For those following this thread and really hoping someone will say it, the show is Better Off Ted .
The episode from this quote is from Season 1 Episode 2. All around great show. Both seasons are on Netflix and Amazon prime instant streaming. If the first couple of episodes don't convince you, jump to season 1 episode 12 "Jabberwocky".
The best part is the Ouya can work as a thin client for your Steam box. nVidia supports this natively via their Shield device and a gtx 650 or higher video card (those video cards have a built in x264 encoder), it's rumored that this functionality will be extended to Tegra 3 devices (which would include the Ouya).
For older video cards (and until nVidia expands the capability), there's Kainy. Which will allow you to do the same.
Further, _all_ anti-biotics should be on a rotating schedule, and only used for a period of time brief enough that it's unlikely bacteria will develop resistance, then some other similar anti-biotic rotated in, repeat as necessary, and new anti-biotics are added into the rotation schedule.
I don't get it....
Don't question the man. The same tactic worked against the Borg.
Side A: We can only reach our weight loss goals by only cutting calories from meat. Side B: We can only reach our weight loss goals by increasing exercise. Also cutting carbs would help.
Side A: You'll never get us to exercise more than is absolutely necessary! Give up the meat! Side B: OK, how about this. We cut some carbs, eat a little more lean meat, and exercise a little more to stay healthy?
Side A: We won't discuss anything involving exercise. Side B: Fine, for now lets agree to cut all food intake by 10% across all food groups until we reach an agreement.
Body: Umm... guys? I need more iron and vitamin C....
What's next?! Amazon honoring religious restrictions? Try to order some condoms on-line and get the message: "We've detected that you're catholic. This product is not available in your religion".
Well you have to. The site renderer works for the construct program. But there's way too much information to properly render Reddit. You get used to it. I don't even see the ugly site design. All I see is cat pictures, Ron Paul posts, tech articles...
But essentially, your argument is "the US government is too stupid to ever cut spending"
Reading comprehension, it is a beautiful thing:
*Rash* changes and cuts cause all sorts of boneheaded decisions
They can make changes, but *rash* changes on the budget of the current year with no opportunity to alter commitments that have already been made result in sharp (and sometimes brutal) cuts to the variable expenses that they *do* have. This is why a single digit % budget cut results in double digit cuts to things like employee hours and training.
Had the changes been introduced for next years budget then the different govt. entities would have had time to adjust their contract awards, leases, and other yearly expenses accordingly.
If we're talking about ME, well, I wouldn't be spending 50% more than I make in the first place and borrowing to cover the gap.
Congratulations then I guess. Not many Americans can afford to pay cash for their homes or autos.
So if you took a 5% pay cut you would pay 5% less of everything? Call up your bank and tell them you'll only pay 95% of your mortgage? Would you pay only 95% of your internet and phone bills? Would you go the gas pump and only fill up your tank 95% of the way? Would you only pay 95% of your health, home, and auto insurance?
The fact of the matter is that all departments have fixed and variable expenses. They can't touch the fixed expenses (including contracts already awarded) so brunt of the cuts occur on the variable expenses as big or as small as they are.
So if 80% of your budget is unalterable then the remaining 20% of the budget will bear the whole of the 5% cut (or a 25% cut to those expenses).
This is why training (as an example) would be cut 75% and govt employee hours would be cut 20% for a limited number of weeks in the year.
Rash changes and cuts cause all sorts of boneheaded decisions, like taking out hugely expensive bonds or selling off govt assets and services to private companies only to have the sold back to the govt' at a higher cost (all for a short term boost).
Not the GP, but my CD collection went up from a handful to 220ish CD's during the Napster era.
Through napster I discovered music and artists I didn't even knew existed. I would then go to the local Circuit City and would buy their CDs (sometimes their whole discography) since I had got a taste and I liked it. I wanted more and I wanted it all at the highest quality.
So I have been willing to put money in the proverbial guitar case, but to this day I still refuse to hand money to the RIAA. When given the opportunity I will gleefully hand my entertainment dollars to their competition instead.
I now own about 230 physical CDs and I will likely own no more than that for the foreseeable future.
I'll continue to pump my (now more numerous) entertainment dollars to other non-RIAA recipients at every opportunity. Not (just) out of spite for what they've done to the music scene and to stifle the growth of consumer friendly distribution channels, but to cast my votes, my dollars to a better alternatives.
Don't forget electrical costs. At $0.10 a kWh you are paying $0.24 a day (24 hours) per 100 watts of continuous average power consumption. This is $7.20 per month per 100W @ $0.10/kWh or $87.60 a year. Adjust up/down for your cost of electricity and power usage (120W and $0.12/kWh = 1.2 * 1.2 = 1.44x adjustment)
Now add to this the waste heat vented into your house on the months you cool your house + the depreciated costs (and wear and tear) of the computer assets you tied up processing Bitcoins, then you'll have your true cost and you can calculate your break even point based on initial investment + ongoing costs - product (bitcoins) produced.
It's really skipping the middle man, and players that do want the extra content can put their money where their mouth is. I have two games in my library that only came about by crowdsourced funding (and for that I'm grateful).
Just wish this existed sooner and with things like TV shows. How many here would have pitched in to fund an extra season of Firefly, Arrested Development, or (insert your favorite cancelled show - 4400 in my case).
If this sort of thing catches on it can help remove the (sometimes illogical) upper management/funding filter that seems to kill off promising content.
From the cached version of the (now slashdotted) site:
the X7A Modular Computer packs a real wallop, especially for a machine roughly the size of a grapefruit that draws a mere 40Watts of power.
The X7A Modular Computer is available with up to
A quad-core 64-bit, x86-based 32nm processor running at up to 3.2GHz (with 4MB of Level2 Cache),
An integrated graphics processor (GPU) containing up to 384 programmable graphics cores (or shaders),
4GB—8GB of DDR3 RAM,
64GB—1TB of internal solid-state SSD storage (with up to 12Gbps throughput speeds),
Three display ports providing maximum resolution of 4096x2160 (including 1 DisplayPort v1.2 and 2 Mini-DisplayPorts v1.2),
Four eSATAp 3.0 ports,
Four USB 3.0 ports,
Four USB 2.0 ports,
1Gb Ethernet port, and
Three audio ports (1 input and 2 outputs: 1 copper and 1 optical).
Designed to be used as a standalone machine or in clustered configurations, the X7A will run any x86-based Operating System, including Windows 8 and lower, Linux, UNIX, etc. Prices for quad-core versions of the X7A Modular Computer will begin at $1,100, with General Availability starting in February 2013.
City of Heroes had a recurring monthly payment (just like WoW, Rift, Everquest I, or most non Free to Play MMOs). Guild Wars 2 has no additional recurring cost (and therefore recurring revenue) past the initial game purchase (though they have released expansions for GW1).
So it's entirely possible 100,000k City of Heroes subscribers would be more profitable than 400,000 Guild Wars 2 players when looked at a period of 4-6 months past launch.
Furthermore, there is a value to maintaining your community up to (and even slightly past) the release of the next version of the game the community was formed over (see Blizzard maintaining Starcraft I for over a decade).
Hah I know, I was just being facetious. Figured most people would think about how "3D" the stars and moon look to them in real life and catch the joke.
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For those following this thread and really hoping someone will say it, the show is Better Off Ted .
The episode from this quote is from Season 1 Episode 2. All around great show. Both seasons are on Netflix and Amazon prime instant streaming. If the first couple of episodes don't convince you, jump to season 1 episode 12 "Jabberwocky".
Well for one, when your local septic tank is full, you can upload your waste to the cloud!
The best part is the Ouya can work as a thin client for your Steam box. nVidia supports this natively via their Shield device and a gtx 650 or higher video card (those video cards have a built in x264 encoder), it's rumored that this functionality will be extended to Tegra 3 devices (which would include the Ouya).
For older video cards (and until nVidia expands the capability), there's Kainy. Which will allow you to do the same.
I was going to counter your argument by stating that mechanics will just move to specializing on the other car systems that get replaced by simpler and more efficient electrical components, but then I realized that we could have incredibly simple, free, and direct tax filing, but companies like Intuit have successfully lobbied to keep the more efficient system from coming to fruition.
Further, _all_ anti-biotics should be on a rotating schedule, and only used for a period of time brief enough that it's unlikely bacteria will develop resistance, then some other similar anti-biotic rotated in, repeat as necessary, and new anti-biotics are added into the rotation schedule.
I don't get it ....
Don't question the man. The same tactic worked against the Borg.
Thus there is no single point where the headwind drag suddenly increases.
Depending on the aerodynamics of the vehicle there's a point somewhere between Mach 0.85 and Mach 1 where this is true.
Side A: We can only reach our weight loss goals by only cutting calories from meat.
Side B: We can only reach our weight loss goals by increasing exercise. Also cutting carbs would help.
Side A: You'll never get us to exercise more than is absolutely necessary! Give up the meat!
Side B: OK, how about this. We cut some carbs, eat a little more lean meat, and exercise a little more to stay healthy?
Side A: We won't discuss anything involving exercise.
Side B: Fine, for now lets agree to cut all food intake by 10% across all food groups until we reach an agreement.
Body: Umm... guys? I need more iron and vitamin C....
Never has been more relevant
What's next?! Amazon honoring religious restrictions? Try to order some condoms on-line and get the message: "We've detected that you're catholic. This product is not available in your religion".
Well you have to. The site renderer works for the construct program. But there's way too much information to properly render Reddit. You get used to it. I don't even see the ugly site design. All I see is cat pictures, Ron Paul posts, tech articles...
But essentially, your argument is "the US government is too stupid to ever cut spending"
Reading comprehension, it is a beautiful thing:
*Rash* changes and cuts cause all sorts of boneheaded decisions
They can make changes, but *rash* changes on the budget of the current year with no opportunity to alter commitments that have already been made result in sharp (and sometimes brutal) cuts to the variable expenses that they *do* have. This is why a single digit % budget cut results in double digit cuts to things like employee hours and training.
Had the changes been introduced for next years budget then the different govt. entities would have had time to adjust their contract awards, leases, and other yearly expenses accordingly.
If we're talking about ME, well, I wouldn't be spending 50% more than I make in the first place and borrowing to cover the gap.
Congratulations then I guess. Not many Americans can afford to pay cash for their homes or autos.
So if you took a 5% pay cut you would pay 5% less of everything? Call up your bank and tell them you'll only pay 95% of your mortgage? Would you pay only 95% of your internet and phone bills? Would you go the gas pump and only fill up your tank 95% of the way? Would you only pay 95% of your health, home, and auto insurance?
The fact of the matter is that all departments have fixed and variable expenses. They can't touch the fixed expenses (including contracts already awarded) so brunt of the cuts occur on the variable expenses as big or as small as they are.
So if 80% of your budget is unalterable then the remaining 20% of the budget will bear the whole of the 5% cut (or a 25% cut to those expenses).
This is why training (as an example) would be cut 75% and govt employee hours would be cut 20% for a limited number of weeks in the year.
Rash changes and cuts cause all sorts of boneheaded decisions, like taking out hugely expensive bonds or selling off govt assets and services to private companies only to have the sold back to the govt' at a higher cost (all for a short term boost).
Not the GP, but my CD collection went up from a handful to 220ish CD's during the Napster era.
Through napster I discovered music and artists I didn't even knew existed. I would then go to the local Circuit City and would buy their CDs (sometimes their whole discography) since I had got a taste and I liked it. I wanted more and I wanted it all at the highest quality.
When Napster was shut down I refused to send a penny to the RIAA and its labels. A Nine Inch Nails album - Ghosts (which Trent released as an independent an sold directly through his website) was the first CD I bought after all those years.
After that I bought a few CDs (less than 10 though) thanks to the guidance from RIAARadar (a website that has sadly gone silent).
I bought a lifetime membership to Magnatune. I have gotten my money's worth in album downloads from that site.
I pitched in a donation to Musopen (many CDs worth) during their Kickstarter a few years ago to help them record and release free open music. The recording was done, the donors were given the first downloads and it has been great.
So I have been willing to put money in the proverbial guitar case, but to this day I still refuse to hand money to the RIAA. When given the opportunity I will gleefully hand my entertainment dollars to their competition instead.
I now own about 230 physical CDs and I will likely own no more than that for the foreseeable future.
I'll continue to pump my (now more numerous) entertainment dollars to other non-RIAA recipients at every opportunity. Not (just) out of spite for what they've done to the music scene and to stifle the growth of consumer friendly distribution channels, but to cast my votes, my dollars to a better alternatives.
Don't forget electrical costs. At $0.10 a kWh you are paying $0.24 a day (24 hours) per 100 watts of continuous average power consumption. This is $7.20 per month per 100W @ $0.10 /kWh or $87.60 a year. Adjust up/down for your cost of electricity and power usage (120W and $0.12/kWh = 1.2 * 1.2 = 1.44x adjustment)
Now add to this the waste heat vented into your house on the months you cool your house + the depreciated costs (and wear and tear) of the computer assets you tied up processing Bitcoins, then you'll have your true cost and you can calculate your break even point based on initial investment + ongoing costs - product (bitcoins) produced.
So what exactly is gonna differentiate this from a mid-level to high-end gaming rig?
Well for one it will protect you from accidentally installing Steam and being burdened with a huge library of inexpensive games!
Would you say I have a plethora of words to choose from?
survival of the utter bastards.
Parasites, Leeches, and Mosquitoes agree!
It's really skipping the middle man, and players that do want the extra content can put their money where their mouth is. I have two games in my library that only came about by crowdsourced funding (and for that I'm grateful).
Just wish this existed sooner and with things like TV shows. How many here would have pitched in to fund an extra season of Firefly, Arrested Development, or (insert your favorite cancelled show - 4400 in my case).
If this sort of thing catches on it can help remove the (sometimes illogical) upper management/funding filter that seems to kill off promising content.
From the cached version of the (now slashdotted) site:
the X7A Modular Computer packs a real wallop, especially for a machine roughly the size of a grapefruit that draws a mere 40Watts of power.
The X7A Modular Computer is available with up to
A quad-core 64-bit, x86-based 32nm processor running at up to 3.2GHz (with 4MB of Level2 Cache),
An integrated graphics processor (GPU) containing up to 384 programmable graphics cores (or shaders),
4GB—8GB of DDR3 RAM,
64GB—1TB of internal solid-state SSD storage (with up to 12Gbps throughput speeds),
Three display ports providing maximum resolution of 4096x2160 (including 1 DisplayPort v1.2 and 2 Mini-DisplayPorts v1.2),
Four eSATAp 3.0 ports,
Four USB 3.0 ports,
Four USB 2.0 ports,
1Gb Ethernet port, and
Three audio ports (1 input and 2 outputs: 1 copper and 1 optical).
Designed to be used as a standalone machine or in clustered configurations, the X7A will run any x86-based Operating System, including Windows 8 and lower, Linux, UNIX, etc. Prices for quad-core versions of the X7A Modular Computer will begin at $1,100, with General Availability starting in February 2013.
So you're saying that Bob Oblong is the ideal passenger?
City of Heroes had a recurring monthly payment (just like WoW, Rift, Everquest I, or most non Free to Play MMOs). Guild Wars 2 has no additional recurring cost (and therefore recurring revenue) past the initial game purchase (though they have released expansions for GW1).
So it's entirely possible 100,000k City of Heroes subscribers would be more profitable than 400,000 Guild Wars 2 players when looked at a period of 4-6 months past launch.
Furthermore, there is a value to maintaining your community up to (and even slightly past) the release of the next version of the game the community was formed over (see Blizzard maintaining Starcraft I for over a decade).
They could add tilt/shift focus to make the universe look tiny!
>they're great. 1080p, 3d support, great appearance, 65".
They weren't even making them that small anymore.... 73" 82" and 92" are the choices now.
Hah I know, I was just being facetious. Figured most people would think about how "3D" the stars and moon look to them in real life and catch the joke.
If these can be calibrated to work as regular telescopes, then we need *Stereo* images of all the galaxies and nebulae!
It's about time NASA got on the 3D bandwagon!