I was thinking specifically about the motion controls. Microsoft has alot of money and resources to throw around to get motion control to work. They have been working on that for how long now... two years?? It still looks crappy. I highly doubt that Lenovo has the talent that microsoft does to make such a device, and if Microsoft's version looks terrible, I can't imagine what this Ebox's would look like.
As for running a linux gaming console with minimal copy protection, who will make games for it?
They plan on developing it in *Three* months... With 40 engineers. It's going to cost more than a Nintento Wii, but less than an XBOX360 It costs a Chinese person that makes an average wage 3 months of pay.
I said communicate with friends, not "friends". I doubt that more than 10% of those 254 "friends" give a shit about your last vacation, and maybe 25% of that 10% give a shit about your BBQ.
Also, if you would like to communicate with your friends, you can also:
1. Call them (yes on the telephone).
2. Visit them.
3. Use one of dozens of Instant Messanger applications including: SMS, MS Messenger, and Blackberry Messenger.
I think the issue here is for games like, say Red Faction. Should the developers have spent the time on multiplayer, or should they have spent that time working on the game/story more.
I would argue that the time should have been invested into the singer player aspects as I think you would have a hard time finding a mulitplayer game at all now. Unless the game has staying power, or is designed around co-op mode, then multiplayer should not be included. COD & Halo definitely have multiplayer modes, because even three years later, there is still a large player base. Bioshock 2 should not have had Multiplayer.
I buy different games for different things. Halo is more for the multiplayer, but with a story thrown in, where Civilization Revolutions is for the single player. A game should figure out if they want to be good at multiplayer or single player, not mediocre at both.
These stats have nothing to do with hybrids specifically, but just the trend in traffic fatalities. In my area, and I suspect most others, the percentage of cars that are hybrids would be in the low single digits. Looking at overall traffic fatalities and trying to draw a conclusion about something that is such an insignificant factor is useless.
If they could have just stopped the leak, they would have one the first day. In fact, they tried that, but the BOP was broken... That is what this whole issue is about.
The collection of oil was to prevent that oil from going into the water, and also gave them something positive to report on.
In addition, the collection effort required some stops that made the capping of the well possible at all. As part of the capping process the cut the riser of the well (and eventually removed the riser cap) which is where this cap is installed.
I'm sure that no one wanted to stop this well leak more than BP.
On Sat night, I was looking up at the sky at dusk and I saw a bright object crossing the sky. I thought it was a plane, but it was not blinking like a plane does, and it was moving pretty fast. There was a dimmer object following by a couple cenitmeters (from my perspective), that I guessed was the russian capsule.
Firstly, I'm not writing an encyclopedia here, but merely providing my opionions and thoughts, which you are welcome to either agree with, or disagree with.
What you do not acknowledge is the possibility that most of the melting happened very quickly, over a few centuries
There is no question that is what happened. The ice DID melt in a geological blink of an eye. My point is that we may be seeing a similar event right now. If someone can figure out what caused the last big melt and the freezing that happened before that, maybe they can apply that data to the current trends. The fact that the cause of the last ice age is still not understood makes it easy to be skeptical of the current data. And besides that, you have not given any reputable source or evidence for what you say, so we might as well be debating how many angels fit on the head of a pin.
We basically are debating that... How many C02s does it take to warm up the world? No one knows for sure.
If a particular hypothesis has survived many attempts at refutation, it becomes highly probable that it is true. We may prove an hypothesis wrong, but we cannot prove it to be true.
The Earth used to be flat. It was clearly proven. We know no more about the intricies of the climate system than the Romans did about the solar system. The study of global warming is still in it's infancy.
The fact that you have not bothered to consider the logic of what you speak of properly causes me to doubt that you actually care about the truth of what you write. It is a symptom of someone who treats facts and arguments like pieces of clothing that they can put on or take off at their whim. Such a person treats truth as if it is relative. There are no facts, only opinions in such a worldview, and so it is acceptable to think or believe anything that makes you feel comfortable about the way you live.
We clearly have different views of the state of global warming. Have you ever thought that because I don't accept facts on a whim, I believe that more evidence is required to prove that C02 is as terrible as everyone would have you believe? Maybe it is you that will accept new facts too easily.
Still, no one has addressed the MAIN point I was trying to make... Let's focus on stuff we KNOW is wrecking our planet, not stuff that MAY be affecting our planet...
If I may summarize the structure of your argument: The climate has changed in the past. Humans have not always existed. Therefore, humans cannot be causing climate change now.
That wasn't quite my argument, but I'll bite... I'm saying that this current trend of melting ice started a long, long time ago. A lot of the focus of global warming is on ice loss. The fact that I am not sitting under 2 km of ice suggests to me that the ice has been melting for quite some time already. The fact that ice continues to melt, knowing that history, does not seem that abnormal.
The fact that other things have influenced the climate in the past does not mean that human produced greenhouse gasses cannot cause warming today. And if the climate is currently warming, and we can (and have) eliminated other possible causes for that change, then human produced greenhouse gasses are the most likely cause of our current warming.
I'm not saying that greenhouse gasses don't cause warming. The Trillion dollar question is "How Much". It it an amount that is even measurable? Is it worth dropping everything to address this global warming problem? Even if we were to magically eliminate all C02 from the air, would there be a marked difference?
This fallacious reasoning can be quite effective, since many in the public have lost their habit of logical analysis. The fact that this posting has been modded to 5, interesting is testament to this.
The fact that I still question the whole global warming thing proves that I actually have looked at the presented data. There is no shortage of politics in this debate, and at this point the majority believes that global warming is all caused by human activity. Personally, I believe that with a claim that has as much impact as global warming, the amount of proof that must be presented has to be very strong, and I don't believe that the evidence for human caused global warming has that level of conclusiveness.
In any event the point of my post was more that we have more acute problems that we can actually work toward making better with much less effort. Maybe instead of worrying about the C02 emmisions from my car, we should worry about dumping trillions of litres of toxic chemicals into rivers, oceans and the air. That is a probem that we can actually hope to make a difference with.
The earth has been getting warmer for thousands of years. Right now, where I am sitting, there used to be 2KM of ice. That ice is clearly gone now. That glacier has melted. Our current glaciers are just continuing to melt.
If the global trend was a cooling one, and then after industralization it started warming, there might not be so much controversy, but that is not the case. The earth has been warming for quite some time now; way before humans had their fancy machines.
While I am confident that humans are making a negitive impact on the earth, I am not confident that C02 is worthy of the focus that it is getting. I think that we should be more worried about heavy metals, radioactive coal dust, dioxins, and excess fertilizer usage than we should be worried about C02.
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Yes, and there is an official transcript that can be ordered for that purpose. Jurors are not the PR face of the courts.
Head south.
I was thinking specifically about the motion controls. Microsoft has alot of money and resources to throw around to get motion control to work. They have been working on that for how long now... two years?? It still looks crappy. I highly doubt that Lenovo has the talent that microsoft does to make such a device, and if Microsoft's version looks terrible, I can't imagine what this Ebox's would look like.
As for running a linux gaming console with minimal copy protection, who will make games for it?
They plan on developing it in *Three* months... With 40 engineers.
It's going to cost more than a Nintento Wii, but less than an XBOX360
It costs a Chinese person that makes an average wage 3 months of pay.
I predict colossal failure.
No, they need a dialing wand. You can order one my mashing the keypad.
They were black bears, which are smaller and less agressive. A black bear can climb a tree though, were a brown (grizzly) cannot.
I don't know about sperm count, but I do remember this study:
Bicycle Seat Design Can Directly Affect A Man's Sexual Function
I said communicate with friends, not "friends". I doubt that more than 10% of those 254 "friends" give a shit about your last vacation, and maybe 25% of that 10% give a shit about your BBQ.
Also, if you would like to communicate with your friends, you can also:
1. Call them (yes on the telephone).
2. Visit them.
3. Use one of dozens of Instant Messanger applications including: SMS, MS Messenger, and Blackberry Messenger.
I don't see how adding dirty, greasy, oily hair to the water would help.
I think the issue here is for games like, say Red Faction. Should the developers have spent the time on multiplayer, or should they have spent that time working on the game/story more.
I would argue that the time should have been invested into the singer player aspects as I think you would have a hard time finding a mulitplayer game at all now. Unless the game has staying power, or is designed around co-op mode, then multiplayer should not be included. COD & Halo definitely have multiplayer modes, because even three years later, there is still a large player base. Bioshock 2 should not have had Multiplayer.
I buy different games for different things. Halo is more for the multiplayer, but with a story thrown in, where Civilization Revolutions is for the single player. A game should figure out if they want to be good at multiplayer or single player, not mediocre at both.
Err... that should be fanboi...sigh.
These stats have nothing to do with hybrids specifically, but just the trend in traffic fatalities. In my area, and I suspect most others, the percentage of cars that are hybrids would be in the low single digits. Looking at overall traffic fatalities and trying to draw a conclusion about something that is such an insignificant factor is useless.
TFA writer is just an EV fanoi.
If they could have just stopped the leak, they would have one the first day. In fact, they tried that, but the BOP was broken... That is what this whole issue is about.
The collection of oil was to prevent that oil from going into the water, and also gave them something positive to report on.
In addition, the collection effort required some stops that made the capping of the well possible at all. As part of the capping process the cut the riser of the well (and eventually removed the riser cap) which is where this cap is installed.
I'm sure that no one wanted to stop this well leak more than BP.
On Sat night, I was looking up at the sky at dusk and I saw a bright object crossing the sky. I thought it was a plane, but it was not blinking like a plane does, and it was moving pretty fast. There was a dimmer object following by a couple cenitmeters (from my perspective), that I guessed was the russian capsule.
Maybe if you like cold soup. Soup is normally served at around 80 degrees C.
Firstly, I'm not writing an encyclopedia here, but merely providing my opionions and thoughts, which you are welcome to either agree with, or disagree with.
What you do not acknowledge is the possibility that most of the melting happened very quickly, over a few centuries
There is no question that is what happened. The ice DID melt in a geological blink of an eye. My point is that we may be seeing a similar event right now. If someone can figure out what caused the last big melt and the freezing that happened before that, maybe they can apply that data to the current trends. The fact that the cause of the last ice age is still not understood makes it easy to be skeptical of the current data.
And besides that, you have not given any reputable source or evidence for what you say, so we might as well be debating how many angels fit on the head of a pin.
We basically are debating that... How many C02s does it take to warm up the world? No one knows for sure.
If a particular hypothesis has survived many attempts at refutation, it becomes highly probable that it is true. We may prove an hypothesis wrong, but we cannot prove it to be true.
The Earth used to be flat. It was clearly proven. We know no more about the intricies of the climate system than the Romans did about the solar system. The study of global warming is still in it's infancy.
The fact that you have not bothered to consider the logic of what you speak of properly causes me to doubt that you actually care about the truth of what you write. It is a symptom of someone who treats facts and arguments like pieces of clothing that they can put on or take off at their whim. Such a person treats truth as if it is relative. There are no facts, only opinions in such a worldview, and so it is acceptable to think or believe anything that makes you feel comfortable about the way you live.
We clearly have different views of the state of global warming. Have you ever thought that because I don't accept facts on a whim, I believe that more evidence is required to prove that C02 is as terrible as everyone would have you believe? Maybe it is you that will accept new facts too easily.
Still, no one has addressed the MAIN point I was trying to make... Let's focus on stuff we KNOW is wrecking our planet, not stuff that MAY be affecting our planet...
If I may summarize the structure of your argument: The climate has changed in the past. Humans have not always existed. Therefore, humans cannot be causing climate change now.
That wasn't quite my argument, but I'll bite... I'm saying that this current trend of melting ice started a long, long time ago. A lot of the focus of global warming is on ice loss. The fact that I am not sitting under 2 km of ice suggests to me that the ice has been melting for quite some time already. The fact that ice continues to melt, knowing that history, does not seem that abnormal.
The fact that other things have influenced the climate in the past does not mean that human produced greenhouse gasses cannot cause warming today. And if the climate is currently warming, and we can (and have) eliminated other possible causes for that change, then human produced greenhouse gasses are the most likely cause of our current warming.
I'm not saying that greenhouse gasses don't cause warming. The Trillion dollar question is "How Much". It it an amount that is even measurable? Is it worth dropping everything to address this global warming problem? Even if we were to magically eliminate all C02 from the air, would there be a marked difference?
This fallacious reasoning can be quite effective, since many in the public have lost their habit of logical analysis. The fact that this posting has been modded to 5, interesting is testament to this.
The fact that I still question the whole global warming thing proves that I actually have looked at the presented data. There is no shortage of politics in this debate, and at this point the majority believes that global warming is all caused by human activity. Personally, I believe that with a claim that has as much impact as global warming, the amount of proof that must be presented has to be very strong, and I don't believe that the evidence for human caused global warming has that level of conclusiveness.
In any event the point of my post was more that we have more acute problems that we can actually work toward making better with much less effort. Maybe instead of worrying about the C02 emmisions from my car, we should worry about dumping trillions of litres of toxic chemicals into rivers, oceans and the air. That is a probem that we can actually hope to make a difference with.
The earth has been getting warmer for thousands of years. Right now, where I am sitting, there used to be 2KM of ice. That ice is clearly gone now. That glacier has melted. Our current glaciers are just continuing to melt.
If the global trend was a cooling one, and then after industralization it started warming, there might not be so much controversy, but that is not the case. The earth has been warming for quite some time now; way before humans had their fancy machines.
While I am confident that humans are making a negitive impact on the earth, I am not confident that C02 is worthy of the focus that it is getting. I think that we should be more worried about heavy metals, radioactive coal dust, dioxins, and excess fertilizer usage than we should be worried about C02.
Why is every unpatched exploit a 0-day attack? Wouldn't this be more like a multi-month exploit?
people playing FarmVille on Facebook complained that their browser was shutting down the game.
"It's a *Feature*.
You have no idea what you are talking about, do you?
Not quite: According to the No-communication theorem these phenomena do not allow true communication; they only let two observers in different locations see the same event simultaneously, without any way of controlling what either sees.
If google.xxx is what I think it would be, it could perhaps be the best website on the Internet.
I don't know about Shell, but I heard that the building contained about 20% oxygen.