no amount of laws can protect any society from a sufficiently motivated individual regardless of a nation's laws and assumed demeanor of it's people. Anders Behring Breivik proved that. Timothy McVeigh worked with others, but he didn't need a gun.
having been an Apple fan for many years, owning multiple iMacs, Macbooks, iPod devices, and iPads, I am through with buying their products. Perhaps I should have stopped earlier but it just seems 2012 is the year when Apple jumped the shark.
On a system I manage we have rules in place to prevent the reuse of passwords, simple ones like you cannot use a password you used the previous 31 times and such with limits on how often you can change them.
Well unless we put a limit of changes that were beyond a day you can guess what many users figured out to do... Forcing users to change passwords doesn't always end up with the results you expect.
Oh, mixed case and numbers... don't even get me started. Surveyed users on how they handled that and its pretty hilarious at times.
dropped the price of natural gas that even coal plants ramp down. Solar was barely approaching the old price point of power generation and then fracking hit. Combined with the nuclear scare and countries exploring alternatives the money landed on wind power because its currently a better option than solar.
Seems to me that most overthrows its the politicians who find out they were the 1% society was rebelling against.
Considering that many of the money problems being experienced in countries around the world were caused by politicians promising the moon knowing full well it can never be delivered they best hope the people don't become smart enough to connect the dots.
Remember, the rich are only in such a position because they still have the ability to make the 1% look the other way - that 1% being the politicians who control the governments who have the police and military powers to get their way. Your only free until a politician decides they know better to do with you or what you produce than you do.
Stealth technologies are designed to change how an object that can be detected by RADAR is seen by it. Through various material changes, positioning of openings, angles, and the like, you can change how you appear on a RADAR and to a point minimize detection range. You do not have to penetrate foreign airspace much to get a bomb on target and drones don't incur the political risk of dead pilots.
Oh I do not doubt that current stealth technology can be rendered obsolete if not already in some cases, however while we read about breakthroughs in RADAR technology when it occurs we rarely read about stealth technologies until they are implemented or already surpassed.
Then comes the old standby, the military is most likely well prepared for not caring about stealth in the long run. With new weapon systems, drones, and the like, finding a stealth plane is least of the enemies worries.
Perhaps my biggest annoyance with the game so far is combat. In so much as your attacks will execute, animations and all, even when your not in range of your target. This leads to it looking like shadow boxing.
Shadow boxing is that old nemesis of immersion, it is when your and your opponents moves do not synch up. When neither seems to respond to the other. WOW for all its faults does not suffer this.
Another combat issue is their world and event bosses then to be zerg fests. Its fun once or twice but after awhile your buried under rendered effects without any real organization. I am sure groups will eventually organize for these but with the come one come all its not bound to be anything but the zerg fest.
The abilities system where each weapon provides different abilities will lose its luster once the players settle on whats best and there is always a whats best is such flexible games.
So a very pretty world with a great new take on cut scenes art and distance drawing. The voice acted dialog is very stiff and cheesy for the most part, again the actors don't seem to be talking to each other - they instead are talking to a fixed point in the distance. Gee, just like combat.
I haven't found an open world with this ease of traveling that looked fun to just explore since Asheron's Call.
I found stand alone internet from Comcast via an installer advertising in Craigslist. He listed all the different packages and costs associated with each. It was far easier than navigating the Comcast site.
What I do not care for with Comcast is the prices on the site, even after entering your zip code, are not necessarily the prices your local Comcast office will offer. An example, I wanted basic cable to go with my internet and phone from Comcast. Calling the number on my bill resulted in an offer for basic cable for 19.95. On the website it was 12.95. Even when presented with this information the person on the phone said that was not available in my area. I went to online chat with the Comcast site via a button they had there and had the basic service installed and added to my bill at 12.95
Well at the beginning of this year Comcast raised ALL cable TV bills by five dollars. So my 12.95 went to 17.95 a month. I called, complained, and dropped the service. Come to find out the work they did to hook up TV in the first place means I still get basic service for free as it rides on my cable internet. When they called to sell me TV again I asked them about it and they replied that cable ready TV's cannot be blocked at this time.
Some companies are just too uncoordinated to know what they do.... so I would not ascribe their making things difficult as a policy but the result of poor management.
I remember hunting down a copy of Rogue from DOS days and the realization that the PDF version of the manual was larger than the game executable and even the simple webpage was many times as large as the game it hosted.
Ran across a similar situation when perusing sites dedicated to Turbo Pascal. Documentation and web pages have a larger foot print than most of the machines many of us grew up with. I still remember my favorite PC game; Star Flight; fit on two 360k diskettes.
but your paying for both, you just choose to be ignorant of the costs. Its embedded in everything you buy and it leaves your check without your full acknowledgement of it.
Sorry, but the sanctimonious crap from some Europeans is laughable, that house of cards is collapsing because the free ride costs money and apparently too many people are on the cart instead of pulling it.
FWIW.
I pay a small portion of my pay for health insurance, I work for a self insured company; which is what many large US corporations do. I also have a 401k, a pension, and Social Security. So I have what you have, there is just more honestly on admitting that the costs are there. As in, there is less obfuscation in my take home pay.
I cannot recall the last time I have used the front facing one or know anyone who uses it, but getting my iPad2 back from the kids or even grandparents was more difficult than expected because of its ability to take photos and record video.
As for the form factor, I love the smaller size. You would be surprised how heavy an iPad gets after an hour
I am not going to quibble over whether their predictions are right or not, all I have to say is, way to take the safe road... a generation out meaning no one will remember the prediction.
If you cannot predict accurate within five years why should I believe you can project out thirty to forty or believe that accuracy is better?
because allowing one type of corporation/group-defined-by-law/etc/etc more freedom to express itself than another is wrong. Any association of people from who the right to freedom of speech is derived should be equal at all times.
The press exception brigade is led by an industry that does not want to lose its influence over the people, they don't want external competition. As such you won't see the "press" stand up against broadcast limitations for TV or Radio, let alone stand behind bloggers.
The real difference between us and "them" is many of them are never satisfied with where they are in life and forever seek to improve upon it. Let alone except in very amazing cases the majority of these people spend the end of their life with the wealth. The internet revolution did spawn a lot of people with enough youth to enjoy their wealth longer.
See my tag, compare your achievements to your goals, never compare yourself to another. You can set a goal to have/do what they are doing but only compare the results to your personal goal.
Are you unhappy in your life? I think its awesome that there are people who can buy an island. Would I want to? Sure but I know I don't have that "not sure what it is" to try and follow through.
Because to be honest, I cannot tell the difference between the two parties which have a choke hold on American politics.
I wish there were third, fourth, and even fifth, viable political parties in the US. However it seems to me that the two who control it are more than happy to pass laws to prevent people from spending money on campaigns unless it is spent on them. Then to top it off they control most of the redistricting at the state level and where they don't do that directly they have sycophants in place.
One idea that Apple has made good use out of is completely absent from Microsoft's presentation.
Ships Today!
Those two words are sometimes as important as the technology being demonstrated. Doing otherwise diminishes any excitement a good presentation brings.
How this played out to me is, that's nice. Oh, I can't get one? Oh.
As in, its forgettable.
Good notes, regardless. Integrating the keyboard into the cover. This mitigates one of the biggest issues I have seen people with other tablets have. They do little real note taking and the few who did, well they had laptops or a BT keyboard.
Microsoft Office integration, will have to see how this plays out but this is the killer app. Integration with current use of Office and the like. Make it seamless please.
If you can make buildings at the rate they claim with preparation and modular techniques it should make it simple to recover after catastrophes as well. From housing to hospitals.
Create a few universal designs. Store modular components in select locations around the world under the management of the UN or such. Then when disaster strikes; like an earthquake/typhoon/hurricane; and housing or such is needed the items could be shipped. I am not saying it would be easy, but it should be doable and now on a larger scale.
If it reduces costs so much then it could simply be used in poor countries to help house people provided steps are taken not to turn them into centers of urban blight.
By the using the UN they know they can inflict their will on most Western nations all the while casually ignoring any complaints about their own activities.
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no amount of laws can protect any society from a sufficiently motivated individual regardless of a nation's laws and assumed demeanor of it's people. Anders Behring Breivik proved that. Timothy McVeigh worked with others, but he didn't need a gun.
while the kids drive. I can set the maximum speeds and even the volume of the radio with Ford's mykey. I would hope OnStar is as advanced if not more.
After all, if the car leaves the proscribed area it should turn itself off.
having been an Apple fan for many years, owning multiple iMacs, Macbooks, iPod devices, and iPads, I am through with buying their products. Perhaps I should have stopped earlier but it just seems 2012 is the year when Apple jumped the shark.
On a system I manage we have rules in place to prevent the reuse of passwords, simple ones like you cannot use a password you used the previous 31 times and such with limits on how often you can change them.
Well unless we put a limit of changes that were beyond a day you can guess what many users figured out to do... Forcing users to change passwords doesn't always end up with the results you expect.
Oh, mixed case and numbers... don't even get me started. Surveyed users on how they handled that and its pretty hilarious at times.
so you can still hate Windows and play their games.
I have learned long ago that OS hate is as productive as pissing into the wind.
dropped the price of natural gas that even coal plants ramp down. Solar was barely approaching the old price point of power generation and then fracking hit. Combined with the nuclear scare and countries exploring alternatives the money landed on wind power because its currently a better option than solar.
Yahtzee makes it very clear how hard it is to take him seriously...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL8SB1YHzFU
When your Batman...
Seems to me that most overthrows its the politicians who find out they were the 1% society was rebelling against.
Considering that many of the money problems being experienced in countries around the world were caused by politicians promising the moon knowing full well it can never be delivered they best hope the people don't become smart enough to connect the dots.
Remember, the rich are only in such a position because they still have the ability to make the 1% look the other way - that 1% being the politicians who control the governments who have the police and military powers to get their way. Your only free until a politician decides they know better to do with you or what you produce than you do.
Stealth technologies are designed to change how an object that can be detected by RADAR is seen by it. Through various material changes, positioning of openings, angles, and the like, you can change how you appear on a RADAR and to a point minimize detection range. You do not have to penetrate foreign airspace much to get a bomb on target and drones don't incur the political risk of dead pilots.
Oh I do not doubt that current stealth technology can be rendered obsolete if not already in some cases, however while we read about breakthroughs in RADAR technology when it occurs we rarely read about stealth technologies until they are implemented or already surpassed.
Then comes the old standby, the military is most likely well prepared for not caring about stealth in the long run. With new weapon systems, drones, and the like, finding a stealth plane is least of the enemies worries.
are the primary benefactors...
Doctors and Nurses not so much...
those who already are covered not so much...
those not contributing more than some but not as much as they expect
Perhaps my biggest annoyance with the game so far is combat. In so much as your attacks will execute, animations and all, even when your not in range of your target. This leads to it looking like shadow boxing.
Shadow boxing is that old nemesis of immersion, it is when your and your opponents moves do not synch up. When neither seems to respond to the other. WOW for all its faults does not suffer this.
Another combat issue is their world and event bosses then to be zerg fests. Its fun once or twice but after awhile your buried under rendered effects without any real organization. I am sure groups will eventually organize for these but with the come one come all its not bound to be anything but the zerg fest.
The abilities system where each weapon provides different abilities will lose its luster once the players settle on whats best and there is always a whats best is such flexible games.
So a very pretty world with a great new take on cut scenes art and distance drawing. The voice acted dialog is very stiff and cheesy for the most part, again the actors don't seem to be talking to each other - they instead are talking to a fixed point in the distance. Gee, just like combat.
I haven't found an open world with this ease of traveling that looked fun to just explore since Asheron's Call.
I found stand alone internet from Comcast via an installer advertising in Craigslist. He listed all the different packages and costs associated with each. It was far easier than navigating the Comcast site.
What I do not care for with Comcast is the prices on the site, even after entering your zip code, are not necessarily the prices your local Comcast office will offer. An example, I wanted basic cable to go with my internet and phone from Comcast. Calling the number on my bill resulted in an offer for basic cable for 19.95. On the website it was 12.95. Even when presented with this information the person on the phone said that was not available in my area. I went to online chat with the Comcast site via a button they had there and had the basic service installed and added to my bill at 12.95
Well at the beginning of this year Comcast raised ALL cable TV bills by five dollars. So my 12.95 went to 17.95 a month. I called, complained, and dropped the service. Come to find out the work they did to hook up TV in the first place means I still get basic service for free as it rides on my cable internet. When they called to sell me TV again I asked them about it and they replied that cable ready TV's cannot be blocked at this time.
Some companies are just too uncoordinated to know what they do.... so I would not ascribe their making things difficult as a policy but the result of poor management.
I remember hunting down a copy of Rogue from DOS days and the realization that the PDF version of the manual was larger than the game executable and even the simple webpage was many times as large as the game it hosted.
Ran across a similar situation when perusing sites dedicated to Turbo Pascal. Documentation and web pages have a larger foot print than most of the machines many of us grew up with. I still remember my favorite PC game; Star Flight; fit on two 360k diskettes.
but your paying for both, you just choose to be ignorant of the costs. Its embedded in everything you buy and it leaves your check without your full acknowledgement of it.
Sorry, but the sanctimonious crap from some Europeans is laughable, that house of cards is collapsing because the free ride costs money and apparently too many people are on the cart instead of pulling it.
FWIW.
I pay a small portion of my pay for health insurance, I work for a self insured company; which is what many large US corporations do. I also have a 401k, a pension, and Social Security. So I have what you have, there is just more honestly on admitting that the costs are there. As in, there is less obfuscation in my take home pay.
and here he thought, "Gee the reception is bad here, my phone keeps dropping calls"
I cannot recall the last time I have used the front facing one or know anyone who uses it, but getting my iPad2 back from the kids or even grandparents was more difficult than expected because of its ability to take photos and record video.
As for the form factor, I love the smaller size. You would be surprised how heavy an iPad gets after an hour
your slightly mixed up about who controls who.
The political class controls all, the corporate class merely has sufficient money to pay the required bribes to maintain a false sense of freedom.
I am not going to quibble over whether their predictions are right or not, all I have to say is, way to take the safe road ... a generation out meaning no one will remember the prediction.
If you cannot predict accurate within five years why should I believe you can project out thirty to forty or believe that accuracy is better?
because allowing one type of corporation/group-defined-by-law/etc/etc more freedom to express itself than another is wrong. Any association of people from who the right to freedom of speech is derived should be equal at all times.
The press exception brigade is led by an industry that does not want to lose its influence over the people, they don't want external competition. As such you won't see the "press" stand up against broadcast limitations for TV or Radio, let alone stand behind bloggers.
you take the training and move on letting the company start all over.
Cynicism works for both sides.
the majority of us do.
The real difference between us and "them" is many of them are never satisfied with where they are in life and forever seek to improve upon it. Let alone except in very amazing cases the majority of these people spend the end of their life with the wealth. The internet revolution did spawn a lot of people with enough youth to enjoy their wealth longer.
See my tag, compare your achievements to your goals, never compare yourself to another. You can set a goal to have/do what they are doing but only compare the results to your personal goal.
Are you unhappy in your life? I think its awesome that there are people who can buy an island. Would I want to? Sure but I know I don't have that "not sure what it is" to try and follow through.
Because to be honest, I cannot tell the difference between the two parties which have a choke hold on American politics.
I wish there were third, fourth, and even fifth, viable political parties in the US. However it seems to me that the two who control it are more than happy to pass laws to prevent people from spending money on campaigns unless it is spent on them. Then to top it off they control most of the redistricting at the state level and where they don't do that directly they have sycophants in place.
Other party, I wish.
One idea that Apple has made good use out of is completely absent from Microsoft's presentation.
Ships Today!
Those two words are sometimes as important as the technology being demonstrated. Doing otherwise diminishes any excitement a good presentation brings.
How this played out to me is, that's nice. Oh, I can't get one? Oh.
As in, its forgettable.
Good notes, regardless.
Integrating the keyboard into the cover. This mitigates one of the biggest issues I have seen people with other tablets have. They do little real note taking and the few who did, well they had laptops or a BT keyboard.
Microsoft Office integration, will have to see how this plays out but this is the killer app. Integration with current use of Office and the like. Make it seamless please.
If you can make buildings at the rate they claim with preparation and modular techniques it should make it simple to recover after catastrophes as well. From housing to hospitals.
Create a few universal designs. Store modular components in select locations around the world under the management of the UN or such. Then when disaster strikes; like an earthquake/typhoon/hurricane; and housing or such is needed the items could be shipped. I am not saying it would be easy, but it should be doable and now on a larger scale.
If it reduces costs so much then it could simply be used in poor countries to help house people provided steps are taken not to turn them into centers of urban blight.
Those who cannot compete regulate.
By the using the UN they know they can inflict their will on most Western nations all the while casually ignoring any complaints about their own activities.