Maybe Some of them???!!!! Some of them?! How about MOST of them. I'm a diehard Sony gamer. My gaming world centers are Japanese RPGs, which are solidly in Sony's domain, I loved the Playstation and Playstation 2, I'm a huge Final Fantasy fan, I even have a pretty good job (for someone my age: 25), and could actually afford throwing down $600. Am I going to do it? Hell no! Not out of spite, but I just don't want to pay that much! I figure, if someone like ME isn't going to buy it, how the hell is the rest of the gaming community? Especially seeing as though a large percentage of the gaming community is under 20 years old, and maybe making $8/h part-time at the local McDonald's. The PS3 is priced for fanatics... and even then (like me), they're pushing it.
If only there were a -1 [entirely too much punctuation] mod
I remember when Reagan created deficit spending with his New Deal, then killed many US citizens in the name of creating jobs, while enriching big business on projects like the Hoover Dam.
1. Holding up telcom as the epitome of de-regulation and free competition is hardly accurate.
2. Cuba does not have better healthcare than the US.
3. Countries have lower infant mortality rates because they do not attempt to save preemies, they mark them as stillborn.
4. Regulation is better for some things (like roads for instance), but in general, the best and most efficient way to cause a gigantic cockup is to let the government become involved in it.
The only reason people don't use gravity, or the earth's magnetic field, is just because of fud from the energy industry.
Not to detract from your obviously well thought-out dissertation on the relative merits of gravitational or magnetic power generation systems, but it could also be that gravity-powered systems, or those powered by the earth's magnetic field are impractical at best. Or it could be fud.
It would be break even for gold to be sent into space
I'm no scientist, but I'm having a tough time thinking how there would be any sort of monetary advantage to firing a bunch of gold in to space. Retrieving it, sure, but sending it out?
I don't know if I'd hold up the Hoover Dam as a model of efficiency... I'm relatively Libertarian, and even I cringe when I think about how they got their efficiency...
Parent is hardly flamebait. I have a very hard time thinking of anything at all that this or any government has accomplished that was two of:
On time
At, under, or near budget
Performed as designed.
Mark it flamebait or troll if you want, or just reply with any example.
Be that as it may, they don't look like Windows, and that's the "problem" for your average user.
You only install the installer once, then you image the drive and copy the image to the other N computers in the sale.
Great, but again, your average user is trained that the OS must be re-installed every N months. The average user must be re-trained that this is no longer necessary or desirable.
The most often used way to do this in finance is to make your price an int, and multiply it by whatever factor of 10 you need for your application. Just FYI.
I'm sick of this "A - E, E is coldest, don't mess with the freezer setting because it will affect the fridge too". I want to set the control on my fridge to an actual TEMPERATURE, not a letter
Yeah, no shit, and multiple zones in each while we're at it.
"As long as you're a customer, no one will ever know you're using Click Monkeys!!(TM)"
...And as soon as you stop paying us, *everyone* will know you used Click Monkeys, and you'll either get fired, or have to refund a ton of cash to your advertisers. We recommend a perpetual contract.
there is a wopper of a contradiction in your position: if they were true Christians, they would not posess any property, as the Bible clearly states: "everything was held in common"
Well, not really. Those were disciples, not all Christians. Anyway, I believe that Jesus would smite anyone who tried to get him involved in politics right in the taint.
You forgot to mention the part where the government forced them to do that. I'm sure that's in there, right? That's not just something supporting charity that you took out of context to try to support socialism, I'm positive about that.
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If only there were a -1 [entirely too much punctuation] mod
I remember when Reagan created deficit spending with his New Deal, then killed many US citizens in the name of creating jobs, while enriching big business on projects like the Hoover Dam.
1. Holding up telcom as the epitome of de-regulation and free competition is hardly accurate. 2. Cuba does not have better healthcare than the US. 3. Countries have lower infant mortality rates because they do not attempt to save preemies, they mark them as stillborn. 4. Regulation is better for some things (like roads for instance), but in general, the best and most efficient way to cause a gigantic cockup is to let the government become involved in it.
You also don't have constitutionally guaranteed privacy.
The only reason people don't use gravity, or the earth's magnetic field, is just because of fud from the energy industry.
Not to detract from your obviously well thought-out dissertation on the relative merits of gravitational or magnetic power generation systems, but it could also be that gravity-powered systems, or those powered by the earth's magnetic field are impractical at best. Or it could be fud.
It would be break even for gold to be sent into space
I'm no scientist, but I'm having a tough time thinking how there would be any sort of monetary advantage to firing a bunch of gold in to space. Retrieving it, sure, but sending it out?
I'm still not going to listen to some incoherent homeless guy raving about it on the street.
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And you don't have to, there are plenty of them on
Which is why I said that you couldn't find a project that had two of the above-mentioned items.
I don't know if I'd hold up the Hoover Dam as a model of efficiency... I'm relatively Libertarian, and even I cringe when I think about how they got their efficiency...
Parent is hardly flamebait. I have a very hard time thinking of anything at all that this or any government has accomplished that was two of:
On time
At, under, or near budget
Performed as designed.
Mark it flamebait or troll if you want, or just reply with any example.
They're ALL easier than Windows.
Be that as it may, they don't look like Windows, and that's the "problem" for your average user.
You only install the installer once, then you image the drive and copy the image to the other N computers in the sale.
Great, but again, your average user is trained that the OS must be re-installed every N months. The average user must be re-trained that this is no longer necessary or desirable.
I have MSSql, MySql, Oracle, and Sybase.
has convergence ever really worked?
Spoken like someone who has never experienced the wonder of the dildo toothbrush.
The most often used way to do this in finance is to make your price an int, and multiply it by whatever factor of 10 you need for your application. Just FYI.
if you use the Python IDE it does; however, if you develop for Windows, and use Notepad++ or Notepad, it does not work fine.
I'm sick of this "A - E, E is coldest, don't mess with the freezer setting because it will affect the fridge too". I want to set the control on my fridge to an actual TEMPERATURE, not a letter
Yeah, no shit, and multiple zones in each while we're at it.
"As long as you're a customer, no one will ever know you're using Click Monkeys!!(TM)"
...And as soon as you stop paying us, *everyone* will know you used Click Monkeys, and you'll either get fired, or have to refund a ton of cash to your advertisers. We recommend a perpetual contract.
Keep your grubby dickbeaters off of our moon, pencildicks. Sincerely, USA
Lake Erie is by far the wimpiest of the great lakes!
I disagree. Lake Erie is the only one of the great lakes to be combustible.
I like to think, though, that I've helped cause this problem by right clicking/open in new tab on ads I have no interest in.
Well, you haven't. It's people that do it thousands of times that matter. Like the fine folks at clickmonkeys.
They should all change their names to Ahab. Then instead of being discriminated against, they would be immortalized in song.
Good lawyers, bad project managers.
This occurs because the ice is less dense than the water.
It occurs because of either witchcraft or Jesus' love, not your "density".
there is a wopper of a contradiction in your position: if they were true Christians, they would not posess any property, as the Bible clearly states: "everything was held in common"
Well, not really. Those were disciples, not all Christians. Anyway, I believe that Jesus would smite anyone who tried to get him involved in politics right in the taint.
You forgot to mention the part where the government forced them to do that. I'm sure that's in there, right? That's not just something supporting charity that you took out of context to try to support socialism, I'm positive about that.