"A new videocard (unless you go commodity) is going to run you $300 to $750. A good estimate on a high-end (but not highest) gaming system without peripherals is around $1,500"
. Here's a fun trick to do, ask some of your friends or relatives how many yards are in a mile. How many of them will actually give you an answer, much less the right one.
The thing is: No one cares how many yards are in a mile. The same way no one really cares how many centimeters are in a kilometer.
I can't quite figure out why "two-liter" became the norm there instead of the approximately equal "half-gallon"
Because they sold it as a 2-liter (0.52 gal) and not as a half-gallon (1.89 L).
In other words, the metric unit is the nice round number and the imperial equivalent is the ugly decimal at the end. A better question is: why didn't they just start selling milk in 4 liter jugs?
Functionally, there's no real difference between the big bang and genesis.
Sure there is. One is a theory with a lot of good evidence (cosmic background radiation, expansion of space, relative abundance of elements) that was painstakingly gathered over decades of research. The other is a story from a bronze-age book.
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Neither of which were likely to be true.
Citation needed.
when it's the things Obama's been doing that have actually worsened things overall
Citation needed.
Then you're not paying attention.
Or you don't know what "charisma" means.
"A new videocard (unless you go commodity) is going to run you $300 to $750. A good estimate on a high-end (but not highest) gaming system without peripherals is around $1,500"
You're doing it wrong.
bad apps need backward compatibility... yeah... no... not really but Microsoft seems to think so.
Actually, you mean "yeah, and Microsoft is right."
. Here's a fun trick to do, ask some of your friends or relatives how many yards are in a mile. How many of them will actually give you an answer, much less the right one.
The thing is: No one cares how many yards are in a mile. The same way no one really cares how many centimeters are in a kilometer.
Really? I can do the former in my head faster than the latter.
I can't quite figure out why "two-liter" became the norm there instead of the approximately equal "half-gallon"
Because they sold it as a 2-liter (0.52 gal) and not as a half-gallon (1.89 L).
In other words, the metric unit is the nice round number and the imperial equivalent is the ugly decimal at the end. A better question is: why didn't they just start selling milk in 4 liter jugs?
the only (ONLY) arbitrary measure in it is the actual length of the metre, because at some point someone had to choose something.
The meter was originally 1/10,000,000 the distance from the equator to the north pole.
and mass measurements relate back via water at 4 degrees celcius
No, it doesn't. The mass unit is defined by a metal cylinder kept in a vault in France.
What would the aliens think of all this?
It still boggles my mind that so many game developers pay so much attention to "story."
It still boggles my mind that so many don't.
It is like the producer of an opera worrying himself over whether his cast looks athletic enough.
Let me guess: you keep paying to see films like "Date Movie" or whatever Uwe Boll shits out because who cares about "story", right?
The Multi-Player experience is what provides the gaming console experience with value and makes it "sticky."
Funny, it's just the opposite for me. I don't give a toss about multi-player. I much prefer games with a good single-player experience.
I hate to break it to you but the way it works is that as gas prices go up, so does inflation. As inflation goes up, so do wages.
OK, so what happens when gas prices go up faster than inflation and real wages stay basically flat for 3 decades? Because that's what's happening.
Entitlement spending will cripple this country.
This is so wrong it hurts.
Meaning we could cut everything but Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Defense, and still be spending negatively.
One of these things is not like the other. Medicare, Medicaid, and SS are paid from separate taxes.
$250K puts you in the top few percent of all earners. That pretty much makes you rich by definition.
On an x86 system you know you've got a north bridge, a south bridge, a particular type of PIC, a certain kind of timer, PCI, etc.
Have you been paying attention at all in, say, the last 20 years?
Nuclear accidents leave hundreds of square mile uninhabitable for decades if not thousands of years.
No, they don't. Chernobyl, maybe, but Chernobyl was a special case.
CO2 on the other hand is good for plant growth which we need to feed people.
If this a fucking joke?
Stop citing Chernobyl as if it was any way indicative of nuclear power as a whole.
Every day this thing still gets worse
[citation needed]
I read it. It was wrong.
Evolution is a change in allele frequencies in a population over time.
If a mutation survives and spreads through the population, that's evolution by definition.
I don't know what you think evolution is. A chimpanzee giving birth to a human? Pikachu evolving into Raichu?
Oh good, you don't know what a species is either.
Evolution is a theory which has yet to be proven
Congratulations on not knowing anything at all about science. Theories are never proven, only disproven.
Intelligent design does not predicate a deity.
Wait, what? What is the designer then, if not a deity?
There are no experiments that make new species, sorry bud
http://talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html
http://talkorigins.org/faqs/speciation.html
Sorry Chuckles.
A) Mutation is part of evolution and
B) Speciation has been observed anyway
even evolutions supporters dont know what it is.
Neither do you.
Functionally, there's no real difference between the big bang and genesis.
Sure there is. One is a theory with a lot of good evidence (cosmic background radiation, expansion of space, relative abundance of elements) that was painstakingly gathered over decades of research. The other is a story from a bronze-age book.
Oh please don't tell me you're another one of those going on about stable kernel API nonsense. [kroah.com]
Good lord. All the reasons cited on that page are presented as good things rather than as problems that need to be solved, as most of them are.
Or hell, if that's too much trouble, ask them to write it for you [kroah.com].
Yeah, because that's worked so well so far. Plus the next time someone changes the kernel API you get to redo all the drivers again. Awesome!