I don't care whether or not they use usb or something else, I just want to be able to use my car charger on all my subsequent new phones. I want my docks etc. to at least work across the entire family of phones, looking at you motorola. I want a headphone and mic so that I don't have to use an f'ing bluetooth headset.
"A pilot furious with the Internal Revenue Service crashed his small plane into an Austin, Texas, office building where nearly 200 federal tax employees work on Thursday, igniting a raging fire that sent massive plumes of thick, black smoke rising from the seven-story structure."
Coursework isn't the cornerstone of most PhD programmes, even in Computer Science. And utility, beyond C/C++ and Java, really isn't a big concern. The closest we have a to a mobile computing class is based on four or five experiment languages, languages that don't yet work on smart phones. We also another have research group that develop applications for the iPhone, but they are not interesting in improving mobile computing.
My point is, in a PhD programme you can go out and pick up what ever skill you find useful.
Odd. I quit IEEE-USA because they were opposed to H1B workers and supported lowering H1B limits. As an H1B worker, it did not seem prudent to I pay fees to an organization that was acting against my interests.
I would prefer risking the chance that the postman would steal my stamps, rather than have someone track all of my mailings.
I think the postman would be quickly caught because the tracking system will be able to retrieve where the stolen stamps were used. If there is enough theft, it doesn't appear that hard to figure out who probably stole the stamps.
You do not have to renew your contract but you do pay the same price (except Tmo) and if you switch carriers you appear to have to pay the same fees. Of course now, it makes less sense to switch carriers as the US GSM carriers are no loner really compatible.
Apple prevents third party devices (PalmPre) from using their software (iTunes). Given iTunes prominence in the online music market, I think you can argue that this is lockin. I would also like to point out that Micro$oft still makes Word and other products for the Mac.
White. Armed. Hostile. Genocidal. Self-centred philosophy. Ethnicity is the important factor, Ok. I will have to disagree with that. Crusaders wanted to "recapture" the "Holy Land", this was the problem at the centre of the dispute. Sorry, but I fail to see how race becomes a dominant factor.
Of course I will demonize it, ethnic or racial discrimination is stupid. It has been a source of evil in the past, millions or billions of people were slaughtered. Thousands still die today because of it today, and there is no evidence that it is useful. Beyond weak conjecture. A bunch of feudal kings and their pope decide to slaughter people to claim their territory, and you would think it prudent to kill any European... discrimination is a stupid policy.
Hmmm... do you think before you write this? Only black kids glorify criminals? Sopranos? The Godfather Trilogy? That whole Billy the Kid fetish? And I would love to see these wonderful people who value education above all else... the Intel commercial are funny because they run counter to normal behaviour. I don't think anyone is making movies about C.V. Raman, but there is one about Devi.
Quoting an African about the behaviour of American blacks seems a bit odd, since I assume you are an American white and therefore you would have more contact with American blacks than an African. Right?
The problem with the crusades was not the presence of white Europeans in the Middle East, but rather the presence of hostile armies. The ethnicity of the armies really was not that relevant, it was their arms and their hostile intent. So, that can't be your example.
Enlighten me, of the instance when discrimination was valuable.
If no one cares, why not place less white people in video games. If no one cares, why not make the primary character in video games Black, Latino or Indian. After all it doesn't matter, right ? With the exception of historical games, does ethnicity matter ? Would Fable be worse if the main character was non-White? Was Duke Nukem better because the main character was white? What about Crysis?
I don't understand how you can say that having every character in every game be white is not weird. Even in your example, Texas is almost 40% Latino and more than 50% female... yet a bunch of white male characters seem normal to you. I really don't get you, to me it seems adding more people and their stories would improve video games... unless you need yet another game based on Europe in the middle ages.
If you get "random searched" because you are flying standby, then you really aren't being randomly searched. Rather you are being selected because your behaviour places you in a risk category, kinda like buying your tickets with cash.
"Discrimination is not a bad thing"... OK. I take it you have not been at the business end of discrimination and you have no idea what you are talking about.
I think the report is saying there is a difference between the game playing public and the ethnic makeup within games. They seem to be saying that whenever there is a choice, the outcome is the same... white male. Personally, I think some variation will improve the quality of games.
Doors that open outward will not work well when walls are opaque. If there is a corridor with foot traffic, it will not be safe to open the door if you cannot see if anyone is passing by. For obvious reasons.
I think the use of the term "Mongoloid" to describe Down Syndrome sufferers, limits its suitability for scientific discussion. Or any other forum where one does not wish to cause offense.
"As a capitalistic business owner, you work, I pay you; you don't work, I don't pay you. Seems like a basic theme throughout the history of the world. Retirees don't work, I don't see why I should still pay you. I'm sure you did a great job and provided excellent value for me to keep you around for 25+ years, but that gives me no reason to pay you for another 25+ years. In fact, I could probably hire 2 new people to replace you after you retire. If you're smart enough to properly plan and save for your own retirement, great, wonderful, I'll even through you a party. Otherwise, keep working."
The concept of a pension is simple, I put aside a portion of my salary that funds a defined benefit after I retire. The mechanism for achieving this is known, it is called an annuity. As I wrote before, these companies should've funded annuities when their employees retired, or when they vested. The cost should be paid when the work was performed. So what you as a "capitalistic business owner" are doing is promising to pay me 100, but actually paying me 80, in short you are stealing from me.
Ok, let everyone take a cut. Management takes a pay cut. Dealers renegotiate their terms. Landlords also. So do suppliers and other creditors. And finally customers, let customers take a cut too. The automakers obligation to the customers would be the warranties, they should cut these also. Everyone takes a cut right ?
A pension should be funded when the employee gains the benefit, that means if you have a vested pension after 5 years, after 5 years the employer should have enough money in a fund to pay for the pension. This way when the employee retires the employer will buy an annuity from an insurance company, and they will actually pay the pension. The "problem" is that future money is cheaper than current money, so companies can benefit from administering the pensions themselves. The profit that would be the insurance company can now be kept by the employer, but this comes along with increased risk.
Employees expect when they work they get paid, they expect that when they retire their promised pension is funded. They are going to get screwed because of accounting rules that most companies and governments exploit, which take an optimistic view of the pension obligations. Pensioners should not be dependent on the current state of the company, what the auto companies are actually doing is morally equivalent to retroactively cutting their salaries and sending them bills for the difference.
Autoworkers negotiated a pay packet with their employers, which included pensions and other benefits. These obligations should have been funded by the companies when they were accrued, so the pension fund should be paying pension costs rather than the company. Likewise with health care costs for pensioners should've been funded.
Why should the pensioners pay, for what was obviously a management decision ? I don't see how you can slash the income of retired people in such a cavalier manner.
And why do the unions get all the blame, they aren't the ones who jack up the margin on the good cars that these companies make? The new Ford Thunderbird ? Was it the union selling these for above sticker ?
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I don't care whether or not they use usb or something else, I just want to be able to use my car charger on all my subsequent new phones. I want my docks etc. to at least work across the entire family of phones, looking at you motorola. I want a headphone and mic so that I don't have to use an f'ing bluetooth headset.
Reality can't spell either, you f'ing bigot.
Are you serious? Or are you being sarcastic?
"A pilot furious with the Internal Revenue Service crashed his small plane into an Austin, Texas, office building where nearly 200 federal tax employees work on Thursday, igniting a raging fire that sent massive plumes of thick, black smoke rising from the seven-story structure."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/02/18/pilot-crashes-texas-building-apparent-anti-irs-suicide#ixzz1NBnUiitg
The US State department doesn't check their results before they publish?! Ok.
Coursework isn't the cornerstone of most PhD programmes, even in Computer Science. And utility, beyond C/C++ and Java, really isn't a big concern. The closest we have a to a mobile computing class is based on four or five experiment languages, languages that don't yet work on smart phones. We also another have research group that develop applications for the iPhone, but they are not interesting in improving mobile computing.
My point is, in a PhD programme you can go out and pick up what ever skill you find useful.
Odd. I quit IEEE-USA because they were opposed to H1B workers and supported lowering H1B limits. As an H1B worker, it did not seem prudent to I pay fees to an organization that was acting against my interests.
http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/POLICY/2003/index.html
http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/features/070703.htm
I would prefer risking the chance that the postman would steal my stamps, rather than have someone track all of my mailings.
I think the postman would be quickly caught because the tracking system will be able to retrieve where the stolen stamps were used. If there is enough theft, it doesn't appear that hard to figure out who probably stole the stamps.
C'mon dude it is Christmas, don't kill my buzz yet.
You do not have to renew your contract but you do pay the same price (except Tmo) and if you switch carriers you appear to have to pay the same fees. Of course now, it makes less sense to switch carriers as the US GSM carriers are no loner really compatible.
Apple prevents third party devices (PalmPre) from using their software (iTunes). Given iTunes prominence in the online music market, I think you can argue that this is lockin. I would also like to point out that Micro$oft still makes Word and other products for the Mac.
White. Armed. Hostile. Genocidal. Self-centred philosophy. Ethnicity is the important factor, Ok. I will have to disagree with that. Crusaders wanted to "recapture" the "Holy Land", this was the problem at the centre of the dispute. Sorry, but I fail to see how race becomes a dominant factor.
Of course I will demonize it, ethnic or racial discrimination is stupid. It has been a source of evil in the past, millions or billions of people were slaughtered. Thousands still die today because of it today, and there is no evidence that it is useful. Beyond weak conjecture. A bunch of feudal kings and their pope decide to slaughter people to claim their territory, and you would think it prudent to kill any European ... discrimination is a stupid policy.
I hear yah. Not Asian, but I watched an amazing amount of crap because of a black cast.
Hmmm ... do you think before you write this? Only black kids glorify criminals? Sopranos? The Godfather Trilogy? That whole Billy the Kid fetish? And I would love to see these wonderful people who value education above all else ... the Intel commercial are funny because they run counter to normal behaviour. I don't think anyone is making movies about C.V. Raman, but there is one about Devi.
Quoting an African about the behaviour of American blacks seems a bit odd, since I assume you are an American white and therefore you would have more contact with American blacks than an African. Right?
Apparently it did.
The problem with the crusades was not the presence of white Europeans in the Middle East, but rather the presence of hostile armies. The ethnicity of the armies really was not that relevant, it was their arms and their hostile intent. So, that can't be your example.
Enlighten me, of the instance when discrimination was valuable.
If no one cares, why not place less white people in video games. If no one cares, why not make the primary character in video games Black, Latino or Indian. After all it doesn't matter, right ? With the exception of historical games, does ethnicity matter ? Would Fable be worse if the main character was non-White? Was Duke Nukem better because the main character was white? What about Crysis?
I don't understand how you can say that having every character in every game be white is not weird. Even in your example, Texas is almost 40% Latino and more than 50% female ... yet a bunch of white male characters seem normal to you. I really don't get you, to me it seems adding more people and their stories would improve video games ... unless you need yet another game based on Europe in the middle ages.
If you get "random searched" because you are flying standby, then you really aren't being randomly searched. Rather you are being selected because your behaviour places you in a risk category, kinda like buying your tickets with cash.
"Discrimination is not a bad thing" ... OK. I take it you have not been at the business end of discrimination and you have no idea what you are talking about.
I think the report is saying there is a difference between the game playing public and the ethnic makeup within games. They seem to be saying that whenever there is a choice, the outcome is the same ... white male. Personally, I think some variation will improve the quality of games.
Doors that open outward will not work well when walls are opaque. If there is a corridor with foot traffic, it will not be safe to open the door if you cannot see if anyone is passing by. For obvious reasons.
I think the use of the term "Mongoloid" to describe Down Syndrome sufferers, limits its suitability for scientific discussion. Or any other forum where one does not wish to cause offense.
Ditto. That is the story I heard, Charles Schumer received a call and threw a hissy fit.
"As a capitalistic business owner, you work, I pay you; you don't work, I don't pay you. Seems like a basic theme throughout the history of the world. Retirees don't work, I don't see why I should still pay you. I'm sure you did a great job and provided excellent value for me to keep you around for 25+ years, but that gives me no reason to pay you for another 25+ years. In fact, I could probably hire 2 new people to replace you after you retire. If you're smart enough to properly plan and save for your own retirement, great, wonderful, I'll even through you a party. Otherwise, keep working."
The concept of a pension is simple, I put aside a portion of my salary that funds a defined benefit after I retire. The mechanism for achieving this is known, it is called an annuity. As I wrote before, these companies should've funded annuities when their employees retired, or when they vested. The cost should be paid when the work was performed. So what you as a "capitalistic business owner" are doing is promising to pay me 100, but actually paying me 80, in short you are stealing from me.
Ok, let everyone take a cut. Management takes a pay cut. Dealers renegotiate their terms. Landlords also. So do suppliers and other creditors. And finally customers, let customers take a cut too. The automakers obligation to the customers would be the warranties, they should cut these also. Everyone takes a cut right ?
A pension should be funded when the employee gains the benefit, that means if you have a vested pension after 5 years, after 5 years the employer should have enough money in a fund to pay for the pension. This way when the employee retires the employer will buy an annuity from an insurance company, and they will actually pay the pension. The "problem" is that future money is cheaper than current money, so companies can benefit from administering the pensions themselves. The profit that would be the insurance company can now be kept by the employer, but this comes along with increased risk.
Employees expect when they work they get paid, they expect that when they retire their promised pension is funded. They are going to get screwed because of accounting rules that most companies and governments exploit, which take an optimistic view of the pension obligations. Pensioners should not be dependent on the current state of the company, what the auto companies are actually doing is morally equivalent to retroactively cutting their salaries and sending them bills for the difference.
Define "parking problems" ... cause I have yet to figure out how to go shopping with my bike. Where do you leave yours when you go shopping ?
Autoworkers negotiated a pay packet with their employers, which included pensions and other benefits. These obligations should have been funded by the companies when they were accrued, so the pension fund should be paying pension costs rather than the company. Likewise with health care costs for pensioners should've been funded.
Why should the pensioners pay, for what was obviously a management decision ? I don't see how you can slash the income of retired people in such a cavalier manner.
And why do the unions get all the blame, they aren't the ones who jack up the margin on the good cars that these companies make? The new Ford Thunderbird ? Was it the union selling these for above sticker ?