Religon's biggest long-term effect in the CIV4 was just to give AI Civ's one more thing to get pissed off at you about. There was no winning with it either, as no matter which you picked, you'd tick somebody off.
To put it simply, it's a quarter of all the percentiles (hence the term!).
So, the bottom quartile contains all the people who are in the bottom 25 percentiles of SAT scores. (i.e., out of the entire distribution of SAT scores, these were the 25% that were the lowest).
The top quartile contains all the people who are in the top 25 percentiles of SAT scores.
Well, there are a lot of tracks available on online retailers that may not be available in the stores. Most of the big online music retailers have some exclusive tracks and similar material - iTunes certainly does. Plus, people often use online music shops to buy B-sides or music from less popular artists, which you aren't necessarily going to be find in stores. So buying a voucher in a store allows you to go home and buy any music that Destra offers, even if that music wasn't in the store!
Huh? This service, and others similar ones such as Napster 2.0 and iTunes, are legal services that put money in the hands of the record companies whenever you purchase a track. So I'm not sure why this would be considered a "nail in the RIAA coffin" - the companies that comprise the RIAA are making a pretty penny off Destra Music, iTunes, et al.! People buying music from online vendors certainly isn't going to put the RIAA out of business...
As we progress into the future of computing at an ever-expanding rapid rate,
it is imperative that we occasionally take time to reflect on how parallel social advances will impact our daily life structure. The recent
success of "Am I Hot or Not?" and the "All Your Base" gag shows how easily a new entertainment paradigm can appear. Pioneerd by enthusiastic "early adopters", sites like these can revolutionize the Web.
But how will these sites fare in the long run? At this point, it's difficult to tell. Some detractors would argue that these type of sites are nothing more than a passing fancy. However, the Web is a revolutionary alterance in the existing capacity for communication; it allows people to network and fads to begin in ways that our current social understanding may not be prepared to accomodate.
Thus, supporters say that these types of fads are signs of an important step forward for
computing and society. With previous information storehouses, users could not take
advantage of the most important technological benefits gained from modern-day
information research. The Internet, they say, opens the proverbial floodgates by bringing the
production of new memes out of Hollywood and into the homes of the every-day user.
There is some probably some merit to both viewpoints. Certainly, society as
a whole will encounter some friction as it shifts to accomodate the new types of social leadership provided by the Internet. However, the end result may be worth the infrastructural
shifts; existing memes may soon be fated to wither away.
Will these fads sink or swim? The question is still up in the air; with many unique
forces and viewpoints at work, we'll likely see many interesting challenges and
confrontations for the pioneers in the Internet field. Whatever the final result is,
it's sure to give the key players on all sides of the issue a trial by fire.
We're always hearing about how there's still a problem with security on the Internet, but is this really something to be surprised about? Eliminating illegal cracking completely is just never going to happen. Material goods have been around for thousands of years and we still theft. Why should we expect online transactions to be any different?
I don't mean to be a pessimist, but it's inevitable that e-commerce will occasionally be subverted. It goes with the territory; we don't live in a perfect world and trying to make sure things always are secure is a waste of programming and marketing time.
Internet security paranoia has gone on for far too long, mostly because the mass media thrives off creating terrifying hoaxes to show on the 6-o'-clock news. (This in spite of a recent PC Data survey that showed e-commerce transactions are more likely to be legit than mail order ones.) At one time, e-commerce was somewhat insecure and unreliable. But those days are over; there's no reason someone should be biting their nails after ordering from Amazon.com or CDNow. It's time to stop perpetuating the cracker myth and put our efforts into actually building the next-generation e-commerce infrastructure.
Hey, everyone has to start somewhere. Sure, it could be a fake, but keep in mind there are still going to be a lot of legitimate new eBay users. Refusing to deal with them just because they haven't sold anything in the past discourages people from putting eBay to its fullest possible use. Let's not infect eBay with the same kind of elitism that so many other online venues have fallen prey to.
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Well, it worked for Mr. Burns.
Under the 14th Amendment, the Bill of Rights also applies to the states.
Why does the voorwerp shine? (The voorwerp is a mass of ionized gas.)
Yeah, you'd need over 9,000 million.
Religon's biggest long-term effect in the CIV4 was just to give AI Civ's one more thing to get pissed off at you about. There was no winning with it either, as no matter which you picked, you'd tick somebody off.
So it's just like real life, then.
Uematsu did a little bit of the Chrono Trigger score, but the majority of it was by Yasunori Mitsuda
Gretchen, stop trying to make Superfetch happen. It's not going to happen.
I wonder if any of these ELF people understand physics
Oh, there's no need to wonder. The answer is: No, they don't.
I saw the magnetic fields once, too -- and they didn't even play anything off 69 Love Songs like I was hoping.
To put it simply, it's a quarter of all the percentiles (hence the term!).
So, the bottom quartile contains all the people who are in the bottom 25 percentiles of SAT scores. (i.e., out of the entire distribution of SAT scores, these were the 25% that were the lowest).
The top quartile contains all the people who are in the top 25 percentiles of SAT scores.
And so on...
I agree that pidgins are obsolete, but I thought they were replaced by creoles.
A new release of "Eurdora," eh? Sounds good, but I'll probably wait for the Eudora release, myself ;)
I think you mean: "Do NOT want to hear Anakin's response" ... ;)
yet the show was being "the O.C. after the bomb".
Don't call it that.
Open Research Gaining Steam, eh? Sounds great; maybe I'll be able to play Half-Life on the lab computers!
Halo on a Cell? Nah, MS would never support the PS3!
If I were to come up with 'Moogol' for 10^10, and Moogle.com made money, would I sue?
No, but Square Enix would.
Well, there are a lot of tracks available on online retailers that may not be available in the stores. Most of the big online music retailers have some exclusive tracks and similar material - iTunes certainly does. Plus, people often use online music shops to buy B-sides or music from less popular artists, which you aren't necessarily going to be find in stores. So buying a voucher in a store allows you to go home and buy any music that Destra offers, even if that music wasn't in the store!
Huh? This service, and others similar ones such as Napster 2.0 and iTunes, are legal services that put money in the hands of the record companies whenever you purchase a track. So I'm not sure why this would be considered a "nail in the RIAA coffin" - the companies that comprise the RIAA are making a pretty penny off Destra Music, iTunes, et al.! People buying music from online vendors certainly isn't going to put the RIAA out of business...
The term 'little people' is offensive to hobbits.
But how will these sites fare in the long run? At this point, it's difficult to tell. Some detractors would argue that these type of sites are nothing more than a passing fancy. However, the Web is a revolutionary alterance in the existing capacity for communication; it allows people to network and fads to begin in ways that our current social understanding may not be prepared to accomodate.
Thus, supporters say that these types of fads are signs of an important step forward for computing and society. With previous information storehouses, users could not take advantage of the most important technological benefits gained from modern-day information research. The Internet, they say, opens the proverbial floodgates by bringing the production of new memes out of Hollywood and into the homes of the every-day user.
There is some probably some merit to both viewpoints. Certainly, society as a whole will encounter some friction as it shifts to accomodate the new types of social leadership provided by the Internet. However, the end result may be worth the infrastructural shifts; existing memes may soon be fated to wither away.
Will these fads sink or swim? The question is still up in the air; with many unique forces and viewpoints at work, we'll likely see many interesting challenges and confrontations for the pioneers in the Internet field. Whatever the final result is, it's sure to give the key players on all sides of the issue a trial by fire.
...let me be the first to ask: What about SecureBSD?
I don't mean to be a pessimist, but it's inevitable that e-commerce will occasionally be subverted. It goes with the territory; we don't live in a perfect world and trying to make sure things always are secure is a waste of programming and marketing time.
Internet security paranoia has gone on for far too long, mostly because the mass media thrives off creating terrifying hoaxes to show on the 6-o'-clock news. (This in spite of a recent PC Data survey that showed e-commerce transactions are more likely to be legit than mail order ones.) At one time, e-commerce was somewhat insecure and unreliable. But those days are over; there's no reason someone should be biting their nails after ordering from Amazon.com or CDNow. It's time to stop perpetuating the cracker myth and put our efforts into actually building the next-generation e-commerce infrastructure.
Hey, everyone has to start somewhere. Sure, it could be a fake, but keep in mind there are still going to be a lot of legitimate new eBay users. Refusing to deal with them just because they haven't sold anything in the past discourages people from putting eBay to its fullest possible use. Let's not infect eBay with the same kind of elitism that so many other online venues have fallen prey to.