Seems to be a pretty strange one to get wrong. Don't Americans have a 'budget night' where the government lays out of the table how taxpayer money will be spent for the next financial period?
I think that it's theoretically possible that a RTS could be implemented on a console. Apart from the D-pad and thumb sticks, there are 10 buttons that can be used for hot-keying. Ten factorial is a big number. Getting those combos right would take some real solid dedication - but possible.
When you watch the South Korean's and their StarCraft comps, the competitors are not really using the mouse anyway. The mouse being the only real advantage PC RTSs have.
I'm holding out. Not for Halo Wars in particular but for a RTS for consoles. Battle for Middle Earth II was not too bad; no where near perfect, but playable. Hopefully, I'll try out RAIII soon.
Yeah, I think shutting down P2P traffic would be a horrific mistake as well. It's afterall how I get my distros as well. My 'solution' would be the French ISPs shutting down P2P. Then wait for the French public backlash at such a motion.
Nice assumption with the American citizen thing, but wrong.
I'm not going to bother pointing out the difference between suing P2P proliferation companies/organisations and Sourceforge. If you can't see it now you never will and would be a waste of time and effort.
The nuke comment was valid, beit a stretch. It's the whole disrespect for others. Your countrymen only make right decisions never wrong ones, just what is happening here. Those that breach copyright shouldn't be held responsible, it's the fault of the companies that provide the means.
Your irradiated coconuts are washing up on our shores. Clean up your shit! At least you tested as far from the mother country as possible.
This scares me a little. I mean, we should sue the gun makers because guns kill people. We should sue the ore miners because they produce the steel that is used in the guns.
If the French have such a problem with P2P why don't they just block it at the ISP level? Why go after the FOSS developers who just write a program? Because you can't possibly blame the citizens who breach copyright.
This is coming from a country that were happy to set off nukes in the pacific because they didn't what to bow to international pressure. Pricks.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe there is a Nigerian scammer out there that is just as stupid as the people sending the money. The odds of finding such scammer similar to winning everything you ever bet in a casino?
Oil and water do not mix. Remember that mantra you were told at school? Well it was wrong.
A home hobbyist, beit a professional chemist but still made the discovery at home, discovered that oil and water do actually mix... perfectly. Google it. The solution was amazing simple. The labs you are talking about are looking at the complex. They tend to overlook the simple.
There is something very crazy going on over there in the States. When was the last time a terrorist attacked, and killed, Americans on home soil? With chemicals?
But your government is still banning everything left, right and centre. Your media is helping the government with getting the masses to swallow the bullshit. Why so scared?
Nice. However as the GP pointed out, you are not really the norm. See, you had motivation and more importantly, you were willing to work hard to get there. Not really a philosophy that a lot of people subscribe to. Degree or no degree, people like you will always make it.
Sure, I consider myself lucky to have the job I have now, or, at least I thought it was luck. Now I realise that I set all the dominoes up a long time ago and they fell exactly the way they were always going to.
Yep. It comes down to the financial situation of the individuals. There are no 'one size fits all' rules. I'm a little dubious of the GP's financial prowess given some of those sweeping statements. Consolidation, in theory, is a good thing. Like anything, read the fine print, ask questions and get the answers on tape.
Going into debt for education is not a bad thing. There are good debts and bad debts with me personally classifying education as a good debt. GP does make a point that you don't need the brand name degree. As with anything, spend your hard earned cash wisely.
I don't know what it's like there in America, but there are still plenty of technical jobs available here and when they interview, they want to see what you've done historically and what your personality traits are like. Which university you went to 5 years ago doesn't even come up.
You must have gone to a school full of pussies. You'd have been bashed at the school I went to for such a violation. From then on, you'd carry around the badge of being a wanker. Sure, you might think that being called a wanker once or twice wouldn't hurt. But that badge would be with you for the rest of your time at high school.
I've never had a problem with vpnc. It can maintain a connection to my work from home for days (I am the one that explicitly kills the connection). I'd say there is another problem somewhere else. Since details are light, it is difficult to diagnose the problem.
I don't disagree with you at all, really. Very little difference between $4000 and $3930 per month. My point is the culture of spending. Once you justify $70 per month for one thing, then after a couple of months there is something else for an equivalent amount. And then another, and another. Doesn't take long for the percentage of wastage to rise.
I want to get to a point in 20 years time (I'm 30) where I can stop working fulltime (for the man) and start taking more time for myself and my wife. On average, you can get about 10% return on investments. Sure the current financial crisis may appear to stop that 10%, but actually no. The previous 4.5 years, I was getting more than 20%. I'm still way ahead. I've paid off 25% of my mortgage (it is a crappy house but a roof) but have over $330K in investments. Yes, I could pay of the house with that but you put your money into whatever is earning the higher interest rate.
I have $2000 per month set aside for mortgage, car, utilities, clothes (very small budget) and food. The rest is earning me money. My money is working for ME rather than me working for the MONEY.
Yes, $70 per month is not much. But neither is my current spending on a phone which is $15 per month. $55 per month, 10% interest for 20 years is almost $42,000.
I earn close to 100K and won't spend that much on a depreciating device either. See, it's not the upfront cost that bothers me, its the ongoing $70 (minimum) per month that does bother me. It's just another thing that will suck money from you long term. Then there is all the other things that suck money from you. Sure, doesn't sound like much, but add them up. Car, rent, other loans, electricity, phone, Internet, Cable TV - all of those things have convenient methods of siphoning your hard earned cash from you.
I spend money, almost every cent I get. But I spend it on shares and other investments. I get the thrill of spending cash but not the guilt.
What you say may be true. The poor are a money pit. But you must remember one critical point; spending drives economies. Giving money to the poor can still benefit the rich, the rich invest money in the companies that produce goods that the poor buy. You'll have your money back in no time. As well as more jobs for everybody.
That said, you should still provide some means of education (free) for the poor to manage their wealth creation.
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Seems to be a pretty strange one to get wrong. Don't Americans have a 'budget night' where the government lays out of the table how taxpayer money will be spent for the next financial period?
Speak for yourself pal. Not all OZ nerds. I prefer low latency.
Another scary thing: I clocked the GPU in my desktop at 450 GFlops yesterday (nbody crap). Admittedly, single precision, but still.
A shrubbery!
I think that it's theoretically possible that a RTS could be implemented on a console. Apart from the D-pad and thumb sticks, there are 10 buttons that can be used for hot-keying. Ten factorial is a big number. Getting those combos right would take some real solid dedication - but possible.
When you watch the South Korean's and their StarCraft comps, the competitors are not really using the mouse anyway. The mouse being the only real advantage PC RTSs have.
I'm holding out. Not for Halo Wars in particular but for a RTS for consoles. Battle for Middle Earth II was not too bad; no where near perfect, but playable. Hopefully, I'll try out RAIII soon.
I'll staying positive.
At least she could get 3D half price. Except she may wonder why the actors keep waiving shit in front of the camera.
Yeah, I think shutting down P2P traffic would be a horrific mistake as well. It's afterall how I get my distros as well. My 'solution' would be the French ISPs shutting down P2P. Then wait for the French public backlash at such a motion.
Nice assumption with the American citizen thing, but wrong.
I'm not going to bother pointing out the difference between suing P2P proliferation companies/organisations and Sourceforge. If you can't see it now you never will and would be a waste of time and effort.
The nuke comment was valid, beit a stretch. It's the whole disrespect for others. Your countrymen only make right decisions never wrong ones, just what is happening here. Those that breach copyright shouldn't be held responsible, it's the fault of the companies that provide the means.
Your irradiated coconuts are washing up on our shores. Clean up your shit! At least you tested as far from the mother country as possible.
This scares me a little. I mean, we should sue the gun makers because guns kill people. We should sue the ore miners because they produce the steel that is used in the guns.
If the French have such a problem with P2P why don't they just block it at the ISP level? Why go after the FOSS developers who just write a program? Because you can't possibly blame the citizens who breach copyright.
This is coming from a country that were happy to set off nukes in the pacific because they didn't what to bow to international pressure. Pricks.
No one ever won by sending money to a Nigerian.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe there is a Nigerian scammer out there that is just as stupid as the people sending the money. The odds of finding such scammer similar to winning everything you ever bet in a casino?
Got something a little more recent than that?
Wow, terribly naive.
Oil and water do not mix. Remember that mantra you were told at school? Well it was wrong.
A home hobbyist, beit a professional chemist but still made the discovery at home, discovered that oil and water do actually mix ... perfectly. Google it. The solution was amazing simple. The labs you are talking about are looking at the complex. They tend to overlook the simple.
There is something very crazy going on over there in the States. When was the last time a terrorist attacked, and killed, Americans on home soil? With chemicals?
But your government is still banning everything left, right and centre. Your media is helping the government with getting the masses to swallow the bullshit. Why so scared?
Nice. However as the GP pointed out, you are not really the norm. See, you had motivation and more importantly, you were willing to work hard to get there. Not really a philosophy that a lot of people subscribe to. Degree or no degree, people like you will always make it.
Sure, I consider myself lucky to have the job I have now, or, at least I thought it was luck. Now I realise that I set all the dominoes up a long time ago and they fell exactly the way they were always going to.
Yep. It comes down to the financial situation of the individuals. There are no 'one size fits all' rules. I'm a little dubious of the GP's financial prowess given some of those sweeping statements. Consolidation, in theory, is a good thing. Like anything, read the fine print, ask questions and get the answers on tape.
Going into debt for education is not a bad thing. There are good debts and bad debts with me personally classifying education as a good debt. GP does make a point that you don't need the brand name degree. As with anything, spend your hard earned cash wisely.
I don't know what it's like there in America, but there are still plenty of technical jobs available here and when they interview, they want to see what you've done historically and what your personality traits are like. Which university you went to 5 years ago doesn't even come up.
Actually, human gestation takes significantly longer than 30 minutes...
What? How much longer? Then where the hell did all of these kids come from?
You must have gone to a school full of pussies. You'd have been bashed at the school I went to for such a violation. From then on, you'd carry around the badge of being a wanker. Sure, you might think that being called a wanker once or twice wouldn't hurt. But that badge would be with you for the rest of your time at high school.
Don't fuck with the playground rules.
It gets worse when people start to give birth.
Oh well. At least you were there for the conception.
Yeah, I had this bug a couple of years ago.
Drop down to the command line (Run->cmd[enter])
and type
format c:[enter]
It asks a few of the usual annoying questions, just accept or yes.
Then, there is this marvelous little program called Ubuntu when installed is the final fix.
I use that quite a lot. Particularly a software install where my umask has stuffed up.
# Recursively chmod on directories only
find . -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \;
Someone forgot to take their chill pill this morning ... didn't he? Yes he did!
I think you summed up your own post perfectly.
I've never had a problem with vpnc. It can maintain a connection to my work from home for days (I am the one that explicitly kills the connection). I'd say there is another problem somewhere else. Since details are light, it is difficult to diagnose the problem.
I don't disagree with you at all, really. Very little difference between $4000 and $3930 per month. My point is the culture of spending. Once you justify $70 per month for one thing, then after a couple of months there is something else for an equivalent amount. And then another, and another. Doesn't take long for the percentage of wastage to rise. I want to get to a point in 20 years time (I'm 30) where I can stop working fulltime (for the man) and start taking more time for myself and my wife. On average, you can get about 10% return on investments. Sure the current financial crisis may appear to stop that 10%, but actually no. The previous 4.5 years, I was getting more than 20%. I'm still way ahead. I've paid off 25% of my mortgage (it is a crappy house but a roof) but have over $330K in investments. Yes, I could pay of the house with that but you put your money into whatever is earning the higher interest rate. I have $2000 per month set aside for mortgage, car, utilities, clothes (very small budget) and food. The rest is earning me money. My money is working for ME rather than me working for the MONEY. Yes, $70 per month is not much. But neither is my current spending on a phone which is $15 per month. $55 per month, 10% interest for 20 years is almost $42,000.
I earn close to 100K and won't spend that much on a depreciating device either. See, it's not the upfront cost that bothers me, its the ongoing $70 (minimum) per month that does bother me. It's just another thing that will suck money from you long term. Then there is all the other things that suck money from you. Sure, doesn't sound like much, but add them up. Car, rent, other loans, electricity, phone, Internet, Cable TV - all of those things have convenient methods of siphoning your hard earned cash from you.
I spend money, almost every cent I get. But I spend it on shares and other investments. I get the thrill of spending cash but not the guilt.
What you say may be true. The poor are a money pit. But you must remember one critical point; spending drives economies. Giving money to the poor can still benefit the rich, the rich invest money in the companies that produce goods that the poor buy. You'll have your money back in no time. As well as more jobs for everybody. That said, you should still provide some means of education (free) for the poor to manage their wealth creation.