I prefer MMOs for sheer scale of the games. I get bored with single player RPGs, but with an MMO I have access to months if not years worth more of game play.
If they were guy's friends, then purchaser won't be their friend. He will be "sick guy from the internet that bought our friend's stuff" You wouldn't be even a little curious about a person who would buy someone else's life? I would personally be a little skeptical, just in case they are "not quite right" but other than that, I'd want to find out more about them.
I'm sure a lot of people would take lower pay if they knew they would have a job for the next 20 or 30 years vs a job that pays great, but you don't know if there will be layoffs a week, a month, or a year from now.
No clue as to whether Apple has job security, but I'm guessing it would be a huge factor if they do.
My all time favorite computer chair for long hours is a non-reclining "lounge chair" from the 70s my mother found for $10 at a rummage sale. It's the ugliest orange, it's perfect. I can sit in the chair in long 20 hour gaming sessions not feel uncomfortable one bit. No other chair has compared for longevity and overall comfort. Since it's not an office chair I'd usually put the keyboard in my lap, and the mouse on small table at the height I prefered, although I'm confident you could modify it to be the correct office chair height for use at a regular workstation. To duplicate what I have you'd have to go shopping for regular living room style chairs (probably non-reclining) and try them all out until you find the one that's most comfortable for you. That'd be my recommendation.
I couldn't think of a car one but I came up with cookie one.
You know how most cookies are round lumpy balls of dough that when you cook them ooze out into a flat circle cookie? It's like that. Big lumpy ball of cpu thingies becomes flat circle cpu thingies.
My problem with comments like yours is that there's nowhere saying you can't do both. Just because you 'help the environment' in one way, doesn't mean it's exclusive.
I guess I fall in the discovered / defined category and yet the math we use day to day is invented. Our brains are born with the abilities to do complex math 'on the fly' doing physics geometry and who knows what else, simply to catch a ball in mid-flight. Yet if I took pencil and paper it would take me several minutes if not hours to figure out where the ball will be at point x on it's path.
To me this says that math is in our nature, there to be discovered. However, as we define it with pencil and paper we created [invented] the methods to find the answers we needed. And in my opinion not very efficient ones. When we actually find [discover] the math that's done in our head to catch the ball, I think we'll make some earth-shattering discoveries about well, everything, really.
I've done very little research on this, so forgive my ignorance if I'm missing something basic or obvious.
The documentary about lip reading the silent movies of Hitler was very interesting from a technical standpoint, even if it did turn out that they had hours of recordings of Nazis making small talk about the weather. Or so the Germans would have us believe...
I always thought the point of MMOs, RPGs, or even a good book or movie, was the journey... not the destination.
If you don't enjoy the journey, find something else to do. We all have our own tastes, embrace yours, but don't hate other people's just because you don't understand what makes them enjoyable.
Kind of a non-story for me. Reading articles on this it really seems like it was a curious employee who wasn't paying enough attention to the warnings given and or consequences about private data. Honestly I blame our celebrity lifestyle for this. Everyone is so wrapped up in famous people they forget about what they are authorized to do. I find it hard to judge someone for letting their curiosity get the better of them.
If you were given the power, how many of you would resist the urge to look up Natalie Portman's [insert your favorite opposite sex celebrity here] passport?
That's what most of the information is pointing to. (Unless of course this is what they want me to conclude.) Now if it's politically motivated such as Nixon era privacy breaching I'd probably feel differently about it.
The driver still delivers full accelleration when we do that. It gets about 14 frames per second in 2500x1000 mode. Ummm, you say it's still delivering full acceleration at 14 fps, is that what you always get? If so that's exactly the problem with onboard chipsets. 14 fps would cause most gamers to run not walk to buy a new video card. If any game I had ran at 14, I would find it completely unplayable and work for hours tweaking trying to squeeze out more frames.
Didn't one of their products forcefully install also? (maybe just sneaking in with another install or something) I seem to remember uninstalling something with the name WildTangent that I _know_ I didn't agree to, with the exception of a EULA fine-print/grumble.
I try to avoid business with companies that employ those kind of tactics.
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I prefer MMOs for sheer scale of the games. I get bored with single player RPGs, but with an MMO I have access to months if not years worth more of game play.
Yeah, but it's a bit smaller if you take CowboyNeal out of the study sample.
I'm sure a lot of people would take lower pay if they knew they would have a job for the next 20 or 30 years vs a job that pays great, but you don't know if there will be layoffs a week, a month, or a year from now.
No clue as to whether Apple has job security, but I'm guessing it would be a huge factor if they do.
My all time favorite computer chair for long hours is a non-reclining "lounge chair" from the 70s my mother found for $10 at a rummage sale. It's the ugliest orange, it's perfect. I can sit in the chair in long 20 hour gaming sessions not feel uncomfortable one bit. No other chair has compared for longevity and overall comfort. Since it's not an office chair I'd usually put the keyboard in my lap, and the mouse on small table at the height I prefered, although I'm confident you could modify it to be the correct office chair height for use at a regular workstation. To duplicate what I have you'd have to go shopping for regular living room style chairs (probably non-reclining) and try them all out until you find the one that's most comfortable for you. That'd be my recommendation.
I'm never replacing that chair.
My parents have one for their PC chair. Can't stand it. (I've tried adjusting it over and over and can never find a comfortable position).
Would be Schrödinger's tribe... In order to find out if they are uncontacted, you have to contact them.
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I couldn't think of a car one but I came up with cookie one.
You know how most cookies are round lumpy balls of dough that when you cook them ooze out into a flat circle cookie? It's like that. Big lumpy ball of cpu thingies becomes flat circle cpu thingies.
Mmmm cookies.
My problem with comments like yours is that there's nowhere saying you can't do both. Just because you 'help the environment' in one way, doesn't mean it's exclusive.
Missing option - slashdot poll.
I guess I fall in the discovered / defined category and yet the math we use day to day is invented. Our brains are born with the abilities to do complex math 'on the fly' doing physics geometry and who knows what else, simply to catch a ball in mid-flight. Yet if I took pencil and paper it would take me several minutes if not hours to figure out where the ball will be at point x on it's path.
To me this says that math is in our nature, there to be discovered. However, as we define it with pencil and paper we created [invented] the methods to find the answers we needed. And in my opinion not very efficient ones. When we actually find [discover] the math that's done in our head to catch the ball, I think we'll make some earth-shattering discoveries about well, everything, really.
I've done very little research on this, so forgive my ignorance if I'm missing something basic or obvious.
You'd prefer current slang? I can't stand most of today's slang.
Turns out the house belongs to a "Barbara Streisand", whoever that is.
I always thought the point of MMOs, RPGs, or even a good book or movie, was the journey... not the destination.
If you don't enjoy the journey, find something else to do. We all have our own tastes, embrace yours, but don't hate other people's just because you don't understand what makes them enjoyable.
Kind of a non-story for me. Reading articles on this it really seems like it was a curious employee who wasn't paying enough attention to the warnings given and or consequences about private data. Honestly I blame our celebrity lifestyle for this. Everyone is so wrapped up in famous people they forget about what they are authorized to do. I find it hard to judge someone for letting their curiosity get the better of them.
If you were given the power, how many of you would resist the urge to look up Natalie Portman's [insert your favorite opposite sex celebrity here] passport?
That's what most of the information is pointing to. (Unless of course this is what they want me to conclude.) Now if it's politically motivated such as Nixon era privacy breaching I'd probably feel differently about it.
While it is a lame pun it's worth noting, that cliche comes from the invention of the light bulb so it was certainly on topic! whooosh!
I'm getting burned out on comments like this.
Just wondering..
Didn't one of their products forcefully install also? (maybe just sneaking in with another install or something) I seem to remember uninstalling something with the name WildTangent that I _know_ I didn't agree to, with the exception of a EULA fine-print /grumble.
I try to avoid business with companies that employ those kind of tactics.
Grow some balls and let her see you weep.
First thing I thought of was an old Adbusters magazine cover.
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