Central america and the northern portion of south america have been on a bit of an independent streak lately. They're much further in bed with the Chinese and Japanese than they are with the UK, who never had any formal colonies there. Most of central america and a good portion of south america have started decriminalizing drugs in the leadup to the election 2012, risking US foreign aid in the process in trade for the safety of their citizens. Unlike Africa and Eastern Europe, south america is mostly independent of the rest of the world - they fed europe during both world wars - and their standard of living, in the big cities at least, is on par with most of the rest of the world. Cutting ties with the UK is much lower on their list of "risky behavior" compared to a superpower like China who is dumping billions of dollars in to their economies each year with no strings attached.
TL;DR the natives are educated and not dependent on western europe anymore, and have little need for their political shenanigans.
The new version of windows always sucks for games until nvidia and ati get around to tweaking things. Give it 6-8 months for everything to catch up. If you plan on installing Win8 on day one and expecting everything to work as good as, or better than the 36 month old Win7 ecosystem, you're insane.
I have family that lives near Fredricksburg, Texas. About 10 times a year (nearly every month!) we drive the 5.5 hours, and then drive home about 5.5 hours. Google Maps says it's only 4.3, but eventually you need to get out and stretch your legs, country stop lights, etc.
So finally I graduated and got a real job, announced "this time we're going to fly, since it's only a 40 minute flight from Dallas to San Antonio, and another hour by car! We'll save at least four hours!"
Yeah. About that.
Wait for mom to arrive to carpool to airport.
Drive time to airport
Park at airport
Walk to security
Go through security
Wait at gate for 45 min - 1 hour
Board
Wait to leave gate
Taxi
Actual freakin' 40 minute flight
Taxi to gate
Wait for everyone to unload their overhead luggage and deplane
Walk to car rental place
Flag down a rental person
Wander the parking lot looking for our rental
Drive another hour to our destination
Finally arrive.
Total transit time: 7 hrs 15 minutes. We've driven the 5.5 hour journey ever since.
Now, I fly about 2-3 times a year, but my mother doesn't. Neither do many of the people flying airplanes on any given day. You could speed up the process, be like the guy "up in the air", but that sort of efficiency just isn't realistic for "trip to grandma's with mom".
Sure, but this device has no human pilot to asphyxiate when the life support system goes haywire. So there's all those wrongful death lawsuits you get to avoid.
...it's just buried... deeply. Very deeply. As in, I have to google to figure out how to turn it on because it's not immediately obvious how to do it from the GUI. Once you turn off all the "Vuze" cruft, Azureus still makes for a very good client.
I'm using Deluge to great effect, moreso since I finally setup an atom-based file server and you can log in to it remotely from another pc/laptop, either through the binary client, or the web interface. deluge-torrent.org
I think the point is that eventually these are going to be made from waxed cardboard and styrafoam, for less than $100 each. At that point, you can use it for reconnaissance, then pilot it towards a high value target and have it self destruct, rather than give away your own position by flying it back to "base". i.e. if the sniper f--s up the shot, you can still attempt the kill by kamakazieing the RC plane in to the target when he tries to flee to his car, or blow it up against a door to force the target to use your prefered exit. A $100 flying grenade with 1080p video has a lot of potential uses, even if it's flight time is less than 90 minutes.
I have bad news for you, Iran is a modern country, regardless to what you're shown on TV. Their government may be oppressive and backwards, but the country itself is very modern. I travelled 2000 miles by bus through Brazil, and many parts of Brazil are still richer than America's Gulf Coast (Biloxi, Gulfport, etc). The GDP says one thing, but wondering through the capital cities at night tells another. The rural parts of many countries do need to catch up though.
I bet you bought a WonderSwan Color when they were released in the US too. Nothing like being on the bleeding edge of consumer technology! There were two or three other "consoles" that Slashdot has featured over the years... none of them went anywhere. The cost of entry to that market, at least at the scales Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft operate at, is so high it's been impossible to break in to the market for almost ten years now. Now they have to compete against phones and tablets, too. I want the little guy to succeed too, but it's not realistic to assume success simply because of a lower initial price point.
Probably because it's not cost effective to fund games for a platform you're getting ready to cancel. I wasn't even aware the Vita still existed. When was the last time you saw a Vita ad that wasn't on a gaming website?
Rocket fuel generally sits very close to it's oxidizer on the craft, no point in trying to put it out early. There were probably fifty people on the island where that happened, all of whom were wearing safety goggles and behind a barrier of some sort at a safe distance. It's not like dousing the fire ten minutes earlier would have somehow avoided the forest fires in Colorado.
Because we keep using our legacy contractors. You'll note that after Lockheed Martin's failed (miserably failed, I might add) x33, they weren't included, or even considered, for a Human rated space capsule this time around. While Boeing got a significant amount of funding for their CST-100 capsule, SpaceX got nearly the same funding as Boeing ($400+ million), which is a step in the right direction. The fact that SpaceX already has an unmanned rated capsule flying in space goes a long ways towards seeing their (much cheaper) hardware flying humans through the atmosphere and in to space... and back).
I held off on buying a new smartphone because I was waiting on a really top notch android phone with a blackberry style keyboard to emerge, preferably with the same form factor. Finally a few did, but as I was ready to click "buy", I found out that the hardware behind the keyboard was mid to low tier 1.6 android gear, designed for 16 year old girls (the fact that it came in an optional color, pink, should have been a tip-off), and not power users. I ended up with a Nexus S instead.
I still yearn for my blackberry's keyboard though.
And not a single link to back up your claims. Obama has expanded gun rights since going in to office. Looking through your post history, every single one of them are frantic pro-gun, pro-military posts. Maybe you should go outside once in a while.
We just have to burn more than we can pull out of the ground and you'll immediately see prices spike, as governments ration oil to make sure that farms, commerce, and armies get first grabs at it. Personal automobiles may bid up to $10/gallon for whatever's left over.
I'm not an expert, but I do know they offer BBC America "subscription" services to stations like PBS and NPR, and I think it might be bundled with some cable packages. I would imagine it's difficult to compete with your own free services. Or some variation thereof.
I would disagree with you. I recently got an email from a random lawyer informing me that I was part of a class action lawsuit against netflix, and that the outcome was this:
Lawyers will get $220 million to cover their costs Netflix will pay $3 million towards a non profit I will get no money
Take your sides, but this just sounds like a money grab/extortion on the part of the Lawyers, with no benefit whatsoever to the consumer. Supposedly I have two free $5 off vouchers with ticketmaster from a similar settlement. I mean seriously, what the fuck? The only people who benefit from these lawsuits are the lawyers, and I think that's what Valve is trying to avoid. They're a ripe target for this sort of thing, especially in light of the shakedowns that ticketmaster.com and netflix.com have gotten in recent years (probably Sony too)
Tell me how many straight males you know who subscribe to Vogue. Women care about what other women are wearing, but it's for social purposes, not reproductive.
The number of anorexic 'heroin chic' Kate Moss types in the world are very few and far between, people have to pick and choose from the gene pool of reality, not whatever you're seeing on TV.
Although, this doesn't come too long after Gamestop started selling Steam gift cards.
I don't see large publishers allowing resale of their games, but an indie developer might opt in to the program if it meant a bigger cut of the initial purchase (say, 80% instead of 60%), and a 5% cut of each resale. How the owner, publisher and Valve/Steam would split the remaining 95% is down to closed door discussions. There's no reason why Valve couldn't allow this sort of thing; it's just an additional revenue stream for them, and it's an added feature for all parties involved, if they decide to opt in. Valve likes making people happy - it's what drives people to their service, and keeps them coming back. This sort of thing appeals to certain bargain hunters and entrepreneurs.
They're also in the top one millionth of the population in terms of physical genetics (at least, for individual performers, team sports is less physically selective and more mental/socially selective).
The brain is very, very good at determining positive physical traits, and labels them accordingly as attractive. Then there's also the whole celebrity angle.
The F1 was designed on blackboards and drafting tables. A "modern" F1 is only going to be similar in size - it'd have to be a clean sheet design, the facilities that built the F1 are long gone at this point. Why even study redesigning the F1? This seems like a tremendous waste. Of course it's going to be a clean sheet, computer drafted design.
Money for a study on a stone age rocket design* seems like a federal handout, nothing more.
*although the Saturn V's anti-oscillation system is pretty inspired... for it's time
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Central america and the northern portion of south america have been on a bit of an independent streak lately. They're much further in bed with the Chinese and Japanese than they are with the UK, who never had any formal colonies there. Most of central america and a good portion of south america have started decriminalizing drugs in the leadup to the election 2012, risking US foreign aid in the process in trade for the safety of their citizens. Unlike Africa and Eastern Europe, south america is mostly independent of the rest of the world - they fed europe during both world wars - and their standard of living, in the big cities at least, is on par with most of the rest of the world. Cutting ties with the UK is much lower on their list of "risky behavior" compared to a superpower like China who is dumping billions of dollars in to their economies each year with no strings attached.
TL;DR the natives are educated and not dependent on western europe anymore, and have little need for their political shenanigans.
The new version of windows always sucks for games until nvidia and ati get around to tweaking things. Give it 6-8 months for everything to catch up. If you plan on installing Win8 on day one and expecting everything to work as good as, or better than the 36 month old Win7 ecosystem, you're insane.
I have family that lives near Fredricksburg, Texas. About 10 times a year (nearly every month!) we drive the 5.5 hours, and then drive home about 5.5 hours. Google Maps says it's only 4.3, but eventually you need to get out and stretch your legs, country stop lights, etc.
So finally I graduated and got a real job, announced "this time we're going to fly, since it's only a 40 minute flight from Dallas to San Antonio, and another hour by car! We'll save at least four hours!"
Yeah. About that.
Total transit time: 7 hrs 15 minutes. We've driven the 5.5 hour journey ever since.
Now, I fly about 2-3 times a year, but my mother doesn't. Neither do many of the people flying airplanes on any given day. You could speed up the process, be like the guy "up in the air", but that sort of efficiency just isn't realistic for "trip to grandma's with mom".
Sure, but this device has no human pilot to asphyxiate when the life support system goes haywire. So there's all those wrongful death lawsuits you get to avoid.
Azureus still has the "classic interface"
...it's just buried... deeply. Very deeply. As in, I have to google to figure out how to turn it on because it's not immediately obvious how to do it from the GUI. Once you turn off all the "Vuze" cruft, Azureus still makes for a very good client.
I'm using Deluge to great effect, moreso since I finally setup an atom-based file server and you can log in to it remotely from another pc/laptop, either through the binary client, or the web interface. deluge-torrent.org
I think the point is that eventually these are going to be made from waxed cardboard and styrafoam, for less than $100 each. At that point, you can use it for reconnaissance, then pilot it towards a high value target and have it self destruct, rather than give away your own position by flying it back to "base". i.e. if the sniper f--s up the shot, you can still attempt the kill by kamakazieing the RC plane in to the target when he tries to flee to his car, or blow it up against a door to force the target to use your prefered exit. A $100 flying grenade with 1080p video has a lot of potential uses, even if it's flight time is less than 90 minutes.
I have bad news for you, Iran is a modern country, regardless to what you're shown on TV. Their government may be oppressive and backwards, but the country itself is very modern. I travelled 2000 miles by bus through Brazil, and many parts of Brazil are still richer than America's Gulf Coast (Biloxi, Gulfport, etc). The GDP says one thing, but wondering through the capital cities at night tells another. The rural parts of many countries do need to catch up though.
All of the major console manufacturers make their own first party games; mario, halo, gran turismo come to mind (microsoft owns Bungie)
It's awfully hard to sell a console without an advertising budget.
I bet you bought a WonderSwan Color when they were released in the US too. Nothing like being on the bleeding edge of consumer technology! There were two or three other "consoles" that Slashdot has featured over the years... none of them went anywhere. The cost of entry to that market, at least at the scales Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft operate at, is so high it's been impossible to break in to the market for almost ten years now. Now they have to compete against phones and tablets, too. I want the little guy to succeed too, but it's not realistic to assume success simply because of a lower initial price point.
Probably because it's not cost effective to fund games for a platform you're getting ready to cancel. I wasn't even aware the Vita still existed. When was the last time you saw a Vita ad that wasn't on a gaming website?
Rocket fuel generally sits very close to it's oxidizer on the craft, no point in trying to put it out early. There were probably fifty people on the island where that happened, all of whom were wearing safety goggles and behind a barrier of some sort at a safe distance. It's not like dousing the fire ten minutes earlier would have somehow avoided the forest fires in Colorado.
More importantly, it doesn't use a whole lot of ink.
Because we keep using our legacy contractors. You'll note that after Lockheed Martin's failed (miserably failed, I might add) x33, they weren't included, or even considered, for a Human rated space capsule this time around. While Boeing got a significant amount of funding for their CST-100 capsule, SpaceX got nearly the same funding as Boeing ($400+ million), which is a step in the right direction. The fact that SpaceX already has an unmanned rated capsule flying in space goes a long ways towards seeing their (much cheaper) hardware flying humans through the atmosphere and in to space... and back).
I held off on buying a new smartphone because I was waiting on a really top notch android phone with a blackberry style keyboard to emerge, preferably with the same form factor. Finally a few did, but as I was ready to click "buy", I found out that the hardware behind the keyboard was mid to low tier 1.6 android gear, designed for 16 year old girls (the fact that it came in an optional color, pink, should have been a tip-off), and not power users. I ended up with a Nexus S instead.
I still yearn for my blackberry's keyboard though.
And not a single link to back up your claims. Obama has expanded gun rights since going in to office. Looking through your post history, every single one of them are frantic pro-gun, pro-military posts. Maybe you should go outside once in a while.
We just have to burn more than we can pull out of the ground and you'll immediately see prices spike, as governments ration oil to make sure that farms, commerce, and armies get first grabs at it. Personal automobiles may bid up to $10/gallon for whatever's left over.
Half the posts on the "craigslist extensions" sites are outdated/deleted already anyways.
I 3 craigslist, found two roommates, multiple apartments/houses, bicycles, computers, cars, telescopes... currently looking for a piano on there.
I'm not an expert, but I do know they offer BBC America "subscription" services to stations like PBS and NPR, and I think it might be bundled with some cable packages. I would imagine it's difficult to compete with your own free services. Or some variation thereof.
In addition, Netflix will pay $9 million into a Settlement Fund to:
I can only imagine what $30,000/total number of netflix subscribers is, minus taxes
I would disagree with you. I recently got an email from a random lawyer informing me that I was part of a class action lawsuit against netflix, and that the outcome was this:
Lawyers will get $220 million to cover their costs
Netflix will pay $3 million towards a non profit
I will get no money
Take your sides, but this just sounds like a money grab/extortion on the part of the Lawyers, with no benefit whatsoever to the consumer. Supposedly I have two free $5 off vouchers with ticketmaster from a similar settlement. I mean seriously, what the fuck? The only people who benefit from these lawsuits are the lawyers, and I think that's what Valve is trying to avoid. They're a ripe target for this sort of thing, especially in light of the shakedowns that ticketmaster.com and netflix.com have gotten in recent years (probably Sony too)
Tell me how many straight males you know who subscribe to Vogue. Women care about what other women are wearing, but it's for social purposes, not reproductive.
The number of anorexic 'heroin chic' Kate Moss types in the world are very few and far between, people have to pick and choose from the gene pool of reality, not whatever you're seeing on TV.
Although, this doesn't come too long after Gamestop started selling Steam gift cards.
I don't see large publishers allowing resale of their games, but an indie developer might opt in to the program if it meant a bigger cut of the initial purchase (say, 80% instead of 60%), and a 5% cut of each resale. How the owner, publisher and Valve/Steam would split the remaining 95% is down to closed door discussions. There's no reason why Valve couldn't allow this sort of thing; it's just an additional revenue stream for them, and it's an added feature for all parties involved, if they decide to opt in. Valve likes making people happy - it's what drives people to their service, and keeps them coming back. This sort of thing appeals to certain bargain hunters and entrepreneurs.
They're also in the top one millionth of the population in terms of physical genetics (at least, for individual performers, team sports is less physically selective and more mental/socially selective).
The brain is very, very good at determining positive physical traits, and labels them accordingly as attractive. Then there's also the whole celebrity angle.
The F1 was designed on blackboards and drafting tables. A "modern" F1 is only going to be similar in size - it'd have to be a clean sheet design, the facilities that built the F1 are long gone at this point. Why even study redesigning the F1? This seems like a tremendous waste. Of course it's going to be a clean sheet, computer drafted design.
Money for a study on a stone age rocket design* seems like a federal handout, nothing more.
*although the Saturn V's anti-oscillation system is pretty inspired... for it's time