I have 10Mb/s ADSL including TV, phone and unlimited calls to half of the world for about this price. And my mobile phone provider only ask me to make at least two phone calls each year, so my mobile phone costs me less than 30E a year, HW included. Of course, I'm neither average or american.
Well, if they looked at those stupid soldiers, they learned that if you have to go to an unknown place where there might be something or someone dangerous, it is wiser to keep a low profile while you scout the area than to run straight forward screaming "LEEROY JENKINS!!!!".
In France, we have something that looks similar: deezer (sorry, they filter out foreigners), that has a deal with the SACEM (some kind musical author's guild) and most majors (individuals can also propose their own mp3 files). From the web page, you can look for music by text queries or tree navigation, build playlist (if you take the free registration) and listen to anything you want at medium to OK quality. The whole thing works out of redistributed ad revenue but the ads are simple non-intrusive text boxes at the top and bottom of the useful part of the page, and you could simply enter the name of an artist, click on the first song of the list, minimize the window and enjoy the music as the player automatically swith to the next song in the search result list. So someone is paying for an ad I'll probably see no more than 2 min for each hour of played music and the majors signed in for a fraction of that ad revenue. Since I know that site, my music downloading has almost totally drop to 0 and I visit the site more than 4 hours a week.
Moreover, Mars is closer to the asteroid belt, so it's far more likely to be hit by something large enough to expel chunk of its crust outside its gravity well, even if it's not on the order of magnitude of the one that caused the moon to separate form the earth.
I think you are wrong because we still have only two parents and they tend to reproduce later (meaning less generations per centuries), so even if the world population can increase its diversity thanks to increasing population, this cannot explain why you would be more different from your ancestor living 5000 years ago than he was from his ancestor living 10000 years ago.
Actually, the major point is that the other developped countries have understood that, with the rapidly increasing cost of the energy they have to import, using their technological advance to reduce their oil dependance is a long term economical winning move. The fact that it might help the environment is nothing more than a fortunate side effect. The american problem is that they are governed by people who have a personnal interest in keeping their country in a high oil dependance.
When I had a bad day at work, I usually play one hour of metal slug or diablo-like in hard mode (or other kind of fast action with no advanced reasonning). While playing, everything is intense, up to the point of actually feeling physically endangered, but after that, I can spend a quiet and resting evening, having totally forgoten/forgiven everything that went wrong during the day.
On good day or weekend, I almost always play quieter and more brain consuming games, so I think that's my version of punching somethink or having a drink to clear the stress of the day. I'm not saying these kind of activities are good, but somehow, our primitive instincs just need some sanity time off to prevent us from becoming insane full time.
Absolutely, moreover, if you manage your capitalistic corporation in a communist way (everyone except the leaders get crappy pay, and they better have to thank us), people either don't want to innovate or don't work to innovate FOR YOU.
As said by Gibbons in Office Space: "It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime; so where's the motivation?"
The problem is that the \ is not put into the ini file, it is in the install script, resulting in a wrong path, therefore the game ini file is copied to root directory, overwriting the windows file.
$10000 loss per filesharer each year, are you mad? I live quite confortably well and spend $150 to 200 every month in culture/entertainment, but concerning music, my #1 problem is not CD price or DRM, it's simply to find at least $50 worth of things to good enough to listen so when I found it, I buy it without second though (most of the time, the stuff happens to be about as old as myself, so the payola and other major advertisement tools don't help me).
No but the Walmart employees should be sued for making Britney's new album available to anyone. The only problem is that working for Walmart is already a cruel punishment.
Well, it wouldn't be that bad if I didn't fell like being at the beginning of the second movie: being forgoten by everyone and doing sadistic/pointless experimentations (I think they call that "subsystem integration and stress tests").
Fixed? You mean like all the think they already know about your health? Insurers are already asking for far more information than you get from your normal check up and see anything unusual as an opportunity to screw you.
My sister is a good example, she has a minor tyroid hormonal disbalance and the reactions were: -from her doctor: there is a small chance that, if left untreated and unmonitored, it might turn into a (still treatable) disease, so take those pill and see me every year. -from her insurer: you take pills for tyroid disease? we need to triple your loan insurance because we fear you have cancer and die within the next 15 years!
So with easily available DNA test for heart attack, diabete or some cancer, I fear there might be million of still healthy people being asked unreasonably high premiums for any loan (plus having difficulties to get medical insurances).
My work requires my test equipment (45kg) and its power module (20kg), a signal generator (20kg), a specter analyser (30kg), an oscilloscope (5kg), a lab power suply (5kg) and dozens of meters of various cabling, so: -They don't plan to move me around anytime soon. -No one wants to share such a noisy environment.
Since all HR directors dream of firing people for non-professional thoughs, I guess keeping the offices as impersonnal as possible is actually an untold desired effect of such methods.
Well, I think you'd like to be financially prepared BEFORE taking the test, because the result might not only tell you how many years you probably have left, but also if you have any chance to keep your job when your boss will know you risk needing his insurance. So yes, having a risk of dying of a particular cause is far from actually dying of that cause or even dying prematurely, but the mere existence of that information might more likely ruin your life instead of helping you to deal with the risk.
You think I am exagerating? Ask any AIDS infected person: with proper medication, some can stay in good health for decades, but they are still percieved as almost dead by most people so their only chance not to become outcasts (except being rich and famous) is to keep the secret as long as they can.
Except that a crack dealer has to replace each of his client within a quarter. It doesn't change that much if they die or get clean, he still need an other victim.
Maybe the crack dealers are silly and should learn from show biz, perhaps they could have arrangement with the burial grounds for giving them clients and ask their victim's family to compensate the lost revenue for 70 years.
There is a trial currently going in France: a chinese intern in large french automobile parts manufacturer risks 10 years of prison because she took home sensitive documents (she claims she was only taking work home, not spying). But the point is that the procecutors clearly stated that the fact she got these sensitive document from an intraweb server that does not even check user login (therefore even the subcontractors or janitors could have read those docs) was out of the scope of the trial.
Too bad no one could ever imagine there could be professional video game players when I was a kid, my parents deprived me of my only chance to become a prodigy with their focus on homework.
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I have 10Mb/s ADSL including TV, phone and unlimited calls to half of the world for about this price. And my mobile phone provider only ask me to make at least two phone calls each year, so my mobile phone costs me less than 30E a year, HW included. Of course, I'm neither average or american.
Well, if they looked at those stupid soldiers, they learned that if you have to go to an unknown place where there might be something or someone dangerous, it is wiser to keep a low profile while you scout the area than to run straight forward screaming "LEEROY JENKINS!!!!".
From what I understood, we just have a new and better confirmation. But a small step towards knowledge is still a good one.
In France, we have something that looks similar: deezer (sorry, they filter out foreigners), that has a deal with the SACEM (some kind musical author's guild) and most majors (individuals can also propose their own mp3 files). From the web page, you can look for music by text queries or tree navigation, build playlist (if you take the free registration) and listen to anything you want at medium to OK quality. The whole thing works out of redistributed ad revenue but the ads are simple non-intrusive text boxes at the top and bottom of the useful part of the page, and you could simply enter the name of an artist, click on the first song of the list, minimize the window and enjoy the music as the player automatically swith to the next song in the search result list. So someone is paying for an ad I'll probably see no more than 2 min for each hour of played music and the majors signed in for a fraction of that ad revenue. Since I know that site, my music downloading has almost totally drop to 0 and I visit the site more than 4 hours a week.
So, do they realy get $7500 in ad revenues per downloaded song?
Moreover, Mars is closer to the asteroid belt, so it's far more likely to be hit by something large enough to expel chunk of its crust outside its gravity well, even if it's not on the order of magnitude of the one that caused the moon to separate form the earth.
1. Propose to ban violent games
2. Give a lot of free publicity to some violent games through borderline censorship attempts.
3. ???
I think you are wrong because we still have only two parents and they tend to reproduce later (meaning less generations per centuries), so even if the world population can increase its diversity thanks to increasing population, this cannot explain why you would be more different from your ancestor living 5000 years ago than he was from his ancestor living 10000 years ago.
OTOH, cancer could be one of the million proofs that God is a very dumb designer.
Actually, the major point is that the other developped countries have understood that, with the rapidly increasing cost of the energy they have to import, using their technological advance to reduce their oil dependance is a long term economical winning move. The fact that it might help the environment is nothing more than a fortunate side effect.
The american problem is that they are governed by people who have a personnal interest in keeping their country in a high oil dependance.
No, some people can't for various reason (mental disease or trauma), an that makes them far more likely to be dangerous than the average person.
When I had a bad day at work, I usually play one hour of metal slug or diablo-like in hard mode (or other kind of fast action with no advanced reasonning). While playing, everything is intense, up to the point of actually feeling physically endangered, but after that, I can spend a quiet and resting evening, having totally forgoten/forgiven everything that went wrong during the day.
On good day or weekend, I almost always play quieter and more brain consuming games, so I think that's my version of punching somethink or having a drink to clear the stress of the day. I'm not saying these kind of activities are good, but somehow, our primitive instincs just need some sanity time off to prevent us from becoming insane full time.
And maybe the corps in Boston benefit in hiring people who cannot afford to go to San Jose and treating them like crap.
Somehow, it always falls down to a simple balance: do the people accept a job because it is a good one or because they have no other choice?
Absolutely, moreover, if you manage your capitalistic corporation in a communist way (everyone except the leaders get crappy pay, and they better have to thank us), people either don't want to innovate or don't work to innovate FOR YOU.
As said by Gibbons in Office Space: "It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime; so where's the motivation?"
The problem is that the \ is not put into the ini file, it is in the install script, resulting in a wrong path, therefore the game ini file is copied to root directory, overwriting the windows file.
$10000 loss per filesharer each year, are you mad? I live quite confortably well and spend $150 to 200 every month in culture/entertainment, but concerning music, my #1 problem is not CD price or DRM, it's simply to find at least $50 worth of things to good enough to listen so when I found it, I buy it without second though (most of the time, the stuff happens to be about as old as myself, so the payola and other major advertisement tools don't help me).
No but the Walmart employees should be sued for making Britney's new album available to anyone. The only problem is that working for Walmart is already a cruel punishment.
"What's it like being a Ghostbuster?"
Well, it wouldn't be that bad if I didn't fell like being at the beginning of the second movie: being forgoten by everyone and doing sadistic/pointless experimentations (I think they call that "subsystem integration and stress tests").
Anyway, I loved your joke.
Fixed? You mean like all the think they already know about your health? Insurers are already asking for far more information than you get from your normal check up and see anything unusual as an opportunity to screw you.
My sister is a good example, she has a minor tyroid hormonal disbalance and the reactions were:
-from her doctor: there is a small chance that, if left untreated and unmonitored, it might turn into a (still treatable) disease, so take those pill and see me every year.
-from her insurer: you take pills for tyroid disease? we need to triple your loan insurance because we fear you have cancer and die within the next 15 years!
So with easily available DNA test for heart attack, diabete or some cancer, I fear there might be million of still healthy people being asked unreasonably high premiums for any loan (plus having difficulties to get medical insurances).
My work requires my test equipment (45kg) and its power module (20kg), a signal generator (20kg), a specter analyser (30kg), an oscilloscope (5kg), a lab power suply (5kg) and dozens of meters of various cabling, so:
-They don't plan to move me around anytime soon.
-No one wants to share such a noisy environment.
Since all HR directors dream of firing people for non-professional thoughs, I guess keeping the offices as impersonnal as possible is actually an untold desired effect of such methods.
Well, I think you'd like to be financially prepared BEFORE taking the test, because the result might not only tell you how many years you probably have left, but also if you have any chance to keep your job when your boss will know you risk needing his insurance.
So yes, having a risk of dying of a particular cause is far from actually dying of that cause or even dying prematurely, but the mere existence of that information might more likely ruin your life instead of helping you to deal with the risk.
You think I am exagerating? Ask any AIDS infected person: with proper medication, some can stay in good health for decades, but they are still percieved as almost dead by most people so their only chance not to become outcasts (except being rich and famous) is to keep the secret as long as they can.
Except that a crack dealer has to replace each of his client within a quarter. It doesn't change that much if they die or get clean, he still need an other victim.
Maybe the crack dealers are silly and should learn from show biz, perhaps they could have arrangement with the burial grounds for giving them clients and ask their victim's family to compensate the lost revenue for 70 years.
There is a trial currently going in France: a chinese intern in large french automobile parts manufacturer risks 10 years of prison because she took home sensitive documents (she claims she was only taking work home, not spying). But the point is that the procecutors clearly stated that the fact she got these sensitive document from an intraweb server that does not even check user login (therefore even the subcontractors or janitors could have read those docs) was out of the scope of the trial.
Too bad no one could ever imagine there could be professional video game players when I was a kid, my parents deprived me of my only chance to become a prodigy with their focus on homework.