Even if it is an ad, they are apparently very good at what they do. I mean, infecting this many machines this quickly just so their product is needed... they are hella smart.
The term "car" is being applied generically here, which is unfair. If the term computer were being used equally generically then we would have a comparison to make. The cost of cars has stayed high, but the value of the pieces are always getting better and better. If cars were limited to the same models, features, power and efficiency that they had in the late 50s, but continued to be produced in massive amounts, then the cost would be absurdly low.
This comment fully covers the reasons that I have not yet bought into the HD experience. When HD finally means something, and not just a stepping stone to the next thing, and that final piece becomes standard and commoditized, then I will purchase. Trying to follow an ever changing set of resolutions that all fall under the HD range takes more time than I am willing to give. I admint that time is near zero, but that is my point.
I want an HD tv and an HD player taht both communicate in exactly the same structure. This includes the version of HDMI that won't be changed at random to prevent someone from stealing ( and cause my quality to be reduced), and the ability to easily play from my computer without fighting the hardware vendors there also.
I have a ton of cash waiting to buy up some interesting gear, as soon as I dont feel foolish for buying into an endless upgrade cycle.
no need to DOS it. Separate the queries by a few seconds, everyone will survive. This will still cause enough of a headache to the tasters to make the time spent worthwhile.
It sounds to me like you are getting screwed by management, and to hide that fact they have given you the "opportunity" to design your dream. The decision has been made that you and your equipment are not important enough to warrant the use of real estate, and to keep you from becoming furious they have dangled a nice pretty carrot. Now, the fault is yours for having to share residence with the gear, and all further complaints can fall on deaf ears.
Separate rooms, AC, and proper electricity are the starting points. When that is won, you will likely have lost the opportunity to design your workspace, and will be sent back to the cubes. Choose your poison, and take the decisions to heart as to how the management views your value.
Exactly my thought. I don't think it would go over too well if my wife found me with my wedding ring in a vice while holding a grinder. The only thing to make it worse would be if I had forgotten the safety goggles again.
or instead of setting up a base camp, just set the coordinates of the power delivery to the location of your unsuspecting enemies. After all their toys have been fried, just send them a letter letting them know that they have been conquered.
where did the twelve year old get the money? How did the twelve year old get to the store? Why does the twelve year old have unsupervised access to the systems required to play this content?
All of these questions can be corrected by active parenting. None of these situations requires a government board to get together to review processes and make laws, unless of course we should all just give up on bothering to parent our offspring. you know, just get drunk, fuck, breed, turn over the little brats to someone else's responsibility, and get right back to the drinking and fucking.
I will gladly take the responsibility of raising my child correctly. Please keep the waste of oxygen that you are creating at a safe distance.
I somewhat disagree. Even if I slow down slightly by lifting off the gas, the person behind me may or may not react quickly enough, or variables such as momentum (based on weight) or gearing may make one car coast much more efficiently, and add this up among a line of 20 or 30 cars, eventually we have the problem that we are all discussing. This of course bothers me much more when it happens far ahead of me and forces me to slow by 15 or 20 miles per hour.
If I give 2 seconds to the car ahead, it is likely that two drivers and maybe a third idiot will wedge into that gap. Now I have to slow down to achieve the new two second gap, which will cause everyone behind me to react with breaking and more slowdowns. Eventually there will be a wave of breaking that causes a huge delay in traffic with no apparent cause. I may even be lucky enough to be run into from behind, and then 2 seconds at zero mph would be the exact lack of distance between our now entangled bumpers.
Now if we could actually give space to everyone and not have the self-righteous take advantage of these gaps as there way to shave 8 seconds off of their commutes you may have a point.
Sorry to be cynical to your point, but I live in Atlanta, and people here suck.
This is true in cases where changing the drive is an option. I have been in the spot where changing out the drive will void the warranty, and all of the sudden the repair is not allowed. External drives for real data is required, or stick with companies that make drives easily replaceable.
I also realise that this was a book, then a trilogy, then maybe 4, then maybe 9 or 10...
then it kept growing through the middle numbers. How can you reach the end of a series if in book 6 there are new developments and no plot lines wrapping up?
Last book my ass. This was going to go on forever.
There were paragraphs and pages of worthless description though. I dont know how many times there were hints dropped over which demi-demon was controlling which human, or who was on what side, based on a lace cuff or collar. The time was spent by the author trying to out-smart his readers, instead of telling a story. When a book starts out before the end of the previous book (and stays there for a long time) , but isnt actually a prequel there is a problem. At times Jordan did cross his rules while trying to outsmart the readers. The story of a farm boy and his friends rise to power, and the interacting magics could have been great. Too many miniscule details on houses and politics, and then the incorporation of his anger through the divorce just made the story boring.
Ever since I stopped this, I have refused to start a multi part story until it is complete. The dark tower is great when read straight through, and I am working through the Potter books now.
I felt dragged through Jordan's money making scheme. Having an editor that would stand up and enforce corrections and limitations instead of allowing obvious fluff would have helped enormously... maybe a story would have appeared at some point.
There is a big problem here. The corporations weaseled there way into being considered citizens. The biggest problem is of course they cant go to jail, and dont always die.
At the point in time that the constitution mattered, corporations were allowed to exist by STATES and their charter limited their duration to a specific task. If you need a bridge or a canal, gather many people's money and allow them to complete this, then dissolve the corporation. When the "person" status was applied, and then fought for in many court decisions, the ability for states to limit corporations was destroyed. This happened as the government centralized power in DC, and away from states rights.
Consolidated federal power is being used for its exact intended purpose here, and as long as everyone stays comfortable and refuses to stand up this will continue.
Of course, if I try to resist government growth to constitutionally mandated items only, I will be derided as a Ron Paul lunatic supporter or white supremacist. I dont think that these labels are accidents either.
or if you printed fake money, how is it your fault that someone else spent it and a store lost money when the bank didnt accept it?
or to be more base... if you give somebody a bomb to play with in a field, how are you responsible for the damage done to the local shopping mall?
Aside from these facts, and the obvious civil vs criminal elements here, I agree with you. We need some kind of different damages for contributing to infringement if this course should be pursued.
OK, I am all for voting the bastards out. We can replace these bastards with a new set of bastards. The big problem is that the people holding the purse strings to the bastards, the DNC and RNC, will still be around, and the next set of bastards will still be doing as they are told or they will get none of the campaign cash needed from their party to stay in place. So we can keep cycling through tons of bastards (it seems that there are more than plenty waiting in the wings to sell their souls) , while the same problems of corporations controlling the bastards will continue forever because of a layer of abstraction between voters and the political parties. Very few politicians stand for anything other than the party line, so the bastards themselves really don't count for much and the control is at a totally different level.
Meanwhile we are stuck with the laws that we voted the bastards out for having passed.
Sorry for revealing a broken two party system, I hear the black helicopters coming already.
Your final statement backs up the current trend in my home state. We have an enormously popular program that gives money out to all college students per semester for a significant number of hours of education as long as the student can maintain a high enough GPA. This means that there is a large amount of "free" money floating through the system. Amazingly, as this has happened, the costs and fees have gone up in accordance, and the total cost has increased by the exact amount of the grant at some lower level schools, and scales up proportionally throughout the system.
Congratulations for all of the benefit of a good idea being consolidated to a very small few.
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Is that you Sir Mix-a-lot?
Oh NO!!!
Time to restart Duke Nukem for native 2880x900
Even if it is an ad, they are apparently very good at what they do. I mean, infecting this many machines this quickly just so their product is needed... they are hella smart.
The term "car" is being applied generically here, which is unfair. If the term computer were being used equally generically then we would have a comparison to make. The cost of cars has stayed high, but the value of the pieces are always getting better and better. If cars were limited to the same models, features, power and efficiency that they had in the late 50s, but continued to be produced in massive amounts, then the cost would be absurdly low.
This comment fully covers the reasons that I have not yet bought into the HD experience. When HD finally means something, and not just a stepping stone to the next thing, and that final piece becomes standard and commoditized, then I will purchase. Trying to follow an ever changing set of resolutions that all fall under the HD range takes more time than I am willing to give. I admint that time is near zero, but that is my point.
I want an HD tv and an HD player taht both communicate in exactly the same structure. This includes the version of HDMI that won't be changed at random to prevent someone from stealing ( and cause my quality to be reduced), and the ability to easily play from my computer without fighting the hardware vendors there also.
I have a ton of cash waiting to buy up some interesting gear, as soon as I dont feel foolish for buying into an endless upgrade cycle.
no need to DOS it. Separate the queries by a few seconds, everyone will survive. This will still cause enough of a headache to the tasters to make the time spent worthwhile.
It sounds to me like you are getting screwed by management, and to hide that fact they have given you the "opportunity" to design your dream. The decision has been made that you and your equipment are not important enough to warrant the use of real estate, and to keep you from becoming furious they have dangled a nice pretty carrot. Now, the fault is yours for having to share residence with the gear, and all further complaints can fall on deaf ears.
Separate rooms, AC, and proper electricity are the starting points. When that is won, you will likely have lost the opportunity to design your workspace, and will be sent back to the cubes. Choose your poison, and take the decisions to heart as to how the management views your value.
the books in the US still have the price in Canadian dollars printed on them at nearly double the US price, even though parity has been achieved.
Exactly my thought. I don't think it would go over too well if my wife found me with my wedding ring in a vice while holding a grinder. The only thing to make it worse would be if I had forgotten the safety goggles again.
I am not sure if this comment should require you run for a political office, or bar you forever.
or instead of setting up a base camp, just set the coordinates of the power delivery to the location of your unsuspecting enemies. After all their toys have been fried, just send them a letter letting them know that they have been conquered.
where did the twelve year old get the money? How did the twelve year old get to the store? Why does the twelve year old have unsupervised access to the systems required to play this content?
All of these questions can be corrected by active parenting. None of these situations requires a government board to get together to review processes and make laws, unless of course we should all just give up on bothering to parent our offspring. you know, just get drunk, fuck, breed, turn over the little brats to someone else's responsibility, and get right back to the drinking and fucking.
I will gladly take the responsibility of raising my child correctly. Please keep the waste of oxygen that you are creating at a safe distance.
I somewhat disagree. Even if I slow down slightly by lifting off the gas, the person behind me may or may not react quickly enough, or variables such as momentum (based on weight) or gearing may make one car coast much more efficiently, and add this up among a line of 20 or 30 cars, eventually we have the problem that we are all discussing. This of course bothers me much more when it happens far ahead of me and forces me to slow by 15 or 20 miles per hour.
and the guy who was there first is pissed that the population exploded by 200% and moved another 200 miles north
It is absolutely freakin impossible!
If I give 2 seconds to the car ahead, it is likely that two drivers and maybe a third idiot will wedge into that gap. Now I have to slow down to achieve the new two second gap, which will cause everyone behind me to react with breaking and more slowdowns. Eventually there will be a wave of breaking that causes a huge delay in traffic with no apparent cause. I may even be lucky enough to be run into from behind, and then 2 seconds at zero mph would be the exact lack of distance between our now entangled bumpers.
Now if we could actually give space to everyone and not have the self-righteous take advantage of these gaps as there way to shave 8 seconds off of their commutes you may have a point.
Sorry to be cynical to your point, but I live in Atlanta, and people here suck.
This is true in cases where changing the drive is an option. I have been in the spot where changing out the drive will void the warranty, and all of the sudden the repair is not allowed. External drives for real data is required, or stick with companies that make drives easily replaceable.
Just leave Robert alone.
If you have a problem, the come to me about it, but leave Robert alone.
after all he has done, and all he has provided, you all just attack him.
so just LEAVE ROBERT ALONE!
I see a suspicious "if" in there...
Is it possible to take endless meandering and bind it into 4500 pages and sell it as a single volume?
I also realise that this was a book, then a trilogy, then maybe 4, then maybe 9 or 10 ...
then it kept growing through the middle numbers. How can you reach the end of a series if in book 6 there are new developments and no plot lines wrapping up?
Last book my ass. This was going to go on forever.
There were paragraphs and pages of worthless description though. I dont know how many times there were hints dropped over which demi-demon was controlling which human, or who was on what side, based on a lace cuff or collar. The time was spent by the author trying to out-smart his readers, instead of telling a story. When a book starts out before the end of the previous book (and stays there for a long time) , but isnt actually a prequel there is a problem. At times Jordan did cross his rules while trying to outsmart the readers. The story of a farm boy and his friends rise to power, and the interacting magics could have been great. Too many miniscule details on houses and politics, and then the incorporation of his anger through the divorce just made the story boring.
Ever since I stopped this, I have refused to start a multi part story until it is complete. The dark tower is great when read straight through, and I am working through the Potter books now.
I felt dragged through Jordan's money making scheme. Having an editor that would stand up and enforce corrections and limitations instead of allowing obvious fluff would have helped enormously... maybe a story would have appeared at some point.
There is a big problem here. The corporations weaseled there way into being considered citizens. The biggest problem is of course they cant go to jail, and dont always die.
At the point in time that the constitution mattered, corporations were allowed to exist by STATES and their charter limited their duration to a specific task. If you need a bridge or a canal, gather many people's money and allow them to complete this, then dissolve the corporation. When the "person" status was applied, and then fought for in many court decisions, the ability for states to limit corporations was destroyed. This happened as the government centralized power in DC, and away from states rights.
Consolidated federal power is being used for its exact intended purpose here, and as long as everyone stays comfortable and refuses to stand up this will continue.
Of course, if I try to resist government growth to constitutionally mandated items only, I will be derided as a Ron Paul lunatic supporter or white supremacist. I dont think that these labels are accidents either.
Thanks, you just explained why I prefer the homemade amateur stuff so much better.
or if you printed fake money, how is it your fault that someone else spent it and a store lost money when the bank didnt accept it?
or to be more base... if you give somebody a bomb to play with in a field, how are you responsible for the damage done to the local shopping mall?
Aside from these facts, and the obvious civil vs criminal elements here, I agree with you. We need some kind of different damages for contributing to infringement if this course should be pursued.
OK, I am all for voting the bastards out. We can replace these bastards with a new set of bastards. The big problem is that the people holding the purse strings to the bastards, the DNC and RNC, will still be around, and the next set of bastards will still be doing as they are told or they will get none of the campaign cash needed from their party to stay in place. So we can keep cycling through tons of bastards (it seems that there are more than plenty waiting in the wings to sell their souls) , while the same problems of corporations controlling the bastards will continue forever because of a layer of abstraction between voters and the political parties. Very few politicians stand for anything other than the party line, so the bastards themselves really don't count for much and the control is at a totally different level.
Meanwhile we are stuck with the laws that we voted the bastards out for having passed.
Sorry for revealing a broken two party system, I hear the black helicopters coming already.
Your final statement backs up the current trend in my home state. We have an enormously popular program that gives money out to all college students per semester for a significant number of hours of education as long as the student can maintain a high enough GPA. This means that there is a large amount of "free" money floating through the system. Amazingly, as this has happened, the costs and fees have gone up in accordance, and the total cost has increased by the exact amount of the grant at some lower level schools, and scales up proportionally throughout the system.
Congratulations for all of the benefit of a good idea being consolidated to a very small few.