They should have spent five minutes on the internet (or just run it by one of their halo playing thirteen year old children) before naming their movement. Calling them teabaggers isn't funny because of the meaning of the word, it's funny because it so quickly, clearly, and easily illustrates the ignorance that forms the core of their movement.
Well, it hasn't crashed at all since the big patch they put out a few months ago, it's totally stable now on my machine. I can't say as much for Fallout 3 or Borderlands, though, sadly.
Not to mention the last few patches have cleared up a lot of the crashes and instability. It runs pretty damn good now and is my current favorite. MW2 is a train wreck of cheaters and campers with no vehicle support and too much emphasis on twitch.
Very few people consider hearsay alone as credible evidence, especially when all concrete evidence leads to a different conclusion AND the hearsay contains multiple self contradictions.
And some believers find solace and comfort, even relief, from their religion.
This is actually part of the problem with religion. I leave the reasons why as an exercise for the student. Answers will be graded for style as well as content.
It will make the life harder for pirates. Every little push helps. Personally I enjoy the easiness that Steam offers.
Not really. The pirates get off on the challenge of cracking this stuff, and prestige in the community is directly linked to difficulty of the crack and time taken to crack it. This kind of stuff will just get them off even more.
Bah, I merely used that to differentiate it from, say, the kind of klunky program you might have seen built in the late 80s, designed to run on a terminal in brilliant green monochrome.
What we use looks like it was built on win 3.1 and then ported over, just based on the interface conventions (or lack thereof).
That was basically my thought. If we modify it for our own use I'll be there to make sure the company abides by the license and redistributes modifications or the source, depending on what it's under. I just don't want to have to pay some dude to write it from scratch if there's something we can build on sitting on a shelf out there somewhere.
The database is definitely showing it's age. It's slow and buggy and generally they try to solve performance issues by throwing more hardware at the problem. Hopefully we can push them in the right direction, but we won't be able to do that until we can show upper management some eye candy to prod them along into financing the real work it's going to take to fix the back end.
With what we're tracking, people will not want to pretend to be elsewhere, it makes their job easier if the hardware automagically tells home base where they are. It doesn't need to be in real time so that isn't an issue, as long as it lets them update home base any time they move or change status.
The problem with just using google maps is that people need to see what is where at a glance, without having to mouse over. I haven't found a way to replace the little red pushpin icons on google with something useful (like unit numbers). The other concern is that they want to keep information on the local server so that if our outside network connection goes down, we can still work.
Information is usually called in from the field. Getting our field people to use technology (like smartphones) to email information in is a slow, arduous process, but we'd like to be able to have a mobile app that would let them do it all electronically.
The fairness doctrine is not really a good idea. It reinforces the whole two party system, which is never good. On the other hand, bringing back restrictions on corporate ownership of networks and market share restrictions, and preventing foreign interests from owning broadcasting (over public airwaves, no restrictions on cable/networks of course) is a good way to start undoing the damage. Check the correlation between who profits from the sathe sale of a book and who owns the shows those books are promoted on and you'll notice some not-so-surprising correlations.
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They should have spent five minutes on the internet (or just run it by one of their halo playing thirteen year old children) before naming their movement. Calling them teabaggers isn't funny because of the meaning of the word, it's funny because it so quickly, clearly, and easily illustrates the ignorance that forms the core of their movement.
Tea bagger is actually the name they originally picked for themselves.
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Well, it hasn't crashed at all since the big patch they put out a few months ago, it's totally stable now on my machine. I can't say as much for Fallout 3 or Borderlands, though, sadly.
Not to mention the last few patches have cleared up a lot of the crashes and instability. It runs pretty damn good now and is my current favorite. MW2 is a train wreck of cheaters and campers with no vehicle support and too much emphasis on twitch.
Very few people consider hearsay alone as credible evidence, especially when all concrete evidence leads to a different conclusion AND the hearsay contains multiple self contradictions.
And some believers find solace and comfort, even relief, from their religion.
This is actually part of the problem with religion. I leave the reasons why as an exercise for the student. Answers will be graded for style as well as content.
Actually, it was closer to about 1/4 of the voting age population that voted for Bush. Only about half the people in this country vote each election.
20 years later they received the long waited response from IT support to their question on how to repair the molecular fabricator:
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
They do A Dr. Who Christmas special every year. They're usually pretty fun.
Sorry, I should have specified I meant the cracking community.
It will make the life harder for pirates. Every little push helps. Personally I enjoy the easiness that Steam offers.
Not really. The pirates get off on the challenge of cracking this stuff, and prestige in the community is directly linked to difficulty of the crack and time taken to crack it. This kind of stuff will just get them off even more.
Bah, I merely used that to differentiate it from, say, the kind of klunky program you might have seen built in the late 80s, designed to run on a terminal in brilliant green monochrome.
What we use looks like it was built on win 3.1 and then ported over, just based on the interface conventions (or lack thereof).
Interesting, thanks, sounds pretty close to what I need.
Thanks :)
That was basically my thought. If we modify it for our own use I'll be there to make sure the company abides by the license and redistributes modifications or the source, depending on what it's under. I just don't want to have to pay some dude to write it from scratch if there's something we can build on sitting on a shelf out there somewhere.
The database is definitely showing it's age. It's slow and buggy and generally they try to solve performance issues by throwing more hardware at the problem. Hopefully we can push them in the right direction, but we won't be able to do that until we can show upper management some eye candy to prod them along into financing the real work it's going to take to fix the back end.
With what we're tracking, people will not want to pretend to be elsewhere, it makes their job easier if the hardware automagically tells home base where they are. It doesn't need to be in real time so that isn't an issue, as long as it lets them update home base any time they move or change status.
Thanks, that's the kind of thing I was looking for. I can't believe I didn't see it when I was searching.
Thanks mate, that's fucking brilliant.
The problem with just using google maps is that people need to see what is where at a glance, without having to mouse over. I haven't found a way to replace the little red pushpin icons on google with something useful (like unit numbers). The other concern is that they want to keep information on the local server so that if our outside network connection goes down, we can still work.
Information is usually called in from the field. Getting our field people to use technology (like smartphones) to email information in is a slow, arduous process, but we'd like to be able to have a mobile app that would let them do it all electronically.
The fairness doctrine is not really a good idea. It reinforces the whole two party system, which is never good. On the other hand, bringing back restrictions on corporate ownership of networks and market share restrictions, and preventing foreign interests from owning broadcasting (over public airwaves, no restrictions on cable/networks of course) is a good way to start undoing the damage. Check the correlation between who profits from the sathe sale of a book and who owns the shows those books are promoted on and you'll notice some not-so-surprising correlations.
People don't trust the propaganda arms of massive multinational corporations?! I'm shocked!
Advocating for pointless wars != advocating deficit reduction. Try again.