I'm sure everyone here knows that the best way to deal with "bullies" is to call their mother and get them in trouble.
Oh wait..
Now instead of being "the kid who dances with a lightsaber," beloved around the world. He's "the crybaby who can't take a joke" This isn't about standing up against bullies, internet fame is measured in minutes and his is long since passed. This is about money. If he was so concerned about getting past this embarrassing momnet he wouldn't have brought about a year long court case that garners main stream media attention. He would have just let it die.
I wasn't discussing laptops, as the future of Windows on mac does not begin and end on Intel powerbooks. But since you asked, Nvidia has an entire line of upgradable mobile videocards; not to mention, should you be willing to risk the damage to small poorly made case screws, that most PC processors can be upgraded at least within the limitation of the board. (That's not to say that Macs can't, never heard of anyone trying)
I see the college lecture hall audience but it's about the same effect. Powerbooks for girls and hipster guys (the ones with oversized headphones and womens pants) dells for just about everyone else, anything else is the few people who didn't see low price or a pretty case and jump emediately on the bandwagon.
And as it's been posted, they could have spent hundreds less, only needed to maintain one computer, and had the option of improving it in the future.
I've bought things on a whim too, anyone remember the Sony Dexdrive? What about my ipod? Just because something is neat enough to get you to throw down money doesn't mean that it's the most well thought out choice.
Obviously you didn't watch the video of the four-legged mule robot developed by DARPA. It looks like some took two emaciated humans and encased them head to head, bent over, inside a metal framework. Combine that with the noise it makes and I spent the entire time watching the video feeling pity for the new creation and wishing someone would allow me to end its torment.
Or if you work as a city/state employee as members of my family do, you can 6 hours of productivity every day to an office staff full of people who do nothing but make travel arrangements, shop online, and send chain letters. Very few bosses have a problem with people interupting the work day to make a quick phone call or the like, it's the people that abuse these privilidges by thinking that the office computer is their property and that becasue no one is stopping them everything is ok that ruin it for everyone.
Good point, they were perfectly capable of making life miserable for themselves before we came along. If we could have held out for another 30 years we probably could have gotten it for free.
My best guess would be because Americans could care less about their washers and dryers. In my entire life, even during time when actively discussing laundry, I don't think washers and dryers have ever come up in conversation other than "I need to get a new washer/dryer." A technology that no one cares about probably isn't going to feature a wealth of innovation.
I wish people realized how things are ordered on/. so when they look at the 7th comment, posted in the reply to the 5th comment, they don't already thing it's redundent because of the 150th through 180th.
Which would be nice, except that they we'd be going to the polls every week, and to be perfectly honest almost no one would show up. As it's been discussed, America has a large problem with getting people to come out for anything, even the presidential elections. Some people have written this off to a general sense of being disenfranchised, as in beleiving that their one vote doesn't make a difference, I'd be more inclined to say that they don't beleive the outcome of the election makes a difference. The canidates all tow the party line, but they're all just as ruled by public opinion. Honestly a robot that just listens to people yelling could probably handle things better.
That being said, it seems like a seperate vote for every office would be great for people who care enough to be informed, but is really just a giant hassel for the other 98% of the population, including the 50% that don't vote regularly.
So you'd prefere a dictatorship? I mean why offer you any choices if that's just going to allow you to make the wrong ones.
If you don't think you're making a good choice, then don't vote(if you could in the first place), it's a simple as that. The rest of us are prefectly happy worrying about 15 seperate elections.
Except that the only job class you actually need is the warrior, followed by 2 dark knights and an alchemuist, a team of which can win any battle in the game simply by holding down the X button until the fight is over and occassionaly throwing mega elixirs.
I beat the game like that. Literally. 0 spells, 0 in battle dress sphere changes.
No fooling, word to the warning though, if you cast Omnislash at night it's wise to close the lid otherwise you'll soon feel like you're in a absurd 80s disco.
Screw reading the articles, we're not even going to read the summary anymore!
"PS hardware and software are still selling in countries around the world. Even if original PlayStation systems and games are becoming slim pickings in the US"
For one, the PSone is small and had an equally slim LCD\speaker attachment that could be had for, last time I saw, $120 brand new. Add $15 for an official Sony car adapter and you can play FF7 on any road trip without even using your entire lap.
A few minor corrections, the only air units you can control are recon helecoptors brought in in the same manor as airstrikes and artillery fire. The airstrikes can't be shot down. The heat factor only determines how many weapons you can equip, big awesome guns produce a lot of heat so you can either have a couple really devasting weapons, a devastating weapon and some smaller firepower to balance things out, or a lot of smaller weapons but regardless there's no way to push the mechs into overheating.
My only though on the battle system was "Now I don't even have to hold the X button down like in FFX-2, why am I even in the room?" Unless they totally revamped it I'm not touching this POS with a 10 foot pole.
You understadn what I said but you missed the point. Civilizations combat system is completely numbers based, an accepted practice, nothing wrong with that. Then to fit into the theme of the game they gave these units names the corrispond to existing ideals. Suddenly a 1-3-1 was "Guy with a sheild" and 6-1-1 was "Guy with a laser rifle" looking at it mathmatically it's obvious why guy with a shield wins when he's in a city defending, he has all sorts of bonuses and was a pretty good defender to begin with, but unfortunately people are still left shouting "GUY WITH A LASER WOULD TOAST GUY WITH A SHEILD! THIS IS BULLSHIT!" based soley on our ideals of imaginary combat between a guy with a sheild and a guy with a laser rifle, much like your example between the militia and the battleship,which is why all the units in the Civ games are flawed and Alpha Centauri is a much better model. Rather than bringing all the associated ideas that we have about the names of the units the progressively better units are simply that, progressively better units.
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I'm sure everyone here knows that the best way to deal with "bullies" is to call their mother and get them in trouble.
Oh wait..
Now instead of being "the kid who dances with a lightsaber," beloved around the world. He's "the crybaby who can't take a joke" This isn't about standing up against bullies, internet fame is measured in minutes and his is long since passed. This is about money. If he was so concerned about getting past this embarrassing momnet he wouldn't have brought about a year long court case that garners main stream media attention. He would have just let it die.
I wasn't discussing laptops, as the future of Windows on mac does not begin and end on Intel powerbooks. But since you asked, Nvidia has an entire line of upgradable mobile videocards; not to mention, should you be willing to risk the damage to small poorly made case screws, that most PC processors can be upgraded at least within the limitation of the board. (That's not to say that Macs can't, never heard of anyone trying)
I see the college lecture hall audience but it's about the same effect. Powerbooks for girls and hipster guys (the ones with oversized headphones and womens pants) dells for just about everyone else, anything else is the few people who didn't see low price or a pretty case and jump emediately on the bandwagon.
And as it's been posted, they could have spent hundreds less, only needed to maintain one computer, and had the option of improving it in the future.
I've bought things on a whim too, anyone remember the Sony Dexdrive? What about my ipod? Just because something is neat enough to get you to throw down money doesn't mean that it's the most well thought out choice.
Obviously you didn't watch the video of the four-legged mule robot developed by DARPA. It looks like some took two emaciated humans and encased them head to head, bent over, inside a metal framework. Combine that with the noise it makes and I spent the entire time watching the video feeling pity for the new creation and wishing someone would allow me to end its torment.
This just looks like a gumby stop-action reject.
Because, as I stated, no one is going to look for an innovation if they don't really care, and unlike you, most people don't really care.
Or if you work as a city/state employee as members of my family do, you can 6 hours of productivity every day to an office staff full of people who do nothing but make travel arrangements, shop online, and send chain letters. Very few bosses have a problem with people interupting the work day to make a quick phone call or the like, it's the people that abuse these privilidges by thinking that the office computer is their property and that becasue no one is stopping them everything is ok that ruin it for everyone.
Good point, they were perfectly capable of making life miserable for themselves before we came along. If we could have held out for another 30 years we probably could have gotten it for free.
My best guess would be because Americans could care less about their washers and dryers. In my entire life, even during time when actively discussing laundry, I don't think washers and dryers have ever come up in conversation other than "I need to get a new washer/dryer." A technology that no one cares about probably isn't going to feature a wealth of innovation.
I wish people realized how things are ordered on /. so when they look at the 7th comment, posted in the reply to the 5th comment, they don't already thing it's redundent because of the 150th through 180th.
Just like the rest of the internet only slower?
Remember, it's not the tool, it's the person (if the person happens to be a tool so be it)
Which would be nice, except that they we'd be going to the polls every week, and to be perfectly honest almost no one would show up. As it's been discussed, America has a large problem with getting people to come out for anything, even the presidential elections. Some people have written this off to a general sense of being disenfranchised, as in beleiving that their one vote doesn't make a difference, I'd be more inclined to say that they don't beleive the outcome of the election makes a difference. The canidates all tow the party line, but they're all just as ruled by public opinion. Honestly a robot that just listens to people yelling could probably handle things better.
That being said, it seems like a seperate vote for every office would be great for people who care enough to be informed, but is really just a giant hassel for the other 98% of the population, including the 50% that don't vote regularly.
That's the impression I had. I live in Wisconsin, San Antonio may as well be in China as far as being concerned "local"
So you'd prefere a dictatorship? I mean why offer you any choices if that's just going to allow you to make the wrong ones.
If you don't think you're making a good choice, then don't vote(if you could in the first place), it's a simple as that. The rest of us are prefectly happy worrying about 15 seperate elections.
Jesus Christ was a jew, he did nothing of the sort.
Except that the only job class you actually need is the warrior, followed by 2 dark knights and an alchemuist, a team of which can win any battle in the game simply by holding down the X button until the fight is over and occassionaly throwing mega elixirs. I beat the game like that. Literally. 0 spells, 0 in battle dress sphere changes.
No fooling, word to the warning though, if you cast Omnislash at night it's wise to close the lid otherwise you'll soon feel like you're in a absurd 80s disco.
Screw reading the articles, we're not even going to read the summary anymore!
"PS hardware and software are still selling in countries around the world. Even if original PlayStation systems and games are becoming slim pickings in the US"
For one, the PSone is small and had an equally slim LCD\speaker attachment that could be had for, last time I saw, $120 brand new. Add $15 for an official Sony car adapter and you can play FF7 on any road trip without even using your entire lap.
A few minor corrections, the only air units you can control are recon helecoptors brought in in the same manor as airstrikes and artillery fire. The airstrikes can't be shot down. The heat factor only determines how many weapons you can equip, big awesome guns produce a lot of heat so you can either have a couple really devasting weapons, a devastating weapon and some smaller firepower to balance things out, or a lot of smaller weapons but regardless there's no way to push the mechs into overheating.
If only all taxes were completely volountary.
WI is 16 unless you're a farmhand that's why I asked.
Out of curiousity how did you get around child labor laws to work as a nonagricultural worker at 14?
My only though on the battle system was "Now I don't even have to hold the X button down like in FFX-2, why am I even in the room?" Unless they totally revamped it I'm not touching this POS with a 10 foot pole.
You understadn what I said but you missed the point. Civilizations combat system is completely numbers based, an accepted practice, nothing wrong with that. Then to fit into the theme of the game they gave these units names the corrispond to existing ideals. Suddenly a 1-3-1 was "Guy with a sheild" and 6-1-1 was "Guy with a laser rifle" looking at it mathmatically it's obvious why guy with a shield wins when he's in a city defending, he has all sorts of bonuses and was a pretty good defender to begin with, but unfortunately people are still left shouting "GUY WITH A LASER WOULD TOAST GUY WITH A SHEILD! THIS IS BULLSHIT!" based soley on our ideals of imaginary combat between a guy with a sheild and a guy with a laser rifle, much like your example between the militia and the battleship,which is why all the units in the Civ games are flawed and Alpha Centauri is a much better model. Rather than bringing all the associated ideas that we have about the names of the units the progressively better units are simply that, progressively better units.