It takes a while to get used to. After having a 7' projector screen at home, I'm now fully comfortable sitting in the 3rd row at the cinema, with the screen taking up almost all of my vision.
Except for 3D films. If you sit too close to the screen, you get significant bleed through.
As with anything, they could try offering them more money and better conditions. And as always, businesses would rather avoid that in favour of having others (college/govt/other countries) train them and create a surplus of people trained in the sector to depress the wages. While it's nice when people can enjoy their work, most people work to live, not live to work. Give them training, more money and time off to enjoy it and you'll get more applicants.
When they say God must be omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent...I ask 'isn't 2 out of 3 good enough'? The 3rd is a bit wishywashy anyway. What's benevolent in the opinion of some people won't be in the eyes of others.
50% of my printer usage is to print images onto printable DVDs. AFAIK, there is no laser printer which will do this. 3rd party ink is cheap enough that I'm not too worried about cost. And so far the chipped cartridges don't give me too much trouble (Last 3 printers have been Epson).
USA loves all their neighbours. But some get lube before being loved up the arse...and others get the barbed wire condom. And even if you say Yes, you still end up somehow feeling soiled and used.
The problem of the screams and arguments when the father finds out at the hospital that the child isn't biologically his. Even 1% will mean that the report won't automatically be given to the parents, or perhaps only a synopsis.
Having worked on govt projects before, it's all spent on : a) Management. Lots of it. About 5 times as many managers/sub-contract managers/advisors etc than there will be coders. Because the more management a project has, the harder it is to blame any one person. b) Paper. Lots of paper. The amount of pages generated on specifications, revisions, reports, recommendations will be able 10 times the number of _lines_ of code created. All to show that no taxpayers money was wasted. c) Tendering. It costs a lot to tender a bid, which reduces the competition to only the big ones who can afford to throw a million at a 1in5 chance. Whereas, if they were allowed to go to a small consultancy who only has 30 employees, they'd be able to get a much better price. d) Changes. The requirements are often so written in very complex language that noone really understands it, and then they come along with changes every 2 months which require 3 months of recoding because they didn't fully understand what they were asking for to start with. e) User acceptance. Don't underestimate the ability of a low level govt employee to refuse to use the new system because 'I've done it this way for 30 years and it worked just fine! This doesn't work like the old one did.'
For those teams that actually get a training budget, it'll be 2 days for one member of the 10 strong team per year. I last got training that I didn't pay for myself in 2000.
Oh gee, how will they ever survive on the mere millions they've got in the bank? They might have to cut back right down to the bone, where they can no longer afford a new car every month, have to give up 3 of their 5 mistresses, and settle for only a gold swimming pool instead of the platinum one they set their little hearts on.
Without advertising ramping up the product cost, maybe we'd spend less when purchasing stuff....nah, it's the stuff that's advertised a lot that I've no interest in buying - hence why it's advertised.
It's quite simple, instead of prescreening every post, just prescreen the posters. Make them signup with a real name, address, credit card, copyright insurance and MPAA membership! That way, the MPAA will be happy with every video posted...and no videos would be posted = Win!
And everyone would head back to the cinema to see moving pictures, just like the Good Lord intended to put in the Contract for Breathing Oxygen that we all signed before birth.
We need to come up with a way of keeping most of the fuel for lift on the ground instead of carrying it up too. There's several ways. Space Elevator - awaiting the materials tech. Also be a terrorist attack target. Lasers - awaiting laser tech. Magnetic acceleration - This would work now. Except that to launch people at a acceptable Gs would require a track 3 miles long. It would also be politically problematic because the same tech could be used to drop a bomb anywhere on the planet and be a terrorist target.
If we invent a cure for cancer tomorrow, will we suddenly know how to build a matter teleporter?
The cure for cancer _is_ the matter teleporter. Just send the patient through the teleporter but omit the cancerous cells. I'm imagining more the Tron digitiser rather than the Star Trek version, but most similar magic techs will do. Pretty much the cure for everything except memory loss if you can rebuild a person up from the subatomic level.
The money isn't great, but I can do it whenever I'm not in a public place, and noone except me cares how accurate the translation is. Some people just look at the pics and make up the story. Warning : it makes you feel like a Gynacologist - you start critiquing the qualtity of your porn even during recreational viewing.
I've got a Sanyo DLP projector, which has an auto bulb kill at 2500 hours. However, once I did the reset sequence to tell it that I'd put in a new bulb (even though I hadn't), it came back and is still running 3500+ hours later. I suspect that I'll just buy a new projector than replace the bulb - an equivalent new projector would only cost 50% more than the bulb itself.
It's the joys of the internet - most friends would think it out of character for me (but not outraged), some have already had that operation, and a couple are considering it.
Without the internet, I probably wouldn't have found friends as broadminded, and I probably wouldn't be either.
It may be in there, but it's unenforceable to make someone not work in the area which produces their living.
However, there is such a thing as 'gardening leave', where they _pay_ you for taking X amount of time off. As they are still paying you, you are still under their employ and hence can be forbidden to take another job.
Fans might not be spending money on the 26-178 episode boxset DVDs, but they'll buy the tshirt, the computer game, and maybe even go see the movie in the cinema (on the rare occasion that it's actually shown outside of SE Asia).
Part of the problem is that some people assume they know stuff when they really don't. They believe, but they don't actually know. For example, somebody was saying the other day that he knew all along that Iraq didn't have WMDs. Um, no, he didn't. He hadn't ever even been to Iraq. Heh.
While I didn't know for absolute certain that there was no WMDs in Iraq...I knew pretty sure that George W Bush believed there were no WMDs in Iraq. There's no way he'd send ground troops in if he knew he could lose 10,000 in one hit.
Keep those hands and arms active and they won't be stressed from being in the same position all the time....except maybe when your pop-up blocker fails and you have to do the close action 1000 times.
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It takes a while to get used to.
After having a 7' projector screen at home, I'm now fully comfortable sitting in the 3rd row at the cinema, with the screen taking up almost all of my vision.
Except for 3D films. If you sit too close to the screen, you get significant bleed through.
As with anything, they could try offering them more money and better conditions.
And as always, businesses would rather avoid that in favour of having others (college/govt/other countries) train them and create a surplus of people trained in the sector to depress the wages.
While it's nice when people can enjoy their work, most people work to live, not live to work. Give them training, more money and time off to enjoy it and you'll get more applicants.
When they say God must be omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent...I ask 'isn't 2 out of 3 good enough'?
The 3rd is a bit wishywashy anyway. What's benevolent in the opinion of some people won't be in the eyes of others.
50% of my printer usage is to print images onto printable DVDs. AFAIK, there is no laser printer which will do this.
3rd party ink is cheap enough that I'm not too worried about cost. And so far the chipped cartridges don't give me too much trouble (Last 3 printers have been Epson).
USA loves all their neighbours. But some get lube before being loved up the arse...and others get the barbed wire condom. And even if you say Yes, you still end up somehow feeling soiled and used.
The problem of the screams and arguments when the father finds out at the hospital that the child isn't biologically his.
Even 1% will mean that the report won't automatically be given to the parents, or perhaps only a synopsis.
Having worked on govt projects before, it's all spent on :
a) Management. Lots of it. About 5 times as many managers/sub-contract managers/advisors etc than there will be coders. Because the more management a project has, the harder it is to blame any one person.
b) Paper. Lots of paper. The amount of pages generated on specifications, revisions, reports, recommendations will be able 10 times the number of _lines_ of code created. All to show that no taxpayers money was wasted.
c) Tendering. It costs a lot to tender a bid, which reduces the competition to only the big ones who can afford to throw a million at a 1in5 chance. Whereas, if they were allowed to go to a small consultancy who only has 30 employees, they'd be able to get a much better price.
d) Changes. The requirements are often so written in very complex language that noone really understands it, and then they come along with changes every 2 months which require 3 months of recoding because they didn't fully understand what they were asking for to start with.
e) User acceptance. Don't underestimate the ability of a low level govt employee to refuse to use the new system because 'I've done it this way for 30 years and it worked just fine! This doesn't work like the old one did.'
For those teams that actually get a training budget, it'll be 2 days for one member of the 10 strong team per year. I last got training that I didn't pay for myself in 2000.
Oh gee, how will they ever survive on the mere millions they've got in the bank? They might have to cut back right down to the bone, where they can no longer afford a new car every month, have to give up 3 of their 5 mistresses, and settle for only a gold swimming pool instead of the platinum one they set their little hearts on.
Starving adults with many starving children.
Without advertising ramping up the product cost, maybe we'd spend less when purchasing stuff. ...nah, it's the stuff that's advertised a lot that I've no interest in buying - hence why it's advertised.
It's quite simple, instead of prescreening every post, just prescreen the posters. Make them signup with a real name, address, credit card, copyright insurance and MPAA membership!
That way, the MPAA will be happy with every video posted...and no videos would be posted = Win!
And everyone would head back to the cinema to see moving pictures, just like the Good Lord intended to put in the Contract for Breathing Oxygen that we all signed before birth.
We need to come up with a way of keeping most of the fuel for lift on the ground instead of carrying it up too.
There's several ways.
Space Elevator - awaiting the materials tech. Also be a terrorist attack target.
Lasers - awaiting laser tech.
Magnetic acceleration - This would work now. Except that to launch people at a acceptable Gs would require a track 3 miles long. It would also be politically problematic because the same tech could be used to drop a bomb anywhere on the planet and be a terrorist target.
If we invent a cure for cancer tomorrow, will we suddenly know how to build a matter teleporter?
The cure for cancer _is_ the matter teleporter. Just send the patient through the teleporter but omit the cancerous cells.
I'm imagining more the Tron digitiser rather than the Star Trek version, but most similar magic techs will do.
Pretty much the cure for everything except memory loss if you can rebuild a person up from the subatomic level.
The money isn't great, but I can do it whenever I'm not in a public place, and noone except me cares how accurate the translation is.
Some people just look at the pics and make up the story.
Warning : it makes you feel like a Gynacologist - you start critiquing the qualtity of your porn even during recreational viewing.
There is already live action 'La Blue Girl' for your tentacle rape needs.
(Which er, sucked.)
In NZ, you can appear in a porn movie/mag at 16.
But you can't watch it until you are 18.
I've got a Sanyo DLP projector, which has an auto bulb kill at 2500 hours. However, once I did the reset sequence to tell it that I'd put in a new bulb (even though I hadn't), it came back and is still running 3500+ hours later.
I suspect that I'll just buy a new projector than replace the bulb - an equivalent new projector would only cost 50% more than the bulb itself.
It's the joys of the internet - most friends would think it out of character for me (but not outraged), some have already had that operation, and a couple are considering it.
Without the internet, I probably wouldn't have found friends as broadminded, and I probably wouldn't be either.
Strangely enough, in the UK,
prenup agreements are only binding if you don't get married.
If you do, then the marriage contract trumps it.
Then you have to 'prove' that you don't have it.
I expect you are wondering how you go about that.
You get a lot of time to think about it in jail.
It may be in there, but it's unenforceable to make someone not work in the area which produces their living.
However, there is such a thing as 'gardening leave', where they _pay_ you for taking X amount of time off. As they are still paying you, you are still under their employ and hence can be forbidden to take another job.
You are forgetting about the merchandising.
tshirts, dolls, plushies, stickers...
Fans might not be spending money on the 26-178 episode boxset DVDs, but they'll buy the tshirt, the computer game, and maybe even go see the movie in the cinema (on the rare occasion that it's actually shown outside of SE Asia).
Part of the problem is that some people assume they know stuff when they really don't. They believe, but they don't actually know. For example, somebody was saying the other day that he knew all along that Iraq didn't have WMDs. Um, no, he didn't. He hadn't ever even been to Iraq. Heh.
While I didn't know for absolute certain that there was no WMDs in Iraq...I knew pretty sure that George W Bush believed there were no WMDs in Iraq. There's no way he'd send ground troops in if he knew he could lose 10,000 in one hit.
Or maybe Johnny Mnemonic.
...except maybe when your pop-up blocker fails and you have to do the close action 1000 times.
Keep those hands and arms active and they won't be stressed from being in the same position all the time.