Five way, if you count private enterprise separately. Six if you count the ESA separately as well.
I wonder if the current partners will try and bring China on board the space station project? It would probably be comforting to know there was another party that could reach it if the US and Russia (at the same time) were rendered unable to.
Well, so long as no one is trying to render anyone else unable to, it's comforting.
But wouldn't space-warfare eventually pretty much render itself impossible? I mean, eventually you'd get so much junk whizzing so many different directions sending a craft into orbit would be like sending it into a gigantic sand blaster. Or ball mill.
I do seem to recall someone, Scotty, I think on Star Trek referring to a scow cleaning space junk from earth orbit, though...
I'm from Alaska. It is very, very green in summer. It wouldn't be nearly so if it wasn't frozen for as much of the year as it is. Precipitation is fairly low (I've seen the interior referred to as "semi-arid"), but you wouldn't know it to look at it. That's because the northern parts of Alaska get a whole year's worth of precipitation dumped on them in just a couple of months, and the plants just love it.
Still, compare trees in AK to those elsewhere (note that I'm not sure how much of this is accounted for by them being different species, but I think they should be roughly comparable)...an interior Alaska white spruce is probably about twice as old as an Arizona ponderosa pine of the same diameter. And that isn't exactly a fast-growing tree or lush, green environment.
Oh, and who cares if volcanos put out more (of anything) than humans do? We're talking about complex dynamic systems here, where changing one input is going to affect so many other things you can't be exactly sure what it will do, and where small changes are just going to build into bigger ones.
In other words, shit not to be fucked with lightly.
I'm only familiar with Wiki through Wikipedia, but...
That's what the discussion and history sections are for. Disagreements can be tracked and differing viewpoints remain available despite attempts to silence them.
And it isn't the majority that decides these things...it's whoever is the most persistant and convincing of those who actually care enough to make the changes. And nothing convinces like well-documented facts, especially in an environment where money is probably not directly involved, and repetition makes you look like an idiot instead of "presidential."
The LCD is probably the only thing that doesn't seem like a TOTAL waste. I mean if she wants a big display (and is legally blind, apparantly, running something like that at 1024 by 768), but doesn't want it taking up the space, that's not such a bad idea.
The rest...I suggest you swap out parts from the new machine for the old ones and see if she notices. If you really want to drive the point home, that's probably the way to do it. (Have fun sleeping alone)
The reason SGI isn't getting the kind of credit it should is probably because of how they resisted linux and clustering for so long (before apparantly caving and deciding to go the direction the wind was blowing and put their expertise to doing the fashionable thing BETTER.)
Tell me I'm wrong, go ahead! Find one thing in that post which wasn't entirely defensible.
Maybe I should have added that Halo fans also take great offense that their digital drug might not be the pinnacle of perfection that they believe it to be. Just like Final Fantasy 7 fans.
If you're going to mod it down, mod it off-topic. That's the closest thing it came to being. (and even then it was in reply to an off topic part of an on topic parent)
You don't have to let a cat be your boss. That only happens if you're a pussy. Just feed it and be nice to it (without neccesarily taking any shit from it) and it will love you just the same.
You don't have to take orders from it, but you can't expect it to take orders from you.
That said, my dad trained a cat to attack people, once. Problem was, it would attack absolutely EVERYONE, ALL THE TIME. It disappeared one day. Probably taken by eagles. (Sitka is that kind of place...cats don't do very well there.)
I'd settle for AWD Corollas, Civics, Camrys, Mirages, Lancers (well, normal lancers), Accords, and Sentras...and well...just about EVERY damn car. Like they're available in in Japan. (INCLUDING the tiny little Kei cars)
There's hardly a car in Hokkaido that isn't 4WD. And those that aren't mostly aren't driven in winter.
Contrast that with Alaska. Those few affordable 4WD cars that ARE available are popular, where most passenger cars (not that SUVs aren't passenger cars, despite what the law says) are FWD. Hell, there are a lot of 2WD SUVs in Alaska.
But the X-box exclusives...the games that make you buy an X-box over other consoles, are mostly pretty weak. Even Halo isn't so attractive if you own a PC.
(Halo is the FF7 of FPSs. Good game. Not as good as it was hyped to be, and hyped for FAR too long...and originally it was hyped for a different platform. AND it's most strident fans usually never played another game in the same genre before it)
I mean, look at the x-box titles they get in Japan. Probably the most saleable exclusive apart from Halo is Shin Megami Tensei Nine, which looks like an alright game, but is missing the one factor common to all the really successful Megaten games (unless you count Devil Children)...Kazuma Kaneko, the character designer. Panzer Dragoon Orta is nice, but Panzer Dragoon didn't help the Saturn much...even in Japan it did pretty well but wan't really a rousing success.
The X-box was doomed from the start in Japan, and it had little to do with nationalism. Hell, Microsoft had a hit platform in Japan before! (MSX)
Only if you want to run today's bloated software (even open source), which as far as word processing goes doesn't do much now that a well-developed product 10 or 12 years ago didn't.
A 100 dollar computer, hell a 50 dollar computer doesn't seem out of reach if it doesn't have to run all of today's windows and linux apps, but only has to be capable of running more svelte applications which do the same things.
I used to work (well, sometimes it was work, mostly it was sitting on my ass) in the computer lab at the business school at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. It was a building which had recently been remodelled, and the room it was in was originally part of a larger room...the thermostat for which was in the office next door. Consequently we had the temperature of a room with 30+ computers in it being controlled from a room with two.
There was nothing else we could do but leave a window open.
At in 50 below weather, on the ground outside that window, there was green grass.
Just think of the energy we were wasting. Apparantly this sort of thing (contractors not including things that were in the contract, like ventilation controls for that room) happens a lot.
They sure didn:t help the N64. Manufacturing costs on every variation of optical media used for games at the time or since, proprietary or non, have been lower.
And MD *IS* optical. And Sony just released a "gigabyte MD" format. (With which they are apparantly determined to do nothing)
Christ on a crutch, look at sony recently. That's what happens when one company controls a format...you get a new, at least partly incompatible format every year or two. At least with their memory sticks they've tried to put them in all their products. You'd think they could use something they already had on hand, which IS rugged, and capacious, and doesn't really suck the batteries, instead of coming up with something new, probably more expensive because of it, and with fewer of the capabilities people really WANT.
Sony PSPs will be collector's items on ebay in a few years. Of interest to enthusiasts but not to anyone else.
The main reason people drive to the grocery store is that it ISNT two blocks away. It's more like 2 MILES if you're lucky.
Hey, ever notice how many morbidly obese people there are at a typical Walmart super center? The more of those get built, the more likely you are to be one of them.
Oh, yeah, and if you bought a house in some rats nest of cul-de-sacs in suburbia, 30 miles from work, and safely removed from unsightly commercial areas, way to go, you're a huge part of the problem. I hope you enjoy your heart attack.
Me, I'll continue my quest to find someplace livable in the US, or just say "fuck it" and move someplace where heroic medicine isn't required to give me my 75 years.
If that's what you consider the "highest standard of living" you're welcome to it.
The next person who holds up Canada as the only alternative to the current US health care system to my face will get my fist in theirs.
Japan has multiple public and private insurance programs, way more affordable than the US. They're not perfect (payments are capped on some so that for example, people get what should be one or two trips to the dentist turned into 4 or 5...), but they're good.
In everything they do RIGHT (which is a damn sight short of everything) they're probably a better model for the US than most other countries, having a somewhat similar economy, and similar tax rates.
Besides things like Mountain Dew and Jet Moto 2 on the playstation, or Red Bull and Wipeout XL, there have been ads in Half-life before.
There were servers on WON which had maps which were loaded with ads...presumably these ads were run by the companies being advertised. I don't recall what the companies were, but it just seemed like it would have been.
There was rarely anyone on these servers, and the maps sucked.
Also, as to their claims of "micro-segmentation," internet advertisers have been promising that for years and have been almost completely unable to deliver. I'm still getting ads for internet gambling (on sites that should know my interests a little better than that), and I won't even go to a REAL casino.
Why? My guess is they lack a large enough pool of advertisements to have ads available to match up to individual viewers. The closest I've seen is Google, who seemingly have ads from such a broad array of advertisers that they occasionally come up with something I like. (And since I'm usually not logged in, and often not on my own computer, they presumably don't even have a pattern of behavior to associate with me)
And lets talk about intrusiveness for a moment. Putting an ad into the middle of say, 2fort, isn't so bad. It pretty much lacks atmosphere as it is. Putting an ad into say, most Halo or UT 2004 maps, or Doom 3...that would, for the most part, be unavoidably cheesy. Like obvious product placement in movies ("I Robot" anyone?)
This is going to fail. Maybe not fail BIG, but it will fail. BEST CASE it will stick arond like banner ads. Most of the promises they're making to advertisers though, are bullshit. But what do you expect? These are salesmen offering their services as salesmen.
Another thing to put on the list of "things that are fucked up about San Angelo, Texas" is that Walmart actually has a better selection of high-end consumer cameras than the circuit city there does.
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Five way, if you count private enterprise separately. Six if you count the ESA separately as well.
I wonder if the current partners will try and bring China on board the space station project? It would probably be comforting to know there was another party that could reach it if the US and Russia (at the same time) were rendered unable to.
Well, so long as no one is trying to render anyone else unable to, it's comforting.
But wouldn't space-warfare eventually pretty much render itself impossible? I mean, eventually you'd get so much junk whizzing so many different directions sending a craft into orbit would be like sending it into a gigantic sand blaster. Or ball mill.
I do seem to recall someone, Scotty, I think on Star Trek referring to a scow cleaning space junk from earth orbit, though...
I'm from Alaska. It is very, very green in summer. It wouldn't be nearly so if it wasn't frozen for as much of the year as it is. Precipitation is fairly low (I've seen the interior referred to as "semi-arid"), but you wouldn't know it to look at it. That's because the northern parts of Alaska get a whole year's worth of precipitation dumped on them in just a couple of months, and the plants just love it.
Still, compare trees in AK to those elsewhere (note that I'm not sure how much of this is accounted for by them being different species, but I think they should be roughly comparable)...an interior Alaska white spruce is probably about twice as old as an Arizona ponderosa pine of the same diameter. And that isn't exactly a fast-growing tree or lush, green environment.
Oh, and who cares if volcanos put out more (of anything) than humans do? We're talking about complex dynamic systems here, where changing one input is going to affect so many other things you can't be exactly sure what it will do, and where small changes are just going to build into bigger ones.
In other words, shit not to be fucked with lightly.
If I understand correctly, it's "customer" with a little dash of "sucker" thrown in.
Look at your post with the tag line in place.
Kind of blends together.
I'm just picturing a bunch of geeks blowing millions of dollars on anime and games in one wild orgy of geekiness.
If he's guilty, it's of treason. Christ, it's not even an amendment, it's in the body of the constitution.
WTF is wrong with the bush administration/courts?
I'm only familiar with Wiki through Wikipedia, but...
That's what the discussion and history sections are for. Disagreements can be tracked and differing viewpoints remain available despite attempts to silence them.
And it isn't the majority that decides these things...it's whoever is the most persistant and convincing of those who actually care enough to make the changes. And nothing convinces like well-documented facts, especially in an environment where money is probably not directly involved, and repetition makes you look like an idiot instead of "presidential."
The LCD is probably the only thing that doesn't seem like a TOTAL waste. I mean if she wants a big display (and is legally blind, apparantly, running something like that at 1024 by 768), but doesn't want it taking up the space, that's not such a bad idea.
The rest...I suggest you swap out parts from the new machine for the old ones and see if she notices. If you really want to drive the point home, that's probably the way to do it. (Have fun sleeping alone)
Nothings wrong with it. It just doesn't generally win any points with the Slashdot crowd.
Thanks GW!
The reason SGI isn't getting the kind of credit it should is probably because of how they resisted linux and clustering for so long (before apparantly caving and deciding to go the direction the wind was blowing and put their expertise to doing the fashionable thing BETTER.)
Slashdot carries grudges.
Troll, my ass!
Tell me I'm wrong, go ahead! Find one thing in that post which wasn't entirely defensible.
Maybe I should have added that Halo fans also take great offense that their digital drug might not be the pinnacle of perfection that they believe it to be. Just like Final Fantasy 7 fans.
If you're going to mod it down, mod it off-topic. That's the closest thing it came to being. (and even then it was in reply to an off topic part of an on topic parent)
Stop giving moderator access to crackheads.
You don't have to let a cat be your boss. That only happens if you're a pussy. Just feed it and be nice to it (without neccesarily taking any shit from it) and it will love you just the same.
You don't have to take orders from it, but you can't expect it to take orders from you.
That said, my dad trained a cat to attack people, once. Problem was, it would attack absolutely EVERYONE, ALL THE TIME. It disappeared one day. Probably taken by eagles. (Sitka is that kind of place...cats don't do very well there.)
I'd settle for AWD Corollas, Civics, Camrys, Mirages, Lancers (well, normal lancers), Accords, and Sentras...and well...just about EVERY damn car. Like they're available in in Japan. (INCLUDING the tiny little Kei cars)
There's hardly a car in Hokkaido that isn't 4WD. And those that aren't mostly aren't driven in winter.
Contrast that with Alaska. Those few affordable 4WD cars that ARE available are popular, where most passenger cars (not that SUVs aren't passenger cars, despite what the law says) are FWD. Hell, there are a lot of 2WD SUVs in Alaska.
What the FUCK is wrong with this picture?
But the X-box exclusives...the games that make you buy an X-box over other consoles, are mostly pretty weak. Even Halo isn't so attractive if you own a PC.
(Halo is the FF7 of FPSs. Good game. Not as good as it was hyped to be, and hyped for FAR too long...and originally it was hyped for a different platform. AND it's most strident fans usually never played another game in the same genre before it)
I mean, look at the x-box titles they get in Japan. Probably the most saleable exclusive apart from Halo is Shin Megami Tensei Nine, which looks like an alright game, but is missing the one factor common to all the really successful Megaten games (unless you count Devil Children)...Kazuma Kaneko, the character designer. Panzer Dragoon Orta is nice, but Panzer Dragoon didn't help the Saturn much...even in Japan it did pretty well but wan't really a rousing success.
The X-box was doomed from the start in Japan, and it had little to do with nationalism. Hell, Microsoft had a hit platform in Japan before! (MSX)
Only if you want to run today's bloated software (even open source), which as far as word processing goes doesn't do much now that a well-developed product 10 or 12 years ago didn't.
A 100 dollar computer, hell a 50 dollar computer doesn't seem out of reach if it doesn't have to run all of today's windows and linux apps, but only has to be capable of running more svelte applications which do the same things.
Have been using this approach for decades.
I used to work (well, sometimes it was work, mostly it was sitting on my ass) in the computer lab at the business school at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. It was a building which had recently been remodelled, and the room it was in was originally part of a larger room...the thermostat for which was in the office next door. Consequently we had the temperature of a room with 30+ computers in it being controlled from a room with two.
There was nothing else we could do but leave a window open.
At in 50 below weather, on the ground outside that window, there was green grass.
Just think of the energy we were wasting. Apparantly this sort of thing (contractors not including things that were in the contract, like ventilation controls for that room) happens a lot.
They sure didn:t help the N64. Manufacturing costs on every variation of optical media used for games at the time or since, proprietary or non, have been lower.
And MD *IS* optical. And Sony just released a "gigabyte MD" format. (With which they are apparantly determined to do nothing)
Or, I dunno...like sony's own Minidiscs.
Christ on a crutch, look at sony recently. That's what happens when one company controls a format...you get a new, at least partly incompatible format every year or two. At least with their memory sticks they've tried to put them in all their products. You'd think they could use something they already had on hand, which IS rugged, and capacious, and doesn't really suck the batteries, instead of coming up with something new, probably more expensive because of it, and with fewer of the capabilities people really WANT.
Sony PSPs will be collector's items on ebay in a few years. Of interest to enthusiasts but not to anyone else.
The main reason people drive to the grocery store is that it ISNT two blocks away. It's more like 2 MILES if you're lucky.
Hey, ever notice how many morbidly obese people there are at a typical Walmart super center? The more of those get built, the more likely you are to be one of them.
Oh, yeah, and if you bought a house in some rats nest of cul-de-sacs in suburbia, 30 miles from work, and safely removed from unsightly commercial areas, way to go, you're a huge part of the problem. I hope you enjoy your heart attack.
Me, I'll continue my quest to find someplace livable in the US, or just say "fuck it" and move someplace where heroic medicine isn't required to give me my 75 years.
If that's what you consider the "highest standard of living" you're welcome to it.
The next person who holds up Canada as the only alternative to the current US health care system to my face will get my fist in theirs.
Japan has multiple public and private insurance programs, way more affordable than the US. They're not perfect (payments are capped on some so that for example, people get what should be one or two trips to the dentist turned into 4 or 5...), but they're good.
In everything they do RIGHT (which is a damn sight short of everything) they're probably a better model for the US than most other countries, having a somewhat similar economy, and similar tax rates.
Why did I join the Air Force instead of another branch of the service? Because they never called my fucking house, that's why!
Besides things like Mountain Dew and Jet Moto 2 on the playstation, or Red Bull and Wipeout XL, there have been ads in Half-life before.
There were servers on WON which had maps which were loaded with ads...presumably these ads were run by the companies being advertised. I don't recall what the companies were, but it just seemed like it would have been.
There was rarely anyone on these servers, and the maps sucked.
Also, as to their claims of "micro-segmentation," internet advertisers have been promising that for years and have been almost completely unable to deliver. I'm still getting ads for internet gambling (on sites that should know my interests a little better than that), and I won't even go to a REAL casino.
Why? My guess is they lack a large enough pool of advertisements to have ads available to match up to individual viewers. The closest I've seen is Google, who seemingly have ads from such a broad array of advertisers that they occasionally come up with something I like. (And since I'm usually not logged in, and often not on my own computer, they presumably don't even have a pattern of behavior to associate with me)
And lets talk about intrusiveness for a moment. Putting an ad into the middle of say, 2fort, isn't so bad. It pretty much lacks atmosphere as it is. Putting an ad into say, most Halo or UT 2004 maps, or Doom 3...that would, for the most part, be unavoidably cheesy. Like obvious product placement in movies ("I Robot" anyone?)
This is going to fail. Maybe not fail BIG, but it will fail. BEST CASE it will stick arond like banner ads. Most of the promises they're making to advertisers though, are bullshit. But what do you expect? These are salesmen offering their services as salesmen.
Another thing to put on the list of "things that are fucked up about San Angelo, Texas" is that Walmart actually has a better selection of high-end consumer cameras than the circuit city there does.