And you don't think you're cherry picking the bands from earlier decades a bit? I mean, there were a lot of shit bands in the 50s, too. And there were also plenty of good bands that weren't very popular.
Standard practice in the finance industry these days is to send a notification whenever an address is changed - to both the new and old address. It wouldn't stop them from making the transaction, but it would notify the cardholder that something is up and make it pretty easy to dispute charges.
I wasn't a fan of CC at all (selection, prices, and staff all seemed pretty bad there IMO), but I will say I don't like to see this because as Best Buy's competitors drop, they seem to be getting worse and worse. I remember when Best Buys first started popping up in my area they were actually pretty cheap, but I don't think anyone could claim that anymore.
I guess it just means we have to shop online if we want good prices...which really isn't that bad.
It seems like once a project reaches a certain level of maturity, forking is a lot more reasonable since it's less likely that massive changes will need to go in. The fact that libpurple is maintained seperately means the duplication of work will be minimal. Honestly, if there's a major conflict between the goals of the devs and the goals of the community, a fork really seems like the best thing to do here.
Card counting isn't a scam, but some of the tricks they used to keep the house from twigging to what they were doing comes pretty close -- disguises, aliases, having lookouts stationed at different tables waiting for a hot deck, at which point they'd signal a team-mate to come over and law down the big bucks.
No, it's really no more of a scam or criminal act than, say, encrypting your email. There's nothing wrong with obscuring what you're doing.
I'm sure unfavorable reception to Vista doesn't help, but it's not like MS hasn't weathered that before. (ME anyone?) I would suspect brand dilution is more to blame, as they branch out more and more. At one point, people might just have thought of their software, but now there's a whole slew of different products that may bring their reputation down. Users who prefer the iPod to the Zune, or the Wii to the Xbox 360, or now see Google as the big cheese in the online world may all have a less favorable impression of MS as a whole.
It's supposed to suck to be an engineering student. Engineering has a reputation for being a brutal major, and a lot of otherwise intelligent people wash out of engineering programs. That's what gives the degree its value in the job marketplace, though. Just managing to complete an engineering degree, regardless of GPA, is impressive to employers. It's also worth pointing out that many jobs that engineering graduates would be applying to would not accept candidates without engineering degrees, so grade inflation in other majors is pretty much moot.
Incidentally, I know when I've been thumbing through resumes, I've never paid a lick of attention to GPAs. To me, someone who plays up their academic achievements on a resume is probably just saying "I have no relevant experience."
Of course, this would probably be a biased sample, since if a drunk driver makes it home without incident, there would be no record that they were drunk.
If you're planning on doing a lot of gaming, you're not going to run linux. You're not going to run OS X, either. You're going to run Windows, because like it or not, most of the big games are Windows-only.
Go to play-asia and search for HORI sticks, they make one for pretty much any system you can think of. Fans of certain genres are going to always prefer arcade-style sticks, particularly people who play fighting games.
Really I think it's just a sound someone typed out one day online and it caught on. It was probably some idiosyncratic sound that original person liked to use in real life. It's one of those sounds whose meaning is clear just from the sound of it. You don't make a 'w00t' sound when you're sad unless you're being ironic. Trying to look further into it and come with ridiculous etymological explanations is getting really stupid and further and further from the likely truth.
I remember w00p being around first on irc, and always assumed w00t was a corruption of it (for example purepak.irc had a built-in ascii drawing of a giant w00p, and that script was a revised version of textbox which was even earlier). I realize that this is anecdotal and only reflects my personal, admittedly sketchy memory, but it's pretty clear this "word" pre-dates any major online games with team play components. Well, maybe not...it could've come from all the l33t types playing nettrek.
No one EVER jumps the lights here to make a left on the green - why because everybody is still making lefts from the previous light traffic cycle.
I moved from Massachusetts to Colorado, which is quite a culture shock, driving-wise. People are annoyingly passive here...which is alright, because with my aggressive driving, I can take advantage of them. But what I find strange is how willing people are to blatantly run red lights after they turn - there's usually up to 3 cars that enter the intersection after the light turns red. You don't do this back east, no matter how aggressive you are, because the people the other direction will slam into you when their light changes.
I think the applicable question is whether any of these would pass a "Reasonable Person" test. In the case of bandwidth, I think the answer is truly going to depend on what was advertised. If they truly advertised it as "unlimited" then I think that a reasonable person would assume that means they could use as much as they want. I suspect if you went back and looked at the ads, however, you'd see a lot of asterisks and weasel words.
The truth is, the people that are the most fun to make fun of are the ones that actually do lump the earthworms in with the cuter, fuzzier things. But I'll bet they'll still swat a mosquito that's sucking blood out of their forehead, depsite the horrific violence involved. I mean, they only eat a little bit of you.
Well, at least the worms have the courtesy to wait till you're dead before they start eating you.
It's a very difficult animal to study. Do you want to take a shot at it? No? Do you even have any suggestions for them? No? Then STFU.
I could see this as coming across as a little trite, but...
Is there really any intrinsic need to study them? I'm guessing what an in depth study would mostly discover is "they're like just about any other squid, only a lot fucking bigger."
On the one hand, yeah it's a little lame that they did this. On the other hand...there's absolutely no reason you need this item. This is an item that only exists for the kinds of people who are going to have ~200hrs of gameplay on their game clocks by the time they finish. A normal person will go through the normal story, maybe do a few of the side quests (the mark hunting makes a nice distraction, and it's available all along), and about when they get to the point in the game where it says 'Great! Now we can, at any time, go kill the final boss," they're gonna just kill the boss. The majority of people will never know this item is there, and never care.
Still, it's a little annoying to see that if I *did* want to get this weapon, I'd have to start my game over again.
I'm part of that demographic too. What Sony isn't counting on is the number of people who are tired of waiting for the PS3 to come out and are damned if they're going to pay $600 (plus $70+ per game) for the damn thing, especially for a company that's shown itself willing to infect their products with DRM that can be harmful to the hardware of their paying customers.
I for one don't plan on buying any of the 3 next-gen consoles. I don't think I'm alone in this.
Well, I don't know about alone, but I don't think very many console gamers of any age will completely forsake the next generation. More likely, they'll wait and see what happens. If the PS3 doesn't completely bomb, and Blu-Ray and the Cell are relatively successful, then the hardware should come down in price pretty quickly. If, on the other hand, the PS3's reception is lackluster and the price stays in the 'insane' range, then we could see a lot of (North American) gamers heading towards the 360. And the Wii has the potential to be an out of the blue hit (I wouldn't think so, but hell, if you told me the DS was gonna be a smash hit before it was released, I would've said you were insane).
I really do wonder if Sony did any research into what sort of price range consumers would accept on a console. I mean, it's not like there are not ways to do this. Chances are they did, found out that this was too much, and ignored it. After all, Sony's whole strategy for not only to PS3 but the Cell and Blu-Ray is riding on this launch. I'm sure they just said, 'Damn it all, we can't turn back now...'
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And you don't think you're cherry picking the bands from earlier decades a bit? I mean, there were a lot of shit bands in the 50s, too. And there were also plenty of good bands that weren't very popular.
Standard practice in the finance industry these days is to send a notification whenever an address is changed - to both the new and old address. It wouldn't stop them from making the transaction, but it would notify the cardholder that something is up and make it pretty easy to dispute charges.
I wasn't a fan of CC at all (selection, prices, and staff all seemed pretty bad there IMO), but I will say I don't like to see this because as Best Buy's competitors drop, they seem to be getting worse and worse. I remember when Best Buys first started popping up in my area they were actually pretty cheap, but I don't think anyone could claim that anymore.
I guess it just means we have to shop online if we want good prices...which really isn't that bad.
Aren't libertarians tied to freedom lovers on the moon?
The Meowers were Harvard students? I, uh, would not have guessed that.
It seems like once a project reaches a certain level of maturity, forking is a lot more reasonable since it's less likely that massive changes will need to go in. The fact that libpurple is maintained seperately means the duplication of work will be minimal. Honestly, if there's a major conflict between the goals of the devs and the goals of the community, a fork really seems like the best thing to do here.
Answer: Yes. Sicko.
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Card counting isn't a scam, but some of the tricks they used to keep the house from twigging to what they were doing comes pretty close -- disguises, aliases, having lookouts stationed at different tables waiting for a hot deck, at which point they'd signal a team-mate to come over and law down the big bucks.
No, it's really no more of a scam or criminal act than, say, encrypting your email. There's nothing wrong with obscuring what you're doing.
Um. So the story would be better if there were only one character who never interacted with anyone?
I'm sure unfavorable reception to Vista doesn't help, but it's not like MS hasn't weathered that before. (ME anyone?) I would suspect brand dilution is more to blame, as they branch out more and more. At one point, people might just have thought of their software, but now there's a whole slew of different products that may bring their reputation down. Users who prefer the iPod to the Zune, or the Wii to the Xbox 360, or now see Google as the big cheese in the online world may all have a less favorable impression of MS as a whole.
It's supposed to suck to be an engineering student. Engineering has a reputation for being a brutal major, and a lot of otherwise intelligent people wash out of engineering programs. That's what gives the degree its value in the job marketplace, though. Just managing to complete an engineering degree, regardless of GPA, is impressive to employers. It's also worth pointing out that many jobs that engineering graduates would be applying to would not accept candidates without engineering degrees, so grade inflation in other majors is pretty much moot.
Incidentally, I know when I've been thumbing through resumes, I've never paid a lick of attention to GPAs. To me, someone who plays up their academic achievements on a resume is probably just saying "I have no relevant experience."
Of course, this would probably be a biased sample, since if a drunk driver makes it home without incident, there would be no record that they were drunk.
If you're planning on doing a lot of gaming, you're not going to run linux. You're not going to run OS X, either. You're going to run Windows, because like it or not, most of the big games are Windows-only.
Go to play-asia and search for HORI sticks, they make one for pretty much any system you can think of. Fans of certain genres are going to always prefer arcade-style sticks, particularly people who play fighting games.
To everyone saying they've told work when they'll be available on their Blackberry...
It must be nice to be able to set the terms on which you'll work for the company. You must have a lot of leverage there. A lot of us are not so lucky.
The script I'm thinking of just spit out a big 'w00p' across about 5 lines. So I'd say interjection, unless 'annoyance' has become a part of speech.
Really I think it's just a sound someone typed out one day online and it caught on. It was probably some idiosyncratic sound that original person liked to use in real life. It's one of those sounds whose meaning is clear just from the sound of it. You don't make a 'w00t' sound when you're sad unless you're being ironic. Trying to look further into it and come with ridiculous etymological explanations is getting really stupid and further and further from the likely truth.
I remember w00p being around first on irc, and always assumed w00t was a corruption of it (for example purepak.irc had a built-in ascii drawing of a giant w00p, and that script was a revised version of textbox which was even earlier). I realize that this is anecdotal and only reflects my personal, admittedly sketchy memory, but it's pretty clear this "word" pre-dates any major online games with team play components. Well, maybe not...it could've come from all the l33t types playing nettrek.
No one EVER jumps the lights here to make a left on the green - why because everybody is still making lefts from the previous light traffic cycle.
I moved from Massachusetts to Colorado, which is quite a culture shock, driving-wise. People are annoyingly passive here...which is alright, because with my aggressive driving, I can take advantage of them. But what I find strange is how willing people are to blatantly run red lights after they turn - there's usually up to 3 cars that enter the intersection after the light turns red. You don't do this back east, no matter how aggressive you are, because the people the other direction will slam into you when their light changes.
I think the applicable question is whether any of these would pass a "Reasonable Person" test. In the case of bandwidth, I think the answer is truly going to depend on what was advertised. If they truly advertised it as "unlimited" then I think that a reasonable person would assume that means they could use as much as they want. I suspect if you went back and looked at the ads, however, you'd see a lot of asterisks and weasel words.
In fact, if memory serves, that's when the whole 'MacOS' branding began. Before that people tended to just call it 'System '.
The truth is, the people that are the most fun to make fun of are the ones that actually do lump the earthworms in with the cuter, fuzzier things. But I'll bet they'll still swat a mosquito that's sucking blood out of their forehead, depsite the horrific violence involved. I mean, they only eat a little bit of you.
Well, at least the worms have the courtesy to wait till you're dead before they start eating you.
It's a very difficult animal to study. Do you want to take a shot at it? No? Do you even have any suggestions for them? No? Then STFU.
I could see this as coming across as a little trite, but...
Is there really any intrinsic need to study them? I'm guessing what an in depth study would mostly discover is "they're like just about any other squid, only a lot fucking bigger."
On the one hand, yeah it's a little lame that they did this. On the other hand...there's absolutely no reason you need this item. This is an item that only exists for the kinds of people who are going to have ~200hrs of gameplay on their game clocks by the time they finish. A normal person will go through the normal story, maybe do a few of the side quests (the mark hunting makes a nice distraction, and it's available all along), and about when they get to the point in the game where it says 'Great! Now we can, at any time, go kill the final boss," they're gonna just kill the boss. The majority of people will never know this item is there, and never care.
Still, it's a little annoying to see that if I *did* want to get this weapon, I'd have to start my game over again.
Isn't the whole point of this definition pretty much to defend the popular idea that Pluto is a planet?
Well, I don't know about alone, but I don't think very many console gamers of any age will completely forsake the next generation. More likely, they'll wait and see what happens. If the PS3 doesn't completely bomb, and Blu-Ray and the Cell are relatively successful, then the hardware should come down in price pretty quickly. If, on the other hand, the PS3's reception is lackluster and the price stays in the 'insane' range, then we could see a lot of (North American) gamers heading towards the 360. And the Wii has the potential to be an out of the blue hit (I wouldn't think so, but hell, if you told me the DS was gonna be a smash hit before it was released, I would've said you were insane).
I really do wonder if Sony did any research into what sort of price range consumers would accept on a console. I mean, it's not like there are not ways to do this. Chances are they did, found out that this was too much, and ignored it. After all, Sony's whole strategy for not only to PS3 but the Cell and Blu-Ray is riding on this launch. I'm sure they just said, 'Damn it all, we can't turn back now...'