Give me one good reason why not to have SP3 after all this time (nearly 1 year ago). I've not experienced any issues with SP3, nor have I heard of anyone else experiencing issues since the first month or two after release.
If you'd read the post that mweather was replying to, you'd know that mweather was referring to Windows.
(Is this some kind of new low for/. where we don't even bother to read a post's parent post in order to gain the proper context of what someone said, or am I just new here?)
TV broadcast and mobile phone tower transmissions also generally aren't strong enough to electrically power something.
Now, I don't actually understand how it's possible to transform radio-waves into usable electricity in the first place, so maybe the above transmissions can actually be transformed into usable electricity. *shrug*
Well, more income == more money going into SS, so if we assume that more productive == more income...
To Ihlosi, I ignored that for a reason, as it was only meant to be a general statement. I have neither the time nor knowledge to determine an exact equation for figuring out something along the lines of "as long as the people entering the workforce continually earn x% more per day/week/year, the workforce can suffer a decline of y% in worker population and still be able to sustain a z% increase of the population of people who have left the workforce".
Actually, Nitage is accounting for the growth of the "product" (human babies). Nitage is saying that without the growth of the "product" (human babies), Social Security cannot work. No where does Nitage say that product production is on a decline, only stating that a decline in product production makes this not work.
Put another way, if more people leave the workforce than enter it, eventually the people entering will not be able to sustain the people leaving.
You don't get much gil from monsters, or from selling items (which makes me wonder how the gil is generated in the first place)
Gil is generated in one of three ways.
1) Comes from a mob (either through dropping gil upon defeat, or a Thief mugging it).
2) Quests/Missions (Getting Rank 10 gives a ton of gil, though you can only do that three times per character, and if you can solo avatars you're guaranteed to gross 420k a week (10k per avatar, 6 avatars per day, 7 days per week), but traveling's a bitch.).
3) Selling items to NPCs.
Given the gil-sink that is Dynamis and Limbus (well, not so much Limbus anymore), it does boggle the mind how we're able to keep doing it twice a week, every week.
If they chose, as a business, simply not to sell it, would that be censorship?
Simply deciding not to sell something does not automatically equate to censorship. If it was a business decision to not sell, generally not censorship. If it was a moral decision to not sell, generally it could be called censorship.
However, as an example, if a Christian bookstore refuses to stock pornography, it would not be censorship, even though you could make a case that it is a moral decision.
But Amazon doesn't claim to be a Christian bookstore, or a children's bookstore, or any other specific type of bookstore. They are simply a bookstore. And in this instance, it does look like censorship. TFS makes it sound like there's no option to say "include 'offensive' books in my searches", you have to know the book exists. Maybe that's not how this change works, but if that is how it is, then yes, I would qualify that under censorship.
Gerzel's point was that, most of the time, $BIG_CORP trying to shutdown $LITTLE_BLOG does not end up like TFA. Now, I don't know if that is true or not, but Mr Morgan fighting back against Mr Sachs does not automatically invalidate what Gerzel said.
Right... but let's say the GameStop employee decides to "check out" the new copy of FFXI. Doesn't that essentially lock anyone else out of using that particular copy of the game?
It would, but I was merely pointing out that they wouldn't have to open a retail copy that they later intend on selling in order to "check out" an MMO.
With dual sided dvd's so cheap these days, why bother 'shrinking' the dvd?
Because one has no intention of burning it off, one just wants to dump it to ones computer? Although this raises an interesting point. What costs less, ripping the disc and compressing the contents, or buying more HDDs to store full DVD discs? Will you use less electricity powering the extra HDDs and playing back an MPEG2 (iirc, DVD is MPEG2?) than you would use re-encoding the DVDs into a more compressed format and playing back that?
To get back to the original question, I don't remember off the top of my head what I use to rip the disc, and this is a Windows solution I am providing, but MediaCoder works well for me, although as I discovered the hard way, depending on the codecs chosen the audio could be out of sync with the video after compression.
Incidentally, I just remembered hearing something a while back about how something like a clean cutting off of like an arm or a leg not being as serious as one might imagine (it's still a serious injury, but still), because the arteries will tend to close up or constrict or something. I imagine the same thing could be said about neck arteries.
When you eat corn, you're eating the seeds. In order for an ear of corn to grow (and thus, for seeds to grow), pollen from another corn plant must fertilize it. It's these seeds that cannot grow into new corn plants due to the terminator gene.
But there's nothing keeping the pollen from a terminator crop from mixing with untainted corn, thus ensuring (depending on if the terminator gene is dominant/recessive/whatever) that none of those resulting crops can be used to produce next years corn.
it can take up to a minute to lose consciousness after the brain isn't supplied with oxygenated blood anymore, although somewhere around 5-20 seconds is more common. so if you ever get your block chopped off, take a minute to savour the view.
I'm curious where you heard that from, as on the flip side, I've heard several things that would seem to indicate that it wouldn't happen like that.
1) In a vacuum, a human will lose consciousness in about 15 seconds (the time it takes the deoxygenated blood in the lungs to hit the brain).
2) If you're decapitated, you lose all blood pressure, but maybe the drop isn't as severe as I think it would be.
Putting waterboarding next to loud music just shows how soft we are and how cushy our little industrial existence is on this side of the planet.
Something tells me that the point of the "loud music" wasn't to annoy you with music, but to ensure sleep deprivation. In which case, yes, I would put waterboarding right next to it.
I'm confused. You say that the terminator gene is a good idea to keep the modifications from spreading, presumably to the untainted strains. But what is to keep the terminator gene from spreading?
Your kid's dog died and you want to take the day off to comfort him? Too bad. Work or get fired.
Which is why you don't say the reason is your kid's dog died, you say that a valued member of the family was suddenly taken from you and you need to make funeral arrangements. Or alternatively, just call in sick. I mean, it's not totally a lie, you are emotionally distraught I would imagine.
I'll grant you that the electricity that powers the servers where you purchase your digital music tracks from is indeed limited, but I would hardly qualify HDD space as limited in the same manner. Or are you trying to imply that if Amazon wants to sell 500 copies of Weird Al's latest album, they need to have it duplicated 500 times on their server?
You forget that it doesn't matter if we are the primary/sole cause, or a tiny blip in the radar. We'll still be just as fucked if we don't learn how to adapt to the changes.
Now, I'm not saying the change will occur in the next 1, 5, 50, or 500 years. It could even be millennia from now. But let me posit this question, which I feel makes a good analog to doing something about climate change.
We know the Sun will go red giant in approximately 5 billion years, and at that point we will be fucked if we're still living on this mudball. How long before then should we begin looking into how we can survive out in deep space, and why did you pick the time that you did and not something closer to now?
How many presidents are asked to provide a birth certificate for the public?
Given the requirements for being president, I would have suspected all of them, be they male/female, red/orange/yellow/green/blue/indigo/violet or any combination therein, republican/democrat/green/libertarian, etc.
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Give me one good reason why not to have SP3 after all this time (nearly 1 year ago). I've not experienced any issues with SP3, nor have I heard of anyone else experiencing issues since the first month or two after release.
Sails are no longer viable with the size of the ships transporting cargo.
Maybe not economically viable, but it certainly seems physically possible.
If you'd read the post that mweather was replying to, you'd know that mweather was referring to Windows.
/. where we don't even bother to read a post's parent post in order to gain the proper context of what someone said, or am I just new here?)
(Is this some kind of new low for
TV broadcast and mobile phone tower transmissions also generally aren't strong enough to electrically power something.
Now, I don't actually understand how it's possible to transform radio-waves into usable electricity in the first place, so maybe the above transmissions can actually be transformed into usable electricity. *shrug*
Well, more income == more money going into SS, so if we assume that more productive == more income...
To Ihlosi, I ignored that for a reason, as it was only meant to be a general statement. I have neither the time nor knowledge to determine an exact equation for figuring out something along the lines of "as long as the people entering the workforce continually earn x% more per day/week/year, the workforce can suffer a decline of y% in worker population and still be able to sustain a z% increase of the population of people who have left the workforce".
But you're more than welcome to try.
Actually, Nitage is accounting for the growth of the "product" (human babies). Nitage is saying that without the growth of the "product" (human babies), Social Security cannot work. No where does Nitage say that product production is on a decline, only stating that a decline in product production makes this not work.
Put another way, if more people leave the workforce than enter it, eventually the people entering will not be able to sustain the people leaving.
You don't get much gil from monsters, or from selling items (which makes me wonder how the gil is generated in the first place)
Gil is generated in one of three ways.
1) Comes from a mob (either through dropping gil upon defeat, or a Thief mugging it).
2) Quests/Missions (Getting Rank 10 gives a ton of gil, though you can only do that three times per character, and if you can solo avatars you're guaranteed to gross 420k a week (10k per avatar, 6 avatars per day, 7 days per week), but traveling's a bitch.).
3) Selling items to NPCs.
Given the gil-sink that is Dynamis and Limbus (well, not so much Limbus anymore), it does boggle the mind how we're able to keep doing it twice a week, every week.
If they chose, as a business, simply not to sell it, would that be censorship?
Simply deciding not to sell something does not automatically equate to censorship. If it was a business decision to not sell, generally not censorship. If it was a moral decision to not sell, generally it could be called censorship.
However, as an example, if a Christian bookstore refuses to stock pornography, it would not be censorship, even though you could make a case that it is a moral decision.
But Amazon doesn't claim to be a Christian bookstore, or a children's bookstore, or any other specific type of bookstore. They are simply a bookstore. And in this instance, it does look like censorship. TFS makes it sound like there's no option to say "include 'offensive' books in my searches", you have to know the book exists. Maybe that's not how this change works, but if that is how it is, then yes, I would qualify that under censorship.
I'm guessing you mean "free as in speech" and not "free as in beer".
Gerzel's point was that, most of the time, $BIG_CORP trying to shutdown $LITTLE_BLOG does not end up like TFA. Now, I don't know if that is true or not, but Mr Morgan fighting back against Mr Sachs does not automatically invalidate what Gerzel said.
Why is this modded funny? It's true!
Right... but let's say the GameStop employee decides to "check out" the new copy of FFXI. Doesn't that essentially lock anyone else out of using that particular copy of the game?
It would, but I was merely pointing out that they wouldn't have to open a retail copy that they later intend on selling in order to "check out" an MMO.
I am not familiar with all MMOs, or even more than 2, but both FFXI and WoW offer free, downloadable demos.
With dual sided dvd's so cheap these days, why bother 'shrinking' the dvd?
Because one has no intention of burning it off, one just wants to dump it to ones computer? Although this raises an interesting point. What costs less, ripping the disc and compressing the contents, or buying more HDDs to store full DVD discs? Will you use less electricity powering the extra HDDs and playing back an MPEG2 (iirc, DVD is MPEG2?) than you would use re-encoding the DVDs into a more compressed format and playing back that?
To get back to the original question, I don't remember off the top of my head what I use to rip the disc, and this is a Windows solution I am providing, but MediaCoder works well for me, although as I discovered the hard way, depending on the codecs chosen the audio could be out of sync with the video after compression.
Oh wow, that's cool!
Incidentally, I just remembered hearing something a while back about how something like a clean cutting off of like an arm or a leg not being as serious as one might imagine (it's still a serious injury, but still), because the arteries will tend to close up or constrict or something. I imagine the same thing could be said about neck arteries.
Let's talk corn.
When you eat corn, you're eating the seeds. In order for an ear of corn to grow (and thus, for seeds to grow), pollen from another corn plant must fertilize it. It's these seeds that cannot grow into new corn plants due to the terminator gene.
But there's nothing keeping the pollen from a terminator crop from mixing with untainted corn, thus ensuring (depending on if the terminator gene is dominant/recessive/whatever) that none of those resulting crops can be used to produce next years corn.
it can take up to a minute to lose consciousness after the brain isn't supplied with oxygenated blood anymore, although somewhere around 5-20 seconds is more common. so if you ever get your block chopped off, take a minute to savour the view.
I'm curious where you heard that from, as on the flip side, I've heard several things that would seem to indicate that it wouldn't happen like that.
1) In a vacuum, a human will lose consciousness in about 15 seconds (the time it takes the deoxygenated blood in the lungs to hit the brain).
2) If you're decapitated, you lose all blood pressure, but maybe the drop isn't as severe as I think it would be.
Putting waterboarding next to loud music just shows how soft we are and how cushy our little industrial existence is on this side of the planet.
Something tells me that the point of the "loud music" wasn't to annoy you with music, but to ensure sleep deprivation. In which case, yes, I would put waterboarding right next to it.
I'm confused. You say that the terminator gene is a good idea to keep the modifications from spreading, presumably to the untainted strains. But what is to keep the terminator gene from spreading?
If it weren't for my friend's pirate copy of Max Payne, I never would have picked up a legit copy for myself.
Your kid's dog died and you want to take the day off to comfort him? Too bad. Work or get fired.
Which is why you don't say the reason is your kid's dog died, you say that a valued member of the family was suddenly taken from you and you need to make funeral arrangements. Or alternatively, just call in sick. I mean, it's not totally a lie, you are emotionally distraught I would imagine.
I'll grant you that the electricity that powers the servers where you purchase your digital music tracks from is indeed limited, but I would hardly qualify HDD space as limited in the same manner. Or are you trying to imply that if Amazon wants to sell 500 copies of Weird Al's latest album, they need to have it duplicated 500 times on their server?
You forget that it doesn't matter if we are the primary/sole cause, or a tiny blip in the radar. We'll still be just as fucked if we don't learn how to adapt to the changes.
Now, I'm not saying the change will occur in the next 1, 5, 50, or 500 years. It could even be millennia from now. But let me posit this question, which I feel makes a good analog to doing something about climate change.
We know the Sun will go red giant in approximately 5 billion years, and at that point we will be fucked if we're still living on this mudball. How long before then should we begin looking into how we can survive out in deep space, and why did you pick the time that you did and not something closer to now?
How many presidents are asked to provide a birth certificate for the public?
Given the requirements for being president, I would have suspected all of them, be they male/female, red/orange/yellow/green/blue/indigo/violet or any combination therein, republican/democrat/green/libertarian, etc.
I don't consider this a bad thing...
What about when it slows down the earth to the point of being tidally locked with the sun, and you're stuck on the day side?