I tend to disagree a bit here. A universities reputation is based on the quality of its research and how well it's graduates to in the work force. Research is paid for by outside companies which ARE concerned about their IP. A company will not want to be associated with a "pirate" university.
Its not that there bad people. Most of them are pretty nice if you talk to them over lunch. The problem is they are so constrained by what they can do that they are very frustrating to work with. I must say they also hate working with me for the most part.
The problem is that I'm somewhat tech savy. The sys admin don't like anybody trying new things. Their management likes it even less. Do one little thing or install one little app and if you have problems your on your own. Doesn't matter if your laptop explodes, they'll blame it on VMWARE or whatever you happen to be running.
It wasn't always like this. In days of old the Sys Admin were local and reported into the same groups they supported. As such they knew what we were working on and would help out. Management would support this because it often lead to increased productivity or reliability. But at some point a bean counter decided we needed a corporate IT organization.
Once you decouple the support from the groups they support you end up with apathy and endless rules. Also to get the groups to try anything new you have to weave your way through a bureaucracy. You also end up with smaller and smaller IT groups because their contributions to the end product become harder and harder to trace. If a business unit needs to cut costs the first thing they look at is horizontal organizations outside their own structure. Its a lot easier to cut an outside IT guy than a developer working on a product.
Things look to be taking a turn for the worse. Some of our IT is now going to be out sourced. To me this is equivalent to saying I now fully support myself. I can just imagine trying to convince some contracted person in India that I really do need to have VMPlayer installed on my Windows laptop....
SO your supposed to spend the majority of your life on an activity you can just "stand doing". Thats screwed up. Make your hobby your career! If you can make a living doing something you enjoy then more power to you. If you stop enjoying what your doing find something else.
Life's too short to be stuck doing something you don't enjoy.
Why can't an MMORPG have an ending? Thats a pretty narrow definition. Most RPG's have endings. How does adding the "Massive Multi-Player Online" to that suddenly change anything? I agree that in some ways it doesn't make the best business sense but I do like the idea of a strong story and a strong story has an ending.
Granted I'm not one who is going to invest years of my life into a game so I don't really care if they try and milk an idea for every last cent.
"I can't understand people who think that to find life on other planets we have to look for conditions similar to Earth. All of the hubbub over liquid water seems so silly to me. We have *no idea* what life on other planets might be like. I think that the only thing to look for is patterns which we don't believe could occur in nature, suggesting that the anti-entropy force of life might be present."
With limited budgets it only makes sense to look for life on Earth-like planets. We KNOW life can exist on an Earth-like planet. We don't know that life can exist on other types of worlds (however probable you might think it is). If we can only look at a small subset of known planets it only makes sense to bet on what we already know.
Wish I had some mod points to push this above the parent!
The one interesting thing I've read that I don't quite understand is how evolution doesn't seem to be a gradual process. Rather it comes in spurts which seems to imply that mutation isn't completely random.
Most of the issues with Vista's launch are because other companies haven't spent the time to properly support Vista. Vista is going to be used by a large number of PC users. There is not excuse for Apple, ATI, or Nvidia to be so far behind.
I'll give Creative some credit here as Vista completely screws up the audio subsystem and Creative has been working hard to get around the braindead decisions from Redmond...
I thought most of the full spectrum lighting available was fluorescent. Maybe your skin is just naturally pale and sickly and the incandescent lights just make it look better.
I've slowly been converting to CFL over the last couple of months. Besides Walmart our local city government here in Fort Collins, Colorado has been subsidising the cost making them very affordable. There are a few things I don't like, such as the warm-up time, but my biggest issue to date is the size.
Most of the lower priced CFL are not the same size as a standard bulb. Most of my closed in overhead fixtures are too small for the bulbs. I have a few 3-way lamps (the ones with 3 brightness settings) and the 3-way bulbs (50-100-150) are gigantic. The ones I bought actually had little extenders for the top of the lamp. This worked but is a bitof a kludge.
My house uses a lot of the R30 type recessed lighting and the bulbs work great for these. The only place I haven't been able to replace the R30 are in areas, like my HT, where I have a dimmer on the switch. I've read they have dimmable versions of CFL available but they are $$$.
When converting try and think of lights that you leave on the most first. I started by changing my outside lights. This was also nice because they normal bulbs seem to burn out all the time...
I know of at least 4 people who would have bought Wii's had they been able to. One of them gave up and got a 360 and the others are so discouraged they probably won't get one at all. Even though Nintendo's launch is being billed as one of the best (if not the best) launch ever I think they really screwed up. They should have picked a country, hyped the machine, and then had enough consoles to let everyone who wanted one get one.
The way it is the excitement is pretty much died down. Many people who would have made the quick impulse won't. Bad move...
If they ever get off their asses and actually get some units I that I don't have to camp out for. I know they have already lost a couple of my friends to Xbox just because they got so pissed off at how the store are handling things.
Why in the world are they doing an international launch when they can't supply one country with enough units? Its making people, myself included, bitter. I'd rather they staggered things by a few months so they could get enough of the product to market.
They have some good group deals for insurance setup just for cases like yours. They also have group life and a few other things that might be of interest.
Ahhh, youth. I remember thinking the same thing until I got a little older and wiser. Ok, maybe not wiser but at some point the hormones stopped making every decision for me. Looking back I realize all the stupid friggin things I did.
Along with an sobriety test maybe the police should check hormone levels. Of course I don't even want to think what a test might be like. They make drunk drivers walk a straight line. How would they test teenagers for...
The end-game in WOW is all about raiding. The only way to advance is through equipment and most the good stuff is from raids. So yes, its casual to 60 but all the end-game and most of the new content isn't available to casual players.
Wow, someone who actually likes the extras on the DVDs. I had heard people like you existed but to finally have proof....
For me most of the extra are just crap thrown on that reduce the quality of the main movie because they end up compressing the hell out of it to make room. Ok, I have to admit I've watched the "Move it, Move it" video more than once on the Madagascar DVD. My 3 year old end up jumping all over the room but other than that I can't think of any extras I couldn't easily have lived without.
Google told them how they were going to do business before they bought the stock. They were very open about it. If someone bought the stock and isn't happy with the agreement they made then tough sh#$.
Maybe you should try some decaf or something. So your using a product outside its target market and now your whining because your not getting the info you need. Face it 99.5% (prove me wrong:) ) of people who buy these use them for games. Get over it.
Ok, just adding to my post. Compare to this item at amazon http://tinyurl.com/p875r. The price should be about the same as this "location free" TV yet have much, much more functionality.
Hmmm, personally I find a PDA near useless. Too small for anything but a calendar and my phone now takes care of that.
I think the new size could be perfect for many applications. I haven't heard media center mentioned but if this has XP media edition I think it could be a hit. Use this for a front-end on a box with a tuner and you can have a portable TV anywhere in your house. Not bad. Sony has been selling these for a while and ridiculous prices. The price points listed are cheaper then the Sony TVs and come with a bonus computer:).
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I tend to disagree a bit here. A universities reputation is based on the quality of its research and how well it's graduates to in the work force. Research is paid for by outside companies which ARE concerned about their IP. A company will not want to be associated with a "pirate" university.
Its not that there bad people. Most of them are pretty nice if you talk to them over lunch. The problem is they are so constrained by what they can do that they are very frustrating to work with. I must say they also hate working with me for the most part.
The problem is that I'm somewhat tech savy. The sys admin don't like anybody trying new things. Their management likes it even less. Do one little thing or install one little app and if you have problems your on your own. Doesn't matter if your laptop explodes, they'll blame it on VMWARE or whatever you happen to be running.
It wasn't always like this. In days of old the Sys Admin were local and reported into the same groups they supported. As such they knew what we were working on and would help out. Management would support this because it often lead to increased productivity or reliability. But at some point a bean counter decided we needed a corporate IT organization.
Once you decouple the support from the groups they support you end up with apathy and endless rules. Also to get the groups to try anything new you have to weave your way through a bureaucracy. You also end up with smaller and smaller IT groups because their contributions to the end product become harder and harder to trace. If a business unit needs to cut costs the first thing they look at is horizontal organizations outside their own structure. Its a lot easier to cut an outside IT guy than a developer working on a product.
Things look to be taking a turn for the worse. Some of our IT is now going to be out sourced. To me this is equivalent to saying I now fully support myself. I can just imagine trying to convince some contracted person in India that I really do need to have VMPlayer installed on my Windows laptop....
SO your supposed to spend the majority of your life on an activity you can just "stand doing". Thats screwed up. Make your hobby your career! If you can make a living doing something you enjoy then more power to you. If you stop enjoying what your doing find something else.
Life's too short to be stuck doing something you don't enjoy.
Why can't an MMORPG have an ending? Thats a pretty narrow definition. Most RPG's have endings. How does adding the "Massive Multi-Player Online" to that suddenly change anything? I agree that in some ways it doesn't make the best business sense but I do like the idea of a strong story and a strong story has an ending.
Granted I'm not one who is going to invest years of my life into a game so I don't really care if they try and milk an idea for every last cent.
"I can't understand people who think that to find life on other planets we have to look for conditions similar to Earth. All of the hubbub over liquid water seems so silly to me. We have *no idea* what life on other planets might be like. I think that the only thing to look for is patterns which we don't believe could occur in nature, suggesting that the anti-entropy force of life might be present."
With limited budgets it only makes sense to look for life on Earth-like planets. We KNOW life can exist on an Earth-like planet. We don't know that life can exist on other types of worlds (however probable you might think it is). If we can only look at a small subset of known planets it only makes sense to bet on what we already know.
Wish I had some mod points to push this above the parent!
The one interesting thing I've read that I don't quite understand is how evolution doesn't seem to be a gradual process. Rather it comes in spurts which seems to imply that mutation isn't completely random.
Wish I had some mod points for this one!
Most of the issues with Vista's launch are because other companies haven't spent the time to properly support Vista. Vista is going to be used by a large number of PC users. There is not excuse for Apple, ATI, or Nvidia to be so far behind.
I'll give Creative some credit here as Vista completely screws up the audio subsystem and Creative has been working hard to get around the braindead decisions from Redmond...
Do any other NAS type boxes work with the 360? Thats the one thing that seemed unique about WHS was that you could use it to store media for the 360.
I thought most of the full spectrum lighting available was fluorescent. Maybe your skin is just naturally pale and sickly and the incandescent lights just make it look better.
I've slowly been converting to CFL over the last couple of months. Besides Walmart our local city government here in Fort Collins, Colorado has been subsidising the cost making them very affordable. There are a few things I don't like, such as the warm-up time, but my biggest issue to date is the size.
Most of the lower priced CFL are not the same size as a standard bulb. Most of my closed in overhead fixtures are too small for the bulbs. I have a few 3-way lamps (the ones with 3 brightness settings) and the 3-way bulbs (50-100-150) are gigantic. The ones I bought actually had little extenders for the top of the lamp. This worked but is a bitof a kludge.
My house uses a lot of the R30 type recessed lighting and the bulbs work great for these. The only place I haven't been able to replace the R30 are in areas, like my HT, where I have a dimmer on the switch. I've read they have dimmable versions of CFL available but they are $$$.
When converting try and think of lights that you leave on the most first. I started by changing my outside lights. This was also nice because they normal bulbs seem to burn out all the time...
I know of at least 4 people who would have bought Wii's had they been able to. One of them gave up and got a 360 and the others are so discouraged they probably won't get one at all. Even though Nintendo's launch is being billed as one of the best (if not the best) launch ever I think they really screwed up. They should have picked a country, hyped the machine, and then had enough consoles to let everyone who wanted one get one.
The way it is the excitement is pretty much died down. Many people who would have made the quick impulse won't. Bad move...
If they ever get off their asses and actually get some units I that I don't have to camp out for. I know they have already lost a couple of my friends to Xbox just because they got so pissed off at how the store are handling things.
Why in the world are they doing an international launch when they can't supply one country with enough units? Its making people, myself included, bitter. I'd rather they staggered things by a few months so they could get enough of the product to market.
Join the IEEE.
:).
They have some good group deals for insurance setup just for cases like yours. They also have group life and a few other things that might be of interest.
Oh, and its a good organization to boot
But it if shows up in one court case then everyone will know. Seems like a one shot deal.
Called the two local stores and at 9AM there were long lines outside. Much longer than the supply they had. No preorder for me.
Ahhh, youth. I remember thinking the same thing until I got a little older and wiser. Ok, maybe not wiser but at some point the hormones stopped making every decision for me. Looking back I realize all the stupid friggin things I did.
...
Along with an sobriety test maybe the police should check hormone levels. Of course I don't even want to think what a test might be like. They make drunk drivers walk a straight line. How would they test teenagers for
Hmmmm, I wholeheartly agree that for some doing PVP or whatever the end-game is casual friendly.
For the majority of players it isn't.
The end-game in WOW is all about raiding. The only way to advance is through equipment and most the good stuff is from raids. So yes, its casual to 60 but all the end-game and most of the new content isn't available to casual players.
Can you hand me a kleenex?
Wow, someone who actually likes the extras on the DVDs. I had heard people like you existed but to finally have proof....
For me most of the extra are just crap thrown on that reduce the quality of the main movie because they end up compressing the hell out of it to make room. Ok, I have to admit I've watched the "Move it, Move it" video more than once on the Madagascar DVD. My 3 year old end up jumping all over the room but other than that I can't think of any extras I couldn't easily have lived without.
Google told them how they were going to do business before they bought the stock. They were very open about it. If someone bought the stock and isn't happy with the agreement they made then tough sh#$.
Maybe you should try some decaf or something. So your using a product outside its target market and now your whining because your not getting the info you need. Face it 99.5% (prove me wrong :) ) of people who buy these use them for games. Get over it.
Funniest thing I've read this morning.
Ok, just adding to my post. Compare to this item at amazon http://tinyurl.com/p875r. The price should be about the same as this "location free" TV yet have much, much more functionality.
Hmmm, personally I find a PDA near useless. Too small for anything but a calendar and my phone now takes care of that.
:).
I think the new size could be perfect for many applications. I haven't heard media center mentioned but if this has XP media edition I think it could be a hit. Use this for a front-end on a box with a tuner and you can have a portable TV anywhere in your house. Not bad. Sony has been selling these for a while and ridiculous prices. The price points listed are cheaper then the Sony TVs and come with a bonus computer