Actually, I've heard that the standard BMI ranges were never intended to be used to diagnose people with above average muscle mass. For relatively inactive people, it works well enough and that's the bulk of the population.
I saw some place online offering preorders for SSBB which had a picture of the cover art where a Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection logo is visible in the upper left corner. It seems unlikely to me that an online store would fabricate this sort of thing, though I admit it's not impossible.
They never really mentioned the fact that Griphook kind of got shafted by that. I mean he got the sword fair and square and then *poof* it just appears back in the hat when it's needed.
No it's not. For the US, NPD has been reporting that the Wii has been selling in the upper 300,000s to low 400,000s each month consistently since the beginning of the year. The PS2 has been selling in the 200,000s during the same time period. In Japan, the Wii's outselling the PS2 by an even more dramatic margin.
Looking at the graphs on VGChartz (which although not perfect is in the ballpark), you can see that the Wii has vastly outperformed the PS2's first year of sales.
That is an outright lie. The average game player is 33 years old and has been playing games for 12 years.
In all likelihood, ESA is using the broadest definition of game player conceivable in order to support their position. The statistic isn't really meaningful if you count people who do online crossword puzzles as game players. Also, they say "average game player" not "average console game player".
Games aren't just for children, but to try to suggest that the children aren't the largest segment of the console market is just silly. Think about it: when you go to the video game section of a store, do you usually see more kids or adults browsing through the games?
If Nintendo allowed an AO game on one of their systems, they would likely face a boycott from parents' groups. And while there are a significant number of adult gamers, the lost sales from not releasing the game aren't as big as the lost sales from a boycott. It's not really fair that adult gamers have to suffer just because parents' groups overreact, but them's the breaks.
If you've got enough data you can get around this problem by using only half of your data to estimate your parameters. Then you do a statistical test to see if your parameters fit the other half of the data. If you get a good result then you should be more or less safe using the whole data set to retune your parameters.
I'm not sure if 122 observations is enough data to support this kind of analysis though.
The bible doesn't make any statements about gambling. You could make a case for squandering one's wealth being a sin, but you would have trouble extending that to gambling done in moderation.
And the bible doesn't say drinking is a sin either. It has some warnings about drinking too much, but it doesn't say anything is wrong with drinking in moderation.
The size of the European console games market isn't proportional to Europe's population.
The size of Japan's console games market is roughly the same size as the console games market in North America. Europe and Australia together have a console games market a little smaller than North America or Japan. So considering the late launch, 1 million is actually better than they're doing in Japan and North America. PS3 is still a bit short of 1 million in Japan and their sales have fallen to about 10,000 per week. In North America they're a bit under 1.5 million and their sales are down to about 15,000 per week (it's struggling to outsell the GBA each week).
So Sony may be slightly less weak in Europe and Australia, but even there I don't think they're still WAY behind the 360 and Wii. Any PS3 fans thinking that Europe and Australia may save Sony are sorely mistaken.
Agreed. I'm especially excited because DAOC had the best endgame of any MMO. Period.
The problem with DAOC was that it followed the EQ model up until the end game (aside from the frivolous diversion of the battlegrounds of course). It sounds like with Warhammer they're trying to make the whole game more like DAOC's end game. If they succeed, this game will be unimaginably great.
Most of those one time costs are capital expenditures (costs used to acquire durable assets). I don't know that much about corporate finance, but I'm pretty sure that operating losses don't include capital expenditures. Or at least, if they are, then they are probably amortized over the life of the asset. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_expenditure.
The idea is that if a company buys something that's going to last a long time, the cost for it needs to be spread out over the lifetime of the asset to prevent front loaded costs from distorting their profit reporting.
I was satisfied with walking on magnetic walls with iron boots (kick ass), the ball and chain (not very practical but fun to play with), and dual hook shots (if only they'd let you fire the next one while you're still in mid air).
The dominion rod could have been really interesting if they let it do more. They should have had an upgrade for it to allow you to control enemies. The spinner was probably the weirdest concept for an item in a Zelda game but they didn't really put it to much use aside from keeping you from getting to an inaccessible area until you notice the rails.
There's certainly a lot more new stuff than there was in Wind Waker.
It's slow to start. That's Twilight Princess's biggest flaw.
But the first horseback battle was probably the most intense experience I've ever had playing a video game. There are some absolutely amazing moments in this game.
You're forgetting that people who know enough to take basic security precautions can still suffer the moth-to-flame effect. I know I'm not completely immune. If I saw an ad like that I would be so mystified by how blatant it was that I would be really tempted to click it just to find out if it's serious or not.
I think it's going to have to get to $200 before it can possibly achieve the sort of success that the PS2 had. You can claim that Sony is targetting a different demographic all you want, but the bulk of all consoles are still sold to/for children and teens. Parents have limits on what they are either willing or able to spend on something that may or may not spoil their children and once you go over $200 you're beginning to encroach upon these limits. Many (maybe even most) children and teens also lack the capability and/or discipline to save up more than $200 (there are, of course, exceptions).
This applies to all three of the new consoles. They all have to reduce their prices to $200 or less before many of their potential consumers will even consider making a purchase.
The poster you were replying to may have meant that the Euro/Dollar exchange rate has increased about 50% over what it was in the early 2000s. I'm not sure why he mentioned Francs though.
You also have to consider how resilient such a system could be to tampering. If it relies on GPS (and I don't see how it wouldn't), then what will it do if I jam the GPS signal? Will the car know how to get off the road safely with the GPS data jammed? Can it still get to safety if I jam the signal near a busy highway and there are hundreds of cars trying to pull over at the same time?
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Actually, I've heard that the standard BMI ranges were never intended to be used to diagnose people with above average muscle mass. For relatively inactive people, it works well enough and that's the bulk of the population.
Alcohol that's on your hands should evaporate quickly and I doubt think a detectable quantity could remain on your hands indefinitely.
I saw some place online offering preorders for SSBB which had a picture of the cover art where a Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection logo is visible in the upper left corner. It seems unlikely to me that an online store would fabricate this sort of thing, though I admit it's not impossible.
http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/gamemode/various/va rious01.html
No it's just another Smash Bros. with online play, more destructible stages, new items, and new attacks bolted on.
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They never really mentioned the fact that Griphook kind of got shafted by that. I mean he got the sword fair and square and then *poof* it just appears back in the hat when it's needed.
No it's not. For the US, NPD has been reporting that the Wii has been selling in the upper 300,000s to low 400,000s each month consistently since the beginning of the year. The PS2 has been selling in the 200,000s during the same time period. In Japan, the Wii's outselling the PS2 by an even more dramatic margin.
Looking at the graphs on VGChartz (which although not perfect is in the ballpark), you can see that the Wii has vastly outperformed the PS2's first year of sales.
Well they probably have to use some pretty serious hardware to move all of that sludge and ammonia.
Let me know when the PS3 goes back over 100k per month for North America.
In all likelihood, ESA is using the broadest definition of game player conceivable in order to support their position. The statistic isn't really meaningful if you count people who do online crossword puzzles as game players. Also, they say "average game player" not "average console game player".
Games aren't just for children, but to try to suggest that the children aren't the largest segment of the console market is just silly. Think about it: when you go to the video game section of a store, do you usually see more kids or adults browsing through the games?
If Nintendo allowed an AO game on one of their systems, they would likely face a boycott from parents' groups. And while there are a significant number of adult gamers, the lost sales from not releasing the game aren't as big as the lost sales from a boycott. It's not really fair that adult gamers have to suffer just because parents' groups overreact, but them's the breaks.
If you've got enough data you can get around this problem by using only half of your data to estimate your parameters. Then you do a statistical test to see if your parameters fit the other half of the data. If you get a good result then you should be more or less safe using the whole data set to retune your parameters.
I'm not sure if 122 observations is enough data to support this kind of analysis though.
The bible doesn't make any statements about gambling. You could make a case for squandering one's wealth being a sin, but you would have trouble extending that to gambling done in moderation.
And the bible doesn't say drinking is a sin either. It has some warnings about drinking too much, but it doesn't say anything is wrong with drinking in moderation.
That should be:
The size of the European console games market isn't proportional to Europe's population.
The size of Japan's console games market is roughly the same size as the console games market in North America. Europe and Australia together have a console games market a little smaller than North America or Japan. So considering the late launch, 1 million is actually better than they're doing in Japan and North America. PS3 is still a bit short of 1 million in Japan and their sales have fallen to about 10,000 per week. In North America they're a bit under 1.5 million and their sales are down to about 15,000 per week (it's struggling to outsell the GBA each week).
So Sony may be slightly less weak in Europe and Australia, but even there I don't think they're still WAY behind the 360 and Wii. Any PS3 fans thinking that Europe and Australia may save Sony are sorely mistaken.
Good luck playing that lute with a knife in one hand.
Agreed. I'm especially excited because DAOC had the best endgame of any MMO. Period.
The problem with DAOC was that it followed the EQ model up until the end game (aside from the frivolous diversion of the battlegrounds of course). It sounds like with Warhammer they're trying to make the whole game more like DAOC's end game. If they succeed, this game will be unimaginably great.
Tranny
Most of those one time costs are capital expenditures (costs used to acquire durable assets). I don't know that much about corporate finance, but I'm pretty sure that operating losses don't include capital expenditures. Or at least, if they are, then they are probably amortized over the life of the asset. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_expenditure.
The idea is that if a company buys something that's going to last a long time, the cost for it needs to be spread out over the lifetime of the asset to prevent front loaded costs from distorting their profit reporting.
I was satisfied with walking on magnetic walls with iron boots (kick ass), the ball and chain (not very practical but fun to play with), and dual hook shots (if only they'd let you fire the next one while you're still in mid air).
The dominion rod could have been really interesting if they let it do more. They should have had an upgrade for it to allow you to control enemies. The spinner was probably the weirdest concept for an item in a Zelda game but they didn't really put it to much use aside from keeping you from getting to an inaccessible area until you notice the rails.
There's certainly a lot more new stuff than there was in Wind Waker.
It's slow to start. That's Twilight Princess's biggest flaw.
But the first horseback battle was probably the most intense experience I've ever had playing a video game. There are some absolutely amazing moments in this game.
You're forgetting that people who know enough to take basic security precautions can still suffer the moth-to-flame effect. I know I'm not completely immune. If I saw an ad like that I would be so mystified by how blatant it was that I would be really tempted to click it just to find out if it's serious or not.
I think it's going to have to get to $200 before it can possibly achieve the sort of success that the PS2 had. You can claim that Sony is targetting a different demographic all you want, but the bulk of all consoles are still sold to/for children and teens. Parents have limits on what they are either willing or able to spend on something that may or may not spoil their children and once you go over $200 you're beginning to encroach upon these limits. Many (maybe even most) children and teens also lack the capability and/or discipline to save up more than $200 (there are, of course, exceptions).
This applies to all three of the new consoles. They all have to reduce their prices to $200 or less before many of their potential consumers will even consider making a purchase.
The poster you were replying to may have meant that the Euro/Dollar exchange rate has increased about 50% over what it was in the early 2000s. I'm not sure why he mentioned Francs though.
How do you rattle a flag?
It's a euphemism.
You also have to consider how resilient such a system could be to tampering. If it relies on GPS (and I don't see how it wouldn't), then what will it do if I jam the GPS signal? Will the car know how to get off the road safely with the GPS data jammed? Can it still get to safety if I jam the signal near a busy highway and there are hundreds of cars trying to pull over at the same time?