That's assuming the manager/employees at your local store even know what those things are or why people would want them.
I've found that the trick is finding a store with an older male employee. They tend to know a little better what the parts are, what they do, why people would want them, and even understand the DIY attitude.
Hell, one time I went to a "The Shack," and asked a younger employee if they had any turntable preamps in stock. Her response: "Yuh mean like speakers fer like deejayin' and stuff?"
I'm a lot more likely to pick up a game featuring someone like me.
Perhaps more importantly, I'm more likely to make a game featuring someone like me.
Most of the time, writers write from experience. If one tries to write about something he has no knowledge of, it usually descends quickly into stereotypes and fallacies. For example, it would be nigh upon impossible for me, a country raised white male to create a story featuring a black girl from Brooklyn.
The solution is for the road maintenance crews in the western part of Texas to stop complaining and do their job.
On the other hand, the problem could be dealt with completely by blocking off all the roads. The roads will last substantially longer without all that pesky traffic.
The only real purpose cassettes have anymore is making mixtapes, but that firmly into the realm of cliche. Of course, that's on top of being completely useless, as most people can fit their entire music collection onto a device the size of their thumb, even audiophiles.
The head of the amazing Italian place would probably trade place with the head of McDonalds in a heartbeat.
So, the head of the company making the Zune would trade places with the head of the company making of the iPod in a heartbeat. By similar reasoning, the head of the company making OSX would trade places with the head of the company making Windows in a heartbeat.
Thus Microsoft and Apple get into an infinite loop of Steve-swapping.
I appreciate your points. However, I'm more than a little bitter thinking that the money I have paying into the system for so many years is going to a foreign company, especially when I'm having such a hard time finding a job in my home country. Nobody is hiring.
I apologize if I offended you.
Oh, and one more thing. We don't need more cars. We need decent freakin' public transportation in this country. In Europe, it's everywhere. Here, you have to live in a "major" city and even then it's shaky at best.
I don't mean to sound like a conspiracy-theorist but the U. S. car companies have been fighting against public transportation for years. Woodward Ave. in Detroit used to have a decent trolley service that was heavily used in the city and surrounding suburbs. Henry Ford killed that fairly quickly.
SiO2
The money is indeed going to a foreign company, but this company has three manufacturing plants in the US, and is currently performing research into new vehicles. For example, "The Renault-Nissan Alliance today announced that Nissan is forming a partnership with Progress Energy of Raleigh, N.C., and the Raleigh-based nonprofit agency Advanced Energy, to advance zero-emission mobility by promoting the development of an electric vehicle (EV) charging network. Nissan will introduce zero-emission vehicles in the United States in 2010, starting with a 5-passenger compact vehicle that will have a range of 100 miles on a single charge. " Also, Nissan is a better investment than some US Government-owned companies...
While I agree that public transportation is good, it simply won't work as long as Americans love sprawling cities that are greatly spread apart. It's just not financially feasible to provide adequate service to such a large area. Of course the car companies have been fighting against public transportation. The problem was that nobody fought back.
By now, everybody knows that some comments are incorrectly moderated Troll/Offtopic/Flamebait/etc early on, and will eventually be modded correctly.
In fact, I'm starting to wonder if people post things like "Why was this moderated as a 'Troll'?" after good comments, regardless of whether it was actually moderated as a troll, just to piggyback off the comment's success.
By your definition, and by popular definition, if I take a dump on a stage and stick a flag in it, that is an artistic endeavor no different from painting a masterpiece.
90% of a piece being declared art lies simply in the artist declaring that it is art. Marcel Duchamp, for example.
You dont pay your water bill by your pipe-diameter, or your electricity bill by your wire-gauge. So why should you pay your internet becaue of the maximum throughput possible?
It's more accurate to compare internet service to phone service, where both cell and home phone companies offer unlimited plans at flat monthly rates.
Slashdot Mirror
Meh... it's not that bad. I haven't been on the internet now for months, and I don't miss it one bit. :p
oblig xkcd
Yes, but they patented sending messages between people.
Actually, the Africans probably flew there from Golgafrincham.
That's assuming the manager/employees at your local store even know what those things are or why people would want them.
I've found that the trick is finding a store with an older male employee.
They tend to know a little better what the parts are, what they do, why people would want them, and even understand the DIY attitude.
Hell, one time I went to a "The Shack," and asked a younger employee if they had any turntable preamps in stock.
Her response: "Yuh mean like speakers fer like deejayin' and stuff?"
Until three shall you count, and the number of your count shall be three...
Ref: The Hand Grenade of Antioch
We are the knights who... oh God, I'm so sorry,
So sorry, the car just came too fast and
She was right there and I saw her and then it was a blur and so much
I ran to help didn't know what she wasn't moving I'm so sorry...
Anyway, yeah, Knights who say "Ni."
I'm a lot more likely to pick up a game featuring someone like me.
Perhaps more importantly, I'm more likely to make a game featuring someone like me.
Most of the time, writers write from experience. If one tries to write about something he has no knowledge of, it usually descends quickly into stereotypes and fallacies.
For example, it would be nigh upon impossible for me, a country raised white male to create a story featuring a black girl from Brooklyn.
And me of some We The Robots
http://www.wetherobots.com/2007/11/12/the-delegate/
And the corollary
"Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid."
-Despair, Inc.
now that's a rejoinder that you could only find on slashdot...
It is fairly complex...
The solution is for the road maintenance crews in the western part of Texas to stop complaining and do their job.
On the other hand, the problem could be dealt with completely by blocking off all the roads. The roads will last substantially longer without all that pesky traffic.
Gromit, that's it! Cheese!
We'll go somewhere
where there's cheese!
Where were we...?
Places you find cheese...
Lancashire, Cheddar, Wensleydale,
Philadelphia, Tesco's....
Everybody knows
the moon's made of cheese.
At one point, at least, there was the option on Amazon to buy the OLPC, but only if you bought one to donate.
Offtopic, but "cue" and "queue" are, in fact, homophones.
I'm pretty sure that GP was right, since "cue" (pronounced kew) and "queue" (pronounced kwe-yu) are not homophones.
Okay, Okay.
But he uses "opposite" instead of "contrapositive" in his sig.
Can we deride him for that?
The only real purpose cassettes have anymore is making mixtapes, but that firmly into the realm of cliche.
Of course, that's on top of being completely useless, as most people can fit their entire music collection onto a device the size of their thumb, even audiophiles.
We'll meet again,
Don't know where,
Don't know when...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrWz9XVvls
The head of the amazing Italian place would probably trade place with the head of McDonalds in a heartbeat.
So, the head of the company making the Zune would trade places with the head of the company making of the iPod in a heartbeat.
By similar reasoning, the head of the company making OSX would trade places with the head of the company making Windows in a heartbeat.
Thus Microsoft and Apple get into an infinite loop of Steve-swapping.
Or maybe he's an albino.
...yet.
I appreciate your points. However, I'm more than a little bitter thinking that the money I have paying into the system for so many years is going to a foreign company, especially when I'm having such a hard time finding a job in my home country. Nobody is hiring.
I apologize if I offended you.
Oh, and one more thing. We don't need more cars. We need decent freakin' public transportation in this country. In Europe, it's everywhere. Here, you have to live in a "major" city and even then it's shaky at best.
I don't mean to sound like a conspiracy-theorist but the U. S. car companies have been fighting against public transportation for years. Woodward Ave. in Detroit used to have a decent trolley service that was heavily used in the city and surrounding suburbs. Henry Ford killed that fairly quickly.
SiO2
The money is indeed going to a foreign company, but this company has three manufacturing plants in the US, and is currently performing research into new vehicles. For example, "The Renault-Nissan Alliance today announced that Nissan is forming a partnership with Progress Energy of Raleigh, N.C., and the Raleigh-based nonprofit agency Advanced Energy, to advance zero-emission mobility by promoting the development of an electric vehicle (EV) charging network. Nissan will introduce zero-emission vehicles in the United States in 2010, starting with a 5-passenger compact vehicle that will have a range of 100 miles on a single charge. "
Also, Nissan is a better investment than some US Government-owned companies...
While I agree that public transportation is good, it simply won't work as long as Americans love sprawling cities that are greatly spread apart. It's just not financially feasible to provide adequate service to such a large area. Of course the car companies have been fighting against public transportation. The problem was that nobody fought back.
Why was this modded insightful?
By now, everybody knows that some comments are incorrectly moderated Troll/Offtopic/Flamebait/etc early on, and will eventually be modded correctly.
In fact, I'm starting to wonder if people post things like "Why was this moderated as a 'Troll'?" after good comments, regardless of whether it was actually moderated as a troll, just to piggyback off the comment's success.
Weird. Most of the geeks I know are far from defenseless.
-Peter
Yes, but trebuchets and USB missile launchers aren't very good at short range defense.
By your definition, and by popular definition, if I take a dump on a stage and stick a flag in it, that is an artistic endeavor no different from painting a masterpiece.
90% of a piece being declared art lies simply in the artist declaring that it is art.
Marcel Duchamp, for example.
It'd help even more if they kicked the homeless out of the old Rochester subway, and reopened it for service.
Yes, yes there was a subway in Ra-cha-cha.
You dont pay your water bill by your pipe-diameter, or your electricity bill by your wire-gauge.
So why should you pay your internet becaue of the maximum throughput possible?
It's more accurate to compare internet service to phone service, where both cell and home phone companies offer unlimited plans at flat monthly rates.