You're welcome. HoL and Buttery Wholesomeness are some of my prized classic RPG books.
Good old HoL, where 'Smokin' the Pain Pipe' is a legitimate damage level description and each additional 'really' on a 'really really far' shot adds +1 to the difficulty.
"Fuzzteeth's player wants Fuzzteeth to tie his shoelaces. The HoLMeister requires a greymatta check. Fuzzteeth's player rolls snakeeyes. The HoLMeister rules that Fuzzteeth's head explodes."
They're trying to provoke thought along the lines of 'when our guys do it, they're freedom fighters. When their guys do it, they're terrorists.' Or thoughts of 'what price freedom?' Or 'One person's 'law and order' is another's 'fascist police state.' And so on.
Here's an example. Why wern't the Taliban 'terrorist religious extremeists' when the US of A was funding them against the USSR?
Yes, life will find a way. Look at us go! We're finding ways to nullify diseases that kill us all the time! That flu that gave you sniffles? Killed 19 million people less than a hundred years ago. Know anybody with Polio?
How can you not want to hire somebody who's so meticulous about detail and appearence that they write:
If you have been working all-night and have an early morning meeting, you can use an anti-inflammatory hemorrhoid cream (e.g. Preparation H) to quickly shrink those unsightly puffy bags under your eyes. Just carefully dab the roid cream on your lower eyelids (being careful not to get any in your eyes) and you will look fresh and well-rested.
The stated reason for not going with an integrated HD DVD, amoung others, is that at the time, no HD DVD drive had a read rate of anywhere near a standard DVD drive. Hence, it made more sense for them, especially having dropped the hard drive, to have a faster optical drive that could stream data in a more useful way.
Nah, probably more that store displays tend to be turned up to 'melt your eyes' torch mode, in terms of brightness, contrast, sharpen, and the like; all the better to stand out on a bright showroom floor.
Go to a specialty shop that has demo rooms set up with properly calibrated displays, and do your testing there. You might still decide you don't like it, or it's not worth it to you, which is fine, but at least you'll have given it a fair shake.
I, for one, would love to get rid of the massive collection of cables in my home theater. I, for one, would love being able to stop playing the 'do I have an open component/HDMI/optical/coax/whatever port' game. I, for one, would love to be able to buy a new piece of kit, plug it in, stick it on it's shelf, and pair it with the video display and audio receiver, bluetooth style, and that's IT. It just works at that point.
Oh, I'll fully agree that the mashing together of Btrieve and Scaleable SQL, well, didn't quite work out as well as they'd hoped. Pervasive.SQL, I don't dig. But Btrieve, as an embedded database engine, works quite well.
Of course, I hope that this guy didn't sign any NDA's. If he did, then
Well, that's the trick, isn't it?
I'd be surprised if his employment agreement DIDN'T include something about what he can and can't do in terms of the Media that don't involve CNN.
I'm not saying CNN is right, or that American employment standards do or don't need overhauling. I'm just saying that CNN firing a guy for having a blog isn't some sort of insidious tightening of the Secret Corporate Master's control over the poor brain-chipped lives of the downtrodden masses.
Much like the guy was free to quit because he disagreed with what charities Ted Turner decides to support, CNN was free to not continue paying the guy.
It's CNN's right to not continue his employment. I don't argue the validity of that; there's arguments for and against right to work, and there's arguments for and against right to hire.
In what way is CNN 'controlling' his life? Have they confiscated his personal property? Prevented him from associating with whom he chooses? Prevented him from doing anything?
No. They've simply made clear that they have the right to choose whom they employ.
Or are you saying that a job that requires a degree exercises an undue amount of 'control' over somebody's life? "Gee, I want to be a doctor, but HOW DARE THEY force me to go to school for eight years first!"
Were the format to be simple, be it "sanely" constructed CSV, XML, RTF, etc, I have more choices.
Word and Excel have supported CSV and RTF back into the DOS days, back into the 5.25" floppy days.
And are you honestly saying that an 8088 with 640K ram could handle XML? Assuming that the concept of interchangable markup langauges even EXISTED back then?
Jesus, it's like complaining that a 30 year old television doesn't support HDMI, therefore it's poorly designed.
And when I was trying to find a volume of Elfen Lied, it kept suggesting that maybe I meant Ellen! Damn, she gets a talk show, and now she thinks she owns the world!
If your Internet connection contains the words 'cable' or 'DSL' anywhere, you likely don't have a 'commercial grade' connection, even if you're paying more than residental rates.
'Commercial grade' in this context means a T1, T3, or other such connection. If you're paying for a T1, and you're not getting 1.544 mb/s, you've either signed something you shouldn't have, or you should be re-reading the 'penalties' part of your contract.
When you say 'obsolete' drive, are you talking about the built in DVD, which they chose for the data speeds (allowing, for example Devil May Cry 4 to be as fast to load as it is on the PS3, which has a *20+ minute install routine* or are you talking about the external and optional HD-DVD drive?
If HD-DVD truly is no longer being produced, we'll see an external Blu-Ray drive for the 360 before year's end. Knowing Microsoft, it's been ready for mass-production for at least a year.
That's the thing. Old codgers don't need to intimidate.
Bunch of old folks like to hang out at the village green. Kids realize that it's an ideal place to play frisbee. Old folks don't like this, so they get the local gov't to pass a bylaw; 'no frisbee on the village green.'
What's a poor adolescent to do?
Oh, and my own personal experience; it was always the guys in leather, chains, and menacing looks that were the most polite, well-spoken, helpful guys you'd ever find; the ones who'd take a heavy parcel, help load groceries, whatever, without needing to be asked. The clean-cut, 'normal' looking kids where where most of the assholes were drawn from.
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You're welcome. HoL and Buttery Wholesomeness are some of my prized classic RPG books.
Good old HoL, where 'Smokin' the Pain Pipe' is a legitimate damage level description and each additional 'really' on a 'really really far' shot adds +1 to the difficulty.
"Fuzzteeth's player wants Fuzzteeth to tie his shoelaces. The HoLMeister requires a greymatta check. Fuzzteeth's player rolls snakeeyes. The HoLMeister rules that Fuzzteeth's head explodes."
They're trying to provoke thought along the lines of 'when our guys do it, they're freedom fighters. When their guys do it, they're terrorists.' Or thoughts of 'what price freedom?' Or 'One person's 'law and order' is another's 'fascist police state.' And so on.
Here's an example. Why wern't the Taliban 'terrorist religious extremeists' when the US of A was funding them against the USSR?
Yes, life will find a way. Look at us go! We're finding ways to nullify diseases that kill us all the time! That flu that gave you sniffles? Killed 19 million people less than a hundred years ago. Know anybody with Polio?
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How can you not want to hire somebody who's so meticulous about detail and appearence that they write:
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I hereby create the official Prophet Mohammedicon.
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That is all.
The stated reason for not going with an integrated HD DVD, amoung others, is that at the time, no HD DVD drive had a read rate of anywhere near a standard DVD drive. Hence, it made more sense for them, especially having dropped the hard drive, to have a faster optical drive that could stream data in a more useful way.
Nah, probably more that store displays tend to be turned up to 'melt your eyes' torch mode, in terms of brightness, contrast, sharpen, and the like; all the better to stand out on a bright showroom floor.
Go to a specialty shop that has demo rooms set up with properly calibrated displays, and do your testing there. You might still decide you don't like it, or it's not worth it to you, which is fine, but at least you'll have given it a fair shake.
60 Ghz is attenuated by oxygen monocules.
I, for one, would love to get rid of the massive collection of cables in my home theater. I, for one, would love being able to stop playing the 'do I have an open component/HDMI/optical/coax/whatever port' game. I, for one, would love to be able to buy a new piece of kit, plug it in, stick it on it's shelf, and pair it with the video display and audio receiver, bluetooth style, and that's IT. It just works at that point.
Oh, I'll fully agree that the mashing together of Btrieve and Scaleable SQL, well, didn't quite work out as well as they'd hoped. Pervasive.SQL, I don't dig. But Btrieve, as an embedded database engine, works quite well.
Hey, don't knock Btrieve too badly. For what it was intended for, it was pretty good.
Well, that's the trick, isn't it?
I'd be surprised if his employment agreement DIDN'T include something about what he can and can't do in terms of the Media that don't involve CNN.
I'm not saying CNN is right, or that American employment standards do or don't need overhauling. I'm just saying that CNN firing a guy for having a blog isn't some sort of insidious tightening of the Secret Corporate Master's control over the poor brain-chipped lives of the downtrodden masses.
Much like the guy was free to quit because he disagreed with what charities Ted Turner decides to support, CNN was free to not continue paying the guy.
It's CNN's right to not continue his employment. I don't argue the validity of that; there's arguments for and against right to work, and there's arguments for and against right to hire.
In what way is CNN 'controlling' his life? Have they confiscated his personal property? Prevented him from associating with whom he chooses? Prevented him from doing anything?
No. They've simply made clear that they have the right to choose whom they employ.
Or are you saying that a job that requires a degree exercises an undue amount of 'control' over somebody's life? "Gee, I want to be a doctor, but HOW DARE THEY force me to go to school for eight years first!"
Word and Excel have supported CSV and RTF back into the DOS days, back into the 5.25" floppy days.
And are you honestly saying that an 8088 with 640K ram could handle XML? Assuming that the concept of interchangable markup langauges even EXISTED back then?
Jesus, it's like complaining that a 30 year old television doesn't support HDMI, therefore it's poorly designed.
No, he's just saying that it might be cheaper to buy a goodyear than to reinvent the wheel.
And when I was trying to find a volume of Elfen Lied, it kept suggesting that maybe I meant Ellen! Damn, she gets a talk show, and now she thinks she owns the world!
If your Internet connection contains the words 'cable' or 'DSL' anywhere, you likely don't have a 'commercial grade' connection, even if you're paying more than residental rates.
'Commercial grade' in this context means a T1, T3, or other such connection. If you're paying for a T1, and you're not getting 1.544 mb/s, you've either signed something you shouldn't have, or you should be re-reading the 'penalties' part of your contract.
Really? I haven't heard a single story about a 360 HD-DVD drive failing.
When you say 'obsolete' drive, are you talking about the built in DVD, which they chose for the data speeds (allowing, for example Devil May Cry 4 to be as fast to load as it is on the PS3, which has a *20+ minute install routine* or are you talking about the external and optional HD-DVD drive?
If HD-DVD truly is no longer being produced, we'll see an external Blu-Ray drive for the 360 before year's end. Knowing Microsoft, it's been ready for mass-production for at least a year.
Also, at the time, if not still, there wasn't a HD-DVD drive fast enough for Microsoft's purposes.
Don't the high-end printers/copiers freak out when they recognized that you're trying to print currency, anyway?
That's the thing. Old codgers don't need to intimidate.
Bunch of old folks like to hang out at the village green. Kids realize that it's an ideal place to play frisbee. Old folks don't like this, so they get the local gov't to pass a bylaw; 'no frisbee on the village green.'
What's a poor adolescent to do?
Oh, and my own personal experience; it was always the guys in leather, chains, and menacing looks that were the most polite, well-spoken, helpful guys you'd ever find; the ones who'd take a heavy parcel, help load groceries, whatever, without needing to be asked. The clean-cut, 'normal' looking kids where where most of the assholes were drawn from.