As the Korean military justifies buying video games for all their lounges.
"En, yeah, they are in the DMZ, yeah that's right, monitoring for incursions! Oh you want to see them, well I guess you could, they are surrounded by several million landmines, but go right ahead, I am sure accounting will appreciate your diligence..."
I would presume the heaviest part of the car will be batteries. They probably base the amount directly to a weight/range calculation. Simply tacking more batteries onto the problem may simply make is less and less efficient until you are not going anywhere.
You do realize you just picked the worst analogy ever right?
Wile USB and MicroUSB are standards produced by standards associations, one of the most popular phones in existence doesn't use it (iPhone) and would rather use its proprietary lighting standard.
Seriously. Every technology they just mentioned is in every modern smartphone. How many people do not have a smartphone working for a tech company in Japan (if one isn't even issued)?
Make and app and require its usage.
Anyway the privacy issues aside.
I see people taking turns sitting in a room with a box full of badges, doing their best impressions of each other while the rest hit the pub...
Then the left out guy is bitter, and heaves the box off the roof of the building and some manager gets to see his whole department apparently commit suicide.
Oh those science officers think their so smart, and command always listens to them! That's like saying can you reconfigure this combustion engine to run on fairy dust and play the harpsichord? So we will do what we always do, fix it how it should be fixed, and let them live in their dream world. Just don't forget to pad your estimate for about double, as they will likely only actually give you half the time to do it in if your lucky. Bastards!
What it really means is management will take advantage of you to preform all sorts of activities outside or your pay grade without any additional compensation.
Management has gradually beaten whatever passion I had out of me. There are still times when on principle about some topic or another I find myself becoming passionate again, and I have to actively remind myself not to care.
I guess politics is all about perspective... Though one of the basic arguments of society and civilization is the state vs the individual, the self vs the greater good, socialism vs... etc...
I think I would rather live in a society where everyone's conditions can be improved, not only those of the elite wealthy class, one that allows for upward mobility and not the maintenance of the status quo or even the betterment of those most well off at the expense of those in most need. Many of the right dwell in the land of illusions I fear.
Yes, because looking back on history Microsoft became the software juggernaut it is today purely on technical merit.
To quote the Simpsons:
GATES Your Internet ad was brought to my attention, but I can't figure out what, if anything, CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet does, so rather than risk competing with you, I've decided simply to buy you out.
Homer and Marge step aside to talk privately.
HOMER This is it Marge. I've poured my heart and soul into this business and now it's finally paying off. (covering his mouth) We're rich! Richer than astronauts.
MARGE Homer quiet. Acquire the deal.
HOMER (to Gates) I reluctantly accept your proposal!
GATES Well everyone always does. Buy 'em out, boys!
Bill Gates companions begin to trash the "office".
HOMER Hey, what the hell's going on!
GATES Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks!
I guess my dig at the "Invisible Hand" isn't at the actual one, but at the one lauded forth by pundits on the right of the political spectrum as the A) cure all for everything, and B) usually protecting their own financial interests.
However in this example given Google's history, I doubt they will play that political game. They are much more likely to simply say fine, we will just go someplace else. The only people that get the shaft will be the citizens and their overpriced communications racket.
"yet another bit of evidence that markets work better than regulated rent seeking"
I don't agree. You are assuming that all regulation is the same. If however regulation was say, I don't know, made for say consumer protection, and for the citizens rather than bought and paid for by corporations, I think you would see regulation that works for the most part. It just happens that regulation is bent one way or another depending upon which corporate lobby paid for it (or took perfectly good regulation, to amend it to include loopholes for them and their buddies).
Unless you can totally separate the state from the commercial interests their will always be political interference. Having totally independent regulation without corporate bias would enable the markets rather than detract from them. The market becomes skewed when one commercial interest gains leverage via regulation which is exactly what is happening in this story. Then you get several lobbies in a political bidding war, which is exactly what the politician wants to help win his/her next election.
of the market at work, not God! Except when it is not.
All these companies bleat and cry every time they might get regulated even a little, yet will lobby for these sort of laws to increase their profitability.
WWJD? Pretty sure he would dickpunch the lot of them.
Statistics, fun for the whole family, and apparently small children.
So clearly the type of web browser used at ONE website, that specializes in programming, is ideal for extrapolating the technology trends for the entire world.
1) I have to use IE at work because of so many applications that will only work with IE. 2) I took an online course (not at W3Schools), and the tool used required me to use very specific browsers for the same broken reasons as #1
Anyway, some interesting values, but please.
Also when I did a bit of js, I intentional used firefox, not because it was a better browser (or that I used it personally or at work), but because it had FireBug a decent js debugger I could use.
I have dabbled in the EVE free trial and some research, and it doesn't seem to work that way.
While yes, a great deal of "assets" were destroyed, all that value was not lost to the players. It is likely some of it was, but some percentage of all those ships get turned into scrap, that are then salvaged, then crafted into things or sold, and turned into new ships, etc... the EVE cycle of life continues...
Even after the main battle is over, there will be a frenzy of salvage ships moving in for the kill and likely fighting among each other for the tasty bits.
Some example of a guy stuck 100 miles away from a charging station as a result... AWAY.
If it was a charging issue, then shouldn't he still be at the charging station? If his voltage meter? was indicating the wrong amount, this has nothing to do with the charging station. If it was reading correctly as "low" and he opted to drive 100 miles into the middle of nowhere isn't that the fault of a stupid driver?
Anyway I think you summarized all the points, but I am still left wondering why (how) that left a man stranded 100 miles from a charging station...
That's why my chosen mode of communication is Morse code using one time pads only. It works perfectly should I ever find someone else willing to communicate that way.
I would have thought that the governments inability to like pass laws and budgets in a timely manner might be the first indication, but perhaps that is just me.
To Canada, and then give him the job of head of CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) or probably more appropriately the CSCE (Communications Security Establishment Canada).
We would like him up here.
Unfortunately with our current government, Harper would probably work him over personally just to please his American masters.
Does anyone else see this as an unholy alliance in the tech war? Google and Samsung just called a truce. Each has huge patent portfolios, and not only that the agreement is binding on future technology for the next 10 years.
Their main competitors being Apple and Microsoft, I am fairly certain hell would freeze over before those two unite...
Pretty strong strategic plan for the future dominance.
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As the Korean military justifies buying video games for all their lounges.
"En, yeah, they are in the DMZ, yeah that's right, monitoring for incursions! Oh you want to see them, well I guess you could, they are surrounded by several million landmines, but go right ahead, I am sure accounting will appreciate your diligence..."
I would presume the heaviest part of the car will be batteries. They probably base the amount directly to a weight/range calculation. Simply tacking more batteries onto the problem may simply make is less and less efficient until you are not going anywhere.
You do realize you just picked the worst analogy ever right?
Wile USB and MicroUSB are standards produced by standards associations, one of the most popular phones in existence doesn't use it (iPhone) and would rather use its proprietary lighting standard.
Seriously. Every technology they just mentioned is in every modern smartphone. How many people do not have a smartphone working for a tech company in Japan (if one isn't even issued)?
Make and app and require its usage.
Anyway the privacy issues aside.
I see people taking turns sitting in a room with a box full of badges, doing their best impressions of each other while the rest hit the pub...
Then the left out guy is bitter, and heaves the box off the roof of the building and some manager gets to see his whole department apparently commit suicide.
That's why I only drink grain alcohol...
Am I the only one that totally gets a Cthulhu vibe from this story?
I sense an old ones tentacled appendage in this one...
an unknown compelling force indeed!
Based on Stormtrooper accuracy I'd wager.
Oh those science officers think their so smart, and command always listens to them! That's like saying can you reconfigure this combustion engine to run on fairy dust and play the harpsichord? So we will do what we always do, fix it how it should be fixed, and let them live in their dream world. Just don't forget to pad your estimate for about double, as they will likely only actually give you half the time to do it in if your lucky. Bastards!
What it really means is management will take advantage of you to preform all sorts of activities outside or your pay grade without any additional compensation.
Management has gradually beaten whatever passion I had out of me. There are still times when on principle about some topic or another I find myself becoming passionate again, and I have to actively remind myself not to care.
I guess politics is all about perspective... Though one of the basic arguments of society and civilization is the state vs the individual, the self vs the greater good, socialism vs ... etc...
I think I would rather live in a society where everyone's conditions can be improved, not only those of the elite wealthy class, one that allows for upward mobility and not the maintenance of the status quo or even the betterment of those most well off at the expense of those in most need. Many of the right dwell in the land of illusions I fear.
That pretty much surmises every argument ever known. :)
Yes, because looking back on history Microsoft became the software juggernaut it is today purely on technical merit.
To quote the Simpsons:
GATES
Your Internet ad was brought to my attention, but I can't figure out what, if anything, CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet does, so rather than risk competing with you, I've decided simply to buy you out.
Homer and Marge step aside to talk privately.
HOMER
This is it Marge. I've poured my heart and soul into this business and now it's finally paying off. (covering his mouth) We're rich! Richer than astronauts.
MARGE
Homer quiet. Acquire the deal.
HOMER
(to Gates) I reluctantly accept your proposal!
GATES
Well everyone always does. Buy 'em out, boys!
Bill Gates companions begin to trash the "office".
HOMER
Hey, what the hell's going on!
GATES
Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks!
True.
I guess my dig at the "Invisible Hand" isn't at the actual one, but at the one lauded forth by pundits on the right of the political spectrum as the A) cure all for everything, and B) usually protecting their own financial interests.
However in this example given Google's history, I doubt they will play that political game. They are much more likely to simply say fine, we will just go someplace else. The only people that get the shaft will be the citizens and their overpriced communications racket.
"yet another bit of evidence that markets work better than regulated rent seeking"
I don't agree. You are assuming that all regulation is the same. If however regulation was say, I don't know, made for say consumer protection, and for the citizens rather than bought and paid for by corporations, I think you would see regulation that works for the most part. It just happens that regulation is bent one way or another depending upon which corporate lobby paid for it (or took perfectly good regulation, to amend it to include loopholes for them and their buddies).
Unless you can totally separate the state from the commercial interests their will always be political interference. Having totally independent regulation without corporate bias would enable the markets rather than detract from them. The market becomes skewed when one commercial interest gains leverage via regulation which is exactly what is happening in this story. Then you get several lobbies in a political bidding war, which is exactly what the politician wants to help win his/her next election.
of the market at work, not God! Except when it is not.
All these companies bleat and cry every time they might get regulated even a little, yet will lobby for these sort of laws to increase their profitability.
WWJD? Pretty sure he would dickpunch the lot of them.
Statistics, fun for the whole family, and apparently small children.
So clearly the type of web browser used at ONE website, that specializes in programming, is ideal for extrapolating the technology trends for the entire world.
1) I have to use IE at work because of so many applications that will only work with IE.
2) I took an online course (not at W3Schools), and the tool used required me to use very specific browsers for the same broken reasons as #1
Anyway, some interesting values, but please.
Also when I did a bit of js, I intentional used firefox, not because it was a better browser (or that I used it personally or at work), but because it had FireBug a decent js debugger I could use.
I have dabbled in the EVE free trial and some research, and it doesn't seem to work that way.
While yes, a great deal of "assets" were destroyed, all that value was not lost to the players. It is likely some of it was, but some percentage of all those ships get turned into scrap, that are then salvaged, then crafted into things or sold, and turned into new ships, etc... the EVE cycle of life continues...
Even after the main battle is over, there will be a frenzy of salvage ships moving in for the kill and likely fighting among each other for the tasty bits.
Some example of a guy stuck 100 miles away from a charging station as a result... AWAY.
If it was a charging issue, then shouldn't he still be at the charging station? If his voltage meter? was indicating the wrong amount, this has nothing to do with the charging station. If it was reading correctly as "low" and he opted to drive 100 miles into the middle of nowhere isn't that the fault of a stupid driver?
Anyway I think you summarized all the points, but I am still left wondering why (how) that left a man stranded 100 miles from a charging station...
Sigh. I just learned how to play DOTA2...
SoylentBook apparently...
That's why my chosen mode of communication is Morse code using one time pads only. It works perfectly should I ever find someone else willing to communicate that way.
I would have thought that the governments inability to like pass laws and budgets in a timely manner might be the first indication, but perhaps that is just me.
Wizardry being dark, and scary encounters.
What I remember most from Ultima was agonizing over the start questions :)
http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/562...
http://www.tk421.net/ultima/
http://www.beastwithin.org/use...
To Canada, and then give him the job of head of CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) or probably more appropriately the CSCE (Communications Security Establishment Canada).
We would like him up here.
Unfortunately with our current government, Harper would probably work him over personally just to please his American masters.
Does anyone else see this as an unholy alliance in the tech war? Google and Samsung just called a truce. Each has huge patent portfolios, and not only that the agreement is binding on future technology for the next 10 years.
Their main competitors being Apple and Microsoft, I am fairly certain hell would freeze over before those two unite...
Pretty strong strategic plan for the future dominance.