Emmm I worked with one of the largest asphalt companies in Southern California 'All American Asphalt' and when oil prices rose; it was almost cheaper to use concrete at one point during the last few years. Although if your company owns an oil well in a foreign country like they do, you almost have a monopoly on the asphalt business because you can lowball everyone else with your cheaper asphalt oil prices.
Concrete lasts for a very long time and gets stronger over time; the problem is when you have to fix a crack you cannot just fill it and that is awful in a lot of Norhtern colder conditions. You have to sawcut a huge section out and repour it; if you just filled in the crack the two slabs would act like hammers smashing the fill patch to pieces.
Most of Los Angeles and the interstate highway are paved in concrete and just covered in aspahtl, a lot of it was poured in the 50's when concrete was cheaper. Guys used to stand by their work and be proud of it by stamping their name/company into it; they stopped that after awhile because whenever something went wrong with it they would refere to the stamp.
What they do with a lot of these older roads is pave ashpalt on top of it, so you will see like 3-4 layers of asphalt one on top of the other. So it allows for flexibility on top while protecting the concrete and remove the damaged top layer.
More money is unfortunately the only answer to get holes patched faster and maintanence, the government would probably save the Americans overall in repair damage done to their cars, shocks worn, tires worn and other damage.
Factors Affecting Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation
-Âf Texas Transportation Institute studies conclude that it costs less in the long run to have good roads than bad roads â" if you keep up with preventive maintenance continuously. -Âf Deferred maintenance drives up long term cost; it shortens the cycle for rehabilitation, which is four times as costly. Deferred rehabilitation compounds the problem, often leading to pavement failure and the need to reconstruct the whole roadbed, at ten times the cost.
Routine preventive maintenance, particularly to seal cracks, patch potholes, and keep drains open, on a continuing basis takes on average of $20,000 per mile of road per year to do right.
Regular heavy maintenance, meaning a slurry or chip seal coat, adds costs in the range of $50,000-$80,000 per mile for residential streets, on about a seven year cycle.
For well-maintained roads, the pavement rehabilitation cycle, meaning an asphalt overlay, comes due in 15 years for arterials and 30 years for local streets, costing $300,000-$400,000 per mile; rubberized asphalt can last longer and cuts road noise but costs about 25% more up front.
Reconstruction of poorly-maintained roads, which entails removing the pavement and repairing the gravel base underneath, costs as much as $2 million per mile.
They are monitoring phone calls, that is scary As in heavy breathing on the other side of the line; now they have to take all communications and do them in person.
Videos stopped leaking out to the media sites after about a dozen or so got out showing the huge crowds chasing the police. Mankind should be grateful for video/camera cellphones, it will be the tool that will expose the next Tianeman Square.
"An interesting plaything for people who can afford it." What? come on...
Because technology prices never come down over time right? Come on, stop playing the game that the players will never get down to the $50 level and discs will become $5 a pop in 6 years.
Arguments like that start to get old around here, I mean even the Blu-Ray discs are starting to get around the $10-15 a disc now at FRY's and add to it that HDTV screens are getting dirt cheap. If anything is going to take Blu-Ray down it will be VOD(Video On Demand)/Netflix(stocked with BR) and it will not be streaming movies from the internet; nobody is gonna watch a movie on their computer screen.
Only added cost to the product is going to be things like it degrading in quality over years like VHS and discs prone to easy scratching; I cannot count the number of times I had sat down to watch a VHS tape only to find that somebody had not rewinded it and don't whine to me about 5 seconds of your life taken away by an FBI message. Good old extra piece of equiptment just for rewinding VHS, oh the glorious days.
Add to it Blu-Ray has backwards compatiblity and upscaling of DVD.
Comparing Plasma to Blu-Ray isn't fair, it would be more fair to compare it to HD-DVD that is a dead technology from the start without major backing. I bet some of the advocates of HD-DVD are really regretting buying that dust collector and some of the most incompatible discs ever; there was a lot of bitterness over that war and you can see it to this day in people who scream that Blu-Ray is a dead technology. Talk about getting suckered by MS and left high and dry; they should all be offered a full refund for that. I am waiting for $400 40"+ HDTV's and $50 BR players, add to it when blank Blu-Ray disc get cheap I am going to literally be able to cram a couple movies/TV shows on one disc and expanding storage of layers.
Just wait till you can pick up a cake of 100(50GB per disc) BR disc for $20 and with my Verizon FIOS; holy toledo Batman!!
Anyways you can look back at this post in 5 years and think of me as the Nostradamus, repeat after me "technology gets cheaper over time"
Actually yes it does, it allows you to have more resources and allocate the precious workers for more important task. Slave labor is very simple economics as you can work the worker till he drops dead, it is very efficent since you don't have to feed or house a dead worker.
It is very cheap to bring in some Jewish labor to build your brand new factory for science and research.
Also there were many bunkers built by Jewish prisoners, many tunnel structures were dug raw by hand so they could continue their development without allied bombings affecting it.
One of the most famous V2 development camps was built by slave labor and housed hundreds of scientist, the allies caught word of the location of these scientist and bombed the shit out of it killing lots of scientist except the developer of the V2. That is when they began using the slave labor to build a lot of the bunkers to continue the war effort. Till they literally broke their backs and just bury them under the rubbel they brought back out from the tunnels.
Hitler loved building big projects and throwing lots of resources at it, even though they most likely were dead end weapons that have no affect on the battlefield.
Places like the 'Janowska concentration camp' where they had the infamous bone crunching machine and intense labor projects. Easier to have them dig digging a foundation for some scientist to continue their work in safety for the German Armament Works. The Jewish people were the grease to keep the German war machine moving.
The Germans also killed a couple million people to accomplish that task, make sure to give them credit for that since you seem bent on making sure Americans get no credit as usual. Rocket clubs were all around anyways, it's just the development was accelerated by the war as it does anytime you make people suffer.
German scientist also perfected human guinny pig testing and human slaves that allowed for rocket development.
Don't cherry pick your favorite achievements by the Germans without ignoring the human slave labor that died trying to let those scientist achieve those objectives while you try to write off the Americans as a nobody. The British would have long starved to death if it were not for us and would not be able to build rockets without our supplies, look at the material list for some of the rockets which could only have come from one country.
You know, it's as if killing Jews was so 'iffy' back than.
Pilots and air traffic control love the system, it allows them to see visually where everyone is located/speed/atlitude/GPS and all broadcasting is done from the plane to ground based radar.
Doesn't take much bandwidth at all, as they can use the VHF channel, 978 MHz UAT and another mode.
56% in Middle East and North America at 16% Saudi Arabia Canada Iran Iraq Kuwait United Arab Emirates
Although I guess you have to be kind and call them mostly Persian, although there has been so much chaos that some people claim they are other cultures which they are nothing more than really Nomads trapped by the closed borders.
Although that is kind of racist to be saying that it is Chinese owned, the Chinese have a great culture why do you have to hate them so much. Trying to find a fair comparison, although Canada looks second in Oil Reserves. So maybe Canuck powered?
I put it this way with my Toyota truck to other owners of big cars.
I tell them my Tacoma was built in Louisiana by American autoworkers and that I get much better gas mileage, which makes me feel better that I don't have to spend as much on gas which comes from Arab countries. I basically than tell them that by purchasing a Hummer that they are feeding 5 hunger Arab families everytime they fill up and that they just made a small donation to the local Mosque over there.
Don't worry though brotha, in my job sometimes I operate a 800HP machine and some people kind of get a little shocked that I drive a little Toyota truck to there perfectly with all my tools in the back to put it in perspective.
But yeah you are right, Chinese made and Arab powered.
You are confused, as far as I can tell as a long time heavy PC game user with experience.
That is why they are bringing it to the PS3 and Xbox along with the original PC; expand the market to the heavy hitter DRM systems like consoles where it is a lot harder for your average person to pirate it unless you have your system modded. I know "yeaaa for the dead PC gaming at Slashdot", prepare for the ultra DRM machines consoles now. Say, how is that cracking of the Blu-Ray games going?
Obviously the pirate market forced or made their decision easier to expand it to the console market, which will later be reflected by maybe dropping PC support. I know the sentiment around here is to turn a blind eye to pirating and the likes; but pirating is hurting the PC gaming market and absolutely devastating the little developers. Open your eyes a little and see that there are Warez groups behind these things you download from Piratebay and as much as you don't want to ackowledge that pirating hurts. Open one of the.txt files that come with the game you download with your game/movie you downloaded, you will start noticing a trend in their acknowledgement that pirating it hurting. Let me burst your little virgin pirate bubble by posting a little text from the people who crack your games and movies.
" 1. Unpack release
± à 2. Mount image or burn it
à à 3. Install game
à à 4. Play the game
à Ã
à à Indie developers like the ones who are behind this cool title
à à needs support. Think before you choose not to pay for the
à à software you enjoy. Worst case senario is a dead PC game iso
à à scene, just like that happened with our beloved Amiga game
à à scene.
à Ã
à à People called it evolution, perhaps, but don't let it be
à à exclusion of our perfered game scene. Microsoft, Nintendo and
à à Sony wont let the same mistakes happen again, so think twice
à à before you choose not to support an PC developer. à Ã
à Ã
à à Don't let the consoles win! Rise of the PC machines! "
I downloaded this game and liked it shortly, but I didn't buy it. Why the hell would I buy it when I can download it for free as long as it doesn't require online play. Pretty simple economics setting aside morals and such, much like this deal to expand the market.
Back on my old Nintendo mat we used to run miles on that thing doing the track meets and other olympic stuff.
Forgot the name of that game, but you gotta hand it to Nintendo for the stuff they put out from the mat to the duck hunter gun to the bazooka in SNES to Wii.
USA= Underground Service Alert The number is 811 and you have to call 2 days prior to when you begin your work to cover your ass in court in case you hit any power/gas lines.
I am thinking that they didn't trench this line but use a pressurized piston to push the line/pipe through the ground soil, that is the cheap way to do it these days and it is like sideways drilling. They don't always go perfectly straight at the same elevation, most likely they tried to push this line under a building and came too close to the foundation working area where they are most likely to dig. 4 feet down is gas lines, about 6 feet you start hitting electrical/sewer to put it into perspective.
They send out gas line crews and electric company officals to paint mark where all the lines are located so you do not him them.
Now I work with a Civil Engineer and our main business is road construction, we have hit everything you can think of from Native American graves to fiber lines that run to ammo depot bunkers for security. You would think something this top secret fiber lines would be buried deeper or it would be encased in red cement around the top or sand to give warning you are about to hit it. They usually pour red colored cement(electrical) or sand on top(gas lines), so that when you are digging and start to hit the red stuff it will give you a warning.
My favorite was the mile long tunnel at Fort McCarthur in San Pedros, CA that ran under the hill there. Some of the oldest IBM machines I have ever seen were there collecting dust and huge generators.
I would really like to see some numbers and facts of how you saved them money by doing a complete retraining.
My accountant would probably get a good laugh at that. Also my accountant would probably laugh that he wouldn't be able to use his software on Linux.
In tough times like these, I cannnot see how the prices of training can save you money by paying the MS tax.
Numbers, Numbers, we need to see some numbers or else it is just hot air being blown around in the argument and jumping the gun to say Linux is ready for the desktop. "Crap load of $" doesn't sound very creible to me, sorry but I just don't swallow what people say around here right away before going bankrupt trying to do it.
Actually, there is a huge section of the population that have worn down fingerprints.
Nurses! You see anybody who has to constantly wash their hands in the medical field will have no prints after awhile, this is notorious amongst nurses/surgeons/mechanics/laborers.
You mean like AutoCAD adding the ribbon bar and a lot of other beta software out there now in development; you would be surprised how the younger AutoCAD developers take a liking to it while the vets will stick to their command line.
You should check the beta software scene out for Windows, you might be in for a rude awakening for what is upcoming in some of the most popular software and the ribbon bars they have added.
Obviously things like CD/DVD burning and other little chickenshit software has no need for ribbons, movie editors and things like Final Cut Pro could probably take a tip from this. Navigating the Final Cut Pro menu is pretty hectic from what I can remember in some of the use I did with it.
Absolutely we can, in fact the screen doesn't even have to be built into the computer.
Witness the smaller and sharper projectors that are even being built into cellphones. I think we all saw that one video of the cell phone layed down on the table where it displayed a very nice video projected onto the wall to watch.
I would imagine the same thing for a laptop, maybe a little seperate projector device that is wireless from the laptop so you can point it at any flat surface you want. Also I was thinking displays that roll out or you can expand your laptop screen by pulling out the tabs on the side to give you a HD widescreen. Something like in that movie 'Red Planet' where they pull out the scroll like looking device and roll out a screen(yah I know still in development).
Uhhh because screens never become more power efficent and battery technology becomes weaker over time?
Seriously though, your post doesn't make any sense because new materials which are stronger/lighter/cheaper, screens are consuming less power(LCDs) and batteries are becoming more powerful and longer lasting (6+cells).
Also bigger screens for touchpads is an obvious 'duhhhh', doesn't mean everyone is going to get a big screen.
The 50/10 is throttled, that must really suck if that is true because I have no idea what they would throttle it at(5hrs maxed out?). Time Warner around here didn't say a peep when I was downloading almost over a 1TB a month through SSL; although I don't touch bittorrent with a 10 foot pole.
You must be caught up in that fiasco of New Jersey and Massacheusets; where they are one of the last holdouts on Verizon mass adoption. Check out DslReports.com under your ISP for more insight and you might even find a way to cut your cable bill back.
I would say to show up to your city council meetings, but I am guessing the ISP's are more of a state run entity especially in NJ.
Don't worry though, hopefully soon with pressue from FIOS and the upcoming Docsis 3.0 release than people should some light at the end of the road. Still the being throttled and capped makes all that stuff pointless, same time we are in that transition from SD to HD video material.
I have TWC and we have no ads in the VOD library, just pure shows and nothing else.
They have hundreds of shows available and I don't have to watch an ad before watching the show and no commericals during the show.
Usually the triple pay packages are cheap enough now $100 for TV,phone,internet; but if you want to pay $33 for internet alone it might be a bargain.
I personally think the non major network shows are complete crap; give me my Heroes, 24 and Discovery channel. I am not a dictator though, so I cannot tell people what they like to watch or force others to watch my crappy soon to be cancelled show.
Sorry, that doesn't seem accurate for vast majority of Southern California which is a huge population of the nation.
Standard bandwidth for almost all Southern California TWC clients are 15/1 and 20/5 for $5 more mainly because of FIOS. Upgrades are in progress as we speak. Read up on Dslreports.com for the current activity of broadband in America and not/., this is a place where users are up to date and even a hiccup in the network is covered there with extent coverage.
FIOS recently adjusted their prices and they now beat TWC in the triple pay package, I am switching over to them this week because of....
1. Better bandwidth speeds only by 5mbps (caps unkown?) 2. Upcoming speed caps worry me 3. Price
I see all these comments of; "oh how I wish FIOS would come to our area" Well I am here to tell you we have TWC and FIOS competing and I have to say that FIOS speeds suck for the fiber technology they have. If this is what they have to offer against cable lines and the upcoming nationwide deployment of Docsis 3.0; that is pathetic.
Now, here is what you have to do. You have to get involved with your City Council because they sign the contracts. We pressed our city council and warned them they were corrupt not to let Verizon's serve television service in TWC district for competition of better service.
After a couple months without TV service and them only offering FIOS, renegotiations came up and sure enough we got what we demanded or maybe Verizon offered a better deal.
Whinning on the forum is not always going to get it done, "GET UP, STAND UP... STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS!!"
Road Runner TWC, $63 15/2 FIOS 10/2, 20/5, 20/20 $10 more for every upgrade.
Tell your city council to grow more balls or start showing up like I did to demand competition. Sure enough guess who showed up to compete, Verizon and their friend FIOS.
Cause Windows users go to places like Majorgeeks.com and get the Top10 list of software that everyone usually needs, what is this myth that Windows users go searching long and far for software and that it is a time consuming OS.
Nobody wants to type in commands to get their software when you click to install, anyways I would have to go get the special Open-source definition book to get what the words mean in their relationship to what they actually do. Is gimp gonna make my software act like a gimp? Does anyone actually still use IM anymore? Anyways, you really only need K-lite coded package and getfirefox.com; I think Google is kind of the apt-get equivalent to what Linux has. Click, double-click, click Yes, click Next, click Finish. That was so painful and time consuming?
Automatic updates come with a lot of this software or you can get a program like Sumo which will search all your programs for updates, your average user behavior doesn't give a shit anyways and will run the old version forever.
Has anybody used Windows around here lately in the last 7-10 years?
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Emmm I worked with one of the largest asphalt companies in Southern California 'All American Asphalt' and when oil prices rose; it was almost cheaper to use concrete at one point during the last few years. Although if your company owns an oil well in a foreign country like they do, you almost have a monopoly on the asphalt business because you can lowball everyone else with your cheaper asphalt oil prices.
Concrete lasts for a very long time and gets stronger over time; the problem is when you have to fix a crack you cannot just fill it and that is awful in a lot of Norhtern colder conditions. You have to sawcut a huge section out and repour it; if you just filled in the crack the two slabs would act like hammers smashing the fill patch to pieces.
Most of Los Angeles and the interstate highway are paved in concrete and just covered in aspahtl, a lot of it was poured in the 50's when concrete was cheaper. Guys used to stand by their work and be proud of it by stamping their name/company into it; they stopped that after awhile because whenever something went wrong with it they would refere to the stamp.
What they do with a lot of these older roads is pave ashpalt on top of it, so you will see like 3-4 layers of asphalt one on top of the other. So it allows for flexibility on top while protecting the concrete and remove the damaged top layer.
More money is unfortunately the only answer to get holes patched faster and maintanence, the government would probably save the Americans overall in repair damage done to their cars, shocks worn, tires worn and other damage.
Here's a link to give you an idea of what it costs to maintain roads especially in metropolotin.
http://www.sacog.org/mtp/pdf/MTP2035/Issue%20Papers/Road%20Maintenance.pdf
Factors Affecting Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation
-Âf Texas Transportation Institute studies conclude that it costs less in the long run to have good
roads than bad roads â" if you keep up with preventive maintenance continuously.
-Âf Deferred maintenance drives up long term cost; it shortens the cycle for rehabilitation,
which is four times as costly. Deferred rehabilitation compounds the problem, often leading
to pavement failure and the need to reconstruct the whole roadbed, at ten times the cost.
Routine preventive maintenance, particularly to seal cracks, patch potholes, and keep
drains open, on a continuing basis takes on average of $20,000 per mile of road per year
to do right.
Regular heavy maintenance, meaning a slurry or chip seal coat, adds costs in the range
of $50,000-$80,000 per mile for residential streets, on about a seven year cycle.
For well-maintained roads, the pavement rehabilitation cycle, meaning an asphalt
overlay, comes due in 15 years for arterials and 30 years for local streets, costing
$300,000-$400,000 per mile; rubberized asphalt can last longer and cuts road noise but
costs about 25% more up front.
Reconstruction of poorly-maintained roads, which entails removing the pavement and
repairing the gravel base underneath, costs as much as $2 million per mile.
They are monitoring phone calls, that is scary
As in heavy breathing on the other side of the line; now they have to take all communications and do them in person.
Videos stopped leaking out to the media sites after about a dozen or so got out showing the huge crowds chasing the police. Mankind should be grateful for video/camera cellphones, it will be the tool that will expose the next Tianeman Square.
You are enjoying the outside world so much you came to post on Slashdot?
Where do you live that you have no UHF and can enjoy the outside world? Usually those two don't go hand in hand.
"An interesting plaything for people who can afford it."
What? come on...
Because technology prices never come down over time right? Come on, stop playing the game that the players will never get down to the $50 level and discs will become $5 a pop in 6 years.
Arguments like that start to get old around here, I mean even the Blu-Ray discs are starting to get around the $10-15 a disc now at FRY's and add to it that HDTV screens are getting dirt cheap.
If anything is going to take Blu-Ray down it will be VOD(Video On Demand)/Netflix(stocked with BR) and it will not be streaming movies from the internet; nobody is gonna watch a movie on their computer screen.
Only added cost to the product is going to be things like it degrading in quality over years like VHS and discs prone to easy scratching; I cannot count the number of times I had sat down to watch a VHS tape only to find that somebody had not rewinded it and don't whine to me about 5 seconds of your life taken away by an FBI message. Good old extra piece of equiptment just for rewinding VHS, oh the glorious days.
Add to it Blu-Ray has backwards compatiblity and upscaling of DVD.
Comparing Plasma to Blu-Ray isn't fair, it would be more fair to compare it to HD-DVD that is a dead technology from the start without major backing. I bet some of the advocates of HD-DVD are really regretting buying that dust collector and some of the most incompatible discs ever; there was a lot of bitterness over that war and you can see it to this day in people who scream that Blu-Ray is a dead technology. Talk about getting suckered by MS and left high and dry; they should all be offered a full refund for that.
I am waiting for $400 40"+ HDTV's and $50 BR players, add to it when blank Blu-Ray disc get cheap I am going to literally be able to cram a couple movies/TV shows on one disc and expanding storage of layers.
Just wait till you can pick up a cake of 100(50GB per disc) BR disc for $20 and with my Verizon FIOS; holy toledo Batman!!
Anyways you can look back at this post in 5 years and think of me as the Nostradamus, repeat after me "technology gets cheaper over time"
Actually yes it does, it allows you to have more resources and allocate the precious workers for more important task.
Slave labor is very simple economics as you can work the worker till he drops dead, it is very efficent since you don't have to feed or house a dead worker.
It is very cheap to bring in some Jewish labor to build your brand new factory for science and research.
Also there were many bunkers built by Jewish prisoners, many tunnel structures were dug raw by hand so they could continue their development without allied bombings affecting it.
One of the most famous V2 development camps was built by slave labor and housed hundreds of scientist, the allies caught word of the location of these scientist and bombed the shit out of it killing lots of scientist except the developer of the V2.
That is when they began using the slave labor to build a lot of the bunkers to continue the war effort.
Till they literally broke their backs and just bury them under the rubbel they brought back out from the tunnels.
Hitler loved building big projects and throwing lots of resources at it, even though they most likely were dead end weapons that have no affect on the battlefield.
Places like the 'Janowska concentration camp' where they had the infamous bone crunching machine and intense labor projects. Easier to have them dig digging a foundation for some scientist to continue their work in safety for the German Armament Works.
The Jewish people were the grease to keep the German war machine moving.
The Germans also killed a couple million people to accomplish that task, make sure to give them credit for that since you seem bent on making sure Americans get no credit as usual. Rocket clubs were all around anyways, it's just the development was accelerated by the war as it does anytime you make people suffer.
German scientist also perfected human guinny pig testing and human slaves that allowed for rocket development.
Don't cherry pick your favorite achievements by the Germans without ignoring the human slave labor that died trying to let those scientist achieve those objectives while you try to write off the Americans as a nobody.
The British would have long starved to death if it were not for us and would not be able to build rockets without our supplies, look at the material list for some of the rockets which could only have come from one country.
You know, it's as if killing Jews was so 'iffy' back than.
UPS uses this system on all their planes, not only for air safety but also for tracking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADS-B
Pilots and air traffic control love the system, it allows them to see visually where everyone is located/speed/atlitude/GPS and all broadcasting is done from the plane to ground based radar.
Doesn't take much bandwidth at all, as they can use the VHF channel, 978 MHz UAT and another mode.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_Oil_Reserves_by_Region.PNG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves
56% in Middle East and North America at 16%
Saudi Arabia
Canada
Iran
Iraq
Kuwait
United Arab Emirates
Although I guess you have to be kind and call them mostly Persian, although there has been so much chaos that some people claim they are other cultures which they are nothing more than really Nomads trapped by the closed borders.
Although that is kind of racist to be saying that it is Chinese owned, the Chinese have a great culture why do you have to hate them so much. Trying to find a fair comparison, although Canada looks second in Oil Reserves. So maybe Canuck powered?
I hate to say this and don't mean to be racist.
I put it this way with my Toyota truck to other owners of big cars.
I tell them my Tacoma was built in Louisiana by American autoworkers and that I get much better gas mileage, which makes me feel better that I don't have to spend as much on gas which comes from Arab countries. I basically than tell them that by purchasing a Hummer that they are feeding 5 hunger Arab families everytime they fill up and that they just made a small donation to the local Mosque over there.
Don't worry though brotha, in my job sometimes I operate a 800HP machine and some people kind of get a little shocked that I drive a little Toyota truck to there perfectly with all my tools in the back to put it in perspective.
But yeah you are right, Chinese made and Arab powered.
You are confused, as far as I can tell as a long time heavy PC game user with experience.
That is why they are bringing it to the PS3 and Xbox along with the original PC; expand the market to the heavy hitter DRM systems like consoles where it is a lot harder for your average person to pirate it unless you have your system modded. I know "yeaaa for the dead PC gaming at Slashdot", prepare for the ultra DRM machines consoles now. Say, how is that cracking of the Blu-Ray games going?
Obviously the pirate market forced or made their decision easier to expand it to the console market, which will later be reflected by maybe dropping PC support. .txt files that come with the game you download with your game/movie you downloaded, you will start noticing a trend in their acknowledgement that pirating it hurting. Let me burst your little virgin pirate bubble by posting a little text from the people who crack your games and movies.
I know the sentiment around here is to turn a blind eye to pirating and the likes; but pirating is hurting the PC gaming market and absolutely devastating the little developers.
Open your eyes a little and see that there are Warez groups behind these things you download from Piratebay and as much as you don't want to ackowledge that pirating hurts.
Open one of the
" 1. Unpack release
± à 2. Mount image or burn it
à à 3. Install game
à à 4. Play the game
à Ã
à à Indie developers like the ones who are behind this cool title
à à needs support. Think before you choose not to pay for the
à à software you enjoy. Worst case senario is a dead PC game iso
à à scene, just like that happened with our beloved Amiga game
à à scene.
à Ã
à à People called it evolution, perhaps, but don't let it be
à à exclusion of our perfered game scene. Microsoft, Nintendo and
à à Sony wont let the same mistakes happen again, so think twice
à à before you choose not to support an PC developer. à Ã
à Ã
à à Don't let the consoles win! Rise of the PC machines! "
I downloaded this game and liked it shortly, but I didn't buy it. Why the hell would I buy it when I can download it for free as long as it doesn't require online play. Pretty simple economics setting aside morals and such, much like this deal to expand the market.
Yeah, I think I could jump a mile on that one where all you do is take your feet off the pad and jump back on 5 seconds later.
Back on my old Nintendo mat we used to run miles on that thing doing the track meets and other olympic stuff.
Forgot the name of that game, but you gotta hand it to Nintendo for the stuff they put out from the mat to the duck hunter gun to the bazooka in SNES to Wii.
You call the USA, literally.
USA= Underground Service Alert
The number is 811 and you have to call 2 days prior to when you begin your work to cover your ass in court in case you hit any power/gas lines.
I am thinking that they didn't trench this line but use a pressurized piston to push the line/pipe through the ground soil, that is the cheap way to do it these days and it is like sideways drilling. They don't always go perfectly straight at the same elevation, most likely they tried to push this line under a building and came too close to the foundation working area where they are most likely to dig.
4 feet down is gas lines, about 6 feet you start hitting electrical/sewer to put it into perspective.
They send out gas line crews and electric company officals to paint mark where all the lines are located so you do not him them.
Now I work with a Civil Engineer and our main business is road construction, we have hit everything you can think of from Native American graves to fiber lines that run to ammo depot bunkers for security. You would think something this top secret fiber lines would be buried deeper or it would be encased in red cement around the top or sand to give warning you are about to hit it. They usually pour red colored cement(electrical) or sand on top(gas lines), so that when you are digging and start to hit the red stuff it will give you a warning.
My favorite was the mile long tunnel at Fort McCarthur in San Pedros, CA that ran under the hill there. Some of the oldest IBM machines I have ever seen were there collecting dust and huge generators.
I would really like to see some numbers and facts of how you saved them money by doing a complete retraining.
My accountant would probably get a good laugh at that.
Also my accountant would probably laugh that he wouldn't be able to use his software on Linux.
In tough times like these, I cannnot see how the prices of training can save you money by paying the MS tax.
Numbers, Numbers, we need to see some numbers or else it is just hot air being blown around in the argument and jumping the gun to say Linux is ready for the desktop. "Crap load of $" doesn't sound very creible to me, sorry but I just don't swallow what people say around here right away before going bankrupt trying to do it.
Actually, there is a huge section of the population that have worn down fingerprints.
Nurses! You see anybody who has to constantly wash their hands in the medical field will have no prints after awhile, this is notorious amongst nurses/surgeons/mechanics/laborers.
It is a 'Linux Desktop' article though, so I don't know why all the server/kernal defenders are popping their head in.
But hey, why read the article or the title of it. Just jump in and hold the barbarians back.
You mean like AutoCAD adding the ribbon bar and a lot of other beta software out there now in development; you would be surprised how the younger AutoCAD developers take a liking to it while the vets will stick to their command line.
You should check the beta software scene out for Windows, you might be in for a rude awakening for what is upcoming in some of the most popular software and the ribbon bars they have added.
Obviously things like CD/DVD burning and other little chickenshit software has no need for ribbons, movie editors and things like Final Cut Pro could probably take a tip from this. Navigating the Final Cut Pro menu is pretty hectic from what I can remember in some of the use I did with it.
Absolutely we can, in fact the screen doesn't even have to be built into the computer.
Witness the smaller and sharper projectors that are even being built into cellphones. I think we all saw that one video of the cell phone layed down on the table where it displayed a very nice video projected onto the wall to watch.
I would imagine the same thing for a laptop, maybe a little seperate projector device that is wireless from the laptop so you can point it at any flat surface you want.
Also I was thinking displays that roll out or you can expand your laptop screen by pulling out the tabs on the side to give you a HD widescreen. Something like in that movie 'Red Planet' where they pull out the scroll like looking device and roll out a screen(yah I know still in development).
Uhhh because screens never become more power efficent and battery technology becomes weaker over time?
Seriously though, your post doesn't make any sense because new materials which are stronger/lighter/cheaper, screens are consuming less power(LCDs) and batteries are becoming more powerful and longer lasting (6+cells).
Also bigger screens for touchpads is an obvious 'duhhhh', doesn't mean everyone is going to get a big screen.
The 50/10 is throttled, that must really suck if that is true because I have no idea what they would throttle it at(5hrs maxed out?). Time Warner around here didn't say a peep when I was downloading almost over a 1TB a month through SSL; although I don't touch bittorrent with a 10 foot pole.
You must be caught up in that fiasco of New Jersey and Massacheusets; where they are one of the last holdouts on Verizon mass adoption. Check out DslReports.com under your ISP for more insight and you might even find a way to cut your cable bill back.
I would say to show up to your city council meetings, but I am guessing the ISP's are more of a state run entity especially in NJ.
Don't worry though, hopefully soon with pressue from FIOS and the upcoming Docsis 3.0 release than people should some light at the end of the road. Still the being throttled and capped makes all that stuff pointless, same time we are in that transition from SD to HD video material.
Uhh you must live in the desert.
Most everybody has the 20/5 package from most cable providers and FIOS.
You have commercials on the OnDemand channel?
I have TWC and we have no ads in the VOD library, just pure shows and nothing else.
They have hundreds of shows available and I don't have to watch an ad before watching the show and no commericals during the show.
Usually the triple pay packages are cheap enough now $100 for TV,phone,internet; but if you want to pay $33 for internet alone it might be a bargain.
I personally think the non major network shows are complete crap; give me my Heroes, 24 and Discovery channel. I am not a dictator though, so I cannot tell people what they like to watch or force others to watch my crappy soon to be cancelled show.
Sorry, that doesn't seem accurate for vast majority of Southern California which is a huge population of the nation.
Standard bandwidth for almost all Southern California TWC clients are 15/1 and 20/5 for $5 more mainly because of FIOS. Upgrades are in progress as we speak. /., this is a place where users are up to date and even a hiccup in the network is covered there with extent coverage.
Read up on Dslreports.com for the current activity of broadband in America and not
FIOS recently adjusted their prices and they now beat TWC in the triple pay package, I am switching over to them this week because of....
1. Better bandwidth speeds only by 5mbps (caps unkown?)
2. Upcoming speed caps worry me
3. Price
I see all these comments of; "oh how I wish FIOS would come to our area"
Well I am here to tell you we have TWC and FIOS competing and I have to say that FIOS speeds suck for the fiber technology they have. If this is what they have to offer against cable lines and the upcoming nationwide deployment of Docsis 3.0; that is pathetic.
Now, here is what you have to do. You have to get involved with your City Council because they sign the contracts. We pressed our city council and warned them they were corrupt not to let Verizon's serve television service in TWC district for competition of better service.
After a couple months without TV service and them only offering FIOS, renegotiations came up and sure enough we got what we demanded or maybe Verizon offered a better deal.
Whinning on the forum is not always going to get it done, "GET UP, STAND UP... STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS!!"
Southern California
Road Runner TWC, $63 15/2
FIOS 10/2, 20/5, 20/20 $10 more for every upgrade.
Tell your city council to grow more balls or start showing up like I did to demand competition.
Sure enough guess who showed up to compete, Verizon and their friend FIOS.
Cause Windows users go to places like Majorgeeks.com and get the Top10 list of software that everyone usually needs, what is this myth that Windows users go searching long and far for software and that it is a time consuming OS.
Nobody wants to type in commands to get their software when you click to install, anyways I would have to go get the special Open-source definition book to get what the words mean in their relationship to what they actually do. Is gimp gonna make my software act like a gimp? Does anyone actually still use IM anymore?
Anyways, you really only need K-lite coded package and getfirefox.com; I think Google is kind of the apt-get equivalent to what Linux has. Click, double-click, click Yes, click Next, click Finish. That was so painful and time consuming?
Automatic updates come with a lot of this software or you can get a program like Sumo which will search all your programs for updates, your average user behavior doesn't give a shit anyways and will run the old version forever.
Has anybody used Windows around here lately in the last 7-10 years?