It's a cradle for your cell that either powers your land lines, or has it's own cordless handsets, allowing multiple connections and strategicly placed ringers. I'll get the name for you on Monday (it's in at the office). Quality was no worse than POTS (on a conference call).
I'd forgotten that part of the game, and it really added to the game. I liked how all the factions were flawed, in some way that made them blind to the benefits that could have by joining. That said the greens were given a huge advantage with their ability to convert the biota.
The only complaint I had was that the biota and tile colors were not well thought out regarding people who were red green colorblind, they'd walk right up and wipe out my functional units, with a city full of defendors, because I couldn't see them. There was a patch but I beat the game (as the greens) before I found it.
You should do yourself a favor and grab 2 out of a bargain bin (or jewel case pack. It's a very fun game, on its own. I didn't really care for 1, enjoyed transport tycoon (although it was too easy) I wish there was a game that worked a bit slower (profit margins are usually way too high in computer sims). The whole genre is plaged by if you can out leverage your opponents and make it through 1 year you will win. It would be neat to play a more realistic business sim. Sadly the only one that comes close is Wall St. Raider, and it's supposed to be a Gordon Gekko style stock trading game.
I wasn't trying to attack, sorry. I'm curious what you do? I work in investment management and would never have imagined that there were jobs such as this in places besides NY, Denver, Boston, or SF.
Cool thanks. I know the trains were big in the formation of time zones (AFAIK, before that local noon was when the sun was highest in the sky), but didn't realize they were involved with daylight savings.
We had a tradition to build model rockets in fifth grade, and launch them one day. The only two I recall was the challenger which was filled with rubber cement and other potentially flammable chemicals in an attempt to get it to explode (which did not happen, but it did buzz around at 30-50 feet for a few seconds and scared the crap out of the teachers), and the rocket that didn't pop and flew into someone's roof which it penetrated to the fins.
I left in after the spring of 98. I realized that with my grades I'd be designing capacitor banks for the local power company so I transfered out and got into a finance program, yeah I wussed out but the little hazy bits of calc I recall come in pretty handy in this field. It's pretty fun. I'm always surprised at how few Rose alums there are here.
I think I knew Elaine, as all the guys would probably remember all the girls in the school. I'm surprised the guys didn't have trading cards with the female classes there. It must have been a pretty surreal experience ther as a lady. Did it get better as they brought more classes in?
Karen, that name sounds quite familiar you wouldn't have happened to have been one of the first of the classes of the noble gender at Rose? I think Terre Haute gives the state a bad name, although I moved to even closer to BFE (Montana) post college.
It was sweet getting to watch the late shows early after everyone else had switched. Doesn't Gary switch with Chicago?
FWIW, Ben Franklin came up with the idea as a way for farmers to more or less work with the sun (and not be vastly different from city folk's schedules) in the 1700s. It was implemented in the oil crisis to reduce electricity consumption. I think we keep it around now so politicians can laugh at the folks who show up an hour late/or early to church or other Sunday meetings.
Leave the entire city, suburbs and all and move to a completely different city (with a lower cost of living). If you live in New York, Boston, San Francisco (or the valley), or Seattle you are living in some of the most expensive real estate in the country. Try looking in Phoenix, Austin, Omaha, Denver, Minneapolis/St Paul, or smaller population centers (cost of living will be surprisingly lower). Yeah they are less exciting and there are some trade offs, but your trade off for living in an expensive population center is that you have to pay more for everything that isn't shipped from somewhere else. Life is full of choices, if you make one don't whine about the results of that choice.
I'd agree with some of the other posts in the thread that Americans spend an amazing amount of money on crap and the culture seems to be moving toward marginalizing any attempt to spend less on crap. You might be amazed how much of your budget is made up of things that are incedental and cutting them out might be easier than you think. I know I was after I started looking closely at where each dollar of my spending was going. Perhaps I'm wrong and you are house poor, in which case I wish you the very best, and hope you get a raise soon, (labor budgets were up 3-4% nationally I hope you get more than that).
In the south its served cold and very sweet (I believe it must be boiled to super saturate the tea with sugar). Here in the mountains tea is hot and iced tea is cold (sometimes with a lemon, sweeteners are on the side), but we're pretty plain folk. Also don't know about the Northeast.
I was amazed at how accurate the text ads were. I was planning a trip to San Fran last week, and happened to mention it to a relative in the area, that the conference would be at the Moscone Center, and an ad for the hotel I had 90% decided on popped up. Later he sent back some info about the BART and ads (and a 3 result search) for all the schedules for public transpertation were included. I thought they were great.
The impressive thing about this country is that there is tremendous diversity in all sorts of things including cost of living. If a family really needs two incomes to put food on the table and pay the mortgate, I would wholeheartedly suggest you sell your home and move to a lower cost of living area. Before you do that, get a copy of quicken (or GNUCash or MS Money or even a spreadsheet) and track where your expenses go, most of us (myself included) spend a surprising amount each month on transactions that are all individually very small. I created a simple spreadsheet to track my own spending and with a few minor cuts (packing a lunch a few days a week, cutting back on starbucks, and not buying as much crap I didn't need) cut my expenses by several hundred dollars a month. I'm not trying to attack anyone, but it's very easy to start spending lots of cash on all sorts of crazy crap that doesn't look like nearly as good a deal by the time you are entering it in your budget tracker.
Outside of sheer greed, I've never understood this practice on the part of banks. Why don't they put the full cost of the bad check and add a reasonable penalty to those who wrote the bad check. I've heard that it only costs a small fraction of the cost to process a bad check.
Deregulation works if the transition is accomplished properly. The electricty markets were never deregulated. If they were powerplants would call you regularly to get you to switch to their power. A new different set of regulations was swapped for an older set and it was termed deregulation. It has worked very well in long distance (when I was a kid LD phone calls were pretty rare and costly) when my parents were kids they were a luxury. Now they are free, sure your local line is still expensive, but overall per minute costs have pretty steadily declined since the monoply was broken up and the industry was deregulated. Airlines are another success story, while some people whine that the riff raff now rides the airplanes and service has crapped out, they were usually travel agents or exceedingly wealthy. Both arguements are true. Airlines were regulated with a minimum selling price, that was set just after the barnstorming days. As costs fell, prices couldn't (due the the restrictions) so airlines offered all sorts of services to compete. Tickets were hideously expensive, and service was wonderful. Just one problem, most people didn't value the services at anything near what they cost (look at how many airlines continue to offer the same level of white glove customer service they did in the 70s). Now lots more people can fly and people pay for the services they want (even food and movies appear to be pretty marginal valued services--how much more could a ticket cost to include a meal and movie?).
In a deregulated electricity market, you would rent your line from the power company figure likely for something between $10-$40/mo and then you would buy power from any power plant that was connected to your grid regardless of location and you could change your supplier as easily as you change your long distance company. If you don't have that you continue to have some level of regulation, don't blame deregulation for high power prices. Your prices would fluctuate with market prices for electricity but the line price would remain constant.
This occured in the 486/Pentium days and the clock was from 50-66 mhz, 66-100mhz or 100-120/133mhz so the increase was a pretty major one (usually about a 25%+ increase in clock speed). The systems were then sold as the stock systems (and just below what the price would have been if you had bought a real faster system from the OEM). They were occasionally unstable and also had more heat issues than others.
You and I would blame the OEM, but to someone who never opens their system (or removes the expoy affixed heat sink the system doesn't work and has an Intel chip so they complain about it to their friends. This doesn't make intel happy since the chip was good for the original speed not the new one (it just happened to work). Intel doesn't really care about the home market (it's small compared to the business PC market) most of the systems are at the low end not the high end. The main reason the chip companies go after gamers is that gamers are likely to be influential others purchasing decisions.
The obligatory not a lawyer, but generally a fan of the common law sentance. A state passed a law limiting the speach of an individual or corporation. Speach that was a previously private matter (both sides "officially" agreed to the transmission of the speech-WhenU uses Clara which I believe has a clickthrough license that the user agrees to instal Clara). As the state is a member of our fine union they are not allowed to pass a law that supercedes the constitution in any way. As a result the law will not be enforced while increasingly senior courts rule on how the law sits relative to the constitution.
The courts generally take a pretty libertarian view toward contract law, meaning that individuals can largely contract away almost anything as long as the contract appears to be negotiated from a position of normal circumstances (you couldn't buy a person's car for $100 as he's hanging from a cliff, but you could buy their car for $100 if they needed cash to make their home payment one month although there would probably be some legal fees in addition to that $100).
First I'm not a lawyer, this is merely what I've gleaned from other articles on the subject. AFAIK, the RIAA or their agents collects the IP address of people sharing (large?) amounts of music on various (Fasttrack & Limewire?) p2p networks. They then sue "John Doe" (the legal term for anonymous coward) and supena the owner of the IP address at the time of the incident. Once the name and address are in hand the copyright holder or their agent begins a formal lawsuit (and usually tries to settle out of court for an apology, cash (3k-10k), and an agreement not to share music. The threat is the huge penalties if you are convicted of copyright violation for each song you were sharing.
Several years ago some white box OEMs were selling overclocked systems as though they contianed the rated chip. I don't know how common it was, but that was the offical reason that Intel clamped down hard on the practice. When it was just geeks in their houses saving a few bucks it was a minor loss (probably good advertising--Intel generally has the better manufacturing process and most overclocking headroom), once frad was diluting their brand and really reducing revenue they stepped in and put a stop to the practice.
I'm curios why a pre cap user cares about mod points at this point, don't you have something in the thousands of mod points. Noticing your post number will the 10 millionth post get a free subscription to/. (Dollars to doughnuts its a GNAA troll or something)?
I'm curious about the popular attitude toward the early barnstormers, today we look back at them with rose colored glasses, but were any laws passed against early aircraft (or the people who flew them)?
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It's a cradle for your cell that either powers your land lines, or has it's own cordless handsets, allowing multiple connections and strategicly placed ringers. I'll get the name for you on Monday (it's in at the office). Quality was no worse than POTS (on a conference call).
I'd forgotten that part of the game, and it really added to the game. I liked how all the factions were flawed, in some way that made them blind to the benefits that could have by joining. That said the greens were given a huge advantage with their ability to convert the biota.
The only complaint I had was that the biota and tile colors were not well thought out regarding people who were red green colorblind, they'd walk right up and wipe out my functional units, with a city full of defendors, because I couldn't see them. There was a patch but I beat the game (as the greens) before I found it.
You should do yourself a favor and grab 2 out of a bargain bin (or jewel case pack. It's a very fun game, on its own. I didn't really care for 1, enjoyed transport tycoon (although it was too easy) I wish there was a game that worked a bit slower (profit margins are usually way too high in computer sims). The whole genre is plaged by if you can out leverage your opponents and make it through 1 year you will win. It would be neat to play a more realistic business sim. Sadly the only one that comes close is Wall St. Raider, and it's supposed to be a Gordon Gekko style stock trading game.
I wasn't trying to attack, sorry. I'm curious what you do? I work in investment management and would never have imagined that there were jobs such as this in places besides NY, Denver, Boston, or SF.
/Lives in a pretty dang small town (30,000).
Cool thanks. I know the trains were big in the formation of time zones (AFAIK, before that local noon was when the sun was highest in the sky), but didn't realize they were involved with daylight savings.
We had a tradition to build model rockets in fifth grade, and launch them one day. The only two I recall was the challenger which was filled with rubber cement and other potentially flammable chemicals in an attempt to get it to explode (which did not happen, but it did buzz around at 30-50 feet for a few seconds and scared the crap out of the teachers), and the rocket that didn't pop and flew into someone's roof which it penetrated to the fins.
I left in after the spring of 98. I realized that with my grades I'd be designing capacitor banks for the local power company so I transfered out and got into a finance program, yeah I wussed out but the little hazy bits of calc I recall come in pretty handy in this field. It's pretty fun. I'm always surprised at how few Rose alums there are here.
I think I knew Elaine, as all the guys would probably remember all the girls in the school. I'm surprised the guys didn't have trading cards with the female classes there. It must have been a pretty surreal experience ther as a lady. Did it get better as they brought more classes in?
Karen, that name sounds quite familiar you wouldn't have happened to have been one of the first of the classes of the noble gender at Rose? I think Terre Haute gives the state a bad name, although I moved to even closer to BFE (Montana) post college.
It was sweet getting to watch the late shows early after everyone else had switched. Doesn't Gary switch with Chicago?
FWIW, Ben Franklin came up with the idea as a way for farmers to more or less work with the sun (and not be vastly different from city folk's schedules) in the 1700s. It was implemented in the oil crisis to reduce electricity consumption. I think we keep it around now so politicians can laugh at the folks who show up an hour late/or early to church or other Sunday meetings.
Leave the entire city, suburbs and all and move to a completely different city (with a lower cost of living). If you live in New York, Boston, San Francisco (or the valley), or Seattle you are living in some of the most expensive real estate in the country. Try looking in Phoenix, Austin, Omaha, Denver, Minneapolis/St Paul, or smaller population centers (cost of living will be surprisingly lower). Yeah they are less exciting and there are some trade offs, but your trade off for living in an expensive population center is that you have to pay more for everything that isn't shipped from somewhere else. Life is full of choices, if you make one don't whine about the results of that choice.
I'd agree with some of the other posts in the thread that Americans spend an amazing amount of money on crap and the culture seems to be moving toward marginalizing any attempt to spend less on crap. You might be amazed how much of your budget is made up of things that are incedental and cutting them out might be easier than you think. I know I was after I started looking closely at where each dollar of my spending was going. Perhaps I'm wrong and you are house poor, in which case I wish you the very best, and hope you get a raise soon, (labor budgets were up 3-4% nationally I hope you get more than that).
In the south its served cold and very sweet (I believe it must be boiled to super saturate the tea with sugar). Here in the mountains tea is hot and iced tea is cold (sometimes with a lemon, sweeteners are on the side), but we're pretty plain folk. Also don't know about the Northeast.
I was amazed at how accurate the text ads were. I was planning a trip to San Fran last week, and happened to mention it to a relative in the area, that the conference would be at the Moscone Center, and an ad for the hotel I had 90% decided on popped up. Later he sent back some info about the BART and ads (and a 3 result search) for all the schedules for public transpertation were included. I thought they were great.
The impressive thing about this country is that there is tremendous diversity in all sorts of things including cost of living. If a family really needs two incomes to put food on the table and pay the mortgate, I would wholeheartedly suggest you sell your home and move to a lower cost of living area. Before you do that, get a copy of quicken (or GNUCash or MS Money or even a spreadsheet) and track where your expenses go, most of us (myself included) spend a surprising amount each month on transactions that are all individually very small. I created a simple spreadsheet to track my own spending and with a few minor cuts (packing a lunch a few days a week, cutting back on starbucks, and not buying as much crap I didn't need) cut my expenses by several hundred dollars a month. I'm not trying to attack anyone, but it's very easy to start spending lots of cash on all sorts of crazy crap that doesn't look like nearly as good a deal by the time you are entering it in your budget tracker.
Section 1037(a)(2), (b)(2)(C), and (b)(2)(E) of Title 18 of the USC, at least according to these court documents.
Outside of sheer greed, I've never understood this practice on the part of banks. Why don't they put the full cost of the bad check and add a reasonable penalty to those who wrote the bad check. I've heard that it only costs a small fraction of the cost to process a bad check.
Deregulation works if the transition is accomplished properly. The electricty markets were never deregulated. If they were powerplants would call you regularly to get you to switch to their power. A new different set of regulations was swapped for an older set and it was termed deregulation. It has worked very well in long distance (when I was a kid LD phone calls were pretty rare and costly) when my parents were kids they were a luxury. Now they are free, sure your local line is still expensive, but overall per minute costs have pretty steadily declined since the monoply was broken up and the industry was deregulated.
Airlines are another success story, while some people whine that the riff raff now rides the airplanes and service has crapped out, they were usually travel agents or exceedingly wealthy. Both arguements are true. Airlines were regulated with a minimum selling price, that was set just after the barnstorming days. As costs fell, prices couldn't (due the the restrictions) so airlines offered all sorts of services to compete. Tickets were hideously expensive, and service was wonderful. Just one problem, most people didn't value the services at anything near what they cost (look at how many airlines continue to offer the same level of white glove customer service they did in the 70s). Now lots more people can fly and people pay for the services they want (even food and movies appear to be pretty marginal valued services--how much more could a ticket cost to include a meal and movie?).
In a deregulated electricity market, you would rent your line from the power company figure likely for something between $10-$40/mo and then you would buy power from any power plant that was connected to your grid regardless of location and you could change your supplier as easily as you change your long distance company. If you don't have that you continue to have some level of regulation, don't blame deregulation for high power prices. Your prices would fluctuate with market prices for electricity but the line price would remain constant.
This occured in the 486/Pentium days and the clock was from 50-66 mhz, 66-100mhz or 100-120/133mhz so the increase was a pretty major one (usually about a 25%+ increase in clock speed). The systems were then sold as the stock systems (and just below what the price would have been if you had bought a real faster system from the OEM). They were occasionally unstable and also had more heat issues than others.
You and I would blame the OEM, but to someone who never opens their system (or removes the expoy affixed heat sink the system doesn't work and has an Intel chip so they complain about it to their friends. This doesn't make intel happy since the chip was good for the original speed not the new one (it just happened to work). Intel doesn't really care about the home market (it's small compared to the business PC market) most of the systems are at the low end not the high end. The main reason the chip companies go after gamers is that gamers are likely to be influential others purchasing decisions.
The obligatory not a lawyer, but generally a fan of the common law sentance. A state passed a law limiting the speach of an individual or corporation. Speach that was a previously private matter (both sides "officially" agreed to the transmission of the speech-WhenU uses Clara which I believe has a clickthrough license that the user agrees to instal Clara). As the state is a member of our fine union they are not allowed to pass a law that supercedes the constitution in any way. As a result the law will not be enforced while increasingly senior courts rule on how the law sits relative to the constitution.
The courts generally take a pretty libertarian view toward contract law, meaning that individuals can largely contract away almost anything as long as the contract appears to be negotiated from a position of normal circumstances (you couldn't buy a person's car for $100 as he's hanging from a cliff, but you could buy their car for $100 if they needed cash to make their home payment one month although there would probably be some legal fees in addition to that $100).
First I'm not a lawyer, this is merely what I've gleaned from other articles on the subject. AFAIK, the RIAA or their agents collects the IP address of people sharing (large?) amounts of music on various (Fasttrack & Limewire?) p2p networks. They then sue "John Doe" (the legal term for anonymous coward) and supena the owner of the IP address at the time of the incident. Once the name and address are in hand the copyright holder or their agent begins a formal lawsuit (and usually tries to settle out of court for an apology, cash (3k-10k), and an agreement not to share music. The threat is the huge penalties if you are convicted of copyright violation for each song you were sharing.
Several years ago some white box OEMs were selling overclocked systems as though they contianed the rated chip. I don't know how common it was, but that was the offical reason that Intel clamped down hard on the practice. When it was just geeks in their houses saving a few bucks it was a minor loss (probably good advertising--Intel generally has the better manufacturing process and most overclocking headroom), once frad was diluting their brand and really reducing revenue they stepped in and put a stop to the practice.
Actually this might be a technlogy that could be bypassed by the pr0n industry. A recent Slate article explained why, it was here a while back, too.
I'm curios why a pre cap user cares about mod points at this point, don't you have something in the thousands of mod points. Noticing your post number will the 10 millionth post get a free subscription to /. (Dollars to doughnuts its a GNAA troll or something)?
I'm curious about the popular attitude toward the early barnstormers, today we look back at them with rose colored glasses, but were any laws passed against early aircraft (or the people who flew them)?
To finish the old saw, if I barely edge closer to the stake than you in horseshoes I still get a point.
/sorry already