Its another corporate-America wank word. I'm in the UK, but its creeping into usage over here and I cringe every time I hear it. Its most usually used by the same people that like to 'touch base' with each other to discuss their 'synergies.'
I'd agree that 'to contact' is the underlying meaning, but try telling my old boss that.
WoW and every other MMO is nothing but a grind fest from minute one, so your point is?
Wow isnt any more though, and thats the point, Blizzard keep raising the bar. WoW a few years ago yes, grind-fest, but if you play the recent expansion its clear they've put a *lot* of effort into reducing the grind from the off.
It isn't the physical card. I couldn't give a rats ass about the card (Other than it's a cheap piece of shit, as you point out). It's the gigantic, interlinked database that will go with the card, which will track everything I do, and be accessible by almost every public worker you can imagine.
And don't worry about that giant database, all your data is safe in government hands. Very safe. As Jaqui Smith (Home Secretary at the time) said when questioned on its security: "It won't be connected to the internet, so it can't be hacked"
Coast, or Last night of the Proms (the whole season of the Proms for that matter). Probably 50% of the BBC2 output.
And radio: The Archers, Womans Hour to name a few - have you heard the state of commercial radio in the UK? Theres just no comparison to the publicly funded channels.
Nah, the packet inspection software's around - try googling 'Ellacoya' - some UK ISP's that oversold their 'unlimited' bandwidth (Plusnet being one) - have been using it for a while now.
Thats what i thought - "yeah, jump around, get fit!" but its not long before you work out how to play Sports with mere flicks of the wrist, while sprawling back on the sofa in traditional pose.
I've got a Gmini 202 which i love, for the reasons above. But its not perfect - things i dont like are: 1 - tendency to brick itself when using the wrong charger 2 - a tendency to brick itself when switching off under charge. 3 - somewhat...'Gallic' telephone support 4 - its starting to jitter on some of my tracks, like a cd skipping. (Is this HD corruption?)
When you're in a front-wheel skid you can't steer, you're going to go in a straight line irrespective of steering inputs. Thats the definition of a skid. ABS is designed for one thing only - to let you steer your car under heavy breaking. Thats it. So what happens when the panicced (sp?) driver sees a crash ahead, slams on the breaks and wrenchs the wheel to the left?
Without ABS he skids in a straight line towards the crash. With ABS, he steers the car violently to the left and rolls it over
But you can't ignore the fact that ABS lets you steer the vehicle in a 'panic braking' situation, and its this abilty to steer (cf skidding in a straight line) that lets people turn too hard and rollover their vehicle.
I'd have thought that the ESP systems that are becoming more commonplace would be able to reduce the problem though.
Having said all that, I still prefer my car with no driver aids.
While it says that the most common accidents - rear enders - were decreased, it goes on to say "Rollovers and side impacts with fixed objects - crashes that typically follow a complete loss of directional control - had the highest increases with ABS. Nonfatal crashes increased by 28 percent, and fatal crashes by 40 percent. "
Since when? Are you alluding to the misconception that a good driver can stop faster without ABS than an average driver with? With modern ABS this just isnt true anymore, even if you're a rally driver.
And ABS systems let an average driver steer their car in a heavy-braking-potential-skid situation, where the non-abs car will be skidding in an uncontrolled straight line. How many drivers are taught cadence braking these days?
Really it amazes me that web systems allow such mistakes to be made. I am sure most./ers can think of a dozen ways you could design the system to make it difficult for the mistakes to happen in the first place and detect them automatically in the second place and suspend the items until investigated. In the first place if you can enter a retail price that is lower than the wholesale price without large warnings comming up requiring multiple click throughs to set the price at that level then the system is bust and they deserve to be out of pocket.
Exactly - it could be argued that Amazon have been negligent - how hard can it be to implement this check? They should suffer the consequences!
I disagree - they were also offering iPAQ H5450s for £23 - this sounded like a loss-leading special offer, especially after a quick check on ebay showed that the 5450 should be less than double the price of a 1910, rather than over three times. I'd expect a pricing (maybe exchange rate?) mis-calculation to be consistent.
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I'd agree that 'to contact' is the underlying meaning, but try telling my old boss that.
WoW and every other MMO is nothing but a grind fest from minute one, so your point is?
Wow isnt any more though, and thats the point, Blizzard keep raising the bar. WoW a few years ago yes, grind-fest, but if you play the recent expansion its clear they've put a *lot* of effort into reducing the grind from the off.
It isn't the physical card. I couldn't give a rats ass about the card (Other than it's a cheap piece of shit, as you point out). It's the gigantic, interlinked database that will go with the card, which will track everything I do, and be accessible by almost every public worker you can imagine.
And don't worry about that giant database, all your data is safe in government hands. Very safe. As Jaqui Smith (Home Secretary at the time) said when questioned on its security: "It won't be connected to the internet, so it can't be hacked"
And radio: The Archers, Womans Hour to name a few - have you heard the state of commercial radio in the UK? Theres just no comparison to the publicly funded channels.
Nah, the packet inspection software's around - try googling 'Ellacoya' - some UK ISP's that oversold their 'unlimited' bandwidth (Plusnet being one) - have been using it for a while now.
Thats what i thought - "yeah, jump around, get fit!" but its not long before you work out how to play Sports with mere flicks of the wrist, while sprawling back on the sofa in traditional pose.
1 - tendency to brick itself when using the wrong charger
2 - a tendency to brick itself when switching off under charge.
3 - somewhat...'Gallic' telephone support
4 - its starting to jitter on some of my tracks, like a cd skipping. (Is this HD corruption?)
No jobs? great - seeya on the beach!
So what happens when the panicced (sp?) driver sees a crash ahead, slams on the breaks and wrenchs the wheel to the left?
Without ABS he skids in a straight line towards the crash.
With ABS, he steers the car violently to the left and rolls it over
But you can't ignore the fact that ABS lets you steer the vehicle in a 'panic braking' situation, and its this abilty to steer (cf skidding in a straight line) that lets people turn too hard and rollover their vehicle.
I'd have thought that the ESP systems that are becoming more commonplace would be able to reduce the problem though.
Having said all that, I still prefer my car with no driver aids.
While it says that the most common accidents - rear enders - were decreased, it goes on to say "Rollovers and side impacts with fixed objects - crashes that typically follow a complete loss of directional control - had the highest increases with ABS. Nonfatal crashes increased by 28 percent, and fatal crashes by 40 percent. "
Since when? Are you alluding to the misconception that a good driver can stop faster without ABS than an average driver with? With modern ABS this just isnt true anymore, even if you're a rally driver.
And ABS systems let an average driver steer their car in a heavy-braking-potential-skid situation, where the non-abs car will be skidding in an uncontrolled straight line. How many drivers are taught cadence braking these days?
But in this case Dr Hwang was unaware of this, so it does make me ask - "whats the big deal?"
Exactly - it could be argued that Amazon have been negligent - how hard can it be to implement this check? They should suffer the consequences!
I disagree - they were also offering iPAQ H5450s for £23 - this sounded like a loss-leading special offer, especially after a quick check on ebay showed that the 5450 should be less than double the price of a 1910, rather than over three times. I'd expect a pricing (maybe exchange rate?) mis-calculation to be consistent.