Shit, you have enough disposable cash for something like this and can't afford to hire a junior programmer? Durrr... Must be nice to be rich and stupid.
First, allow me to introduce you to the term, 'hobby'.
Besides, this isn't a small undertaking. I'm not going to hire a programmer until I know exactly what I want that programmer to do.
It is unbelievable the arguments against this. Fighter aircraft have been controlled by joysticks for years. The argument concerning power steering failure is plain BS. I'm now 56 and I have experienced power steering failure once in my life and the car let me know it was coming well ahead of the actual failure. MTBF is very high and not an issue.
IAAAE (I am an Avionics Engineer).
Think of the forces: In an aircraft, the primary force you feel will be perpendicular to the floor of the aircraft. In a car, the forces you feel will be parallel to the floor of the car. Therefore the forces you feel in the aircraft will always be perpendicular to the plane of motion of the joystick. In a car, the forces you feel will always be parallel to the plane of motion of the joystick.
Think of the dimensions: The joystick on an aircraft controls Pitch and Roll. The pedals control Yaw. The joystick in a car would control Yaw.
So to further address your issue, Fighter aircraft are NOT controlled by joysticks when you look at it from the perspective of Yaw.
Really, native English speakers shouldn't be chauvenistic about the fact the rest of the world is speaking their language, they should be ashamed by their inability to accomodate other cultures, and humbled by the fact other people go through the length of learning theirs.
Oh give me a break. Let's turn it around and look at it in terms of best value for your effort. Compare the choices between two people. A non-English speaker and a native speaker. The Non-native speaker can choose English, which provides much more utility than the Native english speaker picking any other language. Unless you plan to speak only with a certain culture, learning a language other than English is going to be much more limited in its utility.
I speak Spanish fluently. When I went to Europe, do you know how many people I ran into who spoke Spanish? Two. And those two were American tourists! Aside from 3 people, the rest all spoke enough English that we could conduct business. Of course, I didn't go to Spain, but that's the point. My second language was basically only useful in very select geographic regions.
So someone learns English, and they learn a language that has a great deal of utility, and a high likelyhood when compared to other languages of being useful in a foreign country. If you learn any other language, the probability of it being useful anywhere other than the countries where it originated is reduced.
In the US we DO learn other languages, but we never get a chance to use them so we end up forgetting them. In school I had the opportunity to learn Latin, Russian, and Spanish. French, and German was also offered. But other than a few passing times have I ever even had the chance to practice Spanish. Hell, I use Latin more often than any of the modern European languages.
See if you can have a heart to heart with a live person, hopefully person to person, that represents your lender. Maybe they'll be sympathetic, since this really is a unique era. So many people are raising their rates and raising the bar to get credit that a lot of juniors/seniors can't find money to get those last few hours in..
Good luck. I haven't been able to break past the 'script-monkeys'. Basically they will read from a script and enter your information into the system. "I'm sorry, the computer says no." Think of them like a Casino, they are playing the odds and have a method to do so that works and are operating under the idea that if it aint broke, don't fix it.
I had to deal with my mortgage company. I offered them this option:
A. I default on on a $200,000 mortgage in an area where the ONLY employer just laid off 25% of its workforce. Think about what that will do if you try to sell the house to recoup the 200k. (Hint, they would be lucky to get $130k in 12 months)
B. Let me sell 75% of the land for $150k, and I will retain and pay $50k as a loan. They would remove 75% of their liability, and continue to collect interest on 50k. Since I was already paying the mortgage for years with no late payments, one would think that I could continue to pay it at 25% the size.
Their solution was to offer me to short sale the property, they would guarantee themselves a $50k loss and hurt my credit, when the alternative was NOT short selling the property and only taking a $50k risk.
I could not convince them otherwise.
I've since raised 50k on my own, paid off the mortgage in full (and deprived them of any interest) and turned around to lease the property that I kept with the $50k, for over $35,000 per year. In less than 2 years, I've recouped the cost of the land and I'm now making an extra $35k/year (excluding taxes)
The bank lost a LOT of money on that sale, and the only thing they could do was read from a script.
When I started, I didn't have much spare cash, and it was hard to justify investing in Microsoft Surface for a pet project. (Not when I was already in process for a do-it-yourself kitchen, bathroom, and stone patio set of projects)
For my gaming group, I designed a do-it-yourself surface structure. It's a simple design, but robust enough that you can easily customize it for your own needs.
Once I finish up and polish the plans, I'm going to publish them on my site, along with a components list of what I found worked (and didn't work), for putting together a pretty nice table that could seat about 6 comfortably.
The main goals I had in mind when developing the surface was (in no particular order or completeness:
1. Portability (We didn't always play at the same location) 2. Universality (I didn't want it to matter if you played warhammer or dnd or battletech, etc) 3. Unobtrusiveness (Don't let the tool get in the way of the game) 4. The surface had to improve the gameplay experience (sister requirement of number 3)
The part that I wish I had some assistance with was specialized coding for the modules. I'd love for you to be able to select a game, and have the engine running the display account for differing needs of each game. As of right now, it simply provides the basic components that someone would want in a surface system.
It was mostly a hobby of mine, I'm a systems engineer and enjoy my work, so I treated the whole thing like a full scale project to keep my skills sharp. It needs cleaned up for public release, but given the interest there seems to be in the subject, I'll try to make it entertaining enough for a writeup here on Slashdot.
You really bought a backup PS3 just so you could keep playing PS2 games?
How often do you even care about playing a PS2 game? I know since I got current-gen systems I've barely ever looked back. I think I played StarWars Battlefront once. Besides which, emulation is coming along well in the form of PCSX2. I find it almost unbelievable you would bother to spend all that money on a redundant PS3, or a whole new set of PSPs.
Hell, by the time your current lot start to break noticeably (and by that I mean more than one goes, because do you really need all 5 at the same time?) someone will likely have cracked the Go anyway.
Err, no, he sounds like the target market for Sony. The type of person who WILL buy these devices in large quantities if the devices aren't actively trying to hobble him.
I was about to purchase a PS3 because I liked the media center qualities and the ability to play the majority of my favorite games. PS2 games. There were a few PS3 games I wanted to try, but being few, they alone couldn't be my justification for buying a PS3. Sneaking features out of 'upgrades' is a serious problem for consumers. Too often companies (and quite often Sony) will 'upgrade' their models and drop functionality.
And I apologize, but your justification for the Go is asinine. So he has to rely on someone potentially violating US law, a modification process that requires extra action on his part, and hope that what he just did won't cause his hardware to present issues (Hope those hackers didn't make any mistakes) Just to use a device to replace one that didn't require any of the above?
This computer may be installed with software intended to provide you with the Optimal User Experience. Functions of the software may include, but are not limited to, file creation, file alteration, reporting of usage statistics, management of file systems and other functions necessary to provide the Optimal User Experience.
Ah. You mean like it has in all those countries where universal healthcare has been around for decades, if not longer ?
Oh, wait, nothing like that has happened anywhere except the fantasies of crazy right-wingers...
Really? How about looking at TFA that this very thread was spawned from? These taxes are proposed based on the exact premise that it puts a cost on healthcare and therefore the government should regulate it.
You may want to review your driving skills, maybe take some classes.
This is like the new "If you have nothing to hide" mantra. So it's now "If you obey the laws, you won't get a ticket" as a sidestep of the topic if the law is right or not.
I have no idea whether or not GPS nav units on the market are so self contained, but nothing inherent about GPS involves the ability of anyone to track you.
Pretty much most of them are self contained and contain no mechanism for sending out that data real time. And if you are paranoid enough that you believe it is collecting data and clandestinely sends it out when you plug it into your PC at home when you do a major route plan or update, you can always not do that.
I've not plugged my GPS unit into anything but my cigarette lighter for years.
How would you propose changing a chemical polarizer and what manufacturing process would you suggest to built such a beast? (No ad hominem intended or implied - just throwing a rock at the idea in case you know something I don't.)
Double the resolution in the LCD and use fixed polarizing filters that alternate 90 degrees every other pixel (or in a pattern that minimizes jitter?) Apply a 50% duty cycle to the LCD?
(Probably more expensive than DLP or simply moving the LCD shutter movement to the glasses, but this was just a 10 second crack at how it might be possible with an LCD)
Why invest in infrastructure that will attract $40/month customers when you can build infrastructure that will attract customers willing to pay almost anything monthly for the latest technofashion device.
So they invest in infrastructure that attracts $30/month customers?
Just browsing the summary, but this sounds very similar to some of the archery systems they have set up at hunting stores.
A woodland scene is projected on a screen, and you actually fired your own arrows (points replaced with a blunted tip) onto the screen. It would mark where you hit, and then 'score' your performance based on where it felt the best position to shoot the animal was.
How many RIAA/Copyright related lawsuits this year have started off with a hopeful - "Yeah! Damnit! We are taking this one all the way and are going to stick it to the MAN! Fuck him! Fuck the MAN Baby!" only to result in a circus and a horrible verdict for the defendant?
Damn that's depressing, and this one was the one I was actually hoping the guy running the show had some sort of fucking clue/hidden plan that he was going to spring out at the end.
I mean, yes, I'm not particularly fond of the idea of willfull copyright infringement, but I thought at least this would come out to forcing the RIAA to cut out some of their crap.
Because the Plaintiffs can pick and choose the cases they bring to court. Why, out of thousands of potential defendants, would you go to court against the one that can destroy your approach?
They don't bring to court someone WE would like to see. In my case, I only download music that I have already purchased a physical copy of, so their case would be a much harder sell.
"Quality content" like the Christian Science Monitor? I've never read it, but I would be very skeptical of anything coming from that group. Maybe the editors just pray good articles will show up.
As you have stated, you never read it.
Pulling from Wikipedia:
* 1950, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting: Edmund Stevens, For his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored."
* 1967, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting: R. John Hughes, For his thorough reporting of the attempted Transition to the New Order in 1965 and the purge that followed in 1965-66.
* 1968, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting: Howard James, for his series of articles, Crisis in the Courts.
* 1969, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting: Robert Cahn, for his inquiry into the future of our national parks and the methods that may help to preserve them.
* 1978, Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, Journalism: Richard Strout, for distinguished commentary from Washington over many years as staff correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and contributor to The New Republic.
* 1996, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting: David Rohde, for his persistent on-site reporting of the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica.
* 2002, Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning: Clay Bennett
Aside from a requirement (tradition?) to run one religious article in the paper at the founder's request, it isn't a religious paper.
You may actually want to read it, as ignorance is never pretty.
I disagree. At the very minimum they should be charged with trespassing and loitering. You just plain shouldn't be hanging out in a parking lot where you don't have a car in most cases. And you DEFINITELY shouldn't be taking an inventory of what's in which car. That is, plain and simple, preparation to steal from the vehicles. Not to steal the cars, just their contents. It happens all the damned time.
Well, when I get in trouble for looking into the Maserati parked at my office I can use the excuse, "Such a beautiful car was asking for it (to be looked at)"
I certainly hope not, as "The Cataclysm" is the name for the war-ending event in Beyond War, a game that has had that fiction posted since 2001. If so, then their PTO filing violates knowing prior use by an MMO publisher and damages will be high regardless failure to perform a correct due diligence search by the PTO. They should stick with Maelstrom if they want to keep the money.
Here is Sierra's Trademark on Cataclysm:
Live/Dead Indicator DEAD Cancellation Date April 4, 2008
I'm really interested to see what different translators come up with. Now that it's been made available, there is going to be a wonderful opportunity to compare translations and interpretations from a much more 'original' source.
Though, I have this nagging feeling that "And it was Good" might also be interpreted as "Sorry for the inconvenience."
So based on the results of this test, I think we can expect commercials from all three carriers claiming that they are the fastest* 3g network around with the best reliability**.
Even as an owner of an iphone who knew what he was getting, Apple/ATT's commercials really get under my skin with their claims regarding the speed/capabilities of the phone. Of course, they get away with it with a 0.3 mS flash of text that informs us that the performance was artificially shortened. Comcast is another company whose commercials strike me as pure lies and misinformation based on a grain of truth***.
*For some definitions of fast **The network will reliably not cause your phone to collapse into a singularity. ***Results from Brooklyn Bridge Sales LLC.
No, my equation was in response to the remark that a car is more energy efficient than a horse drawn carriage. Obviously the car has many advantages over the carriage. I don't think you can claim that energy efficiency is one of them
What if you try to push a horse to the limits of the typical sedan? Might only get a few feet per horse. Not very efficient. That's a lot of horses.;)
My grandmother is still alive you insensitive clod.
I mean really, that was quite insensitive. Not only that, but she is still spry enough to ply the trade. Don't worry about insensitive clods though, we will honor her on labor day.
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Shit, you have enough disposable cash for something like this and can't afford to hire a junior programmer? Durrr... Must be nice to be rich and stupid.
First, allow me to introduce you to the term, 'hobby'.
Besides, this isn't a small undertaking. I'm not going to hire a programmer until I know exactly what I want that programmer to do.
It is unbelievable the arguments against this. Fighter aircraft have been controlled by joysticks for years. The argument concerning power steering failure is plain BS. I'm now 56 and I have experienced power steering failure once in my life and the car let me know it was coming well ahead of the actual failure. MTBF is very high and not an issue.
IAAAE (I am an Avionics Engineer).
Think of the forces:
In an aircraft, the primary force you feel will be perpendicular to the floor of the aircraft. In a car, the forces you feel will be parallel to the floor of the car. Therefore the forces you feel in the aircraft will always be perpendicular to the plane of motion of the joystick. In a car, the forces you feel will always be parallel to the plane of motion of the joystick.
Think of the dimensions:
The joystick on an aircraft controls Pitch and Roll. The pedals control Yaw.
The joystick in a car would control Yaw.
So to further address your issue, Fighter aircraft are NOT controlled by joysticks when you look at it from the perspective of Yaw.
Really, native English speakers shouldn't be chauvenistic about the fact the rest of the world is speaking their language, they should be ashamed by their inability to accomodate other cultures, and humbled by the fact other people go through the length of learning theirs.
Oh give me a break. Let's turn it around and look at it in terms of best value for your effort. Compare the choices between two people. A non-English speaker and a native speaker. The Non-native speaker can choose English, which provides much more utility than the Native english speaker picking any other language. Unless you plan to speak only with a certain culture, learning a language other than English is going to be much more limited in its utility.
I speak Spanish fluently. When I went to Europe, do you know how many people I ran into who spoke Spanish? Two. And those two were American tourists! Aside from 3 people, the rest all spoke enough English that we could conduct business. Of course, I didn't go to Spain, but that's the point. My second language was basically only useful in very select geographic regions.
So someone learns English, and they learn a language that has a great deal of utility, and a high likelyhood when compared to other languages of being useful in a foreign country. If you learn any other language, the probability of it being useful anywhere other than the countries where it originated is reduced.
In the US we DO learn other languages, but we never get a chance to use them so we end up forgetting them. In school I had the opportunity to learn Latin, Russian, and Spanish. French, and German was also offered. But other than a few passing times have I ever even had the chance to practice Spanish. Hell, I use Latin more often than any of the modern European languages.
See if you can have a heart to heart with a live person, hopefully person to person, that represents your lender. Maybe they'll be sympathetic, since this really is a unique era. So many people are raising their rates and raising the bar to get credit that a lot of juniors/seniors can't find money to get those last few hours in..
Good luck. I haven't been able to break past the 'script-monkeys'. Basically they will read from a script and enter your information into the system. "I'm sorry, the computer says no." Think of them like a Casino, they are playing the odds and have a method to do so that works and are operating under the idea that if it aint broke, don't fix it.
I had to deal with my mortgage company. I offered them this option:
A. I default on on a $200,000 mortgage in an area where the ONLY employer just laid off 25% of its workforce. Think about what that will do if you try to sell the house to recoup the 200k. (Hint, they would be lucky to get $130k in 12 months)
B. Let me sell 75% of the land for $150k, and I will retain and pay $50k as a loan. They would remove 75% of their liability, and continue to collect interest on 50k. Since I was already paying the mortgage for years with no late payments, one would think that I could continue to pay it at 25% the size.
Their solution was to offer me to short sale the property, they would guarantee themselves a $50k loss and hurt my credit, when the alternative was NOT short selling the property and only taking a $50k risk.
I could not convince them otherwise.
I've since raised 50k on my own, paid off the mortgage in full (and deprived them of any interest) and turned around to lease the property that I kept with the $50k, for over $35,000 per year. In less than 2 years, I've recouped the cost of the land and I'm now making an extra $35k/year (excluding taxes)
The bank lost a LOT of money on that sale, and the only thing they could do was read from a script.
When I started, I didn't have much spare cash, and it was hard to justify investing in Microsoft Surface for a pet project. (Not when I was already in process for a do-it-yourself kitchen, bathroom, and stone patio set of projects)
For my gaming group, I designed a do-it-yourself surface structure. It's a simple design, but robust enough that you can easily customize it for your own needs.
Once I finish up and polish the plans, I'm going to publish them on my site, along with a components list of what I found worked (and didn't work), for putting together a pretty nice table that could seat about 6 comfortably.
The main goals I had in mind when developing the surface was (in no particular order or completeness:
1. Portability (We didn't always play at the same location)
2. Universality (I didn't want it to matter if you played warhammer or dnd or battletech, etc)
3. Unobtrusiveness (Don't let the tool get in the way of the game)
4. The surface had to improve the gameplay experience (sister requirement of number 3)
The part that I wish I had some assistance with was specialized coding for the modules. I'd love for you to be able to select a game, and have the engine running the display account for differing needs of each game. As of right now, it simply provides the basic components that someone would want in a surface system.
It was mostly a hobby of mine, I'm a systems engineer and enjoy my work, so I treated the whole thing like a full scale project to keep my skills sharp. It needs cleaned up for public release, but given the interest there seems to be in the subject, I'll try to make it entertaining enough for a writeup here on Slashdot.
You sound... uh... odd.
You really bought a backup PS3 just so you could keep playing PS2 games?
How often do you even care about playing a PS2 game?
I know since I got current-gen systems I've barely ever looked back. I think I played StarWars Battlefront once. Besides which, emulation is coming along well in the form of PCSX2. I find it almost unbelievable you would bother to spend all that money on a redundant PS3, or a whole new set of PSPs.
Hell, by the time your current lot start to break noticeably (and by that I mean more than one goes, because do you really need all 5 at the same time?) someone will likely have cracked the Go anyway.
Err, no, he sounds like the target market for Sony. The type of person who WILL buy these devices in large quantities if the devices aren't actively trying to hobble him.
I was about to purchase a PS3 because I liked the media center qualities and the ability to play the majority of my favorite games. PS2 games. There were a few PS3 games I wanted to try, but being few, they alone couldn't be my justification for buying a PS3. Sneaking features out of 'upgrades' is a serious problem for consumers. Too often companies (and quite often Sony) will 'upgrade' their models and drop functionality.
And I apologize, but your justification for the Go is asinine. So he has to rely on someone potentially violating US law, a modification process that requires extra action on his part, and hope that what he just did won't cause his hardware to present issues (Hope those hackers didn't make any mistakes) Just to use a device to replace one that didn't require any of the above?
It's nonsense.
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Ah. You mean like it has in all those countries where universal healthcare has been around for decades, if not longer ?
Oh, wait, nothing like that has happened anywhere except the fantasies of crazy right-wingers...
Really? How about looking at TFA that this very thread was spawned from? These taxes are proposed based on the exact premise that it puts a cost on healthcare and therefore the government should regulate it.
moving closer to your workplace, switching jobs
Good luck doing that if your credit is suspect. I've had every rental place, or place of employment perform a credit check as a matter of course.
You may want to review your driving skills, maybe take some classes.
This is like the new "If you have nothing to hide" mantra. So it's now "If you obey the laws, you won't get a ticket" as a sidestep of the topic if the law is right or not.
I have no idea whether or not GPS nav units on the market are so self contained, but nothing inherent about GPS involves the ability of anyone to track you.
Pretty much most of them are self contained and contain no mechanism for sending out that data real time. And if you are paranoid enough that you believe it is collecting data and clandestinely sends it out when you plug it into your PC at home when you do a major route plan or update, you can always not do that.
I've not plugged my GPS unit into anything but my cigarette lighter for years.
When a virtual job hits your city, you have to report to the death chamber
Well to hell with telecommuting then!
After all, you rarely inhale your shirt
Not all at once, but throw a bunch of shirts into your dryer and then check the lint trap.
How would you propose changing a chemical polarizer and what manufacturing process would you suggest to built such a beast? (No ad hominem intended or implied - just throwing a rock at the idea in case you know something I don't.)
Double the resolution in the LCD and use fixed polarizing filters that alternate 90 degrees every other pixel (or in a pattern that minimizes jitter?) Apply a 50% duty cycle to the LCD?
(Probably more expensive than DLP or simply moving the LCD shutter movement to the glasses, but this was just a 10 second crack at how it might be possible with an LCD)
Why invest in infrastructure that will attract $40/month customers when you can build infrastructure that will attract customers willing to pay almost anything monthly for the latest technofashion device.
So they invest in infrastructure that attracts $30/month customers?
Just browsing the summary, but this sounds very similar to some of the archery systems they have set up at hunting stores.
A woodland scene is projected on a screen, and you actually fired your own arrows (points replaced with a blunted tip) onto the screen. It would mark where you hit, and then 'score' your performance based on where it felt the best position to shoot the animal was.
How many RIAA/Copyright related lawsuits this year have started off with a hopeful - "Yeah! Damnit! We are taking this one all the way and are going to stick it to the MAN! Fuck him! Fuck the MAN Baby!" only to result in a circus and a horrible verdict for the defendant?
Damn that's depressing, and this one was the one I was actually hoping the guy running the show had some sort of fucking clue/hidden plan that he was going to spring out at the end.
I mean, yes, I'm not particularly fond of the idea of willfull copyright infringement, but I thought at least this would come out to forcing the RIAA to cut out some of their crap.
Because the Plaintiffs can pick and choose the cases they bring to court. Why, out of thousands of potential defendants, would you go to court against the one that can destroy your approach?
They don't bring to court someone WE would like to see. In my case, I only download music that I have already purchased a physical copy of, so their case would be a much harder sell.
"Quality content" like the Christian Science Monitor? I've never read it, but I would be very skeptical of anything coming from that group. Maybe the editors just pray good articles will show up.
As you have stated, you never read it.
Pulling from Wikipedia:
* 1950, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting: Edmund Stevens, For his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored."
* 1967, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting: R. John Hughes, For his thorough reporting of the attempted Transition to the New Order in 1965 and the purge that followed in 1965-66.
* 1968, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting: Howard James, for his series of articles, Crisis in the Courts.
* 1969, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting: Robert Cahn, for his inquiry into the future of our national parks and the methods that may help to preserve them.
* 1978, Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, Journalism: Richard Strout, for distinguished commentary from Washington over many years as staff correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and contributor to The New Republic.
* 1996, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting: David Rohde, for his persistent on-site reporting of the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica.
* 2002, Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning: Clay Bennett
Aside from a requirement (tradition?) to run one religious article in the paper at the founder's request, it isn't a religious paper.
You may actually want to read it, as ignorance is never pretty.
I disagree. At the very minimum they should be charged with trespassing and loitering. You just plain shouldn't be hanging out in a parking lot where you don't have a car in most cases. And you DEFINITELY shouldn't be taking an inventory of what's in which car. That is, plain and simple, preparation to steal from the vehicles. Not to steal the cars, just their contents. It happens all the damned time.
Well, when I get in trouble for looking into the Maserati parked at my office I can use the excuse, "Such a beautiful car was asking for it (to be looked at)"
I certainly hope not, as "The Cataclysm" is the name for the war-ending event in Beyond War, a game that has had that fiction posted since 2001. If so, then their PTO filing violates knowing prior use by an MMO publisher and damages will be high regardless failure to perform a correct due diligence search by the PTO. They should stick with Maelstrom if they want to keep the money.
Here is Sierra's Trademark on Cataclysm:
Live/Dead Indicator DEAD
Cancellation Date April 4, 2008
Says the one who can't use the proper from of 'their'.
I'll take the dolt who mistypes over the dolt that sues when their own stupidity bites them in the ass.
I'm really interested to see what different translators come up with. Now that it's been made available, there is going to be a wonderful opportunity to compare translations and interpretations from a much more 'original' source.
Though, I have this nagging feeling that "And it was Good" might also be interpreted as "Sorry for the inconvenience."
So based on the results of this test, I think we can expect commercials from all three carriers claiming that they are the fastest* 3g network around with the best reliability**.
Even as an owner of an iphone who knew what he was getting, Apple/ATT's commercials really get under my skin with their claims regarding the speed/capabilities of the phone. Of course, they get away with it with a 0.3 mS flash of text that informs us that the performance was artificially shortened. Comcast is another company whose commercials strike me as pure lies and misinformation based on a grain of truth***.
*For some definitions of fast
**The network will reliably not cause your phone to collapse into a singularity.
***Results from Brooklyn Bridge Sales LLC.
No, my equation was in response to the remark that a car is more energy efficient than a horse drawn carriage. Obviously the car has many advantages over the carriage. I don't think you can claim that energy efficiency is one of them
What if you try to push a horse to the limits of the typical sedan? Might only get a few feet per horse. Not very efficient. That's a lot of horses. ;)
My grandmother is still alive you insensitive clod.
I mean really, that was quite insensitive. Not only that, but she is still spry enough to ply the trade. Don't worry about insensitive clods though, we will honor her on labor day.