH.
I use only D-link professional stuff (metal case SOHO stuff) and I have never ever had those problems. in fact a wrt54g will slow down over time using stock firmware AND dd-wrt, once every 3 months it needs a reboot.
I dont use anyone's router anymore. I use a PC configured with iPCop over the past 2 years and have had far fewer problems than most. D-Link pro AP's in the house (3 of them) and D-Link's 10/100/1000 managed switches. All have not had a problem in 2 years. Although I run all network gear on a UPS (AP's are ran off of POE)
IF you buy low grade consumer, you get low grade consumer quality. Spend $350.00 on your home network and eliminate the problems.
That is google's fault. if they would have OSS'ed the platform and left it unlocked the "blocking" on website would have been bypassed in 30 seconds. all you needed to do was change the browser user agent string. in fact if they were smart they should have reported as Internet Explorer 9.0 running on Vista and that would have screwed the content providers hard.
Yup. and Microsoft wont gain me back because of their $70.00 a year extortion to use any online apps. I bought a RoKu box and only pay the hulu plus fee.
Hay MSFT, I'll consider yours if you drop the gold membership fee.
"What I want more than a digital wallet is an app on my phone that unlocks and starts my car, instead of using my physical keys. " then stop being cheap and buy that. Several car alarm systems out there already do this. Viper has one that will do the remote start as well.
on the palm pilot in 2000. I had an app that would let me beam money to other users and store registers.
Nobody used it as paypal back then wanted obscene fees. Today they want utterly obscene fees. Thus no stores will adopt it and it's stillborn already.
Just tease it. your lawn will become EMO and start cutting it's self.
It will be obscenely expensive...
I have been trying to get something in the reasonable price range to make a 42" touchscreen for a while now. all of it is in anal raping price ranges.
There is 15 minutes of silence recorded on all their recorders!!!!
Then they should not have used Windows Mobile and AT&T for their radio system... Takes forever to reacquire a signal after it blacks out for a short time....