I love that the first post is exactly what I would have posted, amen brother. This is what you do when times change RIM, you adapt. Microsoft realizes that unified architecture and a consistent experience is what consumers want, and what makes Apple devices so stable and easy to develop for.
Very impressed with Microsoft's move here.
I agree with this, or a half rack. You don't want a rack mounted or bolted down because when you go to sell someday, the likelihood of the person buying wanting a rack room over a closet is slim to none.
The Catholic church has been lost for a long time, and this is just a sign it's never going to change. They changed the commandments to suit them for goodness sake! Changed the day of worship to suit them. Hid the bible from their followers because they didn't think their congregation could properly interpret the word of God (and also see the truth). Now in a long list of other atrocities, they banish someone for showing what's going on rather than commending them for helping identify a problem.
Sorry if this comes across as an attack, but the Catholic church is scary. I think a lot of the people who are Catholic just don't know any better, and I feel for them.
Yeah, throwing money down a hole for the lulz. Just like space travel always was!
Seriously, are you so short-sighted that you cannot see how useful mining asteroids for water, air, and eventually precious minerals is? I'll give you a hint: absolutely, 100% vital to the continued development of the human race. This has nothing to do with doing something "for the lulz." It is all about advancing the state of the human race. Not for profit, but because humanity can and should expand. Asteroid mining is one step forwards in our expansion towards other planets, and if we intend to not go extinct, we need to do that. We may not need to now. We may not need to in a hundred years, but we will in a thousand, or a million, and we are only going to get there if we start at some point. Might as well do it now.
To quote from the article: "[Planetary Resources] want to make sure there are available resources in place to ensure a permanent future in space." Our future, eventually, is in space. Whether from global warming, resource exhaustion, or nuclear war, Earth will eventually not be enough. When that day comes, we will be glad some billionaires chose to spend their money on space expansion, instead of building/buying shiny new toys, or hookers and blow.
Not to mention that no matter how far off, we have a finite amount of resources, nobody can dispute that. Even if something won't run out for 100 years, how will we make advances and learn how to mine in space if we don't start now? It's the whole mindset of people that think we can just ignore something for a 100 years and then magically have the technology in 100 years. You can't from A to C without going through B. We wouldn't have any of the amazing things we have today if it was for people who accepted "It can't be done" or people that couldn't see past the short term and see the long term goal.
It's probably easier to skate by in an office environment and go unnoticed than telecommuting. To say 10% of telecommuters aren't working means that chances are, 10% of your office workers aren't working. Lazy is lazy, people don't just magically become productive when you force them into an office. I'd venture to say because of improved morale, you're probably getting more work out of telecommuters than office zombies.
It's great to see so many people extolling the virtues of working from home. I got very ill back in December, and was kind of forced to be allowed to work from home and now it's kind of an open option for me. I usually do it one or two days a week, and I get a lot done those days. I also usually put in more hours, because it's easy to just pop on the TV around quitting time, and work less efficiently, but keep on working since I have my laptop out and I'm already logged into things. Saving the miles on my car, the gas, the commute time, etc is all awesome. Losing an hour or more of my day to commuting is such a waste for me and the company I work for.
I think the night landing thing is because of a lack of control over the situation. Fighter pilots are cocky, and they need to be, they can't be second guessing themselves. They need to be confident in their abilities, just like a race car driver, otherwise the self doubt will get you killed. So because of that, you raise good point. The astronauts would have little control over the risks in space flight, and thus would be under added stress from that alone, not to mention other things that have been mentioned like if you had a health problem, etc.
I can relate to the lack of control thing from personal experience. I quit riding sportbikes not because of a doubt in my abilities, but because of unknown variables like other drivers, debris on roads, poor roads, etc. Once you start worrying about that stuff, you lose your edge and willingness to commit.
Well that's kind of strange. I've seen headlines describing the advent of sex in space before but this is two guys doing it to each other? Not that there's anything wrong with that I mean...
This would have been funnier if you had actually used the term correctly (hint: it's not two dudes).
What, at the corner barber off main street? What is this, 1950? Absolutely No.
Buying a newspaper?
A physical newspaper? How...nostalgic.
Buying a coffee?
No, why would I? to hold everyone up behind me? Cash is the new check. There is no signing on debit or credit cards under a certain amount anymore, so it's WAY faster. I keep all my receipts, and keep my checkbook balanced since I know you'll bring this up.
Buying a bus ticket?
Again with the nostalgia.
How about buying a beer in a bar - do you pass your card to be swiped for each drink you purchase?
This to me is the funniest one. Who the heck doesn't run a tab? I'd much rather start a tab with a card than sit there and fumble with cash for every beer.
I can't believe you got modded 5 insightful. I'm sure I'll be modded flamebait, but oh well. I have a hard time not being sarcastic when the questions are so absurd. The only time I use cash now is my wife and I get $20 when we get groceries on the weekend, and each spend our $10 for lunch out once a week. That is literally the only cash that ever enters or leaves my wallet, and it's just more of a thing to keep ourselves regulating how much we eat out.
...and yes, I know I am just trolling, but look at the dates. The tutorial article was a couple days old on Joystiq when it was posted on October 4th. The way this post reads you'd think the Godfather thing was a month old and the tutorials were new, but the Godfather article was from yesterday. Slow news day?
Wow, welcome to about a month ago. EA has done like 10 more attrocious things since then even. I can understand it is hard to keep up, since they are constantly innovating new and improved ways to stick it to the gaming community.
"If this works, and it remains to be proven, it would be like taking a modest car and making it go like a race car by just changing its spark plugs. We would take a conventional electron microscope, put in one of our tips as the electron source and render the microscope instantly improved and capable of finer resolution."
This is the kind of real world application information all researchers and scientific media should be pushing on readers. This is very interesting to hear. If the article had just talked about this super sharp object the whole time, with no real world application tie in, the news would not be near as interesting. I think as funding dries up across all scientific fields, people are becoming more aware of the value of this. I wish NASA would take note and put some of their small resources into marketing their science. We need real world uses and people tooting their horns so to speak, when they do make breakthroughs in space research.
You're info is a bit off friend, and even harder to read.
I really don't know what you are saying in most of your post. I will agree Genesis was mildly more powerful than the SNES, but the NES momentum and brand identification was what led the SNES to victory.
You compare N64, Dreamcast, and PS1 together, but PS1 came out before all of them. In fact, the PS2 is the real reason the Dreamcast failed, because everyone knew it was coming out very soon. It came out one year after Dreamcast, so people were waiting for it. Timing is everything in console releases. Dreamcast came out too late to catch the boat for that gen, and too early for the next gen and could not compete with the PS2 brand after the PS1 rocked the market (just like NES did for SNES). N64 did poorly due to kid centric games, and insanely high cartridge prices. So the PS1 won this round, and the Dreamcast was more powerful but came out way later.
Then you compare Gamecube, Xbox, and PS2. Are you saying the Gamecube and Xbox outsold the PS2 in the US? The gamecube did horribly from a market share perspective in the US and is by far the least powerful system.
Basically all of the most powerful consoles did win the various rounds, but not specifically because of that, just pointing out your irregularities.
Seriously. Should we be expecting a new usweekly.slashdot.org for the juiciest celeb gossip of the tech sector?
I love the title for the first link "The past week has brought NY Times coverage of the workplace romance of Gates Foundation co-chairs Bill and Melinda Gates"
And then the only thing in the article I could find:
"As he spoke, he shared a stage at the New York Public Library with both Gates and his wife, Melinda, a Microsoft executive he married in middle age."
I mean, we're not at the total shock factor of TV media level yet, but Slashdot is heading that direction.
And since this post and topic is dumb, I leave you with a dumb quote along those lines:
"Lesbian nazi hookers, abducted by aliens and forced onto weight loss programs, next time on Town Talk"
Do you think that the people making the electronic gadgets we all love can afford them? I'd venture to guess somewhere near 100% of them can't. The world economy is much more complex than that, just leveling it all out wouldn't provide the future you dream of. It would be a world of average. I am not saying we deserve to be economically prosperous in the US, but we are, and we (and other economically prosperous countries) drive the demand for "frivolous products" like gadgets.
Your thoughts are good in theory, but you can't have your cake and eat it too, or cell phone as it would be. Nobody will be able to afford any of these wonderful devices in the world you describe, including yourself.
If you RTFA, you'd see that it's nothing like what you seem to think it is. Even in theory, you'd have to be looking at your buddy, but it isn't a recorder, it's more like bookmarks for your life.
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This is flat out wrong regarding SBS. The essentials version is the previous Foundation version, not SBS.
I love that the first post is exactly what I would have posted, amen brother. This is what you do when times change RIM, you adapt. Microsoft realizes that unified architecture and a consistent experience is what consumers want, and what makes Apple devices so stable and easy to develop for. Very impressed with Microsoft's move here.
This program is designed for small business/startups. Check it out, gives you internal use of almost the entire Microsoft lineup. http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/community/mpn/pages/microsoft_action_pack.aspx
I agree with this, or a half rack. You don't want a rack mounted or bolted down because when you go to sell someday, the likelihood of the person buying wanting a rack room over a closet is slim to none.
The Catholic church has been lost for a long time, and this is just a sign it's never going to change. They changed the commandments to suit them for goodness sake! Changed the day of worship to suit them. Hid the bible from their followers because they didn't think their congregation could properly interpret the word of God (and also see the truth). Now in a long list of other atrocities, they banish someone for showing what's going on rather than commending them for helping identify a problem. Sorry if this comes across as an attack, but the Catholic church is scary. I think a lot of the people who are Catholic just don't know any better, and I feel for them.
Yeah, throwing money down a hole for the lulz. Just like space travel always was!
Seriously, are you so short-sighted that you cannot see how useful mining asteroids for water, air, and eventually precious minerals is? I'll give you a hint: absolutely, 100% vital to the continued development of the human race. This has nothing to do with doing something "for the lulz." It is all about advancing the state of the human race. Not for profit, but because humanity can and should expand. Asteroid mining is one step forwards in our expansion towards other planets, and if we intend to not go extinct, we need to do that. We may not need to now. We may not need to in a hundred years, but we will in a thousand, or a million, and we are only going to get there if we start at some point. Might as well do it now.
To quote from the article: "[Planetary Resources] want to make sure there are available resources in place to ensure a permanent future in space." Our future, eventually, is in space. Whether from global warming, resource exhaustion, or nuclear war, Earth will eventually not be enough. When that day comes, we will be glad some billionaires chose to spend their money on space expansion, instead of building/buying shiny new toys, or hookers and blow.
Not to mention that no matter how far off, we have a finite amount of resources, nobody can dispute that. Even if something won't run out for 100 years, how will we make advances and learn how to mine in space if we don't start now? It's the whole mindset of people that think we can just ignore something for a 100 years and then magically have the technology in 100 years. You can't from A to C without going through B. We wouldn't have any of the amazing things we have today if it was for people who accepted "It can't be done" or people that couldn't see past the short term and see the long term goal.
Because we're just about running out of problems to solve here on Earth
Anyone posting with a l33tspeak handle is immediately invalidated.
Just to play devil's advocate here, AV2012 probably infects that many each day, or hour for that matter.
It's probably easier to skate by in an office environment and go unnoticed than telecommuting. To say 10% of telecommuters aren't working means that chances are, 10% of your office workers aren't working. Lazy is lazy, people don't just magically become productive when you force them into an office. I'd venture to say because of improved morale, you're probably getting more work out of telecommuters than office zombies.
It's great to see so many people extolling the virtues of working from home. I got very ill back in December, and was kind of forced to be allowed to work from home and now it's kind of an open option for me. I usually do it one or two days a week, and I get a lot done those days. I also usually put in more hours, because it's easy to just pop on the TV around quitting time, and work less efficiently, but keep on working since I have my laptop out and I'm already logged into things. Saving the miles on my car, the gas, the commute time, etc is all awesome. Losing an hour or more of my day to commuting is such a waste for me and the company I work for.
I think the night landing thing is because of a lack of control over the situation. Fighter pilots are cocky, and they need to be, they can't be second guessing themselves. They need to be confident in their abilities, just like a race car driver, otherwise the self doubt will get you killed. So because of that, you raise good point. The astronauts would have little control over the risks in space flight, and thus would be under added stress from that alone, not to mention other things that have been mentioned like if you had a health problem, etc. I can relate to the lack of control thing from personal experience. I quit riding sportbikes not because of a doubt in my abilities, but because of unknown variables like other drivers, debris on roads, poor roads, etc. Once you start worrying about that stuff, you lose your edge and willingness to commit.
Well that's kind of strange. I've seen headlines describing the advent of sex in space before but this is two guys doing it to each other? Not that there's anything wrong with that I mean...
This would have been funnier if you had actually used the term correctly (hint: it's not two dudes).
Wow, are you telling me you value your crews life based on rank?
You never use cash?
No
Not for getting a haircut?
What, at the corner barber off main street? What is this, 1950? Absolutely No.
Buying a newspaper?
A physical newspaper? How...nostalgic.
Buying a coffee?
No, why would I? to hold everyone up behind me? Cash is the new check. There is no signing on debit or credit cards under a certain amount anymore, so it's WAY faster. I keep all my receipts, and keep my checkbook balanced since I know you'll bring this up.
Buying a bus ticket?
Again with the nostalgia.
How about buying a beer in a bar - do you pass your card to be swiped for each drink you purchase?
This to me is the funniest one. Who the heck doesn't run a tab? I'd much rather start a tab with a card than sit there and fumble with cash for every beer.
I can't believe you got modded 5 insightful. I'm sure I'll be modded flamebait, but oh well. I have a hard time not being sarcastic when the questions are so absurd. The only time I use cash now is my wife and I get $20 when we get groceries on the weekend, and each spend our $10 for lunch out once a week. That is literally the only cash that ever enters or leaves my wallet, and it's just more of a thing to keep ourselves regulating how much we eat out.
...and yes, I know I am just trolling, but look at the dates. The tutorial article was a couple days old on Joystiq when it was posted on October 4th. The way this post reads you'd think the Godfather thing was a month old and the tutorials were new, but the Godfather article was from yesterday. Slow news day?
Wow, welcome to about a month ago. EA has done like 10 more attrocious things since then even. I can understand it is hard to keep up, since they are constantly innovating new and improved ways to stick it to the gaming community.
Only if it's in Armageddon where there is air in space.
You're info is a bit off friend, and even harder to read.
I really don't know what you are saying in most of your post. I will agree Genesis was mildly more powerful than the SNES, but the NES momentum and brand identification was what led the SNES to victory.
You compare N64, Dreamcast, and PS1 together, but PS1 came out before all of them. In fact, the PS2 is the real reason the Dreamcast failed, because everyone knew it was coming out very soon. It came out one year after Dreamcast, so people were waiting for it. Timing is everything in console releases. Dreamcast came out too late to catch the boat for that gen, and too early for the next gen and could not compete with the PS2 brand after the PS1 rocked the market (just like NES did for SNES). N64 did poorly due to kid centric games, and insanely high cartridge prices. So the PS1 won this round, and the Dreamcast was more powerful but came out way later.
Then you compare Gamecube, Xbox, and PS2. Are you saying the Gamecube and Xbox outsold the PS2 in the US? The gamecube did horribly from a market share perspective in the US and is by far the least powerful system.
Basically all of the most powerful consoles did win the various rounds, but not specifically because of that, just pointing out your irregularities.
Seriously. Should we be expecting a new usweekly.slashdot.org for the juiciest celeb gossip of the tech sector? I love the title for the first link "The past week has brought NY Times coverage of the workplace romance of Gates Foundation co-chairs Bill and Melinda Gates" And then the only thing in the article I could find: "As he spoke, he shared a stage at the New York Public Library with both Gates and his wife, Melinda, a Microsoft executive he married in middle age." I mean, we're not at the total shock factor of TV media level yet, but Slashdot is heading that direction. And since this post and topic is dumb, I leave you with a dumb quote along those lines: "Lesbian nazi hookers, abducted by aliens and forced onto weight loss programs, next time on Town Talk"
It's news about something that could potentially become news... I got nothing.
Do you think that the people making the electronic gadgets we all love can afford them? I'd venture to guess somewhere near 100% of them can't. The world economy is much more complex than that, just leveling it all out wouldn't provide the future you dream of. It would be a world of average. I am not saying we deserve to be economically prosperous in the US, but we are, and we (and other economically prosperous countries) drive the demand for "frivolous products" like gadgets.
Your thoughts are good in theory, but you can't have your cake and eat it too, or cell phone as it would be. Nobody will be able to afford any of these wonderful devices in the world you describe, including yourself.
If you RTFA, you'd see that it's nothing like what you seem to think it is. Even in theory, you'd have to be looking at your buddy, but it isn't a recorder, it's more like bookmarks for your life.
"3D Realms has no plans on rushing Duke Nukem Forever" This has to be said, but did anyone really think Duke Nukem Forever was being rushed?