If the PC world had to standardize around a reasonably cheap and reasonably well-designed normal controller, you could do much worse than standardizing around the 360 controller.
Back in the early 90s the PC world DID standardize around a erasonably cheap and reasonably well-designed normal controller--the Gravis gamepad. Maybe I'm showing my age but I prefer the smaller olden days controller.
Frankly, I would recommend following up with the bar association instead, and if that fails, suing the lawyers for harassment.
There just aren't grounds for it yet. Lawyers are expected to exhaust lesser avenues before escalating to that level. In this case the easiest thing to do is call opposing counsel and ask them to reschedule. If they don't, you file a motion for protective order. Or I guess these lawyers did a motion to quash, which works as well. If they keep doing that, then you can start asking the judge to impose sanctions. If that doesn't slow them down, at the end of the road you can file a bar complaint.
That's true. I think I and a lot of linux users were able to get into that sort of thing more gently because we started out on school unix accounts over dial-up, or at the very least had done command line stuff via DOS previously.
The fact that it's scheduled on a school day is no big deal. I've never seen a depo scheduled on a weekend.
One day notice is pretty weird, though. Traditionally you clear dates with opposing counsel as professional courtesy, or you at least set it far enough in advance to work things out.
Furthermore, you don't throw together a $12 billion proposal and not take into account such things. Anything you can think of regarding this project has likely been thought of already by the planners.
Eh, don't jump to conclusions. Look at the Three Gorges Dam, which is a disaster waiting to happen.
Also the AK47 is not the same caliber (7.62 short instead of 5.56)
That's why you have to switch over when the shops in Needles or Las Vegas run out of ammo. Of course by that time you should already be carrying ion beamers and meson cannons...
Why do you think 'Engineers' are the only people who are smart?
How does the saying go? Engineers are people who weren't good enough at math to be physicists. And physicists are people who weren't good enough at math to be mathematicians.
The post I was responding to seemed to be addressing a hypothetical closing argument that a previous poster came up with. A closing argument is generally given in court.
My reply is in two parts. First, no one here ever argued that so claiming that someone else is arguing something is kind of pointless, isn't it? Second, the threat of gun bans in general is main reason for lack of regulation as regulation is often (historically) a first step towards a ban
Yeah, remember when they started regulating cars? Now they've completely banned them. It's sad.
A guy I know in Florida got a CCP by taking a short course. He had never touched an actual gun before, and the funny thing is, the CCP didn't actually involve actual guns. So he got the CCP without ever actually holding a gun.
The money with which I pay for that laptop already had up to 50% taken out for income tax (including either payroll or SE taxes, which everyone seems to forget Uncle Sam collects and adds roughly 15% on top of the supposed 35% highest tax bracket - Remind me again why we don't have socialized healthcare, when countries like Japan can manage it on only two-thirds the taxes?).
Countries "like Japan"? That's misleading, as it implies that Japan is just one of many countries a) with socialized medicine, and b) less taxes collected. As I'm sure you're fully aware the U.S. collects significantly less taxes per capita than the majority of first world countries. And Japan has a much more progressive income tax, which hits the extremely wealthy much harder than the U.S. tax system does.
You paid up to 10% sales tax on the laptop in the first place (it actually goes higher in some places, but I'll presume neither of us live in NYC).
Is it PowerPoint's fault, or the fault of the Powerpoint creator? I always hate it when someone dumps all the information onto the slide, because it does make it hard to follow along. Whenever I do a presentation, the bullets on my slides are extremely brief, usually no more than 4-5 words.
According to the article, it's PowerPoint's fault. The article makes the point that it's not the design of the presentation, but rather the fact that the human brain isn't well-equipped to learn the right way. It doesn't matter how elite a Powerpoint creator you are, you won't be doing a good job.
I think a lot of the people who claim they make effective PowerPoint presentations aren't looking at the end result--i.e. is the audience informed, and retaining the information for long periods--but are instead looking at the presentation itself and making aesthetic judgments ("wow, I made a really concise presentation, it must have been effective").
Serenity was an important scifi film and will be talked about still in ten years, as will the Firefly series.
I don't even hear people talking about Serenity NOW outside Slashdot. Honestly it was a good movie; after watching it my review was "eh, worthwhile use of 2 hours of my time".
From what little I've seen of the TV show it was also just ok. I think it was the Babylon 5 effect--there are so few good scifi shows around that reasonably good ones seem great.
No analogy required. He was 3000 miles away from the US. Extradition should be rejected out of hand and not even considered.
The analogy still stands. He was in the UK, but committed a US crime that allegedly caused damage in the US. The actual distance between the two places isn't especially relevant.
There are places in most cities that are relatively inexpensive and safe. I think a lot of the problem is unless they grew up in cities people tend to not have a very good sense of what constitutes a safe neighborhood. I've been in perfectly safe, although a little rundown, neighborhoods with friends who were freaked out because they thought they were going to be mugged, because there was a little graffiti.
Nah, northeastern cities are the ones feeling the biggest boom. NYC is definitely not a sprawling Sunbelt city. Neither is Miami. DC has gone from a dangerous slum into an expensive, culturally relevant urban center.
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If the PC world had to standardize around a reasonably cheap and reasonably well-designed normal controller, you could do much worse than standardizing around the 360 controller.
Back in the early 90s the PC world DID standardize around a erasonably cheap and reasonably well-designed normal controller--the Gravis gamepad. Maybe I'm showing my age but I prefer the smaller olden days controller.
Damn it, now I can't leave issues laying around my apartment to impress the girls I bring home.
Frankly, I would recommend following up with the bar association instead, and if that fails, suing the lawyers for harassment.
There just aren't grounds for it yet. Lawyers are expected to exhaust lesser avenues before escalating to that level. In this case the easiest thing to do is call opposing counsel and ask them to reschedule. If they don't, you file a motion for protective order. Or I guess these lawyers did a motion to quash, which works as well. If they keep doing that, then you can start asking the judge to impose sanctions. If that doesn't slow them down, at the end of the road you can file a bar complaint.
That's true. I think I and a lot of linux users were able to get into that sort of thing more gently because we started out on school unix accounts over dial-up, or at the very least had done command line stuff via DOS previously.
The fact that it's scheduled on a school day is no big deal. I've never seen a depo scheduled on a weekend.
One day notice is pretty weird, though. Traditionally you clear dates with opposing counsel as professional courtesy, or you at least set it far enough in advance to work things out.
Furthermore, you don't throw together a $12 billion proposal and not take into account such things. Anything you can think of regarding this project has likely been thought of already by the planners.
Eh, don't jump to conclusions. Look at the Three Gorges Dam, which is a disaster waiting to happen.
Also the AK47 is not the same caliber (7.62 short instead of 5.56)
That's why you have to switch over when the shops in Needles or Las Vegas run out of ammo. Of course by that time you should already be carrying ion beamers and meson cannons...
Why do you think 'Engineers' are the only people who are smart?
How does the saying go? Engineers are people who weren't good enough at math to be physicists. And physicists are people who weren't good enough at math to be mathematicians.
The post I was responding to seemed to be addressing a hypothetical closing argument that a previous poster came up with. A closing argument is generally given in court.
*cough* libel.
You generally have immunity in regards to statements made in court.
My reply is in two parts. First, no one here ever argued that so claiming that someone else is arguing something is kind of pointless, isn't it? Second, the threat of gun bans in general is main reason for lack of regulation as regulation is often (historically) a first step towards a ban
Yeah, remember when they started regulating cars? Now they've completely banned them. It's sad.
I'm not sure if I believe your story. Please provide me with the contact information of these alleged cute females so I can verify.
A guy I know in Florida got a CCP by taking a short course. He had never touched an actual gun before, and the funny thing is, the CCP didn't actually involve actual guns. So he got the CCP without ever actually holding a gun.
The money with which I pay for that laptop already had up to 50% taken out for income tax (including either payroll or SE taxes, which everyone seems to forget Uncle Sam collects and adds roughly 15% on top of the supposed 35% highest tax bracket - Remind me again why we don't have socialized healthcare, when countries like Japan can manage it on only two-thirds the taxes?).
Countries "like Japan"? That's misleading, as it implies that Japan is just one of many countries a) with socialized medicine, and b) less taxes collected. As I'm sure you're fully aware the U.S. collects significantly less taxes per capita than the majority of first world countries. And Japan has a much more progressive income tax, which hits the extremely wealthy much harder than the U.S. tax system does.
You paid up to 10% sales tax on the laptop in the first place (it actually goes higher in some places, but I'll presume neither of us live in NYC).
NYC sales tax is 8.375%, not 10+%.
I suspect the University of Illinois is a properly accredited university.
You think the Turkish Constitution caused that?
The PC junior wasn't a technical flop. Maybe a marketing one, but technically it was just an entry-level IBM personal computer, that ran PC software.
Or is the argument that the PC is a technical flop in general?
In the year 2190? China will not have a suitably strong domestic economy for decades, if ever.
Is it PowerPoint's fault, or the fault of the Powerpoint creator? I always hate it when someone dumps all the information onto the slide, because it does make it hard to follow along. Whenever I do a presentation, the bullets on my slides are extremely brief, usually no more than 4-5 words.
According to the article, it's PowerPoint's fault. The article makes the point that it's not the design of the presentation, but rather the fact that the human brain isn't well-equipped to learn the right way. It doesn't matter how elite a Powerpoint creator you are, you won't be doing a good job.
I think a lot of the people who claim they make effective PowerPoint presentations aren't looking at the end result--i.e. is the audience informed, and retaining the information for long periods--but are instead looking at the presentation itself and making aesthetic judgments ("wow, I made a really concise presentation, it must have been effective").
Serenity was an important scifi film and will be talked about still in ten years, as will the Firefly series.
I don't even hear people talking about Serenity NOW outside Slashdot. Honestly it was a good movie; after watching it my review was "eh, worthwhile use of 2 hours of my time".
From what little I've seen of the TV show it was also just ok. I think it was the Babylon 5 effect--there are so few good scifi shows around that reasonably good ones seem great.
No analogy required. He was 3000 miles away from the US. Extradition should be rejected out of hand and not even considered.
The analogy still stands. He was in the UK, but committed a US crime that allegedly caused damage in the US. The actual distance between the two places isn't especially relevant.
The analogy is if you're standing on the border of a country and shoot someone on the other side. Which state should charge you?
There are places in most cities that are relatively inexpensive and safe. I think a lot of the problem is unless they grew up in cities people tend to not have a very good sense of what constitutes a safe neighborhood. I've been in perfectly safe, although a little rundown, neighborhoods with friends who were freaked out because they thought they were going to be mugged, because there was a little graffiti.
Nah, northeastern cities are the ones feeling the biggest boom. NYC is definitely not a sprawling Sunbelt city. Neither is Miami. DC has gone from a dangerous slum into an expensive, culturally relevant urban center.
In the 90s there was a great deal of urban renewal, and a lot of people who had moved out of the city starting moving back.