the problem with Krok isn't the drug, it's the impurities and how cheap & easy it is to make. In a completely free market ''entrepreneurs" could make Krok and sell it as heroin. Sure, they'd get found out. But Russia's a big place and they could just move every time the heat got too much.
The Socialist in my says this wouldn't happen if people weren't trying so hard to escape from the brutal reality of our dog eat dog society.
I actually probably came near 4x that, so about 11k insertion/removals. Micro USB is designed for 10k, so it very likely outlasted its design lifetime.
So because Democracy can be subverted with money we should do away with it and switch to Fascism? Unions exist for a reason. That reason has not gone away. The rich are still power hungry and still want us to fight amongst ourselves to increase their power. 55 years of mostly OK life in America (if you're not Black and in the South) has not changed 2000+ years of people being awful.
Seriously. Everyone loves H1-Bs exception tech workers. What do you do when both parties are completely in favor of it? You can't say "Go to the Libertarians" either because they're in favor too (they're against amnesty usually, but want more legal immigration and visas).
I don't think we've got a chance. I remember reading an article from some University economist or something where he talked about how we're all going to have to get used to a lower standard of living and a more "Fragile" existence. I'd love to believe that's not true, but heck, we still blamed Unions for Hostess going under. We blamed 'em for GM and we're blaming weak test scores on them. We can't stop fighting amongst ourselves, how do we protect our livelihoods?
at least with non-Valve games. The 3rd party vendors often run out of keys, and if that happens to you you're out of luck and out whatever you paid. Sometimes they make it right and sometimes the original studio is out of business. If you dispute the transaction on your credit card statement Valve cancels your Steam account, and you lose all the games you bought instead of just one...
Good think Luckyo is here to settle the question of why Rome fell once and for all. Thanks!
And now that I've gotten that bit of spite out of my system I'd like to point out that we're not best with Barbarians and Vandals (and no, the occasional whack job terrorist doesn't count). As for World Wars, our corporate masters won't allow that. About a decade ago a bunch of terrorists shot up India's capital and were traced back to people in the Pakistani gov't. I remember thinking, whelp, here comes WWIII, except it didn't.
So yeah, we can learn from history, but that doesn't mean things aren't different. I don't mean people are better, just that the circumstances are different and it's not that simple.
I'll ask what/.ers think of the stability of low end ATI hardware. I've heard once you get into the $250 range it's fine, but everything I've tried below $130 has crashed hard on everything except the biggest titles:(. I miss my super stable 1650...
just look at the bit rate on the memory bus. Video card manufactures use the mem bus bitrate to limit card performance so that their low end doesn't cannibalize their mid range and high end (ala 3DFX).
128-bit is low end.
192-bit is your mid range card.
256-bit is your high end.
You don't need to pay attention to anything else until 256 bit. After that just sort by price on newegg and check the release date. Newer is better:)
if the 1% don't already own it they can buy it cheap. If they do, they don't care. They'll already own that companies chief competitors and make a killing when they die.
See, the economy becomes a very, very different place when 1% (or.01%) own _everything_. The dynamics you're counting on all change...
Nope, they're happy to do both. The ones that can't do it fail and fall by the wayside. But who cares. There's just 'precious little snowflakes' that were coddled too much as kids. It's a big, bad world out there. Why waste effort making it better?
modern schools are designed to condition kids to work hard on less sleep. Heck, public schools in America were original developed to get farm kids used to the kind of regimented life factory work requires (read "A people's history of the United States" for citation). America is all about working harder for less. I suppose it might be different in the rest of the world though.
you're just counting the individual costs. If you were a billionaire and owned tonnes of stock and companies you'd see the benefit. Just the saving from all the extra competition alone is billions and billions a year. I've read that there are close to 300,000 H1-B immigrants in America alone (they're not sent back when the Visa expires). Think about what 300,000 extra workers do to an industries wages? How about 1.2 million (which was the next planned increase until those bombs in Boston derailed the immigration bill). As a billionaire, you pocket all that.
Outsourcing isn't about cost savings, it's about pitting labor against itself. Works too.
you're focused on the short term goal of better service, and completely ignoring the long term goal of better service for less. Competition drives down costs and forces the players (IT employees) to up their game. Hostess did this with twinkies. They shut the company down, throw everything to the wind, and when they come back labor costs are a fraction what they were and the workers work twice as hard. Sure, you lose a little productivity, but you more than make it back with lower labor costs and exempt employees.
Actually the point of a democratic republic is wealthy land owners didn't want the poor voting themselves land and money. Seriously, look it up. It's pretty well documented.
you can't make enough money off it in the short term to make it a worth while investment. As in investor there's always something with better gains in your lifetime. That's why the gov't made the comm network, the railroads, the (car) roads, and just about everything going back to the fsckin' Aquaducts.
No, but just because we can lampoon his analogy with hyperbole doesn't make him any less right. These services got popular not because hipsters care about the environment but because there's lots of people that need to get places and can't afford cars and regular taxis anymore. It points to a general decline in income and standard of living.
NFC is kinda pointless until the iPhone supports it. There isn't a single large company that'll move until then. I can't tell you the let down it was when the iPhone 5 didn't have it. As near as I can tell the problem is iPhone users have lots of money and they spend it, so they're a required demographic for any major push forward.
just because nobody will go an record saying mass shootings are a good thing doesn't mean they're not thinking it. The mass shootings are death to the Democrats. Gun control is a losing issue because, as Clinton pointed out, gun owners entire identity is tied up in their guns. They're not fighting for their rights so much as their basic self image (or 'Way of Life' if you want to be charitable). They instantly become single issue voters that show up at the polls in droves.
Contrast that with a pro-gun control person. With the exception of a few people that know someone personally (and well) that was gunned down, it's not a very emotional issue. You might get some people to say, 'yeah, we shouldn't have guns' but you'll never get the kind of base, emotional driving force that gets people to the polls and gets them to ignore any other possible issue. The nearest equivalent would be old people and their Medicare/SS, where their literally voting for their lives.
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the problem with Krok isn't the drug, it's the impurities and how cheap & easy it is to make. In a completely free market ''entrepreneurs" could make Krok and sell it as heroin. Sure, they'd get found out. But Russia's a big place and they could just move every time the heat got too much.
The Socialist in my says this wouldn't happen if people weren't trying so hard to escape from the brutal reality of our dog eat dog society.
There's a "Your Mom" joke in there somewhere...
So because Democracy can be subverted with money we should do away with it and switch to Fascism? Unions exist for a reason. That reason has not gone away. The rich are still power hungry and still want us to fight amongst ourselves to increase their power. 55 years of mostly OK life in America (if you're not Black and in the South) has not changed 2000+ years of people being awful.
Seriously. Everyone loves H1-Bs exception tech workers. What do you do when both parties are completely in favor of it? You can't say "Go to the Libertarians" either because they're in favor too (they're against amnesty usually, but want more legal immigration and visas).
I don't think we've got a chance. I remember reading an article from some University economist or something where he talked about how we're all going to have to get used to a lower standard of living and a more "Fragile" existence. I'd love to believe that's not true, but heck, we still blamed Unions for Hostess going under. We blamed 'em for GM and we're blaming weak test scores on them. We can't stop fighting amongst ourselves, how do we protect our livelihoods?
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/126572-Fallout-3-Steam-Keys-Run-Out-Keeps-On-Selling-Anyway-UPDATED Fallout 3 so it eventually got fixed, but google around a little and you'll find cases for lesser known games where it didn't.
I like Steam, I really do, but I also consider everything I bought on it a rental more or less.
at least with non-Valve games. The 3rd party vendors often run out of keys, and if that happens to you you're out of luck and out whatever you paid. Sometimes they make it right and sometimes the original studio is out of business. If you dispute the transaction on your credit card statement Valve cancels your Steam account, and you lose all the games you bought instead of just one...
this is more or less how Australia works. Incomes are high, safety nets strong, necessities are cheap and toys and games are expensive as hell.
Good think Luckyo is here to settle the question of why Rome fell once and for all. Thanks!
And now that I've gotten that bit of spite out of my system I'd like to point out that we're not best with Barbarians and Vandals (and no, the occasional whack job terrorist doesn't count). As for World Wars, our corporate masters won't allow that. About a decade ago a bunch of terrorists shot up India's capital and were traced back to people in the Pakistani gov't. I remember thinking, whelp, here comes WWIII, except it didn't.
So yeah, we can learn from history, but that doesn't mean things aren't different. I don't mean people are better, just that the circumstances are different and it's not that simple.
I'll ask what /.ers think of the stability of low end ATI hardware. I've heard once you get into the $250 range it's fine, but everything I've tried below $130 has crashed hard on everything except the biggest titles :(. I miss my super stable 1650...
just look at the bit rate on the memory bus. Video card manufactures use the mem bus bitrate to limit card performance so that their low end doesn't cannibalize their mid range and high end (ala 3DFX).
:)
128-bit is low end.
192-bit is your mid range card.
256-bit is your high end.
You don't need to pay attention to anything else until 256 bit. After that just sort by price on newegg and check the release date. Newer is better
if the 1% don't already own it they can buy it cheap. If they do, they don't care. They'll already own that companies chief competitors and make a killing when they die.
.01%) own _everything_. The dynamics you're counting on all change...
See, the economy becomes a very, very different place when 1% (or
Nope, they're happy to do both. The ones that can't do it fail and fall by the wayside. But who cares. There's just 'precious little snowflakes' that were coddled too much as kids. It's a big, bad world out there. Why waste effort making it better?
modern schools are designed to condition kids to work hard on less sleep. Heck, public schools in America were original developed to get farm kids used to the kind of regimented life factory work requires (read "A people's history of the United States" for citation). America is all about working harder for less. I suppose it might be different in the rest of the world though.
Did I miss something? Looks like they're back to me. Just a name change and some money changing hands among rich people...
Here you go. And it turns out my numbers were off. It could be more like 650,000.
you're just counting the individual costs. If you were a billionaire and owned tonnes of stock and companies you'd see the benefit. Just the saving from all the extra competition alone is billions and billions a year. I've read that there are close to 300,000 H1-B immigrants in America alone (they're not sent back when the Visa expires). Think about what 300,000 extra workers do to an industries wages? How about 1.2 million (which was the next planned increase until those bombs in Boston derailed the immigration bill). As a billionaire, you pocket all that.
Outsourcing isn't about cost savings, it's about pitting labor against itself. Works too.
you're focused on the short term goal of better service, and completely ignoring the long term goal of better service for less. Competition drives down costs and forces the players (IT employees) to up their game. Hostess did this with twinkies. They shut the company down, throw everything to the wind, and when they come back labor costs are a fraction what they were and the workers work twice as hard. Sure, you lose a little productivity, but you more than make it back with lower labor costs and exempt employees.
No, but I refuse to call it "The One", and it's full name's too long.
A company that can lose $1 billion USD and stay open only needs 10,000 employees.
Actually the point of a democratic republic is wealthy land owners didn't want the poor voting themselves land and money. Seriously, look it up. It's pretty well documented.
you can't make enough money off it in the short term to make it a worth while investment. As in investor there's always something with better gains in your lifetime. That's why the gov't made the comm network, the railroads, the (car) roads, and just about everything going back to the fsckin' Aquaducts.
No, but just because we can lampoon his analogy with hyperbole doesn't make him any less right. These services got popular not because hipsters care about the environment but because there's lots of people that need to get places and can't afford cars and regular taxis anymore. It points to a general decline in income and standard of living.
NFC is kinda pointless until the iPhone supports it. There isn't a single large company that'll move until then. I can't tell you the let down it was when the iPhone 5 didn't have it. As near as I can tell the problem is iPhone users have lots of money and they spend it, so they're a required demographic for any major push forward.
just because nobody will go an record saying mass shootings are a good thing doesn't mean they're not thinking it. The mass shootings are death to the Democrats. Gun control is a losing issue because, as Clinton pointed out, gun owners entire identity is tied up in their guns. They're not fighting for their rights so much as their basic self image (or 'Way of Life' if you want to be charitable). They instantly become single issue voters that show up at the polls in droves.
Contrast that with a pro-gun control person. With the exception of a few people that know someone personally (and well) that was gunned down, it's not a very emotional issue. You might get some people to say, 'yeah, we shouldn't have guns' but you'll never get the kind of base, emotional driving force that gets people to the polls and gets them to ignore any other possible issue. The nearest equivalent would be old people and their Medicare/SS, where their literally voting for their lives.
I live in upstate New York, enjoying a fifth is 5:30pm here.