3210, 12 years old, currently my secondary phone. Going on its 5th (if remember correctly) battery. No other problems with the phone.
I do hope that nokia doesn't die. The asian crap motherboards and soldering work present in most modern phones (korean, chinese, japanese designed china made, california designed china made, etc) is just shit and won't live through 3 years in most cases. Nokia? Drag it through hell and it will still work a decade later.
Again, you seem to be treating life (and more specifically, relationships) as an adversarial encounter. The implicit "us and them" in your language suggests the classification of people into two different but internally homogeneous groups, and to me, at least, that lies somewhere between patronising and confrontational.
I mean no offence, but you do understand that it in fact is one? All the quirks of love regardless, it's a relationship between two adult humans with an aim to fulfill a basic need for procreation.
It's the most competitive (and hence adversary) process of our lives by a very large margin with possible exception of survival in some 3rd world countries. You just seem too socially inept to grasp this fact, which mind you is not unusual or even undesireable trait in a engineer who works in a highly logical engineering.
Probably because no one is even close to the level of quality of N8's camera?
It's essentially like saying "well sure, that bugatti is nice for speed, but so is my sporty looking audi, which is a lot better then toyota!"/car analogy
Well, the current benchmarker's favorite, Dragon Age 2, nvidia was the one with utter driver failure. Essentially broken at release, and still producing significantly lower FPS counts on same settings as equivalent ATI card. So I'd say that when it comes to drivers, they both screw up every once in a while. Even on AAA titles.
A single politician, certainly. I'm yet to see an example where a government of any meaningful society has been just one politician. In general, there are far more of various bureaucrats and workers in any given government then politicians by an order of magnitude at least, as they are the ones keeping the government machine working. And they are the ones whos inertia makes it hard-to-impossible for even a group of politicians, much less a single one to inflict lethal damage to government, or its underlying society.
Actually, when uncontrolled, it irradiates surrounding tissue for a long time with ionising radiation. When treating cancer patients, exposure is carefully measured and controlled. Additionally radiation treatment is generally extremely unhealthy - most patients suffer from radiation poisoning symptoms (such as loss of hair and body weight, skin problems, etc). It's simply viewed as a lesser evil compared to cancer which is all but guaranteed to kill the patient anyway.
So no, just because it's used in cancer treatments doesn't make it safe. It just means that we have a very broad experience in treating this particular source of radiation poisoning.
Quite simple. The single biggest source of ionising radiation on this planet is our Sun. The biggest filter is the atmosphere. The higher you live, the more ionising radiation you're exposed to.
Current "elevated" numbers in Tokyo (sea level) are still about a half of what you get by living in Mexico City (2200m above ocean surface). Yet we don't see excessive health problems in Mexico City.
He's correct on everything else though, and the reason why those clouds are generally harmless to population is because they tend to rain microscopic amounts of radioactive cesium as it cools. Cesium-137 is dangerous if breathed in as small particles that get stuck in the lungs (iirc).
Iodine 131 is even safer. It's risks are based on the fact that thyroid gland tends to vacuum all the iodine in the body, including isotope 131 where it irradiates your body from inside for a long time. Of course, that requires significant ingestion of such iodine in the first place, which most typically comes with significantly contaminated water. Again, amount needed is fairly significant, and ones measured on the microscopic levels are barely notable to the human and animal bodies, and are several tens of orders of magnitudes lower then total ionising effect of background radiation on sea level.
Essentially you're far more at risk of getting cancer if you move to live 500m higher from sea level then from radiation in Fukushima if you don't live in Japan at the moment. The main risk in Chernobyl has been that essentially entire heavy part of radioactive isotopes of table of elements got into atmosphere. This is obviously not the case with Fukushima.
P.S. And please, don't even DARE flying. That's incredibly dangerous, you get irradiated!
Even bigger whoosh. I'm still talking about costs to SOCIETY. Specifically society. Not government, corporations, families or any other separate entity, but society as a whole.
In guild wars, there is an auto attack if you target someone and either click attack or hit space, i.e. it's a default action for hostile targets.
Unlike wow auto-attack is interrupted when you use any skill other then "on next attack" skill. So if you're a ranger and see a hostile approach you can select + space him, shoot him a couple of times, then hit crippling shot skill, execute it, and after finishing the crippling shot your character will again default to start auto-attacking.
In many regards it was kind of like having a fast firing low damage weapon with powerful secondary that requires you to stop primary fire while secondary executes.
It's also worth noting that one of the aspects of "skill" in guild wars has been kiting projectiles. Unlike wow et al, they do not auto track, and in fact, rangers' choice of bow was always based on three things: bow's range, bow's attack speed and arc in which bow fires the arrow (the higher the arc, then longer it takes for arrow to reach the target). In many cases, picking a bow with highest arc meant that it was very easy to just sidestep the arrow completely through movement.
So yes, positioning-based hit was always in guild wars.
That, and the extensions or well documented ways of disabling all that new and fancy crap and revert my browser to look like it's supposed to look.
Did it with the redesigned address bar, did it with personas and much of the other extra crap that went into v3. Going to do it with the retarded (imho) new look of v4. The first thing to fix is essentially to revert v4 to look like a browser in a PC with a large screen, and not a flashy portable device where every vertical line counts.
Not if you end up killing people because of it. It's going to take a LOT of alcohol taxes to pay for even a single injury. Deaths tend to be even more costly as you lose entire input of that person into economy forever.
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Which is why I didn't compare it to a jet?
It doesn't have dedicated hardware buttons that user can press while the phone (for example) sits in the pocket. Read his statement again.
3210, 12 years old, currently my secondary phone. Going on its 5th (if remember correctly) battery. No other problems with the phone.
I do hope that nokia doesn't die. The asian crap motherboards and soldering work present in most modern phones (korean, chinese, japanese designed china made, california designed china made, etc) is just shit and won't live through 3 years in most cases. Nokia? Drag it through hell and it will still work a decade later.
Again, you seem to be treating life (and more specifically, relationships) as an adversarial encounter. The implicit "us and them" in your language suggests the classification of people into two different but internally homogeneous groups, and to me, at least, that lies somewhere between patronising and confrontational.
I mean no offence, but you do understand that it in fact is one? All the quirks of love regardless, it's a relationship between two adult humans with an aim to fulfill a basic need for procreation.
It's the most competitive (and hence adversary) process of our lives by a very large margin with possible exception of survival in some 3rd world countries. You just seem too socially inept to grasp this fact, which mind you is not unusual or even undesireable trait in a engineer who works in a highly logical engineering.
Probably because no one is even close to the level of quality of N8's camera?
It's essentially like saying "well sure, that bugatti is nice for speed, but so is my sporty looking audi, which is a lot better then toyota!" /car analogy
As a windows user used to just pressing a dedicated button, I'd find doing this every time I need a context window pretty fucking annoying.
Well, the current benchmarker's favorite, Dragon Age 2, nvidia was the one with utter driver failure. Essentially broken at release, and still producing significantly lower FPS counts on same settings as equivalent ATI card. So I'd say that when it comes to drivers, they both screw up every once in a while. Even on AAA titles.
Any decent large data center will be happy to rent you one for a price?
A single politician, certainly. I'm yet to see an example where a government of any meaningful society has been just one politician. In general, there are far more of various bureaucrats and workers in any given government then politicians by an order of magnitude at least, as they are the ones keeping the government machine working. And they are the ones whos inertia makes it hard-to-impossible for even a group of politicians, much less a single one to inflict lethal damage to government, or its underlying society.
A great historical example of this is Caligula.
Actually, when uncontrolled, it irradiates surrounding tissue for a long time with ionising radiation. When treating cancer patients, exposure is carefully measured and controlled. Additionally radiation treatment is generally extremely unhealthy - most patients suffer from radiation poisoning symptoms (such as loss of hair and body weight, skin problems, etc). It's simply viewed as a lesser evil compared to cancer which is all but guaranteed to kill the patient anyway.
So no, just because it's used in cancer treatments doesn't make it safe. It just means that we have a very broad experience in treating this particular source of radiation poisoning.
Quite simple. The single biggest source of ionising radiation on this planet is our Sun. The biggest filter is the atmosphere. The higher you live, the more ionising radiation you're exposed to.
Current "elevated" numbers in Tokyo (sea level) are still about a half of what you get by living in Mexico City (2200m above ocean surface). Yet we don't see excessive health problems in Mexico City.
Logical fallacy. One of the cornerstones of any government is self-preservation. Stable society is a requirement for self-preservation of government.
Please stop reciting tea party dogmas as absolute truth.
And iodine got into grass from... water.
He's correct on everything else though, and the reason why those clouds are generally harmless to population is because they tend to rain microscopic amounts of radioactive cesium as it cools. Cesium-137 is dangerous if breathed in as small particles that get stuck in the lungs (iirc).
Iodine 131 is even safer. It's risks are based on the fact that thyroid gland tends to vacuum all the iodine in the body, including isotope 131 where it irradiates your body from inside for a long time. Of course, that requires significant ingestion of such iodine in the first place, which most typically comes with significantly contaminated water. Again, amount needed is fairly significant, and ones measured on the microscopic levels are barely notable to the human and animal bodies, and are several tens of orders of magnitudes lower then total ionising effect of background radiation on sea level.
Essentially you're far more at risk of getting cancer if you move to live 500m higher from sea level then from radiation in Fukushima if you don't live in Japan at the moment. The main risk in Chernobyl has been that essentially entire heavy part of radioactive isotopes of table of elements got into atmosphere. This is obviously not the case with Fukushima.
P.S. And please, don't even DARE flying. That's incredibly dangerous, you get irradiated!
Even bigger whoosh. I'm still talking about costs to SOCIETY. Specifically society. Not government, corporations, families or any other separate entity, but society as a whole.
In guild wars, there is an auto attack if you target someone and either click attack or hit space, i.e. it's a default action for hostile targets.
Unlike wow auto-attack is interrupted when you use any skill other then "on next attack" skill. So if you're a ranger and see a hostile approach you can select + space him, shoot him a couple of times, then hit crippling shot skill, execute it, and after finishing the crippling shot your character will again default to start auto-attacking.
In many regards it was kind of like having a fast firing low damage weapon with powerful secondary that requires you to stop primary fire while secondary executes.
It's also worth noting that one of the aspects of "skill" in guild wars has been kiting projectiles. Unlike wow et al, they do not auto track, and in fact, rangers' choice of bow was always based on three things: bow's range, bow's attack speed and arc in which bow fires the arrow (the higher the arc, then longer it takes for arrow to reach the target). In many cases, picking a bow with highest arc meant that it was very easy to just sidestep the arrow completely through movement.
So yes, positioning-based hit was always in guild wars.
F'n english, meant to say "on its own" or "by itself". Sorry.
I just checked and it does. But it will not pop-up on itself - you have to dig through the menus to get it.
I can't wait until version numbers go OVER NINE THOUSAND!
Firefox probably popped up and said 4 is available and people clicked okay.
Worth noting that this is false. I had a pop-up for update today, and it was to 3.6.16.
Mozilla doesn't usually give update pop-ups for major versions until quite some time after release.
That, and the extensions or well documented ways of disabling all that new and fancy crap and revert my browser to look like it's supposed to look.
Did it with the redesigned address bar, did it with personas and much of the other extra crap that went into v3. Going to do it with the retarded (imho) new look of v4. The first thing to fix is essentially to revert v4 to look like a browser in a PC with a large screen, and not a flashy portable device where every vertical line counts.
Whoosh. Not talking about payouts, talking about costs to the society.
Not if you end up killing people because of it. It's going to take a LOT of alcohol taxes to pay for even a single injury. Deaths tend to be even more costly as you lose entire input of that person into economy forever.
But god forbid you choose the wrong football team :D