They always told me when I was getting my math degree I could go on to do almost anything. Which wasn't helpful since I had no idea what I wanted to do (hence the math degree). I tried grad school but was fully uninterested. Many lifetimes later I am happily a developer.
I always figured it was on purpose, the better to keep conversations about the same topic together. Seemed a bit ham-handed but I figured they had a reason. I mean there's no way they could not have known about it is there? All you would have to do would be to glance at one of the major stories and it would be obvious that the comments do not pertain to it directly and are old with thousands of responses.
The only test I care about is the one where I click the Firefox and Chrome shortcuts, in that order, and Chrome opens first every time. Until Firefox can remedy that, I just can't make myself use it anymore.
I'm with this guy. I have SLI and I have yet to find a single game that it actually improves. In fact, in most cases it cuts performance in half. As far as I can tell it's just a way to trick morons like me into buying twice as many video cards.
I actually watch a ton of stuff on tv land and nick@nite, and when they recently started showing infomercials instead of shows at 3 or 4 am I was fairly peeved. But this is far more annoying.
This kind of thing should never make it to the customer. As the customer, I don't care where you get channels from or what you pay, I only care about what I agreed to pay for what I agreed to buy. After the whole NFL network debacle (which is still ongoing), if they do this I'm going to have to finally get directv or that u-verse crap.
If you knew more about how this kind of thing works you wouldn't be so quick to call fake. The blur on the screen edges is an effect you see with your own eyes when looking at an LCD screen from an angle. Those machines are perfectly capable of running WoW for what he is doing. Framerate is not a problem when multiboxing because you don't care about framerate on screens you rarely look at. The old books don't really mean anything either, I have old books laying around - stop the presses I must be a time traveller! Also, there is a reason why things are set up in an identical fashion between all the accounts.
Based on the your opinion that "2 is doable, but you'd be severely disadvantaged", I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest you either don't play WoW or haven't run into any multiboxers yet. There's a guy on my server who controls 26 toons at once. There are several people who are 5-boxing. Blizzard seems to content to accept the money and look the other way, but it really does violate the spirit of the Terms of Use if not the letter since these guys are all using 3rd party software to control the keystrokes sent to the game.
Well since he did win the popular vote, I think it goes without saying that the (small) majority of voters believed Gore should have won since they voted for him.
Fortunately for the GOP americans don't condone actual democracy, although there was a close call; the will of the people was almost enacted. Thank goodness the SCOTUS intervened and chose the right man for the job!
And you seem to forget that these are not the Republicans of the 1860s. Or even the 1960s. There was a time when Democrat = southern state (and all that implies), and that time has passed as the parties traded politicians and values.
Look, the original three had a lot of creative spark and energy in them, and a couple of good actors who stole the show, but most of all you were like 5 years old when they came out. To kids today the new movies are just as good. At the end of the day I have to agree with Lucas and say that these are really kids movies and we are simply nostalgic for them.
That argument is nonsensical. Everyone who saw Star Wars in 1977 was not 5 years old at the time. It got fairly damn good reviews. It was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, and a ton of stuff in the technical area. Star Wars was considered Good. What kids today think about the latest boatload of tripe is not relevant.
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I would have agreed with you before I saw the film, just because I hate it when they give awards to the guys who act crazy or disabled; it just seems too easy, and it's probably harder to go the other route and bring subtle depth to a character anyway. But the thing is, he DID bring subtle depth to the Joker as well as act crazy. If this were released closer to the season it would be in the bag, as it is I would be very surprised to see him not get nominated.
Russert was one of the few in the media who try to do it right anymore. In the age of talking points and govt officials being treated like pro athletes when it comes to question & answer, he held firm to the correct way of doing things. Basically we're worse off now since that's one more outlet that politicians will be able to walk all over.
Some people are just douchebags. He's no doubt run everyone off from the other games he played and is disappointed he can't make people quit WoW with his douchery.
Just for starters, when nutritionists talk about calories, they're not really talking about calories like a physicist would. They're really talking about "food calories," which I believe are equivalent to kilocalories. This may be a minor point, but it serves to illustrate that if you think nutrition science maps directly onto physics, you are wrong. Tom-ay-to, tom-ah-to.
Second, and more importantly, any good college chemistry instructor will tell you that the body does not "release energy" from the chemical bonds in food. Chemicals form bonds because the bonded compounds are the lowest-energy state for those particles. In other words, it takes energy to break a chemical bond, not the other way around. Digestion allows us to extract energy from food because we break down certain chemical bonds and cause those chemicals to form other, different bonds -- bonds with an even lower energy state than the original form. Our bodies can then take advantage of the surplus (and exactly how is still another story). Pot-ay-to, pot-ah-to.
SS2 was great and I would love to play it again, but this game is an order of magnitude creepier. I still haven't finished it because after a while I have to stop playing and reacquaint myself with reality.
They should just wait a few more years for the tech to move forward some, then they can fully animate the actors and use the old series guys all they want (see the Beowulf trailer for an example of where this process stands, still a bit creepy looking but they're getting close).
And yet we have several posters here who say it works for them. We also have some posters who have noted this kind of issue in the past on Linux and Windows 2000. All of this points back to a hardware-specific issue. Perhaps it's a combination of Vista and hardware, i.e. maybe Vista is using (or mis-using) some new motherboard/bios feature that not everyone has?
What you described is not socialism, that's just some perverse form of capitalism, forcing people to buy a product (similar to the way insurance itself is a perverse form of socialism). If it were socialism the govt would pay for it out of huge taxes and you would get your coverage regardless of preexisting conditions.
I think all you need to know about this is they went to the trouble to install them in Canada where the temp favors the consumer. That would seem to indicate the gas company believes in the phenomenon in question.
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They always told me when I was getting my math degree I could go on to do almost anything. Which wasn't helpful since I had no idea what I wanted to do (hence the math degree). I tried grad school but was fully uninterested. Many lifetimes later I am happily a developer.
I always figured it was on purpose, the better to keep conversations about the same topic together. Seemed a bit ham-handed but I figured they had a reason. I mean there's no way they could not have known about it is there? All you would have to do would be to glance at one of the major stories and it would be obvious that the comments do not pertain to it directly and are old with thousands of responses.
The only test I care about is the one where I click the Firefox and Chrome shortcuts, in that order, and Chrome opens first every time. Until Firefox can remedy that, I just can't make myself use it anymore.
I'm with this guy. I have SLI and I have yet to find a single game that it actually improves. In fact, in most cases it cuts performance in half. As far as I can tell it's just a way to trick morons like me into buying twice as many video cards.
I actually watch a ton of stuff on tv land and nick@nite, and when they recently started showing infomercials instead of shows at 3 or 4 am I was fairly peeved. But this is far more annoying.
This kind of thing should never make it to the customer. As the customer, I don't care where you get channels from or what you pay, I only care about what I agreed to pay for what I agreed to buy. After the whole NFL network debacle (which is still ongoing), if they do this I'm going to have to finally get directv or that u-verse crap.
That is a fairly ridiculous conspiracy theory they've woven together there. I would rebut it with Hanlon's Razor but it doesn't even merit that.
If you knew more about how this kind of thing works you wouldn't be so quick to call fake. The blur on the screen edges is an effect you see with your own eyes when looking at an LCD screen from an angle. Those machines are perfectly capable of running WoW for what he is doing. Framerate is not a problem when multiboxing because you don't care about framerate on screens you rarely look at. The old books don't really mean anything either, I have old books laying around - stop the presses I must be a time traveller! Also, there is a reason why things are set up in an identical fashion between all the accounts.
Based on the your opinion that "2 is doable, but you'd be severely disadvantaged", I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest you either don't play WoW or haven't run into any multiboxers yet. There's a guy on my server who controls 26 toons at once. There are several people who are 5-boxing. Blizzard seems to content to accept the money and look the other way, but it really does violate the spirit of the Terms of Use if not the letter since these guys are all using 3rd party software to control the keystrokes sent to the game.
Well since he did win the popular vote, I think it goes without saying that the (small) majority of voters believed Gore should have won since they voted for him.
Fortunately for the GOP americans don't condone actual democracy, although there was a close call; the will of the people was almost enacted. Thank goodness the SCOTUS intervened and chose the right man for the job!
Seems like it would be easy to make a list of "101 things from The Bible that are fairly ridiculous".
And you seem to forget that these are not the Republicans of the 1860s. Or even the 1960s. There was a time when Democrat = southern state (and all that implies), and that time has passed as the parties traded politicians and values.
Look, the original three had a lot of creative spark and energy in them, and a couple of good actors who stole the show, but most of all you were like 5 years old when they came out. To kids today the new movies are just as good. At the end of the day I have to agree with Lucas and say that these are really kids movies and we are simply nostalgic for them.
That argument is nonsensical. Everyone who saw Star Wars in 1977 was not 5 years old at the time. It got fairly damn good reviews. It was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, and a ton of stuff in the technical area. Star Wars was considered Good. What kids today think about the latest boatload of tripe is not relevant.
I would have agreed with you before I saw the film, just because I hate it when they give awards to the guys who act crazy or disabled; it just seems too easy, and it's probably harder to go the other route and bring subtle depth to a character anyway. But the thing is, he DID bring subtle depth to the Joker as well as act crazy. If this were released closer to the season it would be in the bag, as it is I would be very surprised to see him not get nominated.
It'd be a kind of perverted justice if the boat that decided to sacrifice the other boat was the one destroyed.
That's kind of what I was expecting to see happen.
Russert was one of the few in the media who try to do it right anymore. In the age of talking points and govt officials being treated like pro athletes when it comes to question & answer, he held firm to the correct way of doing things. Basically we're worse off now since that's one more outlet that politicians will be able to walk all over.
Some people are just douchebags. He's no doubt run everyone off from the other games he played and is disappointed he can't make people quit WoW with his douchery.
And Maude begat Good Times.
They actually said in their dvd commentary that they quit playing pretty quickly because, you know, they have a life and stuff.
Great record, gets better with every listen. I paid $40 and it was worth it.
SS2 was great and I would love to play it again, but this game is an order of magnitude creepier. I still haven't finished it because after a while I have to stop playing and reacquaint myself with reality.
They should just wait a few more years for the tech to move forward some, then they can fully animate the actors and use the old series guys all they want (see the Beowulf trailer for an example of where this process stands, still a bit creepy looking but they're getting close).
And yet we have several posters here who say it works for them. We also have some posters who have noted this kind of issue in the past on Linux and Windows 2000. All of this points back to a hardware-specific issue. Perhaps it's a combination of Vista and hardware, i.e. maybe Vista is using (or mis-using) some new motherboard/bios feature that not everyone has?
What you described is not socialism, that's just some perverse form of capitalism, forcing people to buy a product (similar to the way insurance itself is a perverse form of socialism). If it were socialism the govt would pay for it out of huge taxes and you would get your coverage regardless of preexisting conditions.
I think all you need to know about this is they went to the trouble to install them in Canada where the temp favors the consumer. That would seem to indicate the gas company believes in the phenomenon in question.
His least used word I believe was "antiquing".