I'll have you know morale within the cubicles was already at rock bottom long before the system nazis took charge.
Seriously though, instead of just making a blanket statement, care to explain why morale hinges on whether or not you have a screensaver or computer background set a certain way? I'm not trying to pick a fight. I really am curious. What difference does it make?
Maybe you need to rely a bit less on a spell-checker and rely more on knowing the funamentals of the English language. You should be using "its" instead of "it's." Remember, if the sentence does not make sense when you substitute a contration with the words in that contraction, then you are doing something wrong.
"You need your web browser to branch it is development and get a spell checker."
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Yeah, but real hacks like using Knoppix to get Mode X graphics to play Rise of the Triad with double-buffering is a little dated.
I find it amazing the lengths people will go to in order to keep their screensaver and/or background. This was actually a big issue at the office I used to work at when we blocked access to Display Properties. There were people pitching fits to management. Over what? Over something that you shouldn't even notice if you are actually doing work. I guess that personalizing your workspace is somethign I'll never understand. My desk has a wedding pitcure on it. The only reason that is there is because my wife told me to put it there and I didn't care to argue.
I'm testing now using BitTorrent to get all of my family's shows. I will be missing sports but the torrents are better quality than the satellite feeds I'm getting and commercials are already edited out. I can then play the shows as I want to on my computer with TV out. It's been working great as of week 1 of my experiment. In week 2, we're going to try watching everything but NFL and NCAA Football from the torrents. So far, it doesn't look like that will be much of a challenge. I'll be a day behind on shows, but I'm not too concerned about that. I can get used to watching the Simpsons on Mondays.
Unfortunately, most people don't things called budgets or short-term savings. Why don't you have enough in your bank account to last you for a few months? Perhaps you bought too much car or too much house. It's amazing how many people complain that they don't have enough money to put back as savings but drive a $20,000 or up car and spend $50 - $80 a month on cable or satellite.
Jobs don't usually last forever. Make sure you have enough in savings to make it through at least 3 months (national average time spent between jobs).
I'm not condoning what EA is doing here and I am personally for unions, but being in a union doesn't garauntee a job. Just ask the air traffic controllers during the Reagan administration.
Or just keep an older media reader handy. I've still got a 5 1/4" floppy drive and a few Bernoulli drives laying around in case I ever need to read data from those types of disks.
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Most of my office was out at lunch yesterday buying their copy of Halo 2. There was quite an amusing conversation going on:
Employee 1: "I just got Halo 2. The whole back wall of the video game store was nothing but copies of Halo 2."
Employee 2: "Wow, I better go ahead and get a copy now."
E1: "Yeah, you better hurry up and get it while you can."
E3: "Dude [to E2], can you take my credit card and go buy me a copy while you're there?"
E2: "They're not gonna let me do that."
E3: "Could you at least try? I don't get off work until 6." [It was 2 at the time]
E2: "Ok, I'll try."
Boss Man: "E1, did you get my copy of Halo 2? Cool, thanks. We're going to play on-line tonight at 7, guys. [To me] Are you going to get a copy today?"
Me: "I don't have an X-Box. It won't do much good buying a copy of Halo 2."
I played Redneck Rampage in an arcade once in Texas. It was quite dull, espeially without the cuss pack. It's just too long and involved for an arcade game and its multiplayer is not its strong suit. The controls weren't all that great either. I spent most of my time there playing Marvel vs. Capcom, which was new at the time.
The original VHS version will be out on DVD (or whatever the popular format is at that point) when Lucas dies and his estate cashes in by making money anywhere they can (see the estate of Charles Atkins or Philip K Dick for examples).
"THat taxation thing is kinda, ummm. inherently capitalist."
Actually, progressive taxation is inherently Socialist. I'll defer to one of the world's premier Communist writers Frederick Engels (search for progressive taxation) on this one. He is describing the steps to achieve a Communist form of government in this particular paper, but the interim he is describing is clearly a Socialist state. I thought you would've read a few books on the subject. So much for having a well educated Socialist populace.
"What makes you think a "stagnant" economy would stop a good welfare state?"
A stagnant economy stops a good welfare state because the welfare aspect has to leech off of somebody's wealth. Otherwise you would have a purely socialist state because the government would have to take over the means of production due to the gov't's inability to take in as much revenue in the form of taxation to pay the private businesses currently in charge of production. Of course, a socialist state might be what you have in mind when you say a "good welfare state."
"One percent of costs are administrative in SSA. HMOs require about 15% admin costs."
Perhaps you are right, but what is that administration doing? Also, what's the dollar amount being spent on administration per number of people insured? I find it hard to believe that the private HMOs in this country are just throwing money away on administrative tasks. If spending 14% more on administration allows you to cut the cost of everything else, then it might be worth it.
'pits two opposing teams of soldiers against one another in a fight for control over a city under siege.'
So I imagine one groups of soldiers is led by Capt Harris and the other team is led by Lassard and that zany Police Academy squad (minus Mahoney of course).
...is anyone going to buy a DC-on-a-chip when a used DC runs about $20-$40? The Dreamcast is the only gaming system I ever bought on opening day, but I just don't see the desire to get a DC-in-a-DVD when I can just get a DC and a DVD separately.
Maybe some of the bargain-priced DVD players and other electronic components can hook someone on a sale by throwing a DC in it, but somehow I doubt it. Also, I believe that the power problems currently in the PSP will probably also be present in a DC portable.
Maybe this would have worked out well back when the DC was still pumping out games, but I don't see anything but a hobbyist interest for a DC-on-a-Chip.
Picking up on a bluff is overrated. Most of the time, players are not completely bluffing (i.e. they have a lowly but reasonable hand). What constitutes a bluff? In Hold 'Em if I go all in on an 8-man table while only holding two pair, is that a bluff? Maybe and maybe not. The important thing is that you still have to beat me. If you're worried at all that I'm bluffing then you probably have a weaker hand yourself. The guy with the full house isn't worried if I'm bluffing or not. He's going to bet into me because he thinks he's going to win.
Bots won't help you decide if someone is bluffing, but they will help you decide if it even matters whether or not they're bluffing.
I was under the impression (and I might be wrong here) that the core audience for the GBA is preteen and younger teen boys. It does make me scratch my head that a Grand Theft Auto game might do well on this platform merely because of the user base. I would think that parents would be just a bit reluctant to get this game for their children, but like I said earlier maybe I don't understand the GBA audience (or modern parenting trends).
...up by 300% that would be......hmmm, what's 300% of 0?
(This IS just a joke. I'm not sure if there's a Linux virus or not, but I'm not aware of any. Please don't take this e-mail as a recommendation to not patch your Linux boxen regularly or to not take security seriously in Linux.)
I presonally could care less if the technology is new or "retro." I want things that work and work well. I am a faction of the population that is anti-DVD, but not for any analog-is-better type arguments. When I go to rent a DVD, I often find it scratched. That's not really a digital issue. It's an exposure issue. I'm sure that if VHS didn't have the protective shell around the tape, it would suffer the same fate. (At least you can leave DVDs in your car in the summer.)
I also don't like that DVDs force me to watch previews and some other content on my DVD player. On my VHS tape, I can fast-forward past those things. Being digital or analog is not an issue there either. If the same beavior was present on VHS tapes, I'd be looking for a new format.
I watch my VHS tapes on an analog TV with a solid-state stereo and am happy with that. DVDs produce a nice picture and sound as far as I can tell, but it's not so much better that I want to deal with being forced to watch previews or complain to my video rental store that their DVD is damamged and I need a replacement (which has hapened 3 or the past 10 DVDs I've rented over a 10 month span).
"the stock market has absolutely nothing at all to do with "recessions.""
The stock market usually has quite a bit to do with recessions. It is true that recessions are not measured by the strength of the stock market (as the grandparent seems to claim), but keeping that GDP up is hard to do when our largest publicly traded companies have poor cashflow because their stocks are in the tank.
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I'll have you know morale within the cubicles was already at rock bottom long before the system nazis took charge.
Seriously though, instead of just making a blanket statement, care to explain why morale hinges on whether or not you have a screensaver or computer background set a certain way? I'm not trying to pick a fight. I really am curious. What difference does it make?
Maybe you need to rely a bit less on a spell-checker and rely more on knowing the funamentals of the English language. You should be using "its" instead of "it's." Remember, if the sentence does not make sense when you substitute a contration with the words in that contraction, then you are doing something wrong.
"You need your web browser to branch it is development and get a spell checker."
Yeah, but real hacks like using Knoppix to get Mode X graphics to play Rise of the Triad with double-buffering is a little dated.
I find it amazing the lengths people will go to in order to keep their screensaver and/or background. This was actually a big issue at the office I used to work at when we blocked access to Display Properties. There were people pitching fits to management. Over what? Over something that you shouldn't even notice if you are actually doing work. I guess that personalizing your workspace is somethign I'll never understand. My desk has a wedding pitcure on it. The only reason that is there is because my wife told me to put it there and I didn't care to argue.
I'm testing now using BitTorrent to get all of my family's shows. I will be missing sports but the torrents are better quality than the satellite feeds I'm getting and commercials are already edited out. I can then play the shows as I want to on my computer with TV out. It's been working great as of week 1 of my experiment. In week 2, we're going to try watching everything but NFL and NCAA Football from the torrents. So far, it doesn't look like that will be much of a challenge. I'll be a day behind on shows, but I'm not too concerned about that. I can get used to watching the Simpsons on Mondays.
"see, most people have things called bills."
Unfortunately, most people don't things called budgets or short-term savings. Why don't you have enough in your bank account to last you for a few months? Perhaps you bought too much car or too much house. It's amazing how many people complain that they don't have enough money to put back as savings but drive a $20,000 or up car and spend $50 - $80 a month on cable or satellite.
Jobs don't usually last forever. Make sure you have enough in savings to make it through at least 3 months (national average time spent between jobs).
I'm not condoning what EA is doing here and I am personally for unions, but being in a union doesn't garauntee a job. Just ask the air traffic controllers during the Reagan administration.
I know the 5 1/4" and at least one Bernoulli drive still work (as of five days ago). I check them periodically.
"Halo was also arguably one of the best FPS to grace a console."
:)
Somebody has obviously forgotten about Faceball 2000
Or just keep an older media reader handy. I've still got a 5 1/4" floppy drive and a few Bernoulli drives laying around in case I ever need to read data from those types of disks.
Most of my office was out at lunch yesterday buying their copy of Halo 2. There was quite an amusing conversation going on:
Employee 1: "I just got Halo 2. The whole back wall of the video game store was nothing but copies of Halo 2."
Employee 2: "Wow, I better go ahead and get a copy now."
E1: "Yeah, you better hurry up and get it while you can."
E3: "Dude [to E2], can you take my credit card and go buy me a copy while you're there?"
E2: "They're not gonna let me do that."
E3: "Could you at least try? I don't get off work until 6." [It was 2 at the time]
E2: "Ok, I'll try."
Boss Man: "E1, did you get my copy of Halo 2? Cool, thanks. We're going to play on-line tonight at 7, guys. [To me] Are you going to get a copy today?"
Me: "I don't have an X-Box. It won't do much good buying a copy of Halo 2."
Boss Man [with confused look on face]: "Oh. OK."
I played Redneck Rampage in an arcade once in Texas. It was quite dull, espeially without the cuss pack. It's just too long and involved for an arcade game and its multiplayer is not its strong suit. The controls weren't all that great either. I spent most of my time there playing Marvel vs. Capcom, which was new at the time.
The original VHS version will be out on DVD (or whatever the popular format is at that point) when Lucas dies and his estate cashes in by making money anywhere they can (see the estate of Charles Atkins or Philip K Dick for examples).
...named Scrockett?
"THat taxation thing is kinda, ummm. inherently capitalist."
Actually, progressive taxation is inherently Socialist. I'll defer to one of the world's premier Communist writers Frederick Engels (search for progressive taxation) on this one. He is describing the steps to achieve a Communist form of government in this particular paper, but the interim he is describing is clearly a Socialist state. I thought you would've read a few books on the subject. So much for having a well educated Socialist populace.
"What makes you think a "stagnant" economy would stop a good welfare state?"
A stagnant economy stops a good welfare state because the welfare aspect has to leech off of somebody's wealth. Otherwise you would have a purely socialist state because the government would have to take over the means of production due to the gov't's inability to take in as much revenue in the form of taxation to pay the private businesses currently in charge of production. Of course, a socialist state might be what you have in mind when you say a "good welfare state."
"One percent of costs are administrative in SSA. HMOs require about 15% admin costs."
Perhaps you are right, but what is that administration doing? Also, what's the dollar amount being spent on administration per number of people insured? I find it hard to believe that the private HMOs in this country are just throwing money away on administrative tasks. If spending 14% more on administration allows you to cut the cost of everything else, then it might be worth it.
'pits two opposing teams of soldiers against one another in a fight for control over a city under siege.'
So I imagine one groups of soldiers is led by Capt Harris and the other team is led by Lassard and that zany Police Academy squad (minus Mahoney of course).
They stopped making software too, but Infogrammes bought their name and pretends to be Atari now.
...I mean fat. (like she's a "healthy" girl) Are these new games going to be fat or am I missing something?
...someone can show some reruns of "Everything with Dr. Jerry Hathaway."
I missed a lot of episodes because I was busy picking up some dry cleaning.
...is anyone going to buy a DC-on-a-chip when a used DC runs about $20-$40? The Dreamcast is the only gaming system I ever bought on opening day, but I just don't see the desire to get a DC-in-a-DVD when I can just get a DC and a DVD separately.
Maybe some of the bargain-priced DVD players and other electronic components can hook someone on a sale by throwing a DC in it, but somehow I doubt it. Also, I believe that the power problems currently in the PSP will probably also be present in a DC portable.
Maybe this would have worked out well back when the DC was still pumping out games, but I don't see anything but a hobbyist interest for a DC-on-a-Chip.
Picking up on a bluff is overrated. Most of the time, players are not completely bluffing (i.e. they have a lowly but reasonable hand). What constitutes a bluff? In Hold 'Em if I go all in on an 8-man table while only holding two pair, is that a bluff? Maybe and maybe not. The important thing is that you still have to beat me. If you're worried at all that I'm bluffing then you probably have a weaker hand yourself. The guy with the full house isn't worried if I'm bluffing or not. He's going to bet into me because he thinks he's going to win.
Bots won't help you decide if someone is bluffing, but they will help you decide if it even matters whether or not they're bluffing.
I was under the impression (and I might be wrong here) that the core audience for the GBA is preteen and younger teen boys. It does make me scratch my head that a Grand Theft Auto game might do well on this platform merely because of the user base. I would think that parents would be just a bit reluctant to get this game for their children, but like I said earlier maybe I don't understand the GBA audience (or modern parenting trends).
...up by 300% that would be... ...hmmm, what's 300% of 0?
(This IS just a joke. I'm not sure if there's a Linux virus or not, but I'm not aware of any. Please don't take this e-mail as a recommendation to not patch your Linux boxen regularly or to not take security seriously in Linux.)
I presonally could care less if the technology is new or "retro." I want things that work and work well. I am a faction of the population that is anti-DVD, but not for any analog-is-better type arguments. When I go to rent a DVD, I often find it scratched. That's not really a digital issue. It's an exposure issue. I'm sure that if VHS didn't have the protective shell around the tape, it would suffer the same fate. (At least you can leave DVDs in your car in the summer.)
I also don't like that DVDs force me to watch previews and some other content on my DVD player. On my VHS tape, I can fast-forward past those things. Being digital or analog is not an issue there either. If the same beavior was present on VHS tapes, I'd be looking for a new format.
I watch my VHS tapes on an analog TV with a solid-state stereo and am happy with that. DVDs produce a nice picture and sound as far as I can tell, but it's not so much better that I want to deal with being forced to watch previews or complain to my video rental store that their DVD is damamged and I need a replacement (which has hapened 3 or the past 10 DVDs I've rented over a 10 month span).
"the stock market has absolutely nothing at all to do with "recessions.""
The stock market usually has quite a bit to do with recessions. It is true that recessions are not measured by the strength of the stock market (as the grandparent seems to claim), but keeping that GDP up is hard to do when our largest publicly traded companies have poor cashflow because their stocks are in the tank.