Indeed, reminds me of an episode of BBC's Top Gear of a few years ago when they visited one of the arab countries.. In the weekend people just take their jeeps and go in the deserts to race and have a picknick. It was a crazy sight..
Indeed, and it keeps count of how many times you do it, and if you do it 'too much' (which was very low, like 10 times or so) your car isn't under warranty anymore..
It's my personal opinion that if all the tax cheating would disappear, the worlds economy would crash..
Because what do people do with that $1000 a year they cheat: - either they need to cheat to survive (small group, so this money gets spent) - they store it save until they have a lot of money (probably also a small group, what's the reason of collecting money which you don't use)
so: - you spend most of it, most of it on things you wouldn't be able to afford or don't really need.
Using your numbers it would be a drop of $250 billion less spend on consumables or invested.
While it probably will affect expensive luxury/leisure product mostly, it will have a large impact on the global economy.
I know the feeling.. Graduated from university I started working at Digital (DEC). Excellent company to work for, great people, great atmosphere. All professionals, things got done the right way, people worked hard but were happy and treated well. Budgets for training were available as they knew it was needed.
After 2 years (shortly after the Compaq takeover)I left as I could earn a lot more somewhere else.. so I went to Ernst and Young Consulting. Sounded nice, big name. I worked there only 6 months and quit. They also worked the same way as Andersen. I didn't like it and knew I never would.
I've studied economic sciences and for one of the classes at university we also *had* to use excel to solve the whole problem (it was one class over several months). It was a practical class, problem-solving and optimising of production numbers etc.. every week they'd give a new assignment and you had to run your virtual company and give production numbers and solve new problems which had been added by throwing new parameters in the mix.
.mod files came from the Amiga and the first soundblaster card took over this format (so they immediately had a lot of music (from amiga) available they could play).
The compressed samples are in the module itself, the quality mostly depends on the quality of the sampling, and only a bit of the program/hardware which plays it. So your mod file on pc could sound better on the amiga if the pc had a lousy soundcard.. or the same if they used lousy samples.
Midi doesn't include samples but uses hardware-based samples so it will sound different depending on the hardware you attach to it.
I've been there when it was in the Netherlands, great exhibition ! Not only a lot of games to play (I forgot how much fun fighting games were) but what also interested me was the originel art they also had on display. (ie drawings for Monkey Island)
Yes, don't forget the model of the game Vixen. The game graphics weren't bad, but the game ad's in magazines were... nice:-) I even think the game included a fold-out poster.
About shocking games in which you had to kill people, does anyone remember aa game on the Commodore 64 ? It's subtitle was something like 'the bloodiest game ever made'.?
I don't remember exactly how it went, I believe soldiers and oil barrels rolled down the screen and you had to shoot them. Finish a level and there was a bonus level in which you had a lineup of men against a wall, and you could shoot them.
Where do the games go when they don't sell well -physically ? Do retailers do sell off all their stock at closeout prices, or can they return non-sold games to the distributor ? And what do distributors do with non-selling games, sell them off cheap somewhere (where ??), export them to other countries, or destroy them ?
Yes, and the only problems with his job is: - everyone sees it's an easy job and starts doing it, so prices go down because there are too many piano-movers
- all people who can afford a piano, switch jobs and can't afford pianos anymore
Same thing with everyone here telling they're going to do construction work. There's still someone who'll have to order and pay for it.
I have to agree with you - the happiest week in my life the last 3 years was the week between 2 jobs..
And indeed you choose what comfort you like yourself.. my wife has high cell phone bills ($200-$300 a month), I hardly use my phone and buy something tangible with that amount of money:-)
Unfortunately it isn't always simple to switch jobs once you made certain decisions. Once you get married, buy a house, a car,.. it's not so easy to step back and have a lower income..
I'd consider changing jobs to something else.. I just had renovation work done to my house and these builders get paid a lot for an hour of work (well you pay their boss, they only get a small part of it:-(
However, before everyone who's not happy with an IT job switches to plumbing and construction work - please don't !!
These jobs aren't as easy as you think if you want to do it well, a lot of education is also needed. And it involves working with your hands, something which not everyone can do well either..
Laying a roof or doing plumbing may look easy and if you do it it'll hold and don't leak, but while a skilled workman makes it in such a way that it'll hold for 40 years, yours may have problems after 5 years... I guess you can compare it to the IT sector too, there are skilled C++ programmers, while there's a whole batch of 'html programmers' who learned most of the job themselves or got a quick training. That's the difference in quality you're also talking about with plumbing and other work too !
I just had major problems with the guy who did the renovation work at my house, had to bring in an architect and 2 other 'skilled' builders, to find out the first guy had a training as a butcher and started as a builder 10 years ago. He probably never got a real formal training in construction work over all these years, and yes, he could construct a wall, it looked nice, and no it didn't fall down the week afterwards, but he did some mistakes which can be very dangerous in extreme conditions (ie a lot of snow) or of which we know now that there's a high chance of having a leaking roof in 5-10 years.. And yes the guy is responsible, but he said himself if we'd call in a laywer he lets his company file for bancrupcy and start new under a different name.. And why did he make all these mistakes ? Partly to save some money using cheaper material, partly he just didn't know there was a better way to do the job or didn't care it would hold better after X years.
So I think the worst thing to happen is that all converted html programmers will start building houses, or in 20 years we'll see whole parts of cities collapsing !
Not sure how it's in the USA, however in Europe it is.
I remember when the euro coins were introduced, someone 'by accident' dropped a hammer on them and the 1 and 2 euro coins split in 2 parts (they have a ring around them in another metal then the inner part). On the news they said the man dropped the hammer by accident because it's illegal to do it on purpose (so they couldn't show it to yo on camera).
Anybody know of a pinball museum with accessible games to play?
Well, actually, yes I do.
Check this website: http://www.pinballmuseum.org/
Currently they're still raising money for the museum, but one of the main people behind it is Tim Arnold who has probably the largest pinball collection in the world (he has all Gottliebs ever made).
He lives in Vegas and has over 400 games set up for play and a few times a year everyone is welcome.
Pictures of his collections are online on my homepage http://users.pandora.be/averhe/pinball/
That's probably for the 'light' versions of the drinks.. The artificial sweetening tastes best when it's at something like 4 degrees C, that's also one of the reasons why when cans are handed out for promotion they're chilled correctly and opened when handed to you, so you have to drink it up immediately while it's still cold enough. If you'd walk an hour in the sun with it and then drink it, it probably would taste so bad you'd never ever buy it..
- well maybe some people (kids ?) just have to much time and cheap bandwith (after all I pay for 10gig a month, so I'm going to d/l enough;-)
- maybe people just download it because it's available to them
- but just maybe, people don't really want to go a lot to the movies, or at least not to see every movie, and prefer to see new movies now already in the comfort of their home..
- and maybe there are too many crappy movies being made, there are some impressive movies which you just have to see on the big screen.. but 80% of all movies are just as good/bad on a small screen.. so at least you've seen them without having to go out to the theatre
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Indeed, reminds me of an episode of BBC's Top Gear of a few years ago when they visited one of the arab countries..
In the weekend people just take their jeeps and go in the deserts to race and have a picknick.
It was a crazy sight..
Hey they're even asking for ideas so the boss can do something back to them..
:-)
My suggestion: be very creative with superglue.
There's nothing superglue can't solve
Indeed, and it keeps count of how many times you do it, and if you do it 'too much' (which was very low, like 10 times or so) your car isn't under warranty anymore..
It's my personal opinion that if all the tax cheating would disappear, the worlds economy would crash..
Because what do people do with that $1000 a year they cheat:
- either they need to cheat to survive (small group, so this money gets spent)
- they store it save until they have a lot of money (probably also a small group, what's the reason of collecting money which you don't use)
so: - you spend most of it, most of it on things you wouldn't be able to afford or don't really need.
Using your numbers it would be a drop of $250 billion less spend on consumables or invested.
While it probably will affect expensive luxury/leisure product mostly, it will have a large impact on the global economy.
Set the files to read-only (which should be set on any script/html page imo).
This helps a lot with clueless managers.
I know the feeling.. Graduated from university I started working at Digital (DEC). Excellent company to work for, great people, great atmosphere.
All professionals, things got done the right way,
people worked hard but were happy and treated well. Budgets for training were available as they knew it was needed.
After 2 years (shortly after the Compaq takeover)I left as I could earn a lot more somewhere else.. so I went to Ernst and Young Consulting. Sounded nice, big name. I worked there only 6 months and quit.
They also worked the same way as Andersen. I didn't like it and knew I never would.
I've studied economic sciences and for one of the classes at university we also *had* to use excel to solve the whole problem (it was one class over several months). It was a practical class, problem-solving and optimising of production numbers etc.. every week they'd give a new assignment and you had to run your virtual company and give production numbers and solve new problems which had been added by throwing new parameters in the mix.
.mod files came from the Amiga and the first soundblaster card took over this format (so they immediately had a lot of music (from amiga) available they could play).
The compressed samples are in the module itself, the quality mostly depends on the quality of the sampling, and only a bit of the program/hardware which plays it.
So your mod file on pc could sound better on the amiga if the pc had a lousy soundcard.. or the same if they used lousy samples.
Midi doesn't include samples but uses hardware-based samples so it will sound different depending on the hardware you attach to it.
And if you're unlucky the cable provider will shut him down because he's using a VPN to connect to your company..
I've been there when it was in the Netherlands,
great exhibition !
Not only a lot of games to play (I forgot how much
fun fighting games were) but what also interested
me was the originel art they also had on display.
(ie drawings for Monkey Island)
Yes, don't forget the model of the game Vixen. :-) I even think the game included a fold-out poster.
The game graphics weren't bad, but the game ad's in magazines were... nice
I don't remember exactly how it went, I believe
soldiers and oil barrels rolled down the screen and you had to shoot them. Finish a level and there was a bonus level in which you had a lineup of men against a wall, and you could shoot them.
Where do the games go when they don't sell well -physically ?
Do retailers do sell off all their stock at closeout prices, or can they return non-sold games to the distributor ?
And what do distributors do with non-selling games, sell them off cheap somewhere (where ??), export them to other countries, or destroy them ?
Yes, and the only problems with his job is:
- everyone sees it's an easy job and starts doing it, so prices go down because there are too many piano-movers
- all people who can afford a piano, switch jobs and can't afford pianos anymore
Same thing with everyone here telling they're going to do construction work. There's still someone who'll have to order and pay for it.
And indeed you choose what comfort you like yourself.. my wife has high cell phone bills ($200-$300 a month), I hardly use my phone and buy something tangible with that amount of money
Unfortunately it isn't always simple to switch jobs once you made certain decisions.
Once you get married, buy a house, a car,
I'd consider changing jobs to something else.. I just had renovation work done to my house and these builders get paid a lot for an hour of work (well you pay their boss, they only get a small part of it
However, before everyone who's not happy with an IT job switches to plumbing and construction work - please don't !!
These jobs aren't as easy as you think if you want to do it well, a lot of education is also needed. And it involves working with your hands, something which not everyone can do well either..
Laying a roof or doing plumbing may look easy and if you do it it'll hold and don't leak, but while a skilled workman makes it in such a way that it'll hold for 40 years, yours may have problems after 5 years...
I guess you can compare it to the IT sector too, there are skilled C++ programmers, while there's a whole batch of 'html programmers' who learned most of the job themselves or got a quick training. That's the difference in quality you're also talking about with plumbing and other work too !
I just had major problems with the guy who did the renovation work at my house, had to bring in an architect and 2 other 'skilled' builders, to find out the first guy had a training as a butcher and started as a builder 10 years ago.
He probably never got a real formal training in construction work over all these years, and yes, he could construct a wall, it looked nice, and no it didn't fall down the week afterwards, but he did some mistakes which can be very dangerous in extreme conditions (ie a lot of snow) or of which we know now that there's a high chance of having a leaking roof in 5-10 years.. And yes the guy is responsible, but he said himself if we'd call in a laywer he lets his company file for bancrupcy and start new under a different name.. And why did he make all these mistakes ? Partly to save some money using cheaper material, partly he just didn't know there was a better way to do the job or didn't care it would hold better after X years.
So I think the worst thing to happen is that all converted html programmers will start building houses, or in 20 years we'll see whole parts of cities collapsing !
I remember when the euro coins were introduced, someone 'by accident' dropped a hammer on them and the 1 and 2 euro coins split in 2 parts (they have a ring around them in another metal then the inner part). On the news they said the man dropped the hammer by accident because it's illegal to do it on purpose (so they couldn't show it to yo on camera).
so.. how do you remove the rocket widget ?
and for the guinness drinkers: did the taste of guinness in bottles change now they're using the widget there too ?
I love guinness but drank it like 5 years ago from a bottle and it just didn't taste well.
Since then I always buy cans.
I didn't know the bottles now also have widgets, did tast improve or is the can still better ?
You probably mean Sega Time Travellert ter=T&game_ id=10124
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?le
which according to the klov entry uses a parabolic mirror to display a hologram image
I remember this game too, and yes it looked very cool
what we can see ?
the real question is: what's on the other side of this thing looking at us ?!
Anybody know of a pinball museum with accessible games to play?
Well, actually, yes I do.
Check this website: http://www.pinballmuseum.org/
Currently they're still raising money for the museum, but one of the main people behind it is Tim Arnold who has probably the largest pinball collection in the world (he has all Gottliebs ever made).
He lives in Vegas and has over 400 games set up for play and a few times a year everyone is welcome.
Pictures of his collections are online on my homepage http://users.pandora.be/averhe/pinball/
When gsm was introduced in Belgium a friend of mine got 0xx-123456.
Don't know if he still has it or sold it already..
That's probably for the 'light' versions of the drinks.. The artificial sweetening tastes best
when it's at something like 4 degrees C,
that's also one of the reasons why when cans
are handed out for promotion they're chilled
correctly and opened when handed to you,
so you have to drink it up immediately while
it's still cold enough.
If you'd walk an hour in the sun with it and
then drink it, it probably would taste so bad
you'd never ever buy it..
I mean, if he's a Mac user, why didn't he just stick it in the trunk of a Mazda MX-5 Miata or a Volkswagen Cabriolet?
Because where the guy lives he probably can't afford a car like that even if he saves for the next 10 years ?
I remember seeing pictures of this prototype car too.. was designed by some swiss car tuner/designer, don't remember his name though.
- well maybe some people (kids ?) just have to much time and cheap bandwith (after all I pay for 10gig a month, so I'm going to d/l enough ;-)
- maybe people just download it because it's available to them
- but just maybe, people don't really want to go a lot to the movies, or at least not to see every movie, and prefer to see new movies now already in the comfort of their home..
- and maybe there are too many crappy movies being made, there are some impressive movies which you just have to see on the big screen.. but 80% of all movies are just as good/bad on a small screen.. so at least you've seen them without having to go out to the theatre