Yeah I'm confused by the TV/Computer battle my self.
Most of my time is spent browsing the web on my bigscreen LCD from the couch with a wireless keyboard and mouse.
The rest of my media consumption splits between Divx, Hulu, Netflix On Demand through the xBox, Dish Network and Games either through the PC or XBox. I even have a wired XBox controller for my PC.
Everything is controlled through my harmony remote so just about everything is controlled through the exact same interface.
Did the PC win? Sure I guess. But Facebook didn't kill it. The interweb did.
Actually it would be pretty much impossible to forge your location.
The offset is measured relative of each of the channels so determining which pattern was from which speaker would require reconstructing each individual channel of the 7.1 mix. Which is borderline impossile, especially when recorded with a stereo mic.
Wait, universal health care, Government ID Cards, government food, housing and clothing assistance?.... COMMUNISM!!!! THEY'VE TAKEN OVER OUR MILITARY! GRAB YOUR GUNS!:D
Too late. There was a mysterious box in the theater with a small red light on it that looked suspiciously like a CCD camera in it last time I saw a movie.
I don't know if there was a camera in it... but if it wasn't a ccd camera I don't know what it is.
I went to New Zealand last year and went to a movie in Christchurch. It was a pretty odd experience. It had assigned seating.
I ignored it since there were only like 4 other people in the theater but the seats were awesome. Think lazyboy. And the aisles were large enough for someone to walk past you with out moving, or them even needing to turn sideways. I would say there were less than 200 seats in the theater. And it was a medium sized theater. Oh yeah and the ticket price was ~$7 US and the food was normally priced.
I don't know if that's indicative of your average NZ theater, but it does live up to the "assigned seating" requirement.
Based on stories I've heard from many post-graduate friends--poisoning your advisor might be a sensible course of action.
Remember they're the one who decides whether or not you get your degree. If they for some reason have a grudge against you there's nothing you can do but start over.
After spending 3 years of your life on something only to have someone tell you "No." for seemingly vindictive reasons I could imagine a likeable person getting a little vindictive themselves.:D
See you're making one huge miscalculation. You're actually valuable to an employer.
Here is how the majority of Americans live their life. They go to highschool. A large number drop out. Many continue on to college. Of those who complete college most still end up working in positions which require no college education.
These people are the people who watch local news. The local news reports stories important to their viewers. (Hence uneducated or generally useless employees working for minimum wage at dead end jobs.)
It's the generally useless, barely more productive than a fancy Japanese Robot employee working at McDonalds who is competing against 1,000 other useless barely productive uneducated employees who really do have something to worry about. In the generally useless category of employee the greatest threat to the employer is that the employee realize that they're pretty much disposable and unappreciated. As such these sorts of individuals tend to give the job as much effort as it deserves (aka none). They party all night show up marginally awake and sober about on time and put in little to no effort. If they are hung over too often from partying then their employer replaces them with someone equally unimportant. The fired employee moves on to another job and so on and so forth.
Previously bouncing from fast food to fast food restaurant. Retail counter to Retail counter was completely safe and anonymous. Now all of a sudden the McDonalds manager can see that you're someone who has figured out they're a meaningless cog and won't be dedicated to properly frying the frys for exactly 2 minutes and should probably employ candidate B who hasn't figured out their job is meaningless yet and doesn't appear to have a conflicting social life which might lead to tardiness and absenteeism.
In jobs with low turn over employees by and large tend to work harder to hold their jobs and tend to do a better job of managing their own out of work behavior such that it has minimal conflict with their job.
In fact I would say the amount of irresponsible out of work behavior is directly inversely proportional to the amount of responsibility necessarily AT work. Hence, people who are hiring or seeking employment at a demanding job have less concern for how many beer bongs you've done in the last week.
Or... even better... don't go around snorting cocaine off hookers in your leisure time in the first place.
And if you are snorting cocaine off of hookers it'll probably be reflected in the quality of your work. So hiding your irresponsible after hours behavior in the interview will just mean an early termination.
Just what exactly is everyone afraid their employers are going to find out about them?
"Employers find pictures of irresponsible drunken frat boy on internet. Assume an irresponsible drunken frat boy and decide not to hire him in favor of someone else. News at 11."
By spending on capital now, you can leverage your potential to pay it back plus pocket profit in the future.
What is with the right wing of our population suddenly becoming stupid to basic business management?
"A loan just has to be payed back in the future it's useless." "A deficit is just an equal tax on the future and in the long term is nothing but damaging to the economy." "The government borrowing is just putting off the inevitable."
The economy will inevitably bounce back. At which point yes we will need to pay back the loan. The idea is that we have underutilized resources that need to be employed in order to maximize our current capacity.
If you have a factory that's missing a component you take out a loan buy the component and get the factory operational again.
The US Economy is a large factory that's producing at reduced capacity because one component is seriously broken. The US Government is theorizing that by borrowing against the future when the factory is profitable it'll easily be able to pay back the loan.
Also since the GDP has risen and tends to rise with time what 50 years ago was an absurd deficit is now pretty easily repayable. Take out a trillion dollars now. Keep our economy to stagnate for 10 years and a decade from now the trillion dollars is pretty easy to repay.
It's like my college loan. I couldn't afford college so I took out a loan. Then once I used my college education to get me a nice paying job I payed it back in 6 months. Working through college would have reduced my education time and resulted in a lower paying job which would have taken much longer to pay off. By taking out a larger loan I was able to pay it off faster. I invested in my potential.
I think the death of MySpace was pretty widely visible.
90% of its user base HATED using it. It was a terrible webpage. And it was incredibly limiting. 10 pictures? What is this?
Facebook is a photo app. I thought that the first time I used it, and have felt pretty backed up by that statement ever since.
The first time I used facebook was to put up photos and the ability to tag people and associate it with profiles is what I found incredibly useful. (Not to mention unlimited photo uploads was handy.)
Facebook is going to survive because it's going to be a friends and family photo album + event planning.
MySpace is awkward public text messaging. The novelty for everyone not female 12-18 wears off very quickly. Facebook on the other hand actually appeals to people of all ages and demographics.
I spend >$10 on a DVD that usually only watch once or twice.
I spend ?$13 on Netflix per month and watch 5 or 6 streaming movies. Or for $10 I could watch 3-4 Movies on XBox marketplace.
Do I spend more on pay per view? Yes. I usually rent more than I buy. But largely because I pirate less. It's supporting the content providers and they're offering me an affordable, reasonable service.
I don't see the problem. They're offering me a better experience than the previous model (buying DVDs) at a discounted price. How many movies do you own that actually were cheaper than $2 per viewing?
Pay Per View should cut piracy because the entry cost is lower. $2 for a possibly mediocre movie vs $18. If you aren't willing to spend $2 on a movie then you don't really deserve to watch it, it's almost impossible to not get your money's worth at $2.
A physical therapist to whom you would need to visit at least 20 times would total up to more than $2000.
Not exactly chump change for a student. Also the doctor probably wouldn't know what to do with you. They would prescribe a shot or surgery not physical therapy.
Here is a good general rule: Don't go to a doctor with a joint issue. They won't know what to do with you. Your family physician knows about as much about a joint injury as you do.
As much as I think difficult to program for is a huge problem I think I understand what he's trying to say.
"We could have put in weaker hardware that was easier to develop for, but instead we chose a platform that would be difficult to work with but potentially provides much more power down the road."
He's not saying they intentionally stagnated growth in order to get better games over time. He's saying stagnated growth is a *symptom* of a design decision focused around long term system performance.
All of this is moot though. They gave the system too little RAM. You can only work around that so much. So I find his argument that "Our console will slowly live up to its potential while the competitor will hit a wall." to be inaccurate. They're going to hit a memory wall before the 360 hits a processor wall.
I don't think I've ever read a study concluding that homosexuality is genetic in nature.
There have been numerous studies that found birth order to be influential. I believe the leading theory is it's a developmental alteration not a genetic one.
Especially considering it's unlikeliy to be hereditary for obvious reasons.
Yes. There are new fancy Windows 7 specific drivers which have added features but...
YOU CAN USE VISTA DRIVERS!
I even had to use a Windows XP driver and it worked!
The old drivers all work. They just don't have the new "Whiz Bang!" Stuff. Point Windows Device Manager at a Vista driver and it'll probably install just fine.
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Yeah I'm confused by the TV/Computer battle my self.
Most of my time is spent browsing the web on my bigscreen LCD from the couch with a wireless keyboard and mouse.
The rest of my media consumption splits between Divx, Hulu, Netflix On Demand through the xBox, Dish Network and Games either through the PC or XBox. I even have a wired XBox controller for my PC.
Everything is controlled through my harmony remote so just about everything is controlled through the exact same interface.
Did the PC win? Sure I guess. But Facebook didn't kill it. The interweb did.
Heh never knew that wasn't the norm. Now I do :p
AC from Chch, NZ
Ha! I always wondered where AC was from.
Actually it would be pretty much impossible to forge your location.
The offset is measured relative of each of the channels so determining which pattern was from which speaker would require reconstructing each individual channel of the 7.1 mix. Which is borderline impossile, especially when recorded with a stereo mic.
Wait, universal health care, Government ID Cards, government food, housing and clothing assistance? .... COMMUNISM!!!! THEY'VE TAKEN OVER OUR MILITARY! GRAB YOUR GUNS! :D
Too late. There was a mysterious box in the theater with a small red light on it that looked suspiciously like a CCD camera in it last time I saw a movie.
I don't know if there was a camera in it... but if it wasn't a ccd camera I don't know what it is.
I went to New Zealand last year and went to a movie in Christchurch. It was a pretty odd experience. It had assigned seating.
I ignored it since there were only like 4 other people in the theater but the seats were awesome. Think lazyboy. And the aisles were large enough for someone to walk past you with out moving, or them even needing to turn sideways. I would say there were less than 200 seats in the theater. And it was a medium sized theater. Oh yeah and the ticket price was ~$7 US and the food was normally priced.
I don't know if that's indicative of your average NZ theater, but it does live up to the "assigned seating" requirement.
Or:
1) They know global warming is true and a hopeless cause. :D Earth 2!
2) They are looking for a replacement earth.
Uhhh... sattelite and cable have the same number of commercials. Otherise their schedules would start getting out of sync pretty quick.
Yikes. Your operating system is using $10 worth of RAM!? How greedy can M$ be? Hogging all that RAM.
Based on stories I've heard from many post-graduate friends--poisoning your advisor might be a sensible course of action.
Remember they're the one who decides whether or not you get your degree. If they for some reason have a grudge against you there's nothing you can do but start over.
After spending 3 years of your life on something only to have someone tell you "No." for seemingly vindictive reasons I could imagine a likeable person getting a little vindictive themselves. :D
See you're making one huge miscalculation. You're actually valuable to an employer.
Here is how the majority of Americans live their life. They go to highschool. A large number drop out. Many continue on to college. Of those who complete college most still end up working in positions which require no college education.
These people are the people who watch local news. The local news reports stories important to their viewers. (Hence uneducated or generally useless employees working for minimum wage at dead end jobs.)
It's the generally useless, barely more productive than a fancy Japanese Robot employee working at McDonalds who is competing against 1,000 other useless barely productive uneducated employees who really do have something to worry about. In the generally useless category of employee the greatest threat to the employer is that the employee realize that they're pretty much disposable and unappreciated. As such these sorts of individuals tend to give the job as much effort as it deserves (aka none). They party all night show up marginally awake and sober about on time and put in little to no effort. If they are hung over too often from partying then their employer replaces them with someone equally unimportant. The fired employee moves on to another job and so on and so forth.
Previously bouncing from fast food to fast food restaurant. Retail counter to Retail counter was completely safe and anonymous. Now all of a sudden the McDonalds manager can see that you're someone who has figured out they're a meaningless cog and won't be dedicated to properly frying the frys for exactly 2 minutes and should probably employ candidate B who hasn't figured out their job is meaningless yet and doesn't appear to have a conflicting social life which might lead to tardiness and absenteeism.
In jobs with low turn over employees by and large tend to work harder to hold their jobs and tend to do a better job of managing their own out of work behavior such that it has minimal conflict with their job.
In fact I would say the amount of irresponsible out of work behavior is directly inversely proportional to the amount of responsibility necessarily AT work. Hence, people who are hiring or seeking employment at a demanding job have less concern for how many beer bongs you've done in the last week.
This is my feeling exactly.
DONT POST PICTURES OF YOURSELF SNORTING COCAINE!
Or... even better... don't go around snorting cocaine off hookers in your leisure time in the first place.
And if you are snorting cocaine off of hookers it'll probably be reflected in the quality of your work. So hiding your irresponsible after hours behavior in the interview will just mean an early termination.
Just what exactly is everyone afraid their employers are going to find out about them?
"Employers find pictures of irresponsible drunken frat boy on internet. Assume an irresponsible drunken frat boy and decide not to hire him in favor of someone else. News at 11."
The same way every other loan works.
By spending on capital now, you can leverage your potential to pay it back plus pocket profit in the future.
What is with the right wing of our population suddenly becoming stupid to basic business management?
"A loan just has to be payed back in the future it's useless."
"A deficit is just an equal tax on the future and in the long term is nothing but damaging to the economy."
"The government borrowing is just putting off the inevitable."
The economy will inevitably bounce back. At which point yes we will need to pay back the loan. The idea is that we have underutilized resources that need to be employed in order to maximize our current capacity.
If you have a factory that's missing a component you take out a loan buy the component and get the factory operational again.
The US Economy is a large factory that's producing at reduced capacity because one component is seriously broken. The US Government is theorizing that by borrowing against the future when the factory is profitable it'll easily be able to pay back the loan.
Also since the GDP has risen and tends to rise with time what 50 years ago was an absurd deficit is now pretty easily repayable. Take out a trillion dollars now. Keep our economy to stagnate for 10 years and a decade from now the trillion dollars is pretty easy to repay.
It's like my college loan. I couldn't afford college so I took out a loan. Then once I used my college education to get me a nice paying job I payed it back in 6 months. Working through college would have reduced my education time and resulted in a lower paying job which would have taken much longer to pay off. By taking out a larger loan I was able to pay it off faster. I invested in my potential.
Co-ops are largely untaxable. Why would we want to record that sort of financial exchange? ;)
I think the death of MySpace was pretty widely visible.
90% of its user base HATED using it. It was a terrible webpage. And it was incredibly limiting. 10 pictures? What is this?
Facebook is a photo app. I thought that the first time I used it, and have felt pretty backed up by that statement ever since.
The first time I used facebook was to put up photos and the ability to tag people and associate it with profiles is what I found incredibly useful. (Not to mention unlimited photo uploads was handy.)
Facebook is going to survive because it's going to be a friends and family photo album + event planning.
MySpace is awkward public text messaging. The novelty for everyone not female 12-18 wears off very quickly. Facebook on the other hand actually appeals to people of all ages and demographics.
Not really.
I spend >$10 on a DVD that usually only watch once or twice.
I spend ?$13 on Netflix per month and watch 5 or 6 streaming movies. Or for $10 I could watch 3-4 Movies on XBox marketplace.
Do I spend more on pay per view? Yes. I usually rent more than I buy. But largely because I pirate less. It's supporting the content providers and they're offering me an affordable, reasonable service.
I don't see the problem. They're offering me a better experience than the previous model (buying DVDs) at a discounted price. How many movies do you own that actually were cheaper than $2 per viewing?
Pay Per View should cut piracy because the entry cost is lower. $2 for a possibly mediocre movie vs $18. If you aren't willing to spend $2 on a movie then you don't really deserve to watch it, it's almost impossible to not get your money's worth at $2.
A physical therapist to whom you would need to visit at least 20 times would total up to more than $2000.
Not exactly chump change for a student. Also the doctor probably wouldn't know what to do with you. They would prescribe a shot or surgery not physical therapy.
Here is a good general rule: Don't go to a doctor with a joint issue. They won't know what to do with you. Your family physician knows about as much about a joint injury as you do.
Uhhh... men have breasts too. Not nearly as developed. But we still have breasts. Some men even lactate.
Anyone remember being able to have multiple queues on your (shared) account with someone?
I thought they backtracked on this and changed their minds.
As much as I think difficult to program for is a huge problem I think I understand what he's trying to say.
"We could have put in weaker hardware that was easier to develop for, but instead we chose a platform that would be difficult to work with but potentially provides much more power down the road."
He's not saying they intentionally stagnated growth in order to get better games over time. He's saying stagnated growth is a *symptom* of a design decision focused around long term system performance.
All of this is moot though. They gave the system too little RAM. You can only work around that so much. So I find his argument that "Our console will slowly live up to its potential while the competitor will hit a wall." to be inaccurate. They're going to hit a memory wall before the 360 hits a processor wall.
Perhaps he's too busy to spend 2 days searching for the instructions on how to do the 30 second task.
They're only worth big bucks thanks to patent law.
Just saying.
We all cheer pure R&D and then scream and cry when someone like microsoft defends their patents.
I don't think I've ever read a study concluding that homosexuality is genetic in nature.
There have been numerous studies that found birth order to be influential. I believe the leading theory is it's a developmental alteration not a genetic one.
Especially considering it's unlikeliy to be hereditary for obvious reasons.
There's another point which needs to be made:
YOU CAN USE VISTA DRIVERS!
Yes. There are new fancy Windows 7 specific drivers which have added features but...
YOU CAN USE VISTA DRIVERS!
I even had to use a Windows XP driver and it worked!
The old drivers all work. They just don't have the new "Whiz Bang!" Stuff. Point Windows Device Manager at a Vista driver and it'll probably install just fine.
No the worst are the people who passive aggressively bitch at other people's opinions on bitching about bitching.