i wonder if the perception of phone numbers as something that frequently changes has any correlation with job-hopping. it would seem to me that the type of person who jumps jobs every 2 years would probably also be the type of person who moves frequently and thus doesn't always get to keep their phone number, and i'm going to take a wild guess that at least some people here fit neatly in that category.
of course, i've only been in my current job for about 7 months and my landline number is 6 years old, so obviously it doesn't always match up, but still...
really kind of a pointless post, now that i look at it, but there it is anyway.
I probably am over analyzing it - I tend to do that. No offense intended. It does look like a pretty fun game. Having a bit of history as a musician though I can say that gigging can be a pretty fun game too (and can sometimes involve the aforementioned women & hydrocodone as well if you choose). Maybe having the "real" musical outlet makes me less likely to seek out one in a game, I don't know. I do know that having kids & a job & stuff made me basically hate the "Sims" games because telling people to get up, go to school, eat, etc is stuff I do daily and hence made the games really tedious to me. YMMV, of course.
In the end if you're enjoying yourself that's really what matters. Rock on!
For what the game console and game itself cost you could have a decent entry-level drum set, but I guess it's all a matter of priorities. Personally I have 3 drum sets and my newest game system is a several-year old X-box, so I guess it's easy to see which way I lean. Of course, you can't do all manner of fragging and such on a drum set either so it's a bit of a trade-off.
I think these games have an upside & downside - the upside is that it kind of lets the player know what it's like to play in a band, similar to how training wheels let you kind of know what it's like to ride a bike. They also kind of let you know how to read music/tab, but not really. At least it exposes the concepts of sight-reading & memorization - 2 good things for musicians.
A possible downside is that the relative ease of getting proficient at one of these sorts of games might make learning to play a musical instrument a bit more discouraging for those with high expectations and short attention spans, but that's probably moot since they'd end up quitting anyway.
I guess I shouldn't over-analyze it - it's a cool game concept that could at least potentially move someone in a creative direction, so I'm all about it. Plus that drum-controller mod is way cool.
I think you hit the nail squarely on the head. The argument of the second article mentioned, that all companies basically gain the same "advantage" and thus tech isn't worth it (a dubious argument at best - what if you're a year ahead?), overlooks the obvious point that even if tech doesn't give you an edge over the competition it can still improve your internal processes and make yours (and the other guys) companies more efficient. I have to wonder who this guy is related to because it doesn't seem to me that he rose to his position due to his clarity of thought.
It's quite possible that her real mileage is lower than what I stated as well - her mileage is all word-of-mouth - I personally have never tested her vehicle's mileage. Like Lou Reed says: "You can't always trust your mother." She's happy as a clam with it though and it definitely does better than her previous vehicles did, so that's a good thing.
I'm going on a road trip this weekend with her actually so I'll go ahead and check it and reply back sunday or monday with what it did. I'm interested now...
My mom's Prius uses less gas than my Harley does. I get between 40 & 45 mpg depending on how I ride and whether or not I have a passenger but she routinely gets upwards of 70 mpg in that thing.
Someone above was dogging the performance of Harleys, and compared to sport bikes I'd say it's justified, but there are very few cars where I live that have anything even close in terms of acceleration, and not just from a stop - my bike will go from 60 to 80 mph in a startlingly short amount of time. My friend has a Ducati and it's even more noticeable with that thing (understatement). The Camero crew just *think* they have sporty vehicles...comparing the performance of cars to motorcycles is silly.
I wonder if the batteries are more volatile than the 5 gallons of gasoline that go in the tank of my bike. That's always one of the "keep in back of mind" things about regular motorcycles - if the tank ruptures or leaks while sliding (creating sparks) things just got a lot more complicated.
I've never really looked up any stats on how often that happens though, so I don't know how big of a concern it really is, although I'm sure somebody out there in motorcycles-are-responsible-for-high-insurance-land will mentally add it to the list of reasons why people shouldn't [be allowed to] ride motorcycles.
If the batteries work well and are stable I'd say that you're right and it is good PR for this pretty cool invention that I'd love to spend about 500 miles with some weekend...
Yeah, I know - hard to beat empirical evidence like I threw out there... Yeah, I actually do understand how businesses function, and I understand supply and demand too. The point I was trying to make is simply this : as an industry insurance has done well for itself toward the goal of maximizing profits by lobbying for their services to be mandatory via legislation. I don't disagree that insurance is a useful thing and I also don't disagree that companies deserve to make a profit. Where I get miffed is when I am legally required to contribute to their profitability by purchasing their services whether I like it or not and whether I need the service they provide or not. I gotta hand it to them though - lobbying to push legislation making your product legally required is a great way to guarantee demand.
You can extol the virtues of insurance companies all you like, that's fine, but I think that the industry as a whole gouges the American public and has governmental backing in doing so. In many ways (likely including seats on their boards) they resemble the oil industry crying "expenses costs risks" while they rake in record profits at the publics expense, again with government complicity. If you think that this industry has your best interests in mind and that you're being treated fairly by them then that's great for you and I'm glad that you feel satisfied with deal you've struck with them.
I love the "you drive up my insurance costs by doing X" arguments that people make. The simple reality is that insurance costs a lot because the BMWs, mansions, property, etc that people who own insurance companies like to own cost a lot. As the price of the luxury goods that the people who run these FOR PROFIT companies (which have managed to dupe the government into making the purchase of their "services" mandatory for ordinary citizens) rises the rates will rise accordingly.
People can delude themselves that other customers doing crazy, dangerous stuff like riding motorcycles is the cause of high rates if they like but that doesn't make it so. I am detecting hints of "people shouldn't be allowed to do X because it's dangerous", which basically means "people shouldn't be allowed to do X because I'm not interested in it or I'm scared of it", in this thread as well. I find this type of mentality extremely annoying. Scared to swim with sharks, climb mountains, ride skateboards, ski, play rugby, ride motorcycles, fly airplanes, etc? Fine - stay at home on the couch and suck your thumb - but don't tell me that I'm not allowed to do these things, and definitely don't tell me that your allowing some insurance company to rip you off is my fault.
If you live in a state or country that has prisons & laws (and especially the death penalty) it could be argued that you don't actually own yourself, or at least that the government has the right to revoke your ownership of yourself based on your behavior and their laws. Since elected officials in the US such as state governors can sign death warrants on their citizens you have to wonder how much of yourself you actually *do* own.
I actually agree with your post, I just had to go off on a little tangent about the whole ownership thing because it annoys me that some bureaucrats are granted the authority to kill people with a pen based on campaign promises about balancing budgets and family values. WTF? Isn't it comforting to know that men of such integrity hold your lives in their hands?
I meant "ugly" in the sense of "Not the way I would have done it" rather than in a "Holy shit, what a freakin' mess! This guy should be bagging groceries, not writing software!" kind of way. I certainly do not think that clever tricks and mounds of complex spaghetti code that were designed by avalanche is maintainable, believe me.
I also have (unfortunately) written enough ugly stuff that when I go back later I say "I can't believe I actually did something that stupid."
You live, ideally you learn, and when you look at code you wrote 5 years ago you likely slap your forehead in embarrassment - that's how you know you're getting better. That, and when your coworkers aren't trying to slash their wrists when they get handed something you wrote...
The first thing I was told by my boss when I got hired was "You're going to look at this app and want to rewrite it from scratch. Don't do it, that's not what we want you for." Software doesn't need to be pretty, you just make improvements as you can and leave the ugly but solid code alone until necessary. It's an extremely rare situation to have the luxury of a complete redesign/rewrite.
I guess that's a long way of saying "I agree completely with what you just said."
Plus, the human immune system has a habit of attacking anything remotely foreign.
From what I can see it seems that the whole human SPECIES has this trait. I wonder if "we" will be to the task when we start trying to take planets away from our neighbors...
I think that the two following posts are correct (and I was incorrect). Here's my cousin's reply:
I hope I know the laws, I took the course and scored 100% on the test. An establishment does have the right to not allow concealed weapons even if you have a permit. To do this they must post a sign that is easily observable. If an establishment posts a NO FIREARMS sign it is illegal to carry a firearm at that location. It is always illegal to carry a firearm in a bar or restaurant that serves alcoholic beverages.
I guess the right of the property owner trumps the right of the individual in Ohio. Makes sense in a way, I guess. Learn something new every day.
If you have a permit then I'm not sure that a sign at a business trumps your legal right to carry in that location. I have a cousin & uncle - both in OH & both with CCW permits - I'll have to ask them about it. Seems to me though that the owner of a convenience store's wishes do not outweigh a state-issued permit - business owners aren't generally allowed to draft legislation without buying off congressmen first...you can't just stick a sign out somewhere that says blue cars aren't allowed to use your parking lot or whatever and expect it to be legally binding. Any lawyers out there who know anything about this?
I wouldn't be surprised if Wolfowitz's job at the World Bank is up for grabs soon, maybe he should look there. He seems to have what it takes. Of course, Ken Lay's would be a good one for someone like this if the position (and the company) hadn't been "eliminated" by people with similar ethical qualities.
I got rid of my cell phone about 5 months ago and after a week I was wondering why I ever thought I needed it. It's just one more unnecessary thing to worry about. I don't know how I'd feel about losing my dsl though - I'm not ready to find out. I guess you have to take this "off the grid" thing in baby steps.
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of course, i've only been in my current job for about 7 months and my landline number is 6 years old, so obviously it doesn't always match up, but still...
really kind of a pointless post, now that i look at it, but there it is anyway.
Q: What do you say to a drummer in a suit? A: "Will the defendant please rise."
In the end if you're enjoying yourself that's really what matters. Rock on!
I think these games have an upside & downside - the upside is that it kind of lets the player know what it's like to play in a band, similar to how training wheels let you kind of know what it's like to ride a bike. They also kind of let you know how to read music/tab, but not really. At least it exposes the concepts of sight-reading & memorization - 2 good things for musicians.
A possible downside is that the relative ease of getting proficient at one of these sorts of games might make learning to play a musical instrument a bit more discouraging for those with high expectations and short attention spans, but that's probably moot since they'd end up quitting anyway.
I guess I shouldn't over-analyze it - it's a cool game concept that could at least potentially move someone in a creative direction, so I'm all about it. Plus that drum-controller mod is way cool.
I think you hit the nail squarely on the head. The argument of the second article mentioned, that all companies basically gain the same "advantage" and thus tech isn't worth it (a dubious argument at best - what if you're a year ahead?), overlooks the obvious point that even if tech doesn't give you an edge over the competition it can still improve your internal processes and make yours (and the other guys) companies more efficient. I have to wonder who this guy is related to because it doesn't seem to me that he rose to his position due to his clarity of thought.
I'm going on a road trip this weekend with her actually so I'll go ahead and check it and reply back sunday or monday with what it did. I'm interested now...
Someone above was dogging the performance of Harleys, and compared to sport bikes I'd say it's justified, but there are very few cars where I live that have anything even close in terms of acceleration, and not just from a stop - my bike will go from 60 to 80 mph in a startlingly short amount of time. My friend has a Ducati and it's even more noticeable with that thing (understatement). The Camero crew just *think* they have sporty vehicles...comparing the performance of cars to motorcycles is silly.
the problem is to find one of the aforementioned phd chicks dumb enough to have anything to do with me...
I've never really looked up any stats on how often that happens though, so I don't know how big of a concern it really is, although I'm sure somebody out there in motorcycles-are-responsible-for-high-insurance-land will mentally add it to the list of reasons why people shouldn't [be allowed to] ride motorcycles.
If the batteries work well and are stable I'd say that you're right and it is good PR for this pretty cool invention that I'd love to spend about 500 miles with some weekend...
You can extol the virtues of insurance companies all you like, that's fine, but I think that the industry as a whole gouges the American public and has governmental backing in doing so. In many ways (likely including seats on their boards) they resemble the oil industry crying "expenses costs risks" while they rake in record profits at the publics expense, again with government complicity. If you think that this industry has your best interests in mind and that you're being treated fairly by them then that's great for you and I'm glad that you feel satisfied with deal you've struck with them.
People can delude themselves that other customers doing crazy, dangerous stuff like riding motorcycles is the cause of high rates if they like but that doesn't make it so. I am detecting hints of "people shouldn't be allowed to do X because it's dangerous", which basically means "people shouldn't be allowed to do X because I'm not interested in it or I'm scared of it", in this thread as well. I find this type of mentality extremely annoying. Scared to swim with sharks, climb mountains, ride skateboards, ski, play rugby, ride motorcycles, fly airplanes, etc? Fine - stay at home on the couch and suck your thumb - but don't tell me that I'm not allowed to do these things, and definitely don't tell me that your allowing some insurance company to rip you off is my fault.
*ack* [dies]
Perhaps an airplane full of "missing" nukes hit it.
The Spice Girls expand consciousness. [brain explodes]
I actually agree with your post, I just had to go off on a little tangent about the whole ownership thing because it annoys me that some bureaucrats are granted the authority to kill people with a pen based on campaign promises about balancing budgets and family values. WTF? Isn't it comforting to know that men of such integrity hold your lives in their hands?
...and that's not "nuclear", it's "nucular" - right?
I also have (unfortunately) written enough ugly stuff that when I go back later I say "I can't believe I actually did something that stupid."
You live, ideally you learn, and when you look at code you wrote 5 years ago you likely slap your forehead in embarrassment - that's how you know you're getting better. That, and when your coworkers aren't trying to slash their wrists when they get handed something you wrote...
I guess that's a long way of saying "I agree completely with what you just said."
If there was anything in my High School more dangerous to students than the Pizza Burgers they served us I'd like to know what it was... [shudders]
Another appx 100-year-older is the not-so-ineffective 30-06. One of those puppies will put a definite plot twist into any play.
From what I can see it seems that the whole human SPECIES has this trait. I wonder if "we" will be to the task when we start trying to take planets away from our neighbors...
I guess the right of the property owner trumps the right of the individual in Ohio. Makes sense in a way, I guess. Learn something new every day.
If you have a permit then I'm not sure that a sign at a business trumps your legal right to carry in that location. I have a cousin & uncle - both in OH & both with CCW permits - I'll have to ask them about it. Seems to me though that the owner of a convenience store's wishes do not outweigh a state-issued permit - business owners aren't generally allowed to draft legislation without buying off congressmen first...you can't just stick a sign out somewhere that says blue cars aren't allowed to use your parking lot or whatever and expect it to be legally binding. Any lawyers out there who know anything about this?
I wouldn't be surprised if Wolfowitz's job at the World Bank is up for grabs soon, maybe he should look there. He seems to have what it takes. Of course, Ken Lay's would be a good one for someone like this if the position (and the company) hadn't been "eliminated" by people with similar ethical qualities.
I got rid of my cell phone about 5 months ago and after a week I was wondering why I ever thought I needed it. It's just one more unnecessary thing to worry about. I don't know how I'd feel about losing my dsl though - I'm not ready to find out. I guess you have to take this "off the grid" thing in baby steps.