Given what voice chat is like on the Xbox this is a feature!
Plus it also creates for some very funny moments when playing overcooked with someone who has no idea what you're doing. It's quite funny shouting at the TV for actions that could very easily be blamed on very poor coding of NPCs:-)
No that's just my point. My local plans (I'm not in America) are discounted vs prepaid as an incentive to lock customers into a carrier contract. Prepaid is marginally cheaper if you have a phone you don't want to upgrade, but it is significantly more expensive if I also need to buy a phone.
This is quite counter intuitive compared to the normal practice of getting product and paying it off by the month, but then you still have to remember they aren't pushing the product, they are pushing service lock in. I think part of the reason for this is our government passed laws 15 years ago forcing companies providing products with services to list the full contractual cost of the product over the period. They had to advertise things with "Minimum contract cost is $xxxx over 24 months". At that point people started saying "Wow THAT much for a phone!" and carriers started severely discounting only the contract customers to keep them locked in while not competing at all on prepaid / SIM only contracts.
No they weren't. Steel and aluminium were DECLARED national security risks to get around the fact that this tariff would never have made it through his own government otherwise and this stupidity needed to be exempt from any other treaties and from challenge by the WTO which doesn't think very highly of the idea.
If supply of materials is a national security issue for defence the answer isn't to apply tariffs on the entire industry but rather to produced fixed contracts of supply to keep your critical suppliers open and in house. The interests of national security could easily have been achieved without every person in America paying more for metal in completely un-national-security related products.
Also, it's not hard to google the effect of steel and aluminum tariffs, and it's universally lauded in the cities where the foundries are.
No shit Sherlock. Here have $20. Are you going to complain I gave you $20? Meanwhile in every other city of America where the foundries' customers are they are universally criticised.
He also hasn't "tanked" anything - I don't know if you've noticed, but the economy is doing great.
Your ignorance on the international economy is to be lauded, and then laughed at. You're right, the GP hasn't noticed that the international economy is doing great. He won't either since that is just Trump level wishful thinking. Economies are performing under expectations on every continent of the world (except Antarctica).
Normalizing tariffs, bringing the tariffs into parity with those of other nations, is a step towards free trade.
Maybe next year he should just tell them, "I'm delegating decisions to these persons and taking a three week hiatus, have at."
And that's what you call proper management of change... well better management of change anyway. Just scheduling a conflict for a meeting you normally attend to try and foster independence would just be a dumb way of going about it.
More likely, he was trying to be polite. After all, no swearing was to be heard.
No but it does change people's perception of the law. If I know something is illegal but I wouldn't get in trouble for doing so I have no incentive not to do it. Kind of like here cycling drunk is illegal and subject to the same fine as driving a car. Yet I cycle home sometimes so drunk that I fall off my bike because of the unwritten rule that you don't punish cyclists for things that would prevent them from cycling.
A law that isn't enforced is not a law, it's a kind request.
If it were that simple major US cities would have transit systems comparable with Europe rather than being the butt end of jokes from around the world.
Powerful people don't use mass transit, therefore there is no priority on mass transit.
Why? No seriously to get to the root cause of linear problems you just keep asking why until you find an answer. Powerful people not using mass transit isn't a root cause since just like the state of the transit system itself the USA is at odds with other countries in this regard.
Debatable depending on location. I always have and still do have a bundled phone. There are literally penies difference between bundle and no bundle as the local carriers screw users who dare to bring their own devices to the table. That said the benefits are disappearing. Certainly 5 years ago it was still almost necessary to be on some kind of system which upgrades you to state of the art every 2 years. Between the quick advances in software and hardware combined with the horrid update practices of manufacturers and old phone that wasn't rooted was barely viable. Though these days those benefits are largely gone. Devices are supported for longer, show little performance differences between them and no longer have differentiating killer features.
Why would you barf? It has a flavour mixed between seafood and beef with a strong taste of garlic, and a texture tougher than fish. I've put a lot of things in my mouth, some of them truly horrid (deep fried bat nearly made me barf) and this is IMO one of the more plainer westernish foods out there in terms of flavour and texture.
You should take a trip to France, you'll see it on the menu every time you read the menu (and TBH it's a shitload better than a lot of French food).
Seriously there was more literature out there, like the one published in 2006.
But in all seriousness what kind of a stupid basis for a new definition is that? "You can't use this new definition because it's different than the old definition". No shit Shirlock.
So much economic stupidity. At least he gave tax breaks to businesses and bailed out the industries he's nearly killed as he taxed the hell out of their supply chain.
I am not American and will happily shit on them as much as any foreigner, but on an American news site one would expect people to know the American country and not the acronym of a former name of an intelligence agency whose acronym in english doesn't even make up the current or former translation.
No it doesn't. Not across borders. Nations reserve the right to internally bitch and moan about what happened to them regardless if it is blowback or not. That is how things work on two different sides of a fence. It just happens to work better when you're fully in control of the media too.
Think this through - Putin & friends were able to thwart the election for abut $100K in ads, and Hillary with her $1BN budget couldn't overcome that influence/meddling?
The USA was able to completely overthrow a foreign government and install a selected dictator in their place for that money. Okay inflation adjusted more like $900k, but point is the same.
How are the two related? One is a fraudster whose business failed after the fraud was exposed and is currently facing legal action. The other is a billionaire because he successfully started and ran and continues to run multiple companies.
He's called eccentric because the english language has a lot of finesse and he fits the definition of being eccentric. Nothing he has done would qualify for the definition of nut job a term that is typically reserved for people who are no longer functioning normally and a term which is used only informally meaning you're unlikely to see it commonly used in formal written media.
And he apparently smoked pot during the interview...
You mean took a whiff of a joint and the world blew it out of proportion? Yeah burn him. How dare he. Sell your stock. Return your cars. He's not the hero we deserve!
We have failed so hard that computers are beating humans at thinking games. We have failed so hard that computers are beating humans at games that require natural language. We have failed so hard that computers are beating us at finding bugs in classic computer games to beat them in record time. We have failed so hard that computers are often outsmarting the humans that set rules for them when they attempt to force a certain outcome through machine learning.
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Apple, stop buying from the ChiComms! Buy American!
I'm sure they'd be happy to but first:
Americans, Build American
Americans, Pay for American.
You can't get what you want without those two in place. It's the fundamental reason for your industry's downturn in the first place.
Even Google can't fix Slashdot's mobile experience.
Actually it says a lot that you compare the two.
There is no voice chat on the system.
Given what voice chat is like on the Xbox this is a feature!
Plus it also creates for some very funny moments when playing overcooked with someone who has no idea what you're doing. It's quite funny shouting at the TV for actions that could very easily be blamed on very poor coding of NPCs :-)
No that's just my point. My local plans (I'm not in America) are discounted vs prepaid as an incentive to lock customers into a carrier contract. Prepaid is marginally cheaper if you have a phone you don't want to upgrade, but it is significantly more expensive if I also need to buy a phone.
This is quite counter intuitive compared to the normal practice of getting product and paying it off by the month, but then you still have to remember they aren't pushing the product, they are pushing service lock in. I think part of the reason for this is our government passed laws 15 years ago forcing companies providing products with services to list the full contractual cost of the product over the period. They had to advertise things with "Minimum contract cost is $xxxx over 24 months". At that point people started saying "Wow THAT much for a phone!" and carriers started severely discounting only the contract customers to keep them locked in while not competing at all on prepaid / SIM only contracts.
Steel and aluminum were national security issues.
No they weren't. Steel and aluminium were DECLARED national security risks to get around the fact that this tariff would never have made it through his own government otherwise and this stupidity needed to be exempt from any other treaties and from challenge by the WTO which doesn't think very highly of the idea.
If supply of materials is a national security issue for defence the answer isn't to apply tariffs on the entire industry but rather to produced fixed contracts of supply to keep your critical suppliers open and in house. The interests of national security could easily have been achieved without every person in America paying more for metal in completely un-national-security related products.
Also, it's not hard to google the effect of steel and aluminum tariffs, and it's universally lauded in the cities where the foundries are.
No shit Sherlock. Here have $20. Are you going to complain I gave you $20? Meanwhile in every other city of America where the foundries' customers are they are universally criticised.
He also hasn't "tanked" anything - I don't know if you've noticed, but the economy is doing great.
Your ignorance on the international economy is to be lauded, and then laughed at. You're right, the GP hasn't noticed that the international economy is doing great. He won't either since that is just Trump level wishful thinking. Economies are performing under expectations on every continent of the world (except Antarctica).
Normalizing tariffs, bringing the tariffs into parity with those of other nations, is a step towards free trade.
Never go full retard man.
No that was my point. Farming specifically. He bailed out the ag business which he nearly killed himself in the process.
In the meantime our agricultural customers will figure out new supply chains and by food from somewhere else.
And you get to pay more as a result. Don't forget that.
Maybe next year he should just tell them, "I'm delegating decisions to these persons and taking a three week hiatus, have at."
And that's what you call proper management of change... well better management of change anyway. Just scheduling a conflict for a meeting you normally attend to try and foster independence would just be a dumb way of going about it.
More likely, he was trying to be polite. After all, no swearing was to be heard.
Don't you guys get it? He may want the community to be less dependent, more able to stand on its own, not need the hand holding.
He didn't swear. Maybe he's just trying out what it's like to be polite. :-)
No but it does change people's perception of the law. If I know something is illegal but I wouldn't get in trouble for doing so I have no incentive not to do it. Kind of like here cycling drunk is illegal and subject to the same fine as driving a car. Yet I cycle home sometimes so drunk that I fall off my bike because of the unwritten rule that you don't punish cyclists for things that would prevent them from cycling.
A law that isn't enforced is not a law, it's a kind request.
Helmets don't protect against concussions.
Define protect? Eliminate? No. Reduce? Definitely.
Also, most states don't require helmet use for riding even a motorcycle.
So never fix anything stupid while something else stupid exists. Got it.
I know of no states that require them for a bicycle.
I know of no states that require them for walking either. Or swimming for that matter. Or other things that are not relevant.
Why should they be required for an electric scooter?
Because your logic is as stupid from the top down as it is from the bottom up.
It IS simple.
Population density.
If it were that simple major US cities would have transit systems comparable with Europe rather than being the butt end of jokes from around the world.
Powerful people don't use mass transit, therefore there is no priority on mass transit.
Why? No seriously to get to the root cause of linear problems you just keep asking why until you find an answer. Powerful people not using mass transit isn't a root cause since just like the state of the transit system itself the USA is at odds with other countries in this regard.
The value just isn't there.
Debatable depending on location. I always have and still do have a bundled phone. There are literally penies difference between bundle and no bundle as the local carriers screw users who dare to bring their own devices to the table. That said the benefits are disappearing. Certainly 5 years ago it was still almost necessary to be on some kind of system which upgrades you to state of the art every 2 years. Between the quick advances in software and hardware combined with the horrid update practices of manufacturers and old phone that wasn't rooted was barely viable. Though these days those benefits are largely gone. Devices are supported for longer, show little performance differences between them and no longer have differentiating killer features.
I found that interesting...considering I bought my first iPhone direct through Apple, with no contract in 2012, sim-free.
I find *this* interesting as I've never met someone who didn't have their iPhone on a 2yr bundled contract.
Why would you barf? It has a flavour mixed between seafood and beef with a strong taste of garlic, and a texture tougher than fish. I've put a lot of things in my mouth, some of them truly horrid (deep fried bat nearly made me barf) and this is IMO one of the more plainer westernish foods out there in terms of flavour and texture.
You should take a trip to France, you'll see it on the menu every time you read the menu (and TBH it's a shitload better than a lot of French food).
Seriously there was more literature out there, like the one published in 2006.
But in all seriousness what kind of a stupid basis for a new definition is that? "You can't use this new definition because it's different than the old definition". No shit Shirlock.
So much economic stupidity. At least he gave tax breaks to businesses and bailed out the industries he's nearly killed as he taxed the hell out of their supply chain.
I am not American and will happily shit on them as much as any foreigner, but on an American news site one would expect people to know the American country and not the acronym of a former name of an intelligence agency whose acronym in english doesn't even make up the current or former translation.
No it doesn't. Not across borders. Nations reserve the right to internally bitch and moan about what happened to them regardless if it is blowback or not. That is how things work on two different sides of a fence. It just happens to work better when you're fully in control of the media too.
Think this through - Putin & friends were able to thwart the election for abut $100K in ads, and Hillary with her $1BN budget couldn't overcome that influence/meddling?
The USA was able to completely overthrow a foreign government and install a selected dictator in their place for that money. Okay inflation adjusted more like $900k, but point is the same.
How are the two related? One is a fraudster whose business failed after the fraud was exposed and is currently facing legal action. The other is a billionaire because he successfully started and ran and continues to run multiple companies.
He's called eccentric because the english language has a lot of finesse and he fits the definition of being eccentric. Nothing he has done would qualify for the definition of nut job a term that is typically reserved for people who are no longer functioning normally and a term which is used only informally meaning you're unlikely to see it commonly used in formal written media.
And he apparently smoked pot during the interview...
You mean took a whiff of a joint and the world blew it out of proportion? Yeah burn him. How dare he. Sell your stock. Return your cars. He's not the hero we deserve!
And so far, we failed miserably at it.
We have failed so hard that computers are beating humans at thinking games.
We have failed so hard that computers are beating humans at games that require natural language.
We have failed so hard that computers are beating us at finding bugs in classic computer games to beat them in record time.
We have failed so hard that computers are often outsmarting the humans that set rules for them when they attempt to force a certain outcome through machine learning.
We need to keep failing better and harder.