I know that you are trying to be helpful, but your post reads as though it were written by a man in the depths of an ether binge. "Erm. Hrm. Well... No...". Why did you bother writing that out, changing your mind, and then not erasing and correcting what you wrote originally instead of just hitting "Submit"?
Obviously not a sports fan. If a star player gets injured, the "project" of winning the championship game that season will fail if there is insufficient talent elsewhere on the team to pick up the slack. Granted, Linux is not in direct competition with anybody, so they have basically unlimited time to find a replacement, but in the grand scheme of things if a few top contributors to Linux were to disappear or stop, Linux would lose a lot of footing in the OS wars.
I don't get why that is. Sure, higher resolution picture is great, but what's the difference between that and if they chose to broadcast the game on SDTV in letterbox format?
I'd hardly consider the situation "Crappy Picture at a Low price, or Great Picture at a High Price" a "Catch-22". A Catch-22 usually involves some sort of circular logic; i.e. you can't a job without experience and you can't get experience without a job.
Please Internet, don't bastardize yet another literary expression!
Sony's attempts to circumvent piracy by releasing a crippled "MP3" player were less than futile. When the old business model starts to fail, you shift focus to the new business model that is working.
The recording side of Sony had no trouble communicating to the MP3 player side the fact that they should do what they can to restrict users from copying songs freely. Stupid things like forcing users to convert from MP3 to ARTAC and limiting them from copying a song more than 3 times (which was easy enough to circumvent) still leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth 5 years since I received a Sony "MP3" player for Christmas that at the time was worth $300.
"Job outsourced to India! Go directly to trade school, do not buy a house, do not get laid."
"High school reunion time! The same guy who kicked your ass every day in high school and barely passed wood shop laughs at you because he makes more than you as a plumber while you wasted 4 years at college. Go back 3 spaces."
With WASD, I place my pinky on A, ring on S, and middle on D. My first finger is then free to use just about any key to the right of WASD without leaving the natural typing position. With ESDF, I would either have to move my whole hand over one, or get used to using my pinky for the optional keys, of which the pinky can't reach nearly as many as my first finger can from WASD. Leaving the first finger on F is very important to being able to re-establish hand location after having my hand jump to enter a command such as switching to weapon 7, etc.
...or, just imagine what kind of quality software would come out of Adobe if everyone just gave them $100 with each release of Photoshop!!! I think that is more a question of whether Photoshop is being priced fairly.
I agree that getting older means that it is much harder to be impressed. I have to say that the only thing that really appeals to me anymore is when the game involves such a high level of thinking that it is more or less like chess. If you want to see a good example of such a game, check out Laser Squad Nemesis. It's a turn-based strategy game that involves positioning units and issuing orders in order to properly assault an intelligent enemy, namely another living, breathing human.
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I know that you are trying to be helpful, but your post reads as though it were written by a man in the depths of an ether binge. "Erm. Hrm. Well... No...". Why did you bother writing that out, changing your mind, and then not erasing and correcting what you wrote originally instead of just hitting "Submit"?
Don't bother learning; just send your desired programming task overseas.
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Obviously not a sports fan. If a star player gets injured, the "project" of winning the championship game that season will fail if there is insufficient talent elsewhere on the team to pick up the slack. Granted, Linux is not in direct competition with anybody, so they have basically unlimited time to find a replacement, but in the grand scheme of things if a few top contributors to Linux were to disappear or stop, Linux would lose a lot of footing in the OS wars.
I don't get why that is. Sure, higher resolution picture is great, but what's the difference between that and if they chose to broadcast the game on SDTV in letterbox format?
I'd hardly consider the situation "Crappy Picture at a Low price, or Great Picture at a High Price" a "Catch-22". A Catch-22 usually involves some sort of circular logic; i.e. you can't a job without experience and you can't get experience without a job.
Please Internet, don't bastardize yet another literary expression!
Well, apparently there is a patch for The Sims 2 that makes it worse than Hot Coffee.
No banking, but Google Wallet?
Sony's attempts to circumvent piracy by releasing a crippled "MP3" player were less than futile. When the old business model starts to fail, you shift focus to the new business model that is working.
Damn, you beat me to it while I was searching the slashdot archives for the relavent story about how Sony admitted that ARTAC was dumb.
The recording side of Sony had no trouble communicating to the MP3 player side the fact that they should do what they can to restrict users from copying songs freely. Stupid things like forcing users to convert from MP3 to ARTAC and limiting them from copying a song more than 3 times (which was easy enough to circumvent) still leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth 5 years since I received a Sony "MP3" player for Christmas that at the time was worth $300.
7: what's it like in soviet Russia
In Soviet Russia, penis size is not increased by purchasing a faster computer.
"Job outsourced to India! Go directly to trade school, do not buy a house, do not get laid."
"High school reunion time! The same guy who kicked your ass every day in high school and barely passed wood shop laughs at you because he makes more than you as a plumber while you wasted 4 years at college. Go back 3 spaces."
With WASD, I place my pinky on A, ring on S, and middle on D. My first finger is then free to use just about any key to the right of WASD without leaving the natural typing position. With ESDF, I would either have to move my whole hand over one, or get used to using my pinky for the optional keys, of which the pinky can't reach nearly as many as my first finger can from WASD. Leaving the first finger on F is very important to being able to re-establish hand location after having my hand jump to enter a command such as switching to weapon 7, etc.
...or, just imagine what kind of quality software would come out of Adobe if everyone just gave them $100 with each release of Photoshop!!! I think that is more a question of whether Photoshop is being priced fairly.
"practical, pragmatic"...
pragmatic Pronunciation (prg-mtk)
adj.
1. Dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical.
redundant Pronunciation (r-dndnt)
adj.
1. Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous.
$26/hr. != $52,000/year
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By the time you figure out benefits, taxes, and all the other costs of being "self-employed", it's more like $26,000/year.
For more info. read this: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/08/0
I agree that getting older means that it is much harder to be impressed. I have to say that the only thing that really appeals to me anymore is when the game involves such a high level of thinking that it is more or less like chess. If you want to see a good example of such a game, check out Laser Squad Nemesis. It's a turn-based strategy game that involves positioning units and issuing orders in order to properly assault an intelligent enemy, namely another living, breathing human.
Every morning, I wake up, pray to the sun, and thank Steve Jobs for having the foresight to bring us Linux!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters!
I like how on digg.com the users pick the stories but here it's all up to CmdrTaco.
*sniff* and I tried so hard!
Samsung: "Apple is always after me lucky flash memory; it's expensively shock-resistant!"
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5. ??? 6. Profit!!!