Contrary to popular belief, we get the same number of hours of sunlight, even though we don't change our clocks on some arbitrary date. I have a house with a lot of south facing windows. In the Winter, I open all the blinds in the morning, well before the sun rises. During the summer, I make sure those blinds are closed. Changing the time I do that by an hour is not going to significantly impact my energy usage. (I live in Saskatchewan).
That's a pretty extreme example, the MB, CPU, Memory and case they have listed are under $400. I'm actually in the process of putting together a mini-itx Via system for a Mythtv frontend. Looks like I should be able to do it for around $200 (no HD though, I'll do network boot).
Impossible to say at this point. We'd have to wait until the end of time and then do a review. Now if you want to talk about the best console so far, I'd vote for either the NES or the Wii. Both were massively popular.
That's true, there's a lot of differences, but they limited the teleporter's usefulness for just that reason. Being able to go both ways through a teleporter with the flag would make for very quick rounds, and seriously throw off the balance of the game. That being said, having portals in a regular FPS game (where you're actually fighting other guys/creatures/etc) would be very interesting.
It says (even in the summary) we're talking about zone transfers, not regular lookups. So sue all you want, just don't be surprised when every case is thrown out.
I think I understand what you are saying. In a given herd, a clone cow wouldn't require any different care than a non-cloned cow. Unless of course you wanted to dress them up in white armour (that doesn't seem to stop anything), give them blasters (that they can't aim) and use them to rule the galaxy.
Well, there'll be the marketing aspect of selling the cloned cows to other breeders etc. because of its superior taste and tenderness and such. Being handled by a different rancher will lead to a completely different up bringing, which I think will result in a completely different piece of beef in the end.
I think that's the idea, unfortunately its not that simple. If cow A.orig is raised on grain, and cow A.clone1 is raised on "other" nutrition, the meat will be affected. Assuming the two cows are raised under similar conditions, and the meat is butchered the same way, and served the same way, they should have a similar taste and texture.
That being said, I buy a hind quarter every 1-2 years from a butcher. Not cloned cows, but cows from the same herd. The meat is indistinguishable from one year to the next. IMHO, its more about how the cow is raised and butchered than anything.
So you were born Thu, 29 Nov 1973 15:33:09 -0600? If you're going to say you were born at 123456789 epoch time, then you are specifying down to the second.
That was our first home game system, but before that at a friend's place, I remember playing a system, Atari I think, that had no game cartridges and only about four built in games. They all used paddle and were variations of Pong basically, Can't remember the system name though, but it was two player!
Why? You could pick up two 500GB drives for less than $300 (CDN) and have 1TB of space for a very reasonable cost. SATA drives in a RAID setup can break 200MB/sec sustained read. Unless you trying to watch 10 movies at the same time, you're not going to need any more than what SATA can provide now, and at substantially lower cost. Heck, buy 3 or more drives go RAID 5 and get some redundancy out of it as well.
You talk about the toxic chemicals in CFLs. I assume you mean mercury vapour. You do know that they can be recycled right? And about the whold Vitamin D thing... incandescent lighting is not a good source of ultraviolet light which is what your body needs to product vitamin D. As far as the photography thing... I haven't noticed. I'm not a professional photographer, I'm happy with my point and shoot type camera. It works fine for me, and I don't notice a difference in colours between different lights. I haven't seen any studies on CFLs leading to depression, mind giving some reliable sources?
Show me a reputable group promoting vaccinations that does not outline the risks involve. When I get my flu shot every year, I am always informed of the risks. I recently got a Hepatitus A vaccination, MMR booster and tetnus booster, and was told of all the applicable risks of getting them.
I didn't feel the rest of your comment was worth reading, let alone responding to. Every law does not have to be enforced by "gun toting".... Not to mention you're questioning of my parenting abilities, which I find insulting. You start insulting me, I stop paying attention, its that simple. If you want to have a calm debate/discussion, thats fine.
And while you're at it, why don't you explain it to me why you are are unable to be a parent to your kids? If I tell my kid he's not allowed to eat Twinkies, then I damn well expect him not to buy Twinkies. If you can honestly say that your child has never disobeyed a rule you've given him, your child is either so scared of you as to make you an unfit parent, or your living in some sort of fantasy world.
Who are you to tell another person how they should be raising their child? If another parent feels comfortable enough to let their kid make their own decision about what game to get, what gives you the right to force them to do more effort? I'm not telling anyone how to raise their child. They are free to allow (or disallow) there child to play any game they want. I'm sorry if you feel that a parent spending some time with their child is such an enormous effort.
It seems to me that if a child should stumble upon something, you'd be able to talk to them about it, thus making them more ready then pretending they're not going to get exposed to something you dislike and not talking about it. If my child asks me about something, then he/she is obviously ready to know at least somethig about it, and I welcome those conversations. I'm not pretending they're not going to be exposed to, I know at some point they will.
I'm neither. I do resent though be carded to buy a game. I also resent that games are toned down to fit into some box, and that other games are never even created at all because of console maker rules.
So don't buy the game, or buy it online with a credit card. I don't really care. Your inconvienance is not my concern. Nor is how gaming companies choose to make their games. There are enough games out there making money that have hard core graphics and adult gameplay to convince me that a good game will still make a profit, even with higher ratings. So either blame the developers, or blame the stores that won't carry them, its not the rating system's fault
You chose to have kids, yet more and more that choice is affecting my life and freedom. Ratings systems lead to censorship, I don't appreciate that. Yup, I did choose to have kids. Everyone that does affects everyone around them. That's the nature of society. Deal with it. Rating systems do not lead to censorship. I see movies being released all the time that minors aren't allowed to see. Same with magazines. The porn industry certainly isn't being censored. If you're going down the slippery slope path, at least come up with some evidence to back it up.
Nor do I apprecate having to jump through hoops because you would rather a ratings system so you don't have to research. What's worse is that you are willing to do the work, you'd just rather not. I never said I'd rather not, in fact I said given the opportunity I would do the research ahead of time and make an informed decision. I'll even go with my child to buy the game if its rated too high for him/her to purchase alone. I don't appreciate you pushing a system that allows any minor to view any content, regardless of its obvious suitability for that age.
So, you just don't want to do the research? Nevermind that your kid probably knows before you leave what game he'd want. I don't mind doing the research at all. If my child comes up to me and asks if I'll get him a specific game for his birthday or Christmas or something, I have time to do the research before hand. However, there isn't always the opportunity to do the research beforehand.
What about parents who have kids in the 14-17 range? Should they have to buy the game for their kid, even if they don't mind their kids playing an M game? Yup. They should have to. That's the point. Its not like the kid is going to be buying a new game every day. Even if its once a month, I don't mind going down with my child, and I would suspect that most parents wouldn't mind either, if it meant the likelihood of their child getting inappropriate material at a young age was significantly decreased.
As far as watching my kid 24/7, you're taking a very literal approach to what I said. Of course I don't expect to, or even want to watch my children every moment of their lives, but I do have a desire to protect them and only introduce certain parts of life to them when they are ready, regardless of age.
Seems most of the people who are against the rating system fit into one of two categories. Kids who are not old enough to purchase the game without a parent around, or the parents who couldn't be bothered to go down with their child to purchase the game that they deem is appropriate, regardless of the rating.
Absolutely, but there is nothing wrong with a rating system in general. As a parent, am I expected to keep up on every game for the game platform(s) in my household. Suppose walking through the store one day a child sees a game on sale and wants it. The child has been behaving and doing extra chores, and I feel buying a game for him/her is not out of the question. If there is no rating system, I have little choice but to say "No", or at least "Not yet", and go home and research the game before returning to the store to purchase it, or another instead.
As a parent I'm all for the rating system and fining retailers for not enforcing them. If, as a parent, I feel its okay for my child to play a game rated for older than he/she is, then I will go to the store with said child and purchase it for them. This is not a big deal to me, and certainly preferrable to my child doing hookers and mugging them afterwards in a game, when they're too young to even know what sex is.
When my children are old enough for games, they will only be playing them in common areas of the house so we can monitor what they are playing. But as much as you try to, you can't watch what they're doing 24/7.
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Except that they give you extra living space. If nothing else its a good place for the furnace, water heater, water softner, etc.
Contrary to popular belief, we get the same number of hours of sunlight, even though we don't change our clocks on some arbitrary date. I have a house with a lot of south facing windows. In the Winter, I open all the blinds in the morning, well before the sun rises. During the summer, I make sure those blinds are closed. Changing the time I do that by an hour is not going to significantly impact my energy usage. (I live in Saskatchewan).
That's a pretty extreme example, the MB, CPU, Memory and case they have listed are under $400. I'm actually in the process of putting together a mini-itx Via system for a Mythtv frontend. Looks like I should be able to do it for around $200 (no HD though, I'll do network boot).
Impossible to say at this point. We'd have to wait until the end of time and then do a review. Now if you want to talk about the best console so far, I'd vote for either the NES or the Wii. Both were massively popular.
That's true, there's a lot of differences, but they limited the teleporter's usefulness for just that reason. Being able to go both ways through a teleporter with the flag would make for very quick rounds, and seriously throw off the balance of the game. That being said, having portals in a regular FPS game (where you're actually fighting other guys/creatures/etc) would be very interesting.
Kind of like the teleporter in TF2. Really, its fairly close to the same thing, except you can't "shoot" a teleporter to the other side of the map.
It says (even in the summary) we're talking about zone transfers, not regular lookups. So sue all you want, just don't be surprised when every case is thrown out.
I think I understand what you are saying. In a given herd, a clone cow wouldn't require any different care than a non-cloned cow. Unless of course you wanted to dress them up in white armour (that doesn't seem to stop anything), give them blasters (that they can't aim) and use them to rule the galaxy.
Well, there'll be the marketing aspect of selling the cloned cows to other breeders etc. because of its superior taste and tenderness and such. Being handled by a different rancher will lead to a completely different up bringing, which I think will result in a completely different piece of beef in the end.
I think that's the idea, unfortunately its not that simple. If cow A.orig is raised on grain, and cow A.clone1 is raised on "other" nutrition, the meat will be affected. Assuming the two cows are raised under similar conditions, and the meat is butchered the same way, and served the same way, they should have a similar taste and texture.
That being said, I buy a hind quarter every 1-2 years from a butcher. Not cloned cows, but cows from the same herd. The meat is indistinguishable from one year to the next. IMHO, its more about how the cow is raised and butchered than anything.
So you were born Thu, 29 Nov 1973 15:33:09 -0600? If you're going to say you were born at 123456789 epoch time, then you are specifying down to the second.
That was our first home game system, but before that at a friend's place, I remember playing a system, Atari I think, that had no game cartridges and only about four built in games. They all used paddle and were variations of Pong basically, Can't remember the system name though, but it was two player!
Why? You could pick up two 500GB drives for less than $300 (CDN) and have 1TB of space for a very reasonable cost. SATA drives in a RAID setup can break 200MB/sec sustained read. Unless you trying to watch 10 movies at the same time, you're not going to need any more than what SATA can provide now, and at substantially lower cost. Heck, buy 3 or more drives go RAID 5 and get some redundancy out of it as well.
That's basically what this ruling is about. The US will let its citizens gamble at domestic sites, but not foreign ones.
Got a source for all your "facts"?
You talk about the toxic chemicals in CFLs. I assume you mean mercury vapour. You do know that they can be recycled right? And about the whold Vitamin D thing... incandescent lighting is not a good source of ultraviolet light which is what your body needs to product vitamin D. As far as the photography thing... I haven't noticed. I'm not a professional photographer, I'm happy with my point and shoot type camera. It works fine for me, and I don't notice a difference in colours between different lights. I haven't seen any studies on CFLs leading to depression, mind giving some reliable sources?
You might want to look into what happens during an epidemic or pandemic. Even if you are vaccinated, your life will be affected.
Show me a reputable group promoting vaccinations that does not outline the risks involve. When I get my flu shot every year, I am always informed of the risks. I recently got a Hepatitus A vaccination, MMR booster and tetnus booster, and was told of all the applicable risks of getting them.
I didn't feel the rest of your comment was worth reading, let alone responding to. Every law does not have to be enforced by "gun toting".... Not to mention you're questioning of my parenting abilities, which I find insulting. You start insulting me, I stop paying attention, its that simple. If you want to have a calm debate/discussion, thats fine.
I was trying to have a reasonable debate with you, but resorting to insults and name calling ends my intrest in it.
Canadian students rank third in the world in science: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071204/pisa_test_071204/20071204?hub=SciTech (USA rated in at 29th)
And while you're at it, why don't you explain it to me why you are are unable to be a parent to your kids? If I tell my kid he's not allowed to eat Twinkies, then I damn well expect him not to buy Twinkies.
If you can honestly say that your child has never disobeyed a rule you've given him, your child is either so scared of you as to make you an unfit parent, or your living in some sort of fantasy world.
Who are you to tell another person how they should be raising their child? If another parent feels comfortable enough to let their kid make their own decision about what game to get, what gives you the right to force them to do more effort?
I'm not telling anyone how to raise their child. They are free to allow (or disallow) there child to play any game they want. I'm sorry if you feel that a parent spending some time with their child is such an enormous effort.
It seems to me that if a child should stumble upon something, you'd be able to talk to them about it, thus making them more ready then pretending they're not going to get exposed to something you dislike and not talking about it.
If my child asks me about something, then he/she is obviously ready to know at least somethig about it, and I welcome those conversations. I'm not pretending they're not going to be exposed to, I know at some point they will.
I'm neither. I do resent though be carded to buy a game. I also resent that games are toned down to fit into some box, and that other games are never even created at all because of console maker rules.
So don't buy the game, or buy it online with a credit card. I don't really care. Your inconvienance is not my concern. Nor is how gaming companies choose to make their games. There are enough games out there making money that have hard core graphics and adult gameplay to convince me that a good game will still make a profit, even with higher ratings. So either blame the developers, or blame the stores that won't carry them, its not the rating system's fault
You chose to have kids, yet more and more that choice is affecting my life and freedom. Ratings systems lead to censorship, I don't appreciate that.
Yup, I did choose to have kids. Everyone that does affects everyone around them. That's the nature of society. Deal with it. Rating systems do not lead to censorship. I see movies being released all the time that minors aren't allowed to see. Same with magazines. The porn industry certainly isn't being censored. If you're going down the slippery slope path, at least come up with some evidence to back it up.
Nor do I apprecate having to jump through hoops because you would rather a ratings system so you don't have to research. What's worse is that you are willing to do the work, you'd just rather not.
I never said I'd rather not, in fact I said given the opportunity I would do the research ahead of time and make an informed decision. I'll even go with my child to buy the game if its rated too high for him/her to purchase alone. I don't appreciate you pushing a system that allows any minor to view any content, regardless of its obvious suitability for that age.
So, you just don't want to do the research? Nevermind that your kid probably knows before you leave what game he'd want.
I don't mind doing the research at all. If my child comes up to me and asks if I'll get him a specific game for his birthday or Christmas or something, I have time to do the research before hand. However, there isn't always the opportunity to do the research beforehand.
What about parents who have kids in the 14-17 range? Should they have to buy the game for their kid, even if they don't mind their kids playing an M game?
Yup. They should have to. That's the point. Its not like the kid is going to be buying a new game every day. Even if its once a month, I don't mind going down with my child, and I would suspect that most parents wouldn't mind either, if it meant the likelihood of their child getting inappropriate material at a young age was significantly decreased.
As far as watching my kid 24/7, you're taking a very literal approach to what I said. Of course I don't expect to, or even want to watch my children every moment of their lives, but I do have a desire to protect them and only introduce certain parts of life to them when they are ready, regardless of age.
Seems most of the people who are against the rating system fit into one of two categories. Kids who are not old enough to purchase the game without a parent around, or the parents who couldn't be bothered to go down with their child to purchase the game that they deem is appropriate, regardless of the rating.
Absolutely, but there is nothing wrong with a rating system in general. As a parent, am I expected to keep up on every game for the game platform(s) in my household. Suppose walking through the store one day a child sees a game on sale and wants it. The child has been behaving and doing extra chores, and I feel buying a game for him/her is not out of the question. If there is no rating system, I have little choice but to say "No", or at least "Not yet", and go home and research the game before returning to the store to purchase it, or another instead.
As a parent I'm all for the rating system and fining retailers for not enforcing them. If, as a parent, I feel its okay for my child to play a game rated for older than he/she is, then I will go to the store with said child and purchase it for them. This is not a big deal to me, and certainly preferrable to my child doing hookers and mugging them afterwards in a game, when they're too young to even know what sex is.
When my children are old enough for games, they will only be playing them in common areas of the house so we can monitor what they are playing. But as much as you try to, you can't watch what they're doing 24/7.