in rocket science so the idea of trying to sort out what is wrong and not going home is appropriate.
Now I wouldn't launch on some caffeine high no sleep coder or engineer.. but I can see pressure situations where I might have to one day... (like its up there but its broke now)
Even though I own multiple Apple products I would rather see DOJ bust Apple's balls than MS. At MS doesn't dictate whose machine I can run their OS on (even though I have no Windows computers art home). As for Google, they have money, they are current at issue with various "AA" groups that have relations with people in the new guy's administration.
Besides this about restricting employee for leaving for better offers by agreeing not to see out talent from agreed upon companies. In other words, if they like you they might be willing to make a deal with a competitor so you won't be offered a reason to leave.
I still figure most of it is about getting more money
The real problem isn't that Hummer is sold, it is that the bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler have both been shoved down the companies and investor's throats. So they will trot out that they saved 3,000 or so jobs. What about the 100,000 plus jobs lost when all the dealerships are being forced to close, even ones who make a profit? A considerable number, if not the majority, of dealerships being punted are profitable.
This is all about Wall Street and not Main Street. The people tasked with doing these close outs and sales are all Wall Street regulars. If Wall Street had been held to the same standards as Detroit the change might have been something I could believe in. Instead communities are going to face real problems when dealerships close. Yeah, 3000 jobs is nice but it is a nickle on a Cadillac in terms of loss/gain. In other words, who the flip cares?
Hummer. Funny thing is they will survive in the real world and not the alternate reality world the US has become.
because the method of intimidation favored is to claim the opposing views are only driven by prejudice and paranoia.
Figuring her panel's overturn rate by the Supremes is probably a better indication of why she should not be on the Supreme Court but is fine where she is.
The real problem, she was selected for what she is, not who she is or how she ruled... at least according to the speech the teleprompter provided.
and we don't have a Wiki Admin who is a member or favors them over another group.
Though your criticism of SOE and Smedley is exactly the reason I don't really like COS being banned from edits of articles relevant to them. What is one person's truth can be another persons heresy.
because the one thing I noticed about most papers is their decidedly opposite in their politics from what the area they serve. Some papers like the AJC are so extreme to one side it is obvious why few subscribe anymore. We need papers to keep government in check, but when they become just mouth pieces for one side or another they serve no one but the government. Worse are those whose editors are infatuated with certain leaders. The AJC was so bad their infatuated editor created a position in Washington just to be closer to her idol.
and they wonder why...
it was really hilarious when they were soliciting for a conservative editorial columnist and kept rejecting the ideas submitted because it didn't fit their mindset.
the governments and special interest groups don't want the problem solved. When it is "solved" then all the regulatory structure and special fees/taxes won't have application. The lose revenue and control over other people.
Look, we have known for a long time in the US that Nuclear power when done right is great for the environment. Yet at every corner it was shot down by one group or another. I have been watching Georgia Power trying to spin up two new nuclear reactors and it took years just to get it to the PSC and be allowed to price it out. Now they are past the point of being allowed to bill for them reactors they must fight to get them started. I seriously doubt they will get these two new reactors on line.
When control and tax (read cap and trade) comes along people are going to see their electrical bills skyrocket. Yet where will the base load power supply come from? Coal. There are no alternatives to it. My county spend almost a decade just to build a reservoir for drink water, I cannot imagine what it would take for to get one large enough for power generation.
So again, we have technologies to fix the problem, we even have the money, but the powers that be and the groups supporting them don't want it fixed. They need the problem to guilt and control.
I already have issues with the rubber/whatever directional signs when they are wet as I ride a motorcycle.
Painted surfaces are better but not much more than the rubber ones. Now if they dye the road surface when it is mixed it won't have adverse effects on two wheelers, let alone four wheelers will also retain their full traction. Plus it won't wear like a surface coat and lose the benefit
What you missed completely was the point. We, the people, already pay ALL the taxes. Having a business pay its fair share of infrastructure makes no sense. Where do they get the money to pay that tax? The people. How do they get it, they charge more.
Got it?
OK, lets try it this way. What really strikes fear into law makers is that one day the ignorant out there might just understand the tax load they are under. If people had to DIRECTLY pay all the tax embedded with every purchase they make don't you think they would be pissed? Don't you hope that in such a society that they would scream for a more accountable government?
Your view is very similar to many who support "free health care". You consider it free if you can claim ignorance as to where the money that pays for it comes from. Wonderful, not only do we have people here who have their heads in the sand unknowingly , we have those who volunteer to do it. I can guess who you voted for.
I figure it this way, the interesting point of the story was the ship itself. I really never knew they existed before this announcement and it is very interesting to see in this time and age of being friendly to the environment that the final use of this ship is a reef.
Consider it has been in service from 1943 to 1993 and has had multiple roles. The last of which makes one of the coolest looking ships I can recall. It is part of our technological history. How we got a better understanding of what we doing today. Besides, from the environmental angle, it has been used for over fifty years. Far better than building new ships for each mission and its final resting will give it future use beyond our lifetimes.
Hardcore players is nice speak for "assholes who complain if things don't go their way". Really, I have played about every "mmorpg" since bbs days, to include early graphical ones like Yserbius (if you could call that a mmorpg). Every game gets its "hardcore" people who are nothing more than those self righteous bastards in politics and the like who tell us how what we should enjoy and what we should do which of course none of which applies to them.
They are hardcore players because they can never be satisfied. Change something in game, even if it does not affect them directly it becomes a major issue. If it makes the game easier for someone suddenly the whole game becomes carebear. If it reduces the ability of their current class to gank/be overpowered they scream nerf. That is the key, real hardcore players would not care about nerfs - it makes the game more challenging. Hence everytime I see them complain its because someone else might get a shiny that they think they only deserve.
Why does WOW have so many hardcore naysayers? Simple, because these people can't all be number one when there is a sizable pool of great gaming talent to compete against. Hence the "hardcore" people crop up with every excuse and exception to explain why other people aren't as good as them and how its the games fault for not letting "the hardcore" people demonstrate their superiority.
As for the article, I read "We cannot compete with WOW so here is our list of chosen excuses : read feature changes"
So the next time they want a plane they will just board it with baggage handlers and other "service" people.
It isn't like that those who want to cause mischief aren't beyond planning and implementing across years. Let alone the fact they can read the same papers we can.
The next plane to come down does so by missile, have a nice day screening passengers for that. It will make the panic against flying after 9/11 look like small potatoes.
Show me the person who doesn't think so and is willing to give up driving.
See, too many make the assumption that they are good drivers while others are not and that somehow this excuses them from obeying laws that really should only apply to those "other" people.
Just like Congress sucks but my Congressman is great, or public schools suck except for the one my kid goes to.
Stupid people are those who think that they should determine what is safe on a given day regardless of what the law states for the road. Apparently certain people think they can plan ahead for the errant car, animal, or person, doing the unexpected? I live by the idea of driving safely everyday; I tend to ride my motorcycle to and from work daily. Speed does kill, because the more of you have when that one slip occurs the more likely you are going to get hurt or skilled or worse do it do someone else.
after meeting some Mac newbies I am think I can already see the iceberg. Two are friends, one of which called me out of the blue to tell me that he just bought his first Mac (an iMac actually). Well needless to say I get calls from both since I am the "mac expert" (Read: I had one longer than them).
The simplest way to say it, they are more than happy to key in their password for anything that asks, even if they don't know what they are doing. After all, they are on a Mac, they don't have virus protection because it doesn't need it, so how is something bad going to get on the system. These are not normally dense people, well maybe they are proving me wrong.
So I figure that someone out there will rely on this type of stupidity to get key loggers, bots, and the like, on Macs. The number of people out there who buy one because they think it makes them cool or smart cannot be underestimated.
I do know one of these two did ditch firefox because they didn't like clicking the ad-block button to allow some sites. So it is just a matter of time.
(and no, I do not run a AV or worry about it on either of my Macs)
because the majority cannot get more efficiency from a manual than what a computer controlled automatic can. I don't know why your bellyaching about something that already has happened. It takes some stupid hyper miler tricks to get many manuals past the best of the automatics. Really, what century are you in? The trick for the last decade in improving highway mileage has been very tall gearing in the last one or two gears of the transmission. The key is that new autos will downshift to pass and resume the tall gear as soon as possible. Throw in cylinder deactivation and you can improve many big vehicles.
Safety regulations, well your out of the loop again. The Feds are implementing even stiffer roll over requirements so that roofs will not collapse if someone has a roll over. Just how are you going to relax safety standards in a nanny state? Comparing car safety to motorcycles is like comparing apples to dogs.
We bring cars made in Mexico here everyday, they are sold under the GM and Chrysler name. Now have you seen crash test of home grown cars from Mexico or China? If your asking us why we don't allow them go ask Europe why they rejected them!
For every mini/smart I can show you a dozen of practically any other car, if not more. Hell in many areas I can show you more than a dozen times that in SUVs about anyhwere.
The people who want fuel efficient cars are buying them (fwiw I own a miata (30 avg which I track on fueleconomy.gov) and a R1200RT (49 avg). People vilify SUVs but go look at any luxury car lineup and tell me what you see. I don't see how companies like Infiniti or Lexus can meet the goals unless they roll up under their parents mileage figures. Granted Lexus will have a hybrid sedan soon even it will barely average 34.
Now what would be impressive if Obama and Corp can get small diesels all around. California has been the problem there so are they going to prevent us from getting the high mileage diesels Europe has or did Obama and Corp make a deal with California?
Ford is going to have an issue because their "Eco Boost" is a joke. Instead of truly down sizing the engines offered with this direct injection turbo setup they are offering even higher horsepower and torque. In other words, they have an opportunity to make nice small engines for their midsize cars but chose to just pump up a six while claiming it still beats the other guys eights.
At my former company we got fed ANI *automatic number identification* which is a whole heap load different than what caller id is.
We could not be spoofed, it just doesn't happen.
No all caller id services are created equal. The fact that your local provider is more likely playing with it versus "evil long distance company". I guarantee that AT&T or whomever had it nationally past it on to the local. The local filtered it. What your getting as a spoof is probably some trick which passes through just to hit cid devices.
Put it this way, the service we needed was to ID the exact place an employee called in from; this was to log them in at work on site for rent-a-cop stuff. We had all sorts of attempts to defraud the system. Caller id blocking didn't stop us - in fact that is a local only function and a joke. Think of it as a way to separate a fool from his money, kind of like what caller id you pay for is. We had people use business lines, cell, conference out of state, you name it they tried it
that that super large servers would have the exact opposite reaction of what they seek. You would reduce the player to part of the herd, people having an effect on the world would be those you read about and never met, very much like the real world.
With smaller population sets among servers it allows more players to actually have "firsts". It allows for tighter communities to be formed. Then there is this small problem of WOW's player base, as in size. They have a couple hundred servers for a reason. I can't imagine trying to play on a server with the combined population of even four current servers, there just isn't space. If you instance zones then your right back where you started. I always found instanced zones to be less immersive than having multiple servers.
A game like wow, with achievements and goals, needs to have smaller population sets just so more people can have the chance of being first at something, let alone establish a rep for themselves based on character (and don't think people don't develop reputations on individual servers)
Nah, I wouldn't want to play in a world of millions of people... I do that in real life and I certainly won't pay to do it in a fantasy. At least give my character the chance to be the hero instead of the fodder
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in rocket science so the idea of trying to sort out what is wrong and not going home is appropriate.
Now I wouldn't launch on some caffeine high no sleep coder or engineer.. but I can see pressure situations where I might have to one day... (like its up there but its broke now)
The US Government is short of that.
Even though I own multiple Apple products I would rather see DOJ bust Apple's balls than MS. At MS doesn't dictate whose machine I can run their OS on (even though I have no Windows computers art home). As for Google, they have money, they are current at issue with various "AA" groups that have relations with people in the new guy's administration.
Besides this about restricting employee for leaving for better offers by agreeing not to see out talent from agreed upon companies. In other words, if they like you they might be willing to make a deal with a competitor so you won't be offered a reason to leave.
I still figure most of it is about getting more money
government releases said secrets of incompetent government, and this is news?
then again, calling out the fact it was on the net isn't exactly helping matters is it.
So, why was this supposed to really distract us from focusing on?
I wonder if anyone will buy Saab now, it has had worse sales than Hummer for a long time.
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/02/by-the-numbers-may-2009-gm-and-ford-surprise-edition/
The above link has some sales data.
The real problem isn't that Hummer is sold, it is that the bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler have both been shoved down the companies and investor's throats. So they will trot out that they saved 3,000 or so jobs. What about the 100,000 plus jobs lost when all the dealerships are being forced to close, even ones who make a profit? A considerable number, if not the majority, of dealerships being punted are profitable.
This is all about Wall Street and not Main Street. The people tasked with doing these close outs and sales are all Wall Street regulars. If Wall Street had been held to the same standards as Detroit the change might have been something I could believe in. Instead communities are going to face real problems when dealerships close. Yeah, 3000 jobs is nice but it is a nickle on a Cadillac in terms of loss/gain. In other words, who the flip cares?
Hummer. Funny thing is they will survive in the real world and not the alternate reality world the US has become.
because the method of intimidation favored is to claim the opposing views are only driven by prejudice and paranoia.
Figuring her panel's overturn rate by the Supremes is probably a better indication of why she should not be on the Supreme Court but is fine where she is.
The real problem, she was selected for what she is, not who she is or how she ruled... at least according to the speech the teleprompter provided.
and we don't have a Wiki Admin who is a member or favors them over another group.
Though your criticism of SOE and Smedley is exactly the reason I don't really like COS being banned from edits of articles relevant to them. What is one person's truth can be another persons heresy.
You should be able to drive the character just by changing the orientation of the iPhone.
I guess that is the part where "good" will come in, how will he adapt the controls to make it enjoyable.
because the one thing I noticed about most papers is their decidedly opposite in their politics from what the area they serve. Some papers like the AJC are so extreme to one side it is obvious why few subscribe anymore. We need papers to keep government in check, but when they become just mouth pieces for one side or another they serve no one but the government. Worse are those whose editors are infatuated with certain leaders. The AJC was so bad their infatuated editor created a position in Washington just to be closer to her idol.
and they wonder why...
it was really hilarious when they were soliciting for a conservative editorial columnist and kept rejecting the ideas submitted because it didn't fit their mindset.
the governments and special interest groups don't want the problem solved. When it is "solved" then all the regulatory structure and special fees/taxes won't have application. The lose revenue and control over other people.
Look, we have known for a long time in the US that Nuclear power when done right is great for the environment. Yet at every corner it was shot down by one group or another. I have been watching Georgia Power trying to spin up two new nuclear reactors and it took years just to get it to the PSC and be allowed to price it out. Now they are past the point of being allowed to bill for them reactors they must fight to get them started. I seriously doubt they will get these two new reactors on line.
When control and tax (read cap and trade) comes along people are going to see their electrical bills skyrocket. Yet where will the base load power supply come from? Coal. There are no alternatives to it. My county spend almost a decade just to build a reservoir for drink water, I cannot imagine what it would take for to get one large enough for power generation.
So again, we have technologies to fix the problem, we even have the money, but the powers that be and the groups supporting them don't want it fixed. They need the problem to guilt and control.
I already have issues with the rubber/whatever directional signs when they are wet as I ride a motorcycle.
Painted surfaces are better but not much more than the rubber ones. Now if they dye the road surface when it is mixed it won't have adverse effects on two wheelers, let alone four wheelers will also retain their full traction. Plus it won't wear like a surface coat and lose the benefit
I think the same about my OS X updates.... though it is getting to more than x.x.2 now.
Vista is native to Blu-Ray, gawd I hope this kicks Apple in the pants.
businesses pay no taxes.
What you missed completely was the point. We, the people, already pay ALL the taxes. Having a business pay its fair share of infrastructure makes no sense. Where do they get the money to pay that tax? The people. How do they get it, they charge more.
Got it?
OK, lets try it this way. What really strikes fear into law makers is that one day the ignorant out there might just understand the tax load they are under. If people had to DIRECTLY pay all the tax embedded with every purchase they make don't you think they would be pissed? Don't you hope that in such a society that they would scream for a more accountable government?
Your view is very similar to many who support "free health care". You consider it free if you can claim ignorance as to where the money that pays for it comes from. Wonderful, not only do we have people here who have their heads in the sand unknowingly , we have those who volunteer to do it. I can guess who you voted for.
Otherwise you got me.
I figure it this way, the interesting point of the story was the ship itself. I really never knew they existed before this announcement and it is very interesting to see in this time and age of being friendly to the environment that the final use of this ship is a reef.
Consider it has been in service from 1943 to 1993 and has had multiple roles. The last of which makes one of the coolest looking ships I can recall. It is part of our technological history. How we got a better understanding of what we doing today. Besides, from the environmental angle, it has been used for over fifty years. Far better than building new ships for each mission and its final resting will give it future use beyond our lifetimes.
Hardcore players is nice speak for "assholes who complain if things don't go their way". Really, I have played about every "mmorpg" since bbs days, to include early graphical ones like Yserbius (if you could call that a mmorpg). Every game gets its "hardcore" people who are nothing more than those self righteous bastards in politics and the like who tell us how what we should enjoy and what we should do which of course none of which applies to them.
They are hardcore players because they can never be satisfied. Change something in game, even if it does not affect them directly it becomes a major issue. If it makes the game easier for someone suddenly the whole game becomes carebear. If it reduces the ability of their current class to gank/be overpowered they scream nerf. That is the key, real hardcore players would not care about nerfs - it makes the game more challenging. Hence everytime I see them complain its because someone else might get a shiny that they think they only deserve.
Why does WOW have so many hardcore naysayers? Simple, because these people can't all be number one when there is a sizable pool of great gaming talent to compete against. Hence the "hardcore" people crop up with every excuse and exception to explain why other people aren't as good as them and how its the games fault for not letting "the hardcore" people demonstrate their superiority.
As for the article, I read "We cannot compete with WOW so here is our list of chosen excuses : read feature changes"
Bring on Will Smith and the giant Terminator spiders. Steampunk Terminator, just how in the hell does boiling water form allegiances?
So the next time they want a plane they will just board it with baggage handlers and other "service" people.
It isn't like that those who want to cause mischief aren't beyond planning and implementing across years. Let alone the fact they can read the same papers we can.
The next plane to come down does so by missile, have a nice day screening passengers for that. It will make the panic against flying after 9/11 look like small potatoes.
Show me the person who doesn't think so and is willing to give up driving.
See, too many make the assumption that they are good drivers while others are not and that somehow this excuses them from obeying laws that really should only apply to those "other" people.
Just like Congress sucks but my Congressman is great, or public schools suck except for the one my kid goes to.
Stupid people are those who think that they should determine what is safe on a given day regardless of what the law states for the road. Apparently certain people think they can plan ahead for the errant car, animal, or person, doing the unexpected? I live by the idea of driving safely everyday; I tend to ride my motorcycle to and from work daily. Speed does kill, because the more of you have when that one slip occurs the more likely you are going to get hurt or skilled or worse do it do someone else.
if its making a call your car turns off.
or just as well it hangs up after warning you you have thirty seconds to stop.
after meeting some Mac newbies I am think I can already see the iceberg. Two are friends, one of which called me out of the blue to tell me that he just bought his first Mac (an iMac actually). Well needless to say I get calls from both since I am the "mac expert" (Read: I had one longer than them).
The simplest way to say it, they are more than happy to key in their password for anything that asks, even if they don't know what they are doing. After all, they are on a Mac, they don't have virus protection because it doesn't need it, so how is something bad going to get on the system. These are not normally dense people, well maybe they are proving me wrong.
So I figure that someone out there will rely on this type of stupidity to get key loggers, bots, and the like, on Macs. The number of people out there who buy one because they think it makes them cool or smart cannot be underestimated.
I do know one of these two did ditch firefox because they didn't like clicking the ad-block button to allow some sites. So it is just a matter of time.
(and no, I do not run a AV or worry about it on either of my Macs)
because the majority cannot get more efficiency from a manual than what a computer controlled automatic can. I don't know why your bellyaching about something that already has happened. It takes some stupid hyper miler tricks to get many manuals past the best of the automatics. Really, what century are you in? The trick for the last decade in improving highway mileage has been very tall gearing in the last one or two gears of the transmission. The key is that new autos will downshift to pass and resume the tall gear as soon as possible. Throw in cylinder deactivation and you can improve many big vehicles.
Safety regulations, well your out of the loop again. The Feds are implementing even stiffer roll over requirements so that roofs will not collapse if someone has a roll over. Just how are you going to relax safety standards in a nanny state? Comparing car safety to motorcycles is like comparing apples to dogs.
We bring cars made in Mexico here everyday, they are sold under the GM and Chrysler name. Now have you seen crash test of home grown cars from Mexico or China? If your asking us why we don't allow them go ask Europe why they rejected them!
as an indication of what is anywhere else.
For every mini/smart I can show you a dozen of practically any other car, if not more. Hell in many areas I can show you more than a dozen times that in SUVs about anyhwere.
The people who want fuel efficient cars are buying them (fwiw I own a miata (30 avg which I track on fueleconomy.gov) and a R1200RT (49 avg). People vilify SUVs but go look at any luxury car lineup and tell me what you see. I don't see how companies like Infiniti or Lexus can meet the goals unless they roll up under their parents mileage figures. Granted Lexus will have a hybrid sedan soon even it will barely average 34.
Now what would be impressive if Obama and Corp can get small diesels all around. California has been the problem there so are they going to prevent us from getting the high mileage diesels Europe has or did Obama and Corp make a deal with California?
Ford is going to have an issue because their "Eco Boost" is a joke. Instead of truly down sizing the engines offered with this direct injection turbo setup they are offering even higher horsepower and torque. In other words, they have an opportunity to make nice small engines for their midsize cars but chose to just pump up a six while claiming it still beats the other guys eights.
however I do not think anyone has ever seen her before the knife.
Clearly if she willingly put her under the knife to look as she does now she had to be a serious bow wow, or Michael look a like
as well as the basis for many of today's consoles.
So lets see, midranges, mainframes, and game consoles.
Not quite dead nor disappointing.
At my former company we got fed ANI *automatic number identification* which is a whole heap load different than what caller id is.
We could not be spoofed, it just doesn't happen.
No all caller id services are created equal. The fact that your local provider is more likely playing with it versus "evil long distance company". I guarantee that AT&T or whomever had it nationally past it on to the local. The local filtered it. What your getting as a spoof is probably some trick which passes through just to hit cid devices.
Put it this way, the service we needed was to ID the exact place an employee called in from; this was to log them in at work on site for rent-a-cop stuff. We had all sorts of attempts to defraud the system. Caller id blocking didn't stop us - in fact that is a local only function and a joke. Think of it as a way to separate a fool from his money, kind of like what caller id you pay for is. We had people use business lines, cell, conference out of state, you name it they tried it
that that super large servers would have the exact opposite reaction of what they seek. You would reduce the player to part of the herd, people having an effect on the world would be those you read about and never met, very much like the real world.
With smaller population sets among servers it allows more players to actually have "firsts". It allows for tighter communities to be formed. Then there is this small problem of WOW's player base, as in size. They have a couple hundred servers for a reason. I can't imagine trying to play on a server with the combined population of even four current servers, there just isn't space. If you instance zones then your right back where you started. I always found instanced zones to be less immersive than having multiple servers.
A game like wow, with achievements and goals, needs to have smaller population sets just so more people can have the chance of being first at something, let alone establish a rep for themselves based on character (and don't think people don't develop reputations on individual servers)
Nah, I wouldn't want to play in a world of millions of people... I do that in real life and I certainly won't pay to do it in a fantasy. At least give my character the chance to be the hero instead of the fodder