Cars are different but they all use the same system. As compared to computers you could almost say there is only two different car operating systems, standard and automatic. No matter what the hardware looks like (the car model) all your automatic cars are going to have a steering wheel in the same place, two pedals that do the same thing, a similar/same gear shifter, etc. You can jump into any car and know how it operates regardless of model; that's pretty much the same as having different computers (hardware) running the same OS.
I think most people would be fine with the length of the Hobbit if it only included stuff that actually needed to be in the movie.
It all depends on how much material they actually have to work with. I don't want to watch a 2 hour movie stretched in to 3, and I don't want to watch a 3 hour movie cut down to 2. The Hobbit was the former.
First, I think that most people here feel that technical patents are somewhat more valid than design patents. While there are a number of people who think that patents as a whole are bad, but most people think that patents are okay, it's patents on things like "rounded corners" (aka design patents) that people dislike.
Secondly, if you attack someone who attacks you, are you being offensive or defensive? It's not immediately clear if retaliating after being attacked is a defensive action or an offensive one.
I find that the best way to take notes depends very much on the specific nature of the class you are taking. For math courses, programming courses, (some) science courses, or anything else where you need to be able to draw or use numbers, pen (or mechanical pencil) and regular old notebook work best.
For classes that are mostly text based, such as social sciences, history, or English courses, I find that typing my notes out in outline format (on a laptop) to be preferable.
As some other posters have said, pretty much all of those stores (Google play as well as Amazon) accept debit cards just fine. I do not and never have had a credit card, but I buy stuff online all the time with my debit.
There's nothing special about my debit card either, it's just a regular plain old debit card issued from the bank. Well, credit union actually, if that makes a difference.
If it's not better then why do games that allow K&M on consoles have to create separate rooms for K&M players and gamepad players?
I'll tell you why, because in the mixed rooms the K&M players destroy the gamepad players.
Now obviously if everyone is using the same control scheme it doesn't matter how "good" it is, because everyone is using the same crap. However, if you let K&M players play against gamepad players in an FPS the gamepad players will get destroyed.
For other kinds of games, such as action or fighting games, the gamepad is preferred for me. But that doesn't mean I deny that K&M is better for FPS.
I'm a conservative and I personally don't know any conservatives who like the TSA. We consider it another example of an overgrown government.
However, the conservatives I tend to be around are probably different than the type you are thinking of. Not all conservatives are rednecks living in trailers, just like not all liberals are actually hippies sitting around in drum circles.
Or maybe they think that no matter how bad he would still be better than Romney?
South Park was right when they satirized our political system as voting between a doucebag and a turd sandwich. The only thing that will truly change our country would be to change the actual political system itself, and that will never happen.
The fact that you can activate skills without a target is actually one of the biggest selling points. It makes the game feature more "action-like" combat rather than standard fare turn-based mmo combat.
And honestly, I don't see how this would affect immersion negatively. What's less realistic, being able to shoot your gun, regardless of whether it hits anyone or not, or your gun telling you that you're out of range if you try to shoot it from too far away?
Sort of. It's an actual persistent world now, just like other mmos.
The world is broken up into zones, like the continents in WoW (only not quite as big); but for pretty much all purposes you will actually notice in playing, it's fully persistent.
1,000 times this. I wish my mod points hadn't expired yesterday.
I think it's totally cool that Apple "steals," and does so in a way that genuinely makes good products with some level of innovation, at least in design.
What I don't think is cool is that Apple steals but then expects other people not to. Either Apple can steal ideas from other people, and other people can steal ideas from Apple, or neither can steal ideas from each other. Apple can't just have the benefit on both sides, being allowed to steal while being impervious from people stealing from them.
Exactly. Youtube is not there to enforce the law. That's what the courts are for. As you said, they are not there to determine if a video is legal or not, and therefore they are not there to remove videos that may be copyrighted.
They are free to decide what they think is acceptable. If Youtube does not want to remove videos that may be copyrighted -- they are free to not do so.
I just gave a rather long explanation about how I can say that in the post you replied to.
The media ignores third party candidates because it is the logical thing to do in our current political system. Voters who think logically will also ignore these candidates.
They "founding fathers" did a great job constructing a democracy without much to go off of, but there are some negative consequences to the system they devised that they could not have foreseen. These design flaws have since been fixed by other countries, who had the benefit of looking at American and seeing what worked and what didn't. Using a first past the post system with a district magnitude of 1 has the negative consequence of the country only having two parties. This is fixed by systems such as proportional representation, which allow for multiple parties.
It's not the media's fault that our country doesn't have a proportional representation electoral system.
If you're not sure why this happens, it's really not that complicated. Only one person can win. Lets say there are 4 parties on a spectrum of 1-10, with 1 being conservative and 10 being liberal. They may be something like 2, 4, 6, and 8. If you are a liberal voter, you have to choose whether or not to vote for 6 or 8. If you are a strong liberal, you would like to vote for 8. The same applies on the conservative side. Now, what happens if the liberals all vote for who they actually want to win: half vote for 6 and half vote for 8, but 6 also picks up swing voters by being in the middle, knocking 8 out of the race. Now, lets say the same thing happens on the conservative side, 4 is the victor. So the election comes down to who happened to get more votes, 4 or 6.
Lets pretend that 6 won that election. In the next election, conservatives get smart and decide to all vote for 4, ignoring 2. If the liberal do not do the same thing, 4 will win by a landslide, as the liberal vote is split between 6 and 8. In the next election, you can be certain both groups will vote for 4 and 6, 2 and 8 are ignored. Do this for 100 years, and you end up with two parties.
The media doesn't really have much (if anything) to do with it.
Political science has very few concepts that can be considered anything close to a "law," but the law of Duverger is one of those few. While not 100% accurate, as any "law" in a social science won't be, it is still very accurate at determining the number of parties a political system will end up with. The law, put simply, states that the number of parties in a political system will be the district magnitude +1. So, in a winner-takes-all system such as the United States (District Magnitude of 1) we end up with 2 parties. In a Proportional Representation system where more than one person is elected for each district, you end up with more than 2 parties. If you look at actual data on various countries, you can see that this is almost always true.
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Cars are different but they all use the same system. As compared to computers you could almost say there is only two different car operating systems, standard and automatic. No matter what the hardware looks like (the car model) all your automatic cars are going to have a steering wheel in the same place, two pedals that do the same thing, a similar/same gear shifter, etc. You can jump into any car and know how it operates regardless of model; that's pretty much the same as having different computers (hardware) running the same OS.
Not if you use a trackball, which works incredibly well with a laptop in my experience :)
I think most people would be fine with the length of the Hobbit if it only included stuff that actually needed to be in the movie.
It all depends on how much material they actually have to work with. I don't want to watch a 2 hour movie stretched in to 3, and I don't want to watch a 3 hour movie cut down to 2. The Hobbit was the former.
Two things:
First, I think that most people here feel that technical patents are somewhat more valid than design patents. While there are a number of people who think that patents as a whole are bad, but most people think that patents are okay, it's patents on things like "rounded corners" (aka design patents) that people dislike.
Secondly, if you attack someone who attacks you, are you being offensive or defensive? It's not immediately clear if retaliating after being attacked is a defensive action or an offensive one.
The Goa'uld are not gods! :)
I find that the best way to take notes depends very much on the specific nature of the class you are taking. For math courses, programming courses, (some) science courses, or anything else where you need to be able to draw or use numbers, pen (or mechanical pencil) and regular old notebook work best.
For classes that are mostly text based, such as social sciences, history, or English courses, I find that typing my notes out in outline format (on a laptop) to be preferable.
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As some other posters have said, pretty much all of those stores (Google play as well as Amazon) accept debit cards just fine. I do not and never have had a credit card, but I buy stuff online all the time with my debit.
There's nothing special about my debit card either, it's just a regular plain old debit card issued from the bank. Well, credit union actually, if that makes a difference.
If it's not better then why do games that allow K&M on consoles have to create separate rooms for K&M players and gamepad players?
I'll tell you why, because in the mixed rooms the K&M players destroy the gamepad players.
Now obviously if everyone is using the same control scheme it doesn't matter how "good" it is, because everyone is using the same crap. However, if you let K&M players play against gamepad players in an FPS the gamepad players will get destroyed.
For other kinds of games, such as action or fighting games, the gamepad is preferred for me. But that doesn't mean I deny that K&M is better for FPS.
You're forgetting that all the emo kids are wearing skinny jeans that barely fit a pack of gum these days :)
Remove bad parents?
I'm a conservative and I personally don't know any conservatives who like the TSA. We consider it another example of an overgrown government.
However, the conservatives I tend to be around are probably different than the type you are thinking of. Not all conservatives are rednecks living in trailers, just like not all liberals are actually hippies sitting around in drum circles.
Or maybe they think that no matter how bad he would still be better than Romney?
South Park was right when they satirized our political system as voting between a doucebag and a turd sandwich. The only thing that will truly change our country would be to change the actual political system itself, and that will never happen.
The fact that you can activate skills without a target is actually one of the biggest selling points. It makes the game feature more "action-like" combat rather than standard fare turn-based mmo combat.
And honestly, I don't see how this would affect immersion negatively. What's less realistic, being able to shoot your gun, regardless of whether it hits anyone or not, or your gun telling you that you're out of range if you try to shoot it from too far away?
Sort of. It's an actual persistent world now, just like other mmos.
The world is broken up into zones, like the continents in WoW (only not quite as big); but for pretty much all purposes you will actually notice in playing, it's fully persistent.
Why did you decide to have a family before you got a good job?
Get the job first, then get to making babies. We have enough people on the planet as it is.
1,000 times this. I wish my mod points hadn't expired yesterday.
I think it's totally cool that Apple "steals," and does so in a way that genuinely makes good products with some level of innovation, at least in design.
What I don't think is cool is that Apple steals but then expects other people not to. Either Apple can steal ideas from other people, and other people can steal ideas from Apple, or neither can steal ideas from each other. Apple can't just have the benefit on both sides, being allowed to steal while being impervious from people stealing from them.
Exactly this. HD makes a huge difference, regardless of graphics.
Playing Mario Kart 64 on my HDTV from an emulator actually looks much better than Mario Kart Wii.
Exactly. Youtube is not there to enforce the law. That's what the courts are for. As you said, they are not there to determine if a video is legal or not, and therefore they are not there to remove videos that may be copyrighted.
They are free to decide what they think is acceptable. If Youtube does not want to remove videos that may be copyrighted -- they are free to not do so.
Because everyone knows posting on an online forum carries the equivalent importance of a job application.
Google could now potentially make an entire line of Nexus phones through Motorola. Say goodbye to MotoBlur crap?
I just gave a rather long explanation about how I can say that in the post you replied to.
The media ignores third party candidates because it is the logical thing to do in our current political system. Voters who think logically will also ignore these candidates.
They "founding fathers" did a great job constructing a democracy without much to go off of, but there are some negative consequences to the system they devised that they could not have foreseen. These design flaws have since been fixed by other countries, who had the benefit of looking at American and seeing what worked and what didn't. Using a first past the post system with a district magnitude of 1 has the negative consequence of the country only having two parties. This is fixed by systems such as proportional representation, which allow for multiple parties.
It's not the media's fault that our country doesn't have a proportional representation electoral system.
If you're not sure why this happens, it's really not that complicated. Only one person can win. Lets say there are 4 parties on a spectrum of 1-10, with 1 being conservative and 10 being liberal. They may be something like 2, 4, 6, and 8. If you are a liberal voter, you have to choose whether or not to vote for 6 or 8. If you are a strong liberal, you would like to vote for 8. The same applies on the conservative side. Now, what happens if the liberals all vote for who they actually want to win: half vote for 6 and half vote for 8, but 6 also picks up swing voters by being in the middle, knocking 8 out of the race. Now, lets say the same thing happens on the conservative side, 4 is the victor. So the election comes down to who happened to get more votes, 4 or 6.
Lets pretend that 6 won that election. In the next election, conservatives get smart and decide to all vote for 4, ignoring 2. If the liberal do not do the same thing, 4 will win by a landslide, as the liberal vote is split between 6 and 8. In the next election, you can be certain both groups will vote for 4 and 6, 2 and 8 are ignored. Do this for 100 years, and you end up with two parties.
The media doesn't really have much (if anything) to do with it.
Political science has very few concepts that can be considered anything close to a "law," but the law of Duverger is one of those few. While not 100% accurate, as any "law" in a social science won't be, it is still very accurate at determining the number of parties a political system will end up with. The law, put simply, states that the number of parties in a political system will be the district magnitude +1. So, in a winner-takes-all system such as the United States (District Magnitude of 1) we end up with 2 parties. In a Proportional Representation system where more than one person is elected for each district, you end up with more than 2 parties. If you look at actual data on various countries, you can see that this is almost always true.
Or pay to watch the show AND have half of it taken up by ads, ie cable TV.
Just wait for the software developers to hear about that one.
"A human being would've known that. Robots... nothing here, just lights and clockwork. Go ahead, you trust 'em if you want to."