My preference is actually to corded laser mice. I've had a couple cordless ones and they always felt too heavy for my tastes. And when the batteries start to go it's always frustrating to have to stop whatever I am doing to go find fresh ones. I also happen to prefer the five button mice, the mouse-wheel button rarely ever gets used but at times it's made for a great "boss button".
I noticed when I first started playing that free aim mode was rather ineffective. Bullets hit nowhere near where I was aiming and where the crosshairs were. I haven't really experimented with it since, I pretty much only use the sniper rifle in free aim, for everything else I use VATS. So raising the appropriate skill for the weapon you are using might tighten up the shot pattern but I haven't played in such a way that I would notice.
Except that it did work. And in each conflict we have gotten better and better at it. We of course aren't at the flawless zero casuallty victory stage. In fact that might be an impossible goal but we have definitely made progress in the last hundred years.
You can argue forever about whether or not the invasion should have ever happened. But we've definitely gotten better at waging war.
I really liked the way SWG was skill based before the NGE patch or whatever. It was unbalanced as hell and I'd hate to be the developers responsible for making more builds of simliar power. But the ability to train your character however you saw fit was very fun. And the fact that you could undo that training to learn something else, and maybe eventually go back to the original, was just awesome.
I've been playing a good bit of Diablo 2 recently and I wonder if you couldn't make a Diablo 2 clone that could work in the same manner. Instead of levels your character gains specialized exp depending on what abilities they use. That exp can be used to further improve the skill level of that ability or abilities dependant upon it. Or spend twice as many exp points to develop an ability that isn't dependant upon the first. And say let them spend four times the amount of exp to develop abilities that are completely unrelated. And say ten times the amount of exp to develop stat points.
Put a hard cap on how high you can raise any one skill and how many points can be spent over all. And allow for unlearning of skills to free up points to develop other abilities. But keep the cost for raising an ability that you unlearned so that you can't just switch on a whim like talent points in WoW.
Most of Vanilla WoW was during the time of no or very limited diminishing returns in PvP. Deathcoil was great because it was free damage and a heal. It was also not a fear affect, but a terror, and so couldn't be broken or removed like fear. It was the save_my_bacon button for when fear broke sooner than expected or you got ambushed. Warlocks might not have been unbeatable but they were one of if not the easiest class to excell with in PvP.
In PvE they were traditionally hard to beat because they could stack enough dots on multiple mobs that other classes couldn't keep up. A mage could do better on true AoE pulls where the mobs were kept close together but positioning didn't matter for a warlock that could stack dots on every mob in the normal pulls and still do AoE. The only way mages were much better was single target boss encounters. And while the trash might not give out the good items you won't get to the bosses if the trash isn't taken out, and the more quickly that happened the more bosses you could attempt.
The wife and I have been cooking larger batches of our meals for about a year now. We usually cook twice a week sometimes more sometimes less. The monetary savings alone is worth it. A ten dollar pot of chili makes for at least eight servingings. And the pasta dishes we do cost even less than that.
The problem with relying on the odometer for tax purposes is that there are a number of clever ways to prevent it from racking up miles. Heck I've even owned a couple cars that didn't have working odometers.
When I was about eight years old I remember my father offering me a 25 cent bounty for every mouse I could trap in the house. So I set my first trap and was terribly excited when I caught the my first mouse by it's tail in the trap.
Well I knew my father didn't want live mice so I had to figure out how to kill it. After thinking it over for a minute my brother and I took it out on the back porch and put it in an old metal bucket filled with water to try and drown it. Apparently our mouse had taken swimming lessons and after a couple minutes wasn't showing any signs of going under. So we proceded to drop pebbles on him to try and push him under. After about ten minutes of all this we decided that the mouse had earned his freedom since we just couldn't manage to kill him.
So we dumped him out in the flower bed by the steps and figured he'd go elsewhere. Did I mention this was in the middle of winter and our short attention span was partially due to it being freezing cold outside.
Yeah, so my father came home from work and wanted to know about our mouse and why we had not thrown it away but instead left it by the steps. Needless to say he wasn't very impressed with out efforts to drown and stone it, and then leaving it to freeze to death. He pointed out that we should have just clubbed it once with a peice of wood from his shop or something. Our horrified reply "that would be too cruel!"
We always just hung them upside down by their feet from a taut rope. Then we'd go down the line slitting the artery in their necks so they'd bleed out. That way the meat didn't get bruised and while I am sure there was some pain involved for the chickens they actually didn't freak out very much, and hence didn't spray blood every where.
We tried plucking them the first time around and found it to be more trouble than it was worth for doing 200 chickens each year. So instead we skinned them. Doing one chicken at a time I imagine it'd be worth it to try plucking though.
While I love eating chicken I'd rather not ever have to handle another live one and I'd only butcher one if their wasn't a viable alternative.
When I was in the Chair Force I was supposed to be weighing 185 tops, I am also 5' 10". My only difficulty in passing the annual PT test was getting my waist down to 40 inches. All of my other scores were at the top end of the points scale. The points I lost on my waist though made it physically impossible to pass the test. I was in better muscular and aerobic shape than probably half of my skinny contemporaries. At the end of my enlistment the frustration with the PT system was a big part of deciding not to re-enlist. I was essentially faced with being an anorexic for a couple months every year to maintain my employment. I opt'd for the pay raise and got out.
I watched a video some years ago about some guy that hacked the Wii, or maybe it was game cube, I can't really remember. Anyways the method you mentioned is how he broke the password for some locked down port or other. Once the password and method were published Nintendo changed the password on new machines to prevent this hack. So he cracked the password again on a new console only to find that all they changed was to capitalize the password.
While culling them might save us the resources to sustain their life that removes the prospect of ever helping them to achieve normality of any kind. Keeping them alive and providing for them allows us the opportunity to study their various conditions. Which can help us gain insight into how the brain functions normally. It's not like their faulty genes or injury will likely be passed on and affect all of humanity.
Readily available access to the internet has rapidly become a must have for people in our day and age. It's everything from a source of entertainment, education, and general communication. It benefits each individual in much the same way as a library, meeting hall, phone system, entertainment venues and so on and so forth all rolled into one. Saying that you gain no benefit at all from another person having access to the internet is much like saying public funding for education is a complete waste. You benefit by being part of a society that has that connection.
All that said it's a non-issue. This project and a number of others like it, look up Green Light, are funded by bond issues sold to investment firms. Those bonds are paid back by the subscription fees of the people that utilize the service. Taxes do not pay for the layout or the upkeep of these projects.
I liked the tango when I was taking lessongs because my instructor didn't have to try and convince me to saunter and swin gmy hips or anything. That's the advantage of it being a smooth latin dance instead of a rythm dance. My biggest problem was always navigating a dance floor with other couples. That could of course be overcome with more practice but I have yet to find any active groups in my area. The wife prefers foxtrot and rumba anyways.
You can use the rules of chivalry to get an arm around a lady within a fairly short time span. A good way to start I found was to always open the car door for your date. Always offer a hand to help them out whether it's just a steadying support or holding a purse. I drove a very low sports car and getting out could be a little awkward.
Always offer your arm/elbow when you are walking together if you aren't in a huge hurry to get somewhere. This avoids the danger of having sweaty palms if you are nervous and doesn't restrict either persons movement like holding hands does. From there to an arm around the waist is a fairly short move. It's not really all that comfortable for actually walking but when waiting in lines and such it is fine.
In smaller spaces or more confined areas like waiting in a serpentine line for an event you can easily move to having your hand on her lower back or around her waist. If she's looking around it's a good way to guide your movement together, just don't walk her into a poll, and warn her of any steps you don't think she noticed yet.
For me it was always kind of easy because I started with holding a door and extending a helping hand. It shows a willingness and an expectation of limited personal contact. You want to make offers and overtures that are simple and not unlimited in scope. People usually like to know what they are getting into and offering your arm is not an invitation to your mother's basement.
I don't think you could stress the importance of "respectfully ask" enough. My wife has told me of numerous times when clueless men have tried to pick her up in offensive ways. Being even slightly crude out of the blue isn't likely to go over well.
In the summer of 2005 I went to visit some friends, one of them a very attractive woman I was interested in, our in California. Due to previous experience my friends were aware that I didn't know how to Salsa. So when picking an activity for the evening they decided on a different club. That club turned out to be a hip-hop club. While I have nothing against that flavor of music I definitely would have enjoyed the salsa club more.
When I got back home I determined that I would not be the excuse for not going dancing again. I looked around on the internet and could not find any kind of group lessons in my area and so settled on private lessons. Which was good and bad. Good because I was paired with a very attractive personal instructor/partner and bad because it was expensive. I think at the time lessons were nearly $50 for 45 minutes if you bought them in bundles of 20 or so.
Anyways the lessons have been easily worth the cost. I took them largely in secret, even my room mates didn't know what I was up to for close to a year. So when I sprung the suprise on my soon to be girlfriend and wife at a church social dance my victory was complete. In fact it turned out I know knew much more about dancing than she did and was able to teach her some of the basics, like good frame for starters.
Eventually she joined me in taking lessons because it was the same price for a couple as for a single person and we continued them until just a month or two ago when we decided we just couldn't afford them any longer with a child on the way. But we learned more than enough to be comfortable dancing together socially.
My one caution of course is to not assume that a woman knows how to dance properly. So exercise caution and don't try anything to complicated or crazy that could embarass her when she doesn't know how to follow your lead.
Actually my impression has been that most latin dances you don't get to look at your partner. Doing so actually prevents or distracts you from proper form just like in Foxtrot or waltz.
I would recommend learning swing and Rumba. Between those two you can dance to a vary wide variety of music. Do swing when it's faster and you have more energy. And Rumba when it's slower and you are getting tired. Neither dance involves much traveling and so lend themselves well to social dancing situations.
One of the instructors where I learned to dance was not hugely obese but he was definitely pushing it. He was also one of the better triple step swing dancers I have met. How he could move so quickly and precisely is beyond me as I still can't get the motion quite right. Anyways he won several regional competions that I know of.
Or being on a rather unstable feeling suspension bridge versus a very stable concrete and steel bridge. There was a study done on that in the seventies I think that was very interesting.
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I think there is a happy medium somewhere between totally eschewing the mouse and copy pasting individual letters to form words and lines.
Hazaa!
My preference is actually to corded laser mice. I've had a couple cordless ones and they always felt too heavy for my tastes. And when the batteries start to go it's always frustrating to have to stop whatever I am doing to go find fresh ones. I also happen to prefer the five button mice, the mouse-wheel button rarely ever gets used but at times it's made for a great "boss button".
I noticed when I first started playing that free aim mode was rather ineffective. Bullets hit nowhere near where I was aiming and where the crosshairs were. I haven't really experimented with it since, I pretty much only use the sniper rifle in free aim, for everything else I use VATS. So raising the appropriate skill for the weapon you are using might tighten up the shot pattern but I haven't played in such a way that I would notice.
Except that it did work. And in each conflict we have gotten better and better at it. We of course aren't at the flawless zero casuallty victory stage. In fact that might be an impossible goal but we have definitely made progress in the last hundred years.
You can argue forever about whether or not the invasion should have ever happened. But we've definitely gotten better at waging war.
I really liked the way SWG was skill based before the NGE patch or whatever. It was unbalanced as hell and I'd hate to be the developers responsible for making more builds of simliar power. But the ability to train your character however you saw fit was very fun. And the fact that you could undo that training to learn something else, and maybe eventually go back to the original, was just awesome.
I've been playing a good bit of Diablo 2 recently and I wonder if you couldn't make a Diablo 2 clone that could work in the same manner. Instead of levels your character gains specialized exp depending on what abilities they use. That exp can be used to further improve the skill level of that ability or abilities dependant upon it. Or spend twice as many exp points to develop an ability that isn't dependant upon the first. And say let them spend four times the amount of exp to develop abilities that are completely unrelated. And say ten times the amount of exp to develop stat points.
Put a hard cap on how high you can raise any one skill and how many points can be spent over all. And allow for unlearning of skills to free up points to develop other abilities. But keep the cost for raising an ability that you unlearned so that you can't just switch on a whim like talent points in WoW.
Key word was "admitting"
Most of Vanilla WoW was during the time of no or very limited diminishing returns in PvP. Deathcoil was great because it was free damage and a heal. It was also not a fear affect, but a terror, and so couldn't be broken or removed like fear. It was the save_my_bacon button for when fear broke sooner than expected or you got ambushed. Warlocks might not have been unbeatable but they were one of if not the easiest class to excell with in PvP. In PvE they were traditionally hard to beat because they could stack enough dots on multiple mobs that other classes couldn't keep up. A mage could do better on true AoE pulls where the mobs were kept close together but positioning didn't matter for a warlock that could stack dots on every mob in the normal pulls and still do AoE. The only way mages were much better was single target boss encounters. And while the trash might not give out the good items you won't get to the bosses if the trash isn't taken out, and the more quickly that happened the more bosses you could attempt.
Please hand in your Man card! Admitting to reading a manual is one of the unpardonable sins.
Damn, already used all my mod points!
The wife and I have been cooking larger batches of our meals for about a year now. We usually cook twice a week sometimes more sometimes less. The monetary savings alone is worth it. A ten dollar pot of chili makes for at least eight servingings. And the pasta dishes we do cost even less than that.
The problem with relying on the odometer for tax purposes is that there are a number of clever ways to prevent it from racking up miles. Heck I've even owned a couple cars that didn't have working odometers.
When I was about eight years old I remember my father offering me a 25 cent bounty for every mouse I could trap in the house. So I set my first trap and was terribly excited when I caught the my first mouse by it's tail in the trap.
Well I knew my father didn't want live mice so I had to figure out how to kill it. After thinking it over for a minute my brother and I took it out on the back porch and put it in an old metal bucket filled with water to try and drown it. Apparently our mouse had taken swimming lessons and after a couple minutes wasn't showing any signs of going under. So we proceded to drop pebbles on him to try and push him under. After about ten minutes of all this we decided that the mouse had earned his freedom since we just couldn't manage to kill him.
So we dumped him out in the flower bed by the steps and figured he'd go elsewhere. Did I mention this was in the middle of winter and our short attention span was partially due to it being freezing cold outside.
Yeah, so my father came home from work and wanted to know about our mouse and why we had not thrown it away but instead left it by the steps. Needless to say he wasn't very impressed with out efforts to drown and stone it, and then leaving it to freeze to death. He pointed out that we should have just clubbed it once with a peice of wood from his shop or something. Our horrified reply "that would be too cruel!"
Sounds like you even did it the tough way.
We always just hung them upside down by their feet from a taut rope. Then we'd go down the line slitting the artery in their necks so they'd bleed out. That way the meat didn't get bruised and while I am sure there was some pain involved for the chickens they actually didn't freak out very much, and hence didn't spray blood every where.
We tried plucking them the first time around and found it to be more trouble than it was worth for doing 200 chickens each year. So instead we skinned them. Doing one chicken at a time I imagine it'd be worth it to try plucking though.
While I love eating chicken I'd rather not ever have to handle another live one and I'd only butcher one if their wasn't a viable alternative.
When I was in the Chair Force I was supposed to be weighing 185 tops, I am also 5' 10". My only difficulty in passing the annual PT test was getting my waist down to 40 inches. All of my other scores were at the top end of the points scale. The points I lost on my waist though made it physically impossible to pass the test. I was in better muscular and aerobic shape than probably half of my skinny contemporaries. At the end of my enlistment the frustration with the PT system was a big part of deciding not to re-enlist. I was essentially faced with being an anorexic for a couple months every year to maintain my employment. I opt'd for the pay raise and got out.
I watched a video some years ago about some guy that hacked the Wii, or maybe it was game cube, I can't really remember. Anyways the method you mentioned is how he broke the password for some locked down port or other. Once the password and method were published Nintendo changed the password on new machines to prevent this hack. So he cracked the password again on a new console only to find that all they changed was to capitalize the password.
While culling them might save us the resources to sustain their life that removes the prospect of ever helping them to achieve normality of any kind. Keeping them alive and providing for them allows us the opportunity to study their various conditions. Which can help us gain insight into how the brain functions normally. It's not like their faulty genes or injury will likely be passed on and affect all of humanity.
That's right! I don't remember who said it but "Our children are our future, unless we act now!"
Readily available access to the internet has rapidly become a must have for people in our day and age. It's everything from a source of entertainment, education, and general communication. It benefits each individual in much the same way as a library, meeting hall, phone system, entertainment venues and so on and so forth all rolled into one. Saying that you gain no benefit at all from another person having access to the internet is much like saying public funding for education is a complete waste. You benefit by being part of a society that has that connection.
All that said it's a non-issue. This project and a number of others like it, look up Green Light, are funded by bond issues sold to investment firms. Those bonds are paid back by the subscription fees of the people that utilize the service. Taxes do not pay for the layout or the upkeep of these projects.
I liked the tango when I was taking lessongs because my instructor didn't have to try and convince me to saunter and swin gmy hips or anything. That's the advantage of it being a smooth latin dance instead of a rythm dance. My biggest problem was always navigating a dance floor with other couples. That could of course be overcome with more practice but I have yet to find any active groups in my area. The wife prefers foxtrot and rumba anyways.
You can use the rules of chivalry to get an arm around a lady within a fairly short time span. A good way to start I found was to always open the car door for your date. Always offer a hand to help them out whether it's just a steadying support or holding a purse. I drove a very low sports car and getting out could be a little awkward.
Always offer your arm/elbow when you are walking together if you aren't in a huge hurry to get somewhere. This avoids the danger of having sweaty palms if you are nervous and doesn't restrict either persons movement like holding hands does. From there to an arm around the waist is a fairly short move. It's not really all that comfortable for actually walking but when waiting in lines and such it is fine.
In smaller spaces or more confined areas like waiting in a serpentine line for an event you can easily move to having your hand on her lower back or around her waist. If she's looking around it's a good way to guide your movement together, just don't walk her into a poll, and warn her of any steps you don't think she noticed yet.
For me it was always kind of easy because I started with holding a door and extending a helping hand. It shows a willingness and an expectation of limited personal contact. You want to make offers and overtures that are simple and not unlimited in scope. People usually like to know what they are getting into and offering your arm is not an invitation to your mother's basement.
I don't think you could stress the importance of "respectfully ask" enough. My wife has told me of numerous times when clueless men have tried to pick her up in offensive ways. Being even slightly crude out of the blue isn't likely to go over well.
In the summer of 2005 I went to visit some friends, one of them a very attractive woman I was interested in, our in California. Due to previous experience my friends were aware that I didn't know how to Salsa. So when picking an activity for the evening they decided on a different club. That club turned out to be a hip-hop club. While I have nothing against that flavor of music I definitely would have enjoyed the salsa club more.
When I got back home I determined that I would not be the excuse for not going dancing again. I looked around on the internet and could not find any kind of group lessons in my area and so settled on private lessons. Which was good and bad. Good because I was paired with a very attractive personal instructor/partner and bad because it was expensive. I think at the time lessons were nearly $50 for 45 minutes if you bought them in bundles of 20 or so.
Anyways the lessons have been easily worth the cost. I took them largely in secret, even my room mates didn't know what I was up to for close to a year. So when I sprung the suprise on my soon to be girlfriend and wife at a church social dance my victory was complete. In fact it turned out I know knew much more about dancing than she did and was able to teach her some of the basics, like good frame for starters.
Eventually she joined me in taking lessons because it was the same price for a couple as for a single person and we continued them until just a month or two ago when we decided we just couldn't afford them any longer with a child on the way. But we learned more than enough to be comfortable dancing together socially.
My one caution of course is to not assume that a woman knows how to dance properly. So exercise caution and don't try anything to complicated or crazy that could embarass her when she doesn't know how to follow your lead.
Actually my impression has been that most latin dances you don't get to look at your partner. Doing so actually prevents or distracts you from proper form just like in Foxtrot or waltz. I would recommend learning swing and Rumba. Between those two you can dance to a vary wide variety of music. Do swing when it's faster and you have more energy. And Rumba when it's slower and you are getting tired. Neither dance involves much traveling and so lend themselves well to social dancing situations.
One of the instructors where I learned to dance was not hugely obese but he was definitely pushing it. He was also one of the better triple step swing dancers I have met. How he could move so quickly and precisely is beyond me as I still can't get the motion quite right. Anyways he won several regional competions that I know of.
Or being on a rather unstable feeling suspension bridge versus a very stable concrete and steel bridge. There was a study done on that in the seventies I think that was very interesting.