It's a bit better in America to let the government control the drugs then it is in Canada. Consider Canadian health care. The government pays for a slew of surgeries and ailments that arise from any sort of drug - Be it Tobacco, or Acid. In America, you, the user, have to pay for your rehabilitation. Therefore, if you want to destroy yourself on [Insert drug of choice here], you will have to pay the consequences, not the collective sum of the country's population.
Legalizing recreational use of Hard drugs in Canada is asking for massive tax hikes, Hospital over population, shortages of medicine and spots for people that really NEED help (Cancer, et al.), etc.
I am on both sides of the fence on this one, guys.
I believe that the harder the exam is, the better your chances are of avoiding stupid people at work. When I applied to my current job (Highly recognized anti-virus company) they gave me a Coding test and A written test. It was grueling. It was frustrating, but It impressed my employer more then my geeky cover letter. On the other hand, we had several people apply here that just did not cut it. They did the same entry exam that I did and failed it miserably even though they had 10+ years experience in C++, and were getting paid $90,000/yr at their last job (Their last job was very similar to what we demand).
Now imagine if this fool was hired. How many Dilbert moments do you think would arise on a daily basis? Probably enough for me to switch to the QA department.
Imagine trying to power-level Townsmithing? The AH is already flooded with mediocre Blacksmithing/Letherworking/etc items that are just made for the sake of leveling up. Azeroth and Kalimdor would be full of empty towns that were just used for "leveling".
Here is an idea. Hook the treadmill up to a generator and have that generator power your laptop. Laptops, when they don't have enough power, start downsampling the speed of the GPU/CPU, etc. So if you are playing a video game and your FPS starts to drop, start running faster!
Frag and Burn fat at the same time.
NOTE: This can also be done with porn videos. Porn is not as fun as you think when you can't view it at its intended speed.
They say that the entire plant (and robots) are controlled by computers, but that's actually a lie. Each one of those robots has a midget inside of it, controlling the vehicle. Its very expensive to hire and feed those midgets and also to supply a steady stream of hookers to keep them from uprising. Hookers aren't cheap and that's why lego cost so much.
As the above poster said, Multi-tasking is a great example of politeness. Not once did I want to smash something because of his inability to say something coherent.
Has anyone mentioned Key drives or SSDs yet? Technically those items are limited by the amount of writes you can do to them, which is sometimes an obscene number. So far, the key drive I had for over 5 years is still working, even though its been run over by a car.
Boy: Mom, Dad! I got accepted to the army! Parents: Great!! Where will you be stationed? Boy: I'm in the 5th Spearman Division stationed in the middle of a jungle. We have the most high tech spears in the world!
"Meesa no wait for poodoo reviews! Meesa gonna give bigsa clink-clink to franchise rightawaysa! What could go wrongsa?"
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of English teachers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
So the huge guilds were broken. Small cliques alienated members. But that most admiring part of it was that you didn't get lost in a guild of 500 members anymore. You had a guild of 20-some members, and you felt like you were an imported cog in a well oiled machine. I lost many friends when it all went down. they formed a clique and excluded some people; friends of mine.
But here is where I think Blizzard made a genius, ground breaking decision. Making more 5-man instances then any other type of instance. Basically having fun in a 5-man was leaps and bounds more attractive then having fun in a 10-man or bigger. I never really enjoyed anything beyond Karazhan, because it was just too big. Too many people talking, too many people to contend with, etc. 5-mans did it for me. Once Heroics were open, the 5-mans were just that much better.
Essentially, I am not the only on that thinks this way. All the people I hung around with were this way, AND we were a hardcore endgame guild (We were at BT when I left). If it was up to me, I would ask blizzard to put in several more 5-man instances, give them all heroics, give them all specialized item sets, etc. 5-man instances felt like you were going out to the bar with your friends; as opposed to with your friends and neighbours and cousins and roommates and everyone else that lives on the block.
Alright, I gotta get back to work before I pop a blood vessel.
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'More than 99% of our customers will not be affected by our updated policy, as they consume far less bandwidth than the threshold allows'
If the VAST majority of the users use less then the cap, whats the point of having a cap anyway? 1% of users going over won't effect anything.
It's a bit better in America to let the government control the drugs then it is in Canada. Consider Canadian health care. The government pays for a slew of surgeries and ailments that arise from any sort of drug - Be it Tobacco, or Acid. In America, you, the user, have to pay for your rehabilitation. Therefore, if you want to destroy yourself on [Insert drug of choice here], you will have to pay the consequences, not the collective sum of the country's population.
Legalizing recreational use of Hard drugs in Canada is asking for massive tax hikes, Hospital over population, shortages of medicine and spots for people that really NEED help (Cancer, et al.), etc.
I am on both sides of the fence on this one, guys.
Has anyone actually thought that this might actually spawn Industrial Strength Lesbianism?
...a FPS game based on the National Geographic articles that depict the mating habits of gazelles. Edumacational!
The ESRB people are going to have a field day.
Like I said before, it adds flavor to a rather dull blend.
From personal experience:
I believe that the harder the exam is, the better your chances are of avoiding stupid people at work. When I applied to my current job (Highly recognized anti-virus company) they gave me a Coding test and A written test. It was grueling. It was frustrating, but It impressed my employer more then my geeky cover letter. On the other hand, we had several people apply here that just did not cut it. They did the same entry exam that I did and failed it miserably even though they had 10+ years experience in C++, and were getting paid $90,000/yr at their last job (Their last job was very similar to what we demand).
Now imagine if this fool was hired. How many Dilbert moments do you think would arise on a daily basis? Probably enough for me to switch to the QA department.
What kinda link is this:
http://science.slashdot.org/ChinawilllaunchitsthirdmannedspacemissioninlateSeptember,state-runnewsagencyXinhuareports.TheShenzhouVIIflightwillfeatureChina
Civil wars start like this....
Screw noises, I want my own theme song played every time I drive by. Either that or some excellent Banjo 'gettaway' music!
Imagine trying to power-level Townsmithing? The AH is already flooded with mediocre Blacksmithing/Letherworking/etc items that are just made for the sake of leveling up. Azeroth and Kalimdor would be full of empty towns that were just used for "leveling".
Jeez.
Yeah but wait until you get Wife Aggro. Feign Death, Invisibility, Vanish, etc do nothing against it. You're boned, my friend.
Here is an idea. Hook the treadmill up to a generator and have that generator power your laptop. Laptops, when they don't have enough power, start downsampling the speed of the GPU/CPU, etc. So if you are playing a video game and your FPS starts to drop, start running faster!
Frag and Burn fat at the same time.
NOTE: This can also be done with porn videos. Porn is not as fun as you think when you can't view it at its intended speed.
They say that the entire plant (and robots) are controlled by computers, but that's actually a lie. Each one of those robots has a midget inside of it, controlling the vehicle. Its very expensive to hire and feed those midgets and also to supply a steady stream of hookers to keep them from uprising. Hookers aren't cheap and that's why lego cost so much.
You enter the box. It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
A bear?? What do you think this is, National Geographic?
You are likely to be eaten by a grue!!
As the above poster said, Multi-tasking is a great example of politeness. Not once did I want to smash something because of his inability to say something coherent.
Has anyone mentioned Key drives or SSDs yet? Technically those items are limited by the amount of writes you can do to them, which is sometimes an obscene number. So far, the key drive I had for over 5 years is still working, even though its been run over by a car.
Thoughts?
Imagine what the story behind that would be?
Boy: Mom, Dad! I got accepted to the army!
Parents: Great!! Where will you be stationed?
Boy: I'm in the 5th Spearman Division stationed in the middle of a jungle. We have the most high tech spears in the world!
In other words:
"First Post"
Re: "First Post" - "Second Post"
Re: Re: "Second Post" - "Third Post"
etc...
I know your kind.
*sigh*
1.21 Gigawatz
If I didn't say it, who would?
"Meesa no wait for poodoo reviews! Meesa gonna give bigsa clink-clink to franchise rightawaysa! What could go wrongsa?"
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of English teachers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
I'm a fan of using compression. How well does fat compress using the LZW algorithm?
It sounds blasphemous, but biking 25Km a day burns off the unimaginable calories you intake in one day. Novel idea, huh.
Eventually, sysadmins will get so massive that they will collapse in on themselves.
So the huge guilds were broken. Small cliques alienated members. But that most admiring part of it was that you didn't get lost in a guild of 500 members anymore. You had a guild of 20-some members, and you felt like you were an imported cog in a well oiled machine. I lost many friends when it all went down. they formed a clique and excluded some people; friends of mine.
But here is where I think Blizzard made a genius, ground breaking decision. Making more 5-man instances then any other type of instance. Basically having fun in a 5-man was leaps and bounds more attractive then having fun in a 10-man or bigger. I never really enjoyed anything beyond Karazhan, because it was just too big. Too many people talking, too many people to contend with, etc. 5-mans did it for me. Once Heroics were open, the 5-mans were just that much better.
Essentially, I am not the only on that thinks this way. All the people I hung around with were this way, AND we were a hardcore endgame guild (We were at BT when I left). If it was up to me, I would ask blizzard to put in several more 5-man instances, give them all heroics, give them all specialized item sets, etc. 5-man instances felt like you were going out to the bar with your friends; as opposed to with your friends and neighbours and cousins and roommates and everyone else that lives on the block.
Alright, I gotta get back to work before I pop a blood vessel.