Seriously. I don't even live in LA (But I've visited multiple times,) and in my city my short 14 mile commute takes an hour on the best days. If there's an accident or even someone simply pulled over by the police it's guaranteed to double it at the very least.
Low quality our poorly made coffee tastes like shit, and if its coffee being made at work it's most likely going to be both of those.
Quality, well-made coffee is a completely different story. The current method of making decaf though completely alters and ruins the coffee taste. I'd kill for a decaf that actually tastes like, you know, coffee.
Now Coke, there's something that tastes like shit.
Well, neither one of them pays shit - so the chances are if someone goes to work at one, they'll have to get a second job at the other just to pay their bills!
I would have thought a 'murder' (like crows) would be a popular collective noun for lawyers around here.
A murder of lawyers. It has a nice poetic ring and just rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?
Ah yes, good ol' Oklahoma... Sad thing is, most of the people I've heard talking about that around here (Yeah, I'm stuck in that shithole of a state,) sided with the police about the whole thing.
Sketchbook Pro is already available for the iPad and it's the one app that has me interested in one. The lack of a ready stylus and not really knowing how well a capacitive stylus works is what's holding me back. Oh, that and the price.
They did invade here - and all we got out of it was T-Mobile - you know, 7th largest mobile operator in the world? They settled into the American Way of cellphone service so readily it's hard to remember they're a multinational.
People never mention Miranda because I imagine most people want to just install an IM app and start using it - not spend hours hunting down necessary plugins and tweaking it just to give it basic functionality.
That being said, I LOVE the concept of Miranda - it's just too much work and too much of a pain in the butt to bother with.
No DJs between 6pm and 6am? You don't know how truly lucky you are. I -wish- our radio stations had no DJs for any period of time, you get more of their inane babbling (whatever happened to entertaining, witty DJs?) than you get music. I'm just glad there's a Jack FM station here so I can at least hear SOME music on the radio.
Funny how you mention that since just the other day at work we were noticing how my Edge connection on T-Mobile is faster than a co-worker's 3G AT&T connection was.
As someone who has to charge her phone multiple times a day I can say that something as simple as leaving an IM client running in the background takes a HUGE hit on the G1's already pathetic battery, if nothing else.
That is, assuming Android's brain dead memory manager keeps the program running in the first place, and doesn't decide to just kill it off for some reason.
While Android may not be nearly as mature as Windows Mobile - from my own experience it's vastly inferior to Microsoft's product It has potential, but it still has a ways to go. Granted, my own experience may be influenced by the fact that HTC decided to make the G1 a fairly sub-par platform for Android, giving it next to no storage and leaving it very little ram to run apps after Android sucks up the majority of it - but the same hardware running WinMo would be able to do so much more.
So being able to work with the superior office product with the superior file format is some kind of bad thing? There's no lack of excuses to use not use OpenOffice over MS Office - the fact that Office has a (hopefully good, I haven't tried it yet,) plugin for ODF certainly isn't one of them.
If anything, this is a good thing for OO as well as MS Office users.
Yeah there's a LOT wrong with the PSP - and nothing that's wrong with it is really anything developers can fix, either.
Overall, the PSP seems to have been designed for style and coolness first, with usability second. Consequently, the analog stick is pure shit and almost unusable. The D-pad is better, but not a whole lot so. With my smaller hands, the shoulder buttons are all but unusable as well.
The crossbar interface, or whatever Sony's calling it this month, while lauded on the PS3 - I find to be pretty underwhelming on the PSP as well. Sony should have just thrown this out and again - spent time looking for an interface that was more usable than 'cool'.
UMD game load-times are so atrociously slow that when I still had a PSP, bothering to change games simply doesn't worth it. If I didn't want to play the game that was already in there, or if I actually turned my PSP off rather than simply putting it on standby you couldn't just pick the system up and get that 'quick game fix' that portables are supposed to be so wonderful for.
The only place the developers can help of course is in the games department... fortunately (for them,) this is another one of the PSP's huge failings. Quit with the tired, crappy ports, and come out with more new and fun games on the system. Learn it's limitations and weaknesses, especially the media limitations. Design games that are quick to load, don't rely on that crappy analog... thing, and don't make you sit looking at a loading screen for two to three minutes any time you load a save, or move to a new level, or something along those lines.
As long as the PSP still suffers from THIS, gamers are just going to keep shutting it off and picking their DS back up.
As an aside - a major issue at the moment is the changes to DirectSound. Unless you've got an X-fi soundblaster and run creative's "Alchemy" software which translates Directsound into OpenAL, you're not going to get any EAX support in any games, and the sound support you do get is often scratchy and clicky (eg, neverwinter nights 2)
Even though I'm still running Ultimate on my notebook - this is THE big killer for me, and the reason that Vista will never see my desktop at all. The removal of hardware access to DirectSound and the changes made to the audio APIs in general, while nice for general purpose use (I absolutely love having a seperate volume slider for each app running,) is a -huge- step backwards for gaming.
On the bright side though, this might help drive OpenAL even more to the forefront in Windows gaming - since OpenAL games, from what I understand (I haven't done too much testing yet,) still sound just fine, with all effects and such.
On the same token, I don't really think Rockstar's as-of-yet TRIED to go very far in capturing the feel of the real-life cities they base their settings in.
I think their foremost concern is making the cities the most fun for driving really fast, and blowing up lots of stuff.
If they strive for more realism though - just imaging the thrilling white knuckle car chases through downtown Manhattan during rush hour! Er... wait...
Actually, no. The federal requirements for giving employees breaks and a meal period are as follows:
That's right - there's absolutely no Federal law at all guaranteeing workers any breaks at all during their shift. The Federal guidelines for breaks and meal periods are just that - GUIDELINES. There ARE a few rules in there however, such as breaks shorter than x period of time (20 minutes, I believe,) are not classified as 'meal breaks' and thus, have to be paid.
All labour laws regarding breaks and lunches come at the state level - and in fact, the majority of states actually don't have ANY laws regarding giving breaks and meal periods to employees, there's really only two reasons everyone takes it as a given that you get them in jobs: 1. It's tradition and 2. Unions. If you live in a state where there aren't any laws regarding breaks/meals (like my own Oklahoma,) and don't have a contract or Union contract stipulating otherwise, your employers well within his rights to come up to you and say "Hey, we've decided you're not getting lunches or breaks anymore, sorry." and the only recourse you have is quitting.
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Seriously. I don't even live in LA (But I've visited multiple times,) and in my city my short 14 mile commute takes an hour on the best days. If there's an accident or even someone simply pulled over by the police it's guaranteed to double it at the very least.
Low quality our poorly made coffee tastes like shit, and if its coffee being made at work it's most likely going to be both of those.
Quality, well-made coffee is a completely different story. The current method of making decaf though completely alters and ruins the coffee taste. I'd kill for a decaf that actually tastes like, you know, coffee.
Now Coke, there's something that tastes like shit.
Well, neither one of them pays shit - so the chances are if someone goes to work at one, they'll have to get a second job at the other just to pay their bills!
I would have thought a 'murder' (like crows) would be a popular collective noun for lawyers around here. A murder of lawyers. It has a nice poetic ring and just rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?
Ah yes, good ol' Oklahoma... Sad thing is, most of the people I've heard talking about that around here (Yeah, I'm stuck in that shithole of a state,) sided with the police about the whole thing.
Sketchbook Pro is already available for the iPad and it's the one app that has me interested in one. The lack of a ready stylus and not really knowing how well a capacitive stylus works is what's holding me back. Oh, that and the price.
They did invade here - and all we got out of it was T-Mobile - you know, 7th largest mobile operator in the world? They settled into the American Way of cellphone service so readily it's hard to remember they're a multinational.
People never mention Miranda because I imagine most people want to just install an IM app and start using it - not spend hours hunting down necessary plugins and tweaking it just to give it basic functionality.
That being said, I LOVE the concept of Miranda - it's just too much work and too much of a pain in the butt to bother with.
Hell some places, like here in Oklahoma, are still waiting to have their -first- 'sixties'.
No DJs between 6pm and 6am? You don't know how truly lucky you are. I -wish- our radio stations had no DJs for any period of time, you get more of their inane babbling (whatever happened to entertaining, witty DJs?) than you get music. I'm just glad there's a Jack FM station here so I can at least hear SOME music on the radio.
Funny how you mention that since just the other day at work we were noticing how my Edge connection on T-Mobile is faster than a co-worker's 3G AT&T connection was.
That is, assuming Android's brain dead memory manager keeps the program running in the first place, and doesn't decide to just kill it off for some reason.
While Android may not be nearly as mature as Windows Mobile - from my own experience it's vastly inferior to Microsoft's product It has potential, but it still has a ways to go. Granted, my own experience may be influenced by the fact that HTC decided to make the G1 a fairly sub-par platform for Android, giving it next to no storage and leaving it very little ram to run apps after Android sucks up the majority of it - but the same hardware running WinMo would be able to do so much more.
Not that I'd do anything like that, of course...
As another (unwilling,) Oklahoma resident - let me agree with this. This is one of the scariest places I've lived in thanks to the fine populace.
You turn on the music and as you drive all around the country, you get the same music/talk/news whatever.
Thanks to Clear Channel and the like - you already get this for free in your car.
"News for Nerds."
The Simpsons. Video games. E3.
If -that- doesn't qualify, then nothing does.
So being able to work with the superior office product with the superior file format is some kind of bad thing? There's no lack of excuses to use not use OpenOffice over MS Office - the fact that Office has a (hopefully good, I haven't tried it yet,) plugin for ODF certainly isn't one of them.
If anything, this is a good thing for OO as well as MS Office users.
All the more reason to have let them go protest, if you ask me.
How about here?
Overall, the PSP seems to have been designed for style and coolness first, with usability second. Consequently, the analog stick is pure shit and almost unusable. The D-pad is better, but not a whole lot so. With my smaller hands, the shoulder buttons are all but unusable as well.
The crossbar interface, or whatever Sony's calling it this month, while lauded on the PS3 - I find to be pretty underwhelming on the PSP as well. Sony should have just thrown this out and again - spent time looking for an interface that was more usable than 'cool'.
UMD game load-times are so atrociously slow that when I still had a PSP, bothering to change games simply doesn't worth it. If I didn't want to play the game that was already in there, or if I actually turned my PSP off rather than simply putting it on standby you couldn't just pick the system up and get that 'quick game fix' that portables are supposed to be so wonderful for.
The only place the developers can help of course is in the games department... fortunately (for them,) this is another one of the PSP's huge failings. Quit with the tired, crappy ports, and come out with more new and fun games on the system. Learn it's limitations and weaknesses, especially the media limitations. Design games that are quick to load, don't rely on that crappy analog... thing, and don't make you sit looking at a loading screen for two to three minutes any time you load a save, or move to a new level, or something along those lines.
As long as the PSP still suffers from THIS, gamers are just going to keep shutting it off and picking their DS back up.
Even though I'm still running Ultimate on my notebook - this is THE big killer for me, and the reason that Vista will never see my desktop at all. The removal of hardware access to DirectSound and the changes made to the audio APIs in general, while nice for general purpose use (I absolutely love having a seperate volume slider for each app running,) is a -huge- step backwards for gaming.
On the bright side though, this might help drive OpenAL even more to the forefront in Windows gaming - since OpenAL games, from what I understand (I haven't done too much testing yet,) still sound just fine, with all effects and such.
On the same token, I don't really think Rockstar's as-of-yet TRIED to go very far in capturing the feel of the real-life cities they base their settings in. I think their foremost concern is making the cities the most fun for driving really fast, and blowing up lots of stuff. If they strive for more realism though - just imaging the thrilling white knuckle car chases through downtown Manhattan during rush hour! Er... wait...
Well then it evens out, because I never even -got- my CDs from ShipIt!
Actually, no. The federal requirements for giving employees breaks and a meal period are as follows:
That's right - there's absolutely no Federal law at all guaranteeing workers any breaks at all during their shift. The Federal guidelines for breaks and meal periods are just that - GUIDELINES. There ARE a few rules in there however, such as breaks shorter than x period of time (20 minutes, I believe,) are not classified as 'meal breaks' and thus, have to be paid.
All labour laws regarding breaks and lunches come at the state level - and in fact, the majority of states actually don't have ANY laws regarding giving breaks and meal periods to employees, there's really only two reasons everyone takes it as a given that you get them in jobs: 1. It's tradition and 2. Unions. If you live in a state where there aren't any laws regarding breaks/meals (like my own Oklahoma,) and don't have a contract or Union contract stipulating otherwise, your employers well within his rights to come up to you and say "Hey, we've decided you're not getting lunches or breaks anymore, sorry." and the only recourse you have is quitting.