I am surprised no one has mentioned it yet. God I hate that word and all of its derivatives: synergistic, synergetic, synergies. It is a fancy feel good word PHB's made up to throw around at meetings and at customers which really means: an effective way to cornhole bottom feeding employees and our competition.
Can't you feel the syngery in the room? No but I can smell the bullshit sir.
Speaking as someone who just left Tallil, I can tell you we regularly play Command and Conquer Generals, Call of Duty, Battlefield 1942 w/desert mods, etc on the LAN here. Not all of us have to go outside the wire and shoot at baddies. The soldiers here are not as shell shocked and nutso as the media leads on. Most of us communications guys are nerds just like yourselves but don't have to wonder what we're gonna wear today! Send whatever you want!
OMG what won't those bastard pirates not steal? PIAA (http://www.piaa.com) is a headlight/foglight company. Now their trademarked name has been commandeered by the barmy scallawags of the digital high seas? Won't somebody think of the Corporations?/sarcasm and general stupidity
Hey I can agree that Congress does alot of messed up crap and I would also agree that it may not help much but you should really put blame where it is due: Microsoft. Why? Well mainly because they decided to HARDCODE it into Windows. That is about as silly as when the clock chip makers hardcoded the calendars into the chips for the Y2K incident. Anything that could POSSIBLY change should be treated like the variable it is and make some register for it to be changed in...even things in science we call constants get changed every once in a blue moon so simply making them variables would have made this switch so much easier for everyone. I know when I was in programming 101 my professor would mark my programs into oblivion when I didn't have my variable declarations for everything possible and then initialize them. Somehow or another though Microsoft didn't have such a structure for their coders and now we are left with this mess. I'm sure another instance will arise in the future as well. I hope the coding behind Vista is better. I know alot of people enjoy blaming M$ for alot of crap and usually it is unfounded but this time I think we can all razz them for screwing the pooch on this one.
I'm not sure if that was supposed to be funny or not but not to refute your claim, I would say that it's highly unlikely since the human body typically sucks down sinus phlegm every time you snort. If the histamine resistance were a true thing then wouldn't we be experiencing less sinus/cold/allergy issues than we are? I don't know if it's just the pharmaceutical companies pushing drugs but it seems everyone has some kind of allergy problem. I know many that are taking something like Allegra, Zyrtec, etc. Therefore it seems to me that either the claim is bogus or it's nerd justification for munchin boogies in physics class!
FINALLY! Us geeks have something to be happy about. For once we can walk confidently sporting our tinfoil wallets and WE'LL be the ones laughing...all teh way to the bank!
You have absolutely valid points BUT CD's still suck. You seem to assume that nothing can be better than the CD but I'll give you an absolutely valid alternative that keeps your pro's and addresses our cons. When I lived in Japan, you could go get the newest album in 3 sometimes 4 different packages: Tape (yeah I'm that old), CD, Sony's minidisc, and sometimes vinyl. Even though the minidisc is proprietary it was awesome because minidiscs are WAAAAY more durable than CD's, tapes, or records. So in this day and age why couldn't the companies produce the albums on the heavily supported SD Card? These things are CHEAP! Bestbuy had 1 GB usb sticks for $25 last week. How much does a 256mb SD card cost these days? Less than $10 on Ebay these days are not uncommon. So then the media companies could just sell the album on an SD Card (or whatever standard card for that matter) in WAV format which is what CD's are encoded in. You gain a nicely armored card which takes up minute space and has no issues of scratches. Hell I've stepped on SD cards and spilled soda on them and they still work great (after drying them out of course which you'd have to do with a soda covered CD too). You'd still have the album continuity that you (and I) love and they are certainly permanent. Not only that, but card readers are almost standard in new PCs and they are cheap if yours doesn't have one. Not only that but transferring them to you non-card reading music player, i.e. the Ipod is exceptionally easy as well.
So my point is that CD's and DVD's as well need to go away and we need to go back to the modern day Atari cartridge. Media cards fullfill that role nicely. Think about how many DVD's your kids have utterly ruined trying to watch them. You really had to try and kill a Nintendo cartridge. The only rebuttal I can think you or anyone would else could counter this idea with is the same one everyone always uses: I've already got 4000 video cassettes and I don't want to have to repurchase them all again. Well with changing times comes changing formats. You adapt if you really enjoy the product or you just stay with what you have and quit griping. That's called progress. It's rare you find anyone using an old circular clipping nonmotorized push mower to cut thier lawn. Name a new model production car that has a carburetor. Hell most people don't even use real film in cameras anymore. The reason is simple. That stuff sucked and was superceded with something that is a whole lot better. Yeah you had to reinvest or even, heaven forbid, *learn* a new skill (like fixing a fuel injected car yourself) but if those hobbies or needs matter then you'll adapt. Seriously we're all geeks. Shun not the technology--ADAPT AND OVERCOME!!!
This will sound trollish but I seriously noted a trend on the poster's overpopulation.com link. Anyone else whose looked here notice that almost all of the countries with highly above 2.1 stats are Muslim countries? Conversly, most of the countries with below average rates are the first world Christian nations. What's up with that? Was there some mandate for more kids or perhaps external factors such as banned contraceptives etc?
Seriously. I was offered four FREE tickets today at work and I told them to keep. Even for free, going to these kind of crap films just helps to reinforce thier ideas that this must be the kind of movies we want to see. I'm glad it did bomb. Maybe they'll make something decent. Now if only reality TV would die...
Sorry but if you had taken the time to RTFA instead of looking for a witty way to take a stab at the editors then you would have noticed that the article WAS about Mr. Bill. Mr. Bill was thier first remote controlled ornithopter. Maybe not the Mr. Bill you're referring to but Mr. Bill none the less. So you've violated your point #5 allowing ME to find that witty way to stab at the editors thusly proving they still are asshats. Thanks for the assist!!
I work in a calibration lab and accelerometers are one of the things we work with daily. Accelerometers can measure HUGE amounts of G forces and survive (crash test dummies come to mind). Not only that but in my opinion they would probably be the most durable part of the controller since they have no moving parts. In order for the sensors to get a good accurate reading, they will have to be epoxied or screwed to a sturdy part of the controller--most likely the circuit board or a metal backing plate. If you've tossed your controller THAT hard then you've broken more than just the accelerometers. Not only a new controller but perhaps some anger management might be a good idea!;)
a liberal ecofreak troll reference to the fact that us Americans are fat, wasteful, materialistic boobs whose culture will eventually be the downfall of mankind. An opinion that I won't fully agree with. There are much worse types to be called I suppose. Those parent-poster-type people would feel the Earth would be much better off if we crushed all of the technology we have and return to a pre-Industrial revolution society for the good of the planet and the three flippered platypus. In thier minds doing so would rid us of global warming, corporate greed, and the multitude of diseases that seem to pop up overnight. It's ok if you didn't get the joke/troll. It wasn't funny either way.
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The petagulp sounds absolutely disgusting...and illegal in most countries too...
Won't somebody think of the pets??
I am surprised no one has mentioned it yet. God I hate that word and all of its derivatives: synergistic, synergetic, synergies. It is a fancy feel good word PHB's made up to throw around at meetings and at customers which really means: an effective way to cornhole bottom feeding employees and our competition.
Can't you feel the syngery in the room? No but I can smell the bullshit sir.
Those whose sacrifice Wireless Freedom for Security deserve neither!
Speaking as someone who just left Tallil, I can tell you we regularly play Command and Conquer Generals, Call of Duty, Battlefield 1942 w/desert mods, etc on the LAN here. Not all of us have to go outside the wire and shoot at baddies. The soldiers here are not as shell shocked and nutso as the media leads on. Most of us communications guys are nerds just like yourselves but don't have to wonder what we're gonna wear today! Send whatever you want!
"so the anti-americanism needs to be tweaked: the usa is not special and good, so if you thought it was, you need a spanking."
And after the spanking, THE ORAL SEX!!
OMG what won't those bastard pirates not steal? PIAA (http://www.piaa.com) is a headlight/foglight company. Now their trademarked name has been commandeered by the barmy scallawags of the digital high seas? Won't somebody think of the Corporations? /sarcasm and general stupidity
What like S.M.U.R.F.S.? Slashdot Masterbating Uber Resistance Fighters and Spankers?
Hey I can agree that Congress does alot of messed up crap and I would also agree that it may not help much but you should really put blame where it is due: Microsoft. Why? Well mainly because they decided to HARDCODE it into Windows. That is about as silly as when the clock chip makers hardcoded the calendars into the chips for the Y2K incident. Anything that could POSSIBLY change should be treated like the variable it is and make some register for it to be changed in...even things in science we call constants get changed every once in a blue moon so simply making them variables would have made this switch so much easier for everyone. I know when I was in programming 101 my professor would mark my programs into oblivion when I didn't have my variable declarations for everything possible and then initialize them. Somehow or another though Microsoft didn't have such a structure for their coders and now we are left with this mess. I'm sure another instance will arise in the future as well. I hope the coding behind Vista is better. I know alot of people enjoy blaming M$ for alot of crap and usually it is unfounded but this time I think we can all razz them for screwing the pooch on this one.
Hell froze over?!! AWESOME!! I'm finally gonna get laid. Thanks Microsoft for bringing on the Apocalypse!
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I'm not sure if that was supposed to be funny or not but not to refute your claim, I would say that it's highly unlikely since the human body typically sucks down sinus phlegm every time you snort. If the histamine resistance were a true thing then wouldn't we be experiencing less sinus/cold/allergy issues than we are? I don't know if it's just the pharmaceutical companies pushing drugs but it seems everyone has some kind of allergy problem. I know many that are taking something like Allegra, Zyrtec, etc. Therefore it seems to me that either the claim is bogus or it's nerd justification for munchin boogies in physics class!
Sure! We're still holding out for Duke Nukem Forever aren't we??
Fantasy sports is like Dungeons and Dragons for those kids who used to beat up the kids that played Dungeons and Dragons!
FINALLY! Us geeks have something to be happy about. For once we can walk confidently sporting our tinfoil wallets and WE'LL be the ones laughing...all teh way to the bank!
This even funnier if you read it using Adam West's voice!!!!
OH MY GOD, that post has given me *such* a clue...
You have absolutely valid points BUT CD's still suck. You seem to assume that nothing can be better than the CD but I'll give you an absolutely valid alternative that keeps your pro's and addresses our cons. When I lived in Japan, you could go get the newest album in 3 sometimes 4 different packages: Tape (yeah I'm that old), CD, Sony's minidisc, and sometimes vinyl. Even though the minidisc is proprietary it was awesome because minidiscs are WAAAAY more durable than CD's, tapes, or records. So in this day and age why couldn't the companies produce the albums on the heavily supported SD Card? These things are CHEAP! Bestbuy had 1 GB usb sticks for $25 last week. How much does a 256mb SD card cost these days? Less than $10 on Ebay these days are not uncommon. So then the media companies could just sell the album on an SD Card (or whatever standard card for that matter) in WAV format which is what CD's are encoded in. You gain a nicely armored card which takes up minute space and has no issues of scratches. Hell I've stepped on SD cards and spilled soda on them and they still work great (after drying them out of course which you'd have to do with a soda covered CD too). You'd still have the album continuity that you (and I) love and they are certainly permanent. Not only that, but card readers are almost standard in new PCs and they are cheap if yours doesn't have one. Not only that but transferring them to you non-card reading music player, i.e. the Ipod is exceptionally easy as well.
So my point is that CD's and DVD's as well need to go away and we need to go back to the modern day Atari cartridge. Media cards fullfill that role nicely. Think about how many DVD's your kids have utterly ruined trying to watch them. You really had to try and kill a Nintendo cartridge. The only rebuttal I can think you or anyone would else could counter this idea with is the same one everyone always uses: I've already got 4000 video cassettes and I don't want to have to repurchase them all again. Well with changing times comes changing formats. You adapt if you really enjoy the product or you just stay with what you have and quit griping. That's called progress. It's rare you find anyone using an old circular clipping nonmotorized push mower to cut thier lawn. Name a new model production car that has a carburetor. Hell most people don't even use real film in cameras anymore. The reason is simple. That stuff sucked and was superceded with something that is a whole lot better. Yeah you had to reinvest or even, heaven forbid, *learn* a new skill (like fixing a fuel injected car yourself) but if those hobbies or needs matter then you'll adapt. Seriously we're all geeks. Shun not the technology--ADAPT AND OVERCOME!!!
This will sound trollish but I seriously noted a trend on the poster's overpopulation.com link. Anyone else whose looked here notice that almost all of the countries with highly above 2.1 stats are Muslim countries? Conversly, most of the countries with below average rates are the first world Christian nations. What's up with that? Was there some mandate for more kids or perhaps external factors such as banned contraceptives etc?
Any thoughts?
Seriously. I was offered four FREE tickets today at work and I told them to keep. Even for free, going to these kind of crap films just helps to reinforce thier ideas that this must be the kind of movies we want to see. I'm glad it did bomb. Maybe they'll make something decent. Now if only reality TV would die...
To second, sum up, and reinforce the poster's comment with an old addage:
You can paint a turd, but it's still a turd.
Sorry but if you had taken the time to RTFA instead of looking for a witty way to take a stab at the editors then you would have noticed that the article WAS about Mr. Bill. Mr. Bill was thier first remote controlled ornithopter. Maybe not the Mr. Bill you're referring to but Mr. Bill none the less. So you've violated your point #5 allowing ME to find that witty way to stab at the editors thusly proving they still are asshats. Thanks for the assist!!
Billy G will simply call up the master Redmond server and tell it to execute Order 66. Has no one paid attention???
I work in a calibration lab and accelerometers are one of the things we work with daily. Accelerometers can measure HUGE amounts of G forces and survive (crash test dummies come to mind). Not only that but in my opinion they would probably be the most durable part of the controller since they have no moving parts. In order for the sensors to get a good accurate reading, they will have to be epoxied or screwed to a sturdy part of the controller--most likely the circuit board or a metal backing plate. If you've tossed your controller THAT hard then you've broken more than just the accelerometers. Not only a new controller but perhaps some anger management might be a good idea! ;)
In what state are you that requires students to pay fines for getting suspended? This is absolutely ludicrous!
a liberal ecofreak troll reference to the fact that us Americans are fat, wasteful, materialistic boobs whose culture will eventually be the downfall of mankind. An opinion that I won't fully agree with. There are much worse types to be called I suppose. Those parent-poster-type people would feel the Earth would be much better off if we crushed all of the technology we have and return to a pre-Industrial revolution society for the good of the planet and the three flippered platypus. In thier minds doing so would rid us of global warming, corporate greed, and the multitude of diseases that seem to pop up overnight. It's ok if you didn't get the joke/troll. It wasn't funny either way.