Not really different for Canada, every year we get hundreds of people who are sent off into logging roads, or CO-Access roads. Basically no maintenance at all, and not traveled by anything but snowmobiles in the winter. Where there is no phone service, no water except from the snow, and no food for a few hundred KM or more. And on some days it'll hit a frosty -30C. This has happened all over the place here in Canada, and the police have put out numerous warnings to not trust your GPS at all. While Australia has 45C temperatures, you can survive that for a few days, if you're lucky. Here when it hits -30C you might have 5-6 hours if you're not dressed for it. Especially if the snowmobile patrols are already out hunting for someone else.
Then again this has happened quite a bit in the US too. Where people have been dumped in the middle of death valley as a "shortcut" and only by pure luck they didn't die.
Ah... so disbelieving AGW has nothing to do with scientific evidence. Thank you for clearing that up once and for all.
Would that be the same scientific evidence that's been claiming that the end of the world is neigh for the last 20 years? I'm seeing similarities to this and doomsday cults too. Then again a lot of environmentalists are in the malthusian camp anymore too.
Checking...nope, didn't say anywhere that it's as a spiritual successor to PS:Torment. Though a spiritual successor to classic CRPG's? I'd say so, at least right now.
A spiritual successor to the game would be welcome news. It'll be a hard name to live up to, but fantastic if they pull it off.
Well, I have some good news for you then. The guys are Obsidian including the folks who did PS:T are working in a classic RPG to fit the bill now. Dragon Age was okay. The Witcher and Witcher 2 were good. But nothing has yet to beat PS:T but considering they've got the entire old BIS team working on PE, I have faith.
is that a person can be holding down three part time jobs paying *more* than minimum wage, and still need food stamps
Funny that I made the same statement just after the last election, and was modded a troll for it. This isn't really the end-be-all fault of corporations though, this is the end-be-all fault of over government regulations. Want to see where it's similar? Try Japan and Europe. Massive regulations, people entrenched, everyone under 35 has part-time jobs, or are going through temp agencies and working 3 of them, and still not making ends meet.
Why though? Because it costs more to hire someone new at full time, than it does to keep the people you have who are grandfathered at existing rates, and hire everyone else at part time. Enjoy that government regulation suckers. At least it's not quite that bad in Canada, yet.
For the most part, the New York Times doesn't recycle wire service stories. That's part of their charm. Neither does the Washington Post,
Wow. And you actually believe that? About 40-50% of the content out of the major lead stories of both papers are directly from a wire service. They recycle wire service stories as well, but they also toss in their bias as well.
Then again, this is what killed things like newsweek among others.
Quite right. Though, with a bit of searching and price matching you can drive down the cost a bit more. I just did some upgrades on my gaming rig from a x4 965.
8GB for $29(G.skill F3-14900CL9D-GBSR) outside of the black friday/cyber monday sales. Though a lot of places are still selling stuff cheap. -- price matched against tigerdirect
As for the 500/600 series? Meh not a huge difference, I'm using a 560Ti, and I'll probably wait until the 700 series are released before upgrading it. But you can find them as cheaply as $150 with rebates. -- local canuck shop had them that cheaply on monday, canadacomputers not sure if they're still on sale.
And really if you're partial to CPU upgrades the new AMD FX-6300 Vishera can be snagged for $100-139 depending on the retailer, and a good board for the AM3+ that supports crossfire can bought for $63-$83 from MSI, ASUS or ASR.
I built my upgrade oh 3 days ago, and it was ranked 3rd overall on futuremark's site in the 560Ti/AMD-6300 category at stock using qualified drivers. Maybe I'll get down to tweaking it this weekend.
Works for me. I'd much rather read a book than watch a movie, then again the last time I went to go see a movie was Lord of the Rings. I have a feeling that I'll be suckered into seeing the new Hobbit movie though.
Saw a guy going to interview for a dockwork job in a suit once.
I once interviewed for a security guard position at a smallish company. There were 450 applicants for the job this was back in '00 just after the medium and heavy industry crash here in Ontario back before you had to be licensed. I beat out those other applicants by wearing a suit. I didn't stay at the job long, maybe three weeks but it kept the bills paid until I got hired on elsewhere.
This is the UN. Their motto is: "If it's not broke, break it." Followed by: "If it has money, pillage it." And "If there are small children, send in the soldiers so they can rape them."
Simple answer? The games are being made for 7 year old or greater hardware(consoles). Hey, remember...consoles are hot shit. That's why developers are abandoning them for the PC, and in turn 'nix.
Oh boy, I sure can't wait to install an OS with a phone interface on my desktop/laptop, that makes so much sense!
Well that's really the only problem with Win8. Toss on Start8 or Classicshell or one of the dozen other startmenu knockoffs and it's no problem from there. Once metro is toast, it's a good improvement over Win7. I do like it, I've been using it for nearly a month now both on my gaming machine and on my sidebox programing rig. It's faster, leagues faster than Win7, stability is better, hell even crash recovery is better.
Stuff I don't like? AHCI driver switchovers are still a pain in the ass. Especially in upgrade scenarios, or new builds if you forget to make the change in the bios. Temperamental 'charms' bar. Well metro I already mentioned above. Bunch of other small things that aren't worth mentioning. It'll still occasionally revert and break custom shell menu software, though that could be a bug of the software itself not working properly. Haven't looked at that fully.
Stuff I do like? Better backwards compatibility with older software. Stuff that wouldn't run with blood sacrifices on win7 will work now, and stuff that wouldn't run at all on WinXP run flawlessly. Especially games. New taskmanger is nice, especially the breakdown in to groups, and 'who's running what' doesn't beat process explorer but it's better. And if you're in simple mode, it doesn't overload some people when you're telling them what to do. Much better searching, despite the naysayers MS actually did get some improvements in there. Better backup and recovery is nice as well.
Best thing? Self-repair, and the ability to fast restore the machine to a state before it was unbootable. Already used it. I was impressed, I deliberately trashed the registry, and corrupted core driver files and it was able to fix it--something that Win7 couldn't do outside of recovery mode, and something you needed the recovery console to do in XP. So I trashed it harder and it couldn't. So I used the restore to new state, it took 10minutes.
The only reason why we won't see another Freespace is because Interplay are dicks, and refuse to sell the IP. My hope is that they die a fiery screaming death with all their IP's up for sale so developers like Volition can get their hands on them.
Yeah, just wait until you have $1 and $2 coins in your pocket like we do in Canada. And at the end of the week, you dump out all the change and there's $50 worth.
It's been happening for the the last 12K Years, I think it is about time someone took notice.
Well that would be about on par with the end of the last ice age, roughly. Back 10K years ago, there was a 1mi thick ice sheet sitting where my house is today.
Today, where I live is considered one of the greenbelts of the world in terms of agriculture. Then again, that's because all of the topsoil from everything north of about Kingston through to Polar Bear Provincial park, was deposited in an area from Trenton through Windsor.
You realize that the size of usenet, and retention has done nothing but increase over the last decade right? Cheap storage has pretty much guaranteed that. It's not going anywhere. In 2000 we were at 82GB a day, and in the first month of 2012 we were at 9.29TB a day.
If anything, what's pissed me off more is usenet providers that use hosts who aren't accepting "out of country" credit cards anymore. I was with astraweb for the better part of 6 years(and was with giganews before that), until 2checkout stopped accepting non-american mastercards. Which has left me hunting for a new provider.
Yeah I agree it's pretty bad. The real problem is there's no easy fix for it. The boom came out of nowhere really, even places like Grande Prairie are very quickly becoming a mess with the massive influx of people and don't get me started on Lethbridge either. 5am GP is like 5am Kitchener-Waterloo now with everyone hitting the commuter flights to fly into Edmonton and Calgary simply to avoid the traffic.
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You obviously haven't driven in Australia much..
Not really different for Canada, every year we get hundreds of people who are sent off into logging roads, or CO-Access roads. Basically no maintenance at all, and not traveled by anything but snowmobiles in the winter. Where there is no phone service, no water except from the snow, and no food for a few hundred KM or more. And on some days it'll hit a frosty -30C. This has happened all over the place here in Canada, and the police have put out numerous warnings to not trust your GPS at all. While Australia has 45C temperatures, you can survive that for a few days, if you're lucky. Here when it hits -30C you might have 5-6 hours if you're not dressed for it. Especially if the snowmobile patrols are already out hunting for someone else.
Then again this has happened quite a bit in the US too. Where people have been dumped in the middle of death valley as a "shortcut" and only by pure luck they didn't die.
Ah... so disbelieving AGW has nothing to do with scientific evidence. Thank you for clearing that up once and for all.
Would that be the same scientific evidence that's been claiming that the end of the world is neigh for the last 20 years? I'm seeing similarities to this and doomsday cults too. Then again a lot of environmentalists are in the malthusian camp anymore too.
Checking...nope, didn't say anywhere that it's as a spiritual successor to PS:Torment. Though a spiritual successor to classic CRPG's? I'd say so, at least right now.
A spiritual successor to the game would be welcome news. It'll be a hard name to live up to, but fantastic if they pull it off.
Well, I have some good news for you then. The guys are Obsidian including the folks who did PS:T are working in a classic RPG to fit the bill now. Dragon Age was okay. The Witcher and Witcher 2 were good. But nothing has yet to beat PS:T but considering they've got the entire old BIS team working on PE, I have faith.
is that a person can be holding down three part time jobs paying *more* than minimum wage, and still need food stamps
Funny that I made the same statement just after the last election, and was modded a troll for it. This isn't really the end-be-all fault of corporations though, this is the end-be-all fault of over government regulations. Want to see where it's similar? Try Japan and Europe. Massive regulations, people entrenched, everyone under 35 has part-time jobs, or are going through temp agencies and working 3 of them, and still not making ends meet.
Why though? Because it costs more to hire someone new at full time, than it does to keep the people you have who are grandfathered at existing rates, and hire everyone else at part time. Enjoy that government regulation suckers. At least it's not quite that bad in Canada, yet.
For the most part, the New York Times doesn't recycle wire service stories. That's part of their charm. Neither does the Washington Post,
Wow. And you actually believe that? About 40-50% of the content out of the major lead stories of both papers are directly from a wire service. They recycle wire service stories as well, but they also toss in their bias as well.
Then again, this is what killed things like newsweek among others.
One is the the internet, the second is every newspaper is simply recycling stories from UPI, Reuters, and AFP. The third is bias.
You might want to ask the Kurds, how that non-terrorism worked for them.
This is Canada's response on DPI from the privacy commissioner. For what it's worth, this won't fly here.
Their own sheer stupidity truly is amazing. Maybe they'll make a movie off of it one day...
If someone makes a movie, for a censored industry. Does it turn a profit?
Quite right. Though, with a bit of searching and price matching you can drive down the cost a bit more. I just did some upgrades on my gaming rig from a x4 965.
8GB for $29(G.skill F3-14900CL9D-GBSR) outside of the black friday/cyber monday sales. Though a lot of places are still selling stuff cheap. -- price matched against tigerdirect
As for the 500/600 series? Meh not a huge difference, I'm using a 560Ti, and I'll probably wait until the 700 series are released before upgrading it. But you can find them as cheaply as $150 with rebates. -- local canuck shop had them that cheaply on monday, canadacomputers not sure if they're still on sale.
And really if you're partial to CPU upgrades the new AMD FX-6300 Vishera can be snagged for $100-139 depending on the retailer, and a good board for the AM3+ that supports crossfire can bought for $63-$83 from MSI, ASUS or ASR.
I built my upgrade oh 3 days ago, and it was ranked 3rd overall on futuremark's site in the 560Ti/AMD-6300 category at stock using qualified drivers. Maybe I'll get down to tweaking it this weekend.
Works for me. I'd much rather read a book than watch a movie, then again the last time I went to go see a movie was Lord of the Rings. I have a feeling that I'll be suckered into seeing the new Hobbit movie though.
Saw a guy going to interview for a dockwork job in a suit once.
I once interviewed for a security guard position at a smallish company. There were 450 applicants for the job this was back in '00 just after the medium and heavy industry crash here in Ontario back before you had to be licensed. I beat out those other applicants by wearing a suit. I didn't stay at the job long, maybe three weeks but it kept the bills paid until I got hired on elsewhere.
This is the UN. Their motto is: "If it's not broke, break it." Followed by: "If it has money, pillage it." And "If there are small children, send in the soldiers so they can rape them."
Simple answer? The games are being made for 7 year old or greater hardware(consoles). Hey, remember...consoles are hot shit. That's why developers are abandoning them for the PC, and in turn 'nix.
Otherwise, how would Edison have invented so many things?
That's easy, by being a patent clerk and being the worlds first patent troll.
Oh boy, I sure can't wait to install an OS with a phone interface on my desktop/laptop, that makes so much sense!
Well that's really the only problem with Win8. Toss on Start8 or Classicshell or one of the dozen other startmenu knockoffs and it's no problem from there. Once metro is toast, it's a good improvement over Win7. I do like it, I've been using it for nearly a month now both on my gaming machine and on my sidebox programing rig. It's faster, leagues faster than Win7, stability is better, hell even crash recovery is better.
Stuff I don't like? AHCI driver switchovers are still a pain in the ass. Especially in upgrade scenarios, or new builds if you forget to make the change in the bios. Temperamental 'charms' bar. Well metro I already mentioned above. Bunch of other small things that aren't worth mentioning. It'll still occasionally revert and break custom shell menu software, though that could be a bug of the software itself not working properly. Haven't looked at that fully.
Stuff I do like? Better backwards compatibility with older software. Stuff that wouldn't run with blood sacrifices on win7 will work now, and stuff that wouldn't run at all on WinXP run flawlessly. Especially games. New taskmanger is nice, especially the breakdown in to groups, and 'who's running what' doesn't beat process explorer but it's better. And if you're in simple mode, it doesn't overload some people when you're telling them what to do. Much better searching, despite the naysayers MS actually did get some improvements in there. Better backup and recovery is nice as well.
Best thing? Self-repair, and the ability to fast restore the machine to a state before it was unbootable. Already used it. I was impressed, I deliberately trashed the registry, and corrupted core driver files and it was able to fix it--something that Win7 couldn't do outside of recovery mode, and something you needed the recovery console to do in XP. So I trashed it harder and it couldn't. So I used the restore to new state, it took 10minutes.
Beh. Rebels win, and they'll be following the path that Egypt is now. Don't believe me? Wait for it. I'll be happy to point this out to the naysayers.
The only reason why we won't see another Freespace is because Interplay are dicks, and refuse to sell the IP. My hope is that they die a fiery screaming death with all their IP's up for sale so developers like Volition can get their hands on them.
Yeah, just wait until you have $1 and $2 coins in your pocket like we do in Canada. And at the end of the week, you dump out all the change and there's $50 worth.
Don't worry. According to the politicians in the UK, even if that site is legal. You're probably a filthy pirate anyway.
It's been happening for the the last 12K Years, I think it is about time someone took notice.
Well that would be about on par with the end of the last ice age, roughly. Back 10K years ago, there was a 1mi thick ice sheet sitting where my house is today.
Today, where I live is considered one of the greenbelts of the world in terms of agriculture. Then again, that's because all of the topsoil from everything north of about Kingston through to Polar Bear Provincial park, was deposited in an area from Trenton through Windsor.
You realize that the size of usenet, and retention has done nothing but increase over the last decade right? Cheap storage has pretty much guaranteed that. It's not going anywhere. In 2000 we were at 82GB a day, and in the first month of 2012 we were at 9.29TB a day.
If anything, what's pissed me off more is usenet providers that use hosts who aren't accepting "out of country" credit cards anymore. I was with astraweb for the better part of 6 years(and was with giganews before that), until 2checkout stopped accepting non-american mastercards. Which has left me hunting for a new provider.
If you already know the MAC, you don't need a subpoena to find out the MAC.
Not how it works in law up here.
Whoosh
Glad you don't know the distinctions of law in Canada either.
Yeah I agree it's pretty bad. The real problem is there's no easy fix for it. The boom came out of nowhere really, even places like Grande Prairie are very quickly becoming a mess with the massive influx of people and don't get me started on Lethbridge either. 5am GP is like 5am Kitchener-Waterloo now with everyone hitting the commuter flights to fly into Edmonton and Calgary simply to avoid the traffic.