Money is actually my only real reason. At this point it's still quite unrealistic for me to pay $50 for a game. My attention span has a crippling infant mortality and there's a good chance I simply won't like the game. If I download it play it and like it, then I already have the game and see physically going to store and buying it as an annoyance-- what ever happened to real manuals?
Anyway I'd gladly pay around $20-$30 for a game. It's not much money and infact I donate about that much to open source projects I like. What I would really appreciate is a buy-a-key program. That is, you download the image, burn it yourself, then install and play with a bought key. Instant access, and virtually no bother to me. The only issue is I don't get any bonus includes but those are pretty much drying up anyway (moo2 to Moo3, Civ2 to Civ3, where are my roll-out maps and tech trees now?).
If they paid people in other countries the same wages, they would be creating a new upper class in each of those countries. If the cost of labor (read: cost of living) is lower, by all means pay less. Just don't be paying a lower % than the % difference in the cost of labor.
Specifically the way Intel does it, there is a base salary for a position. The pay is then modified depending on performance and cost of labor. This cost of labor is an on-the-top add on. I think California is currently at 13 or 15%, meaning that identical people there to somewhere else will make 13% more. Everything those people buy will also cost 13% more.
Now the flip side: As the labor market becomes saturated demand for goods increases and so does pay. It's an extremely slow balancing act but any laws slow it even more, but eventually something will click making the US once again good for companies (if not for labor cost reasons).
I'm looking at all the USA mirrors. The few that do have a 3.5 directory seem to have an empty i386 under it. Does anyone know of a mirror that's ready?
Thank you for ccompletely not taking into account that, and to add your equal emphasis, THINGS COST LESS. Yes if I were to work and India and pay for US goods, I'd be poor as hell.
As a side note, please PLEASE never confuse IT with any engineering discipline. Anyway my most likely course would be to get a transfer through Intel (working there now) to another site off-country. We work with people in Bangalore and all over all the time and have never heard any financial complaints.
I remember reading that the reason they wanted to stop service on the Hubble was that they were going to replace it with a much better telescope (which one would assume would be cheaper and better). This being the case I don't see what the fuss is about them not wanting to mess with the hubble anymore. It's obsolete. At least let them keep it in orbit for a few decades while until it becomes feasible to bring it back to Earth. That'd be costly enough but to keep it operational is extreme.
I have no problem with the outsourcing and I completely agree with it. Hell I'm a computer engineer. If my job gets outsourced to India or whatever, I'll just go there and work. This same argument can be made state to state as country to country. Jobs are taken from a state so it becomes less populated (I'm from Maine). Jobs are taken from a country so it becomes less populated.
The only dangers I've heard of that I can agree with is when the plants get into the regular environment. Just like planting something that doesn't belong, it could completely take over acres of area, especially if they are bug resistant.
As for human health, the body doesn't care what the DNA is of anything it eats. All that matters is the final chemical composition. It might be dangerous to mix proteins of different foods for allergy reasons, however I think those would be avoided anyway (such as peanut). Alternatively peanuts and such could be made so that they no longer cause reactions. All that would really be required is a list of banned proteins/allergens by the FDA which are absolutely not allowed to be added to a food.
Now to go against what I just said slightly, some allergies are very rare. I know someone who is allergic to chicken, beef, wheat, and soy. It's nothing but fish and rice for him. However it's a huge advantage to the world in general to get soy protein in as much food as possible. "Natural" foods (that is, foods genetically modified only by breeding) will always be around.
I really wouldn't mind genetically altered foods, but I'd keep it primarily away from meats. It'd also be nice (if mandatory) if they only sold sterile fruits and vegatables.
Excuse me, but you gave quite a trollish response, with a fake answer for each.
>That's what a webserver is for;-)
>That's what zip or tar are for.
Neither of these are an excuse and the comments are by nature just plain ignorant. If someone wants to send me a directory I should tell them to zip it up because I use gaim? Isn't the whole reason aim has that feature is so you don't need to waste time zipping, and then unzipping? (or rarring, just tarring, don't want a flame for that)
>Running latest GAIM right now. 0% cpu usage logged into AIM, Yahoo and MSN.
That's you're system. Sure if you have enough resources you can tell how much it's using. It's about an order of magnitude above Aim.
>On what OS? In Windows and icewm/gnome/kde the tray icon works just fine.
Couple of request ID's: 920648 (gnome, kde), 871356 (windows).
>The GUIs are tabbed and resizable.
You're pathetic. Wasted space is not the size of the window, it's the amount of the window not being used. While aim has more raw % space wasted, gaim has a bad % y axis wasted. If you do want to compare to aim, how about hiding the tab when there's only one person? Check out Firefox with small icons. It's a very well utilized gui.
>It can popup just I think the default is not.
I believe the default is popup if it's a new person, or not if it is not. There are no options to influence this, although thankfully it doesn't happen when an away message is up.
>Any more retarded GAIM comments you have to share? Otherwise that was the lamest trolling I've seen..
Thanks for showing us who the troll was.
File transfers don't always work.
Can't send/receive directories.
CPU hog
Can make a tray icon on minimizing, but can't remove task bar icon.
Chunky IM Screen gui (Wasted space)
No ability to set/unset auto-foreground on IM (uses a default scheme)
There are more but I can't usually think of them until I smack into them while using gaim, at which point I'm forced back to aim. Almost everything I think they need to fix is already in their todo list on sourceforge, and mostly over a year old.
A) Do things for the good of everything, possibly at your own expense.
B) Do things for the good of yourself, possibly at the expense of everything.
It's perfectly alright to chastise, and excommunicate for (B). It's not alright to do it for any other reason. Most people hit a balancing point in their own life. If being environmentally friendly is beyond your balance, you're an asshole. Not believing there is any problem despite any amount of evidence is B, and pretending to have an argument about it is B and lying about it.
Hey, fuck you! (I'm from 98)
Seriously though they're right. Wireless is very spotty at RIT. They have it in the business building, so you can pick it up from part of the college of science. I think they have it in the student union. It really needs to be in our engineering study lounge if it isn't already, same with the CS study lounge. I can't blame them for not making an outdoor service because there would only be perhaps 10 days in a year that you'd dare take your laptop outside in Rochester.
Our on campus lan is very nice already and the school is having money problems (their own fault) so we likely won't see anything new for a while.
Oops just realized I wrote this without anything interesting or insightful. Ah well your expectations were too high.
I sure don't consider it a troll. I am talking about personal computers, just as the commercial is, which is thus faulty. As is stated in the ad: 'the world's fastest, most powerful personal computer'; that is a lie unless there was fine print giving some sort of explicit test or set of tests.
Notice I am not referring to 64 bit machines or workstations. They can claim if they want they had the first 64 bit personal computers, and I am not referring to that ad. Claiming the first 64 bit personal computer and claiming a fast computer are entirely different.
Now if you want to go run along and define a difference between a workstation and a personal computer for these kind folks, go ahead. I'm sure you'll include many computers used by gamers for games. Even baring those, the ad is still wrong.
Your OR isn't an operation. It should read:
A comment has to be insightful AND funny, otherwise, it is NOT worth reading.
Demorganized:
A comment must NOT be insightful OR funny, otherwise, it is worth reading.
The ad was referring to personal computers.p Large scale computers can be about as fast as you can pay for, and whoever you pick to develop it is up to you. Anyone with a huge wad of cash could get a fastest computer in the world by any of these retailers.
I think you're arguing the wrong point to the wrong person at the wrong time.
They offer faster computers though. I don't recall the ad in question when 64 bit was mentioned. The only obvious lie I've hear in an apple ad is the world's "fastest, most powerful" computer.
I can't justify how silly I think your comment is with mere words, it takes a groaning action, and I must at least smack myself in the head.
So barcodes are useless because you and print your own out and put it over them? Well tellers are useless because anyone who knows any of them can get stuff by them for free. And don't forget self checkouts!
Oh wait, you say there's a preventative measure for these? Have a couple people by the door read the recipe after purchase for a quick check? Wait a second, that fixes your problem as well! Replace a 10 minute line and 3 minute checkout with a 1 minute line and a 10 second checkover.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Gah. Gah man... Gah.
I think the idea of creating a product based on poor customer service is not acceptable. Any reasonable system would allow a ten year contract to go over by at least a month for renewal. Not allowing any sort of grace period is simply rude and irresponsible. It's like a bank auctioning off your possessions after one missed monthly payment. Sure, they can make more money that, but it isn't right.
Now one thing I am a strong proponent of is fair use and ownership. For exmaple you can take over microsoft.org if you plan to use it as is legal, but to merely squat on it is not using it fairly, and the company should be able to take it back from you. The problem is defining it on a case-by-case basis.
I read one article giving a very nice definition of a planet. It's a body of matter vastly more massive than other matter in the vicinity. Of course that's still vague, but think of "vicinity" as a moon orbital distance. Neither Pluto nor Sedna is signficantly larger than the other rocks near by.
Of course leaving the definition this loose makes jerks say 'Oh , so the sun is a planet.. SEE YOU'RE WRONG!!!' I'm just using this definition to separate would-be planets from actual ones. It's the only definition I've learned that I can live with.
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Money is actually my only real reason. At this point it's still quite unrealistic for me to pay $50 for a game. My attention span has a crippling infant mortality and there's a good chance I simply won't like the game. If I download it play it and like it, then I already have the game and see physically going to store and buying it as an annoyance-- what ever happened to real manuals?
Anyway I'd gladly pay around $20-$30 for a game. It's not much money and infact I donate about that much to open source projects I like. What I would really appreciate is a buy-a-key program. That is, you download the image, burn it yourself, then install and play with a bought key. Instant access, and virtually no bother to me. The only issue is I don't get any bonus includes but those are pretty much drying up anyway (moo2 to Moo3, Civ2 to Civ3, where are my roll-out maps and tech trees now?).
If they paid people in other countries the same wages, they would be creating a new upper class in each of those countries. If the cost of labor (read: cost of living) is lower, by all means pay less. Just don't be paying a lower % than the % difference in the cost of labor.
Specifically the way Intel does it, there is a base salary for a position. The pay is then modified depending on performance and cost of labor. This cost of labor is an on-the-top add on. I think California is currently at 13 or 15%, meaning that identical people there to somewhere else will make 13% more. Everything those people buy will also cost 13% more.
Now the flip side: As the labor market becomes saturated demand for goods increases and so does pay. It's an extremely slow balancing act but any laws slow it even more, but eventually something will click making the US once again good for companies (if not for labor cost reasons).
I'm looking at all the USA mirrors. The few that do have a 3.5 directory seem to have an empty i386 under it. Does anyone know of a mirror that's ready?
Crap is crap, if you send it to Japan its still crap.
Unless of course, it's gold.
Thank you for ccompletely not taking into account that, and to add your equal emphasis, THINGS COST LESS. Yes if I were to work and India and pay for US goods, I'd be poor as hell.
As a side note, please PLEASE never confuse IT with any engineering discipline. Anyway my most likely course would be to get a transfer through Intel (working there now) to another site off-country. We work with people in Bangalore and all over all the time and have never heard any financial complaints.
I remember reading that the reason they wanted to stop service on the Hubble was that they were going to replace it with a much better telescope (which one would assume would be cheaper and better). This being the case I don't see what the fuss is about them not wanting to mess with the hubble anymore. It's obsolete. At least let them keep it in orbit for a few decades while until it becomes feasible to bring it back to Earth. That'd be costly enough but to keep it operational is extreme.
I have no problem with the outsourcing and I completely agree with it. Hell I'm a computer engineer. If my job gets outsourced to India or whatever, I'll just go there and work. This same argument can be made state to state as country to country. Jobs are taken from a state so it becomes less populated (I'm from Maine). Jobs are taken from a country so it becomes less populated.
:P)
So... c-ya! (after I graduate
The only dangers I've heard of that I can agree with is when the plants get into the regular environment. Just like planting something that doesn't belong, it could completely take over acres of area, especially if they are bug resistant.
As for human health, the body doesn't care what the DNA is of anything it eats. All that matters is the final chemical composition. It might be dangerous to mix proteins of different foods for allergy reasons, however I think those would be avoided anyway (such as peanut). Alternatively peanuts and such could be made so that they no longer cause reactions. All that would really be required is a list of banned proteins/allergens by the FDA which are absolutely not allowed to be added to a food.
Now to go against what I just said slightly, some allergies are very rare. I know someone who is allergic to chicken, beef, wheat, and soy. It's nothing but fish and rice for him. However it's a huge advantage to the world in general to get soy protein in as much food as possible. "Natural" foods (that is, foods genetically modified only by breeding) will always be around.
I really wouldn't mind genetically altered foods, but I'd keep it primarily away from meats. It'd also be nice (if mandatory) if they only sold sterile fruits and vegatables.
...compatible formats...
<geek>Ogg! Ogg! Ogg! Ogg!</geek>
Nothing to see here, move along.
Excuse me, but you gave quite a trollish response, with a fake answer for each.
;-)
>That's what a webserver is for
>That's what zip or tar are for.
Neither of these are an excuse and the comments are by nature just plain ignorant. If someone wants to send me a directory I should tell them to zip it up because I use gaim? Isn't the whole reason aim has that feature is so you don't need to waste time zipping, and then unzipping? (or rarring, just tarring, don't want a flame for that)
>Running latest GAIM right now. 0% cpu usage logged into AIM, Yahoo and MSN.
That's you're system. Sure if you have enough resources you can tell how much it's using. It's about an order of magnitude above Aim.
>On what OS? In Windows and icewm/gnome/kde the tray icon works just fine.
Couple of request ID's: 920648 (gnome, kde), 871356 (windows).
>The GUIs are tabbed and resizable.
You're pathetic. Wasted space is not the size of the window, it's the amount of the window not being used. While aim has more raw % space wasted, gaim has a bad % y axis wasted. If you do want to compare to aim, how about hiding the tab when there's only one person? Check out Firefox with small icons. It's a very well utilized gui.
>It can popup just I think the default is not.
I believe the default is popup if it's a new person, or not if it is not. There are no options to influence this, although thankfully it doesn't happen when an away message is up.
>Any more retarded GAIM comments you have to share? Otherwise that was the lamest trolling I've seen..
Thanks for showing us who the troll was.
I want to use gaim, I really do.. however:
File transfers don't always work.
Can't send/receive directories.
CPU hog
Can make a tray icon on minimizing, but can't remove task bar icon.
Chunky IM Screen gui (Wasted space)
No ability to set/unset auto-foreground on IM (uses a default scheme)
There are more but I can't usually think of them until I smack into them while using gaim, at which point I'm forced back to aim. Almost everything I think they need to fix is already in their todo list on sourceforge, and mostly over a year old.
Oh you can't possibly be referring to Street Fighter!
It's gold!
Of course, as oppose to non-nano particles.
I have a 12 kg particle of carbon
A) Do things for the good of everything, possibly at your own expense.
B) Do things for the good of yourself, possibly at the expense of everything.
It's perfectly alright to chastise, and excommunicate for (B). It's not alright to do it for any other reason. Most people hit a balancing point in their own life. If being environmentally friendly is beyond your balance, you're an asshole. Not believing there is any problem despite any amount of evidence is B, and pretending to have an argument about it is B and lying about it.
Hey, fuck you! (I'm from 98)
Seriously though they're right. Wireless is very spotty at RIT. They have it in the business building, so you can pick it up from part of the college of science. I think they have it in the student union. It really needs to be in our engineering study lounge if it isn't already, same with the CS study lounge. I can't blame them for not making an outdoor service because there would only be perhaps 10 days in a year that you'd dare take your laptop outside in Rochester.
Our on campus lan is very nice already and the school is having money problems (their own fault) so we likely won't see anything new for a while.
Oops just realized I wrote this without anything interesting or insightful. Ah well your expectations were too high.
I sure don't consider it a troll. I am talking about personal computers, just as the commercial is, which is thus faulty. As is stated in the ad: 'the world's fastest, most powerful personal computer'; that is a lie unless there was fine print giving some sort of explicit test or set of tests.
Notice I am not referring to 64 bit machines or workstations. They can claim if they want they had the first 64 bit personal computers, and I am not referring to that ad. Claiming the first 64 bit personal computer and claiming a fast computer are entirely different.
Now if you want to go run along and define a difference between a workstation and a personal computer for these kind folks, go ahead. I'm sure you'll include many computers used by gamers for games. Even baring those, the ad is still wrong.
The same thing happened to me! I read things in a very strange way and I read it as "Google" (G + Boole".
Your OR isn't an operation. It should read:
A comment has to be insightful AND funny, otherwise, it is NOT worth reading.
Demorganized:
A comment must NOT be insightful OR funny, otherwise, it is worth reading.
The ad was referring to personal computers.p Large scale computers can be about as fast as you can pay for, and whoever you pick to develop it is up to you. Anyone with a huge wad of cash could get a fastest computer in the world by any of these retailers.
I think you're arguing the wrong point to the wrong person at the wrong time.
They offer faster computers though. I don't recall the ad in question when 64 bit was mentioned. The only obvious lie I've hear in an apple ad is the world's "fastest, most powerful" computer.
That's what repeats are. You've traveled at Warp 10 and seen the article before it's actually been posted.
No wait that's a glitch in the matrix....
I can't justify how silly I think your comment is with mere words, it takes a groaning action, and I must at least smack myself in the head.
So barcodes are useless because you and print your own out and put it over them? Well tellers are useless because anyone who knows any of them can get stuff by them for free. And don't forget self checkouts!
Oh wait, you say there's a preventative measure for these? Have a couple people by the door read the recipe after purchase for a quick check? Wait a second, that fixes your problem as well! Replace a 10 minute line and 3 minute checkout with a 1 minute line and a 10 second checkover.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Gah. Gah man... Gah.
I think the idea of creating a product based on poor customer service is not acceptable. Any reasonable system would allow a ten year contract to go over by at least a month for renewal. Not allowing any sort of grace period is simply rude and irresponsible. It's like a bank auctioning off your possessions after one missed monthly payment. Sure, they can make more money that, but it isn't right.
Now one thing I am a strong proponent of is fair use and ownership. For exmaple you can take over microsoft.org if you plan to use it as is legal, but to merely squat on it is not using it fairly, and the company should be able to take it back from you. The problem is defining it on a case-by-case basis.
I read one article giving a very nice definition of a planet. It's a body of matter vastly more massive than other matter in the vicinity. Of course that's still vague, but think of "vicinity" as a moon orbital distance. Neither Pluto nor Sedna is signficantly larger than the other rocks near by.
Of course leaving the definition this loose makes jerks say 'Oh , so the sun is a planet.. SEE YOU'RE WRONG!!!' I'm just using this definition to separate would-be planets from actual ones. It's the only definition I've learned that I can live with.
Reminds me of drugs.