Seems to me that establishing a long-term relationship with fewer as opposed to screwing people over in volume would make good business sense to garner repeat business.
That makes no sense at all; the opposite should be true. You want stable employment, whereas the headhunter would want you skipping from job to job. Right?
I then asked him, "Look at it from my perpective. I am a consulant and if someone can't reach me, I loose money. Even a small contract usually totals several thousand dollars."
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...and looked at the fact of the time it would take to call all of my clients and tell them I have a new number and the fact it would cost me about $8.50 more a month with Altell...
So, it's you're business phone, and your livelihood depends on its reliability, but you balk at $8.50 more per month for decent service?
The wrong question is being asked here. Humanity does not make decisions as a whole, so how can you ask humanity why it should go into space? The question is why should YOU go to space. Competition will get us there like it's gotten us here. The United States needs to go to space because if we don't, Europe or China will go there first and leave us behind. Technology, resources, military advantage, it's all floating over our heads waiting for someone with ambition to reach up and grab it. Someone will.
You think the only reason people are more willing to buy DVD's is that they're harder to swap on the net? I think customers also have a certain respect for the fact that a movie typically takes hundreds of people and millions of dollars to produce, whereas a CD takes tens of people (I'm guessing, maybe less) and thousands of dollars.
Why do people always say stuff like that? Nuts. You don't even notice the graphics after a few weeks. The game isn't in the presentation, it's in the mechanics. That's what the game is to those who still play it. The moving and shooting, not the pretty skins.
Some people don't even care if the player models look like people; they use stickmen versions for higher FPS and to precisely show the hitboxes. Think about it this way: is chess just as fun when you use plain, functional pieces instead of carved, beautiful pieces?
Is there a constitutional right to privacy that I missed?
Yes, the courts have found that there is an implied right to privacy in the Bill of Rights as a whole, though it is not specifically stated in any one amendment.
Believe it or not, people who go to college really DO know more.
I'm not implying anything, but given the choice of staying in this not very fun game or ending it, the vast majority of people would say that they still want to stay.
Naw, it's just that there's nothing better out right now.
I thought about it. I don't like taking away the rights of the convicted, especially basic, fundamental rights like privacy and bodily integrity. People make mistakes, and if society doesn't execute them as punishment, then the intent must be to rehabilitate them, make them responsible and civil. Jails don't do that; jails breed criminals. Subcutaneous tracking devices won't do that; they'll make the criminals get used to being tracked. I don't want anyone in society to be forced to accept Big Brother.
I totally agree. What makes them think they have to right to write another country's laws? Have they not noticed all the Iraqi's protesting the American presence? Yes, the same people who were gathered in the streets to cheer the fall of Saddam are now gathered in the streets demanding that their "liberators" take a hike.
They want to run their own country, go figure. As soon as we get out of the way, the first law they'll pass with their shiny new American-built government will be the Tossing Out All That American Shit and Doing It Our Way Act of 2003. Who wouldn't?
That much is obvious (at least to me), so why are the Americans going to the trouble of writing all these laws they won't be able to enforce when they're gone? Because they're not leaving, at least not until they've installed a puppet Iraqi government with strings stretching all the way across the Atlantic.
I read an article in a newspaper either yesterday or Friday about how a citizen of Baghdad declared himself mayor of the city. He started organizing committees and basically getting the city back on its feet. What was the American response? They arrested him for being a "dissident". It was that example that finally made it clear to me that the invading Americans don't want to give the Iraqi people any real freedom at all. They just want to be newer, more politically correct Saddams.
Can anyone blame them for wanting to run their own country? THAT'S the American Way, after all. Not federal republics with an electoral college copywrite laws and whatever other details; they don't matter. It's GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. That's what really matters to the future of Iraq.
I used to laugh at the Iraqi Information Minister when he called the invading forces "zionists" and "colonialists". I still don't know WTF a "zionist" is, but I have to say he was completely right about them being colonialists.
Oh yeah, and I'm an American, born and raised in Oklahoma and now living deep in the conservative heart of Texas (ignore UT when reading that statement). I was pretty gung-ho about the war (war is fun!) but this shit they're doing over there now is just WRONG. I want to scream it with every bone in my body. LEAVE THEM ALONE.
It seems like quite a few groups have gotten to the "engine test in the desert" phase. Not too many have actually flown something around. Don't think I'll get my hopes up until I see some of that from these guys.
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Because Cg runs on a GPU and C runs on a CPU. If you don't know the difference, just forget that Cg exists for awhile; you have a long way to go.
Please. What a ridiculous non-issue. That sort of thing is so far from where we are now that we couldn't possibly decide the ethics of it. It's like a caveman debating the ethics of using Freon.
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Seems to me that establishing a long-term relationship with fewer as opposed to screwing people over in volume would make good business sense to garner repeat business.
That makes no sense at all; the opposite should be true. You want stable employment, whereas the headhunter would want you skipping from job to job. Right?
I then asked him, "Look at it from my perpective. I am a consulant and if someone can't reach me, I loose money. Even a small contract usually totals several thousand dollars."
...and looked at the fact of the time it would take to call all of my clients and tell them I have a new number and the fact it would cost me about $8.50 more a month with Altell...
and
So, it's you're business phone, and your livelihood depends on its reliability, but you balk at $8.50 more per month for decent service?
Just get a USB->RS232 cable.
That's another layer of complexity. It may work fine for Rube Goldberg but the less things to break, the better.
So, making the 5 RS232 users left in the world buy a simple dongle is more complex than building an extra port into every motherboard?
notpad can't even do line numbers.
Control-G.
The wrong question is being asked here. Humanity does not make decisions as a whole, so how can you ask humanity why it should go into space? The question is why should YOU go to space. Competition will get us there like it's gotten us here. The United States needs to go to space because if we don't, Europe or China will go there first and leave us behind. Technology, resources, military advantage, it's all floating over our heads waiting for someone with ambition to reach up and grab it. Someone will.
You think the only reason people are more willing to buy DVD's is that they're harder to swap on the net? I think customers also have a certain respect for the fact that a movie typically takes hundreds of people and millions of dollars to produce, whereas a CD takes tens of people (I'm guessing, maybe less) and thousands of dollars.
It's strange that very few other games have tried this technique, as it seems to have worked very well.
It's not a game, but the Matrix did this. Neo only speaks a few dozen lines, all of them insubstantial (except for his final monologue).
The graphics suck...a lot.
Why do people always say stuff like that? Nuts. You don't even notice the graphics after a few weeks. The game isn't in the presentation, it's in the mechanics. That's what the game is to those who still play it. The moving and shooting, not the pretty skins.
Some people don't even care if the player models look like people; they use stickmen versions for higher FPS and to precisely show the hitboxes. Think about it this way: is chess just as fun when you use plain, functional pieces instead of carved, beautiful pieces?
No offense, but how dumb do you have to be to skydive in hail?
Is there a constitutional right to privacy that I missed?
Yes, the courts have found that there is an implied right to privacy in the Bill of Rights as a whole, though it is not specifically stated in any one amendment.
Believe it or not, people who go to college really DO know more.
I'm not implying anything, but given the choice of staying in this not very fun game or ending it, the vast majority of people would say that they still want to stay.
Naw, it's just that there's nothing better out right now.
I thought about it. I don't like taking away the rights of the convicted, especially basic, fundamental rights like privacy and bodily integrity. People make mistakes, and if society doesn't execute them as punishment, then the intent must be to rehabilitate them, make them responsible and civil. Jails don't do that; jails breed criminals. Subcutaneous tracking devices won't do that; they'll make the criminals get used to being tracked. I don't want anyone in society to be forced to accept Big Brother.
I totally agree. What makes them think they have to right to write another country's laws? Have they not noticed all the Iraqi's protesting the American presence? Yes, the same people who were gathered in the streets to cheer the fall of Saddam are now gathered in the streets demanding that their "liberators" take a hike.
They want to run their own country, go figure. As soon as we get out of the way, the first law they'll pass with their shiny new American-built government will be the Tossing Out All That American Shit and Doing It Our Way Act of 2003. Who wouldn't?
That much is obvious (at least to me), so why are the Americans going to the trouble of writing all these laws they won't be able to enforce when they're gone? Because they're not leaving, at least not until they've installed a puppet Iraqi government with strings stretching all the way across the Atlantic.
I read an article in a newspaper either yesterday or Friday about how a citizen of Baghdad declared himself mayor of the city. He started organizing committees and basically getting the city back on its feet. What was the American response? They arrested him for being a "dissident". It was that example that finally made it clear to me that the invading Americans don't want to give the Iraqi people any real freedom at all. They just want to be newer, more politically correct Saddams.
Can anyone blame them for wanting to run their own country? THAT'S the American Way, after all. Not federal republics with an electoral college copywrite laws and whatever other details; they don't matter. It's GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. That's what really matters to the future of Iraq.
I used to laugh at the Iraqi Information Minister when he called the invading forces "zionists" and "colonialists". I still don't know WTF a "zionist" is, but I have to say he was completely right about them being colonialists.
Oh yeah, and I'm an American, born and raised in Oklahoma and now living deep in the conservative heart of Texas (ignore UT when reading that statement). I was pretty gung-ho about the war (war is fun!) but this shit they're doing over there now is just WRONG. I want to scream it with every bone in my body. LEAVE THEM ALONE.
Actually, the link you referenced mentions they DO need filter replacements, specifically every 3 to 6 months.
It seems like quite a few groups have gotten to the "engine test in the desert" phase. Not too many have actually flown something around. Don't think I'll get my hopes up until I see some of that from these guys.
Because Cg runs on a GPU and C runs on a CPU. If you don't know the difference, just forget that Cg exists for awhile; you have a long way to go.
Please. What a ridiculous non-issue. That sort of thing is so far from where we are now that we couldn't possibly decide the ethics of it. It's like a caveman debating the ethics of using Freon.
So... they created the Matrix in order to run the Matrix? How much sense does that make?
This thing isn't about blinding; it's a video-game style laser blaster. It kills. Of course, it could still blind someone in the way an M-16 could...
Are you kidding me? An INTERNATIONAL TREASURE? It's a hunk of rock. The planet you're standing on is the international treasure.
Mine the damned Moon already.
To generate water you typically would need about 5 m2 from mars to november.
WTF is this guy trying to say?
Wow, really?!? I read about that in Popular Science years ago, and it's been on Slashdot more than once, as well.
"tax cuts for rich people"
You say that like it's inherently wrong. Surely you realize that the rich still pay far higher tax rates than the lower economic classes. Yes, RATES.
Get it out of your head that being rich is a sin.
"He's developed a batch of inventions - an electric fork for twirling spaghetti,..."
I think that's sort of a "Hello World" for inventors.
Sounds kind of expensive. Better business plan: create a post on a large website SUGGESTING that there are lots of highly attractive women there.