No, that kind of mentality multiplied by millions of others is why we're in this situation. I don't care if we "lose" this vote in 2012, we as citizens needs to stick to our guns and vote how we feel instead of "choosing the lesser of two evils". I refused to be corralled into that anymore.
As for you Obama comments - sure, it's our fault. I'll take that responsibility. But I'm changing my voting behaviors as a result. What are you doing? We've still got a Dem/Rep congress that's behind a lot of the mess as well. It's not just Obama either.
Shut up and vote 3rd party if you don't like it. That's what I'm doing after voting mostly Dem the past 8+ years. I suggest everyone else do it as well. If we lose, fuck it, nothing new, but maybe we gain numbers and maybe gain traction.
As much as I rooted for Obama and his change it honestly feels like Bush v2.0. That seems to be the common sentiment here on Slashdot as well. So why both with Dem or Rep anymore? They don't represent my interests anymore.
I don't know if it's a great alternative but Blockbuster is still alive and kicking: http://www.blockbuster.com/download Anyone have any experience with them?
My knee-jerk reaction is to just cancel my account and be pissed. Afterall - it's a pretty large increase percentage-wise. However, when I really think about it - they've just been too cheap for a while. As long as they don't start pulling a move like the cable companies did and slap advertising on top of a paid service I think I'm okay with this. Compared to the volume of movies I watch now vs. the cost of getting them from a brick and mortar rental place I'm saving hundreds a month.
Personally I think this is a neat concept and would like to see some how these pan out in the real world. While there's nothing wrong with being skeptical by any means there seems to be some merit behind this. I'm particularly curious to see how this would perform in an HVAC system.
Regarding your question about bearings conducting heat - I was wondering the same question. I wonder if there's a way to make bearings specifically for this application with heat transfer in mind while still providing decent performance.
Well asking for that is a bit of a catch 22. It's kind of like trying to be President of the USA and be an atheist. It's not that it can't happen, it's that the majority of people wont allow it to happen (or at least hasn't). A mental health professional who could make such a claim is likely to not be in the profession much longer.
However, I did come across a report somewhere a while back that did make such a claim. I wish I could recall the specifics or find a link for you to support that.
But when you really get down to it - is faith any different than believing in any other supernatural item? An adult who earnestly still believes in Santa is pretty much in the same boat. At least that was my thoughts on the idea of faith after I learned Santa wasn't real. If that could be fabricated on such a large scale - why not anything else?
Mind you - I'm not saying there is or isn't any higher being or whatnot. But I'm certainly in no position to claim any factual knowledge of the existence or lack thereof of such a being.
Personally - I wouldn't even bother with the text dumps and whatnot. Just cut it off completely. If you need wiki or whatnot then catch it when you're at work. If it's important enough you'll find yourself at the library or coffee shop anyway.
I've been slowly cutting myself off from a lot of things like that (cable tv, WoW, Starcraft, Facebook, etc) and I find I just fill the voids with other things. I'm currently playing my PS2 more than I have in ages. Not all bad though because my attention span for that is much shorter than the other options (such as hanging out on slashdot). I find I've been hanging out with friends more in person, talking more to my family, and in general just getting more shit done. I've also picked up some more hobbies on the way.
For me I think the next step is getting away from this smartphone craze. Hell, just for the cost it's not worth it. $40/mo extra to do 5% comfortably of what I can do on a laptop? After that I may consider dropping internet but it is a pretty handy tool. Perhaps I'll just wire it to a desktop so I lose some convenience of it to discourage me from using it everywhere in the house.
While some people on here are quick to shun those of us for trying to shed such things - I say fuck 'em, rock on, and good luck. You'll probably enjoy the change.
What I'm saying is sure, the guy got the term wrong, but an event related to e and google still occurred. I knew what he meant, why didn't you? Instead of being an ass about it why not try to educate someone for a change?
Yes and no. Mostly no. You have some neat options to merge and keep or toss files with matching names. But there's no sense of queuing by any stretch of the imagination. I can't just let it run and revisit the problems in the morning. Any dialogue from the transfer pauses the transfer until that dialogue is answered.
"When you drag a bunch of icons to copy stuff from one drive to another, it blindly starts the copy, it doesn't check if there's enough space, it doesn't check if there's a file already at the destination with the same name, so, if this copy is going to take hours, you have to monitor it for any pop-up alerts. Because any of these issues will stop the copy dead. It's 2011 guys, why is "copy" still a function like it's 1950? Is this *really* what the best and brightest can achieve?"
THANK YOU.
And I'm a pretty heavy Windows user. This is one of the most nonsensical aspects I've run into with MS. Why not handle it like ftp clients already do? Have a file queue and if there's an error, skip, and I'll see the report at the end of the process and can handle each problem individually.
Hell - what about the sheer reality of economics today? With less cash floating around people typically don't have as much leisure cash. Instead of seeing movies at the box office maybe they'll wait and rent? Or instead of movies, how about beer?
Reminds of the time I worked for this one company for a month before I got the hell out. They worked everyone 60 hours a week - every week. Apparently this was how it always had been and the guys liked it for the extra income. They couldn't see for every two employees they've got on that schedule they could just hire someone else for 2/3s the cost and probably get better performance. But that was just one of the many odd practices they had. Manager liked to hoard blue prints - I never knew wtf I was working on until we received our orders for the day.
Given the nature of the market now and the rise in popularity of "microtransactions" is it unreasonable to think paying $5 for a new save file to be successful? What if the initial game was $25? What if the first save file allowed that single player to play back to prior save points without ruining progress? (such as used in Dirge of Cerberus).
I don't think it's too out of the question IF they lower the price of the initial software and allow some fairly decent movement within that purchase. Compare this to buying WoW software - you still have a monthly fee to pay for access and millions are okay with that route.
That doesn't mean that's the direction *I* want things to go in, but the model could actually work and could feasibly benefit both the gamer (lower prices) and the developer (more income due to the new volume of income from used sales). But only if they're smart about it and not downright abusive.
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"Your third-party vote is a wasted vote."
No, that kind of mentality multiplied by millions of others is why we're in this situation. I don't care if we "lose" this vote in 2012, we as citizens needs to stick to our guns and vote how we feel instead of "choosing the lesser of two evils". I refused to be corralled into that anymore.
As for you Obama comments - sure, it's our fault. I'll take that responsibility. But I'm changing my voting behaviors as a result. What are you doing? We've still got a Dem/Rep congress that's behind a lot of the mess as well. It's not just Obama either.
Shut up and vote 3rd party if you don't like it. That's what I'm doing after voting mostly Dem the past 8+ years. I suggest everyone else do it as well. If we lose, fuck it, nothing new, but maybe we gain numbers and maybe gain traction.
As much as I rooted for Obama and his change it honestly feels like Bush v2.0. That seems to be the common sentiment here on Slashdot as well. So why both with Dem or Rep anymore? They don't represent my interests anymore.
You've obviously never experienced life with a female.
Perhaps they're after the Streisand Effect.
I don't know if it's a great alternative but Blockbuster is still alive and kicking: http://www.blockbuster.com/download Anyone have any experience with them?
My knee-jerk reaction is to just cancel my account and be pissed. Afterall - it's a pretty large increase percentage-wise. However, when I really think about it - they've just been too cheap for a while. As long as they don't start pulling a move like the cable companies did and slap advertising on top of a paid service I think I'm okay with this. Compared to the volume of movies I watch now vs. the cost of getting them from a brick and mortar rental place I'm saving hundreds a month.
Personally I think this is a neat concept and would like to see some how these pan out in the real world. While there's nothing wrong with being skeptical by any means there seems to be some merit behind this. I'm particularly curious to see how this would perform in an HVAC system.
Regarding your question about bearings conducting heat - I was wondering the same question. I wonder if there's a way to make bearings specifically for this application with heat transfer in mind while still providing decent performance.
I think he just had an exothermic reaction.
"Simple doesn't mean easy".
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Well asking for that is a bit of a catch 22. It's kind of like trying to be President of the USA and be an atheist. It's not that it can't happen, it's that the majority of people wont allow it to happen (or at least hasn't). A mental health professional who could make such a claim is likely to not be in the profession much longer.
However, I did come across a report somewhere a while back that did make such a claim. I wish I could recall the specifics or find a link for you to support that.
But when you really get down to it - is faith any different than believing in any other supernatural item? An adult who earnestly still believes in Santa is pretty much in the same boat. At least that was my thoughts on the idea of faith after I learned Santa wasn't real. If that could be fabricated on such a large scale - why not anything else?
Mind you - I'm not saying there is or isn't any higher being or whatnot. But I'm certainly in no position to claim any factual knowledge of the existence or lack thereof of such a being.
And? He's taking responsibility for his own behavior. Otherwise he wouldn't be trying to modify the behavior.
The girlfriend, obviously!
Depends on your criteria for why it's negative in his life. It may very well not simply be the content.
Personally - I wouldn't even bother with the text dumps and whatnot. Just cut it off completely. If you need wiki or whatnot then catch it when you're at work. If it's important enough you'll find yourself at the library or coffee shop anyway.
I've been slowly cutting myself off from a lot of things like that (cable tv, WoW, Starcraft, Facebook, etc) and I find I just fill the voids with other things. I'm currently playing my PS2 more than I have in ages. Not all bad though because my attention span for that is much shorter than the other options (such as hanging out on slashdot). I find I've been hanging out with friends more in person, talking more to my family, and in general just getting more shit done. I've also picked up some more hobbies on the way.
For me I think the next step is getting away from this smartphone craze. Hell, just for the cost it's not worth it. $40/mo extra to do 5% comfortably of what I can do on a laptop? After that I may consider dropping internet but it is a pretty handy tool. Perhaps I'll just wire it to a desktop so I lose some convenience of it to discourage me from using it everywhere in the house.
While some people on here are quick to shun those of us for trying to shed such things - I say fuck 'em, rock on, and good luck. You'll probably enjoy the change.
Agreed. Nothing wrong with their method if that's what they felt they needed. Hell, I'm even a bit envious.
That's what I don't get. There's absolutely no reason for this.
In my town it's electronic - but it's all closed.
Is it impervious? Probably not. But is it exposed to this kind of crap on this kind of scale? Hell no.
Aww you beat me to it... ...but YES.
Thank you, sir/madam.
What I'm saying is sure, the guy got the term wrong, but an event related to e and google still occurred. I knew what he meant, why didn't you? Instead of being an ass about it why not try to educate someone for a change?
Don't be a douche.
Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/whats-your-google-bid
Yes and no. Mostly no. You have some neat options to merge and keep or toss files with matching names. But there's no sense of queuing by any stretch of the imagination. I can't just let it run and revisit the problems in the morning. Any dialogue from the transfer pauses the transfer until that dialogue is answered.
So for my purposes, no, it's not fixed.
Only leaders in North Korea are capable of such things.
"When you drag a bunch of icons to copy stuff from one drive to another, it blindly starts the copy, it doesn't check if there's enough space, it doesn't check if there's a file already at the destination with the same name, so, if this copy is going to take hours, you have to monitor it for any pop-up alerts. Because any of these issues will stop the copy dead. It's 2011 guys, why is "copy" still a function like it's 1950? Is this *really* what the best and brightest can achieve?"
THANK YOU.
And I'm a pretty heavy Windows user. This is one of the most nonsensical aspects I've run into with MS. Why not handle it like ftp clients already do? Have a file queue and if there's an error, skip, and I'll see the report at the end of the process and can handle each problem individually.
Hell - what about the sheer reality of economics today? With less cash floating around people typically don't have as much leisure cash. Instead of seeing movies at the box office maybe they'll wait and rent? Or instead of movies, how about beer?
Reminds of the time I worked for this one company for a month before I got the hell out. They worked everyone 60 hours a week - every week. Apparently this was how it always had been and the guys liked it for the extra income. They couldn't see for every two employees they've got on that schedule they could just hire someone else for 2/3s the cost and probably get better performance. But that was just one of the many odd practices they had. Manager liked to hoard blue prints - I never knew wtf I was working on until we received our orders for the day.
Given the nature of the market now and the rise in popularity of "microtransactions" is it unreasonable to think paying $5 for a new save file to be successful? What if the initial game was $25? What if the first save file allowed that single player to play back to prior save points without ruining progress? (such as used in Dirge of Cerberus).
I don't think it's too out of the question IF they lower the price of the initial software and allow some fairly decent movement within that purchase. Compare this to buying WoW software - you still have a monthly fee to pay for access and millions are okay with that route.
That doesn't mean that's the direction *I* want things to go in, but the model could actually work and could feasibly benefit both the gamer (lower prices) and the developer (more income due to the new volume of income from used sales). But only if they're smart about it and not downright abusive.