If you've cut out the "heavy usage" stuff at the hotel, what else are you doing to use that much data? I travel frequently as well and don't use that much data (unless I'm streaming Netflix or something). Web browsing, occasional VPN, work/personal email don't add up to a whole lot, especially for just a couple hours at the hotel each night.
You are an ass. Please explain why those skills are not useful? I suppose you left school (assuming you went) to take a position as a Sr Douchebag making $100K, right?
That's an interesting test, especially if you are looking to be a system administrator at some point. That test touches upon all sorts of skill sets and shows at least a base competency is several real world technologies - OSes (Windows/Linux), Networking (multiple levels of OSI), hardware and virtualization. It also shows that someone can be self-reliant (no google), knows how to troubleshoot and can also read a man/help page.
I couldn't have done something like this when I was in school. Heck, most "IT Professionals" I know today probably couldn't do it either. It amazes me how people get stuck in a niche. Linux admins not knowing anything about Windows and vice-versa. Network guys that don't really understand networking (routing, protocols, etc), but can copy a switch port config like nobodies business.
Please enlighten us to all great things you did 10 years ago that are relevant today...
Awesome, thanks for the heads up. DS engine I assume? I'll check it out this evening. U6 was the first Ultima I played on a PC. It made me and my buddy save our money to upgrade to an EGA (maybe VGA) card and a Sound Blaster. We were total computer newbs and couldn't figure out why the game we installed (nasty shades of purple) looked nothing like the back of the box. And it was amazing what the sound card did for the game compared to the PC speaker. Ahh, I know what I will be doing this weekend! Thanks again!
I think almost all the Ultima's have had a remake or are currently having one made. I'm at work so I can't pull up the list I used to have, but a simple google will bring up a ton of remake projects. One of my favorites, and completed I think 2 years ago, is http://www.u5lazarus.com/ utilizing the original Dungeon Siege engine. It's pretty impressive if you are into the series. V is my favorite of them all.
Hibernation is wonky at times and usually more trouble than it's worth, especially when it doesn't work as advertised (seems to be worse with my laptop though; I don't think it likes waking up to new networks from time to time).
And it's for me to determine the value of my time and what it's worth to not waste it. I'm sure you shut down all of your systems every time you aren't using one for 10 minutes, right? If it makes you feel any better I only flush every 3rd time I piss and I always shit in the dark. Feel better about my energy waste now?
Windows boots refreshingly quick, but was that worth the extra price?
As I am on the fence on purchasing an SSD, how fast is "refreshingly quick?" Quick enough that I would actually turn my computer off everyday? Right now it runs 24x7 simply because I don't have the patience to wait for a system boot and I might only use the computer 30 minutes at night during the week.
If they go out of business, can't I just play all my games in offline mode? I guess I will be stuck to that PC until it dies however. At that point I would have no remorse for "pirating" the games I legally own.
Plus the dozens, if not hundreds or thousands, of changes/updates/deletions/etc that each ruling party at the time has made over the last 1000 or so years.
And what kind of "spending" are you doing that you don't want your wife to see? It is pretty sad when you can't trust the woman. My GF makes her own money and I never say a word about what she buys and she doesn't say a word about what I buy, it is nice having trust like that.
Oh, I don't know. Purchases for her Birthday, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Days when I just feel like surprising her with something. I guess hiding those purchases from her is truly a trust issue. Hooray for making assumptions...
With my little community bank I can even use my debit card online with no worries, because they cover all but $20 in the case of fraud and the card costs me a grand total of $1 a month.
You pay money have have a debit card? What else do they make you pay for? There's no way in hell I would pay a bank to hold onto my money that they make interest on.
I have 2 accounts, one with BoFA and one with a local credit union. I prefer "features" of BoFA, the main ones being their online security and their superior bill pay service. I use that account mostly for my monthly bills. I use the credit union primarily for my savings account and personal spending (stuff I don't want the wife to see).
Further, many of the states are 'at will', which means they can fire you and simply not give any reason whatsoever. You'll get unemployment, but that's a small compensation for discrimination.
I live in an "at will" state (Georgia) and in my 15 years of having a job in a "corporate" environment, I have never seen anyone fired for no reason. There has always had to be a paper trial a mile long before HR would allow anyone to fire anyone as the potential for a lawsuit was alway there.
Which is still several million more viewers than a few hundred thousand. Where did you get those numbers from, I'd love to take a look. I'd also be interested in how the weekend game viewership differs from weekday viewership. Think about when the majority of the games are, 7:30AM, 10:00AM and 2:30PM EST. Not very ideal viewing times to compare against other sporting events. Put a mid-season football game on a Tuesday morning at 7:30AM and then we can talk apples to apples. The times that espn3.com decides to work, it would be interesting to see those numbers as well. I am also sure viewership will increase as the tournament continues as there should be much better matchups to watch. I suffered through the Algeria-Slovenia game and wish I had those ~90 minutes of my life back.
They can spend a lot of money and air time on something a few hundred thousand of their viewers will watch... or they can rerun NCIS and get several million viewers. You'd have to be an idiot not to understand that.
You must be delusional if you think only a few hundred thousand Americans are watching the World Cup.
I think it's great and totally adds to the atmosphere. I'm glad FIFA has not banned them from the games. That being said, I might not enjoy them if I were at the actual games.
Your sarcasm is noted, but what you are saying rings 100% true to me.
Much rather be playing myself than watching someone else play. No matter how great they are at or how bad I am at it.
I'm curious, have you ever played a sport at a competitive level? I've played several sports over the years, but soccer for 30 years at various "competitive" levels (highschool, some college and adult leagues afterwards). Sure, it would be great to go out and play, but that can be rather prohibitive at times for a million different reasons. I thoroughly enjoy watching this great tournament as I can really appreciate the skill, strategy, fitness, etc of these top teams and players. Maybe it's because I've played the game myself for so long. I also enjoy watching other sports as well and probably enjoy watching American football even more than soccer although I never played it competitively. I've never understood why people bag on someone who enjoys watching sports. List out your hobbies and I'm sure that I'll find a few that are equally as frivolous...
I was messing around with my tethered Droid a couple weeks ago and cranked up WoW. Only played for about 10 minutes (running around Stormwind), but the game was amazingly playable. Around 315-375ms latency and less than 20MB of data transfered during that time frame. That seems more than reasonable to me. I'll have to play for a good hour one of these days and get a more accurate reading of how much data was transfered.
Well, by most accounts we are in the worst economy since The Great Depression. Now seems like a good time to make that change to help the economy, wouldn't ya think?
Perhaps, but a lot of other countries were affected as well. I don't know if a switch to metric would have any benefit in the near future, and the situation isn't bad enough that we'd want to. The scenario I'm describing is not just a weak economy, but more like a fall from our current state as a world power... In such a case we'd need to learn metric (and, possibly, a foreign language or two) in order to compete economically.
Ahh, I see where you are going. I would argue we would have much larger problems to worry about if this country sank to those levels. Dropping from a world power would (IMO) involve a civil war or a major homeland invasion. Metric system would be last on the list of our worries. Even with China emerging at the next major economic super power, I still think English will be the "language of business" going forward and cannot imagine any other language ever supplanting it.
If our government had any money today, I think changing over to the metric system would be a great economic boon. Imagine all the road signs, mile markers, books, maps, classroom materials, etc that would need to be changed. It would affect a wide variety of industries and lower our jobless rates significantly.
It also shows why hybrids have always been a horrible buy if you're just trying to save money. I can get a compact that gets 40 mpg for $5k-10k less than a prius. Hell, I can get a car that actually has good handling, 0-60 in less than 7 seconds and still gets over 30 mpg for less than the cost of a prius, and the prius will only save me a couple hundred a year in gas. It's never been worth it.
Exactly. That's why I am still driving my 2002 Pathfinder that gets 15-18 MPG. It's paid off. Why would I spend $20k+ to get a car that gets 30+ MPG? It's going to cost me a hell of a lot of money to save on my weekly gasoline bill. It's like women and shopping. Look how much money I saved!!! 60% off of x, y and z. But you still spent $1500!!!
More seriously - it would be costly to switch. I think when the US finally does switch to metric, it will be for economic reasons - if we hit a major slump and our people needed to start going to other countries for good jobs, then suddenly there would be a big drive to switch to metric... Short of that, I don't know what could possibly get us to switch.
Well, by most accounts we are in the worst economy since The Great Depression. Now seems like a good time to make that change to help the economy, wouldn't ya think?
Interesting. At a high level I can mostly agree with the stats. I am surprised that it has Ivory Coast with a higher percentage to advance than Portugal. Even with a healthy Drogba (not sure if he's going to play yet anyway) I don't see that happening.
Secondly it isn't just about stats at something like the world cup where there are very few second chances and It is a game where you can completely dominate the opposition and still lose to a single error or bad ref decision.
That used to happen to me when I was younger when I drank coffee or some sort of soft drink (usually in the morning). I figured out it was because I had an empty stomach and was not used to that much caffeine. Fast forward 10+ years I can drink 3-4 cups of coffee on an empty stomach with no issues.
I agree. Last year I picked up a "Sierra Nevada Bigfoot" as I had never seen or had one before. Sat down on the couch and drank it down in 5 or 10 minutes. Got up a few minutes later and had a 2 second dizzy spell. I thought that was odd. Checked the bottle and it was 9.6% ABV. Normally 2 or 3 "regular" beers wouldn't even phase me, but I don't drink 2-3 beers in a 5-10 minute span normally either. I could definitely see your point of even higher ABV beers getting people in trouble. That being said, the tastes are typically so strong (to the point of being disgusting in a lot of cases) that your typical Bud drinker won't drink more than that first taste anyway.
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If you've cut out the "heavy usage" stuff at the hotel, what else are you doing to use that much data? I travel frequently as well and don't use that much data (unless I'm streaming Netflix or something). Web browsing, occasional VPN, work/personal email don't add up to a whole lot, especially for just a couple hours at the hotel each night.
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You are an ass. Please explain why those skills are not useful? I suppose you left school (assuming you went) to take a position as a Sr Douchebag making $100K, right?
That's an interesting test, especially if you are looking to be a system administrator at some point. That test touches upon all sorts of skill sets and shows at least a base competency is several real world technologies - OSes (Windows/Linux), Networking (multiple levels of OSI), hardware and virtualization. It also shows that someone can be self-reliant (no google), knows how to troubleshoot and can also read a man/help page.
I couldn't have done something like this when I was in school. Heck, most "IT Professionals" I know today probably couldn't do it either. It amazes me how people get stuck in a niche. Linux admins not knowing anything about Windows and vice-versa. Network guys that don't really understand networking (routing, protocols, etc), but can copy a switch port config like nobodies business.
Please enlighten us to all great things you did 10 years ago that are relevant today...
Awesome, thanks for the heads up. DS engine I assume? I'll check it out this evening. U6 was the first Ultima I played on a PC. It made me and my buddy save our money to upgrade to an EGA (maybe VGA) card and a Sound Blaster. We were total computer newbs and couldn't figure out why the game we installed (nasty shades of purple) looked nothing like the back of the box. And it was amazing what the sound card did for the game compared to the PC speaker. Ahh, I know what I will be doing this weekend! Thanks again!
I think almost all the Ultima's have had a remake or are currently having one made. I'm at work so I can't pull up the list I used to have, but a simple google will bring up a ton of remake projects. One of my favorites, and completed I think 2 years ago, is http://www.u5lazarus.com/ utilizing the original Dungeon Siege engine. It's pretty impressive if you are into the series. V is my favorite of them all.
And it's for me to determine the value of my time and what it's worth to not waste it. I'm sure you shut down all of your systems every time you aren't using one for 10 minutes, right? If it makes you feel any better I only flush every 3rd time I piss and I always shit in the dark. Feel better about my energy waste now?
Windows boots refreshingly quick, but was that worth the extra price?
As I am on the fence on purchasing an SSD, how fast is "refreshingly quick?" Quick enough that I would actually turn my computer off everyday? Right now it runs 24x7 simply because I don't have the patience to wait for a system boot and I might only use the computer 30 minutes at night during the week.
If they go out of business, can't I just play all my games in offline mode? I guess I will be stuck to that PC until it dies however. At that point I would have no remorse for "pirating" the games I legally own.
The UK is pretty much at peak population,
Really? How do you figure?
Plus the dozens, if not hundreds or thousands, of changes/updates/deletions/etc that each ruling party at the time has made over the last 1000 or so years.
And what kind of "spending" are you doing that you don't want your wife to see? It is pretty sad when you can't trust the woman. My GF makes her own money and I never say a word about what she buys and she doesn't say a word about what I buy, it is nice having trust like that.
Oh, I don't know. Purchases for her Birthday, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Days when I just feel like surprising her with something. I guess hiding those purchases from her is truly a trust issue. Hooray for making assumptions...
With my little community bank I can even use my debit card online with no worries, because they cover all but $20 in the case of fraud and the card costs me a grand total of $1 a month.
You pay money have have a debit card? What else do they make you pay for? There's no way in hell I would pay a bank to hold onto my money that they make interest on.
I have 2 accounts, one with BoFA and one with a local credit union. I prefer "features" of BoFA, the main ones being their online security and their superior bill pay service. I use that account mostly for my monthly bills. I use the credit union primarily for my savings account and personal spending (stuff I don't want the wife to see).
Further, many of the states are 'at will', which means they can fire you and simply not give any reason whatsoever. You'll get unemployment, but that's a small compensation for discrimination.
I live in an "at will" state (Georgia) and in my 15 years of having a job in a "corporate" environment, I have never seen anyone fired for no reason. There has always had to be a paper trial a mile long before HR would allow anyone to fire anyone as the potential for a lawsuit was alway there.
Which is still several million more viewers than a few hundred thousand. Where did you get those numbers from, I'd love to take a look. I'd also be interested in how the weekend game viewership differs from weekday viewership. Think about when the majority of the games are, 7:30AM, 10:00AM and 2:30PM EST. Not very ideal viewing times to compare against other sporting events. Put a mid-season football game on a Tuesday morning at 7:30AM and then we can talk apples to apples. The times that espn3.com decides to work, it would be interesting to see those numbers as well. I am also sure viewership will increase as the tournament continues as there should be much better matchups to watch. I suffered through the Algeria-Slovenia game and wish I had those ~90 minutes of my life back.
They can spend a lot of money and air time on something a few hundred thousand of their viewers will watch ... or they can rerun NCIS and get several million viewers. You'd have to be an idiot not to understand that.
You must be delusional if you think only a few hundred thousand Americans are watching the World Cup.
I think it's great and totally adds to the atmosphere. I'm glad FIFA has not banned them from the games. That being said, I might not enjoy them if I were at the actual games.
Your sarcasm is noted, but what you are saying rings 100% true to me. Much rather be playing myself than watching someone else play. No matter how great they are at or how bad I am at it.
I'm curious, have you ever played a sport at a competitive level? I've played several sports over the years, but soccer for 30 years at various "competitive" levels (highschool, some college and adult leagues afterwards). Sure, it would be great to go out and play, but that can be rather prohibitive at times for a million different reasons. I thoroughly enjoy watching this great tournament as I can really appreciate the skill, strategy, fitness, etc of these top teams and players. Maybe it's because I've played the game myself for so long. I also enjoy watching other sports as well and probably enjoy watching American football even more than soccer although I never played it competitively. I've never understood why people bag on someone who enjoys watching sports. List out your hobbies and I'm sure that I'll find a few that are equally as frivolous...
I was messing around with my tethered Droid a couple weeks ago and cranked up WoW. Only played for about 10 minutes (running around Stormwind), but the game was amazingly playable. Around 315-375ms latency and less than 20MB of data transfered during that time frame. That seems more than reasonable to me. I'll have to play for a good hour one of these days and get a more accurate reading of how much data was transfered.
Well, by most accounts we are in the worst economy since The Great Depression. Now seems like a good time to make that change to help the economy, wouldn't ya think?
Perhaps, but a lot of other countries were affected as well. I don't know if a switch to metric would have any benefit in the near future, and the situation isn't bad enough that we'd want to. The scenario I'm describing is not just a weak economy, but more like a fall from our current state as a world power... In such a case we'd need to learn metric (and, possibly, a foreign language or two) in order to compete economically.
Ahh, I see where you are going. I would argue we would have much larger problems to worry about if this country sank to those levels. Dropping from a world power would (IMO) involve a civil war or a major homeland invasion. Metric system would be last on the list of our worries. Even with China emerging at the next major economic super power, I still think English will be the "language of business" going forward and cannot imagine any other language ever supplanting it.
If our government had any money today, I think changing over to the metric system would be a great economic boon. Imagine all the road signs, mile markers, books, maps, classroom materials, etc that would need to be changed. It would affect a wide variety of industries and lower our jobless rates significantly.
It also shows why hybrids have always been a horrible buy if you're just trying to save money. I can get a compact that gets 40 mpg for $5k-10k less than a prius. Hell, I can get a car that actually has good handling, 0-60 in less than 7 seconds and still gets over 30 mpg for less than the cost of a prius, and the prius will only save me a couple hundred a year in gas. It's never been worth it.
Exactly. That's why I am still driving my 2002 Pathfinder that gets 15-18 MPG. It's paid off. Why would I spend $20k+ to get a car that gets 30+ MPG? It's going to cost me a hell of a lot of money to save on my weekly gasoline bill. It's like women and shopping. Look how much money I saved!!! 60% off of x, y and z. But you still spent $1500!!!
More seriously - it would be costly to switch. I think when the US finally does switch to metric, it will be for economic reasons - if we hit a major slump and our people needed to start going to other countries for good jobs, then suddenly there would be a big drive to switch to metric... Short of that, I don't know what could possibly get us to switch.
Well, by most accounts we are in the worst economy since The Great Depression. Now seems like a good time to make that change to help the economy, wouldn't ya think?
Interesting. At a high level I can mostly agree with the stats. I am surprised that it has Ivory Coast with a higher percentage to advance than Portugal. Even with a healthy Drogba (not sure if he's going to play yet anyway) I don't see that happening.
Secondly it isn't just about stats at something like the world cup where there are very few second chances and It is a game where you can completely dominate the opposition and still lose to a single error or bad ref decision.
This. World Cup 2002, US loses to Germany. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/matches_wallchart/germany_v_usa/default.stm
That used to happen to me when I was younger when I drank coffee or some sort of soft drink (usually in the morning). I figured out it was because I had an empty stomach and was not used to that much caffeine. Fast forward 10+ years I can drink 3-4 cups of coffee on an empty stomach with no issues.
I agree. Last year I picked up a "Sierra Nevada Bigfoot" as I had never seen or had one before. Sat down on the couch and drank it down in 5 or 10 minutes. Got up a few minutes later and had a 2 second dizzy spell. I thought that was odd. Checked the bottle and it was 9.6% ABV. Normally 2 or 3 "regular" beers wouldn't even phase me, but I don't drink 2-3 beers in a 5-10 minute span normally either. I could definitely see your point of even higher ABV beers getting people in trouble. That being said, the tastes are typically so strong (to the point of being disgusting in a lot of cases) that your typical Bud drinker won't drink more than that first taste anyway.