These are cases that affect all of us. Your disinterest is not necessarily a reflection on the desires of the rest of us. Personally, if I never saw another MMORG post again I'd be happy as a clam, but you don't see me posting in those threads asking why they're so commonly approved. How about a little live-and-let-live?
Southwest people are trained to smile and be cheerful. American Air doesn't.
Southwest has less delays and is more profitable and the passagers are better behaved and quiet and cuterious of others.
Correlation is not causation. There are hundreds of other factors as to why SW might have fewer delays and be more profitable. For example, SW doesn't adhere to the archaic hub system but instead runs a point-to-point flight schedule. They also fly exactly one (1) model of aircraft (B737) so they only have to train mechanics on one model and keep only one model's parts in stock.
The asshole "moved" to Tennessee to jump into a different organ transplant queue: 295 vs 1,615 people, and a wait of 48 days vs 306.
OK, I agree with your moral point that money should not buy organ transplants. I'm just as bothered about the whole system on that front and strongly support easing our organ shortage via the entire U.S. switching from an opt-in organ donation program to an opt-out one as they have in Europe.
That said, calling someone an "asshole" for doing what it took to save his own life seems too harsh in the opposite direction. Can you honestly say that if your life were on the line that you would not take whatever steps were within your financial means to stay alive? Really?
Ever see them helping support 2nd Amendment rights?
For the ACLU, some rights are more equal than others.
Ever see someone in this country unable to buy a gun? In spite of all the crying over 2nd Amendment by the NRA, you can still go out and buy an assault rifle whenever you like. But somehow your fictional rights violation is more important to you than someone losing their job, being denied airplane travel, or being imprisoned. Way to have your priorities straight.
When did we as a society get our collective sense of entitlement?
Don't you remember all those "public service" commercials in the 70's on Saturday morning teaching kids (and I quote) "The most important person in the world is you"? Somehow sociologists got it in their heads that we had a lack of self-esteem. Whether or not that was actually true, it certainly seems as if we've way overcompensated and now are stuck with a society that thinks it is due everything (music, movies, phones, software, paychecks) for free.
Ah, and you all laughed when Europe started to launch Galileo sats. Haha!
Side question: Would it be possible to design a GPS receiver that made use of both the US and Euro birds? Could the two systems be used as each others' backup?
On 9/10/2001, Rumsfeld gave a speech about wasteful military spending
Given his position as Secretary of Defense, he was in the best possible position to fix the woes he spoke of. How'd that work out? It's funny how you fail to fix problems when you have a financial interest in not seeing them fixed. Sure would be interesting to see a full accounting of Rumsfeld's and Cheney's accounts these days, and just how much Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Halliburton all enhanced their retirements.....
In some states, an adult is legally required to provide ID to any cop who asks
Whether or not that's true (others are tackling that in detail), an ATM serviceman is not a cop. He has no more right to demand your attention or ID than I do. Shane's refusal was completely legal and reasonable.
He added that the city had never actually disseminated a policy regarding internet usage... And the statue he was convicted under:
"No person...without the consent of, or beyond the scope of the express or implied consent of, the owner of the computer..."
There are only two conclusions that can be drawn from this:
The judge did not read/know the law,
or
The judge is 100% aware that he handed the defendant's lawyer an appeal on a silver platter
The idea that if someone does something you don't like, they have to be punished, even if you can't find a law that exactly names the thing you didn't like as a crime, is moronic.
I'll take that a step further: It's evil. Using the law as a bludgeon and a personal retribution device instead of as a scalpel to rid society of true cancers is simply evil.
I had a friend in grad school whose credit card company screwed up his bill to the tune of 56 cents. He turned on the TV, poured himself a drink, and sat on the phone talking (wasting the time of) various people for hours over days until they just gave him the 56 cents. I remember this because I visited his apartment on the second day of his quest and thought to myself: "He's still at this?" While he was on the phone, the TV cut to breaking news of OJ Simpson leading police on a chase in a white Bronco.
I would say he's losing more money to his cell phone bill, but he may have had minutes to spare. I only used 18 last month...
Notice he said this happened the same time as the OJ pursuit. That means it happened in 1994. Cell phones were rare luxuries then--you absolutely never used them at home. They were the size of bricks and were for emergency mobile use only.
So basically anybody that uses e-mail outside of working hours is an "emailholic"? Doesn't that include pretty much every person who has a computer at home?
The paper seems to identify when you're in a session and when you're not and also extrapolates these cycles not only to days but also to times of the week.
So anyone who has an e-mail capable smartphone and therefore doesn't engage in "sessions" is an "emailholic"?
I agree with those saying you've not provided quite enough info. But there have been some good responses thus far. To wit:
Ensure their offer leaves each of you enough to live on for several years. The non-compete clause they'll undoubtedly have you sign may leave you unable to work in your field for a while if things go sour after signing.
If they are hiring you, see if you can get a multi-year contract so that they can't fire you next week. (Doubtful they'll go for this, but worth asking for...you never know.)
Even better, see if they are willing to allow you to keep working as the team you are now. Perhaps you can stay semi-autonomous so that you still feel free and unfettered and able to allow ideas to flow. Smarter corporations recognize that atmosphere matters and have been known to permit situations like this. Of course you'll need to report into H.Q. regularly, etc., but perhaps that's not the end of the world.
Do try to be a wee bit less idealistic. Yes, you want to change the world and be free, but in a few years if times get tough and you're wondering where your next meal is coming from you'll be wishing you had taken the deal. Don't turn it down out of idealism. If you must turn it down, do so for financial or true business-related reasons.
I also reiterate, the television I used back then with my Atari VCS did not look anywhere near as bad as this software simulation.
Would that not depend an awful lot on the TV? Yes, I know you made some snide comment about Russian TV's but dude, you're really falling into the "I didn't see this problem so nobody else could possibly have had it" logical fallacy hole. Chill out a bit and understand that not everyone is you.
It's also logical to assume that the screenshots provided show the maximum setting (or somewhere near it) that the software can simulate, and that the software could be "dialed-back" a bit to bleed and blur less. No need to get your panties bunched up quite so much.
You are missing the point. It looks NOTHING like a real television CRT from back then. The effects are just wrong.
Yes, it really does. As a child of that era I feel quite qualified to say "Yup, that's what Pac-Man on my neighbor's Atari 2600 on their 1970's Sears TV looked like." It looked fuzzy, we knew it looked fuzzy, but we still loved it. It was quaint even when it was new, and we knew that but it was seat-of-your-pants gaming. This was the late 70's...Disco was in; everyone's clothing & carpets & cars & wood paneling were brown; Commander Adama was still played by Lorne Greene; Trans Ams were cool; our games were blocky & fuzzy. The world was right.
Oh and computer displays never had artifacts like that. I've had every PC display type from CGA to WUXGA
You're right, they didn't. As a dozen other posts have pointed out, this is meant to emulate what computer graphics sent to a TV through a composite cable looked like. You remember those Radio-Shack metal switchboxes that went between the antenna and the TV's RF input that let you plug in a single cable from the Atari/Commodore/whatever? That one cable carried audio, chroma, and luma, all bleeding into one another. Thus this type of bleed. Nothing to do with Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA, etc.
It never fails to amaze me how many people don't understand that most of the major socio-political and economic problems we have today are directly due to the application of too much socialistic GMI and not enough application of Capitalistic Federalism. It would be funny if it wasn't so sick and sad.
What's sick and sad is that after the Wall Street meltdown last fall which was DIRECTLY RELATED to Federal deregulation and allowing complete unfettered capitalism that anyone would still be so blindly anti-regulation. Just what part of "too much power and greed concentrated in a few hands screws everyone else" don't you get?
Are you insane? For a change a government is bringing wonderful service to its taxpayers (low-cost, high-speed internet) and you somehow still make the comment that "government sucks"?? That's not even trolling, it's certifiable.
I am not kidding when I say this: You have a mental disorder. Probably severe cognitive dissonance, but you'd need a full exam to be sure. Please see a therapist. Honestly. No joke.
I've been very happy with the Fluke Cable-IQ qualification tester, which doesn't just make sure that the wiring is correct, but actually tests the cable up to gigabit speed to make sure everything is kosher.
Wow, for $1250, I bet you've been happy with it. I'd love one, but for most of us that $1250 will buy an awful lot of factory-crimped cable.
How do you think the cables are run to the jack in your office? I guarantee they were punched down by hand.
Mod this up. THIS is the answer the boss needs to be handed--that he has hand-punched cabling whether he likes it or not.
Further, I trust hand-made cabling (by an experienced and attentive tech) more than commercial. In this case, the original poster is going to be very careful, ensure all wires are well attached and have good connections. Something a 10-cents per hour factory worker in China is not going to do. I'd put his cable up against Belkin any day. And that's the argument I'd probably get in trouble for going back to the boss with. ("You don't trust that I'd take my time and make the very best cable possible? You also don't trust my I.T. skills enough to know I wouldn't leave us with bad data connections?")
In my experience, the input is just as inconsistent as you make it. I can (on good nights) bowl in the 250 range, but if I start losing my form, I degrade down into the 190's. An inexperienced player (with the same Wiimote) tends to throw below 100.
My point (that I didn't make well) is that the same roll/motion can have very different results with the least possible change in aim. If I aim 2 "steps" to the right and 2 "degrees" to the right (ie. RIGHT-RIGHT-A-RIGHT-RIGHT) my ball will Brooklyn. If I add just one step or degree to the right (ie. RIGHT-RIGHT-A-RIGHT-RIGHT-RIGHT or RIGHT-RIGHT-RIGHT-A-RIGHT-RIGHT) it misses the headpin to the right. Every time. The granularity of the game is far too coarse. True, in retrospect, this is a critique of the programming not the Wiimote. Still, it makes the game far too frustrating to play often.
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U.S. Presidents are routinely called by their full name
B.S. You used the term "Ronald Wilson Reagan" how many times? That's right, nearly zero. So stop lying.
These are cases that affect all of us. Your disinterest is not necessarily a reflection on the desires of the rest of us. Personally, if I never saw another MMORG post again I'd be happy as a clam, but you don't see me posting in those threads asking why they're so commonly approved. How about a little live-and-let-live?
Southwest people are trained to smile and be cheerful. American Air doesn't.
Southwest has less delays and is more profitable and the passagers are better behaved and quiet and cuterious of others.
Correlation is not causation. There are hundreds of other factors as to why SW might have fewer delays and be more profitable. For example, SW doesn't adhere to the archaic hub system but instead runs a point-to-point flight schedule. They also fly exactly one (1) model of aircraft (B737) so they only have to train mechanics on one model and keep only one model's parts in stock.
As for SW passengers, sure they're behaved. There have been several incidents of SW passengers being thrown off of planes due to their clothing choices ( http://www.gadling.com/2007/09/09/southwest-airlines-imposes-dress-code-on-passenger , http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/06/news/fortune500/southwest_shirt). Nothing like a little Draconian discipline to keep people in line.
The asshole "moved" to Tennessee to jump into a different organ transplant queue: 295 vs 1,615 people, and a wait of 48 days vs 306.
OK, I agree with your moral point that money should not buy organ transplants. I'm just as bothered about the whole system on that front and strongly support easing our organ shortage via the entire U.S. switching from an opt-in organ donation program to an opt-out one as they have in Europe.
That said, calling someone an "asshole" for doing what it took to save his own life seems too harsh in the opposite direction. Can you honestly say that if your life were on the line that you would not take whatever steps were within your financial means to stay alive? Really?
Ever see them helping support 2nd Amendment rights?
For the ACLU, some rights are more equal than others.
Ever see someone in this country unable to buy a gun? In spite of all the crying over 2nd Amendment by the NRA, you can still go out and buy an assault rifle whenever you like. But somehow your fictional rights violation is more important to you than someone losing their job, being denied airplane travel, or being imprisoned. Way to have your priorities straight.
When did we as a society get our collective sense of entitlement?
Don't you remember all those "public service" commercials in the 70's on Saturday morning teaching kids (and I quote) "The most important person in the world is you"? Somehow sociologists got it in their heads that we had a lack of self-esteem. Whether or not that was actually true, it certainly seems as if we've way overcompensated and now are stuck with a society that thinks it is due everything (music, movies, phones, software, paychecks) for free.
Get modded flamebait much?
So, let's let poor Ralph off the hook because the end result here is more power than Dems dared to even dream about 9 years ago.
So by your logic, the completely unanticipatable ends justify the malevolent means?
Spoken like a true malcontent
Ah, weasel words. "Malcontent" basically equals "he who does not agree with me."
Ah, and you all laughed when Europe started to launch Galileo sats. Haha!
Side question: Would it be possible to design a GPS receiver that made use of both the US and Euro birds? Could the two systems be used as each others' backup?
On 9/10/2001, Rumsfeld gave a speech about wasteful military spending
Given his position as Secretary of Defense, he was in the best possible position to fix the woes he spoke of. How'd that work out? It's funny how you fail to fix problems when you have a financial interest in not seeing them fixed. Sure would be interesting to see a full accounting of Rumsfeld's and Cheney's accounts these days, and just how much Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Halliburton all enhanced their retirements.....
In some states, an adult is legally required to provide ID to any cop who asks
Whether or not that's true (others are tackling that in detail), an ATM serviceman is not a cop. He has no more right to demand your attention or ID than I do. Shane's refusal was completely legal and reasonable.
He added that the city had never actually disseminated a policy regarding internet usage...
And the statue he was convicted under:
"No person...without the consent of, or beyond the scope of the express or implied consent of, the owner of the computer..."
There are only two conclusions that can be drawn from this:
or
The idea that if someone does something you don't like, they have to be punished, even if you can't find a law that exactly names the thing you didn't like as a crime, is moronic.
I'll take that a step further: It's evil. Using the law as a bludgeon and a personal retribution device instead of as a scalpel to rid society of true cancers is simply evil.
I had a friend in grad school whose credit card company screwed up his bill to the tune of 56 cents. He turned on the TV, poured himself a drink, and sat on the phone talking (wasting the time of) various people for hours over days until they just gave him the 56 cents. I remember this because I visited his apartment on the second day of his quest and thought to myself: "He's still at this?" While he was on the phone, the TV cut to breaking news of OJ Simpson leading police on a chase in a white Bronco.
I would say he's losing more money to his cell phone bill, but he may have had minutes to spare. I only used 18 last month...
Notice he said this happened the same time as the OJ pursuit. That means it happened in 1994. Cell phones were rare luxuries then--you absolutely never used them at home. They were the size of bricks and were for emergency mobile use only.
So basically anybody that uses e-mail outside of working hours is an "emailholic"? Doesn't that include pretty much every person who has a computer at home?
The paper seems to identify when you're in a session and when you're not and also extrapolates these cycles not only to days but also to times of the week.
So anyone who has an e-mail capable smartphone and therefore doesn't engage in "sessions" is an "emailholic"?
Good luck!
I also reiterate, the television I used back then with my Atari VCS did not look anywhere near as bad as this software simulation.
Would that not depend an awful lot on the TV? Yes, I know you made some snide comment about Russian TV's but dude, you're really falling into the "I didn't see this problem so nobody else could possibly have had it" logical fallacy hole. Chill out a bit and understand that not everyone is you.
It's also logical to assume that the screenshots provided show the maximum setting (or somewhere near it) that the software can simulate, and that the software could be "dialed-back" a bit to bleed and blur less. No need to get your panties bunched up quite so much.
I don't get it. A person creates something, somebody else through very little effort on their part makes money off that work.
How is that right?
I don't condone the **IA's actions, or record industry contracts, I just don't see why people think it's OK to "get free stuff"
Do you ever listen to the radio? Check out the story from last month how a stable owner in the UK was forced to stop playing classical music from the radio for her horses because she received a cease-and-desist: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5061004/Woman-who-plays-classical-music-to-soothe-horses-told-to-get-licence.html
Then go on trying to defend the actions of the **IA and their international brethren.
You are missing the point. It looks NOTHING like a real television CRT from back then. The effects are just wrong.
Yes, it really does. As a child of that era I feel quite qualified to say "Yup, that's what Pac-Man on my neighbor's Atari 2600 on their 1970's Sears TV looked like." It looked fuzzy, we knew it looked fuzzy, but we still loved it. It was quaint even when it was new, and we knew that but it was seat-of-your-pants gaming. This was the late 70's...Disco was in; everyone's clothing & carpets & cars & wood paneling were brown; Commander Adama was still played by Lorne Greene; Trans Ams were cool; our games were blocky & fuzzy. The world was right.
Oh and computer displays never had artifacts like that. I've had every PC display type from CGA to WUXGA
You're right, they didn't. As a dozen other posts have pointed out, this is meant to emulate what computer graphics sent to a TV through a composite cable looked like. You remember those Radio-Shack metal switchboxes that went between the antenna and the TV's RF input that let you plug in a single cable from the Atari/Commodore/whatever? That one cable carried audio, chroma, and luma, all bleeding into one another. Thus this type of bleed. Nothing to do with Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA, etc.
It never fails to amaze me how many people don't understand that most of the major socio-political and economic problems we have today are directly due to the application of too much socialistic GMI and not enough application of Capitalistic Federalism. It would be funny if it wasn't so sick and sad.
What's sick and sad is that after the Wall Street meltdown last fall which was DIRECTLY RELATED to Federal deregulation and allowing complete unfettered capitalism that anyone would still be so blindly anti-regulation. Just what part of "too much power and greed concentrated in a few hands screws everyone else" don't you get?
This is free market 101. Why government sucks.
Are you insane? For a change a government is bringing wonderful service to its taxpayers (low-cost, high-speed internet) and you somehow still make the comment that "government sucks"?? That's not even trolling, it's certifiable.
I am not kidding when I say this: You have a mental disorder. Probably severe cognitive dissonance, but you'd need a full exam to be sure. Please see a therapist. Honestly. No joke.
I've been very happy with the Fluke Cable-IQ qualification tester, which doesn't just make sure that the wiring is correct, but actually tests the cable up to gigabit speed to make sure everything is kosher.
Wow, for $1250, I bet you've been happy with it. I'd love one, but for most of us that $1250 will buy an awful lot of factory-crimped cable.
How do you think the cables are run to the jack in your office? I guarantee they were punched down by hand.
Mod this up. THIS is the answer the boss needs to be handed--that he has hand-punched cabling whether he likes it or not.
Further, I trust hand-made cabling (by an experienced and attentive tech) more than commercial. In this case, the original poster is going to be very careful, ensure all wires are well attached and have good connections. Something a 10-cents per hour factory worker in China is not going to do. I'd put his cable up against Belkin any day. And that's the argument I'd probably get in trouble for going back to the boss with. ("You don't trust that I'd take my time and make the very best cable possible? You also don't trust my I.T. skills enough to know I wouldn't leave us with bad data connections?")
In my experience, the input is just as inconsistent as you make it. I can (on good nights) bowl in the 250 range, but if I start losing my form, I degrade down into the 190's. An inexperienced player (with the same Wiimote) tends to throw below 100.
My point (that I didn't make well) is that the same roll/motion can have very different results with the least possible change in aim. If I aim 2 "steps" to the right and 2 "degrees" to the right (ie. RIGHT-RIGHT-A-RIGHT-RIGHT) my ball will Brooklyn. If I add just one step or degree to the right (ie. RIGHT-RIGHT-A-RIGHT-RIGHT-RIGHT or RIGHT-RIGHT-RIGHT-A-RIGHT-RIGHT) it misses the headpin to the right. Every time. The granularity of the game is far too coarse. True, in retrospect, this is a critique of the programming not the Wiimote. Still, it makes the game far too frustrating to play often.