Well they have an unusual definition of missing the boat, seeing as they are the second largest players in the Wii market, second only to Nintendo themselves. Hopefully you're right though.
You first quote wikipedia stating how coherent light can damage eyes. Agreed, by all accounts it does. You then incorrectly infer that this means incoherent light is safe. You missed the other money quote:
Some sources such as NATO and the U.S. Department of Defense state that "flash blindness" can be temporary or permanent.[2]
Even considering using devices that could cause permanent blindness is evil. Sometimes the US is characterised correctly.
I'm not against MS getting into OSS, it would be great, but as far as I can tell this is just a statement that their customers are open source proponents, not MS themselves. I read about the OSSL making a plugin so Firefox would work in Vista. Do you know of any projects that aren't so blatantly in Microsofts self interest and are more user focused?
Not a bad idea. How about, more practically, having a committee of a dozen or so expert poker players who all make suggestions for a hand to a head player (the coach) who proceeds to play the computer.
I think that shows how far removed from a traditional smoky table poker game this is though, analysing your opponent through factors other than the cards and bets is missing. Still, many people already play seriously online without such benefits, so it's not too contrived.
I think he's talking about that holdem game, where you get dealt two cards. By suited pair he just meant two cards of the same suit, not pair as in the winning hand. Confusing but consistent with the rest of his comment.
There's also the corollary that language sounds, especially 'mama', 'papa', 'dada' are evolved from baby speech, sort of wishful thinking from parents. It's not just babies imitating sounds, adults also ascribe meaning to these most probably meaningless sounds from their baby.
Finnish Vowel Orthography English (or Other) Equivalent
a - "uh" as in the name "Dullah" aa - "ah" as in "father" ä - similar to "a" as in "hat" (consider German ä) ää - similar to "bad" but without the glide e - "eh" as in "met" ee - longer "eh", no real English equivalent i - "ih" as in "sit" ii - long "ee" as in "read" o - "aw" (but without the drawl) as in "cot" oo - like British "sort" ö - like British "erm" (consider German ö) öö - Like British "further" u - halfway between the sound in "foot" and "boot" uu - like "shoot" but further back in the mouth y - similar to French u or German ü yy - longer version of y, somewhat like Scottish "stew" ai - "eye" as in English "line" äi - "eh-y" as in Australian "say" ei - "eh-ee" as in "day" but with both vowels full oi - "oy" as in "toy" but with both vowels full öi - like Bronx "heard" ui - like "ooh-ee" but far back in the mouth yi - consider Chinese/üi/ au - "ow" as in "sour" ou - "oh" as in "owe" eu - "eh-oo" but without glides iu - "ee-oo" but without glides, similar to Portuguese äy - no English equivalent (ä+y) öy - similar to British "oh" ie - similar to Spanish "sierra" uo - "oo-oh" but without glides yö - no English equivalent (ö+y)
Reminds me of that lonely ISA port MB makers sometimes still slap on at the end of the PCIe/AGP/PCI slots. It's as quaint as those RS232 ports they have next to the 4 USB connectors. Yeah, I predict there will be a lonely IDE port probably near the floppy port just for old times sake, probably until they ditch the floppy port (ie. no time soon)
The basic method of subsidies is fixed prices paid to farmers which don't reflect market prices, which do go to all American farmers when they sell their crops. The first link you provide just shows why the subsidies are bad for the rest of the world. The second link just shows the consolidation of small farms is growing, so of course the share of subsidies that large farms receive is growing. It's been happening since farming became corporatised agribusiness. All farmers of certain crops are still being heavily subsidised.
You've got it right, it's mostly corporate welfare, not mom & pop farmers scratching a living, but they both benefit. The industries involved would suffer massive collapse if the farmers and corporations were being paid the market rate. Which by all rights it should collapse, they shouldn't be growing unprofitable crops and expecting taxpayers to prop them up in the first place.
Well except our monopoly phone provider is also our monopoly cable provider, yeah we did basically the same thing. Great competition in the old days transitioning from BBSs to ISPs on dialup, then at least a decade of stagnation as Telstra entered the arena.
Remember their $29.99/month ADSL plan while they were charging other ISPs over $32/month just to access the network? They trot out excuses of population density and other red herrings while continuing their predatory robber baron ways and holding us all back.
My capital city only got ADSL2+ after regulators stepped in and forced Telstra to allow ISPs to set up their own hardware in the substations. It still took Telstra over a year to make their own offering, while local companies rolled out their own networks.
We have a huge catch up job to do, but be happy that at least both sides of politics consider it a major election issue.
So it's OK to treat paying customers like pirates? You just justified the GPs point, that the publisher should make them cheap or free with ads or expensive without. Being both expensive and with ads is hardly a way to discourage piracy, it just gives extra excuses to justify it.
They exist to me already. It's a subjective thing anyway, appreciation of art. I see Tetris as high art. It has a transcendent beauty unparalleled by conventional art. Take Knuths stance on this topic of whether software is art or not - he says source code is art, and I agree.
Bedfords law doesn't apply when you are comparing less than an order of magnitude. You are artificially overrepresenting 1 and 2 by limiting at 255. The law is also invariant of base, so in hex those bits would range from 0x00 to 0xff, with the digits 0-f represented equally in a truly random distribution.
The law is based on non-random numbers to start with, and is due to the fact that the logarithms of these collected samples tend to have an even distribution, giving a skewed distribution of first digits.
Silly statisticians miss the point. Why do all portrayals of the great bard have him bearded? Monkeys were often used as assistants and servants hundreds of years ago, why not use one as a scriptwriter? How else do you explain all the strange spelling and random line breaks? History proves Shakespeare was a monkey without a shadow of a doubt, regardless of silly mathematicians trying to compare the immortal poet, or any other monkey at a typewriter with random numbers. A chimpanzee shares 99.7% of our DNA, yet we call them random number generators? Pseudoscientific quackery at its worst.
You missed the important "pick the numbers from large pre-compiled databases of numbers" part that makes it pseudo random. The database is a mere subset of purely random, and the picking method is still only pseudo random.
Let's say you have a rocket that lets you travel fast enough to time travel (relative to a fixed observer) into the future. Abe jumps in the rocket, Bea stays home. All that happens is both Abe and Bea are time traveling into the future, just at different rates relative to each other. So Bea is older than Abe upon his return , but she hasn't traveled into Abe's past. She's just gone a longer distance to get to the same point, while Abe took a shortcut.
There's still no going backwards into the past for either Bea or Abe, forward motion is the only one possible under Einstein's laws. Hear (links to mp3)Sir Roger Penrose and Dr. Kip Thorne discussing this on talkback radio, starting around the 4 minute mark.
You don't get it. If there was nothing going on they would have replied 'No, we are completely secure and always have been and always will' instead of 'No comment. Nothing to see here. Move along'.
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Well they have an unusual definition of missing the boat, seeing as they are the second largest players in the Wii market, second only to Nintendo themselves. Hopefully you're right though.
Nobody would have noticed the complete absence of meaningful dialogue and random plot.
Even considering using devices that could cause permanent blindness is evil. Sometimes the US is characterised correctly.
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I'm not against MS getting into OSS, it would be great, but as far as I can tell this is just a statement that their customers are open source proponents, not MS themselves. I read about the OSSL making a plugin so Firefox would work in Vista. Do you know of any projects that aren't so blatantly in Microsofts self interest and are more user focused?
I think that shows how far removed from a traditional smoky table poker game this is though, analysing your opponent through factors other than the cards and bets is missing. Still, many people already play seriously online without such benefits, so it's not too contrived.
I think he's talking about that holdem game, where you get dealt two cards. By suited pair he just meant two cards of the same suit, not pair as in the winning hand. Confusing but consistent with the rest of his comment.
There's also the corollary that language sounds, especially 'mama', 'papa', 'dada' are evolved from baby speech, sort of wishful thinking from parents. It's not just babies imitating sounds, adults also ascribe meaning to these most probably meaningless sounds from their baby.
Finnish Vowel Orthography English (or Other) Equivalent
/üi/
a - "uh" as in the name "Dullah"
aa - "ah" as in "father"
ä - similar to "a" as in "hat" (consider German ä)
ää - similar to "bad" but without the glide
e - "eh" as in "met"
ee - longer "eh", no real English equivalent
i - "ih" as in "sit"
ii - long "ee" as in "read"
o - "aw" (but without the drawl) as in "cot"
oo - like British "sort"
ö - like British "erm" (consider German ö)
öö - Like British "further"
u - halfway between the sound in "foot" and "boot"
uu - like "shoot" but further back in the mouth
y - similar to French u or German ü
yy - longer version of y, somewhat like Scottish "stew"
ai - "eye" as in English "line"
äi - "eh-y" as in Australian "say"
ei - "eh-ee" as in "day" but with both vowels full
oi - "oy" as in "toy" but with both vowels full
öi - like Bronx "heard"
ui - like "ooh-ee" but far back in the mouth
yi - consider Chinese
au - "ow" as in "sour"
ou - "oh" as in "owe"
eu - "eh-oo" but without glides
iu - "ee-oo" but without glides, similar to Portuguese
äy - no English equivalent (ä+y)
öy - similar to British "oh"
ie - similar to Spanish "sierra"
uo - "oo-oh" but without glides
yö - no English equivalent (ö+y)
Reminds me of that lonely ISA port MB makers sometimes still slap on at the end of the PCIe/AGP/PCI slots. It's as quaint as those RS232 ports they have next to the 4 USB connectors. Yeah, I predict there will be a lonely IDE port probably near the floppy port just for old times sake, probably until they ditch the floppy port (ie. no time soon)
Carlton United 93, a movie of the fated flight.
You've got it right, it's mostly corporate welfare, not mom & pop farmers scratching a living, but they both benefit. The industries involved would suffer massive collapse if the farmers and corporations were being paid the market rate. Which by all rights it should collapse, they shouldn't be growing unprofitable crops and expecting taxpayers to prop them up in the first place.
Remember their $29.99/month ADSL plan while they were charging other ISPs over $32/month just to access the network? They trot out excuses of population density and other red herrings while continuing their predatory robber baron ways and holding us all back.
My capital city only got ADSL2+ after regulators stepped in and forced Telstra to allow ISPs to set up their own hardware in the substations. It still took Telstra over a year to make their own offering, while local companies rolled out their own networks.
We have a huge catch up job to do, but be happy that at least both sides of politics consider it a major election issue.
So it's OK to treat paying customers like pirates? You just justified the GPs point, that the publisher should make them cheap or free with ads or expensive without. Being both expensive and with ads is hardly a way to discourage piracy, it just gives extra excuses to justify it.
They exist to me already. It's a subjective thing anyway, appreciation of art. I see Tetris as high art. It has a transcendent beauty unparalleled by conventional art. Take Knuths stance on this topic of whether software is art or not - he says source code is art, and I agree.
It's not just about some western value system.
That boring and pretentious canned laughter reliant sitcom known as Seinfeld.
Wasn't there also a lot of legacy 16-bit Windows code in 3.1 and 95, especially in the drivers?
The law is based on non-random numbers to start with, and is due to the fact that the logarithms of these collected samples tend to have an even distribution, giving a skewed distribution of first digits.
Silly statisticians miss the point. Why do all portrayals of the great bard have him bearded? Monkeys were often used as assistants and servants hundreds of years ago, why not use one as a scriptwriter? How else do you explain all the strange spelling and random line breaks? History proves Shakespeare was a monkey without a shadow of a doubt, regardless of silly mathematicians trying to compare the immortal poet, or any other monkey at a typewriter with random numbers. A chimpanzee shares 99.7% of our DNA, yet we call them random number generators? Pseudoscientific quackery at its worst.
You missed the important "pick the numbers from large pre-compiled databases of numbers" part that makes it pseudo random. The database is a mere subset of purely random, and the picking method is still only pseudo random.
There's still no going backwards into the past for either Bea or Abe, forward motion is the only one possible under Einstein's laws. Hear (links to mp3)Sir Roger Penrose and Dr. Kip Thorne discussing this on talkback radio, starting around the 4 minute mark.
x = [R+scos(1/2t)]cost
y = [R+scos(1/2t)]sint
z = ssin(1/2t)
for s in [-w,w] and t in [0,2pi).
With interactive pictures!
You should turn back, it's taken me twice as long of a hike to get back to the bottom, and I'm still going.
You don't get it. If there was nothing going on they would have replied 'No, we are completely secure and always have been and always will' instead of 'No comment. Nothing to see here. Move along'.