When I first saw this keyboard about a year ago (I think) I thought it was extremely cool and wanted one myself. Now I look at it and wonder "what's the point?"
Obviously it'll get most use out of games where re-mapping keys is essential. But how often do you look at your keyboard while playing a game? I know I never do. I memorize the mapping.
Maybe the keyboard would make it easy to switch to different mapping sets.. but I'm sure there's software that will do the same thing, and not cost $1800.
China has, in the past, reverse engineered entire automobilies, built them cheaply, then sold those as OEM. This is a huge problem because we all know most knock-offs don't have the same quality standard as the origional. But at the same time they make true OEM auto makers jump through hoops in order to just get their server parts into the country (I've been dealing with this for the past two years).
China's trade practices are unfair and their government encourages deceit. It is IP theft.
And I don't even work for a US based company... so it's not US vs China.. it's China vs the Industrialized world.
I'd rather them blow the thing into a thousand small pieces that will burn up on re-entry than let it fall back to earth naturally when there's a chance half of it will survive as one chunk which could possible hit my new car.
There's a video of Jay Leno and the Clarity which pretty much debunks most of your reasoning about hydrogen never being viable. Honda is obsessed with safety, if they didn't think it could be done they would not continue to pour money into the R&D.
You missed the point. The gov't is doing this to hope they get what they want later on. If they throw the telecoms under the bus no-one will help them in the future.
You speak of some sort of Utopia where gov't and big business isn't in bed with each other. I speak of real life where the gov't wants access to everything.. and they want it now.
If my goal was to spy on as many people as possible, I'd be granting the telocoms immunity as well. That is why I said the gov't really didn't have many options. Two wrongs don't make a right.. I'm not arguing it's the right thing to do. I'm a huge believer is being responsible for your own actions.. but it's politics which is about doing what you want and giving the finger to the rules.
I don't agree with the immunity but the Gov't almost has to do it... Look at it this way, let's your best friend asked you to do something that wasn't 100% legal, and being a good friend decided to help out. If you got caught and your friend sold you out, would you ever help them again? If your friend protected you and took the heat himself, you might be willing to help out again in the future.
But of course the telecoms should not have put themselves in that position to begin with... but that's a completely different debate.
Wait, you start out by stating this is a waste because the US creates our own problems by sticking our nose where it doesn't belong... but then you infer that Russia and China are developing sophisticated weaponry that would make our current defenses useless.
Should we or shouldn't we continue to pursue higher-tech weaponry?
Sounds to me like just a veiled attempt to bash the current administration to karma whore.
The first thing I thought of was my TI-85 which is 13 or 14 years old. I dropped it a few times, had it fall out of my backpack a few times, always stored in my backpack which I threw around.... had the link cable tip get stuck in the port so I had to melt a hole in the plastic case to push it back out.
And it still works great. Even used it last weekend. Not saying it's the toughest electronic product ever, but almost everyone in my high school had a TI-82 or TI-85 and I don't recall anyone I knew having to replace theirs (unless it was stolen).
I don't see the Pope putting a gun to your head and saying "agree with me or else". He gave the "official" opinion of the Catholic Church. Being the Pope means everyone wants your opinion.
If you are not Catholic, stop your whining.
If you are Catholic and don't agree, look for a new church.
Any procreation outside the typical "missionary" position is looked down upon in the Catholic Church. Artificial insemination requires "spilling of one's seed" which is bad (according to the Bible).
That is why the Pope is against it, but it's not a new devellopment.. the Church's stance has been the same since test tube babies became common.
I'm white and have filled out job applications where I've marked the "african-american" box. Those areas are always optional, and I typically just leave it blank. I knew it was illegal for the employer to question it though. The HR person was probably a bit confused by my name Josh (insert German sounding last name).
Anyone born in the US is American.. plain and simple.. unless you renounce your citizenship and move to another country. I bet most blacks in the US can trace their American heritage back farther than I can trace mine... but I've never been a German-American. I don't have dual citizenship, so I can't consider myself a German-American.
Then you get complexities like, what happens if the distributor has an agreement where they can require you to buy back unsold product? Does that mean the distributor's inventory should also be treated as your own inventory?
I'm not a CPA though my BS focus was Accountancy (and it's been awhile)... The first thing that came to mind was to treat returns like a warranty account. Companies will come up with a % of sales they believe they will spend on warranty/returns and that will be part of the balance sheet. At the end of the year they have to reconcile any differences between plan and actual.
So if Apple did sell iphones to outside retailers with a clause to buy back unsold inventory, they would most likely have an estimate on the books already.
For an Apple store the inventory is probably part of the Finished Goods account. Every time one is sold you add that amount to sales and subtract it from FG.
But then we'd lose all immunitizations the donor didn't have. Unless the plan was to keep switching immune systems every time a new disease was contracted....
I would hate to be moved to non-exempt status... it completely removes the flexibility... If I have to leave for an hour to go to the doctor, it's no problem if I've got my work done. I'm not penalized for working efficiently... or maybe put more appropriately people who aren't efficient don't get rewarded for being bad at their job.
Just because most of us don't agree with the premise of that museum doesn't mean we should censor it from the news. Where do you draw the line? Would they have to stop posting articles about Microsoft next?
By looking at the number of posts under this topic I would say this is considered "stuff that matters"... even if half of the comments were made in jest.
My how the term "troll" has become diluted over the years. I thought individual opinions were valued on/., not punished. A troll post would have been me saying 'well if opera didn't suck so much maybe they wouldn't have this problem.'
I guess I better get use to burning away my karma since I play the devil's advocate in most cases simply because seeing 100 like-minded posts modded +5 insightful gets old.
That's not my point, if M$ did something against the law, punish them. Opera filing suit seems to me to be grasping at straws. They don't like being the red-headed step child that get's no love (like IE and Firefox do) so they will file a lawsuit in a locale that has already ruled against M$.
That's fine, I'm all about punishing them for breaking the law. My perception is, and I could be wrong, that these smaller companies are now begging for table scraps because they feel like they didn't get enough of the pie to begin with. In the US capitalism is "suppose" to be the system that rules them all... if your market share sucks then you need to improve your product or marketing. It's a different story in Europe. I just am not keen on the idea of trying to destroy M$ through the courts so that your product is there to fill the void. Maybe it's karma on M$'s part... but when will it stop? Do they do anything to limit google's explosion or will they wait until it's too late there?
Does anyone else think enough is enough? I'm not an expert with Opera or Windows but from what I've read Opera seems to work well with Windows (some will claim even better than IE). To me this sounds like the creators of Opera are not happy their market share isn't has high as they'd like, so they hopped on the "blame Microsoft for the world's problems" bandwagon and are hoping the Socalist leaning EU will give them some handouts.
Will the EU keep pecking away at M$ until the company is forced to break up and become a non-factor... then go after the company that takes it's place (google)?
But it can be related to other health issues.. like dying suddenly after playing WoW for 48 hours in a row...
I wasn't trying to be confrontational in my original post. I guess what I wanted to do was make a point that it's really a mix of factors. Just because S.Korea and Japan don't have an obesity issue like UK and US doesn't mean video games don't play part of it. Sure I had an atari and C64 when I was growing up.. and I spent a lot of time on both systems.. but I also spent many hours with GI Joes and Legos during bad weather and riding bikes when it was nice out. My mom would buy us McDonalds on payday, which was every other Friday.
Almost everything in moderation is not going to have harmful effects. But 6 hours a day of video games or fast food 3+ times a week will take it's toll. In the end it comes back to the parent(s). Set some rules instead of letting the PS3 be the babysitter.
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When I first saw this keyboard about a year ago (I think) I thought it was extremely cool and wanted one myself. Now I look at it and wonder "what's the point?"
Obviously it'll get most use out of games where re-mapping keys is essential. But how often do you look at your keyboard while playing a game? I know I never do. I memorize the mapping.
Maybe the keyboard would make it easy to switch to different mapping sets.. but I'm sure there's software that will do the same thing, and not cost $1800.
As many of my stat profs told the class "if you put shitty data in you'll get shitty results"....
China has, in the past, reverse engineered entire automobilies, built them cheaply, then sold those as OEM. This is a huge problem because we all know most knock-offs don't have the same quality standard as the origional. But at the same time they make true OEM auto makers jump through hoops in order to just get their server parts into the country (I've been dealing with this for the past two years).
China's trade practices are unfair and their government encourages deceit. It is IP theft.
And I don't even work for a US based company... so it's not US vs China.. it's China vs the Industrialized world.
I'd rather them blow the thing into a thousand small pieces that will burn up on re-entry than let it fall back to earth naturally when there's a chance half of it will survive as one chunk which could possible hit my new car.
Honda has a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle that will be produced in limited numbers.
http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/
There's a video of Jay Leno and the Clarity which pretty much debunks most of your reasoning about hydrogen never being viable. Honda is obsessed with safety, if they didn't think it could be done they would not continue to pour money into the R&D.
http://www.hydrogencarsnow.com/blog2/index.php/celebrities/jay-leno-takes-honda-clarity-for-a-ride/
I'm not sure if the actual video is in this link but it could be found at jaylenosgarage.com
You missed the point. The gov't is doing this to hope they get what they want later on. If they throw the telecoms under the bus no-one will help them in the future.
You speak of some sort of Utopia where gov't and big business isn't in bed with each other. I speak of real life where the gov't wants access to everything.. and they want it now.
If my goal was to spy on as many people as possible, I'd be granting the telocoms immunity as well. That is why I said the gov't really didn't have many options. Two wrongs don't make a right.. I'm not arguing it's the right thing to do. I'm a huge believer is being responsible for your own actions.. but it's politics which is about doing what you want and giving the finger to the rules.
I don't agree with the immunity but the Gov't almost has to do it... Look at it this way, let's your best friend asked you to do something that wasn't 100% legal, and being a good friend decided to help out. If you got caught and your friend sold you out, would you ever help them again? If your friend protected you and took the heat himself, you might be willing to help out again in the future.
But of course the telecoms should not have put themselves in that position to begin with... but that's a completely different debate.
Wait, you start out by stating this is a waste because the US creates our own problems by sticking our nose where it doesn't belong... but then you infer that Russia and China are developing sophisticated weaponry that would make our current defenses useless.
Should we or shouldn't we continue to pursue higher-tech weaponry?
Sounds to me like just a veiled attempt to bash the current administration to karma whore.
Didn't you see the FedEx Super Bowl commercial? Clearly birds of that size exist and have no problems standing up!
The first thing I thought of was my TI-85 which is 13 or 14 years old. I dropped it a few times, had it fall out of my backpack a few times, always stored in my backpack which I threw around.... had the link cable tip get stuck in the port so I had to melt a hole in the plastic case to push it back out.
And it still works great. Even used it last weekend. Not saying it's the toughest electronic product ever, but almost everyone in my high school had a TI-82 or TI-85 and I don't recall anyone I knew having to replace theirs (unless it was stolen).
Dents or dings would cause a discoloration though. You'd have to get a whole new panel.
I don't see the Pope putting a gun to your head and saying "agree with me or else". He gave the "official" opinion of the Catholic Church. Being the Pope means everyone wants your opinion.
If you are not Catholic, stop your whining.
If you are Catholic and don't agree, look for a new church.
Any procreation outside the typical "missionary" position is looked down upon in the Catholic Church. Artificial insemination requires "spilling of one's seed" which is bad (according to the Bible).
That is why the Pope is against it, but it's not a new devellopment.. the Church's stance has been the same since test tube babies became common.
I'm white and have filled out job applications where I've marked the "african-american" box. Those areas are always optional, and I typically just leave it blank. I knew it was illegal for the employer to question it though. The HR person was probably a bit confused by my name Josh (insert German sounding last name).
Anyone born in the US is American.. plain and simple.. unless you renounce your citizenship and move to another country. I bet most blacks in the US can trace their American heritage back farther than I can trace mine... but I've never been a German-American. I don't have dual citizenship, so I can't consider myself a German-American.
Then you get complexities like, what happens if the distributor has an agreement where they can require you to buy back unsold product? Does that mean the distributor's inventory should also be treated as your own inventory?
I'm not a CPA though my BS focus was Accountancy (and it's been awhile)... The first thing that came to mind was to treat returns like a warranty account. Companies will come up with a % of sales they believe they will spend on warranty/returns and that will be part of the balance sheet. At the end of the year they have to reconcile any differences between plan and actual.
So if Apple did sell iphones to outside retailers with a clause to buy back unsold inventory, they would most likely have an estimate on the books already.
For an Apple store the inventory is probably part of the Finished Goods account. Every time one is sold you add that amount to sales and subtract it from FG.
But then we'd lose all immunitizations the donor didn't have. Unless the plan was to keep switching immune systems every time a new disease was contracted....
I would hate to be moved to non-exempt status... it completely removes the flexibility... If I have to leave for an hour to go to the doctor, it's no problem if I've got my work done. I'm not penalized for working efficiently... or maybe put more appropriately people who aren't efficient don't get rewarded for being bad at their job.
Just because most of us don't agree with the premise of that museum doesn't mean we should censor it from the news. Where do you draw the line? Would they have to stop posting articles about Microsoft next?
By looking at the number of posts under this topic I would say this is considered "stuff that matters"... even if half of the comments were made in jest.
My how the term "troll" has become diluted over the years. I thought individual opinions were valued on /., not punished. A troll post would have been me saying 'well if opera didn't suck so much maybe they wouldn't have this problem.'
I guess I better get use to burning away my karma since I play the devil's advocate in most cases simply because seeing 100 like-minded posts modded +5 insightful gets old.
Are you talking about Variable Cylinder Management(TM) ? It's been in place for around 5 years I believe (at least).
That's not my point, if M$ did something against the law, punish them. Opera filing suit seems to me to be grasping at straws. They don't like being the red-headed step child that get's no love (like IE and Firefox do) so they will file a lawsuit in a locale that has already ruled against M$.
That's fine, I'm all about punishing them for breaking the law. My perception is, and I could be wrong, that these smaller companies are now begging for table scraps because they feel like they didn't get enough of the pie to begin with. In the US capitalism is "suppose" to be the system that rules them all... if your market share sucks then you need to improve your product or marketing. It's a different story in Europe. I just am not keen on the idea of trying to destroy M$ through the courts so that your product is there to fill the void. Maybe it's karma on M$'s part... but when will it stop? Do they do anything to limit google's explosion or will they wait until it's too late there?
Does anyone else think enough is enough? I'm not an expert with Opera or Windows but from what I've read Opera seems to work well with Windows (some will claim even better than IE). To me this sounds like the creators of Opera are not happy their market share isn't has high as they'd like, so they hopped on the "blame Microsoft for the world's problems" bandwagon and are hoping the Socalist leaning EU will give them some handouts.
Will the EU keep pecking away at M$ until the company is forced to break up and become a non-factor... then go after the company that takes it's place (google)?
But it can be related to other health issues.. like dying suddenly after playing WoW for 48 hours in a row...
I wasn't trying to be confrontational in my original post. I guess what I wanted to do was make a point that it's really a mix of factors. Just because S.Korea and Japan don't have an obesity issue like UK and US doesn't mean video games don't play part of it. Sure I had an atari and C64 when I was growing up.. and I spent a lot of time on both systems.. but I also spent many hours with GI Joes and Legos during bad weather and riding bikes when it was nice out. My mom would buy us McDonalds on payday, which was every other Friday.
Almost everything in moderation is not going to have harmful effects. But 6 hours a day of video games or fast food 3+ times a week will take it's toll. In the end it comes back to the parent(s). Set some rules instead of letting the PS3 be the babysitter.
And both of those countries have McDonalds and other fast food chains. What is your point?