And yet Microsoft investors STILL haven't revolted and threw Balmer out. I just don't get it. The man has shown he lacks both technical vision AND managerial skill. From everything I have seen and from what ex Redmonders have said, Microsoft still seems to think it's the 1990s, ie the managers think that the only competition they face comes from within Microsoft. Thus they constantly bicker among themselves and Microsoft ends up with an inconsistent, often incoherent line of products.
The phones are obviously the biggest example, at one point Microsoft was developing 3...THREE...different competing and incompatible phone operating systems. You saw it a couple of years back with the music DRM fiasco, Microsoft managed to develop and release 2 different DRM formats that weren't compatible with each other. You can even see the political infighting within single products. The windows UI is an incoherent mess. Every single interface seems like it was designed by a different person and instead of someone actually taking charge and making decisions they just threw everything together and called it an interface. You can even see this with Windows phone 7, it's obvious that different groups had different ideas on how the phone should be programmed and how what capabilities/interfaces should be exposed. And since none of the managers wanted to "submit' to any other manager, you end up with an incoherent mess. The whole reason we ostensibly pay CEOs ridiculous amounts of cash is that they are ostensibly supposed to be the one who steps up in these situations and forces everyone to play nice. It seems that Ballmer is either unable or unwilling to do this and Microsoft just keeps on going down the shitter. In the current recovery Microsoft seems to be one of the very few large US tech firms that has actually lost market cap, a lot of it. Ballmer is a talentless hack whose only "ability" was that he happened to land in the right place at the right time. Again, why share holders aren't calling for the man's head is beyond me. His only "talent" seems to be a penchant for stupid pranks, but guess what I can go down to any frat house in the country and find someone that is better than Ballmer at stupid pranks and pay them 1% of Ballmer's salary and they would be damn happy to get it.
That is a really, really, REALLY bad idea for anyplace where the population densities are not very large. Areas where there are not a lot of people aren't going to be very lucrative for cell phone companies. So what you will end up having is deals where company A pays companies B and C what they would expect to earn for area X and now the people in area X can ONLY use company A and this gives company A huge leverage when it comes to fees. So what you will end up doing is saving money for people that live in huge cities(where it may not be very popular since you give up predictability) at the expense of everyone else. The cell phone companies that you decry would actually probably end up making out like bandits. So yeah, thats just a really bad idea.
You obviously need to watch some fight club, you forgot a crucial line, "on a long enough time line", ie "on a long enough time line, everyone's survival rate drops to zero"
Woops, I did forget to add that Capcom eventually lost the suit, so maybe they interpreted that as "borrowing" ideas to the point where you only change one thing is ok.....
Of course the thing that everyone seems to have forgotten is that when the tables were reversed and another company released a game that was incredibly similar to Capcom's Street Fighter II Capcom wasted no time in suing Data East...... Does sort of make Capcom look a bit hypocritical.
I'm sure many native American groups would disagree with you on the whole women came later thing, the Europeans that came to the new world had no problem availing themselves to the vaginas already living in there.
If the objective were really to populate another planet wouldn't it make more sense to send a bunch of fertile women and a bunch of semen instead of males? The semen would be a lot lighter(big deal when you are talking space travel), require less resources to keep alive etc. Furthermore you could increase genetic variability by having semen from a bunch of males without increasing the number of people sent. Seems like we really are unnecessary guys:P
Come on Google, we all know that in the Capcha war, we only have one weapon left, capcha porn. There isn't a spambot alive who could answer "In the above movie, how many cocks were inside Jenna Jameson?" or "what sex position is this?"
Thats not really a very good comparison, Australia has one of the lowest population densities on the planet, even the cities aren't anywhere near as dense as those in places like Indonesia and Bangladesh. Comparing just the sheer # of casualties isn't a very good way to judge disaster preparedness per se.
Part of it is already really based on random chance. Since there is a kill screen and the way certain events occur is (somewhat) random, the person with the highest score usually is the one that just got lucky a few more times than the runner up. At the level he, Wiebe, and Mitchell are at, I doubt there is really much of a "skill" difference between them.
Not really, Nintendo doesn't have any vested interest in the PC market(games and otherwise) like Microsoft does. The amount of money Nintendo makes off the wiimote isn't that large and the costs of PC support(drivers, support staff etc.) and the potential to cannibalize their own market outweigh what little money there is in selling a couple extra wiimotes.
Actually I was disappointed by something on his test, namely the question about cosines. He never states that the triangle is a rig ht triangle a nd doesn't put the little square indicating that the angle is a right angle. As a scientist he should know that just because something looks like x doesn't necessarily mean it is x....
Having experienced this kind of anal import policies while I was living in Germany, I cannot stress enough how much you want to avoid this. Not necessarily because of the money(10% of a pair of shoes is what, $5?), but because of the stupid hoops they make you jump through just to get access to your own property. I had an electronic dictionary(one they don't even sell in Germany) sent to me from Japan, and instead of getting it in the mail I instead got a notice that I had to go to Nuremberg, which was over an hour away, and they weren't open on weekends and hardly open at all during the weekday. I went there and saw about 10 young employees standing around essentially doing nothing, eventually they said they would send it to my address in the states so I could collect it when I went home. Long story short they fucked me over and sent it back to the dude I bought it from. Fortunately he gave me most of my money back, but the long and short of it is that the German government spent their own money to deny me my property. Fucking brilliant.
Even for people who don't get fucked over like I did have to take a huge chunk out of their day to trudge over to the zollamt, if they could even get any time off when the stupid thing was open(they steal your shit then don't even have the common decency to have reasonable hours), all so you can spend 30 minutes filling out forms so they can collect 5 euros from you. Seriously, this woman who came it at the same time received some sort of figurine from the US, the thing was maybe, MAYBE worth 30 euros and they still made her do all that stupid shit I think she walked out of there paying them about 5 euros. They probably spent more than that just on the "labor", really it's just a massive employment program with some government manager probably getting a nice fat salary because he has to "manage" all those people.
Yeah, but you have to trick them into getting into the MRI machine. Your best bet is probably to tell them that it's a super secret spectral chamber where they will be able to hear the screams of the undead, but only if they agree to remain absolutely still.
Back in my day Wall Streeters got money the old fashioned way, they bribed politicians to funnel taxpayer money into the firms while simultaneously getting the politicians to look the other way when banks committed crimes....whats that you say? They are still doing that? Well I guess somethings never change.
Now get off my lawn.....Whats that you say? The bank has illegally foreclosed on my property despite not actually being in debt to them and it's legally THEIR lawn now, and I'M the one that has to get off of it? Well, it's a good thing I have support from my local polit....ah fuck it.
Well first and foremost you are making a big assumption, namely that the people who bitch about a game on a forum have any stake whatsoever in the game at all. Oftentimes they are essentially complaining that the game isn't x, despite the fact that the makers never intended the game to be x, never said it to be x, and most rational people don't want it to be x. For instance I've seen people who essentially go on boards and say "XYZ game is just another lame JRPG. JRPGs suck, play Halo instead". That comment isn't even remotely helpful and the poster probably never even PLAYED game XYZ so is in no way a "stakeholder". Penny Arcade probably sums up this kind of poster best.
One thing not mentioned in the article or summary is whether or not this technology reduces standby power consumption in DRAM. Under normal use, especially if you have a lot of memory in your system, the standby power consumption is going to matter as much as read/write, if not more.
Ok, I can't be the ONLY one that thinks that the word "paramour" sounds like an item in a JPRG. "Have you beaten the boss yet? No, I cannot find the fucking paramour so he keeps kicking my ass."
Not to mention the density requirements imposed by requiring it to be in a form factor you can plug into your PC. Denser memory is more expensive per byte than less dense memory.
So what if the phone is stolen? Does the person who originally owned the phone get to be violated twice, once when the phone was stolen and again when the cops go through their personal data? Actually I could see the cops doing exactly this, basically hire someone to steal a suspect/famous person/chief's ex-wifes phone and then "arrest" the person and go through the "stolen" cell phone getting whatever incriminating evidence they damn well please without all the hassle of having to go get a warrant.
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And yet Microsoft investors STILL haven't revolted and threw Balmer out. I just don't get it. The man has shown he lacks both technical vision AND managerial skill. From everything I have seen and from what ex Redmonders have said, Microsoft still seems to think it's the 1990s, ie the managers think that the only competition they face comes from within Microsoft. Thus they constantly bicker among themselves and Microsoft ends up with an inconsistent, often incoherent line of products.
The phones are obviously the biggest example, at one point Microsoft was developing 3...THREE...different competing and incompatible phone operating systems. You saw it a couple of years back with the music DRM fiasco, Microsoft managed to develop and release 2 different DRM formats that weren't compatible with each other. You can even see the political infighting within single products. The windows UI is an incoherent mess. Every single interface seems like it was designed by a different person and instead of someone actually taking charge and making decisions they just threw everything together and called it an interface. You can even see this with Windows phone 7, it's obvious that different groups had different ideas on how the phone should be programmed and how what capabilities/interfaces should be exposed. And since none of the managers wanted to "submit' to any other manager, you end up with an incoherent mess. The whole reason we ostensibly pay CEOs ridiculous amounts of cash is that they are ostensibly supposed to be the one who steps up in these situations and forces everyone to play nice. It seems that Ballmer is either unable or unwilling to do this and Microsoft just keeps on going down the shitter. In the current recovery Microsoft seems to be one of the very few large US tech firms that has actually lost market cap, a lot of it. Ballmer is a talentless hack whose only "ability" was that he happened to land in the right place at the right time. Again, why share holders aren't calling for the man's head is beyond me. His only "talent" seems to be a penchant for stupid pranks, but guess what I can go down to any frat house in the country and find someone that is better than Ballmer at stupid pranks and pay them 1% of Ballmer's salary and they would be damn happy to get it.
That is a really, really, REALLY bad idea for anyplace where the population densities are not very large. Areas where there are not a lot of people aren't going to be very lucrative for cell phone companies. So what you will end up having is deals where company A pays companies B and C what they would expect to earn for area X and now the people in area X can ONLY use company A and this gives company A huge leverage when it comes to fees. So what you will end up doing is saving money for people that live in huge cities(where it may not be very popular since you give up predictability) at the expense of everyone else. The cell phone companies that you decry would actually probably end up making out like bandits. So yeah, thats just a really bad idea.
You obviously need to watch some fight club, you forgot a crucial line, "on a long enough time line", ie "on a long enough time line, everyone's survival rate drops to zero"
Woops, I did forget to add that Capcom eventually lost the suit, so maybe they interpreted that as "borrowing" ideas to the point where you only change one thing is ok.....
Of course the thing that everyone seems to have forgotten is that when the tables were reversed and another company released a game that was incredibly similar to Capcom's Street Fighter II Capcom wasted no time in suing Data East...... Does sort of make Capcom look a bit hypocritical.
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I'm sure many native American groups would disagree with you on the whole women came later thing, the Europeans that came to the new world had no problem availing themselves to the vaginas already living in there.
If the objective were really to populate another planet wouldn't it make more sense to send a bunch of fertile women and a bunch of semen instead of males? The semen would be a lot lighter(big deal when you are talking space travel), require less resources to keep alive etc. Furthermore you could increase genetic variability by having semen from a bunch of males without increasing the number of people sent. Seems like we really are unnecessary guys :P
Come on Google, we all know that in the Capcha war, we only have one weapon left, capcha porn. There isn't a spambot alive who could answer "In the above movie, how many cocks were inside Jenna Jameson?" or "what sex position is this?"
Thats not really a very good comparison, Australia has one of the lowest population densities on the planet, even the cities aren't anywhere near as dense as those in places like Indonesia and Bangladesh. Comparing just the sheer # of casualties isn't a very good way to judge disaster preparedness per se.
Part of it is already really based on random chance. Since there is a kill screen and the way certain events occur is (somewhat) random, the person with the highest score usually is the one that just got lucky a few more times than the runner up. At the level he, Wiebe, and Mitchell are at, I doubt there is really much of a "skill" difference between them.
Not really, Nintendo doesn't have any vested interest in the PC market(games and otherwise) like Microsoft does. The amount of money Nintendo makes off the wiimote isn't that large and the costs of PC support(drivers, support staff etc.) and the potential to cannibalize their own market outweigh what little money there is in selling a couple extra wiimotes.
Actually I was disappointed by something on his test, namely the question about cosines. He never states that the triangle is a rig ht triangle a nd doesn't put the little square indicating that the angle is a right angle. As a scientist he should know that just because something looks like x doesn't necessarily mean it is x....
Having experienced this kind of anal import policies while I was living in Germany, I cannot stress enough how much you want to avoid this. Not necessarily because of the money(10% of a pair of shoes is what, $5?), but because of the stupid hoops they make you jump through just to get access to your own property. I had an electronic dictionary(one they don't even sell in Germany) sent to me from Japan, and instead of getting it in the mail I instead got a notice that I had to go to Nuremberg, which was over an hour away, and they weren't open on weekends and hardly open at all during the weekday. I went there and saw about 10 young employees standing around essentially doing nothing, eventually they said they would send it to my address in the states so I could collect it when I went home. Long story short they fucked me over and sent it back to the dude I bought it from. Fortunately he gave me most of my money back, but the long and short of it is that the German government spent their own money to deny me my property. Fucking brilliant.
Even for people who don't get fucked over like I did have to take a huge chunk out of their day to trudge over to the zollamt, if they could even get any time off when the stupid thing was open(they steal your shit then don't even have the common decency to have reasonable hours), all so you can spend 30 minutes filling out forms so they can collect 5 euros from you. Seriously, this woman who came it at the same time received some sort of figurine from the US, the thing was maybe, MAYBE worth 30 euros and they still made her do all that stupid shit I think she walked out of there paying them about 5 euros. They probably spent more than that just on the "labor", really it's just a massive employment program with some government manager probably getting a nice fat salary because he has to "manage" all those people.
Yeah, but you have to trick them into getting into the MRI machine. Your best bet is probably to tell them that it's a super secret spectral chamber where they will be able to hear the screams of the undead, but only if they agree to remain absolutely still.
Back in my day Wall Streeters got money the old fashioned way, they bribed politicians to funnel taxpayer money into the firms while simultaneously getting the politicians to look the other way when banks committed crimes....whats that you say? They are still doing that? Well I guess somethings never change.
Now get off my lawn.....Whats that you say? The bank has illegally foreclosed on my property despite not actually being in debt to them and it's legally THEIR lawn now, and I'M the one that has to get off of it? Well, it's a good thing I have support from my local polit....ah fuck it.
I mean why? Chairface Chippendale is just going to obliterate it with his laser, so why bother?
I predict this article will spark a bunch of kvetching about having to register and obligatory links to bugmenot like sites. Do I win?
Well first and foremost you are making a big assumption, namely that the people who bitch about a game on a forum have any stake whatsoever in the game at all. Oftentimes they are essentially complaining that the game isn't x, despite the fact that the makers never intended the game to be x, never said it to be x, and most rational people don't want it to be x. For instance I've seen people who essentially go on boards and say "XYZ game is just another lame JRPG. JRPGs suck, play Halo instead". That comment isn't even remotely helpful and the poster probably never even PLAYED game XYZ so is in no way a "stakeholder". Penny Arcade probably sums up this kind of poster best.
Well there is prior art for restroom battleship, see the first Harold and Kumar movie.
One thing not mentioned in the article or summary is whether or not this technology reduces standby power consumption in DRAM. Under normal use, especially if you have a lot of memory in your system, the standby power consumption is going to matter as much as read/write, if not more.
Ok, I can't be the ONLY one that thinks that the word "paramour" sounds like an item in a JPRG. "Have you beaten the boss yet? No, I cannot find the fucking paramour so he keeps kicking my ass."
Bashfest? I didn't think Windows shipped with the Bourne Again Shell, does this exploit install it?
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Not to mention the density requirements imposed by requiring it to be in a form factor you can plug into your PC. Denser memory is more expensive per byte than less dense memory.
So what if the phone is stolen? Does the person who originally owned the phone get to be violated twice, once when the phone was stolen and again when the cops go through their personal data? Actually I could see the cops doing exactly this, basically hire someone to steal a suspect/famous person/chief's ex-wifes phone and then "arrest" the person and go through the "stolen" cell phone getting whatever incriminating evidence they damn well please without all the hassle of having to go get a warrant.