Really? Personally I would trust a computer to deliver me safely to my destination a lot more than I trust someone else to not hurtle their car into me at 120kph.
I think if properly tested, computerized vehicles would make far better driving decisions than a lot of people I know.
"However. National ID cards are NOT something I'd agree to, because in order for something like that to be effective, you'd have to mandate their use. And that means we'd be forcing many people, myself include, into using something they didn't agree to."
Question, do you have a passport and a drivers licence?
Do you have a passport? How about a Social Security Number? A driver's licence? What about a credit card? A bank card?
All these cards are used to 'track' you in some form or fashion, and are used to allow you access to certain services. A store loyalty card is really no different, except the issuer is not a government, insurance company, credit card company, or a bank. As for a national identification card, its just a different form of passport or drivers licence/birth certificate that is already required for many things.
"And whats with not giving us jewl cases for a $55 game? Cheap paper sleves are for Drivers, not AAA title games."
Oh man, I was bitching about this last night! Thankfully I can blame Vivendi for it though, and after playing for a number of hours last night, despite the opening day glitches Valve is still in my good books. (I wasn't one of those people who was hanging on Sept 30 2003 release date... I try to avoid getting excited about a game until the official 'Gone Gold' announcement arrives)
Nah, I just used the free version of Opera in conjunction with the IE based Avant until Firefox was released. Frankly I didn't think that an ad-free registered version of Opera was worth $30 US to a student who's $14,000 in debt.
Just some friendly advice, You may be starting to feel better now, but don't sit around waiting for a 'next time'. Visit your doctor, tell them everything you can and make sure they listen. (Canadian here, occasionally when doctors are in a rush we get 'one foot out the door syndrome' where they are more focused on all the patients they have left to see today instead of the problem at hand.)
Speaking from a point of view that I have had family members suffer very close calls... sometimes when 'next time' comes around, its already too late.
Mine's the same way, except I used CRT's heavily through school, and it was only when I was in my late teens/early 20s that my eyesight suddenly deteriorated from 20/20 to needing glasses to work.
Amen, When you're living in a different city/country from family, it can be tough to see them even a couple times a year. Though I dislike the gross commercialization of christmas that has occured, I more than welcome the excuse to take a couple weeks off work and fly away to see the people I haven't seen for most of the year.
Innocent until proven guilty? What a novel idea, one thinks this might have applicable usage in other areas of law as well as it seems move obvious by the day that the system does not follow any such noble ideal.
Sorry, I'm afraid your idea has already been patented as a business process by the USPTO and implemented.
Your fines come to $97,000 based on RIAA lawsuit settlements for infringement (on the reasonably assumption that you make more than that much per year, but that it will also serve as a deterrent to future infringement) OR 30,000 pages of patent applications to provide work for USPTO employees to justify laying off an additional 12.5% of their workforce.
Some common answers: a. Because they can. b. To see if they can get away with it. c. They believe they can't be caught. d. To get attention/gain 'respect'.
These tend to be recurrent reasons given for a lot of crimes that do not seemingly provide any benefit to the criminal. Grafitti is another, as is petty theft when the person in question is not thieving because of any real desire to have the stolen item or profit from it.
Sadly, though I know intellectually that your post is completely facetious, there is a little voice in the back of my head that whispers to me "You know people who are dumb enough to believe this..." and then begins listing the names.
Yeah? And I read it in 10 minutes. Half an hour leaves 20 minutes to read and compose posts. Besides, if you had read the article, you'd know that only pages 3 through about 15 contain any interesting information about EA, the rest is recommendations for curriculem's related to game programming.
This won't work down in Florida there, but up here in Canada... a small snow shovel and a clean roof! My father used to shovel off our roof into the backyard which would create a 4 or 5 foot house-long snowpile. Leave for a few hours and then tunnel in! Beats a treehouse by a mile any day!
I'm not picky about 9-5 or working overtime especially during a crunch (I've done it before), but I know what I am able to tolerate. Fortunately there are a lot of options available for me right now, and I'm not pining for any specific job.
Does anyone know what the situation is like in EA's Canadian development offices? I am graduating from university soon, and EA has posted a job listing with my university looking to hire new graduates for its Burnaby BC office. However, with the recent issues regarding EA's employee situation I have been reconsidering my decision to apply.
Well, that and being unable to mark or label the medium would seem to be a barrier to adoption.
The other difficulty would be transforming the beam with regards to a transparent medium. You need some way to distinguish HI from LO, and thus for practical usage you would have to be able to stop or absorb the beam for a 0 bit, and pass it for a 1 bit. This would be difficult to do and allow for re-writing because for a high energy beam, the difference between absorbing and passing is more difficult to accomplish than for visible light.
And lastly, the issue of material still remains, because now you don't need something that will reflect, but something that will variably pass/block, which is a much more difficult task than simply reflective/scatter that is currently used.
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Really? Personally I would trust a computer to deliver me safely to my destination a lot more than I trust someone else to not hurtle their car into me at 120kph.
I think if properly tested, computerized vehicles would make far better driving decisions than a lot of people I know.
That's it! I'm going to being lobbying for government funding for my genetically engineered winged monkey experiment. Thanks for the pep talk!
"However. National ID cards are NOT something I'd agree to, because in order for something like that to be effective, you'd have to mandate their use. And that means we'd be forcing many people, myself include, into using something they didn't agree to."
Question, do you have a passport and a drivers licence?
Do you have a passport? How about a Social Security Number? A driver's licence? What about a credit card? A bank card?
All these cards are used to 'track' you in some form or fashion, and are used to allow you access to certain services. A store loyalty card is really no different, except the issuer is not a government, insurance company, credit card company, or a bank. As for a national identification card, its just a different form of passport or drivers licence/birth certificate that is already required for many things.
"And whats with not giving us jewl cases for a $55 game? Cheap paper sleves are for Drivers, not AAA title games."
Oh man, I was bitching about this last night! Thankfully I can blame Vivendi for it though, and after playing for a number of hours last night, despite the opening day glitches Valve is still in my good books. (I wasn't one of those people who was hanging on Sept 30 2003 release date... I try to avoid getting excited about a game until the official 'Gone Gold' announcement arrives)
Nah, I'd rather keep my full-time position at a major Canadian newspaper doing application programming for the printing facility shop floor :).
Not to mention some wickedly funny writers... The Incredibles is the best movie I've seen in years save Lord of the Rings.
Nah, I just used the free version of Opera in conjunction with the IE based Avant until Firefox was released. Frankly I didn't think that an ad-free registered version of Opera was worth $30 US to a student who's $14,000 in debt.
Just some friendly advice,
You may be starting to feel better now, but don't sit around waiting for a 'next time'. Visit your doctor, tell them everything you can and make sure they listen. (Canadian here, occasionally when doctors are in a rush we get 'one foot out the door syndrome' where they are more focused on all the patients they have left to see today instead of the problem at hand.)
Speaking from a point of view that I have had family members suffer very close calls... sometimes when 'next time' comes around, its already too late.
Mine's the same way, except I used CRT's heavily through school, and it was only when I was in my late teens/early 20s that my eyesight suddenly deteriorated from 20/20 to needing glasses to work.
Amen,
When you're living in a different city/country from family, it can be tough to see them even a couple times a year. Though I dislike the gross commercialization of christmas that has occured, I more than welcome the excuse to take a couple weeks off work and fly away to see the people I haven't seen for most of the year.
No, they've *ALREADY* fought to the death... and sorry buddy, but the vacuum won.
Thats why I take public transit. Press one button (put a coin into the slot) and let somebody else do all the work for me!
Personally, I like the idea of BoToX... swollen and paralyzed with an injection of Intel's poison.
RTFA says yes, they did. The mishmash of led, powerswitch etc cables has been combined into a single plug.
Innocent until proven guilty? What a novel idea, one thinks this might have applicable usage in other areas of law as well as it seems move obvious by the day that the system does not follow any such noble ideal.
Sorry, I'm afraid your idea has already been patented as a business process by the USPTO and implemented.
Your fines come to $97,000 based on RIAA lawsuit settlements for infringement (on the reasonably assumption that you make more than that much per year, but that it will also serve as a deterrent to future infringement) OR 30,000 pages of patent applications to provide work for USPTO employees to justify laying off an additional 12.5% of their workforce.
Some common answers:
a. Because they can.
b. To see if they can get away with it.
c. They believe they can't be caught.
d. To get attention/gain 'respect'.
These tend to be recurrent reasons given for a lot of crimes that do not seemingly provide any benefit to the criminal. Grafitti is another, as is petty theft when the person in question is not thieving because of any real desire to have the stolen item or profit from it.
Sadly, though I know intellectually that your post is completely facetious, there is a little voice in the back of my head that whispers to me "You know people who are dumb enough to believe this..." and then begins listing the names.
Yeah? And I read it in 10 minutes. Half an hour leaves 20 minutes to read and compose posts. Besides, if you had read the article, you'd know that only pages 3 through about 15 contain any interesting information about EA, the rest is recommendations for curriculem's related to game programming.
This won't work down in Florida there, but up here in Canada... a small snow shovel and a clean roof! My father used to shovel off our roof into the backyard which would create a 4 or 5 foot house-long snowpile. Leave for a few hours and then tunnel in! Beats a treehouse by a mile any day!
Yeah well, if they were looking for that, they wouldn't be asking for Comp Sci grads now would they?
I'm not picky about 9-5 or working overtime especially during a crunch (I've done it before), but I know what I am able to tolerate. Fortunately there are a lot of options available for me right now, and I'm not pining for any specific job.
Does anyone know what the situation is like in EA's Canadian development offices? I am graduating from university soon, and EA has posted a job listing with my university looking to hire new graduates for its Burnaby BC office. However, with the recent issues regarding EA's employee situation I have been reconsidering my decision to apply.
Well, that and being unable to mark or label the medium would seem to be a barrier to adoption.
The other difficulty would be transforming the beam with regards to a transparent medium. You need some way to distinguish HI from LO, and thus for practical usage you would have to be able to stop or absorb the beam for a 0 bit, and pass it for a 1 bit. This would be difficult to do and allow for re-writing because for a high energy beam, the difference between absorbing and passing is more difficult to accomplish than for visible light.
And lastly, the issue of material still remains, because now you don't need something that will reflect, but something that will variably pass/block, which is a much more difficult task than simply reflective/scatter that is currently used.