It's the reason I stopped recommending HP computers to people. I tell them the best deal is a Dell business computer. Dell business computers come to as clean as you want them.
It is interesting that Gorbachev won the award, but Reagan was not jointly awarded. Hmmm. Now, there is clearly a group of undeserved in that list, but even a conservative would agree that the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Jody Williams, Doctors Without Borders, and Liu Xaiobo and a few others that I don't know much about are all deserving winners. It just seems that recently the award has been given to snub the conservative US.
While you bring up good points (no name, no location), it really isn't that hard to ask the phone's service provider for all messages sent to a specific phone number and from where and at what time.
It worked so well with Germany and Japan that the US government thought it could just keep repeating the success. The problem is that the US (we) have enough problems of our own to sort out before we start jumping in other people's problems. Like you said, let the US support democratization by the people, then get out of the way and let those people figure it out on their own.
To each his own, obviously. I enjoyed Full Throttle 2 - I can see how others would not like it. I enjoyed the Sam & Max series more. And I thoroughly enjoyed Grim Fandango. I do believe the Sam & Max series are getting steady updates through Steam.
Yes, but can you also browse the web, do your homework, work on projects, do some video, image, audio editing, your taxes, your budget, or whatever else you want you computer to do and at the same time if you want on a console?
My computer is my primary gaming device. But it is also so much more useful to me than just games.
For those who dropped out of computer gaming because the "cost to upgrade" every 6 months was too high need to take a look at it again. I can agree it was crazy between 1998 and 2004. Now, however, my 4 year old nVidia GeForce 8800GT can still handle a lot of the A list games without any problem.
The industry is to the point now that nVidia has really stopped marketing to the gamers and have started making the cards attractive to the researchers, 3d modelers, and others who would find a high CPU core count interesting. The fact that this type of card is also useful at rendering polygons and rays very, very quickly is a side benefit for the few gamers where money is no object.
For me, those are the high-end range of things. For processors, I recently picked up a Gigabyte motherboard and an Athlon X4 CPU for $300 total. (An equivalent Intel purchase would have increased the motherboard price by $100-$150 and the CPU price by around $100.)
Mid-range would be the GT4xx and GeForce 88xx or 98xx series and the low-end would be the GT2xx and GeForce 86xx or 96xx series.
I would try to list ATI equivalents, but I've never been a fan of them... and now that I'm in a Linux world, I try to avoid them as much as possible.
And where is 1920x1080 common? Is this with 23" widescreen monitors? Most people I run into (myself included) are hanging around the 19 - 21 inch monitors where the native resolution is 1440x900. (Of course, I'm just a single data point, I do hang around a lot of computers.)
Actually, the HTPC market is starting to get some decent integrated options from ATI and nVidia. These onboard chips are designed for TV connections and HD content (HDMI connectors, software to decode 1080p natively, etc). These chips, as I've found out, still aren't good enough for playing World of Warcraft at great graphics resolutions (good, yes, not great).
I use OpenOffice and won't buy Microsoft Office. But if I needed a powerful spreadsheet, it would be Excel. (Fortunately, I'm no power user of spreadsheets.)
That's simplistic, certainly. I would say that the re-election was based on many things, but the majority did actually support the Afghan and Iraqi war. The loss of civil liberties enacted by both major parties did not really come into play... because both major party's political elite are acting on reducing the public's civil liberties and other rights and privileges (thus was born the T.E.A. party, sort of).
I'm not trying to be a grammar nazi, but I did want to verify that you meant "casualty" (someone injured, killed, captured, or missing in a military engagement ) when you typed "causality" (relation between cause and effect). The use of causality in your first sentence kind of makes sense, but not in your second sentence.
Just because the government has usurped the religion in Europe (tithing = tax in some countries) doesn't mean that is truly a Christian tenet. Yes, there is the concept of tithing, but it is voluntary in most (if not all) major religions. In some religions, you may not gain access to certain areas of a church or temple without paying a tithe, but it is still voluntary and generally won't prevent you from attending the weeklyhttp://news.slashdot.org/story/11/01/24/1836225/Terrorists-Bomb-Moscow-Airport?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29# services.
Agreed, the price point is quite high. I come from an upper middle class family, and never have I or my siblings ever had a Christmas gift over $100 (unless we combined it with our birthday present).
ZoneAlarm? Really? That's a really poor example. Best software firewall for windows that is out there is Comodo. It has been for years. It's a bonus that it comes with a free Internet security package for use in homes, schools, and small businesses./free advert off
I've always thought of scouring the electronics dumpster in my area and peeling away the MS Windows XP stickers. That computer is not going to need it, the key is likely still valid, etc. Perhaps MS looks at it differently.
Truly. This doesn't just apply to IS / IT either. My wife was a dental assistant for a long time at one company. When they finally gave her a raise, it was still lower than the new hires.
Reminds me of a story I read on a The Daily WTF thread the other day, guy's manager was upset he was denied a raise after several requests when dept. B was getting new hires at rates above his own. So the guy's manager told him to apply for the other job, he gets an offer, manager complains to HR that he's a necessary team member, et al and the guy gets his raise without a move. (The other team was upset with the manager after that. Ahh, office politics.)
I've noticed the trend, too. The only way to move up is to move out. (Not always applicable, ymmv.)
For Christians and Jews, the question is valid. Why, if Life 2.0 is so great, do we not off ourselves and get there faster? The answer is 2-fold. 1. We believe in a God that told us "Multiply and Replenish the Earth." We would be sinners otherwise. 2. We believe God told us not to expedite the situation. Fortunately, we are built with a strong self-preservation method.
Someone mentioned Buddhism before. They believe that in order to have a better Life 2.0, or 16.0, you have to live a good current life. (I am open for correction if I misunderstand.)
Islam also teaches one to live a good life and respect each other - despite the psychotics that have taken over and perverted their religion.
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It's the reason I stopped recommending HP computers to people. I tell them the best deal is a Dell business computer. Dell business computers come to as clean as you want them.
It is interesting that Gorbachev won the award, but Reagan was not jointly awarded. Hmmm. Now, there is clearly a group of undeserved in that list, but even a conservative would agree that the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Jody Williams, Doctors Without Borders, and Liu Xaiobo and a few others that I don't know much about are all deserving winners. It just seems that recently the award has been given to snub the conservative US.
While you bring up good points (no name, no location), it really isn't that hard to ask the phone's service provider for all messages sent to a specific phone number and from where and at what time.
I wouldn't point to colorblindness so quickly when dealing with monitors.
It worked so well with Germany and Japan that the US government thought it could just keep repeating the success. The problem is that the US (we) have enough problems of our own to sort out before we start jumping in other people's problems. Like you said, let the US support democratization by the people, then get out of the way and let those people figure it out on their own.
To each his own, obviously. I enjoyed Full Throttle 2 - I can see how others would not like it. I enjoyed the Sam & Max series more. And I thoroughly enjoyed Grim Fandango. I do believe the Sam & Max series are getting steady updates through Steam.
Yes, but can you also browse the web, do your homework, work on projects, do some video, image, audio editing, your taxes, your budget, or whatever else you want you computer to do and at the same time if you want on a console?
My computer is my primary gaming device. But it is also so much more useful to me than just games.
For those who dropped out of computer gaming because the "cost to upgrade" every 6 months was too high need to take a look at it again. I can agree it was crazy between 1998 and 2004. Now, however, my 4 year old nVidia GeForce 8800GT can still handle a lot of the A list games without any problem.
The industry is to the point now that nVidia has really stopped marketing to the gamers and have started making the cards attractive to the researchers, 3d modelers, and others who would find a high CPU core count interesting. The fact that this type of card is also useful at rendering polygons and rays very, very quickly is a side benefit for the few gamers where money is no object.
For me, those are the high-end range of things. For processors, I recently picked up a Gigabyte motherboard and an Athlon X4 CPU for $300 total. (An equivalent Intel purchase would have increased the motherboard price by $100-$150 and the CPU price by around $100.)
Mid-range would be the GT4xx and GeForce 88xx or 98xx series and the low-end would be the GT2xx and GeForce 86xx or 96xx series.
I would try to list ATI equivalents, but I've never been a fan of them... and now that I'm in a Linux world, I try to avoid them as much as possible.
And where is 1920x1080 common? Is this with 23" widescreen monitors? Most people I run into (myself included) are hanging around the 19 - 21 inch monitors where the native resolution is 1440x900. (Of course, I'm just a single data point, I do hang around a lot of computers.)
Actually, the HTPC market is starting to get some decent integrated options from ATI and nVidia. These onboard chips are designed for TV connections and HD content (HDMI connectors, software to decode 1080p natively, etc). These chips, as I've found out, still aren't good enough for playing World of Warcraft at great graphics resolutions (good, yes, not great).
I use OpenOffice and won't buy Microsoft Office. But if I needed a powerful spreadsheet, it would be Excel. (Fortunately, I'm no power user of spreadsheets.)
To give a real world example: see WordPerfect.
That's simplistic, certainly. I would say that the re-election was based on many things, but the majority did actually support the Afghan and Iraqi war. The loss of civil liberties enacted by both major parties did not really come into play... because both major party's political elite are acting on reducing the public's civil liberties and other rights and privileges (thus was born the T.E.A. party, sort of).
I'm not trying to be a grammar nazi, but I did want to verify that you meant "casualty" (someone injured, killed, captured, or missing in a military engagement ) when you typed "causality" (relation between cause and effect). The use of causality in your first sentence kind of makes sense, but not in your second sentence.
Just because the government has usurped the religion in Europe (tithing = tax in some countries) doesn't mean that is truly a Christian tenet. Yes, there is the concept of tithing, but it is voluntary in most (if not all) major religions. In some religions, you may not gain access to certain areas of a church or temple without paying a tithe, but it is still voluntary and generally won't prevent you from attending the weeklyhttp://news.slashdot.org/story/11/01/24/1836225/Terrorists-Bomb-Moscow-Airport?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29# services.
I've never, ever had it nag me. Grisoft's AVG, yes, but never Comodo.
Agreed, the price point is quite high. I come from an upper middle class family, and never have I or my siblings ever had a Christmas gift over $100 (unless we combined it with our birthday present).
ZoneAlarm? Really? That's a really poor example. Best software firewall for windows that is out there is Comodo. It has been for years. It's a bonus that it comes with a free Internet security package for use in homes, schools, and small businesses. /free advert off
One doesn't have to participate in school prayers, but Darwin forbid you actually pray in school.
I've always thought of scouring the electronics dumpster in my area and peeling away the MS Windows XP stickers. That computer is not going to need it, the key is likely still valid, etc. Perhaps MS looks at it differently.
The point being, if the machine is unwilling to give the experienced cog its due diligence, the machine is actively destroying itself.
Truly. This doesn't just apply to IS / IT either. My wife was a dental assistant for a long time at one company. When they finally gave her a raise, it was still lower than the new hires.
Reminds me of a story I read on a The Daily WTF thread the other day, guy's manager was upset he was denied a raise after several requests when dept. B was getting new hires at rates above his own. So the guy's manager told him to apply for the other job, he gets an offer, manager complains to HR that he's a necessary team member, et al and the guy gets his raise without a move. (The other team was upset with the manager after that. Ahh, office politics.)
I've noticed the trend, too. The only way to move up is to move out. (Not always applicable, ymmv.)
For Christians and Jews, the question is valid. Why, if Life 2.0 is so great, do we not off ourselves and get there faster? The answer is 2-fold. 1. We believe in a God that told us "Multiply and Replenish the Earth." We would be sinners otherwise. 2. We believe God told us not to expedite the situation. Fortunately, we are built with a strong self-preservation method.
Someone mentioned Buddhism before. They believe that in order to have a better Life 2.0, or 16.0, you have to live a good current life. (I am open for correction if I misunderstand.)
Islam also teaches one to live a good life and respect each other - despite the psychotics that have taken over and perverted their religion.
Not true. Christians and Jews believe in an afterlife that allows the person to live forever. A Savior opens the way.
Reference: GLADoS, Portal Project, result = need cake.