I'm hopeful that the success of these independent authors (legitimate ones) will bring the prices down on ebooks from the publishing houses. I miss the $10 cap.
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No, USB foot pedals have been around for ages. I'm not sure what is unique about this one other than maybe having more switches?
You obviously haven't been to Cairo, Georgia (pronounced KAY-row) or Versailles, Kentucky (pronounced vur-SALES).
I sometimes think that certain Americans feel the need to do this deliberately just in case you may have accidentally overlooked the fact that they are ignorant hillbillies.
Those are their own damn cities, let them pronounce the names however they wish.
So what you're saying is, "Gee, flying planes is hard."
Why not also establish some empirical basis for the policy?
There is a growing body of anecdotal evidence
Need I say more?
Actually, yes. How about something regarding consequences? Say 100+ people in a fragile machine, surround by flammable liquids, moving at a high rate of speed and doing so with limited to no visibility outside the machine having a "mishap" because someone had to check twitter? There are some activities where an excess of caution is warranted, personally I believe that needing to use an ***instrument landing system because of bad weather*** is one such activity.
The title of this summary is "Have We Reached Maximum Sustainable Population Size." That is the question to which he is answering "No," and his is the correct answer.
Assuming it's not too terribly uncomfortable to use, there are all sorts of games that would benefit from this type of controller. Chiefly: any game that requires touch input, or a hidden screen from opposing players (FPS screen, play calling in sports, your hand in a card game, etc.). It sort of blurs the line between console and handheld, which I think is pretty cool.
Sucks that it will probably be so expensive that few people will have access to more than one of the special controllers, though.
King's Quest and Space Quest have always been on the list of my favourite game series, the latter of which, as an added bonus, is filled with humour (PG-13 i believe).
Some may tell you that they're too hard, especially the first games of the series (keep in mind that point and click didn't come until KQ5, so everything is typed). While that may be true, my response to that is that it gives you an added chance of bonding with your daughter by working with her (they grow up fast at that age). Some of my best memories of childhood involved my dad and I getting through King's Quest together...
I remember King's Quest 3 being the brutally difficult one. It was also the most interesting, however.
And that idiotic fake formula so many like takes another hit.
I assume you're talking about the probability of life emerging? I don't see how any such estimate is beneficial. For all we know we could be completely alone or the universe could be teaming with little green men.
But if you're referring to what I think you are, based on the scale of the formula, a single order of magnitude really wouldn't make much difference.
When I first saw this on Fark I got excited that he was going to give people money to do an apprenticeship or maybe start their own hands on company. No, he's paying people that he hopes will be the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. We need a whole lot more of the former and a whole lot less of the latter.
Wait... which is the former? An Apprentice, or Bill Gates?
You can get pixel perfect TV playback on a monitor with 1200 pixels as well. There's unused bands at the top and bottom, but you are getting the EXACT SAME THING in the middle 1080 pixels. And then you get extra height when computing or gaming.
Honestly, this "NO BLACK BANDS!" is some sort of bizarre OCD thing at this point.
If I am for some reason concerned most with viewing 16:9 movies on my screen, then having a 16:9 screen allows me the largest possible picture from the smallest possible appliance. Otherwise the logical conclusion of your argument is that a 4:3 screen is just as good.
Don't get me wrong, I happen to agree with you since I don't exclusively watch movies and tv shows on my laptop/desktop monitor. But there is an argument for space efficiency for at least some people.
I don't actually care if someone flies on a private jet. I DO care if that same person wants to mandate all sorts of carbon reducing measures on everyone else.
Google (as a company) is doing quite a lot for the development and implementation of sustainable energy, and the guys (as private persons) even seem to plant some trees (or something) to compensate for the fuel they burn.
I think that if you want to accuse Google of something evil, it has to be on the privacy front, not the pollution part. So, I think it's reasonable to be apologetic.
I don't see how the trips are defensible. They want other people to make personal sacrifices they are unwilling to make. They could have flown coach or business or even first class, and STILL put the money toward planting trees or funding green companies or wherever the hell "carbon offset" cash actually goes. Actually, if they flew commercial they probably could have saved thousands or tens of thousands of dollars and put that money into offsets as well, which must give them all sorts of green cred.
If AGW is such an important issue to them, I don't expect them to dump all their resources into stopping it. I would expect them to make reasonable sacrifices, and flying commercial seems pretty reasonable to me.
How could a company that consistently produced quality entertainment for nearly two decades be reduced to a mere shadow of its former self? What happened?
Simple: JRPGs, as a genre, are outdated and most young gamers don't have the patience to put up with them when there are so many more enjoyable games out there.
The things [exclusively] Windows users experience passes for "normal" most of the time and they never realize the abuses they deal with on a regular basis.
These things simply don't exist in other OSes. Things like shutting down taking almost as much time as starting up?
Ubuntu doesn't exactly flip off like a light switch.
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Yes. Those poor, poor theocrats.
I'm hopeful that the success of these independent authors (legitimate ones) will bring the prices down on ebooks from the publishing houses. I miss the $10 cap.
No, USB foot pedals have been around for ages. I'm not sure what is unique about this one other than maybe having more switches?
When my government asks me to 'like' it on facebook, then it's time for the revolution.
That easy, huh?
You obviously haven't been to Cairo, Georgia (pronounced KAY-row) or Versailles, Kentucky (pronounced vur-SALES). I sometimes think that certain Americans feel the need to do this deliberately just in case you may have accidentally overlooked the fact that they are ignorant hillbillies.
Those are their own damn cities, let them pronounce the names however they wish.
Why not also establish some empirical basis for the policy?
There is a growing body of anecdotal evidence
Need I say more?
Actually, yes. How about something regarding consequences? Say 100+ people in a fragile machine, surround by flammable liquids, moving at a high rate of speed and doing so with limited to no visibility outside the machine having a "mishap" because someone had to check twitter? There are some activities where an excess of caution is warranted, personally I believe that needing to use an ***instrument landing system because of bad weather*** is one such activity.
The title of this summary is "Have We Reached Maximum Sustainable Population Size." That is the question to which he is answering "No," and his is the correct answer.
The jurors also knew their every in-court action would be up for public scrutiny, not the least of which was the final verdict.
The jurors were never on camera.
In that video he does not look good.
I have to assume that the reason he is still participating in things like this or the WWDC is that it would be harder on him not to.
Assuming it's not too terribly uncomfortable to use, there are all sorts of games that would benefit from this type of controller. Chiefly: any game that requires touch input, or a hidden screen from opposing players (FPS screen, play calling in sports, your hand in a card game, etc.). It sort of blurs the line between console and handheld, which I think is pretty cool.
Sucks that it will probably be so expensive that few people will have access to more than one of the special controllers, though.
King's Quest and Space Quest have always been on the list of my favourite game series, the latter of which, as an added bonus, is filled with humour (PG-13 i believe).
Some may tell you that they're too hard, especially the first games of the series (keep in mind that point and click didn't come until KQ5, so everything is typed). While that may be true, my response to that is that it gives you an added chance of bonding with your daughter by working with her (they grow up fast at that age). Some of my best memories of childhood involved my dad and I getting through King's Quest together...
I remember King's Quest 3 being the brutally difficult one. It was also the most interesting, however.
And please don't reply to this with "your welcome"...
Why would anyone reply with "your welcome," for any reason other than to annoy you? You are the one offering the advice.
Or did we just assume it because it worked here?
And what other frame of reference is available, exactly?
And that idiotic fake formula so many like takes another hit.
I assume you're talking about the probability of life emerging? I don't see how any such estimate is beneficial. For all we know we could be completely alone or the universe could be teaming with little green men.
But if you're referring to what I think you are, based on the scale of the formula, a single order of magnitude really wouldn't make much difference.
When I first saw this on Fark I got excited that he was going to give people money to do an apprenticeship or maybe start their own hands on company. No, he's paying people that he hopes will be the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. We need a whole lot more of the former and a whole lot less of the latter.
Wait... which is the former? An Apprentice, or Bill Gates?
I imagine we'll be looking at wall-sized TVs at some point and 1080 pixels will look awfully blocky on a 10 foot wall.
Front projection already does this. Most people don't have the space or the desire to devote a 10-foot wall to entertainment.
You can get pixel perfect TV playback on a monitor with 1200 pixels as well. There's unused bands at the top and bottom, but you are getting the EXACT SAME THING in the middle 1080 pixels. And then you get extra height when computing or gaming.
Honestly, this "NO BLACK BANDS!" is some sort of bizarre OCD thing at this point.
If I am for some reason concerned most with viewing 16:9 movies on my screen, then having a 16:9 screen allows me the largest possible picture from the smallest possible appliance. Otherwise the logical conclusion of your argument is that a 4:3 screen is just as good.
Don't get me wrong, I happen to agree with you since I don't exclusively watch movies and tv shows on my laptop/desktop monitor. But there is an argument for space efficiency for at least some people.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/on-our-radar-meltdown-on-greenland-ice-sheet/
Google (as a company) is doing quite a lot for the development and implementation of sustainable energy, and the guys (as private persons) even seem to plant some trees (or something) to compensate for the fuel they burn.
I think that if you want to accuse Google of something evil, it has to be on the privacy front, not the pollution part. So, I think it's reasonable to be apologetic.
I don't see how the trips are defensible. They want other people to make personal sacrifices they are unwilling to make. They could have flown coach or business or even first class, and STILL put the money toward planting trees or funding green companies or wherever the hell "carbon offset" cash actually goes. Actually, if they flew commercial they probably could have saved thousands or tens of thousands of dollars and put that money into offsets as well, which must give them all sorts of green cred. If AGW is such an important issue to them, I don't expect them to dump all their resources into stopping it. I would expect them to make reasonable sacrifices, and flying commercial seems pretty reasonable to me.
Then what's the correct term for an electric shock that causes permanent but nonlethal damage to living tissue?
Something other than "electrocute."
I think you mean "shocked."
You haven't played Pokemon have you? That's a fairly traditional JRPG with a crap load of very simple characters
Good point. Perhaps the handheld, lower-powered platform has something to do with it?
Why couldn't he just use Tor?
He didn't encrypt anything either, from the accounts I've read.
How could a company that consistently produced quality entertainment for nearly two decades be reduced to a mere shadow of its former self? What happened?
Simple: JRPGs, as a genre, are outdated and most young gamers don't have the patience to put up with them when there are so many more enjoyable games out there.
The things [exclusively] Windows users experience passes for "normal" most of the time and they never realize the abuses they deal with on a regular basis.
These things simply don't exist in other OSes. Things like shutting down taking almost as much time as starting up?
Ubuntu doesn't exactly flip off like a light switch.