Then why to game developers work 12 hour days, 6 or 7 days a week?
In all seriousness, I gave up the ideal career-making game dev job for a relatively mundane web application job. Why? Because the latter paid significantly more, had flexible hours, didn't require working on the weekends, and let me stay in San Francisco.
It was entirely a Quality of Life decision, and while part of me misses the "Biz," I'm still glad I made it. The additional money, time, and flexibility enhances my life outside of work, which is more important (IMO).
I've purchased 2 monitors in the past 10 years. One in 1994, and one a few months ago. The first was a monster (deep) 16-inch Trinitron with dual inputs, and the second was a 21-inch LCD. Both set me back roughly a grand.
I've gone through about 10 computers in that same time period. You do the math.
Your eyes eventually learn to compensate for the ghosting, while annoying at first. As for optical mice, they've come a long away since the first iterations.
I hate to admit actually paying for a Microsoft product, but I've replaced the mouse on every machine I own/use with an Intellimouse Optical.
Riding close to parked cars only encourages drivers to try to squeeze past you. Additionally, it puts you at greater risk for being doored or hitting an unwary pedestrian who steps out into the street.
Asserting yourself as a vehicle and taking the lane is much safer.
Getting doored sucks, but I completely disagree with your "not so much when you're driving" sentiment.
Every day I'm nearly mowed down by some careless driver. Yes, I ride in traffic. There is no alternative. People getting in/out of parked cars or parking spaces at least are somewhat predictable, which is more than I can say for the coffee-drinking, phone-gabbing, SUV-driving idiots that swarm the roads.
It amazes me every day the kind of shit drivers pull. Driving tests are little more than go-around-the-block, thank you ma'am. It should be expensive and difficult to get a drivers license.
Education, defensive driving, and plain watching what you're doing should be the rule, not more distracting gadgets in the car.
Corporations can export the jobs, but we can't export ourselves.
The cost of living in India is a fraction of, say, San Francisco, so while the wages might be lower, the overall quality of living could be comparable. So unlike, say, moving a call center to Iowa, where an employee could theoretically relocate, it goes somewhere s/he can't follow.
Assuming this idles the former employee, this shifts the financial burden from the corporation (salary) to the government (unemployment, welfare). Sure, it helps the company's bottom line, but something's gotta give.
Corporations do not have a god-given right to profit, much less on the backs of the taxpayer and laid-off employees.
Yes, quite nice fixie. The double brake levers is a nice trick. Mine's going under the knife tomorrow for (swapping the drops for pursuit bars). Wonder if my LBS can do that. Any hints?
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Then there are films of people unshackled from the limitations of physics.
More here.
y
Well, there is glue in the mix, right?
Warp Records entire catalog, including rare and out-of-print, and vinyl-only stuff available at Bleep.com.
Good quality VBR, and whole-song preview too.
y
Then why to game developers work 12 hour days, 6 or 7 days a week?
In all seriousness, I gave up the ideal career-making game dev job for a relatively mundane web application job. Why? Because the latter paid significantly more, had flexible hours, didn't require working on the weekends, and let me stay in San Francisco.
It was entirely a Quality of Life decision, and while part of me misses the "Biz," I'm still glad I made it. The additional money, time, and flexibility enhances my life outside of work, which is more important (IMO).
y
Technically it is.
Isn't that what Mono should be called?
I've purchased 2 monitors in the past 10 years. One in 1994, and one a few months ago. The first was a monster (deep) 16-inch Trinitron with dual inputs, and the second was a 21-inch LCD. Both set me back roughly a grand.
I've gone through about 10 computers in that same time period. You do the math.
y
Your eyes eventually learn to compensate for the ghosting, while annoying at first. As for optical mice, they've come a long away since the first iterations.
I hate to admit actually paying for a Microsoft product, but I've replaced the mouse on every machine I own/use with an Intellimouse Optical.
y
Riding close to parked cars only encourages drivers to try to squeeze past you. Additionally, it puts you at greater risk for being doored or hitting an unwary pedestrian who steps out into the street.
Asserting yourself as a vehicle and taking the lane is much safer.
y
Getting doored sucks, but I completely disagree with your "not so much when you're driving" sentiment.
Every day I'm nearly mowed down by some careless driver. Yes, I ride in traffic. There is no alternative. People getting in/out of parked cars or parking spaces at least are somewhat predictable, which is more than I can say for the coffee-drinking, phone-gabbing, SUV-driving idiots that swarm the roads.
y
Or just other cars?
It amazes me every day the kind of shit drivers pull. Driving tests are little more than go-around-the-block, thank you ma'am. It should be expensive and difficult to get a drivers license.
Education, defensive driving, and plain watching what you're doing should be the rule, not more distracting gadgets in the car.
y
Here is an example law, in this case building codes, being proprietary. More info here.
y
But Wal-Mart is NOT the only option, and in remote places where it is, that's a vast improvement over nothing.
If by "nothing" you mean the smoking crater formerly known as the small town's center, then sure.
y
:sigh:
It's funny. Laugh.
It believe it's high time to introduce Darl to weapons of ass destruction.
I counted 517?
Corporations can export the jobs, but we can't export ourselves.
The cost of living in India is a fraction of, say, San Francisco, so while the wages might be lower, the overall quality of living could be comparable. So unlike, say, moving a call center to Iowa, where an employee could theoretically relocate, it goes somewhere s/he can't follow.
Assuming this idles the former employee, this shifts the financial burden from the corporation (salary) to the government (unemployment, welfare). Sure, it helps the company's bottom line, but something's gotta give.
Corporations do not have a god-given right to profit, much less on the backs of the taxpayer and laid-off employees.
For whatever reason, Wal-Mart springs to mind...
y
...and Overture owns AltaVista.
insert fish-eating-fish-eating-fish picture here
Your brake setup is so excellent I had to copy it.
:)
Thanks
Incidentally, who's your frame builder?
Yes, quite nice fixie. The double brake levers is a nice trick. Mine's going under the knife tomorrow for (swapping the drops for pursuit bars). Wonder if my LBS can do that. Any hints?
y
Diebold makes those too.
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Have you tried adjusting the proxy settings in the QuickTime control panel?
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Oh, the irony.