I enjoyed it a lot. Kick was not as bad as everyone complains. If you spam it, you run out of stamina pretty quick, and then no more kicks for a while. The game had its faults, but fun combat. yes, even kicking enemies off cliffs occasionally.
...we don't need an interactive HUD to tell people they're following too damn close. Simple sonar or laser-based detector to measure your following distance and a nice, loud, annoying buzzer would do the trick. Might have to write my congressdude.
...and they were much nicer than Dell's offerings intially. Eventually Dell's product caught up and their superior service and support killed Gateway, at least in the enterprise market.
...is to skip over all the songs. Read that once on a blog somewhere, and I'd say it's good advice. I've read the series two or three times, and just pretending the damn songs weren't even there would have enhanced the experience.
they filter out some light but still allow a view to the outside. Pretty good compromise, I have them in one lab and they work well, we leave them down all the time.
Considering the Army is heavily investing in solar because getting fuel in theater is insanely expensive, shipping via helicopter doesn't sound like it's going to scale very well. Can't afford to fix Medicare, but let's keep shipping billions to Afghanistan, where there's not even a hint of light at the end of the tunnel.
...a terrorist attack on a coal station doesn't have the potential to render a huge piece of real estate uninhabitable for generations. Not to mention the effects on those currently inhabiting said real estate.
in a world where nuclear power plants don't have half-assed security. Call me crazy.
To be effective, regulators must have an adversarial relationship with those they regulate. When that's gone, you get Deepwater Horizon, or Fukishima. I agree Greenpeace shouldn't be doing this kind of thing, but unfortunately they're all we've got since federal regulators crawled into industry's bed. I don't know if the same is true in France, but I'd be surprised it it wasn't.
Because the nuke industry would be more than happy to give Greenpeace researchers full access to their facilities. And the media would be tripping over themselves to publish their findings. And Greenpeace is dangerous. Can I live in your world?
I agree that most of your rank and file feds are decent people, but a look at recent history makes it painfully obvious that many of those at the top-who are political appointees--don't give a damn about the public and are deeply in corporate America's pocket. See Deepwater Horizon, Department of the Interior regulation, or rather lack thereof. Or the Comcast/NBC merger, with one of the FCC commissioners skating off to a cush job with the newly-merged entity.
...for cross traffic and photograph and ticket the car running the red. Still safe, and you bust the jerks who don't think they should have to follow traffic rules.
As for your assertion that fining people has no influence on their behavior, I'm not buying it. A couple speeding tickets definitely got me to slow down. By not fining people you'd actually be rewarding people for illicit behavior: Don't feel like stopping? No problem, we'll just hold the light for you.
Delay the green so opposing traffic doesn't get killed, but let the yellow go red as normal
Photograph the miscreant running the red light, and ticket them
Voila, increased safety, deterrence, and revenue. Of course, the system should be regularly audited to ensure they're not shortening yellows to catch more drivers, I hate that crap.
Except our free market is running about 20 percent unemployment. Don't trust official estimates, they game them to ignore the long-term unemployed. Our country has a serious problem, and the people who can actually do something about it won't even talk about it.
We just had to downgrade the firmware on some our printers because the newest version wouldn't duplex correctly. How the hell does a printer company release firmware that breaks duplexing? Is anybody home at HP?
And you don't want to know how much fun it was to actually find the old firmware on HP's site.
Sorry, but in a production environment a generic driver doesn't cut it. Maybe if all you print is 8.5x11 on plain paper, but if you're doing photos, tabloid, transparencies, duplexing, you need a real driver. Unfortunately, HP no longer makes real drivers. I'm hoping they can't do worse than the universal driver, but considering all the stupid crap HP has done recently I wouldn't bet on it.
I had a friend who went to work for IBM in sales, he was tearing it up, making big bucks. They upped his quota retroactively, he had to pay back part of his commissions. Can't have the new kid making more than his boss.
Among other things, I'm responsible for a cluster of windows terminal servers, which users never fail to find creative ways of breaking. Yes, Windows sucks, but it's necessary to run the software my customers use, so there is no alternative. Virtualization may be overkill in theory, but in reality it may be the only way to keep users from hosing our systems. Would be different if MS knew how to properly design an OS, but if wishes were ponies......
As a race organizer, timing chips are a PIA, it would be awesome if facial recognition could track everyone at the start and finish. We're talking up to 10,000 people though, and you'd have to have a photo on file to identify each person. The finish would be easy, everyone is spread out, but at the start you have a lot of faces crossing the starting line simultaneously. Aside from being kind of creepy, is it workable?
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I enjoyed it a lot. Kick was not as bad as everyone complains. If you spam it, you run out of stamina pretty quick, and then no more kicks for a while. The game had its faults, but fun combat. yes, even kicking enemies off cliffs occasionally.
...we don't need an interactive HUD to tell people they're following too damn close. Simple sonar or laser-based detector to measure your following distance and a nice, loud, annoying buzzer would do the trick. Might have to write my congressdude.
...and they were much nicer than Dell's offerings intially. Eventually Dell's product caught up and their superior service and support killed Gateway, at least in the enterprise market.
and I'm not ashamed to say I didn't get very far. Kind of like reading the old testament, but less entertaining.
...is to skip over all the songs. Read that once on a blog somewhere, and I'd say it's good advice. I've read the series two or three times, and just pretending the damn songs weren't even there would have enhanced the experience.
they filter out some light but still allow a view to the outside. Pretty good compromise, I have them in one lab and they work well, we leave them down all the time.
Considering the Army is heavily investing in solar because getting fuel in theater is insanely expensive, shipping via helicopter doesn't sound like it's going to scale very well. Can't afford to fix Medicare, but let's keep shipping billions to Afghanistan, where there's not even a hint of light at the end of the tunnel.
...a terrorist attack on a coal station doesn't have the potential to render a huge piece of real estate uninhabitable for generations. Not to mention the effects on those currently inhabiting said real estate.
in a world where nuclear power plants don't have half-assed security. Call me crazy.
To be effective, regulators must have an adversarial relationship with those they regulate. When that's gone, you get Deepwater Horizon, or Fukishima. I agree Greenpeace shouldn't be doing this kind of thing, but unfortunately they're all we've got since federal regulators crawled into industry's bed. I don't know if the same is true in France, but I'd be surprised it it wasn't.
Because the nuke industry would be more than happy to give Greenpeace researchers full access to their facilities. And the media would be tripping over themselves to publish their findings. And Greenpeace is dangerous. Can I live in your world?
I agree that most of your rank and file feds are decent people, but a look at recent history makes it painfully obvious that many of those at the top-who are political appointees--don't give a damn about the public and are deeply in corporate America's pocket. See Deepwater Horizon, Department of the Interior regulation, or rather lack thereof. Or the Comcast/NBC merger, with one of the FCC commissioners skating off to a cush job with the newly-merged entity.
I can't wit til my contract with t-mobile expires, going to drop them like a hot rock.
that could photograph them running the red and ticket them. Honestly, it's not that hard.
...for cross traffic and photograph and ticket the car running the red. Still safe, and you bust the jerks who don't think they should have to follow traffic rules.
As for your assertion that fining people has no influence on their behavior, I'm not buying it. A couple speeding tickets definitely got me to slow down. By not fining people you'd actually be rewarding people for illicit behavior: Don't feel like stopping? No problem, we'll just hold the light for you.
Delay the green so opposing traffic doesn't get killed, but let the yellow go red as normal
Photograph the miscreant running the red light, and ticket them
Voila, increased safety, deterrence, and revenue. Of course, the system should be regularly audited to ensure they're not shortening yellows to catch more drivers, I hate that crap.
Nice summary, more redundancy please!
Except our free market is running about 20 percent unemployment. Don't trust official estimates, they game them to ignore the long-term unemployed. Our country has a serious problem, and the people who can actually do something about it won't even talk about it.
We just had to downgrade the firmware on some our printers because the newest version wouldn't duplex correctly. How the hell does a printer company release firmware that breaks duplexing? Is anybody home at HP?
And you don't want to know how much fun it was to actually find the old firmware on HP's site.
Sorry, but in a production environment a generic driver doesn't cut it. Maybe if all you print is 8.5x11 on plain paper, but if you're doing photos, tabloid, transparencies, duplexing, you need a real driver. Unfortunately, HP no longer makes real drivers. I'm hoping they can't do worse than the universal driver, but considering all the stupid crap HP has done recently I wouldn't bet on it.
I had a friend who went to work for IBM in sales, he was tearing it up, making big bucks. They upped his quota retroactively, he had to pay back part of his commissions. Can't have the new kid making more than his boss.
Show me a company that actually knows which 10% constitutes dead wood, and....
Among other things, I'm responsible for a cluster of windows terminal servers, which users never fail to find creative ways of breaking. Yes, Windows sucks, but it's necessary to run the software my customers use, so there is no alternative. Virtualization may be overkill in theory, but in reality it may be the only way to keep users from hosing our systems. Would be different if MS knew how to properly design an OS, but if wishes were ponies......
User error....trying to get everyone to turn them in, paying for lost chips, etc. Not a pain for the runners, but a big pain for organizers.
As a race organizer, timing chips are a PIA, it would be awesome if facial recognition could track everyone at the start and finish. We're talking up to 10,000 people though, and you'd have to have a photo on file to identify each person. The finish would be easy, everyone is spread out, but at the start you have a lot of faces crossing the starting line simultaneously. Aside from being kind of creepy, is it workable?
....will kill the Universal Print Driver. With fire. Then run it over. Twice.