"You did a great service to our company, and saved us several billions in possible lost revenue. Here, have a twenty year state in a federal pounding in the ass prison, it's only fair."
Actually I think employers turned on employees first, not the other way around. Check out the early 20th century stories. The play, Death of ae Salesman, is very nice example: The average person lives longer than the average company. This makes it so that the person will likely keep the same work ethic they were born with. Since there is a labor for of this ethic, they can mandate it and force the next set of workers to be of this ethic. Or they can start trying to get more money.
I think this is very good. I very much enjoy the prospect of what is seen as very valuable becoming dirt cheap. These things are of value simply because they are rare and/or hard to make. If you stand to lose a lot of money from this no longer being so, perhaps you should have invested more astutely.
A good idea which obsoletes a million jobs is still a good idea, imho.
We have a standard desktop? Not with linux you sure as hell don't. Is KDE the standard desktop? (flamewar insues) is CDE? (flamewar insues). What are the advantages of emacs and vi? (flamewar insues).
If you can't tell from this why someone who doesn't like geeky things (aka average computer user) is put off by linux...
On a side note I think would be rather nice of distros of *nix and gui's and etc. would specify what they think they should be used for. A given windows distro explicitly states what it is for: Small business, server, home use, hand held, etc. On linux? You've get twenty distros all trying to do everything. Give these people something to grasp!
I agree entirely with this. What I find games are doing, is that they are sending a lot more data then is actually needed. You can think of it as sending exact data instead of relative data: Instead of saying where you are, say how you've moved. Instead of what keys are down, what keys have changed. I think this has been done because if the latency is high, extra bandwidth won't slow down the transfers much at all. But in the future as we shrink the latency, we'll end up just streaming gigs and gigs of data to eachother for playing a simple game (fps or rts).
I think another reason people have stayed away from relational data is that it might be a bit easier to cheat with hacked packets. I'm not too familiar with the whole diablo 1 scenario, but with relational data, it takes only one falsified message to change the entire game. And one more reason I can think of is packetloss. Relationally, this can be drastic if no methods are used to make sure there is synchronization, which is a much lighter problem using exact data.
You need to look closely at these deals. You may have seen the yogurt ones. You return some piece of the container, and they donate $X to Y. However if you read the fine print, there is a maximum they will donate. The basic effect of this is if they sell 50,000,000 yogurts during the time period, there's a good chance only a hundred thousand or less will actually end up counting for any kind of donation.
In the yogurt case, I'd advise not to use the ploy as a decisive reason to buy yogurt, but perhaps to pick one brand over another.
I'll check this stuff out as soon as I get back to school. I've just bought a Saeco espresso machine and I really want to get a bean other than the one crappy brand at the local Wegman's (grociery store). Especially since this wegmans doesn't have a bean grinder..
Has anyone tried this stuff yet-- know how it tastes?
I'd call any bipedal which looks like a human, humanoid, no matter what its function is. A coffee maker can certainly be humanoid-- I really think it's just the chassis.
And if it's really function you care about, what about dead people? They don't really function-- but they're still humanoid.
This raises an interesting question: If a person is born with no arms or legs, are they humanoid? I'd go with not exactly. That is, to me, the internals aren't a part of being humanoid.
I'm a part of two clubs (exec board of one), I don't want to join anime club because they scare me and smell bad (same with CS house). Soda costs $1 at the school I'm cooping at. As for playing video games, I hardly have time to do that.
People may complain the same I do, and the reply is the same as yours. As you should now see, everyone who complain say the same things are wrong, but your excuses don't universally apply.
Most attempts at underground campus life are squashed by campus safety, while at the same time several $3000 projectors and another couple people are killed on Andrews Memorial Drive.
RIT: Get into division 2 or 1 hockey already. Stop trying to expand the student population without making more housing. Stop forcing the food outlets on campus to pay extreme rent rates-- they are a student service just like any other. Give student government authority. Get rid of Simone. Building a parking garage. Expand the coop office. Cancel a class for something other than the worst blackout in US history. Have more picnics. Give new clubs a chance. Ban soliciting on the quarter mile.
I go to RIT. I wonder why it went down.
I'd sing my school song, but we don't have one that anyone knows about.
I'd root for my football team, but we don't have one.
I'd enjoy the social life, but there is none.
I'd take a walk to the town, but there is no town in walking distance.
I'd join student government, but they're powerless.
I'd buy a soda, but they cost $1.25.
This has really confused me. If my conduct causes financial harm, it is against the law? Doesn't that make competition against the law?
Let's say I open up a juice stand. A week later someone else opens one after seeing my profit. I surely cannot sue. Let's say instead they open a soda stand, reducing the juice market. Why may I now sue? What is so bad about a market going away? Sure my stand may go out of business, but that would be because no one wanted the fruit juice any more.
I don't want CD's anymore, I want songs. Sell me songs.
sigh.. someone didn't get it and trolled me. In case this person decides to do a double take, I was referring to the bus services between many nothern states and Canada which run US'ers to Canada for cheaper drugs. I was suggesting I start a similiar bus service to Australia for people to buy cheaper CD's. The joke is (obviously) that you can't have a bus service across the Pacific Ocean, and this kind of re-importation would be much more difficult.
Are you suggesting people are allowed to connect home computers to networks which run nuclear safety systems? Or are you saying they should be able to?
I phrase my message this way because what you describe should not exist.
We've always wondered what's deep below the surface of the earth of given locations for mining, welling, etc. We're using sound waves so far but they can only go so far. Would it be possible to make a hollowed out worm/snake robot which moved the dirt infront of it to behind it, so in theory it could go anywhere underground until something went wrong, such as communication sever, too hard rock, too high temperature?
Anyone want to make a billion bucks?
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They are as much Doom and Wolfenstein3D like as Snood is Tetris like. It's just a genre given a recognizable term. Many more people know the name Doom than Wolfenstein, even with this latest Return to Castle Wolfenstein thing. I've hear "Quake style" all the time now. Is there a reason we can't say FPS?
When I am describing a game and relate it to another game as oppose to a genre, I actually mean it. If I say a game is Unreal Tournament style, I mean it is cartoonish in graphics, more focused on gameplay than reality (wild and crazy), etc. If something is GTA like (oh don't anyone dare call this a regular FPS) I mean it's open-world'd, fun just do to random things in, etc.
Bad spelling is not an indication of bad thought, it's just not wanting to take the time to post into a word processor.
I find this kind of thing funny. People wrap themselves so much in their own little world that when one name becomes synonymous with that world, they become frightfully insulted if someone hasn't heard of it. As I have recently more or less 'moved' twice, this has happened to me quite often. I'm sorry I haven't heard of your idol. Have you heard of mine?
A energy storage is an energy source. Coal plant? Coal stores energy. This is true of nuclear reaction and oil as well; you're playing a school-yard game of semantics.
Hydrogen in a pure form isn't found in abundance (or really in any usable quantity), however the energy it takes to create a mobile storage at a fixed location may surely be much higher than the energy actually stored which can be used at a variable location. What I mean by this is even if it takes the energy storable in a hundred batteries to make one battery, it doesn't mean it isn't worth making. You're vastly increasing the flexibility of use of that energy.
Or I'm an idiot and you have a nuclear reactor in your backpack.
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I can't say why but I kept reading that as SEELE.
/massive, ultra-nerdy reference
"You did a great service to our company, and saved us several billions in possible lost revenue. Here, have a twenty year state in a federal pounding in the ass prison, it's only fair."
23%?? Why, that's almost 25%!!!
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Actually I think employers turned on employees first, not the other way around. Check out the early 20th century stories. The play, Death of ae Salesman, is very nice example: The average person lives longer than the average company. This makes it so that the person will likely keep the same work ethic they were born with. Since there is a labor for of this ethic, they can mandate it and force the next set of workers to be of this ethic. Or they can start trying to get more money.
At least a machine won't spit in my burger.
I think this is very good. I very much enjoy the prospect of what is seen as very valuable becoming dirt cheap. These things are of value simply because they are rare and/or hard to make. If you stand to lose a lot of money from this no longer being so, perhaps you should have invested more astutely.
A good idea which obsoletes a million jobs is still a good idea, imho.
Is clicking without providing any sort of information at all a binding agreement? What if a minor does it? I don't think it holds up at all.
We have a standard desktop? Not with linux you sure as hell don't. Is KDE the standard desktop? (flamewar insues) is CDE? (flamewar insues). What are the advantages of emacs and vi? (flamewar insues).
If you can't tell from this why someone who doesn't like geeky things (aka average computer user) is put off by linux...
On a side note I think would be rather nice of distros of *nix and gui's and etc. would specify what they think they should be used for. A given windows distro explicitly states what it is for: Small business, server, home use, hand held, etc. On linux? You've get twenty distros all trying to do everything. Give these people something to grasp!
I agree entirely with this. What I find games are doing, is that they are sending a lot more data then is actually needed. You can think of it as sending exact data instead of relative data: Instead of saying where you are, say how you've moved. Instead of what keys are down, what keys have changed. I think this has been done because if the latency is high, extra bandwidth won't slow down the transfers much at all. But in the future as we shrink the latency, we'll end up just streaming gigs and gigs of data to eachother for playing a simple game (fps or rts).
I think another reason people have stayed away from relational data is that it might be a bit easier to cheat with hacked packets. I'm not too familiar with the whole diablo 1 scenario, but with relational data, it takes only one falsified message to change the entire game. And one more reason I can think of is packetloss. Relationally, this can be drastic if no methods are used to make sure there is synchronization, which is a much lighter problem using exact data.
America Online FIGHTS spam!
Don't require a return ticket?
BENDER!!!!!!!!!!!!! (or)
DATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(or)
(insert nerd reference)
You need to look closely at these deals. You may have seen the yogurt ones. You return some piece of the container, and they donate $X to Y. However if you read the fine print, there is a maximum they will donate. The basic effect of this is if they sell 50,000,000 yogurts during the time period, there's a good chance only a hundred thousand or less will actually end up counting for any kind of donation.
In the yogurt case, I'd advise not to use the ploy as a decisive reason to buy yogurt, but perhaps to pick one brand over another.
I'll check this stuff out as soon as I get back to school. I've just bought a Saeco espresso machine and I really want to get a bean other than the one crappy brand at the local Wegman's (grociery store). Especially since this wegmans doesn't have a bean grinder..
Has anyone tried this stuff yet-- know how it tastes?
I'd call any bipedal which looks like a human, humanoid, no matter what its function is. A coffee maker can certainly be humanoid-- I really think it's just the chassis.
And if it's really function you care about, what about dead people? They don't really function-- but they're still humanoid.
This raises an interesting question: If a person is born with no arms or legs, are they humanoid? I'd go with not exactly. That is, to me, the internals aren't a part of being humanoid.
Wow how much bull can you put into one post?
I'm a part of two clubs (exec board of one), I don't want to join anime club because they scare me and smell bad (same with CS house). Soda costs $1 at the school I'm cooping at. As for playing video games, I hardly have time to do that.
People may complain the same I do, and the reply is the same as yours. As you should now see, everyone who complain say the same things are wrong, but your excuses don't universally apply.
Most attempts at underground campus life are squashed by campus safety, while at the same time several $3000 projectors and another couple people are killed on Andrews Memorial Drive.
RIT: Get into division 2 or 1 hockey already. Stop trying to expand the student population without making more housing. Stop forcing the food outlets on campus to pay extreme rent rates-- they are a student service just like any other. Give student government authority. Get rid of Simone. Building a parking garage. Expand the coop office. Cancel a class for something other than the worst blackout in US history. Have more picnics. Give new clubs a chance. Ban soliciting on the quarter mile.
I go to RIT. I wonder why it went down.
I'd sing my school song, but we don't have one that anyone knows about.
I'd root for my football team, but we don't have one.
I'd enjoy the social life, but there is none.
I'd take a walk to the town, but there is no town in walking distance.
I'd join student government, but they're powerless.
I'd buy a soda, but they cost $1.25.
This has really confused me. If my conduct causes financial harm, it is against the law? Doesn't that make competition against the law?
Let's say I open up a juice stand. A week later someone else opens one after seeing my profit. I surely cannot sue. Let's say instead they open a soda stand, reducing the juice market. Why may I now sue? What is so bad about a market going away? Sure my stand may go out of business, but that would be because no one wanted the fruit juice any more.
I don't want CD's anymore, I want songs. Sell me songs.
sigh.. someone didn't get it and trolled me. In case this person decides to do a double take, I was referring to the bus services between many nothern states and Canada which run US'ers to Canada for cheaper drugs. I was suggesting I start a similiar bus service to Australia for people to buy cheaper CD's. The joke is (obviously) that you can't have a bus service across the Pacific Ocean, and this kind of re-importation would be much more difficult.
bah
There's an image I want to post but I can't find it online. In Final Fantasy (5/2) there's a rock shaped like a man's face on the moon.
but alas...
is run across the border like with Canada for drugs for the lower prices! I'll start the bus service!
no wait...
Are you suggesting people are allowed to connect home computers to networks which run nuclear safety systems? Or are you saying they should be able to?
I phrase my message this way because what you describe should not exist.
We've always wondered what's deep below the surface of the earth of given locations for mining, welling, etc. We're using sound waves so far but they can only go so far. Would it be possible to make a hollowed out worm/snake robot which moved the dirt infront of it to behind it, so in theory it could go anywhere underground until something went wrong, such as communication sever, too hard rock, too high temperature?
Anyone want to make a billion bucks?
They are as much Doom and Wolfenstein3D like as Snood is Tetris like. It's just a genre given a recognizable term. Many more people know the name Doom than Wolfenstein, even with this latest Return to Castle Wolfenstein thing. I've hear "Quake style" all the time now. Is there a reason we can't say FPS?
When I am describing a game and relate it to another game as oppose to a genre, I actually mean it. If I say a game is Unreal Tournament style, I mean it is cartoonish in graphics, more focused on gameplay than reality (wild and crazy), etc. If something is GTA like (oh don't anyone dare call this a regular FPS) I mean it's open-world'd, fun just do to random things in, etc.
Bad spelling is not an indication of bad thought, it's just not wanting to take the time to post into a word processor.
I find this kind of thing funny. People wrap themselves so much in their own little world that when one name becomes synonymous with that world, they become frightfully insulted if someone hasn't heard of it. As I have recently more or less 'moved' twice, this has happened to me quite often. I'm sorry I haven't heard of your idol. Have you heard of mine?
A energy storage is an energy source. Coal plant? Coal stores energy. This is true of nuclear reaction and oil as well; you're playing a school-yard game of semantics.
Hydrogen in a pure form isn't found in abundance (or really in any usable quantity), however the energy it takes to create a mobile storage at a fixed location may surely be much higher than the energy actually stored which can be used at a variable location. What I mean by this is even if it takes the energy storable in a hundred batteries to make one battery, it doesn't mean it isn't worth making. You're vastly increasing the flexibility of use of that energy.
Or I'm an idiot and you have a nuclear reactor in your backpack.