I disagree with your view. Why let people hype it all up, and let people 'believe', when all that's going to happen is a huge disappointment. Speculation is what gets the markets in huge trouble, because eventually a correction comes and reality hits, and hits hard. So by your very logic, we shouldn't have tried to do anything with all those speculators on the market, we should have let them keep dreaming of limitless profits... NOTHING BAD HAPPENED, right??? But I guess my example is flawed, since giving people who are drowning in debt, with shitty job prospects at best, a fantasy of everything changing for the better will not end up in even more heartache and suffering in the long run when reality sets back in...
Making Obama into some saviour is just asking for trouble. He can't deliver, not for lack of trying, I'll give you that, but he cannot deliver, the system can't let him. And when he doesn't, and Americans realize that there isn't some magical new president that's gonna make all their problems go away, there's gonna be major backlash.
Of course, please, don't take my word for it... just go to google, or wiki, and look up what happend to other countries who went through similar leadership changes, where the populous believed the new leader would fix all. Scary shit. So letting the delusions of idealism flourish without a reality check is simply going to result in way more sting when reality finally hits home... and it always hits home.
Since when did Dell become the de-facto gaming rig? Most gamers that want the machine at the top end of the performance curve will build their own with the top CPU and GPU of the day. And the few who will buy a prebuilt system would probably go with something like AlienWare.
Next we'll see a story showing just how cheap laptops have become showing an Apple AirBook as the example. I'd give a car analogy, but there are just too many to choose from... and it's too easy to throw dirt at the American car companies at the moment, and it'd be in poor taste.:P
30% of our economy is directly tied to US importing our goods. However, most of our product is raw natural resources, which there always will be a demand for. That said, the US economy crashing and burning will take us down a ways, but not as far as you'd think.
I was going to mod you, but I couldn't find '+1 really bitter but ultimately on to something'.
Sadly your idea of printing money to devalue it to the point where you can easily pay off your debts would work, but only if the US was self-sustaining, which it isn't. And I doubt you'd get the Chinese to agree to devaluing the US Dollar much more, they seem to have a very large amount of US dollars in their hands... some sort of insane trade deficit? They'd probably invade the US to over-throw the government and attempt to stop the devaluation of the currency (and their investment). Somehow I see world war 3 coming out of this royal fuck up by the US.
It's times like these I'm so happy to live in Canada, and look forward to enjoying the nuclear winter that's inevitibly coming sooner rather than later.
No, for years I used to buy the stupidly expensive, best spec'd, RAM I could find. I've now moved to one step above bulk economy OEM RAM, and haven't had a single problem since.
Conspiracy theorist in me thinks that the over clocking crowd will think crappy RAM failing is due to them reaching the limits of what the chip could take in voltage and speed. So execs will sell crap to them implying it works well, sell it with no warranty, and laugh all the way to the bank. Sadly they've all been just a shitty chip failing, even those that I didnt over clock.
Pay is horrible? Horrible compared to the industry average, or horrible compared to what you'd expect if you made it through the damned interviews which are even worse than the bullshit microsoft makes you go through?
Just curious... not bitter at all at the seemingly irrelevent brain teaser interview questions that have little to do with anything. Do they at least start out at a 6 figure salary if you make it through their mental maze?
Who cares if it's fast? I want RAM that is reliable first, fast second. I'll be damned if I ever buy overpriced junk that claims to have amazing times, next to no delay, etc. if at the end of the day it fails to read the data sent to it back correctly my kernel crashes in spectacular ways.
Is it just me, or does everything in the US start with secret allegations that are insane, completely disproven before they're even made public, and yet still acted upon fiercly only to suffer humilation in the end?
Be it military, with imminent threats of destruction from a nation that has no way to harm anyone but themselves, yet turning a blind eye to nations that could (Iraq vs. North Korea for example?)... or be it corporate, where anti-trust is thrown around at google, yet there isn't anything substantial while other companies like microsoft are clearly doing it and are ignored.
Welcome to modern western culture... it's all about making a quick buck.
Any and every company out there is all about making as much money as possible as quickly as possible... what ever happend to making a modest amount of money while actually taking risks?
Road and Track's The Need For Speed released in 1994 was for the time, pretty realistic simulator on a 486 PC. All other NFS titles since then have been eye-candy arcade style, but if the original was certainly aiming for the simulator feel (even if it wasn't as realistic as it could have been). NFS porsche unleashed attempted to go back in the realism direction as well, but EA killed it and instead went for the stupid wannabe street racer modding crowd, with arcade physics. I just hope no stupid kid plays the game and then tries to drive his Honda Civic at 150km/h on city streets.
The GT series on the Playstation 2 was about the only other game I can think of that wasn't pure arcade crap.
I read the white on green text, and then when I scrolled down to the comments area with black on white text, I think I went temporarily blind, or had a seizure... Not sure...
How do you editors not go blind when creating the page?
Maybe... but I truly hope it isn't a publicity stunt, but rather a simulator.
I remember buying the original Need For Speed 'game' and enjoying the relatively realistic simulation they pulled off. Ever since then every game out there has been about arcade style play. I do think there is a market for those of us that want simulator style racing/driving games, and why not make it an online community thing.
The new acronym they came up with to describe it, now that was just stupid. But perhaps it helped get some VC money... so I'm willing to put up with it, if they deliver a good simulator.
Yes, I'm aware of the system access fee, hence why I coined 'Unlimited system access fee', as it would probably not be $6.95, but rather $69.95, but the actual plan you sign up for would only be $29.95.
Think airlines, where they tell you New York to London for $100, but there's a $800 hidden in the fine print booking charge.
Except on closer examination it's the legal version... GOD how I love living in Canada! On the plus side, at least they didn't introduce an "Unlimited system access fee", claim it to be some sort of vague government forced thing, and then charge more for the fee (that is mandatory) than the service plan costs.
Note to self: stop giving Telus more ideas on how to rape my ass!
Did you or did you not feel you had the right to speed due to your circumstances?
Based on your original post, you made it clear you felt that based on your particular circumstances you had a good reason to travel faster than the people around you.
Quoting your training, and your choice in vehicles doesn't make you a good driver. You've been in 1 accident, I've been in none. I too have a hobby with track racing that has resulted in lots of advanced driver training over the years from very professional instructors. I, however, am not naive enough to claim I'm a good driver, and never have I or even any of my instructors said they have 'superb' control of their vehicles.
Sure you may have not been texting on a cell phone, but if you require silence from your passengers while driving, then how can you reasonably have us believe that your father being on his last breaths in a hospital didn't distract you?
If you still want to go on about how you're such a great driver that can't be distracted by personal issues, fine, you're right, I can't make assumptions. If you really are as good as you claim, and are not distracted when personal tragedy strikes, congrats on being better than every other person who drives a car on public roads. I just hope I don't run into you while you're dealing with another personal issue and driving, heaven forbid you not measure up to your self described driving abilities.
Yikes! You were emotionally distressed because you got a phone call regarding your dying father, and you DROVE?
With all due respect, I can't believe you endangered everyone on the road by driving while under such distress. Operating a motor vehicle requires your full undivided attention. There is no way you could have provided that necessary attention while speeding along to get to the other side of town because your father was on his last breaths.
And while I do agree with the point you were trying to make in your post, I cannot stress enough how distracted drivers cause as many if not more accidents than drunk drivers do. People *just* *like* *you* end up sending innocent motorists to the hospital or morgue simply because they feel they have a right to speed due to their circumstances.
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I disagree with your view. Why let people hype it all up, and let people 'believe', when all that's going to happen is a huge disappointment. Speculation is what gets the markets in huge trouble, because eventually a correction comes and reality hits, and hits hard. So by your very logic, we shouldn't have tried to do anything with all those speculators on the market, we should have let them keep dreaming of limitless profits... NOTHING BAD HAPPENED, right??? But I guess my example is flawed, since giving people who are drowning in debt, with shitty job prospects at best, a fantasy of everything changing for the better will not end up in even more heartache and suffering in the long run when reality sets back in...
Making Obama into some saviour is just asking for trouble. He can't deliver, not for lack of trying, I'll give you that, but he cannot deliver, the system can't let him. And when he doesn't, and Americans realize that there isn't some magical new president that's gonna make all their problems go away, there's gonna be major backlash.
Of course, please, don't take my word for it... just go to google, or wiki, and look up what happend to other countries who went through similar leadership changes, where the populous believed the new leader would fix all. Scary shit. So letting the delusions of idealism flourish without a reality check is simply going to result in way more sting when reality finally hits home... and it always hits home.
Dell bought Alienware.
Well I missed that bit of news... I guess that explains why Dell is making gaming rigs with weird cases.
Since when did Dell become the de-facto gaming rig? Most gamers that want the machine at the top end of the performance curve will build their own with the top CPU and GPU of the day. And the few who will buy a prebuilt system would probably go with something like AlienWare.
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Next we'll see a story showing just how cheap laptops have become showing an Apple AirBook as the example. I'd give a car analogy, but there are just too many to choose from... and it's too easy to throw dirt at the American car companies at the moment, and it'd be in poor taste.
Why do people as Slashdot these questions... GET A LAWYER!
Sounds like someone needs to get laid
Only someone needs to get laid? EVERYONE needs to get laid!
But since my friend is single and desperate
And by your friend, you mean you.
It's okay, it's slashdot, nobody will judge (and they'd be a hypocrite if they did!)
30% of our economy is directly tied to US importing our goods. However, most of our product is raw natural resources, which there always will be a demand for. That said, the US economy crashing and burning will take us down a ways, but not as far as you'd think.
I was going to mod you, but I couldn't find '+1 really bitter but ultimately on to something'.
Sadly your idea of printing money to devalue it to the point where you can easily pay off your debts would work, but only if the US was self-sustaining, which it isn't. And I doubt you'd get the Chinese to agree to devaluing the US Dollar much more, they seem to have a very large amount of US dollars in their hands... some sort of insane trade deficit? They'd probably invade the US to over-throw the government and attempt to stop the devaluation of the currency (and their investment). Somehow I see world war 3 coming out of this royal fuck up by the US.
It's times like these I'm so happy to live in Canada, and look forward to enjoying the nuclear winter that's inevitibly coming sooner rather than later.
No, for years I used to buy the stupidly expensive, best spec'd, RAM I could find. I've now moved to one step above bulk economy OEM RAM, and haven't had a single problem since.
Conspiracy theorist in me thinks that the over clocking crowd will think crappy RAM failing is due to them reaching the limits of what the chip could take in voltage and speed. So execs will sell crap to them implying it works well, sell it with no warranty, and laugh all the way to the bank. Sadly they've all been just a shitty chip failing, even those that I didnt over clock.
Pay is horrible? Horrible compared to the industry average, or horrible compared to what you'd expect if you made it through the damned interviews which are even worse than the bullshit microsoft makes you go through?
Just curious... not bitter at all at the seemingly irrelevent brain teaser interview questions that have little to do with anything. Do they at least start out at a 6 figure salary if you make it through their mental maze?
Who cares if it's fast? I want RAM that is reliable first, fast second. I'll be damned if I ever buy overpriced junk that claims to have amazing times, next to no delay, etc. if at the end of the day it fails to read the data sent to it back correctly my kernel crashes in spectacular ways.
And of course 90% of that time there will be some sort of glitch just to make things interesting.
Is it just me, or does everything in the US start with secret allegations that are insane, completely disproven before they're even made public, and yet still acted upon fiercly only to suffer humilation in the end?
Be it military, with imminent threats of destruction from a nation that has no way to harm anyone but themselves, yet turning a blind eye to nations that could (Iraq vs. North Korea for example?)... or be it corporate, where anti-trust is thrown around at google, yet there isn't anything substantial while other companies like microsoft are clearly doing it and are ignored.
It's an upsetting pattern to watch unfold.
Welcome to modern western culture... it's all about making a quick buck.
Any and every company out there is all about making as much money as possible as quickly as possible... what ever happend to making a modest amount of money while actually taking risks?
From what I read in the summary, I assume this means free porn for all? Right???
Road and Track's The Need For Speed released in 1994 was for the time, pretty realistic simulator on a 486 PC. All other NFS titles since then have been eye-candy arcade style, but if the original was certainly aiming for the simulator feel (even if it wasn't as realistic as it could have been). NFS porsche unleashed attempted to go back in the realism direction as well, but EA killed it and instead went for the stupid wannabe street racer modding crowd, with arcade physics. I just hope no stupid kid plays the game and then tries to drive his Honda Civic at 150km/h on city streets. The GT series on the Playstation 2 was about the only other game I can think of that wasn't pure arcade crap.
I read the white on green text, and then when I scrolled down to the comments area with black on white text, I think I went temporarily blind, or had a seizure... Not sure...
How do you editors not go blind when creating the page?
Maybe... but I truly hope it isn't a publicity stunt, but rather a simulator.
I remember buying the original Need For Speed 'game' and enjoying the relatively realistic simulation they pulled off. Ever since then every game out there has been about arcade style play. I do think there is a market for those of us that want simulator style racing/driving games, and why not make it an online community thing.
The new acronym they came up with to describe it, now that was just stupid. But perhaps it helped get some VC money... so I'm willing to put up with it, if they deliver a good simulator.
Yes, I'm aware of the system access fee, hence why I coined 'Unlimited system access fee', as it would probably not be $6.95, but rather $69.95, but the actual plan you sign up for would only be $29.95.
Think airlines, where they tell you New York to London for $100, but there's a $800 hidden in the fine print booking charge.
Sounds like bait and switch...
Except on closer examination it's the legal version... GOD how I love living in Canada! On the plus side, at least they didn't introduce an "Unlimited system access fee", claim it to be some sort of vague government forced thing, and then charge more for the fee (that is mandatory) than the service plan costs.
Note to self: stop giving Telus more ideas on how to rape my ass!
Indian students cheat?
ALL students cheat! Perhaps he meant that Indian students that cheat are caught more frequently?
I'd love to see if the CFL industry had anything to do with the funding of this study. Seeing as CFLs are only here temporarily until LEDs take hold.
And CFL has mercury in it... evil mercury... When was the last time an LED split open spreading gallium arsenide all over the place?
Umm PS3 is already $399... if it drops $100 then wouldn't it be $299?
Did you or did you not feel you had the right to speed due to your circumstances?
Based on your original post, you made it clear you felt that based on your particular circumstances you had a good reason to travel faster than the people around you.
Quoting your training, and your choice in vehicles doesn't make you a good driver. You've been in 1 accident, I've been in none. I too have a hobby with track racing that has resulted in lots of advanced driver training over the years from very professional instructors. I, however, am not naive enough to claim I'm a good driver, and never have I or even any of my instructors said they have 'superb' control of their vehicles.
Sure you may have not been texting on a cell phone, but if you require silence from your passengers while driving, then how can you reasonably have us believe that your father being on his last breaths in a hospital didn't distract you?
If you still want to go on about how you're such a great driver that can't be distracted by personal issues, fine, you're right, I can't make assumptions. If you really are as good as you claim, and are not distracted when personal tragedy strikes, congrats on being better than every other person who drives a car on public roads. I just hope I don't run into you while you're dealing with another personal issue and driving, heaven forbid you not measure up to your self described driving abilities.
Yikes! You were emotionally distressed because you got a phone call regarding your dying father, and you DROVE?
With all due respect, I can't believe you endangered everyone on the road by driving while under such distress. Operating a motor vehicle requires your full undivided attention. There is no way you could have provided that necessary attention while speeding along to get to the other side of town because your father was on his last breaths.
And while I do agree with the point you were trying to make in your post, I cannot stress enough how distracted drivers cause as many if not more accidents than drunk drivers do. People *just* *like* *you* end up sending innocent motorists to the hospital or morgue simply because they feel they have a right to speed due to their circumstances.