I like Celcius. It maps very well to the range of habitable temperatures that a human is likely to experience. I realize Freezing Water is in the best place. 30 is (about) as hot as it gets normally, -30 is about as cold as it gets normally, and anything outside that range is sure to be obnoxious and waxing uninhabitable.
I care about how hot it needs to be to boil water (even if that changes depending on altitude), or how many gram-degrees-Celcius are in your calorie(What? Are you talking about specific heat capacity here??), or anything like that.
The masses say HALO 3 is awesome. This week it was #1 on xbox. I don't think that it has fallen further than #3 since release. Even when it falls, to slot 2 or 3, it comes back. This game has legs. I have provided evidence that Halo is a good game (Major Nelson posts xbox usage stats here) If you can provide evidence that Halo sucks, I'm all ears, but until then, you are a troll.
Civilization Revolution is terrible for this. If you play at the higher difficulties, they will spawn armies and keep sending them your way. The enemy players rarely attack each other. My G/F was playing this yesterday and one of the enemy cities would spawn close to 10 cannon armies in a single turn, then send them at the hevily fortified city to die. Next turn they did the same thing. There is no way that they should be able to build that fast.
Personally, the reason that I don't have a PS3 is not because it's too expensive or has no games, or that Home sucks. It's a combination of these things. Given the choice between the xbox and PS3, it's no contest. The xbox is cheaper (I have cat6 runs all over the place), has more games, and has an online service that is top notch.
Some people complain that you have to pay for Live, but if you buy the year membership, it works out to like $.16 a day. As someone else put it "you could literally pay for live by picking up pennies off the street".
I don't care for blu(e)-ray. I don't really like movies, I usually fall asleep. I prefer to interact with my media, so the blu(e)-ray player is a moot point. Home is like a farmers market. A whole bunch of stuff all squished into on place. It has potential, but is not there yet. I think that Sony should be focusing on the basics of home before going crazy with other stuff. Get voice chat working globally & create a global friends list. That would make a big difference (but might have patent issues with MS, even so, it might be worth leasing this from MS).
To me, XBOX is the only choice for a system. I do want to play some of the PS3 exclusives, but not enough to drop 4 bills on a new system. I would probably pay $300, after a couple more exclusives come out for the ps3. Also it looks ugly.
Nope, they are charging you twice for a bugfix. You paid first when you bought the device. Since they are selling things to make money, they are selling at a profit. Having extra hardware in your device increases the manufacturing cost, something that get's passed on to the customer. Then you get to pay $10 for access to the hardware you paid for when you bought the thing.
My XBOX has had increased functionality added multiple times (mp4 decoder, NXE, NetFlix support). To me, this seems like a cheap money grab. If I was an iphone owner, I would be pissed were this not par for apple's course.
The most important thing that you can do is to properly educate her. Obviously don't encourage porn, but you shouldn't need to actually block it. Let her know the rules, and tell her the consequence if she breaks then (no computer for a week). Let her be in control.
without that model relying on laws that artificially force people to behave in a certain way.
You mean like laws that prevent shoplifting? What about laws that prevent other cable companys laying copper in your city? What about the laws that prevent people from broadcasting on any frequency? Do you see? I can't think of a single business model that would survive if there were no rules at all.
That being said, there are few things that piss me off more than my locked down phone from TELUS. I guess if Telus's business model is to have customers that hate them that is their right.
Remember the XBOX? It was hacked wide open and no longer was profitable (Technically it was never profitable) so they abandoned it and went with the xbox360, which has been much more resistant to hacking.
Just like you feel you have the right to do whatever you want to stuff you buy, businesses feel that they have the right to protect their business model. They expect to make money not just on the initial sale of the item, but on the ongoing support of the item (through games or ebook sales).
I understand both sides of the argument. It's a tough call.
This wouldn't be/. without a poor analagy so here we go: When you go to a flea market and buy fireworks, they are restricted. To (responsibly) use them, they can only be used when the forest fire risk is low enough. You must launch them were there are no flammable materials nearby. You must Never launch at animals or people, etc. These rules are in place to protect people and the ecosystem. With consoles it protects people (from hackers ruining multi games) and the environment (as it helps MS/Nintendo/Sony prevent pirated games thus extending the consoles life).
I don't think that the monkey had that bad of aim. He managed to hit people from their cage described by TFA as: "The attacks were only directed at humans viewing the apes across the moat surrounding the island compound where they were held."
I don't know how many people I could hit from across a moat. Just saying...
From TFA: "For a while, zoo keepers tried locking Santino up in the morning so he couldn't collect ammunition for his assaults, but he remained aggressive. They ultimately decided to castrate him in the autumn last year[...]"
I would throw feces. Look what throwing rocks gets you...
I would think that pure, filtered water would be sent to space. Salt water is heavier than fresh water. Also, if the plan is to reduce stuff in space, then dirty "mud puddle water" would not help that cause.
Yeah, but magnetic force is an inverse of the distance squared. The further away the object is, you need exponentionally more power. If you wanted to pull something out of orbit, you would cause devistation as all metal objects (cars, buildings, etc) in a large area would be propelled towards your magnetic source at hypersonic speeds.
That's the plan. Sure one of the nearby building must be the school but which one? I mean, schools are generally hard to pick out. It's not like they put signs on the road letting you know that you are near a school.
Do you merely want to skate through life doing the minimum possible and maximizing your personal recreational time?
What is wrong with that? The way I look at things, you only get one life. You might as well make it enjoyable. I would bet that "I wish I spent more time working" ranks pretty low on the list of last words that one says before they die.
But on the other hand, you will have one of the few games available if it does. New consoles always have early adopters, and that number, i think, would be fairly predictible. The PS3 sold out on laund day didn't it? (I don't know)
NASA doesn't have the processing power to predict possible collisions for everything orbiting the earth. A few high value objects are monitored for possible collisions (Space station). Even if they did actively monitor for all possible collisions, most of those possible collisions would be false positives, and satellites don't have extra fuel to be changing orbits for a collision that most likely won't happen.
I have a feeling that MS helps with the voice too. In halo games, for example, I think that the talking player sends data to MS who essentially multicasts it to the other players. Just a hunch.
Kitty at my foot and I wanna touch it!
Kitty at my foot and I wanna touch it!
Kitty at my foot and I wanna touch it!
Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
Whatever, they are way better than most of the crap out now.
when I was a kid, because at 7 years old I got to a point about 10 minutes into the game that I was stuck on 3 or 4 days
I spent my whole childhood in the first few levels of video games. Anyone remember "A boy and his blob" for NES. You feed your blob jelly beans and he does something depending on the favour of the bean. That game was impossible. Seriously. I tried playing a while ago, and I still couldn't get anywhere.
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I like Celcius. It maps very well to the range of habitable temperatures that a human is likely to experience. I realize Freezing Water is in the best place. 30 is (about) as hot as it gets normally, -30 is about as cold as it gets normally, and anything outside that range is sure to be obnoxious and waxing uninhabitable. I care about how hot it needs to be to boil water (even if that changes depending on altitude), or how many gram-degrees-Celcius are in your calorie(What? Are you talking about specific heat capacity here??), or anything like that.
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The masses say HALO 3 is awesome. This week it was #1 on xbox. I don't think that it has fallen further than #3 since release. Even when it falls, to slot 2 or 3, it comes back. This game has legs. I have provided evidence that Halo is a good game (Major Nelson posts xbox usage stats here) If you can provide evidence that Halo sucks, I'm all ears, but until then, you are a troll.
Civilization Revolution is terrible for this. If you play at the higher difficulties, they will spawn armies and keep sending them your way. The enemy players rarely attack each other. My G/F was playing this yesterday and one of the enemy cities would spawn close to 10 cannon armies in a single turn, then send them at the hevily fortified city to die. Next turn they did the same thing. There is no way that they should be able to build that fast.
Personally, the reason that I don't have a PS3 is not because it's too expensive or has no games, or that Home sucks. It's a combination of these things. Given the choice between the xbox and PS3, it's no contest. The xbox is cheaper (I have cat6 runs all over the place), has more games, and has an online service that is top notch.
Some people complain that you have to pay for Live, but if you buy the year membership, it works out to like $.16 a day. As someone else put it "you could literally pay for live by picking up pennies off the street".
I don't care for blu(e)-ray. I don't really like movies, I usually fall asleep. I prefer to interact with my media, so the blu(e)-ray player is a moot point. Home is like a farmers market. A whole bunch of stuff all squished into on place. It has potential, but is not there yet. I think that Sony should be focusing on the basics of home before going crazy with other stuff. Get voice chat working globally & create a global friends list. That would make a big difference (but might have patent issues with MS, even so, it might be worth leasing this from MS).
To me, XBOX is the only choice for a system. I do want to play some of the PS3 exclusives, but not enough to drop 4 bills on a new system. I would probably pay $300, after a couple more exclusives come out for the ps3. Also it looks ugly.
Nope, they are charging you twice for a bugfix. You paid first when you bought the device. Since they are selling things to make money, they are selling at a profit. Having extra hardware in your device increases the manufacturing cost, something that get's passed on to the customer. Then you get to pay $10 for access to the hardware you paid for when you bought the thing.
My XBOX has had increased functionality added multiple times (mp4 decoder, NXE, NetFlix support). To me, this seems like a cheap money grab. If I was an iphone owner, I would be pissed were this not par for apple's course.
Oh, and build up her self-esteem. That is the critical factor in teen girls getting into situations they're not ready for.
Seriously, IMO, this is the BEST thing that you can do for your daughter, regardless of what the problem is.
The most important thing that you can do is to properly educate her. Obviously don't encourage porn, but you shouldn't need to actually block it. Let her know the rules, and tell her the consequence if she breaks then (no computer for a week). Let her be in control.
without that model relying on laws that artificially force people to behave in a certain way.
You mean like laws that prevent shoplifting? What about laws that prevent other cable companys laying copper in your city? What about the laws that prevent people from broadcasting on any frequency? Do you see? I can't think of a single business model that would survive if there were no rules at all.
That being said, there are few things that piss me off more than my locked down phone from TELUS. I guess if Telus's business model is to have customers that hate them that is their right.
Remember the XBOX? It was hacked wide open and no longer was profitable (Technically it was never profitable) so they abandoned it and went with the xbox360, which has been much more resistant to hacking.
/. without a poor analagy so here we go: When you go to a flea market and buy fireworks, they are restricted. To (responsibly) use them, they can only be used when the forest fire risk is low enough. You must launch them were there are no flammable materials nearby. You must Never launch at animals or people, etc. These rules are in place to protect people and the ecosystem. With consoles it protects people (from hackers ruining multi games) and the environment (as it helps MS/Nintendo/Sony prevent pirated games thus extending the consoles life).
Just like you feel you have the right to do whatever you want to stuff you buy, businesses feel that they have the right to protect their business model. They expect to make money not just on the initial sale of the item, but on the ongoing support of the item (through games or ebook sales).
I understand both sides of the argument. It's a tough call.
This wouldn't be
What's a botnet?
I don't think that the monkey had that bad of aim. He managed to hit people from their cage described by TFA as: "The attacks were only directed at humans viewing the apes across the moat surrounding the island compound where they were held."
I don't know how many people I could hit from across a moat. Just saying...
From TFA: "For a while, zoo keepers tried locking Santino up in the morning so he couldn't collect ammunition for his assaults, but he remained aggressive. They ultimately decided to castrate him in the autumn last year[...]"
I would throw feces. Look what throwing rocks gets you...
You confuse a self-oxydizing reaction and water being flammable.
I would think that pure, filtered water would be sent to space. Salt water is heavier than fresh water. Also, if the plan is to reduce stuff in space, then dirty "mud puddle water" would not help that cause.
Yeah, but magnetic force is an inverse of the distance squared. The further away the object is, you need exponentionally more power. If you wanted to pull something out of orbit, you would cause devistation as all metal objects (cars, buildings, etc) in a large area would be propelled towards your magnetic source at hypersonic speeds.
I wasn't aware that water was flammable. I'll notify the fire department that they need to rethink their strategy.
That's the plan. Sure one of the nearby building must be the school but which one? I mean, schools are generally hard to pick out. It's not like they put signs on the road letting you know that you are near a school.
Do you merely want to skate through life doing the minimum possible and maximizing your personal recreational time?
What is wrong with that? The way I look at things, you only get one life. You might as well make it enjoyable. I would bet that "I wish I spent more time working" ranks pretty low on the list of last words that one says before they die.
But on the other hand, you will have one of the few games available if it does. New consoles always have early adopters, and that number, i think, would be fairly predictible. The PS3 sold out on laund day didn't it? (I don't know)
NASA doesn't have the processing power to predict possible collisions for everything orbiting the earth. A few high value objects are monitored for possible collisions (Space station). Even if they did actively monitor for all possible collisions, most of those possible collisions would be false positives, and satellites don't have extra fuel to be changing orbits for a collision that most likely won't happen.
I have a feeling that MS helps with the voice too. In halo games, for example, I think that the talking player sends data to MS who essentially multicasts it to the other players. Just a hunch.
Actually L4D does have dedicated XBOX Live servers.
Kitty at my foot and I wanna touch it!
Kitty at my foot and I wanna touch it!
Kitty at my foot and I wanna touch it!
Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
Whatever, they are way better than most of the crap out now.
when I was a kid, because at 7 years old I got to a point about 10 minutes into the game that I was stuck on 3 or 4 days
I spent my whole childhood in the first few levels of video games. Anyone remember "A boy and his blob" for NES. You feed your blob jelly beans and he does something depending on the favour of the bean. That game was impossible. Seriously. I tried playing a while ago, and I still couldn't get anywhere.