Trying to find ways to help those who bought more house than they could afford or mad bad investments on the backs of the ones who were responsible makes me want to puke.
I agree with one caveat. Loan officers and realtors who did everything they could to make people believe they could afford those loans. I was there, I saw it. When the feds lowered interest rates to try to stimulate the housing markets the prices skyrocketed. Anyone with half a brain (and I have more than half a brain) should have been able to see that coming.
My point is that some of these people weren't smart enough to know the math behind what was really happening. So helping them out is sickening because they should have known exactly what they were doing (in this day and age, ignorance is never a good excuse). But also the lecherous snakes that helped them destroy their lives for a 3.5% commission should be thrown in a well, or used as test subjects. They knew exactly what they were doing.
Well, on one hand, I think that any jobs should be given to the harder working, more qualified person, but on the other hand I think that full US citizens should be priority because, well, we do have to take care of ourselves. While our deficit may be almost immeasurable, and seem irresponsible, we do stimulate a good deal of world economy. So when our country is in crisis, we should be hand picking ways to keep some of that money in-house.
On the other hand... well, if you have an H1B odds are that you got it because you deserve a specific job a bit more that some of us around here. Personally, I'd be more for us not paying illegal immigrants and such before we worried too much about the 150,000 or so H1B holders.
True. What the GP was saying is if a whole neighborhood has use for three pizza joints, whereas before they they barely kept one in business... The only way to do this is to give the people who would want the pizza, could they afford it, the means to buy it. Only way to do this is give them more and/or better paying jobs (or cash).
Either way works, but handing out money only works for a little while and generally results in irresponsible spenders (the road we're on now in the US. Collapsing housing market because of bad loans, lenders, all that). More jobs generally give more responsible spenders, but it's a LOT harder to do. How do you create jobs? Get more demand. Quite the conundrum.
Oh, yeah, that's right. Population ultimately drives demand. Economists, statisticians and other mathy people pour over this sort of problem day in and day out and even then they're not much more able to predict or affect economy any more than a weatherman can predict or a American football coach can affect the outcome of a game. It's understood how it should work, but there are so many factors that it's impossible to make it work.
The problem with the US is that so few people are willing to work hard and exercise self control. Which is why there is this credit collapse. The average person in the US has $8400 in credit debt. On a whole, we're too flipping lazy for the "throw money at the problem and it'll fix itself" plan to ever work.
I'm not kidding. It's supposed to be a 'class 4' SD Micro device. But I'm not sure if that really means anything because this thing is SLOW. I'm pretty sure it's not the phone's software/hardware because the old 2GB card (not SDHC) moved along much quicker.
can be very therapeutic. The trick is to be able to regulate just how distracted you become. It's not going to help some one if they have PTSD and then get hooked on Tetris to the point where you can't live without it. Yes, that is an extreme.
My point is actually that Tetris is just the distraction and you can probably get similar results with any sort of simple mind stimulating puzzle like sudoku. Heck, I'm willing to bet any video game would help as long as, say, your PTSD was triggered by almost getting run down by six 18-wheelers and you sit down for a session of Big Mutha Truckers. Course... if you don't have PTSD before playing that game you will after the fact...
My phone makes a convenient mass storage device with the 8GB micro SD. Slow as hell but I'm always carrying it and I'm rarely carrying anything else. Admittedly, the transfer speed is very slow, so I'm not going to plug it in and grab that 2GB file in a few minutes (I clocked a 600MB transfer of a movie in just under half an hour). but it works.
Sounds like a very reasonable plan. I was just at a destination wedding in Mexico and the photographer had a belt with two or three batteries and a room full of chargers. For his camera memory he was using Compact Flash. There were two main reasons. One was that the transfer rate was far superior (66MB/s vs SD at 20MB/s) and that they were easier to label and track. Also easier to recover as they weren't flash but the mini drives. He had another holster for these. I don't know how many he had but for four hours straight he took pictures and never once ran out of space or back to the hotel.
I have no idea how he backed up all of this, but I'm assuming he at least saved them on a laptop and hopefully an external drive.
I may be able to pose a unique viewpoint. The reasons being that I detested the first two Fallouts (battle system, hated it, couldn't get past it). I also played Oblivion with a mild neglect (IE, I finally picked it up last winter and moved on to Culdcept Saga when it came out, also, Culdcept Saga is one of my fav's this year).
F3 is, for all intents and purposes, Oblivion with guns. But it's a lot better. Oblivion was terrible. Six voices, and everyone with a steel rod for a spine. Thankfully there is a bit of motion to the NPC's in F3. I don't mind at all repairing weapons, etc as it's just a few button presses.
The bad part? It's not Fallout. It's got the story... and the art. That's it. The game does nothing 'new', either. VATS is no big deal, just a way to slow down the game. Created weapons is nothing new, either (and what the heck, just 8 creatable weapons?! yup, 3D engine means LESS variety). Seriously, it was the interface, and surviving that made Fallout 1 & 2 what they were, and without that.. the game is not, nor will it ever be Fallout. It's just "Post nuclear desolation RPG/FPS" and that's about it.
Even then, UO and probably EQ can prove that they had the technology created, envisioned, or whatever long before the release of their products. It should work both ways. IANAL, however, and could be dreadfully wrong... It seems that if world.com or whomever filed for the patent when they had the idea, and Ultima Online release less than a year later that they most likely had the same idea at the same time.
Wasn't there something about patents not being granted for the obvious? Again IANAL
True that. Unless your business is actual information for after the nuclear holocaust. Say, storing up books, archives, schematics of all human knowledge. Who cares about bank accounts and what not, if civilization wiped out tons of people, you'd need information to rebuild. And, since your business stores information that is timeless data, then you'll actually have customers left over. On the other hand if you're just holding sales records and strategies for some demographic, well that info is useless because 95% of that demo is dead and the rest likely don't need whatever you were selling anyway.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. That's something I'd like to see explored. I've got extended family that have had to deal with Alzheimer's and dementia in the past and if working out the brain muscle can reduce the effects in any significant way, or at least offer hope, then I'd be all in.
The XBox 360 has mouse and keyboard out of the box. Check it out. And I know that's a peripheral/hack, but hey, it works. At any rate you can be surprised.:) Or at least entertained or intrigued if you like. Whatever works.
Take a ball of paper and throw it at 100,000 miles an hour. Tell me that's not going to cause some damage.
so... how does that ball of paper get accelerated too 100,000mph? Air resistance will probably keep it under, say 10mph. The elevator crashing down, though... that really would cause some damage, especially because its total mass is going to land somewhere and it's going to weigh a LOT when it gets down here.
I'm all for a giant orbital swing. We just put a really tall 'A' frame in, say, the Sahara (smallest ecological imprint, I'd imagine). Attach stuff to a really long rope, and, you know, just like on the playground. Swing until you get into lower orbit and the mini-thrusters take it from there.
Be that as it may, then everyone who is an 'easy target' (IE, women, children, disabled, small guys, etc...) should be able to have their doctors prescribe an easy to fire weapon for self defense in the name of keeping health costs down.
As a side. Do you honestly believe that grandma or grandpa, who have a hard time opening a bottle of medication due to arthritis (I RTFA), are going to be able to hit anything to any degree of accuracy using a weapon like that?! Sure, it does come with a laser sight so those who spring for the laser sight are more likely to hit something... if they can see the red dot.
This really is completely outrageous. It'll be banned the moment that grandma accidentally shoots her grandson because she though he was an intruder. I give it a month.
I was actually going to take a look at their website to check out the notebooks/netbooks... then when I got there I found that had to know everything about their products in order to view them. Letting you look for a product only by model number is rarely a good practice...
My XPS 1330 has 4GB of RAM and a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz Penryn. Very nice aside from the terribly low resolution (Yes, I am complaining that a 13.3" screen has only 1280x800). Oh well, at least there is an HDMI out for my external monitor at home.
I'm not. Things died and got buried long ago (thousands to millions of years) for all that plant and animal matter to turn from living things into propane, oil, and what not. Quite a time investment, that.
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The pictures look shiny... only one test left..
Trying to find ways to help those who bought more house than they could afford or mad bad investments on the backs of the ones who were responsible makes me want to puke.
I agree with one caveat. Loan officers and realtors who did everything they could to make people believe they could afford those loans. I was there, I saw it. When the feds lowered interest rates to try to stimulate the housing markets the prices skyrocketed. Anyone with half a brain (and I have more than half a brain) should have been able to see that coming.
My point is that some of these people weren't smart enough to know the math behind what was really happening. So helping them out is sickening because they should have known exactly what they were doing (in this day and age, ignorance is never a good excuse). But also the lecherous snakes that helped them destroy their lives for a 3.5% commission should be thrown in a well, or used as test subjects. They knew exactly what they were doing.
Well, on one hand, I think that any jobs should be given to the harder working, more qualified person, but on the other hand I think that full US citizens should be priority because, well, we do have to take care of ourselves. While our deficit may be almost immeasurable, and seem irresponsible, we do stimulate a good deal of world economy. So when our country is in crisis, we should be hand picking ways to keep some of that money in-house.
On the other hand... well, if you have an H1B odds are that you got it because you deserve a specific job a bit more that some of us around here. Personally, I'd be more for us not paying illegal immigrants and such before we worried too much about the 150,000 or so H1B holders.
True. What the GP was saying is if a whole neighborhood has use for three pizza joints, whereas before they they barely kept one in business... The only way to do this is to give the people who would want the pizza, could they afford it, the means to buy it. Only way to do this is give them more and/or better paying jobs (or cash).
Either way works, but handing out money only works for a little while and generally results in irresponsible spenders (the road we're on now in the US. Collapsing housing market because of bad loans, lenders, all that). More jobs generally give more responsible spenders, but it's a LOT harder to do. How do you create jobs? Get more demand. Quite the conundrum.
Oh, yeah, that's right. Population ultimately drives demand. Economists, statisticians and other mathy people pour over this sort of problem day in and day out and even then they're not much more able to predict or affect economy any more than a weatherman can predict or a American football coach can affect the outcome of a game. It's understood how it should work, but there are so many factors that it's impossible to make it work.
The problem with the US is that so few people are willing to work hard and exercise self control. Which is why there is this credit collapse. The average person in the US has $8400 in credit debt. On a whole, we're too flipping lazy for the "throw money at the problem and it'll fix itself" plan to ever work.
I'm not kidding. It's supposed to be a 'class 4' SD Micro device. But I'm not sure if that really means anything because this thing is SLOW. I'm pretty sure it's not the phone's software/hardware because the old 2GB card (not SDHC) moved along much quicker.
can be very therapeutic. The trick is to be able to regulate just how distracted you become. It's not going to help some one if they have PTSD and then get hooked on Tetris to the point where you can't live without it. Yes, that is an extreme.
My point is actually that Tetris is just the distraction and you can probably get similar results with any sort of simple mind stimulating puzzle like sudoku. Heck, I'm willing to bet any video game would help as long as, say, your PTSD was triggered by almost getting run down by six 18-wheelers and you sit down for a session of Big Mutha Truckers. Course... if you don't have PTSD before playing that game you will after the fact...
My phone makes a convenient mass storage device with the 8GB micro SD. Slow as hell but I'm always carrying it and I'm rarely carrying anything else. Admittedly, the transfer speed is very slow, so I'm not going to plug it in and grab that 2GB file in a few minutes (I clocked a 600MB transfer of a movie in just under half an hour). but it works.
Sounds like a very reasonable plan. I was just at a destination wedding in Mexico and the photographer had a belt with two or three batteries and a room full of chargers. For his camera memory he was using Compact Flash. There were two main reasons. One was that the transfer rate was far superior (66MB/s vs SD at 20MB/s) and that they were easier to label and track. Also easier to recover as they weren't flash but the mini drives. He had another holster for these. I don't know how many he had but for four hours straight he took pictures and never once ran out of space or back to the hotel.
I have no idea how he backed up all of this, but I'm assuming he at least saved them on a laptop and hopefully an external drive.
Yeah, pretty much the same game. They even kept the choppy engine, sub-par graphics, and excruciatingly long load times!
I may be able to pose a unique viewpoint. The reasons being that I detested the first two Fallouts (battle system, hated it, couldn't get past it). I also played Oblivion with a mild neglect (IE, I finally picked it up last winter and moved on to Culdcept Saga when it came out, also, Culdcept Saga is one of my fav's this year).
F3 is, for all intents and purposes, Oblivion with guns. But it's a lot better. Oblivion was terrible. Six voices, and everyone with a steel rod for a spine. Thankfully there is a bit of motion to the NPC's in F3. I don't mind at all repairing weapons, etc as it's just a few button presses.
The bad part? It's not Fallout. It's got the story... and the art. That's it. The game does nothing 'new', either. VATS is no big deal, just a way to slow down the game. Created weapons is nothing new, either (and what the heck, just 8 creatable weapons?! yup, 3D engine means LESS variety). Seriously, it was the interface, and surviving that made Fallout 1 & 2 what they were, and without that.. the game is not, nor will it ever be Fallout. It's just "Post nuclear desolation RPG/FPS" and that's about it.
Even then, UO and probably EQ can prove that they had the technology created, envisioned, or whatever long before the release of their products. It should work both ways. IANAL, however, and could be dreadfully wrong... It seems that if world.com or whomever filed for the patent when they had the idea, and Ultima Online release less than a year later that they most likely had the same idea at the same time.
Wasn't there something about patents not being granted for the obvious? Again IANAL
That shows stocks rising and falling at the will of its owner! Make people sell their Google stock so you can buy it slightly cheaper.
True that. Unless your business is actual information for after the nuclear holocaust. Say, storing up books, archives, schematics of all human knowledge. Who cares about bank accounts and what not, if civilization wiped out tons of people, you'd need information to rebuild. And, since your business stores information that is timeless data, then you'll actually have customers left over. On the other hand if you're just holding sales records and strategies for some demographic, well that info is useless because 95% of that demo is dead and the rest likely don't need whatever you were selling anyway.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. That's something I'd like to see explored. I've got extended family that have had to deal with Alzheimer's and dementia in the past and if working out the brain muscle can reduce the effects in any significant way, or at least offer hope, then I'd be all in.
Okay, fine. What about... Okay, I'm out. You win this round Kneo
Really?
The XBox 360 has mouse and keyboard out of the box. Check it out. And I know that's a peripheral/hack, but hey, it works. At any rate you can be surprised. :) Or at least entertained or intrigued if you like. Whatever works.
Really?
My post was in no way serious, and I'm aware of how pendulums work. :) But I really like your idea! Keep 'em coming.
Take a ball of paper and throw it at 100,000 miles an hour. Tell me that's not going to cause some damage.
so... how does that ball of paper get accelerated too 100,000mph? Air resistance will probably keep it under, say 10mph. The elevator crashing down, though... that really would cause some damage, especially because its total mass is going to land somewhere and it's going to weigh a LOT when it gets down here.
First, GP:
There's also the problem that any ninja can come along and cut the cord
I think it'll survive a katana if it can survive the other stresses being placed on it.
It's a ninja. A ninja can use any weapon he likes and will be able to cut the thing if he pleases
Well, the base would be mobile too -- in the ocean. But I see your point.
AHA! Ninja problem is solved. Surround the base with pirates!
I'm all for a giant orbital swing. We just put a really tall 'A' frame in, say, the Sahara (smallest ecological imprint, I'd imagine). Attach stuff to a really long rope, and, you know, just like on the playground. Swing until you get into lower orbit and the mini-thrusters take it from there.
Be that as it may, then everyone who is an 'easy target' (IE, women, children, disabled, small guys, etc...) should be able to have their doctors prescribe an easy to fire weapon for self defense in the name of keeping health costs down.
As a side. Do you honestly believe that grandma or grandpa, who have a hard time opening a bottle of medication due to arthritis (I RTFA), are going to be able to hit anything to any degree of accuracy using a weapon like that?! Sure, it does come with a laser sight so those who spring for the laser sight are more likely to hit something... if they can see the red dot.
This really is completely outrageous. It'll be banned the moment that grandma accidentally shoots her grandson because she though he was an intruder. I give it a month.
I was actually going to take a look at their website to check out the notebooks/netbooks... then when I got there I found that had to know everything about their products in order to view them. Letting you look for a product only by model number is rarely a good practice...
My XPS 1330 has 4GB of RAM and a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz Penryn. Very nice aside from the terribly low resolution (Yes, I am complaining that a 13.3" screen has only 1280x800). Oh well, at least there is an HDMI out for my external monitor at home.
I thought that said 6710lb laptop. All I thought was "GEEZ... this is Slashdot. Shouldn't everyone know the metric system?!"
I'm not. Things died and got buried long ago (thousands to millions of years) for all that plant and animal matter to turn from living things into propane, oil, and what not. Quite a time investment, that.