I don't know about anyone else, but the fact that downtime is such a shock on Google is testament to how great the service usually is. Most companies I've worked for don't have an up time record that could even come close to Google.
Bang on, I am still blown away that they have shut down such a popular site. Did they even try to buy it and if Scrabulous had never existed would Hasbro of even thought to create a Facebook app? Probably not.
There's always the stupid little tooth in some of Apple's USB plugs. I never got that, what's universal about it if I can't even stick it into any socket other than a Mac, of course you can just flatten the tooth with pliers and all is well.
Hilarious post, but I think there are some valid things we can do there. Massive telescopes on the dark side of the moon come to mind. They could be much larger thanHubble and there is no atmosphere to block their view like there is on earth.
When will they learn that bringing attention to these things. It's like when they helped pirate bay's traffic increase. Now everyone who didn't know they could use Baidu to find music does.
I don't think it's just the sheep mentality for everyone. I used Vista for over a year and finally downgraded back to XP, so I think I gave it a fair chance. I could never get my Wacom tablet to work properly and sometimes my mouse would just stop working for no reason and then I would get driver errors. The only fix I could find was a reboot, so I would have to tab through all my apps and save everything via keyboard. Both my work computer and laptop are very fast and it happened on both of them. When running Photoshop, Dreamweaver and a load of other apps it would sometimes literally slow to a crawl. I had random problems on both computers. At work one of my duel monitors would randomly flick off for 3 seconds and flick back on. Has never happened on XP. One time on the home computer I logged in and it took about 5 minutes and created a new desktop for me saying it could not log into my profile. A power down brought back up the old desktop.
These are not small issues, having your monitor flick off, mouse not work or complete loss of your use profile is not a small thing. I am a power user and use my computer constantly. Since I have gone back to XP things have been a lot smoother. At my work several other people have also reverted to XP, and this is after 6 months to a year of Vista usage. I think a lot of people who are not having problems with vista are either lucky or are not power users, because I have heard countless issues in my work place.
Yeah, I've commented on this before, until you get an RSI injury it all seems like a big joke, but when it hits, it can be extremely debilitating. About 5 years ago I got it pretty bad to the point where I had trouble opening doors and my hands would shake when holding a glass of water. I also find once you have had an RSI like carpal tunnel you notice the signs right away and correct your posture before it's too late.
I don't think we are trying to avoid realism in games, I think we are trying to experience things we can't in real life. Like being in a war, crashing a car or speeding lightning fast, or flying a spaceship. All these things I want to be as realistic as possible, because I really do not want or can not do them in real life. Washing dishes is not the same as walking through a futuristic war torn distopian city.
How is that a problem? Some people do not want to build their own machine, how much is your time worth? Some do not know how. Others just have a lot of money, and some just need their computer to look like a giant alien head.
So let me get this straight. When its the US being imperialistic, its not imperialistic? Oh yeah, its to stop the "other" imperialistic countries. Wow, the arrogance. Just say what it really is, we could all at least respect that a little more.
Okay, but to take it a step further you are assuming life will be earth like and carbon based. Who's to even say we would be able to identify life if it is different from our pre-concieved notions. Maybe there is life that can live in these harsh climates. If life is so extremely rare and unique then there's a good chance that it will be entirely different on another world. And you are right much of todays science fiction is heavily researched, but this is not always the case, especially in the past, and if the universe is infinite or there are multiple universes, then there is an infinite chance of life existing, and I guess vice versa, and just because we can't duplicate life means absolutely nothing. There was a time when we could not create fire either.
That's basically what I said. I believe there is mostly likely life outside of this tiny spec called earth. I do not by any means rule out that we may be the only form of life.
I don't think it is so much as "Making stuff up" as having vision. If everyone failed to imagine what could be possible and through common sense should be possible from what we know, then we would have never got to where we are today. Look at how many things have come true from Science Fiction. I find it hard to believe that we are the only intellegent life in the entire Universe, but of course we use to think the Sun rotated around the Earth and that we were the centre of the Universe, some of us still do believe in the later, and yes it is possible that we are the only life in the Universe, but I find it easier to believe if life exists here it probably exist elsewhere.
Dude, are you for real? "When i saw this i mean it like someone is responsible for their own mugging if they walk through a bad neighborhood at night."
What world do you live in where it is the victims fault. I agree it may not be wise to walk in a bad neighborhood at night, but there is no way it is my fault I get mugged! I mean with that mentality we can just give up on law and order. "Oh he was walking where he shouldn't have, too bad" As a civil society we have the right to walk where ever we please in a public place with the expectation of not being assaulted or mugged. As soon as we start blaming the victim we have a serious problem.
As for the whole myspace thing, its ridiculous, myspace has had as much to do with this as a red traffic light has to do with two strangers meeting at the curb.
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I totally agree with both of you. ibuprofen is a life saver. It can stop long term damage too, but it is not a permanent solution like the ad makes it seem. Long term use is bad for your liver. I hate this ad. It trivializes the issue and for anyone who has dealt with a severe RSI, knows its anything but trivial.
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Sorry, but this is BS, I had very severe RSI for awhile. It got to the point where I could hardly hold a glass of water without shaking, and it was extremely painful. RSI will also cause depression for obvious reasons. I am a computer enthusiast, I love my job, and I love computers, design and and gaming. I really don't think anyone can understand RSI unless they have had it. It seems too trivial from a non-suffers point of view. I remember having a teacher warn me about it 10 years ago, and I laughed it off with others.
RSI will not effect everyone, just like many diseases and viruses do not effect everyone, but when it does it can become a very serious situation, and the problem is it is not taken serious by the general public. This is partly why you feel so helpless when you have a severe RSI. Usually you are in a repetitive job, like IT or Design. Your productivity slows down greatly, you are in constant pain, and day to day life becomes a chore. I know I am sounding dramatic, but it can be this bad, and I have total sympathy for anyone suffering from it. There are varying degrees and types or RSI's too.
The good news is most people can overcome it to a degree. I still get pain now and then, but no where near what I was suffering from two years ago. Stress can be a major factor and was partly to blame in my case, but it is not always the case, many other things, like a cold working environment, or bad posture. Its far easier to get it then get rid of it. I read a lot on RSI's, and most of the stories went like this. (Started feeling a bit of pain one week. Ignored it. Got worse the next week. Felt crippled the third week. Took over a year to get rid of it).
I used wrist braces which helped a lot, and bought a special keyboard, used a wacom tablet instead of a mouse and paid attention to posture. Now I can use a normal keyboard and mouse too without pain.
If you have RSI, there is a load of good information on the web, and you can get rid of it slowly but surely.
Umm, why would the store tell you? A. They might not have known (you didn't), and B., is it really their responsibility to slow down the sale of their inventory? It is the computer industry, new and better is always just around the corner, and like a car, its one of the top depreciating items you can buy.
As for the Mac Intel's, it has been well known news for several months now that they were around the corner. I think the old adage "buyer beware" applies. I understand being upset, but I don't really think it's the stores fault. I almost bought an ipod right before they had a 50 dollar drop, lucky for me they were out of stock.
I've had IE ask me many times (when I use it for testing only!) if I want it to be the default browser. All one has to do is click okay and you are back to a default IE.
Well I have no debt or car either J but most people have both of those, and for most people debt is a fact of life, and sometimes un-avoidable. I needed my line of credit once.
Anyway, the.com boom was an exception and probably a bad example of risk, more like stupidity, for the most part good stable companies have rational trading for the most part, and as the.com boom showed, they will all correct themselves eventually if they are out of line. The more volatile stocks have a higher possibility of return. If it was not for investors some companies would never get off the ground. Think of diamond mines in Canada (most un-proven), deep sea oil drilling, untested products, big pharma, all are a gamble, but without the gamble you would never get the diamonds/oil/product. Sharing the gamble is better, if you lose, everyone loses, not just you, if you win you share the wealth. Simplistic view I know.
Anyway, your blaming all the problems on investors, and I think the problems stem a lot deeper than that. Even without investors companies would want to make money, its human nature to grow. We all scream for cheaper/faster/better products. This would not happen if companies just sat on there ass and thought, gee, I better not upset anyone, we have to adapt. I think this is good for the world, eventually the rest of the world is going to have to catch up with the first world whether you like it or not, and it will us a bit in the short term, but we will adapt.
Wow, you really have no clue about how markets work. As someone already mentioned to you, the shares are used all the time and are a reflection of the companies success. The company usually owns a huge share in itself, often over 50%, if the shares tank the company tanks. If the shares go up the company uses this money to grow and make new jobs or offer benefits to its employees (Share option plans), or buy other smaller companies etc. Growth is a good thing! Its what gives you the computer you are using right now. The US is hugely in debt, sometimes governments, companies and people need to borrow, and when people lend money they usually expect profit in return, that's a no brainer. There is tremendous risk in investing, as the.com boom showed. Many people lost millions of dollars, for some stocks you need nerves of steal.
If you have a credit card, a mortgage, or any loan you are borrowing money from a company. This is capitalism, get over it or move to a country with a system that pleases you more. Everyone always wants to simplify things and have someone or something to blame.
Shareholders are the owners of the company. Companies borrow money from Shareholders, and shareholders share all the risk if that company goes under. Shareholders can easily lose all their money if they buy into a bad company. This is a share in the company, so obviously they have say. If you have voting shares you even get to vote on issues, and depending how many shares you own (How much of the company you own) you have more say. I don't think you fully understand what a shareholder is. Many companies would not be where they are today if they could not get large sums of money from Shareholders, and why shouldn't someone who has risked their own money to own part of a company have a say?
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I don't know about anyone else, but the fact that downtime is such a shock on Google is testament to how great the service usually is. Most companies I've worked for don't have an up time record that could even come close to Google.
Bang on, I am still blown away that they have shut down such a popular site. Did they even try to buy it and if Scrabulous had never existed would Hasbro of even thought to create a Facebook app? Probably not.
There's always the stupid little tooth in some of Apple's USB plugs. I never got that, what's universal about it if I can't even stick it into any socket other than a Mac, of course you can just flatten the tooth with pliers and all is well.
Hilarious post, but I think there are some valid things we can do there. Massive telescopes on the dark side of the moon come to mind. They could be much larger thanHubble and there is no atmosphere to block their view like there is on earth.
When will they learn that bringing attention to these things. It's like when they helped pirate bay's traffic increase. Now everyone who didn't know they could use Baidu to find music does.
I don't think it's just the sheep mentality for everyone. I used Vista for over a year and finally downgraded back to XP, so I think I gave it a fair chance. I could never get my Wacom tablet to work properly and sometimes my mouse would just stop working for no reason and then I would get driver errors. The only fix I could find was a reboot, so I would have to tab through all my apps and save everything via keyboard. Both my work computer and laptop are very fast and it happened on both of them. When running Photoshop, Dreamweaver and a load of other apps it would sometimes literally slow to a crawl. I had random problems on both computers. At work one of my duel monitors would randomly flick off for 3 seconds and flick back on. Has never happened on XP. One time on the home computer I logged in and it took about 5 minutes and created a new desktop for me saying it could not log into my profile. A power down brought back up the old desktop. These are not small issues, having your monitor flick off, mouse not work or complete loss of your use profile is not a small thing. I am a power user and use my computer constantly. Since I have gone back to XP things have been a lot smoother. At my work several other people have also reverted to XP, and this is after 6 months to a year of Vista usage. I think a lot of people who are not having problems with vista are either lucky or are not power users, because I have heard countless issues in my work place.
Yeah, I've commented on this before, until you get an RSI injury it all seems like a big joke, but when it hits, it can be extremely debilitating. About 5 years ago I got it pretty bad to the point where I had trouble opening doors and my hands would shake when holding a glass of water. I also find once you have had an RSI like carpal tunnel you notice the signs right away and correct your posture before it's too late.
I don't think we are trying to avoid realism in games, I think we are trying to experience things we can't in real life. Like being in a war, crashing a car or speeding lightning fast, or flying a spaceship. All these things I want to be as realistic as possible, because I really do not want or can not do them in real life. Washing dishes is not the same as walking through a futuristic war torn distopian city.
How is that a problem? Some people do not want to build their own machine, how much is your time worth? Some do not know how. Others just have a lot of money, and some just need their computer to look like a giant alien head.
So let me get this straight. When its the US being imperialistic, its not imperialistic? Oh yeah, its to stop the "other" imperialistic countries. Wow, the arrogance. Just say what it really is, we could all at least respect that a little more.
Okay, but to take it a step further you are assuming life will be earth like and carbon based. Who's to even say we would be able to identify life if it is different from our pre-concieved notions. Maybe there is life that can live in these harsh climates. If life is so extremely rare and unique then there's a good chance that it will be entirely different on another world. And you are right much of todays science fiction is heavily researched, but this is not always the case, especially in the past, and if the universe is infinite or there are multiple universes, then there is an infinite chance of life existing, and I guess vice versa, and just because we can't duplicate life means absolutely nothing. There was a time when we could not create fire either.
That's basically what I said. I believe there is mostly likely life outside of this tiny spec called earth. I do not by any means rule out that we may be the only form of life.
I don't think it is so much as "Making stuff up" as having vision. If everyone failed to imagine what could be possible and through common sense should be possible from what we know, then we would have never got to where we are today. Look at how many things have come true from Science Fiction. I find it hard to believe that we are the only intellegent life in the entire Universe, but of course we use to think the Sun rotated around the Earth and that we were the centre of the Universe, some of us still do believe in the later, and yes it is possible that we are the only life in the Universe, but I find it easier to believe if life exists here it probably exist elsewhere.
Dude, are you for real? "When i saw this i mean it like someone is responsible for their own mugging if they walk through a bad neighborhood at night."
What world do you live in where it is the victims fault. I agree it may not be wise to walk in a bad neighborhood at night, but there is no way it is my fault I get mugged! I mean with that mentality we can just give up on law and order. "Oh he was walking where he shouldn't have, too bad" As a civil society we have the right to walk where ever we please in a public place with the expectation of not being assaulted or mugged. As soon as we start blaming the victim we have a serious problem.
As for the whole myspace thing, its ridiculous, myspace has had as much to do with this as a red traffic light has to do with two strangers meeting at the curb.
Oh I wish I could mode you up. Great post. :D
I totally agree with both of you. ibuprofen is a life saver. It can stop long term damage too, but it is not a permanent solution like the ad makes it seem. Long term use is bad for your liver. I hate this ad. It trivializes the issue and for anyone who has dealt with a severe RSI, knows its anything but trivial.
Sorry, but this is BS, I had very severe RSI for awhile. It got to the point where I could hardly hold a glass of water without shaking, and it was extremely painful. RSI will also cause depression for obvious reasons. I am a computer enthusiast, I love my job, and I love computers, design and and gaming. I really don't think anyone can understand RSI unless they have had it. It seems too trivial from a non-suffers point of view. I remember having a teacher warn me about it 10 years ago, and I laughed it off with others.
RSI will not effect everyone, just like many diseases and viruses do not effect everyone, but when it does it can become a very serious situation, and the problem is it is not taken serious by the general public. This is partly why you feel so helpless when you have a severe RSI. Usually you are in a repetitive job, like IT or Design. Your productivity slows down greatly, you are in constant pain, and day to day life becomes a chore. I know I am sounding dramatic, but it can be this bad, and I have total sympathy for anyone suffering from it. There are varying degrees and types or RSI's too.
The good news is most people can overcome it to a degree. I still get pain now and then, but no where near what I was suffering from two years ago. Stress can be a major factor and was partly to blame in my case, but it is not always the case, many other things, like a cold working environment, or bad posture. Its far easier to get it then get rid of it. I read a lot on RSI's, and most of the stories went like this. (Started feeling a bit of pain one week. Ignored it. Got worse the next week. Felt crippled the third week. Took over a year to get rid of it).
I used wrist braces which helped a lot, and bought a special keyboard, used a wacom tablet instead of a mouse and paid attention to posture. Now I can use a normal keyboard and mouse too without pain.
If you have RSI, there is a load of good information on the web, and you can get rid of it slowly but surely.
Ummm, I don't think they meant companies ship viruses on purpose.
Umm, why would the store tell you? A. They might not have known (you didn't), and B., is it really their responsibility to slow down the sale of their inventory? It is the computer industry, new and better is always just around the corner, and like a car, its one of the top depreciating items you can buy.
As for the Mac Intel's, it has been well known news for several months now that they were around the corner. I think the old adage "buyer beware" applies. I understand being upset, but I don't really think it's the stores fault. I almost bought an ipod right before they had a 50 dollar drop, lucky for me they were out of stock.
I've had IE ask me many times (when I use it for testing only!) if I want it to be the default browser. All one has to do is click okay and you are back to a default IE.
Not in Toronto either. Which city in Canada has a good Transit? I'll move there. lol. :)
Well I have no debt or car either J but most people have both of those, and for most people debt is a fact of life, and sometimes un-avoidable. I needed my line of credit once. Anyway, the .com boom was an exception and probably a bad example of risk, more like stupidity, for the most part good stable companies have rational trading for the most part, and as the .com boom showed, they will all correct themselves eventually if they are out of line. The more volatile stocks have a higher possibility of return. If it was not for investors some companies would never get off the ground. Think of diamond mines in Canada (most un-proven), deep sea oil drilling, untested products, big pharma, all are a gamble, but without the gamble you would never get the diamonds/oil/product. Sharing the gamble is better, if you lose, everyone loses, not just you, if you win you share the wealth. Simplistic view I know.
Anyway, your blaming all the problems on investors, and I think the problems stem a lot deeper than that. Even without investors companies would want to make money, its human nature to grow. We all scream for cheaper/faster/better products. This would not happen if companies just sat on there ass and thought, gee, I better not upset anyone, we have to adapt. I think this is good for the world, eventually the rest of the world is going to have to catch up with the first world whether you like it or not, and it will us a bit in the short term, but we will adapt.
Wow, you really have no clue about how markets work. As someone already mentioned to you, the shares are used all the time and are a reflection of the companies success. The company usually owns a huge share in itself, often over 50%, if the shares tank the company tanks. If the shares go up the company uses this money to grow and make new jobs or offer benefits to its employees (Share option plans), or buy other smaller companies etc. Growth is a good thing! Its what gives you the computer you are using right now. The US is hugely in debt, sometimes governments, companies and people need to borrow, and when people lend money they usually expect profit in return, that's a no brainer. There is tremendous risk in investing, as the .com boom showed. Many people lost millions of dollars, for some stocks you need nerves of steal.
If you have a credit card, a mortgage, or any loan you are borrowing money from a company. This is capitalism, get over it or move to a country with a system that pleases you more. Everyone always wants to simplify things and have someone or something to blame.
Shareholders are the owners of the company. Companies borrow money from Shareholders, and shareholders share all the risk if that company goes under. Shareholders can easily lose all their money if they buy into a bad company. This is a share in the company, so obviously they have say. If you have voting shares you even get to vote on issues, and depending how many shares you own (How much of the company you own) you have more say. I don't think you fully understand what a shareholder is. Many companies would not be where they are today if they could not get large sums of money from Shareholders, and why shouldn't someone who has risked their own money to own part of a company have a say?