I'd think that all these weather/ Earth monitoring space equipment would fall under NOAA and their budget and not NASA. NASA needs to be completely rethought out from the ground up. I agree it was a good idea for the 1960s just to bring the money/people/power together to create a space program. But come on it's 2006 and where are we? Let's see do we a LEO space station, lunar colony, Mars colony, asteriod mining, constant weather monitoring for every planet in our solar system? Um no?
What does NASA do that directly benefits the average US citizens? What launch and monitor weather and science stats? OK. I'd agree NASA should design and fund newest bleeding edge of space R&D. They shouldn't be responsible for running that entire system for the public good though. Global weather monitoring sounds like a NOAA function anyways. Personnally, I'm still out on the opinion of global warming, but I've not seen any new data for about 6 years or so. (Last I took a serious look at it, it seemed that all the qualified scientists were using "global warming" as an excuse to fund every Earth monitoring idea that they came up with. Everyone wanted to just monitor it because well, it all depends on time scale and we don't have enough data to really judge things by. I'd personnally think that we should have weather/Earth monitoring as a "small" on going expense. It's just something that needs to be done and benefits everyone.
I see all the IT personnel now stopping excrising just so their heart rate won't change. Of course, then we'll have the hackers that want to spoof the passwords of others so they try really odd excrise regimes so that they can match up their heart rates to others.;)
The last time around, everybody gave up, mainly because more vanilla hardware came along and it wasn't worth dealing with wierd architectures.
You need to ask yourself how many programmers ever got a chance to seriously work with those odd machines. Now ask your self how many game companies will have to pour resources into developing for the PS3. Here is a really odd thought. Did you ever think that IBMs whole secret plot behind PS3 was to bring the cell architure to the most programmers worldwide? Sure IBM could have hand a handful of groups or contractors that were trained on their inhouse super high end cell boxes, but wouldn't be much easier if you could make a slightly scaled down version that introduces the same programming "problems" to the entire video game industry that is known for trying to get the absolute most out of the hardware?
It's wierd because currently it is a unquie game machine. Shortly there will be thousands to maybe millions of them sold. There will be alot more interest in trying to force the platform to work. I'd bet that in 2 years some odd little programming breakthroughs are made and licensed out by little known video game companies that will make this work.
If no one sells any new TVs, and you need a new TV to see the latest movie, where are you then going to go to see the latest movie? Hmmm? $20 + popcorn per _viewing_?
This is the funniest thing I've read in awhile. Why? Because my family almost has an unwritten rule about never "going to the movies." There isn't "any" good any the movie going experience. My wife and I go to the movies maybe once in 3-4 months. We have to pay $12 bucks to view a movie in an environment where we don't know anyone, there are alot of youth elements (12-17 year olds), we can't pause, rewind, or fastward the movie, we can't turn the volume down or off and read closed captions. My wife and I have CC turned on and read most of the movies that we watch at home.
We may go out to the movies on the opening night of a Star Wars or other big name movie that should be good. Anything else, we wait and buy it on DVD. Honestly, I don't care about HD at all. I'm perfectly happy with DVD. I'm more interested in storing all our DVDs, and VHS in a digital format and ripping out all movie studio provided menus and previews and delays. I don't mind having to see the FBI warning, but that's all that I don't mind. I've hated almost every single DVD menu that I've ever seen except some pirated copies. The pirated copies started directly up and play. Where the "legal version" would take about a minute before you could start controlling the DVD. I'd be happier if the next verisons took out the entire menu and just let us fastward the moment our players recongized it as a DVD. I'd rather spend the little time, fast forwarding, than messing with the studio menus.
Hey, becareful if you wait too long then our yellow star may turn red and expand outward into our orbital radius. Ok. it may take a few million years, but we'll have fusion and lots of heat.
It's not just the CO2 from fossil fuels which is dangerous -- coal (the primary source of electrical power) contains a significant quantity of radioactive isotopes. The burning of coal is actually responsible for more radioactive waste than nuclear power, and the radioactive waste from coal goes straight into the atmosphere.
Um, why hasn't the nuclear lobby tried for "all" radioactive wastes at "any" power planet must be contained? The cost increase on coal and oil would be evil. And I could see it under a "radioactive free air act."
Anyway, it's in the millwatt range, and people aren't putting their heads or their crotches on the access point and nothing is going to happen. This guy that banned wifi is a complete idiot.
He sounds just like our university president from what I recall. Didn't your school newspaper have 2-3 things that your college president was doing that was in this league of stupidity? I wonder if college papers have a contest for the most outlandish things that their administration has forced the students to accept.
I like tasty fish and don't want them to all go away. (Yes, here I am subscribing to sustainability defined as "making sure your grandkids get to hunt Bambi, too.")
I live in Arkansas. Though I'm not a hunter, this is something that has be recongized a long time by the Arkansas Hunters & Fishers. There would be no deer in the state if it wasn't for the conservatation programs of those that want to hunt them. Of course there wouldn't be millions of cows if there wasn't some one willing to pay to raise them to eat them. So I find that a prefectly valid arguement.
Um, come on, the DVD manufacturers should each have a slightly different method like these just for the video game generation. I mean come on who would figure taht out? Only the guys that would spend the time actually trying to learn hidden game codes.;)
That's why you can be absolutely positive that the PS3 won't be priced at $500.... Sony wants to let people thing that it's going to cost $500 so people will think it's a bargain when it comes out at $349.
I was waiting for you to say Sony marked it down from $500 to $499 or $449.
I'm sure most people would have much better sex lives if the government paid for prostitutes, but that doesn't make it a government function.
When are you planning on running for President? You'll get 2 terms with that platform. Who cares about health care or retirement if we can get the government to pay for that one.
I'm not against refined versions of these games making into schools. But come one Civ? It would take days explaining and doing the basics of it before you got into the game. To truely get some of it, you'd need to play the game 4-5 times as several different POVs. If they could get versions of Civ, SimCity, SimEarth, and maybe Sims combined with HomeEcon designed to be played in 10-15 mins. Then I could see it. But these games are designed for one person to spend hours on to weeks on. I'd agree that there are alot of things that an entire class could study within each game, but then we'd have to ask are the models any where near good enough? I'd think they are for playing games, and learning the basics of early global civs, but using Civ as a history teaching tool? Nah.
Actually, I'd like a chemistry game where you have to figure the ingredients and the proper way of mixing/heating/ pressurizing them to make things. And you could see long chains of the molecules combine and what not.
I guess some one needs to make a fun little game that is all about basic electrical, magentic, light, and newton physics. Or some applied math game. I don't see anyone having fun at min/max problems, and collision intercept problems, but hey why not some one try to make it fun?
The BBC is also required by law to provide a variety of programming and not just what is very popular. It means channel 4 gets the crap but popular stuff like "big brother", and the BBC gives us great, but virtually unheard of stuff like "the mighty boosh".
The BBC is now providing its content online for PC viewing. As long as there is a need for the BBC online (and there currently is), I believe a license fee (read "tax") should be payable on all computers wired up and capable of decoding and displaying BBC content at an acceptable quality. If you don't have the software though, or your computer is too slow, or it doesn't have a monitor, or your network connectivity is spotty, then I don't think you should have to pay anything.
This is why the US system is better for US. You're basically making a government tax to sponsor several TV stations. The only things that we have similiar are HBO, Show Time and PBS. PBS, you pay if you like the content otherwise they switch content to something more people pay money for. HBO & ShowTime work basically them same but charge up front and are usually focused on showing movies and a few original shows.
You don't have to buy the products that are shown in the ads to watch the shows in the US. Every one in Britian with a TV has to pay the TV Tax reguardless if they like or watch the BBC channels. You want to support content that is "excellent", but it unpopular. Well, I like the WB, UPN, and SciFi channel shows.;) To me some of them are excellent, but are very unpopular with "everyone" else. Opinion varies on what it considered "excellent" programing.
I'd think most Pentium level computers can view an MPG or webstreaming programming. So according to your definition almost every internet connected computer in Britian should have to have a BBC Tax associated with it except cluster computers. That "feels wrong" on so many levels. I'm from the US though, I don't personnally believe if the US government had a tax based TV channel or two that we'd get anything worth viewing. The US would just see that as an "unjust" tax that the British government has gotten their public to accept.
That makes no sense there not trying to sell it to kids, kids will probably get it anyway because its cheaper. When they show it on oprah they are trying to market it towards older audiances, no not the 16yr old GTA audiance, the real older audiance of people 30-60 and adding this demographic wont take anything away from traditional gamers.
Um, "kids" in the 13-17 age may have part time jobs where they can get some money. I'm thinking more of the 5-12 age group. Those kids don't have money themselves. You can cross market to them and their moms though. So the kiddies will be begging mom for a new system, and then she sees it adver. during Operah or other "adult womens" show and they see that this systems games don't generally have the social issues of the other two systems. Which one do you think the K-7 grader would get from mom and dad as a Christmas or birthday present? And then there is the price. The Revolution in my opinion will stick to Nintendo's core audience very young gamers.
Sounds like a smart move by Nintendo. Alot of moms watch Oprah, so if you were making the niche for kid games you would target the kids and the moms. You'd show the mom's all the kid safe games on your system. You'd basically say our system is rated G so you can buy any of our games without worrying about the sex or violence issues that those other systems have.;)
Business needs shouldn't be determined by developers. Developers tend to believe in nifty hacks. Code monkeys can love the elegance of using nuance in their code, but there's also a reason that they're not in charge. And it's not just because managers are stupid.
This is why everything everywhere should be writting in COBOL.;) It's the MBA's choice for a common business coding platform that the managers can verbally read the code. I don't know when the lastest update to COBOL was, but they should just revise it make a COBOL2005 and then schedule new langauge updates every 5 years. Of course this would be a management sponsored langauage and only very major companies would convert or require their new hires to learn this language, but it would be worth it if the CEO expects that the company will last 20+ years, but 1/3 - 2/3 of the IT may have cycled through to other companies or retired, but still want the company to still be chugging along in a generation with complete access to their code base. COBOL won't ever be as loved as C/C++ or other languages, but it has its place.
It sounds like you'd like to have the offline state sort of go into Sims mode and your character can do what they want to do instead of what you tell them to do... I actually like that idea combined with min. leveling. Now what would be really "funny" is allowing those characters to form there own parties or be lead to do things by others. Of course, those that are on line would now have the ability to manipulate newbiew characters. Of course those that are always on-line after work my come home and find folks from a different time zone using their character in a party.
I have played just about every game on the market in HD and non-HD. Let me tell you that you are missing a LOT by not seeing it in HD. Many games such as Project Gotham Racing 3 is very difficult to play ona normal tv screen.
Oh, all that tells me is that your system will get poor reviews and those that do play it at a friends house will not like what they see. I'm sorry, I'm not buying an HD TV to play video games. I get my HD gaming from computer games. I'm not going to pay $400+ for a video game system then spend about the same or double that for a new HD TV. For one thing, I don't have that kinda of money. I'd be able to buy a Game Cube, acc, and several games for what any of these new systems will cost and it would work on my existing TV. I'm happy with my none HD experience. My parents have a HD tv. I can't tell the difference so it is just a big waste of money to me.
Sure beats Clinton screwing an intern. Why was Clinton impeached and this fella is still in the office like nothing happened?
You really want to know? Are you really sure? It's because a married politican "had sex" with some one other than their spouse and got caught. FYI Clinton wasn't impeached. Folks attempted to impeach him, but it didn't pass. Now why is Bush still in office? 9/11. The US public generally wanted to kick the sh*t out of whoever was responsible or atleast a whipping boy that couldn't hurt us back. We didn't get it out of our collective system after the first operations. We wanted a war. Honestly, I wish that they'd just have said we are going to war because we feel like it at the moment. When the public feels like it has gotten 9/11 out of its system, then we'd scale down our Middle East war.
Honestly, there is a part of me that wishs that the US had the guts to annex the entire region and then spend the next 20-30 years trying to bring the entire region up to US standards. There are too many folks that think this is there own holy war against Islam though. That's why I'd wish that the US would annex the region and basically give them the option of joining as states.
Tell me again... why do taxpayer dollars have to pay for security at this game? Let the NFL pay for their own damn security.
Because tax-paying Americans are the vast majority of those attending the Super Bowl, which is held here on our homeland, in the United States of America.
Put another way, if there is an emergency at your local shopping mall, it's the local taxpayer-supported police and fire departments that will come to help. The mall rent-a-cops are only there as first responders and as a first line of defense. The local taxpayer-supported agencies do all of the real work, including booking/charging teenage petty theft.
You missed the point. The States or the Feds shouldn't have to pay for security for a private entity. Any private entity that has a gathering of 30,000K civilians for a 1-3 day event should have to pay the host city, states, or feds for security coverage or not be allowed to hold the event. It's that simple.
I have 2 monitors. First and foremost, if you are gong to downgrade your inches for the multimonitor bit, don't. It is better just to have a 19" to 21" LCD than 15"-17" dual monitors. I've found for 95% of gaming, dual monitors suck due to the issues the parent listed. If you like FPS or flight or driving sims and can afford a 3 monitor setup, go ahead. FPS sucks with dual monitors though. You POV is focused directly at the seam of the 2 monitors. Trust me, you'd rather just have one bigger monitor if you can. I've not played a 3 monitor setup, but it should work. Now the biggest pain in the ass about games is that they aren't designed to allow you to run them on one monitor and all your other apps on the other. Some games work better than others. I've been able to alt-tab out of Dawn of War, Empire Earth II, MOO2, & MOO3 pretty easily. Civ3, Civ4 and SimCity4 it's possible but the larger your game or city the longer it takes. I only have 512MB of RAM and it can take about 15min to switch out of SimCity4. It's better just to not bother getting out of the program. Actually, it's faster to shut down SimCity4 and reload it after I'm doing what ever else. Civ4 it is possible in the early game, but as soon as you hit your mid game or as soon as the world has alot of cities, it becomes an extreme headache to switch to anything else. With Alt-Tabing, some times you get video issues. Like the whole game just went to 256 color.
Dual monitors seem like they'd be really good in a work environment because your general office apps and normal windowed apps run fine on a dual monitor setup. Oh, get UltraMon as well. You'll need something like it. The Nvidia multimonitor tools don't come anywhere close to UltraMon. (This little program moves your windows from one screen to another and gives you a smart toolbar that only shows the apps open on that monitor down on the toolbar.)
I can certainly see the advantage of using a personal domain for email. In particular, using a domain that isn't your isp is a must. I've known people trapped for years with a terrible ISP by the enormous amount of work required to change addresses.
Um, this is the primary reason why I still keep up my yahoo account. I've had it since shortly after they started offering free e-mail. I had a HS e-mail address, a college e-mail address, and then 2 different ISP internet addresses. At one point, I did use one of those ISP internet addresses, but mainly anything "long term wise" or that requires an e-mail address to fill in the form, I use my yahoo account. I use my work e-mail just for work stuff.
I thought all memoirs were ficition or atleast highly biased toward the author and/or subjects life to make the entire piece just a PR book for the future. I mean come on 20-50 years ago this book would get published and most people wouldn't care the only ones that may have bought it are libraries and such. Add 5-10 years and your little Johny is having to do a report on this person, well his memoirs were most likely all any one could find on said person. That there were any factual errors may have come out years after the book was published or the auther is dead. I'd never heard of this book before my morning radio DJ was saying something about it. I could then only laugh that "any one" trusts a memoir as "factual" anyway.;)
I kinda of take the entire concept of "memoirs" as just bragging and PR for the future anyway.
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I'd think that all these weather/ Earth monitoring space equipment would fall under NOAA and their budget and not NASA. NASA needs to be completely rethought out from the ground up. I agree it was a good idea for the 1960s just to bring the money/people/power together to create a space program. But come on it's 2006 and where are we? Let's see do we a LEO space station, lunar colony, Mars colony, asteriod mining, constant weather monitoring for every planet in our solar system? Um no?
What does NASA do that directly benefits the average US citizens? What launch and monitor weather and science stats? OK. I'd agree NASA should design and fund newest bleeding edge of space R&D. They shouldn't be responsible for running that entire system for the public good though. Global weather monitoring sounds like a NOAA function anyways. Personnally, I'm still out on the opinion of global warming, but I've not seen any new data for about 6 years or so. (Last I took a serious look at it, it seemed that all the qualified scientists were using "global warming" as an excuse to fund every Earth monitoring idea that they came up with. Everyone wanted to just monitor it because well, it all depends on time scale and we don't have enough data to really judge things by. I'd personnally think that we should have weather/Earth monitoring as a "small" on going expense. It's just something that needs to be done and benefits everyone.
I see all the IT personnel now stopping excrising just so their heart rate won't change. Of course, then we'll have the hackers that want to spoof the passwords of others so they try really odd excrise regimes so that they can match up their heart rates to others. ;)
I prefer calling it "Difficult Fusion" :D
Couldn't that be applied to all fusion tech other than solar energy that we currently aware of?
The last time around, everybody gave up, mainly because more vanilla hardware came along and it wasn't worth dealing with wierd architectures.
You need to ask yourself how many programmers ever got a chance to seriously work with those odd machines. Now ask your self how many game companies will have to pour resources into developing for the PS3. Here is a really odd thought. Did you ever think that IBMs whole secret plot behind PS3 was to bring the cell architure to the most programmers worldwide? Sure IBM could have hand a handful of groups or contractors that were trained on their inhouse super high end cell boxes, but wouldn't be much easier if you could make a slightly scaled down version that introduces the same programming "problems" to the entire video game industry that is known for trying to get the absolute most out of the hardware?
It's wierd because currently it is a unquie game machine. Shortly there will be thousands to maybe millions of them sold. There will be alot more interest in trying to force the platform to work. I'd bet that in 2 years some odd little programming breakthroughs are made and licensed out by little known video game companies that will make this work.
If no one sells any new TVs, and you need a new TV to see the latest movie, where are you then going to go to see the latest movie? Hmmm? $20 + popcorn per _viewing_?
This is the funniest thing I've read in awhile. Why? Because my family almost has an unwritten rule about never "going to the movies." There isn't "any" good any the movie going experience. My wife and I go to the movies maybe once in 3-4 months. We have to pay $12 bucks to view a movie in an environment where we don't know anyone, there are alot of youth elements (12-17 year olds), we can't pause, rewind, or fastward the movie, we can't turn the volume down or off and read closed captions. My wife and I have CC turned on and read most of the movies that we watch at home.
We may go out to the movies on the opening night of a Star Wars or other big name movie that should be good. Anything else, we wait and buy it on DVD. Honestly, I don't care about HD at all. I'm perfectly happy with DVD. I'm more interested in storing all our DVDs, and VHS in a digital format and ripping out all movie studio provided menus and previews and delays. I don't mind having to see the FBI warning, but that's all that I don't mind. I've hated almost every single DVD menu that I've ever seen except some pirated copies. The pirated copies started directly up and play. Where the "legal version" would take about a minute before you could start controlling the DVD. I'd be happier if the next verisons took out the entire menu and just let us fastward the moment our players recongized it as a DVD. I'd rather spend the little time, fast forwarding, than messing with the studio menus.
Err...if you're patient.
Hey, becareful if you wait too long then our yellow star may turn red and expand outward into our orbital radius. Ok. it may take a few million years, but we'll have fusion and lots of heat.
It's not just the CO2 from fossil fuels which is dangerous -- coal (the primary source of electrical power) contains a significant quantity of radioactive isotopes. The burning of coal is actually responsible for more radioactive waste than nuclear power, and the radioactive waste from coal goes straight into the atmosphere.
Um, why hasn't the nuclear lobby tried for "all" radioactive wastes at "any" power planet must be contained? The cost increase on coal and oil would be evil. And I could see it under a "radioactive free air act."
Anyway, it's in the millwatt range, and people aren't putting their heads or their crotches on the access point and nothing is going to happen. This guy that banned wifi is a complete idiot.
He sounds just like our university president from what I recall. Didn't your school newspaper have 2-3 things that your college president was doing that was in this league of stupidity? I wonder if college papers have a contest for the most outlandish things that their administration has forced the students to accept.
I like tasty fish and don't want them to all go away. (Yes, here I am subscribing to sustainability defined as "making sure your grandkids get to hunt Bambi, too.")
I live in Arkansas. Though I'm not a hunter, this is something that has be recongized a long time by the Arkansas Hunters & Fishers. There would be no deer in the state if it wasn't for the conservatation programs of those that want to hunt them. Of course there wouldn't be millions of cows if there wasn't some one willing to pay to raise them to eat them. So I find that a prefectly valid arguement.
Um, come on, the DVD manufacturers should each have a slightly different method like these just for the video game generation. I mean come on who would figure taht out? Only the guys that would spend the time actually trying to learn hidden game codes. ;)
That's why you can be absolutely positive that the PS3 won't be priced at $500. ...
Sony wants to let people thing that it's going to cost $500 so people will think it's a bargain when it comes out at $349.
I was waiting for you to say Sony marked it down from $500 to $499 or $449.
I'm sure most people would have much better sex lives if the government paid for prostitutes, but that doesn't make it a government function.
When are you planning on running for President? You'll get 2 terms with that platform. Who cares about health care or retirement if we can get the government to pay for that one.
I'm not against refined versions of these games making into schools. But come one Civ? It would take days explaining and doing the basics of it before you got into the game. To truely get some of it, you'd need to play the game 4-5 times as several different POVs. If they could get versions of Civ, SimCity, SimEarth, and maybe Sims combined with HomeEcon designed to be played in 10-15 mins. Then I could see it. But these games are designed for one person to spend hours on to weeks on. I'd agree that there are alot of things that an entire class could study within each game, but then we'd have to ask are the models any where near good enough? I'd think they are for playing games, and learning the basics of early global civs, but using Civ as a history teaching tool? Nah.
Actually, I'd like a chemistry game where you have to figure the ingredients and the proper way of mixing/heating/ pressurizing them to make things. And you could see long chains of the molecules combine and what not.
I guess some one needs to make a fun little game that is all about basic electrical, magentic, light, and newton physics. Or some applied math game. I don't see anyone having fun at min/max problems, and collision intercept problems, but hey why not some one try to make it fun?
Some of the things they should have to abide by if they still want to be based out of the U.S. 1. Child Labour laws
Damn, there goes my plans to outsource all our web site maintance to elementary schools.
The BBC is also required by law to provide a variety of programming and not just what is very popular. It means channel 4 gets the crap but popular stuff like "big brother", and the BBC gives us great, but virtually unheard of stuff like "the mighty boosh".
;) To me some of them are excellent, but are very unpopular with "everyone" else. Opinion varies on what it considered "excellent" programing.
The BBC is now providing its content online for PC viewing. As long as there is a need for the BBC online (and there currently is), I believe a license fee (read "tax") should be payable on all computers wired up and capable of decoding and displaying BBC content at an acceptable quality. If you don't have the software though, or your computer is too slow, or it doesn't have a monitor, or your network connectivity is spotty, then I don't think you should have to pay anything.
This is why the US system is better for US. You're basically making a government tax to sponsor several TV stations. The only things that we have similiar are HBO, Show Time and PBS. PBS, you pay if you like the content otherwise they switch content to something more people pay money for. HBO & ShowTime work basically them same but charge up front and are usually focused on showing movies and a few original shows.
You don't have to buy the products that are shown in the ads to watch the shows in the US. Every one in Britian with a TV has to pay the TV Tax reguardless if they like or watch the BBC channels. You want to support content that is "excellent", but it unpopular. Well, I like the WB, UPN, and SciFi channel shows.
I'd think most Pentium level computers can view an MPG or webstreaming programming. So according to your definition almost every internet connected computer in Britian should have to have a BBC Tax associated with it except cluster computers. That "feels wrong" on so many levels. I'm from the US though, I don't personnally believe if the US government had a tax based TV channel or two that we'd get anything worth viewing. The US would just see that as an "unjust" tax that the British government has gotten their public to accept.
That makes no sense there not trying to sell it to kids, kids will probably get it anyway because its cheaper. When they show it on oprah they are trying to market it towards older audiances, no not the 16yr old GTA audiance, the real older audiance of people 30-60 and adding this demographic wont take anything away from traditional gamers.
Um, "kids" in the 13-17 age may have part time jobs where they can get some money. I'm thinking more of the 5-12 age group. Those kids don't have money themselves. You can cross market to them and their moms though. So the kiddies will be begging mom for a new system, and then she sees it adver. during Operah or other "adult womens" show and they see that this systems games don't generally have the social issues of the other two systems. Which one do you think the K-7 grader would get from mom and dad as a Christmas or birthday present? And then there is the price. The Revolution in my opinion will stick to Nintendo's core audience very young gamers.
Sounds like a smart move by Nintendo. Alot of moms watch Oprah, so if you were making the niche for kid games you would target the kids and the moms. You'd show the mom's all the kid safe games on your system. You'd basically say our system is rated G so you can buy any of our games without worrying about the sex or violence issues that those other systems have. ;)
Business needs shouldn't be determined by developers. Developers tend to believe in nifty hacks. Code monkeys can love the elegance of using nuance in their code, but there's also a reason that they're not in charge. And it's not just because managers are stupid.
;) It's the MBA's choice for a common business coding platform that the managers can verbally read the code. I don't know when the lastest update to COBOL was, but they should just revise it make a COBOL2005 and then schedule new langauge updates every 5 years. Of course this would be a management sponsored langauage and only very major companies would convert or require their new hires to learn this language, but it would be worth it if the CEO expects that the company will last 20+ years, but 1/3 - 2/3 of the IT may have cycled through to other companies or retired, but still want the company to still be chugging along in a generation with complete access to their code base. COBOL won't ever be as loved as C/C++ or other languages, but it has its place.
This is why everything everywhere should be writting in COBOL.
It sounds like you'd like to have the offline state sort of go into Sims mode and your character can do what they want to do instead of what you tell them to do... I actually like that idea combined with min. leveling. Now what would be really "funny" is allowing those characters to form there own parties or be lead to do things by others. Of course, those that are on line would now have the ability to manipulate newbiew characters. Of course those that are always on-line after work my come home and find folks from a different time zone using their character in a party.
I have played just about every game on the market in HD and non-HD. Let me tell you that you are missing a LOT by not seeing it in HD. Many games such as Project Gotham Racing 3 is very difficult to play ona normal tv screen.
Oh, all that tells me is that your system will get poor reviews and those that do play it at a friends house will not like what they see. I'm sorry, I'm not buying an HD TV to play video games. I get my HD gaming from computer games. I'm not going to pay $400+ for a video game system then spend about the same or double that for a new HD TV. For one thing, I don't have that kinda of money. I'd be able to buy a Game Cube, acc, and several games for what any of these new systems will cost and it would work on my existing TV. I'm happy with my none HD experience. My parents have a HD tv. I can't tell the difference so it is just a big waste of money to me.
Sure beats Clinton screwing an intern. Why was Clinton impeached and this fella is still in the office like nothing happened?
You really want to know? Are you really sure? It's because a married politican "had sex" with some one other than their spouse and got caught. FYI Clinton wasn't impeached. Folks attempted to impeach him, but it didn't pass. Now why is Bush still in office? 9/11. The US public generally wanted to kick the sh*t out of whoever was responsible or atleast a whipping boy that couldn't hurt us back. We didn't get it out of our collective system after the first operations. We wanted a war. Honestly, I wish that they'd just have said we are going to war because we feel like it at the moment. When the public feels like it has gotten 9/11 out of its system, then we'd scale down our Middle East war.
Honestly, there is a part of me that wishs that the US had the guts to annex the entire region and then spend the next 20-30 years trying to bring the entire region up to US standards. There are too many folks that think this is there own holy war against Islam though. That's why I'd wish that the US would annex the region and basically give them the option of joining as states.
Tell me again... why do taxpayer dollars have to pay for security at this game? Let the NFL pay for their own damn security.
Because tax-paying Americans are the vast majority of those attending the Super Bowl, which is held here on our homeland, in the United States of America.
Put another way, if there is an emergency at your local shopping mall, it's the local taxpayer-supported police and fire departments that will come to help. The mall rent-a-cops are only there as first responders and as a first line of defense. The local taxpayer-supported agencies do all of the real work, including booking/charging teenage petty theft.
You missed the point. The States or the Feds shouldn't have to pay for security for a private entity. Any private entity that has a gathering of 30,000K civilians for a 1-3 day event should have to pay the host city, states, or feds for security coverage or not be allowed to hold the event. It's that simple.
I have 2 monitors. First and foremost, if you are gong to downgrade your inches for the multimonitor bit, don't. It is better just to have a 19" to 21" LCD than 15"-17" dual monitors. I've found for 95% of gaming, dual monitors suck due to the issues the parent listed. If you like FPS or flight or driving sims and can afford a 3 monitor setup, go ahead. FPS sucks with dual monitors though. You POV is focused directly at the seam of the 2 monitors. Trust me, you'd rather just have one bigger monitor if you can. I've not played a 3 monitor setup, but it should work. Now the biggest pain in the ass about games is that they aren't designed to allow you to run them on one monitor and all your other apps on the other. Some games work better than others. I've been able to alt-tab out of Dawn of War, Empire Earth II, MOO2, & MOO3 pretty easily. Civ3, Civ4 and SimCity4 it's possible but the larger your game or city the longer it takes. I only have 512MB of RAM and it can take about 15min to switch out of SimCity4. It's better just to not bother getting out of the program. Actually, it's faster to shut down SimCity4 and reload it after I'm doing what ever else. Civ4 it is possible in the early game, but as soon as you hit your mid game or as soon as the world has alot of cities, it becomes an extreme headache to switch to anything else.
With Alt-Tabing, some times you get video issues. Like the whole game just went to 256 color.
Dual monitors seem like they'd be really good in a work environment because your general office apps and normal windowed apps run fine on a dual monitor setup. Oh, get UltraMon as well. You'll need something like it. The Nvidia multimonitor tools don't come anywhere close to UltraMon. (This little program moves your windows from one screen to another and gives you a smart toolbar that only shows the apps open on that monitor down on the toolbar.)
I can certainly see the advantage of using a personal domain for email. In particular, using a domain that isn't your isp is a must. I've known people trapped for years with a terrible ISP by the enormous amount of work required to change addresses.
Um, this is the primary reason why I still keep up my yahoo account. I've had it since shortly after they started offering free e-mail. I had a HS e-mail address, a college e-mail address, and then 2 different ISP internet addresses. At one point, I did use one of those ISP internet addresses, but mainly anything "long term wise" or that requires an e-mail address to fill in the form, I use my yahoo account. I use my work e-mail just for work stuff.
I thought all memoirs were ficition or atleast highly biased toward the author and/or subjects life to make the entire piece just a PR book for the future. I mean come on 20-50 years ago this book would get published and most people wouldn't care the only ones that may have bought it are libraries and such. Add 5-10 years and your little Johny is having to do a report on this person, well his memoirs were most likely all any one could find on said person. That there were any factual errors may have come out years after the book was published or the auther is dead. I'd never heard of this book before my morning radio DJ was saying something about it. I could then only laugh that "any one" trusts a memoir as "factual" anyway. ;)
I kinda of take the entire concept of "memoirs" as just bragging and PR for the future anyway.