Yeah. I really need an alarm that allows you to record a holographic message.
"Hey, Jackass. You said you wanted to get up at 7:00, and it sounded like you meant it. No, you cannot skip a shower this morning. No, one more snooze means you'll probably forget to shave. Yes, you have to brush your teeth every morning. No. No snoozing AT ALL."
Many of the folks that cash in on the Pepsi songs will have to first download iTunes for the first time on their PC, sign up for iTMS, (enter credit card information?), and download their 1 song.
Hmm. Look at all these other songs. My 1 song is looking awful lonely.
Apple probably barely wanted any cut. $0.30 to the labels, tops. And Pepsi probably has great marketting data indicating what percentage of customers are likely to follow through and sit down at their computer to collect winnings. If that's less than... say... 4% (and it could be), then Pepsi might be paying close to $0.01/song.
My understanding was that if an owner of a single share can prove in court that the CEO or board of directors acted in a way counter to the companies charter (I'm sure there are further requirements of poor behavior) then they can sue for damages.
I realize y'all sysadmins assume that you are the world of computing, but... you're not. I'd assume that he's interested in software engineering. There are many roles in software engineering that directly depend on an academic computer science background.
It might be hard to get those jobs, but... that's what a lot of CS students are interested in. If he said he desperately wanted to spend 40 hours a week managing Windows installations, I'd agree with you.
My dad got one of those machines that applies mild air pressure to your nose all night long, keeping your soft palate from closing up when you exhale.
He'd had all the surgery with mild results. He says the machine has changed his life. He looks like a translucent elephant when he wears it (and it looks like the weirdest sex toy ever, coiled next to the bed), but it lets him get restful sleep and it's ceased the wear and tear on his heart. Sleep apnea kills.
Easy to snooze, but hard to accidentally turn off completely. Bonus points if turning it off means being cognizant enough to operate a screwdriver or tool of some kind.
I had exactly this problem. I solved it by getting an alarm clock loud enough to wake me up from across the room (RadioShack, $15 tops). Caltrops can be useful to make it so that walking across your room is difficult. Now I've trained myself pretty well to snooze rather than disable the alarm, but the walk across the room is helpful because it means that even getting up to hit snooze wakes me up a little.
When I was in a smaller room (everything could be reached without getting out of bed), I wrapped packing tape around the off button on the alarm. I could only hit snooze unless I removed the tape.
I can't tell you how many mornings I woke up struggling to remove that tape.
The only way I've ever had decent sleeping habits was when I spent time outdoors away from any artificial light. Within 24 hours, I perfectly adjusted to falling asleep at sundown and waking just before sun up. Weird to think that I was going to sleep at 8:30 PM and waking up at 5:00 AM without any prompting.
I wish I had the self control to do that normally.
IIRC, the Swedish military has focused on drastic technological improvements so that they can become a faster, leaner, more efficient fighting force, making them useful as a member of international military efforts.
Their military is very small, but they want it to be very very good so that it can be of some use around the world. It's not for border defense (although I'm sure it'd help there too).
Dunno about MechWarrior, but Halo is pretty easy on a gamepad. My assumption is just that you're very used to the mouse and keyboard combo, so it's a new approach to you and hard to handle.
And if that is your assumption, then you really don't understand why we're complaining. When people use a joystick for FPSs on PCs (and they do) they don't use it to replace the mouse. They use it to replace the keyboard. The mouse is at least an order of magnitude faster for aiming. You must judge (1) how far to move the joystick and (2) how long to hold it there. With a mouse, you must judge (1) how far to move the mouse. Muscle memory puts it at exactly that location. There is no angular distance that you would like to turn that takes more time than any other angular distance. If someone is behind you, the second that you notice it, they are in front of you.
Obviously, I could go on and on.
The joystick gives you all kinds of cool features that a keyboard does not. Keyboards are only completely required when you don't have voice chat. Otherwise, slap on enough buttons, and a controller can replace a keyboard..
Not a mouse. That can't be replaced by a trackball, a joystick, a touchpad, or anything else. Not for an FPS.
Geforce 4MX is a piece of crap card. That's equivilant to a Geforce 2.
MX. A Geforce 4MX is equivalent to a Geforce 2MX. Mildly better. There are plenty of things that a Geforce 2 GTS can do that beat the hell out of a Geforce 4MX.
The first generation was definitely li-poly. They have either changed, or Apple doesn't feel that they need to make the distinction. (Li-poly batteries are li-ion batteries, if I understand correctly. In li-poly batteries, the ions are in a polymer substrate rather than a liquid.)
And 40" of TV goodness even at standard resolution kills 17" of monitor for my taste anyway.
Well, I disagree. I need much more resolution. And if we're talking about HDTV, we are also talking about a *lot* of money. Apple Cinema Displays are in the competition.
You're right, it's about gameplay. My desire for resolution is because certain types of gameplay are totally impossible without lots of visual information being presented to the player. Imagine Civ 3 at 512x384.
As for controls, I don't care about an even playing field so much as a better connection to the machine. Your point only applies to multiplayer FPSs with untrusted opponents, and not that well.
I don't know, I see both sides.
Me too. That's why I want the better resolution and controls on the consoles *now* damnit:)
even though there are PC exclusive online games that I love to play, I'd rather be playing them on Xbox Live.
On a television? Without a mouse or keyboard? Obviously, more work is put into more games for consoles. The best writers are all probably employed on console games. Perhaps many of the best engineers and designers work on console games. However. You have to play them with mittens and bottle bottom glasses.
I need that like I need a broomshoved up my ass.
Some day, consoles will work with high res displays (for less $ than a PC setup, please) and will have more precise input. I dream of that day.
Li-poly cells are more forgiving, but with most of the benefits of Li-ion cells. I don't know how popular they are outside of R/C applications, however.
And, of course, iPods. iPods are li-poly. They are only more forgiving in that if/when they explode or burn, you have a hunk of burning plastic rather than a pool of burning liquid. If they are physically damaged, there's no toxic fluid to leak everywhere.
Currently, their device is only available in one Rio player, and that Rio costs $200. However, you just asked for the storage. I don't necessarily believe the rumors. However, I win your stupid challenge.
Oh. Sorry. How much traffic do you get? Are you *sure* you're in the same ballpark?
2. I've never seen a "wikipedia" link in any of *my * Google searches. I don't know what you're searching for.
I see it all the time. Just the other day, someone mentioned the octothorpe, and I was curious what other funny names there were for punctuation, so I searched on a few names for punctuation and got back this page. While I might have had an uncommon question, it's usually in the top ten for my (frequent) uncommon questions on Google.
3. My server is paid for every month like clockwork.
Right, well, we know why that is.
4. $20K?? That's insane. With $20K, I could handle... hmm... at least 1.2m hits a day for a year.
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So why is my ghosting 10x worse with digital cable?
Yeah. I really need an alarm that allows you to record a holographic message.
"Hey, Jackass. You said you wanted to get up at 7:00, and it sounded like you meant it. No, you cannot skip a shower this morning. No, one more snooze means you'll probably forget to shave. Yes, you have to brush your teeth every morning. No. No snoozing AT ALL."
Many of the folks that cash in on the Pepsi songs will have to first download iTunes for the first time on their PC, sign up for iTMS, (enter credit card information?), and download their 1 song.
Hmm. Look at all these other songs. My 1 song is looking awful lonely.
Apple probably barely wanted any cut. $0.30 to the labels, tops. And Pepsi probably has great marketting data indicating what percentage of customers are likely to follow through and sit down at their computer to collect winnings. If that's less than... say... 4% (and it could be), then Pepsi might be paying close to $0.01/song.
Ok, not that low. But low, low, low.
Max Payne was too easy the whole way through. Adaptive my anus.
I don't think that flies in court at all.
My understanding was that if an owner of a single share can prove in court that the CEO or board of directors acted in a way counter to the companies charter (I'm sure there are further requirements of poor behavior) then they can sue for damages.
the owners of the company can tell the fund managers to go straight to hell, and there ain't a damn thing the fund managers can do about it.
Then what's all this about shareholders suing companies because they don't act in their shareholders' best interests?
Who said IT?
I realize y'all sysadmins assume that you are the world of computing, but... you're not. I'd assume that he's interested in software engineering. There are many roles in software engineering that directly depend on an academic computer science background.
It might be hard to get those jobs, but... that's what a lot of CS students are interested in. If he said he desperately wanted to spend 40 hours a week managing Windows installations, I'd agree with you.
My dad got one of those machines that applies mild air pressure to your nose all night long, keeping your soft palate from closing up when you exhale.
He'd had all the surgery with mild results. He says the machine has changed his life. He looks like a translucent elephant when he wears it (and it looks like the weirdest sex toy ever, coiled next to the bed), but it lets him get restful sleep and it's ceased the wear and tear on his heart. Sleep apnea kills.
Easy to snooze, but hard to accidentally turn off completely. Bonus points if turning it off means being cognizant enough to operate a screwdriver or tool of some kind.
I had exactly this problem. I solved it by getting an alarm clock loud enough to wake me up from across the room (RadioShack, $15 tops). Caltrops can be useful to make it so that walking across your room is difficult. Now I've trained myself pretty well to snooze rather than disable the alarm, but the walk across the room is helpful because it means that even getting up to hit snooze wakes me up a little.
When I was in a smaller room (everything could be reached without getting out of bed), I wrapped packing tape around the off button on the alarm. I could only hit snooze unless I removed the tape.
I can't tell you how many mornings I woke up struggling to remove that tape.
The only way I've ever had decent sleeping habits was when I spent time outdoors away from any artificial light. Within 24 hours, I perfectly adjusted to falling asleep at sundown and waking just before sun up. Weird to think that I was going to sleep at 8:30 PM and waking up at 5:00 AM without any prompting.
I wish I had the self control to do that normally.
IIRC, the Swedish military has focused on drastic technological improvements so that they can become a faster, leaner, more efficient fighting force, making them useful as a member of international military efforts.
Their military is very small, but they want it to be very very good so that it can be of some use around the world. It's not for border defense (although I'm sure it'd help there too).
"Special weapons and training" yields 42 google hits, while "special weapons and tactics" yields 17,000.
I'd say you've got the accepted definition.
SPECIAL WEAPONS AND TRAINING.
I don't know what you thought SWAT stood for, but none of the words are "team".
Dunno about MechWarrior, but Halo is pretty easy on a gamepad. My assumption is just that you're very used to the mouse and keyboard combo, so it's a new approach to you and hard to handle.
And if that is your assumption, then you really don't understand why we're complaining. When people use a joystick for FPSs on PCs (and they do) they don't use it to replace the mouse. They use it to replace the keyboard. The mouse is at least an order of magnitude faster for aiming. You must judge (1) how far to move the joystick and (2) how long to hold it there. With a mouse, you must judge (1) how far to move the mouse. Muscle memory puts it at exactly that location. There is no angular distance that you would like to turn that takes more time than any other angular distance. If someone is behind you, the second that you notice it, they are in front of you.
Obviously, I could go on and on.
The joystick gives you all kinds of cool features that a keyboard does not. Keyboards are only completely required when you don't have voice chat. Otherwise, slap on enough buttons, and a controller can replace a keyboard..
Not a mouse. That can't be replaced by a trackball, a joystick, a touchpad, or anything else. Not for an FPS.
Geforce 4MX is a piece of crap card. That's equivilant to a Geforce 2.
MX. A Geforce 4MX is equivalent to a Geforce 2MX. Mildly better. There are plenty of things that a Geforce 2 GTS can do that beat the hell out of a Geforce 4MX.
That is funny.
The first generation was definitely li-poly. They have either changed, or Apple doesn't feel that they need to make the distinction. (Li-poly batteries are li-ion batteries, if I understand correctly. In li-poly batteries, the ions are in a polymer substrate rather than a liquid.)
You seem to have completely missed my point. Or were you attempting to respond to the same person that I responded to?
And 40" of TV goodness even at standard resolution kills 17" of monitor for my taste anyway.
:)
Well, I disagree. I need much more resolution. And if we're talking about HDTV, we are also talking about a *lot* of money. Apple Cinema Displays are in the competition.
You're right, it's about gameplay. My desire for resolution is because certain types of gameplay are totally impossible without lots of visual information being presented to the player. Imagine Civ 3 at 512x384.
As for controls, I don't care about an even playing field so much as a better connection to the machine. Your point only applies to multiplayer FPSs with untrusted opponents, and not that well.
I don't know, I see both sides.
Me too. That's why I want the better resolution and controls on the consoles *now* damnit
even though there are PC exclusive online games that I love to play, I'd rather be playing them on Xbox Live.
On a television? Without a mouse or keyboard? Obviously, more work is put into more games for consoles. The best writers are all probably employed on console games. Perhaps many of the best engineers and designers work on console games. However. You have to play them with mittens and bottle bottom glasses.
I need that like I need a broom shoved up my ass.
Some day, consoles will work with high res displays (for less $ than a PC setup, please) and will have more precise input. I dream of that day.
Li-poly cells are more forgiving, but with most of the benefits of Li-ion cells. I don't know how popular they are outside of R/C applications, however.
And, of course, iPods. iPods are li-poly. They are only more forgiving in that if/when they explode or burn, you have a hunk of burning plastic rather than a pool of burning liquid. If they are physically damaged, there's no toxic fluid to leak everywhere.
If you quit without reporting them, all you did was save them the cost of the Ferrari.
A C|Net article: "The 1.5-inch GB drive, which has been in volume manufacturing since mid-April, sells for $65 in quantities of 10,000."
Cornice.
Currently, their device is only available in one Rio player, and that Rio costs $200. However, you just asked for the storage. I don't necessarily believe the rumors. However, I win your stupid challenge.
"This is 10,000 times worse than the worst thing anybody thinks Michael Jackson ever did to a little boy"
Well, if the Catholic Church thinks it's ok...
" - or than any lie the feds think Martha Stewart ever told them, "
I don't feel like Martha is exactly the worst perpetrator of this sort of crime out there. She's just famous, publicly hated, and a woman. Burn her!
"or any line in any song that Bruce Springsteen ever sang that rankled a cop in the Meadowlands."
Yeah, but that was A-OK when Bruce did it. Cops are jackasses. Rile as much as you like.
According to this list, I can't really even tell that he hates GTA that badly.
and an example of when to much privacy causes confussion
Is that also an example of y'all's &%!#ed up British spelling(/grammar)?
1. I already do that.
Oh. Sorry. How much traffic do you get? Are you *sure* you're in the same ballpark?
2. I've never seen a "wikipedia" link in any of *my * Google searches. I don't know what you're searching for.
I see it all the time. Just the other day, someone mentioned the octothorpe, and I was curious what other funny names there were for punctuation, so I searched on a few names for punctuation and got back this page. While I might have had an uncommon question, it's usually in the top ten for my (frequent) uncommon questions on Google.
3. My server is paid for every month like clockwork.
Right, well, we know why that is.
4. $20K?? That's insane. With $20K, I could handle... hmm... at least 1.2m hits a day for a year.
Yeah, maybe that's their goal.
I can't afford much more than my rent, and yet I can come up with more server power when I need it
But you're not running a webserver with dynamic content and top ranks on Google for... probably thousands of semi-common queries.