>>"PM does note, however, that if the European mobile rollout is a success, US carriers might just have to give into demand."
Demand and US cell phones really doesn't compute, and I can't remember the last time that an airline or cell phone carrier gave in to "demand". Hell, 3g was just rolled out where I live, a major metropolitan area, and Europe is starting to roll 4g.
Point of contention #1 (this is mainly what separates protestants and catholics): Matthew 25:
25:44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
25:45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
In my eyes it means that you're going to burn if you do not do good deeds. Catholics tend to concentrate on that part, and protestants concentrate on the earlier part about departing from the son of man.
As to the second verse: the word its translated from doesn't have a clear translation to english, and the root greek word has been used to many things over the ages. I would personally think that if Jesus had such an issue with it (given how prevalent it was in society at the time), it would've been made much more clear the stance on it.
Intel laid off 10% of their staff, and then some. When I left a few years ago, morale was in the crapper, stock options were worthless, and honestly it wasn't the greatest place to work. However they still did concentrate on revamping their core business, and the product is good. But its not like Intel is doing absolutely great right now either.
I've found that the better the food and less business-clientelle oriented the restaurant is (and the most spicy the food is), the fewer people talk on their phones. Thats why I always eat Thai:P
I think you're taking relatively isolated examples and then portraying it as a huge problem. If you're in a huge line for like a movie or something the only person you notice is the one person annoying everyone with their cell phone, not the 200 people who aren't. Yes of course for many situations its inappropriate to be yammering on your cell phone, but most people do know and realize that; its the few who don't that garner all this talk about how "everyone needs to learn to live without their cell phones."
Unless the live CD won't boot. Which usually means theres an issue and X won't initialize on its own. Which means you have to install through the alt CD and then fuck with X and try to figure out the commands to grab the drivers and reconfigure X, rebooting to your windows partition each time to figure out those commands. All of that, only to have GTK error out so you can't even log in.
Forums have been useless for the issue. I'd not recommend it at the moment given my experience. (both fedora and mandrake have run flawlessly on the same PC in the past).
I find it interesting that they let individual users rate their own biases by topic, however a few definitely confused me:
Net Neutrality: It seems that neither dems nor repubs have made this at all part of their platform, theres no real way to say your "bias" on it.
Separation of church and state: What does left/right here mean? How can one be more or less strongly opposed or in favor of separation of chuch and state? It seems like it would be more on the basis of religion to me rather than any political ideology (though evangelicals have largely taken over much of the republican base).
It seems that the site would be better suited with a [for], [against], and [other: explain] box for these sorts of things.
If both moveon and fox news people join and start rating, it would even out I'd imagine. Oh and hey, perhaps there should be a slider at the very top of the site to determine the site's bias!
Also in general instead of filling in the gaps in "major" news stories they usually do either a cultural story or a story about something far worse happening in other parts of the world, which is far more informative than Paris Hilton.
I for one wouldn't mind that at all if it meant decent upload rates and being able to actually seed on some BT networks without getting kicked off because comcast throttles my upstream to 40KB/s.
It would kick just about everything's ass in performance and visual quality, because people could develop games to that spec. But its on a PC, and no developer in their right mind would ever write something optimized for 4 graphics cards unless they're writing a tech demo. Nvidia and ATI are trying to push multiple cards on people to get more performance (a decision which obviously helps their bottom line), but I'm sure in a year or so their single-card solutions will end up being better and far far cheaper than having to throw down $1200 for 2 "double-cards".
PCs just have so much damn extra power that is underutilized or wastefully used compared to consoles. Between Windows, any background apps, any programs you're running that grab up as much ram and processor attention as they can, and games, the PC is not really an ideal gaming platform, and consoles will usually beat them on performance and looks at least until near the end of their life-cycle. PCs have the advantage of mod-ability, custom content creation, and greater control (try playing an FPS on a controller after a few days on a mouse/keyboard).
What happened when I tried to install Ubuntu (the user friendly version):
Live CD wouldn't boot. Booted back to windows to go to forums, was told I had to use alternate CD.
Alternate CD installs it, but when it reboots I get a blank screen after GRUB.
Have to open a shell prompt from grub (after spending an hour on forums figuring out how to do this), and am told I need to reconfigure/rebuild X. I do so. Reboot again.
Omg, I get a login screen! Wait, GTK won't let it boot, something about not being able to write to the directory. 3 hours on forums later, I give the fuck up. Conclusion: its not ready, support with linux is far more of a nightmare then with even vista at the moment. I'm even running pretty damn common hardware!
In the console market. Sony makes a crapload of other things, and Microsoft's presumably main business is it's OS and Office software. Always seems weird to me that companies can get so huge as to be direct partners with a company in one division and direct competitors with the same company in another.
All I can say (coming from this generation) is that this is the exact opposite of what I've seen, where instead of even the possibility of promotion people are hired, treated like crap, then fired all the time to serve someone's bottom line. Maybe in the financial sector where everything runs off of talk, rumors, and how smart someone tries to sound, but when dealing with technology if someone doesn't know their shit they usually don't get hired in the first place.
Disregarding that, you seem to have a pretty built-in prejudice against young people in general, and are probably not likely to consider one of the "clowns" ideas, disregarding any merits. Perhaps that why you keep seeing the kids getting promoted around you and you stay in your current position?
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Imagine an island filled with nothing but Mr. Howell's.
If you combined a current CPU with a current GPU:
It'd overheat. Like crazy. Current GPUs usually run 40c hotter than most CPUs.
>>"PM does note, however, that if the European mobile rollout is a success, US carriers might just have to give into demand."
Demand and US cell phones really doesn't compute, and I can't remember the last time that an airline or cell phone carrier gave in to "demand". Hell, 3g was just rolled out where I live, a major metropolitan area, and Europe is starting to roll 4g.
Point of contention #1 (this is mainly what separates protestants and catholics):
Matthew 25:
25:44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
25:45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
In my eyes it means that you're going to burn if you do not do good deeds. Catholics tend to concentrate on that part, and protestants concentrate on the earlier part about departing from the son of man.
As to the second verse: the word its translated from doesn't have a clear translation to english, and the root greek word has been used to many things over the ages. I would personally think that if Jesus had such an issue with it (given how prevalent it was in society at the time), it would've been made much more clear the stance on it.
I couldn't help but notice that with the crappy camerawork you have no idea what process is going on at once. Can anyone find a better video?
Intel laid off 10% of their staff, and then some. When I left a few years ago, morale was in the crapper, stock options were worthless, and honestly it wasn't the greatest place to work. However they still did concentrate on revamping their core business, and the product is good. But its not like Intel is doing absolutely great right now either.
I've found that the better the food and less business-clientelle oriented the restaurant is (and the most spicy the food is), the fewer people talk on their phones. Thats why I always eat Thai :P
I think you're taking relatively isolated examples and then portraying it as a huge problem. If you're in a huge line for like a movie or something the only person you notice is the one person annoying everyone with their cell phone, not the 200 people who aren't. Yes of course for many situations its inappropriate to be yammering on your cell phone, but most people do know and realize that; its the few who don't that garner all this talk about how "everyone needs to learn to live without their cell phones."
Missing option: Ian McKellen as Duke Leto!
Unless the live CD won't boot. Which usually means theres an issue and X won't initialize on its own. Which means you have to install through the alt CD and then fuck with X and try to figure out the commands to grab the drivers and reconfigure X, rebooting to your windows partition each time to figure out those commands. All of that, only to have GTK error out so you can't even log in.
Forums have been useless for the issue. I'd not recommend it at the moment given my experience. (both fedora and mandrake have run flawlessly on the same PC in the past).
And now we're just arguing who gets in the end credits!
I find it interesting that they let individual users rate their own biases by topic, however a few definitely confused me:
Net Neutrality: It seems that neither dems nor repubs have made this at all part of their platform, theres no real way to say your "bias" on it.
Separation of church and state: What does left/right here mean? How can one be more or less strongly opposed or in favor of separation of chuch and state? It seems like it would be more on the basis of religion to me rather than any political ideology (though evangelicals have largely taken over much of the republican base).
It seems that the site would be better suited with a [for], [against], and [other: explain] box for these sorts of things.
If both moveon and fox news people join and start rating, it would even out I'd imagine. Oh and hey, perhaps there should be a slider at the very top of the site to determine the site's bias!
Also in general instead of filling in the gaps in "major" news stories they usually do either a cultural story or a story about something far worse happening in other parts of the world, which is far more informative than Paris Hilton.
Thanks for being the problem.
Doesn't the word organic mean something living (or at one point was living)? Or are we talking about organic compounds?
Microsoft is the catcher?
On when they're going to fix autoformat? Has anyone else ever tried to make a resume in OO (god forbid you use bullets or tabs)?
I for one wouldn't mind that at all if it meant decent upload rates and being able to actually seed on some BT networks without getting kicked off because comcast throttles my upstream to 40KB/s.
It would kick just about everything's ass in performance and visual quality, because people could develop games to that spec. But its on a PC, and no developer in their right mind would ever write something optimized for 4 graphics cards unless they're writing a tech demo. Nvidia and ATI are trying to push multiple cards on people to get more performance (a decision which obviously helps their bottom line), but I'm sure in a year or so their single-card solutions will end up being better and far far cheaper than having to throw down $1200 for 2 "double-cards".
PCs just have so much damn extra power that is underutilized or wastefully used compared to consoles. Between Windows, any background apps, any programs you're running that grab up as much ram and processor attention as they can, and games, the PC is not really an ideal gaming platform, and consoles will usually beat them on performance and looks at least until near the end of their life-cycle. PCs have the advantage of mod-ability, custom content creation, and greater control (try playing an FPS on a controller after a few days on a mouse/keyboard).
What happened when I tried to install Ubuntu (the user friendly version):
Live CD wouldn't boot. Booted back to windows to go to forums, was told I had to use alternate CD.
Alternate CD installs it, but when it reboots I get a blank screen after GRUB.
Have to open a shell prompt from grub (after spending an hour on forums figuring out how to do this), and am told I need to reconfigure/rebuild X. I do so. Reboot again.
Omg, I get a login screen! Wait, GTK won't let it boot, something about not being able to write to the directory. 3 hours on forums later, I give the fuck up. Conclusion: its not ready, support with linux is far more of a nightmare then with even vista at the moment. I'm even running pretty damn common hardware!
Glad you could at least install it! I'm sitting on a dead partition right now because GTK won't boot (something to do with X I believe).
In the console market. Sony makes a crapload of other things, and Microsoft's presumably main business is it's OS and Office software. Always seems weird to me that companies can get so huge as to be direct partners with a company in one division and direct competitors with the same company in another.
But its so much EASIER to just call them stupid.
All I can say (coming from this generation) is that this is the exact opposite of what I've seen, where instead of even the possibility of promotion people are hired, treated like crap, then fired all the time to serve someone's bottom line. Maybe in the financial sector where everything runs off of talk, rumors, and how smart someone tries to sound, but when dealing with technology if someone doesn't know their shit they usually don't get hired in the first place.
Disregarding that, you seem to have a pretty built-in prejudice against young people in general, and are probably not likely to consider one of the "clowns" ideas, disregarding any merits. Perhaps that why you keep seeing the kids getting promoted around you and you stay in your current position?