Some of us don't think the Sony name is worth paying a premium for. Either because of the bullshit coming out of their music and movie divisions (DRM, root kits, etc), or because (my reason) the Sony "quality" has dropped off considerably in the last few years. My old Sony Trinitron monitors were, and still are, great -- even going on 8 years. I've had a PS and a PS2 quit working after a couple years. I've had a Sony HDTV that had its IR reciever quit working after a month. The brand name they worked so hard to build up is crumbling around them and they're too focused on "right now" to realize it.
I could buy a PS3 today and not miss the $, but I still say a price that high for a game console of dubious quality is stupid. I don't need or want an all-in-one-does-everything-and-wipes-my-ass game console. All the extras that you like, I don't. The extra cost of all that stuff drives the price up, and for those of us who don't want the extras, paying that much for a game console is just stupid.
I think the same about the Xbox360 -- overpriced because its trying to be and do too much. The Xbox360 Elite certainly isn't helping my opinion of it being overpriced either. It does have a bunch of good games, but its been out a year longer so that is to be expected. It has some a huge system-seller in the form of Halo 3. It ties in with windows media center. HD-DVD is an extra $$ add-on.
The Wii is priced about where I think a game console should be priced, but its also not trying to be everything else either. Its game selection pretty much sucks right now, and probably will for another 9-12 months, since it'll take time for 3rd party devs to turn out good games for it. I have my doubts as to how well it will survive, although, as I've said in other threads, its priced right, and its seen as "simple" and even "cute" compared to the 360 and PS3. Sure its not as powerful, but "simple", priced right, and "cute" count for a LOT of consumer sales, which explains why its still hard to find in some places.
There are some kids that are surprisingly well qualified to evaluate teachers, but for the most part, you're right.
For example -- from middle school onward, I could tell the good teachers from the bad ones. The good ones were the ones most kids hated because they didn't put up with bullshit, accepted no excuses, and assigned a lot of homework that made you think, and didn't offer any opportunities for "extra credit". The bad teachers were the ones that assigned busywork (fill in the blanks where the answers were the bold words in the book), accepted the silliest of excuses when assignments weren't done, couldn't control their classroom, and offered enough "extra credit" that you could get an A in the class by failing every test and assigned homework and instead doing the two or three 10-minutes-of-effort "extra credit" assignments.
20+ years later, some of those "good" teachers are still there, but NONE of the teachers I considered "bad" are still teaching.
Typical -- don't bother to construct a real argument, just restate your same bullshit, and move on to the personal attacks. Here's a free hint for you: Personal attacks do not help you make your case.
I'll spell it out for you, since you obviously don't get it: The people would be consuming supplies and producing CO2 regardless of wether they're working on this, working on something else, or sitting on their asses playing pii60 all day. That FACT makes your argument that this is bad because it doesn't cancel out everything remotely connected to it a bullshit argument.
If you didn't notice, we both think this device isn't a good idea. You attempt back it up with bullshit arguments. I just state it is my opinion, and won't prop up my personal opinion with bullshit, since it just stinks up the place.
I'll give you the last word, because I'm done. I've stated my opinion, labeled it as such for people to take or leave as they desire.
I'm not taking issue with the conclusion -- My opinion is that this is a feel-good device, much the same way as a Prius is a feel-good device that lets people feel like they're doing something for the environment because they have a hybrid, while not actually being very good. I have no studies to back it up, so I'll just say its my opinion.
At least support your conclusion with logical arguments, not ones based on complete bullshit.
Yes, there is. There are a bunch of WoW players that are only continuing to play until the next good thing comes along. Most of the people in the guild I'm in will drop out of WoW for a month at a time to play GameXYZ when its released, if they like it, they retire their WoW account and play the new game. If its bad, they come back. When they get tired of the new game, they come back.
Most of them are gone playing LOTR right now -- we'll lose some, sure, but most of them will end up coming back. Likewise, I'll leave WoW when the Star Trek RPG finally gets released, but if it sucks, I'll end up going back to WoW.
Well, I'll admit to not paying much attention to Canadian politics lately -- I've been rather focused on trying to get some local "good 'ole boy club" memebers un-elected.
I have an admiration for the natural beauty your nation is blessed with, and I look foward to visiting again. I've been trying to talk a few friends into the Great Lake Circle Tour, but there's only one other thats comfortable enough with their riding abilities to make that trip, but he's not sure his bike would survive the trip, so it might have to wait until next summer.
Dot-matrix went out because they're seen as "old", they're NOISY, and the print quality pretty much sucks compared to anything out now.
That said, I still have an ancient Epson (it was purchased with an old 8088 machine) that still works, and I've got a pile of ribbons for it. It'll print fine from some old dos programs, but I'm too lazy to put together a windows print driver. It is tempting though. Just for the novelty, not for any practical purpose.
Wow. I didn't realize it'd gotten that bad. Sorry about that, and please realise that not all of us are like the chimp in office.
I won't leave the US (I do happen to like it here, current administration notwithstanding) but there are a lot of people who, if they followed through on their "if XXXXX wins, I'm moving to Canada" statements, who would be / are / will be VERY disappointed.
Your conservatives are learning the wrong thngs from our conservatives.
If I were you, I'd suggest they KEEP learning as the idiots in our current administration find out that they're not above the law. That way maybe they'll change their tune before canada ends up with a bunch of monkeys like Bush and Co.
"The people involved at all stages" is a bullshit argument, since they'd be producing CO2 regardless of whether they're working on this or creating/designing/building something else.
I only use a DSLR; I have a bunch of stuff up on flikr, but thats a secondary end -- most of what I do is for printing.
Which reminds me I need to go pull my stuff off flikr, assuming I can still get in after the switch to Yahoo IDs, which I do not have, and refuse to get. Grr.
[i]Ahhh....back to that mysterious PC-only free content. Do elaborate...[/i]
Probably not strictly what you were looking for, but how about 3rd party mods or addins/addons for games? Bethesda gives away The Elder Scrolls Construction Kit and there are mods and addons for Morrowind and Oblivion all over. EA doesn't give tools away, but there are literally thousands of addon cars and tracks for the various Need for Speed games.
Of course, such mods and addins/addons haven't been possible for consoles in the past, but with the PS3 and 360 both having hard drives (ok, yeah, there's a version of the 360 without one) finding a way to use their online services to provide mods and addins/addons may happen in the near future -- or might be happening now, I don't know, I don't really care, I'm not a console gamer and likely will never be since the types of games I like get mutilated for the 3-minute-attention-span generation when they're implemented for consoles.
The problem is when you can't find documentation other than "use the forums" which generally have a horrible search, a limited search, or NO search, so you post asking your question, and get told "we've answered this many times, go read the archives". Oh, and you have to register to post your question, so it becomes yet another login/password to forget, and yet another throwaway email address.
I don't have that kind of time to waste. As much as I can't stand wikis as a subsititution for real documentation, given the choice of wiki or forum, I'll take wiki every day of the week and twice on days that end in "y".
Wikis are the lazy or uninterested programmer's way of doing documentation. Why do the "boring" part of telling people how to use it when you can set up a wiki, tell everyone that the answers are in there, and let your users write the documentation for you?
Even worse than wikis though are using forums for documentation purposes. Using them for support is tolerable, depending on how well moderated the forums are.
Like you, the lack of good, current, and well-organized documentation is one of the reasons I don't use linux, but I'd argue that the problem goes beyond "linux" and is a problem that most open source projects need to solve. There are exceptions, of course, but the fact is most open source advocates are programmers first, and writers second (if at all).
RF Communication generally needs stable waveforms to be carriers. So no, the end result between a "dx station" and these cmos chips wouldn't really be all that different -- stable waveforms at high frequencies.
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You like Sony. You like the PS3. Good for you.
Some of us don't think the Sony name is worth paying a premium for. Either because of the bullshit coming out of their music and movie divisions (DRM, root kits, etc), or because (my reason) the Sony "quality" has dropped off considerably in the last few years. My old Sony Trinitron monitors were, and still are, great -- even going on 8 years. I've had a PS and a PS2 quit working after a couple years. I've had a Sony HDTV that had its IR reciever quit working after a month. The brand name they worked so hard to build up is crumbling around them and they're too focused on "right now" to realize it.
I could buy a PS3 today and not miss the $, but I still say a price that high for a game console of dubious quality is stupid. I don't need or want an all-in-one-does-everything-and-wipes-my-ass game console. All the extras that you like, I don't. The extra cost of all that stuff drives the price up, and for those of us who don't want the extras, paying that much for a game console is just stupid.
I think the same about the Xbox360 -- overpriced because its trying to be and do too much. The Xbox360 Elite certainly isn't helping my opinion of it being overpriced either. It does have a bunch of good games, but its been out a year longer so that is to be expected. It has some a huge system-seller in the form of Halo 3. It ties in with windows media center. HD-DVD is an extra $$ add-on.
The Wii is priced about where I think a game console should be priced, but its also not trying to be everything else either. Its game selection pretty much sucks right now, and probably will for another 9-12 months, since it'll take time for 3rd party devs to turn out good games for it. I have my doubts as to how well it will survive, although, as I've said in other threads, its priced right, and its seen as "simple" and even "cute" compared to the 360 and PS3. Sure its not as powerful, but "simple", priced right, and "cute" count for a LOT of consumer sales, which explains why its still hard to find in some places.
There are some kids that are surprisingly well qualified to evaluate teachers, but for the most part, you're right.
For example -- from middle school onward, I could tell the good teachers from the bad ones. The good ones were the ones most kids hated because they didn't put up with bullshit, accepted no excuses, and assigned a lot of homework that made you think, and didn't offer any opportunities for "extra credit". The bad teachers were the ones that assigned busywork (fill in the blanks where the answers were the bold words in the book), accepted the silliest of excuses when assignments weren't done, couldn't control their classroom, and offered enough "extra credit" that you could get an A in the class by failing every test and assigned homework and instead doing the two or three 10-minutes-of-effort "extra credit" assignments.
20+ years later, some of those "good" teachers are still there, but NONE of the teachers I considered "bad" are still teaching.
Typical -- don't bother to construct a real argument, just restate your same bullshit, and move on to the personal attacks. Here's a free hint for you: Personal attacks do not help you make your case.
I'll spell it out for you, since you obviously don't get it: The people would be consuming supplies and producing CO2 regardless of wether they're working on this, working on something else, or sitting on their asses playing pii60 all day. That FACT makes your argument that this is bad because it doesn't cancel out everything remotely connected to it a bullshit argument.
If you didn't notice, we both think this device isn't a good idea. You attempt back it up with bullshit arguments. I just state it is my opinion, and won't prop up my personal opinion with bullshit, since it just stinks up the place.
I'll give you the last word, because I'm done. I've stated my opinion, labeled it as such for people to take or leave as they desire.
Too bad I just used my last mod point up, or you'd get a +1, even though you've got me marked as a foe.
You didn't play DnD did you?
I'm not taking issue with the conclusion -- My opinion is that this is a feel-good device, much the same way as a Prius is a feel-good device that lets people feel like they're doing something for the environment because they have a hybrid, while not actually being very good. I have no studies to back it up, so I'll just say its my opinion.
At least support your conclusion with logical arguments, not ones based on complete bullshit.
Fiscal year, not calendar year.
Yes, there is. There are a bunch of WoW players that are only continuing to play until the next good thing comes along. Most of the people in the guild I'm in will drop out of WoW for a month at a time to play GameXYZ when its released, if they like it, they retire their WoW account and play the new game. If its bad, they come back. When they get tired of the new game, they come back.
Most of them are gone playing LOTR right now -- we'll lose some, sure, but most of them will end up coming back. Likewise, I'll leave WoW when the Star Trek RPG finally gets released, but if it sucks, I'll end up going back to WoW.
Might give it a shot -- Win2k didn't support it, so I figured it was considered too old by now.
Now you've got me curious enough to try it after work today.
BZZZT, wrong.
You don't get court provided attorneys for civil matters, which is what a lawsuit is.
Well, I'll admit to not paying much attention to Canadian politics lately -- I've been rather focused on trying to get some local "good 'ole boy club" memebers un-elected.
I have an admiration for the natural beauty your nation is blessed with, and I look foward to visiting again. I've been trying to talk a few friends into the Great Lake Circle Tour, but there's only one other thats comfortable enough with their riding abilities to make that trip, but he's not sure his bike would survive the trip, so it might have to wait until next summer.
Dot-matrix went out because they're seen as "old", they're NOISY, and the print quality pretty much sucks compared to anything out now.
That said, I still have an ancient Epson (it was purchased with an old 8088 machine) that still works, and I've got a pile of ribbons for it. It'll print fine from some old dos programs, but I'm too lazy to put together a windows print driver. It is tempting though. Just for the novelty, not for any practical purpose.
Wow. I didn't realize it'd gotten that bad. Sorry about that, and please realise that not all of us are like the chimp in office.
I won't leave the US (I do happen to like it here, current administration notwithstanding) but there are a lot of people who, if they followed through on their "if XXXXX wins, I'm moving to Canada" statements, who would be / are / will be VERY disappointed.
Your conservatives are learning the wrong thngs from our conservatives.
If I were you, I'd suggest they KEEP learning as the idiots in our current administration find out that they're not above the law. That way maybe they'll change their tune before canada ends up with a bunch of monkeys like Bush and Co.
"The people involved at all stages" is a bullshit argument, since they'd be producing CO2 regardless of whether they're working on this or creating/designing/building something else.
I only use a DSLR; I have a bunch of stuff up on flikr, but thats a secondary end -- most of what I do is for printing.
Which reminds me I need to go pull my stuff off flikr, assuming I can still get in after the switch to Yahoo IDs, which I do not have, and refuse to get. Grr.
I don't play party politics. If the money made up for the risks, I'd probably go if offered the chance.
[i]Ahhh....back to that mysterious PC-only free content. Do elaborate...[/i]
Probably not strictly what you were looking for, but how about 3rd party mods or addins/addons for games? Bethesda gives away The Elder Scrolls Construction Kit and there are mods and addons for Morrowind and Oblivion all over. EA doesn't give tools away, but there are literally thousands of addon cars and tracks for the various Need for Speed games.
Of course, such mods and addins/addons haven't been possible for consoles in the past, but with the PS3 and 360 both having hard drives (ok, yeah, there's a version of the 360 without one) finding a way to use their online services to provide mods and addins/addons may happen in the near future -- or might be happening now, I don't know, I don't really care, I'm not a console gamer and likely will never be since the types of games I like get mutilated for the 3-minute-attention-span generation when they're implemented for consoles.
I've come across too many forums that are not indexed by google to rely on google finding answers held in forums.
Obviously, there are people that love forums for documentation. I hate them. We'll agree to disagree and leave it at that.
The problem is when you can't find documentation other than "use the forums" which generally have a horrible search, a limited search, or NO search, so you post asking your question, and get told "we've answered this many times, go read the archives". Oh, and you have to register to post your question, so it becomes yet another login/password to forget, and yet another throwaway email address.
I don't have that kind of time to waste. As much as I can't stand wikis as a subsititution for real documentation, given the choice of wiki or forum, I'll take wiki every day of the week and twice on days that end in "y".
Its a saying, not a myth, and was thrown in for humourous effect. Apparently you missed the joke.
One could make the argument that you're not unbiased.
However....even paranoids have enemies, and just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Wikis are the lazy or uninterested programmer's way of doing documentation. Why do the "boring" part of telling people how to use it when you can set up a wiki, tell everyone that the answers are in there, and let your users write the documentation for you?
Even worse than wikis though are using forums for documentation purposes. Using them for support is tolerable, depending on how well moderated the forums are.
Like you, the lack of good, current, and well-organized documentation is one of the reasons I don't use linux, but I'd argue that the problem goes beyond "linux" and is a problem that most open source projects need to solve. There are exceptions, of course, but the fact is most open source advocates are programmers first, and writers second (if at all).
Bah, KDE and Gnome both suck. I'll never surrender my command line!
RF Communication generally needs stable waveforms to be carriers. So no, the end result between a "dx station" and these cmos chips wouldn't really be all that different -- stable waveforms at high frequencies.