There is more to being a human being than grades or mental activity.
But an academic institution is no way to enforce this. If you want to join a sports team after shcool then thats fine (which is how it works in OZ) but schooling is about imparting useful knowledge, not physical activity. Certainly no academic credit should be given for sports.
don't blame the artist, they are getting shafted by the same ass-clowns that are issuing out these notices.
Nope, they are willingly putting out for these people.
Whilst I dont blame a battered wife for getting hit, the simple fact is they do have to do something about it themselves, otherwise the beatings will continue. These "artists" (I use the term very loosely when talking about Rhianna) will continue to be abused until they stop willing to be abused.
As an old/. sig once said "the music industry cares about artists in the same way a parasite cares about its host".
While I really wash't any good at sports, I stuck it out riding the bench for 4 years in high school and earned a varsity letter as a result..
Why is this "varsity letter" important?
This exemplifies what is wrong with the thought behind US education. Why is phys ed (what we call sports education here in OZ) important to your grades? After year 10 (last year of mandatory schooling) it's 100% optional. Even before then, it's 2 hours a week out of 30. Why is such an emphasis placed on physical education compared to science, mathematics, literacy and social studies (history, geography, political and social sciences) which monopolised most of the time in Australian schools. I have to say, even arts and manual arts (shop, for Americans playing along at home) classes are more productive as it teaches you some skills.
Not that I would like to abolish phys ed, it's a nice break from classroom based study but placing undue emphasis on it detracts from a real education.
Realistically, I got a pass mark for participation only in all 10 years of phys ed. Not that it mattered, I did better in English, Maths, Science and Social Studies which were the important ones when getting into uni.
A bit of a segue from your point...
I had friends who were jocks as well as nerds.
I had friends from all kinds of groups (except the hipsters, they didn't even like themselves) but in Oz, you aren't really divided into "nerds" and "Jocks" (Jocks refers to your undies over here). I socialised and had a sense of humour so I was accepted.
Believe it or not, 1/4 of my drives I bought as refurbed and have yet to crap out *knock on wood*, so if you want a cheap large capacity HDD, then a refurb drive might be your only option if their prices do not shoot sky high as the brand new ones...
I find this figure to be a bit low. I have had a HDD bought in the last 8 years crap out on me. I've still got a working 80 GB IDE drive I bought back in 2008. As far as computer components go HDD's are amongst the most reliable IMHO. Even at work, I've seen a grand total of 2 hard drives die in the last 5 years and 1 of those was due entirely to abuse.
I've still got a pair of 6 GB IDE drives from 1997, but they haven't even been switched on in half a decade but I'd bet at least one of them still works.
Dual mode phones have been presented. Frequency is even less of an issue. It's mostly DSP code and an extra capacitor or two. Otherwise, I agree.
I probably wasn't specific enough.
Yep, you can get dual mode phones, it may only be a few $ per unit difference, but when we're talking a million units... It's a lot of money. The overwhelming majority of telco's in the world use GSM/HSPA so it does not make economic sense to produce dual mode phones for a worldwide market. Rather they wait for a demand from (or offer to) CDMA carriers for a modified version which is sold at a higher cost then the main version. Plus the cost of passing various regulatory agencies, the EU, Japan, Australia and others all have their own version of the FCC, dual mode phones are a bit more expensive so why produce them for regions that have no CDMA carriers.
When I mentioned this, I was thinking from the economic angle rather then the technology angle.
Also, quad band GSM chips (850/900/1900/2100) have become cheap and ubiquitous, but this is a very recent development.
Looking around my office, 4 HTC's, 2 Samsungs, 1 Iphone (work phone that's treated like a red headed step child no-one wants).
In the US, HTC phones aren't branded as HTC, they're branded as Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint et al. In Australia and Europe I see heaps of HTC Desire's, Desire HD's, Sensation's, Legend's and a few Desire Z's. All of these phones have different names in the US due to your woeful patent minefield.
And these are sales figures to the end consumer, but mostly shipments.
Fixed that for you.
Apple sells most of it's phones via telco's. Which means they ship through the same channels as HTC, Samsung and everyone else. In Australia Apple have to ship through Brightstor to sell on most Telco's as Telstra and Vodafone have exclusivity agreements with Brightstor (not sure about Optus but it would not surprise me). The situation is quite similar in Europe. So most of apple's "sales" figures are shipped figures like all other manufacturers.
Secondly, this conspiracy is a little far fetched that HTC phones are not actually selling. I've heard this channel stuffing conspiracy for over a year with the Samsung Galaxy S yet it keeps selling and we've heard nothing about millions of returns. At some point you fanboys will have to admit that Android is outselling Iphones.
Claymores would be a bit more effective against Zombies than Frag Grenades.
I can agree on this point...
However they are still highly ineffective as a ground planted claymore will still need to get through many kilograms of flesh in order to get to the vulnerable brain.
Set off against a group of 10 zombies, you may kill about 2 and maim about 3 to 5 more. Even detonated a few feet away. Claymores were designed to maim, so they tend to aim a bit lower then the head.
Zombies with their legs blown off are still effectively incapacitated. Surprised or heavily wounded humans might get taken down
Human eyes scan at chest and head level for full sized zombies. Ones on the ground or "crawlers" can easily go unnoticed especially during dusk, night or dark areas. At night time, they'd be especially dangerous.
I come from a family of college teachers. High schools just aren't doing the job these days. Lots of students manage to graduate with no life skills and barely being able to read. They're not even remotely prepared for college, but there are colleges which will accept them.
The problem isn't high schools. The problem is parents. The hands of the schools are tied by moron parents who spat out a crotchspawn out of ignorance of contraception or because it was popular to have kids. These parents dont know how to be parents and they dont care to know, they cant discipline their crotchspawn and cant control them by school age either. However cognitive dissonance has managed to give them the impression that little Johnny is perfect and they are the epitome of parenting.
So little Johnny Snowflake goes through school acting like a little shit, doesn't learn a thing and as soon as teachers try to fail them, mummy snowflake is in the principals office with the headmaster in a chokehold until they recognise how precious and special little Johnny Snowflake is. Bad parents effectively hold schools hostage by organising campaigns against educators who fail or discipline their monstrous little children and of course the politicians will listen to the parents rather then those useless educators as "thinking of the children" wins votes.
I used to live in a sharehouse with a pair of teachers. At the end of every term (in Australia we have 4 terms each year 10-12 weeks per term separated by a 2-6 week break) they would dread writing one or two reports. When he wanted to say "Thom is a violent, ignorant little shit who cant keep his hands of other students, hasn't bothered to learn anything all year, couldn't tell his arse from his elbow and really has no business being in the 2nd grade let alone the 4th" all the could say was "Thom needs to pay more attention in class". The private schools were the worst as each report had to reflect positively on each student (because the parent was paying money for this) the rampage these parent's would go on to get bad marks rubbed out was a real horror to witness.
Any student loans are put onto your tax return, the ATO (Our form of IRS) knows about it, and if you can't pay for it, it simply garnishes them from your tax return if you have overpayed or been able to claim tax benefits that aren't taken into account (which most of us are able to do) in your normal PAYG tax payment?
We don't have any problems with student loans going out of control here that I am aware of? Seems a really simple idea to follow...
In Australia, HECS (Higher Education Contributions Scheme) is the student loans offered to Australians, they are organised by the government. Unlike the US it's an interest free loan, so there is an admin fee ($2000 or there about) but you only ever have to repay the capital. So a $100 K HECS Debt you pay back 100K + admin fees. In the US you pay back 100K plus interest. I've heard the number 5.5% bandied about so thats $130K over 10 years if you pay back $1,086 per month, the same loan with HECS is $835/m over 10 years. As HECS is interest free, it does not have to be paid off in the shortest possible time
The flipside of this is that HECS is legally permitted to start garnishing your tax and in some cases your wages if you dont repay the loan although you have to be earning above a certain amount and not be repaying your HECS debt before they'll even consider doing this.
Yes because turning our higher education system into job training is really going to be a boon to society.
Of course it is, the less people who have the capacity to think for themselves and simply work because its all they've been taught how to do and will simply follow orders/propaganda without question will be a great boon for whichever leader wants to remain in power indefinitely.
I would personally recommend a truck-load of hand grenades and Claymore mines....they are both easily 'field improvised'.
I would highly recommend against both of these weapons.
1. Grenades and Claymores detonate at ground level most of the time, the part of a Zombie you need to damage is up top, the head.
2. Grenades and Claymores are so effective because of shock, blood loss and trauma, not by damaging vital tissues. Zombies are impervious to pain, therefore impervious to trauma. OK, the legs may now be useless, but the zombie is still 70% effective albeit about 70% slower.
3. An untrained user is more likely to harm themselves then the walking dead.
Fragmentation weapons are effective against humans not because they are fatal, but because they are incapacitating (seeing the number of land mine survivors in Cambodia who are missing an arm or leg really drives this message home). Same with conventional and nuclear bombs as well as artillery, which tend to maim rather then kill, their effectiveness against humans is due to the fact we cant survive a good maiming, Zombies have no such weakness.
The most effective weapon against zombies are high walls and fire. Sustained burning will eventually damage the brain (a zombies only true weak point), can be deployed en mass against a swarm, can be self sustaining (flesh does burn, once enough of it is alight) and flammable materials are plentiful. Your biggest issue is to avoid being burned yourself, which is where the high walls come into it. Isolation is your next best weapon. A small swarm is easier to deal with then a big swarm no matter what weapons you're using. Ultimately, an anti Zombie bio-weapon would be best, a self sustaining infectious virus, but we wont find one of those in your back yard.
meh... they want to give people a reason to upgrade to 4S from 4
Apple could've easily built a larger server farm to handle the larger load. They chose not to.
Actually the grand parent is right, Apple knows the gimmick will fizzle out in short order (just like face time did) and there is no need to spend on new servers.
I'm really disappointed in Battlefield 3. They could have taken a little more time making the single player decent. I can't keep up with all the super players online, so the SP campaign means at least as much to me as MP.
To be 100% fair, Battlefield has always been a multi player game. In the original BF 1942 the single player component was simply the multi player maps with bots, there was no campaign to speak of, you just played the maps in order. I hope EA has bought this back but I highly doubt it.
All they're doing by short-changing the single players is making them wonder why they should lay out another $60
I'm guessing you're on console. I ordered my copy on PC for US$40 from the UK. OK, so I have to wait a week or two for it to get half way around the world but that's a benefit. It gives EA time to find some of the bigger bugs before I start playing.
Very often, online multiplayer just brings out the worst of cyberspace behavior and that might turn off older gamers like me
This is why you need to find well moderated servers and stick to them. In Australia there is a clan called TOG (The Older Gamers) where being over 25 is a membership requirement. I'm not a member but they ran the best BF BC 2 servers in Australia. The minute someone did anything untoward in there they were booted out with a minimum 2 week ban (accidentally killed someone in the spawn zone and got the TOG ban for myself once).
Also, going back to the console point. PC players tend to be more mature.
But I agree, online gaming is irrefutable proof of John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
Do you honestly thing Samsung is Channel stuffing.
Get a clue.
The Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung galaxy S II sales have been steadily climbing, 10 million SGS II's and 20 million SGS I's. Channel stuffing only works in the short term. Secondly, by your own link retailers will actively retard channel stuffing. This is not the case with Samsung's phones. We haven't heard of any retailer attempting to send back Samsung's phones which, by the same wikipedia article you linked to is a sign of channel stuffing. After over a year of Samsung Android phone we have heard nothing of this alleged channel stuffing?
Anything?
So with no evidence of the alleged channel stuffing, the reality is that you need to admit to yourself that the SGS and Android in general has been immensely popular.
Shipped means someone has paid the manufacturer to ship X number of units.
Sold means that X number of units has been paid for.
For crying out loud, there is not real fucking difference. It's a pathetic fanboy excuse that "shipped does not mean sold" that is so completely and horribly wrong that if your brain was wired correctly it would order your intensities to strangle yourself.
Where is the business logic in shipping a unit to another party when the other party has not paid for them?
A unit shipped is a unit that has been paid for. Here's how the supply chain works.
Manufacturer - sells to - wholesaler - sells to - store/telco - sells to - End user
The shocking and horrible truth is that Apple follows the same model. The overwhelming majority of Iphone sales happen through telco's (same as any other phone really) which means they went through a wholesaler and a telco before being in the hands of the end user. And yes, they have to have gone through a wholesaler because telco's have an exclusivity agreement with wholesalers such as Brightstor in Australia (All iphones in Oz go through Brightstor, even the ones sold in Apple stores.).
So a unit shipped is a unit sold, because no business ships a unit without someone bloody paying for it.
And you wonder why the economy is down the crapper.
As an Australian, I don't wonder this, I have never had to wonder this as we recovered from the effects of the GFC within six months.
Australia's economy is doing quite well right now thank you very much. The high price of minerals, energy and agri products are benefiting Australia right now because minerals, energy and agri are our three biggest exports. The AUD buys 1.06 USD at the moment as a sign of just how strong the Australian economy is. Unemployment is at 5%, which is quite normal for Oz and our debt is decreasing (despite what the Murdoch rags say, 2009/2010 budget was in the black).
Whoever modded the parent post up needs to be melted down and minted into the worlds dumbest coin.
Don't forget -- Mozilla does the same thing by partnering to provide a default search engine.
Yes, but Mozilla makes it trivial to change and DOES NOT bother you about it every 10 seconds.
Just re-imaged a laptop.
- Opens IE.
- Navigate to a few sites (AVG, Firefox)
- popup frame covers the page asking me to Install the BING bar.
- clicks no
- Clicking no tries to install Bing bar, I stop it.
- Popup is back, INSTALL THE BING BAR
- clicks no,
- Again tries to install the Bing bar, again, I stop it.
- REALLY, INSTALL THE BING BAR. Damn this popup is insistent.
- I'm really tired of this now, FFX has finished downloading so I hit the red X. Low and fucking behold, IE wont close. IE will not close cleanly until I install the Bing bar. Well I'm not playing that game. Open task manager and end process.
- Installed firefox and forgot about IE.
- Uninstalled the Bing Bar installer from Add/Remove programs.
IE is a travesty of popups asking me to do stuff I really dont care about. Chrome and Firefox understand that I dont want to turn on web accelertors, I dont want to pick a god damn search engine, I dont want to turn on and configure safe search, I just want to browse the web, when you first open IE 7 or later, it throws 100 roadblocks between you and that goal in the form of popups the average person couldn't care less about.
Dont get me started about changing the default search engine in IE on Win 7, the option is nowhere in IE.
You people keep trotting this out but I have yet to see any corroborating evidence for it whatsoever. I hear people that don't know shit about smartphones say they "want an Android".
This.
Telco's and manufacturers in Australia are keen to advertise Android. It's become a household name now. Everyone poster for a HTC or Samsung phone that runs Android has an Android logo displaued on it. The specifications advertised specifies Android OS if not the specific version of Android.
Two years ago, no-one knew about Android. Today, you have to have your head buried in deep in the sand not to know about Android.
If they make an Android phone, they're latecomers to an already crowded market. Why should someone buy a Nokia device when HTC have a range of products, so do Motorola, so do Samsung, so do LG. What can Nokia do to persuade people to buy their phone instead?
Besides the Nokia brand?
The biggest problem with getting into the Android market is hardware. Nokia have this problem licked. They can release new Ice Cream Sandwich handsets and compete directly with HTC and Samsung. The dont have to build up a brand, they dont have to do an extensive hardware R&D cycle. They can use some of their existing designs, which makes developing a new phone cheaper. Nokia has some very nice HW but has always failed in the OS area. Android could have fixed this.
I dont understand why dont nokia launch in US also?
1. You're not as big as you think you are. Asia and Europe are larger markets, especially for Nokia.
2. Your telco system is, well lets not sugar coat it, fucked up. You have two different mobile communications standards (CDMA and GSM) and even when the standard is the same, the frequency is not. This means they need to release at least 2 if not more versions of the same handset. This is an expensive task.
3. Your telco system is fucked up. I know I mentioned this before but it;s that big of an issue it needs to be said twice.
4. Nokia needs to court telco's, modifying software to allow them to shove crap on there and ensuring that end users cant accidentally access premium services like tethering.
5. Your patent system is fucked up.
6. Your patent system is fucked up.
7. Your patent system is fucked up. This needs to be mentioned 3 times because it's that much of a problem, Nokia needs to modify the OS and hardware to avoid the lawsuit minefield of the US.
8 Anti-European sentiment in the US. Asian manufacturers such as HTC and Samsung do not have the same sentiment applied to them.
Put simply, it's cheaper to release in Europe and the same version will also work in Asia and the Middle East. Concentrating on the US market will cut out a lot of other countries.
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But an academic institution is no way to enforce this. If you want to join a sports team after shcool then thats fine (which is how it works in OZ) but schooling is about imparting useful knowledge, not physical activity. Certainly no academic credit should be given for sports.
don't blame the artist, they are getting shafted by the same ass-clowns that are issuing out these notices.
Nope, they are willingly putting out for these people.
/. sig once said "the music industry cares about artists in the same way a parasite cares about its host".
Whilst I dont blame a battered wife for getting hit, the simple fact is they do have to do something about it themselves, otherwise the beatings will continue. These "artists" (I use the term very loosely when talking about Rhianna) will continue to be abused until they stop willing to be abused.
As an old
I'm disconnected as bro.
Is it mean bro.
yeah, mean as bro.
Wait, I've got one more,
Once were warriors, now a luddites.
what, he should post it on simpsons.com?
Whoooooooooooosh.
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Streisand effect indeed. Like most things that go on in Kentucky I had no idea about this until I saw it on /.
Unlike most things that go on in Kentucky, I may actually care about this.
While I really wash't any good at sports, I stuck it out riding the bench for 4 years in high school and earned a varsity letter as a result..
Why is this "varsity letter" important?
This exemplifies what is wrong with the thought behind US education. Why is phys ed (what we call sports education here in OZ) important to your grades? After year 10 (last year of mandatory schooling) it's 100% optional. Even before then, it's 2 hours a week out of 30. Why is such an emphasis placed on physical education compared to science, mathematics, literacy and social studies (history, geography, political and social sciences) which monopolised most of the time in Australian schools. I have to say, even arts and manual arts (shop, for Americans playing along at home) classes are more productive as it teaches you some skills.
Not that I would like to abolish phys ed, it's a nice break from classroom based study but placing undue emphasis on it detracts from a real education.
Realistically, I got a pass mark for participation only in all 10 years of phys ed. Not that it mattered, I did better in English, Maths, Science and Social Studies which were the important ones when getting into uni.
A bit of a segue from your point...
I had friends from all kinds of groups (except the hipsters, they didn't even like themselves) but in Oz, you aren't really divided into "nerds" and "Jocks" (Jocks refers to your undies over here). I socialised and had a sense of humour so I was accepted.
Believe it or not, 1/4 of my drives I bought as refurbed and have yet to crap out *knock on wood*, so if you want a cheap large capacity HDD, then a refurb drive might be your only option if their prices do not shoot sky high as the brand new ones...
I find this figure to be a bit low. I have had a HDD bought in the last 8 years crap out on me. I've still got a working 80 GB IDE drive I bought back in 2008. As far as computer components go HDD's are amongst the most reliable IMHO. Even at work, I've seen a grand total of 2 hard drives die in the last 5 years and 1 of those was due entirely to abuse.
I've still got a pair of 6 GB IDE drives from 1997, but they haven't even been switched on in half a decade but I'd bet at least one of them still works.
Dual mode phones have been presented. Frequency is even less of an issue. It's mostly DSP code and an extra capacitor or two. Otherwise, I agree.
I probably wasn't specific enough.
Yep, you can get dual mode phones, it may only be a few $ per unit difference, but when we're talking a million units... It's a lot of money. The overwhelming majority of telco's in the world use GSM/HSPA so it does not make economic sense to produce dual mode phones for a worldwide market. Rather they wait for a demand from (or offer to) CDMA carriers for a modified version which is sold at a higher cost then the main version. Plus the cost of passing various regulatory agencies, the EU, Japan, Australia and others all have their own version of the FCC, dual mode phones are a bit more expensive so why produce them for regions that have no CDMA carriers.
When I mentioned this, I was thinking from the economic angle rather then the technology angle. Also, quad band GSM chips (850/900/1900/2100) have become cheap and ubiquitous, but this is a very recent development.
I've seen only 2 HTCs in the wild.
Looking around my office, 4 HTC's, 2 Samsungs, 1 Iphone (work phone that's treated like a red headed step child no-one wants).
In the US, HTC phones aren't branded as HTC, they're branded as Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint et al. In Australia and Europe I see heaps of HTC Desire's, Desire HD's, Sensation's, Legend's and a few Desire Z's. All of these phones have different names in the US due to your woeful patent minefield.
Fixed that for you.
Apple sells most of it's phones via telco's. Which means they ship through the same channels as HTC, Samsung and everyone else. In Australia Apple have to ship through Brightstor to sell on most Telco's as Telstra and Vodafone have exclusivity agreements with Brightstor (not sure about Optus but it would not surprise me). The situation is quite similar in Europe. So most of apple's "sales" figures are shipped figures like all other manufacturers.
Secondly, this conspiracy is a little far fetched that HTC phones are not actually selling. I've heard this channel stuffing conspiracy for over a year with the Samsung Galaxy S yet it keeps selling and we've heard nothing about millions of returns. At some point you fanboys will have to admit that Android is outselling Iphones.
I can agree on this point...
However they are still highly ineffective as a ground planted claymore will still need to get through many kilograms of flesh in order to get to the vulnerable brain.
Set off against a group of 10 zombies, you may kill about 2 and maim about 3 to 5 more. Even detonated a few feet away. Claymores were designed to maim, so they tend to aim a bit lower then the head.
Human eyes scan at chest and head level for full sized zombies. Ones on the ground or "crawlers" can easily go unnoticed especially during dusk, night or dark areas. At night time, they'd be especially dangerous.
The problem isn't high schools. The problem is parents. The hands of the schools are tied by moron parents who spat out a crotchspawn out of ignorance of contraception or because it was popular to have kids. These parents dont know how to be parents and they dont care to know, they cant discipline their crotchspawn and cant control them by school age either. However cognitive dissonance has managed to give them the impression that little Johnny is perfect and they are the epitome of parenting.
So little Johnny Snowflake goes through school acting like a little shit, doesn't learn a thing and as soon as teachers try to fail them, mummy snowflake is in the principals office with the headmaster in a chokehold until they recognise how precious and special little Johnny Snowflake is. Bad parents effectively hold schools hostage by organising campaigns against educators who fail or discipline their monstrous little children and of course the politicians will listen to the parents rather then those useless educators as "thinking of the children" wins votes.
I used to live in a sharehouse with a pair of teachers. At the end of every term (in Australia we have 4 terms each year 10-12 weeks per term separated by a 2-6 week break) they would dread writing one or two reports. When he wanted to say "Thom is a violent, ignorant little shit who cant keep his hands of other students, hasn't bothered to learn anything all year, couldn't tell his arse from his elbow and really has no business being in the 2nd grade let alone the 4th" all the could say was "Thom needs to pay more attention in class". The private schools were the worst as each report had to reflect positively on each student (because the parent was paying money for this) the rampage these parent's would go on to get bad marks rubbed out was a real horror to witness.
Any student loans are put onto your tax return, the ATO (Our form of IRS) knows about it, and if you can't pay for it, it simply garnishes them from your tax return if you have overpayed or been able to claim tax benefits that aren't taken into account (which most of us are able to do) in your normal PAYG tax payment?
We don't have any problems with student loans going out of control here that I am aware of? Seems a really simple idea to follow...
In Australia, HECS (Higher Education Contributions Scheme) is the student loans offered to Australians, they are organised by the government. Unlike the US it's an interest free loan, so there is an admin fee ($2000 or there about) but you only ever have to repay the capital. So a $100 K HECS Debt you pay back 100K + admin fees. In the US you pay back 100K plus interest. I've heard the number 5.5% bandied about so thats $130K over 10 years if you pay back $1,086 per month, the same loan with HECS is $835 /m over 10 years. As HECS is interest free, it does not have to be paid off in the shortest possible time
The flipside of this is that HECS is legally permitted to start garnishing your tax and in some cases your wages if you dont repay the loan although you have to be earning above a certain amount and not be repaying your HECS debt before they'll even consider doing this.
We don't have any problems with student loans going out of control here that I am aware of? Seems a really simple idea to follow...
One thing that can happen is people do their degrees here then head overseas, but I admit that's probably not a huge issue.
You can be chased for a HECS debt, but as you said, people skipping out on HECS is rare. Most people pay it off, even if they live and work overseas.
Yes because turning our higher education system into job training is really going to be a boon to society.
Of course it is, the less people who have the capacity to think for themselves and simply work because its all they've been taught how to do and will simply follow orders/propaganda without question will be a great boon for whichever leader wants to remain in power indefinitely.
Oh, wait, you mean a boon for everyone.
I would highly recommend against both of these weapons.
1. Grenades and Claymores detonate at ground level most of the time, the part of a Zombie you need to damage is up top, the head.
2. Grenades and Claymores are so effective because of shock, blood loss and trauma, not by damaging vital tissues. Zombies are impervious to pain, therefore impervious to trauma. OK, the legs may now be useless, but the zombie is still 70% effective albeit about 70% slower.
3. An untrained user is more likely to harm themselves then the walking dead.
Fragmentation weapons are effective against humans not because they are fatal, but because they are incapacitating (seeing the number of land mine survivors in Cambodia who are missing an arm or leg really drives this message home). Same with conventional and nuclear bombs as well as artillery, which tend to maim rather then kill, their effectiveness against humans is due to the fact we cant survive a good maiming, Zombies have no such weakness.
The most effective weapon against zombies are high walls and fire. Sustained burning will eventually damage the brain (a zombies only true weak point), can be deployed en mass against a swarm, can be self sustaining (flesh does burn, once enough of it is alight) and flammable materials are plentiful. Your biggest issue is to avoid being burned yourself, which is where the high walls come into it. Isolation is your next best weapon. A small swarm is easier to deal with then a big swarm no matter what weapons you're using. Ultimately, an anti Zombie bio-weapon would be best, a self sustaining infectious virus, but we wont find one of those in your back yard.
meh... they want to give people a reason to upgrade to 4S from 4
Apple could've easily built a larger server farm to handle the larger load. They chose not to.
Actually the grand parent is right, Apple knows the gimmick will fizzle out in short order (just like face time did) and there is no need to spend on new servers.
I'm really disappointed in Battlefield 3. They could have taken a little more time making the single player decent. I can't keep up with all the super players online, so the SP campaign means at least as much to me as MP.
To be 100% fair, Battlefield has always been a multi player game. In the original BF 1942 the single player component was simply the multi player maps with bots, there was no campaign to speak of, you just played the maps in order. I hope EA has bought this back but I highly doubt it.
All they're doing by short-changing the single players is making them wonder why they should lay out another $60
I'm guessing you're on console. I ordered my copy on PC for US$40 from the UK. OK, so I have to wait a week or two for it to get half way around the world but that's a benefit. It gives EA time to find some of the bigger bugs before I start playing.
Very often, online multiplayer just brings out the worst of cyberspace behavior and that might turn off older gamers like me
This is why you need to find well moderated servers and stick to them. In Australia there is a clan called TOG (The Older Gamers) where being over 25 is a membership requirement. I'm not a member but they ran the best BF BC 2 servers in Australia. The minute someone did anything untoward in there they were booted out with a minimum 2 week ban (accidentally killed someone in the spawn zone and got the TOG ban for myself once).
Also, going back to the console point. PC players tend to be more mature. But I agree, online gaming is irrefutable proof of John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
Not necessarily.
Do you honestly thing Samsung is Channel stuffing.
Get a clue.
The Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung galaxy S II sales have been steadily climbing, 10 million SGS II's and 20 million SGS I's. Channel stuffing only works in the short term. Secondly, by your own link retailers will actively retard channel stuffing. This is not the case with Samsung's phones. We haven't heard of any retailer attempting to send back Samsung's phones which, by the same wikipedia article you linked to is a sign of channel stuffing. After over a year of Samsung Android phone we have heard nothing of this alleged channel stuffing?
Anything?
So with no evidence of the alleged channel stuffing, the reality is that you need to admit to yourself that the SGS and Android in general has been immensely popular.
Ship and sold mean the same thing, uh? .
Oh for fucks sake.
Shipped and Sold are the same fucking thing.
Shipped means someone has paid the manufacturer to ship X number of units.
Sold means that X number of units has been paid for.
For crying out loud, there is not real fucking difference. It's a pathetic fanboy excuse that "shipped does not mean sold" that is so completely and horribly wrong that if your brain was wired correctly it would order your intensities to strangle yourself.
Where is the business logic in shipping a unit to another party when the other party has not paid for them?
A unit shipped is a unit that has been paid for. Here's how the supply chain works.
Manufacturer - sells to - wholesaler - sells to - store/telco - sells to - End user
The shocking and horrible truth is that Apple follows the same model. The overwhelming majority of Iphone sales happen through telco's (same as any other phone really) which means they went through a wholesaler and a telco before being in the hands of the end user. And yes, they have to have gone through a wholesaler because telco's have an exclusivity agreement with wholesalers such as Brightstor in Australia (All iphones in Oz go through Brightstor, even the ones sold in Apple stores.).
So a unit shipped is a unit sold, because no business ships a unit without someone bloody paying for it.
And you wonder why the economy is down the crapper.
As an Australian, I don't wonder this, I have never had to wonder this as we recovered from the effects of the GFC within six months.
Australia's economy is doing quite well right now thank you very much. The high price of minerals, energy and agri products are benefiting Australia right now because minerals, energy and agri are our three biggest exports. The AUD buys 1.06 USD at the moment as a sign of just how strong the Australian economy is. Unemployment is at 5%, which is quite normal for Oz and our debt is decreasing (despite what the Murdoch rags say, 2009/2010 budget was in the black).
Whoever modded the parent post up needs to be melted down and minted into the worlds dumbest coin.
Yes, but Mozilla makes it trivial to change and DOES NOT bother you about it every 10 seconds.
Just re-imaged a laptop.
- Opens IE.
- Navigate to a few sites (AVG, Firefox)
- popup frame covers the page asking me to Install the BING bar.
- clicks no
- Clicking no tries to install Bing bar, I stop it.
- Popup is back, INSTALL THE BING BAR
- clicks no,
- Again tries to install the Bing bar, again, I stop it.
- REALLY, INSTALL THE BING BAR. Damn this popup is insistent.
- I'm really tired of this now, FFX has finished downloading so I hit the red X. Low and fucking behold, IE wont close. IE will not close cleanly until I install the Bing bar. Well I'm not playing that game. Open task manager and end process.
- Installed firefox and forgot about IE.
- Uninstalled the Bing Bar installer from Add/Remove programs.
IE is a travesty of popups asking me to do stuff I really dont care about. Chrome and Firefox understand that I dont want to turn on web accelertors, I dont want to pick a god damn search engine, I dont want to turn on and configure safe search, I just want to browse the web, when you first open IE 7 or later, it throws 100 roadblocks between you and that goal in the form of popups the average person couldn't care less about.
Dont get me started about changing the default search engine in IE on Win 7, the option is nowhere in IE.
You people keep trotting this out but I have yet to see any corroborating evidence for it whatsoever. I hear people that don't know shit about smartphones say they "want an Android".
This.
Telco's and manufacturers in Australia are keen to advertise Android. It's become a household name now. Everyone poster for a HTC or Samsung phone that runs Android has an Android logo displaued on it. The specifications advertised specifies Android OS if not the specific version of Android.
Two years ago, no-one knew about Android. Today, you have to have your head buried in deep in the sand not to know about Android.
If they make an Android phone, they're latecomers to an already crowded market. Why should someone buy a Nokia device when HTC have a range of products, so do Motorola, so do Samsung, so do LG. What can Nokia do to persuade people to buy their phone instead?
Besides the Nokia brand?
The biggest problem with getting into the Android market is hardware. Nokia have this problem licked. They can release new Ice Cream Sandwich handsets and compete directly with HTC and Samsung. The dont have to build up a brand, they dont have to do an extensive hardware R&D cycle. They can use some of their existing designs, which makes developing a new phone cheaper. Nokia has some very nice HW but has always failed in the OS area. Android could have fixed this.
1. You're not as big as you think you are. Asia and Europe are larger markets, especially for Nokia.
2. Your telco system is, well lets not sugar coat it, fucked up. You have two different mobile communications standards (CDMA and GSM) and even when the standard is the same, the frequency is not. This means they need to release at least 2 if not more versions of the same handset. This is an expensive task.
3. Your telco system is fucked up. I know I mentioned this before but it;s that big of an issue it needs to be said twice.
4. Nokia needs to court telco's, modifying software to allow them to shove crap on there and ensuring that end users cant accidentally access premium services like tethering.
5. Your patent system is fucked up.
6. Your patent system is fucked up.
7. Your patent system is fucked up. This needs to be mentioned 3 times because it's that much of a problem, Nokia needs to modify the OS and hardware to avoid the lawsuit minefield of the US.
8 Anti-European sentiment in the US. Asian manufacturers such as HTC and Samsung do not have the same sentiment applied to them.
Put simply, it's cheaper to release in Europe and the same version will also work in Asia and the Middle East. Concentrating on the US market will cut out a lot of other countries.