I disagree. If you want a Pascal-like language, nothing beats Ada. Except for the object syntax, Ada totally kicks ass. It makes me a happy DBA, knowing that Oracle's PL/SQL and Postgresql's PL/PGSQL are both based on Ada.
Funny... back in the time period you mentioned, it wasn't uncommon for a single wage-earner to buy a house without a 30-year, interest only, or otherwise budget-stretching mortgage, all while supporting a family of five.
Immortal words or not, they are a logical fallacy. The intended implication is that a game delays are directly linked to improvements. As a previous poster mentioned, if that axiom were true, Duke Nukem Forever would logically be the best game ever. Of course this still remains to be seen, but I highly suspect such a statement would be false.
Ok... who moderated this insightful? The parent is replying to a Fark.com cliche that's been making the rounds lately. It follows the same format every single time, except necessary customizations to fit the subject matter. Or in other words:
"I wrote the grandparent of this thread.
So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies.
Some of you guys are very good at spotting trolls and trying to sound like you know what you are talking about.
But trust me.... You don't.
I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont know what you are talking about.
This is how bad info gets passed around.
If you dont know about spotting real trolls... dont make yourself sound like you do.
Cuz some/.ers belive anything they hear."
Disclaimer: No, I did not write the grandparent; the above is merely a sample of this template in action. Void where prohibited, do not immerse in water.
I probably couldn't read on a stationary bike, as after playing an intense set of DDR for any period of time covers my entire body in a layer of sweat. Try turning a few pages with hands constantly dripping... not very pretty.;)
In that case, they should pick up Cobalt Flux pads instead. I'm not a shill; I've played on my two Flux pads for almost a year on the hardest songs in the game, and my pads still work great. Without modifications, the Red Octanes can not say the same. Also, Cobalt Flux makes pads especially for fitness clubs which are even more robust, though they also cost over $1000 each.
Yes, health benefits. Can you maintain 90% of your max heart rate for a sustaned 4 hours or more? Without that pesky stitch in your side? Can you do this in a competitive environment? I can, thanks to DDR.
The lower levels may be coddling, but you don't start out on the hardest step-patterns. Once you get there, and it's addictive enough to encourage advancement, it's seriously good exercise.
Exactly! At speeds sometimes exceeding 300-bpm using muscles that support your entire body, driven by addictive music. Seriously, some of the harder songs I've played require 5 or 6 steps per second to pass them. You really have to have major stamina to play this game for more than a few minutes, and that's the whole point.
News Flash, but DDR is a real sport, even if not recognized as one. Anything that regularly runs tournaments, and has participants playing so long and hard that they're glistening with sweat is more than a mere videogame. Most people who play also cite how addictive it is. I was too lazy to play "Real Sports" myself, yet I'm one of the better players in the DDR community, and that really takes years of practice.
Any activity is better than sitting on your ass, so why not encourage it?
Do you ever listen to music while exercising? DDR is just that, taken to a whole new level. This is coming from a former couch potato who now competes in Heavy level DDR tournaments. I have enough stamina to play for hours at a stretch, sweat streaming down my body. The best part? I completely lose track of time when playing. It removes the work from exercise, and makes it fun. What's so wrong with that?
Somehow, I doubt this will be worse than the relative hatchet-job of current heart surgery. While it's true things are more complicated than they seem, I had a heart surgery back in 1984, and they fixed a valve, inserted a Dacron patch, sewed up two holes, and did it all without any of the stuff you mentioned in your post. Imagine how much better it would be with actual tissue instead of formed polyesters and sutures.
Yeah, it could have gone badly, but it would have been far worse if I didn't get the surgery at all. A few weeks in a hospital with chest-drainage tubes, in and out of consciousness was the price for escaping blue-baby syndrome and impending death. But I always wished there was a better way... now, maybe there is. I like to be optimistic here, because if it works, it really is a major improvement.
Another kid went into surgery the day I did, for a similar heart problem. He didn't make it. I know techniques have improved since 1984, but I have to think this is a good thing for people born with defective hearts.
This really strikes me as an exciting breakthrough. I had heart surgery back in 1984 to repair a hole between my ventricles that drastically increased the viability of my life. Aside from having my ribs stapled together, I have a Dacron (a type of polyester) patch in my heart because the hole was too large to simply sew shut. Aside from basically being in good health since then, I'm always afraid that the growth of my heart in the intervening years is unduly stressing the patch; I was only seven when I underwent the surgery. I've always wondered if I could have my heart repaired properly; what it would mean to my energy levels, strength and peace of mind.
The real question is, could they grow a proper heart or replacement pieces from my genes at all? I had six major life-threatening heart defects that were mostly corrected, but there's always that lingering feeling that things could be better. If not for the surgery, I'm sure I'd be dead by now. Hell, I almost didn't make it past two months. Would something like this work for me? Would it be worth going back in there to complete the repairs?
Who knows. But I have to say this is definitely a thought-provoking piece of information. Unlike people who undergo heart-surgery in their later years, I never had a fully functional heart. Ah, the possibilities!
For those keeping score, this should sate your curiosity:
1. Faulty aortal valve: mostly corrected, slight murmur remains 2. Transposed position (It leans right instead of left): uncorrected 3. Half expected size: repairs later encouraged growth 4. Unknown muscle-tissue grown over heart: removed 5. Large hole between ventricles: covered with Dacron patch 6. Two small holes between atria: sewn shut
I don't normally double-post, but I just thought of something. I think the grandparent of this thread is actually posting as Dr. Quinn from Sealab 2021. High IQ? Multiple languages? Black? Now all we're missing is multiple Ph.D.s and a robot body...
Well, I think that post is BS for other reasons, but it would take too long to explain. I will say however that a high IQ does not preclude anyone from being a corporate wage-slave. A friend of mine has a photographic memory, a tested IQ of 169, and currently holds a double-masters and is pursuing a Ph.D. in cryptography. This is only after about five years of one bad corporate job after another, with stints including PGP, a bankrupt CLEC, and a dot-bomb where the CEO was indicted for fraud and money laundering. Sometimes... well, Shit Happens(tm).
Personally? I grew up as trailer trash, also have a high IQ, and have constantly felt out-of-touch with the entirety of humanity throughout my life. That kind of schism makes it hard to interact with others, and it takes great effort indeed to overcome. But you know what the real problem is? I'm good at everything. How can you have passion for any single thing, excel at it and have ideas that raise you above the din, when everything seems interesting, and everything is equally simple? My friend has that going for him: he loves security and is a positive freak when it comes to crypto. Me? Fuck if I know.
Being a genius does not imply focus, or even drive. Hell, a lifetime of being essentially unable to connect with other people has rather detrimental effects and becomes more of a liability. If the guy posting the grandparent wasn't lying out his ass, I'd say his brain was more of a problem than his skin-color.
Actually, that's what I plan on doing. I'm building a list of Bellsouth IP ranges, and I'm going to route them to an HTML error page explaining why BellSouth hasn't paid for my content, so their customers get no access. I highly recommend everyone capable of doing so, emulates this process.
I have no incentive to pay them, so I might as well get the word out to regular people, right?
... as people with worse uncorrected vision can see just fine after lenses are used.
I'll vouch for that. My uncorrected vision is around -15 in my left eye, and -16 in my right; as a bonus, about a third of that is astigmatism. I didn't think it was possible until I went to the doctor one day and asked, but yes, I now wear hard gas permeable contacts. The vision in my right eye corrects up to 20/20, and my left up to 20/25. The extent they can correct vision problems really depends on the health of your retina.
So far as myopia changing for most people in their childhood/adolesence, I can't provide any support. My eyes have gotten worse every year since I was at least six, and I'm 28.
Wow, that benchmark is 2 years old. Hans mentions in those posts that Reiser-4 is experiencing a reduction in CPU as it evolves and "cruft" is removed, but it doesn't seem that different after the two-years elapsed. It's also important to know if the CPU was highly taxed in the benchmarks posted today concerning Reiser4: if it never redlined, the results mean the filesystem was adequately supplied with CPU. I mean, 30% on a P4-1.5Ghz would be about 100% on a 500Mhz system, but if the 500Mhz system never topped 60%, there was still CPU to spare, and it wasn't the cause of Reiser's poor performance this time.
Looking at those graphs, it's fairly obvious all of the filesystems were being starved of CPU. Many of the results were being capped off at 90+%, which is not proving anything about the capability of the filesystems themselves. In order to adequately test a variable, it needs to be isolated; this did not happen here.
What this says to me, is to never use Reiser on a DB machine. Sure, the disk churn is much more prevalent on such a beast, but the CPU(s) aren't exactly sitting around idle, either.
It actually sounds like Reiser would do really well as a disk controller in a dedicated drive array. I wonder if anyone has put embedded Linux on such a device, to act as a Reiser RAID controller...
Lesse, tolls around here seem to be anywhere from $0.90 to $1.80 for anything from a two to ten-mile stretch. It's also awesome when they don't adequately block off the areas under construction, so that when you drive by, your car gets pelted with high-velocity road material, as they cut up the nearby lane which looks like it was just put down mere days ago.
There really is no way to defend the road tolls up here. Want to know something fun? Chicago itself doesn't have road tolls. It's all in and around the surrounding suburbs, and it makes getting to the city nearly impossible. Morning gridlock to go a mere ten miles into or around the city is always about an hour. I take the metra, and laugh at each and every car we pass on the "expressway." Why anyone would pay above and beyond gas taxes (which are supposed to take care of this kind of thing) to sit in traffic for hours, I'll never understand.
Yes, the derisive laughter is warranted. I haven't lived everywhere there are tollroads; I have lived here, which has dozens of tollroads all backed up nearly all the time, or perpetually under construction. Because everyone knows that spreading out a 4-lane highway into 10 lanes for the sake of tolls, and dangerously squeezing them back into 4-lanes in less than a quarter mile is safe and speeds up traffic. I mean, who would have imagined a tollbooth at the end of a three-highway merge could back up traffic? Maybe it's different elsewhere, but the Chicago area, if anythinhg, is a viable example of how it can go horribly wrong.
Note to the clueless: the above post is sarcastic; stop replying with comments about how they do this where you live. The AC was trying to make the point that a 2-tier system *does* work for highways; private toll roads are always well-maintained and congestion-free.
Bahahahahahhhaahaha!
I hate to ask this, but... where on Earth do you live? Here in the Chicago area, almost the exact opposite is true. I dare anyone to try and take I94/I90-East into the city. There's one tollbooth that consistantly backs up the entire interstate for at least five miles. It's not uncommon to take an hour to get through that nasty mess, even if you have iPass. I55 on the other hand, linking up the South suburbs? You can't always go 70mph, but it's close. I won't even get into the terrible I290/I294/I355/I90/I94 junction.
Well maintained? The toll-supported part of I88 is a terrible mishmash of conflicting highway grades, patches, and rough spots. After you get further South and the tolls disappear, it's smooth sailing. But hey, all tolls here have doubled unless you have iPass, so maybe they just needed more cash to maintain the tollbooths^?^?^?^?^?^?^?^?^?^?roads.;)
I won't try to make an analogy to how this relates to 2-tier ISPs, because the analogy doesn't work. But I really am curious to know where these magical uncongested and well-maintained tollways exist.
The casino system is based on games of chance and pretty much requires you to cheat to pick up the casino prizes.
I don't know about the recent game, as I don't have it yet, but all previous installations with casinos were Swiss-cheese. There's a Blackjack table in almost all of them, and if you win a hand, you can choose to double your winnings by guessing if the next card is higher or lower than a card they show you. The cards don't repeat, so with a little elementary card-counting, and an arbitrary cutoff of doubling your cash about 4 or 5 times, you can quickly amass gigantic mountains of tokens. I literally ran out of stuff to buy at one point. You only need so many Metal Babble shields...
Also in Dragon Quest VII, in that casino, you could talk to waitresses, and if one said you looked lucky, you could immediately approach any slot machine and start exploiting it for vast rewards. I'm not sure why, but they don't make the casinos normally balanced or realistic; there's almost always a built-in manner for beating every casino for a DW game.
I assume at least one FAQ on GameFaqs.com covers DW-VIII in this regard.
That's just it. Why does Gnome have to be, "All dumbed-down, all the time?" Whatever happened to "advanced user mode" configuration dialogs? It's easier to force a user to hack the registry or recompile gnome, than it is to hide configuration elements in an advanced mode?
I think that's Linus's biggest gripe. In assuming all their users are badly trained chips, they left no facilities for power users.
Well, my comment was mainly to the "European clothing starts at 28 inches in the adult section..." part. But I did try the children's section; unfortunately those clothes are made for children. Due to DDR, my legs, especially my calves, are freakishly huge, making them fit... well, not to well. Though I have had some luck with cargo pants and baggy skater-shorts.
Thankfully, my mom's a seamstress, and I just sent her about a dozen pairs of pants to take in. That should keep me going for a while.;)
Measured. And from my research, men can go as low as 4% without worrying about health effects; women can go to about 12-14%. Granted, I am toward the bottom end of the scale, but I'm well within the "performance athelete" category.
Trust me, I eat more than anyone I know. My metabolism is already volcanic, and adding 1-2 hours of heavy cardio on top of that almost daily, I need every calorie. I eat seven times a day, and sometimes snack inbetween. My body-fat is low, but I make sure it's not unhealthy.
Relating back to the article, until I met DDR, I was way more bound to sit and play RPG's all day, or sit in front of the TV. Back when I was a kid, my grandparents sketched drawings of me as a potato sitting in a chair, while I was watching TV one day. I almost want to say I'm the definition of a couch potato; if anyone has that gene, I do. I guess my determination to defeat any game I'm given trumps that tendency, but to me, it proves the source of stimulation is important. This study simply may not have adequately encouraged the monkey to engage in activity. Who knows?
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I disagree. If you want a Pascal-like language, nothing beats Ada. Except for the object syntax, Ada totally kicks ass. It makes me a happy DBA, knowing that Oracle's PL/SQL and Postgresql's PL/PGSQL are both based on Ada.
Funny... back in the time period you mentioned, it wasn't uncommon for a single wage-earner to buy a house without a 30-year, interest only, or otherwise budget-stretching mortgage, all while supporting a family of five.
Try that now; I dare you.
Immortal words or not, they are a logical fallacy. The intended implication is that a game delays are directly linked to improvements. As a previous poster mentioned, if that axiom were true, Duke Nukem Forever would logically be the best game ever. Of course this still remains to be seen, but I highly suspect such a statement would be false.
Ok... who moderated this insightful? The parent is replying to a Fark.com cliche that's been making the rounds lately. It follows the same format every single time, except necessary customizations to fit the subject matter. Or in other words:
/.ers belive anything they hear."
"I wrote the grandparent of this thread.
So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies.
Some of you guys are very good at spotting trolls and trying to sound like you know what you are talking about.
But trust me.... You don't.
I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont know what you are talking about.
This is how bad info gets passed around.
If you dont know about spotting real trolls... dont make yourself sound like you do.
Cuz some
Disclaimer: No, I did not write the grandparent; the above is merely a sample of this template in action. Void where prohibited, do not immerse in water.
Wait... motion sickness on a stationary bike?
;)
I probably couldn't read on a stationary bike, as after playing an intense set of DDR for any period of time covers my entire body in a layer of sweat. Try turning a few pages with hands constantly dripping... not very pretty.
In that case, they should pick up Cobalt Flux pads instead. I'm not a shill; I've played on my two Flux pads for almost a year on the hardest songs in the game, and my pads still work great. Without modifications, the Red Octanes can not say the same. Also, Cobalt Flux makes pads especially for fitness clubs which are even more robust, though they also cost over $1000 each.
Yes, health benefits. Can you maintain 90% of your max heart rate for a sustaned 4 hours or more? Without that pesky stitch in your side? Can you do this in a competitive environment? I can, thanks to DDR.
The lower levels may be coddling, but you don't start out on the hardest step-patterns. Once you get there, and it's addictive enough to encourage advancement, it's seriously good exercise.
Exactly! At speeds sometimes exceeding 300-bpm using muscles that support your entire body, driven by addictive music. Seriously, some of the harder songs I've played require 5 or 6 steps per second to pass them. You really have to have major stamina to play this game for more than a few minutes, and that's the whole point.
News Flash, but DDR is a real sport, even if not recognized as one. Anything that regularly runs tournaments, and has participants playing so long and hard that they're glistening with sweat is more than a mere videogame. Most people who play also cite how addictive it is. I was too lazy to play "Real Sports" myself, yet I'm one of the better players in the DDR community, and that really takes years of practice.
Any activity is better than sitting on your ass, so why not encourage it?
Do you ever listen to music while exercising? DDR is just that, taken to a whole new level. This is coming from a former couch potato who now competes in Heavy level DDR tournaments. I have enough stamina to play for hours at a stretch, sweat streaming down my body. The best part? I completely lose track of time when playing. It removes the work from exercise, and makes it fun. What's so wrong with that?
Somehow, I doubt this will be worse than the relative hatchet-job of current heart surgery. While it's true things are more complicated than they seem, I had a heart surgery back in 1984, and they fixed a valve, inserted a Dacron patch, sewed up two holes, and did it all without any of the stuff you mentioned in your post. Imagine how much better it would be with actual tissue instead of formed polyesters and sutures.
Yeah, it could have gone badly, but it would have been far worse if I didn't get the surgery at all. A few weeks in a hospital with chest-drainage tubes, in and out of consciousness was the price for escaping blue-baby syndrome and impending death. But I always wished there was a better way... now, maybe there is. I like to be optimistic here, because if it works, it really is a major improvement.
Another kid went into surgery the day I did, for a similar heart problem. He didn't make it. I know techniques have improved since 1984, but I have to think this is a good thing for people born with defective hearts.
This really strikes me as an exciting breakthrough. I had heart surgery back in 1984 to repair a hole between my ventricles that drastically increased the viability of my life. Aside from having my ribs stapled together, I have a Dacron (a type of polyester) patch in my heart because the hole was too large to simply sew shut. Aside from basically being in good health since then, I'm always afraid that the growth of my heart in the intervening years is unduly stressing the patch; I was only seven when I underwent the surgery. I've always wondered if I could have my heart repaired properly; what it would mean to my energy levels, strength and peace of mind.
The real question is, could they grow a proper heart or replacement pieces from my genes at all? I had six major life-threatening heart defects that were mostly corrected, but there's always that lingering feeling that things could be better. If not for the surgery, I'm sure I'd be dead by now. Hell, I almost didn't make it past two months. Would something like this work for me? Would it be worth going back in there to complete the repairs?
Who knows. But I have to say this is definitely a thought-provoking piece of information. Unlike people who undergo heart-surgery in their later years, I never had a fully functional heart. Ah, the possibilities!
For those keeping score, this should sate your curiosity:
1. Faulty aortal valve: mostly corrected, slight murmur remains
2. Transposed position (It leans right instead of left): uncorrected
3. Half expected size: repairs later encouraged growth
4. Unknown muscle-tissue grown over heart: removed
5. Large hole between ventricles: covered with Dacron patch
6. Two small holes between atria: sewn shut
I don't normally double-post, but I just thought of something. I think the grandparent of this thread is actually posting as Dr. Quinn from Sealab 2021. High IQ? Multiple languages? Black? Now all we're missing is multiple Ph.D.s and a robot body...
Well, I think that post is BS for other reasons, but it would take too long to explain. I will say however that a high IQ does not preclude anyone from being a corporate wage-slave. A friend of mine has a photographic memory, a tested IQ of 169, and currently holds a double-masters and is pursuing a Ph.D. in cryptography. This is only after about five years of one bad corporate job after another, with stints including PGP, a bankrupt CLEC, and a dot-bomb where the CEO was indicted for fraud and money laundering. Sometimes... well, Shit Happens(tm).
Personally? I grew up as trailer trash, also have a high IQ, and have constantly felt out-of-touch with the entirety of humanity throughout my life. That kind of schism makes it hard to interact with others, and it takes great effort indeed to overcome. But you know what the real problem is? I'm good at everything. How can you have passion for any single thing, excel at it and have ideas that raise you above the din, when everything seems interesting, and everything is equally simple? My friend has that going for him: he loves security and is a positive freak when it comes to crypto. Me? Fuck if I know.
Being a genius does not imply focus, or even drive. Hell, a lifetime of being essentially unable to connect with other people has rather detrimental effects and becomes more of a liability. If the guy posting the grandparent wasn't lying out his ass, I'd say his brain was more of a problem than his skin-color.
Actually, that's what I plan on doing. I'm building a list of Bellsouth IP ranges, and I'm going to route them to an HTML error page explaining why BellSouth hasn't paid for my content, so their customers get no access. I highly recommend everyone capable of doing so, emulates this process.
I have no incentive to pay them, so I might as well get the word out to regular people, right?
Things like this make me wish Slashdot was more like fark. Your link deserves their "scary" tag.
I'll vouch for that. My uncorrected vision is around -15 in my left eye, and -16 in my right; as a bonus, about a third of that is astigmatism. I didn't think it was possible until I went to the doctor one day and asked, but yes, I now wear hard gas permeable contacts. The vision in my right eye corrects up to 20/20, and my left up to 20/25. The extent they can correct vision problems really depends on the health of your retina.
So far as myopia changing for most people in their childhood/adolesence, I can't provide any support. My eyes have gotten worse every year since I was at least six, and I'm 28.
Wow, that benchmark is 2 years old. Hans mentions in those posts that Reiser-4 is experiencing a reduction in CPU as it evolves and "cruft" is removed, but it doesn't seem that different after the two-years elapsed. It's also important to know if the CPU was highly taxed in the benchmarks posted today concerning Reiser4: if it never redlined, the results mean the filesystem was adequately supplied with CPU. I mean, 30% on a P4-1.5Ghz would be about 100% on a 500Mhz system, but if the 500Mhz system never topped 60%, there was still CPU to spare, and it wasn't the cause of Reiser's poor performance this time.
Looking at those graphs, it's fairly obvious all of the filesystems were being starved of CPU. Many of the results were being capped off at 90+%, which is not proving anything about the capability of the filesystems themselves. In order to adequately test a variable, it needs to be isolated; this did not happen here.
What this says to me, is to never use Reiser on a DB machine. Sure, the disk churn is much more prevalent on such a beast, but the CPU(s) aren't exactly sitting around idle, either.
It actually sounds like Reiser would do really well as a disk controller in a dedicated drive array. I wonder if anyone has put embedded Linux on such a device, to act as a Reiser RAID controller...
Lesse, tolls around here seem to be anywhere from $0.90 to $1.80 for anything from a two to ten-mile stretch. It's also awesome when they don't adequately block off the areas under construction, so that when you drive by, your car gets pelted with high-velocity road material, as they cut up the nearby lane which looks like it was just put down mere days ago.
There really is no way to defend the road tolls up here. Want to know something fun? Chicago itself doesn't have road tolls. It's all in and around the surrounding suburbs, and it makes getting to the city nearly impossible. Morning gridlock to go a mere ten miles into or around the city is always about an hour. I take the metra, and laugh at each and every car we pass on the "expressway." Why anyone would pay above and beyond gas taxes (which are supposed to take care of this kind of thing) to sit in traffic for hours, I'll never understand.
Yes, the derisive laughter is warranted. I haven't lived everywhere there are tollroads; I have lived here, which has dozens of tollroads all backed up nearly all the time, or perpetually under construction. Because everyone knows that spreading out a 4-lane highway into 10 lanes for the sake of tolls, and dangerously squeezing them back into 4-lanes in less than a quarter mile is safe and speeds up traffic. I mean, who would have imagined a tollbooth at the end of a three-highway merge could back up traffic? Maybe it's different elsewhere, but the Chicago area, if anythinhg, is a viable example of how it can go horribly wrong.
Note to the clueless: the above post is sarcastic; stop replying with comments about how they do this where you live. The AC was trying to make the point that a 2-tier system *does* work for highways; private toll roads are always well-maintained and congestion-free.
;)
Bahahahahahhhaahaha!
I hate to ask this, but... where on Earth do you live? Here in the Chicago area, almost the exact opposite is true. I dare anyone to try and take I94/I90-East into the city. There's one tollbooth that consistantly backs up the entire interstate for at least five miles. It's not uncommon to take an hour to get through that nasty mess, even if you have iPass. I55 on the other hand, linking up the South suburbs? You can't always go 70mph, but it's close. I won't even get into the terrible I290/I294/I355/I90/I94 junction.
Well maintained? The toll-supported part of I88 is a terrible mishmash of conflicting highway grades, patches, and rough spots. After you get further South and the tolls disappear, it's smooth sailing. But hey, all tolls here have doubled unless you have iPass, so maybe they just needed more cash to maintain the tollbooths^?^?^?^?^?^?^?^?^?^?roads.
I won't try to make an analogy to how this relates to 2-tier ISPs, because the analogy doesn't work. But I really am curious to know where these magical uncongested and well-maintained tollways exist.
The casino system is based on games of chance and pretty much requires you to cheat to pick up the casino prizes.
I don't know about the recent game, as I don't have it yet, but all previous installations with casinos were Swiss-cheese. There's a Blackjack table in almost all of them, and if you win a hand, you can choose to double your winnings by guessing if the next card is higher or lower than a card they show you. The cards don't repeat, so with a little elementary card-counting, and an arbitrary cutoff of doubling your cash about 4 or 5 times, you can quickly amass gigantic mountains of tokens. I literally ran out of stuff to buy at one point. You only need so many Metal Babble shields...
Also in Dragon Quest VII, in that casino, you could talk to waitresses, and if one said you looked lucky, you could immediately approach any slot machine and start exploiting it for vast rewards. I'm not sure why, but they don't make the casinos normally balanced or realistic; there's almost always a built-in manner for beating every casino for a DW game.
I assume at least one FAQ on GameFaqs.com covers DW-VIII in this regard.
That's just it. Why does Gnome have to be, "All dumbed-down, all the time?" Whatever happened to "advanced user mode" configuration dialogs? It's easier to force a user to hack the registry or recompile gnome, than it is to hide configuration elements in an advanced mode?
I think that's Linus's biggest gripe. In assuming all their users are badly trained chips, they left no facilities for power users.
Well, my comment was mainly to the "European clothing starts at 28 inches in the adult section..." part. But I did try the children's section; unfortunately those clothes are made for children. Due to DDR, my legs, especially my calves, are freakishly huge, making them fit... well, not to well. Though I have had some luck with cargo pants and baggy skater-shorts.
;)
Thankfully, my mom's a seamstress, and I just sent her about a dozen pairs of pants to take in. That should keep me going for a while.
Measured. And from my research, men can go as low as 4% without worrying about health effects; women can go to about 12-14%. Granted, I am toward the bottom end of the scale, but I'm well within the "performance athelete" category.
Trust me, I eat more than anyone I know. My metabolism is already volcanic, and adding 1-2 hours of heavy cardio on top of that almost daily, I need every calorie. I eat seven times a day, and sometimes snack inbetween. My body-fat is low, but I make sure it's not unhealthy.
Relating back to the article, until I met DDR, I was way more bound to sit and play RPG's all day, or sit in front of the TV. Back when I was a kid, my grandparents sketched drawings of me as a potato sitting in a chair, while I was watching TV one day. I almost want to say I'm the definition of a couch potato; if anyone has that gene, I do. I guess my determination to defeat any game I'm given trumps that tendency, but to me, it proves the source of stimulation is important. This study simply may not have adequately encouraged the monkey to engage in activity. Who knows?