> If you look at your paycheck, you're already giving up an excessive amount of > your money under the guise of improving the standard of living in your nation.
Eh, I'm lucky enough to have a comfortable income, so yeah, I pay a good bit. But then, I get a top-notch highway system, a federally insured system of banks, police and fire protection, my food and water are relatively safe, my workplace is held up to a minimum saftey requirement... All in all I think I am getting a pretty good deal. If we had all the money back that we've flushed down the Iraq toilet, who knows what all nifty stuff I'd be getting for my investment in this nation?
> Makes me wonder why they don't also demonstrate against pornographers for making movies that > are too obscene for children or even strip clubs for not being sufficiently family-friendly
> Unfortunately, most of the wii games have absolutely no quality gameplay
Thank you!!
I finally acquiesced and played the new Metroid game, which my Wii-apologist friend assured me was the pinnacle of interface design for the system. I couldn't play it for more than about 4 minutes without my hands starting to ache, but okay, fine, I'm not used to the Wii.
Then I watched him try to throw the grapple line to pull doors open. He got it to work about one out of four tries. >_
ALL THAT SAID... the bowling and golf games are tight. =)
I doubt I'm the first person to come up with this, but I've been saying for years that the ballot should be a list of names and a list of offices with blanks by them, in random order. You write in the name you want next to the office you want them for. Thus, without having to invalidate a single ballot you insure that all the votes that "count" come from people who at least have the wherewithal to know who is running for what.
For a more aggressive means of filtration, just remove the list of names...
Well, this won't make the battery last longer on one discharge cycle; it'll make it last for a greater number of charge/discharge cycles, and longer overall.
To make the battery last longer on a charge, you're already on the right track with powertop.
>> Similarly "mana" (Maori) means more than just pride or spirit.
> Yeah, it means prestige/honor. You might argue that "prestige" doesn't > capture the true essence of "mana", but I'd argue that you don't know > the true meaning of "prestige".
> He made the statement that we are pretty free, especially compared to China.
But how is that even a useful comparison? We're failing, in my opinion, to live up to our own ideals. Why is it even worth _mentioning_ that there are places that fail even more dramatically to live up to our ideals?
I hear what you're saying, but I don't understand your reasons for saying it.
> The US has their problems, but if you want to compare them to China, it's not even > close. Where are the listings for the Chinese government's transgressions?
Forgive me for not having an orgasm of patriotism at the revelation that we're not the single most oppressive regime in the world. Lowering the bar much?
> Good support is not defined by the availability of code. Maybe > it is for you... but not for the rest of the world.
It is for me. I recognize I'm in the minority in that regard. I don't much care.
> Companies know they can support windows (and the mac) without > dealing with any of these issues.
-nod- And in most cases they lose my business by doing so. Doesn't matter much as long as it's just me. Maybe some day there'll be enough people who do care that it will make financial sense to support us. Maybe it won't. -shrug-
> Seriously, would you be happy with tom tom if they provided a closed source > application for linux like they do on other platforms?
No, I wouldn't be "happy" until they provided all the code and specification data so that anyone who cared to could develop their own software to interface with the device in any way they wanted on any platform they wanted.
Take note; I don't mean to suggest they owe me anything, or anyone else. I'm merely describing the ideal against which I will evaluate their products when considering a purchasing decision. Very few products or vendors meet that ideal, so most of my purchases involve finding the vendor offering the closest to that ideal, or doing without the product when I can and there are no good vendors.
> Well thats not good, they should make that application open source too. So they > go and develop the TPL (TomTom public license) and people take that apart and > bitch that its no good and evil and why don't they just use the GPL.
Yeah, it's almost as if we prefer to shop with vendors that offer good support to their customers up front, rather than having to scratch and claw and wail to get even a pittance. How silly of us.
Most of the posts here are skewing condemnatory of this goofball policy, and I agree. However, maybe there's a bright side. If the playerbase actually go through this verification process (big if), it would offer a rare opportunity to observe macroscopic differences in how men and women behave in MMOs. Do women tend to tank less and heal more? Do they tend to cluster together in all-female guilds? etc.
> And it's worth pointing out that it turns itself upside down every time it takes a step. This would, I think, > end up being a real bear of a problem in a practical robot... sometimes the head's on the top... sometimes the > head's on the bottom. It also has each of the three sides being the "front" alternately-- so, essentially, it > has no front... Still, it's pretty darn cool.
So just put a chaingun on all 3 surfaces and make sure the ammunition feed can handle being inverted. What's the problem?
> Sending the message that "good" engineers are the ones who'll stay all night is > exactly what keeps people who value life balance out of fields like engineering
The word you're looking for is "capitalism".
I'll leave it up to you to judge whether that's a good or bad thing.
> That's fine if you thought my clothing was "stupid" - but there's no need to be rude at work and comment > about it. It creates a hostile work enviroment. If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all.
It's difficult to convey tone through this medium, so please accept my assurance that the following is intended as a genuine query and not to belittle you or your position.
Why is it that you desire/demand special treatment from your coworkers? I always understood the ideal was to be accepted as equals?
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> If you look at your paycheck, you're already giving up an excessive amount of
> your money under the guise of improving the standard of living in your nation.
Eh, I'm lucky enough to have a comfortable income, so yeah, I pay a good bit. But then,
I get a top-notch highway system, a federally insured system of banks, police and
fire protection, my food and water are relatively safe, my workplace is held up to
a minimum saftey requirement... All in all I think I am getting a pretty good deal.
If we had all the money back that we've flushed down the Iraq toilet, who knows what
all nifty stuff I'd be getting for my investment in this nation?
> i guess you'd freely give up what money and property you own because you're not "greedy", right?
Would I give up some of my money to support a sensible plan to improve the overall standard of living in my nation? You betcha! Voila une liberal!
I like "dontslimemebro" =)
> Makes me wonder why they don't also demonstrate against pornographers for making movies that
> are too obscene for children or even strip clubs for not being sufficiently family-friendly
Ummmmm... they do.
> Hell, I left the thing on with a game playing for three months in a row once
Okay, I'll bite. Why on earth would you do that?
Mmmmmmm.... Ally Sheedy.
> If you're stupid enough to go through all of those steps, you deserve to be infected.
And does everyone else that your zombied machine spams or DDoS's deserve it?
> Unfortunately, most of the wii games have absolutely no quality gameplay
Thank you!!
I finally acquiesced and played the new Metroid game, which my Wii-apologist friend assured me was the pinnacle of interface design for the system. I couldn't play it for more than about 4 minutes without my hands starting to ache, but okay, fine, I'm not used to the Wii.
Then I watched him try to throw the grapple line to pull doors open. He got it to work about one out of four tries. >_
ALL THAT SAID... the bowling and golf games are tight. =)
There YOU are !
I doubt I'm the first person to come up with this, but I've been saying for years that the ballot should be a list of names and a list of offices with blanks by them, in random order. You write in the name you want next to the office you want them for. Thus, without having to invalidate a single ballot you insure that all the votes that "count" come from people who at least have the wherewithal to know who is running for what.
For a more aggressive means of filtration, just remove the list of names...
Well, this won't make the battery last longer on one discharge cycle; it'll make it last for a greater number of charge/discharge cycles, and longer overall.
To make the battery last longer on a charge, you're already on the right track with powertop.
> thinkpad-acpi: enable more hotkeys, add input device support to hotkey subdriver
Although it's not merged yet, Thinkpad owners should also check out this project:
http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/
Using the tp_smapi driver I can, among other things, clamp my battery charger to
stop at 70%, which makes the battery last a _lot_ longer. =)
british(pants,trousers) <=> american(underwear,pants)
>> Similarly "mana" (Maori) means more than just pride or spirit.
> Yeah, it means prestige/honor. You might argue that "prestige" doesn't
> capture the true essence of "mana", but I'd argue that you don't know
> the true meaning of "prestige".
Plusgood selfthink?
> He made the statement that we are pretty free, especially compared to China.
But how is that even a useful comparison? We're failing, in my opinion, to live up to
our own ideals. Why is it even worth _mentioning_ that there are places that fail even
more dramatically to live up to our ideals?
I hear what you're saying, but I don't understand your reasons for saying it.
> The US has their problems, but if you want to compare them to China, it's not even
> close. Where are the listings for the Chinese government's transgressions?
Forgive me for not having an orgasm of patriotism at the revelation that we're not the
single most oppressive regime in the world. Lowering the bar much?
> Good support is not defined by the availability of code. Maybe
> it is for you... but not for the rest of the world.
It is for me. I recognize I'm in the minority in that regard. I don't much care.
> Companies know they can support windows (and the mac) without
> dealing with any of these issues.
-nod- And in most cases they lose my business by doing so. Doesn't matter much as
long as it's just me. Maybe some day there'll be enough people who do care that it
will make financial sense to support us. Maybe it won't. -shrug-
> Seriously, would you be happy with tom tom if they provided a closed source
> application for linux like they do on other platforms?
No, I wouldn't be "happy" until they provided all the code and specification data
so that anyone who cared to could develop their own software to interface with the
device in any way they wanted on any platform they wanted.
Take note; I don't mean to suggest they owe me anything, or anyone else. I'm merely
describing the ideal against which I will evaluate their products when considering a
purchasing decision. Very few products or vendors meet that ideal, so most of my
purchases involve finding the vendor offering the closest to that ideal, or doing
without the product when I can and there are no good vendors.
> Well thats not good, they should make that application open source too. So they
> go and develop the TPL (TomTom public license) and people take that apart and
> bitch that its no good and evil and why don't they just use the GPL.
Yeah, it's almost as if we prefer to shop with vendors that offer good support to their customers up front, rather than having to scratch and claw and wail to get even a pittance. How silly of us.
> Give the people barely any service for their money, and they will use
> it only as much as they entirely have to and look for alternatives.
Thus the American corporate approach: do your damnedest to make sure there are no alternatives.
Most of the posts here are skewing condemnatory of this goofball policy, and I agree. However, maybe there's a bright side. If the playerbase actually go through this verification process (big if), it would offer a rare opportunity to observe macroscopic differences in how men and women behave in MMOs. Do women tend to tank less and heal more? Do they tend to cluster together in all-female guilds? etc.
> And it's worth pointing out that it turns itself upside down every time it takes a step. This would, I think,
> end up being a real bear of a problem in a practical robot... sometimes the head's on the top... sometimes the
> head's on the bottom. It also has each of the three sides being the "front" alternately-- so, essentially, it
> has no front... Still, it's pretty darn cool.
So just put a chaingun on all 3 surfaces and make sure the ammunition feed can handle being inverted. What's the problem?
> Sending the message that "good" engineers are the ones who'll stay all night is
> exactly what keeps people who value life balance out of fields like engineering
The word you're looking for is "capitalism".
I'll leave it up to you to judge whether that's a good or bad thing.
> That's fine if you thought my clothing was "stupid" - but there's no need to be rude at work and comment
> about it. It creates a hostile work enviroment. If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all.
It's difficult to convey tone through this medium, so please accept my assurance that the following is intended
as a genuine query and not to belittle you or your position.
Why is it that you desire/demand special treatment from your coworkers? I always understood the ideal was to be
accepted as equals?
> Touch and Poke, just to name TWO commands, might need renaming?
finger
You're not wrong. =)