Xbox 360, and probably PS3, will happily play an MPEG4 movie off of a USB key. I've seen DVD players with flash slots and USB slots for pictures and what not; it won't be much longer (if there aren't already) such players that will happily play a movie from a USB key.
I draw my conclusion based on the fact that the two American parties are generally contrasted with a list of points prefixed with 'pro' or 'anti.' Well, generally just 'pro' with opposite points. Dems are 'pro gun control,' while Republicans are 'pro 2nd amendment.' Dems are 'pro choice' where Repubs are 'pro life' and so on.
What the hell do you expect when you have an institutionalized two-party system? When your only hope is to identify with one party or the other, and the only way to identify one party is 'not the other party;' that is to say, both parties are defined by how they're different from each other, you get several logical results:
Candidates can only succeed by picking a party and embracing it's tenants whole-heartedly
The party will promote it's own agenda (obvious)
..while slagging off it's opponents agenda (not so obvious). In other words, if party A likes, say, giving candy to children, party B is virtually required to therefore disagree with the concept of giving candy to children. And must loudly oppose it. And then rationalize it; after all, there isn't necessarily an actual rational reason; the only real reason is 'cuz the other party thinks it's a good idea!'
The parties will become more and more extreme to further contrast themselves to each other.
Note that if any candidate breaks these rules; i.e. says 'Although I disagree with most of my opponents ideas, this one is actually pretty good....,' they get torn apart by their own party for lack of sufficient ideological purity.
Others have noted that this is old technology, but I will point out that if you overload your doubled-RAM for long periods of time, you risk cerebral hemmorage and data loss.
Nah, make a point of getting an analog clock with no seconds hand; you have an instant way of double-checking that the link is actually active, and a handy timeout prevention device. One frame per minute isn't going to kill your bandwidth.
Agreed. I'm Canadian; paper ballots, put an X in the big circle beside the candidate's name, and off you go. If you some how manage to screw up putting an X in a circle, you've lost your vote; putting an X in a circle isn't too much to ask. And assisstance is available.
'Oh, but we vote for so many things on our ballots,' the Americans cry. Fine. Then it takes a bit longer. Or you have too many damn things on your ballots. You have elected representatives for a reason.
But if you really must, go ahead and use touchscreens. Those touchscreens print out a paper ballot. That ballot is dropped in a ballot box on your way out. The touchscreens, in NO way, shape or form, do any sort of counting or tallying.
Your vote machine should never EVER be keeping a running tally. Your vote machine should be keeping a line-item list of votes cast.
Or, put another way, your voting machine should only ever be making, to your vote record table, INSERT statements. Never a SELECT, and most certainly never an UPDATE or DELETE.
No, the landlord can tell him that he can't mount the antenna on the roof, the flag pole, or other 'common' areas. The landlord can't do a thing about mounting the antenna on a balcony, outside the tenant's window, or other such places.
"Always two there are; a Master, and an Apprentice." Not "Only two."
Hell, he could just as easily been talking about the Jedi; they tend to travel in pairs as well. But mainly, he was pointing out that a Sith Master is loathe to take on more than one Apprentice, lest they gang up and over-power them, and a Sith Apprentice tends to become a Master by, well, defeating his Master.
The original Olympic events were all military skills. Running (sometimes in full armour and weapons load!), javelin, wrestling, boxing, pankration (unarmed fight-to-win) discus. All direct military skills.
Yes, but most people interpret the causation backwards.
The guy with the most money doesn't get the most votes; the guy with the most supporters tends to get the most money *and* the most votes; the people who are going to vote for candidate A aren't very likely to contribute money to candidate B after all.
apparently money is the main factor in winning or losing the seat.
No, no, NO. Money does not win you the seat. Winning the seat wins you the money.
Or, put another way, money is a barometer of votes. If somebody is going to vote for you, they're more likely to give you money than to give your opponent money. The more popular you are, the more contributions you're going to get. Similarly, the more popular, the more votes you're going to get. Hence, the guy who winds up winning has probably received the most contributions; however, those contributions are not what won the election.
For a (well written, witty, and interesting) longer explanation of this, and several other such concepts, go read Freakanomics.
So, if there's an extended fight like, say, DIABLO...
A fight which you might not survive with just the health and mana you have in your orbs, what do you do?
That's easy enough, bosses drop on occassion. Be it pure random chance (each X HP of damage you do gives a 10% chance of a drop) or number of hits, or straight damage correlation, or whatever.
To a certain extent, yes. I'd probably mention about the soldier with the knife being directly in a kill-or-be-killed situation, let alone the adreneline, but yeah.
But that's kind of the point of the article; this isn't something the *Air Force* has had to deal with really.
refused to leave the floor after the adjournment motion passed
which says to me, in other words, 'Republicans are refusing to follow the accepted Rules of Order, and are *this close* to crossing their arms, stamping their feet, and holding their breath until they turn blue.'
I mean, the article summary, at quick glance, made it sound like the Democrats had simply buggered off, not properly adjourned.
Sure, but you won't get to 'militarily useful' without going through the 'very expensive fireworks' stage. Paying your dues, and all that.
After all, for the longest time, all gunpowder/blackpowder was good for was making...well, very expensive fireworks. I mean, what does it tell you that 'The Three Musketeers,' as in 'The Three Guys In The Elite Musket Regiment of the Army, Who's Job Is To Shoot Muskets' were known for their swordwork?
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In this context, you'd need to use the word 'plausible.'
One of the few mass-market video games you'll ever see with an on-screen rape scene.
No, that would be 'bonsai'. Completely different from 'banzai'
Xbox 360, and probably PS3, will happily play an MPEG4 movie off of a USB key. I've seen DVD players with flash slots and USB slots for pictures and what not; it won't be much longer (if there aren't already) such players that will happily play a movie from a USB key.
I draw my conclusion based on the fact that the two American parties are generally contrasted with a list of points prefixed with 'pro' or 'anti.' Well, generally just 'pro' with opposite points. Dems are 'pro gun control,' while Republicans are 'pro 2nd amendment.' Dems are 'pro choice' where Repubs are 'pro life' and so on.
What the hell do you expect when you have an institutionalized two-party system? When your only hope is to identify with one party or the other, and the only way to identify one party is 'not the other party;' that is to say, both parties are defined by how they're different from each other, you get several logical results:
The party will promote it's own agenda (obvious)
Note that if any candidate breaks these rules; i.e. says 'Although I disagree with most of my opponents ideas, this one is actually pretty good....,' they get torn apart by their own party for lack of sufficient ideological purity.
Others have noted that this is old technology, but I will point out that if you overload your doubled-RAM for long periods of time, you risk cerebral hemmorage and data loss.
Just for fun, I went to nVidia's website to look up the drivers for an old GeForce 3 I have laying round. I believe I got that card in 1999.
The most recent drivers are 2006. 7 years of support.
Why digital? Analog clocks are nice, hang on the wall, often run off of batteries.
You're young, and an INTP, aren't you?
Nah, make a point of getting an analog clock with no seconds hand; you have an instant way of double-checking that the link is actually active, and a handy timeout prevention device. One frame per minute isn't going to kill your bandwidth.
Agreed. I'm Canadian; paper ballots, put an X in the big circle beside the candidate's name, and off you go. If you some how manage to screw up putting an X in a circle, you've lost your vote; putting an X in a circle isn't too much to ask. And assisstance is available.
'Oh, but we vote for so many things on our ballots,' the Americans cry. Fine. Then it takes a bit longer. Or you have too many damn things on your ballots. You have elected representatives for a reason.
But if you really must, go ahead and use touchscreens. Those touchscreens print out a paper ballot. That ballot is dropped in a ballot box on your way out. The touchscreens, in NO way, shape or form, do any sort of counting or tallying.
Cheers, eh!
Which is more or less how the Canadian system works, minus the computerized tally part.
Your vote machine should never EVER be keeping a running tally. Your vote machine should be keeping a line-item list of votes cast.
Or, put another way, your voting machine should only ever be making, to your vote record table, INSERT statements. Never a SELECT, and most certainly never an UPDATE or DELETE.
Granted. But a non-penetrating mount isn't rocket science.
No, the landlord can tell him that he can't mount the antenna on the roof, the flag pole, or other 'common' areas. The landlord can't do a thing about mounting the antenna on a balcony, outside the tenant's window, or other such places.
"Always two there are; a Master, and an Apprentice." Not "Only two."
Hell, he could just as easily been talking about the Jedi; they tend to travel in pairs as well. But mainly, he was pointing out that a Sith Master is loathe to take on more than one Apprentice, lest they gang up and over-power them, and a Sith Apprentice tends to become a Master by, well, defeating his Master.
The original Olympic events were all military skills. Running (sometimes in full armour and weapons load!), javelin, wrestling, boxing, pankration (unarmed fight-to-win) discus. All direct military skills.
Yes, but most people interpret the causation backwards.
The guy with the most money doesn't get the most votes; the guy with the most supporters tends to get the most money *and* the most votes; the people who are going to vote for candidate A aren't very likely to contribute money to candidate B after all.
No, no, NO. Money does not win you the seat. Winning the seat wins you the money.
Or, put another way, money is a barometer of votes. If somebody is going to vote for you, they're more likely to give you money than to give your opponent money. The more popular you are, the more contributions you're going to get. Similarly, the more popular, the more votes you're going to get. Hence, the guy who winds up winning has probably received the most contributions; however, those contributions are not what won the election.
For a (well written, witty, and interesting) longer explanation of this, and several other such concepts, go read Freakanomics.
That's easy enough, bosses drop on occassion. Be it pure random chance (each X HP of damage you do gives a 10% chance of a drop) or number of hits, or straight damage correlation, or whatever.
'Gaijin.'
To a certain extent, yes. I'd probably mention about the soldier with the knife being directly in a kill-or-be-killed situation, let alone the adreneline, but yeah.
But that's kind of the point of the article; this isn't something the *Air Force* has had to deal with really.
I'm more interested in this part:
which says to me, in other words, 'Republicans are refusing to follow the accepted Rules of Order, and are *this close* to crossing their arms, stamping their feet, and holding their breath until they turn blue.'
I mean, the article summary, at quick glance, made it sound like the Democrats had simply buggered off, not properly adjourned.
Sure, but you won't get to 'militarily useful' without going through the 'very expensive fireworks' stage. Paying your dues, and all that.
After all, for the longest time, all gunpowder/blackpowder was good for was making...well, very expensive fireworks. I mean, what does it tell you that 'The Three Musketeers,' as in 'The Three Guys In The Elite Musket Regiment of the Army, Who's Job Is To Shoot Muskets' were known for their swordwork?