Depends on the situation. My current employer is in the process of outsourcing engineering to India, and keeping the US engineers on for varying periods of time (3-9 months) to facilitate the transition. There are incentives to stay through the end, but many have decided it's better to get out now. There is no bridge to burn, and people that are leaving already have new positions elsewhere when they resign. What is the possible incentive to give more than one or two day's notice?
"No one was surprised" is such an elitist and immature statement. Millions of people across the country were VERY surprised by this. There's a big difference between believing in something and having proof of something. "Oh, that doesn't surprise me" is the equivalent of "I told you so!" after the facts are revealed. And its a worthless statement anyway, because it doesn't make one bit of difference if anyone was surprised. It doesn't change what's going on.
Agreed. And they should have made the Wii U capable of rendering existing games in HD resolutions, then the lack of new HD content wouldn't matter as much. The dolphin emulator can do it, Nintendo could have done it too.
I have never figured out why anyone would want this. Maybe I'm just a newbie, because I didn't start using X until fairly late in the 80s. Maybe if I had been using it from the very beginning, focus-follows-mouse would make more sense.
Mostly so that you can type into a shell window without having to bring it to the front. At least that's what I miss the most. Not a deal breaker, but once you get used to it, it sucks to lose it.
I thought the same thing when I read that, what the hell?! It's ok for politicians to make policy based on morality, and they shouldn't base claims on falsifiable stamements? That's exactly the opposite of what it ought to say. Maybe the writer just got confused, because that is just wrong.
As a horny adolescent, I had the full page color ad for On-Line Systems "Softporn" featuring Roberta Williams in a hot tub, so I had no reason to actually play the game, or its follow-up, LSL.
Why on earth would you or anyone else give a crap who I've called? Or whose phone numbers I know? Or where I've been? At one point I wanted to sync my phone with my work exchange server. When I found out I'd have to turn on a passcode on my phone I said screw it.
Seriously, WTF? Why do some people think anyone else cares about their trivial information?
We could all learn from this company. Take an existing product, put it in a new container, make it look "sexy" and sell it at an exorbitant price. Every time I see something like this, it's obvious that its a useless gimmick and I dismiss it, because of course everyone else will see through it as well. And nearly every time, I'm wrong. Another one in the insanely-expensive caffeine area is "Five Hour Energy." Just another horribly overpriced caffeinated liquid that provides the user with exactly the same drug as a pill that you can get for 1/200th the cost. WHY would anyone ever buy this?
So what's next? Where can I score millions from stupid people? How about a little spring loaded canister with mini cookies that ejects one into your mouth with the push of a button? Bingo. Now I can sell $.10 worth of cookies for $3!
You're right, although it's left pretty ambiguous, it is definitely NOT inhaled. It's a fine powder that dissolves in the mouth, absorbed through digestive system. Just like every other orally consumed caffeine. Also, it costs roughly 100 times more than the exact same thing in a pill ($3/100mg aeroshot vs. 200 count 100mg caffeine pills for ~$6).
It's not "inhaled." You puff the powder into your mouth, it dissolves in the saliva in your mouth, then you essentially swallow the saliva+caffeine and it's absorbed in your digestive system. No better or faster than any other caffeine that you swallow, and I guarantee a bottle of Vivarin is going to cost a HELL of a lot less than this gimmick.
>> You can see evidence of this simply by looking up the Consumer Reports reliability scoring for
This is normal in their reliability ratings though. The ratings indicate reported problems, and they always get worse as you go back in years. The one exception is redesign years. A lot of times you can tell when a model was redesigned because reliability ratings will go down in a later year, so something that was always rated good in the older years all of a sudden goes bad in a more recent year.
This doesn't make sense to me. How much manual labor is involved in manufacturing a motherboard? I would assume it's practically zero. Do chinese pick and place machines work for less than american ones? If anything, it ought to be cheaper to make in the US with sufficient automation.
I have a couple of extra Wii's without working drives that I use (mostly) for netflix streaming. Another advantage over the other consoles is the Wii's power consumption is generally less than 1/10th of the PS3 or Xbox. Even in standby, the PS3 draws over 170 watts vs. about 15 for the Wii. Also, like others have mentioned, it's got one of the better Netflix interfaces, although I like the one on my Vizio TV as well. The Netflix interface on the TiVo Premiere is atrocious.
I agree with this. But it's worse with a cell phone, because the person on the other end is completely unaware of the situation that the driver is in. If I'm talking to someone that is in the car in rush hour traffic on the freeway, and I need to merge into a packed lane, the other person in the car sees that situation and generally the conversation is automatically paused until I'm done changing lanes (unless it's the kids, then I just ignore them for a few seconds). But on a cell phone, the person on the other end is going to keep talking expecting me to listen, and I'll feel obligated to continue the conversation when it would be better to put it on pause. There are lots of situations like this - turning left through traffic, avoiding debris in the road, etc..
"THC stays in the body much longer, with varying effect."
No it doesn't.. It is metabolized within a few hours. Non psychoactive metabolites are detectable for days/weeks, but a couple of hours after smoking pot you're more back to normal than a couple of hours after drinking alcohol.
"Some people report "flashback" highs, days or weeks later after using the drug."
No, you're misinformed.
And in TFA, cluelessGuy says "but seeing how a major tech company like this does it sounded like it would be very instructive".
Calling a large warehouse that puts products in boxes a "major tech company" is beyond a stretch.
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Depends on the situation. My current employer is in the process of outsourcing engineering to India, and keeping the US engineers on for varying periods of time (3-9 months) to facilitate the transition. There are incentives to stay through the end, but many have decided it's better to get out now. There is no bridge to burn, and people that are leaving already have new positions elsewhere when they resign. What is the possible incentive to give more than one or two day's notice?
"No one was surprised" is such an elitist and immature statement. Millions of people across the country were VERY surprised by this. There's a big difference between believing in something and having proof of something. "Oh, that doesn't surprise me" is the equivalent of "I told you so!" after the facts are revealed. And its a worthless statement anyway, because it doesn't make one bit of difference if anyone was surprised. It doesn't change what's going on.
"You're charging it wrong."
Agreed. And they should have made the Wii U capable of rendering existing games in HD resolutions, then the lack of new HD content wouldn't matter as much. The dolphin emulator can do it, Nintendo could have done it too.
the early worm gets eaten.
I have never figured out why anyone would want this. Maybe I'm just a newbie, because I didn't start using X until fairly late in the 80s. Maybe if I had been using it from the very beginning, focus-follows-mouse would make more sense.
Mostly so that you can type into a shell window without having to bring it to the front. At least that's what I miss the most. Not a deal breaker, but once you get used to it, it sucks to lose it.
I thought the same thing when I read that, what the hell?! It's ok for politicians to make policy based on morality, and they shouldn't base claims on falsifiable stamements? That's exactly the opposite of what it ought to say. Maybe the writer just got confused, because that is just wrong.
As a horny adolescent, I had the full page color ad for On-Line Systems "Softporn" featuring Roberta Williams in a hot tub, so I had no reason to actually play the game, or its follow-up, LSL.
16 bits is $2.00, was really expensive for a computer in the 70s!
Why on earth would you or anyone else give a crap who I've called? Or whose phone numbers I know? Or where I've been? At one point I wanted to sync my phone with my work exchange server. When I found out I'd have to turn on a passcode on my phone I said screw it. Seriously, WTF? Why do some people think anyone else cares about their trivial information?
Apple Disk ][ drive booting, seeking the head back to track 0, bumping up against the stop repeatedly. Favorite computer sound ever.
not a goatse, a mutant star goat! All of you, to the B ark!
We could all learn from this company. Take an existing product, put it in a new container, make it look "sexy" and sell it at an exorbitant price. Every time I see something like this, it's obvious that its a useless gimmick and I dismiss it, because of course everyone else will see through it as well. And nearly every time, I'm wrong. Another one in the insanely-expensive caffeine area is "Five Hour Energy." Just another horribly overpriced caffeinated liquid that provides the user with exactly the same drug as a pill that you can get for 1/200th the cost. WHY would anyone ever buy this? So what's next? Where can I score millions from stupid people? How about a little spring loaded canister with mini cookies that ejects one into your mouth with the push of a button? Bingo. Now I can sell $.10 worth of cookies for $3!
You're right, although it's left pretty ambiguous, it is definitely NOT inhaled. It's a fine powder that dissolves in the mouth, absorbed through digestive system. Just like every other orally consumed caffeine. Also, it costs roughly 100 times more than the exact same thing in a pill ($3/100mg aeroshot vs. 200 count 100mg caffeine pills for ~$6).
It's not "inhaled." You puff the powder into your mouth, it dissolves in the saliva in your mouth, then you essentially swallow the saliva+caffeine and it's absorbed in your digestive system. No better or faster than any other caffeine that you swallow, and I guarantee a bottle of Vivarin is going to cost a HELL of a lot less than this gimmick.
>> You can see evidence of this simply by looking up the Consumer Reports reliability scoring for This is normal in their reliability ratings though. The ratings indicate reported problems, and they always get worse as you go back in years. The one exception is redesign years. A lot of times you can tell when a model was redesigned because reliability ratings will go down in a later year, so something that was always rated good in the older years all of a sudden goes bad in a more recent year.
This doesn't make sense to me. How much manual labor is involved in manufacturing a motherboard? I would assume it's practically zero. Do chinese pick and place machines work for less than american ones? If anything, it ought to be cheaper to make in the US with sufficient automation.
i HATE it when politicians take away our pedos!
I have a couple of extra Wii's without working drives that I use (mostly) for netflix streaming. Another advantage over the other consoles is the Wii's power consumption is generally less than 1/10th of the PS3 or Xbox. Even in standby, the PS3 draws over 170 watts vs. about 15 for the Wii. Also, like others have mentioned, it's got one of the better Netflix interfaces, although I like the one on my Vizio TV as well. The Netflix interface on the TiVo Premiere is atrocious.
Thank _you_, marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
I can't remember how it ends, but your mothers a whore!
I agree with this. But it's worse with a cell phone, because the person on the other end is completely unaware of the situation that the driver is in. If I'm talking to someone that is in the car in rush hour traffic on the freeway, and I need to merge into a packed lane, the other person in the car sees that situation and generally the conversation is automatically paused until I'm done changing lanes (unless it's the kids, then I just ignore them for a few seconds). But on a cell phone, the person on the other end is going to keep talking expecting me to listen, and I'll feel obligated to continue the conversation when it would be better to put it on pause. There are lots of situations like this - turning left through traffic, avoiding debris in the road, etc..
"THC stays in the body much longer, with varying effect."
No it doesn't.. It is metabolized within a few hours. Non psychoactive metabolites are detectable for days/weeks, but a couple of hours after smoking pot you're more back to normal than a couple of hours after drinking alcohol.
"Some people report "flashback" highs, days or weeks later after using the drug."
No, you're misinformed.
And in TFA, cluelessGuy says "but seeing how a major tech company like this does it sounded like it would be very instructive". Calling a large warehouse that puts products in boxes a "major tech company" is beyond a stretch.
I was always under the impression that the majority of ./ers were engineers of some ilk.