I used to work at a grocery store that had calculators on every cart. Guess what? They were removed because people weren't spending enough!
Excellent point. This sort of thing appears ONLY because the retailer believes it will make them more money, by making you spend more. It is NOT for your convenience, and will disappear or be modified the instant it becomes apparent that people are using it to *reduce or control* their spending.
Between a dollar store calculator and a paper and pencil, one has all the technology one needs to go to the grocery store.
The only way to manage that is to do things at the absolute bare minimum that you can. And for low income folks that means shopping at Wal-Mart. They're not consciously enabling Walmart to keep them down, they're trying to stay alive.
That's what's so disgusting about the situation. The poor are invariably forced to fuck themselves over in the long term, just to eat in the short term. And people wonder why there are Communists older than 20...
(But I do get what you're saying. I suspect you're thinking, as I was, "it's easy for the broadband-affording Slashdot elite to implicitly *criticize* poor people's lack of insight from the comfort of their $300 task chairs.)
It's sad that the incredibly *clueless* parent post is modded +5 and yours is not... since you are probably correct and his knowledge of biology could apparently fit on a postage stamp.
At least when you're playing Madden NFL 2004 you know your dad won't yell obscenities at the other team, shit on the ref's car hood after the game, or beat you for not "giving it 110%". There's no chance of your coach molesting you, or of losing your first adult teeth to a cleat in the face. And the other players won't stick pine cones up your butt when you join the team.
Imagine the classical composers having been forbidden to "borrow" each others themes and ideas, or painters to get sewed when joining a new style such as impressionism.
"Mr. Manet, the court finds you guilty of illegally using Mr. Whistler's intellectual property. You are hereby sentenced to... the needle!"
I know it's a joke, but you're not all wrong here. Once a musical performance ceased to be an event, and instead became a product you could sell in a store like hats or bananas, everything changed.
I'm sure the sheet music industry had its share of one-sided contracts, and charlatanry (it certainly had IP infringements galore), but it can't have been anything like how the recording industry turned out... because if it had, the Sheet Music Association of America would have sued Edison into penury the instant they heard of his invention.
Just wondering, they're the only ones I know of who are so virulently anti-psychology.
Weed out this insidious cult, Americans! The organized movements of Pscyhology which have your government in their grips are Working Against The American Public.
You've got it backwards. The manipulation of minds is just a tool to them, the people in power who seek to stay in power. Politicians have been messing with people's heads since before anyone ever heard of "psychology".
The movie was so-so, so it was easier for the tv show to be better.
While the TV show is better, it did have a lot more time to explore characters and themes than the original feature film. "Stargate" is definitely not a Great Movie, but it's visually innovative, has decent enough writing and no cringey eye-rolling moments (though I'd edit out a few of the scenes with Kurt Russell and the kids, just to keep it well on the safe side of the cheese threshold). I've watched it several times and it's still *fun*.
If someone doesn't have the money for a nice computer with a legit copy of WinXP Pro and all the other goodies
Hell, I can't afford a copy of WinXP Pro. I have the XP Home that came OEM with my new machine. But I could afford to set up a network if I wanted. Cost of one: $400 CDN, cost of the other: $60 for a router and $40 for cables.
My brother is the only one in my family who'd ever find my porn. And I trust him not to tell anyone else but rather view it as a sort of... inheritance.
Because golf clubs will occasionally get you out of the basement? Seriously, I game too (I plan on spending the evening honoring up in America's Army), it's fun, but all this obsessive fascination with framerates well above the human visual threshold, and debating different benchmarks, and getting the latest new thing reminds me of... "ricers". And I KNOW you all are smarter than that. Gamers shit turds that are smarter than your average ricer.
If "prince point" and getting a good value is your main concern, why wouldn't you at least invest 30 minutes of your time to do some research before handing $50-$150 bucks to get whatever has the prettiest box or slaps "256mb" on the front? Whether a card has 128 or 256MB of memory makes much less difference than most people realize, and there's plenty of bargain cards that give great performance, you just have to know in advance what to look for.
I should clarify... While I couldn't offhand remember which card I have, I did check it out before buying it. It's an ASUS GeForce FX 5600 (I'm at home now), and while I didn't read any reviews of it before getting it, I've never had a bad product from them (ASUS) before. As it turns out, it works wonderfully, despite my lack of specific research. What kind of framerates do I get? I have no idea. I just know that when running UT2004 with all the eye candy turned on, the video is flawless. I guess I'm just not a true nerd.
Instead the newer cards are just bumped to a higher price and the original $200 sticker is now labeled 'Affordable.'
Can you blame them, with the idiot amount of money people seem to be willing to spend to out-FPS the Joneses next door? Weasely marketers will spring at any opportunity to exploit people's vanity, greed and poor judgment.
I didn't even try to figure out what the best card was. I knew I couldn't afford a top of the line card on my new pc, so I just said "How much extra for a 256 MB card instead of 128?". I don't even remember what card I have... I just know it was retail-boxed, runs AA and UT2004 really well, and didn't add $200 CDN to the system cost.
I suspect a *lot* of people are less concerned about "ultra-high performance" and more concerned with "price point". After all, it's the real world that matters most, and who can stop buying groceries for a month just to increase their framerate by 50%?
(Those cheap games don't suck either, but don't delve TOO far back or the bugs come back too...)
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When you're running Windows XP and it seems to think the average user needs to turn on every conceivable service at boot time.
It makes me crazy that computers don't boot any faster than they ever did. In fact, I think my 3.2 GHz may boot *slower* than my old P1... with a bare bones system tray and startup folder too (and no spyware).
You could sue them. That'd be legal recourse. And after you sell your house to pay the lawyer, you can come crash on my couch. We can hang out here and download some good movies.
Glyphosate would not inhibit Photosystem I. It is an inhibitor of 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase. This enzyme is essential for plant cells to produce aromatic compounds including aromatic amino acids.
Sorensen FW, Gregersen M. Rapid lethal intoxication caused by the herbicide glyphosate-trimesium (Touchdown) Hum Exp Toxicol. 1999 Dec;18(12):735-7.
Two cases of rapid lethal intoxication with the herbicide glyphosate-trimesium (Touchdown) are presented. A 6-year-old boy who accidentally ingested a mouthful of glyphosate-trimesium died within minutes. The same happened to a 34-year-old woman who intentionally ingested approximately 150 ml of glyphosate-trimesium. The post-mortem examination revealed gastric content and oedema of the mucus membranes of the airways, erosion of the mucus membranes of the gastrointestinal tract, pulmonary oedema, cerebral oedema, and dilated right atrium and ventricle of the heart. The speed of which death occurs is much more rapid than lethal intoxications with the herbicide glyphosate (isoprophylamine), also known as 'Roundup'. It is suggested that the lethal mechanism between the two herbicides may be different. The component, trimethylsulfonium, of the glyphosate-trimesium may facilitate the absorption after oral ingestion. This difference can be crucial in the treatment of human intoxication. We propose that containers with glyphosate-trimesium must be labelled because of the apparent effect of lethal intoxication.
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I used to work at a grocery store that had calculators on every cart. Guess what? They were removed because people weren't spending enough!
Excellent point. This sort of thing appears ONLY because the retailer believes it will make them more money, by making you spend more. It is NOT for your convenience, and will disappear or be modified the instant it becomes apparent that people are using it to *reduce or control* their spending.
Between a dollar store calculator and a paper and pencil, one has all the technology one needs to go to the grocery store.
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The only way to manage that is to do things at the absolute bare minimum that you can. And for low income folks that means shopping at Wal-Mart. They're not consciously enabling Walmart to keep them down, they're trying to stay alive.
That's what's so disgusting about the situation. The poor are invariably forced to fuck themselves over in the long term, just to eat in the short term. And people wonder why there are Communists older than 20...
(But I do get what you're saying. I suspect you're thinking, as I was, "it's easy for the broadband-affording Slashdot elite to implicitly *criticize* poor people's lack of insight from the comfort of their $300 task chairs.)
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It's sad that the incredibly *clueless* parent post is modded +5 and yours is not... since you are probably correct and his knowledge of biology could apparently fit on a postage stamp.
An addiction is when your "addiction" creates negative consequences in daily life.
No, silly, an "addiction" is when you spend more time/effort/money than others think you should, doing something they don't approve of.
At least when you're playing Madden NFL 2004 you know your dad won't yell obscenities at the other team, shit on the ref's car hood after the game, or beat you for not "giving it 110%". There's no chance of your coach molesting you, or of losing your first adult teeth to a cleat in the face. And the other players won't stick pine cones up your butt when you join the team.
Imagine the classical composers having been forbidden to "borrow" each others themes and ideas, or painters to get sewed when joining a new style such as impressionism.
"Mr. Manet, the court finds you guilty of illegally using Mr. Whistler's intellectual property. You are hereby sentenced to... the needle!"
"No! Not the needle! I am just an artiste!"
I know it's a joke, but you're not all wrong here. Once a musical performance ceased to be an event, and instead became a product you could sell in a store like hats or bananas, everything changed.
I'm sure the sheet music industry had its share of one-sided contracts, and charlatanry (it certainly had IP infringements galore), but it can't have been anything like how the recording industry turned out... because if it had, the Sheet Music Association of America would have sued Edison into penury the instant they heard of his invention.
Just wondering, they're the only ones I know of who are so virulently anti-psychology.
Weed out this insidious cult, Americans! The organized movements of Pscyhology which have your government in their grips are Working Against The American Public.
You've got it backwards. The manipulation of minds is just a tool to them, the people in power who seek to stay in power. Politicians have been messing with people's heads since before anyone ever heard of "psychology".
The movie was so-so, so it was easier for the tv show to be better.
While the TV show is better, it did have a lot more time to explore characters and themes than the original feature film. "Stargate" is definitely not a Great Movie, but it's visually innovative, has decent enough writing and no cringey eye-rolling moments (though I'd edit out a few of the scenes with Kurt Russell and the kids, just to keep it well on the safe side of the cheese threshold). I've watched it several times and it's still *fun*.
If someone doesn't have the money for a nice computer with a legit copy of WinXP Pro and all the other goodies
Hell, I can't afford a copy of WinXP Pro. I have the XP Home that came OEM with my new machine. But I could afford to set up a network if I wanted. Cost of one: $400 CDN, cost of the other: $60 for a router and $40 for cables.
My brother is the only one in my family who'd ever find my porn. And I trust him not to tell anyone else but rather view it as a sort of... inheritance.
Rats are notoriously unreliable.
Sounds reliable to me. Your friend is just a slow learner. Besides, they're not training them to find rabbits.
Luke just said that Chewbacca is a monkey, not a Wookie. That makes it cannon!
Or "canon", even.
Because golf clubs will occasionally get you out of the basement? Seriously, I game too (I plan on spending the evening honoring up in America's Army), it's fun, but all this obsessive fascination with framerates well above the human visual threshold, and debating different benchmarks, and getting the latest new thing reminds me of... "ricers". And I KNOW you all are smarter than that. Gamers shit turds that are smarter than your average ricer.
If "prince point" and getting a good value is your main concern, why wouldn't you at least invest 30 minutes of your time to do some research before handing $50-$150 bucks to get whatever has the prettiest box or slaps "256mb" on the front? Whether a card has 128 or 256MB of memory makes much less difference than most people realize, and there's plenty of bargain cards that give great performance, you just have to know in advance what to look for.
I should clarify... While I couldn't offhand remember which card I have, I did check it out before buying it. It's an ASUS GeForce FX 5600 (I'm at home now), and while I didn't read any reviews of it before getting it, I've never had a bad product from them (ASUS) before. As it turns out, it works wonderfully, despite my lack of specific research. What kind of framerates do I get? I have no idea. I just know that when running UT2004 with all the eye candy turned on, the video is flawless. I guess I'm just not a true nerd.
Instead the newer cards are just bumped to a higher price and the original $200 sticker is now labeled 'Affordable.'
Can you blame them, with the idiot amount of money people seem to be willing to spend to out-FPS the Joneses next door? Weasely marketers will spring at any opportunity to exploit people's vanity, greed and poor judgment.
... that so-called "midrange" cars are not halfway between a Lamborghini and a Hyundai in price.
I didn't even try to figure out what the best card was. I knew I couldn't afford a top of the line card on my new pc, so I just said "How much extra for a 256 MB card instead of 128?". I don't even remember what card I have... I just know it was retail-boxed, runs AA and UT2004 really well, and didn't add $200 CDN to the system cost.
I suspect a *lot* of people are less concerned about "ultra-high performance" and more concerned with "price point". After all, it's the real world that matters most, and who can stop buying groceries for a month just to increase their framerate by 50%?
(Those cheap games don't suck either, but don't delve TOO far back or the bugs come back too...)
When you're running Windows XP and it seems to think the average user needs to turn on every conceivable service at boot time.
It makes me crazy that computers don't boot any faster than they ever did. In fact, I think my 3.2 GHz may boot *slower* than my old P1... with a bare bones system tray and startup folder too (and no spyware).
Anyone who can afford to build a freaking space elevator can afford an aircraft carrier or two to defend it.
You could sue them. That'd be legal recourse. And after you sell your house to pay the lawyer, you can come crash on my couch. We can hang out here and download some good movies.
Glyphosate would not inhibit Photosystem I. It is an inhibitor of 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase. This enzyme is essential for plant cells to produce aromatic compounds including aromatic amino acids.
Sorensen FW, Gregersen M.
Rapid lethal intoxication caused by the herbicide glyphosate-trimesium (Touchdown)
Hum Exp Toxicol. 1999 Dec;18(12):735-7.
Two cases of rapid lethal intoxication with the herbicide glyphosate-trimesium (Touchdown) are presented. A 6-year-old boy who accidentally ingested a mouthful of glyphosate-trimesium died within minutes. The same happened to a 34-year-old woman who intentionally ingested approximately 150 ml of glyphosate-trimesium. The post-mortem examination revealed gastric content and oedema of the mucus membranes of the airways, erosion of the mucus membranes of the gastrointestinal tract, pulmonary oedema, cerebral oedema, and dilated right atrium and ventricle of the heart. The speed of which death occurs is much more rapid than lethal intoxications with the herbicide glyphosate (isoprophylamine), also known as 'Roundup'. It is suggested that the lethal mechanism between the two herbicides may be different. The component, trimethylsulfonium, of the glyphosate-trimesium may facilitate the absorption after oral ingestion. This difference can be crucial in the treatment of human intoxication. We propose that containers with glyphosate-trimesium must be labelled because of the apparent effect of lethal intoxication.