And then if/when that party wins enough power under the FPTP system to actually bring about that change, they will mysteriously lose their desire for proportional representation.
Don't forget, before political power was within his reach, Stephen Harper was a consistent advocate of proportional representation. Somehow that dropped by the wayside once the distortions in our electoral system started to work in his favour.
It sounds like it is going to be on the side of the case, i.e. the flat part of the jack will be exposed. You're right that it will be a lever, except that the idea is that any force applied will make it just fall out.
I have heard this theory as well. One of the reasons I've seen is that organizations like Al Shabab, various warlords, etc, serve the functions of a state even if they don't have any diplomatic recognition as such. The tiny "central government", as well as presence of international organizations, are also "too much of a state" for some libertarians..
I think recognizing non-state actors as stepping in to fill the role of the state is important. But it's a pretty big jump to assume that in any way supports a libertarian viewpoint.
Nice, now I have an AI to play against that isn't completely retarded.
Read the paper. The "reading AI" developed at MIT was still crushed by the game-provided AI about half the time. Gives you an idea just how badly the game-provided AI plays.
Read the paper. That was before they had the "reading AI" read anything. After it read the manual, their AI beat the game-provided AI 78% of the time.
Trekkers are more normal? I have never, ever heard the term used like that.
The real usage goes like this: Trekkies are hopeless Star Trek nerds. Trekkers are Star Trek nerds who are so hopeless, they're even hopeless nerds when it comes to discussing the terminology used to describe hopeless Star Trek nerds.
For the NES, it's probably the sound. Emulators have gotten a lot better at this, but none of them have quite captured the sound of the old synthesizer chips.
For a system with a very distinct sound, like an NES or a C64, it can take a lot more away from the experience than you'd expect.
For the benefit for those of us who live outside of Americatown, what is Algebra II? What year would you take it? The II suggest to me 10th grade, is this correct?
How many math courses are required to graduate in most US high schools now? Also, does USA actually have a national high school curriculum? In Canada referring to a course by name means very little once you cross provincial borders.
I'm not surprised they are losing this many users. Rather than stagnating and becoming irrelevant like Geocities and Livejournal, MySpace is actively alienating it's userbase.
They saw that people were moving to other platforms, and decided to engage in a poorly thought out redesign that took the features people actually used, and removed, broke, or hid them.
I haven't deleted my MySpace accounts, but as a musician until recently did have a worthwhile reason for logging in periodically to keep in touch with venues and other bands, and as a URL I could give out to showcase recordings and show dates. All that functionality is fubed now, as is the layout and design of my page.
The issue is that people apparently see iPhone games for $1 and think "oh, games are cheap, why would I spend $40 on a Nintendo game then?"
I don't think that really happens though, just that marketroids and executives, who are scared of the quality of their own product, think it does. I see plenty of iPhone games for $1 that I like, and plenty of games for free that I like too. But I'll happily shell out $40 for a game that gives me 40 more entertainment than an iPhone game, which thankfully most console or PC games do. Purely anecdotal of course, but most other games I know feel the same way.
Compare the occasional 15 minutes of diversion you get from Angry Birds, for $1, with the (just to pull a random example) 60 hours minimum you get from a run through of Fallout: New Vegas (with enough left over for a few more run-throughs) at $50, and I don't think the competition is in anyway unfair or that the price difference is out of whack.
The only legitimate I could see for a big game studio feeling threatened by $1 games was if they knew all along they weren't delivering $40 of value with their $40 games. And if that's the case it's hard to have much sympathy for them.
This is EXACTLY what would happen if the CRTC was disbanded. Just because the CRTC makes unpopular and poorly-reasoned decisions occasionally (ok, quite frequently) doesn't mean that there's no need for a regulator. The only reason we had unlimited-use packages from smaller ISPs at all was because the big telcos requires CRTC approval to abolish them.
Is that really something you want to do away with? Reform the CRTC, yes. Demand greater accountability and public oversight, absolutely. But disband? Hell no!
Did he actually do this? I've read a paper he wrote about this, but got the impression it was a proof of concept for hiding a backdoor in the compiler, not something that actually shipped.
Of course, that data suggests that AAPL isn't overvalued compared to the rest of the S&P 500. There's always a possibility the entire market is, but that still doesn't explain this behaviour.
Also I like being modded +4 Informative while being directly contradicted by fact. Go Slashdot!
Why is Apple's stock so prone to heavy fluctuation at the even the slightest hint of something not being perfect?
I suspect it's because it's horrendously overvalued. Apple investors get scared that the bubble will burst, and no one wants to be the last one out. When it doesn't turn out that the "correction" is actually happening, people regain their senses^H^H^H^H^H^Hgreed.
The assumption that I don't use any of the dozens of alternatives is a little silly. In the real world, using MySpace doesn't preclude any other attempts at promotion.
Also, I never claimed not to be a retard, you insensitive clod!
Not just MySpace, but a new, inferior version of MySpace.
Maybe it's just the software tester in me, but I tried to shamelessly promote my band on the "new" MySpace and found it so riddled with bugs as to be completely unusable. Before the changes, it was actually a decent enough tool for musicians, even if no one else was using it. I think they're scaring bands away by replacing something that didn't work as a business model with something that just flat out doesn't work.
That's all well and good when you are typing English or another natural language. But where's auto-correct going to be when you type 0x000000E instead of 0x0000002? Where ever it is, it won't be helping you.
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And then if/when that party wins enough power under the FPTP system to actually bring about that change, they will mysteriously lose their desire for proportional representation.
Don't forget, before political power was within his reach, Stephen Harper was a consistent advocate of proportional representation. Somehow that dropped by the wayside once the distortions in our electoral system started to work in his favour.
It sounds like it is going to be on the side of the case, i.e. the flat part of the jack will be exposed. You're right that it will be a lever, except that the idea is that any force applied will make it just fall out.
I have heard this theory as well. One of the reasons I've seen is that organizations like Al Shabab, various warlords, etc, serve the functions of a state even if they don't have any diplomatic recognition as such. The tiny "central government", as well as presence of international organizations, are also "too much of a state" for some libertarians..
I think recognizing non-state actors as stepping in to fill the role of the state is important. But it's a pretty big jump to assume that in any way supports a libertarian viewpoint.
They still have a state, just not an elected government.
Just because there's no ministers, doesn't mean all the bureaucrats go on vacation for a year - though you might wish they would.
Nice, now I have an AI to play against that isn't completely retarded.
Read the paper. The "reading AI" developed at MIT was still crushed by the game-provided AI about half the time. Gives you an idea just how badly the game-provided AI plays.
Read the paper. That was before they had the "reading AI" read anything. After it read the manual, their AI beat the game-provided AI 78% of the time.
Trekkers are more normal? I have never, ever heard the term used like that.
The real usage goes like this: Trekkies are hopeless Star Trek nerds. Trekkers are Star Trek nerds who are so hopeless, they're even hopeless nerds when it comes to discussing the terminology used to describe hopeless Star Trek nerds.
What if it's "Are you sure you want to cancel the current operation"?
Cancel/cancel, then?
For the NES, it's probably the sound. Emulators have gotten a lot better at this, but none of them have quite captured the sound of the old synthesizer chips.
For a system with a very distinct sound, like an NES or a C64, it can take a lot more away from the experience than you'd expect.
With the exception of Hyves, this is how it went in Canada (at least Ontario) as well.
AIM? The only people I know who use(d) it had strong connections to the USA.
For the benefit for those of us who live outside of Americatown, what is Algebra II? What year would you take it? The II suggest to me 10th grade, is this correct?
How many math courses are required to graduate in most US high schools now? Also, does USA actually have a national high school curriculum? In Canada referring to a course by name means very little once you cross provincial borders.
I'm not surprised they are losing this many users. Rather than stagnating and becoming irrelevant like Geocities and Livejournal, MySpace is actively alienating it's userbase.
They saw that people were moving to other platforms, and decided to engage in a poorly thought out redesign that took the features people actually used, and removed, broke, or hid them.
I haven't deleted my MySpace accounts, but as a musician until recently did have a worthwhile reason for logging in periodically to keep in touch with venues and other bands, and as a URL I could give out to showcase recordings and show dates. All that functionality is fubed now, as is the layout and design of my page.
I won't be back.
The issue is that people apparently see iPhone games for $1 and think "oh, games are cheap, why would I spend $40 on a Nintendo game then?"
I don't think that really happens though, just that marketroids and executives, who are scared of the quality of their own product, think it does. I see plenty of iPhone games for $1 that I like, and plenty of games for free that I like too. But I'll happily shell out $40 for a game that gives me 40 more entertainment than an iPhone game, which thankfully most console or PC games do. Purely anecdotal of course, but most other games I know feel the same way.
Compare the occasional 15 minutes of diversion you get from Angry Birds, for $1, with the (just to pull a random example) 60 hours minimum you get from a run through of Fallout: New Vegas (with enough left over for a few more run-throughs) at $50, and I don't think the competition is in anyway unfair or that the price difference is out of whack.
The only legitimate I could see for a big game studio feeling threatened by $1 games was if they knew all along they weren't delivering $40 of value with their $40 games. And if that's the case it's hard to have much sympathy for them.
Why is this modded Redundant?
This is EXACTLY what would happen if the CRTC was disbanded. Just because the CRTC makes unpopular and poorly-reasoned decisions occasionally (ok, quite frequently) doesn't mean that there's no need for a regulator. The only reason we had unlimited-use packages from smaller ISPs at all was because the big telcos requires CRTC approval to abolish them.
Is that really something you want to do away with? Reform the CRTC, yes. Demand greater accountability and public oversight, absolutely. But disband? Hell no!
Did he actually do this? I've read a paper he wrote about this, but got the impression it was a proof of concept for hiding a backdoor in the compiler, not something that actually shipped.
If I'm wrong I'd be interested to read more.
It's easy not to have QA when your users aren't paying you.
Google's in the same boat - the websites aren't the product, the end users are. When your website is your product this crap won't fly.
Buzzkill.
Fair enough, I stand corrected.
Of course, that data suggests that AAPL isn't overvalued compared to the rest of the S&P 500. There's always a possibility the entire market is, but that still doesn't explain this behaviour.
Also I like being modded +4 Informative while being directly contradicted by fact. Go Slashdot!
Why is Apple's stock so prone to heavy fluctuation at the even the slightest hint of something not being perfect?
I suspect it's because it's horrendously overvalued. Apple investors get scared that the bubble will burst, and no one wants to be the last one out. When it doesn't turn out that the "correction" is actually happening, people regain their senses^H^H^H^H^H^Hgreed.
But the current generation in school has textbooks that say Watson.
[Citation needed]
The assumption that I don't use any of the dozens of alternatives is a little silly. In the real world, using MySpace doesn't preclude any other attempts at promotion.
Also, I never claimed not to be a retard, you insensitive clod!
Not just MySpace, but a new, inferior version of MySpace.
Maybe it's just the software tester in me, but I tried to shamelessly promote my band on the "new" MySpace and found it so riddled with bugs as to be completely unusable. Before the changes, it was actually a decent enough tool for musicians, even if no one else was using it. I think they're scaring bands away by replacing something that didn't work as a business model with something that just flat out doesn't work.
But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth?
The answer is, no.
Yeah, I'm sure their compliance with the DCMA means a lot in a lawsuit heard in the Higher Regional Court of Dusseldorf.
That's all well and good when you are typing English or another natural language. But where's auto-correct going to be when you type 0x000000E instead of 0x0000002? Where ever it is, it won't be helping you.
How expensive is your keyboard, that you send it to the shop?
I have only used two types of keyboards: those that are so cheap you replace them when they break, and those that never break.