And even that is utterly crap. Well, my parents are with their competitor, via uses the Optus satellite. 500MB, plus the friggen delay caused by earth-to-sky and back down again, which makes it all but useless for web 2.0 applications - and that is exactly what my parents need it for. They swear they were better off on modem, but at some point, something happened to the lines and no modem we tried could remain online for longer than 10 or so minutes.
I bought my Wii because I thought Wii Sports was great; but since it came out, I haven't seen any more games like this. I'm just not interested in 80s style platform games like Mario, and if I wanted FPS games, I'd just stick with my PS2.
The Wii Remote is fantastic with Wii Sports... so why aren't they making more games like this?
Seriously, just the uncertainty associated with this alone is enough to alter an employer's hiring patterns.
These businesses should go under, then. Any business that cannot afford to pay for its inputs should not be allowed to continue running. Can a business just decide to only pay half the price for any equipment it buys, just because they can't afford it? Hell, no. They'd be in court in no time at all. Why should paying employees for every hour that they work be any different?
They also question why IBM would add a layer of buttoned-down bureaucracy to this relatively rollicking corner of the Internet.
The real question, of course, is to ask why they only added one layer of bureaucracy. IBM manages to add twenty layers of it to everything else they do, to the extent that working in a tech job there just is not even vaguely interesting.
Seriously, people, monopolies are bad. Sure, it looks like a nice device, but I sure as hell wouldn't get one until I can shove any company's sim card in it and be sure that it will work.
Can we end the "talking around the water cooler" cliche? Very few people stand around the water cooler. They walk up to it, fill their cup or bottle, and walk away.
If someone wanted to have a good chat with their workmates, they'd wander off to a nearby cafe, where their conversation isn't going to be seen or heard by their managers.
Secular Europe != "Rest of the World", genius. I think the Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs may have had a different reaction than you.
Well, for that matter, secular Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the parts of the US that aren't rapidly deteriorating into a theocracy and the rest of the first world are the only areas that I really give a flying fuck about. If other countries are so overwhelmed by their pointless, inane religions that they can't cope with naked breasts, then there's a good chance their corrupt media never informed them about the "wardrobe malfunction" anyway. After all, Western music is clearly sinful.
It's high time conservative Americans got over their problem with sex. It's clear these hypocrites have sex, otherwise they wouldn't be breeding the children that need to be "protected" from these images. No-one can be harmed by viewing pornographic images, certainly not grade seven students.
There is nothing wrong with sex. There is nothing wrong with nudity. There is certainly nothing wrong with naked female breasts - those of us in the rest of the world were left laughing our heads of at the utter ridiculousness of the outcry over the Janet Jackson "wardrobe misfunction". In fact, women should be free to walk around topless, as men can, if they so desire. The double-standard is simply mind-boggling.
I wouldn't mind betting that the same children that saw the images on this poor woman's computer also saw a number of acts of mindless violence on television that same evening, and not a soul complained. How's that for stupidity?
Actually, he has enough power to give us the freedom of choice.
Freedom of choice? Where does someone who dies in a hurricane get a choice to avoid it?
If I saw a person about to step out in front of a bus, I'd pull them out of the way. If there's an omniscient, omnipotent god who doesn't do the same thing, then it's clearly malevolent. Don't give me that "freedom of choice" religious bullshit as an excuse why no-one's seen or heard from your 'god' for over 2000 years. Either your god doesn't exist or he's not a particularly nice guy. I'm laying my bets with the first of the two.
Guess your vaunted "science" ain't at all what it's cracked up to be, huh? You'll have to find something else to worship. Sorry, kids.
Oh my, you're so right! I guess I should worship that great big lovable God guy, who has the power to do and see anything, but still lets hundreds of thousands of people die horrible deaths in earthquakes, tsuanmis, genocides and even creates terrorists to fly planes into buildings!
somewhat prepared to move employees to remote locations
You think I'm moving to a remote location in the event of a pandemic, to save your business? Like hell I will. I'll be bunkering up at home, while stockpiling tinned food and ammo.
Make a decent film, with an original plot and good dialogue, that doesn't rely on special effects to sell itself, and people will want to see it.
What do I see in my local cinema's listings? The Shaggy Dog. The Pink Panther. Big Momma's House 2. Lassie. Remakes and sequels of crap films that shouldn't have been made in the first place. No-one people are giving up in disgust.
Buying CDs. Ripping them to MP3 for personal use. Sure, the ripping part is illegal under Australian law, but it would be a brave government indeed that tried to enforce that. Even Fuehrer Philip Ruddock himself has made noises about fixing that.
And where did the $2 figure come from anyway?
They're 99p in the UK. That's more than $2 Australian. They're unlikely to be cheaper here, and I did say over $2.
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And even that is utterly crap. Well, my parents are with their competitor, via uses the Optus satellite. 500MB, plus the friggen delay caused by earth-to-sky and back down again, which makes it all but useless for web 2.0 applications - and that is exactly what my parents need it for. They swear they were better off on modem, but at some point, something happened to the lines and no modem we tried could remain online for longer than 10 or so minutes.
Why can't he run as an independent?
I bought my Wii because I thought Wii Sports was great; but since it came out, I haven't seen any more games like this. I'm just not interested in 80s style platform games like Mario, and if I wanted FPS games, I'd just stick with my PS2.
... so why aren't they making more games like this?
The Wii Remote is fantastic with Wii Sports
Seriously, just the uncertainty associated with this alone is enough to alter an employer's hiring patterns.
These businesses should go under, then. Any business that cannot afford to pay for its inputs should not be allowed to continue running. Can a business just decide to only pay half the price for any equipment it buys, just because they can't afford it? Hell, no. They'd be in court in no time at all. Why should paying employees for every hour that they work be any different?
They also question why IBM would add a layer of buttoned-down bureaucracy to this relatively rollicking corner of the Internet.
The real question, of course, is to ask why they only added one layer of bureaucracy. IBM manages to add twenty layers of it to everything else they do, to the extent that working in a tech job there just is not even vaguely interesting.
...to tax everyone, and have the state provide the healthcare, like in Australia, the UK and most other sensible Western countries?
Compulsory health insurance will just make the insurers raise their prices, because they know that everyone just has to put up with it.
...a phone that is locked to one network?
Seriously, people, monopolies are bad. Sure, it looks like a nice device, but I sure as hell wouldn't get one until I can shove any company's sim card in it and be sure that it will work.
Firefox was never slim and sexy. It's been heavy since it first went full-release. Ask any galeon user what "slim" means.
...improve the dialogue of the movies?
That's just not true. I have over a dozen ISPs I can choose from here, and the majority of metropolitan based people in Australia do also.
Most people buy computers for the applications they can run on them, not because of the new shiny user interface provided by the operating system.
...that Turkey should not be allowed into the EU.
Can we end the "talking around the water cooler" cliche? Very few people stand around the water cooler. They walk up to it, fill their cup or bottle, and walk away.
If someone wanted to have a good chat with their workmates, they'd wander off to a nearby cafe, where their conversation isn't going to be seen or heard by their managers.
Secular Europe != "Rest of the World", genius. I think the Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs may have had a different reaction than you.
Well, for that matter, secular Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the parts of the US that aren't rapidly deteriorating into a theocracy and the rest of the first world are the only areas that I really give a flying fuck about. If other countries are so overwhelmed by their pointless, inane religions that they can't cope with naked breasts, then there's a good chance their corrupt media never informed them about the "wardrobe malfunction" anyway. After all, Western music is clearly sinful.
It's high time conservative Americans got over their problem with sex. It's clear these hypocrites have sex, otherwise they wouldn't be breeding the children that need to be "protected" from these images. No-one can be harmed by viewing pornographic images, certainly not grade seven students.
There is nothing wrong with sex. There is nothing wrong with nudity. There is certainly nothing wrong with naked female breasts - those of us in the rest of the world were left laughing our heads of at the utter ridiculousness of the outcry over the Janet Jackson "wardrobe misfunction". In fact, women should be free to walk around topless, as men can, if they so desire. The double-standard is simply mind-boggling.
I wouldn't mind betting that the same children that saw the images on this poor woman's computer also saw a number of acts of mindless violence on television that same evening, and not a soul complained. How's that for stupidity?
Cool stuff you can do for $600 ... Many things involving girls
Do they cost that much now?
I vastly prefer Realplayer over Quicktime because they distribute a decent linux client.
Do they? I'm running the latest Realplayer for Linux, and it refuses to show images on streaming video. Their older versions worked so much better.
The president is your *BOSS*. If you dont agree with the boss and speak out against him ( or the company ), you can/should be fired.
Yeah, because businesses work so well when the CEO is surrounded by yes-men.
Actually, he has enough power to give us the freedom of choice.
Freedom of choice? Where does someone who dies in a hurricane get a choice to avoid it?
If I saw a person about to step out in front of a bus, I'd pull them out of the way. If there's an omniscient, omnipotent god who doesn't do the same thing, then it's clearly malevolent. Don't give me that "freedom of choice" religious bullshit as an excuse why no-one's seen or heard from your 'god' for over 2000 years. Either your god doesn't exist or he's not a particularly nice guy. I'm laying my bets with the first of the two.
Guess your vaunted "science" ain't at all what it's cracked up to be, huh? You'll have to find something else to worship. Sorry, kids.
Oh my, you're so right! I guess I should worship that great big lovable God guy, who has the power to do and see anything, but still lets hundreds of thousands of people die horrible deaths in earthquakes, tsuanmis, genocides and even creates terrorists to fly planes into buildings!
Yeah, he's really got his finger on the pulse.
It's not the birds I'll be using the ammo on.
You think I'm moving to a remote location in the event of a pandemic, to save your business? Like hell I will. I'll be bunkering up at home, while stockpiling tinned food and ammo.
Err, my typing is as bad as the films themselves today.
That should read "No wonder people are giving up in disgust".
Make a decent film, with an original plot and good dialogue, that doesn't rely on special effects to sell itself, and people will want to see it.
What do I see in my local cinema's listings? The Shaggy Dog. The Pink Panther. Big Momma's House 2. Lassie. Remakes and sequels of crap films that shouldn't have been made in the first place. No-one people are giving up in disgust.
Buying CDs. Ripping them to MP3 for personal use. Sure, the ripping part is illegal under Australian law, but it would be a brave government indeed that tried to enforce that. Even Fuehrer Philip Ruddock himself has made noises about fixing that.
And where did the $2 figure come from anyway?They're 99p in the UK. That's more than $2 Australian. They're unlikely to be cheaper here, and I did say over $2.