You think that's not a real thing? I am completely not making this shit up. There's a city in upper Michigan that used to be an army air base of some sort. It's like a giant hole cut out of thick pine trees. We were driving and then all of a sudden it turns from forest mountain to creepy old school Fallout New Vegas shit, lol. Guess who lives there? It's a government experiment where they ship in mentally disturbed people, ex-cons, and tons of people on perpetual government assistance there and give them government semi-sponsored jobs and stuff. You basically feel like you need a weapon at all times. We had to do a short contract project up there and it was like the damn circus moved into town and stayed, lol. Just imagine Walmart at 1:00 in the morning times 100 and living in one place with zero normal people. So yeah, it happens.
People in the 10th century fucking wish they could teleport their castle into another dimension that nobody else could get into. Then nobody could break in and steal anything. Fast forward to now. Get 2 routers, 2 servers, pairs of 2 PCs, and one modem. TADA! You've got a LAN #2 (like a VLAN except real and physically separated) and you put all your game and console development data on the separated one. Then use your other LAN for internet access. Every desk gets 2 PCs and the internet and e-mail cruiser can be a pentium G series chip with a 60GB SSD so really the extra costs aren't insane. Not one single person in the entire world could hack into network #2 because they never ever touch. Simple!
If you don't want your crap stolen, don't put it on the internet. Tada, magical trans-dimensional shifting super-fortress.
Perhaps I need to spell it out for you. Are you one of those people by the way? Anyway, all these lunatic mental patient activist hippie ass clowns move there. Then the government needs to dump more money into mental services for these idiots. So the joke is that they're all for big government with lots of services because they're causing them by putting so many deranged people in one area.
Just think of all the additional government funding that will be needed for mental health services when all the people stupid and deranged enough to actually do this move there. They must be really pro-big government.
I worked at a hospital and the two head IT managers were stuck in floppy disk and DOS land. They had no idea what modern technology even was or how it worked let alone why it should be used by us. Some of their comments were so inaccurate and misinformed, I didn't even know how to respond. Now I'm 25 and I'm the head IT manager at a new company. Shocker, we're operating flawlessly and under budget.
The real problem is HR. They promote someone based on how many years they've been there. That's great for other departments like Shipping and Receiving or Marketing but for IT, the most qualified and informed person needs to be driving that ship.
So then we go over the Microsoft's Windows 8 team where it's like "It's okay guys. We can patch it. I'm sure people will get used to the changes."
Microsoft should hire Linus for just a day to come in and scream at people about the shit design job they did on Windows 8.
That totally reminds me. At any given time there are well over a million people on Black Ops 2 on Xbox from what I hear. On the PC it's 4000. You basically can barely find a game anymore. The reason? MW3 for the PC was a fucking joke. They didn't do shit about security, just did a low budget garbage port. The customers never forgave them. So it's realistic to assume the same will happen to Xbox One.
It's a rip off of bitcoins except completely centrally controlled and exactly the opposite in principal. You know how one thing wildly succeeds and then all the other versions that are cheap, fast rip-off are inferior and fail miserably? You know, ipod to zune for example. Well, bye bye Applecoins.
I could have sworn that the 5th ammendment only was intended to apply to someone other than the defendent, Like you haven't been charged for something but your friend Bob did and you were actually there doing it too so you don't testify at all because it would incriminate yourself as well and make charges be brought. In theory, charges would have been brought if there was any evidence that you were involved so I guess that means you get away with it due to lack of evidence or something. I dunno. It even sounds stupid that way but it pales in comparison to "that might prove I did it so I'm not saying anything" protection.
Some of Exile 1, 2, and 3 from the 90's (Spiderweb Software) and almost all of the main artwork in the Avernum sort-of-sequels was hand-drawn by artists.
If I was Amazon, I wouldn't have caved. If any of my vendors up the price even a penny above what I think, I go to their competition and they're dead to me. Systemax (aka Tiger Direct and Infotel) gave me 5% off at my volume so gooooodbye Newegg. They aren't seeing my $50,000 in inventory and custom build purchases anymore.
If it's a vendor that ups the price, same deal, in that I just don't carry them. For example, OCZ Vertex 4 SSDs. They were $80-100 all the time. Then suddenly their press release says they're done "being competitive" and guess what, I ordered zero after that when they hit $140-150. Now I sell Samsung 840's and Kingston Hyper X 3K's.
I think Amazon should have done the same. None of this "oh but I like them and we want to do business with them and want money." You have to have an iron fist until the company gets a clue. OCZ is now on the verge of bankruptcy. Clue much? You would think, but no, same old prices.
Nobody would ever buy the Xbox division because nobody is going to buy the new Xbox. It's such an utter disaster, they might as well just sell their Xbox line to Sony for $0 because that's what they're effectively doing. They're handing them 100% of their profits and killing the product line. Who the hell is going to buy a device that spies on you with a camera and mic 24/7 even when it's turned off, records your apparent moods, doesn't play movies when too many people are in the room, doesn't play used games easily, and doesn't offer anything of value over the previous Xbox. I guarantee you it won't sell more than 1 million units ever.
What MS needs to do is cancel Windows 8.1, make 8.1 or 9 not suck, and release it. Then concentrate on a separate mobile OS or just say fuck it and develop office 2013 for Android and iOS. That'll make them some money.
Instead of focusing on where they're built, maybe they should focus on building laptops that don't suck. They're currently third to last in quality and only complete morons buy them for their company. Real IT purchasers go with ASUS, MSI, Toshiba, Samsung, or Sony in that order because they're the top 5 highest quality and longest useable life rating with the last failures over time and best build quality.
They must have added software licenses and/or the programmers to write software for them or something because it's about $5/PC here at my company. I even only replaced 2 mice in 2013.
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I did my part in the coming mobile device/robot war vs humans. I recently put my cell phone through the laundry.
You think that's not a real thing? I am completely not making this shit up. There's a city in upper Michigan that used to be an army air base of some sort. It's like a giant hole cut out of thick pine trees. We were driving and then all of a sudden it turns from forest mountain to creepy old school Fallout New Vegas shit, lol. Guess who lives there? It's a government experiment where they ship in mentally disturbed people, ex-cons, and tons of people on perpetual government assistance there and give them government semi-sponsored jobs and stuff. You basically feel like you need a weapon at all times. We had to do a short contract project up there and it was like the damn circus moved into town and stayed, lol. Just imagine Walmart at 1:00 in the morning times 100 and living in one place with zero normal people. So yeah, it happens.
Marshfield, WI as well, although they have a bit of a meth problem.
People in the 10th century fucking wish they could teleport their castle into another dimension that nobody else could get into. Then nobody could break in and steal anything. Fast forward to now. Get 2 routers, 2 servers, pairs of 2 PCs, and one modem. TADA! You've got a LAN #2 (like a VLAN except real and physically separated) and you put all your game and console development data on the separated one. Then use your other LAN for internet access. Every desk gets 2 PCs and the internet and e-mail cruiser can be a pentium G series chip with a 60GB SSD so really the extra costs aren't insane. Not one single person in the entire world could hack into network #2 because they never ever touch. Simple!
If you don't want your crap stolen, don't put it on the internet. Tada, magical trans-dimensional shifting super-fortress.
Perhaps I need to spell it out for you. Are you one of those people by the way? Anyway, all these lunatic mental patient activist hippie ass clowns move there. Then the government needs to dump more money into mental services for these idiots. So the joke is that they're all for big government with lots of services because they're causing them by putting so many deranged people in one area.
Just think of all the additional government funding that will be needed for mental health services when all the people stupid and deranged enough to actually do this move there. They must be really pro-big government.
I worked at a hospital and the two head IT managers were stuck in floppy disk and DOS land. They had no idea what modern technology even was or how it worked let alone why it should be used by us. Some of their comments were so inaccurate and misinformed, I didn't even know how to respond. Now I'm 25 and I'm the head IT manager at a new company. Shocker, we're operating flawlessly and under budget.
The real problem is HR. They promote someone based on how many years they've been there. That's great for other departments like Shipping and Receiving or Marketing but for IT, the most qualified and informed person needs to be driving that ship.
Or just don't drink alcohol ever. Sorry, just had to throw that option out there. It's been working great for me so far.
So then we go over the Microsoft's Windows 8 team where it's like "It's okay guys. We can patch it. I'm sure people will get used to the changes."
Microsoft should hire Linus for just a day to come in and scream at people about the shit design job they did on Windows 8.
That totally reminds me. At any given time there are well over a million people on Black Ops 2 on Xbox from what I hear. On the PC it's 4000. You basically can barely find a game anymore. The reason? MW3 for the PC was a fucking joke. They didn't do shit about security, just did a low budget garbage port. The customers never forgave them. So it's realistic to assume the same will happen to Xbox One.
It's a rip off of bitcoins except completely centrally controlled and exactly the opposite in principal. You know how one thing wildly succeeds and then all the other versions that are cheap, fast rip-off are inferior and fail miserably? You know, ipod to zune for example. Well, bye bye Applecoins.
I could have sworn that the 5th ammendment only was intended to apply to someone other than the defendent, Like you haven't been charged for something but your friend Bob did and you were actually there doing it too so you don't testify at all because it would incriminate yourself as well and make charges be brought. In theory, charges would have been brought if there was any evidence that you were involved so I guess that means you get away with it due to lack of evidence or something. I dunno. It even sounds stupid that way but it pales in comparison to "that might prove I did it so I'm not saying anything" protection.
Some of Exile 1, 2, and 3 from the 90's (Spiderweb Software) and almost all of the main artwork in the Avernum sort-of-sequels was hand-drawn by artists.
Well, my hard drive can't write data at 1250MB/s so why send it over the network that quickly? So...there's that.
So WTF is GameFly going to do?
Well then FUS ROH DAH Spore and consoles! Bust out the Skyrim! Single players offline is dead my ass. That is the king of offline.
Internet confirms that nobody is going to buy the Xbox One
If I was Amazon, I wouldn't have caved. If any of my vendors up the price even a penny above what I think, I go to their competition and they're dead to me. Systemax (aka Tiger Direct and Infotel) gave me 5% off at my volume so gooooodbye Newegg. They aren't seeing my $50,000 in inventory and custom build purchases anymore.
If it's a vendor that ups the price, same deal, in that I just don't carry them. For example, OCZ Vertex 4 SSDs. They were $80-100 all the time. Then suddenly their press release says they're done "being competitive" and guess what, I ordered zero after that when they hit $140-150. Now I sell Samsung 840's and Kingston Hyper X 3K's.
I think Amazon should have done the same. None of this "oh but I like them and we want to do business with them and want money." You have to have an iron fist until the company gets a clue. OCZ is now on the verge of bankruptcy. Clue much? You would think, but no, same old prices.
Lol confederate money is worth a shit ton of USD right now
So looking at the domain/URL you're currently at isn't common sense?
No, you would be pretty surprised considering it's open source code
Are you trolling or just stupid?
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2020725/apple-macbooks-lead-in-laptop-features-and-reliability.html
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/laptop-reliability-survey-asus-and-toshiba-win-hp-fails/
So...shut the fuck up. I fix and sell laptops at my shop. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Nobody would ever buy the Xbox division because nobody is going to buy the new Xbox. It's such an utter disaster, they might as well just sell their Xbox line to Sony for $0 because that's what they're effectively doing. They're handing them 100% of their profits and killing the product line. Who the hell is going to buy a device that spies on you with a camera and mic 24/7 even when it's turned off, records your apparent moods, doesn't play movies when too many people are in the room, doesn't play used games easily, and doesn't offer anything of value over the previous Xbox. I guarantee you it won't sell more than 1 million units ever.
What MS needs to do is cancel Windows 8.1, make 8.1 or 9 not suck, and release it. Then concentrate on a separate mobile OS or just say fuck it and develop office 2013 for Android and iOS. That'll make them some money.
Instead of focusing on where they're built, maybe they should focus on building laptops that don't suck. They're currently third to last in quality and only complete morons buy them for their company. Real IT purchasers go with ASUS, MSI, Toshiba, Samsung, or Sony in that order because they're the top 5 highest quality and longest useable life rating with the last failures over time and best build quality.
They must have added software licenses and/or the programmers to write software for them or something because it's about $5/PC here at my company. I even only replaced 2 mice in 2013.