No kidding. The Matrix set costs around $60-$70, while each Pirates movie is $20-$25. NO SHIT Pirates sold more units. Somebody needs to go back to economics class. The price difference alone, regardless of any other factor, is enough to make the Pirates releases more successful in terms of units sold.
They're still being vague about it. They need to start listing actual patent numbers if anybody is going to take them seriously. Then those patents can be ruled as obvious, or having prior art, and this can go away.
If they don't start being specific very soon, they're just going to look like SCO. Considering they backed SCO, this is not too much of a surprise.
Several people have mentioned getting "better" CFLs, for those of us who have had crappy experiences with the bulbs. Nobody has mentioned brands or models. My question, then, is for those of you who say we need to try the "better" bulbs, what are you talking about, exactly? "Better" doesn't tell me what I should be looking for.
I hate them. This past weekend, my wife and I made the attempt to replace a good number of our bulbs with CFLs. They suck. The "60-watt equivalent" bulbs are dimmer than 60-watt incandescent. The 60-watts don't pause before coming on, but they still have a warm-up period where the brightness increases. The bulbs don't fit in every light fixture. Add in the disposal regulations, and CFLs are worse, as a standard bulb, than incandescent. The only place we've identified where CFLs are useful is in lamps that are on for very extended periods of time, which in our house is two or three places. Everywhere else is keeping the incandescents. I'm glad I don't live in California.
Clinical and technical people need to learn more about the others area, but this should not substitute for real technical people calling the tech shots and real clinical people calling the clinical ones.
I agree wholeheartedly. Where I work, though, the clinical people make all the decisions, and when things turn out poorly, the technical people get all the blame. There's a pretty substantial divide between the two, and neither side seems to want to set things right.
I think that's where the problem is. We have clinical people making technical decisions, which seems to be standard procedure for this company. Yeah, we're screwed.
I work for a fairly large healthcare system that is in the midst of deploying Epic's products, the first go-live is coming soon. I've heard the project is a mess, and people are quitting left and right. I guess I'll find out more soon...
Anybody got some useful references on how much Epic sucks and how screwed we are? I'd like to know ahead of time so I can start looking for a new job.
[Commander Chaos's sidekick] Robot Chicken did it! [/Commander Chaos's sidekick] I don't have a link, but one of the segments was "Monkeys in Outer Space" montage with big dramatic theme music showing all kinds of strange ways for apes getting killed in the race for space.
I got a call today from Discover that the card I used to purchase some Steam games was used in several stores in the last two days, racking up over $1500 in charges. I've been trying to figure out how they got my number, and this seems a possible candidate. If you're a Steam customer, beware!
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Did you not get the memo? Christian bashing is ALWAYS relevant.
...is will we PC gamers have to wait a year longer to play it? Anybody know?
On topic: One city is plenty fine, especially given what I've seen so far. I'd be interested to see how much of the interior spaces are accessible. Anybody have info on that?
I hope they at least keep helicopters, and especially a gunship. I gotta have SOMETHING to strafe interstates with.
Sadly, children of bad parents are more likely to become bad parents themselves. Most people don't learn from the bad things that were done to them, they repeat those mistakes. The extremely sheltered will do the same with their kids. The abused will, also. Somebody changing, breaking this kind of cycle, is the exception rather than the rule.
I thought about saying something about country-level TLDs, but decided against it. I agree with everything you've said about those domains. As for making the transition away from the.com et al domains, keeping the existing structure in place while the transition happens shouldn't be too big of a deal. ICANN should still be the central repository for managing the new structure, but they should also be a little more discerning in who gets what domain. For instance, if you have a company named "Coca Cola Inc." they probably shouldn't be allowed to register "Pepsi" as their domain name. They can do whatever they want above their registered "cocacola" or whatever domain name, i.e. "pepsisucks.cocacola." Granted, those kinds of issues will need to be discussed and worked out, but that's the general sense I get about the situation.
See, that's why I think TLDs are redundant. There was a proposal some time ago to abandon TLDs, and restructure DNS. Since nobody seems to care about what a TLD means anymore, aside from perhaps the US Gov't still using.gov, why keep up with the charade?.com,.net,.org seem to have very little relevance to the content of the actual sites.
Middle Earth and Dune are epic tales of the original forefathers of our times (Dune less obviously, sorry for the spoiler)
Dude...wait, what?! In what book was Dune revealed to be a pre-history of current times, as opposed to a future-history? I read the original Dune books, but nothing else.
By stepping on that goo, you left a little DNA in the goo. After you leave, the goo starts mutating, leading to life that will eventually be human. You're your own great^6504-grandpa!
Extremely unlikely also means it's possible. We might very well be the first intelligent life to emerge in this galaxy. We might be the first in the universe. Extremely unlikely doesn't mean impossible. If we are, God help the younger species; the humans are coming.
I brought it up because there was no mention of what protocol they're using, and I'd hate to assume. Heck, maybe they were doing something really whacked-out with IR to talk to the IR serial port every laptop comes with. Yes, that's a crappy idea, but without any mention of 802.11 in the article, I just wanted to be sure. Once-upon-a-time somebody was proposing just this kind of thing for short-range wireless networks, which would require line-of-sight. I hadn't ever heard of it actually becoming a reality, but I know absolute jack about the 787 and considered maybe they had tried to do that.
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No kidding. The Matrix set costs around $60-$70, while each Pirates movie is $20-$25. NO SHIT Pirates sold more units. Somebody needs to go back to economics class. The price difference alone, regardless of any other factor, is enough to make the Pirates releases more successful in terms of units sold.
They're still being vague about it. They need to start listing actual patent numbers if anybody is going to take them seriously. Then those patents can be ruled as obvious, or having prior art, and this can go away.
If they don't start being specific very soon, they're just going to look like SCO. Considering they backed SCO, this is not too much of a surprise.
Several people have mentioned getting "better" CFLs, for those of us who have had crappy experiences with the bulbs. Nobody has mentioned brands or models. My question, then, is for those of you who say we need to try the "better" bulbs, what are you talking about, exactly? "Better" doesn't tell me what I should be looking for.
I hate them. This past weekend, my wife and I made the attempt to replace a good number of our bulbs with CFLs. They suck. The "60-watt equivalent" bulbs are dimmer than 60-watt incandescent. The 60-watts don't pause before coming on, but they still have a warm-up period where the brightness increases. The bulbs don't fit in every light fixture. Add in the disposal regulations, and CFLs are worse, as a standard bulb, than incandescent. The only place we've identified where CFLs are useful is in lamps that are on for very extended periods of time, which in our house is two or three places. Everywhere else is keeping the incandescents. I'm glad I don't live in California.
I agree wholeheartedly. Where I work, though, the clinical people make all the decisions, and when things turn out poorly, the technical people get all the blame. There's a pretty substantial divide between the two, and neither side seems to want to set things right.
I think that's where the problem is. We have clinical people making technical decisions, which seems to be standard procedure for this company. Yeah, we're screwed.
I work for a fairly large healthcare system that is in the midst of deploying Epic's products, the first go-live is coming soon. I've heard the project is a mess, and people are quitting left and right. I guess I'll find out more soon...
Anybody got some useful references on how much Epic sucks and how screwed we are? I'd like to know ahead of time so I can start looking for a new job.
[Commander Chaos's sidekick] Robot Chicken did it! [/Commander Chaos's sidekick]
I don't have a link, but one of the segments was "Monkeys in Outer Space" montage with big dramatic theme music showing all kinds of strange ways for apes getting killed in the race for space.
I got a call today from Discover that the card I used to purchase some Steam games was used in several stores in the last two days, racking up over $1500 in charges. I've been trying to figure out how they got my number, and this seems a possible candidate. If you're a Steam customer, beware!
Did you not get the memo? Christian bashing is ALWAYS relevant.
...is will we PC gamers have to wait a year longer to play it? Anybody know?
On topic: One city is plenty fine, especially given what I've seen so far. I'd be interested to see how much of the interior spaces are accessible. Anybody have info on that?
I hope they at least keep helicopters, and especially a gunship. I gotta have SOMETHING to strafe interstates with.
I just sent off a message to Newegg. I hope they do this for me, as my 6000+ nearly halved in price, and I just ordered a week ago!
Sadly, children of bad parents are more likely to become bad parents themselves. Most people don't learn from the bad things that were done to them, they repeat those mistakes. The extremely sheltered will do the same with their kids. The abused will, also. Somebody changing, breaking this kind of cycle, is the exception rather than the rule.
Ah, but I need the government to trick my boss into thinking the time for me to come in to work has changed. That's how I get my extra daylight. :)
I thought about saying something about country-level TLDs, but decided against it. I agree with everything you've said about those domains. As for making the transition away from the .com et al domains, keeping the existing structure in place while the transition happens shouldn't be too big of a deal. ICANN should still be the central repository for managing the new structure, but they should also be a little more discerning in who gets what domain. For instance, if you have a company named "Coca Cola Inc." they probably shouldn't be allowed to register "Pepsi" as their domain name. They can do whatever they want above their registered "cocacola" or whatever domain name, i.e. "pepsisucks.cocacola." Granted, those kinds of issues will need to be discussed and worked out, but that's the general sense I get about the situation.
See, that's why I think TLDs are redundant. There was a proposal some time ago to abandon TLDs, and restructure DNS. Since nobody seems to care about what a TLD means anymore, aside from perhaps the US Gov't still using .gov, why keep up with the charade? .com, .net, .org seem to have very little relevance to the content of the actual sites.
Sounds like I need to get my hands on the Dune Encyclopedia, then. Thanks for the info!
Dude...wait, what?! In what book was Dune revealed to be a pre-history of current times, as opposed to a future-history? I read the original Dune books, but nothing else.
Had you been driving in a vacuum, they'd be right. Air resistance is a bitch...
Something to do with portable IBMs running mainframe code... I dunno, it's been a while since I read about John Titor.
Am I the only one who thinks having an organization who's sole loyalty is to profit be such a huge provider of critical services to the US military?
In that game, spell-casters would be SO screwed.
By stepping on that goo, you left a little DNA in the goo. After you leave, the goo starts mutating, leading to life that will eventually be human. You're your own great^6504-grandpa!
Extremely unlikely also means it's possible. We might very well be the first intelligent life to emerge in this galaxy. We might be the first in the universe. Extremely unlikely doesn't mean impossible. If we are, God help the younger species; the humans are coming.
I brought it up because there was no mention of what protocol they're using, and I'd hate to assume. Heck, maybe they were doing something really whacked-out with IR to talk to the IR serial port every laptop comes with. Yes, that's a crappy idea, but without any mention of 802.11 in the article, I just wanted to be sure. Once-upon-a-time somebody was proposing just this kind of thing for short-range wireless networks, which would require line-of-sight. I hadn't ever heard of it actually becoming a reality, but I know absolute jack about the 787 and considered maybe they had tried to do that.