Except 2k was never sold as a consumer product. That was the 95/98/ME realm. XP was essentially the consumer version of 2k. That is, 2k with a lot of crap added. Of course users of 2k thought it was bad.
Airport screening is not suppose to catch petty criminals. It's not suppose to be a dragnet for outstanding warrants. It's suppose to be about "safety", which just means that no one getting on a plane can cause the other passengers harm, or take over the plane and cause harm to those on a ground. The latter can be accomplished simply by having hardened cockpit doors, while the former is taken care of via metal detectors and chemical sniffers. This nonsense of racial or behavioral profiling is just an excuse to expand police powers to catch otherwise harmless criminals at a chokepoint.
Few protest this because they think they're safer due to the security theater. However, the numbers speak for themselves: 100% failure rate at catching terrorists, and 99% false positives for criminals of any type. Those numbers are horrific.
I'm not familiar with the intricacies of xbox or XBL, but when a "monolithic server list" for a game goes down on the PC, you can still play on the net with an IP address. That happened for the original Halo for PC a couple of months ago. Yeah, it's a bit of a pain, and you need to find another site that gives lists of games in progress, but it can be done. I would be surprised if you can do the same thing with an Xbox.
As a Medical Physicist, I can assure you that you do not need protons to treat prostate cancer. We've been treating it with photons for 50+ years, with very good results. Relatively recent advancements (last 10 years or so) puts a procedure known as IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiation Treatment) in the hands of community clinics, which will give you as good results as protons. In fact, in my opinion, the photon treatment would be preferable as photons behave much more consistently than charged particles. That is, they are less sensitive to variation in patient anatomy between the plan and actual treatment delivery.
There was an article in Physics Today about 10 years ago on proton treatment. It was very disingenuous, as it showed a 3-field proton treatment vs. a 3-field photon treatment. Of course, the proton was better, but nobody uses only 3 fields for prostate. Even back in the 3d days (before IMRT), at least six fields were used. Comparing a well crafted 6-field plan with a proton plan would show that they are very similar. If you use IMRT, then they're all but identical.
Therapeutic protons are in the 230 MeV range, which is 10x higher energy than is used for photons. The reason for this is that you need to use approximately this energy to have sufficient penetration. Now, the advantage is that if everything is done right, you do get less radiation to skin and surrounding normal tissue for the same number of beams. However, the simple solution is that you just use more beams coming from more angles when employing photons. You can get a treatment plan that is as good as protons using this technique, and you can be more confident that it's actually being delivered correctly.
Well, yes, in a sense, but I thought that in at least one case, it was determined that "copies" in volatile RAM were not considered the same as copies saved to permanent media. IANAL, though, and given the judicial process, I'm sure that determination has gone both ways.
Then how about sell a subscription service where you can stream any song you want anytime you want from Antiguan servers? The songs are stored there, so you're not making a copy. Unless, of course, you copy the stream, or "circumvent" their stringent protections against copying songs directly. Wink wink, nod nod.
A more interesting and likely scenario is tech improvements to sex toys. Imagine what something like Real Doll will be in 10 or 15 years time, and it's not much of a stretch to say you could have a sizeable portion of the population abandoning the dating scene. We already see that in small numbers due to webcams, and it seems reasonable to extrapolate the trend accelerating with accelerated improvements to the tech.
You have to remember, this is not a killer advantage assuming all other things being equal. However, I suspect that people who play a great deal may have noticed the edge, and thus are more likely to choose blue if they can. Consequently, the average skill may likewise be higher for the blue in both games.
It doesn't surprise me that Blue wins more consistently than red. Red stands out more on most maps, thus giving the blue opponents a slight edge in spotting the enemy. You definitely see this same thing at play in Halo, and I would suspect it may be even more prevalent there due to the brightness of the colors.
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You can't have democracy if all you want to do is take from others.
That's the operational definition of democracy: two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
Best Buy use to be more a computer store, but they started emphasizing consumer electronics (TVs, etc) and appliances a number of years ago. I liked CompuUSA, or at least the one near me. It was a small store, but had a lot more basic components than the much larger Best Buy across the street. The prices weren't great, but they weren't horrible either.
People have the tendency to see Fry's as much better. I disagree. Their prices are often higher than even Best Buy for basic components. Granted, there's more selection at Fry's, but at sometimes outrageous prices.
A "peaceful occupation" is an oxymoron. Iraq was conquered and then occupied. Just because there wasn't (presumably) wide-scale looting and raping does not make the occupation peaceful in any sense of the word.
Actually, though, if you could flip the effect on and off by altering between the attractive Casimir effect and the repulsive effect via the lense, you would have a "perpetual motion machine". Now, granted, it would be getting a constant influx of energy from the zero-point vaccuum, but it would essentially be free as in beer: no fuel required. Even if this effect can't be scaled up to the macro level, this could be the foundational building block for perpetual power sources.
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Putting him under house arrest and threatening him with execution if he doesn't recant would be.
Hmmm, that sounds familiar...
I've had my home number for 14 years, and my cell for nearly 10.
The best payback would be returning it to the taxpayers.
Except 2k was never sold as a consumer product. That was the 95/98/ME realm. XP was essentially the consumer version of 2k. That is, 2k with a lot of crap added. Of course users of 2k thought it was bad.
Airport screening is not suppose to catch petty criminals. It's not suppose to be a dragnet for outstanding warrants. It's suppose to be about "safety", which just means that no one getting on a plane can cause the other passengers harm, or take over the plane and cause harm to those on a ground. The latter can be accomplished simply by having hardened cockpit doors, while the former is taken care of via metal detectors and chemical sniffers. This nonsense of racial or behavioral profiling is just an excuse to expand police powers to catch otherwise harmless criminals at a chokepoint.
Few protest this because they think they're safer due to the security theater. However, the numbers speak for themselves: 100% failure rate at catching terrorists, and 99% false positives for criminals of any type. Those numbers are horrific.
Ah, you can set still set up a match, but you can no longer find or join public servers. With an IP list, you can still do that.
I'm not familiar with the intricacies of xbox or XBL, but when a "monolithic server list" for a game goes down on the PC, you can still play on the net with an IP address. That happened for the original Halo for PC a couple of months ago. Yeah, it's a bit of a pain, and you need to find another site that gives lists of games in progress, but it can be done. I would be surprised if you can do the same thing with an Xbox.
As a Medical Physicist, I can assure you that you do not need protons to treat prostate cancer. We've been treating it with photons for 50+ years, with very good results. Relatively recent advancements (last 10 years or so) puts a procedure known as IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiation Treatment) in the hands of community clinics, which will give you as good results as protons. In fact, in my opinion, the photon treatment would be preferable as photons behave much more consistently than charged particles. That is, they are less sensitive to variation in patient anatomy between the plan and actual treatment delivery.
There was an article in Physics Today about 10 years ago on proton treatment. It was very disingenuous, as it showed a 3-field proton treatment vs. a 3-field photon treatment. Of course, the proton was better, but nobody uses only 3 fields for prostate. Even back in the 3d days (before IMRT), at least six fields were used. Comparing a well crafted 6-field plan with a proton plan would show that they are very similar. If you use IMRT, then they're all but identical.
So, no, you don't need protons.
Therapeutic protons are in the 230 MeV range, which is 10x higher energy than is used for photons. The reason for this is that you need to use approximately this energy to have sufficient penetration. Now, the advantage is that if everything is done right, you do get less radiation to skin and surrounding normal tissue for the same number of beams. However, the simple solution is that you just use more beams coming from more angles when employing photons. You can get a treatment plan that is as good as protons using this technique, and you can be more confident that it's actually being delivered correctly.
Well, yes, in a sense, but I thought that in at least one case, it was determined that "copies" in volatile RAM were not considered the same as copies saved to permanent media. IANAL, though, and given the judicial process, I'm sure that determination has gone both ways.
Then how about sell a subscription service where you can stream any song you want anytime you want from Antiguan servers? The songs are stored there, so you're not making a copy. Unless, of course, you copy the stream, or "circumvent" their stringent protections against copying songs directly. Wink wink, nod nod.
A more interesting and likely scenario is tech improvements to sex toys. Imagine what something like Real Doll will be in 10 or 15 years time, and it's not much of a stretch to say you could have a sizeable portion of the population abandoning the dating scene. We already see that in small numbers due to webcams, and it seems reasonable to extrapolate the trend accelerating with accelerated improvements to the tech.
Presumably.
You have to remember, this is not a killer advantage assuming all other things being equal. However, I suspect that people who play a great deal may have noticed the edge, and thus are more likely to choose blue if they can. Consequently, the average skill may likewise be higher for the blue in both games.
It doesn't surprise me that Blue wins more consistently than red. Red stands out more on most maps, thus giving the blue opponents a slight edge in spotting the enemy. You definitely see this same thing at play in Halo, and I would suspect it may be even more prevalent there due to the brightness of the colors.
That's the operational definition of democracy: two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
Best Buy use to be more a computer store, but they started emphasizing consumer electronics (TVs, etc) and appliances a number of years ago. I liked CompuUSA, or at least the one near me. It was a small store, but had a lot more basic components than the much larger Best Buy across the street. The prices weren't great, but they weren't horrible either.
People have the tendency to see Fry's as much better. I disagree. Their prices are often higher than even Best Buy for basic components. Granted, there's more selection at Fry's, but at sometimes outrageous prices.
A "peaceful occupation" is an oxymoron. Iraq was conquered and then occupied. Just because there wasn't (presumably) wide-scale looting and raping does not make the occupation peaceful in any sense of the word.
You would be hard-pressed to maintain that the US peacefully occupied Iraq.
Peacefully Occupy. Orwell would be proud.
The cake is NOT a lie, but the grief counseling is.
It doesn't matter what it's worth, it's still play money.
Yes, but at least Windows goes down in flames like a man, rather than panicking like a little girly kernel.
Correction, he didn't play himself, he played a holographic representation of himself.
Me too!
Actually, though, if you could flip the effect on and off by altering between the attractive Casimir effect and the repulsive effect via the lense, you would have a "perpetual motion machine". Now, granted, it would be getting a constant influx of energy from the zero-point vaccuum, but it would essentially be free as in beer: no fuel required. Even if this effect can't be scaled up to the macro level, this could be the foundational building block for perpetual power sources.