Don't see how parent post is a troll. Fact is, she got $100,000 from the US government for *exactly this reason* - so that she doesn't have to worry about money hassles on top of the grief and upheaval.
If she's angry and wants to lash out at Verizon for daring to send her a bill then that's perfectly understandable, but the parent's point stands: War-widows, although deserving of sympathy and respect, are not above having to pay their bills.
I'd guess its' the cost of recruiting and training his replacement, plus death benefits. I'm sure that death is responsible for only a very small fraction of personnel turnover, so the replacement cost is probably a drop in the bucket. That leaves death benefits which appear to be $100k per KIA.
So if the US got their hands on, say, 10% of the estimated $1 trillion, that could pay for around 1 million dead soldiers. Now obviously the cost of recruiting replacements would skyrocket before the death-toll got anywhere near 1 million, but you can get around that with a draft.
This obsession of tech companies with co-opting or coining their own verbs is pretty annoying. If you really must make words up, stick to proper nouns and quit polluting the rest of the namespace.
Ok, different example: Sony competes with Microsoft in the open market, not in the XBox Live Marketplace. They compete at the level of consoles - you don't get to demand Sony titles on XBLA, you only get to throw away your 360 and buy a PS3.
If you don't like Apple's appstore then your recourse is not the DOJ, it's to get a different phone so you can go shop in Google's store. The developer's recourse is to switch to Android development so they can serve AdMob ads. Google's recourse is to compete with Apple in the open market rather than inside Apple's own store.
Everyone in this picture has an alternative to Apple.
They are certainly anti-competitive within the App-store. Guess what? It's their freaking store, so long as it's not the only store in the world they get to do what they want within it.
To put it another way: Adidas competes with Nike, but not inside the Nike store.
AmigaOS 4.1 is just over 1 year old. You can that "obsolete"?
Uh, age is not a measure of obsolescence. Rather, something is obsolete when it falls sufficiently far below current baseline standards. It sucks, and it didn't deserve it, but AmigaOS is obsolete. Think of it as WALL*E if that helps soften the blow.
Eh, ePub is basically just zipped XHTML+CSS, so I don't see the problem. Doing complex HTML layouts that work well across different screen-sizes is pretty well understood at this point.
The irony is that it's actually a lot more restrained than GTA. Things always had a way of escalating into horrific, indiscriminate massacres in that game, whereas you can quite easily get through RDR with only a handful of deaths on your conscience.
The flip side is that you can be really, really unpleasant when you feel the situation warrants it. The last guy that tried to steal my horse got dumped in the middle of wolf country on a moonless night, along with a healthy dollop of animal-bait.
Second. I find myself unwittingly slipping into serious role-playing all the time in this game. Small example from today's play:
I was riding through the desert at sundown when I came across an overturned wagon and an injured marshall who asked me to catch his two escaped prisoners. I quickly spotted them running off on foot and easily caught up to them, lassoed each one, hog-tied them, carried them back to the marshall on my horse and dumped them squirming on the ground in front of him. He gave me a nice thank-you and a few bucks to go with it. I was trotting off into the sunset with a satisfied feeling when two gunshots echoed from the road behind me. I stopped and thought about looking back, then an armadillo scurried across the road in front of me and I rode off.
The atmosphere the game generates is really something else.
To their credit: It's one of the first reviews I see who doesn't give it an automatic 9/10.
What makes you think the 9/10s are 'automatic'? Is it so hard to believe it's a very good game and that at least some reviewers are offering an honest opinion?
I feel this is warranted (disclaimer: I haven't played it yet), as it seems to be yet another rehash, albeit in another setting, of the Grand Theft Auto series.
The two are both open-world games featuring guns, yes. Aside from that, how could RDR be any less like GTA? It has different mechanics, a different story, a different atmosphere and a different environment in a different century. Not to mention the game allows you to play it while retaining some basic morality, which is nice.
Anyway, it'd be a shame to miss out just because you're sick of (or never liked) GTA - it is really a very, very cool gaming experience.
Or more specifically: Whatever's driving the control-axle will be fighting whatever's driving the main axle, so it has to be as powerful as the main motor. In which case, why not just use that in the first place?
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Don't see how parent post is a troll. Fact is, she got $100,000 from the US government for *exactly this reason* - so that she doesn't have to worry about money hassles on top of the grief and upheaval.
If she's angry and wants to lash out at Verizon for daring to send her a bill then that's perfectly understandable, but the parent's point stands: War-widows, although deserving of sympathy and respect, are not above having to pay their bills.
I'd guess its' the cost of recruiting and training his replacement, plus death benefits. I'm sure that death is responsible for only a very small fraction of personnel turnover, so the replacement cost is probably a drop in the bucket. That leaves death benefits which appear to be $100k per KIA.
So if the US got their hands on, say, 10% of the estimated $1 trillion, that could pay for around 1 million dead soldiers. Now obviously the cost of recruiting replacements would skyrocket before the death-toll got anywhere near 1 million, but you can get around that with a draft.
Hang on, were you being rhetorical?
More to the point, they no longer have any chance at becoming a healthy democracy now that the incentives for corruption are so huge.
This obsession of tech companies with co-opting or coining their own verbs is pretty annoying. If you really must make words up, stick to proper nouns and quit polluting the rest of the namespace.
Yep, fair enough, withdrawn.
You mean 'delays', not 'prolongs'.
3rd-party apps are not allowed to use the functionality, but the ipad OS multitasks just fine.
Memory-protection.
Ok, different example: Sony competes with Microsoft in the open market, not in the XBox Live Marketplace. They compete at the level of consoles - you don't get to demand Sony titles on XBLA, you only get to throw away your 360 and buy a PS3.
If you don't like Apple's appstore then your recourse is not the DOJ, it's to get a different phone so you can go shop in Google's store. The developer's recourse is to switch to Android development so they can serve AdMob ads. Google's recourse is to compete with Apple in the open market rather than inside Apple's own store.
Everyone in this picture has an alternative to Apple.
They are certainly anti-competitive within the App-store. Guess what? It's their freaking store, so long as it's not the only store in the world they get to do what they want within it.
To put it another way: Adidas competes with Nike, but not inside the Nike store.
Second.
Uh, age is not a measure of obsolescence. Rather, something is obsolete when it falls sufficiently far below current baseline standards. It sucks, and it didn't deserve it, but AmigaOS is obsolete. Think of it as WALL*E if that helps soften the blow.
Parent post made me LOL but unfortunately an ad saw this, misinterpreted it, and I now own an IBM z10 mainframe.
I'd cry but I'm afraid that Amazon would notice.
It dares to have different key bindings to Firefox, and it actually renders pages as intended?
Unacceptable!
So pick a subset you're happy with and stick to it. If that subset is basically pure C then so be it. But why whinge?
Eh, ePub is basically just zipped XHTML+CSS, so I don't see the problem. Doing complex HTML layouts that work well across different screen-sizes is pretty well understood at this point.
Plus PDF is only really for fixed layouts, so it's not much use if you want the same file to target both a phone and a tablet.
The irony is that it's actually a lot more restrained than GTA. Things always had a way of escalating into horrific, indiscriminate massacres in that game, whereas you can quite easily get through RDR with only a handful of deaths on your conscience.
The flip side is that you can be really, really unpleasant when you feel the situation warrants it. The last guy that tried to steal my horse got dumped in the middle of wolf country on a moonless night, along with a healthy dollop of animal-bait.
Second. I find myself unwittingly slipping into serious role-playing all the time in this game. Small example from today's play:
I was riding through the desert at sundown when I came across an overturned wagon and an injured marshall who asked me to catch his two escaped prisoners. I quickly spotted them running off on foot and easily caught up to them, lassoed each one, hog-tied them, carried them back to the marshall on my horse and dumped them squirming on the ground in front of him. He gave me a nice thank-you and a few bucks to go with it. I was trotting off into the sunset with a satisfied feeling when two gunshots echoed from the road behind me. I stopped and thought about looking back, then an armadillo scurried across the road in front of me and I rode off.
The atmosphere the game generates is really something else.
To their credit: It's one of the first reviews I see who doesn't give it an automatic 9/10.
What makes you think the 9/10s are 'automatic'? Is it so hard to believe it's a very good game and that at least some reviewers are offering an honest opinion?
I feel this is warranted (disclaimer: I haven't played it yet), as it seems to be yet another rehash, albeit in another setting, of the Grand Theft Auto series.
The two are both open-world games featuring guns, yes. Aside from that, how could RDR be any less like GTA? It has different mechanics, a different story, a different atmosphere and a different environment in a different century. Not to mention the game allows you to play it while retaining some basic morality, which is nice.
Anyway, it'd be a shame to miss out just because you're sick of (or never liked) GTA - it is really a very, very cool gaming experience.
Yep, the actual use-cases are pretty weak. But if you're buying a Volt then the chances are you like gadgets, and find value in this kind of thing.
A certain Mr. Carmack summed it up best, I think, when he wrote:
"Telneting into your rocket is sort of fundamentally cool."
And finally Tier 4 which comprises, according to TFA, the scientists desk/lap/palmtops.
Did he demo it with a V10 driving the drive axle and a dinky DC motor on the control axle?
In the demo, he drove the main axle and also spun the control-thingy at the right speed, giving a net zero at the output axle.
Now imagine driving the main axle while holding the output axle still. What happens at the control axle?
Or more specifically: Whatever's driving the control-axle will be fighting whatever's driving the main axle, so it has to be as powerful as the main motor. In which case, why not just use that in the first place?