Exactly the same reason things like Hillary or Obama's health care plan are impossible.
You are all smart enough to understand charging everyone the same for internet under the assumption most people won't use it is a stupid idea.
So why doesn't everyone understand charging people the same price for insurance under the assumption most people won't use it is also a stupid idea?
As with all things, you should pay for what you use. You shouldn't pay for what others use, and you shouldn't use more than you pay for.
Can't believe I didn't see this one listed for anyone! Was always one of my favorites, every 6 or 8 months I end up digging up a copy of StarCraft (and some of the addons) and get stuck playing for hours.
In my opinion it must be one of the most balanced games ever made. I always found it much more playable than Warcraft or Ages of Empires... Perhaps becuase of the simple graphics or lack of 'hero' characters, which always seem to just make battles harder to orchestrate.
"'An unlicensed copy of Microsoft Windows is perfectly genuine. It has exactly the same functionality as a licensed copy and was made by the same company... "
Clearly not. Microsoft has removed access to most updates and downloads as well as support for users without Genuine copies. So if you don't have a genuine copy, you aren't getting the whole package, hence it's not so genuine.
When politicians (supposed role models) stop filling our televisions with news of blow jobs, fraud, and lies then maybe i'll worry about animated games that a kid has to ask his mother to pay for.
People are worried about the flaws in this voting box when the current method being used is stuffing pieces of paper into a goddamned cardboard box! And they don't even require you to have ID in some states to vote, becuase this would be 'racist'.
I seriously think the DieBold box is the least of our worries.
And I don't know how many times ATI has to tell the damn linux crowd that they can't release the source code to their drivers because they are using various proprietary technologies under contract. If they release this information they would be breaking the law.
It has been recommended that ATI release the information that it can, and the various proprietary technologies would not be utilized, but then ATI's cards would perform badly with these open source drivers, and they can't support that either.
Or maybe a free country where a company can sell whatever product they want at whatever price they'd like without the government interfering would work well.
Free market always solves the problem better. If those 8 companies were splitting the sales of ram, it only takes one company to come in and sell it at a proper price and take 100% of the business.
The reson folks are illiterate is that we refuse to fund our schools sufficiently, or pay teachers enough to hire qualified ones.
Or becuase the illiterate are useless fucks that use school as a meeting spot for bartering in drugs and sex. We don't need more teachers in schools, we need more police officers with firearms and handcuffs.
Becuase someone who has been working with computers their entire life knows that a brand new out of the box dual core 1.66ghz machine with 2gb of ram should allow me to drag a finder window across the screen without a 10 second delay in the redraw.
I know we are trying to assume the new MacOS will be much lighter/faster, but as someone who has Vista running on one machine and MacOS (The new intel core duo mac mini) on another, my impression has been that MacOS is the slow resource hungry operating system, and by comparison Vista is quite snappy.
The Windows machine is more than twice the clock speed of the economy mac mini, but even with this in mind I can't help but get the impression the MacOS is abnormally sluggish.
I am not traditionally a mac user (or a windows user for that matter) and people who are more familiar with Apples history tell me that the lack of a 'snappy' feeling in the GUI is just something you get used to, and not representative of the efficiency of the O/S... but i'm not sure that I buy into that.
Anyway, Let me go ahead and make my points very clear:
1) Vista is really not sluggish in the sense we are talking about here. Especially if you get the new RTM (post beta2) builds from MSDN. In fact it is much snappier than any Mac/Gnome/KDE desktop I have worked in on similar hardware. (Perhaps this is becuase the windows GUI is so ugly;))
2) Current MacOS IS sluggish, maybe its becuase of all that silly anti-aliasing and frequent x86 emulation, I really don't know, but if they make a new O/S which solves this problem there would be ALOT of people more willing to use it, especially if they can get some damn native applications available for x86.
The vast majority of people are scumbags, and we don't kill all of them or cheer as their families prepare for funerals, becuase that would make us little shits like you.
On the contrary, the lack of hysteria is due to (1) Apples users' lack of technical knowledge about what to expect from their hardware -- and there should be hysteria given (2) Apple's substantially above average prices that lead consumers to expect quality.
Wikipedia tells me that the same 'flap' or outer layer is removed. With PRK it is not ever put back, and the eye is allowed to heal/regenerate this outer layer itself. With Lasik, the flap is put back, and the healing process is much quicker.
For these pilots, they would prefer to take the longer healing process, instead of running the risk of this flap coming loose in the future.
The article is a bit misleading. There is not really any grinding down, and the flap is still removed as with more traditional lasik. The difference is that the flap is thrown away and not replaced. The flap will heal itself and thus remove any risk of it coming loose at a later time.
The downside here is much more pain, and much slower (3 months) healing process, hence the flap is usually replaced to act as a natural bandage.
It is not like other countries (especially the U.S.) where if you have a pulse you can get accepted because there are so many schools.
And the US is a perfect example of why they will not open more schools. In the US most new college graduates are serving pancakes at IHOP or selling t-shirts at The Gap. We try to force everyone to be 'better' by going to college when in reality these 'better' people are sitting without jobs while illegal immigrants take the work our non-graduates used to do.
Everyone is not smart. Everyone is not useful. When will people realize that it is neither practical or productive to try to make everyone equal.
And btw, the cheating does not bother me. It is still a competition of wit, just perhaps a different type than the test had originally intended.
Exactly, it is still probably the best game ever created. If they could raise the resolution a bit for more modern monitors, and clean up the online functionality it would be spectacular. They could probably even beef up the graphics a bit without too much work, although that isn't particularly important... Starcraft is great because there are not too many silly graphical effects going on, and it relies instead on the perfection of the gameplay.
I'd rather they spent time working on Vista than patching an 8 year old operating system. I doubt anyone on Win98 is connected via more than a dial up modem anyway, they don't exactly have huge targets painted on their backs.
Don't worry about it, it's all hype. If you look at benchmarks you see that these SLI setups actually perform significantly worse than just a single card in all except the rare supported game.
Your absolutely right, and the OP is too. It depends completely on the field.
I have worked with developers in their 60's on some projects involving more mature technologies, embedded programming, assembly, even c/c++, and have been utterly amazed at their skill set, as they had been doing this sort of work since it existed.
At the same time, I have worked with older developers on emerging technologies, java/.net/xsl/ajax, and been horribly disappointed at their inability to apply their previous knowledge to these newer technologies.
Perhaps it has less to do with age, and more to do with work style and personality. Personally, I spend a substantial number of hours each week investigating and learning new technologies, trying common tasks on new platforms or in new langauges, etc. For this reason I am always ahead of the game for any new technology. I think anyone who 'loves' the technology does this, regardless of age. And as a corrolary, there are people, regardless of age, who are only useful with the skillset they learned in college, and have never thought to learn anything new.
As a young developer though, I have always known to go to the mature developers for advice on more abstract matters. Their experience will always prove useful in dealings with managers, clients, and design.
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Exactly the same reason things like Hillary or Obama's health care plan are impossible. You are all smart enough to understand charging everyone the same for internet under the assumption most people won't use it is a stupid idea. So why doesn't everyone understand charging people the same price for insurance under the assumption most people won't use it is also a stupid idea? As with all things, you should pay for what you use. You shouldn't pay for what others use, and you shouldn't use more than you pay for.
So we can have more kids with laptops, and thus more fun pranks! :)
http://digg.com/playable_web_games/New_Site_Launches_To_Help_You_Give_Free_OLPC_Laptops
Can't believe I didn't see this one listed for anyone! Was always one of my favorites, every 6 or 8 months I end up digging up a copy of StarCraft (and some of the addons) and get stuck playing for hours.
In my opinion it must be one of the most balanced games ever made. I always found it much more playable than Warcraft or Ages of Empires... Perhaps becuase of the simple graphics or lack of 'hero' characters, which always seem to just make battles harder to orchestrate.
"'An unlicensed copy of Microsoft Windows is perfectly genuine. It has exactly the same functionality as a licensed copy and was made by the same company... "
Clearly not. Microsoft has removed access to most updates and downloads as well as support for users without Genuine copies. So if you don't have a genuine copy, you aren't getting the whole package, hence it's not so genuine.
So now Bush is responsible for people becoming religious?
I guess when he took office people just started running to baptisms and chapel services?
Your a perfect example of how the left lost two elections in a row by saying shit so dumb even their own constituants weren't fooled.
Everyone is complaining that the card and marketing are various degrees of bullshit, but who really cares?
Isn't it obvious that we'll all buy this thing just becuase it *looks* so badass?
When politicians (supposed role models) stop filling our televisions with news of blow jobs, fraud, and lies then maybe i'll worry about animated games that a kid has to ask his mother to pay for.
People are worried about the flaws in this voting box when the current method being used is stuffing pieces of paper into a goddamned cardboard box! And they don't even require you to have ID in some states to vote, becuase this would be 'racist'.
I seriously think the DieBold box is the least of our worries.
And I don't know how many times ATI has to tell the damn linux crowd that they can't release the source code to their drivers because they are using various proprietary technologies under contract. If they release this information they would be breaking the law.
It has been recommended that ATI release the information that it can, and the various proprietary technologies would not be utilized, but then ATI's cards would perform badly with these open source drivers, and they can't support that either.
Or maybe a free country where a company can sell whatever product they want at whatever price they'd like without the government interfering would work well.
Free market always solves the problem better. If those 8 companies were splitting the sales of ram, it only takes one company to come in and sell it at a proper price and take 100% of the business.
The reson folks are illiterate is that we refuse to fund our schools sufficiently, or pay teachers enough to hire qualified ones.
Or becuase the illiterate are useless fucks that use school as a meeting spot for bartering in drugs and sex. We don't need more teachers in schools, we need more police officers with firearms and handcuffs.
Becuase someone who has been working with computers their entire life knows that a brand new out of the box dual core 1.66ghz machine with 2gb of ram should allow me to drag a finder window across the screen without a 10 second delay in the redraw.
I know we are trying to assume the new MacOS will be much lighter/faster, but as someone who has Vista running on one machine and MacOS (The new intel core duo mac mini) on another, my impression has been that MacOS is the slow resource hungry operating system, and by comparison Vista is quite snappy.
;))
The Windows machine is more than twice the clock speed of the economy mac mini, but even with this in mind I can't help but get the impression the MacOS is abnormally sluggish.
I am not traditionally a mac user (or a windows user for that matter) and people who are more familiar with Apples history tell me that the lack of a 'snappy' feeling in the GUI is just something you get used to, and not representative of the efficiency of the O/S... but i'm not sure that I buy into that.
Anyway, Let me go ahead and make my points very clear:
1) Vista is really not sluggish in the sense we are talking about here. Especially if you get the new RTM (post beta2) builds from MSDN. In fact it is much snappier than any Mac/Gnome/KDE desktop I have worked in on similar hardware. (Perhaps this is becuase the windows GUI is so ugly
2) Current MacOS IS sluggish, maybe its becuase of all that silly anti-aliasing and frequent x86 emulation, I really don't know, but if they make a new O/S which solves this problem there would be ALOT of people more willing to use it, especially if they can get some damn native applications available for x86.
The vast majority of people are scumbags, and we don't kill all of them or cheer as their families prepare for funerals, becuase that would make us little shits like you.
If it turns on whenever we look at it, how can we be sure it ever actually turns off?
On the contrary, the lack of hysteria is due to (1) Apples users' lack of technical knowledge about what to expect from their hardware -- and there should be hysteria given (2) Apple's substantially above average prices that lead consumers to expect quality.
Wikipedia tells me that the same 'flap' or outer layer is removed. With PRK it is not ever put back, and the eye is allowed to heal/regenerate this outer layer itself. With Lasik, the flap is put back, and the healing process is much quicker.
For these pilots, they would prefer to take the longer healing process, instead of running the risk of this flap coming loose in the future.
The article is a bit misleading. There is not really any grinding down, and the flap is still removed as with more traditional lasik. The difference is that the flap is thrown away and not replaced. The flap will heal itself and thus remove any risk of it coming loose at a later time.
The downside here is much more pain, and much slower (3 months) healing process, hence the flap is usually replaced to act as a natural bandage.
It is not like other countries (especially the U.S.) where if you have a pulse you can get accepted because there are so many schools.
And the US is a perfect example of why they will not open more schools. In the US most new college graduates are serving pancakes at IHOP or selling t-shirts at The Gap. We try to force everyone to be 'better' by going to college when in reality these 'better' people are sitting without jobs while illegal immigrants take the work our non-graduates used to do.
Everyone is not smart. Everyone is not useful. When will people realize that it is neither practical or productive to try to make everyone equal.
And btw, the cheating does not bother me. It is still a competition of wit, just perhaps a different type than the test had originally intended.
Well, speaking of O/S support, Starcraft runs beautifully on my Ubuntu box (Wine-Style)... Maybe this makes me love it even more.
Exactly, it is still probably the best game ever created. If they could raise the resolution a bit for more modern monitors, and clean up the online functionality it would be spectacular. They could probably even beef up the graphics a bit without too much work, although that isn't particularly important... Starcraft is great because there are not too many silly graphical effects going on, and it relies instead on the perfection of the gameplay.
Lets be reasonable. With all these nuclear weapons what are the chances we'll actually be alive to see global warming cuase problems anyway?
I'd rather they spent time working on Vista than patching an 8 year old operating system. I doubt anyone on Win98 is connected via more than a dial up modem anyway, they don't exactly have huge targets painted on their backs.
Don't worry about it, it's all hype. If you look at benchmarks you see that these SLI setups actually perform significantly worse than just a single card in all except the rare supported game.
Your absolutely right, and the OP is too. It depends completely on the field.
I have worked with developers in their 60's on some projects involving more mature technologies, embedded programming, assembly, even c/c++, and have been utterly amazed at their skill set, as they had been doing this sort of work since it existed.
At the same time, I have worked with older developers on emerging technologies, java/.net/xsl/ajax, and been horribly disappointed at their inability to apply their previous knowledge to these newer technologies.
Perhaps it has less to do with age, and more to do with work style and personality. Personally, I spend a substantial number of hours each week investigating and learning new technologies, trying common tasks on new platforms or in new langauges, etc. For this reason I am always ahead of the game for any new technology. I think anyone who 'loves' the technology does this, regardless of age. And as a corrolary, there are people, regardless of age, who are only useful with the skillset they learned in college, and have never thought to learn anything new.
As a young developer though, I have always known to go to the mature developers for advice on more abstract matters. Their experience will always prove useful in dealings with managers, clients, and design.