but if you take something - say ice skateing and make it so that x gives y points.. then everyone will just learn to perfect the move with the highest y and then you will just see a chain of them for the lenght of the event..
it is perfectly acceptiable for it to be subjective - this is why there is more than one judge - and they do have guide lines for quality and preformance..
while i agree it might be better to call it a compitition than a sport - i do belive it has just as much a place in the Olympics as sports.
pure artistic stuff i don't think is right for the Olympics but if it is a good hybrid between art and athletics then go for it.
HL2 in my mind was one hell of a let down - well expected this amazing thing.. and when it came out i just felt hordily let down - yet every one seems to love it - i just don't get it.. sure they made improvements but so many things where over looked that it just seemed like a rehash of the same old.
well look at it this way - for more than 10 years i have had to pay my own health insurance.. 120$ a month.. not to bad but i paied it - i didn't go to the doctor i didn't go to the ER.. just spent 120$ a month for a warm fuzzy feeling.. well abouth a year ago i got sick.. i am currently on meds that cost me (after insurance) about 8$ a day - ontop of the 120$ a month i pay for insurance.. if i switch or have any laps they can say pre existing condition.. and who knows what i would be paying a month if i could even get insurance..
for the first 9 years i had the same feeling as you - it is only after you have to switch boats you realize why you do it. If i didn't have insurance when i got sick i would not be able to afford the medication. without meds i can't move in the mornings due to the pain - with them i can be productive and work with minor pain.
pray you don't have to - but if you ever switch boats - you will understand
or they could be trigger happy and go in shooting - all i want is not to live in a police state - where i live every day for the past two months you can walk out in the day and hear a chopper -- if you scan the skyline you will find an apache longbow or two - at low alt (4-500ft) just flying around the town - we have no base near us.. why are they hear? and why are they armed (yes used a telephoto lens to make sure)..
if i remember right Sun has gone to almost all thin client setup internaly.
sure this idea doesn't sound great at first - but in an office environment it is damn nice - it is far far easier to manage a thin client deployment and a cluster of terminal servers than it is to deal with a normaly desktop deployment.
in the past places shot it down cause of the limitations - now days the limitations are few and farther between. and i know Sun for one has been working long and hard to remove the bottle necks and MS is doing better by agreeing to licence citrix's solutions (MS licensing citrix solutions is why we saw such an increase of quality between terminal server 2000 and 2003 and also why you now need to buy a terminal cal for XP pro on server 2003 where XP pro has it's own cal for 2000 - the new call for 2003 is to recover their licenseing cost to citrix)
yea but if your going to argue the point like that.. you have to give a basis for what is a "mircowave".. that term has changed alot in history.. today people know it cooks their meals (by entergizeing water and causing it to vibrate and heat up the substance it is in) but that was a secondary usage someone applied mirowaves to do.
they realized the potinial and now we all have one.
but what exactly is a microwave? it was orinaly defined as a very short wavelenght EM transmission - i don't know what the orinal was. but if you are going to argue aginst the IEEE's definition then i recomend finding what the orinal is.
and saying to not label something with water entergizeing effects as a micro wave.. would be akin to saying that the AM and FM diffinitions are the same thing
i can't even say i am for either party.. both have screwed up so much in my life time - that i honestly don't think they give a shit anymore.. all they want is to get elected - and they will do anything and everything to do it.. and once they are there they try to cash out what they can and see if they can get elected to do it again.
i realy think that it is going to take this nation hitting rock bottom before we can pick the peices back up and move on as a people, and hopefuly do it better
i was going off the IEEE which has mirowaves starting at 1Ghz.. and last time i checked 900Mhz was less than 1Ghz and there for isn't in the microwave range as defined by one of the worlds largest standards orginizations
to say that frequency's near each other experience some of the same interactions is true.. but to use that to miss define them is wrong.
we as people define things so we can have a basic understanding when comunicating with others
and saying it is a microwave because water absorption happens.. i would like to note that water likes to screw with everything in one way or another in every single EM and non EM thing out there.
i agree the bailing out of the banks and all the crap they are pulling - sorry.. this country needs to experience a hard hit - if it is another depression then so be it. people now days don't understand how good they have it.. they alwasy want more - they need to fall hard - and realize the onle person who is going to look out for their well being is them selves.
i know what you mean - each year my wife and i donate alot to diffrent charities at the end of the year - if we had a better year we donate more.
the other day there was a guy who is one of the ones paied to stand infront of a store and try and get money.. he was trying to get money for one of the charities we already donate to..
this wasn't a satisfactory answer for him.. he kept pushing for me to by some thing they had out there or to donate more right then.. even walking away wasn't working as he actualy followed me into the store, he was rude and just didn't know when to quit.
to most people that might make them stop donating to that orginization - i know better and know it was just he was an ass - but i will be sending a complaint letter in with my donation check this year.
i have already tried to contact them (with no luck) about the image next to result "feature"
it has serius issues in my mind.. such as putting the logo's and diagrams for the company i work for as thumbs for links going to our competitors sites.
who ever thought it was a good idea to allow the use of images from site A as thumbs for links to site B made a serious logic flaw - while we arn't the type to sue someone - there is alot out there that will.
and if they don't get it resolved we will have no choice but to make a big deal out of it to protect our brand image along with our material.
i like the UI - the groupings is nice.. but the contetn they have sucks and they have some really stupid flaws
they do hit 120mpg at high way speed under all gas power
the 230mpg mark came from a diesel prototype - which because of how CA does emmsion rattings they can't get past the diesel restrictions as they can't get a small high effecient diesel engine - and CA does emissions by the gallon consumed and not mile driven
- it looks nice - i would love to test drive one and maybe even own one.. but it seems like it takes these people way to long to get out the door with anything - even when they have massive funding.:/
it's funny you mention this - i got an XM raido mainly because it has chan 164 - the old time raido shows..
and your right.. the quality of the product is great and yes there is product placement like crazy.. but really the quality of the old radio shows so far better than anything on TV now days..
MS has already tried this - and they put alot of money intto it too.. it isthe PassPort system.
MS still uses it for their stuff - but when they first started it - the idea was that your passport login would be accepted everywhere..
that didn't happen - and it wasn't going to happen.
it is what we call a "nice to have" but not a requirement to function - nor is it solving a issue which prevents things from happening.
yes the passport system didn't have the same focus on limiting info passed between sites - but either way.. it still isn't going to work in this case.. cause for sitest to accept an openid logon they are going to want more info than.. this person is authed
WTF! You can write server side code but don't know how to do the basic javascript stuff.
doing something complex in javascript isnt' hard - getting it to work accross allthe browsers - and have it look and function in the same way is a completely diffrent ordeal - ontop of that making sure that it is doing it in the most effecient way for that browser is even more fo a task.
compard to writing server side - where you have a single controled and known enviroment.
now if all the browsers used the same JS engine this would be a no issue - but that isn't reality.. personaly i think they change them every version just to fuck with us.
i agree it would be nice if they did that - and that is what i belive Intel has realized - cause when it comes to dell you will 99% of the time end up with an Intel inegrated graphics card - and here lately (sence AMD bought ATI) intel has been working damned hard in stepping up to the plate and giving people like dell a reason NOT do do just things.
i was very very plesently supprized with my laptop (dell D420 - the ultralight one) and the intel integraded graphics - it acutaly can play games - and do it well - sure it isn't as good as a midranged ATI or nvida card - but the do a good job to keep the frame rate up and have it playable
would i want to play games on it all the time? no - i use my desktop for that - but when i am out of town or over some place.. it does fine
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but if you take something - say ice skateing and make it so that x gives y points.. then everyone will just learn to perfect the move with the highest y and then you will just see a chain of them for the lenght of the event..
it is perfectly acceptiable for it to be subjective - this is why there is more than one judge - and they do have guide lines for quality and preformance..
while i agree it might be better to call it a compitition than a sport - i do belive it has just as much a place in the Olympics as sports.
pure artistic stuff i don't think is right for the Olympics but if it is a good hybrid between art and athletics then go for it.
HL2 in my mind was one hell of a let down - well expected this amazing thing.. and when it came out i just felt hordily let down - yet every one seems to love it - i just don't get it.. sure they made improvements but so many things where over looked that it just seemed like a rehash of the same old.
well look at it this way - for more than 10 years i have had to pay my own health insurance .. 120$ a month.. not to bad but i paied it - i didn't go to the doctor i didn't go to the ER.. just spent 120$ a month for a warm fuzzy feeling.. well abouth a year ago i got sick.. i am currently on meds that cost me (after insurance) about 8$ a day - ontop of the 120$ a month i pay for insurance.. if i switch or have any laps they can say pre existing condition.. and who knows what i would be paying a month if i could even get insurance..
for the first 9 years i had the same feeling as you - it is only after you have to switch boats you realize why you do it. If i didn't have insurance when i got sick i would not be able to afford the medication. without meds i can't move in the mornings due to the pain - with them i can be productive and work with minor pain.
pray you don't have to - but if you ever switch boats - you will understand
or they could be trigger happy and go in shooting - all i want is not to live in a police state - where i live every day for the past two months you can walk out in the day and hear a chopper -- if you scan the skyline you will find an apache longbow or two - at low alt (4-500ft) just flying around the town - we have no base near us.. why are they hear? and why are they armed (yes used a telephoto lens to make sure)..
that i will agree with - wasn't trying to critize you - sorry if it came out that way..
but the way you said windows crashs all the time and linux is rock solid.. just game off as the typical MS basher you see around here..
and i get tired of reading it.. sorry to win the gold metal in my sig
Mine crashed repeatedly...the power supply had been going out, causing the crashes
and exactly how is this windows fault?
software can only be expected to run as stable as the hardware it is on.
same with alot of things in life.. one can only expect to breath as well as the quality air around them.
if i remember right Sun has gone to almost all thin client setup internaly.
sure this idea doesn't sound great at first - but in an office environment it is damn nice - it is far far easier to manage a thin client deployment and a cluster of terminal servers than it is to deal with a normaly desktop deployment.
in the past places shot it down cause of the limitations - now days the limitations are few and farther between. and i know Sun for one has been working long and hard to remove the bottle necks and MS is doing better by agreeing to licence citrix's solutions (MS licensing citrix solutions is why we saw such an increase of quality between terminal server 2000 and 2003 and also why you now need to buy a terminal cal for XP pro on server 2003 where XP pro has it's own cal for 2000 - the new call for 2003 is to recover their licenseing cost to citrix)
i read it as Tag your IT
kinda worked
yea but if your going to argue the point like that.. you have to give a basis for what is a "mircowave".. that term has changed alot in history.. today people know it cooks their meals (by entergizeing water and causing it to vibrate and heat up the substance it is in) but that was a secondary usage someone applied mirowaves to do.
they realized the potinial and now we all have one.
but what exactly is a microwave? it was orinaly defined as a very short wavelenght EM transmission - i don't know what the orinal was. but if you are going to argue aginst the IEEE's definition then i recomend finding what the orinal is.
and saying to not label something with water entergizeing effects as a micro wave.. would be akin to saying that the AM and FM diffinitions are the same thing
again we label them diffrently for a reason.
i can't even say i am for either party.. both have screwed up so much in my life time - that i honestly don't think they give a shit anymore.. all they want is to get elected - and they will do anything and everything to do it.. and once they are there they try to cash out what they can and see if they can get elected to do it again.
i realy think that it is going to take this nation hitting rock bottom before we can pick the peices back up and move on as a people, and hopefuly do it better
i was going off the IEEE which has mirowaves starting at 1Ghz.. and last time i checked 900Mhz was less than 1Ghz and there for isn't in the microwave range as defined by one of the worlds largest standards orginizations
to say that frequency's near each other experience some of the same interactions is true.. but to use that to miss define them is wrong.
we as people define things so we can have a basic understanding when comunicating with others
and saying it is a microwave because water absorption happens.. i would like to note that water likes to screw with everything in one way or another in every single EM and non EM thing out there.
i agree the bailing out of the banks and all the crap they are pulling - sorry.. this country needs to experience a hard hit - if it is another depression then so be it. people now days don't understand how good they have it.. they alwasy want more - they need to fall hard - and realize the onle person who is going to look out for their well being is them selves.
i know what you mean - each year my wife and i donate alot to diffrent charities at the end of the year - if we had a better year we donate more.
the other day there was a guy who is one of the ones paied to stand infront of a store and try and get money.. he was trying to get money for one of the charities we already donate to ..
this wasn't a satisfactory answer for him.. he kept pushing for me to by some thing they had out there or to donate more right then.. even walking away wasn't working as he actualy followed me into the store, he was rude and just didn't know when to quit.
to most people that might make them stop donating to that orginization - i know better and know it was just he was an ass - but i will be sending a complaint letter in with my donation check this year.
hate to say it but 900Mhz isn't microwaves..
i have already tried to contact them (with no luck) about the image next to result "feature"
it has serius issues in my mind.. such as putting the logo's and diagrams for the company i work for as thumbs for links going to our competitors sites.
who ever thought it was a good idea to allow the use of images from site A as thumbs for links to site B made a serious logic flaw - while we arn't the type to sue someone - there is alot out there that will.
and if they don't get it resolved we will have no choice but to make a big deal out of it to protect our brand image along with our material.
i like the UI - the groupings is nice.. but the contetn they have sucks and they have some really stupid flaws
if you read their site and the preformance info..
they do hit 120mpg at high way speed under all gas power
the 230mpg mark came from a diesel prototype - which because of how CA does emmsion rattings they can't get past the diesel restrictions as they can't get a small high effecient diesel engine - and CA does emissions by the gallon consumed and not mile driven
- it looks nice - i would love to test drive one and maybe even own one.. but it seems like it takes these people way to long to get out the door with anything - even when they have massive funding. :/
this seems to me to be a basic duh.. i was stopped and had to think.
when was the last time i saw a place that had raid and good backups but NOT a ups?? never..
normaly they will stick a UPS on it and then say screw it with raid or backups or both..
a UPS is the first thing you do.. before you even bother for RAID and backups...
well how about looking at the UK's stabing numbers vs's the US's.. ? ever looked?
people use what ever weapon is avaliable to them - welcome to the world.. where people like to harm each other for what ever reason or another.
i think you could when they first started but i don't think anyone is still partering with them now
you should read the news in the UK with guns.. and now knifes..
yes only the criminals have guns - and it isn't alwasy a good thing.
i think it is perfectly fine for people to be able to defend them selves.
sadly guns make a fight quite unfair - but banning them isn't the answer.
no i don't have the answer - i woln't even pretend to .. but it do know that banning them isn't it.
it's funny you mention this - i got an XM raido mainly because it has chan 164 - the old time raido shows..
and your right.. the quality of the product is great and yes there is product placement like crazy.. but really the quality of the old radio shows so far better than anything on TV now days..
i really do wish we could go backwards in time..
MS has already tried this - and they put alot of money intto it too.. it isthe PassPort system.
MS still uses it for their stuff - but when they first started it - the idea was that your passport login would be accepted everywhere..
that didn't happen - and it wasn't going to happen.
it is what we call a "nice to have" but not a requirement to function - nor is it solving a issue which prevents things from happening.
yes the passport system didn't have the same focus on limiting info passed between sites - but either way .. it still isn't going to work in this case.. cause for sitest to accept an openid logon they are going to want more info than .. this person is authed
WTF! You can write server side code but don't know how to do the basic javascript stuff.
doing something complex in javascript isnt' hard - getting it to work accross allthe browsers - and have it look and function in the same way is a completely diffrent ordeal - ontop of that making sure that it is doing it in the most effecient way for that browser is even more fo a task.
compard to writing server side - where you have a single controled and known enviroment.
now if all the browsers used the same JS engine this would be a no issue - but that isn't reality.. personaly i think they change them every version just to fuck with us.
(Do communication waves travel the speed of light?)
they do if you used targeted laser pluses
i agree it would be nice if they did that - and that is what i belive Intel has realized - cause when it comes to dell you will 99% of the time end up with an Intel inegrated graphics card - and here lately (sence AMD bought ATI) intel has been working damned hard in stepping up to the plate and giving people like dell a reason NOT do do just things.
i was very very plesently supprized with my laptop (dell D420 - the ultralight one) and the intel integraded graphics - it acutaly can play games - and do it well - sure it isn't as good as a midranged ATI or nvida card - but the do a good job to keep the frame rate up and have it playable
would i want to play games on it all the time? no - i use my desktop for that - but when i am out of town or over some place.. it does fine