Return Fire on 3DO. Well, it was ported to PC and PSX, but it appeared first on the 3DO. Many, many hours lost to that game. Desperately needs a remake.
My general belief (used with a statement by Picard) with what you describe is that humanity as a whole works to better itself - it's basically ingrained into society.
There's really no excuses in the Roddenbury future: whereas a bum today can say that he lost his job due to the economy, his wife left him and he got cancer, in the future, he wouldn't even need to think about a place to sleep, food to eat, or the cancer. Choice plays more into a person's life than circumstance.
As for how they divvy up the awesome apartments with a view, or the french chateaus or the Louisiana restaurant space, and other actually scarce resources - I don't know.
At IBM Burnaby (and probably alot of other places) they had signs on the inside of the washroom doors - "Remember to Wash Your Hands" with the braille translation underneath.
this targetting by the press and governments towards Facebook. Facebook is *entirely* optional. No-one forced you to type in 'www.facebook.com' and press enter. No-one forced you to click signup. No-one forced you to enter your information and click through the legalese. No-one forced you to upload pictures and fill in detailed personal information.
If you're worried about Facebook sharing your personal information, DON'T PUT IT ON THERE!
Border searches of data storage - sure (a small addition of one stated purpose required)
Can they even keep up with technology, though. Yeah, most agents can identify a laptop or MP3 player. My car stereo can accept up to a 16 GB sd card filled with music - will they know to look at that?
My last place, I was asked to, out of hours, go and setup the home network and VPN setup of the director of something or other. It was implied that it would be part of my normal course of duties. I absolutely refuse to do things of that sort, so I replied that my next available evening would be approximately 19 months from that day, and I could do it then. But I could expedite the process and clear some time to do the work for my "normal" contract billing hours - $200/hr, minimum three hours, plus travel expense of $4/km. (Hey, Mustangs aren't cheap to run).
But I follow them because I realise that driving is a privilege and not a right. Think of the physical and mental thought processes when up shifting in a standard transmission vehicle. Your brain interprets, through the speedometre and tachometre, that you need to shift. You press the clutch in with your left foot. Shortly after you press the clutch in, you move the shifter into the next gear. You may have to move down, up and to the right, up and to the left, depending on your make of car. You allow the engine to speed down to match the next gear. How do you do that? Well, you factor in the ratio of the transmission gear and the engine speed. When the correct engine speed is attained, you release the clutch. To someone who can't drive a std. transmission, that can be very daunting, and seemingly very distracting - but it's not. But in the end, you can either do it, or you can't. Some people can drive and talk at the same time, some people can't. Unfortunately, the law has to cater to the lowest common denominator. Personally, the only new driving law needed is one that says you must re-take a driving exam if you have an verifiable, 100% at-fault accident. Obviously, you fucked up, so you should be re-certified.
Sounds complicated. Entering received passcodes? Whatever happened to entering your credit card number? Wonder if it's opt-in, otherwise parents are going to love this.
Yeah, back in high-school wood work I was terrified of the machines. Nothing like the prospect of losing a few digits to ensure that all safety procedures are checked and followed. In four years, I never so much as stubbed a toe in that class.
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
Mine's 7JerksAndASquirt, and it's open. It's paid for by my government job, so I figured it's a good way to give back to the little people. If you're ever in the V5R6E6 postal code of Vancouver, Canada, and you need some network connectivity, be my guest. Linksys N Router on Shaw's 25Mbps connection.
...of possibility. VANOC, the Sponsors, and the IOC have done a number of things that could be considered downright criminal.
- Closing two of the main viaducts in and out of downtown.
- No stopping zones on large stretches of major roads.
- Only accepting Visa or cash at all the venues.
- Only allowing games related traffic on the road between Vancouver and Whistler during most hours of the day. I tried to create a rumour that Bell, another major Olympic sponsor, was forcing the shutdown of all non-Bell cell sites around the venues, but I don't think people understood the implications of that if it were to happen.
I work for the regional government in Vancouver, BC. (unionized) Here's what we get, right off the bat: 3 Weeks paid vacation. 10 'Special Leave' days, acquired by working an extra unpaid 15 minutes per day. 20 sick days, which carry over and can accumulate up to 261 days. Up to 3 Gratuity days can be earned per year if you don't take a sick day in a non-rolling 4 month period (Jan - April, May - Aug., etc)
Vacations increased to 4 weeks at 8 years, 5 weeks at 16 years, 6 weeks at 24 years. 1 extra week every 5 years.
The Terminator: The Zigbee Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line July 8, 2009. Human decisions are removed from strategic lighting operations. Zigbee begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Looking at the current Fortune 15, a whole lotta those companies have been in the news. I can imagine his company wanting to minimize any amount of bad publicity they can, right down to the musings of their employees. Citigroup, in particular, who received a fair amount of bailout money, may not want it known if its rank and file employees are using extragent perks. Just an example.
About 18 years ago, I was on an underwater oil-drilling rig, when the mission we were "tasked" to perform by the navy went horribly wrong, and the rig started taking on water. I was running frantically running through cold freezing water towards a closing hydraulic door. I didn't make it in time, but I stuck my hand in the opening, and the door was stopped by my titanium wedding band. A colleague had found me, cut the hydraulic power to the door, and saved me. Earlier I had almost flushed it down the toilet. Good thing I didn't.
Couple hours later I met some aliens.
(Yeah, I know, but it sounds better in 1st person.)
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Emulators do - but the light gun technology won't work on modern LCD TVs or monitors.
Return Fire on 3DO. Well, it was ported to PC and PSX, but it appeared first on the 3DO. Many, many hours lost to that game. Desperately needs a remake.
My general belief (used with a statement by Picard) with what you describe is that humanity as a whole works to better itself - it's basically ingrained into society.
There's really no excuses in the Roddenbury future: whereas a bum today can say that he lost his job due to the economy, his wife left him and he got cancer, in the future, he wouldn't even need to think about a place to sleep, food to eat, or the cancer. Choice plays more into a person's life than circumstance.
As for how they divvy up the awesome apartments with a view, or the french chateaus or the Louisiana restaurant space, and other actually scarce resources - I don't know.
At IBM Burnaby (and probably alot of other places) they had signs on the inside of the washroom doors - "Remember to Wash Your Hands" with the braille translation underneath.
this targetting by the press and governments towards Facebook. Facebook is *entirely* optional. No-one forced you to type in 'www.facebook.com' and press enter. No-one forced you to click signup. No-one forced you to enter your information and click through the legalese. No-one forced you to upload pictures and fill in detailed personal information.
If you're worried about Facebook sharing your personal information, DON'T PUT IT ON THERE!
Can they even keep up with technology, though. Yeah, most agents can identify a laptop or MP3 player. My car stereo can accept up to a 16 GB sd card filled with music - will they know to look at that?
My last place, I was asked to, out of hours, go and setup the home network and VPN setup of the director of something or other. It was implied that it would be part of my normal course of duties. I absolutely refuse to do things of that sort, so I replied that my next available evening would be approximately 19 months from that day, and I could do it then. But I could expedite the process and clear some time to do the work for my "normal" contract billing hours - $200/hr, minimum three hours, plus travel expense of $4/km. (Hey, Mustangs aren't cheap to run).
I was never asked for home support after that.
But I follow them because I realise that driving is a privilege and not a right.
Think of the physical and mental thought processes when up shifting in a standard transmission vehicle.
Your brain interprets, through the speedometre and tachometre, that you need to shift.
You press the clutch in with your left foot.
Shortly after you press the clutch in, you move the shifter into the next gear. You may have to move down, up and to the right, up and to the left, depending on your make of car.
You allow the engine to speed down to match the next gear. How do you do that? Well, you factor in the ratio of the transmission gear and the engine speed.
When the correct engine speed is attained, you release the clutch.
To someone who can't drive a std. transmission, that can be very daunting, and seemingly very distracting - but it's not.
But in the end, you can either do it, or you can't.
Some people can drive and talk at the same time, some people can't. Unfortunately, the law has to cater to the lowest common denominator.
Personally, the only new driving law needed is one that says you must re-take a driving exam if you have an verifiable, 100% at-fault accident. Obviously, you fucked up, so you should be re-certified.
Sounds complicated. Entering received passcodes? Whatever happened to entering your credit card number? Wonder if it's opt-in, otherwise parents are going to love this.
Yeah, back in high-school wood work I was terrified of the machines. Nothing like the prospect of losing a few digits to ensure that all safety procedures are checked and followed. In four years, I never so much as stubbed a toe in that class.
Western Canada, Regional government union IT worker here, 2.5 years in. I'm a deskside tech. I make 73K per year, plus another ~10% standby pay.
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
- Robert A. Heinlein, Life-Line (1939)
Metric Ass-load.
Mine's 7JerksAndASquirt, and it's open. It's paid for by my government job, so I figured it's a good way to give back to the little people. If you're ever in the V5R6E6 postal code of Vancouver, Canada, and you need some network connectivity, be my guest.
Linksys N Router on Shaw's 25Mbps connection.
...of possibility. VANOC, the Sponsors, and the IOC have done a number of things that could be considered downright criminal.
- Closing two of the main viaducts in and out of downtown.
- No stopping zones on large stretches of major roads.
- Only accepting Visa or cash at all the venues.
- Only allowing games related traffic on the road between Vancouver and Whistler during most hours of the day.
I tried to create a rumour that Bell, another major Olympic sponsor, was forcing the shutdown of all non-Bell cell sites around the venues, but I don't think people understood the implications of that if it were to happen.
http://xkcd.com/651/
Skype runs natively on the PSP. Needs a headset and Wi-Fi hotspot, obviously, but it's in there.
I work for the regional government in Vancouver, BC. (unionized)
Here's what we get, right off the bat:
3 Weeks paid vacation.
10 'Special Leave' days, acquired by working an extra unpaid 15 minutes per day.
20 sick days, which carry over and can accumulate up to 261 days.
Up to 3 Gratuity days can be earned per year if you don't take a sick day in a non-rolling 4 month period (Jan - April, May - Aug., etc)
Vacations increased to 4 weeks at 8 years, 5 weeks at 16 years, 6 weeks at 24 years.
1 extra week every 5 years.
Probably uses the script onmousedown or onselect events for the page. So don't allow scripting for that site, and you should be fine.
I can hook you up. /Not really.
Mine's open too. It's paid for by my government job, so I figure I may as well give something back.
The Terminator: The Zigbee Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line July 8, 2009. Human decisions are removed from strategic lighting operations. Zigbee begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Looking at the current Fortune 15, a whole lotta those companies have been in the news. I can imagine his company wanting to minimize any amount of bad publicity they can, right down to the musings of their employees. Citigroup, in particular, who received a fair amount of bailout money, may not want it known if its rank and file employees are using extragent perks. Just an example.
About 18 years ago, I was on an underwater oil-drilling rig, when the mission we were "tasked" to perform by the navy went horribly wrong, and the rig started taking on water. I was running frantically running through cold freezing water towards a closing hydraulic door. I didn't make it in time, but I stuck my hand in the opening, and the door was stopped by my titanium wedding band. A colleague had found me, cut the hydraulic power to the door, and saved me. Earlier I had almost flushed it down the toilet. Good thing I didn't.
Couple hours later I met some aliens.
(Yeah, I know, but it sounds better in 1st person.)
$48/Year fee, mandated by the CRTC (Kinda like the FCC). Not sure when it transitioned to 6.95/month.