It'd be way more informative to have samples of gameplay (authorized by the ESRB so they're not misleading) up on YouTube. Better to see *why* it's rated M instead of it's just "M".
Yeah, and we need to stop using those namby pamby measurements like Volts and Watts. We need some real American measurements, like Lightning Bolts, Zappers, and Toadsfeet.
You can always go back to school, even for one course. Don't think because you have your sheepskin that it isn't worth it to go back to college. Expand your mind, man!
Has open source like, ever campaigned to UI designers? I mean, seriously.
Imagine you're a graphics designer looking to go into UI design in a recession. What better way to fill out your portfolio than have stuff you can show to a future employer that's actually being used in the real world?
What's the worst that can happen by taking on a newbie? They colossally fuck up, well, that's why SVNs have the ability to revert.
When was the last time you bought a car that wasn't manufactured in the U.S.?
I seem to recall companies like Honda - companies that are not U.S. based, mind you - building factories in America because, well, cars are friggin' huge. It's expensive as hell to ship them across an entire fucking Ocean and then drive them cross-country. It's cheaper to pay good wages in America than to pay lesser wages in other countries and ship it out.
Yeah, yeah, there's still plenty of companies that import, but as stuff like Chrysler and whatnot collapse I'm sure that there will be foreign companies looking to snap up fully-functional plants so they can save on shipping. Remember, having a plant in the states gives you access to most of North America by land.
You mean like Canada? Because that's exactly the case in Canada. Critical care and primary care covered, quality of life equipment costs double. It's fine by me. I would love that situation.
Two things are of value monetarily. Time and Materials. Anyone would choose the cheaper route when making a decision to fix or replace.
I completely agree. And my original point of him being an idiot stands. Worst case scenario of "salt the earth and reformat" takes a grand total of 2, 2 1/2 hours. Unless he lives out in the burbs where you'll spend $50-150/hour for a tech, it still would have been far, far cheaper than buying even a netbook.
They're trying to do too many damn things at once, that's the problem.
Nintendo tried something like what the PS3 is with the Game Cube in a very limited market. Or rather, they let Panasonic try. Panasonic came up with the Panasonic Q (released in Japan only).
It had such lovely features as:
GameCube (duh)
Backlit LCD display
DVD player
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
And hey, it only cost five hundred bucks! It turned out that you could get a DVD Player and a Game Cube separately and it would wind up being cheaper than this behemoth.
I completely agree with you. They need to drop the base price by cutting unnecessary features. Most of the kids growing up didn't have the fun of memory cards! (128KB is enough game save space for anybody!)
In Newark, NJ, USA it's the same thing. We have your traditional tick off every second metered taxis, and we have something like you have over in Kiev.
Call up a cab, they show up in about 5 minutes. Moving? They'll bring a minivan for a little extra. Hell, the driver will help you load it up.
Anywhere within the city is (supposed) to be $10. Occasionally drivers try to rip off and call it at $12, $13, more. That's just a smaller tip they end up getting from me.
I imagine you couldn't take this trip in NYC for the same $19 it costs me.
I have advocated it in the past as well, but only when the piece of hardware is:
a) Really old
b) In terrible shape
c) Made by a terrible manufacturer
I greatly dislike the whole philosophy of replacing stuff unnecessarily. I was raised as one of those people who tries to fix something before going out and buying a new one.
Then again, I suppose spending money frivolously goes hand-in-hand with being an executive.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15 - Add personal computers to the list of throwaways in the disposable society.
On a recent Sunday morning when Lew Tucker's Dell desktop computer was overrun by spyware and adware - stealth software that delivers intrusive advertising messages and even gathers data from the user's machine - he did not simply get rid of the offending programs. He threw out the whole computer.
Mr. Tucker, an Internet industry executive who holds a Ph.D. in computer science, decided that rather than take the time to remove the offending software, he would spend $400 on a new machine.
Mr. Tucker is a dumbass. There are plenty of people who could have completely cleared out that computer for under $100 in man hours.
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Beep bee- ... NO CARRIER ... "Would you like a bigger |>3|\|15?
Are you mad? Do you really want Sharks reading?
"Oh, so THAT'S how an A-Bomb works..."
It'd be way more informative to have samples of gameplay (authorized by the ESRB so they're not misleading) up on YouTube. Better to see *why* it's rated M instead of it's just "M".
And a trademark on "iGreet".
"Point of Order!" is old school Phoenix Wright.
"OBJECTION!"
Yeah, and we need to stop using those namby pamby measurements like Volts and Watts. We need some real American measurements, like Lightning Bolts, Zappers, and Toadsfeet.
"The snozberries taste like snozberries!"
They even have similar looking leaders - old guys with long beards wearing black.
And of course, they have formed a coalition to control the world through the sound of awesome rock music, otherwise known as ZZ Top.
I feel it ranks among the most sophisticated ways of seeing the world.
I was always taught that looking at the world in black and white was a bad thing.
So were those! Pattern, perhaps?
You can always go back to school, even for one course. Don't think because you have your sheepskin that it isn't worth it to go back to college. Expand your mind, man!
Has open source like, ever campaigned to UI designers? I mean, seriously.
Imagine you're a graphics designer looking to go into UI design in a recession. What better way to fill out your portfolio than have stuff you can show to a future employer that's actually being used in the real world?
What's the worst that can happen by taking on a newbie? They colossally fuck up, well, that's why SVNs have the ability to revert.
When was the last time you bought a car that wasn't manufactured in the U.S.?
I seem to recall companies like Honda - companies that are not U.S. based, mind you - building factories in America because, well, cars are friggin' huge. It's expensive as hell to ship them across an entire fucking Ocean and then drive them cross-country. It's cheaper to pay good wages in America than to pay lesser wages in other countries and ship it out.
Yeah, yeah, there's still plenty of companies that import, but as stuff like Chrysler and whatnot collapse I'm sure that there will be foreign companies looking to snap up fully-functional plants so they can save on shipping. Remember, having a plant in the states gives you access to most of North America by land.
You mean like Canada? Because that's exactly the case in Canada. Critical care and primary care covered, quality of life equipment costs double. It's fine by me. I would love that situation.
Two things are of value monetarily. Time and Materials. Anyone would choose the cheaper route when making a decision to fix or replace.
I completely agree. And my original point of him being an idiot stands. Worst case scenario of "salt the earth and reformat" takes a grand total of 2, 2 1/2 hours. Unless he lives out in the burbs where you'll spend $50-150/hour for a tech, it still would have been far, far cheaper than buying even a netbook.
Well yeah, if you specifically drive out to cash that $3 check it's stupid. Just hold onto it and deposit it in your bank on your next planned trip.
They're trying to do too many damn things at once, that's the problem.
Nintendo tried something like what the PS3 is with the Game Cube in a very limited market. Or rather, they let Panasonic try. Panasonic came up with the Panasonic Q (released in Japan only).
It had such lovely features as:
And hey, it only cost five hundred bucks! It turned out that you could get a DVD Player and a Game Cube separately and it would wind up being cheaper than this behemoth.
I completely agree with you. They need to drop the base price by cutting unnecessary features. Most of the kids growing up didn't have the fun of memory cards! (128KB is enough game save space for anybody!)
You know nothing about gamers! We don't want fun, we want HD graphics and twitch-aiming dammit!
Yeah, and continuing to use Imperial also has a mile-long list of disadvantages, yet here we are.
In Newark, NJ, USA it's the same thing. We have your traditional tick off every second metered taxis, and we have something like you have over in Kiev.
Call up a cab, they show up in about 5 minutes. Moving? They'll bring a minivan for a little extra. Hell, the driver will help you load it up.
Anywhere within the city is (supposed) to be $10. Occasionally drivers try to rip off and call it at $12, $13, more. That's just a smaller tip they end up getting from me.
I imagine you couldn't take this trip in NYC for the same $19 it costs me.
I have advocated it in the past as well, but only when the piece of hardware is:
a) Really old
b) In terrible shape
c) Made by a terrible manufacturer
I greatly dislike the whole philosophy of replacing stuff unnecessarily. I was raised as one of those people who tries to fix something before going out and buying a new one.
Then again, I suppose spending money frivolously goes hand-in-hand with being an executive.
I'll give away my e-mail address when they invent a pill that cures OCD or the bar is lowered by everyone else steppin' up the crazy.
I'd rather pay double for eyeglasses and hearing aids than go bankrupt because I fell ill.
From that article you linked:
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15 - Add personal computers to the list of throwaways in the disposable society.
On a recent Sunday morning when Lew Tucker's Dell desktop computer was overrun by spyware and adware - stealth software that delivers intrusive advertising messages and even gathers data from the user's machine - he did not simply get rid of the offending programs. He threw out the whole computer.
Mr. Tucker, an Internet industry executive who holds a Ph.D. in computer science, decided that rather than take the time to remove the offending software, he would spend $400 on a new machine.
Mr. Tucker is a dumbass. There are plenty of people who could have completely cleared out that computer for under $100 in man hours.
Never before have alcohol and an Internet connection come together to make something this funny.