Sure you can. You just need to actually have a MODERN business, where documents are sent in open formats, not a business stuck a decade in the past. I provide half the IT support for a ~100 desk office, we have almost completely switched to openoffice, firefox, thunderbird, etc since my boss (the other half) started the transition a year ago. Well, completely not counting the people we migrated to Macs, they are on neooffice, safari, Mail.
Gasoline is actually the most consumer-friendly example here (along with other self-metered products). If the meter shows cents then you can run it up to $10.02 and save 2 cents. If the meter itself does the rounding then you can still squeeze a little extra out after it hits $10.00 before it ticks over to $10.05 (i already do this at the 1-cent level, just because i can).
Getting rid of pennies has nothing to do with getting rid of cents. The two are distinct. Most banks already handle transactions down to the 6th decimal place. My bank account at any given time could have a certain number of thousandths of a cent in it. The only time it has to be converted into coins is when I withdraw it. Getting rid of the penny just means that physical money transactions have to be rounded. The same thing happened when we got rid of the 1/2 cent piece. When you buy something and the total comes to a non-nickel-aligned amount, it gets rounded. Easy, simple, any idiot can handle the math.
significant figures. I would say that "2700-6800" signifies certainty between 2650 and 6850 years ago, with slightly less (but consistent) certainty that it is between 2750 and 6750 years ago.
The same reason excluding people who dont answer phone surveys from political polling skews those results. There is no way you can quantify all the possible correlations between online purchasing habits and console preference, but I guarantee they dont all balance out.
I disagree about the sole use of the lanyard. I think it is specifically for keeping the wiimote handy while you grab your soda, or pick your nose, or whatever. It is NOT a restraint device. It is the *EXACT SAME THING* that has been on every digital camera ever. It is meant to save the camera when you drop it, NOT save the guy you try to throw the camera AT.
The oft-ignored Photo Channel deserves a lot more attention. Let me highlight some points that you may have missed while skimming it, or that just seemed inconsequential:
It plays nice with normal digital camera storage. No special computer equipment required. Take the SD card out of your camera and stick it in your Wii and you get big screen views and slideshows of the pictures you just took. I know I will be making use of this functionality when I visit fandom conventions in the future.
It can play videos. Standard (and poorly compressed) MJPEG+PCM, the same thing you get out of most digital (non-video) cameras. Transcoding from xvid+ogg to mjpeg+pcm takes about 20% runtime on my 1.5GHz computer, and the result file is about 6x the size, but now I have a handful of tv show episodes on my 4GB SD card to watch on the Wii. This functionality can only get better in the future.
While viewing individual images, a slideshow, or a video, up to 4 players can enter "Doodle" mode and use paintbrushes and stamps to draw on the screen. This is hilarious fun on some occasions, and I can imagine it actually being useful to someone (sports commentator-ish applications?).
And even better, there is a Puzzle mode, in which up to 4 players cooperate to solve a puzzle-ified version of the image or video. Yes, you heard me right, video. The movie keeps playing on the puzzle pieces.
The photos, and the results of doodling, can be sent to other Wii users (and email addresses) via the Message Board. This means Joe Sixpack can take a picture, write on it with his wiimote, and send it to his buddy, all without touching a computer.
Not really. No one makes a 300K->.35K cooling device. Put simply, you take a 3K->.35K refrigerator and set it inside a 300K->3K refrigerator. Since any lab or plant that is doing this sort of work already has the 300K->3K unit, using said unit is a trivial addition to the process of using the new "low temp" unit.
I have seen many of the 'greatest games of the year' be reviewed so well based on the inclusion of features which were readily availabe in a (much worse) game that was released 18 months earlier; in most of these games these features are passed off as gimmicks.
I think you make a key mistake here, and it is centered in the words "illegal to use". There is no law, barring odd DMCA applications, against USING software, EVER. You do not need a license to use software, or to have bought it. If I walk out on the street and find a copy of MS Office on a CDR then there is nothing stopping me from running it (except maybe 'installing it makes a copy' nonsense, which is covered in law AND precedent). The same goes here. Maybe they can get him for violating trade secrets or trademark infringement or something, but definitely not copyright violation.
Having GPU and CPU on the same card isnt just for 'new video card' stuff. It means we can do vector processing with what would normally be shader pipelines, in non-graphical apps. Like the Folding@Home GPU client, or nVidia's physics-on-GPU implementation. This is one step towards an architecture like the Cell, with many specialized intercommunicating cores on a single chip, instead of a single fast-but-generalized core.
it doesnt violate the TOS for people who never agreed to them. i amended my wow TOS before launching the game, and i guarantee the version i agreed to has no such provisions.
So it would be legal if the company arranged it so that after handing over your money and checking the "Preload my Movies" box, they spent 10 minutes (yeah, right) ripping them all for you? But do it the other way around and its criminal...
Let me preface this by saying that I have stood in lines before. I have slept in lines before. I have camped in lines before. I have had tailgate parties in lines before. So I know how normal lines work. I have seen bad lines, good lines, friendly people, other people, clueful managers and store employees, and not. But the PS3 debacle as I am calling it was by far the worst in most categories that I have seen.
My camp started pretty simply. I called all the local Wal Mart stores and asked for their timing and policies, etc. Almost universally they said they would have a line in the (soon to be closed) Layaway department. So I pick out the store closest to a friend's house, so he can come hold my spot while I go shower/etc at his place, and we hope to perhaps do a little word of mouth about our local gaming group.
Wednesday morning I walk through the store, see where the bathrooms, food, magazines, chairs, etc are. No one is in line, and I am not desperate to be first, so I head out for a little while to get some things done. I come back around 12:30 PM and there is a console-gamer-looking teenager sitting in the one non-bench chair in layaway. I take this as a sign that the line has started, but I left all my stuff (books and a deck of cards) in my car so I go back out and get them. When I get back inside the guy has disappeared, so I take the chair and start to wait.
Over the next 20 minutes or so a number of employees either ask what I am doing, or comment on it since they already know. The layaway attendant finally gets done with her customers and makes a call to her manager, and I hear "You'll have to come tell him that yourself", which soooo does not bode well. I then see a pallet jack full of chairs come out of the back of the store, and am enthusiastic about them putting together a real line. Sadly the chairs continue past me and out of sight, another bad sign.
Shorthly thereafter an assistant manager comes out and tells me the line will have to be outside, AND that they are getting less than the 10 promised units. I don't mind either bit of news so much. An indoor line is why I picked Wal Mart, but I figured outside wouldn't be too bad, they have covered and even heated outdoor areas. I head outside and am greeted by cloudy skies. I figure worst case, I step inside and buy a tent like most outdoor line campers do. The line gets set up as 10 shoulder-to-shoulder chairs in front of one side of the building, directly in the water runoff path of a large slanted roof with no gutter. Bad sign number 3 I think?
I sit down, and am shortly joined by two more guys who thought they would be the first ones there. No worries, the employee rumor mill has hinted at 6 units and 4 rain checks at this point, so top 3 is a fine place to be. At this point the store manager comes outside to talk to us. He vetos the idea of having tents (wtf mate?) which is really scary for that kind of line location and weather, and also tells us we can't have extension cords to the distant power outlets, and can't have cars any closer than the parking spots 30 feet away across the 'street'. So much for almost any sort of group entertainment, and any prayer of keeping dry.
The line fills up to the 10 chairs pretty quickly, and comments are made about selling seats. I jokingly offer the #1 spot for $400, which would have been a hell of a sale that early in the camp. No takers though. We hang out, a few people tag team friends into their spots, generally nothing happens for a few hours. It's a friendly line, we are letting people make food and bathroom trips into the store without losing their spots. All seems well, except for the previously noted poor location and rules. The evening manager comes on duty, and parrots the store manager's answers to all the questions, still no tents.
And then the rain starts. The rain is pretty light, but theres a difference in getting hit by 2 square feet worth of light rain (drizzle) and getting hit by 100 square feet worth of light rain
GameHippo seems like a neat idea, but their coverage seems too spotty to rely on. How can any free game site that doesnt have Battle for Wesnoth on its list, and has a years-outdated description of Neverball, be taken seriously?
I don't see the problem with "Help Desk Analyst". It makes perfect sense. A person who analyzes the help desk, or more specifically the workings thereof. In the same way a "Stock Market Broker" is different from a "Stock Market Analyst".
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Sure you can. You just need to actually have a MODERN business, where documents are sent in open formats, not a business stuck a decade in the past. I provide half the IT support for a ~100 desk office, we have almost completely switched to openoffice, firefox, thunderbird, etc since my boss (the other half) started the transition a year ago. Well, completely not counting the people we migrated to Macs, they are on neooffice, safari, Mail.
Gasoline is actually the most consumer-friendly example here (along with other self-metered products). If the meter shows cents then you can run it up to $10.02 and save 2 cents. If the meter itself does the rounding then you can still squeeze a little extra out after it hits $10.00 before it ticks over to $10.05 (i already do this at the 1-cent level, just because i can).
Getting rid of pennies has nothing to do with getting rid of cents. The two are distinct. Most banks already handle transactions down to the 6th decimal place. My bank account at any given time could have a certain number of thousandths of a cent in it. The only time it has to be converted into coins is when I withdraw it. Getting rid of the penny just means that physical money transactions have to be rounded. The same thing happened when we got rid of the 1/2 cent piece. When you buy something and the total comes to a non-nickel-aligned amount, it gets rounded. Easy, simple, any idiot can handle the math.
Patronage. Someone pays you to create a work, or to perform it, or to improve upon an existing work.
significant figures. I would say that "2700-6800" signifies certainty between 2650 and 6850 years ago, with slightly less (but consistent) certainty that it is between 2750 and 6750 years ago.
And you didn't include that $70 in your claim... why?
read-only RAID with 4 partitions on the disc :)
The same reason excluding people who dont answer phone surveys from political polling skews those results. There is no way you can quantify all the possible correlations between online purchasing habits and console preference, but I guarantee they dont all balance out.
I disagree about the sole use of the lanyard. I think it is specifically for keeping the wiimote handy while you grab your soda, or pick your nose, or whatever. It is NOT a restraint device. It is the *EXACT SAME THING* that has been on every digital camera ever. It is meant to save the camera when you drop it, NOT save the guy you try to throw the camera AT.
The oft-ignored Photo Channel deserves a lot more attention. Let me highlight some points that you may have missed while skimming it, or that just seemed inconsequential:
It plays nice with normal digital camera storage. No special computer equipment required. Take the SD card out of your camera and stick it in your Wii and you get big screen views and slideshows of the pictures you just took. I know I will be making use of this functionality when I visit fandom conventions in the future.
It can play videos. Standard (and poorly compressed) MJPEG+PCM, the same thing you get out of most digital (non-video) cameras. Transcoding from xvid+ogg to mjpeg+pcm takes about 20% runtime on my 1.5GHz computer, and the result file is about 6x the size, but now I have a handful of tv show episodes on my 4GB SD card to watch on the Wii. This functionality can only get better in the future.
While viewing individual images, a slideshow, or a video, up to 4 players can enter "Doodle" mode and use paintbrushes and stamps to draw on the screen. This is hilarious fun on some occasions, and I can imagine it actually being useful to someone (sports commentator-ish applications?).
And even better, there is a Puzzle mode, in which up to 4 players cooperate to solve a puzzle-ified version of the image or video. Yes, you heard me right, video. The movie keeps playing on the puzzle pieces.
The photos, and the results of doodling, can be sent to other Wii users (and email addresses) via the Message Board. This means Joe Sixpack can take a picture, write on it with his wiimote, and send it to his buddy, all without touching a computer.
computers make voting more precise. not necessarily more accurate.
Not really. No one makes a 300K->.35K cooling device. Put simply, you take a 3K->.35K refrigerator and set it inside a 300K->3K refrigerator. Since any lab or plant that is doing this sort of work already has the 300K->3K unit, using said unit is a trivial addition to the process of using the new "low temp" unit.
I have seen many of the 'greatest games of the year' be reviewed so well based on the inclusion of features which were readily availabe in a (much worse) game that was released 18 months earlier; in most of these games these features are passed off as gimmicks.
You mean like every single feature in Warcraft 3?
I think you make a key mistake here, and it is centered in the words "illegal to use". There is no law, barring odd DMCA applications, against USING software, EVER. You do not need a license to use software, or to have bought it. If I walk out on the street and find a copy of MS Office on a CDR then there is nothing stopping me from running it (except maybe 'installing it makes a copy' nonsense, which is covered in law AND precedent). The same goes here. Maybe they can get him for violating trade secrets or trademark infringement or something, but definitely not copyright violation.
Having GPU and CPU on the same card isnt just for 'new video card' stuff. It means we can do vector processing with what would normally be shader pipelines, in non-graphical apps. Like the Folding@Home GPU client, or nVidia's physics-on-GPU implementation. This is one step towards an architecture like the Cell, with many specialized intercommunicating cores on a single chip, instead of a single fast-but-generalized core.
Why would I? NOT having their agreement to my amended version is a perfectly acceptable outcome.
it doesnt violate the TOS for people who never agreed to them. i amended my wow TOS before launching the game, and i guarantee the version i agreed to has no such provisions.
So it would be legal if the company arranged it so that after handing over your money and checking the "Preload my Movies" box, they spent 10 minutes (yeah, right) ripping them all for you? But do it the other way around and its criminal...
Let me preface this by saying that I have stood in lines before. I have slept in lines before. I have camped in lines before. I have had tailgate parties in lines before. So I know how normal lines work. I have seen bad lines, good lines, friendly people, other people, clueful managers and store employees, and not. But the PS3 debacle as I am calling it was by far the worst in most categories that I have seen.
My camp started pretty simply. I called all the local Wal Mart stores and asked for their timing and policies, etc. Almost universally they said they would have a line in the (soon to be closed) Layaway department. So I pick out the store closest to a friend's house, so he can come hold my spot while I go shower/etc at his place, and we hope to perhaps do a little word of mouth about our local gaming group.
Wednesday morning I walk through the store, see where the bathrooms, food, magazines, chairs, etc are. No one is in line, and I am not desperate to be first, so I head out for a little while to get some things done. I come back around 12:30 PM and there is a console-gamer-looking teenager sitting in the one non-bench chair in layaway. I take this as a sign that the line has started, but I left all my stuff (books and a deck of cards) in my car so I go back out and get them. When I get back inside the guy has disappeared, so I take the chair and start to wait.
Over the next 20 minutes or so a number of employees either ask what I am doing, or comment on it since they already know. The layaway attendant finally gets done with her customers and makes a call to her manager, and I hear "You'll have to come tell him that yourself", which soooo does not bode well. I then see a pallet jack full of chairs come out of the back of the store, and am enthusiastic about them putting together a real line. Sadly the chairs continue past me and out of sight, another bad sign.
Shorthly thereafter an assistant manager comes out and tells me the line will have to be outside, AND that they are getting less than the 10 promised units. I don't mind either bit of news so much. An indoor line is why I picked Wal Mart, but I figured outside wouldn't be too bad, they have covered and even heated outdoor areas. I head outside and am greeted by cloudy skies. I figure worst case, I step inside and buy a tent like most outdoor line campers do. The line gets set up as 10 shoulder-to-shoulder chairs in front of one side of the building, directly in the water runoff path of a large slanted roof with no gutter. Bad sign number 3 I think?
I sit down, and am shortly joined by two more guys who thought they would be the first ones there. No worries, the employee rumor mill has hinted at 6 units and 4 rain checks at this point, so top 3 is a fine place to be. At this point the store manager comes outside to talk to us. He vetos the idea of having tents (wtf mate?) which is really scary for that kind of line location and weather, and also tells us we can't have extension cords to the distant power outlets, and can't have cars any closer than the parking spots 30 feet away across the 'street'. So much for almost any sort of group entertainment, and any prayer of keeping dry.
The line fills up to the 10 chairs pretty quickly, and comments are made about selling seats. I jokingly offer the #1 spot for $400, which would have been a hell of a sale that early in the camp. No takers though. We hang out, a few people tag team friends into their spots, generally nothing happens for a few hours. It's a friendly line, we are letting people make food and bathroom trips into the store without losing their spots. All seems well, except for the previously noted poor location and rules. The evening manager comes on duty, and parrots the store manager's answers to all the questions, still no tents.
And then the rain starts. The rain is pretty light, but theres a difference in getting hit by 2 square feet worth of light rain (drizzle) and getting hit by 100 square feet worth of light rain
Or a tax on people who know about and support where the money is going
Happy 30th :)
And in almost every country, including the USA, defects that you can prove were not the result of your actions are covered.
You expect a married couple to always have the same political views? That would be kinda boring, no?
GameHippo seems like a neat idea, but their coverage seems too spotty to rely on. How can any free game site that doesnt have Battle for Wesnoth on its list, and has a years-outdated description of Neverball, be taken seriously?
I don't see the problem with "Help Desk Analyst". It makes perfect sense. A person who analyzes the help desk, or more specifically the workings thereof. In the same way a "Stock Market Broker" is different from a "Stock Market Analyst".