A lot of people are willing to repair their systems to a point, but I've ended up with a lot of working systems I built out of non-working systems people gave to me.
Just yesterday, I donated two desktops to my local library. They were built from spare parts I acquired from people who were waiting for their computer to fail so they'd have an excuse to buy a new one. Once it went, they just gave the old system to me. One system just needed a new hard drive and the other just needed a new PSU. I even told them it was an easy repair and offered to do it but like I said, they were looking for an excuse to trade up.
>>>the #STRING will still find some way to fuck it up.
where #STRING alternates between "Democrats" and "Republicans". Stop wasting your vote on the same D or R screwage. Vote third party. Even if you lose you can brag, "Well I didn't vote for either asshole. Can't blame me."
I wholeheartedly support this position. Problem is, a lot of people who complain about politics only say "Well I didn't vote".
Easy! Just get rid of the entitlement complex, roll the mouse wheel one more notch, and the article you aren't interested in will disappear from your screen.
OK, I just use it on this box because there are a couple of programs I like not available for native Linux yet but at least it's not Vista or ME bad.
One trick in business and politics is to offer a bad choice next to a worse one so it doesn't seem as bad by comparison. Every time I see or hear that comment the conspiracy theorist in me wonders whether ME and Vista were deliberately bad to soften the shock of adjustment to XP and 7.
I'll get off your lawn in a minute here... I've been a (video) gamer since ET was a new release on the Atari, which means I started about ten years after you I guess, but your comment reads like you're just pining for the good old days when you had to plug your console in uphill both ways. You can still play Pong and PacMan or various other simple games (the one thing you can say Flash has going for it, in fact), and Wolfenstein3D was just a predecessor to the current crop of FPSs.
Your comment that games these days are movies makes it sound like your biggest issues are graphics and movies within the games. I'm all for saying a lot of games released these days suck but that's either because the story is rubbish or there are game-breaking bugs/annoyances, not because are non-interactive elements. Games have always been made to entertain you, even chess, and nowadays there are games almost anybody can pick up and play. If you want a game where the only limit is your imagination go play D&D if you don't already, but reality is that most people don't seem to mind the game doing a little bit of the work.;)
I do something similar, except I just read the top five and bottom five first. If that's not enough to make an informed decision I keep going until I feel confident the game is worth buying or passing or until I run out of reviews to read.
Giving an edge to people who pay isn't inherently less fair than giving it to whoever spends the most time playing. I tend to stick to games which give little if any advantage to either (beyond the increased knowledge of greater play time).
This is where I liked Guild Wars. If you didn't feel like getting the skills you wanted/needed you could buy them outright. Everyone could also get the best armor without too much trouble, but if you wanted to grind to get armor that had the same attributes but a better appearance you could do that too. That way your casual players don't get left in the dust and your hardcore players still get an ego boost from having different gear.
If a DS9 MMO implemented something similar I'd definitely give it a shot.
In a previous company, our Marketing Director was showing some potential marks, I mean "customers" round the labs.
He came to some prototypes we were working on, and proudly showed off his Tech Skillz to the assembled masses by announcing that "Here's where we assemble our prototypes using printed PCB circuit boards".
I kid you not:-(
Clearly he was distinguishing his product from e-PCB circuit boards.
Serious question, even if it's not the smartest, but isn't gold malleable enough that you could pound or buff the serial number out of a bar instead of melting it down?
Well that's bollocksed up what little name recognition it had then. Well done OSS community. Shot itself in the foot with infighting again.
Sadly, I have to agree. Add to that the fact that it appears half the population doesn't know how to pronounce "libre" or even what it means and it's hard to see how this change can help rather than hurt.
It will make it much harder to use Wikipedia as a reference. You will want to look up something quickly and be presented with four our five possibly relevant 10-minute videocasts on the subject.
Which is especially awkward if you're part of the population that only has access to dialup. Slashdot already takes nearly a minute to load on my connection and it takes nearly half an hour to download a YouTube video, I can just imagine how well WikiYouTubePedia would work.
Interesting note on your comment: the stump and roots of the tree remain, keeping at least some of the initial CO2 sequestered. In many cases, the tree can and will continue to grow after it's been harvested, allowing it to sequester even more CO2 as it build biomass below ground.
Now to the main point. There is one and only one event that can possibly cause an overdraft: spending more money than you have placed in your account. How is that the fault of the bank? Why is it their job to make sure you are responsible and do not financially overextend yourself? Is it a problem for you that a fee is attached to an event that shouldn't happen in the first place?
When I was in university I owned a house and paid my living expenses by having tenants. One of them gave me a stack of post-dated checks on which I highlighted the date to avoid confusion and even went so far as to confirm the teller knew they were post-dated. A few days later, my tenant came and told me his account was not only overdrawn but that half the post-dated checks had bounced because he hit the maximum overdraft.
Clearing that situation up was an absolute mess because we had to convince the bank it was their mistake. The moment they found the checks they apologized profusely but it still took even longer to convince them to drop the fees. I would love to hear your thoughts on how this could have been prevented from our end.
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Information network? Seriously? This must be a different Twitter that the one my kids use.
I don't know what your average person tweets about but there are some institutions worth following on Twitter (e.g. NASA).
Apparently 00-de-ad-be-ef-00 is in downtown Toronto.
A lot of people are willing to repair their systems to a point, but I've ended up with a lot of working systems I built out of non-working systems people gave to me.
Just yesterday, I donated two desktops to my local library. They were built from spare parts I acquired from people who were waiting for their computer to fail so they'd have an excuse to buy a new one. Once it went, they just gave the old system to me. One system just needed a new hard drive and the other just needed a new PSU. I even told them it was an easy repair and offered to do it but like I said, they were looking for an excuse to trade up.
I get the feeling these guys have been playing waaaay too much Starcraft 2.
Actually, "morph" is a pretty common term when you're talking biology.
Side note: if they said "transform" would they have been watching too much Michael Bay?
>>>the #STRING will still find some way to fuck it up.
where #STRING alternates between "Democrats" and "Republicans". Stop wasting your vote on the same D or R screwage. Vote third party. Even if you lose you can brag, "Well I didn't vote for either asshole. Can't blame me."
I wholeheartedly support this position. Problem is, a lot of people who complain about politics only say "Well I didn't vote".
Easy! Just get rid of the entitlement complex, roll the mouse wheel one more notch, and the article you aren't interested in will disappear from your screen.
He's a witch! Burn him!
OK, I just use it on this box because there are a couple of programs I like not available for native Linux yet but at least it's not Vista or ME bad.
One trick in business and politics is to offer a bad choice next to a worse one so it doesn't seem as bad by comparison. Every time I see or hear that comment the conspiracy theorist in me wonders whether ME and Vista were deliberately bad to soften the shock of adjustment to XP and 7.
lol i dont see why people cant be happy with a quad it gets the job done if you need more than 4 cores you should just shoot yourself
I'll hand out guns to the scientists then. Maybe they'll be willing to donate their punctuation to you as well.
I'll get off your lawn in a minute here... I've been a (video) gamer since ET was a new release on the Atari, which means I started about ten years after you I guess, but your comment reads like you're just pining for the good old days when you had to plug your console in uphill both ways. You can still play Pong and PacMan or various other simple games (the one thing you can say Flash has going for it, in fact), and Wolfenstein3D was just a predecessor to the current crop of FPSs.
Your comment that games these days are movies makes it sound like your biggest issues are graphics and movies within the games. I'm all for saying a lot of games released these days suck but that's either because the story is rubbish or there are game-breaking bugs/annoyances, not because are non-interactive elements. Games have always been made to entertain you, even chess, and nowadays there are games almost anybody can pick up and play. If you want a game where the only limit is your imagination go play D&D if you don't already, but reality is that most people don't seem to mind the game doing a little bit of the work. ;)
When a young woman enters with a small waist and supple buttocks
Argh, that was low. Couldn't you have posted a goatse link instead?
Well, this is something of an accidental discomfort ray. If they wanted death ray power levels, I'm sure they could have done it.
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That's not a burning smell... That's the smell of freedom!
Your signature is oddly appropriate.
I do something similar, except I just read the top five and bottom five first. If that's not enough to make an informed decision I keep going until I feel confident the game is worth buying or passing or until I run out of reviews to read.
In these dire times, were I a reviewer, I'd specialize in Dead or Alive spinoff games.
Just in case they up the ante.
Yes, because nothing guarantees a good review like sending a woman who can break your neck with her thighs.
Judging by how often the replicators and holodeck fail in the series, I imagine the quests will be to fetch items to make them work again.
For all the mechanical trouble they had on the Enterprise you'd think they were driving a Yugo on the autobahn.
Giving an edge to people who pay isn't inherently less fair than giving it to whoever spends the most time playing. I tend to stick to games which give little if any advantage to either (beyond the increased knowledge of greater play time).
This is where I liked Guild Wars. If you didn't feel like getting the skills you wanted/needed you could buy them outright. Everyone could also get the best armor without too much trouble, but if you wanted to grind to get armor that had the same attributes but a better appearance you could do that too. That way your casual players don't get left in the dust and your hardcore players still get an ego boost from having different gear.
If a DS9 MMO implemented something similar I'd definitely give it a shot.
In a previous company, our Marketing Director was showing some potential marks, I mean "customers" round the labs. He came to some prototypes we were working on, and proudly showed off his Tech Skillz to the assembled masses by announcing that "Here's where we assemble our prototypes using printed PCB circuit boards". I kid you not :-(
Clearly he was distinguishing his product from e-PCB circuit boards.
Serious question, even if it's not the smartest, but isn't gold malleable enough that you could pound or buff the serial number out of a bar instead of melting it down?
Well that's bollocksed up what little name recognition it had then. Well done OSS community. Shot itself in the foot with infighting again.
Sadly, I have to agree. Add to that the fact that it appears half the population doesn't know how to pronounce "libre" or even what it means and it's hard to see how this change can help rather than hurt.
You should learn what words mean before you correct people as it just makes you look like a total fool.
You should learn what a joke looks like before you correct people as it just makes you look like a total fool.
"" is buran "" is essentially "Soviet" (some variation)
So when someone accidentally the whole thing they're actually trying to use unicode on Slashdot?
It will make it much harder to use Wikipedia as a reference. You will want to look up something quickly and be presented with four our five possibly relevant 10-minute videocasts on the subject.
Which is especially awkward if you're part of the population that only has access to dialup. Slashdot already takes nearly a minute to load on my connection and it takes nearly half an hour to download a YouTube video, I can just imagine how well WikiYouTubePedia would work.
Interesting note on your comment: the stump and roots of the tree remain, keeping at least some of the initial CO2 sequestered. In many cases, the tree can and will continue to grow after it's been harvested, allowing it to sequester even more CO2 as it build biomass below ground.
Now to the main point. There is one and only one event that can possibly cause an overdraft: spending more money than you have placed in your account. How is that the fault of the bank? Why is it their job to make sure you are responsible and do not financially overextend yourself? Is it a problem for you that a fee is attached to an event that shouldn't happen in the first place?
When I was in university I owned a house and paid my living expenses by having tenants. One of them gave me a stack of post-dated checks on which I highlighted the date to avoid confusion and even went so far as to confirm the teller knew they were post-dated. A few days later, my tenant came and told me his account was not only overdrawn but that half the post-dated checks had bounced because he hit the maximum overdraft.
Clearing that situation up was an absolute mess because we had to convince the bank it was their mistake. The moment they found the checks they apologized profusely but it still took even longer to convince them to drop the fees. I would love to hear your thoughts on how this could have been prevented from our end.
Even more reason why we should not arm robots (even remote human operated ones) with weapons such as Hellfire missiles.
On the other hand, arming the drones with nukes would guarantee they hit their target despite their lack of accuracy.