Comment Re:Just what the world needs (Score 1) 319
Ummm... the B-1B is Mach 1.25.
Ummm... the B-1B is Mach 1.25.
You are assuming you will never have a significant medical need. This is a very poor assumption and it is obvious that you are not capable of doing the necessary risk/cost calculations. Bear in mind that one hospitalization will run you $10k, if you need to have a major procedure done that will likely cost you $25k or more. These are just for one time events. If you get a chronic condition, these numbers can go way up.
The reason insurance is required under the new plan is that people are stupid and short sighted.
Not really. I didn't (and basically still don't) care about streaming video and other high bandwidth activities, I just wanted the damn browser to display things properly. These were all issues that existed for BB in the 3G era and hitching it to the roll out of 4G is a bit of revisionist history.
It was a 9700. I really liked many of the devices features, particularly the keyboard and battery life. WRT the browser, there were lots of sites that wouldn't display properly and the small screen made surfing for anything but the most basic of information an exercise in frustration. Speed was never an issue for me. I was considering getting a Torch, but a number of my coworkers had them and the reviews were uniformly bad.
When my BB broke last year I ended up replacing it with an iPhone 4. There are many things about the iPhone that annoy the piss out of me. The UI is far less intuitive than the apple fan-base would have you believe and there is no unified contact management and messaging as there is on a BB.
The browser on the iPhone works perfectly and I can even read the NY Times on it without too much trouble when the situation calls for it.
I was mostly happy with my BlackBerry Bold, but the real issue for me wasn't apps, it was the shitty web browser and small screen. The killer app for smart phones is the Web. If they managed to get that to work seamlessly, they would have kept their customer base and app developers. What did them in was that the Torch was a buggy piece of crap. The UI for email and contacts and all the other communication functions is already superior to the the iPhone.
Nonsense! There are quite a few games where I would love to have a separate screen. With FPS's you could put the map, more detailed injury status, inventory and all sorts of things that might make for new and interesting game play. RPG's would derive a huge benefit as well in that you wouldn't need to waste game real estate on status, configuration or other information.
Your issue is that you are imagining today's game elements moved onto a second screen. I agree that this would merely be a marginal improvement, though one which I would welcome. Instead consider how the second screen and all that lovely space can be used to improve the game in various ways.
How do you fit QA into those classes? For us, this includes performance testing, not just functional and regression.
There is certainly a benefit to spending a lot of money on engineering, never the less horsepower is a function of fuel burned. If you prefer the comparison, my Subaru WRX gets 18/25 at 228 HP with AWD.
That's not very good for 2 wheel drive and ~ 240 HP. My 911 Turbo gets 16/23 with AWD and 470 HP.
I think some game had inverted Y axis as the default, or it seemed more intuitive when I first started playing games that allowed you to look up and down.
For me this was Mechwarrior, mainly because it is more like a sim than a shooter. To this day I play every game with a first person view with the mouse inverted. All the 20 somethings I hang out with think its weird.
All my paid bills go into a big cardboard box next to my desk. It's like putting them in a garbage can except they never get thrown out. No filing or sorting - just a chronological pile. This way I can look at them if I feel like doing research to accurately answer Slashdot poll questions. Shredding and disposal would be a lot more work.
I was curious, so I just spent the last 10 minutes sifting through previous bills to look up the monthly consumption for the last 2 years and enter it into a spreadsheet. This year it will be about 5200 kWH while the year before it was about 5800. I'm not sure what I did, but its an 11% drop.
Bear in mind the list of recent presidents that were not lawyers:
George W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
Ronald Regan
Jimmy Carter
I dislike the litigious nature of our society as much as the next guy, but non lawyer seems to be a poor choice of filter.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.