Release Vista, a relatively broken operating system, and try to ram it down peoples' throats. When the people gag enough pop out a 'new' OS that fixes the unpalatableness of the old OS and sell millions!
Not that I don't mind using a descent OS, which Windows 7 seems to be at this time. However, I'd be just as likely to use Windows 7 as XP.
My fiance was driving to her brother's house for the millionth time. I was on the phone with her and the GPS told her to go north when we both knew damn well she needed to go south. But, since it had messed up she figured it was right and went North..... Not five seconds later, "This doesn't seem right." I have repeatedly heard her say that it was one of the best gifts ever, however she can't find my apartment about 50% of the time.
Tech is great when properly used. However, when it takes away from our ability to do things that we should be able to do on our own I will have to second guess it.
You wouldn't be the only one going to prison for your reaction. I'm 100% with you. If any student is suspected of having any sort of illegal drug then the police and the parents should be called. No member of the faculty, no matter what their position or rank, has ANY authority to go near those kids. Search the bag and locker. After that call in authorities and parents. You can't have just one or the other, either.
I'd be pressing sexual assault charges and would not give up until the person(s) responsible paid bid time. The problem is that no matter how much you do it may never reverse the damage done to the kid.
I'm pretty sure the dinosaurs, meteors, God, whatever deserves a lot of credit for coming up with that scheme where most living material gets buried for millions of years and/or under a flood just so we can power society for, what, 100-200 years?
Wait... that plan sorta sucks! The only solution left is to bury OUR society under hundreds of tones of rock and earth for our 10^5 generation grandchildren...
Wait, wait, wait... you enjoyed Chrono Cross? I bought it and couldn't handle how much I hated it. Trigger was phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. But Cross? I guess when I saw the guy that attacks things by strumming a guitar I lost it. No thanks. I think I got an hour in but I detested playing games on the PSOne so much because of load times that I rarely played through a game.
And for reference, I played the hell out of Gran Turismo and one of the Wing Commander clones (I forget the name) despite the agonizing load times.
I hate load times. The days of the PSOne were frustrating and painful....
It's like a prehistoric reality show, then? And here I thought society had only perfected wasting time, money, resources and lives only in the last few centuries!
Way to go subverted ancients! I salute your tyrannical, well-entertained overlords.
Some places claim a 97% success rate (they measure success as the measurable presence of sperm going out) after 30 years. Buy you have to pay out the.. erm... ass. And you won't find an insurance carrier that will even consider paying for that operation.
Other places say 50/50. Still, insurance will not pay for the reversal in any case so if you plan on reversing it save those pennies.
Well, if 1% of men getting this shot get pregnant, I'm very much not interested. My fiance will continue to use the pill until such a time occurs when we feel we need to make little geek replicas of ourselves.. And she can carry them.
I wouldn't worry too much about the fundamentalist Christians. At most they'll just smack you on the forehead and yell "BE HEALED". (okay, so maybe they'll bomb your abortion clinic, loonies...)
Actually, I was referring to the 'hooker bath' where she would wash her Pits, Tits, and Ass before the next trick. Old term that my dad used to use when he was in the army.
Most of IT support and administration staff weren't fond enough of SHOWERS to use it. SOAP itself wasn't necessarily a child process or deamon for SHOWERS as it also worked with BATH and HANDWASH. Neither of which are popular either. Most of them will just hope that DEODORANT will cover up the problems that SOAP, SHOWERS, or BATH would have fixed but generally everyone can tell if they start sniffing around the network.
I hear good things about the open source project PTA BATH.
I wanted to upmod you, but I think you missed something. You can't blame just builders and stupid homeowners. You have to give a lot of it to the ass hats who got them into these loans. They're everywhere and they knew what they were doing. Loan officers and real estate agents have always been looking for the quick buck, and when the high risk loans became easier to use, they hopped on the money train and milked it dry in a few years looking for as many commissions as possible. Many times they'd happily forge your income saying "you'll just refinance in five years."
These people knew that they were leveraging loans for people who could never afford them even at month one, but it was no longer their responsibility and they had their check for 1.5% of the sale. No, I wasn't foolish enough to fall into the trap, but I know plenty who did. Equal blame. If you were told by a realtor that your combined income of $2200/mo was more than enough to pay the $1500/mo mortgage, would you believe that? Did you forget about your insurance, all the rest of what is ESCROWed (that the realtor 'forgot' to include in the figures)? Oh, then there is property taxes. And utilities.. Oh, still squeaking under your $2200/mo? Great. What about food? Transport?
Yeah, a lot of people are just dumb enough to get taken, but the thief is just as much to blame.
The ME demo taught me that the game was basically a one-trick-pony that I might pull out of the bargain bin a few years from now. Fortunately a friend of mine was dumb enough to grab a copy. He regret putting down the cash about 20 minutes in when he realized that the game had no depth what-so-ever. He let me borrow it as I don't have time to invest in any deep games right now. I can say that while I enjoy the game I couldn't conceive of spending more that $10 on it, and I'm very glad the demo kept me from buying the game. It's as close to a 'rails' game as you can get. There's always one path and rarely more than one way to get somewhere. And by 'more than one way' I mean, you can either jump on a box, or you can slide under the box. It gives you that sense of speed and flow that you get on those zip cars that they had when I was a kid. You pull the trigger and it runs around on a predefined course and you just try not to go so fast you fall out of the track.
On the flip side of the coin, I never would have bought the game if I hadn't been able to demo it, either. EA has been known to really cripple a game or throw it out the door long before it's ready, so again, I would have waited. The demo just saved me time.
I think what demo's really do is serve to replace video game reviews that used to be slightly less biased by 'donations' to editors and publishers. Then again, I enjoyed the demo of Too Human and bought that.. Then I realized the game was 3-D Diablo with less variety. Oh well, lesson learned.
I'll probably have to skip this movie. I love Cowboy Bebop, but keanu reeves is one of the absolute worst actors of all time. I mean that both as serious and funny. So with a light heart I'm going to go find a bottle of cheap vodka to wash away the idea.
Can anyone explain to me why good actors such as Heath Ledger die, OD, or whatever but people like keanu don't? If the man had any honor as an actor he'd step down and let some one who can act take the part.
Oh, and here's to hoping Bruce Willis is cast as Jet. The voice may not be right but the look would be. Oh, and if Halle Barry is in the movie in any way I'm leading the boycott.
Ever have some one you barely know overhear the music from your office/cube and think that you owe it to them to give them a copy? I do. And I tell them to go buy their own.
I've never had a problem emailing an mp3 to a friend if I thought he/she would enjoy the band. It's always in hopes that if they like it, they too will go buy a CD or whatever. Why? Because I want to support the artists. If my friend can't afford a CD, and really likes it? I'll just buy a new copy and give it to them. I want to hear MORE from these artists. Not drive them into the ground like some nameless mass that owes it to me to make more music so I can continue to screw them over.
As far as the RIAA, labels or any other entity, screw them. If I could find a way to just flip a band, even one as rich as U2 or any other mega-star whatever, ten bucks for a CD and not have the label or the MPAA see a penny, I'd do it in a heart beat and I'd do it every time. Which is why I like to try to get to their shows and buy merch there (which, as I understand it supports the band better than buying a CD from Best Buy or Walmart).
a lot of music was distributed hand to hand, and it was okay to do so
This was never true. It happened because there was no way to control copyrights like there is today. At the same time you couldn't illegally distribute copyrighted materials as quickly or widely as today. It's just escalation and we have to deal with it because of self-righteous people who think that everyone owes them everything. So, go ahead and steal music all you want. If it eventually brings down DRM and/or the MPAA then great. As long as we still have musicians that feel it's still worth making music.
And before you respond, please remember that people have different tastes. I tend to listen to independent bands on independent labels when I can, and support them more often, but the super-bands are that way for a reason.
I doubt it. People are always angry for one reason or another. I can't see anyone getting angry at Sony or MS for similar reasons. And, if they did, level-headed people would hopefully be around to point out that it's actually a fair compromise.
Personally I wouldn't even care if there was some user-specific serial number in there in stead of an email address so Apple could track people intentionally distributing music. I like owning my music, and I don't like people taking advantage of that (EVERYONE at the office thinks I'll make copies of my music, which I refuse to do). I don't tend to buy anything with DRM, so this makes me happy. I don't download a lot of music either, but I do find it on P2P sites on occasion if I can't find it through other means. Like when I can only find a CD in a bad mp3 format, I'll see if the waves are out there some where and snag those and buy the mp3s. But more likely I'll just try to order the CD from eBay or another distributor. Import it, whatever.
The tech college I attend has always required communication, speech and a few other classes for any IT related degree. And, in about half the cases, it doesn't work.
While I pine for 4v4, the new maps are part of a 'patch' and are free. So while I'm not thrilled at the complete lack of 3v3 maps, it's not like you have to pay for the maps you won't likely ever use. Though you're probably right in assuming there won't be any 3v3 maps with the expansion. (If the article is different from the summary I'll have to be forgiven. Most gaming sites are blocked at work)
They're still not getting a penny from me unless the new units are multi player, though. No maps, I can deal with that and just build maps with the level editor. But at this point I'd rather go back to Generals and play the Red Alert 2 mod than pay for a single player RA3 expansion. I'm so underwhelmed right now.
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Release Vista, a relatively broken operating system, and try to ram it down peoples' throats. When the people gag enough pop out a 'new' OS that fixes the unpalatableness of the old OS and sell millions!
Not that I don't mind using a descent OS, which Windows 7 seems to be at this time. However, I'd be just as likely to use Windows 7 as XP.
My fiance was driving to her brother's house for the millionth time. I was on the phone with her and the GPS told her to go north when we both knew damn well she needed to go south. But, since it had messed up she figured it was right and went North..... Not five seconds later, "This doesn't seem right." I have repeatedly heard her say that it was one of the best gifts ever, however she can't find my apartment about 50% of the time.
Tech is great when properly used. However, when it takes away from our ability to do things that we should be able to do on our own I will have to second guess it.
You wouldn't be the only one going to prison for your reaction. I'm 100% with you. If any student is suspected of having any sort of illegal drug then the police and the parents should be called. No member of the faculty, no matter what their position or rank, has ANY authority to go near those kids. Search the bag and locker. After that call in authorities and parents. You can't have just one or the other, either.
I'd be pressing sexual assault charges and would not give up until the person(s) responsible paid bid time. The problem is that no matter how much you do it may never reverse the damage done to the kid.
Writing in assembly language was one of my favorite things to do back in college. That was around '02!
I'm pretty sure the dinosaurs, meteors, God, whatever deserves a lot of credit for coming up with that scheme where most living material gets buried for millions of years and/or under a flood just so we can power society for, what, 100-200 years?
Wait... that plan sorta sucks! The only solution left is to bury OUR society under hundreds of tones of rock and earth for our 10^5 generation grandchildren...
They were going to do that anyway
I can't read it either but if you honestly need to see the website in order to understand the point it's trying to make... wow.
You have the wrong version number for the Windows 98 downgrade to ME. The version was 2.(-i)666... or some other equally evil number.
With or without the ball and chain?
I'm confused here.
Wait, wait, wait... you enjoyed Chrono Cross? I bought it and couldn't handle how much I hated it. Trigger was phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. But Cross? I guess when I saw the guy that attacks things by strumming a guitar I lost it. No thanks. I think I got an hour in but I detested playing games on the PSOne so much because of load times that I rarely played through a game.
And for reference, I played the hell out of Gran Turismo and one of the Wing Commander clones (I forget the name) despite the agonizing load times.
I hate load times. The days of the PSOne were frustrating and painful....
It's like a prehistoric reality show, then? And here I thought society had only perfected wasting time, money, resources and lives only in the last few centuries!
Way to go subverted ancients! I salute your tyrannical, well-entertained overlords.
Some places claim a 97% success rate (they measure success as the measurable presence of sperm going out) after 30 years. Buy you have to pay out the.. erm... ass. And you won't find an insurance carrier that will even consider paying for that operation.
Other places say 50/50. Still, insurance will not pay for the reversal in any case so if you plan on reversing it save those pennies.
Well, if 1% of men getting this shot get pregnant, I'm very much not interested. My fiance will continue to use the pill until such a time occurs when we feel we need to make little geek replicas of ourselves.. And she can carry them.
I wouldn't worry too much about the fundamentalist Christians. At most they'll just smack you on the forehead and yell "BE HEALED". (okay, so maybe they'll bomb your abortion clinic, loonies...)
Actually, I was referring to the 'hooker bath' where she would wash her Pits, Tits, and Ass before the next trick. Old term that my dad used to use when he was in the army.
Most of IT support and administration staff weren't fond enough of SHOWERS to use it. SOAP itself wasn't necessarily a child process or deamon for SHOWERS as it also worked with BATH and HANDWASH. Neither of which are popular either. Most of them will just hope that DEODORANT will cover up the problems that SOAP, SHOWERS, or BATH would have fixed but generally everyone can tell if they start sniffing around the network.
I hear good things about the open source project PTA BATH.
Right, but where is he going to find a bunch of rabid, diseased hookers?
Oh, wait, congress!
I wanted to upmod you, but I think you missed something. You can't blame just builders and stupid homeowners. You have to give a lot of it to the ass hats who got them into these loans. They're everywhere and they knew what they were doing. Loan officers and real estate agents have always been looking for the quick buck, and when the high risk loans became easier to use, they hopped on the money train and milked it dry in a few years looking for as many commissions as possible. Many times they'd happily forge your income saying "you'll just refinance in five years."
These people knew that they were leveraging loans for people who could never afford them even at month one, but it was no longer their responsibility and they had their check for 1.5% of the sale. No, I wasn't foolish enough to fall into the trap, but I know plenty who did. Equal blame. If you were told by a realtor that your combined income of $2200/mo was more than enough to pay the $1500/mo mortgage, would you believe that? Did you forget about your insurance, all the rest of what is ESCROWed (that the realtor 'forgot' to include in the figures)? Oh, then there is property taxes. And utilities.. Oh, still squeaking under your $2200/mo? Great. What about food? Transport?
Yeah, a lot of people are just dumb enough to get taken, but the thief is just as much to blame.
The ME demo taught me that the game was basically a one-trick-pony that I might pull out of the bargain bin a few years from now. Fortunately a friend of mine was dumb enough to grab a copy. He regret putting down the cash about 20 minutes in when he realized that the game had no depth what-so-ever. He let me borrow it as I don't have time to invest in any deep games right now. I can say that while I enjoy the game I couldn't conceive of spending more that $10 on it, and I'm very glad the demo kept me from buying the game. It's as close to a 'rails' game as you can get. There's always one path and rarely more than one way to get somewhere. And by 'more than one way' I mean, you can either jump on a box, or you can slide under the box. It gives you that sense of speed and flow that you get on those zip cars that they had when I was a kid. You pull the trigger and it runs around on a predefined course and you just try not to go so fast you fall out of the track.
On the flip side of the coin, I never would have bought the game if I hadn't been able to demo it, either. EA has been known to really cripple a game or throw it out the door long before it's ready, so again, I would have waited. The demo just saved me time.
I think what demo's really do is serve to replace video game reviews that used to be slightly less biased by 'donations' to editors and publishers. Then again, I enjoyed the demo of Too Human and bought that.. Then I realized the game was 3-D Diablo with less variety. Oh well, lesson learned.
I'll probably have to skip this movie. I love Cowboy Bebop, but keanu reeves is one of the absolute worst actors of all time. I mean that both as serious and funny. So with a light heart I'm going to go find a bottle of cheap vodka to wash away the idea.
Can anyone explain to me why good actors such as Heath Ledger die, OD, or whatever but people like keanu don't? If the man had any honor as an actor he'd step down and let some one who can act take the part.
Oh, and here's to hoping Bruce Willis is cast as Jet. The voice may not be right but the look would be. Oh, and if Halle Barry is in the movie in any way I'm leading the boycott.
Ever have some one you barely know overhear the music from your office/cube and think that you owe it to them to give them a copy? I do. And I tell them to go buy their own.
I've never had a problem emailing an mp3 to a friend if I thought he/she would enjoy the band. It's always in hopes that if they like it, they too will go buy a CD or whatever. Why? Because I want to support the artists. If my friend can't afford a CD, and really likes it? I'll just buy a new copy and give it to them. I want to hear MORE from these artists. Not drive them into the ground like some nameless mass that owes it to me to make more music so I can continue to screw them over.
As far as the RIAA, labels or any other entity, screw them. If I could find a way to just flip a band, even one as rich as U2 or any other mega-star whatever, ten bucks for a CD and not have the label or the MPAA see a penny, I'd do it in a heart beat and I'd do it every time. Which is why I like to try to get to their shows and buy merch there (which, as I understand it supports the band better than buying a CD from Best Buy or Walmart).
a lot of music was distributed hand to hand, and it was okay to do so
This was never true. It happened because there was no way to control copyrights like there is today. At the same time you couldn't illegally distribute copyrighted materials as quickly or widely as today. It's just escalation and we have to deal with it because of self-righteous people who think that everyone owes them everything. So, go ahead and steal music all you want. If it eventually brings down DRM and/or the MPAA then great. As long as we still have musicians that feel it's still worth making music.
And before you respond, please remember that people have different tastes. I tend to listen to independent bands on independent labels when I can, and support them more often, but the super-bands are that way for a reason.
I doubt it. People are always angry for one reason or another. I can't see anyone getting angry at Sony or MS for similar reasons. And, if they did, level-headed people would hopefully be around to point out that it's actually a fair compromise.
Personally I wouldn't even care if there was some user-specific serial number in there in stead of an email address so Apple could track people intentionally distributing music. I like owning my music, and I don't like people taking advantage of that (EVERYONE at the office thinks I'll make copies of my music, which I refuse to do). I don't tend to buy anything with DRM, so this makes me happy. I don't download a lot of music either, but I do find it on P2P sites on occasion if I can't find it through other means. Like when I can only find a CD in a bad mp3 format, I'll see if the waves are out there some where and snag those and buy the mp3s. But more likely I'll just try to order the CD from eBay or another distributor. Import it, whatever.
The tech college I attend has always required communication, speech and a few other classes for any IT related degree. And, in about half the cases, it doesn't work.
While I pine for 4v4, the new maps are part of a 'patch' and are free. So while I'm not thrilled at the complete lack of 3v3 maps, it's not like you have to pay for the maps you won't likely ever use. Though you're probably right in assuming there won't be any 3v3 maps with the expansion. (If the article is different from the summary I'll have to be forgiven. Most gaming sites are blocked at work)
They're still not getting a penny from me unless the new units are multi player, though. No maps, I can deal with that and just build maps with the level editor. But at this point I'd rather go back to Generals and play the Red Alert 2 mod than pay for a single player RA3 expansion. I'm so underwhelmed right now.
I noticed that. I'm pretty excited for this phone (especially after I tried and returned a 3G iPhone), but until it's a GSM phone I won't touch it.