Don't worry- my dad is putting his law degree to good use as an FBI agent putting corrupt politians in prison, so I realize how lawyers can do good. The bad ones just make it too easy to pick on the group as a whole.
send up a noah ark-esque mission to the nearest solar system and back.
You missed the memo: the whole point of space exploration is to find a way to permanently get rid of our lawyers*, politicians and telemarketers. Having the thing come back would defeat the entire purpose.
*NYCL would be out of a job in a world without lawyers, so he's exempt.
We could send a rover to do whatever exploration or science and include sensors to collect data on how the rover is faring. We can get birds-eye pictures of the landing sites with telescopes or satellites- any under-the-hood information can just as well be gathered by observing the rover. If waiting a few extra years for data collection means we keep the landing sites intact, I'm all for it.
I don't expect there to be 12 million PCs infected, as many of the people managing to be hit by one of these can easily find more, but at the same time I understand some/many botnet programs fight off others to either avoid notice or to establish more complete control. I won't bother trying to speculate how these two forces balance out, but I'm assuming there are people here who can offer some insightful comments to this end.
If you want to talk nukes, the closer you get to your target to launch (or drop) that nuke, the better chance it will be a successful strike. Not to mention that it is obvious what you are aiming at if you're dropping the warhead, as opposed to launching it from another continent, avoiding 3rd party defensive launches. ICBMs only make jet fighters obsolete until ICBMs are obsolete themselves. If ICBMs don't work, and we control the skies, suddenly (enemy)'s options are much more limited (mostly to submarines).
I stated I heard information that I found contradictory. I figured if my understanding is correct, it adds to the discussion. If I am wrong someone can clarify and we get some informative posts, adding to the discussion. The video mentioned antimatter hadn't existed since the Big Bang- I didn't know if that was said for simplicity's sake or if it was then believed true. I didn't want to spend half the post how I'm not sure about this or that, so I made it clear I don't mean to be authoritative and left it. I don't care to play the "I know more than you" game.
Fork it into one game with a focus on mainstream music and one with a technical focus. I understand the camp that just wants fun songs that people recognize- they're great for casual play and parties. I'm in the camp that plays games for the challenge and I listen to music that tends to be more technical (Dream Theater). If not for the game, Guitar Hero would mean to me the G3 tour- Buckethead and Eric Johnson are the only GH songs I've played that are from G3 guitarists. I get that focusing on the technical/metal (not nu metal) music won't go over well with many, but that doesn't mean there aren't lots of GH/RB fans who want to see more of those songs. Understand you might think the technical stuff is boring, but many people find the simple stuff boring. I get it, people are different, it just sucks to be the minority that gets ignored, hence GP's post.
I'll bet they're having a "Mission Success" party at Fermilab today. First some faulty equipment, now some sabotage... Fermilab will never become obsolete.
I was at Fermilab yesterday and a video they showed claimed they ARE working with energies never before seen on Earth, as they are smashing antiprotons into protons, both going near the speed of light. Yes, there are higher energy PARTICLES contained in cosmic rays. Perhaps the video, being old, doesn't account for some recent discovery of naturally-occuring antimatter, but otherwise I don't think anything in nature (around Earth) can reach the energy of two high-speed hadrons converting into energy- at least not on the same scale.
I am talking about what Fermilab is doing- perhaps LHC will not be using antimatter but not being familiar with quantum physics I do not know whether the Higgs particle can be formed without the annihilation of matter on the scale at the Tevatron.
To those who don't see the 1/3, consider 2-child families with children listed oldest first:
1/4 have Boy, Boy
1/4 have Boy, Girl
1/4 have Girl, Boy
1/4 have Girl, Girl
You know there is at least one girl, leaving 3 options. One of those has two girls, so you have 1/3.
As for the Mary thing, the best I understand is if you say the FIRST one is named Mary, since only two options have a girl first, making it 1/2 for having two girls. If I am missing something please correct me, but I honestly cannot see how you get 1/2 without specifying which child is Mary.
I think a consumer has a right to know about all safetey hazards. The obvious ones like toasters are hot or lawn mowers will eat your fingers I hope people get, although how hot the toaster gets would be nice to know. Everyone accepts some level of risk by getting in a car or using a gas stove, but you are aware of both the risks and benefits. Instead of letting a company decides when the risk is enough we should know about it, they should let the consumer decide what is acceptable by putting all the information out there. Sure, there will be some consumers that see one exploding iPod and run for their lives every time they see white earbuds, but it makes no sense to put the average consumer at unknown risk just to avoid spooking the dumb ones.
Apple could report all safety issues- including consumer idiocy. They have good marketing so they can push how they want to be up front about safety, letting people learn from others' mistakes to avoid further injuries, and the risks that are Apple's fault get watered down by their minority compared to stupid mistakes.
Insert "" before tag. That failcomment deserves a -1 troll I guess. Note to whoever modded me troll: the first sentence is supposed to sound like it describes zer01, then the joke is that I pretend to be an idiot and imply I think the article is the scam, while the company is legit. Note the sig- I often go for humor. I'll admit not all my jokes are worth modding up, but the closest I get to trolling is a bad joke. My karma can take it, but mod points are better used on modding up or finding real trolls.
I can't believe how decietful this is. It is all so misleading and lying and I can't believe anyone would think this is real.
Isn't anyone else outraged that we never get to know what's so great about Zer01 all thanks to the article smearing the company left and right for no reason at all?
sounding like an idiot because you want to put forth the idea that the usa is somehow magically the originator of a crime someone else committed
example: the usa meddled in central america... therefore the usa is guilty of absolutely every crime committed there by every player ever since. the usa meddled in the middle east... therefore the usa is responsible for absolutely every crime committed there by every player ever since. etc., ad nauseum, and other such retarded thinking
If anyone doubts this: France helped the US gain independence, so France is responsible for US actions. US later freed France from the Nazis, therefore the US is responsible for France's actions. Ergo, France is responsible for France. Unless you somehow think France can be responsible for themselves this guy is right.
I'd caution people about getting Left4Dead at this point. I got it back in December and I've gotten my money's worth out of it, but the sequel is due out this holdiay season. If you can wait until January you should be able to catch L4D2 for 1/2 off (at least if they follow the pattern set by TF2 and L4D). Even so, if you have a group of friends to frequently play with you should get enough out of the game before the sequel is out.
As far as the game itself, the heart and soul of the game is the multiplayer versus. The campaigns are fun but especially with a group of friends versus is consistently something to look forward to. Sure, on paper L4D may not look to have a lot of replay with 6 guns, 5 special infected and 4 maps but it never gets boring to work with your zombie team to set up an ambush or to lead the survivors in a mad dash through the horde. The randomization through the "director" works great to keep script strategies from dominating, and I'm looking forward to how it evolves in the sequel.
Dude, if you just played your worn-out Civ IV CD backward it would just run Civ VI instead. Play that enough that will get worn out and you'll be back to Civ IV.
They claim they didn't find cancer in the test animals afterwords, so I guess it is realistic. Considering the point is to make radiation treatment safer, a small chance of causing cancer is worth a better chance of curing the current cancer.
So you're saying in all those movies they're just saying things like, "Look out! It's the Sunday Gazette!", and proceed to be trampled by the business section?
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I say we beat the Buggers to Ceres.
Don't worry- my dad is putting his law degree to good use as an FBI agent putting corrupt politians in prison, so I realize how lawyers can do good. The bad ones just make it too easy to pick on the group as a whole.
send up a noah ark-esque mission to the nearest solar system and back.
You missed the memo: the whole point of space exploration is to find a way to permanently get rid of our lawyers*, politicians and telemarketers. Having the thing come back would defeat the entire purpose.
*NYCL would be out of a job in a world without lawyers, so he's exempt.
"The duck lies shredded in a pancake,
soaking in the hoisine of your lies."
-Bill Bailey
We could send a rover to do whatever exploration or science and include sensors to collect data on how the rover is faring. We can get birds-eye pictures of the landing sites with telescopes or satellites- any under-the-hood information can just as well be gathered by observing the rover. If waiting a few extra years for data collection means we keep the landing sites intact, I'm all for it.
Will they have the same problems as the Ipods? Exploding?
How else would you use a battery to move the pistons?
I don't expect there to be 12 million PCs infected, as many of the people managing to be hit by one of these can easily find more, but at the same time I understand some/many botnet programs fight off others to either avoid notice or to establish more complete control. I won't bother trying to speculate how these two forces balance out, but I'm assuming there are people here who can offer some insightful comments to this end.
If you want to talk nukes, the closer you get to your target to launch (or drop) that nuke, the better chance it will be a successful strike. Not to mention that it is obvious what you are aiming at if you're dropping the warhead, as opposed to launching it from another continent, avoiding 3rd party defensive launches. ICBMs only make jet fighters obsolete until ICBMs are obsolete themselves. If ICBMs don't work, and we control the skies, suddenly (enemy)'s options are much more limited (mostly to submarines).
I stated I heard information that I found contradictory. I figured if my understanding is correct, it adds to the discussion. If I am wrong someone can clarify and we get some informative posts, adding to the discussion. The video mentioned antimatter hadn't existed since the Big Bang- I didn't know if that was said for simplicity's sake or if it was then believed true. I didn't want to spend half the post how I'm not sure about this or that, so I made it clear I don't mean to be authoritative and left it. I don't care to play the "I know more than you" game.
As soon as you show me where on the guitar it tells me what my score is.
Fork it into one game with a focus on mainstream music and one with a technical focus. I understand the camp that just wants fun songs that people recognize- they're great for casual play and parties. I'm in the camp that plays games for the challenge and I listen to music that tends to be more technical (Dream Theater). If not for the game, Guitar Hero would mean to me the G3 tour- Buckethead and Eric Johnson are the only GH songs I've played that are from G3 guitarists. I get that focusing on the technical/metal (not nu metal) music won't go over well with many, but that doesn't mean there aren't lots of GH/RB fans who want to see more of those songs. Understand you might think the technical stuff is boring, but many people find the simple stuff boring. I get it, people are different, it just sucks to be the minority that gets ignored, hence GP's post.
I'll bet they're having a "Mission Success" party at Fermilab today. First some faulty equipment, now some sabotage... Fermilab will never become obsolete.
I was at Fermilab yesterday and a video they showed claimed they ARE working with energies never before seen on Earth, as they are smashing antiprotons into protons, both going near the speed of light. Yes, there are higher energy PARTICLES contained in cosmic rays. Perhaps the video, being old, doesn't account for some recent discovery of naturally-occuring antimatter, but otherwise I don't think anything in nature (around Earth) can reach the energy of two high-speed hadrons converting into energy- at least not on the same scale.
I am talking about what Fermilab is doing- perhaps LHC will not be using antimatter but not being familiar with quantum physics I do not know whether the Higgs particle can be formed without the annihilation of matter on the scale at the Tevatron.
To those who don't see the 1/3, consider 2-child families with children listed oldest first:
1/4 have Boy, Boy
1/4 have Boy, Girl
1/4 have Girl, Boy
1/4 have Girl, Girl
You know there is at least one girl, leaving 3 options. One of those has two girls, so you have 1/3.
As for the Mary thing, the best I understand is if you say the FIRST one is named Mary, since only two options have a girl first, making it 1/2 for having two girls. If I am missing something please correct me, but I honestly cannot see how you get 1/2 without specifying which child is Mary.
I think a consumer has a right to know about all safetey hazards. The obvious ones like toasters are hot or lawn mowers will eat your fingers I hope people get, although how hot the toaster gets would be nice to know. Everyone accepts some level of risk by getting in a car or using a gas stove, but you are aware of both the risks and benefits. Instead of letting a company decides when the risk is enough we should know about it, they should let the consumer decide what is acceptable by putting all the information out there. Sure, there will be some consumers that see one exploding iPod and run for their lives every time they see white earbuds, but it makes no sense to put the average consumer at unknown risk just to avoid spooking the dumb ones.
Apple could report all safety issues- including consumer idiocy. They have good marketing so they can push how they want to be up front about safety, letting people learn from others' mistakes to avoid further injuries, and the risks that are Apple's fault get watered down by their minority compared to stupid mistakes.
Easy way to test what to think of Apple on this: have an exec carry an iPod in his pocket 24/7. If his pants catch flame, they're liars.
Insert "" before tag. That failcomment deserves a -1 troll I guess.
Note to whoever modded me troll: the first sentence is supposed to sound like it describes zer01, then the joke is that I pretend to be an idiot and imply I think the article is the scam, while the company is legit. Note the sig- I often go for humor. I'll admit not all my jokes are worth modding up, but the closest I get to trolling is a bad joke. My karma can take it, but mod points are better used on modding up or finding real trolls.
I guess I shouldn't have omitted the tag.
I can't believe how decietful this is. It is all so misleading and lying and I can't believe anyone would think this is real.
Isn't anyone else outraged that we never get to know what's so great about Zer01 all thanks to the article smearing the company left and right for no reason at all?
sounding like an idiot because you want to put forth the idea that the usa is somehow magically the originator of a crime someone else committed
example: the usa meddled in central america... therefore the usa is guilty of absolutely every crime committed there by every player ever since. the usa meddled in the middle east... therefore the usa is responsible for absolutely every crime committed there by every player ever since. etc., ad nauseum, and other such retarded thinking
If anyone doubts this: France helped the US gain independence, so France is responsible for US actions. US later freed France from the Nazis, therefore the US is responsible for France's actions. Ergo, France is responsible for France. Unless you somehow think France can be responsible for themselves this guy is right.
I'd caution people about getting Left4Dead at this point. I got it back in December and I've gotten my money's worth out of it, but the sequel is due out this holdiay season. If you can wait until January you should be able to catch L4D2 for 1/2 off (at least if they follow the pattern set by TF2 and L4D). Even so, if you have a group of friends to frequently play with you should get enough out of the game before the sequel is out.
As far as the game itself, the heart and soul of the game is the multiplayer versus. The campaigns are fun but especially with a group of friends versus is consistently something to look forward to. Sure, on paper L4D may not look to have a lot of replay with 6 guns, 5 special infected and 4 maps but it never gets boring to work with your zombie team to set up an ambush or to lead the survivors in a mad dash through the horde. The randomization through the "director" works great to keep script strategies from dominating, and I'm looking forward to how it evolves in the sequel.
Dude, if you just played your worn-out Civ IV CD backward it would just run Civ VI instead. Play that enough that will get worn out and you'll be back to Civ IV.
They claim they didn't find cancer in the test animals afterwords, so I guess it is realistic. Considering the point is to make radiation treatment safer, a small chance of causing cancer is worth a better chance of curing the current cancer.
So you're saying in all those movies they're just saying things like, "Look out! It's the Sunday Gazette!", and proceed to be trampled by the business section?
Not a big deal- they can just record them again. I'm sure CGI can fix the problem of the astronauts being slightly older this time.