OP's comment was obviously trolling, but your analysis doesn't make a lot of sense, considering getting atheletes through to the Olympics is an achievement in and of itself. If you're going to try to base who "won" off of anything other than pure medal count, the best way to go is obviously medals per capita, in which case, I believe Grenada soundly defeated the rest of the world (1 gold medal, 100,000 population).
Yup. If an eBook is more than the paper copy, I'll just buy the paper copy and pirate a digital copy if I really want it on my Kindle. And I say this as an author.
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I'm a hardcore liberal hippie and even I know that a lot of the hardcore liberal hippies are on precisely the wrong side when it comes to piracy measures. The reason? The entertainment industry is a massive donor to left-wing causes.
What you should have done in that one problem was not used a
calculator, but looked at the sizes of the numbers given in the
multiple choices, and then picked the choice where the magnitude was
in the correct ballpark.
Uh, no. If a test question says I can use a calculator, I'm using a calculator. For some of these tests, there's too many questions not to. Obviously, this one was trivial, but you catch my drift. In *most* cases, a calculator is more efficient (yes, you can find some edge cases where realizing the "trick" is faster than typing the equation)
Commonly referred to as Jewish math problems. Problems that have trivial, or exceedingly simple, solutions, that are impossible to find on their own. The Soviets used them to weed out Jews from the universities while pretending they weren't. They gave the normal problems to most of the kids, and the Jewish problems to the Jews. If anyone questioned them, they could say "Hey, look. It's an easy solution. It's not my fault they didn't get it."
http://io9.com/5848752/how-to-solve-jewish-math-problems
Agnostics like myself maintain that, if there is a god (and most of them think there's probably not), it would be impossible for anyone to ever know that. That's the usual definition of agnostics -- that we *can't* know if god exists, not just that we *don't* know.
You really think a significant portion of the electorate is going to vote based on whether or not Billy Joel should be able to retrieve the rights for his songs?
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"People I know, myself included, aren't happy with the change, but that seems to be Google. They tend to change things and users get used to it."
I think that's the case here. Google's counting on the fact that once you go black, you never go back.
It doesn't fit with the movies mainly because it was written before most of them. It was intended to be the sequel to Star Wars in the event that the original movie didn't do well enough to warrant a film sequel. Thus, there are some plot points that seem hilarious to us now, mainly that Luke and Leia have quite a few romantic thoughts about each other. The fact that Lucas allowed this should be pretty good proof that Luke and Leia were not siblings from the beginning.
You realize this is being made by the same people who made the "bit shitty" Borderlands, right? And I find it very interesting that the fact the HL series guides the player instead of leaving them utterly confused makes it a *worse* game in your eyes.
Anyway, it's not really correct for the OP to say this has been in Development Hell for that long. Gearbox basically bought the name and built a new game using it.
Some things:
1) FF7 has not been updated or remade.
2) FF14 is not yet out on PS3, but it is free, as far as I know, on the PC because of how terrible it was and how slow they've been on fixing it.
What the heck?
"I'm surprised that you'd trust Google apps more than an internal server known to hospital IT."
You're surprised that I'd trust Google Apps not to leak information THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE (patient records) over an unsupervised machine that has access to the internal network? Really?
Reasonable accommodations can be made. If a username/password is being used 50 times a day from 50 different IPs, you can reasonably assume something fishy is going in.
Or maybe, you know, different people are different, and we need a diverse mix to build an efficient, progressive society.
But no, you're probably right, human society would be much more advanced if we got rid of the whole socializing thing.
Nah, it's because the way Facebook sets up it's privacy. You can't really have the user do *anything* social unless you rape their privacy. Want to allow your player to transfer his name and profile picture over to the game? You have to access his pictures and his profile information. Want to allow him to invite his friends? You have to access his friends list. And there's not really a reason to put the game on Facebook if you're not utilizing the social aspects. It'd be wonderful if there were some sort of option whereby an app could allow you to see a list of your friends, invite them, etc, without the actual app being able to see that information, but Facebook doesn't really provide that level of detail. To be fair, there's probably not a lot of demand; the crossover between people who have a huge desire to play Farmville and the people who are strongly concerned about their privacy is not likely to be large.
Ads on the actual Facebook site are an entirely different matter from what shows up on apps. Ads on apps are done completely outside of Facebook's sphere of influence (other than the fact that they'll apparently ban you if you're using someone they don't like). Ads on the actual site are often done by random users. If you want, you can take out space advertising your resume. I see someone doing that every few months.
The developers who want to put an app on Facebook's up-and-coming platform to attract users while using the superior (both in ease-of-use and monetization) AdSense for advertising support? I'm actually in the process of developing a webapp with an eye toward FB, and this makes me extremely squeamish. AdSense is second to none for apps/sites that aren't well known (obviously if you're Zynga or Bioware, you can partner with whoever you want, or just sell advertising directly).
So yes, this debate may not matter to people who matter (Steve Jobs? Mark Zuckerberg?), but it matters a lot to people who don't matter.
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Your 5-year-old has issues.
OP's comment was obviously trolling, but your analysis doesn't make a lot of sense, considering getting atheletes through to the Olympics is an achievement in and of itself. If you're going to try to base who "won" off of anything other than pure medal count, the best way to go is obviously medals per capita, in which case, I believe Grenada soundly defeated the rest of the world (1 gold medal, 100,000 population).
Yup. If an eBook is more than the paper copy, I'll just buy the paper copy and pirate a digital copy if I really want it on my Kindle. And I say this as an author.
I'm a hardcore liberal hippie and even I know that a lot of the hardcore liberal hippies are on precisely the wrong side when it comes to piracy measures. The reason? The entertainment industry is a massive donor to left-wing causes.
Absolutely they are. I use Calibre, and I have absolutely no trouble reading whatever I want.
What you should have done in that one problem was not used a calculator, but looked at the sizes of the numbers given in the multiple choices, and then picked the choice where the magnitude was in the correct ballpark.
Uh, no. If a test question says I can use a calculator, I'm using a calculator. For some of these tests, there's too many questions not to. Obviously, this one was trivial, but you catch my drift. In *most* cases, a calculator is more efficient (yes, you can find some edge cases where realizing the "trick" is faster than typing the equation)
"Is There an Institutional Bias Against Black..." I'm going to go ahead and stop you there. Yes.
Commonly referred to as Jewish math problems. Problems that have trivial, or exceedingly simple, solutions, that are impossible to find on their own. The Soviets used them to weed out Jews from the universities while pretending they weren't. They gave the normal problems to most of the kids, and the Jewish problems to the Jews. If anyone questioned them, they could say "Hey, look. It's an easy solution. It's not my fault they didn't get it." http://io9.com/5848752/how-to-solve-jewish-math-problems
Agnostics like myself maintain that, if there is a god (and most of them think there's probably not), it would be impossible for anyone to ever know that. That's the usual definition of agnostics -- that we *can't* know if god exists, not just that we *don't* know.
She's 43, according to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Zappa
You really think a significant portion of the electorate is going to vote based on whether or not Billy Joel should be able to retrieve the rights for his songs?
"People I know, myself included, aren't happy with the change, but that seems to be Google. They tend to change things and users get used to it." I think that's the case here. Google's counting on the fact that once you go black, you never go back.
It doesn't fit with the movies mainly because it was written before most of them. It was intended to be the sequel to Star Wars in the event that the original movie didn't do well enough to warrant a film sequel. Thus, there are some plot points that seem hilarious to us now, mainly that Luke and Leia have quite a few romantic thoughts about each other. The fact that Lucas allowed this should be pretty good proof that Luke and Leia were not siblings from the beginning.
That's actually the proper way to write Internet, according to most style books. Grammatically, I'm not sure it matters.
You realize this is being made by the same people who made the "bit shitty" Borderlands, right? And I find it very interesting that the fact the HL series guides the player instead of leaving them utterly confused makes it a *worse* game in your eyes.
Anyway, it's not really correct for the OP to say this has been in Development Hell for that long. Gearbox basically bought the name and built a new game using it.
Some things: 1) FF7 has not been updated or remade. 2) FF14 is not yet out on PS3, but it is free, as far as I know, on the PC because of how terrible it was and how slow they've been on fixing it.
What the heck? "I'm surprised that you'd trust Google apps more than an internal server known to hospital IT." You're surprised that I'd trust Google Apps not to leak information THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE (patient records) over an unsupervised machine that has access to the internal network? Really?
Reasonable accommodations can be made. If a username/password is being used 50 times a day from 50 different IPs, you can reasonably assume something fishy is going in.
Or maybe, you know, different people are different, and we need a diverse mix to build an efficient, progressive society. But no, you're probably right, human society would be much more advanced if we got rid of the whole socializing thing.
Nah, it's because the way Facebook sets up it's privacy. You can't really have the user do *anything* social unless you rape their privacy. Want to allow your player to transfer his name and profile picture over to the game? You have to access his pictures and his profile information. Want to allow him to invite his friends? You have to access his friends list. And there's not really a reason to put the game on Facebook if you're not utilizing the social aspects. It'd be wonderful if there were some sort of option whereby an app could allow you to see a list of your friends, invite them, etc, without the actual app being able to see that information, but Facebook doesn't really provide that level of detail. To be fair, there's probably not a lot of demand; the crossover between people who have a huge desire to play Farmville and the people who are strongly concerned about their privacy is not likely to be large.
Ads on the actual Facebook site are an entirely different matter from what shows up on apps. Ads on apps are done completely outside of Facebook's sphere of influence (other than the fact that they'll apparently ban you if you're using someone they don't like). Ads on the actual site are often done by random users. If you want, you can take out space advertising your resume. I see someone doing that every few months.
So yes, this debate may not matter to people who matter (Steve Jobs? Mark Zuckerberg?), but it matters a lot to people who don't matter.
Your username is apt (other than that "counter" part, I don't know what's up with that).
This is false. Games that require a certain firmware include the firmware on the disk.
B5: Boring as fuck.
Anyway, JJ Abrams had very little to do with LOST. He helped create the basic premise, and then left.