Oooh...a watch thats also a music player. Who gives a damn?
Ooooh, and oled tv. Again, who cares?
Most people I know don't wear digital watches, or carry music players. Then again, I don't hang around with college kids, and instead associate with people that do not live and breathe the crap put out that's considered "entertainment" these days.
$10 says he hasn't, and never will, get laid. Although at least with $25k (which is what, 100 Euro these days?) he might be able to move out of his mom's basement.
I forget, is it the odd-numbered trek movies that are good, or are they the ones that suck?/hangs trekkie hat up in shame, although in all fairness, the shows were almost always better than the movies.
Concerts, sporting events, whatever. If ticketmaster is involved, I don't go.
I just don't like being surcharged and fee'd to death. If its going to turn out to be a $300 ticket, just price the ticket at $300. Not $150 with a $50 convenience fee, a $30 internet-order fee, a $20 online-ticket-printing fee, a $10 "you paid with a visa card" fee, a $20 "processing fee", and a $20 "fee collection surcharge".
Good luck with that. Congress requested the investigation. It still got blocked.
Sure, we can vote out the politicians, but the bureaucracy will continue, regardless of which party happens to be in power.
What we NEED to do is purge the bureaucracy every decade or so. And not just the top few administrative types -- everyone. Bring new people and new ideas in at all levels.
Also, making it ridiculously easy to fire a government employee would help as well. I think they're moving the right direction with their new personnel program that will base pay on performance, rather than simply grade and step. Of course, from what I've seen, people will still write their own performance reviews, which will be rubber-stamped approved, and will keep the system as broken as it was before, with the honest and hard-working still getting screwed by their lazy and indifferent coworkers.
Anecdotal: There was a lady in our building, came in to fill a GS 9 position. After 8 months of doing nothing but running her mouth about how great she was at doing stuff and taking credit for everyone else's work (and proving her utter incompetence to those working around her) she moved to a different section to fill a GS 11 job. Two months over there it became apparent to all those above her that she could not do the job, and since she'd pissed everyone around her off by taking credit for their work, they (and me) were unwilling to do anything that might help her. Did her incompetence and inability to do her job get her fired, or demoted down to a skill level she could do? NO! They move her into a different department, and promote her again to a GS 12! She's still floundering, and unable to do her job, and her reputation preceded her so she gets absolutely no help from her coworkers, but they can't get rid of her, and can't put her back in a GS 7 or GS 9 job that matches her abilities.
As a DoD contractor, I get to see at least part of the ugly game that is government service. The politics and backstabbing are worse than anywhere else I've been. The lazy and incompetent are promoted and shuffled around to be "someone else's problem" while those that produce tend to get kept where they are, because "they're too valuable to lose to a different section/department." The object of the game is not to serve the people (troops, directly in our case) or the country. The object of the game is to get as much money for doing as little work as possible. I'd hope its different elsewhere, but it appears this is the case across the DoD, which isn't exactly a small slice of the government service pie.
I'd go one step further and say that you know free radio has problems when you not only drive people to pay radio, but you drive the rest to "no radio".
Hell, you can get to the mid 60s (at least) without grouping with anyone if you don't care about running instances.
At least for horde, if you have a high level toon to get gold and gear, you can get an alt from 1-20 in a couple of weekends, and still have time for real life. If you don't care about real life, you can do it in a single weekend -- its boring as hell, but at least it moves quickly.
If it were up to me, you'd always be able to create alternate characters at the same level as your highest character on a realm is. Those that WANT to learn to play that character in a group, will. Those that don't, won't. It makes no difference whether they start at 1 or 69 -- if they don't want to learn, they won't.
While I'd love that ability in WoW, the argument is "then people won't know how to play their new characters effectively, and raiding / instances will suck".
I say, what does it matter, when people buy characters or buy leveling services, have a high-level alt, and STILL don't know how to play.
Dad was an engineer. I learned how to use a slide rule for basic math in first grade, just because "it was neat" -- after all, if dad the engineer uses one, it must be cool.
One of my math classes "required" a TI-82 (Jr. High), since some of the problems were of the "push these buttons in this order to graph this equation" type. After that, most kids went out and bought the latest and greatest TI graphing calculators. I was given a TI-86 when they were first released, as "the calculator that will do anything you need it to through college" by my parents. It was neat for a while, some of the games were cool, and programming in assembly for it was kinda fun - at least much more so than paying attention in Early American Literature. But I didn't use it for my math classes. I was the nerd in the back of the room using dad's old slide rule while everyone else was punching buttons on their calculators.
I continued using a slide rule for most problems until my senior year in college, when I switched over to a TI-89 because I was extremely lazy and it made the statistics class much easier (it did all the work anywhere where we weren't required to "show our work").
I still have it, and still use it out in the shop on occasion. My TI-86, TI-89, and HP-48G+ sit gathering dust.
Your flaw is thinking you HAVE to have swap space, much less "4.5gb to 9gb". Those guidelines were relevant when XP was fairly new, programs were using more RAM, but new PCs were being sold with an average of 128 MB RAM.
Now, they're not nearly as relevant, and should probably be revised (if they haven't already).
That depends on the school. Most have remedial classes that are more or less high school level, usually to make up for less-than good school districts, but most still require you to declare a major at admission. That is changing, and from the (limited) number of schools I looked at, visited, researched, attended, and considered for grad school, the lead towards allowing "undecided" or "general studies" students is coming from the schools with larger and/or more famous athletics departments. I will not speculate if that change is a result of changing the focus to attract athletes, or from needing to accommodate students recruited for athletics, or from something entirely unrelated to athletics and merely a coincidence.
They're all over it, but they're nearly as big of spenders ad the GOP is. And yes, the GOP is also lying when they say they want a balanced budget.
But whatever, you have your opinion, which apparently is that the democrats are some noble knight in shining armor here to save the country, and I have mine, which is that both parties are corrupt, and full of lying assholes. Debating further is pointless, so lets agree to disagree.
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Most people I'm around wear analog watches, not digital ones.
Oooh...a watch thats also a music player. Who gives a damn?
Ooooh, and oled tv. Again, who cares?
Most people I know don't wear digital watches, or carry music players. Then again, I don't hang around with college kids, and instead associate with people that do not live and breathe the crap put out that's considered "entertainment" these days.
Get off my lawn! Damn kids....
The kid's in the UK.
Its called a joke, which obviously missed you and most of the other people on slashdot.
Oh well.
Have you seen the exchange rate lately? He better spend it soon, or that $25k isn't going to buy him much in the way of hookers.
Fine, he's a math geek. An ubergeek even.
$10 says he hasn't, and never will, get laid. Although at least with $25k (which is what, 100 Euro these days?) he might be able to move out of his mom's basement.
Word, Outlook, and XP. No error. Sent to another of my accounts, opened on a different XP machine in outlook. Still no error.
I forget, is it the odd-numbered trek movies that are good, or are they the ones that suck? /hangs trekkie hat up in shame, although in all fairness, the shows were almost always better than the movies.
Concerts, sporting events, whatever. If ticketmaster is involved, I don't go.
I just don't like being surcharged and fee'd to death. If its going to turn out to be a $300 ticket, just price the ticket at $300. Not $150 with a $50 convenience fee, a $30 internet-order fee, a $20 online-ticket-printing fee, a $10 "you paid with a visa card" fee, a $20 "processing fee", and a $20 "fee collection surcharge".
Good luck with that. Congress requested the investigation. It still got blocked.
Sure, we can vote out the politicians, but the bureaucracy will continue, regardless of which party happens to be in power.
What we NEED to do is purge the bureaucracy every decade or so. And not just the top few administrative types -- everyone. Bring new people and new ideas in at all levels.
Also, making it ridiculously easy to fire a government employee would help as well. I think they're moving the right direction with their new personnel program that will base pay on performance, rather than simply grade and step. Of course, from what I've seen, people will still write their own performance reviews, which will be rubber-stamped approved, and will keep the system as broken as it was before, with the honest and hard-working still getting screwed by their lazy and indifferent coworkers.
Anecdotal: There was a lady in our building, came in to fill a GS 9 position. After 8 months of doing nothing but running her mouth about how great she was at doing stuff and taking credit for everyone else's work (and proving her utter incompetence to those working around her) she moved to a different section to fill a GS 11 job. Two months over there it became apparent to all those above her that she could not do the job, and since she'd pissed everyone around her off by taking credit for their work, they (and me) were unwilling to do anything that might help her. Did her incompetence and inability to do her job get her fired, or demoted down to a skill level she could do? NO! They move her into a different department, and promote her again to a GS 12! She's still floundering, and unable to do her job, and her reputation preceded her so she gets absolutely no help from her coworkers, but they can't get rid of her, and can't put her back in a GS 7 or GS 9 job that matches her abilities.
As a DoD contractor, I get to see at least part of the ugly game that is government service. The politics and backstabbing are worse than anywhere else I've been. The lazy and incompetent are promoted and shuffled around to be "someone else's problem" while those that produce tend to get kept where they are, because "they're too valuable to lose to a different section/department." The object of the game is not to serve the people (troops, directly in our case) or the country. The object of the game is to get as much money for doing as little work as possible. I'd hope its different elsewhere, but it appears this is the case across the DoD, which isn't exactly a small slice of the government service pie.
I'd go one step further and say that you know free radio has problems when you not only drive people to pay radio, but you drive the rest to "no radio".
Hell, you can get to the mid 60s (at least) without grouping with anyone if you don't care about running instances.
At least for horde, if you have a high level toon to get gold and gear, you can get an alt from 1-20 in a couple of weekends, and still have time for real life. If you don't care about real life, you can do it in a single weekend -- its boring as hell, but at least it moves quickly.
If it were up to me, you'd always be able to create alternate characters at the same level as your highest character on a realm is. Those that WANT to learn to play that character in a group, will. Those that don't, won't. It makes no difference whether they start at 1 or 69 -- if they don't want to learn, they won't.
Different quests. So that those of us re-rolling new characters can do something different, rather than the same thing we've done before.
While I'd love that ability in WoW, the argument is "then people won't know how to play their new characters effectively, and raiding / instances will suck".
I say, what does it matter, when people buy characters or buy leveling services, have a high-level alt, and STILL don't know how to play.
Touche
I'm a young'n, being in my mid 20s.
Dad was an engineer. I learned how to use a slide rule for basic math in first grade, just because "it was neat" -- after all, if dad the engineer uses one, it must be cool.
One of my math classes "required" a TI-82 (Jr. High), since some of the problems were of the "push these buttons in this order to graph this equation" type. After that, most kids went out and bought the latest and greatest TI graphing calculators. I was given a TI-86 when they were first released, as "the calculator that will do anything you need it to through college" by my parents. It was neat for a while, some of the games were cool, and programming in assembly for it was kinda fun - at least much more so than paying attention in Early American Literature. But I didn't use it for my math classes. I was the nerd in the back of the room using dad's old slide rule while everyone else was punching buttons on their calculators.
I continued using a slide rule for most problems until my senior year in college, when I switched over to a TI-89 because I was extremely lazy and it made the statistics class much easier (it did all the work anywhere where we weren't required to "show our work").
I still have it, and still use it out in the shop on occasion. My TI-86, TI-89, and HP-48G+ sit gathering dust.
Your flaw is thinking you HAVE to have swap space, much less "4.5gb to 9gb". Those guidelines were relevant when XP was fairly new, programs were using more RAM, but new PCs were being sold with an average of 128 MB RAM.
Now, they're not nearly as relevant, and should probably be revised (if they haven't already).
But then you'd need an even longer rope.
I don't pay tax on my cable internet service.
Of course, thats because the local cable company is HAPPY to sell you cable internet without requiring you to pay for cable tv.
They SHOULD all be counted as GPL2, because until they are explicitly moved to GPL3, they are not GPL3.
Not necessarily. GPL version 3 only provisions do not apply to it, unless it is changed to be licensed under GPL 3 (only, or "or later").
That depends on the school. Most have remedial classes that are more or less high school level, usually to make up for less-than good school districts, but most still require you to declare a major at admission. That is changing, and from the (limited) number of schools I looked at, visited, researched, attended, and considered for grad school, the lead towards allowing "undecided" or "general studies" students is coming from the schools with larger and/or more famous athletics departments. I will not speculate if that change is a result of changing the focus to attract athletes, or from needing to accommodate students recruited for athletics, or from something entirely unrelated to athletics and merely a coincidence.
Balanced Budget.
They're all over it, but they're nearly as big of spenders ad the GOP is. And yes, the GOP is also lying when they say they want a balanced budget.
But whatever, you have your opinion, which apparently is that the democrats are some noble knight in shining armor here to save the country, and I have mine, which is that both parties are corrupt, and full of lying assholes. Debating further is pointless, so lets agree to disagree.
Only let them use the computer with supervision.
If that means they lose their computer and have to share one with their parents until they earn it back, tough cookies.
Being a good parent doesn't mean giving your kids everything they want. Sometimes it means putting your foot down and telling them no.
Didn't know they made a version for the Genesis. Learn something new every day lol.
But yes, finishing Battletoads on the NES was a royal pain in the butt, but it was doable.