When I read the first two blurbs I came across on the front page of conservapedia.
Article of the Year: Evolution In 2006, the prestigious science journal Science reported concerning the United States: "The percentage of people in the country who accept the idea of evolution has declined from 45 in 1985 to 40 in 2005. Meanwhile the fraction of Americans unsure about evolution has soared from 7 per cent in 1985 to 21 per cent last year."[10]
* "Gallup's analysis says religiosity outweighs educational level in shaping views on evolution." (USN)
Discover what Wikipedia, the public school systems, and the liberal media don't want you to know about the creation vs. evolution issue.
And better yet...
Conservapedia's Highlighted Article...A study reported that the liberal media is biased towards pro-atheism coverage.[11] Do you want to know what the liberal media is not reporting about evolutionist and atheist Richard Dawkins? Please examine Conservapedia's Richard Dawkins article!
Watch this video of evolutionist Richard Dawkins being stumped by the question of a creationist!...
Makes me feel like the world is a battlefront.
On one side is the people with the mental capacity to alter their views and accept scientific progress.
Well... the other side is banished to manipulating statistics to their advantage. Statistics that they don't even fundamentally understand because that is way too "sciencey" for them. Seems like a horrible fate.
Yeah. Sorry to break it to you but your commentary is far from observing all of the possible angles to the situation.
The premise is flawed. People do not want to listen to indie stuff for the same reason that they do not get signed by major record labels. Their music either sucks or appeals to a very small audience. Therefore you will always have a relatively small amount of people seeking out this music. This explains the 0.00 % representation on TPB top 100 lists.
Word of mouth is MUCH more powerful than any marketing campaign. This has been proven time and time again beyond any reasonable doubt. Your little indie bands are just not worth talking about because they are just not that good. You need to come to grips with that fact...
While you are certainly correct in stating that big trusted names are not immune to "folding", you forget that such events are often highly publicized and can take many months. Dire situations exposing themselves well before anything is officially set in stone.
Big companies certainly fail, but not overnight without warning.
Even if the company were to announce its departure from the field and be gone within a month, you would be sure to receive emails about the closure of the service and have ample time to download your uploaded pron and put it that new 10TB drive you got from Best Buy for 80 bucks.
Yeah they have the PRS at the university of florida for physics classes as well.
Its a really weak attempt to force kids to come to class. The kids that do not want to be there just ignore lecture and read the news paper or text all class or even talk! Then when a question pops up everyone just looks to their smart friend who either was paying attention to lecture or read ahead in the book.
Large lecture halls are not an ideal but a reasonable solution to the fact that professors time is not cheap in the slightest.
I never went to class and just taught my self out of the book. (Forfeiting the PRS points) It was not bad at all. Try doing that with upper level course work and it gets way too difficult way too fast. There is a reason those classes are 20-40 in size. (If just one of the many reasons)
Do not place in a vertical position while using the console. This is not safe. Dogs are liable to knock over the xbox360 and cause your disc to be ruined.
Seen it happen before... then we learned about the disc scratching feature.
Oh and dont even think about placing it in between 2 other objects to hold it in place. Then it would just break from overheating.
Great post that actually details the accounting principals at work. Simple yet effective.
Just as a side note, you are probably hearing about the commercial paper market in the news and how there is a huge void to be filled.
The commercial paper market is what companies use when they cannot cover their short term liabilities. A great example is wage expense (common use for the market) for companies such as IBM due to variations in cash flows. Revenues earned != to cash flows received in a given month.
Odds are these fabrication facilities saw a decrease in sales which still allows them to meet their loan payments, pay all of their 10 cents an hour employees, but unable to pay their power bill for the month.
Commercial paper is something a lot of businesses depend on, and with the current state of banks they refuse to even lend out to credible institutions. Thats why you had the Federal Reserve stepping in to try and fix the situation a couple of weeks ago.
As of February 2011 all games that are released on the XBOX will come with a 16 digit alpha numeric key. This key will have a one time use to activate the game for an XBOX account through online verification. Once the game is tied to an XBOX account no other user will be able to play the game without first recovering the XBOX account tied to that key.
This is , of course, the only fair thing to do to protect our game companies from jumping ship (and ultimately screwing us in the end) so get used to it. Oh and this is all ok because we started bitching about this years ago and you pirates/resellers/used game buying assholes/our valued customers would not succumb to our wishes.
I can just see it coming. It seems unreasonable now but just wait. The bitching and moaning will intensify. A few big name companies will "go bankrupt" and then BOOM. You have your tipping point and everyone is so distraught that they accept their new overlords willingly.
The orientation of an antenna that receives vertically polarized waves (AM waves) would be hard, to fit onto an integrated circuit. Chips such as these are usually more limited in height than they are in width when put into a laptop or most other portable devices.
The other waves are not affected by antenna orientation since they are elliptically polarized.
Where I grew up most schools had a gifted program(IQ 130-140).
The gifted class I was in had around 25 kids in it.
There was even a highly gifted program for IQs of 140 and above down the road from my school but I missed the cut by 1 point. Thank god. All those kids were weirdos/losers:P
That highly gifted class had only about 10 students in it however.
The school district was one of the largest in the country, Broward county.
And yeah Cblit, if that stuff is all true, thanks for explaining why I find most people to be complete morons...no matter how hard I try. Sadly enough -_-
Bullet spray in counter strike is directly affected by your frame rate.
The colt and ak just arent the same on 60 fps vs 100 fps.
I pull out the ol 21 inch CRT when i want to play CS. The technology still has its uses, but beyond that I would never go back to a CRT for normal every day use.
The blanket that the TOS throws on "unacceptable" behavior is just a mirror of the flawed system of laws we have today as a society (in America, at least)
Such a wide range of behavior that can get you in "trouble" (aka banned) is similar to the endless amount of laws the states has on the book but fails to ever enforce.
It reminds me of that parent causing a girl to commit suicide over a myspace account. They were going for a maximum sentence over a TOS breach which carries a severe penalty.
No one really ever gets even charged for this violation but it is done countless times a day by thousands of people all over the internet and in other forms of digital media.
Now all it takes is for EA to start enforcing extremely vague violations of the TOS to players who they do not appreciate in the game world or on their forums highlighting flaws with EA games.
Soon spawn camping noobs in the latest EA game will result in a TOS ban since EA does not want you discouraging new players from continuing to pay their monthly subscription!
Unfortunately for most of the population, the amount of money that governments generate is unimaginable. (My self included) When you are talking about that much money, the term it self almost loses the everyday definition. It is pure power to make things happen on a huge scale. A mobilizing agent of human power and innovation.
There is so much money to be spent that the government hardly knows what to do with it all.
Well maybe that last statement is unfair. They know how to spend it, they just do not know how to do it in an efficient manner without gross negligence in many instances.
And hey, maybe figuring out what mass is "really" will help us solve world hunger. Its worked before...
I think you should give the game another play through.
I recently beat it on realistic without dying a single time but like I said I have played the game like 10 times and can manipulate the AI to the point where it is not even fair anymore.
I play a total stealth package with temporary armor. The trick to realistic is to use the environment to your advantage and you should do just fine.
You are my new best friend shadukar. You pretty much described exactly how I feel about deus ex (after the 10th play through) and what I thought about dx2.
I played dx2 for like an hour and then never touched it again due to my disgust.
A remade dx1 would be the best case I think. Additional areas to explore + side missions would make it worthwhile for the not so devoted.
I treat my xbox 360 exactly like I used to treat steam for my PC.
My PC was top of the line 2 years ago, now it cant run anything. I can shell out 2k to get a top of the line rig again... or I can just hook my xbox360 up to the 26" samsung I already have sitting on my desk as a monitor.
If more games included keyboard support for an MMO I would certainly consider getting it on the xbox360 since the graphics/performance would be much better.
The only major downside I can see is that the mod support would be very minimal and you would not be able to install 3rd party apps like parsers and UI addons.
I would love to see a better interface on the xbox360. I hope the next gen consoles include a full blown operating system. Now that would make me happy!
I saw one big error and it was a simple typo. You need to chill the hell out. I fail to see where I resorted to just insulting specific people beyond the people in Pburg who came up with this patchwork solution.
The main issue with a zero being 50 % is that you can get by without doing any work at all and still get credit. In the system I proposed you do not get anything you did not earn. The system requires you to work at all points, and not be penalized as heavily for the occasional shortfall. It is a simple example and can be modified from subject to subject.
Also, there is no argument as far as I am concerned. I was just suggesting an alternative. If you think this the article to be a good idea then I suppose there is an argument in your eyes. You are clearly in the minority however since a simple glance at the majority of the posts would indicate that people are simply mocking the idea or just throwing out alternatives.
Oh and I didnt check this for grammar or spend more than 2 minutes writing this so please feel free to infer my overall failure in life since I clearly cannot form sentences without grave errors... lol
There is other ways to compensate for an extremely low grade on one test besides mandating a 50 percent floor on all assignments/tests. Lets use an oversimplified example of 5 tests constituting 100 % of a students grade in the class. \\ There are several methods that could take pressure off of just one bad test. For example, you could make it so that only 4 out of the 5 tests count towards the 100 %. \\ You take 5 tests, count the 4 highest so that the 0 % does not drag down the average. If you want all of the tests to count, then you can weight the higher scores more than the lower ones. \\ Lets say you have a student who scores 35//95//70//15//85 If you make the 2 lowest tests worth 12.5 % each and the three highest tests worth 25 % each then you can still get an accurate representation of the students performance while allowing the students best work to shine the brightest. \\.125(35 + 15) +.25(95 + 80 + 85) = 71.25 % \\ The student has still passed while earning a 35 and 15 %. This 50 % floor idea is absolute bullshit. Makes me remember how much of a colossal waste of my life high school was. Felt more like a prison to keep us off the streets during the day. \\ But whatever, lets leave all of this "complicated" stuff to the experts who know exactly what they are doing...
Also whats up with the editor, wont let me put spaces in my comment >
If we are talking about high level play and the issue of simultaneous actions, I would say that it matters just as much as a fighting game in a fps. Sure you do not have as many actions occurring simultaneously but the few ones that do occur are even more important!
At least in counter strike I know at least half the time someone would peek for an AWP shot (a scrim not pub play) it was a matter of both of the players shooting the other player and hitting, but whoever acted that milisecond earlier cancelling the other players bullet in mid air would get the kill.
Try watching a lan match of pro players and you will see that everyone knows that unpredictability rarely occurs at such a high level of play, and when it does its a definite kill
Slashdot Mirror
I NEARLY DIED!!!!!!!!!!
When I read the first two blurbs I came across on the front page of conservapedia.
Article of the Year: Evolution
In 2006, the prestigious science journal Science reported concerning the United States: "The percentage of people in the country who accept the idea of evolution has declined from 45 in 1985 to 40 in 2005. Meanwhile the fraction of Americans unsure about evolution has soared from 7 per cent in 1985 to 21 per cent last year."[10]
* "Gallup's analysis says religiosity outweighs educational level in shaping views on evolution." (USN)
Discover what Wikipedia, the public school systems, and the liberal media don't want you to know about the creation vs. evolution issue.
And better yet...
Conservapedia's Highlighted Article ...A study reported that the liberal media is biased towards pro-atheism coverage.[11] Do you want to know what the liberal media is not reporting about evolutionist and atheist Richard Dawkins? Please examine Conservapedia's Richard Dawkins article!
Watch this video of evolutionist Richard Dawkins being stumped by the question of a creationist!...
Makes me feel like the world is a battlefront.
On one side is the people with the mental capacity to alter their views and accept scientific progress.
Well... the other side is banished to manipulating statistics to their advantage. Statistics that they don't even fundamentally understand because that is way too "sciencey" for them. Seems like a horrible fate.
I would cancel my service except they are the only provider in my area and I do not feel like using Hughes Net ;)
Yeah. Sorry to break it to you but your commentary is far from observing all of the possible angles to the situation.
The premise is flawed. People do not want to listen to indie stuff for the same reason that they do not get signed by major record labels. Their music either sucks or appeals to a very small audience. Therefore you will always have a relatively small amount of people seeking out this music. This explains the 0.00 % representation on TPB top 100 lists.
Word of mouth is MUCH more powerful than any marketing campaign. This has been proven time and time again beyond any reasonable doubt. Your little indie bands are just not worth talking about because they are just not that good. You need to come to grips with that fact...
Sounds great! This should bring the iPhone battery life to a healthy 3 minutes, down from the current generations 3 hour battery life.
In all seriousness, why is this news? I would hope every communications company is planning for the future. The future of phone calls is video calls.
Lets sift through every companies patents and predict all of the wild ideas they are planning in the next 20 years...
While you are certainly correct in stating that big trusted names are not immune to "folding", you forget that such events are often highly publicized and can take many months. Dire situations exposing themselves well before anything is officially set in stone.
Big companies certainly fail, but not overnight without warning.
Even if the company were to announce its departure from the field and be gone within a month, you would be sure to receive emails about the closure of the service and have ample time to download your uploaded pron and put it that new 10TB drive you got from Best Buy for 80 bucks.
Maybe what he meant to say is that LEDs can be used as a binary representation.
An active high output would correspond to a bright light.
While an active low output would correspond to essentially no light in the LED.
This is only really applicable in demonstrating the function of logic circuits.
Varying values for a current limiting resistor would allow you to dim the LED as you see fit.
Sounds a lot like the lectures at University of Florida. Is that where you went to school?
Yeah they have the PRS at the university of florida for physics classes as well.
Its a really weak attempt to force kids to come to class. The kids that do not want to be there just ignore lecture and read the news paper or text all class or even talk! Then when a question pops up everyone just looks to their smart friend who either was paying attention to lecture or read ahead in the book.
Large lecture halls are not an ideal but a reasonable solution to the fact that professors time is not cheap in the slightest.
I never went to class and just taught my self out of the book. (Forfeiting the PRS points) It was not bad at all. Try doing that with upper level course work and it gets way too difficult way too fast. There is a reason those classes are 20-40 in size. (If just one of the many reasons)
Meh. The warning should be extended to read.
Do not place in a vertical position while using the console. This is not safe. Dogs are liable to knock over the xbox360 and cause your disc to be ruined.
Seen it happen before... then we learned about the disc scratching feature.
Oh and dont even think about placing it in between 2 other objects to hold it in place. Then it would just break from overheating.
Great post that actually details the accounting principals at work. Simple yet effective.
Just as a side note, you are probably hearing about the commercial paper market in the news and how there is a huge void to be filled.
The commercial paper market is what companies use when they cannot cover their short term liabilities. A great example is wage expense (common use for the market) for companies such as IBM due to variations in cash flows. Revenues earned != to cash flows received in a given month.
Odds are these fabrication facilities saw a decrease in sales which still allows them to meet their loan payments, pay all of their 10 cents an hour employees, but unable to pay their power bill for the month.
Commercial paper is something a lot of businesses depend on, and with the current state of banks they refuse to even lend out to credible institutions. Thats why you had the Federal Reserve stepping in to try and fix the situation a couple of weeks ago.
Microsoft Press Release
1/1/11
Goes a little something like this
As of February 2011 all games that are released on the XBOX will come with a 16 digit alpha numeric key. This key will have a one time use to activate the game for an XBOX account through online verification. Once the game is tied to an XBOX account no other user will be able to play the game without first recovering the XBOX account tied to that key.
This is , of course, the only fair thing to do to protect our game companies from jumping ship (and ultimately screwing us in the end) so get used to it. Oh and this is all ok because we started bitching about this years ago and you pirates/resellers/used game buying assholes/our valued customers would not succumb to our wishes.
I can just see it coming. It seems unreasonable now but just wait. The bitching and moaning will intensify. A few big name companies will "go bankrupt" and then BOOM. You have your tipping point and everyone is so distraught that they accept their new overlords willingly.
The orientation of an antenna that receives vertically polarized waves (AM waves) would be hard, to fit onto an integrated circuit. Chips such as these are usually more limited in height than they are in width when put into a laptop or most other portable devices.
The other waves are not affected by antenna orientation since they are elliptically polarized.
One my last hopes for the gaming world was blizzard. Now that they have whored out, its down to just Bioware and Bethesda...
If we are lucky EA will buy them out and siphon all of the edge and creativity right out of them.
While I respect your opinion, I am going to have to ask you to direct your concerns towards the ever omnipotent market and its related forces.
They make the decisions around here... The rest of us are just passing through for ~80 years.
Where I grew up most schools had a gifted program(IQ 130-140).
The gifted class I was in had around 25 kids in it.
There was even a highly gifted program for IQs of 140 and above down the road from my school but I missed the cut by 1 point. Thank god. All those kids were weirdos/losers :P
That highly gifted class had only about 10 students in it however.
The school district was one of the largest in the country, Broward county.
And yeah Cblit, if that stuff is all true, thanks for explaining why I find most people to be complete morons...no matter how hard I try. Sadly enough -_-
Bullet spray in counter strike is directly affected by your frame rate.
The colt and ak just arent the same on 60 fps vs 100 fps.
I pull out the ol 21 inch CRT when i want to play CS. The technology still has its uses, but beyond that I would never go back to a CRT for normal every day use.
The blanket that the TOS throws on "unacceptable" behavior is just a mirror of the flawed system of laws we have today as a society (in America, at least)
Such a wide range of behavior that can get you in "trouble" (aka banned) is similar to the endless amount of laws the states has on the book but fails to ever enforce.
It reminds me of that parent causing a girl to commit suicide over a myspace account. They were going for a maximum sentence over a TOS breach which carries a severe penalty.
No one really ever gets even charged for this violation but it is done countless times a day by thousands of people all over the internet and in other forms of digital media.
Now all it takes is for EA to start enforcing extremely vague violations of the TOS to players who they do not appreciate in the game world or on their forums highlighting flaws with EA games.
Soon spawn camping noobs in the latest EA game will result in a TOS ban since EA does not want you discouraging new players from continuing to pay their monthly subscription!
Exactly.
Unfortunately for most of the population, the amount of money that governments generate is unimaginable. (My self included) When you are talking about that much money, the term it self almost loses the everyday definition. It is pure power to make things happen on a huge scale. A mobilizing agent of human power and innovation.
There is so much money to be spent that the government hardly knows what to do with it all.
Well maybe that last statement is unfair. They know how to spend it, they just do not know how to do it in an efficient manner without gross negligence in many instances.
And hey, maybe figuring out what mass is "really" will help us solve world hunger. Its worked before...
I think you should give the game another play through.
I recently beat it on realistic without dying a single time but like I said I have played the game like 10 times and can manipulate the AI to the point where it is not even fair anymore.
I play a total stealth package with temporary armor. The trick to realistic is to use the environment to your advantage and you should do just fine.
Lol wow please give me a short list I would LOVE to make this rig.
You are my new best friend shadukar. You pretty much described exactly how I feel about deus ex (after the 10th play through) and what I thought about dx2.
I played dx2 for like an hour and then never touched it again due to my disgust.
A remade dx1 would be the best case I think. Additional areas to explore + side missions would make it worthwhile for the not so devoted.
Exactly.
I treat my xbox 360 exactly like I used to treat steam for my PC.
My PC was top of the line 2 years ago, now it cant run anything. I can shell out 2k to get a top of the line rig again... or I can just hook my xbox360 up to the 26" samsung I already have sitting on my desk as a monitor.
If more games included keyboard support for an MMO I would certainly consider getting it on the xbox360 since the graphics/performance would be much better.
The only major downside I can see is that the mod support would be very minimal and you would not be able to install 3rd party apps like parsers and UI addons.
I would love to see a better interface on the xbox360. I hope the next gen consoles include a full blown operating system. Now that would make me happy!
I saw one big error and it was a simple typo. You need to chill the hell out. I fail to see where I resorted to just insulting specific people beyond the people in Pburg who came up with this patchwork solution.
The main issue with a zero being 50 % is that you can get by without doing any work at all and still get credit. In the system I proposed you do not get anything you did not earn. The system requires you to work at all points, and not be penalized as heavily for the occasional shortfall. It is a simple example and can be modified from subject to subject.
Also, there is no argument as far as I am concerned. I was just suggesting an alternative. If you think this the article to be a good idea then I suppose there is an argument in your eyes. You are clearly in the minority however since a simple glance at the majority of the posts would indicate that people are simply mocking the idea or just throwing out alternatives.
Oh and I didnt check this for grammar or spend more than 2 minutes writing this so please feel free to infer my overall failure in life since I clearly cannot form sentences without grave errors... lol
There is other ways to compensate for an extremely low grade on one test besides mandating a 50 percent floor on all assignments/tests. .125(35 + 15) + .25(95 + 80 + 85) = 71.25 %
Lets use an oversimplified example of 5 tests constituting 100 % of a students grade in the class.
\\
There are several methods that could take pressure off of just one bad test.
For example, you could make it so that only 4 out of the 5 tests count towards the 100 %.
\\
You take 5 tests, count the 4 highest so that the 0 % does not drag down the average.
If you want all of the tests to count, then you can weight the higher scores more than the lower ones.
\\
Lets say you have a student who scores 35//95//70//15//85
If you make the 2 lowest tests worth 12.5 % each and the three highest tests worth 25 % each then you can still get an accurate representation of the students performance while allowing the students best work to shine the brightest.
\\
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The student has still passed while earning a 35 and 15 %.
This 50 % floor idea is absolute bullshit. Makes me remember how much of a colossal waste of my life high school was. Felt more like a prison to keep us off the streets during the day.
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But whatever, lets leave all of this "complicated" stuff to the experts who know exactly what they are doing...
Also whats up with the editor, wont let me put spaces in my comment >
If we are talking about high level play and the issue of simultaneous actions, I would say that it matters just as much as a fighting game in a fps. Sure you do not have as many actions occurring simultaneously but the few ones that do occur are even more important!
At least in counter strike I know at least half the time someone would peek for an AWP shot (a scrim not pub play) it was a matter of both of the players shooting the other player and hitting, but whoever acted that milisecond earlier cancelling the other players bullet in mid air would get the kill.
Try watching a lan match of pro players and you will see that everyone knows that unpredictability rarely occurs at such a high level of play, and when it does its a definite kill