They play Starcraft to keep in practice to defend against the Terran ( North Korean ) Nuclear attack. I hope the DMZ has some good turrets and a some science vessels searching for them NK ghost.
America has a disposable culture. Even things that are made to last for more than one use have a limited lifespan. Things are not engineered to last, and are cheap enough to replace rather than repair. Durable goods used to be things that were expected to be last for at least 10 years. This included cars and refrigerators. Over time the definition of durable goods has changed so that they are only good for 3 years, and only includes cars.
Even our cars are pretty much designed to fall apart after 3 years of regular use. How can American's not be leaders in producing trash in this kind of environment. Only good note is my mother in the law is a packrat and has not thrown hardly anything away for the last 30+ years. But I guess she is just a minor rounding error on the average.
"want part of their body replaced with robotics if they could have the option of a new, real limb."
In some cases, if you ask the significant other, they like the robotic replacement better than the original one... but only for injuries lower than the waist, but higher than the thigh, on the front.
See if you have been eating Mexican beans, and feeling a bit gassy yourself, would you launch a "gas seeking missle" that can home in on your ass as well?
Yes I know the Mexican bean part was unecessary... that is why this is +5 Funny!
If you do not have good evidence to get a warrant in less than 2 years, you should not just circumvent the due process of the judicial system.
Gonzales: I can't seem to get the judges to do what I want them to do. Let's blackmail the ISP to retain all the data we want instead. Congress, get a move on. That other branch is blocking our view again, cut it down!
What about when laws regarding content, ie censorship laws change, and you have people who "retroactively" broke the law? Can/Do you go after them, do they go on a suspicious list?
They just closed several "Adult shops" in our county. The censors are wanting to prosecute them harshly and send a message. It appears our courts may vindicate the owners, some old ladies actually.
Just a reminder to not trust "good intentions" for they "pave the way to hell". Nice quote, wonder who said that originally.
Where is GNU/Clippy? Gnu/Clippy: It appears you are trying to run Gnome? If so, please bash your head against the monitor until you are dead. Was this not helpful?
What if the car dealership was owned by a manufacturer, and the dealership said "We decided to charge ourselves [dealers] 3 times as much for cars as we used to. Therefore you have to pay more to get a car.
Who would stand for this? Yet the oil companies are not "losing money" buying oil at the higher price.
I thought the article would recommend a new air filter, or some great fuel efficiency boosting fuel additive.
Instead it was about saving money on peppers, the kind you eat, at Kroger... Damn, why did I waste time I could have used hunting for cheaper gas to RTFA!
"let them go work in the health care industry where mechanization has less benefit or opportunity.
I spent a couple years of my life in college as a Radiological Technologies major. I loved the hard science, but hated the application. My advisor was urging me to finish up and specialize in radiation therapy. This was mostly because I am not really a people person and "radiating" people "near" to death to possibly kill cancer would not have phased me. Least not while I was hiding behind a lead wall. *wink* I was scheduling a class to learn how to draw blood when I finally made the choice to change direction. So I changed majors to Computer Science, struggled my way thru the advanced math courses. I am not bad at math. I had to learn everything from basic algrebra thru second level calculus. I graduated about two years after the bubble burst. I now have a fairly descent job as a systems admin and I know I am happier than I would have been "nuking" people. But I know I am not suited for the Health Care service industry. And many other people are not suited for it either. Is the idea of varied jobs for a widely diversified labor force just a pipe dream? Speaking of pipe dreams... If I had only wanted money, I should have been a plumber... It is amazing what those guys charge!
Best damn video card ever! Did I say EVA! Yeah I said best damn card ever.... I got mine when it was cheap and affordable. Unreal Tournament looked awesome and so did my Linux Desktop!
Who else remembers the "Don't worry we will support your Voodoo cards"... Next day... Site not found!
"If a tune has any texture, any depth, any insight at all, it can take a lot more than three listens to develop an ear for that song. Too bad. Clearly this is not the era to be exposing listeners to Beethoven or Mozart."
That is why these players need video screens. You need "Eyes",to see the tits and ass, to appreciate modern music. What if the person who sings/performs the tune is not beautiful... hires some dancer/models..."Ears" are entirely optional.
"I know they're going to be fighting me for my job in a few years to come"
We need to make sure these kids know how valuable these skills are and that they should not be sold cheaply. *wink* I don't mind competing on skill levels, especially if I have had a decade or two headstart. What I hate is to have to compete on a payscale level. I guess if the employer does not understand the value of that previous experience and they judge you soley on payscale, then the newbie kid developer who will work for $10/hr will win out everytime.
The best revenge in a situation like that is knowing that they will get exactly what they are paying for and deserve.
The editors for 3d games are unbelieveably powerful. I remember spending many an hour tinkering with the original Unreal editor. It was easy for even a novice to use a getting started tutorial to build their own map/level/world.
The editor presented the world as a 3D solid and you would cut away "rooms" and then apply textures. You could easily make an in-door or outdoor scene complete with sky, water, light sources, etc.
You could put together simple shapes to create complex objects, then script them easily to move around or even react to the player character in the game.
To really get complex reactions from the environment, or to get the lighting/shadows right required some understanding of basic math/trig, but even that is not that hard and the tutorials pointed you in the right direction.
This is about as close to the "wow factor" that I got from doing simple shapes on a TRS-80 back in the old days. Coding up your own version of Bezerk was awesome. Creating your own worlds and getting to explore them was almost as thrilling.
... You know the people who wander around mumbling/talking to themselves. It used to be easy to spot them and keep a safe distance. Now you assume that people talking to themselves are on a wireless phone in hands-free mode.
Let a real crazy dude to within a few feet of me. Sounded like he was having a nice phone conversation, until I noticed he didn't have a phone at all!
Whenever I see a bolt of blue lightning, I have a strong urge to head for shelter and an inate sense of exactly where that shelter is. Seeing as none of my ancestors that I am aware of got struck by lightning, this must be genetic. *grin*
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...when using the OJSImpsonFS, or you might get fstab'ed to death!
They play Starcraft to keep in practice to defend against the Terran ( North Korean ) Nuclear attack. I hope the DMZ has some good turrets and a some science vessels searching for them NK ghost.
America has a disposable culture. Even things that are made to last for more than one use have a limited lifespan. Things are not engineered to last, and are cheap enough to replace rather than repair. Durable goods used to be things that were expected to be last for at least 10 years. This included cars and refrigerators. Over time the definition of durable goods has changed so that they are only good for 3 years, and only includes cars.
Even our cars are pretty much designed to fall apart after 3 years of regular use. How can American's not be leaders in producing trash in this kind of environment. Only good note is my mother in the law is a packrat and has not thrown hardly anything away for the last 30+ years. But I guess she is just a minor rounding error on the average.
... Or at least blow their asses up if they do not capitulate imediately!
The Big Bang and God are not incompatible. See God invented Mexican food first, the "Big Bang" was inevitable after that.
... as a Math teacher who teaches the material, brings the students who are behind up to the level they need to be, and doesn't fail 85% of the class.
Alas, I fear this Judge will last about as long as "good" math teachers. To be liked by students is a death sentence for math teachers.
"want part of their body replaced with robotics if they could have the option of a new, real limb."
In some cases, if you ask the significant other, they like the robotic replacement better than the original one... but only for injuries lower than the waist, but higher than the thigh, on the front.
See if you have been eating Mexican beans, and feeling a bit gassy yourself, would you launch a "gas seeking missle" that can home in on your ass as well?
Yes I know the Mexican bean part was unecessary... that is why this is +5 Funny!
Maybe is it "old school" bias, but it seemed that old(er) hardware was better engineered/manufactured than some of the hardware you get today.
Also, the old adage, if it isn't broke, don't fix it does come to mind.
If you do not have good evidence to get a warrant in less than 2 years, you should not just circumvent the due process of the judicial system.
Gonzales: I can't seem to get the judges to do what I want them to do. Let's blackmail the ISP to retain all the data we want instead. Congress, get a move on. That other branch is blocking our view again, cut it down!
What about when laws regarding content, ie censorship laws change, and you have people who "retroactively" broke the law? Can/Do you go after them, do they go on a suspicious list?
They just closed several "Adult shops" in our county. The censors are wanting to prosecute them harshly and send a message. It appears our courts may vindicate the owners, some old ladies actually.
Just a reminder to not trust "good intentions" for they "pave the way to hell". Nice quote, wonder who said that originally.
Where is GNU/Clippy?
Gnu/Clippy: It appears you are trying to run Gnome?
If so, please bash your head against the monitor until you are dead.
Was this not helpful?
What if the car dealership was owned by a manufacturer, and the dealership said "We decided to charge ourselves [dealers] 3 times as much for cars as we used to. Therefore you have to pay more to get a car.
Who would stand for this? Yet the oil companies are not "losing money" buying oil at the higher price.
I thought the article would recommend a new air filter, or some great fuel efficiency boosting fuel additive.
Instead it was about saving money on peppers, the kind you eat, at Kroger... Damn, why did I waste time I could have used hunting for cheaper gas to RTFA!
"let them go work in the health care industry where mechanization has less benefit or opportunity.
I spent a couple years of my life in college as a Radiological Technologies major. I loved the hard science, but hated the application. My advisor was urging me to finish up and specialize in radiation therapy. This was mostly because I am not really a people person and "radiating" people "near" to death to possibly kill cancer would not have phased me. Least not while I was hiding behind a lead wall. *wink* I was scheduling a class to learn how to draw blood when I finally made the choice to change direction. So I changed majors to Computer Science, struggled my way thru the advanced math courses. I am not bad at math. I had to learn everything from basic algrebra thru second level calculus. I graduated about two years after the bubble burst. I now have a fairly descent job as a systems admin and I know I am happier than I would have been "nuking" people. But I know I am not suited for the Health Care service industry. And many other people are not suited for it either. Is the idea of varied jobs for a widely diversified labor force just a pipe dream? Speaking of pipe dreams... If I had only wanted money, I should have been a plumber... It is amazing what those guys charge!
Best damn video card ever! Did I say EVA! Yeah I said best damn card ever....
I got mine when it was cheap and affordable. Unreal Tournament looked awesome and so did my Linux Desktop!
Who else remembers the "Don't worry we will support your Voodoo cards"... Next day... Site not found!
... luckily Linux is great for running toasters, so it can keep itself all cozy and warm!
It just need a Brain in a jar and some vulcan cannons to be a Spider-Mind!
"If a tune has any texture, any depth, any insight at all, it can take a lot more than three listens to develop an ear for that song. Too bad. Clearly this is not the era to be exposing listeners to Beethoven or Mozart."
,to see the tits and ass, to appreciate modern music. What if the person who sings/performs the tune is not beautiful... hires some dancer/models..."Ears" are entirely optional.
That is why these players need video screens. You need "Eyes"
"I know they're going to be fighting me for my job in a few years to come"
We need to make sure these kids know how valuable these skills are and that they should not be sold cheaply. *wink*
I don't mind competing on skill levels, especially if I have had a decade or two headstart. What I hate is to have to compete on a payscale level. I guess if the employer does not understand the value of that previous experience and they judge you soley on payscale, then the newbie kid developer who will work for $10/hr will win out everytime.
The best revenge in a situation like that is knowing that they will get exactly what they are paying for and deserve.
The editors for 3d games are unbelieveably powerful. I remember spending many an hour tinkering with the original Unreal editor. It was easy for even a novice to use a getting started tutorial to build their own map/level/world.
The editor presented the world as a 3D solid and you would cut away "rooms" and then apply textures. You could easily make an in-door or outdoor scene complete with sky, water, light sources, etc.
You could put together simple shapes to create complex objects, then script them easily to move around or even react to the player character in the game.
To really get complex reactions from the environment, or to get the lighting/shadows right required some understanding of basic math/trig, but even that is not that hard and the tutorials pointed you in the right direction.
This is about as close to the "wow factor" that I got from doing simple shapes on a TRS-80 back in the old days. Coding up your own version of Bezerk was awesome. Creating your own worlds and getting to explore them was almost as thrilling.
... You know the people who wander around mumbling/talking to themselves. It used to be easy to spot them and keep a safe distance. Now you assume that people talking to themselves are on a wireless phone in hands-free mode.
Let a real crazy dude to within a few feet of me. Sounded like he was having a nice phone conversation, until I noticed he didn't have a phone at all!
I appear to have a similar talent, but mine only manifests when I am driving another nail into the wall.
We should be training these birds for credit card validation...
One quack good/accepted, two quacks bad/rejected.
Definately better than those stupid card swipe machines!
Whenever I see a bolt of blue lightning, I have a strong urge to head for shelter and an inate sense of exactly where that shelter is. Seeing as none of my ancestors that I am aware of got struck by lightning, this must be genetic. *grin*