Surely it's only fair that the most committed people get the best jobs? If you were sacrificing yourself for the company, you'd be pretty pissed off if you were passed over for promotion and it was given to a relative part-timer who just sees it as a source of income.
To be fair, Warcraft wasn't that widely known before World of Warcraft. I'd estimate than less than 10% of the players of the latter had played the former.
How is digital TV progress? It freezes up all the time (have fun tivoing a show just to come back to an hour-long frozen picture), the box crashes all the time, it takes forever to change channels and teletext doesn't work. I don't see the point in extra channels considering the main channels are just showing repeats.
Personally, I'd rather spend 45 minutes of stress-free commuting playing with some techno gizmo than worrying about paying for and maintaining an SUV.
Public transport is stress free? So what of: 1. Standing in the rain for an hour waiting to see if it turns up 2. Being thrown off because you don't have the right change 3. Sitting amongst unruly, foul-mouthed kids 4. Your shopping spilling all over the floor 5. Getting there late 6. Only being able to travel at certain hours 7. Having to walk several miles to and from each bus stop counts as stress free?
My journey to work is ten minutes in the car door to door. With public transport, well over an hour. Well that was until they cancelled the route, now it's infinity time.
He's by no means the first talentless person to get millions of views on youtube and he won't be the last. Hell some of the highest viewed videos on there are people on webcams lip-syncing songs, so I don't know if being viewed by a couple of million people on there means an awful lot.
1.6 million is less than some obscure regional TV stations. You get watched by more people falling off a trampoline on You've Been Framed.
How would offering videos and movies reduce music sales? Your post makes absolutely no sense. No-one is going to buy a song on itunes then say 'Oh hang on they're selling movies as well, I won't buy this song'.
The simple fact is that if locking people into a cage for a specified term were actually a deterrent then the US would have the lowest crime of any country anywhere (it is my understanding that the US has more %age of pop'n locked up than anyone else).
Have you considered that the US needs so many people in prison BECAUSE they have such a high crime rate? If locking people up causes them to commit crimes when they get out then they shouldn't be let out at all.
I wouldn't be surprised if the softness of the American prison system contributes to America's high crime rate. Exercise yards, gyms, TVs etc, no wonder people like committing crime and being locked up.
Have you ever seen a Japanese or Singaporean prison? They seem to have pretty low crime rates...
I would think someone who murders someone deserves emotionally driven revenge through punishment. There should be no computers in jail, no gyms, no pool tables and no TVs. The only entertainment should be smashing rocks.
No wonder there's so much crime when prison is practically a holiday camp.
Broadband is nowhere near as reliable as electricity. For one electricity doesn't cut you off if you use too much of it, and it doesn't go down when too many people are using it like on a Sunday night.
In all those places they had massive backup, and in several of them the people there actually didn't mind their presence. And I don't think you should really get credit for conquering your own country.
One thing you're forgetting is that the Iraqis are equally restrained. If every Iraqi with a gun decides it's time to wipe out Americans, then there's going to be a hell of a lot of coffin-sized Stars and Stripes being sold.
The police action that has followed this second time is more problematic. But that is not a military problem.
It's not a military problem to control the situation they created? Yeah I suppose that about sums up America. Believe it or not, there is more to a war than the initial occupation. But then when has America ever managed to subdue anything bigger than a small Caribbean island?
If they want to beat youtube, all they have to do is not have that recent youtube change whereby the left-hand menu is right on top of the first column of videos in Firefox. Makes it completely unusuable; apparently all those PHDs don't actually count for anything in the real world when a bug like that gets out.
Or maybe Google don't think it's worth their while testing on browsers other than IE.
Not anymore. The speedo reports back to the CPU for the cruise control and other functions.
I think you should learn to read. The thread was about cars needing computers. The fact that speedos, transmissions etc worked before computers even existed proves they are unnecessary. Computers have no place in cars.
Most of those were decades ago, America is still starting wars today. And for the record Afghanistan and Iraq are now much WORSE places to live than before the Americans got their chubby hands on them.
You enjoy cars with no dashboard/power steering/anti-lock brakes/automatic transmission/fuel gage/speedometer/etc?
Speedometers, fuel gages etc are mechanical, power steering and anti-lock breaks are unnecessary, and as for automatic transmission, I am neither old, disabled or American so have no use for it.
They can't get affordable health care from their employers; they can't afford healthy food and, since fast food is all they can afford, their health is destroyed.
BULLSHIT. Fast food is more expensive than healthy food. A burger costs more than an apple. A pizza costs more than some vegetables. Exercise is free!
It's in situations like these that I support communism or even its loose form (socialism). In many cases these rich folks are able to remain rich because of influence peddling, crony-ism, threats and corruption.
Can you say 'class envy'? I could say that in many cases the poor folks remain poor because of laziness, stupidity and ignorance. You know the sort, up to their eyeballs in debt but they have a brand new TV and stereo, they're claiming benefits but always have enough money for cigarettes and alcohol etc.
Bullshit, the actors got paid that much because it was an insanely popular programme that depended on those characters being in it. If the actors left the programme would collapse, that's why they could demand such figures.
Also Jennifer Aniston was the only photogenic actor in Friends.
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Surely it's only fair that the most committed people get the best jobs? If you were sacrificing yourself for the company, you'd be pretty pissed off if you were passed over for promotion and it was given to a relative part-timer who just sees it as a source of income.
Are we going to have a Slashdot story for every 'neat' novelty video posted to youtube?
To be fair, Warcraft wasn't that widely known before World of Warcraft. I'd estimate than less than 10% of the players of the latter had played the former.
Try after school closing time. Or after pub closing time...
Yeah now try keeping track of ten of them, full of stuff that breaks if you drop it.
So if the timing isn't right, you could be waiting for up to an hour waiting for the bus?
And I've still never seen a bus service that runs regularly 24/7. Cars can do that.
How is digital TV progress? It freezes up all the time (have fun tivoing a show just to come back to an hour-long frozen picture), the box crashes all the time, it takes forever to change channels and teletext doesn't work. I don't see the point in extra channels considering the main channels are just showing repeats.
In my opinion digital TV is a step backwards.
Public transport is stress free? So what of:
1. Standing in the rain for an hour waiting to see if it turns up
2. Being thrown off because you don't have the right change
3. Sitting amongst unruly, foul-mouthed kids
4. Your shopping spilling all over the floor
5. Getting there late
6. Only being able to travel at certain hours
7. Having to walk several miles to and from each bus stop
counts as stress free?
My journey to work is ten minutes in the car door to door. With public transport, well over an hour. Well that was until they cancelled the route, now it's infinity time.
He's by no means the first talentless person to get millions of views on youtube and he won't be the last. Hell some of the highest viewed videos on there are people on webcams lip-syncing songs, so I don't know if being viewed by a couple of million people on there means an awful lot.
1.6 million is less than some obscure regional TV stations. You get watched by more people falling off a trampoline on You've Been Framed.
How would offering videos and movies reduce music sales? Your post makes absolutely no sense. No-one is going to buy a song on itunes then say 'Oh hang on they're selling movies as well, I won't buy this song'.
Have you considered that the US needs so many people in prison BECAUSE they have such a high crime rate? If locking people up causes them to commit crimes when they get out then they shouldn't be let out at all.
I wouldn't be surprised if the softness of the American prison system contributes to America's high crime rate. Exercise yards, gyms, TVs etc, no wonder people like committing crime and being locked up.
Have you ever seen a Japanese or Singaporean prison? They seem to have pretty low crime rates...
I would think someone who murders someone deserves emotionally driven revenge through punishment. There should be no computers in jail, no gyms, no pool tables and no TVs. The only entertainment should be smashing rocks.
No wonder there's so much crime when prison is practically a holiday camp.
Broadband is nowhere near as reliable as electricity. For one electricity doesn't cut you off if you use too much of it, and it doesn't go down when too many people are using it like on a Sunday night.
They should stop bashing Vista when things stop going wrong with it.
In all those places they had massive backup, and in several of them the people there actually didn't mind their presence. And I don't think you should really get credit for conquering your own country.
It's not a military problem to control the situation they created? Yeah I suppose that about sums up America. Believe it or not, there is more to a war than the initial occupation. But then when has America ever managed to subdue anything bigger than a small Caribbean island?
If they want to beat youtube, all they have to do is not have that recent youtube change whereby the left-hand menu is right on top of the first column of videos in Firefox. Makes it completely unusuable; apparently all those PHDs don't actually count for anything in the real world when a bug like that gets out.
Or maybe Google don't think it's worth their while testing on browsers other than IE.
Yeah in Britan we banned guns and... oh wait never mind. Well in Canada they have loads of guns and so..wait never mind that one as well.
I think you should learn to read. The thread was about cars needing computers. The fact that speedos, transmissions etc worked before computers even existed proves they are unnecessary. Computers have no place in cars.
Most of those were decades ago, America is still starting wars today. And for the record Afghanistan and Iraq are now much WORSE places to live than before the Americans got their chubby hands on them.
Speedometers, fuel gages etc are mechanical, power steering and anti-lock breaks are unnecessary, and as for automatic transmission, I am neither old, disabled or American so have no use for it.
If Google's that smart why have they fucked up youtube so that the column on the left is right on top of the first column of videos on Firefox?
BULLSHIT. Fast food is more expensive than healthy food. A burger costs more than an apple. A pizza costs more than some vegetables. Exercise is free!
Maybe they want to do more interesting things than work out different ways to show ads to people?
Can you say 'class envy'? I could say that in many cases the poor folks remain poor because of laziness, stupidity and ignorance. You know the sort, up to their eyeballs in debt but they have a brand new TV and stereo, they're claiming benefits but always have enough money for cigarettes and alcohol etc.
It became popular THEN they could demand high wages, not the other way round. Before Friends they were all nobodies.
Bullshit, the actors got paid that much because it was an insanely popular programme that depended on those characters being in it. If the actors left the programme would collapse, that's why they could demand such figures.
Also Jennifer Aniston was the only photogenic actor in Friends.