I've been playing iClod City or whatever (does that even qualify?) which is turn based, but free, and often go days forgetting I was even playing.
By the time I com back, it's difficult to remember what I was doing or what I had planned to do next.
I dunno, to me sounds kinda like companies are getting desperate to find an audience.
Maybe the reason is cost, even at 10 bucks a month, if you're playing 5 or 6 of them, that's (duh) 50 or 60 dollars just for online gaming. Coupled with the prices of console and PC games, gamers quickly have to decide what to play. Maybe fix the problem with dedicated players and then solve the problem of MMOGS for the casual user.
You're absolutely right- if I wanted to move up through the ranks there of course would be a time where how I want to look would be superceded by who they think i should look, and I'm ok with that. When the day comes that I want to lead more than a small team of developers, I'll consider my options.
10 years down the road I hope to be running my own company, but if that's not the case, like I said in the original, I can adapt. Supporting my family is always the overriding factor. If I were asked to change something, I probably would if I wasn't the only one (like if it became policy) rather than try to make a futile point and have to get a job making pizza or working at McDonalds.
I think what's important to note is that employers who pay you decent wages and still don't care what you look like are putting the value in the right place- you.
Yep, totally. And the funny thing about being an adult is being able to choose what you want to do, what to wear and where to work. You want a job at IBM? Then you'll have to adjust to the company's codes.
But it's also stupid to think you can't work in a professional environment unless you look a certain way. In fact it's bullshit. It all depends on what your professional company expects from you.
I wear steel tubes in my ears. I have a long goatee and sideburns. I wear tshirts and jeans. I don't have tattoos yet, but I won't be hindered by my job when it comes to deciding what and where they'll be.
Do you know why I can?
Because it's not what I am expected to be like. Because I don't interact with customers. I don't meet with partners. I'm not an executive and don't want to be. I write code. Basically the only time I'm called out of my office is for status meetings.
Most importantly though, I work for a very liberal tech company. Our execs don't judge you by what you look like or what you wear. I've had hallway chats with high-level VPs while wearing WTF? and "Every time you download music god kills a kitten" shirts and it just isn't an issue.
However, if for some reason I had to give a talk or teach a class to people outside out company, I'd of course choose appropriate attire and look professional, but professional doesn't have to mean being anal-retentive, wearing button-up shirts and kaki slacks.
BUT, if I worked for a company I really liked and they changed the dress code to be button ups and a tie, fine. It's my choice to either work there or find new work. I can adapt, I'm not physically attached to my clothing. The earrings would be a little weird because the holes are kind of large, but I'm sure I could find a solution if I had to.
A couple of things came to mind reading the parent.
I'd have to say welding titanium is no more difficult than welding aluminum or stainless steel. They're all tricky and it takes practice.
Titanium can be difficult to work with (especially if you're not set up to do so) but you'll notice that most titanium jewelry is either formed (from wire, rod or sheet) or machined. Titanium rings/bands are machined- not cast.
Because Ti rings are machined, your local jeweler is likely unable to resize your ring. You can't size it down the way you would common alloy rings (which are cut and soldered to make smaller, stretched to make bigger) so you've got to either go back to the retailer or in some cases the manufacturer.
Aluminum was more expensive than gold, but its value is subjective, gold has been desired more than any other metal since its discovery. Side note- aluminum used to cost more because until relatively recently it was extremely expensive to extract from bauxite. (If you're interested, it's called the Bayer Process)
Unlike gold and other precious metals and alloys, I don't think titanium and other industrial metals are sold on market exchanges. There's no spot or fix for the industrial metals (that I know of.)
And lastly, my local scrap metal dealer buys Ti at $.18/pound and sells at $.24/pound. I think this is much lower than it's market value, but even o it's no wonder these farmer guys are making $$$- they have tonnage. Well, and, it's probably hard to find in that market.
- prolly
- lesbohemian
- saxamaphone
- frinked (like macgyvered but better)
- spombed (massive amounts of email from the same person in a relatively short period)
As a user of many mice over the years, I have to say my favorite so far is the 5 button MS Intellimouse Optical but the best software for it is the 4.1, not the newest. 4.1 has the Alt+tab assignment option, later software doesn't.
Another plus was that when I broke it (stepped on it during a move) I called MS support, and they sent me a brand new one after I faxed them a copy of the bottom of the mouse. Sweet.
Tinfoil on the inside of your house. After all, you don't want them to know you're on to them.
You know who I mean
I used to say that, too...
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...until I ended up with an MP3 player (and then later an iPod) and a digital camera I wanted to take with me along with my phone, and thought about getting a PDA and then realized I only have so many pockets and I'm not buying one of those gadget jackets.
What frustrates me is that nobody makes a phone you can CUSTOMIZE the features on, like when you order it.
You can do this with computers, why not phones? I'd be all over the company that let me pick the phone OS, form factor and goodies.
Hmm, so, dreamphone? SonyEricsson T637 sized, Symbian with MIDP2, GPS, full length touchscreen (no stylus pad, no buttons), 2MP cam, Bluetooth and WiFi enabled with a 4GB microdrive. Since it's a dream, 10 hours actual talk/use time. (Hey, Jack Bauer can get like 18 hours talk time, why not me!)
My biggest problem trying to use Opera was simply the overwhelming amount of stuff it does. All that stuff you mentioned- Notes, Transfers, etc, I wasn't even aware of.
Opera seems to have a lot of bang for the (big) buck, which is good, I just wish there was an easy way to use it all.
I have had to replace my wife's MS Natural keyboard 3x due to water (2x) and granita spills.
The first time I decided to see why it didn't work, and upon opening it up I discovered that the (relatively) expensive keyboard used the cheapest possible method of construction: three sheets of mylar. Two on both sides of the one in the middle with the circuit printing. It was put together in just the right way to allow any liquid entering at the sides to funnel in by capillary action, right in between those layers, oxidize the circuits and short the board. Weak.
And then there's my old AST keyboard which has survived coffee, soda and a beer spill, countless crumbs and a paper clip or two.
I haven't taken it apart to clean it, but I am curious to know HOW it still manages to function.
Hmm. I agree downloading isn't bad for series TV. I see your point, afterall TFA was about a series. For series shows with an established viewer base, I can totally see Internet distribution as a supplemental method of getting the show out (pirated or authorized) but I can't see torrents or P2P replacing or, frankly, even harming broadcast TV.
98% of all households in America have a TV, 64% have cable, another 24% have satellite or a combination while only 31%-50% (depending on your source) have a computer and only 13% of those hooked up to the Internet have broadband access- a pre-requisite for downloading or streaming TV with any kind of qaulity.
DVDs are a different thing altogether, I love the extras (one of the reasons I buy them anyway) but I also have Starz from Real, and there are extras for movies also. The major difference though, is that I can not select at will WHAT part of the extras I want to watch. The same is true for a download, you can sure skip through, but you can't select a scene like you could with a DVD. Plus, if your DVD player stops working, your DVD is still good. The same is not true for downloaded shows.
1). Too much money is involved in advertising and programs
2). There will always be a readily available audience for TV
3). People are "lazy" when it comes to viewing, it's easier to flip through channels and see right away what's on than start a download, wait, watch, decide it sucks and try to find something else.
You can get DRMed full length movies, as many as you want, from Real and Starz now for $13 a month. The quality is excellent, and if you commute long distances able to use your laptop, it's pretty cool.
The catalog is actually pretty big, 400 titles I think. The picture is damn good on a TV as well (you'll of course need a video out).
Whatever. An exploit is an exploit. Patched or not, a hole is a fucking hole.
I use a Mac, I know damn well updates are up to ME to install if I choose so. Any exploit and vulnerability EVER found in a Mac still exists, simply releasing a patch DOES NOT MAKE IT GO AWAY.
Case in point, last week 20 patches for vulnerabilities for 10.3.9 were released. Those are fixed in 10.4. Does that mean the hole is plugged? NO. A patch was released and the new software doesn't have the flaw, but anyone still running 10.3.x without the patches installed is still at risk.
Is it stupid to not install the patch, yes, duh. And yet people on all OSes fail do to just that.
Want me to put up? HERE it's from the holy seat itself.
It's a fact, one you overlook so you can act like an ass instead. Do so if you want, but stop pretending Mac OS is invulnerable.
Joke or not, your comment is indicative of the denial most Mac users seem to live in- "If it's not Windows, it's secure" and "If I don't hear about it, I must be OK" but the fact is that Mac OS X uses BSD, BSD has holes == Mac OS X has holes. Mac OS X is written by people who want users to have the easiest possible experience using their Mac. As a result, some of the things in place to make usability easier open up holes. This is the same for any OS. Anytime you cater to the user first and security second (or later) you will always ALWAYS provide someone else a way in.
I have no problem with using one OS or another, I use whatever the hell I need to get the job done- to me it's a tool, not a lifestyle. As such, I make sure my tools are safe and pay attention when someone says my OS has a hole or exploit or vulnerability, rather than just refusing to believe it's true.
But on some level you now understand what its like to crap in the bushes like a deer.
Or piss on one.
My dad and I were hunting years back on a tree farm. About 20 minutes before sunrise (can't shoot here till then) he went off to take a leak. A minute later I hear some loud rustling and he yelled astring of curses.
He had walked up to a clump of tall grasses and was relieving himself when a buck jumped up from within the grass, where it was sleeping, and ran off. My dad had pissed on it and woke it up.
He said "imagine being that buck's wife and trying to explain who's scent that is!"
I guess it's all in the head of the hunter. Personally, I've eaten everything I've ever hunted and killed and have baited nary a one.
I don't see the sport in baiting and animal, hiding in a tower and then shooting him from above. I don't get the people like Ted Nugent who think they have to show themselves as the ultimate predator and hunt elephants (I actually caught part of that on TV, how sporting can Ted be to have a bunch of Africans trap an elephant so he can shoot it with a god-caliber rifle up close?) and I don't believe shooting caged animals is hunting.
It's more "sport" to drag your ass out of bed at 3AM (or your equivalent of 0 dark thirty) drive way the hell out into the woods, hike to your hunting grounds and wait for the sun to come up so you can start hunting your prey. (We have a no fire before sunrise law in WA)
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I've been playing iClod City or whatever (does that even qualify?) which is turn based, but free, and often go days forgetting I was even playing.
By the time I com back, it's difficult to remember what I was doing or what I had planned to do next.
I dunno, to me sounds kinda like companies are getting desperate to find an audience.
Maybe the reason is cost, even at 10 bucks a month, if you're playing 5 or 6 of them, that's (duh) 50 or 60 dollars just for online gaming. Coupled with the prices of console and PC games, gamers quickly have to decide what to play. Maybe fix the problem with dedicated players and then solve the problem of MMOGS for the casual user.
In the form of RealNetworks and Sirius Satellite.
NOW he tells us!
You're absolutely right- if I wanted to move up through the ranks there of course would be a time where how I want to look would be superceded by who they think i should look, and I'm ok with that. When the day comes that I want to lead more than a small team of developers, I'll consider my options.
10 years down the road I hope to be running my own company, but if that's not the case, like I said in the original, I can adapt. Supporting my family is always the overriding factor. If I were asked to change something, I probably would if I wasn't the only one (like if it became policy) rather than try to make a futile point and have to get a job making pizza or working at McDonalds.
I think what's important to note is that employers who pay you decent wages and still don't care what you look like are putting the value in the right place- you.
you're an adult now
Yep, totally. And the funny thing about being an adult is being able to choose what you want to do, what to wear and where to work. You want a job at IBM? Then you'll have to adjust to the company's codes.
But it's also stupid to think you can't work in a professional environment unless you look a certain way. In fact it's bullshit. It all depends on what your professional company expects from you.
I wear steel tubes in my ears. I have a long goatee and sideburns. I wear tshirts and jeans. I don't have tattoos yet, but I won't be hindered by my job when it comes to deciding what and where they'll be.
Do you know why I can?
Because it's not what I am expected to be like. Because I don't interact with customers. I don't meet with partners. I'm not an executive and don't want to be. I write code. Basically the only time I'm called out of my office is for status meetings.
Most importantly though, I work for a very liberal tech company. Our execs don't judge you by what you look like or what you wear. I've had hallway chats with high-level VPs while wearing WTF? and "Every time you download music god kills a kitten" shirts and it just isn't an issue.
However, if for some reason I had to give a talk or teach a class to people outside out company, I'd of course choose appropriate attire and look professional, but professional doesn't have to mean being anal-retentive, wearing button-up shirts and kaki slacks.
BUT, if I worked for a company I really liked and they changed the dress code to be button ups and a tie, fine. It's my choice to either work there or find new work. I can adapt, I'm not physically attached to my clothing. The earrings would be a little weird because the holes are kind of large, but I'm sure I could find a solution if I had to.
But I don't.
Why are you reading this? I'm talking about the parent!
Alpha ray sterilization.
A couple of things came to mind reading the parent.
I'd have to say welding titanium is no more difficult than welding aluminum or stainless steel. They're all tricky and it takes practice.
Titanium can be difficult to work with (especially if you're not set up to do so) but you'll notice that most titanium jewelry is either formed (from wire, rod or sheet) or machined. Titanium rings/bands are machined- not cast.
Because Ti rings are machined, your local jeweler is likely unable to resize your ring. You can't size it down the way you would common alloy rings (which are cut and soldered to make smaller, stretched to make bigger) so you've got to either go back to the retailer or in some cases the manufacturer.
Aluminum was more expensive than gold, but its value is subjective, gold has been desired more than any other metal since its discovery. Side note- aluminum used to cost more because until relatively recently it was extremely expensive to extract from bauxite. (If you're interested, it's called the Bayer Process)
Unlike gold and other precious metals and alloys, I don't think titanium and other industrial metals are sold on market exchanges. There's no spot or fix for the industrial metals (that I know of.)
And lastly, my local scrap metal dealer buys Ti at $.18/pound and sells at $.24/pound. I think this is much lower than it's market value, but even o it's no wonder these farmer guys are making $$$- they have tonnage. Well, and, it's probably hard to find in that market.
My nominations
- prolly
- lesbohemian
- saxamaphone
- frinked (like macgyvered but better)
- spombed (massive amounts of email from the same person in a relatively short period)
As a user of many mice over the years, I have to say my favorite so far is the 5 button MS Intellimouse Optical but the best software for it is the 4.1, not the newest. 4.1 has the Alt+tab assignment option, later software doesn't.
Another plus was that when I broke it (stepped on it during a move) I called MS support, and they sent me a brand new one after I faxed them a copy of the bottom of the mouse. Sweet.
the good 'ole days of trying incessantly to uncurl that mouse cord in the right direction
Totally! I found a day of laying it in the sun helped though. Maybe we need more hardware that can be fixed by warming it up...
Sorry, but no fucking way am I reading a 10 page review for a keyboard and mouse.
Tinfoil on the inside of your house. After all, you don't want them to know you're on to them.
You know who I mean
What frustrates me is that nobody makes a phone you can CUSTOMIZE the features on, like when you order it.
You can do this with computers, why not phones? I'd be all over the company that let me pick the phone OS, form factor and goodies.
Hmm, so, dreamphone? SonyEricsson T637 sized, Symbian with MIDP2, GPS, full length touchscreen (no stylus pad, no buttons), 2MP cam, Bluetooth and WiFi enabled with a 4GB microdrive. Since it's a dream, 10 hours actual talk/use time. (Hey, Jack Bauer can get like 18 hours talk time, why not me!)
My biggest problem trying to use Opera was simply the overwhelming amount of stuff it does. All that stuff you mentioned- Notes, Transfers, etc, I wasn't even aware of.
Opera seems to have a lot of bang for the (big) buck, which is good, I just wish there was an easy way to use it all.
Balootooth?
Baloo being the bear, and a gray colored one at that. Although some screen grabs made him look blue...
I have had to replace my wife's MS Natural keyboard 3x due to water (2x) and granita spills.
The first time I decided to see why it didn't work, and upon opening it up I discovered that the (relatively) expensive keyboard used the cheapest possible method of construction: three sheets of mylar. Two on both sides of the one in the middle with the circuit printing. It was put together in just the right way to allow any liquid entering at the sides to funnel in by capillary action, right in between those layers, oxidize the circuits and short the board. Weak.
And then there's my old AST keyboard which has survived coffee, soda and a beer spill, countless crumbs and a paper clip or two.
I haven't taken it apart to clean it, but I am curious to know HOW it still manages to function.
Hmm. I agree downloading isn't bad for series TV. I see your point, afterall TFA was about a series. For series shows with an established viewer base, I can totally see Internet distribution as a supplemental method of getting the show out (pirated or authorized) but I can't see torrents or P2P replacing or, frankly, even harming broadcast TV.
98% of all households in America have a TV, 64% have cable, another 24% have satellite or a combination while only 31%-50% (depending on your source) have a computer and only 13% of those hooked up to the Internet have broadband access- a pre-requisite for downloading or streaming TV with any kind of qaulity.
DVDs are a different thing altogether, I love the extras (one of the reasons I buy them anyway) but I also have Starz from Real, and there are extras for movies also. The major difference though, is that I can not select at will WHAT part of the extras I want to watch. The same is true for a download, you can sure skip through, but you can't select a scene like you could with a DVD. Plus, if your DVD player stops working, your DVD is still good. The same is not true for downloaded shows.
1). Too much money is involved in advertising and programs
2). There will always be a readily available audience for TV
3). People are "lazy" when it comes to viewing, it's easier to flip through channels and see right away what's on than start a download, wait, watch, decide it sucks and try to find something else.
You can get DRMed full length movies, as many as you want, from Real and Starz now for $13 a month. The quality is excellent, and if you commute long distances able to use your laptop, it's pretty cool.
The catalog is actually pretty big, 400 titles I think. The picture is damn good on a TV as well (you'll of course need a video out).
Whatever. An exploit is an exploit. Patched or not, a hole is a fucking hole.
I use a Mac, I know damn well updates are up to ME to install if I choose so. Any exploit and vulnerability EVER found in a Mac still exists, simply releasing a patch DOES NOT MAKE IT GO AWAY.
Case in point, last week 20 patches for vulnerabilities for 10.3.9 were released. Those are fixed in 10.4. Does that mean the hole is plugged? NO. A patch was released and the new software doesn't have the flaw, but anyone still running 10.3.x without the patches installed is still at risk.
Is it stupid to not install the patch, yes, duh. And yet people on all OSes fail do to just that.
Want me to put up? HERE it's from the holy seat itself.
It's a fact, one you overlook so you can act like an ass instead. Do so if you want, but stop pretending Mac OS is invulnerable.
Good thing it hasn't happened then.
Sure it has. Still does, past and present examples.
Joke or not, your comment is indicative of the denial most Mac users seem to live in- "If it's not Windows, it's secure" and "If I don't hear about it, I must be OK" but the fact is that Mac OS X uses BSD, BSD has holes == Mac OS X has holes. Mac OS X is written by people who want users to have the easiest possible experience using their Mac. As a result, some of the things in place to make usability easier open up holes. This is the same for any OS. Anytime you cater to the user first and security second (or later) you will always ALWAYS provide someone else a way in.
I have no problem with using one OS or another, I use whatever the hell I need to get the job done- to me it's a tool, not a lifestyle. As such, I make sure my tools are safe and pay attention when someone says my OS has a hole or exploit or vulnerability, rather than just refusing to believe it's true.
Oh shit, you got me there!
*zing*
I tried to think of a witty remark, but the only one I could come up with at your grade level went something like:
It wasn't a rock, it was your mama.
But on some level you now understand what its like to crap in the bushes like a deer.
Or piss on one.
My dad and I were hunting years back on a tree farm. About 20 minutes before sunrise (can't shoot here till then) he went off to take a leak. A minute later I hear some loud rustling and he yelled astring of curses.
He had walked up to a clump of tall grasses and was relieving himself when a buck jumped up from within the grass, where it was sleeping, and ran off. My dad had pissed on it and woke it up.
He said "imagine being that buck's wife and trying to explain who's scent that is!"
I guess it's all in the head of the hunter. Personally, I've eaten everything I've ever hunted and killed and have baited nary a one.
I don't see the sport in baiting and animal, hiding in a tower and then shooting him from above. I don't get the people like Ted Nugent who think they have to show themselves as the ultimate predator and hunt elephants (I actually caught part of that on TV, how sporting can Ted be to have a bunch of Africans trap an elephant so he can shoot it with a god-caliber rifle up close?) and I don't believe shooting caged animals is hunting.
It's more "sport" to drag your ass out of bed at 3AM (or your equivalent of 0 dark thirty) drive way the hell out into the woods, hike to your hunting grounds and wait for the sun to come up so you can start hunting your prey. (We have a no fire before sunrise law in WA)
Hunt with a bow, that's a challenge.