I would really like to see some unbiased numbers supporting this assumption. I will say from hiring and firing employees for the last 10 years I've found something a bit different. The handful of homeschooled applicants/employees I've dealt with have been either religious zealots or people that need a helicopter manager who will spoon feed them. Their ability to operate independently and think beyond the parameters provided has been mediocre at best.
True. But the teaching moment is found in not replacing the broken toy. If there is no realization that the toy had value and that the value requires effort to replace....there is no lesson to be learned.
There is also a lesson for the parent. Protect your investment. Buy a nerf cover for your child's DS. Collect the loose DS cartridges and put them in a safe place, unbeknownst to the child. When the child misses his favorite game, explain where it is and why it is there. If the child repeats said behavior, remove the game from play for an extended amount of time.
Teaching your kid that they are some kind of special Golden Child who will have every desire serviced or that immediate gratification is the way of the world is a serious disservice to both the adult they will become and the world that will have to put up with them. Quite frankly, I'm really getting tired of seeing these adults in the workplace. And yes....I have two children. 10 and 6. The 10 year old had to save his money and buy his first DS. The 6 year old understands that his first one was free because he didn't have an allowance at the time....but if it is damaged it will be replaced with his funds (which may take months or a year to build up). Teaching your child the hard realities of personal or financial responsibility is part of your duty to that child.
I took my 6 year old and 10 year old to see it....and don't recall any scenes as being cringeworthy with regards to how appropriate they would be for a 6 year old. He had a great time and did get a bit bored in some of the scenes that were heavy on the dialogue. The PG-13 rating is (I believe) based solely on the rock-em-sock-em bash-em-with-a-shield violence. The Red Skull might give him nightmares....and the violence might not be appropriate if you are very sensitive to that sort of exposure.
Normally, I'm not the kind of person who reads documentation. You see, I make a living from analyzing technology. In an hour, I can get the hang of a new operating system. In four hours, I can tell you what's wrong with it. That said, there are some times even someone like me needs documentation. And, boy does the Chromebook not have documentation.
So Mr. Vaughan-Nichols has a very high opinion of himself.....and yet somehow with one of the simpler platforms it took him seven days to figure out what he can nail in 4 hours with a complex OS. Read the article....wasn't impressed. Sounded like journalist drivel. All fluff and no meat.
I would guess that any fee that was related to Lucasfilm would not be "some relatively small fee". They are the second biggest IP pimp on the market.....
I have some android apps that are low resource and very simple. Their interfaces are intuitive and polished. The problem is that many android apps are mostly functional, but lack any polish and the interfaces/documentation is abysmal. Putting that extra effort to make your software desirable makes a big difference in whether the average joe purchases the app. Apple and many of the App Store devs have realized that style sells as much as substance.
All of you over sensitive clods whining about the phrase 'pulling a Jordan' need to just step back and look at it. Jordan had a good arc supposedly planned out. 3-4 books.
He started making good cash on his books.....and suddenly started writing by the pound. Spending an entire page describing a few blades of grass or a barmaids perfect breasts. He stretched the series either intentionally or because of a horribly inflated ego and the lack of a decent editor who would slap him around and cut his bullshit.
So he turned a 3 book series into a 13+ book series......or from another viewpoint....a guaranteed lifelong income. If you read his blog posts or his interviews as the series dragged on, he got progressively more full of himself and felt entitled to fan adoration. He was an ubergeek rockstar...and managed to milk it up until his death.
So yes, pulling a Jordan is a bit heartless in that it refers to not finishing before dying.....but it is as much if not more about the attitude that made that fact a reality.
You obviously have no experience with firearms. You're describing the AR-15 model.....which is the most popular rifle in the US and the mainstay of its armed forces. Customizable for different calibers...check. Multiple firing rates with changeable patterns with bolt-ons....check. Heavy....no. USB port...quit being silly. Electronics requiring batteries....sure if you have a light, red-dot, other bolt on electronic. Accurate at 100 yards....most rifles are sighted in for a particular range, the difference being that that range is determined by the owner not the factory, and it can be adjusted.
Oddly enough, it works just fine for the power user or joe six pack. Cars are also customizable to a degree.....and most people handle those just fine, even if they keep them bone stock. The iPad is simply aesthetics and profit over function. I don't know why people want to deny this like it's something to be ashamed of. It is what it is...a philosophy.
No one will be jumping ship. Excuses will be made and more 'quality seeking' geeks and hipsters will continue pushing the Apple bandwagon.
Every mac I've had resulted in hardware issues. Every one. Since '98, I've had a laptop and at least two desktops in regular use. During that time, I've really tried to buy into the Apple koolaid. iBook, Macbook pro, clamshell, top of the line aluminum iMac. All had hardware failures. Admittedly, some were very minor and didn't interfere with standard day to day operation...... But the flip side is that I've owned any number of Dells, HPs, and IBMs in that same period....with no where near a 100% hardware failure rate.
Maybe all four of them were lemons.....but when you start looking around at support forums and talking with fanbois about more than the sleek look...... You find a surprising number of failure rates for an elite, top of the line, bit of hardware with a fairly limited release in comparison with the PC market.
I have to agree. CLI scripting is wonderful and incredibly useful, but it does not render an admin GUI obsolete. It is not feasible to learn the CLI syntax for each of the hundreds of apps I deal with for clients. In most of them, creating a new user is a matter of a handful of clicks and entering the appropriate user information....not poring over poorly written txt files for an hour looking for which switch grants the user rights to edit the time entries of a different practice group.
GUI and CLI should both be well designed and complimentary in nature. They are excellent tools and suit their own set of admin needs.
eh...how exactly are they profiting off of Alien Swarm? I suppose that with a $0.00 pricetag and the expense of bandwidth they make it up in quantity of sales?
You squeal awful loud in your posts....but I note that you only seem to skim posts that refute your arguments....
For example, the previous poster said "Realistic weapon loading has been mainstream since Half-Life. At least." and you respond to his post yapping on about weapon loadouts which is a totally different thing.
To use his example, Halflife had realistic weapon LOADING long before Halo. Rise of the Triad had realistic weapon LOADOUTS long before Halflife. Personally, I love Halo and found it to be a blast to play...but hate console controllers. I will credit Halo as bringing FPS into the mainstream via consoles and it had a number of unique twists on prior models......but.....it's not a particularly unique game overall. Excellent implementation within an existing genre, but only groundbreaking in that Microsoft used it as a vehicle to push FPS and real competitive gaming to the unwashed console masses.
I have no idea how your posts got so many mod points.....either people love trolls with a flair for drama or (more likely) it's being modded by a bunch of kiddies who busted their FPS cherries on Halo.
Bungie was always known for taking other ideas and using them in their game....but somehow when they do it, it comes out very polished and feeling sparkly new. Just look at Myth : The Fallen Lords.
Too true. Wish I had mod points for you. The jerkoffs that are screaming about $8.50 for the tech who installed the RAM at a customer cost of $50 have no clue how a business is run. (admittedly, none of my guys make anything remotely resembling $8.50)
Brick and mortar or rent? $$
Electricity? $$
Employee vacation? $$
Employee benefits? $$
Consultation time? $$
Employee downtime? $$
Time to vaccuum out all the funk in your computer before installing RAM? $$
All of that are just some of the costs involved in installing a stick of RAM. Sitting in the dorm room your mommy pays for and installing RAM in your buddy's whitebox so that you can play Aion isn't even remotely comparable.
At the end of the day, making the client happy and comfortable requires time and effort....which most reasonable people understand they have to provide compensation for. Those are usually the people that come back with a smile the next time they have issues. Those that constantly feel the need to bitch about labor costs or observe that they can buy that stick of RAM for 5% less online are usually not worth the trouble they cause a firm in the long run.
I really wish they would ditch the flat floor concept in RC bot combat. It leads to very boring battles largely between flippers and wedges zipping around. If it were run on a dirt or sculpted 3D course, competitor tactics and design would be more radical/diverse to compensate. Wedges and flippers would be useless with 30 degree slopes and hilltops.
Maybe if you stayed with the same GP instead of shopping docs, and kept a copy of your records it would allow you to receive the level of care you seek. Most doctors I've been referred to from my GP or had records sent to actually read them or look at the referring physician's notes and are able to determine if it's time to start laying zebra traps.
Terminology issue there.... The middle man doesn't have a reseller agreement with Dell. They are purchasing the product themselves and then selling that product on their own. That is why companies involved with Dell are Partners...and not resellers.
The warranty is with the purchasing customer. The Reseller is the purchasing customer. The person that purchases the machine second hand from the reseller is free to ask the reseller to warrant the equipment as well.
He clearly states that he regularly returns big ticket items because they're 'defective'. I know a number of people that utilize this same exploit on a regular basis. They only shop at places with excellent return policies. They order big ticket items and when they realize they maxxed their CC or decide the novelty has worn off, they return them because suddenly they notice a defect. Most of the time this defect was either imaginary or simply the result of several days/weeks of playtime.
As this becomes a hit to company profits, they will have to be much more careful on returns....making it much harder on those of us with valid returns. Too bad they reinstated his account.
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.....somehow I think the community would be better served ditching the employee rather than negatively impacting thousands of kid's education.
I would really like to see some unbiased numbers supporting this assumption. I will say from hiring and firing employees for the last 10 years I've found something a bit different. The handful of homeschooled applicants/employees I've dealt with have been either religious zealots or people that need a helicopter manager who will spoon feed them. Their ability to operate independently and think beyond the parameters provided has been mediocre at best.
True. But the teaching moment is found in not replacing the broken toy. If there is no realization that the toy had value and that the value requires effort to replace....there is no lesson to be learned.
There is also a lesson for the parent. Protect your investment. Buy a nerf cover for your child's DS. Collect the loose DS cartridges and put them in a safe place, unbeknownst to the child. When the child misses his favorite game, explain where it is and why it is there. If the child repeats said behavior, remove the game from play for an extended amount of time.
Teaching your kid that they are some kind of special Golden Child who will have every desire serviced or that immediate gratification is the way of the world is a serious disservice to both the adult they will become and the world that will have to put up with them. Quite frankly, I'm really getting tired of seeing these adults in the workplace. And yes....I have two children. 10 and 6. The 10 year old had to save his money and buy his first DS. The 6 year old understands that his first one was free because he didn't have an allowance at the time....but if it is damaged it will be replaced with his funds (which may take months or a year to build up). Teaching your child the hard realities of personal or financial responsibility is part of your duty to that child.
I took my 6 year old and 10 year old to see it....and don't recall any scenes as being cringeworthy with regards to how appropriate they would be for a 6 year old. He had a great time and did get a bit bored in some of the scenes that were heavy on the dialogue. The PG-13 rating is (I believe) based solely on the rock-em-sock-em bash-em-with-a-shield violence. The Red Skull might give him nightmares....and the violence might not be appropriate if you are very sensitive to that sort of exposure.
Normally, I'm not the kind of person who reads documentation. You see, I make a living from analyzing technology. In an hour, I can get the hang of a new operating system. In four hours, I can tell you what's wrong with it. That said, there are some times even someone like me needs documentation. And, boy does the Chromebook not have documentation.
So Mr. Vaughan-Nichols has a very high opinion of himself.....and yet somehow with one of the simpler platforms it took him seven days to figure out what he can nail in 4 hours with a complex OS. Read the article....wasn't impressed. Sounded like journalist drivel. All fluff and no meat.
I would guess that any fee that was related to Lucasfilm would not be "some relatively small fee". They are the second biggest IP pimp on the market.....
Well, not actually a schedule, but you can see when your state is back online :
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Haven't you seen Inception? You're still sleeping....the girlfriend should have given it away.
All hail our decepticon overlords!
Bullshit.
I have some android apps that are low resource and very simple. Their interfaces are intuitive and polished. The problem is that many android apps are mostly functional, but lack any polish and the interfaces/documentation is abysmal. Putting that extra effort to make your software desirable makes a big difference in whether the average joe purchases the app. Apple and many of the App Store devs have realized that style sells as much as substance.
All of you over sensitive clods whining about the phrase 'pulling a Jordan' need to just step back and look at it. Jordan had a good arc supposedly planned out. 3-4 books.
He started making good cash on his books.....and suddenly started writing by the pound. Spending an entire page describing a few blades of grass or a barmaids perfect breasts. He stretched the series either intentionally or because of a horribly inflated ego and the lack of a decent editor who would slap him around and cut his bullshit.
So he turned a 3 book series into a 13+ book series......or from another viewpoint....a guaranteed lifelong income. If you read his blog posts or his interviews as the series dragged on, he got progressively more full of himself and felt entitled to fan adoration. He was an ubergeek rockstar...and managed to milk it up until his death.
So yes, pulling a Jordan is a bit heartless in that it refers to not finishing before dying.....but it is as much if not more about the attitude that made that fact a reality.
You obviously have no experience with firearms. You're describing the AR-15 model.....which is the most popular rifle in the US and the mainstay of its armed forces. Customizable for different calibers...check. Multiple firing rates with changeable patterns with bolt-ons....check. Heavy....no. USB port...quit being silly. Electronics requiring batteries....sure if you have a light, red-dot, other bolt on electronic. Accurate at 100 yards....most rifles are sighted in for a particular range, the difference being that that range is determined by the owner not the factory, and it can be adjusted.
Oddly enough, it works just fine for the power user or joe six pack. Cars are also customizable to a degree.....and most people handle those just fine, even if they keep them bone stock. The iPad is simply aesthetics and profit over function. I don't know why people want to deny this like it's something to be ashamed of. It is what it is...a philosophy.
Every mac I've had resulted in hardware issues. Every one. Since '98, I've had a laptop and at least two desktops in regular use. During that time, I've really tried to buy into the Apple koolaid. iBook, Macbook pro, clamshell, top of the line aluminum iMac. All had hardware failures. Admittedly, some were very minor and didn't interfere with standard day to day operation...... But the flip side is that I've owned any number of Dells, HPs, and IBMs in that same period....with no where near a 100% hardware failure rate.
Maybe all four of them were lemons.....but when you start looking around at support forums and talking with fanbois about more than the sleek look...... You find a surprising number of failure rates for an elite, top of the line, bit of hardware with a fairly limited release in comparison with the PC market.
I have to agree. CLI scripting is wonderful and incredibly useful, but it does not render an admin GUI obsolete. It is not feasible to learn the CLI syntax for each of the hundreds of apps I deal with for clients. In most of them, creating a new user is a matter of a handful of clicks and entering the appropriate user information....not poring over poorly written txt files for an hour looking for which switch grants the user rights to edit the time entries of a different practice group.
GUI and CLI should both be well designed and complimentary in nature. They are excellent tools and suit their own set of admin needs.
eh...how exactly are they profiting off of Alien Swarm? I suppose that with a $0.00 pricetag and the expense of bandwidth they make it up in quantity of sales?
You squeal awful loud in your posts....but I note that you only seem to skim posts that refute your arguments....
For example, the previous poster said "Realistic weapon loading has been mainstream since Half-Life. At least." and you respond to his post yapping on about weapon loadouts which is a totally different thing.
To use his example, Halflife had realistic weapon LOADING long before Halo. Rise of the Triad had realistic weapon LOADOUTS long before Halflife. Personally, I love Halo and found it to be a blast to play...but hate console controllers. I will credit Halo as bringing FPS into the mainstream via consoles and it had a number of unique twists on prior models......but.....it's not a particularly unique game overall. Excellent implementation within an existing genre, but only groundbreaking in that Microsoft used it as a vehicle to push FPS and real competitive gaming to the unwashed console masses.
I have no idea how your posts got so many mod points.....either people love trolls with a flair for drama or (more likely) it's being modded by a bunch of kiddies who busted their FPS cherries on Halo.
Bungie was always known for taking other ideas and using them in their game....but somehow when they do it, it comes out very polished and feeling sparkly new. Just look at Myth : The Fallen Lords.
If he was referring to Dark Sun, he probably meant Half Giants.
Too true. Wish I had mod points for you. The jerkoffs that are screaming about $8.50 for the tech who installed the RAM at a customer cost of $50 have no clue how a business is run. (admittedly, none of my guys make anything remotely resembling $8.50)
Brick and mortar or rent? $$
Electricity? $$
Employee vacation? $$
Employee benefits? $$
Consultation time? $$
Employee downtime? $$
Time to vaccuum out all the funk in your computer before installing RAM? $$
All of that are just some of the costs involved in installing a stick of RAM. Sitting in the dorm room your mommy pays for and installing RAM in your buddy's whitebox so that you can play Aion isn't even remotely comparable.
At the end of the day, making the client happy and comfortable requires time and effort....which most reasonable people understand they have to provide compensation for. Those are usually the people that come back with a smile the next time they have issues. Those that constantly feel the need to bitch about labor costs or observe that they can buy that stick of RAM for 5% less online are usually not worth the trouble they cause a firm in the long run.
I really wish they would ditch the flat floor concept in RC bot combat. It leads to very boring battles largely between flippers and wedges zipping around. If it were run on a dirt or sculpted 3D course, competitor tactics and design would be more radical/diverse to compensate. Wedges and flippers would be useless with 30 degree slopes and hilltops.
Maybe if you stayed with the same GP instead of shopping docs, and kept a copy of your records it would allow you to receive the level of care you seek. Most doctors I've been referred to from my GP or had records sent to actually read them or look at the referring physician's notes and are able to determine if it's time to start laying zebra traps.
Terminology issue there.... The middle man doesn't have a reseller agreement with Dell. They are purchasing the product themselves and then selling that product on their own. That is why companies involved with Dell are Partners...and not resellers.
The warranty is with the purchasing customer. The Reseller is the purchasing customer. The person that purchases the machine second hand from the reseller is free to ask the reseller to warrant the equipment as well.
He clearly states that he regularly returns big ticket items because they're 'defective'. I know a number of people that utilize this same exploit on a regular basis. They only shop at places with excellent return policies. They order big ticket items and when they realize they maxxed their CC or decide the novelty has worn off, they return them because suddenly they notice a defect. Most of the time this defect was either imaginary or simply the result of several days/weeks of playtime.
As this becomes a hit to company profits, they will have to be much more careful on returns....making it much harder on those of us with valid returns. Too bad they reinstated his account.
Wouldn't Inertial compass or pole sensitivity be more accurate?