If news lately is to be believed then there are thousands of terrorists running around. Rarely are building blown up, or water supplies poisoned. This has led me to the conclusion that either the government is fear mongering or the terroists are really stupid. Really, how hard is it to blow up a building?
The Daily Show was among the first TV shows to be freely available for download. This may just be the beginnings of an end of an era for free internet content.
Hey without my chiropractor, I wouldn't be able to turn my head side to side. Regular western medicine would rather fuse my spine so that I can't move my upper back/neck at all. Now, which method is progress, and which is pointless?
There's really nothing wrong with a chiropractor treating back pains. The problem comes when a chiropractor tries to treat migrains, the common cold, ulcers, and even irritable bowel syndrome. Scientifically, you might as well drink chinese tiger penis soup to get a stiffy.
Depending on what the laws do and do not allow, how would you safely approach your employers to air your concerns on this subject?
Safely approach? Fuck that. They are spying on you, so sue their asses. Or, better yet, get them a hooker and a hotel room. Just make sure to accidentally leave the webcam on. Payback is a bitch.
Why don't all governments switch to Linux? Microsoft's Vista release should be the perfect opportunity for government agencies to get out of this vendor lock-in. What programs are government agencies using that can't run on Linux? Open source word processing on linux should be ready for primetime soon, and until then wordperfect is still available. Any non-activeX web app should not be a problem either.
I just hope that any new government created is not made with Microsoft SQL and.NET. That would be stupid.
Thanks for the link. Now I'm not so sure that the idea was mine at all. I probably saw pictures of central pivot irrigattion without realising it. Ah well, I still think it could work.
This is a bad idea, think about it from a mathematical perspective.
By using a circle (no matter how large), you're alaways going to have parts of the land that will not covered by a sweep out from the center. Imagine a circle inside a box, if the robot always goes around and the maximum distance it goes out is the radius, then the corners of the box will never be tilled/seeded/harvested/etc.
I understand your point, but the extra land could be used for housing and storage. Or better yet, to plant trees in.
I've always thought that farmers could benefit from more robotics technology. I've thought about whether or not it would make sense to have circular fields with robot farm machines tethered to a central post. Can someone tell me if this has ever been tried?
Your hour is worth $50 (a nice round number I pulled from thin air). Call it what you get consulting. Or working overtime. Or working at all. Whatever makes it worth that, your time is worth that.
Now, say you don't like... cleaning your house. You can hire a maid service to do it for $75. It takes you 2 hours to clean your house, and you don't enjoy cleaning it for the sake of cleaning it.
Do you pay the maids or not? If so, then you understand gold farming. If not, rerun the thought experiment with $25 to pay the maids. Or $5.
Of course, some people would say, "It is my house I'm going to clean it I don't care about maids no matter how cheap that'd be. This is Mine and I want to do it!" Maybe you're one of them. That's the same as those who don't buy gold. Because for them, for whatever reason (even if they claim to not enjoy cleaning house), they get something out of cleaning their house (farming their own gold).
That doesn't mean everyone does.
"But it is virtual! It doesn't exist." That's where you're wrong. It does exist. The person paying $$ for gold would be happier (overall) if they didn't have the $$ and did have the gold. The transaction created happiness for them. The person getting $$ for the gold (their time) is happier with the $$. It means they get to eat, which makes most people fairly happy.
It doesn't matter if it can be done "more efficently" by code. I could pray to the heavens (presuming the existance of some higher power, or that we're in the matrix) to rain manna down too. Doesn't mean we shouldn't have farmers growing crops. It is one of the "rules of that world": the game doesn't have gold+=500000, and you can't really expect it to rain manna from heaven. It doesn't matter that the rule is arbitrary in the game, only that the rule exists.
If gold farming is okay, then why not just allow people to buy in-game gold with real money? Still fucking ridiculous.
Gold farming. Where people contribute nothing to society. They spend days making gold that consists of ones and zeros when the same thing could be accomplished with a gold += 500000 command. I will never be convinced that gold farming is not completely fucking ridiculous.
If you had read the article (instead of dismissing a perfectly interesting scientific publication!) you would have understood that these scientists are trying to find which ones of our 30K genes have been evolving in the last few thousands of years and not in the last 50 years.
If you had read the title of the article, you would know that it is misleading.
"My feeling is that the pricing from SAP is far too high," Zoellner said. "I know this has been a problem."
With so much money going into enterprise applications like SAP, why haven't we seen an open source alternative? Why wouldn't IBM, Walmart, and GM (for example) get together and create an open source version? They could share the costs with each other and smaller companies, while avoiding vendor lock-in.
I think the problem is the timeliness of getting returns. People want election results fast. So, like everything else in politics they want it fast and easy, not slowly and accurately.
Hello? 2000 was an even bigger fiasco than 2004, and 2000 used paper ballots. To this day many people say the 2000 election was rigged.
Not the stupid punch card ballots with the hanging chads. Pen and paper. In Canada during federal elections, anyone can supervise the vote counting. It's almost impossible to rig elections that are held this way.
What's wrong with paper ballots? They work great in Canada. We even have election results within a few hours, at most. As far as I can tell the only "downside" is that paper ballots are hard to rig elections with.
Do you bitch at your parents every day because you weren't asked to be born or something? This "Durr, I don't use so why should I pay for it?" sounds like something I'd hear out of a Grade six child.
What have you been smoking. Read the original poist again. You sound like an asshole.
No doubt it should be cheaper, I've taken a 3G card and ran 4 extensions off it @ 59/month and not even used all the bandwidth. So why's one line still costing $60 and up, b/c the consumers will pay it...
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If news lately is to be believed then there are thousands of terrorists running around. Rarely are building blown up, or water supplies poisoned. This has led me to the conclusion that either the government is fear mongering or the terroists are really stupid. Really, how hard is it to blow up a building?
The Daily Show was among the first TV shows to be freely available for download. This may just be the beginnings of an end of an era for free internet content.
Hey without my chiropractor, I wouldn't be able to turn my head side to side. Regular western medicine would rather fuse my spine so that I can't move my upper back/neck at all. Now, which method is progress, and which is pointless?
There's really nothing wrong with a chiropractor treating back pains. The problem comes when a chiropractor tries to treat migrains, the common cold, ulcers, and even irritable bowel syndrome. Scientifically, you might as well drink chinese tiger penis soup to get a stiffy.
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I'm glad to see the sarcasm wasn't lost on you.
Depending on what the laws do and do not allow, how would you safely approach your employers to air your concerns on this subject?
Safely approach? Fuck that. They are spying on you, so sue their asses. Or, better yet, get them a hooker and a hotel room. Just make sure to accidentally leave the webcam on. Payback is a bitch.
Why don't all governments switch to Linux? Microsoft's Vista release should be the perfect opportunity for government agencies to get out of this vendor lock-in. What programs are government agencies using that can't run on Linux? Open source word processing on linux should be ready for primetime soon, and until then wordperfect is still available. Any non-activeX web app should not be a problem either.
.NET. That would be stupid.
I just hope that any new government created is not made with Microsoft SQL and
Actually, it should be par for the course, for any consultant. Being indispensable does not create The Warm Fuzzy Feeling (TM).
No, but being indispensable is a safety precaution that many workers use to so that they wont become, well, dispensable. That, is selfish.
What's next, Intel processors in a Mac?
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Thanks for the link. Now I'm not so sure that the idea was mine at all. I probably saw pictures of central pivot irrigattion without realising it. Ah well, I still think it could work.
This is a bad idea, think about it from a mathematical perspective. By using a circle (no matter how large), you're alaways going to have parts of the land that will not covered by a sweep out from the center. Imagine a circle inside a box, if the robot always goes around and the maximum distance it goes out is the radius, then the corners of the box will never be tilled/seeded/harvested/etc.
I understand your point, but the extra land could be used for housing and storage. Or better yet, to plant trees in.
Make sure you are not indispensable!
Wow. That just may be the first ever selfless good deed.
So you might just say it would be a Monster March? I hate that song.
NPD Analysts predict that game sales for February will be much lower than hoped-for
Crazy me. I thought it was already March.
I've always thought that farmers could benefit from more robotics technology. I've thought about whether or not it would make sense to have circular fields with robot farm machines tethered to a central post. Can someone tell me if this has ever been tried?
It would be nice if submitters would warn people when Flash is required so those of us who don't bother with that nonsense wouldn't waste our time.
Flash is the new video format. The summary says it is a video, so what formats should you be warned about? Just flash?
Your hour is worth $50 (a nice round number I pulled from thin air). Call it what you get consulting. Or working overtime. Or working at all. Whatever makes it worth that, your time is worth that. Now, say you don't like... cleaning your house. You can hire a maid service to do it for $75. It takes you 2 hours to clean your house, and you don't enjoy cleaning it for the sake of cleaning it. Do you pay the maids or not? If so, then you understand gold farming. If not, rerun the thought experiment with $25 to pay the maids. Or $5. Of course, some people would say, "It is my house I'm going to clean it I don't care about maids no matter how cheap that'd be. This is Mine and I want to do it!" Maybe you're one of them. That's the same as those who don't buy gold. Because for them, for whatever reason (even if they claim to not enjoy cleaning house), they get something out of cleaning their house (farming their own gold). That doesn't mean everyone does. "But it is virtual! It doesn't exist." That's where you're wrong. It does exist. The person paying $$ for gold would be happier (overall) if they didn't have the $$ and did have the gold. The transaction created happiness for them. The person getting $$ for the gold (their time) is happier with the $$. It means they get to eat, which makes most people fairly happy. It doesn't matter if it can be done "more efficently" by code. I could pray to the heavens (presuming the existance of some higher power, or that we're in the matrix) to rain manna down too. Doesn't mean we shouldn't have farmers growing crops. It is one of the "rules of that world": the game doesn't have gold+=500000, and you can't really expect it to rain manna from heaven. It doesn't matter that the rule is arbitrary in the game, only that the rule exists.
If gold farming is okay, then why not just allow people to buy in-game gold with real money? Still fucking ridiculous.
Gold farming. Where people contribute nothing to society. They spend days making gold that consists of ones and zeros when the same thing could be accomplished with a gold += 500000 command. I will never be convinced that gold farming is not completely fucking ridiculous.
If you had read the article (instead of dismissing a perfectly interesting scientific publication!) you would have understood that these scientists are trying to find which ones of our 30K genes have been evolving in the last few thousands of years and not in the last 50 years.
If you had read the title of the article, you would know that it is misleading.
"My feeling is that the pricing from SAP is far too high," Zoellner said. "I know this has been a problem."
With so much money going into enterprise applications like SAP, why haven't we seen an open source alternative? Why wouldn't IBM, Walmart, and GM (for example) get together and create an open source version? They could share the costs with each other and smaller companies, while avoiding vendor lock-in.
I think the problem is the timeliness of getting returns. People want election results fast. So, like everything else in politics they want it fast and easy, not slowly and accurately.
They can't wait a few hours?
Hello? 2000 was an even bigger fiasco than 2004, and 2000 used paper ballots. To this day many people say the 2000 election was rigged.
Not the stupid punch card ballots with the hanging chads. Pen and paper. In Canada during federal elections, anyone can supervise the vote counting. It's almost impossible to rig elections that are held this way.
What's wrong with paper ballots? They work great in Canada. We even have election results within a few hours, at most. As far as I can tell the only "downside" is that paper ballots are hard to rig elections with.
Do you bitch at your parents every day because you weren't asked to be born or something? This "Durr, I don't use so why should I pay for it?" sounds like something I'd hear out of a Grade six child.
What have you been smoking. Read the original poist again. You sound like an asshole.
No doubt it should be cheaper, I've taken a 3G card and ran 4 extensions off it @ 59/month and not even used all the bandwidth. So why's one line still costing $60 and up, b/c the consumers will pay it...
Yeah, I figured that.