"Grrr." (pulls item out of shopping cart and dumps into bag)
"Thank you sir. Please scan next item or press done to continue." ----- Yes that's right. I stole an item. Not my fault the machine doesn't work right. It's the store's fault.
Reminds me of the common/. pro-piracy arguments wherein "they make it hard to be a legitimate customer" is offered as a part of the justification
(Not referring to the stealing shit on the high seas definition of piracy of course, and I don't wish to further enter into that discussion.)
For me self-checkouts are slower. Simply put: I don't move as fast as the full-time worker does. It takes me about 3 times longer.
Yes, in many fields, even if the average Joes are capable of doing the task, the relevant professionals can do it cheaper, better and/or faster. Thanks to the "or" part, it's a case-by-case judgment call.
For example, the bike-shop guys fix flat tires faster than I can, but I spend a few more minutes changing it myself so as to avoid labor charges. (More complicated stuff I do often have the shop take care of, BTW) For a converse example, we hired professional painters rather than try to handle the undertaking ourselves.
This (and the late-night jokes) are so true! The fact that there's more micromanaging to do late-game,l when things really start to get interesting, fuels the stay-up-late part
Reminds me of my play style in Civ II - I stay peaceful for most of the game, often only exploding into conflict in the modern era. Railroads help troop movements; this and some other things seem to make waiting be in the human player's favor.
Sometimes, the game really could use added features, sometimes they overload the players' game-management capabilities. Often, the sweet spot seems to be hit in the middle of the series.
the 2nd Sim City and 2nd Civilization were massive improvements over their already-intriguing predecessors; although they both could have stood some tweaks, not sure what more's needed.
This came up when talking about the game earlier...
The one unit per spot thing could prevent abuses/skews that came with huge piles of units in one place, make it more than "how many units could you place on the square"
Also, consider how railroads make it almost too easy to move invading troops around; I wonder what they did about that.
[I play II, so I'm not very knowledgeable in how these were addressed - or not - in III and IV]
(At RIT you can have long and involved conversations about the Civilization series...)
Starcraft 1 and Civilization 2 are both amazing games; though I'd love to see where the series headed, I like being able to keep a computer with older specs.
And thanks to this, shitty artists like Lady Gaga, Britney [Spears] and Justin Bieber make millions.
You insensitive clod, one of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong; Lady Gaga in particular has had better moments (although not all the time). I shall refrain from a YouTube link bombardment.
The core of my collection is straight-up classic rock, but I've got plenty of other stuff, albeit in varying quantities. Most everything short of super-hardcore punk and metal. (Led Zeppelin, my overall favorite, is towards the heavier end of what I listen to; for some people, it's on the lighter end.:P) Do have a fair amount of punk and metal that's good but not uber-extreme.
So, no different than other forms of media with regards to the attraction to celebrities. And celebs seem a lot like other people in some ways, including the fact that some suck and some don't.
The word *popular* exists for a reason, and anyway, there are all sorts of +1 interesting (or at least +1 funny) gems amongst smaller feeds.
In other words, "enough with the fail whale!". Indeed. Also, if you elect to have certain people's tweets sent through SMS to your phone, sometimes that doesn't work.
Was Tanenbaum the guy who used the station wagon full of tapes thing to illustrate bandwith vs. latency? Evidently yes; the Wiki page on 'sneakernet' does quote that. That term was the first thing I thought of.
Walking through the art building at RIT, I see a lot of what look like pretty shiny labs. Large format printers & scanners, all sorts of fancy graphics Well, it *is* RI*T*. That's a thing about college in general though - since you do undergrad only once, it's hard to compare your school to others
With torrent ratings, there may also be some confusion as to whether you're supposed to rate the artistic quality of the content or the technical quality of the torrent.
Not the film class I took - we often watched the movies over the span of two class sessions. Okay, we had long films (The Seven Samurai being the longest) and a 2hr session; conversely, I guess you had short films and a 3 or 4 hour session.
They could have watched enough of something to know they didn't like it, and giving a low rating. They could be channeling opinions from friends. With some botting thrown in for good measure?
Okay, I should have used 'I' rather than saying 'we'. And the relatively new argument, to me, was a particular nuclear bombing being less deadly than a particular conventional bombing.
I wouldn't kick the Mecca beehive either, but I can theoretically see the point in terrorizing particular terrorists. If someone else is playing dirty, it's awful tempting to play dirty in order to compete.
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Accountants would call this materiality, i.e. in this case a lack thereof.
"Grrr." (pulls item out of shopping cart and dumps into bag)
"Thank you sir. Please scan next item or press done to continue." ----- Yes that's right. I stole an item. Not my fault the machine doesn't work right. It's the store's fault.
Reminds me of the common /. pro-piracy arguments wherein "they make it hard to be a legitimate customer" is offered as a part of the justification
(Not referring to the stealing shit on the high seas definition of piracy of course, and I don't wish to further enter into that discussion.)
For me self-checkouts are slower. Simply put: I don't move as fast as the full-time worker does. It takes me about 3 times longer.
Yes, in many fields, even if the average Joes are capable of doing the task, the relevant professionals can do it cheaper, better and/or faster. Thanks to the "or" part, it's a case-by-case judgment call.
For example, the bike-shop guys fix flat tires faster than I can, but I spend a few more minutes changing it myself so as to avoid labor charges. (More complicated stuff I do often have the shop take care of, BTW)
For a converse example, we hired professional painters rather than try to handle the undertaking ourselves.
This (and the late-night jokes) are so true!
The fact that there's more micromanaging to do late-game,l when things really start to get interesting, fuels the stay-up-late part
Reminds me of my play style in Civ II - I stay peaceful for most of the game, often only exploding into conflict in the modern era. Railroads help troop movements; this and some other things seem to make waiting be in the human player's favor.
Sometimes, the game really could use added features, sometimes they overload the players' game-management capabilities. Often, the sweet spot seems to be hit in the middle of the series.
the 2nd Sim City and 2nd Civilization were massive improvements over their already-intriguing predecessors; although they both could have stood some tweaks, not sure what more's needed.
This came up when talking about the game earlier...
The one unit per spot thing could prevent abuses/skews that came with huge piles of units in one place, make it more than "how many units could you place on the square"
Also, consider how railroads make it almost too easy to move invading troops around; I wonder what they did about that.
[I play II, so I'm not very knowledgeable in how these were addressed - or not - in III and IV]
(At RIT you can have long and involved conversations about the Civilization series...)
Starcraft 1 and Civilization 2 are both amazing games; though I'd love to see where the series headed, I like being able to keep a computer with older specs.
And thanks to this, shitty artists like Lady Gaga, Britney [Spears] and Justin Bieber make millions.
You insensitive clod, one of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong; Lady Gaga in particular has had better moments (although not all the time). I shall refrain from a YouTube link bombardment.
What kind of music DO people here like?
The core of my collection is straight-up classic rock, but I've got plenty of other stuff, albeit in varying quantities. :P) Do have a fair amount of punk and metal that's good but not uber-extreme.
Most everything short of super-hardcore punk and metal. (Led Zeppelin, my overall favorite, is towards the heavier end of what I listen to; for some people, it's on the lighter end.
Bieber's squarely in that category, but the audiences of the other two are somewhat older, although hardly middle-aged. [AFAIK]
David Bowie, "Five Years". :)
To be fair, that does seme to be one of his deep cuts.
I myself had never heard it before now.
So, no different than other forms of media with regards to the attraction to celebrities.
And celebs seem a lot like other people in some ways, including the fact that some suck and some don't.
The word *popular* exists for a reason, and anyway, there are all sorts of +1 interesting (or at least +1 funny) gems amongst smaller feeds.
In other words, "enough with the fail whale!". Indeed.
Also, if you elect to have certain people's tweets sent through SMS to your phone, sometimes that doesn't work.
+1 funny if I had mod points right now. :)
Love how people in this subthread are carrying out a serious discussion of the topic.
Was Tanenbaum the guy who used the station wagon full of tapes thing to illustrate bandwith vs. latency?
Evidently yes; the Wiki page on 'sneakernet' does quote that. That term was the first thing I thought of.
Walking through the art building at RIT, I see a lot of what look like pretty shiny labs. Large format printers & scanners, all sorts of fancy graphics
Well, it *is* RI*T*.
That's a thing about college in general though - since you do undergrad only once, it's hard to compare your school to others
With torrent ratings, there may also be some confusion as to whether you're supposed to rate the artistic quality of the content or the technical quality of the torrent.
Not the film class I took - we often watched the movies over the span of two class sessions.
Okay, we had long films (The Seven Samurai being the longest) and a 2hr session; conversely, I guess you had short films and a 3 or 4 hour session.
They could have watched enough of something to know they didn't like it, and giving a low rating.
They could be channeling opinions from friends.
With some botting thrown in for good measure?
Okay, I should have used 'I' rather than saying 'we'. And the relatively new argument, to me, was a particular nuclear bombing being less deadly than a particular conventional bombing.
easy, find 71 other engineers...okay, I assume you meant *female* virgins.
the Art students could be talking about design aesthetics atleast.
Society (including terrorist society) needs Alphas *and* Epsilons in order to function for its intended purpose.
I wouldn't kick the Mecca beehive either, but I can theoretically see the point in terrorizing particular terrorists. If someone else is playing dirty, it's awful tempting to play dirty in order to compete.