Or worse yet! It'll be an amalgam crossover, and I'll be a mix of Bucky and Scud, under the name of Bucky the Disposable Sidekick. Oh no, wait... that would be redundant, he was already disposable.
The speed at which they achieved the result of clearing all the raid content is a lot less impressive when you consider that they've had WEEKS of beta testing time to experience and practice it. Once the content went live, it was just like the premiere of a well-rehearsed play.
If you take a great hand made of five cards together, then distribute them one at a time to several people, there's no need to worry that the full house that won last hand will just get handed back to the same person (or another) again. It would take one hell of a shuffling to hand back those same five cards to someone again the next round!
The campaign storyline is truly moving. It's the end of humanity, extinction is no near you can taste its rust-tainted flavor and people... are still being people in the meantime. One particular moment had me crying. Won't say which one, but if you've played through the game, you KNOW which one I'm talking about.
Forget the olympics, just spread it at JFK airport around noon in a high-traffic waiting flight transit area. The spreading scenario is an easy one to achieve, what will be hard to do is the virus to get the job done. What you would need is something that is powerful enough to be 100% deadly in adult healthy people, impossible to detect until the patient has less than 24 hours left to live, a long incubation and contagion period, an airborne contagion vector for maximum spread AND be impossible to cure or gain immunity from by either vaccine or natural means. That's apretty tall order. Once you obtain this virus though, just infect a few people and give them airplane tickets for long trips with multiple transits along the way.
Don't forget the professor's Universe-in-a-box, which ended up containing our own universe at the conclusion of the episode. Imagine that - a simple cardboard box that could destroy reality as we know it, simply by being tossed into the recycling bin. Seems like the practice meant to save the environment is going to doom us all in the end!
Similarly, cell phone cameras would have been banned from ever being marketed. It's way too easy to film goverment officials and law enforcement agencies commiting abuses of power, when before that it used to be your word against theirs, with their word always winning.
Just send in Christian Slater to recover it. It'll only take him a few hours, with the additional bonus that movie footage of the recovery mission will make for a great action movie once the evil John Travolta tries to steal it.
Truth. I was having lunch a few weeks ago and overheard someone who said was working in the porn industry and she lamented that HD cameras are awful to their business. The slightest blemish, the smallest skin imperfection, every tiny bit of hair stubble shows up on the screen with crystal clarity. HD cameras are not the adult industry's friend.
Consider all the people who play games on cell phones and portable platforms, as well as apps on websites such as social network games. Those usually have limited graphic capability that are close to 8-bit era, or marginally better. This is because of a very simple fact: good gameplay trumps good graphics every time! Have you ever played a game with awesome graphics that you put down quickly because it was simply no fun at all? (I'm looking at YOU, Monster Hunter Freedom!)
It sounds like you do a lot of preventive maintenance. Now what you might want to look at here is how much income would be lost for the company if their employees sat around waiting for an outsourced tech to come and fix their systems, as opposed to having you on staff, PREVENTING those lost hours.
Skills in matrix management, in extracting comprehensible models of complex technologies from experts, and in providing leadership in situations where goals and visions are clouded by the very nature of the work are what is going to be important.
I know I would trust Colin Powell to be leading me the right way when he offers me a choice between the blue pill and the red pill. *gulps down the red one*
Isn't it time we had someone in charge of evaluating new technologies who actually KNOWS how computers work, rather than having to refer to the opinions of out of touch people who still struggle with their VCR flashing 12:00 over and over since 1986?
This argument that "The terrorists will attack because Obama is inexperienced" never fails to remind me of the Robot Chicken episode where the arab terrorists attack an elementary school because a little boy said "Fart" during the pledge to the flag. "He said FART! They are weak! We must attack!"
Watching on CNN the sea of people in Chicago cheering for President Elect Obama and his victory speech convinced me that this was one of those unique moments, the kind that people decades from now will remember and ask each other "Do you remember where you were when Obama was elected?" Truly a great moment.
Indeed - by studying HOW this fungus synthesizes diesel-like molecules, it may be a simple matter of gene-splicing the right DNA sequence into a new bacteria that will do the same. The process for mass-producing and harvesting bacteria for human insulin molecules is well-known and cost effective, so adapting the technology rather than reinventing it from scratch would skip yet another development stage and rush this wonder into commercial use within just a few years.
Perhaps they're trying to scare most of us straight, perhaps shake out a few confessions? "If you tell us you've been downloading illegal porn rather than MAKE US look for it by tearing through your system, the judge will go easier on you." Good cop bad cop anyone?
It's all a game to them when you're being brought downtown on a trumped up charge to be leaned on by halfwits. (with excuses to Bryan Singer for the obvious Usual Suspects reference)
One thing the democratic party has brought is a sense that the solutions to ou rproblems is something we have to bring forward as we accept responsability for our mistakes. You can't fix your problems until you accept they exist. All the while, a constant line from republican speeches has been to blame others for the problems. Blame the democrats, blame big foreign oil, blame Osama, blame Obama. Blame other republicans, too.
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That that was all too subtle for the swinging dick approach favored by American intel.
Again, is anybody here surprised that this was the favored approach of J. Edgar?
Who in their right mind would even want to steal country music? You couldn't pay me enough to accept it legally.
Or worse yet! It'll be an amalgam crossover, and I'll be a mix of Bucky and Scud, under the name of Bucky the Disposable Sidekick. Oh no, wait... that would be redundant, he was already disposable.
Does that mean that when the next continuity ret-con occurs, I'll get fused with Hal Jordan's soul and get a green lantern ring?
The speed at which they achieved the result of clearing all the raid content is a lot less impressive when you consider that they've had WEEKS of beta testing time to experience and practice it. Once the content went live, it was just like the premiere of a well-rehearsed play.
If you take a great hand made of five cards together, then distribute them one at a time to several people, there's no need to worry that the full house that won last hand will just get handed back to the same person (or another) again. It would take one hell of a shuffling to hand back those same five cards to someone again the next round!
The campaign storyline is truly moving. It's the end of humanity, extinction is no near you can taste its rust-tainted flavor and people... are still being people in the meantime. One particular moment had me crying. Won't say which one, but if you've played through the game, you KNOW which one I'm talking about.
With most doctors dead and more patients each day, anything that resists already widely available basic antibiotics would be basically uncurable.
Antibiotics only work on bacteria, not viruses. Your most powerful antibiotics would be useless.
Forget the olympics, just spread it at JFK airport around noon in a high-traffic waiting flight transit area. The spreading scenario is an easy one to achieve, what will be hard to do is the virus to get the job done. What you would need is something that is powerful enough to be 100% deadly in adult healthy people, impossible to detect until the patient has less than 24 hours left to live, a long incubation and contagion period, an airborne contagion vector for maximum spread AND be impossible to cure or gain immunity from by either vaccine or natural means. That's apretty tall order. Once you obtain this virus though, just infect a few people and give them airplane tickets for long trips with multiple transits along the way.
Don't forget the professor's Universe-in-a-box, which ended up containing our own universe at the conclusion of the episode. Imagine that - a simple cardboard box that could destroy reality as we know it, simply by being tossed into the recycling bin. Seems like the practice meant to save the environment is going to doom us all in the end!
Similarly, cell phone cameras would have been banned from ever being marketed. It's way too easy to film goverment officials and law enforcement agencies commiting abuses of power, when before that it used to be your word against theirs, with their word always winning.
Does that mean that I will NOT be getting my millions of dollars from that friendly nigerian prince?
I guess science is coming up with a better explanation every day why your neighbour's youngest boy has the milkman's hair color!
Just send in Christian Slater to recover it. It'll only take him a few hours, with the additional bonus that movie footage of the recovery mission will make for a great action movie once the evil John Travolta tries to steal it.
Truth. I was having lunch a few weeks ago and overheard someone who said was working in the porn industry and she lamented that HD cameras are awful to their business. The slightest blemish, the smallest skin imperfection, every tiny bit of hair stubble shows up on the screen with crystal clarity. HD cameras are not the adult industry's friend.
"If I were to tell you the fact that Windows 7 developers dine on human flesh at their desks to start each day anew, how would you react?"
"That explains everything!"
Consider all the people who play games on cell phones and portable platforms, as well as apps on websites such as social network games. Those usually have limited graphic capability that are close to 8-bit era, or marginally better. This is because of a very simple fact: good gameplay trumps good graphics every time! Have you ever played a game with awesome graphics that you put down quickly because it was simply no fun at all? (I'm looking at YOU, Monster Hunter Freedom!)
It sounds like you do a lot of preventive maintenance. Now what you might want to look at here is how much income would be lost for the company if their employees sat around waiting for an outsourced tech to come and fix their systems, as opposed to having you on staff, PREVENTING those lost hours.
Skills in matrix management, in extracting comprehensible models of complex technologies from experts, and in providing leadership in situations where goals and visions are clouded by the very nature of the work are what is going to be important.
I know I would trust Colin Powell to be leading me the right way when he offers me a choice between the blue pill and the red pill. *gulps down the red one*
Isn't it time we had someone in charge of evaluating new technologies who actually KNOWS how computers work, rather than having to refer to the opinions of out of touch people who still struggle with their VCR flashing 12:00 over and over since 1986?
This argument that "The terrorists will attack because Obama is inexperienced" never fails to remind me of the Robot Chicken episode where the arab terrorists attack an elementary school because a little boy said "Fart" during the pledge to the flag. "He said FART! They are weak! We must attack!"
Watching on CNN the sea of people in Chicago cheering for President Elect Obama and his victory speech convinced me that this was one of those unique moments, the kind that people decades from now will remember and ask each other "Do you remember where you were when Obama was elected?" Truly a great moment.
Indeed - by studying HOW this fungus synthesizes diesel-like molecules, it may be a simple matter of gene-splicing the right DNA sequence into a new bacteria that will do the same. The process for mass-producing and harvesting bacteria for human insulin molecules is well-known and cost effective, so adapting the technology rather than reinventing it from scratch would skip yet another development stage and rush this wonder into commercial use within just a few years.
It's all a game to them when you're being brought downtown on a trumped up charge to be leaned on by halfwits. (with excuses to Bryan Singer for the obvious Usual Suspects reference)
We're getting sick of the buck getting passed.