stops becomming a game, and become employment. And all that implies.
What does it imply? That out of work techies can now scrape together a meager existance? I don't see a problem here.
You will also lose in revenue from people who want to play for fun. because they will never get an opportunity to get 'valauable items'
I don't see how. Anyone can still go out and get items, without involving anything real-world. Of course, more dedicated people who are willing to put more into a game can get better items. But it's always been like that. Or did I miss something?
what happens when you spen 20 hourse getting a real valuable item, then the company decided to put 1000 od them in the game the next day?
Well, then your item drops in value. Kind of like how everything works in the real world already? So what.
I think it was meant from the opposite point of view. He was a terrorist, and he knew he was. So he should have tried his best to look like Captain America, as a strategy to divert any well founded suspicion. The 911 hijackers did something similar. As I recall, they mostly shaved and wore suits, to blend in and inspire confidence.
And I'm sure you'd be shortly disciplined or out of a job for destroying valuable data, negotiations, documentation, whathaveyou. Sheesh, some moderators don't recognize a troll when they see one.
While the parent post is rather harsh, there are plenty of organizations which would discipline you for installing unauthorized software on your machine. I know of some departments where you need authorization to install stupid stuff like ICQ or winzip.
Lots of managers would wonder why you just spent company time to install a new OS on your machine. You would be expected to justify your actions in that the new OS somehow assists in your job performance. That would be a difficult thing to justify, seeing that if the management team believed in the benefits of Linux, your shop would probably use it already.
If they said "Well, we're betting the entire company's future on the next version of Microsoft Bob", they're screwed.;-P
Microsoft frequently claims that product X is a "bet the company" effort..Net was a "bet the company" effort, now the next version of windows is. Am I supposed to believe that if the product fares poorly, then Microsoft will crumble into nothingness?
Even if XP were an utter failure, Microsoft has sufficient resources to rebuild and relaunch. Sure they would be delayed, and their image tarnished, but that has never stopped them before. They are incredibly persistent.
Hell, even with a direct nuclear strike centered on Redmond, Bill could hide in his money vault, then re-emerge, and use his 50 billion to start over.
I'm not sure of the wattage rating, I would guess around 250W. Wattage ratings are almost meaningless anyways. A high end 60 watt class A amp will out drive some 500 watt sparkomatic garbage amp.
The speakers sound fine at all reasonable sound levels. Good speakers pretty much require this ability, as music is not constant volume. That being said, they do indeed sound better in a bigger room at a greater listening distance. I'm not sure of the precise reasons for this. I suspect the angular difference from my head to the tweeters/midrange/woofer has something to do with it.
However, my current apartment does not permit me to place the speakers more effectively. Fortunately, I am moving and will commit a 12x12 bedroom into a computer room, and can then better place the speakers.
Right but have you considered the damage these speakers must surely be doing to your inner ear?
You are assuming a lot. Ear damage is related to dB levels, pitch and duration of exposure. It is unrelated to size of speaker. I can listen safely simply by not turning them up too much.
The man brought much needed integrity back to the presidential position. He is a strong leader in the time of terrorism, war and uncertain economies brought about by Bill Clinton.
Hell, I say Clinton can have all the BJ's he wants, if he came back and brought the 90's with him.
Just looking at a table in one of their admin tools makes all kinds of crap fly across the network.
Haven't noticed, but maybe that's a property of the tool and not SQL Server? Looking at how it behaves in a production environment, connecting with OLE DB or whatever would be a better measure.
Expensive, butt-slow, hard to use, buggy
Expensive, I don't doubt that. Slow - well I hear SQL Server escalates locks a lot more than Oracle. Do you have other examples? Hard to use, buggy, I haven't seen that. Can you give me some examples?
Not trying to pick a fight - just trying to learn more about SQL Server as it is often involved in my work.
It just can't be good. Using MS SQL as a database is bad enough, I couldn't imagine depending on it as a file system.
I've dealt with a lot of bad products from MS, but SQL Server is not one of them. What exactly is wrong with it? It's been rock solid to me, with good features. I suppose the licensing might be brutal, but I don't care so much about that.
I mean, our ancestors were not stupid, they posessed the same intuition and logic that we do today. Whay did it take so long to get where we are now though?
I believe it had to do with climate. Prior to say 8,000BCE, it was too cold (ice age ending). They couldn't grow crops and survived through hunting/gathering. This environment could not support more advanced civilizations. Small groups of people could follow herds around for food, but a big city couldn't sustain itself.
- If you're not primarily into computers and you play too much, that'll teach you nothing at all. I doubt Einstein could have published anything worthwhile if he was a keen Duke Nukem addict for example.
Probably would have been renamed "Theory of relativity, you alien bastards."
But VB.NET looks more like Java than it looks like VB 6.
Huh-what? Maybe you mean MS C# looks like Java? VB.Net looks a lot like VB6. Basically they changed the libraries, and added object orientation. The keywords, loop structures and basic structure are all the same or very similar to VB6. Compared to VB6, it's a big improvement.
My favorite is when it opens up project files for me automatically and randomly, just because it decided to.
Ooh, or the one where if you switch between views on an ASPX file, it sometimes deletes random chunks of code. MS provided a patch for that one already, but damn that was nasty.
I had a co-worker who claimed I deleted a bunch of her source code when actually it was the IDE. She was yelling and stomping around, ready to kick my ass. Yeah she is a girl but she is freakin huge!
And you put up with that for 2 years!?! In the Linux world that would have been fixed by now.
It's not like I have much of a choice. Right now, I'm happy that I get paychecks, which is a lot more than many programmers can say. I'm not going to be able to single handedly migrate a 10000 person company to Linux.
Don't underestimate the power of the dark side. Put another way, when the suits say the whole team will use VB.Net, and when you are not independently wealthy, that's what you use.
Anyways, after using various incarnations of VB for about 7 years, I don't really mind it anymore. I started as a C++ programmer and thought VB was crap. These days, don't care. Quality of source code depends much more on the quality of the programmer than on the quality of the language. It's the man, not the machine I guess.
Every time I build it's basically 50/50 whether or not the compiler is going to start throwing spurrious exceptions.
You must have a corrupt install. I've been working professionally with VB.Net for about 2 years now and have never had a compile go bad, except when it was my fault.
The rest of the IDE, on the other hand, is about as stable as a crack ho. My favorite is when it opens up project files for me automatically and randomly, just because it decided to. Source safe integration is also a joke.
For audio, buy a decent digital-analog converter like stereolink. This replaces your soundcard, and plugs into your computer on one end, and your home audio on the other. You can then attach massive home speakers or whatever you want
Sounds pretty much like outlaw bounties from the old west. This system has been successful for over a hundred years and there is a large modern day bounty hunter business. The same could work for spam.
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stops becomming a game, and become employment. And all that implies.
What does it imply? That out of work techies can now scrape together a meager existance? I don't see a problem here.
You will also lose in revenue from people who want to play for fun. because they will never get an opportunity to get 'valauable items'
I don't see how. Anyone can still go out and get items, without involving anything real-world. Of course, more dedicated people who are willing to put more into a game can get better items. But it's always been like that. Or did I miss something?
what happens when you spen 20 hourse getting a real valuable item, then the company decided to put 1000 od them in the game the next day?
Well, then your item drops in value. Kind of like how everything works in the real world already? So what.
I think it was meant from the opposite point of view. He was a terrorist, and he knew he was. So he should have tried his best to look like Captain America, as a strategy to divert any well founded suspicion. The 911 hijackers did something similar. As I recall, they mostly shaved and wore suits, to blend in and inspire confidence.
Does DRM have better sound quality than MP3?
Only if you enjoy the sound of sweet silence...
And I'm sure you'd be shortly disciplined or out of a job for destroying valuable data, negotiations, documentation, whathaveyou. Sheesh, some moderators don't recognize a troll when they see one.
While the parent post is rather harsh, there are plenty of organizations which would discipline you for installing unauthorized software on your machine. I know of some departments where you need authorization to install stupid stuff like ICQ or winzip.
Lots of managers would wonder why you just spent company time to install a new OS on your machine. You would be expected to justify your actions in that the new OS somehow assists in your job performance. That would be a difficult thing to justify, seeing that if the management team believed in the benefits of Linux, your shop would probably use it already.
If everyone wants to speed them what's the point of setting a speed limit? Isn't that against the will of the people?
I believe people want there to be a speed limit. They just want it to apply to other people, and not themselves.
If they said "Well, we're betting the entire company's future on the next version of Microsoft Bob", they're screwed. ;-P
.Net was a "bet the company" effort, now the next version of windows is. Am I supposed to believe that if the product fares poorly, then Microsoft will crumble into nothingness?
Microsoft frequently claims that product X is a "bet the company" effort.
Even if XP were an utter failure, Microsoft has sufficient resources to rebuild and relaunch. Sure they would be delayed, and their image tarnished, but that has never stopped them before. They are incredibly persistent.
Hell, even with a direct nuclear strike centered on Redmond, Bill could hide in his money vault, then re-emerge, and use his 50 billion to start over.
I'm not sure of the wattage rating, I would guess around 250W. Wattage ratings are almost meaningless anyways. A high end 60 watt class A amp will out drive some 500 watt sparkomatic garbage amp.
The speakers sound fine at all reasonable sound levels. Good speakers pretty much require this ability, as music is not constant volume. That being said, they do indeed sound better in a bigger room at a greater listening distance. I'm not sure of the precise reasons for this. I suspect the angular difference from my head to the tweeters/midrange/woofer has something to do with it.
However, my current apartment does not permit me to place the speakers more effectively. Fortunately, I am moving and will commit a 12x12 bedroom into a computer room, and can then better place the speakers.
Right but have you considered the damage these speakers must surely be doing to your inner ear?
You are assuming a lot. Ear damage is related to dB levels, pitch and duration of exposure. It is unrelated to size of speaker. I can listen safely simply by not turning them up too much.
Yes they are shielded. But the amp wasn't so I had to move it. My sperm count appears unaffected.
Aren't you supposed to line up the tweeters more of less with the ears of the listener?
You are right. After I took this picture, I turned the speakers upside down to give a soundstage in front of me.
Cool, but where are his speakers?
The man brought much needed integrity back to the presidential position. He is a strong leader in the time of terrorism, war and uncertain economies brought about by Bill Clinton.
Hell, I say Clinton can have all the BJ's he wants, if he came back and brought the 90's with him.
Just looking at a table in one of their admin tools makes all kinds of crap fly across the network.
Haven't noticed, but maybe that's a property of the tool and not SQL Server? Looking at how it behaves in a production environment, connecting with OLE DB or whatever would be a better measure.
Expensive, butt-slow, hard to use, buggy
Expensive, I don't doubt that. Slow - well I hear SQL Server escalates locks a lot more than Oracle. Do you have other examples? Hard to use, buggy, I haven't seen that. Can you give me some examples? Not trying to pick a fight - just trying to learn more about SQL Server as it is often involved in my work.
It just can't be good. Using MS SQL as a database is bad enough, I couldn't imagine depending on it as a file system.
I've dealt with a lot of bad products from MS, but SQL Server is not one of them. What exactly is wrong with it? It's been rock solid to me, with good features. I suppose the licensing might be brutal, but I don't care so much about that.
I mean, our ancestors were not stupid, they posessed the same intuition and logic that we do today. Whay did it take so long to get where we are now though?
I believe it had to do with climate. Prior to say 8,000BCE, it was too cold (ice age ending). They couldn't grow crops and survived through hunting/gathering. This environment could not support more advanced civilizations. Small groups of people could follow herds around for food, but a big city couldn't sustain itself.
- If you're not primarily into computers and you play too much, that'll teach you nothing at all. I doubt Einstein could have published anything worthwhile if he was a keen Duke Nukem addict for example.
Probably would have been renamed "Theory of relativity, you alien bastards."
But VB.NET looks more like Java than it looks like VB 6.
Huh-what? Maybe you mean MS C# looks like Java? VB.Net looks a lot like VB6. Basically they changed the libraries, and added object orientation. The keywords, loop structures and basic structure are all the same or very similar to VB6. Compared to VB6, it's a big improvement.
My favorite is when it opens up project files for me automatically and randomly, just because it decided to.
Ooh, or the one where if you switch between views on an ASPX file, it sometimes deletes random chunks of code. MS provided a patch for that one already, but damn that was nasty.
I had a co-worker who claimed I deleted a bunch of her source code when actually it was the IDE. She was yelling and stomping around, ready to kick my ass. Yeah she is a girl but she is freakin huge!
And you put up with that for 2 years!?! In the Linux world that would have been fixed by now.
It's not like I have much of a choice. Right now, I'm happy that I get paychecks, which is a lot more than many programmers can say. I'm not going to be able to single handedly migrate a 10000 person company to Linux.
No offense why are you working with vb.net?
Don't underestimate the power of the dark side. Put another way, when the suits say the whole team will use VB.Net, and when you are not independently wealthy, that's what you use.
Anyways, after using various incarnations of VB for about 7 years, I don't really mind it anymore. I started as a C++ programmer and thought VB was crap. These days, don't care. Quality of source code depends much more on the quality of the programmer than on the quality of the language. It's the man, not the machine I guess.
Every time I build it's basically 50/50 whether or not the compiler is going to start throwing spurrious exceptions.
You must have a corrupt install. I've been working professionally with VB.Net for about 2 years now and have never had a compile go bad, except when it was my fault.
The rest of the IDE, on the other hand, is about as stable as a crack ho. My favorite is when it opens up project files for me automatically and randomly, just because it decided to. Source safe integration is also a joke.
For audio, buy a decent digital-analog converter like stereolink. This replaces your soundcard, and plugs into your computer on one end, and your home audio on the other. You can then attach massive home speakers or whatever you want
The whole thing ends up looking like this: stereo
Not just diversify, but think in layers
I laughed my ass off when I read this, because I read it as "think in lawyers". Security through litigation? If only that didn't happen.
There are "bail enforcement officers". Learn the difference.
Even people in the industry informally say "bounty hunter"
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Sounds pretty much like outlaw bounties from the old west. This system has been successful for over a hundred years and there is a large modern day bounty hunter business. The same could work for spam.