Peak Oil theory is a big reason why a lot of folks don't take environmental issues like global warming or ozone layer depletion seriously. I still remember our science book in high school saying the world would run out of oil by 1982. (It was already 1994.) When people see that sort of crap side by side with other environmental issues, I can see why they don't always take the other issues seriously.
Let's build our moon colony in the areas where there are strange magnetic readings. And when those colonists disappear mysteriously, we can send in a crack commando team to investigate. This would lead to entertaining action, some mild humor, and perhaps even a little romance.
From what I've seen from the QWERTY links, the keypad stays very much alive. The key mappings are what change. And it seems to me that the cases in which you are likely to use text messaging are not generally cases where efficiency is essential.
"Your complaining is as pointless as bitching about Sega "forcing" GDROM on people"
From what I remember, Sega put a GD-ROM in the system and still sold it for $200 and sold games for $40 to $50 each. If the PS3 could do that with BluRay, then you'd hear no complaints.
"and certainly 50GB is much better than the 9GB you get with DVD."
Your definition of certainly differs from mine. If the games don't use that extra 41GB, then it's of no use and currently there aren't a whole lot of games that span more than 1 DVD. That may change but it may not. It's hardly "certain." I'd give you "likely" at best.
They took a device that was already hardware-compatible with a PC, found (not built, found) drivers to work with it, and called it a hack. You can call searching for drivers a hack if you want to but I don't buy into that definition. I lost the floppy disks for an old video card once and had to find drivers that didn't exactly match but were good enough. Was that a hack too? Not in my book.
Someone got a USB device to work on a computer with USB ports! What will they think of next? Can we have a new word that means what "hack" used to mean?
"In the large company, you will be locked to a regular user account. You won't get to install unapproved software (this includes your favourite text editors, browsers, music players, etc)."
You sure seem to know a lot about the large company considering the article never names them. I've worked for one large company and I found the opposite to be true. There was "approved" software we had to run but the approval process usually involved sending an email to IT and asking if it's ok. We used Symmantec Corporate for AV which I hardly noticed. I was set up as a power user but if there was anything I needed Admin access for, IT would come down and help me. We weren't nearly as locked into a mail client as I am now with Outlook at a much smaller company. And after my first day or so on the job, they let me make a backup image personalized to my settings. Oh and as far as hardware issues, there was some paperwork to fill out to get new hardware but that's what our Office Manager's Assistant was there for. The only reason I left was because my Tech Support/Development job became a lot more Tech Support than Development. The environment was great.
Just because you had (or know someone who had) a bad experience at a big company don't assume they are all that way.
"You've never heard of the opportunity cost of time, have you?"
I have indeed.
"if you were offered the opportunity to work at Starbucks for $10/hour for three hours on a random night, would you?"
But based on the question you give as an example, I do wonder if you've put any thought into calculating that opportunity cost for your free time? (Hint: If you're getting a fixed value, then you're doing something wrong.) I may not work at Starbucks for $10/hour on a random night but I may do it on a night when I'm bored. It depends largely on what my alternatives are and what is involved in the work. There are many factors that go into that opportunity cost. That's why I used the word "may" in my original post. To simply put the potential earnings in the context of percentage of income like the GP does is hardly a valid opportunity cost calcualtion.
"I'd turn them down. $18 is nothing, certainly not a reimbursement for spending my free time 'working'."
Working?!!! Oh noes!
I'm not so lazy as to affix a set value to my free time. Sometimes the free time may be worth a lot. For example, if I'm spending my free time to spend time with my family or attend a sporting event, the value might be astronomical but if I'm not doing anything anyways, I may take $18 to deliver a letter down the street. I may not be able to slot out 3 hours to get that $100 but I may. That's why I used the word "may." I'd wager the 3 hours in question doesn't have to be entirely devoted to the task at hand. If it ends up being 15 minutes of actual work and 2hrs 45mins doing something around the house with the speakerphone on, I could certainly see it being worth it.
The original poster used a percentage of income as the basis for deciding whether or not to do the task and think that's a fallacy becasue it entirely eliminates some very important factors.
"but that doesnt mean im going to spend 5% of my income (in this case, in the form of time invested) to prevent the 1% getting stolen."
Then why don't you use the time when you wouldn't otherwise be getting paid to get the $100 back? Surely you don't make your professional wage 24hrs per day. Your free time is just that. For example, I get paid about $35/hr but I only get paid between the hours of 8AM and 5PM. It's not very accurate for me to assume my free (as in beer) time is worth $35/hr. If I can spend 2 to 3 hours of my free time to get $100, I may just do that.
Uh, we are talking about the same Lieberman right? He may agree with the President's views on Iraq but that's pretty much where the similarity ends. You wouldn't neccessarily call Lieberman a Democrat but he's far far far far far away from being a Republican.
I noticed a problem in Georgia, too. They left all the good candidates off the ballot. Oh, wait a minute. There weren't any good candidates.
On a serious note, all of our ballots in my Georgia district were working properly when I was there this morning. I certainly think we'll be more aware of voting issues in this election but I'm not so sure that's because there will be more voting irregularities than usual.
No, the government's use of the ESRB is a censorship matter but the ESRB itself is not. I for one like the ESRB. It's not perfect but it does give a ballpark idea of the appropriateness of games for children. I still usually have to do some research of my own on the game's content but it's a nice starting point. Parents and stores do not have to follow the ESRB's recommendation in most cases. In places where ESRB ratings carry some sort of legal weight, the fault lies entirely with the legislators that made such laws, not the independent game rating unit that never intended their ratings to be used in such a manner.
Given the number of Americans who use their home like an ATM machine by taking out home equity lines of credit, finance cars for more than 4 years, have unhealthy lifestyles, and don't have retirement plans, no, most of us don't think 20 years down the line.
Uh, Floyd has the 4th most successful album and I'm pretty sure some classical music acts have the longevity beat by a few year but that really doesn't matter since you so totally didn't get the reference in the first place.
I LOVE Daylight Saving Time. I'd love even more to not need it but I have an 8AM - 5PM job. As long as that remains the case, I'll take going to work while it's still dark over going home at dusk.
As an anecdotal story, I used to drive to work going East. Starting early fall, the sun would be in my eyes every morning. Then it would finally be dark my whole commute when DST would end and put the sun right back in my eyes!
I'll be powering my PS4 with plutonium I stole from some Libyans. They wanted me to build them a nuclear bomb but I just gave them some pinball parts. They didn't know the difference.
"There's a lot of games that would draw a lot more sales."
That is the point I'm trying to make. Nintendo isn't just going down a list of top prospective sellers. They're putting in some games that may not appeal to everyone. They're actually going trotting out some games with niche-only appeal. I'm sorry you don't think Mario Brothers is fun but I rather enjoy it and am glad it will be coming to the Wii.
I do agree that it way not be worth the same price as Legend of Zelda though but I imagine Nintendo will only further tier the pricing when they feel they absolutely must.
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Peak Oil theory is a big reason why a lot of folks don't take environmental issues like global warming or ozone layer depletion seriously. I still remember our science book in high school saying the world would run out of oil by 1982. (It was already 1994.) When people see that sort of crap side by side with other environmental issues, I can see why they don't always take the other issues seriously.
No, no, no. It's REDiculous. As in the Reds or Commies. It's not just bad, it's Communist.
Let's build our moon colony in the areas where there are strange magnetic readings. And when those colonists disappear mysteriously, we can send in a crack commando team to investigate. This would lead to entertaining action, some mild humor, and perhaps even a little romance.
From what I've seen from the QWERTY links, the keypad stays very much alive. The key mappings are what change. And it seems to me that the cases in which you are likely to use text messaging are not generally cases where efficiency is essential.
I was wondering what they meant by "shortened version." How exactly do you shorten a 4 note song?
"Your complaining is as pointless as bitching about Sega "forcing" GDROM on people"
From what I remember, Sega put a GD-ROM in the system and still sold it for $200 and sold games for $40 to $50 each. If the PS3 could do that with BluRay, then you'd hear no complaints.
"and certainly 50GB is much better than the 9GB you get with DVD."
Your definition of certainly differs from mine. If the games don't use that extra 41GB, then it's of no use and currently there aren't a whole lot of games that span more than 1 DVD. That may change but it may not. It's hardly "certain." I'd give you "likely" at best.
They took a device that was already hardware-compatible with a PC, found (not built, found) drivers to work with it, and called it a hack. You can call searching for drivers a hack if you want to but I don't buy into that definition. I lost the floppy disks for an old video card once and had to find drivers that didn't exactly match but were good enough. Was that a hack too? Not in my book.
Someone got a USB device to work on a computer with USB ports! What will they think of next? Can we have a new word that means what "hack" used to mean?
"Srashdotted" maybe?
"In the large company, you will be locked to a regular user account. You won't get to install unapproved software (this includes your favourite text editors, browsers, music players, etc)."
You sure seem to know a lot about the large company considering the article never names them. I've worked for one large company and I found the opposite to be true. There was "approved" software we had to run but the approval process usually involved sending an email to IT and asking if it's ok. We used Symmantec Corporate for AV which I hardly noticed. I was set up as a power user but if there was anything I needed Admin access for, IT would come down and help me. We weren't nearly as locked into a mail client as I am now with Outlook at a much smaller company. And after my first day or so on the job, they let me make a backup image personalized to my settings. Oh and as far as hardware issues, there was some paperwork to fill out to get new hardware but that's what our Office Manager's Assistant was there for. The only reason I left was because my Tech Support/Development job became a lot more Tech Support than Development. The environment was great.
Just because you had (or know someone who had) a bad experience at a big company don't assume they are all that way.
"You've never heard of the opportunity cost of time, have you?"
I have indeed.
"if you were offered the opportunity to work at Starbucks for $10/hour for three hours on a random night, would you?"
But based on the question you give as an example, I do wonder if you've put any thought into calculating that opportunity cost for your free time? (Hint: If you're getting a fixed value, then you're doing something wrong.) I may not work at Starbucks for $10/hour on a random night but I may do it on a night when I'm bored. It depends largely on what my alternatives are and what is involved in the work. There are many factors that go into that opportunity cost. That's why I used the word "may" in my original post. To simply put the potential earnings in the context of percentage of income like the GP does is hardly a valid opportunity cost calcualtion.
"I'd turn them down. $18 is nothing, certainly not a reimbursement for spending my free time 'working'."
Working?!!! Oh noes!
I'm not so lazy as to affix a set value to my free time. Sometimes the free time may be worth a lot. For example, if I'm spending my free time to spend time with my family or attend a sporting event, the value might be astronomical but if I'm not doing anything anyways, I may take $18 to deliver a letter down the street. I may not be able to slot out 3 hours to get that $100 but I may. That's why I used the word "may." I'd wager the 3 hours in question doesn't have to be entirely devoted to the task at hand. If it ends up being 15 minutes of actual work and 2hrs 45mins doing something around the house with the speakerphone on, I could certainly see it being worth it.
The original poster used a percentage of income as the basis for deciding whether or not to do the task and think that's a fallacy becasue it entirely eliminates some very important factors.
"but that doesnt mean im going to spend 5% of my income (in this case, in the form of time invested) to prevent the 1% getting stolen."
Then why don't you use the time when you wouldn't otherwise be getting paid to get the $100 back? Surely you don't make your professional wage 24hrs per day. Your free time is just that. For example, I get paid about $35/hr but I only get paid between the hours of 8AM and 5PM. It's not very accurate for me to assume my free (as in beer) time is worth $35/hr. If I can spend 2 to 3 hours of my free time to get $100, I may just do that.
Uh, we are talking about the same Lieberman right? He may agree with the President's views on Iraq but that's pretty much where the similarity ends. You wouldn't neccessarily call Lieberman a Democrat but he's far far far far far away from being a Republican.
I noticed a problem in Georgia, too. They left all the good candidates off the ballot. Oh, wait a minute. There weren't any good candidates.
On a serious note, all of our ballots in my Georgia district were working properly when I was there this morning. I certainly think we'll be more aware of voting issues in this election but I'm not so sure that's because there will be more voting irregularities than usual.
"It's just DDR played with your fingers."
And DDR is just Simon played with your feet. It seems we've come full circle.
No, the government's use of the ESRB is a censorship matter but the ESRB itself is not. I for one like the ESRB. It's not perfect but it does give a ballpark idea of the appropriateness of games for children. I still usually have to do some research of my own on the game's content but it's a nice starting point. Parents and stores do not have to follow the ESRB's recommendation in most cases. In places where ESRB ratings carry some sort of legal weight, the fault lies entirely with the legislators that made such laws, not the independent game rating unit that never intended their ratings to be used in such a manner.
Given the number of Americans who use their home like an ATM machine by taking out home equity lines of credit, finance cars for more than 4 years, have unhealthy lifestyles, and don't have retirement plans, no, most of us don't think 20 years down the line.
Uh, Floyd has the 4th most successful album and I'm pretty sure some classical music acts have the longevity beat by a few year but that really doesn't matter since you so totally didn't get the reference in the first place.
To be fair, the Clash is the only band that matters. If he managed them, he must matter at least a little bit even if we don't know exactly who he is.
No, Captain Ron, you said there were GORillas in the jungle, not GUErillas!
Besides, pulling out doesn't do any good when you're giving it to them in the rear.
I LOVE Daylight Saving Time. I'd love even more to not need it but I have an 8AM - 5PM job. As long as that remains the case, I'll take going to work while it's still dark over going home at dusk.
As an anecdotal story, I used to drive to work going East. Starting early fall, the sun would be in my eyes every morning. Then it would finally be dark my whole commute when DST would end and put the sun right back in my eyes!
I'll be powering my PS4 with plutonium I stole from some Libyans. They wanted me to build them a nuclear bomb but I just gave them some pinball parts. They didn't know the difference.
"There's a lot of games that would draw a lot more sales."
That is the point I'm trying to make. Nintendo isn't just going down a list of top prospective sellers. They're putting in some games that may not appeal to everyone. They're actually going trotting out some games with niche-only appeal. I'm sorry you don't think Mario Brothers is fun but I rather enjoy it and am glad it will be coming to the Wii.
I do agree that it way not be worth the same price as Legend of Zelda though but I imagine Nintendo will only further tier the pricing when they feel they absolutely must.