Most school furniture has a 10 year warranty. A lot of it has a 15 year warranty. It doesn't need to be maintained. If it breaks, the manufacturer will UPS you a whole carton of them.
Agreed. Earbuds aren't meant to be used more than a few minutes a day without starting to cause damage, especially at volumes intended to drown out all other noise. If you're having that much trouble focusing, you should try more coffee or some other method. Noise canceling headphones are an excellent compromise however.
That's sharp's own fault for signing on to build a competitor to the sidekick, which has had a declining market share for years now. I doubt they actually built it, probably just managed the manufacturing process at best.
Not to knock you, but can you cite the water plant destruction for me? I've heard of this else place but I've never seen it documented (first I heard of it was.... 2007?) So some sort of citation would be nice. Just curious. Thanks!
I'm not being paid either, and think Steam is the greatest thing since boiling water. I simply don't buy games unless they're released on steam. In your 20's you move so many times its difficult to keep track of all your physical game copies. When you finally settle down and Have A Life, its nice to know that when you click on a game, it'll load first time. I'm too busy to keep up with patches on my own.
At my last job (2009) we were still using Office 97 on XP. For normal day to day usage, not to mention great compatibility (everyone supports office 97). From what I can tell, there are some improvements in Excel (sheet size), but Word was more or less perfected by 1995. Excel 2007 is actually missing some (a lot?) of power user features that 97 has.
Couple months in now, still not seeing the benefit of the ribbon interface, other than that it scales better with high resolution displays. Care to link to some of the pros/cons as seen by an excell/office guru?
What's a historic register? It means it's registered as a historic (i.e. old, typically the original building on that site from when the town was small) building with the city/state, and/or has historical significance. It means you need a court order to tear it down or (in Dallas at least) even change the design of the front door.
I lived in a historic register house for a while; from a cynic's point of view it's used by other land owners in the area to enforce certain building codes to keep their property values high. It varies from area to area but the neighborhood I was in listed all the houses as historic, and the neighborhood association had been granted the power to oversee additions/modifications of housing there. Three houses down from me a guy got permission, and built a 1.5 story, 3 car garage in his back yard (replacing the carport that was there) and completely re-landscaped the backyard.... with neighborhood association's approval of course. On the flip side, we had a broken a** front door because the landlord didn't want to jump through the legal hoops to get it replaced.
what if... you made the giant bladders out of metal for increased durability, and then added an engine to each bladder, with living quarters and navigation equipment? oh wait...
Tug boats aren't designed for the open ocean in storm conditions. At least not extended 9-20 day journeys across it.
Industrial containers for potable fluids exist. Rubber bladders don't impart a taste in most cases; in any case the volume::surface area ratio is so absurd I'm not really sure why I'm responding. There's other options too, mylar bladders (wine in a box) and welded stainless steel (beer and white wine brewing) come to mind. All the water on my boat tasted fine for 20 years. The only flavor imparted comes from the dock hose.
Wouldn't they just line the oil tanker's hold with a rubber bladder (liner)? That's what they do with consumer sailboats at least. Big, square metal box, rubber bladder inside of that.
...or you can buy it online for 4-9% cheaper (8.25% more expensive here in Dallas - no sales tax online - why would you ever buy consumer electronics at brick and mortar?) and have it shipped straight to your door for free. No hard upsell on overpriced cables (they're $3-11 online), no stupid coupons or "would you like to use your $retailer_X card today? would you like to apply for one?" questions, no "extended warranty" etc etc ad nauseum. I rarely go in to consumer electronics stores if I can help it, and grudgingly go into Radio Shack or Fry's if I need some sort of obscure connector, cable, or adapter TODAY.
There's no reason why small businesses won't spring up to fill the gap, likely with better selections suited for their area. Theres an asian video rental place in the last town I lived (pop. 350,000) and they're still kicking despite being katy-corner from one of the last brick and mortar blockbusters in the region.
Video stores don't require a huge amount of capital compared to other brick and mortar shops, and the recurring costs + staff training is pretty basic.
If there's no physical media for the next round of consoles, they're giving up the NZ, AU and South American markets entirely. That's somewhere around 400 million people right there, not including other areas that have slow/limited broadband, if they have it at all. Those areas still need physical media very much. A lot of people in other countries might be lucky enough to have a 2nd hand xbox 360 or ps3 but no broadband, which they'd be giving up sales to those people. Maybe in another 10 years I can see physical media dissapearing.
I think "support" here is a weak word, in most cases a lot of games have dx 9 mode and dx 11 mode. Support just seems... like, "well, we stripped out some features and got it to work.. but only most of the time".
I would imagine I'd be too busy swimming in pools full of ultra rare money bills and antique coins to care that someone wanted a cut of my 500 million a year salary.
Seriously, you'd think these guys would have some sort of hobbies that would be more interesting than political lobbying.
14 Million isn't a whole lot if you look at the big picture. Sure, he's giving up 14 million to leave HP, but remember he left HP with ~$30 million severance, and has a salary of $1 million with a bonus cap of $10 million, and receives 35 million shares of oracle stock (cumulative) over five years which alone is worth at least $35 million dollars.
I mean, yeah, $14 million is a lot of money I wouldn't want to give up at my current pay rate, but over five years he stands to make $90 million dollars at Oracle, and doesn't have to collect unemployment.
15 seconds per message is a lot of time. Some of my friends pick up their texting habits from their younger siblings still in college (which I'm sure share similar habits of high schoolers). At least 20% of their texts are "sup" "u there?" "hi" "nm (not much)" "where r u" and of course... "im bored".
One of my friends' (she's 26) text messages take 10-15 seconds to decipher because she only spells phonetically, and cuts out most vowels, which makes most words 2-4 chars long.
Q.E.D. most messages take 3 seconds to read, respond, and send. 1000 text messages at 3 seconds each is only 50 minutes a day, and I once worked with someone in college who could prove she sent/received 1000 text messages (combined) a day, so it does exist, and it doesn't seem to affect their ability to work student jobs.
Also, when you're unemployed (a student) you tend to have a lot of down time on your hands if you're trapped at home and don't plan on doing your homework anyways.
When was the last time you saw a PG-13 movie on a date... that you actually enjoyed? Action movies that are rated PG-13 are typically pretty terrible. I realize there are a lot of adults that play video games, but there are even more 12-18 year olds who buy them. So if this sort of thing passes, companies are going to start watering down their games to be able to sell them in California, because a MA rating is going to be the kiss of death for blockbuster sales. I haven't bought a game at retail (digital downloads only) recently, but I'm going to guess that the Call of Duty, Battlefield, Valve and iD software franchises are all rated M or MA.
If you're counting the number of people who bought something, why would you also include the number of people who stole something? And before you go on a diatribe about $0.01 not technically being theft, it costs ~$0.05 to process a transaction, so yes, they actually lost tangible, accountable amounts of money for those who paid less than that amount.
They concluded that after removing those that paid less than five cents, the average price was around $9.20. Hell, they even break it down by OS for you.
Yeah, you're rendering Wolfensetein on a cluster.... but can you get Wolfenstein running on a Beowulf cluster... or, dare I say it... a Beowulfenstein cluster???
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Most school furniture has a 10 year warranty. A lot of it has a 15 year warranty. It doesn't need to be maintained. If it breaks, the manufacturer will UPS you a whole carton of them.
Agreed. Earbuds aren't meant to be used more than a few minutes a day without starting to cause damage, especially at volumes intended to drown out all other noise. If you're having that much trouble focusing, you should try more coffee or some other method. Noise canceling headphones are an excellent compromise however.
Column/cell highlighting for the active cursor for one. There's a crude hack for 07 but it's destructive to existing sheet/cell coloring.
That's sharp's own fault for signing on to build a competitor to the sidekick, which has had a declining market share for years now. I doubt they actually built it, probably just managed the manufacturing process at best.
Not to knock you, but can you cite the water plant destruction for me? I've heard of this else place but I've never seen it documented (first I heard of it was.... 2007?) So some sort of citation would be nice. Just curious. Thanks!
I'm not being paid either, and think Steam is the greatest thing since boiling water. I simply don't buy games unless they're released on steam. In your 20's you move so many times its difficult to keep track of all your physical game copies. When you finally settle down and Have A Life, its nice to know that when you click on a game, it'll load first time. I'm too busy to keep up with patches on my own.
At my last job (2009) we were still using Office 97 on XP. For normal day to day usage, not to mention great compatibility (everyone supports office 97). From what I can tell, there are some improvements in Excel (sheet size), but Word was more or less perfected by 1995. Excel 2007 is actually missing some (a lot?) of power user features that 97 has.
Couple months in now, still not seeing the benefit of the ribbon interface, other than that it scales better with high resolution displays. Care to link to some of the pros/cons as seen by an excell/office guru?
What's a historic register? It means it's registered as a historic (i.e. old, typically the original building on that site from when the town was small) building with the city/state, and/or has historical significance. It means you need a court order to tear it down or (in Dallas at least) even change the design of the front door.
I lived in a historic register house for a while; from a cynic's point of view it's used by other land owners in the area to enforce certain building codes to keep their property values high. It varies from area to area but the neighborhood I was in listed all the houses as historic, and the neighborhood association had been granted the power to oversee additions/modifications of housing there. Three houses down from me a guy got permission, and built a 1.5 story, 3 car garage in his back yard (replacing the carport that was there) and completely re-landscaped the backyard.... with neighborhood association's approval of course. On the flip side, we had a broken a** front door because the landlord didn't want to jump through the legal hoops to get it replaced.
what if... you made the giant bladders out of metal for increased durability, and then added an engine to each bladder, with living quarters and navigation equipment? oh wait...
Tug boats aren't designed for the open ocean in storm conditions. At least not extended 9-20 day journeys across it.
Industrial containers for potable fluids exist. Rubber bladders don't impart a taste in most cases; in any case the volume::surface area ratio is so absurd I'm not really sure why I'm responding. There's other options too, mylar bladders (wine in a box) and welded stainless steel (beer and white wine brewing) come to mind. All the water on my boat tasted fine for 20 years. The only flavor imparted comes from the dock hose.
Wouldn't they just line the oil tanker's hold with a rubber bladder (liner)? That's what they do with consumer sailboats at least. Big, square metal box, rubber bladder inside of that.
So then, they weren't able to roll the new broadcom drivers into this release? That was my main interest in upgrading.
...or you can buy it online for 4-9% cheaper (8.25% more expensive here in Dallas - no sales tax online - why would you ever buy consumer electronics at brick and mortar?) and have it shipped straight to your door for free. No hard upsell on overpriced cables (they're $3-11 online), no stupid coupons or "would you like to use your $retailer_X card today? would you like to apply for one?" questions, no "extended warranty" etc etc ad nauseum. I rarely go in to consumer electronics stores if I can help it, and grudgingly go into Radio Shack or Fry's if I need some sort of obscure connector, cable, or adapter TODAY.
Marvell can't even release proper (signed) 64 bit drivers for their wifi cards. Don't expect this proposition to go anywhere, ever.
There's no reason why small businesses won't spring up to fill the gap, likely with better selections suited for their area. Theres an asian video rental place in the last town I lived (pop. 350,000) and they're still kicking despite being katy-corner from one of the last brick and mortar blockbusters in the region.
Video stores don't require a huge amount of capital compared to other brick and mortar shops, and the recurring costs + staff training is pretty basic.
If there's no physical media for the next round of consoles, they're giving up the NZ, AU and South American markets entirely. That's somewhere around 400 million people right there, not including other areas that have slow/limited broadband, if they have it at all. Those areas still need physical media very much. A lot of people in other countries might be lucky enough to have a 2nd hand xbox 360 or ps3 but no broadband, which they'd be giving up sales to those people. Maybe in another 10 years I can see physical media dissapearing.
I think "support" here is a weak word, in most cases a lot of games have dx 9 mode and dx 11 mode. Support just seems... like, "well, we stripped out some features and got it to work.. but only most of the time".
I would imagine I'd be too busy swimming in pools full of ultra rare money bills and antique coins to care that someone wanted a cut of my 500 million a year salary.
Seriously, you'd think these guys would have some sort of hobbies that would be more interesting than political lobbying.
14 Million isn't a whole lot if you look at the big picture. Sure, he's giving up 14 million to leave HP, but remember he left HP with ~$30 million severance, and has a salary of $1 million with a bonus cap of $10 million, and receives 35 million shares of oracle stock (cumulative) over five years which alone is worth at least $35 million dollars.
I mean, yeah, $14 million is a lot of money I wouldn't want to give up at my current pay rate, but over five years he stands to make $90 million dollars at Oracle, and doesn't have to collect unemployment.
15 seconds per message is a lot of time. Some of my friends pick up their texting habits from their younger siblings still in college (which I'm sure share similar habits of high schoolers). At least 20% of their texts are "sup" "u there?" "hi" "nm (not much)" "where r u" and of course... "im bored".
One of my friends' (she's 26) text messages take 10-15 seconds to decipher because she only spells phonetically, and cuts out most vowels, which makes most words 2-4 chars long.
Q.E.D. most messages take 3 seconds to read, respond, and send. 1000 text messages at 3 seconds each is only 50 minutes a day, and I once worked with someone in college who could prove she sent/received 1000 text messages (combined) a day, so it does exist, and it doesn't seem to affect their ability to work student jobs.
Also, when you're unemployed (a student) you tend to have a lot of down time on your hands if you're trapped at home and don't plan on doing your homework anyways.
When was the last time you saw a PG-13 movie on a date... that you actually enjoyed? Action movies that are rated PG-13 are typically pretty terrible. I realize there are a lot of adults that play video games, but there are even more 12-18 year olds who buy them. So if this sort of thing passes, companies are going to start watering down their games to be able to sell them in California, because a MA rating is going to be the kiss of death for blockbuster sales. I haven't bought a game at retail (digital downloads only) recently, but I'm going to guess that the Call of Duty, Battlefield, Valve and iD software franchises are all rated M or MA.
If you're counting the number of people who bought something, why would you also include the number of people who stole something? And before you go on a diatribe about $0.01 not technically being theft, it costs ~$0.05 to process a transaction, so yes, they actually lost tangible, accountable amounts of money for those who paid less than that amount.
There have been multiple cases of "pay what you want" in the last year alone.
Hell, even Slashdot ran an article about this back in march: http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/05/11/1932233/Indie-Pay-What-You-Want-Bundle-Reaches-1-Million
They concluded that after removing those that paid less than five cents, the average price was around $9.20. Hell, they even break it down by OS for you.
Yeah, you're rendering Wolfensetein on a cluster.... but can you get Wolfenstein running on a Beowulf cluster... or, dare I say it... a Beowulfenstein cluster???
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