$60 for a game, then $15 per month vs paying $60 for a game you're done with in a month, so then you're bored and go buy another one at $60.
Who do you think actually does that?
I'm not in dire economic straits or anything, but I wouldn't buy a $60 (heck, $50 or $40) game unless I was certain to get at least a good few months out of it. (i.e. Oblivion, Civilization, Mass Effect, Persona, etc.) It is a poor game that does not make me want to play it through at least twice.
Better yet, just buy it when it's on sale. I just purchased New Vegas for a few bucks from the Steam store. The game has now had the chance to mature, and will hopefully suffer from fewer of Bethesda's game-breaking bugs. I haven't played it yet, but I think it will guarantee at least a month or so of entertainment for the price of a burger and fries.
And I was never aware access to doctors was a problem.
Very much so.
My wife had friends (multiple) who died from a treatable heart condition because their limited HMO's did not and would not cover the doctors in the next city over who were quite well versed in the syndrome.
Saying "They have access to doctors, they just have to pay," [an argument that have seen elsewhere in this discussion] is comparable to saying that homelessness and hunger aren't issues as there are empty homes and uneaten food out there.
Now, this has nothing to do with Steve Jobs, I'll admit. I don't think that his Mercedes or parking habits have even a bit to do with what the Occupy movement is worried about. [Besides, TFA suggests that the "new Mercedes" was on paper only -- he simply renewed his regular lease at regular rates, it seems.] I just wanted to call attention to a serious issue that gets forgotten from time to time.
cellphone on WiFi lol not wife
I wondered about that... I figured I just didn't get the joke.
The truly old-school of us had our minds blown by the awesome upgrade of our first sound card.
Hey, I remember my amazement when I first upgraded from 128 kB to 640 kB of RAM.
It was so impressive, I figured 640k ought to be enough for anybody.
Yeah, kinda been waiting for Bulldozer to come and drop the price of some of the Phenom parts, but looks like it kinda did the opposite
Also for the longest time, Microcenter was throwing in a free (or greatly discounted expensive) motherboard with purchase of most AMD chips,
Yeah, I've been new-system-part-gathering these past few months, and was waiting for October 12th like a kid waits for Christmas. I figured one of two things would happen:
Instead, we saw option #3:
Yeah. Microcenter is offering some $120 - $180 off Intel Core i5/i7 CPU/motherboard combos, beating Newegg by a solid $100 or more, this month. It's pretty impressive.
And I'm jumping ship.
If I let you pick one value out of 2^10 = 1024, would you say that you have 10 bits of data or 1024 bits of data?
Well, actually, in my world of mixed signal and ADC design, we would refer to the resolution of the data as 10-bit. i.e. a 10 bit value. That 10 bit value can represent 1024 unique possibilities, or 1024 least-significant-bits (or, as we say, "bits") of data. For example, if our 10-bit ADC has 10 bits of error, then it is only a 1 % error.
Maybe it's an industry nomenclature thing. *shrug*
If my math is right, Planck's length as your resolution limit gives you 6.187x10^34 possible marking positions per meter of stick, which means you can encode about 115 bits with one mark on a 1m Planck-grade stick.
Not quite. You can record one 115 bit value, which is very different from 115 bits. a 115 bit value has 2^115 = 42 million billion billion billion (10^34) bits of information.
A slight difference.
Besides having basal ganglia that crave stimulation at a higher rate than others, creative people such as technologists also have higher short-term memory buffers, Hanson says. The brain of a stimulation-seeking, innovation-craving technologist is literally like a RAM drive with a larger buffer than most. The novelty-shy portion of the population gets easily flooded by incoming data. They need to slow down the incoming stream so as to process new information before moving it into the brain’s long-term storage, whereas the brain of an innovation-prone technologist handles data streams with greater speed and greater ease.
That doesn’t mean you’re smarter, but it does mean you’re prone to be innovative—innovation being equated with the stimulation brought by new things....
Lisa Vaas doesn't just make this a science experiment. She shares how to gauge a company’s innovation climate before swearing employee allegiance, with some insights into re-sanguination for anemic corporate climates. It involves a little knowledge of brain chemistry, and your readiness to ask five specific questions during a job interview."
People live in the cracks, meaning that chaos creates niches in which humanity can exist. Imagine if the world were perfectly efficient - you couldn't waste a second. Every waking moment would be accounted for, and you would consume no more than absolutely necessary to maintain your metabolism. You would be a human being encased in a metal life. Imagine how many more people the world could hold if we could only somehow get to absolute efficiency. 7 billion is nothing. Soylent Green is o
I had a friend who's drive was killed in a lightning strike. A friend of theirs swapped out the control board for another one. It physically fit, but released its magic smoke after just a few seconds.
Yeah. I missed "'s drive" the first time I read this comment. It seemed to be a very strange story.
Sometimes I sketch out an idea. For everything else, no paper.
Dry-erase whiteboards are amazing for this. In an average day at the office, I do far more doodling and scrawling on my giant whiteboard next to my desk than on the notepads lying around me.
...Easier to color-code, too.
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags. -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"
