You may,
but its not correct. I bought a Dell XPS 400 through a bunch of coupons for 500 bucks last month - P4 2.8D, 1 GB Ram, 160GB drive, DVD-RW and CD-RW, X300 card (yes, I know its a crap card). If you put rhe components put together yourself, along with the cost of Windows, come out to about the same (or more likely) spending a little more. For me, the time commitment wasn;t worth it. If you're building a really nice rig, yeah you can do better. For a basic computer, they're fine because they can acquire the components far more cheaply than you can.
The problem, as with most RAH books, is translating his attitude to the screen - I think "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" would be translated as a classic rebel story, without the libertarian credo a - which essentially renders the Heinlein component useless. Starship Troopers showed that - not having read the book at the time, the satire/parody core of it was miniscule, to say the least.
KOTOR 2 made me very bitter- I really really hope Bioware is doing KOTOR 3 if it happens,but I doubt it. That being said, I played the original KOTOR on the X-box and the PC and I enjoyed it on the box more - playing games on a keyboard (I'm not really an FPS fan) is more bothersome to me than a console controller.
Bought it already (as I did with 1)- quite enjoying it, but some of the interface issues (like editing the money in a trade) still bug me.
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ditto.
My list:
Alpha Centauri
Monkey Island (original)
Civilization 2
KOTOR
I don't really have the time to build my own system or what not, so I was going to pick up a Dell 9100 with the following processor:
Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB)
My impression is that for day to day stuff and some gaming (Civ 4, Football Manager- the latter is fairly CPU intensive) that this would be a better bet than say a P4 630 w/HT Technology (3.0GHz,800FSB). Am I off base in this belief ? I admit to knowing nothing about dual-cores, so I'm wondering if its worth paying the 100 bucks or so extra for the former as opposed to the latter
Yes - this is absolutely dead on. What Gal Civ did, which Civ 3 didnt, is have a different AI for each civilization, so it treated each of its opponents as opponents. In CIv3, the AI seems to be an "us against them" game, which drove me nuts- especially the "trade techs to everyone " immediately philosophy. If I wanted a 1 on 1 game, I'd play an RTS - I want to play a game where I am one of many entities, and all the entities are trying to win individually.
and that's stupid- any money they are getting is essentialy the drop in the stock price- all they are doing, in essence, is cashing out some of their equity. They aren't getting "free money".
Uh,
why would dividends make a stock worthwhile ? If anything, giving dividends out to reduce share price, given that's FCF a company has given back to its shareholders, and is not part of its valuation anymore. Moreover, a company with high growth prospects should not be giving dividends in the first place - it displays a belief that the company lacks an ability to put its capital to more productive use.
Eh,
the only reason I bought my X-box was to play KOTOR (best game I've played in years) and KOTOR 2 (not so much). So if KOTOR 3 is exclusive to the X-box- that might influence my choices.
I was not a CS major at Carnegie Mellon (I was a dreaded Finance major), but it was my impression that there was absolutely no shortfall of work available for CS majors there- hell, the big banks and financial institutions often prefer CS majors before they've learn an analytical approach to thinking, while half the business majors believe they are entitled to cushy (anything but in practice, but I digress) Wall St gigs. The "chicken little" attitude displayed here seems overdone - it seems to me that if you're good enough, the work will come to you - if you're mediocre, then there is trouble.
On a secondary issue, all the CS majors there took a course or two where they had to write their own compilers (was mandatory), as well as course work in Assembly and ML (212). Again, they may have changed it, but who knows.
Wait,
how can you this ? It must be the fault of the evil corporations, or the horrible foreigners who're "stealing our jobs", or those greedy stockholders- how can you blame the programmers ? Damnit, when they're spending half their day on slashdot they are remarkably productive!
If you're interested in branching out of CS, look into finance- they will pay very well for quantitative analyists, and if you have any economics background - all the better (but not neccessary). Most of the big one's prefer Phd's, but they will hire Masters at 6 figures or close to it (at least).
Sinfest.net is one of my favorites - great strip, now available as a book..
And the idiot who argued that people shouldn't get paid for their work - pray tell, what is your job ?
Except you won't survive, much like the average person here claiming that the work will come to them, or claiming their english skills are top notch. Can you deal with your electricity randomly going for hours ? can you deal with Indian summers, where 100 degree weather is not uncommon ? Can you deal with the different cultural things, from details like going day/month/year to driving on the different side of the road with more "optional" traffic laws ? Can you live without the instant gratification that we're used to here ?
Then lets look at income - to have the same kind of lifestyle that you have here (assuming you make 80K, and using a purchasing parity level of 8 rupees to the dollar) - you would need to make 640,000 rupees (or 6 lakhs a year) for a similar life. If you think anyone's going to pay you that as a 4 year IT tech, you're kidding yourself.
Look, I was born in India and lived there for a while, and moved around (am a conventional Third Culture kid) - its very easy for people to move from India to the US, but its very hard to do the reverse, be it the cultural shock and the atmosphere. Its a cute idea, but its not a viable option for most of you guys.
Actually, that's a fairly insightful read, and there is certainly credence to the arguement you're making. The low interest rates and high money supply means the banks have to lend more to make a profit, and are willing to extend credit far more easily than they may have in the past. Furthermore, banks essentialy have de-facto Keynsian creation power, because they don't need to actually have the money they loan in their vaults. The example you cited of your friend is a point many don't realize- much of the consumer spending is based of taking loans or taking advantage of home equity that is built up - if the housing market suffers, the ripple effects will be felt throughout the American economy.
This is insightful ? Wow - I guess I should understood that the politics of slashdot make Bill Clinton look like a right-winger. As a so-called "minority", this is a stupid, stupid system that is meant to exclude companies solely because of the race of those that own them. Why is state-sponsored racism acceptable ? When you eliminate 50 % or 80% of whatever proportion of the businesses from bidding on a contract solely due to race and not competency, you lower the competition, and allow more incompetents to stay in. Calling that racist is inane.
Again, this is non-sensical. You refuse these countries entries in the fields they are competitive in like agriculture (see the disgraceful sugar lobbying). More so, these evil foreigners are why you can afford to buy things cheaper. Food in the uS is at least 60-70% more expensive due to tariffs - you have perverse incentive systems set up to reward farmers for not producing.
No - that's a weak arguement based in fear, not economics. Tactical price gouging or what not is populist rhetoric - companies outside the US have lower costs for labor and can produce labor intensive products cheaper. There is a fierce market for it, and your point seems to suggest a cartel - which is fairly hard in something so widespread as steel. The tariffs on steel and the cost of supporting "American" jobs is particularly ridiculous - the estimated cost for each steel job is somewhere in the region of $500,000 - that's how much its costing the economy as a whole to presevere an inefficient, out of date steel jobs.
exactly. I made this point earlier. I don't shop at Wal-Mart, but I don't attempt to dictate to people why they shouldn't shop their especially if it makes economic sense for them to do so. Wal-Mart has some of the poorest customers around - these are people for whom that 50 cent markup repeated ad nauseum makes a difference. To whit, this year- higher gas prices have affected Wal-Mart's margins more than other retailers, due to their market.
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You may, but its not correct. I bought a Dell XPS 400 through a bunch of coupons for 500 bucks last month - P4 2.8D, 1 GB Ram, 160GB drive, DVD-RW and CD-RW, X300 card (yes, I know its a crap card). If you put rhe components put together yourself, along with the cost of Windows, come out to about the same (or more likely) spending a little more. For me, the time commitment wasn;t worth it. If you're building a really nice rig, yeah you can do better. For a basic computer, they're fine because they can acquire the components far more cheaply than you can.
The Coolidge Corner theatre does the same - and since there are no theatres near it, it seems to be doing pretty well.
The problem, as with most RAH books, is translating his attitude to the screen - I think "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" would be translated as a classic rebel story, without the libertarian credo a - which essentially renders the Heinlein component useless. Starship Troopers showed that - not having read the book at the time, the satire/parody core of it was miniscule, to say the least.
KOTOR 2 made me very bitter- I really really hope Bioware is doing KOTOR 3 if it happens,but I doubt it. That being said, I played the original KOTOR on the X-box and the PC and I enjoyed it on the box more - playing games on a keyboard (I'm not really an FPS fan) is more bothersome to me than a console controller.
Bought it already (as I did with 1)- quite enjoying it, but some of the interface issues (like editing the money in a trade) still bug me. UYou wouldn't happen to be Brad ?
ditto. My list: Alpha Centauri Monkey Island (original) Civilization 2 KOTOR
I'd say KOTOR (The original, not II) may have fit in this category - you could legitimately play through it 5 or 6 times.
I don't really have the time to build my own system or what not, so I was going to pick up a Dell 9100 with the following processor: Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB) My impression is that for day to day stuff and some gaming (Civ 4, Football Manager- the latter is fairly CPU intensive) that this would be a better bet than say a P4 630 w/HT Technology (3.0GHz,800FSB). Am I off base in this belief ? I admit to knowing nothing about dual-cores, so I'm wondering if its worth paying the 100 bucks or so extra for the former as opposed to the latter
Yes - this is absolutely dead on. What Gal Civ did, which Civ 3 didnt, is have a different AI for each civilization, so it treated each of its opponents as opponents. In CIv3, the AI seems to be an "us against them" game, which drove me nuts- especially the "trade techs to everyone " immediately philosophy. If I wanted a 1 on 1 game, I'd play an RTS - I want to play a game where I am one of many entities, and all the entities are trying to win individually.
and that's stupid- any money they are getting is essentialy the drop in the stock price- all they are doing, in essence, is cashing out some of their equity. They aren't getting "free money".
Uh, why would dividends make a stock worthwhile ? If anything, giving dividends out to reduce share price, given that's FCF a company has given back to its shareholders, and is not part of its valuation anymore. Moreover, a company with high growth prospects should not be giving dividends in the first place - it displays a belief that the company lacks an ability to put its capital to more productive use.
Eh, the only reason I bought my X-box was to play KOTOR (best game I've played in years) and KOTOR 2 (not so much). So if KOTOR 3 is exclusive to the X-box- that might influence my choices.
I was not a CS major at Carnegie Mellon (I was a dreaded Finance major), but it was my impression that there was absolutely no shortfall of work available for CS majors there- hell, the big banks and financial institutions often prefer CS majors before they've learn an analytical approach to thinking, while half the business majors believe they are entitled to cushy (anything but in practice, but I digress) Wall St gigs. The "chicken little" attitude displayed here seems overdone - it seems to me that if you're good enough, the work will come to you - if you're mediocre, then there is trouble. On a secondary issue, all the CS majors there took a course or two where they had to write their own compilers (was mandatory), as well as course work in Assembly and ML (212). Again, they may have changed it, but who knows.
And Goodwin's law rears once again.. nicely done.
It isn't, but that's a simplistic understanding that seems to be beyond many. Google can do what it wants - no harm, no foul here.
Wait, how can you this ? It must be the fault of the evil corporations, or the horrible foreigners who're "stealing our jobs", or those greedy stockholders- how can you blame the programmers ? Damnit, when they're spending half their day on slashdot they are remarkably productive!
If you're interested in branching out of CS, look into finance- they will pay very well for quantitative analyists, and if you have any economics background - all the better (but not neccessary). Most of the big one's prefer Phd's, but they will hire Masters at 6 figures or close to it (at least).
Sinfest.net is one of my favorites - great strip, now available as a book.. And the idiot who argued that people shouldn't get paid for their work - pray tell, what is your job ?
Except you won't survive, much like the average person here claiming that the work will come to them, or claiming their english skills are top notch. Can you deal with your electricity randomly going for hours ? can you deal with Indian summers, where 100 degree weather is not uncommon ? Can you deal with the different cultural things, from details like going day/month/year to driving on the different side of the road with more "optional" traffic laws ? Can you live without the instant gratification that we're used to here ? Then lets look at income - to have the same kind of lifestyle that you have here (assuming you make 80K, and using a purchasing parity level of 8 rupees to the dollar) - you would need to make 640,000 rupees (or 6 lakhs a year) for a similar life. If you think anyone's going to pay you that as a 4 year IT tech, you're kidding yourself. Look, I was born in India and lived there for a while, and moved around (am a conventional Third Culture kid) - its very easy for people to move from India to the US, but its very hard to do the reverse, be it the cultural shock and the atmosphere. Its a cute idea, but its not a viable option for most of you guys.
Good to see the old (or not that old) Alma Mater being more productive than I am...
Actually, that's a fairly insightful read, and there is certainly credence to the arguement you're making. The low interest rates and high money supply means the banks have to lend more to make a profit, and are willing to extend credit far more easily than they may have in the past. Furthermore, banks essentialy have de-facto Keynsian creation power, because they don't need to actually have the money they loan in their vaults. The example you cited of your friend is a point many don't realize- much of the consumer spending is based of taking loans or taking advantage of home equity that is built up - if the housing market suffers, the ripple effects will be felt throughout the American economy.
This is insightful ? Wow - I guess I should understood that the politics of slashdot make Bill Clinton look like a right-winger. As a so-called "minority", this is a stupid, stupid system that is meant to exclude companies solely because of the race of those that own them. Why is state-sponsored racism acceptable ? When you eliminate 50 % or 80% of whatever proportion of the businesses from bidding on a contract solely due to race and not competency, you lower the competition, and allow more incompetents to stay in. Calling that racist is inane.
Again, this is non-sensical. You refuse these countries entries in the fields they are competitive in like agriculture (see the disgraceful sugar lobbying). More so, these evil foreigners are why you can afford to buy things cheaper. Food in the uS is at least 60-70% more expensive due to tariffs - you have perverse incentive systems set up to reward farmers for not producing.
No - that's a weak arguement based in fear, not economics. Tactical price gouging or what not is populist rhetoric - companies outside the US have lower costs for labor and can produce labor intensive products cheaper. There is a fierce market for it, and your point seems to suggest a cartel - which is fairly hard in something so widespread as steel. The tariffs on steel and the cost of supporting "American" jobs is particularly ridiculous - the estimated cost for each steel job is somewhere in the region of $500,000 - that's how much its costing the economy as a whole to presevere an inefficient, out of date steel jobs.
exactly. I made this point earlier. I don't shop at Wal-Mart, but I don't attempt to dictate to people why they shouldn't shop their especially if it makes economic sense for them to do so. Wal-Mart has some of the poorest customers around - these are people for whom that 50 cent markup repeated ad nauseum makes a difference. To whit, this year- higher gas prices have affected Wal-Mart's margins more than other retailers, due to their market.