George Lucas (Verb) Lucasing, Lucased (a) The act of committing graphics overkill.
Interesting Sig... I thought it would have meant taking a deeply satisfying shit all over a well respected thing that has your own name on it, but I guess I'd be wrong....
And don't forget the episode where we found out his creator left a backdoor in both of his androids, forcing them to go to him at will regardless of the consequences.
Wow! Data IS fully functional and programmed in a number of techniques!
Yeah and getting a paycheck is the fun side of working a job..
I dunno, the paycheck is necessary, but it's not the only fun part. The paycheck just keeps me clothed and fed. My job gives me problems to solve and I like that. I get to demand a wage because there's a lot of people out there who are not able to do what I do.
On the main thread, people who are capable of writing tools for the simps never bother because they don't need those tools. Like BASIC. The people who need BASIC can't write it. If you think Python or something else will fill that void, advertise it.
Santa's mastery of nanotechnology allows Santa to grow presents on the spot
Thereby depriving all the elves of jobs! They did the right things, they followed the rules, they went to elf school, and got advanced degrees in craftsmanship, but they're getting screwed by Santa, who's just rewarding the children he thinks are "nice". You remember when you were a kid? Did the children who were actually nice get the best presents? No! It was always the kids of some corporate fat cat! We see who Santa's rewarding. Occupy the North Pole!
When someone hacks into a computer and causes someone to die or destroys some military asset as a direct result of that hack, then I will consider it to be "warfare".
Well... This probably demonstrates espionage more than cyberwar, but it at least illustrates a possibility.
I wonder if there would be resistance from power companies if people were able to put cheap solar panels on their houses, or if they would buy up all the patents so you had to buy your panels from them.
They'd just institute daylight-based pricing. Use of electricity during the day = $0.05/kWh. Use of electricity an night = $0.50/kWh. Now you've got to solve the battery problem AND the solar panel problem.
I think you've got this backwards... Most power usage is during the day, so if people's homes had a modest solar panel, the power companies would be able to generate a more even level of power 24 hours a day, meaning less of a need for reserve capacity. Also, in places that charge variable rates, currently they charge less at night, there's no reason to expect that to change. You know, obligatory wiki link
Duh. The UK bases all of its security on CC cameras, and one wave of the hand and it's all "these are not the droids you're looking for." Wait... I think I got it backwards... The Jedi should be working for the cops! Whenever the citizens bitch about the CC, they send in the Jedi Knights to make the people think that's not what they're looking for!
Very confusing indeed...
Support...... also means 'helping you set things up right', 'helping you optimize your configuration', 'helping you figure out what tool you need for the job at hand', and so on.
Worked at a support center... I was a "talk to them until they understand" guy, playing the long game... I figured while it might not take every time, if I got people to understand, they could get back to work and not break things for just a little bit longer. You know, it costs two people money if they have to talk to me while I help them.
One of my coworkers got huge amounts of management praise for processing lots and lots of cases... My management was too dumb to run numbers on how many callbacks he had, that the rest of us were fixing...
Yeah, sure I was spending too much time with each person, but half of my time was fixing this jerk's mistakes. There's probably some of that at every support center. It takes 10 minutes to fix a problem, but 5 minutes to get them to go away. You can look very busy by making them go away, if management isn't clever enough.
I'm rather happy with my new position... I get to review other people. And I do it fairly.
And if you see strange things, you don't know whether to go to the psychiatrist for hallucinations, or to tech support for someone hacking your augmented reality system.
Oh, I got these contacts a while ago, but for some reason I keep seeing a purple ape that claims to be my "buddy". It's been very confusing, and driving has been really dicey.
Back when I was a kid, and our exo-solar list of planets was limited to "we think there's something circling Barnard's Star", it was no surprise we were getting hung up on the 'Rare Earth Hypothesis'.
Agreed. I think these people are just getting impatient, and going public way too soon with what are really wild speculations. Be patient. Do research. Be impartial. The science will eventually point the way to the truth.
It's still a heck of a lot of fun to speculate wildly. Wild speculations are also where some great ideas come from just... Still need to do the science part afterwards.
Hmmm. My "before" MRI might be a little out of date (I got pretty sick a few years ago), so I might not be a useful subject for study, but I'm accidentally becoming a polyglot for work... The root word "glot" seems wrong when I'm only reading, but I guess it will do. I read a lot of French, Spanish, German, Portugese, and Italian (plus a little of a few others), and write the highlights in English. 40 hours a week... We have translation software, but, if you actually read along and try to figure it out, you can't help but learn... Besides, you have to look stuff up sometimes, the translation software isn't bad, but it is most certainly pretty fallible.
Yeah, I know, sample size of one, and not even the plural of anecdote, but there is one thing that surprised me. I suck at learning foreign languages. Absolutely terrible at it. Yet... After what I've been doing, I'm picking it up a lot easier... Perhaps I just never applied myself to languages in school, and work has simply forced me to practice, but it's really been getting easier to learn as I go.
I don't think it's just an excuse to jack up prices. Guy at work today was trying to get a hard drive to build a server, and I hear him on the phone. "Wait, what do you mean they're no available anywhere?"
It makes me wonder why we're building so many in the same place. Doesn't anyone remember the saying at putting all of your eggs in one basket?
That said, compared to the effect on the people, it seems trivial.
lets always remember that if they can afford so much on advertising and marketing, SOMETHING IS WRONG and should be changed.
Obviously, if they didn't bother to sell it, they could afford to make more of it... Not sure how you think they're going to pay for the materials and research, but, obviously they don't need to bother selling it.
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George Lucas (Verb) Lucasing, Lucased (a) The act of committing graphics overkill.
Interesting Sig... I thought it would have meant taking a deeply satisfying shit all over a well respected thing that has your own name on it, but I guess I'd be wrong....
And don't forget the episode where we found out his creator left a backdoor in both of his androids, forcing them to go to him at will regardless of the consequences.
Wow! Data IS fully functional and programmed in a number of techniques!
I can't be the only person that thought of this.
Yeah and getting a paycheck is the fun side of working a job..
I dunno, the paycheck is necessary, but it's not the only fun part. The paycheck just keeps me clothed and fed. My job gives me problems to solve and I like that. I get to demand a wage because there's a lot of people out there who are not able to do what I do. On the main thread, people who are capable of writing tools for the simps never bother because they don't need those tools. Like BASIC. The people who need BASIC can't write it. If you think Python or something else will fill that void, advertise it.
ICP - Miracles for those that don't get the reference ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
Wow... An ICP song that doesn't make my brain or my soul hurt... That IS a miracle!
(facepalm) Riffs... They're called riffs... Damnit...
What's a Stratfor?
Making awesome rifts and solos, of course. LINK
I will admit, the Pony Girl gift wrap is NOT what I expected. Thankfully... If it was, that's a powerful level of niche marketing potential.
Santa's mastery of nanotechnology allows Santa to grow presents on the spot
Thereby depriving all the elves of jobs! They did the right things, they followed the rules, they went to elf school, and got advanced degrees in craftsmanship, but they're getting screwed by Santa, who's just rewarding the children he thinks are "nice". You remember when you were a kid? Did the children who were actually nice get the best presents? No! It was always the kids of some corporate fat cat! We see who Santa's rewarding. Occupy the North Pole!
My gawd, the poor woman !! I now understand why she so sparingly appears in public. Being so overweight must be horrible.
This enormous woman will devour us all!!!
There are some vending machine combos that this makes sense for, but seriously - pudding?"
Got any of that beer that has candy floating in it? You know, Skittlebrau?
Cyberwarfare is fiction.
Yes - at most it causes inconvenience.
When someone hacks into a computer and causes someone to die or destroys some military asset as a direct result of that hack, then I will consider it to be "warfare".
Well... This probably demonstrates espionage more than cyberwar, but it at least illustrates a possibility.
They'd just institute daylight-based pricing. Use of electricity during the day = $0.05/kWh. Use of electricity an night = $0.50/kWh. Now you've got to solve the battery problem AND the solar panel problem.
I think you've got this backwards... Most power usage is during the day, so if people's homes had a modest solar panel, the power companies would be able to generate a more even level of power 24 hours a day, meaning less of a need for reserve capacity. Also, in places that charge variable rates, currently they charge less at night, there's no reason to expect that to change. You know, obligatory wiki link
Duh. The UK bases all of its security on CC cameras, and one wave of the hand and it's all "these are not the droids you're looking for." Wait... I think I got it backwards... The Jedi should be working for the cops! Whenever the citizens bitch about the CC, they send in the Jedi Knights to make the people think that's not what they're looking for! Very confusing indeed...
Isn't this kind of where King Kong comes from?
Support... ... also means 'helping you set things up right', 'helping you optimize your configuration', 'helping you figure out what tool you need for the job at hand', and so on.
Worked at a support center... I was a "talk to them until they understand" guy, playing the long game... I figured while it might not take every time, if I got people to understand, they could get back to work and not break things for just a little bit longer. You know, it costs two people money if they have to talk to me while I help them.
One of my coworkers got huge amounts of management praise for processing lots and lots of cases... My management was too dumb to run numbers on how many callbacks he had, that the rest of us were fixing...
Yeah, sure I was spending too much time with each person, but half of my time was fixing this jerk's mistakes. There's probably some of that at every support center. It takes 10 minutes to fix a problem, but 5 minutes to get them to go away. You can look very busy by making them go away, if management isn't clever enough.
I'm rather happy with my new position... I get to review other people. And I do it fairly.
And if you see strange things, you don't know whether to go to the psychiatrist for hallucinations, or to tech support for someone hacking your augmented reality system.
Oh, I got these contacts a while ago, but for some reason I keep seeing a purple ape that claims to be my "buddy". It's been very confusing, and driving has been really dicey.
Back when I was a kid, and our exo-solar list of planets was limited to "we think there's something circling Barnard's Star", it was no surprise we were getting hung up on the 'Rare Earth Hypothesis'.
Agreed. I think these people are just getting impatient, and going public way too soon with what are really wild speculations. Be patient. Do research. Be impartial. The science will eventually point the way to the truth.
It's still a heck of a lot of fun to speculate wildly. Wild speculations are also where some great ideas come from just... Still need to do the science part afterwards.
Hmmm. My "before" MRI might be a little out of date (I got pretty sick a few years ago), so I might not be a useful subject for study, but I'm accidentally becoming a polyglot for work... The root word "glot" seems wrong when I'm only reading, but I guess it will do. I read a lot of French, Spanish, German, Portugese, and Italian (plus a little of a few others), and write the highlights in English. 40 hours a week... We have translation software, but, if you actually read along and try to figure it out, you can't help but learn... Besides, you have to look stuff up sometimes, the translation software isn't bad, but it is most certainly pretty fallible.
Yeah, I know, sample size of one, and not even the plural of anecdote, but there is one thing that surprised me. I suck at learning foreign languages. Absolutely terrible at it. Yet... After what I've been doing, I'm picking it up a lot easier... Perhaps I just never applied myself to languages in school, and work has simply forced me to practice, but it's really been getting easier to learn as I go.
I don't think it's just an excuse to jack up prices. Guy at work today was trying to get a hard drive to build a server, and I hear him on the phone. "Wait, what do you mean they're no available anywhere?"
It makes me wonder why we're building so many in the same place. Doesn't anyone remember the saying at putting all of your eggs in one basket?
That said, compared to the effect on the people, it seems trivial.
Thank goodness we still have Manos Hands of Fate instead of this garbage
lets always remember that if they can afford so much on advertising and marketing, SOMETHING IS WRONG and should be changed.
Obviously, if they didn't bother to sell it, they could afford to make more of it... Not sure how you think they're going to pay for the materials and research, but, obviously they don't need to bother selling it.