I just paid for that ()&%$ game, and I have to agree also, I really miss dodge jumping. I haven't played '04 in 2 years, and damn it, I still automatically try and do it!
One thing I have to say though, WOW. That is one of the most beautiful games I have ever played EVER. It's really amazing to watch. Even my wife thought it was pretty cool, and she HATES 3d games.
if you pirated from me they would all be 198-320 bit VBR based on when they were encoded. Sounds damn good if ya ask me but I also use a mystacal "crystalizor" to enhance my auditory satisfaction, and then I plumb that satisfaction into...
Except this isn't a perfect laser, and while green lasers are powerfull, they are still made w/ diodes. The pinpoint at 500 feet is not the same as at 10 feet. and we are all forgetting Pythagoras!
If the heli was only 500' up, and the people where 1/4 mile out 1 mi is 5280ft dived that by 4, or 1320 feet than the hypotenuse must be
500^2 + 1320^2 = C^2
250000 + 1742400 = c^2 c^2 = 1992400 c= sqrt of 1992400 C= 1412' so it's about 100 ft more! and if we get really crazy kids, since this is a right triangle and we know all sides, we can even find the damn angle they were at!
Do you know what the big dogs do to the little guys when things don't go their way? I'll give you two words you might have learned Hostile Takeover It's pretty exciting to watch one, as I was an observer to one a long time ago.
In the end you have the same problem that ma and pa shops have against dell. I'll try and be brief here. You see dell buys large quantities of components. VERY LARGE QUANTITIES. So the vendor says Look if you by x we'll give you y% discount.
Ma and pa shops can't afford to keep inventory on the shelf, so they either buy drop shipped or small quantities of components. w/o a discount (but still at wholesale prices... to be fair)
Dell has the resources to streamline manufacturing. Ma and pa have to make lil jimmy come home from school and screw in standoffs and motherboards for 2 hours before he does homework, but after sports.
To pay the bills, ma and pa need to sell maybe 100 computers a month Dell needs to sell a lot more, but they have a HUGE distribution chain, Advertising budget, and multiple locations.
Ma and Pa have a great history w/ clients and word of mouth advertising but that only takes you so far (usually within a small region think City) Worse, Dell has their market region firmly penetrated.
In my own expierience, I can't compete with dell until I build a machine whose component cost is > $2K, and even then I don't profit much/hr of work. On a 2K machine, I can make maybe $70... but that's on like 7 hours of work. Just not worth it. I only build for the most hardcore gamers who want to save money and get a better quality product. And I haven't built a machine for a non family / friend in over 3 years now. I just tell them to go to www.dell.com/outlet I sure as hell can't compete w/ that at almost any price level.
Lol... I thought that scene was a little long myself...
Here is my take. Each person in the fellowship has their own ending... Bilbo and the big G sail away, The boys go back to the shire, Aarogon and Liv tyler get married. It's like they almost got the ending right, but then it suddenly fizzled when Peter went "shit no matter how I cut this thing it's still 4 hrs long"
Again, I loved the movies I hope to have the extended release under the tree. It's just that I expected the ending of ROTK to be like the ending of a good climax in real life (or not so real for some/. readers) You Climax, you cuddle for a while, then you go to sleep.
I got jipped on the cuddling! Now I know why women want to cuddle after sex! It totally completes the experience.
I had this prof once who gave us a wide open linux box to do whatever we wanted with. All I used it for was telnet, because Telnet was blocked off every single machine... except his.
I used to play S.O.C. a long time ago, and found a telnet server shortly before that semester. I was totally miffed that I couldn't get into it from school, and thus doubly excited when we got the O.K. from mitch to play in the box.
It was a decent box for the time. All I remember from that clas was to man handle a command I didn't know and VI... but it was 2 eternities ago.
I am pretty sure that the TOS says that they can stop offering their services for free at anytime. This is not a risk I would take with company data. Despite the fact that google may not be evil, they may not be wholly richeous either.
Besides, imagine that now you have been summoned, and have to produce all those documents, are you going to log into google and click download for each one?
Everyone can be sued, most will be at some time in their life. Hell, even I am in the middle of arbitration at the moment, but it is a minor personal matter. I digress...
If a small business have to maintain records for everything, each transaction, who made it, etc... and have it backed up regularly, it will cut into productive time. A business of 3 people loosing a 1 man hour a week IS SUBSTANTIAL. that's 4 hrs / month and 48 hrs a year on top of an allready slim margin. Think of a local store. If they don't go into the black until black friday, now push that back another 4 days or so... massive proffit loss.
I understand the legal needs for this. But I think it's silly for the government to say do this, but not offer a "how to" for small business.
Yeah I read the books about 5 years before the movies... then I read them again before I went to see them. I have to say, I was mildly disappointed in the ending of ROTK. The whole point of the book was driven home in the ending, where the two little hobbits go back and rise up against their oppressors.
I haven't seen the "extended" versions. Is this scene there at all?
I have not read the law and don't know who it pertains to, but if it did pertain to all business large and small, then yes, it is an excessive burden. Having a document repository doesn't just mean a spare hardrive. You have to have security measures (pretty extreme ones if it were my company) in order to maintain a constantly updated archive that doesn't give away your business secrets to the outside world. Especially if your growing, and moreso if your doing any kind of computer related work.
Some small companies don't profit the owner enough to worry about this when they have mouths to feed.
'98 just makes me feel funny. It's like watching four well dressed people cram into a volkswagon bug (new or old) Yeah, they get where they are going o.k., they can tolerate it just fine for short trips, but it is just not right when your traveling across the country!
My dad had this thing w/ Windows ME. He thought it was great. I gave him a few er uhm fully liscensed versions of XP to use, but he insisted on installing ME on my neices computer. (this was just last year)
To each his own I guess... If he wants to support it, that's his deal.
As for me...
When XP first came out, I was a resistor. People tend to adopt any given change in one of four ways, distributed over a bell curve. Starting with the Jump in the fire early adopters, next comes those who research what the early adopters say and pick it up then, those who wait and see that the change is stable, will have longevity and stick around, and those who absolutely won't change unless forced to.
When it comes to the Home User OSs, I fall right smack between the second and third group. When it comes to hardware I am (depending on my $$ flow) in the first or second group, as early as cash and need allow.
The day I fire up XP "Vista Edition" will be a cold cold day in a very hot place!
I believe I ended up talking my parents into spending $130 for the OS, and now it sits on the shelf. I'd give it another go, but ATI of course doesn't support Windows 98 anymore. nor does most of the free world these days.
I understand the desire to continue to use legacy apps, and OS's. But I don't understand why you would dual boot xp & 98. I get that you need a '98 to install the upgrade version of XP, but you don't need to install 98 every time!
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I do tech work for real $. at 75$/hr how long do you want me to try and fix a computer before I sing "ctrl-alt-delete format re-install do dahh do dahh" to camptown races?
I bet it wouldn't be that long. I bet even further that if I charged 1/2 as much but came to the same $ figure that shy'd you away from continuing on before that you'd kiss your data goodbye with a smile.
Now, also understand that when I set out to fix a computer, I know if it'll take me more than a few hours within the first 1/2 hr (usually far less).
But if it's something like a massive spyware infection, most clients can't afford to have me fix it "by the hour" and I can't afford to work for free.
O.K. so I set the scenario for one guy.
Now imagine a big company like Hell, er opps, Dell. They have pretty good customer service compared to most other manufacturers but still have a "format & re-install" mentality for most issues. Could you imagine how much it would cost them to support their entire userbase with a "format as last option only" policy? I couldn't even begin to think about how the logistics of that would work over the phone.
On the other hand, when they hear something like, "The jack wiggles when I plug in my speakers, and I don't get sound" they send out a new card, and a tech to install it right away.
Also most major business' have this thing called a "network drive" that you are supposed to save your work to. If you don't save your work to the network drive that is provided, you might as well imagine it not being on your computer right now. They do this because a re-image while still being a "we'd rather not" policy, is a great way to fix many (usually user caused) issues. It's fast, reliable, and they can swap out images giving you little or no down time.
I am not a PHB, and I don't do much Tech work these days, but I often hear this sentiment from the "know it all, or whiz kid" types and I have to say once you explain the economy of it, most people understand.
How much is your data worth? Back it up now (this is going to be my new sig!)
Yeah, I was granted supernet rights some time ago. We use websense, which is adaptive and horrible, but for somereason, I can still get to myspace, images.google,picasa, all outside email/ISPs, etc. Where as most people have trouble seeing anything outside the intranet.
Draconian web policies suck, but it doesn't affect me at all. If it might, I'll just use that spare computer in the garage to proxy.
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I just paid for that ()&%$ game, and I have to agree also, I really miss dodge jumping. I haven't played '04 in 2 years, and damn it, I still automatically try and do it!
One thing I have to say though, WOW. That is one of the most beautiful games I have ever played EVER. It's really amazing to watch. Even my wife thought it was pretty cool, and she HATES 3d games.
if you pirated from me they would all be 198-320 bit VBR based on when they were encoded. Sounds damn good if ya ask me but I also use a mystacal "crystalizor" to enhance my auditory satisfaction, and then I plumb that satisfaction into ...
Sorry I really like my mp3s!
Except that it does. I love that music, and actually burned a disc of it for myself!
Of course, I still listen to the K.I. soundtrack, so take it for what you will...
yes but did the pointer remeber to check his optics?
I agree w/ your second paragraph, but your first one is flawed, and common.
You see, when people talk about $1/watt with solar they are talking about a system for MAKING energy, not that single watt.
Except this isn't a perfect laser, and while green lasers are powerfull, they are still made w/ diodes. The pinpoint at 500 feet is not the same as at 10 feet. and we are all forgetting Pythagoras!
If the heli was only 500' up,
and the people where 1/4 mile out 1 mi is 5280ft dived that by 4, or 1320 feet than the hypotenuse must be
500^2 + 1320^2 = C^2
250000 + 1742400 = c^2
c^2 = 1992400
c= sqrt of 1992400
C= 1412' so it's about 100 ft more! and if we get really crazy kids, since this is a right triangle and we know all sides, we can even find the damn angle they were at!
Do you know what the big dogs do to the little guys when things don't go their way?
/hr of work. On a 2K machine, I can make maybe $70... but that's on like 7 hours of work. Just not worth it. I only build for the most hardcore gamers who want to save money and get a better quality product. And I haven't built a machine for a non family / friend in over 3 years now. I just tell them to go to www.dell.com/outlet I sure as hell can't compete w/ that at almost any price level.
I'll give you two words you might have learned
Hostile Takeover
It's pretty exciting to watch one, as I was an observer to one a long time ago.
In the end you have the same problem that ma and pa shops have against dell. I'll try and be brief here. You see dell buys large quantities of components. VERY LARGE QUANTITIES. So the vendor says Look if you by x we'll give you y% discount.
Ma and pa shops can't afford to keep inventory on the shelf, so they either buy drop shipped or small quantities of components. w/o a discount (but still at wholesale prices... to be fair)
Dell has the resources to streamline manufacturing. Ma and pa have to make lil jimmy come home from school and screw in standoffs and motherboards for 2 hours before he does homework, but after sports.
To pay the bills, ma and pa need to sell maybe 100 computers a month
Dell needs to sell a lot more, but they have a HUGE distribution chain, Advertising budget, and multiple locations.
Ma and Pa have a great history w/ clients and word of mouth advertising but that only takes you so far (usually within a small region think City) Worse, Dell has their market region firmly penetrated.
In my own expierience, I can't compete with dell until I build a machine whose component cost is > $2K, and even then I don't profit much
You can't determine a pattern w/ two points. That only makes a line!
/ Agree.
Lol... I thought that scene was a little long myself...
/. readers) You Climax, you cuddle for a while, then you go to sleep.
Here is my take. Each person in the fellowship has their own ending... Bilbo and the big G sail away, The boys go back to the shire, Aarogon and Liv tyler get married. It's like they almost got the ending right, but then it suddenly fizzled when Peter went "shit no matter how I cut this thing it's still 4 hrs long"
Again, I loved the movies I hope to have the extended release under the tree. It's just that I expected the ending of ROTK to be like the ending of a good climax in real life (or not so real for some
I got jipped on the cuddling! Now I know why women want to cuddle after sex! It totally completes the experience.
Mitch is that you?
I had this prof once who gave us a wide open linux box to do whatever we wanted with. All I used it for was telnet, because Telnet was blocked off every single machine... except his.
I used to play S.O.C. a long time ago, and found a telnet server shortly before that semester. I was totally miffed that I couldn't get into it from school, and thus doubly excited when we got the O.K. from mitch to play in the box.
It was a decent box for the time. All I remember from that clas was to man handle a command I didn't know and VI... but it was 2 eternities ago.
I swear I was on in '99. My UID is 6 digits... It had to be 98...
Hello TOS?
I am pretty sure that the TOS says that they can stop offering their services for free at anytime. This is not a risk I would take with company data. Despite the fact that google may not be evil, they may not be wholly richeous either.
Besides, imagine that now you have been summoned, and have to produce all those documents, are you going to log into google and click download for each one?
That is my point!
Everyone can be sued, most will be at some time in their life. Hell, even I am in the middle of arbitration at the moment, but it is a minor personal matter. I digress...
If a small business have to maintain records for everything, each transaction, who made it, etc... and have it backed up regularly, it will cut into productive time. A business of 3 people loosing a 1 man hour a week IS SUBSTANTIAL. that's 4 hrs / month and 48 hrs a year on top of an allready slim margin. Think of a local store. If they don't go into the black until black friday, now push that back another 4 days or so... massive proffit loss.
I understand the legal needs for this. But I think it's silly for the government to say do this, but not offer a "how to" for small business.
True dat... whoops sliped into gangsta geek...
Yeah I read the books about 5 years before the movies... then I read them again before I went to see them. I have to say, I was mildly disappointed in the ending of ROTK. The whole point of the book was driven home in the ending, where the two little hobbits go back and rise up against their oppressors.
I haven't seen the "extended" versions. Is this scene there at all?
I have not read the law and don't know who it pertains to, but if it did pertain to all business large and small, then yes, it is an excessive burden. Having a document repository doesn't just mean a spare hardrive. You have to have security measures (pretty extreme ones if it were my company) in order to maintain a constantly updated archive that doesn't give away your business secrets to the outside world. Especially if your growing, and moreso if your doing any kind of computer related work.
Some small companies don't profit the owner enough to worry about this when they have mouths to feed.
Ahh, o.k. That makes sense now.
What kind of games were you playing?
'98 just makes me feel funny. It's like watching four well dressed people cram into a volkswagon bug (new or old) Yeah, they get where they are going o.k., they can tolerate it just fine for short trips, but it is just not right when your traveling across the country!
My dad had this thing w/ Windows ME. He thought it was great. I gave him a few er uhm fully liscensed versions of XP to use, but he insisted on installing ME on my neices computer. (this was just last year)
To each his own I guess... If he wants to support it, that's his deal.
As for me...
When XP first came out, I was a resistor. People tend to adopt any given change in one of four ways, distributed over a bell curve. Starting with the Jump in the fire early adopters, next comes those who research what the early adopters say and pick it up then, those who wait and see that the change is stable, will have longevity and stick around, and those who absolutely won't change unless forced to.
When it comes to the Home User OSs, I fall right smack between the second and third group. When it comes to hardware I am (depending on my $$ flow) in the first or second group, as early as cash and need allow.
The day I fire up XP "Vista Edition" will be a cold cold day in a very hot place!
I understand the desire to continue to use legacy apps, and OS's. But I don't understand why you would dual boot xp & 98. I get that you need a '98 to install the upgrade version of XP, but you don't need to install 98 every time!
That's why I can type all this and then hit
And then I get this message!
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I guarantee I'll see every # and recite them two at a time starting from the middle of the set!
Just so you understand from their side.
I do tech work for real $. at 75$/hr how long do you want me to try and fix a computer before I sing "ctrl-alt-delete format re-install do dahh do dahh" to camptown races?
I bet it wouldn't be that long. I bet even further that if I charged 1/2 as much but came to the same $ figure that shy'd you away from continuing on before that you'd kiss your data goodbye with a smile.
Now, also understand that when I set out to fix a computer, I know if it'll take me more than a few hours within the first 1/2 hr (usually far less).
But if it's something like a massive spyware infection, most clients can't afford to have me fix it "by the hour" and I can't afford to work for free.
O.K. so I set the scenario for one guy.
Now imagine a big company like Hell, er opps, Dell. They have pretty good customer service compared to most other manufacturers but still have a "format & re-install" mentality for most issues. Could you imagine how much it would cost them to support their entire userbase with a "format as last option only" policy? I couldn't even begin to think about how the logistics of that would work over the phone.
On the other hand, when they hear something like, "The jack wiggles when I plug in my speakers, and I don't get sound" they send out a new card, and a tech to install it right away.
Also most major business' have this thing called a "network drive" that you are supposed to save your work to. If you don't save your work to the network drive that is provided, you might as well imagine it not being on your computer right now. They do this because a re-image while still being a "we'd rather not" policy, is a great way to fix many (usually user caused) issues. It's fast, reliable, and they can swap out images giving you little or no down time.
I am not a PHB, and I don't do much Tech work these days, but I often hear this sentiment from the "know it all, or whiz kid" types and I have to say once you explain the economy of it, most people understand.
How much is your data worth? Back it up now (this is going to be my new sig!)
Yeah, I was granted supernet rights some time ago. We use websense, which is adaptive and horrible, but for somereason, I can still get to myspace, images.google,picasa, all outside email/ISPs, etc. Where as most people have trouble seeing anything outside the intranet.
Draconian web policies suck, but it doesn't affect me at all. If it might, I'll just use that spare computer in the garage to proxy.
I have not bought a new CD since then.
Sue me. I have made perfect recordings of stuff I want. I just plug a "microphone" into my computers sound output, and record off of the websites.
Just like recordings off of a radio! Better yet, they were streamed to me w/o me asking for them!
RealTime FTW!
yeah, yeah, I know.. I guess I meant, why do people troll?