The Too Hot Too Cold And I Need A Beer Legendary Complaint Thread
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complaint: my game launcher is downloading 5 GB worth of files at about 70 kilobytes per second.
I could play the game but the cinematic movies don't play smoothly because game needs to download them from the server while I am playing the game. The situation reminds me of play a Real Video clip on a dial-up modem back in the 1990s.
edit: fixed typo
hungry, but not enough moola for the mozzy garlic bread at the corner lunch place.
I am so sleepy and tired. Found out that McDonald's is giving free ice coffee so I am drinking that whiles waiting for the next bus.,
.,..for those of who cannot afford the electronic versions of books it is just another means of keeping people illiterate. This is what George Orwell warned us about.
I don't think I buy that. There are still public libraries in every city, and many community colleges have free library access, too. If someone wants to read a book, they can. There are still bookstores around, and there are a lot of used book stores around the country. And there are people who donate their used books because they don't like to keep them "cluttering" their apartments or homes. I've even seen used books for sale for $1 in bins in a grocery market. There are a lot of illiterate people even on the forums...people who can't form a proper sentence, don't know when to use their, there or they're. They have plenty of money to spend on the latest Stonemason sets, though. Yes, there are kids in inner cities who are poor and can't afford a Kindle. But books are available to them. Those that want to learn make an effort. Not to say that only the inner cities have poor people, they're everywhere. But in this day, illiteracy is inexcusable. School is still free, public libraries are still free, and there are teachers willing to spend the extra time with a child (no matter how old) or even an adult who wants to learn to read. Not just professional teachers, individuals who just care and want to make a difference, and have the temperament to teach.
My concern is that if books are totally abandoned and destroyed to "make space for progress" or whatever, and we are hit with a few well placed EMP's, it would be all over for this country. We all depend too much on our electronics. Cashiers at the market or department store don't know how to count out change...they give you what the register says is due back for change. And they'd never be able to figure out how much tax to charge for an item. In Massachusetts the sales tax is 6.25 %. How many can figure that out on an item that costs $49.95? How many understand the concepts of rounding? It's a scary thing.
Dana
Is that related to the Blue Max? %-P
Dana
There are free ebooks out there if you know where to look. Just need a tablet or something like that to read it. I have tons of free ebooks on my tablet. I just need to read them all.
There was a book my grandpa was reading that something similar happened. 'Clear as the Moon'
"...The United States, stunned by the nuclear detonation in Washington, D.C., and further crippled by the EMP attack on the whole country, is on the brink of destruction. The unscrupulous leaders who have banded together to toss out the Constitution and divide the ruling of the world between themselves have all but achieved their objective."
i want to read books but then i worry about my Sims Petz, what are they doing when i'm not playing?
they need to be fed, baths, and they need play time. sometimes they run away.
for those about to rock bam we saloot yooo
for those about for those about weee salooot yooo
WBAB :lol:
:bug: i need that enchanted forest. :bug: :bug: the emperor's ships in my universe's space fleet are powered by their pearl chambers.
I am so tired I had difficulty logging into DIM but now I am logged into and it is downloading. I want to go take a nap but I also want to do something but I do not know what.
I went to play with Carrara but it wants my Serial number.
Look it up in your account...there is a menu option called My Serial Numbers, in your dashboard.
Dana
Look it up in your account...there is a menu option called My Serial Numbers, in your dashboard.
Dana
Thanks that worked.
I want to do something for Julie.
Morning. A little chill in the air just after dawn but sunny on the inside cos today is the last of this job and should be a short one looking forward to some RnR :)
Does Julie have her own uv set?
Dropped a sentence from my last post meh running on empty, beyond being tired don't know what I was trying to say except boy am I glad this is all over today heh. On the upside the sun haz peeked out from the clouds. And I found my sweater this morning yay ! :lol:
Thanks that worked.
I want to do something for Julie.
You're welcome!
Dana
Hee, Ixerin (A very good paleontology artist, especially with raptors) had this on her personal webpage displaying whenever the typical "File Not Found" error comes up. :)
404 - Raptor Not Found? :lol:
A cruise ship called the Queen Mary was in the Melbourne harbour a few weeks ago, was about 250 feet tall and 1000 feet long :)
I don't think I buy that. There are still public libraries in every city, and many community colleges have free library access, too. If someone wants to read a book, they can. There are still bookstores around, and there are a lot of used book stores around the country. And there are people who donate their used books because they don't like to keep them "cluttering" their apartments or homes. I've even seen used books for sale for $1 in bins in a grocery market. There are a lot of illiterate people even on the forums...people who can't form a proper sentence, don't know when to use their, there or they're. They have plenty of money to spend on the latest Stonemason sets, though. Yes, there are kids in inner cities who are poor and can't afford a Kindle. But books are available to them. Those that want to learn make an effort. Not to say that only the inner cities have poor people, they're everywhere. But in this day, illiteracy is inexcusable. School is still free, public libraries are still free, and there are teachers willing to spend the extra time with a child (no matter how old) or even an adult who wants to learn to read. Not just professional teachers, individuals who just care and want to make a difference, and have the temperament to teach.
My concern is that if books are totally abandoned and destroyed to "make space for progress" or whatever, and we are hit with a few well placed EMP's, it would be all over for this country. We all depend too much on our electronics. Cashiers at the market or department store don't know how to count out change...they give you what the register says is due back for change. And they'd never be able to figure out how much tax to charge for an item. In Massachusetts the sales tax is 6.25 %. How many can figure that out on an item that costs $49.95? How many understand the concepts of rounding? It's a scary thing.
Dana
...granted I feel fortunate to be in a location with one of the biggest bookstores in the nation. If they don't have it they can get in in short order.
Yeah, I was taking the extreme Orwellian outlook, but that isn't to say it couldn't happen in certain circumstances. Maybe not on a global scale but that's not to say it couldn't occur given the right conditions in a small nation such as where my story takes place.
I do agree about our over-dependance on electronic gadgets and increased automation. Math skills in particular have suffered with the advent of calculators and computers. I wonder if anyone still knows how to do long division or solve algebraic equations anymore. Even spelling skills are suspect as word processors and even Net browsers have spell check capability which offers suggested spellings one can just click on. For someone like myself who is mildly dyslexic I do admit they are a real help. MS Word (and I'm sure WordPerfect as well) even has grammar checking. based on different writing styles. With so many of the basic skills being "automated" yes, people can become "lazy". MS Excel is why I was able to do accounting work without having extensive formal study in accounting. Just go to the formula wizard, pick the required formula, plug it into the appropriate cell, enter my values, and let the software, not my brain, do the number crunching.
Even the art of writing a letter seems to pretty much be disappearing as well, replaced by emails, texts, tweets, chats, and online forms.
Automation is also why many occupations are in a state of decline, and in some cases even have disappeared, which in turn affects available job opportunities. In other cases, changes in software and technology can suddenly leave people out in the cold. For example, I have an excellent understanding of Word and Excel (2000), however a good portion of what I know about using them is now useless due to the complete makeover these applications received. Basically, to become employable in an occupation I did for over ten years, I have to pay to take classes (at a 2 year college) and pretty much relearn everything all over again. That wasn't the case back in the days of typewriters, ledger books, and pencils with erasers.
As to the vulnerability of our toys, one massive solar flare could also wreak havoc as well knocking out communications, weather satellites, GPS, even the networks we depend on to run these forums. There was such an event recently however, fortunately it was not directed at Earth. Had it hit us, it would have done serious damage to our satellite arrays and possibly even some electronics here on the planet's surface.
There is also ongoing research into developing non nuclear EMP devices.
Imagine all those engineers today trained only in using the latest CAD applications suddenly having to rely on the "old school" drafting tools, paper, and slide rules (I still have mine). Then there's telecommunications which we as a society cannot seem to live without anymore. I was at a pub recently and just about everyone sitting at the bar was texting or Googling on their smartphones or their mini tablets. I thought a pub was a place to gather for a pint or two and socialise with the other patrons there. When I see this, I like to think sometimes what would happen should all those smartphones and tablets go blank? We pretty much dismantled our old analog phone system (try and find a telephone box these days) and many homes as well as even some businesses no longer even depend on a "land line" anymore.
Before the days of inertial guidance and GPS, airliners had to be navigated the "old way" by either ground reference or taking sightings of the sun moon and stars (which is why planes had those small windows above the main flight deck windscreen and side view ones) and comparing that with the plane's compass readings, airspeed, and time aloft. Flying on instruments when the weather turned bad was a very tricky operation that required utmost precision as well as uninterrupted communication with the various en route control centres and/or tower (when landing).
Flight crews used to be composed of three to four members: Pilot, Copilot, Flight Engineer and sometimes Navigator. Today that workload is now split between just the Captain and First Officer. With all the advanced flight deck automation, both have effectively become computer operators as well as pilots.
With on-board computers, uplinks, and GPS, today's jetliners can effectively "find" their way in weather that would have forced diversions or grounding, detect a potential collision threat, and pinpoint their location and course. True all this technology has made air travel more efficient and much safer, but it also makes the aircraft more vulnerable to electromagnetic disturbances. Just take a look at an Airbus flight deck sometime, the traditional "Control Yoke" has been replaced with what is effectively a laptop keypad, "Thrustmaster™" like joystick, and all the instrumentation is on flat panel displays instead of the traditional dials and gauges. One bad "zap" or bug in the programming, and the BSOD could take on a very real meaning.
There is a science fiction novel I read by the English author Patrick Tilley titled Fade-Out which involves the effect of an EMP-like event on a global scale. Though a bit dated, it is still an interesting read.
...ugh timeout again, of course sending me to the account page rather than back to the thread. Fortunately I have taken to backing up my posts.
She has materials that are made for her, but they are based on Victoria 4 uv's.
julie makes for a cute catworld. :)
whatz for dinner?
hmm
making chocolate milk. and toasting a corn muffin on a cookie sheet with melty butter on it. mmm yumma
...no, she uses the V4 UV.
I honestly think MORE people can read as a result of computing and electronics
just the grammar sucks!
but that is also due to the spoken language
and I am a prime example, I type the way I speak mostly, writing you tend to put more thought into it and form proper sentences.
I now say things that would have my primary teacher mother turn in her grave if she had one (she was cremated)
It is just the way my peers speak and trying to phrase things correctly makes you stand apart which does not bode well if you are already having issues fitting in.
Maths I have to use, at least knowing how many products in a tray and loose ones to fill an order on the picking line, us oldies shake our heads in diselief as the youngums read and reread the picking slip to work it out then repack 36 pies from a tray of 48.
and hell I miss spell check posting on the forum from android!!!
A cruise ship called the Queen Mary was in the Melbourne harbour a few weeks ago, was about 250 feet tall and 1000 feet long :)
...the Queen Mary II is indeed huge. During the summer season she makes transatlantic crossings between New York and Southampton. One of my "Lotto dream" trips is to take the train (sleeper car) all the way across the country. and then the QM II to England. That would be total class. Flying lost all it's appeal after the Concorde went out of service.
Catching some UV's myself right now, has got real sunny here this morning after a cool start to the day :)
...Vicky4s? Aiko3s? David5s? ;-)
we have rain and thunder
...the Queen Mary II is indeed huge. During the summer season she makes transatlantic crossings between New York and Southampton. One of my "Lotto dream" trips is to take the train (sleeper car) all the way across the country. and then the QM II to England. That would be total class. Flying lost all it's appeal after the Concorde went out of service.
There were two of them anchored in the bay at the same time, huge with sheer windowed sides like floating apartment blocks, quite dazzling :)