Keep playing them. You didn't really want to quit anyway right? Atleast you're not on the street beating people up for money because you have a $100 a day coke habit.
On the otherhand, if you actually want to try the great game of "life", it can be rewarding as well. Not to mention, when you level up and collect gold pieces in real life, you can buy mroe video games!
Exactly what I was thinking but you beat me to it by a wide margin. No thanks, I'll wait a couple more hours instead of having rats running around my face.
tell me this wouldn't be the coolest find ever. One day you're walking out in the wilderness and you find a spacecraft.
If they did actually abandon it out in the desert (which I find unbelievable, you think they would lock it up in a hanger or something), it's probably been completely gutted for the cool parts anyway.
that on the surface it would be nice if everyone picked one standard
-GUI -editor -filesystem
etc. etc. because it would make commercial adoption of linux much easier. In that case you would only have to know one or two apps for any given task. (Kind of like in the windows world.)
On the other hand, I like tweaking, playing around, trying new software. Do you really think most developers of GNU software care about commercial viability or user friendliness?
No - because the ywrote the software for themselves, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Radio stations have to play a certain percentage of "Canadian music" [...] even if it's Bryan Adams or Anne Murray
Or Alanis, Rush, I Mother Earth, The Guess Who, BTO, Stompin' Tom, Killjoys, Kittie, Barenaked Ladies or the thousands upon thousands of other Canadian artists out there, which people seem to love.
Yeah, actually I like alot of these bands too. However, why should a radio station HAVE to play them simply because of their nationality? Why can't you play any music you want?
Same thing for Television - better have that Canadian stuff, even if no one wants to watch it.
Yeah wouldn't want The Outter Limits, Traders, Andromeda, Cold Squad or Sliders on the air, that's for sure.
Again, same argument as the music, I love outer limits, but if I was network, I wouldn't want to HAVE to play just because someone in Ottawa thinks they know what's best for me.
Until the CRTC took their grimy mitts off long distance, we were still paying a fortune to use the phone.
Allowing long distance carrier competition was a Good Thing(tm). Agreed.
DSL service, not being touched yet, is commonly available nearly everywhere for $40-50.
Because of the CRTC the cost is $50 MAXIMUM, not in spite of it.
Actually, that's not entirely true for all of Canada, maybe in your area. In my area, it's been $70 dollars until about a month ago, when the cable modems dropped to $50 and the DSL provider had to remain competitive.
I just hate when someone thinks they know what I want, and then limits my choices based on that.
I'm not sure if BT is given monopoly by the government, or just happens to enjoy one.
Atleast in an unregulated enviroment, there's nothing stopping a DIFFERENT company from competing with BT, in an enforced monopoly, you're screwed.
When Sprint opened up against the monopoly government Telco in the province of Alberta. long distance rates dropped from robbery to so little the phone companies are still LOSING MONEY ON IT. This was in the span of like 6-8 months.
Free enterprise almost always benefits the consumer.
I'm a Canadian Telecom consumer, and I think the CRTC is overbearing to both corporations and consumers.
WHY?
1. Radio stations have to play a certain percentage of "Canadian music" in there rotation in their program or they get shutdown, even if it's Bryan Adams or Anne Murray. (apoligies to fans of either, but I hate them) I resent the idea that a business would have to mold their business model around government "approved" content which has nothing to do with profanity or common FCC issues.
2. Same thing for Television - better have that Canadian stuff, even if no one wants to watch it. Cable companies have to go the expense of providing "extra" channels/programming very few people want.
3. Until the CRTC took their grimy mitts off long distance, we were still paying a fortune to use the phone. In some areas, the CRTC WILL STILL NOT ALLOW COMPETITION. I'm living in such an area.
4. DSL service, not being touched yet, is commonly available nearly everywhere for $40-50. This is generally 1-2 mbit serice asymetrical. It's good service, NOT REGULATED BY GOVERNMENT.
Why can't the consumer, through market forces, decide what services will be offered?
I work for a medium size telco doing backbone work.
I can just imagine what a pain in the ass this will be to fix!
For those who are unfamiliar with SONET fiber technology:
You have to understand that for most companies, (until just recently), SONET is set up in a dual ring configuration. This is somewhat analogous to FDDI in a Lan. There are generally 4 fibers between offices, 2 per cable, (transmit and recieve). If you get backhoe fade on one cable, the signal gets transferred to the other cable's transmit and recieve. To set up a star type topography has traditionally been cost prohibitive, and is not done too often.
Although the internet is highly redundant on the IP level, most of continental and international traffic is jammed onto a few huge capacity strands of fiber to save money.
One cable cut in a long haul situation can quite possibly be disastorous in many areas of the world. I imagine Australia, being an island in the middle of nowhere, (internet wise), can't have too many redundant links.
I totally agree with you. I'm simply saying that since most people/companies don't truly appreciate what an engineer brings to a company, they GET BY with a tech.
Sounds like a joke but I'l lanswer anyway.
In Canada
Technician - 2 years college, very little theory, lots of practical
Technologist - 3 years college/some uni level courses, alot more theory, some practical. (Calculas for example)
Engineer - 4 years university, almost entirely theory.
because getting your electrical engineering degree is ALOT of work. You have to really love science and math to stay the course and finish.
With such a boom in the telecom and computer industry in the last few years, companies are accepting more and more technicians, and in Canada, technologists, (like myself) for traditionally "engineer required" jobs. I personally know a few very bright people working for Nortel and Alcatel doing R&D who are technologists.
Why take 4 years to learn all your math and physics when you can make nearly as much money being a tech?
Why hire an expensive engineer when you can get by with a tech?
BTW, I have the utmost respect for engineers, and plan to get my degree within the next couple of years. For now, I'm content being a 1/2 engineer.
Pine is my favourite - simple, nice interface, my first experience eith email as well. I also run it through DSL and my inbox is like 200 megs right now. gotta love it.
It's Microsoft! Why would anyone reading this site (presumably a reasonably intelligent person) use a microsoft product when they can get better service from any number of free mail servers? Let Microsoft do themselves in - we don't need to help them. *snicker* Just my thoughts.
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lol, if I only had mod points. I like the way you think!
(as pours himself another bushmills and fires up the computer for some all night gaming)
Keep playing them. You didn't really want to quit anyway right? Atleast you're not on the street beating people up for money because you have a $100 a day coke habit.
On the otherhand, if you actually want to try the great game of "life", it can be rewarding as well. Not to mention, when you level up and collect gold pieces in real life, you can buy mroe video games!
(currently addicted to civ)
Exactly what I was thinking but you beat me to it by a wide margin. No thanks, I'll wait a couple more hours instead of having rats running around my face.
Talk about making a lousy situation even worse.
oh, what a clever "AC" that would be! Funniest thing I've read all night. Thanks.
btw I have nothing against harleys, it's just a common joke amongst my friends that ride.
is it possible to get a harley that doesn't leak oil? I mean, I don't think you had to explain the "resealing the driveway" joke!
ah they are missing indeed. Got caught not checking out articles again!
tell me this wouldn't be the coolest find ever. One day you're walking out in the wilderness and you find a spacecraft.
If they did actually abandon it out in the desert (which I find unbelievable, you think they would lock it up in a hanger or something), it's probably been completely gutted for the cool parts anyway.
Did this thing actually get used at all?
that on the surface it would be nice if everyone picked one standard
-GUI
-editor
-filesystem
etc. etc. because it would make commercial adoption of linux much easier. In that case you would only have to know one or two apps for any given task. (Kind of like in the windows world.)
On the other hand, I like tweaking, playing around, trying new software. Do you really think most developers of GNU software care about commercial viability or user friendliness?
No - because the ywrote the software for themselves, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Actually, I really hate alot of new features on phones. If I have to dig 3 or 4 menus down for something - why bother?
My dream phone details would be:
1. About the size of a Nokia 3390. This is big enough to be usuable, but small enough so it doesn't feel like you're carrying a sidearm
2. Waterproof, and capable of withstanding a fall to concrete from atleast 6ft (most people's height) My clumsiness has ruined a few phones.
3. Absolutely secure RF communications. Link from handset to cell site should be encrypted.
4. Extra features would include a simple phone directory and email.
Too me, everything else is just overkill. If you want a toy, buy a wireless PDA.
Radio stations have to play a certain percentage of "Canadian music" [...] even if it's Bryan Adams or Anne Murray
Or Alanis, Rush, I Mother Earth, The Guess Who, BTO, Stompin' Tom, Killjoys, Kittie, Barenaked Ladies or the thousands upon thousands of other Canadian artists out there, which people seem to love.
Yeah, actually I like alot of these bands too. However, why should a radio station HAVE to play them simply because of their nationality? Why can't you play any music you want?
Same thing for Television - better have that Canadian stuff, even if no one wants to watch it.
Yeah wouldn't want The Outter Limits, Traders, Andromeda, Cold Squad or Sliders on the air, that's for sure.
Again, same argument as the music, I love outer limits, but if I was network, I wouldn't want to HAVE to play just because someone in Ottawa thinks they know what's best for me.
Until the CRTC took their grimy mitts off long distance, we were still paying a fortune to use the phone.
Allowing long distance carrier competition was a Good Thing(tm). Agreed.
DSL service, not being touched yet, is commonly available nearly everywhere for $40-50.
Because of the CRTC the cost is $50 MAXIMUM, not in spite of it.
Actually, that's not entirely true for all of Canada, maybe in your area. In my area, it's been $70 dollars until about a month ago, when the cable modems dropped to $50 and the DSL provider had to remain competitive.
I just hate when someone thinks they know what I want, and then limits my choices based on that.
I'm not sure if BT is given monopoly by the government, or just happens to enjoy one. Atleast in an unregulated enviroment, there's nothing stopping a DIFFERENT company from competing with BT, in an enforced monopoly, you're screwed. When Sprint opened up against the monopoly government Telco in the province of Alberta. long distance rates dropped from robbery to so little the phone companies are still LOSING MONEY ON IT. This was in the span of like 6-8 months. Free enterprise almost always benefits the consumer.
I'm a Canadian Telecom consumer, and I think the CRTC is overbearing to both corporations and consumers.
WHY?
1. Radio stations have to play a certain percentage of "Canadian music" in there rotation in their program or they get shutdown, even if it's Bryan Adams or Anne Murray. (apoligies to fans of either, but I hate them) I resent the idea that a business would have to mold their business model around government "approved" content which has nothing to do with profanity or common FCC issues.
2. Same thing for Television - better have that Canadian stuff, even if no one wants to watch it. Cable companies have to go the expense of providing "extra" channels/programming very few people want.
3. Until the CRTC took their grimy mitts off long distance, we were still paying a fortune to use the phone. In some areas, the CRTC WILL STILL NOT ALLOW COMPETITION. I'm living in such an area.
4. DSL service, not being touched yet, is commonly available nearly everywhere for $40-50. This is generally 1-2 mbit serice asymetrical. It's good service, NOT REGULATED BY GOVERNMENT.
Why can't the consumer, through market forces, decide what services will be offered?
To the CRTC, FUCK OFF!
I work for a medium size telco doing backbone work.
I can just imagine what a pain in the ass this will be to fix!
For those who are unfamiliar with SONET fiber technology:
You have to understand that for most companies, (until just recently), SONET is set up in a dual ring configuration. This is somewhat analogous to FDDI in a Lan. There are generally 4 fibers between offices, 2 per cable, (transmit and recieve). If you get backhoe fade on one cable, the signal gets transferred to the other cable's transmit and recieve. To set up a star type topography has traditionally been cost prohibitive, and is not done too often.
Although the internet is highly redundant on the IP level, most of continental and international traffic is jammed onto a few huge capacity strands of fiber to save money.
One cable cut in a long haul situation can quite possibly be disastorous in many areas of the world. I imagine Australia, being an island in the middle of nowhere, (internet wise), can't have too many redundant links.
Just a thought
I totally agree with you. I'm simply saying that since most people/companies don't truly appreciate what an engineer brings to a company, they GET BY with a tech.
Sounds like a joke but I'l lanswer anyway. In Canada Technician - 2 years college, very little theory, lots of practical Technologist - 3 years college/some uni level courses, alot more theory, some practical. (Calculas for example) Engineer - 4 years university, almost entirely theory.
because getting your electrical engineering degree is ALOT of work. You have to really love science and math to stay the course and finish.
With such a boom in the telecom and computer industry in the last few years, companies are accepting more and more technicians, and in Canada, technologists, (like myself) for traditionally "engineer required" jobs. I personally know a few very bright people working for Nortel and Alcatel doing R&D who are technologists.
Why take 4 years to learn all your math and physics when you can make nearly as much money being a tech?
Why hire an expensive engineer when you can get by with a tech?
BTW, I have the utmost respect for engineers, and plan to get my degree within the next couple of years. For now, I'm content being a 1/2 engineer.
Pine is my favourite - simple, nice interface, my first experience eith email as well. I also run it through DSL and my inbox is like 200 megs right now. gotta love it.
It's Microsoft! Why would anyone reading this site (presumably a reasonably intelligent person) use a microsoft product when they can get better service from any number of free mail servers? Let Microsoft do themselves in - we don't need to help them. *snicker* Just my thoughts.