actually that was 'relevent', sorry didn't spell check... but I would have thought this spelling would have jumped out as the sentance clearly defined the word I was trying to spell...
FYI: Relevent- Function: adjective Etymology: Medieval Latin relevant-, relevans, from Latin, present participle of relevare to raise up -- more at RELIEVE 1 a : having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand b : affording evidence tending to prove or disprove the matter at issue or under discussion c : having social relevance
I can't even find a dictionary that understands 'Revelant'... In fact most refer me to the word I was trying to spell (and got alot closer to than you did in your reply)...
(no acting for a living is unproductive and not a job) - believed by the wife of one of my friends whose from China... (no sports for a living is unproductive and not a job) - believed by at least a few dozen people I'm sure... (no racing for a living is unproductive and not a job) - believed by anyone who has watched Taladega Nights...
What (by chance) makes you think your opinion is somehow more realivent than anyone elses?
I'd argue that a video game itself does not equal a 'sport' like in real life, but instead a category does (more so if you think of indivual titles being like game rules for a certain era, baseball doens't have the same rules today as it did 100 years ago after all)... So the question should be: Will RTS's be popular in 100 years? & I think the answer will be: As much as baseball is still popular today it will be.
Baseball (at least in the US) is on a fairly steady decline... The last decade has seen many stories discussing it, so I don't think it's a very valid comparison in general... After all the figures say that baseball has a good chance to become a nitch sport again, rather than a game 'There will always be a great deal of people who would go to".
Except for point A certain games actually can do the other points (the last however mostly in other countries, at least since arcades died here in the US). So I don't see the complaint your making as very valid...
Teamwork, leadership, and commitment: I used to be part of a team that played CS and these were all big points for everyone in that team... Why? Because we played in a league and wanted to prove we were as good if not better than others. If you don't work together you die (there are some rare exceptions, but...), If you have no leadership you die (again with a few rare exceptions), If you lack commitment to developing your skills together you lack both teamwork and leadership and suffer the fates already listed.
Go (much like chess) is played in an almost solitary manner, so that btw makes a very bad example... You need one other person and a few years back online Go took huge strides because it solved the lack of available players... much as it does for most other games... In fact most such games all suffer a lack of points 2-5, & normally 6 as well...
I hate sports because people make such a big stink over it... I'm expected to worship the 'sports gods' like every other know nothing... I hated them in high school, I still hate them today... I couldn't care less who wins the next football game in my area... I couldn't care less what games are even 'in season'... I seriously doubt I'll ever care...
Oh sure, I can really link to paper sources... Want to bother looking up exactly where I read X, Y, or Z over some thirty odd sites and six or seven paper sources I follow... Or even care whether you believe me or not... silly me...
What makes your comment even funnier is that their has been a actual feature length movie made using the Unreal engine (in this case the first one, though only because no neweer versiosn were available then). Much like Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within or Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children in style that was made in France.
Huh, seems I've read some different sources about the level of 'support' Japanese RPG devs have for the Xbox 360... From what I hear Square-Enix is serious about coming to Xbox 360 (though they will be slightly behind similiar releases for PS3 because they made the decision barely a year ago), Capcom have a healthy interest in the MS console, Several more 'Indie' developers (run by some awfully big names) have already announced plans for RPG's on Xbox 360.
About 8 'RPG companies' have plans to code RPG's for the MS console... That's about half of all the companies who make primarily RPG's... & that's not 'a lot' for you...?
Having been in the small time consulting bussiness myself (also on the East Coast, I live in PA) and I can say that it's not nearly as easy as it sounds...
Why you ask? See it's all in the contacts, and the fact that if he leaves now (when he now has contacts at client companies) he's screwed. The company he has worked for will do whatever it takes to bury him before he can gain any clients of theirs he's dealt with. And if (and is most likely the case) he had no client contacts before taking that job he has a 0.00001% chance of gaining clients.
During college I came back from a larger city to the area I'm from and tried to apply my work as a network consultant back there to get me new bussiness here. I ahd no contacts and at least 3 existing companies did much the same as the one he works for (from the sound of it). Major companies (200+ staff within the area and the ones with money to spend) have their own IT departments (however small those may be), so only the small fries need network consultants (aka the 'portable IT department'). The problem? Those companies can't even pay $100/hour. Most of the existing 'firms' charged $80, which was nearly the limit those places coudl afford (in fact I know several that would toss the consultants out when the reached whatever fixed limit they could afford whether the work was done or not).
I came in and found I knew no one... I couldn't even get my foot in the door with most places, so I ended up taking a retail job for five years... It's been a year since then and I have developed a few contacts that will get me work, but I have about half a dozen clients who can barely afford to pay me (I've had to take some assignments on very low flat fees, or even down work for free to get my foot in the door). It's been a very long and tough process. Even now I'm looking at a long term conttract that pays almost nothing compared to what I will do... The contract calls for me to create a computerized inventory system and client database and then set up an online store from scratch (which isn't even exactly within my normal range of skills)... All by myself. What am I being paid? ~$1800/month as a flat fee. At which I'm more expensive per month than their rent and only because they feel I can make at least that much a month for them through the web am I getting this job at all. It will be the most I've earned yet since I came back.
You make it sound so much easier than the reality is...
Elect who? I don't vote for a simple reason... I can't find anyone to vote for... I could vote for myself... But somehow I don't think that would work...
Not that such a thing will happen anyways... Our forefathers just didn't think far enough into the future for ways to resist future corruption of the government... I know none of them would believe this future could eventually happen...
Now I never owned a NES (of any sort) as my first console was a Sega Master System (followed by a Genesis when it was new), but I never paid $80 for a game (or I swhould say my parents paid, since I was still a kid back then). Heck if games where that expensive I'd have only gotten a new game once a year (Anything near $100 was a birthday present, and even christmas didnt' rate the same in cost of gift to birthdays). I know very well I could manage 2 games minimum a year. Maybe it was regional pricing?
One of my favorite teachers redid the phrase "The Customer is always right." into "The customer isn't always right, but they are the custoemr and deserve respect". Customers will bleed you dry if you are to nice to them, but you can't be an ass either as no one will want your product. I've found it works far better in the real world then assuming they are right no matter what. It's a matter of attitude rather than policy which really makes the difference...
As for "What percentage of the US is really so cut off from civilization that if Wal-Mart doesn't carry "Lost" they can't get it some other way?", well I happen to have done some travellign around my state recently (Pennsylvania) and in alot of small towns all there is to buy such things (heck most things) from is Wal-Mart! Wal-Mart killed the mom & pop stores there and no big companies want to come play there, so Wal-Mart is it... For just about everything.
The sad part is most people don't seem to care... I needed to get gas while driving through one small city (about 6-9k people live there) and since all I'd seen whiel coming through town to shop at was a Wal-Mart, I aksed if their was anywhere else to pick up a few items. The reply was "Why would we need anything except Wal-Mart? They carry everything we'd ever need." It took cities with a population of at least 20k people to interest most other bussiness to be there and this still didn't offer much choice (2 large chain stores, isn't much better than 1). A significant portion of my state is filled with little sub-20k pop cities (I'd guess upwards of 60% of the state in area), figuring the same thing holds true for areas I didn't pass through while travelling around that's alot of people beholden to Wal-Mart for all there needs...
Even if they only give the method to approved companies... What's to stop some nut job programmer for Mcafee or Symantec creating a piece fo code that only disables WSC and letting/allowing/or causing writers of malicous code that same ability... I doubt theyed be able to track such a thing back to a single programmer working for either company and I can imagine some large slices of change from places that want to write malicous code for such an ability...
Also wants there is a way to turn it off (without user intervention), then what stops someone from accidentally stumbling across it?
You'd have to ask her, though since she has outright told me she has done that very thing apparently it's true on some things... China is by far cheaper yet, but I believe she was refering to same name brand items (rather than 'knock-offs' which is what she'd get in China). Then again she is also a distributor of various merchandise... Maybe she just gets better deals from suppliers in Australia...
Well the reason for region coding in the first place is simple: price fixing between regions. I know for instance a person with triple citizenship (china, australia, and the US) and she can often get things cheaper in australia even with the cost of shipping than she can in the US itself... The companies want to maximize profit by region though, so they lock devices and media to regions to control the ability for people to buy cheaper versions by importing.
In a very real sense they don't care about your special needs...
Both her and myself work in the tech industry... I doubt we'd be equiped for any other type of lifestyle... Also they aren't my kids and (at least so far) don't want to listen to mommy's 'friend'. The biggest issue to why she has come to think that way (in all seriouness as opposed to my original comment which was actually intended to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek) is because she's had child services called repeatedly on her because she used to let her oldest boy play outside the house with his friends without specifically being outside to watch him, ie cooking dinner while he plays outside, etc (much like I could as a kid). Child service was basically used to threaten her into conforming to her ex's parents views (since it was the grandparents who complained) of how to raise kids. Having child services breathing down your neck for over a year will make anyone jumpy... Since 'obviously' everyone else should have the right to tell you how to raise children who were never beign abused in the first place... It's why I'm not allowed to deal with the kids in a more fatherly role...
As for the risk... She got involved with bastards who swore they loved her, who used her, and then tossed her away when she became a hassle... I don't think that's much of a risk to take to be in a relationship with someone who has had issues in the past.. I don't have any kids of my own, but I have more than a few skeletons in my closet...
Well besides I tried to keep a bit of tongue in cheek from the original parent in my reply (which you completely missed)...
It's my girfriend doing it. It's my girfriends kids, not mine. I in fact have no children, she had her kids before I ever meet her.
And yes actually I have watched her kids be that stupid... While as long as I've known them she's taught them to look before crossing the road, they often never bother to look before walking into the road... I have no doubts they would easily run in front of cars because they just don't pay attention... So indeed it would seem their are kids born that stupid to get run over by cars... I blame that stupidity on their biological fathers, since she is actually very intelligent herself (not always very people smart, but she's getting better at that).
& in our day and age we didn't have to worry about random shootings or car chases killing or kids if we let them go outside unsupervised. Now my girlfriends kids are in danger the moment they step outside the hosue and she's downright paranoid something will happen to them... The crazy thing is she has a right to be, such thing shave happened where she lives and happen often enough everywhere she's lived that it's gotten to the point theyu aren't allowed outside unnsupervised any more... & no we don't live in a ghetto of some big city...
I don't know about you, but when I was little my parents had rules about playing with sticks inside... and hoops to...
When I worked retail customers often purposefully pissed on toilet seats, or worse spread crap on the walls... Why someone would want to I never could understand... We were one of the nicest stores within a good 50 miles with some of the best customer service... Why (literally) piss on us...?
I always liked the thought that starts with each 'day' to god being millions (or billions) of years long and even once he did start creating things like 'life' he did so by creating the fundamental structures we see today (such as evolution, DNA/RNA, etc). Quite often the readers (and the original writers/translators) of things like the bible limit god to their own perspective. If I'm going to believe in an omni-powerful being why would I then want to limit this omni-powerful being to my own limitations? Shouldn't god be beyond the limits of my reasoning? None the less, things like DNA/RNA are real and eugneics (in effect 'evolution' by combination of gene traits at least within a species) has been practiced by nature for years untold. So some things are certainly not 'just' as the bible says and therefor you must wonder about the limits of man in the words of the bible...
I'm not even quite 30 yet and already I'm sen as inferior to someone just out of college by alot of companies... Even my girlfriend who is a bussiness major (though she just graduated this year) has seen that most big companies want someone they see as 'fresh' because they are seen as having no bad habits to unlearn.
What she's been told is hilarious stuff, like: "Honey, 25 is to old to just be starting in bussiness... If you had several years with another large company we'd overlook having to untrain any bad habits you have picked up from beign as old as you are, but it's not worth it for us to do that when we have fresh recruits straight out of college with no bad habits due to age who want this same entry level job." This was said by a 30 something HR woman at one of the companies she applied to... It's not sucha strange reaction either...
I'm a networking type, but one lacking experience outside of tech support/help desk work and a few odd jobs here and there in netwroking... And for awhiel now when I apply for entry-level real networking jobs I'm told that someone of my 'age' should have more experience and apply to a real netowrking job and leave the entry-level stuff to the kids... When did 30 become the new 60?
First Italy was an axis power along with Germany & while it wasn't quite as invassive as the Germans they held a good chunk of Europe to during WW2...
Second Germany invaded France and won during WW2, the french spent most of WW2 as a guerilla resistance movement aided by the british and US (when we decided to finally take a stand) forces.
Germany held most of Europe not controlled by Italy in WW2, this ran from parts of northern spain to much of Russia (they were a handful of miles from Moscow at the height of their power) and down into africa. In fact they held something like 60% of the mediteranian sea. Italy held another 20 or 30% of it. The rest was mostly british or nuetrals and a tiny contigent of US forces.
Gun, Bomb, Whatever... The 'winner' is the one who doesn't care if he dies... Why? Because whoever doesn't care if he dies can cause both of you to die... To bad if you didn't want to die as well...
We are everything they hate, our involvement in their affairs is a secondary concern... We are all seen as 'infidels' and referred to as such. We make nice shiny targets because we attract attention by involving ourse3lves there, but in the long run for the militants that use terrorists we are all deserving of death.
I've talked to someone who claimed to be a islamic militant who was 'visiting' the US and he made certain to remind us all he would be more than happy to see us all dead so we would stop 'corrupting' 'pure' islamic peoples... I reminded him that if he ever tried to kill me or anyone I knew I'd make a point of killing him before he hurt anyone else. To many people use religion (of all types, islamic peoples just get more attention atm because they are far better organized for the most part) as a means to be the rabid dogs they want to be... And like any rabid dog you put it down before it hurts or kills someone you care about... To many people in this world are to soft and can't see the evil that exists within others... Some people don't want to be saved, they enjoy doing things you would never want and failure to stop said people from doing it just leads to more people being hurt or killed, not an elimination of a problem...
That depends on the key used... I've had a system flagged as non-WGA that could not recieve security updates... It was in fact dissalloyed the entire Windows Update site and automatic updates would never see anything to get, hence no automatic updates...
So yes in fact some keys will cause yoyu to not be able to recieve security fixes for XP... Not all of them, but some...
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actually that was 'relevent', sorry didn't spell check... but I would have thought this spelling would have jumped out as the sentance clearly defined the word I was trying to spell...
FYI:
Relevent- Function: adjective
Etymology: Medieval Latin relevant-, relevans, from Latin, present participle of relevare to raise up -- more at RELIEVE
1 a : having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand b : affording evidence tending to prove or disprove the matter at issue or under discussion c : having social relevance
I can't even find a dictionary that understands 'Revelant'... In fact most refer me to the word I was trying to spell (and got alot closer to than you did in your reply)...
(no acting for a living is unproductive and not a job) - believed by the wife of one of my friends whose from China...
(no sports for a living is unproductive and not a job) - believed by at least a few dozen people I'm sure...
(no racing for a living is unproductive and not a job) - believed by anyone who has watched Taladega Nights...
What (by chance) makes you think your opinion is somehow more realivent than anyone elses?
I'd argue that a video game itself does not equal a 'sport' like in real life, but instead a category does (more so if you think of indivual titles being like game rules for a certain era, baseball doens't have the same rules today as it did 100 years ago after all)... So the question should be: Will RTS's be popular in 100 years? & I think the answer will be: As much as baseball is still popular today it will be.
Baseball (at least in the US) is on a fairly steady decline... The last decade has seen many stories discussing it, so I don't think it's a very valid comparison in general... After all the figures say that baseball has a good chance to become a nitch sport again, rather than a game 'There will always be a great deal of people who would go to".
Except for point A certain games actually can do the other points (the last however mostly in other countries, at least since arcades died here in the US). So I don't see the complaint your making as very valid...
Teamwork, leadership, and commitment: I used to be part of a team that played CS and these were all big points for everyone in that team... Why? Because we played in a league and wanted to prove we were as good if not better than others. If you don't work together you die (there are some rare exceptions, but...), If you have no leadership you die (again with a few rare exceptions), If you lack commitment to developing your skills together you lack both teamwork and leadership and suffer the fates already listed.
Go (much like chess) is played in an almost solitary manner, so that btw makes a very bad example... You need one other person and a few years back online Go took huge strides because it solved the lack of available players... much as it does for most other games... In fact most such games all suffer a lack of points 2-5, & normally 6 as well...
I hate sports because people make such a big stink over it... I'm expected to worship the 'sports gods' like every other know nothing... I hated them in high school, I still hate them today... I couldn't care less who wins the next football game in my area... I couldn't care less what games are even 'in season'... I seriously doubt I'll ever care...
Oh sure, I can really link to paper sources... Want to bother looking up exactly where I read X, Y, or Z over some thirty odd sites and six or seven paper sources I follow... Or even care whether you believe me or not... silly me...
What makes your comment even funnier is that their has been a actual feature length movie made using the Unreal engine (in this case the first one, though only because no neweer versiosn were available then). Much like Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within or Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children in style that was made in France.
Huh, seems I've read some different sources about the level of 'support' Japanese RPG devs have for the Xbox 360... From what I hear Square-Enix is serious about coming to Xbox 360 (though they will be slightly behind similiar releases for PS3 because they made the decision barely a year ago), Capcom have a healthy interest in the MS console, Several more 'Indie' developers (run by some awfully big names) have already announced plans for RPG's on Xbox 360.
About 8 'RPG companies' have plans to code RPG's for the MS console... That's about half of all the companies who make primarily RPG's... & that's not 'a lot' for you...?
Having been in the small time consulting bussiness myself (also on the East Coast, I live in PA) and I can say that it's not nearly as easy as it sounds...
Why you ask? See it's all in the contacts, and the fact that if he leaves now (when he now has contacts at client companies) he's screwed. The company he has worked for will do whatever it takes to bury him before he can gain any clients of theirs he's dealt with. And if (and is most likely the case) he had no client contacts before taking that job he has a 0.00001% chance of gaining clients.
During college I came back from a larger city to the area I'm from and tried to apply my work as a network consultant back there to get me new bussiness here. I ahd no contacts and at least 3 existing companies did much the same as the one he works for (from the sound of it). Major companies (200+ staff within the area and the ones with money to spend) have their own IT departments (however small those may be), so only the small fries need network consultants (aka the 'portable IT department'). The problem? Those companies can't even pay $100/hour. Most of the existing 'firms' charged $80, which was nearly the limit those places coudl afford (in fact I know several that would toss the consultants out when the reached whatever fixed limit they could afford whether the work was done or not).
I came in and found I knew no one... I couldn't even get my foot in the door with most places, so I ended up taking a retail job for five years... It's been a year since then and I have developed a few contacts that will get me work, but I have about half a dozen clients who can barely afford to pay me (I've had to take some assignments on very low flat fees, or even down work for free to get my foot in the door). It's been a very long and tough process. Even now I'm looking at a long term conttract that pays almost nothing compared to what I will do... The contract calls for me to create a computerized inventory system and client database and then set up an online store from scratch (which isn't even exactly within my normal range of skills)... All by myself. What am I being paid? ~$1800/month as a flat fee. At which I'm more expensive per month than their rent and only because they feel I can make at least that much a month for them through the web am I getting this job at all. It will be the most I've earned yet since I came back.
You make it sound so much easier than the reality is...
Elect who? I don't vote for a simple reason... I can't find anyone to vote for... I could vote for myself... But somehow I don't think that would work...
Not that such a thing will happen anyways... Our forefathers just didn't think far enough into the future for ways to resist future corruption of the government... I know none of them would believe this future could eventually happen...
Now I never owned a NES (of any sort) as my first console was a Sega Master System (followed by a Genesis when it was new), but I never paid $80 for a game (or I swhould say my parents paid, since I was still a kid back then). Heck if games where that expensive I'd have only gotten a new game once a year (Anything near $100 was a birthday present, and even christmas didnt' rate the same in cost of gift to birthdays). I know very well I could manage 2 games minimum a year. Maybe it was regional pricing?
One of my favorite teachers redid the phrase "The Customer is always right." into "The customer isn't always right, but they are the custoemr and deserve respect". Customers will bleed you dry if you are to nice to them, but you can't be an ass either as no one will want your product. I've found it works far better in the real world then assuming they are right no matter what. It's a matter of attitude rather than policy which really makes the difference...
As for "What percentage of the US is really so cut off from civilization that if Wal-Mart doesn't carry "Lost" they can't get it some other way?", well I happen to have done some travellign around my state recently (Pennsylvania) and in alot of small towns all there is to buy such things (heck most things) from is Wal-Mart! Wal-Mart killed the mom & pop stores there and no big companies want to come play there, so Wal-Mart is it... For just about everything.
The sad part is most people don't seem to care... I needed to get gas while driving through one small city (about 6-9k people live there) and since all I'd seen whiel coming through town to shop at was a Wal-Mart, I aksed if their was anywhere else to pick up a few items. The reply was "Why would we need anything except Wal-Mart? They carry everything we'd ever need." It took cities with a population of at least 20k people to interest most other bussiness to be there and this still didn't offer much choice (2 large chain stores, isn't much better than 1). A significant portion of my state is filled with little sub-20k pop cities (I'd guess upwards of 60% of the state in area), figuring the same thing holds true for areas I didn't pass through while travelling around that's alot of people beholden to Wal-Mart for all there needs...
This is the very same thought I had...
Even if they only give the method to approved companies... What's to stop some nut job programmer for Mcafee or Symantec creating a piece fo code that only disables WSC and letting/allowing/or causing writers of malicous code that same ability... I doubt theyed be able to track such a thing back to a single programmer working for either company and I can imagine some large slices of change from places that want to write malicous code for such an ability...
Also wants there is a way to turn it off (without user intervention), then what stops someone from accidentally stumbling across it?
You'd have to ask her, though since she has outright told me she has done that very thing apparently it's true on some things... China is by far cheaper yet, but I believe she was refering to same name brand items (rather than 'knock-offs' which is what she'd get in China). Then again she is also a distributor of various merchandise... Maybe she just gets better deals from suppliers in Australia...
Well the reason for region coding in the first place is simple: price fixing between regions. I know for instance a person with triple citizenship (china, australia, and the US) and she can often get things cheaper in australia even with the cost of shipping than she can in the US itself... The companies want to maximize profit by region though, so they lock devices and media to regions to control the ability for people to buy cheaper versions by importing.
In a very real sense they don't care about your special needs...
Both her and myself work in the tech industry... I doubt we'd be equiped for any other type of lifestyle... Also they aren't my kids and (at least so far) don't want to listen to mommy's 'friend'. The biggest issue to why she has come to think that way (in all seriouness as opposed to my original comment which was actually intended to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek) is because she's had child services called repeatedly on her because she used to let her oldest boy play outside the house with his friends without specifically being outside to watch him, ie cooking dinner while he plays outside, etc (much like I could as a kid). Child service was basically used to threaten her into conforming to her ex's parents views (since it was the grandparents who complained) of how to raise kids. Having child services breathing down your neck for over a year will make anyone jumpy... Since 'obviously' everyone else should have the right to tell you how to raise children who were never beign abused in the first place... It's why I'm not allowed to deal with the kids in a more fatherly role...
As for the risk... She got involved with bastards who swore they loved her, who used her, and then tossed her away when she became a hassle... I don't think that's much of a risk to take to be in a relationship with someone who has had issues in the past.. I don't have any kids of my own, but I have more than a few skeletons in my closet...
Well besides I tried to keep a bit of tongue in cheek from the original parent in my reply (which you completely missed)...
It's my girfriend doing it.
It's my girfriends kids, not mine.
I in fact have no children, she had her kids before I ever meet her.
And yes actually I have watched her kids be that stupid... While as long as I've known them she's taught them to look before crossing the road, they often never bother to look before walking into the road... I have no doubts they would easily run in front of cars because they just don't pay attention... So indeed it would seem their are kids born that stupid to get run over by cars... I blame that stupidity on their biological fathers, since she is actually very intelligent herself (not always very people smart, but she's getting better at that).
& in our day and age we didn't have to worry about random shootings or car chases killing or kids if we let them go outside unsupervised. Now my girlfriends kids are in danger the moment they step outside the hosue and she's downright paranoid something will happen to them... The crazy thing is she has a right to be, such thing shave happened where she lives and happen often enough everywhere she's lived that it's gotten to the point theyu aren't allowed outside unnsupervised any more... & no we don't live in a ghetto of some big city...
I don't know about you, but when I was little my parents had rules about playing with sticks inside... and hoops to...
When I worked retail customers often purposefully pissed on toilet seats, or worse spread crap on the walls... Why someone would want to I never could understand... We were one of the nicest stores within a good 50 miles with some of the best customer service... Why (literally) piss on us...?
I always liked the thought that starts with each 'day' to god being millions (or billions) of years long and even once he did start creating things like 'life' he did so by creating the fundamental structures we see today (such as evolution, DNA/RNA, etc). Quite often the readers (and the original writers/translators) of things like the bible limit god to their own perspective. If I'm going to believe in an omni-powerful being why would I then want to limit this omni-powerful being to my own limitations? Shouldn't god be beyond the limits of my reasoning? None the less, things like DNA/RNA are real and eugneics (in effect 'evolution' by combination of gene traits at least within a species) has been practiced by nature for years untold. So some things are certainly not 'just' as the bible says and therefor you must wonder about the limits of man in the words of the bible...
And I went way off topic, but...
I'm not even quite 30 yet and already I'm sen as inferior to someone just out of college by alot of companies... Even my girlfriend who is a bussiness major (though she just graduated this year) has seen that most big companies want someone they see as 'fresh' because they are seen as having no bad habits to unlearn.
What she's been told is hilarious stuff, like: "Honey, 25 is to old to just be starting in bussiness... If you had several years with another large company we'd overlook having to untrain any bad habits you have picked up from beign as old as you are, but it's not worth it for us to do that when we have fresh recruits straight out of college with no bad habits due to age who want this same entry level job." This was said by a 30 something HR woman at one of the companies she applied to... It's not sucha strange reaction either...
I'm a networking type, but one lacking experience outside of tech support/help desk work and a few odd jobs here and there in netwroking... And for awhiel now when I apply for entry-level real networking jobs I'm told that someone of my 'age' should have more experience and apply to a real netowrking job and leave the entry-level stuff to the kids... When did 30 become the new 60?
Um just a couple of points here...
First Italy was an axis power along with Germany & while it wasn't quite as invassive as the Germans they held a good chunk of Europe to during WW2...
Second Germany invaded France and won during WW2, the french spent most of WW2 as a guerilla resistance movement aided by the british and US (when we decided to finally take a stand) forces.
Germany held most of Europe not controlled by Italy in WW2, this ran from parts of northern spain to much of Russia (they were a handful of miles from Moscow at the height of their power) and down into africa. In fact they held something like 60% of the mediteranian sea. Italy held another 20 or 30% of it. The rest was mostly british or nuetrals and a tiny contigent of US forces.
Gun, Bomb, Whatever... The 'winner' is the one who doesn't care if he dies... Why? Because whoever doesn't care if he dies can cause both of you to die... To bad if you didn't want to die as well...
We are everything they hate, our involvement in their affairs is a secondary concern... We are all seen as 'infidels' and referred to as such. We make nice shiny targets because we attract attention by involving ourse3lves there, but in the long run for the militants that use terrorists we are all deserving of death.
I've talked to someone who claimed to be a islamic militant who was 'visiting' the US and he made certain to remind us all he would be more than happy to see us all dead so we would stop 'corrupting' 'pure' islamic peoples... I reminded him that if he ever tried to kill me or anyone I knew I'd make a point of killing him before he hurt anyone else. To many people use religion (of all types, islamic peoples just get more attention atm because they are far better organized for the most part) as a means to be the rabid dogs they want to be... And like any rabid dog you put it down before it hurts or kills someone you care about... To many people in this world are to soft and can't see the evil that exists within others... Some people don't want to be saved, they enjoy doing things you would never want and failure to stop said people from doing it just leads to more people being hurt or killed, not an elimination of a problem...
That depends on the key used... I've had a system flagged as non-WGA that could not recieve security updates... It was in fact dissalloyed the entire Windows Update site and automatic updates would never see anything to get, hence no automatic updates...
So yes in fact some keys will cause yoyu to not be able to recieve security fixes for XP... Not all of them, but some...