that you can sell in game money online for real money? Are these people just helping their buddies out, or is there money changing hands? In either case, am I the only one who thinks these in game scandals make the game a ton more interesting?
was larger, heftier, better built with better buttons. It was also $35 bucks. They dropped the price $5 bucks, and massively dropped the quality. It's still my favorite pad (the original Saturn Pad's a close second, but analog is too nice, and the Saturn analog pads were badly designed).
Just had to change the back up solution for the company I work for from full backups to tape to incremental backups to tape with monthly fulls done to DVD, and writing 40 Gigs of data to DVD every month is a bit of a pain. Oh well, least I'm not salaried:). But with how expensive tape's gotten ($1000 bucks for a 90/gig drive? ouch), I can't wait for HDDVD or Blu-ray to get cheap. The whole server on two disks, 1/4 of which I can make parity files, would ROCK.
As a tech, I'm dying for these things. I'm getting more and more wireless networks where it just doesn't work because there's too many people with wireless devices in the area. I had one house with 6 wireless networks in range, cell phones, wireless security systems, 2.4 Ghz wireless on the land line, and even a few wireless mice and keyboards floating around. It was too much.
They called it MSCE. You got one, and you got yourself a $20+/hr job. Then the suits engineered a surplus of techs and outsourced every job they could, and that $20+/hr job became a $9.50 an hour job, and low and behold people weren't so happy with Microsoft anymore. Especially since a lot of them where still making payments on student loans.
Yeah, some of the blame goes to paper MSCEs, But not nearly as much as you think. And besides, paper MSCEs don't really care enough to bother proselytizing. OTOH, those ninnies do drive down the value of real techs.
People open the case, steal the disk (which fits in a large pocket) and walk out the door. The only solution to that is to put the merchandise in a glass case, or in individual plastic cases, both of which are a pain for retailers.
The internet requires lots of reading. Broadband and Youtube cut down on it a little, but there's still lots and lots of reading. People don't like to read.
it's not that well supported. Works fine as a sound card, but it's a bitch getting all the inputs working. Also, he's got a cheap 'Guitar Pod' I think it's called that works great for recording, but doesn't work under Linux. There's a ton of cheap USB input and mixer devices out there that don't work in Linux.
$20 bucks for 75 tracks/mo. Strait mp3s with no strings attached and the ability to download anything you've lost without penalty. Now if we can just get all the labels on it:).
Stardom is about living vicariously through someone. They don't get that money because they're worth it, they get it because without it, they aren't worth it.
it's a distraction to keep all those red blooded American's from realizing that the work visa program both parties are pushing is about to drop 20 million+ disparate workers into our economy.
if you removed all the corporate welfare and protective legislation that large corporations have bought themselves, they would tend to be lumbering behemoths and, excepting some special cases which tend towards natural monopolies, generally aren't as competitive as they appear to be today.
You act like that's even possible. I think the parent's point was, you just can't do that. The 'free' market is too complex. Take IP. It's basically corporate welfare these days, but with how cheap digital distribution is good luck getting a $100 million dollar movie off the ground when it's perfectly legal to download for free.
Basically, it's a sneaky way to get MSG into food. You can use processes to create hydrolized proteins 'naturally', i.e. without specifically adding MSG, and then slap 'No Added MSG' on your label.
and I'm too poor to fix it any other way. I had hazmat gear, and something called beanie-doo that I used to remove the mastic (the sticky stuff they used to put the cheap tile down). The real problem was I didn't know there was asbestos in the tiling until the floors had gotten to the point where I had to redo the tile. The way I found out was I was hiring a carpet company, and they wouldn't come in and work until the asbestos was gone. It was a nightmare to do, but relatively save with the hazmat gear and the beanie-doo (it binds to the asbestos fibers, keeping you from breathing them).
Just finished removing asbestos tile from my house:). What's really scary is our food supply. Sodium Nitrate, BHT, TBHQ, MSG, Hydrolized Proteins, Sulfates, Red 40. There's so much stuff in our food that's potentially or known to be a carcinogen. My personal fav is Sodium Nitrate, which was found be carcinogenic because it was causing actual cancer in cows it was fed to (the cows were being given feed made from old Herring). It's banned in Germany, but here in the USA we just add some Asorbic Acid in the hope that it'll stop it from breaking down into nitrosomes.
I've heard that the energy cost of making the panels is greater than the amount of power they generate in their lifetime. Don't know if that's true though, but it takes energy to make the panels, and they do wear out / break.
I mean, there's no way you could actually find 3 wii's to purchase for networking, let alone get your grandparents to stop playing bowling long enough to do the rendering.
and while the RIAA is happy to take your money for a Beatles album when you're 40, they don't need it to survive. That's why music sucks so much in this country, and why they've been getting away with $20 dollar CDs. It's all about the Teenagers, with their part time jobs, no responsibilities and lots of disposable income.
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that you can sell in game money online for real money? Are these people just helping their buddies out, or is there money changing hands? In either case, am I the only one who thinks these in game scandals make the game a ton more interesting?
was larger, heftier, better built with better buttons. It was also $35 bucks. They dropped the price $5 bucks, and massively dropped the quality. It's still my favorite pad (the original Saturn Pad's a close second, but analog is too nice, and the Saturn analog pads were badly designed).
Just had to change the back up solution for the company I work for from full backups to tape to incremental backups to tape with monthly fulls done to DVD, and writing 40 Gigs of data to DVD every month is a bit of a pain. Oh well, least I'm not salaried :). But with how expensive tape's gotten ($1000 bucks for a 90/gig drive? ouch), I can't wait for HDDVD or Blu-ray to get cheap. The whole server on two disks, 1/4 of which I can make parity files, would ROCK.
if you give work visas to just about anybody who asks?
As a tech, I'm dying for these things. I'm getting more and more wireless networks where it just doesn't work because there's too many people with wireless devices in the area. I had one house with 6 wireless networks in range, cell phones, wireless security systems, 2.4 Ghz wireless on the land line, and even a few wireless mice and keyboards floating around. It was too much.
They called it MSCE. You got one, and you got yourself a $20+/hr job. Then the suits engineered a surplus of techs and outsourced every job they could, and that $20+/hr job became a $9.50 an hour job, and low and behold people weren't so happy with Microsoft anymore. Especially since a lot of them where still making payments on student loans.
Yeah, some of the blame goes to paper MSCEs, But not nearly as much as you think. And besides, paper MSCEs don't really care enough to bother proselytizing. OTOH, those ninnies do drive down the value of real techs.
Near as I can tell they're legit. OTOH, they're all nitch titles.
People open the case, steal the disk (which fits in a large pocket) and walk out the door. The only solution to that is to put the merchandise in a glass case, or in individual plastic cases, both of which are a pain for retailers.
The internet requires lots of reading. Broadband and Youtube cut down on it a little, but there's still lots and lots of reading. People don't like to read.
So, who's had there boxen killed by this round?
it's not that well supported. Works fine as a sound card, but it's a bitch getting all the inputs working. Also, he's got a cheap 'Guitar Pod' I think it's called that works great for recording, but doesn't work under Linux. There's a ton of cheap USB input and mixer devices out there that don't work in Linux.
No DRM, good quality mp3s, and 75 downloads a month. Yeah, I can't find too many big names, but there's plenty of stuff there just as good.
and the problem he ran into was the lack of inexpensive hardware that worked on Linux.
but why would I want to search several million statements from the Robotech Defense Force? I mean, sure I'm an Anime nerd, but there are limits...
$20 bucks for 75 tracks/mo. Strait mp3s with no strings attached and the ability to download anything you've lost without penalty. Now if we can just get all the labels on it :).
Stardom is about living vicariously through someone. They don't get that money because they're worth it, they get it because without it, they aren't worth it.
it's a distraction to keep all those red blooded American's from realizing that the work visa program both parties are pushing is about to drop 20 million+ disparate workers into our economy.
Sorry, check here: http://www.cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisine.htm
Basically, it's a sneaky way to get MSG into food. You can use processes to create hydrolized proteins 'naturally', i.e. without specifically adding MSG, and then slap 'No Added MSG' on your label.
and I'm too poor to fix it any other way. I had hazmat gear, and something called beanie-doo that I used to remove the mastic (the sticky stuff they used to put the cheap tile down). The real problem was I didn't know there was asbestos in the tiling until the floors had gotten to the point where I had to redo the tile. The way I found out was I was hiring a carpet company, and they wouldn't come in and work until the asbestos was gone. It was a nightmare to do, but relatively save with the hazmat gear and the beanie-doo (it binds to the asbestos fibers, keeping you from breathing them).
I'd love to move, but that's poverty for you.
Just finished removing asbestos tile from my house :). What's really scary is our food supply. Sodium Nitrate, BHT, TBHQ, MSG, Hydrolized Proteins, Sulfates, Red 40. There's so much stuff in our food that's potentially or known to be a carcinogen. My personal fav is Sodium Nitrate, which was found be carcinogenic because it was causing actual cancer in cows it was fed to (the cows were being given feed made from old Herring). It's banned in Germany, but here in the USA we just add some Asorbic Acid in the hope that it'll stop it from breaking down into nitrosomes.
I've heard that the energy cost of making the panels is greater than the amount of power they generate in their lifetime. Don't know if that's true though, but it takes energy to make the panels, and they do wear out / break.
if it was good enough for our president...
I mean, there's no way you could actually find 3 wii's to purchase for networking, let alone get your grandparents to stop playing bowling long enough to do the rendering.
and while the RIAA is happy to take your money for a Beatles album when you're 40, they don't need it to survive. That's why music sucks so much in this country, and why they've been getting away with $20 dollar CDs. It's all about the Teenagers, with their part time jobs, no responsibilities and lots of disposable income.