At the professional level, I would tend to think that baseball surpasses any sport in the world. Everything is tracked on a per-pitch basis -- and sometimes even more granularly. I mean everything. You can know where a pitch of a specific type from a given pitcher to a given batter in a specific spot over the plate with a specific count with specific teammates on specific bases on a specific day at a specific time in specific weather conditions at a specific field ended up, and balance that information against similar information elsewhere (all of the above information with a single or multiple changes) to map out likely fielder adjustments to best handle wherever the batter may send the pitch -- if he sends it at all. Any of the above information can also be generalized. Every team maintains an enormous database from which they can extract necessary information, which they do to a higher degree than one would probably imagine, and the information collected is only getting more detailed. About the only thing I've not seen is bat size -- but that doesn't at all mean that it's not collected. It only means that they haven't made a public issue of the stat.
Watch the stack of papers that the manager holds. They're not allowed to hear from their statisticians once the game starts, but that doesn't stop them from bringing research into the dugout.
No other sport generates statistics like baseball does. Even with what is considered "rudimentary" scorekeeping, you can find out how many pitches someone threw, how many times any given batter fouled off a pitch, what the count was on any given batter by the end of their at-bat, and who was on which bases during a given at-bat.
Advanced scorekeeping, as used in the major leagues, tracks pitch-by-pitch, and you can know how well a pitcher or batter fared in a certain circumstance (two out, 3-1 count, catcher on first and left fielder on third, pitcher has thrown 27 pitches, batter's second time up, and popped out to second base after fouling off three pitches the last time up, leaving behind a 2-2 count) to predict the proper actions for your crew. It would be scary, if it wasn't so wonderfully geeky.
My brother is one of those nerds. He can recite with uncanny accuracy the stats of many players going back almost to 1980 -- and he was born in 1976. He lives off of baseball, and knows the up-and-comers almost before the sports writers do. If he knew how to use a spreadsheet, I'd almost bet that he could map out the equations to figure out the World Series winner by the third game of the season.
Baseball is the one subject that I never argue with him.
No. The orientation of the building blocks the signal, and I'm not allowed to put anything in the "public area" outside of my apartment. There are some tenants who have patios, but they're not allowed to erect anything that goes higher than the eve of the roof, so they can't get anything reliable because the building still obscures the signal.
My choice is Adelphia, because I cannot get anything else, including satellite, due to restrictions on dishes put in place by my apartment complex. In order to get satellite, I'd have to have a dish behind my apartment -- but since my apartment has no back patio, and we're not allowed to affix anything to the outer wall, I end up with Adelphia being the only solution for paid TV.
I did get the Moxi DVR from Adelphia, which in my area has pretty decent service, and it has changed how I watch TV significantly. Hell, it's changed how I view any visual entertainment. In movie theaters, if I missed some bit of dialog, I sometimes reach for the remote for a moment before remembering where I am. It's not the best solution -- no predictive recording and abysmally small storage -- but it's good enough for now. I just wish that the cablemodem in it were activated so that I could get rid of the one in the office.
Yes. We need to say that you don't know what you're talking about.
Methadone was discovered in Germany in 1937, but it was during a search for a more effective surgical analgesic, not as some Nazi-inspired plan. Believe it or not, even in Nazi-controlled Germany, there were good people doing things for good reason.
Methadone will get them high, just not as high, and the effects last longer, so a new high isn't sought quite as fast. It's also deliverable via tablet for the same effect, which is much safer and less expensive than intravenous delivery. However, it is, as you mention, extremely addictive, and it's important to watch patients closely, as withdrawal from it is still extremely painful, and can last longer than heroin withdrawal.
The sale fell through. Intuit is a completely separate company. If Microsoft owns any part of it, it's a tiny minority share purchased through regular market channels.
Cpanel has PHP5 marked as experimental in the compile area, so they must be playing with it. As the apps out there begin their major move, Cpanel will be dragged into the future.
Maybe part of what you're trying to grasp is the lack of atmosphere translating to the CGI. There is the subtle motion blur inherent in all movement filmed with a camera (digital or not), but I think the motion blur effect done with the CGI, when it is there at all, doesn't match up. This causes the CGI to stand out in ways that are hard to pick out during the action.
Somehow ILM got it right when filling in the rest of Mos Eisley, because the atmosphere of the town worked and you could really get a feel for how bad a place it really was. The rest of the CGI just didn't work -- and the Jabba scene in the remake of Ep4 was just painful to watch. I cringed in my seat at the theater and had to look away a couple of times.
Two weeks ago, a federal judge ordered the Bush administration to charge Padilla with a crime or let him go within 45 days. While the administration is appealing this ruling, it's not really expected to go their way.
This is what I love about the courts. They give ground sometimes for a while, but they don't tolerate being stepped on directly. I don't always agree with the opinions delivered, but I do like the attitude.:)
The president may deploy forces for up to 60 days without seeking Congressional authorization for extending such a deployment. Congress can extend the authorization for the deployment for as long as it likes, even without a declaration of war.
The Supreme Court ruled in April of last year that the status of "enemy combatant" may be challenged in US courts and the courts must be made available to the detainees, and that the federal court system does have power of places like Gitmo.
The Taleban were the de facto government, but were not the recognized government. The latter distinction fell to the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who still controlled Afghanistan's UN representation and was supported by the Northern Alliance.
Also, the Taleban really came about after the Soviets had withdrawn. US support went to selected segments of the mujahideen, not the entire movement. Various countries (including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, etc) supported various factions in different ways.
I've read numerous reports that Mullah Omar and bin Laden have significant differences. Omar is a Muslim from out of the distant past, and among other things has real problems with bin Laden's use of television because Omar believes that using cameras on people is anti-Islamic.
No one recognizes it as US territory. It's a US base on Cuban soil. The land is owned by Cuba, but the treaties established between the US and Cuba early in the 20th century require both the US and Cuba to agree to turning the land back over to Cuba for its use, and until that time, the US pays Cuba $2000 a year for its use. The US isn't about to give up its foothold in the area. Citizenship for births at Gitmo are handled exactly the same way as on any US base located on foreign soil.
Yeah, quite a few, actually. The local game store (where I worked once as a wee lad) still has it amongst its top selling game systems, and Palladium has managed to not only stay independent, but to also grow.
It's not entirely lost common sense. Orange County is really building in the last few areas that are possible. The number of new houses that can be built without tearing down old structures is measured, IIRC, in the tens of thousands, and almost all of that land has been allocated for construction over the next ten years. The remaining space is comprised of state and federal parks and some private land, stuff that can be hard, or at least expensive, to build on.
There's also the problem that the freeways in the area really suck. There are four major residential regions, Los Angeles, North and South Orange Counties, and the Inland Empire. The arteries running from the Inland Empire to the other three areas are woefully inadequate for the traffic load, and what is a 20-30 minute drive with clear lanes becomes a one- to two-hour commute during rush hour. The desire to see shorter commutes so that one's family does not forget who you are is a strong one that can make a higher price look reasonable.
I do agree to some extent with those worried about a real estate crash. The crash of real estate in Japan is what led to that country's sudden economic troubles with which they've been trying to cope for most of 15 years. It happened relatively quickly as companies just stopped buying space, and in the time since, Tokyo commercial real estate prices have fallen something like 80%, though I've read on occasion that the market either has or is stabilizing somewhat. Still, the banks there are saddled with huge problems from debts on which they either will not or cannot foreclose, and the state itself has been propping up the economy through various means. While it's not quite as bad as it once was, it's still a veritable house of cards.
I'm inclined to agree with this. What I think should probably be added is a modular API that will allow developers to code applications in such a way as to be easily added to or subtracted from the suite, with corresponding icons appearing sort of Mozilla-style at the bottom of the window (or wherever the theme allows). Say someone wants a browser and calendar program, but uses GMail for correspondence. OK, download Firefox and Sunbird and plug them together. Or perhaps they want an Outlook replacement, but prefer Opera. They can then use Thunderbird and Sunbird. The list of possibilities goes on, and it would allow additional modules -- maybe for IM, or RSS, or whatever -- to be added in to the user's content.
I guess it would be sort of like super-extensions.
V'ger never destroyed anything, IIRC. It absorbed them into its knowledge bank. It was returning to Earth to deliver the data it had collected over the centuries.
I've only seen things on the news, and some of the settlements are pretty close to full-blown towns, but some of the others look more like discarded trailer homes dragged in by mule.
Then again, some people will do anything for manifest destiny.
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At the professional level, I would tend to think that baseball surpasses any sport in the world. Everything is tracked on a per-pitch basis -- and sometimes even more granularly. I mean everything. You can know where a pitch of a specific type from a given pitcher to a given batter in a specific spot over the plate with a specific count with specific teammates on specific bases on a specific day at a specific time in specific weather conditions at a specific field ended up, and balance that information against similar information elsewhere (all of the above information with a single or multiple changes) to map out likely fielder adjustments to best handle wherever the batter may send the pitch -- if he sends it at all. Any of the above information can also be generalized. Every team maintains an enormous database from which they can extract necessary information, which they do to a higher degree than one would probably imagine, and the information collected is only getting more detailed. About the only thing I've not seen is bat size -- but that doesn't at all mean that it's not collected. It only means that they haven't made a public issue of the stat.
Watch the stack of papers that the manager holds. They're not allowed to hear from their statisticians once the game starts, but that doesn't stop them from bringing research into the dugout.
Do any of the stormtroopers smack their heads on the way into the theater?
No other sport generates statistics like baseball does. Even with what is considered "rudimentary" scorekeeping, you can find out how many pitches someone threw, how many times any given batter fouled off a pitch, what the count was on any given batter by the end of their at-bat, and who was on which bases during a given at-bat.
Advanced scorekeeping, as used in the major leagues, tracks pitch-by-pitch, and you can know how well a pitcher or batter fared in a certain circumstance (two out, 3-1 count, catcher on first and left fielder on third, pitcher has thrown 27 pitches, batter's second time up, and popped out to second base after fouling off three pitches the last time up, leaving behind a 2-2 count) to predict the proper actions for your crew. It would be scary, if it wasn't so wonderfully geeky.
My brother is one of those nerds. He can recite with uncanny accuracy the stats of many players going back almost to 1980 -- and he was born in 1976. He lives off of baseball, and knows the up-and-comers almost before the sports writers do. If he knew how to use a spreadsheet, I'd almost bet that he could map out the equations to figure out the World Series winner by the third game of the season.
Baseball is the one subject that I never argue with him.
No. The orientation of the building blocks the signal, and I'm not allowed to put anything in the "public area" outside of my apartment. There are some tenants who have patios, but they're not allowed to erect anything that goes higher than the eve of the roof, so they can't get anything reliable because the building still obscures the signal.
My choice is Adelphia, because I cannot get anything else, including satellite, due to restrictions on dishes put in place by my apartment complex. In order to get satellite, I'd have to have a dish behind my apartment -- but since my apartment has no back patio, and we're not allowed to affix anything to the outer wall, I end up with Adelphia being the only solution for paid TV.
I did get the Moxi DVR from Adelphia, which in my area has pretty decent service, and it has changed how I watch TV significantly. Hell, it's changed how I view any visual entertainment. In movie theaters, if I missed some bit of dialog, I sometimes reach for the remote for a moment before remembering where I am. It's not the best solution -- no predictive recording and abysmally small storage -- but it's good enough for now. I just wish that the cablemodem in it were activated so that I could get rid of the one in the office.
Yes. We need to say that you don't know what you're talking about.
Methadone was discovered in Germany in 1937, but it was during a search for a more effective surgical analgesic, not as some Nazi-inspired plan. Believe it or not, even in Nazi-controlled Germany, there were good people doing things for good reason.
Methadone will get them high, just not as high, and the effects last longer, so a new high isn't sought quite as fast. It's also deliverable via tablet for the same effect, which is much safer and less expensive than intravenous delivery. However, it is, as you mention, extremely addictive, and it's important to watch patients closely, as withdrawal from it is still extremely painful, and can last longer than heroin withdrawal.
So my Camaro produces three times the CO2, but less CO and HC than the Echo and Prius, and is in between but on the low end for NOx.
Should I feel good for contributing less to smog, or bad for adding to CO2?
The sale fell through. Intuit is a completely separate company. If Microsoft owns any part of it, it's a tiny minority share purchased through regular market channels.
Cpanel has PHP5 marked as experimental in the compile area, so they must be playing with it. As the apps out there begin their major move, Cpanel will be dragged into the future.
Maybe one day, they'll even ditch Exim.
I thought I read somewhere that Invision supported use on PHP5?
And phpBB 3.0 (whenever it comes out) is supposed to work cleanly on PHP5.
Maybe part of what you're trying to grasp is the lack of atmosphere translating to the CGI. There is the subtle motion blur inherent in all movement filmed with a camera (digital or not), but I think the motion blur effect done with the CGI, when it is there at all, doesn't match up. This causes the CGI to stand out in ways that are hard to pick out during the action.
Somehow ILM got it right when filling in the rest of Mos Eisley, because the atmosphere of the town worked and you could really get a feel for how bad a place it really was. The rest of the CGI just didn't work -- and the Jabba scene in the remake of Ep4 was just painful to watch. I cringed in my seat at the theater and had to look away a couple of times.
Two weeks ago, a federal judge ordered the Bush administration to charge Padilla with a crime or let him go within 45 days. While the administration is appealing this ruling, it's not really expected to go their way.
:)
This is what I love about the courts. They give ground sometimes for a while, but they don't tolerate being stepped on directly. I don't always agree with the opinions delivered, but I do like the attitude.
The president may deploy forces for up to 60 days without seeking Congressional authorization for extending such a deployment. Congress can extend the authorization for the deployment for as long as it likes, even without a declaration of war.
The Supreme Court ruled in April of last year that the status of "enemy combatant" may be challenged in US courts and the courts must be made available to the detainees, and that the federal court system does have power of places like Gitmo.
The Taleban were the de facto government, but were not the recognized government. The latter distinction fell to the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who still controlled Afghanistan's UN representation and was supported by the Northern Alliance.
Also, the Taleban really came about after the Soviets had withdrawn. US support went to selected segments of the mujahideen, not the entire movement. Various countries (including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, etc) supported various factions in different ways.
I've read numerous reports that Mullah Omar and bin Laden have significant differences. Omar is a Muslim from out of the distant past, and among other things has real problems with bin Laden's use of television because Omar believes that using cameras on people is anti-Islamic.
And I call shenanigans on you.
No one recognizes it as US territory. It's a US base on Cuban soil. The land is owned by Cuba, but the treaties established between the US and Cuba early in the 20th century require both the US and Cuba to agree to turning the land back over to Cuba for its use, and until that time, the US pays Cuba $2000 a year for its use. The US isn't about to give up its foothold in the area. Citizenship for births at Gitmo are handled exactly the same way as on any US base located on foreign soil.
Yeah, quite a few, actually. The local game store (where I worked once as a wee lad) still has it amongst its top selling game systems, and Palladium has managed to not only stay independent, but to also grow.
I haven't done one of those in years.
Now I play Rifts, though I'd prefer to play Cyberpunk 2020.
It's not entirely lost common sense. Orange County is really building in the last few areas that are possible. The number of new houses that can be built without tearing down old structures is measured, IIRC, in the tens of thousands, and almost all of that land has been allocated for construction over the next ten years. The remaining space is comprised of state and federal parks and some private land, stuff that can be hard, or at least expensive, to build on.
There's also the problem that the freeways in the area really suck. There are four major residential regions, Los Angeles, North and South Orange Counties, and the Inland Empire. The arteries running from the Inland Empire to the other three areas are woefully inadequate for the traffic load, and what is a 20-30 minute drive with clear lanes becomes a one- to two-hour commute during rush hour. The desire to see shorter commutes so that one's family does not forget who you are is a strong one that can make a higher price look reasonable.
I do agree to some extent with those worried about a real estate crash. The crash of real estate in Japan is what led to that country's sudden economic troubles with which they've been trying to cope for most of 15 years. It happened relatively quickly as companies just stopped buying space, and in the time since, Tokyo commercial real estate prices have fallen something like 80%, though I've read on occasion that the market either has or is stabilizing somewhat. Still, the banks there are saddled with huge problems from debts on which they either will not or cannot foreclose, and the state itself has been propping up the economy through various means. While it's not quite as bad as it once was, it's still a veritable house of cards.
I'm inclined to agree with this. What I think should probably be added is a modular API that will allow developers to code applications in such a way as to be easily added to or subtracted from the suite, with corresponding icons appearing sort of Mozilla-style at the bottom of the window (or wherever the theme allows). Say someone wants a browser and calendar program, but uses GMail for correspondence. OK, download Firefox and Sunbird and plug them together. Or perhaps they want an Outlook replacement, but prefer Opera. They can then use Thunderbird and Sunbird. The list of possibilities goes on, and it would allow additional modules -- maybe for IM, or RSS, or whatever -- to be added in to the user's content.
I guess it would be sort of like super-extensions.
V'ger never destroyed anything, IIRC. It absorbed them into its knowledge bank. It was returning to Earth to deliver the data it had collected over the centuries.
No, no... It will be OK. Mayor Daley said that he was going to clean corruption out of City Hall.
I've only seen things on the news, and some of the settlements are pretty close to full-blown towns, but some of the others look more like discarded trailer homes dragged in by mule.
Then again, some people will do anything for manifest destiny.