Believe it or not, I actually got the less than 10 HP medkit achievement in a not-stupid way. Tank tore up the party, two people (me one of them) below 10 HP. The other guy had already been knocked out twice, so a third time would kill him. I hadn't been knocked out at all. I had the only medkit. You can probably figure out what I did.
Actually, Left 4 Dead does have a story of sorts. It's never explicitly spelled out to the player or told in glamorous cutscenes. But sometime, sit down and play through the game looking around.
In the safe rooms, you'll find graffiti messages from people looking for loved ones or giving advice to the travelers behind them. There's posters from some organization called CEDA that give advice on what to do if you've been infected.
Outside, you'll find things like single bodies covered with a sheet. Why would a zombie be covered in a sheet? Easy. It's not a zombie, it was a survivor whose buddies covered him up after he was killed. There are cars with lights still on in the road scenes. Obviously the zombies hit hard and fast, or else people would not have left their cars running and went dashing to the hills.
So play through and look for stuff like that, then compare to 28 Days Later and see them do the same things there. Stories don't need to be explicitly told to exist.
Allow me to explain my bias before embarking on this rant: I currently attend University of Delaware. At present there are 10 unconfirmed cases among the student body. Not a big number (total student number is ~13,000), but diseases do have a tendency to spread quickly among student populations.
What bothers me about this isn't that people are overreacting, which they are to a large extent. I don't feel the need to wander around with a surgical mask and I'm right in the middle of a hot zone. Rather, what bothers me is that people are underreacting. There seems to be a knee-jerk reaction that says that swine flu won't cause any sort of devastation; that it's not something to worry about.
The fact of the matter is that while they're probably right, there's no reason not to take simple precautions. So long as this is going on, I'll make sure to was my hands with soap and water after using the bathroom, to try to avoid sick people, and to go to health services if I start showing flu-like symptoms. On the other hand, I hear plenty of people at school saying that they don't care, that if they get it it's "just the flu." I see a lot of people here on/. saying that this is just a media circus and just for drug companies to capitalize on. Maybe you guys are right, but what if you aren't?
As I said, I'm biased since I'm in a hot zone, but I'd rather be safe about this than contract it.
It can be substantially higher than that as well. In high school I wrote a five page paper about A Tale of Two Cities, with a few lengthy quotes, being a book by Dickens. Since it wasn't a terribly long paper and I had length quotes, I got somewhere around 20% plagiarized. Fortunately my teacher was smart enough to check before accusing me, but I remember hearing some talk from a later English teacher that the department was considering a 10% cutoff, above which you received disciplinary action regardless of the circumstances.
If we can push a spacecraft to very near the speed of light, then the time it takes from our perspective will be the same as the time it takes light to reach us. So to get out to that 14-15 light years you mentioned will take 14-15 years. By modern physics, we cannot go faster.
That said, it wouldn't be too difficult to send humans on that trip. From the perspective of the people on the ship, very little time would have passed. They merely would have accrued a very large time-debt compared to us. So we don't have to worry about the colonists evolving into something unrelated from us. We have to worry about us evolving away from the colonists.
I think its just more likely that facebook attracts the social people who spend less time worrying about schooling, and shows no interest to the people who are brainy loners.
QFT. That said, I have a hard time believing the article simply because of the fact that, as a college freshman, I know literally no one at my school without a Facebook. We even know a few of the reclusive studying types and they also have Facebooks. There seems to not even be correlation, let alone causation.
Your metaphor is wrong. He's not saying that if he doesn't use the limit, he shouldn't be charged full price. He's saying that if it is physically impossible for him to use the limit, then he should not be charged by the contract that he signed under the old ToS. If they change the physical maximum that he can download so that he can't download everything he used to be able to, they shouldn't charge him the same price he used to be charged.
Some things at school you can ssh into. For instance, I use Maple on my computer that way fairly frequently. It doesn't help when you have to print or use a program that isn't available over ssh, however.
As a present college student, I have to say that I still spend hours in computer labs. I use a SunRay lab as a controlled development environment for computer science, and I have math class in a computer lab loaded with Maple and Mathematica. There's an open-access computer lab near me that I also use frequently to access necessary software, to use as a meeting place for group projects, or to use as a printer when I can't use mine for whatever reason.
Mind you, it's not like I don't have a computer on campus, but I still find myself using computer labs very frequently. And I know other people do too, the labs are almost always full when I'm in them. If labs die in 2009, it's not students' laptops that did it.
First, that's last generation MacBook, all of the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros look identical.
In defense of the old black MacBook, however, it was not the same as the white ones. It provided additional storage space and more RAM. Maybe not $200 worth, but this is Apple we're talking about.
It's supposed to be a private ballot, and because of the social circles I'm in I frequently know the people running the voting table. Sometimes I'd rather them not know who I voted for.
I realize no one method is going to be perfect for everyone, but Scantron is very bad for people like my father, who has crippling arthritis, and me, who has mild-but-occasionally-awful arthritis.
I find it interesting that the Danish one appears to be mostly porn sites while the Thai one has sites like Newgrounds or a Youtube channel called "thaifreespeech".
Preface: In no way do I condone what Nationaldemokraterna apparently believes. At the same time, the man does have a right to hold his opinions so long as he expresses them through legal channels (i.e. donations and the like). People seem to forget that it is legal to be a douchebag. Also, while I don't know how accurate it is, Wikipedia claims that LunstrÃm sold internet access to the company that hosted TPB. So while he might have been an integral part of it, that doesn't actually mean he owns any.
I see a lot of posts here saying that the term "Darwinism" is used entirely by Creationists looking to equate evolution with a false deity. I will admit that this is largely true. However, as a former creationist, I have to tell you that the term "Darwinism" isn't the issue. The problem is that many evolutionists do seem to equate Darwin as evolution.
Take, for instance, an issue of National Geographic from a few months ago. The cover was white, with some sort of lizard (an iguana maybe?) on the cover. In large letters at the bottom, it asked the provocative question "Was Darwin Wrong?" The article itself concluded that no, he was not. But still, that headline doesn't say "Is Evolution Wrong?" Instead, it pushes Darwin as the mascot of evolution. National Geographic is hardly alone in this, as pretty much an science magazine or website or whatever will have these "Darwinist" articles.
My point here is that while the term "Darwinism" might be used mostly by creationists, it's not like evolutionists don't help push it. It's a public perception thing, not necessarily what actually happens. If people stop talking about Darwin so much and instead talk about the big picture, then I think we'll see creationists stop attacking Darwin's strawman and instead attack evolution itself â"â" a much more difficult position to hold, and one that will eventually end with the creationists fading away.
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I'm not a rhinoceros either, but I hardly see how that's relevant to this discussion.
Believe it or not, I actually got the less than 10 HP medkit achievement in a not-stupid way. Tank tore up the party, two people (me one of them) below 10 HP. The other guy had already been knocked out twice, so a third time would kill him. I hadn't been knocked out at all. I had the only medkit. You can probably figure out what I did.
Actually, Left 4 Dead does have a story of sorts. It's never explicitly spelled out to the player or told in glamorous cutscenes. But sometime, sit down and play through the game looking around.
In the safe rooms, you'll find graffiti messages from people looking for loved ones or giving advice to the travelers behind them. There's posters from some organization called CEDA that give advice on what to do if you've been infected.
Outside, you'll find things like single bodies covered with a sheet. Why would a zombie be covered in a sheet? Easy. It's not a zombie, it was a survivor whose buddies covered him up after he was killed. There are cars with lights still on in the road scenes. Obviously the zombies hit hard and fast, or else people would not have left their cars running and went dashing to the hills.
So play through and look for stuff like that, then compare to 28 Days Later and see them do the same things there. Stories don't need to be explicitly told to exist.
They are papers of mainstream quality, not quality papers in the mainstream. I can see how you got confused though.
Fun fact! Galactic Civilizations II has a demo. See?
Not only that, the one on acidtests.org was linked from a front-page Wikipedia article, so that's two major sites linking to it in 24 hours.
Allow me to explain my bias before embarking on this rant: I currently attend University of Delaware. At present there are 10 unconfirmed cases among the student body. Not a big number (total student number is ~13,000), but diseases do have a tendency to spread quickly among student populations.
What bothers me about this isn't that people are overreacting, which they are to a large extent. I don't feel the need to wander around with a surgical mask and I'm right in the middle of a hot zone. Rather, what bothers me is that people are underreacting. There seems to be a knee-jerk reaction that says that swine flu won't cause any sort of devastation; that it's not something to worry about.
The fact of the matter is that while they're probably right, there's no reason not to take simple precautions. So long as this is going on, I'll make sure to was my hands with soap and water after using the bathroom, to try to avoid sick people, and to go to health services if I start showing flu-like symptoms. On the other hand, I hear plenty of people at school saying that they don't care, that if they get it it's "just the flu." I see a lot of people here on /. saying that this is just a media circus and just for drug companies to capitalize on. Maybe you guys are right, but what if you aren't?
As I said, I'm biased since I'm in a hot zone, but I'd rather be safe about this than contract it.
We also used Turnitin, as it happens. I guess that's just not a very well-made service.
It can be substantially higher than that as well. In high school I wrote a five page paper about A Tale of Two Cities, with a few lengthy quotes, being a book by Dickens. Since it wasn't a terribly long paper and I had length quotes, I got somewhere around 20% plagiarized. Fortunately my teacher was smart enough to check before accusing me, but I remember hearing some talk from a later English teacher that the department was considering a 10% cutoff, above which you received disciplinary action regardless of the circumstances.
If we can push a spacecraft to very near the speed of light, then the time it takes from our perspective will be the same as the time it takes light to reach us. So to get out to that 14-15 light years you mentioned will take 14-15 years. By modern physics, we cannot go faster.
That said, it wouldn't be too difficult to send humans on that trip. From the perspective of the people on the ship, very little time would have passed. They merely would have accrued a very large time-debt compared to us. So we don't have to worry about the colonists evolving into something unrelated from us. We have to worry about us evolving away from the colonists.
QFT. That said, I have a hard time believing the article simply because of the fact that, as a college freshman, I know literally no one at my school without a Facebook. We even know a few of the reclusive studying types and they also have Facebooks. There seems to not even be correlation, let alone causation.
Your metaphor is wrong. He's not saying that if he doesn't use the limit, he shouldn't be charged full price. He's saying that if it is physically impossible for him to use the limit, then he should not be charged by the contract that he signed under the old ToS. If they change the physical maximum that he can download so that he can't download everything he used to be able to, they shouldn't charge him the same price he used to be charged.
What's wrong with you people?
...Oh yeah, I guess this is sort of hypocritical, isn't it?
Some things at school you can ssh into. For instance, I use Maple on my computer that way fairly frequently. It doesn't help when you have to print or use a program that isn't available over ssh, however.
As a present college student, I have to say that I still spend hours in computer labs. I use a SunRay lab as a controlled development environment for computer science, and I have math class in a computer lab loaded with Maple and Mathematica. There's an open-access computer lab near me that I also use frequently to access necessary software, to use as a meeting place for group projects, or to use as a printer when I can't use mine for whatever reason.
Mind you, it's not like I don't have a computer on campus, but I still find myself using computer labs very frequently. And I know other people do too, the labs are almost always full when I'm in them. If labs die in 2009, it's not students' laptops that did it.
First, that's last generation MacBook, all of the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros look identical.
In defense of the old black MacBook, however, it was not the same as the white ones. It provided additional storage space and more RAM. Maybe not $200 worth, but this is Apple we're talking about.
Just remember that more people than rich movie stars and directors work on movies.
I honestly have no idea if those work or not. If they do it sounds like a great solution.
It's supposed to be a private ballot, and because of the social circles I'm in I frequently know the people running the voting table. Sometimes I'd rather them not know who I voted for.
I realize no one method is going to be perfect for everyone, but Scantron is very bad for people like my father, who has crippling arthritis, and me, who has mild-but-occasionally-awful arthritis.
I find it interesting that the Danish one appears to be mostly porn sites while the Thai one has sites like Newgrounds or a Youtube channel called "thaifreespeech".
Will it bend?
Preface: In no way do I condone what Nationaldemokraterna apparently believes. At the same time, the man does have a right to hold his opinions so long as he expresses them through legal channels (i.e. donations and the like). People seem to forget that it is legal to be a douchebag. Also, while I don't know how accurate it is, Wikipedia claims that LunstrÃm sold internet access to the company that hosted TPB. So while he might have been an integral part of it, that doesn't actually mean he owns any.
...on the Linux desktop.
I see a lot of posts here saying that the term "Darwinism" is used entirely by Creationists looking to equate evolution with a false deity. I will admit that this is largely true. However, as a former creationist, I have to tell you that the term "Darwinism" isn't the issue. The problem is that many evolutionists do seem to equate Darwin as evolution.
Take, for instance, an issue of National Geographic from a few months ago. The cover was white, with some sort of lizard (an iguana maybe?) on the cover. In large letters at the bottom, it asked the provocative question "Was Darwin Wrong?" The article itself concluded that no, he was not. But still, that headline doesn't say "Is Evolution Wrong?" Instead, it pushes Darwin as the mascot of evolution. National Geographic is hardly alone in this, as pretty much an science magazine or website or whatever will have these "Darwinist" articles.
My point here is that while the term "Darwinism" might be used mostly by creationists, it's not like evolutionists don't help push it. It's a public perception thing, not necessarily what actually happens. If people stop talking about Darwin so much and instead talk about the big picture, then I think we'll see creationists stop attacking Darwin's strawman and instead attack evolution itself â"â" a much more difficult position to hold, and one that will eventually end with the creationists fading away.