Not entirely true. There is also a trend for outsourcing, where the workers do the same job as before, in the same factory, but with different uniforms, and earn less than the minimum wage in other european countries. In some situations, you will find people working together doing two low-qualified jobs, but one of them earns three times that of the other guy.
The worst part about it is that the guys making pittance get benefits from the state so they can survive. Unfair subsidies at their best.
Which 90% of the time contain rubbing alcohol, water and maybe a few detergents (overkill for a bit of dust on an NES cartridge). Sometimes they add perfume to the cocktail, e.g. when they want to convince the customer that their "display-cleaner" is somehow special and they need to pay ten time the price for some isopropyl alcohol.
That doesn't prove jackshit. You might want to look at the Scientific method. OTOH, There has been scientific work that somewhat confirms some of the traditional prejudices.
Because they're more expensive. Plus they are only bio-degradable in relative terms (It can still take many years), and the materials they degrade into can also be harmful to the environment. And that's assuming they are produced in an environmentally sound way. That doesn't have to be the case. They're definatly not the best solution to the problem of plastic bags.
A credit card grants credit, a debit card directly registers to your bank account. If you don't say the store will prefer to use the debit system because its more security for them.
You're the one paying for a credit card though, so you may as well use it.
Nobody knows how the world would be without Microsoft's monopoly. It would be ludicrous to think that Microsoft's *business* deals would be a completely irrelevant from all the "important" issues. How far can you go with shady business deals and how much harm can you do to the global economy before their limited amount of charity doesn't negate it? Should we accept every wrongdoing if somewhere along the line there was a charitable cause?
From the pictures it seemed to be the case that the monitor would be a splitscreen desktop, so that two kids could each have one independant session. It's about saving the cost of the monitor.
The reason it works good on console though is that a TV screen is/was typically bigger than a PC Monitor. It's bad enough having 3 people watching a movie on a PC. If they want to get close up to see an office document there's going to be some serious headbanging.
Removing the meaning and word for theft does not remove theft, it merely makes those who cannot fathom it, remain unaware of its existence.
That's just silly. You're stuck in the world of 1984. Language is formed by usage. As long as there is need for a word, no attempt to erase it will be successful.
Plus, with 20 different meanings to each word, you can find out what kind of mind you are conversing with. You are either dealing with an unimaginative serf... or you are dealing with something more. You can't find this out if the mind isn't allowed to play with words.
Now that's one of the biggest failures of language and communication. Most people have enough experience to know that a persons ability with rhetoric play has absolutely nothing to do with their intellect. Yet still, for some reason, it has huge potential to dazzle and captivate any audience. It seems to me that the ones who truly believe they can interpret people's speech to derive their mind are the "unimaginative serfs".
Some of the most intelligent people I know converse in perfectly normal "simpleton" speak, but when they suspect to gain the favor of a collocutor, they just might pull a few rhetoric tricks from their hat. It's not exactly difficult. This seems to be, at least in my experience, the only time when an interpretation of character might be quite accurate and helpful: Somebody who clearly shows attempts to impress with language, but has little knowledge to behind their mask.
BTW, I find your use of gerunds at the beginning of your sentences... repetitive.
These days getting an import game is as easy as copying the title to google and ordering from an independant games dealer. What's reasonably-priced is open to discussion I guess. The game cost 35 Euros here, I was able to pick it up for 20 a few months later (didn't sell too good so I guess they were right). I don't know what that translates as in dollars these days, but it's pretty reasonable.
I suppose I can understand how importing a game seems totally alien to most US consumers however. For europeans it's a bare necessity if you want to enjoy some of the best games out there, although the situation has been getting better in the past few years.
There's way more scarier things in my opinion. By the time they experience severe issues, it seems they have lost the capability to realise the suffering. Now losing your body's functions while still being mentally fully aware, and suffering from excrutiating pain, I find that scarier.
Shitty games get pirated, but wouldn't have sold anyhow, and great games make tons of cash and are pirated by a small amount.
The shitt games sell alright, as they're usually the ones a parent buys for his kid. The users who are prepared to spend 100$ or so to play pirated games OTOH will know better than to waste their time on shitty games. They're the ones who would buy the next installment of Final Fantasy because they want it, but would rather pirate it and save 30 bucks. A freind of mine has 40+ PS2 games, most of them purchased at full price even. He didn't feel like modding his console and didn't like the idea of pirating tons of games anyhow.
He then bought a DS and a card reader and has yet to buy a single DS game, despite it being the only system he plays nowadays. I think it's largely down to the fact that it's so fucking easy.
Interesting thing is though, that these things are used for piracy most of the time. Yes, I know that there are many many people who use it for homebrew, and I applaud them for it. But everyone I know personally who owns ones uses it exclusively for piracy. If you check the forums you will see how so many morons can't figure out how to copy roms save files to an SD card. I don't think they should have to stop making them, it's just that Nintendo has my full understanding wanting to do something about it.
I don't see this lawsuit being effective though, especially not now that there are probbly millions of the things out there. Maybe they can find a way to prevent them from playing pirated games. IIRC Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles could detect whether it was being read from an SD card and if so would show a message "thanks for playing" and end.
Modern touchpads don't function with pressure but sense the capacitance of your finger. Just sliding along the srface is enough. That helps deal with skipping.
They're basically denying a warranty for something that happens after purchase. If they sell you something that is clearly broken, no sold as seen sign can protect them. It would have to be marked "broken - for spares and repairs"
While what you say is completely correct, it doesn't change anything about computer programming as an engineering discipline. It seems to me to be like arguing how mechanical engineering is just physics and so forth.
There probably isn't enough energy saved to make a very noticable drop in the electricity bill anway, especially if you only use them 4 months a year. General fluctuations will probably be more pronounced. And it's unreasonable to expect a Mac to be quiter than a specifically custom-built silent PC. What is true though is that they typically produce less noise than comparable offerings by other major PC brands.
You did realise that the graphics were intentionally made to look like that? They applied a few filters to make it blurry and grainy like on a painting. It's an artistic tweak to the graphics.
Well then Dell makes it easy. A lot of business retailers do actually do backround checks and want some form of proof you own a business before they deal with you.
And I'll repeat what I said in a post below. Even if you do pay for it yourself, it often isn't perfectly legal to channel your purchase through your company's IT budget, as there are probably a lot of tax deducted rebates along the line which you don't fulfill.
Finally, even if a large proportion of/. users are in such a position, that still leaves a lot of users who aren't. A comment pointing that out isn't irrelevant.
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Not entirely true. There is also a trend for outsourcing, where the workers do the same job as before, in the same factory, but with different uniforms, and earn less than the minimum wage in other european countries. In some situations, you will find people working together doing two low-qualified jobs, but one of them earns three times that of the other guy.
The worst part about it is that the guys making pittance get benefits from the state so they can survive. Unfair subsidies at their best.
Because that's illegal.
(or, better yet, an electronics contact cleaner)
Which 90% of the time contain rubbing alcohol, water and maybe a few detergents (overkill for a bit of dust on an NES cartridge). Sometimes they add perfume to the cocktail, e.g. when they want to convince the customer that their "display-cleaner" is somehow special and they need to pay ten time the price for some isopropyl alcohol.
Exactly. You gain security at the expense of the store's security. Credit card payments are more often recalled.
That doesn't prove jackshit. You might want to look at the Scientific method. OTOH, There has been scientific work that somewhat confirms some of the traditional prejudices.
Depends on the country
Depends on the country.
Because they're more expensive. Plus they are only bio-degradable in relative terms (It can still take many years), and the materials they degrade into can also be harmful to the environment.
And that's assuming they are produced in an environmentally sound way. That doesn't have to be the case.
They're definatly not the best solution to the problem of plastic bags.
A credit card grants credit, a debit card directly registers to your bank account. If you don't say the store will prefer to use the debit system because its more security for them.
You're the one paying for a credit card though, so you may as well use it.
Nobody knows how the world would be without Microsoft's monopoly. It would be ludicrous to think that Microsoft's *business* deals would be a completely irrelevant from all the "important" issues. How far can you go with shady business deals and how much harm can you do to the global economy before their limited amount of charity doesn't negate it? Should we accept every wrongdoing if somewhere along the line there was a charitable cause?
From the pictures it seemed to be the case that the monitor would be a splitscreen desktop, so that two kids could each have one independant session. It's about saving the cost of the monitor.
The reason it works good on console though is that a TV screen is/was typically bigger than a PC Monitor. It's bad enough having 3 people watching a movie on a PC. If they want to get close up to see an office document there's going to be some serious headbanging.
Removing the meaning and word for theft does not remove theft, it merely makes those who cannot fathom it, remain unaware of its existence.
That's just silly. You're stuck in the world of 1984. Language is formed by usage. As long as there is need for a word, no attempt to erase it will be successful.
Plus, with 20 different meanings to each word, you can find out what kind of mind you are conversing with. You are either dealing with an unimaginative serf... or you are dealing with something more. You can't find this out if the mind isn't allowed to play with words.
Now that's one of the biggest failures of language and communication. Most people have enough experience to know that a persons ability with rhetoric play has absolutely nothing to do with their intellect. Yet still, for some reason, it has huge potential to dazzle and captivate any audience.
It seems to me that the ones who truly believe they can interpret people's speech to derive their mind are the "unimaginative serfs".
Some of the most intelligent people I know converse in perfectly normal "simpleton" speak, but when they suspect to gain the favor of a collocutor, they just might pull a few rhetoric tricks from their hat. It's not exactly difficult.
This seems to be, at least in my experience, the only time when an interpretation of character might be quite accurate and helpful: Somebody who clearly shows attempts to impress with language, but has little knowledge to behind their mask.
BTW, I find your use of gerunds at the beginning of your sentences ... repetitive.
These days getting an import game is as easy as copying the title to google and ordering from an independant games dealer.
What's reasonably-priced is open to discussion I guess. The game cost 35 Euros here, I was able to pick it up for 20 a few months later (didn't sell too good so I guess they were right). I don't know what that translates as in dollars these days, but it's pretty reasonable.
I suppose I can understand how importing a game seems totally alien to most US consumers however. For europeans it's a bare necessity if you want to enjoy some of the best games out there, although the situation has been getting better in the past few years.
There's way more scarier things in my opinion. By the time they experience severe issues, it seems they have lost the capability to realise the suffering.
Now losing your body's functions while still being mentally fully aware, and suffering from excrutiating pain, I find that scarier.
You can get one of the Tingle games as a european localisation clled "Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland"
Shitty games get pirated, but wouldn't have sold anyhow, and great games make tons of cash and are pirated by a small amount.
The shitt games sell alright, as they're usually the ones a parent buys for his kid.
The users who are prepared to spend 100$ or so to play pirated games OTOH will know better than to waste their time on shitty games. They're the ones who would buy the next installment of Final Fantasy because they want it, but would rather pirate it and save 30 bucks.
A freind of mine has 40+ PS2 games, most of them purchased at full price even. He didn't feel like modding his console and didn't like the idea of pirating tons of games anyhow.
He then bought a DS and a card reader and has yet to buy a single DS game, despite it being the only system he plays nowadays.
I think it's largely down to the fact that it's so fucking easy.
Interesting thing is though, that these things are used for piracy most of the time. Yes, I know that there are many many people who use it for homebrew, and I applaud them for it. But everyone I know personally who owns ones uses it exclusively for piracy.
If you check the forums you will see how so many morons can't figure out how to copy roms save files to an SD card.
I don't think they should have to stop making them, it's just that Nintendo has my full understanding wanting to do something about it.
I don't see this lawsuit being effective though, especially not now that there are probbly millions of the things out there. Maybe they can find a way to prevent them from playing pirated games. IIRC Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles could detect whether it was being read from an SD card and if so would show a message "thanks for playing" and end.
Modern touchpads don't function with pressure but sense the capacitance of your finger. Just sliding along the srface is enough. That helps deal with skipping.
They're basically denying a warranty for something that happens after purchase. If they sell you something that is clearly broken, no sold as seen sign can protect them. It would have to be marked "broken - for spares and repairs"
While what you say is completely correct, it doesn't change anything about computer programming as an engineering discipline. It seems to me to be like arguing how mechanical engineering is just physics and so forth.
There probably isn't enough energy saved to make a very noticable drop in the electricity bill anway, especially if you only use them 4 months a year. General fluctuations will probably be more pronounced.
And it's unreasonable to expect a Mac to be quiter than a specifically custom-built silent PC. What is true though is that they typically produce less noise than comparable offerings by other major PC brands.
Plus they can be dimmed, unlike CFLs. And they don't produce a mor yellow light while doing so, like incendecent bulbs.
You did realise that the graphics were intentionally made to look like that? They applied a few filters to make it blurry and grainy like on a painting. It's an artistic tweak to the graphics.
And World of Warcraft *ducks*
Well then Dell makes it easy. A lot of business retailers do actually do backround checks and want some form of proof you own a business before they deal with you.
And I'll repeat what I said in a post below. Even if you do pay for it yourself, it often isn't perfectly legal to channel your purchase through your company's IT budget, as there are probably a lot of tax deducted rebates along the line which you don't fulfill.
Finally, even if a large proportion of /. users are in such a position, that still leaves a lot of users who aren't. A comment pointing that out isn't irrelevant.