As an avowed foodie, there is absolutely no reason one needs to use trans fats. Ever. The only advantage they have over regular fats is shelf life, therefore cost. By banning them the playing field is leveled for everyone, and we can finally put that pox on humanity behind us forever.
Trans fats have been removed from your favorite foods for a few years now. Can you honestly say you can tell?
I'm a gamer, so I always build my own systems. For gaming PCs, it is always cheaper to roll your own. However, you don't appear to want to do any serious gaming - Oblivion is fairly old (in the gaming PC world). You may be better off buying a Dell, and adding a video card with an HDMI out.
However, if you chose to build your own system, there is really only one way to do it: decide what you want to spend, and then buy the best components for the price. This takes all the guess work out of it. For a system like yours, you want to place a premium on CPU and GPU. I'd recommend the Intel Core i5 750 (the difference between the i5 and i7 is the i7 has hyper-threading, the i5 doesn't - but how many apps do you know of that can take advantage of 8 cores?). For GPUs, this chart is invaluable: Tom's Hardware Graphic Card Hierarchy Chart. Since NVIDIA just announced its latest line of cards, the 295 should drop in price relatively soon. From my experience, the GPU should be the most expensive component on your PC. I try to hit the $300 price point. At that price, you will be able to play all the new games at their high settings for at least 2 years, and your system will still be serviceable in 4.
The rest of your components are kind of extraneous. As a general rule, go for more, slower RAM (4 gigs of slower RAM will give you much better performance than 2 of the best). Your mobo will be tied to your CPU, so you won't have a ton of choice there. Avoid boards that cost less than $100 - they are unreliable. Avoid high RPM HDs - they are almost never worth the extra cost.
I have a real love/hate relationship with New York. My sister lives there. I loved visiting. But after a day or two, I was starting to crawl out of my skin. My sister lives in Manhattan, and I was staying with her, and I realized that during the entire time I was in NYC, I was never further than ten feet from another human being at any time, even when alone in the bathroom. I was in an apartment building surrounded by people. For someone raised in the Midwest, this really started to get to me after a while. There are just too many people there. They distort the landscape, like a lead ball on a rubber sheet. The entire region is never more than 24 hours from total chaos.
I'll sacrifice some culture for breathing room. Guess I learned something about myself on that trip.
Didn't read the article, but the industry has very specific rules about what you can tell a client. Basically, you can never guarantee something will make money. Firms have to be able to produce 7 years of correspondence from a broker on demand. This meant that as an employee of a firm, while at work I was not able to use any communication channel not controlled by the firm (due to archive reasons). This meant no web mail, twitter, Facebook, anything. From what I see, FINRA is just pointing out that even though technology has changed, these rules have not.
None of those are a problem to a pirate. Any problems like that, and I am one. I'm not a pirate now because the experience is roughly the same, and it is worth the money to me not to have to find a game, download it, make sure it has no viruses, and wonder forever if it has some back door somewhere that I have missed. The price of a game is not changing, but the experience is getting worse. Once the experience gets worse than the PITA, it's all over for me.
For the last ten years, I've spent, on average, let's say $500 a year on PC games. I consider it money well spent. I certainly feel like I've gotten my money's worth.
I was an early adopter of Steam. If you are like me, and have not been a habitual pirate, Steam is awesome. I don't have to have boxes of games and manuals lying around, no more swapping CDs, my computers install all of their games on their own...Steam has made games so cheap I find myself buying some and never playing them. I'm collecting them like baseball cards, or candy.
The point of all of this is I am the customer the gaming industry wants. I'm the one buying their games, and buying games for my wife and kids. They cannot afford to piss people like me off. Here is the part that everyone who works in the gaming industry should read:
IF I HAVE ONE MORE EXPERIENCE LIKE I HAD YESTERDAY WITH MASS EFFECT 2, I'LL TURN PIRATE, AND NEVER LOOK BACK. I paid full price for a game, so I can listen to my buddies who pirated it talk about it for days before I get to play it, and when I finally go to unlock the game already installed on my HD, I can't play it because EA's auth servers can't handle the load THAT ALL OF THE PRE-ORDER SALES FIGURES INFORMED THEM WAS COMING. I personally view this as incompetence or indifference on a criminal scale. As a paying customer, for the first time I felt abused, and I'm not going to put up with that again.
Clean up your act, EA. Come back to reality, Ubisoft. You are killing the golden goose.
They can ask, but you don't have to tell them. That's the key. Again, they should be able to tell if you are bullshitting them without a number. In fact, let's say you are bullshitting them - who is to say your number is not bullshit too?
I've had employment agencies pull this on me. I've told them no. They told me they would not be able to help me without it. I told them I'd be happy to work with another agency. Miraculously, the subject got dropped.
I think the answer is obvious. Speaking generally...engineers lack basic social skills that give them an over-inflated sense of self-worth. I've seen a lot of liberal arts major bashing in the comments to this story. I hate to break it to all of you engineers, but Liberal Arts majors are the ones getting laid and getting paid. They are the ones deciding what projects you build. In short, you work for them. Why do you think that is?
This lack of social skills makes them easily manipulated. They are so certain that they are right, and so certain that they are superior, and so outcome driven, that all it takes is a couple of nudges in the right direction, and an engineer will do all the work for you. In other words, there is no need to brainwash these people. They will do it to themselves. All you have to do is set them on the path.
Don't* go out of your way to mention your salary (unless asked), and if you do mention it, make sure they know that you consider your current salary inadequate.
NO. Never disclose your salary. The proper response is "I won't tell you what I make, but I'll tell you what I want." Your salary is none of their business. If they insist they must know your salary, express dismay that they do not have confidence in their interviewing process, and walk away. They should know how much they are willing to pay to have a particular job done, and their interview process should be good enough to determine if you are capable of doing it. Alternatively, tell them you'd be happy to disclose your salary if the hiring manager discloses his.
Always remember - the first person to throw out a number in a negotiation loses. Walk away before it happens to you (and if you didn't already know that you've lost any negotiation you aren't willing to walk away from, consider yourself informed).
Speaking as someone who had one of the best meals of his life at wd-50 (got to stammeringly meet Mr. Dufresne too), if you have not tried it, you have no idea what you are missing. It's like getting dinner and a magic show all at the same time. The best thing we had was the dessert - a gianduja (hazelnut chocolate) that was cold to the touch, and molten on the inside. It was amazing.
ecommending the guy call the BSA to prove a point would be like telling me that it's okay to wreck a file server to illustrate to my boss the importance of warranties.
Bullshit. The BSA exists to help software companies. For every nice lady in accounting that gets to keep her job because her boss pirates software, some engineer gets laid off because of assholes like you.
I think a lot of what you are experiencing is a reaction to the belief from say 1950 to 1980 that only people of your character (conservative, white, heterosexual, Christian male) were intelligent and had value. I know after 8 years of being called a traitor for being a liberal I sure was ready to stick it to you guys. Not saying that all of this is deserved but, you reap what you sow.
I wouldn't worry too much however. Looks like it will be my turn in three years.
Let's just say the Dems are responsible for making the rules lax. It's BS, buts let's give it to them. Where did all the money come from to buy up those CDO's? Where is the demand coming from? This talking point is just a cover Republicans use to hide the fact that they gave a ton of money to the rich, who then cratered the economy with it.
Ask any mortgage broker about being forced to lend. the exact opposite was happening. Banks were falling all over themselves to make these loans. This is pure bullshit.
The first and foremost such "investors" were Fannie Mae and Freddi Mac -- then-quasi (and now fully) government owned corporations, pressured by the government to lower the requirements on the mortgages that could be off-loaded to them by the private banks.
That pressure to buy ever-riskier loans was what caused these "investors" to allow the banks sell ever-riskier mortgages. The Democrats were doing it "help the poor" of course -- in their attempts to make the poor richer, they made the rich poorer..
This is a classic case of blaming the victim. It tells a very narrow part of the story, designed to draw attention away from the real problem - the Bush tax cuts.
During the Bush years, taxes were cut so much on the wealthy a flood of new capital entered the market. The return on T-bills was terrible due to the massive interest rate cuts. All of this capital was desperately seeking a haven with decent returns. Investment banks looked around and saw the mortgage market, which had consistently been rock solid due to the lending practices of the banks. Default rates were less than 2%. They started selling CDOs to pick up the slack in the T-bill market. This put enormous pressure on banks to make more loans, which caused them to loosen their borrowing standards. The existence of Fannie and Freddie were really irrelevant - it wasn't Fannie and Freddie buying the mortgages, it was other banks putting together CDOs to sell them to investment banks.
But nice try blaming the Democrats for trying to help the less fortunate. Too bad we're not buying it anymore.
Rest assured, this is how about a third of America sees it as well. When I hear accusations of "the liberal media" I have a hard time not laughing out loud.
Simple Solution: Bob the janitor is now the CEO of Microsoft. The former executives were all hired by the independent MikroSoft Corp., an independent consulting firm which does nothing but manage other firms... their only client, Microsoft, pays them quite well for their valuable service. Of course all 100 of them are paid quite well.
Then Bob the CEO terminates the contract with MikroSoft Corp for being a bunch of wankers that thinks he is an idiot. I am not in favor of such a law though. The more I see how thoroughly corrupt our system is, the more I'm beginning to favor the example of the French 200 years ago. Set up the guillotine in Times Square. The ratings would be spectacular.
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We take peoples rights away all the time. It's called prison. You're an idiot.
Trans fats have been removed from your favorite foods for a few years now. Can you honestly say you can tell?
They didn't drop religion due to political correctness. They dropped it because it added nothing constructive to the gameplay - ironic, isn't it?
However, if you chose to build your own system, there is really only one way to do it: decide what you want to spend, and then buy the best components for the price. This takes all the guess work out of it. For a system like yours, you want to place a premium on CPU and GPU. I'd recommend the Intel Core i5 750 (the difference between the i5 and i7 is the i7 has hyper-threading, the i5 doesn't - but how many apps do you know of that can take advantage of 8 cores?). For GPUs, this chart is invaluable: Tom's Hardware Graphic Card Hierarchy Chart. Since NVIDIA just announced its latest line of cards, the 295 should drop in price relatively soon. From my experience, the GPU should be the most expensive component on your PC. I try to hit the $300 price point. At that price, you will be able to play all the new games at their high settings for at least 2 years, and your system will still be serviceable in 4.
The rest of your components are kind of extraneous. As a general rule, go for more, slower RAM (4 gigs of slower RAM will give you much better performance than 2 of the best). Your mobo will be tied to your CPU, so you won't have a ton of choice there. Avoid boards that cost less than $100 - they are unreliable. Avoid high RPM HDs - they are almost never worth the extra cost.
Your lesson: steer clear of Paypal, not Steam.
I'll sacrifice some culture for breathing room. Guess I learned something about myself on that trip.
Didn't read the article, but the industry has very specific rules about what you can tell a client. Basically, you can never guarantee something will make money. Firms have to be able to produce 7 years of correspondence from a broker on demand. This meant that as an employee of a firm, while at work I was not able to use any communication channel not controlled by the firm (due to archive reasons). This meant no web mail, twitter, Facebook, anything. From what I see, FINRA is just pointing out that even though technology has changed, these rules have not.
None of those are a problem to a pirate. Any problems like that, and I am one. I'm not a pirate now because the experience is roughly the same, and it is worth the money to me not to have to find a game, download it, make sure it has no viruses, and wonder forever if it has some back door somewhere that I have missed. The price of a game is not changing, but the experience is getting worse. Once the experience gets worse than the PITA, it's all over for me.
I was an early adopter of Steam. If you are like me, and have not been a habitual pirate, Steam is awesome. I don't have to have boxes of games and manuals lying around, no more swapping CDs, my computers install all of their games on their own...Steam has made games so cheap I find myself buying some and never playing them. I'm collecting them like baseball cards, or candy.
The point of all of this is I am the customer the gaming industry wants. I'm the one buying their games, and buying games for my wife and kids. They cannot afford to piss people like me off. Here is the part that everyone who works in the gaming industry should read:
IF I HAVE ONE MORE EXPERIENCE LIKE I HAD YESTERDAY WITH MASS EFFECT 2, I'LL TURN PIRATE, AND NEVER LOOK BACK. I paid full price for a game, so I can listen to my buddies who pirated it talk about it for days before I get to play it, and when I finally go to unlock the game already installed on my HD, I can't play it because EA's auth servers can't handle the load THAT ALL OF THE PRE-ORDER SALES FIGURES INFORMED THEM WAS COMING. I personally view this as incompetence or indifference on a criminal scale. As a paying customer, for the first time I felt abused, and I'm not going to put up with that again.
Clean up your act, EA. Come back to reality, Ubisoft. You are killing the golden goose.
The first market for social robots will be fuckbots. You must be new here.
And I would point out that Tim Burton's Batman was 11 years ahead of X-Men. Before that you have to go to a Superman movie.
I've had employment agencies pull this on me. I've told them no. They told me they would not be able to help me without it. I told them I'd be happy to work with another agency. Miraculously, the subject got dropped.
This lack of social skills makes them easily manipulated. They are so certain that they are right, and so certain that they are superior, and so outcome driven, that all it takes is a couple of nudges in the right direction, and an engineer will do all the work for you. In other words, there is no need to brainwash these people. They will do it to themselves. All you have to do is set them on the path.
NO. Never disclose your salary. The proper response is "I won't tell you what I make, but I'll tell you what I want." Your salary is none of their business. If they insist they must know your salary, express dismay that they do not have confidence in their interviewing process, and walk away. They should know how much they are willing to pay to have a particular job done, and their interview process should be good enough to determine if you are capable of doing it. Alternatively, tell them you'd be happy to disclose your salary if the hiring manager discloses his.
Always remember - the first person to throw out a number in a negotiation loses. Walk away before it happens to you (and if you didn't already know that you've lost any negotiation you aren't willing to walk away from, consider yourself informed).
Huge fan. Definitely the most strategic RTS I have ever played.
Speaking as someone who had one of the best meals of his life at wd-50 (got to stammeringly meet Mr. Dufresne too), if you have not tried it, you have no idea what you are missing. It's like getting dinner and a magic show all at the same time. The best thing we had was the dessert - a gianduja (hazelnut chocolate) that was cold to the touch, and molten on the inside. It was amazing.
Bullshit. The BSA exists to help software companies. For every nice lady in accounting that gets to keep her job because her boss pirates software, some engineer gets laid off because of assholes like you.
HE WAS MISQUOTED. Jeez. Typo.
I wouldn't worry too much however. Looks like it will be my turn in three years.
Let's just say the Dems are responsible for making the rules lax. It's BS, buts let's give it to them. Where did all the money come from to buy up those CDO's? Where is the demand coming from? This talking point is just a cover Republicans use to hide the fact that they gave a ton of money to the rich, who then cratered the economy with it.
Ask any mortgage broker about being forced to lend. the exact opposite was happening. Banks were falling all over themselves to make these loans. This is pure bullshit.
This is a classic case of blaming the victim. It tells a very narrow part of the story, designed to draw attention away from the real problem - the Bush tax cuts.
During the Bush years, taxes were cut so much on the wealthy a flood of new capital entered the market. The return on T-bills was terrible due to the massive interest rate cuts. All of this capital was desperately seeking a haven with decent returns. Investment banks looked around and saw the mortgage market, which had consistently been rock solid due to the lending practices of the banks. Default rates were less than 2%. They started selling CDOs to pick up the slack in the T-bill market. This put enormous pressure on banks to make more loans, which caused them to loosen their borrowing standards. The existence of Fannie and Freddie were really irrelevant - it wasn't Fannie and Freddie buying the mortgages, it was other banks putting together CDOs to sell them to investment banks.
But nice try blaming the Democrats for trying to help the less fortunate. Too bad we're not buying it anymore.
Rest assured, this is how about a third of America sees it as well. When I hear accusations of "the liberal media" I have a hard time not laughing out loud.
This is false. The primary goal of a newspaper is to sell eyeballs. The information is what they use to attract them.
Then Bob the CEO terminates the contract with MikroSoft Corp for being a bunch of wankers that thinks he is an idiot. I am not in favor of such a law though. The more I see how thoroughly corrupt our system is, the more I'm beginning to favor the example of the French 200 years ago. Set up the guillotine in Times Square. The ratings would be spectacular.