Not even on the list? WTF? I could play that over and over.
Super Mario Bros 3 not on there? There wasn't a kid in school that wasn't dying to play this game when it came out, and it lived up to every expectation. It's still great.
Good to see a nice showing for RTS's, but leaving out the entire Age of Empires series is a mistake.
I might be alone here, but personally, Age of Mythology is the best RTS I've ever played, and would be near the very top of my all-time list.
I think it's odd that people who rabidly rebel against anyone who says anything contradicting the idea of evolution are also the people who constantly are trying to preserve "nature" in some pristine ideallic state.
It's counterintuitive as hell. Why are environmentalists constantly trying to stop evolution?
There are a couple of things wrong with your statement.
First, medical care isn't the only thing that affects life expectancy, nor are they directly proportional. The culture in the U.S. and the average person's diet and exercise regimen may have as much or more to do with how long they live than the quality of medical care.
Second, we live in a competitive country and world. Paying twice as much as other countries for medical care doesn't surprise me in the least, since we typically pay more than that for just about everything else. Do you think people in Cuba all buy $200,000 houses? I don't think so. Yet that's common here.
In fact, normalized to the cost of living in any place, twice as much doesn't sound bad at all.
Maybe it's bad for consumers who don't stop and think for 5 seconds before spending $1000. But Lenovo would be stupid to do something like that, because they'd lose a whole bunch of business to Dell, Gateway, Apple, etc.
"That said, yeah, a lot of new music has been so overprocessed and made loud [performermag.com] that the they don't really benefit much from a CD. "
Actually, I recently ripped a bunch of CD's to MP3 to listen to in the car, using 192kbps, since at that point, I have to A/B most songs to hear a difference in quality.
To my surprise, the one album that sounded the worst in MP3 was Oasis's "What's the Story, Morning Glory?" Cymbals sounded like they were being struck under water, the whole thing was obviously horrible, much more so than the CD.
My guess is that the problem is that since that CD was compressed so much, all of the frequencies on it are about equal volume at any given time, making it really difficult for the MP3 algorithm to figure out which frequency is masked or not. The result is that the transfer from CD to MP3 was made the difference much more obvious than normal.
I know that's not exactly what you were getting at, but when you consider that most CD's that come out are recorded like this, it doesn't bode well for those of us who want small MP3's to play in the car.
It's crossed my mind that music industry might still be pushing the compressed dynamic range sound for this exact reason -- to make mp3's sound bad.
Link's up above. We could use an Indian translation, and I'd be happy to help you along as time would allow, although my time is limited lately. You'd also have the opportunity to learn C++, C, BASIC, Lisp, Flex/Bison, and Qt, as we use them all, and you'd get pretty good at writing a compiler and interpreter.
I have a car loan from my bank at 4.25% and a CD at 6% with them. In the CD is the cash I was going to use to pay for the car.
It certainly is possible to find loans at better rates and make money investing the cash instead.
Also, when taxes enter into the equation (mortgage interest is tax deductible in the US), it's not always in your best interest to pay off the mortgage instead of saving, especially if you have a very low fixed-rate mortgage.
I've thought about that, and you're right, but there are substantial costs associated with transferring cash, too. (Armored car, trips to bank, clerk error, etc.)
And in order for that 3% surcharge to go away (and it's not quite that high) everyone would have to stop using credit cards. If you're the only one paying cash, you don't get the rewards, and you won't be making enough of a difference to lower prices, either.
The CC companies have forced themselves into a nice position.
If I'm going to invest in a company, I'd like to see a return on that investment that is at least as good as the market average. Otherwise, I'm better off with an index fund or some other type of investment.
It's not good enough for a public company to simply make a profit, since it's competing for investment dollars with all other public companies. The company has to be seen as an investment that will generate greater returns than the various other investment options out there.
While it may seem silly that a profitable company is still "in trouble," this is the risk that is taken when a company goes public. A private company could make $1 net profit, and that's $1 more than it needs to survive.
A fox, eh? Spoiled rich kids who could afford foxes would have been laughed out of my neighborhood.
We had to slingshot the bits, but since there was no way to know if you got a zero, we had to paint the bits first. Red was 1, blue was 0.
A clever way we increased throughput was to use a repetition code, so each volley would have about 5 of the same bit. It was tiring to do, though, and a lot of bits were wasted when they hit trees.
"After all, the usual argument is that if something can develop into a human then it should be considered to be a human even before it develops into a human."
I think the pro-lifers might have something to say about the human-intervention aspect. Namely, that something that could develop into a human being given nine months of waiting is fundamentally different than a cell used as an ingredient in a laboratory process to create embryos.
The Catholic church, for example, firmly opposes abortion but does not support continuation of any life through "extraordinary" means, to include most life-support systems.
Or maybe all those anti-abortion people are just really, really, really stupid. Certainly is easier to argue against them that way, huh?
"Say you left a bag of candy bars on a park bench where 100s of children play daily. When you go back the next day to retrieve it, it's gone. What would the police say?"
Worse than that. Say you left a duffel bag of baseball bats and gloves, and when you came back, you found the kids had used them to play a quick game and then put them back.
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Oh NO they did NOT!
They bettah check themselves, because they a bunch a' stank hoes over at Minisodes. MmmmmHMMM!
Not even on the list? WTF? I could play that over and over.
Super Mario Bros 3 not on there? There wasn't a kid in school that wasn't dying to play this game when it came out, and it lived up to every expectation. It's still great.
Good to see a nice showing for RTS's, but leaving out the entire Age of Empires series is a mistake.
I might be alone here, but personally, Age of Mythology is the best RTS I've ever played, and would be near the very top of my all-time list.
Please to be using nylon rope, sir!
I will have none of that chafing rope in my store.
I do not understand theese not joke, please to allow me to try one?
Theese peoples who say not jokes, they are NOT cool.
Oh, I get eet now! Bwahaha!
I think it's odd that people who rabidly rebel against anyone who says anything contradicting the idea of evolution are also the people who constantly are trying to preserve "nature" in some pristine ideallic state.
It's counterintuitive as hell. Why are environmentalists constantly trying to stop evolution?
There are a couple of things wrong with your statement.
First, medical care isn't the only thing that affects life expectancy, nor are they directly proportional. The culture in the U.S. and the average person's diet and exercise regimen may have as much or more to do with how long they live than the quality of medical care.
Second, we live in a competitive country and world. Paying twice as much as other countries for medical care doesn't surprise me in the least, since we typically pay more than that for just about everything else. Do you think people in Cuba all buy $200,000 houses? I don't think so. Yet that's common here.
In fact, normalized to the cost of living in any place, twice as much doesn't sound bad at all.
Maybe it's bad for consumers who don't stop and think for 5 seconds before spending $1000. But Lenovo would be stupid to do something like that, because they'd lose a whole bunch of business to Dell, Gateway, Apple, etc.
"That said, yeah, a lot of new music has been so overprocessed and made loud [performermag.com] that the they don't really benefit much from a CD. "
Actually, I recently ripped a bunch of CD's to MP3 to listen to in the car, using 192kbps, since at that point, I have to A/B most songs to hear a difference in quality.
To my surprise, the one album that sounded the worst in MP3 was Oasis's "What's the Story, Morning Glory?" Cymbals sounded like they were being struck under water, the whole thing was obviously horrible, much more so than the CD.
My guess is that the problem is that since that CD was compressed so much, all of the frequencies on it are about equal volume at any given time, making it really difficult for the MP3 algorithm to figure out which frequency is masked or not. The result is that the transfer from CD to MP3 was made the difference much more obvious than normal.
I know that's not exactly what you were getting at, but when you consider that most CD's that come out are recorded like this, it doesn't bode well for those of us who want small MP3's to play in the car.
It's crossed my mind that music industry might still be pushing the compressed dynamic range sound for this exact reason -- to make mp3's sound bad.
You still have time. And it's midsts, with a d. Unless it's particularly foggy in the classrooms at your school.
Link's up above. We could use an Indian translation, and I'd be happy to help you along as time would allow, although my time is limited lately. You'd also have the opportunity to learn C++, C, BASIC, Lisp, Flex/Bison, and Qt, as we use them all, and you'd get pretty good at writing a compiler and interpreter.
A train of thought.
Boolean is all you need. Now we just need to teach people to think in binary...
I have a car loan from my bank at 4.25% and a CD at 6% with them. In the CD is the cash I was going to use to pay for the car.
It certainly is possible to find loans at better rates and make money investing the cash instead.
Also, when taxes enter into the equation (mortgage interest is tax deductible in the US), it's not always in your best interest to pay off the mortgage instead of saving, especially if you have a very low fixed-rate mortgage.
I've thought about that, and you're right, but there are substantial costs associated with transferring cash, too. (Armored car, trips to bank, clerk error, etc.)
And in order for that 3% surcharge to go away (and it's not quite that high) everyone would have to stop using credit cards. If you're the only one paying cash, you don't get the rewards, and you won't be making enough of a difference to lower prices, either.
The CC companies have forced themselves into a nice position.
This mirrors my experience. If FreeBSD were a Linux distribution, everyone would be using it. It's just that well put together, and documented.
Yahoo is a public company.
If I'm going to invest in a company, I'd like to see a return on that investment that is at least as good as the market average. Otherwise, I'm better off with an index fund or some other type of investment.
It's not good enough for a public company to simply make a profit, since it's competing for investment dollars with all other public companies. The company has to be seen as an investment that will generate greater returns than the various other investment options out there.
While it may seem silly that a profitable company is still "in trouble," this is the risk that is taken when a company goes public. A private company could make $1 net profit, and that's $1 more than it needs to survive.
My guess is that there aren't docs that are good enough to sit down and write a parser from spec.
If there were, you wouldn't see hiccups in different releases of MS Office.
Probably the only spec worthwhile is Office itself -- a reference implementation.
A fox, eh? Spoiled rich kids who could afford foxes would have been laughed out of my neighborhood.
We had to slingshot the bits, but since there was no way to know if you got a zero, we had to paint the bits first. Red was 1, blue was 0.
A clever way we increased throughput was to use a repetition code, so each volley would have about 5 of the same bit. It was tiring to do, though, and a lot of bits were wasted when they hit trees.
"but if you can't tell what they said, why bother with a script?"
This is the next planned cost-saving mesaure.
I always buy the lowest end laptops available. With proper treatment, they last a good long time, and they're powerful enough for me.
My last one cost about $450 after rebates. I don't see any mac laptop in that price range.
Also, show me the mac laptop that has two mouse buttons so you can run Linux and BSD properly. I'm just not that into bouncing icons.
The exchange rate isn't what it used to be. The pound is dropping against the kilogram at an alarming rate.
"After all, the usual argument is that if something can develop into a human then it should be considered to be a human even before it develops into a human."
I think the pro-lifers might have something to say about the human-intervention aspect. Namely, that something that could develop into a human being given nine months of waiting is fundamentally different than a cell used as an ingredient in a laboratory process to create embryos.
The Catholic church, for example, firmly opposes abortion but does not support continuation of any life through "extraordinary" means, to include most life-support systems.
Or maybe all those anti-abortion people are just really, really, really stupid. Certainly is easier to argue against them that way, huh?
"Or we'd get SC1 in 1600x1200 with true 3D, zooming and surround sound."
Frankly, I'd love to see that. And a bit of U/I updating, larger groups, etc.
SC1 is a blast, but it's ugly, especially on a laptop. Fix that, add a new race or two, and I'd happily fork over my $50.
Then they should pay for any cell phone signal originating from their territory, too.
And they should be charged for any rain water that evaporated from somewhere else.
Let's total up these charges...wow, looks like they come out even!
"Say you left a bag of candy bars on a park bench where 100s of children play daily. When you go back the next day to retrieve it, it's gone. What would the police say?"
Worse than that. Say you left a duffel bag of baseball bats and gloves, and when you came back, you found the kids had used them to play a quick game and then put them back.