He's showing the strength, that many of us wouldn't have, to walk away from all of his material possessions, and all that is familiar to him. Yet he is doing it in a smart way. His friends staying friends or even making friends with the winner is at best a 50-50 proposition, same with the job. But dude will get to walk away with enough cash in his bank account that he can start all over again right away, with less encumbrance, and hopefully no reminders of the past.
It strikes me that this would be a good way of checking items at the tills of PC stores - weigh the item, report that weight on the till receipt & that can be used to detect problems at point of purchase or later on when the customer brings something back.
Except that the customer also knows that weight, and I suspect that those willing to use tiles for weight would probably not be bothered by having to be a little more exacting, considering the gain of the theft. Besides, most systems are loose enough to vary by a few tenths of a pound, and really accurate scales are so expensive they probably aren't worth the cost against theft in the first place.
Personally I think a better idea would be to require mandatory opening and inspecting of items like PC components, and small gadgets like cellphones and cameras and the like both before it leaves the store, and when it comes back. That way the customer gets what they paid for and the store knows it didn't sell something besides what was expected, and they prevent the return of "boxes full of tile" in the future. And if a box full of tile is found on the way out, they know they have an internal problem. With the exception of someone buying a lot of components or gadgets at once, this process wouldn't take long (especially if they added a second guy to each register to act as opener/inspector/bagger), and unlike showing my bag to the door people, serves a good purpose that I wouldn't mind being held up a moment for.
I can't imagine this game being useful for anything except children's games and young children. For me, playing Quake Wars, CSS, Far Cry, etc. I'm going to get pissed, edgy, aggravated, what have you. A device that makes my character perform worse than I probably already am as the controller of the character is just going to make me that much angrier, not calm me down.
Tell you what Vyro Games, you wanna calm me down when I start to stress? Hook up electrodes to the pleasure centers in my brain and stimulate those when I'm pushing a stroke because my team consists of the majority cast of Keystone Kops and we're getting raped so bad that a prison gang bang would seem like vanilla missionary style sex. *That* would calm me down just fine.
I'm not going to argue the whole probable cause bit because it's already being well argued here. What I am going to do is present a simple solution to the problem of uninformed/lazy consumers with wireless rigs. It's really quite as simple as the companies making these routers to write software that is to be run on the PC(s) to be used on the wireless network, which would gather all the necessary data from the PC(s), and then connect to the router, setting up WPA/WPA2 with a strong password (created by the consumer, with guidance towards a required password comprised of numerals, letters, and special characters), allowed MAC list, etc. To later add (an)other PC(s), one would merely need to provide the setup software with the password set on the router to allow it to send/receive config info. Voila! A working and fairly hardened/secure wireless network.
Now, would this actually stop the situation of the story from popping up? Not really. A WAP, open or not, is still going to have a specific IP. And if said specific IP was witnessed to be transmitting or receiving child porn, warez, or what have you, then probable cause for a warrant exists for the premises linked to that IP address. The WAP is immaterial.
..I just love being made to feel like a chump. I don't own a 360, nor do I plan on getting one anytime soon. I own GH and GH2 only because my SO has a PS2 (I own numerous consoles, but not any newer than the GC). Seeing this just burns me. Release the same game on another console? Cool. But to pack in new songs along with downloadable content? Way to thumb your nose at the people who just bought your game. Bah.
...but I must say I find it hilarious how I sometimes run into the same problem with BT as I did with Limewire, et. al. I can have 40 seeds and numerous leeches, and still only be getting my file(s) at 10K/sec. max. If BT worked like it was supposed to, 40 seeds will saturate me, but options like allowing people to throttle their seeding after seeding X times over, etc. kills it.
"With $30 billion lost to shoplifting and employee theft last year, retailers are turning to increasingly sophisticated electronic surveillance systems to fight theft...."
Or, you know, they could use that money to actually pay their employees decently and give them beneifits, etc. You know, boost morale, pay people what their work is actually worth to the company, make them feel appreciated, etc.
But nah, we'll keep stripping away all the things that make having X job worth a damn, treat the employee like crap, and spend wads on otherwise unecessary surveilance aimed at them. <Insert ginormous rolling eyed smily here>
I totally agree on the complaints from others yet being able to play extensively w/o problems. As to a good way to play the unit? Lay on your back. The VB actually sits on your face decently without being too heavy, and the legs act as props/counter-balances to keep it from tipping. Many hours of Wario Land have been played, let me tell ya....
Only problem I generally had after extended play was similar to waking up to brighht light. The screen(s) on the VB aren't that bright, so your eyes get accustomed to the low light level, so more oft than not I had to lay for awhile, slowly getting used to the ambient light again once I was done playing. Never a headache for me though. *shrug*
Unfortunately I do believe this agreement is null and void for anyone under the age of 18, perhaps except in whatever states may have clauses to the otherwise. Only "adults" are considered capable of entering into and being held liable by such a contract.
It's not MySpace job to police what the kids are doing. It's the parents job. Obviously the issue is big enough to be in the media, so parents have every posibility of being aware. If they choose not to check up on their kids and see what they are doing/where they are going, that is their fault, not MySpace, not the internet, not TV, not video games. The parents.
I get inredibly sick of seeing/hearing the blame passed around for utter lack of parental supervision and responsibility.
Of course with so many kids having kids, nd all the older parents stuck trying to appear "cool" to their kids, it's no wonder we're where we are at. Kids that have kids quickly learn how tough having a kid is, and don't wanna drop the party life they had, so the kid doesn't get the parenting it needs. The parents stuck in mid-life crisis mode are just too blinded by their own attempts to be young again to see the problems.
America > Toilet > Flush > Hell
..we raise our children to "not judge books by their cover", and then turn around and do just that.
I understand that by dressing like the stuffed suits would make me more appealing to them, but I don't care about them. They need me more than I need them. I'll always be able to find tech work somewhere. They won't always be able to find a lot of techies to work for them. The sooner they get over themselves and their dress code ideas, the better, for realities sake.
...of the people who frequent/., a lot of you sure seem to be ignorant. How many of you actually completed reading the article? You're quick to talk all kinds of smack about this guy, what a douche he is, etc. but it seems nobody has read near the end of the article where he talks of coming to realize that what he's doing can't last forever, and isn't really all that great, and that he is actually looking at making something of himself instead of doing the crap he currently is. While I don't like what he's been doing, I do applaud his self realization, and the fact that on his own he is admitting it's not great, and actually voices aspirations to do better things, to gain a little discipline. The knowledge he has now and uses to do bad could just as easily be used to do good, and be every bit as lucrative and exciting for him.
Just a little advice folks, as with anything else, be sure to have the whole picture/story before going off half cocked, because it makes you look as dumb as the kid in the article sounds.
See, what I don't understand about this type of lawsuit and bickering, is this: Make/write all the laws you want forcing people to be superficially open and polite in their ads. They'll just eliminate you when you show up. The way most people see it, it's their dwelling, they'll share it only with people that meet their criteria. That can and very likely will include racism, prejudice, religious requirements, etc. If the law can tell me how I need to advertise for the room I wish to rent, what's next, them actually trying to tell me I have to rent to the first person who can pay? I think not. As well meant as the law might be, it is obviously flawed, and I honestly wish they'd find something more useful and constructive to waste their time with than this.
I work for FedExKinko's, have for about 2 months now. I can tell you right off that this game hardly portrays what it's really like, if you take it's description as truth. I myself work 3rd shift, and am titled a "Production Operator", which is the middle of 3 positions for that shift, and pays a base of $10/hr., with an added $1/hr. shift differential. So I earn $11/hr. I know most of the other people working in production (read: you generally don't take customer orders or show customers anything unless there's nobody else to do it) make at least $8\$9/hr. to start, not minimum wage. I can't be so sure about the people who work "Express", as they are the people who deal most often with customers and help them make their own copies, etc.
That said, anyone who cares can learn some valuable stuff working at Kinkos. Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat Pro, and Adobe InDesign get used pretty extensively, with PageMaker and Quark getting used less so. You also learn how to use auto folders, stitchers, laminators, do bindings, etc. Add that the company does matching 401K, and offers a few different PPOs to choose from for medical, dental, and optical, does bonuses for every employee if monthly plans are met, and that you get paid for many holidays, and you can't help but face the fact that Kinko's is hardly a McJob. It's not the Emerald City of Oz, but it's pretty good, IMHO.
So that said, I think I'll take this game's premise with a grain of salt.
Exactly why do I care about that? I'm not using IE. I don't want to identify as IE, because IE is not an example browser, IMO. What a retarded thing to tout.
I expect the software I bought and paid for to continue working exactly as it has since the day of that purchase. Why should anyone have to pay for features that may eventually get disabled? One expects to get what they paid for. Not to slowly lose features over time, or after a period of time.
IMO software companies have an obligation to fix bugs and release patches, but have no business at all disabling features that are supposed to be standard with the software you bought. If they can't make their newer versions of software attractive enough to me to buy the upgrade, then that is their problem, not mine.
Wow. He killed all of his image links, making his site pretty much pointless. The reading is fine, but people want the images too, and without the images, the reading is also pointless.
Hrm. A boiling point of 46C means you'd have to use something else to keep the Sapphire cold as well. Perhaps what someone else commented here: Take a mini fridge, fill it with Sapphire, submerge parts in need of cooling, turn on mini fridge, provided it will work on it's back. Hopefully the cooling capability of the fridge will be enough to keep the Sapphire from boiling.
Thing is, I think they made it with a low boiling point for a reason. In a fire it immediately goes gas, and chokes the fire out since it will have no oxygen to feed on.
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Not only was that not the complete history (as many here have already pointed out), but both articles are rife with spelling and grammar errors.
MWave and ZipZoomFly are both very good alternatives to NewEgg.
That is exactly the first thing I thought when I heard the noise.
HOLY SH*T IT'S THE DECEPTICONS!!!11
He's showing the strength, that many of us wouldn't have, to walk away from all of his material possessions, and all that is familiar to him. Yet he is doing it in a smart way. His friends staying friends or even making friends with the winner is at best a 50-50 proposition, same with the job. But dude will get to walk away with enough cash in his bank account that he can start all over again right away, with less encumbrance, and hopefully no reminders of the past.
Very smart.
Except that the customer also knows that weight, and I suspect that those willing to use tiles for weight would probably not be bothered by having to be a little more exacting, considering the gain of the theft. Besides, most systems are loose enough to vary by a few tenths of a pound, and really accurate scales are so expensive they probably aren't worth the cost against theft in the first place.
Personally I think a better idea would be to require mandatory opening and inspecting of items like PC components, and small gadgets like cellphones and cameras and the like both before it leaves the store, and when it comes back. That way the customer gets what they paid for and the store knows it didn't sell something besides what was expected, and they prevent the return of "boxes full of tile" in the future. And if a box full of tile is found on the way out, they know they have an internal problem. With the exception of someone buying a lot of components or gadgets at once, this process wouldn't take long (especially if they added a second guy to each register to act as opener/inspector/bagger), and unlike showing my bag to the door people, serves a good purpose that I wouldn't mind being held up a moment for.
Even more important, if I pay in DLLs, do I get VXDs back as change?
I can't imagine this game being useful for anything except children's games and young children. For me, playing Quake Wars, CSS, Far Cry, etc. I'm going to get pissed, edgy, aggravated, what have you. A device that makes my character perform worse than I probably already am as the controller of the character is just going to make me that much angrier, not calm me down.
Tell you what Vyro Games, you wanna calm me down when I start to stress? Hook up electrodes to the pleasure centers in my brain and stimulate those when I'm pushing a stroke because my team consists of the majority cast of Keystone Kops and we're getting raped so bad that a prison gang bang would seem like vanilla missionary style sex. *That* would calm me down just fine.
I'm not going to argue the whole probable cause bit because it's already being well argued here. What I am going to do is present a simple solution to the problem of uninformed/lazy consumers with wireless rigs.
It's really quite as simple as the companies making these routers to write software that is to be run on the PC(s) to be used on the wireless network, which would gather all the necessary data from the PC(s), and then connect to the router, setting up WPA/WPA2 with a strong password (created by the consumer, with guidance towards a required password comprised of numerals, letters, and special characters), allowed MAC list, etc. To later add (an)other PC(s), one would merely need to provide the setup software with the password set on the router to allow it to send/receive config info. Voila! A working and fairly hardened/secure wireless network.
Now, would this actually stop the situation of the story from popping up? Not really. A WAP, open or not, is still going to have a specific IP. And if said specific IP was witnessed to be transmitting or receiving child porn, warez, or what have you, then probable cause for a warrant exists for the premises linked to that IP address. The WAP is immaterial.
..I just love being made to feel like a chump. I don't own a 360, nor do I plan on getting one anytime soon. I own GH and GH2 only because my SO has a PS2 (I own numerous consoles, but not any newer than the GC). Seeing this just burns me. Release the same game on another console? Cool. But to pack in new songs along with downloadable content? Way to thumb your nose at the people who just bought your game. Bah.
...but I must say I find it hilarious how I sometimes run into the same problem with BT as I did with Limewire, et. al. I can have 40 seeds and numerous leeches, and still only be getting my file(s) at 10K/sec. max. If BT worked like it was supposed to, 40 seeds will saturate me, but options like allowing people to throttle their seeding after seeding X times over, etc. kills it.
I totally agree on the complaints from others yet being able to play extensively w/o problems. As to a good way to play the unit? Lay on your back. The VB actually sits on your face decently without being too heavy, and the legs act as props/counter-balances to keep it from tipping. Many hours of Wario Land have been played, let me tell ya....
Only problem I generally had after extended play was similar to waking up to brighht light. The screen(s) on the VB aren't that bright, so your eyes get accustomed to the low light level, so more oft than not I had to lay for awhile, slowly getting used to the ambient light again once I was done playing. Never a headache for me though. *shrug*
Unfortunately I do believe this agreement is null and void for anyone under the age of 18, perhaps except in whatever states may have clauses to the otherwise. Only "adults" are considered capable of entering into and being held liable by such a contract.
Looks like the author could use some remedial schooling themself. Grammar/spelling errors abound.
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It's not MySpace job to police what the kids are doing. It's the parents job. Obviously the issue is big enough to be in the media, so parents have every posibility of being aware. If they choose not to check up on their kids and see what they are doing/where they are going, that is their fault, not MySpace, not the internet, not TV, not video games. The parents. I get inredibly sick of seeing/hearing the blame passed around for utter lack of parental supervision and responsibility. Of course with so many kids having kids, nd all the older parents stuck trying to appear "cool" to their kids, it's no wonder we're where we are at. Kids that have kids quickly learn how tough having a kid is, and don't wanna drop the party life they had, so the kid doesn't get the parenting it needs. The parents stuck in mid-life crisis mode are just too blinded by their own attempts to be young again to see the problems. America > Toilet > Flush > Hell
..we raise our children to "not judge books by their cover", and then turn around and do just that.
I understand that by dressing like the stuffed suits would make me more appealing to them, but I don't care about them. They need me more than I need them. I'll always be able to find tech work somewhere. They won't always be able to find a lot of techies to work for them. The sooner they get over themselves and their dress code ideas, the better, for realities sake.
28 years old, response time of 27ms. What do I get for handily besting their "Top Performers" for my age range?
Oh, and it's Specific, not Spacific, unless they're trying to invent a new word.
So does this men Nintendo is next? And after that, all companies who ever made pagers or cellphones, and perhaps *gasp* even vibrators?!
I'm sorry, the use of motors with off balance weights for varied tactile feedbacks has been around way too long.
This is just another example of how lacking our patent system is.
...of the people who frequent /., a lot of you sure seem to be ignorant. How many of you actually completed reading the article? You're quick to talk all kinds of smack about this guy, what a douche he is, etc. but it seems nobody has read near the end of the article where he talks of coming to realize that what he's doing can't last forever, and isn't really all that great, and that he is actually looking at making something of himself instead of doing the crap he currently is. While I don't like what he's been doing, I do applaud his self realization, and the fact that on his own he is admitting it's not great, and actually voices aspirations to do better things, to gain a little discipline. The knowledge he has now and uses to do bad could just as easily be used to do good, and be every bit as lucrative and exciting for him.
Just a little advice folks, as with anything else, be sure to have the whole picture/story before going off half cocked, because it makes you look as dumb as the kid in the article sounds.
See, what I don't understand about this type of lawsuit and bickering, is this:
Make/write all the laws you want forcing people to be superficially open and polite in their ads. They'll just eliminate you when you show up. The way most people see it, it's their dwelling, they'll share it only with people that meet their criteria. That can and very likely will include racism, prejudice, religious requirements, etc. If the law can tell me how I need to advertise for the room I wish to rent, what's next, them actually trying to tell me I have to rent to the first person who can pay? I think not. As well meant as the law might be, it is obviously flawed, and I honestly wish they'd find something more useful and constructive to waste their time with than this.
I work for FedExKinko's, have for about 2 months now. I can tell you right off that this game hardly portrays what it's really like, if you take it's description as truth. I myself work 3rd shift, and am titled a "Production Operator", which is the middle of 3 positions for that shift, and pays a base of $10/hr., with an added $1/hr. shift differential. So I earn $11/hr. I know most of the other people working in production (read: you generally don't take customer orders or show customers anything unless there's nobody else to do it) make at least $8\$9/hr. to start, not minimum wage. I can't be so sure about the people who work "Express", as they are the people who deal most often with customers and help them make their own copies, etc.
That said, anyone who cares can learn some valuable stuff working at Kinkos. Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat Pro, and Adobe InDesign get used pretty extensively, with PageMaker and Quark getting used less so. You also learn how to use auto folders, stitchers, laminators, do bindings, etc.
Add that the company does matching 401K, and offers a few different PPOs to choose from for medical, dental, and optical, does bonuses for every employee if monthly plans are met, and that you get paid for many holidays, and you can't help but face the fact that Kinko's is hardly a McJob.
It's not the Emerald City of Oz, but it's pretty good, IMHO.
So that said, I think I'll take this game's premise with a grain of salt.
Exactly why do I care about that? I'm not using IE. I don't want to identify as IE, because IE is not an example browser, IMO. What a retarded thing to tout.
I expect the software I bought and paid for to continue working exactly as it has since the day of that purchase. Why should anyone have to pay for features that may eventually get disabled? One expects to get what they paid for. Not to slowly lose features over time, or after a period of time.
IMO software companies have an obligation to fix bugs and release patches, but have no business at all disabling features that are supposed to be standard with the software you bought. If they can't make their newer versions of software attractive enough to me to buy the upgrade, then that is their problem, not mine.
Wow. He killed all of his image links, making his site pretty much pointless. The reading is fine, but people want the images too, and without the images, the reading is also pointless.
Hrm. A boiling point of 46C means you'd have to use something else to keep the Sapphire cold as well. Perhaps what someone else commented here: Take a mini fridge, fill it with Sapphire, submerge parts in need of cooling, turn on mini fridge, provided it will work on it's back. Hopefully the cooling capability of the fridge will be enough to keep the Sapphire from boiling.
Thing is, I think they made it with a low boiling point for a reason. In a fire it immediately goes gas, and chokes the fire out since it will have no oxygen to feed on.