No Haggen was dumb. They had 19 stores then bought around 160 stores from Albertson. One day the store was an Albertson, next day it was a Haggen with prices that would make a Whole Food shopper faint. Imagine the problems that comes with increasing your operations and logistics by a factor of 8. Haggen over expanded and overextended.
Shopkeeper: Take this object, but beware it carries a terrible curse! Homer: Ooh, that's bad. Shopkeeper: But it comes with a free frogurt! Homer: That's good. Shopkeeper: The frogurt is also cursed. Homer: That's bad. Shopkeeper: But you get your choice of toppings. Homer: That's good! Shopkeeper: The toppings contain potassium benzoate. [Homer looks puzzled] Shopkeeper:...That's bad. Homer: Can I go now?
Men live longer when married because we can’t spend our food money on ship containers of Cheetos and Mountain Dew. Plus, once you’re married you usually can’t spend your day playing video games. My Steam Library keeps growing (thank you Humble Bundle) and I haven’t finish a game since Titanfall 2 and DOOM (2016) were released.
And what’s your PhD in? Way to punch the strawman with the artificial fusion argument. We both know I’m referring to electricity generated through harnessing fusion reaction (fusion power), not non-solar fusion reaction. If we achieve fusion power it won’t be through a singular breakthrough, it’s going to be thousands of small steps. Some that will be completely unrelated on the surface to fusion power. And it won’t be in our lifetime. We need to start with thinking multi-generational timescale for research. And it’s only going to hurt fusion research if we’re always hyping it up and promising that it will solve our energy problems in the foreseeable future.
I’m been hearing fusion is only 20 years away for at least 30 years now. One of these days it will come true just like the year of Linux on the desktop. Wake me up when either one happens. You probably can’t because I’ll be old and dead by then.
You know this is Intel right? They didn’t even bother fixing scaling issue on some of their integrated graphics (over scanning or under scanning). Their solution was to load custom resolution which doesn’t work on some effected system because the drivers didn’t allow you to load custom resolutions. And you can’t add a graphics board because the system is a micro PC. Do you really think Intel will go back and fix ME for systems that are more than 3 years old?
currently lagging behind many developed countries at 11.1 megabits per second
Yeah as an average... 11.1 is pretty good (if it's wide spread), but comparing to averages completely blurs the consistency of reasonable speeds across those developed countries. Just because those countries have some gigabit fibre in small concentrated areas makes "developed countries" looks good on average. My anecdote: I live in the UK in a major city and I only have 3 Mbit ADSL available (3 on a good day)... And all I hear from slashdot is that this is even worse in USA especially when it gets rural (AKA i don't live bang in the centre of a city). Getting everyone above a reasonable threshold is far more important than puffing up your global image by installing a few super super high speed lines for 1e-10% of the population and boosting your average.
This is why competition in broadband is important. For years, my parents could only get 6Mbps on Cox (cable modem). Cox refused to upgrade their network in that area. My parents complained about it since at least 2010. Then AT&T/DirecTV (DSL/Fiber hybrid) started to offer 30Mbps in the area. My father quickly switched to AT&T/DirecTV because he is a Netflix addict. Within 6 months Cox lost so many customers they finally upgraded the area to 50Mbps+.
Like, who the hell WANTS to own part of Utah or Nevada?
I do. I want to own Nevada because once The Big One hit California, that area will be beachfront property. I just need a way to set off the San Andreas fault.
I would use GeForce Experience but the damn thing is flakier than a teenager with a bad case of dandruff. Previous versions would occasionally crash but the current GE is unusable.
There’s a huge difference between Old GM and New GM; Old GM got saddled by the pension obligations. New GM isn’t responsible for the pensions of the old employees of Old GM.
That’s the Old GM you’re thinking about. The Old GM that went bankrupt about 10 years ago. This New GM (actually a completely new company on paper) is slightly more relevant, they have actual multiple EV whereas the Old GM killed their EV1. I’m all for some competition in the car industry. I wanted to get a Volt (Bolt hadn’t come out yet) when I bought my last car but the economics didn’t make sense over a cheap Prius ($22k vs $37k). Would have never made the money back in gas savings.
When I was young I pirated Civilization and Wing Commander I from a friend. Then I bought every new release afterward of both series because I loved them. I even bought Crusader: No Remorse and Crusader: No Regret because of how much I loved Wing Commander. Origin System was just kicking ass in 1990s. I'm still waiting for Crusader 3: No Escape:(
How many people learned Photoshop because it was easy to pirate?
But I don't think the same applies to movies. I doubt there are a lot of people that pirated a movie and then bought the Blu-ray of that movie.
Hahaha. Buy it for the S3 graphics decelerator? I remember the S3 ViRGE 3D, it was terrible. Plus, I think any graphic patent will be expired by now like S3TC (texture compression).
Wednesday night right? Happens to me so often with Windows 10 Pro. It's at the point where if I need to be away from the computer for an extended period of time, I just save my work and shutdown the computer. Can't trust the hibernate/sleep to not shutdown or restart after MSFT pushes out an update.
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No Haggen was dumb. They had 19 stores then bought around 160 stores from Albertson. One day the store was an Albertson, next day it was a Haggen with prices that would make a Whole Food shopper faint. Imagine the problems that comes with increasing your operations and logistics by a factor of 8. Haggen over expanded and overextended.
Reminds me of this exchange:
Shopkeeper: Take this object, but beware it carries a terrible curse! ...That's bad.
Homer: Ooh, that's bad.
Shopkeeper: But it comes with a free frogurt!
Homer: That's good.
Shopkeeper: The frogurt is also cursed.
Homer: That's bad.
Shopkeeper: But you get your choice of toppings.
Homer: That's good!
Shopkeeper: The toppings contain potassium benzoate.
[Homer looks puzzled]
Shopkeeper:
Homer: Can I go now?
Men live longer when married because we can’t spend our food money on ship containers of Cheetos and Mountain Dew. Plus, once you’re married you usually can’t spend your day playing video games. My Steam Library keeps growing (thank you Humble Bundle) and I haven’t finish a game since Titanfall 2 and DOOM (2016) were released.
And what’s your PhD in? Way to punch the strawman with the artificial fusion argument. We both know I’m referring to electricity generated through harnessing fusion reaction (fusion power), not non-solar fusion reaction. If we achieve fusion power it won’t be through a singular breakthrough, it’s going to be thousands of small steps. Some that will be completely unrelated on the surface to fusion power. And it won’t be in our lifetime. We need to start with thinking multi-generational timescale for research. And it’s only going to hurt fusion research if we’re always hyping it up and promising that it will solve our energy problems in the foreseeable future.
I’m been hearing fusion is only 20 years away for at least 30 years now. One of these days it will come true just like the year of Linux on the desktop. Wake me up when either one happens. You probably can’t because I’ll be old and dead by then.
You know this is Intel right? They didn’t even bother fixing scaling issue on some of their integrated graphics (over scanning or under scanning). Their solution was to load custom resolution which doesn’t work on some effected system because the drivers didn’t allow you to load custom resolutions. And you can’t add a graphics board because the system is a micro PC. Do you really think Intel will go back and fix ME for systems that are more than 3 years old?
currently lagging behind many developed countries at 11.1 megabits per second
Yeah as an average... 11.1 is pretty good (if it's wide spread), but comparing to averages completely blurs the consistency of reasonable speeds across those developed countries. Just because those countries have some gigabit fibre in small concentrated areas makes "developed countries" looks good on average. My anecdote: I live in the UK in a major city and I only have 3 Mbit ADSL available (3 on a good day)... And all I hear from slashdot is that this is even worse in USA especially when it gets rural (AKA i don't live bang in the centre of a city). Getting everyone above a reasonable threshold is far more important than puffing up your global image by installing a few super super high speed lines for 1e-10% of the population and boosting your average.
This is why competition in broadband is important. For years, my parents could only get 6Mbps on Cox (cable modem). Cox refused to upgrade their network in that area. My parents complained about it since at least 2010. Then AT&T/DirecTV (DSL/Fiber hybrid) started to offer 30Mbps in the area. My father quickly switched to AT&T/DirecTV because he is a Netflix addict. Within 6 months Cox lost so many customers they finally upgraded the area to 50Mbps+.
If the birds’ poop didn’t spawn radioactive nanobots then I consider that a win.
They’ve been building that location off the 405 for about 4 years.
RR - Real Reality. Almost everyone is already a subscriber. Think of the market potential, we’re talking about trillions of dollars a year.
I was sent this awhile back by a friend doing her PhD: http://phdcomics.com/comics.ph...
Low fat bacon? No thanks!! Give American full fat bacon.
Last I heard, cheating at Star Fleet Academy is rewarded.
Like, who the hell WANTS to own part of Utah or Nevada?
I do. I want to own Nevada because once The Big One hit California, that area will be beachfront property. I just need a way to set off the San Andreas fault.
If my Surface RT is any indication of Windows and ARM, after a year and tons of patches it will last maybe 4 hours of normal usage.
Every year, at least one brush fire is started that way in California.
I would use GeForce Experience but the damn thing is flakier than a teenager with a bad case of dandruff. Previous versions would occasionally crash but the current GE is unusable.
There’s a huge difference between Old GM and New GM; Old GM got saddled by the pension obligations. New GM isn’t responsible for the pensions of the old employees of Old GM.
There’s “The Wizard” powerglove reference I was looking for. Wish I still had mod points.
That’s the Old GM you’re thinking about. The Old GM that went bankrupt about 10 years ago. This New GM (actually a completely new company on paper) is slightly more relevant, they have actual multiple EV whereas the Old GM killed their EV1. I’m all for some competition in the car industry. I wanted to get a Volt (Bolt hadn’t come out yet) when I bought my last car but the economics didn’t make sense over a cheap Prius ($22k vs $37k). Would have never made the money back in gas savings.
Didn’t a GM exec in 1970s say something about Japanese carmakers will fail in America because Americans didn’t want small fuel efficient cars?
It’s not the fact that they’re in the same building that’s the problem, it’s they denied they were even in the same country.
When I was young I pirated Civilization and Wing Commander I from a friend. Then I bought every new release afterward of both series because I loved them. I even bought Crusader: No Remorse and Crusader: No Regret because of how much I loved Wing Commander. Origin System was just kicking ass in 1990s. I'm still waiting for Crusader 3: No Escape :(
How many people learned Photoshop because it was easy to pirate?
But I don't think the same applies to movies. I doubt there are a lot of people that pirated a movie and then bought the Blu-ray of that movie.
Hahaha. Buy it for the S3 graphics decelerator? I remember the S3 ViRGE 3D, it was terrible. Plus, I think any graphic patent will be expired by now like S3TC (texture compression).
Wednesday night right? Happens to me so often with Windows 10 Pro. It's at the point where if I need to be away from the computer for an extended period of time, I just save my work and shutdown the computer. Can't trust the hibernate/sleep to not shutdown or restart after MSFT pushes out an update.