Comment Re:Oh yeah? I once had a (Score 1) 409
WOW, you must be really useless!
No, that's "WOW64, you must be really useless!
WOW, you must be really useless!
No, that's "WOW64, you must be really useless!
We have a winner!
I never could make up my mind on the whole "boxen" thing. Some days it was irritating enough to kill over. Other days it would just slip out, like "pop" instead of "coke" from the lips of a southerner forced to live in chicago for too long.
The germanized plural of "box" is simply a nod to our Northern European professionals. I use it when I'm feelin' a bit deutsche.
At a minimum it does seem to show ones age though...
It's not age, it's seasoning.
The polarization is because of the left wing agenda pushed by Obama. You see it when the poor rise up and congratulate the new pope while simultaneously agreeing to farm subsidies for Monsanto
We have a winner!
Yeah, this stuff sounds like it was generated by a "troll" generator, similar to the old buzzword generators.
Yeah, I remember those. Still want one. Modded for kybd/mouse/trak/joy/wand operations.
None of that is free and those costs must be passed on to the consumer somehow to at least break even and stay alive as a business.
True, and actually, I believe that "break even" puts it in the category of a non-profit org. I once commented on the price of some replacement bolts at a small mfg company that I worked at. The prez of the company replied that he has to make a profit on everything, else he'll go out of business.
Indeed, who needs ad revenue when Uncle Sam's paying for it with taxes?
Absolutely. Since the gov needs to have good meteorological forecasts for military operations, it only makes sense for them to release to the public, since, as you say, we're paying for it anyways.
Pictures or it didn't happen.
HHTTG. Great read. I've also heard it applied to orbital mechanics, something like "aim yourself at the planet, but keep missing".
Paraphrasing Madeleine Albright: "What's the point of having such a powerful military, if we never use it?"
It's there, so we use it. If it weren't there, we wouldn't be using it.
Yep. In the various civ games I play, typically I start out as a mind-your-own-business type. So inevitably, some local civs/tribes/whatever attack. I build up an effective defensive military. Bigger players come along and attack. I build up more. Eventually it comes to "the best defense is a good offense". If Empire X is going to be a constant issue, well, let's just take care of 'em while we have the armies in the field.
It tends to win. So, is it a Machiavellian/Sun Tzu principle? Is it my Western mindset? The mindset of the game devs? All of the above?
* Not intended to be a factual statement
I don't care what tech level you're at or what you look like: there's still an m in the kinetic energy equation. Whatever your transportation goals are, they get more difficult the heavier your vehicle is.
Perhaps they've found some way to produce energy from mass.
When Curiosity was in the planning stages, 2gb for a comp was a major improvement. At some point they had to freeze the specs. If they had tried to keep up with Moore's Law, I doubt we'd have a functioning vehicle.
As far as bureaucracy goes, I hate it as much as the next person, maybe more. I wish humanity could come up with something better to ensure the success of complex projects.
It's a dog eat dog world.
Interesting studies. I gotta go take a nap, er, 1st sleep.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
