And after a few years, they want to sell you an entirely new set of tools. You buy if you want cordless tools, because the bastards have arbitrarily changed the battery connector layout yet again.
A full tank wouldn't. A mostly empty tank might, but it's not as common as movie directors might hope. It's not gasoline that explodes. It's gasoline vapor or fumes that explode. Gasoline as a liquid just burns, although it does burn rapidly and at a high temperature.
I never worked with anything as exotic as undersea cables, but the answer is the classic "it depends". In theory, one ISP could have a dozen router each with a dozen WAN links and full routing tables. In practice, a local or regional ISP often has two or three routers each with one or two exterior WAN links per city and only enough routing to handle their own customers. There are the big interexchange network access points that the likes of Sprint, AT&T, Level3, and MCI peer at, but most of their customers (including local AT&T central offices and such) just have backhaul lines to those points and do no routing among themselves.
A typical manned sub can't go that deep because it's hollow on the inside. A robotic sub that's tethered to it can.
How deep do you really think the Mediterranean is, though? I'll give you a hint: it's less than 5,000 feet deep on average and shallower along the coastlines. The convenient thing about an undersea cable when you go to tap it is that it's connected to a communications building on land somewhere. We're not, as I understand it, interested in tapping the internal communications of deep sea colonies just yet. So perhaps, just perhaps, a submarine wouldn't have to go to the deepest part of the oceans to tap an undersea cable that is guaranteed to come above the water's surface at its endpoint.
Apparently, no. Warmer weather must no longer cause increased evaporation. Also, it's wonderful that this guy patented a way to suck up half an inch of water times the surface area of the Earth and shoot it into the sky without using any energy.
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I want to know how you perform a double-blind study of chiropractic at all. Can you fool a person into thinking they've had a massage and adjustment? Can the chiropractor not know which patients actually got massage and adjustments from them?
The plural of "data" is "data", BTW. The plural is "datum" or "point of data", and these days "data" is increasingly common as also being the singular. That doesn't make it non-plural.
As for anecdotes, there are repeated mentions that "often" practitioners of these different remedies do certain things. The plural of "statistic" is not "anecdote" either.
I'd really like to know why massage, traction, electrical stimulation of a muscle, anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen, ice packs, spinal adjustments, physical therapy, and muscle relaxants are valid treatments when prescribed by an MD or a DO but not a chiropractor. I've had MD doctors refer me to a chiropractor and a chiropractor refer me to an MD. Some pain management clinics have MDs, DOs, physical therapists, and chiropractors in one place.
Just because something is difficult to test double-blind does not mean it's worthless. It just means it's more difficult to validate and quantify. I wonder if the authors have ever double-blind taste tested their favorite restaurant's food.
640x480 right in front of your face at an extremely small dot pitch offers a pretty nice field of view, too. It's not like this is 640x480 at 22" diagonal three feet away. The pixels are really tiny. Higher resolution might be nice, but it's not as necessary on this size of display.
The exact case of a flywheel scroll on a mouse and remapping the scroll wheel to fire may not have been foreseen. I'll give you that. Turbo mode on controllers (yes, even for the PC) isn't exactly new, though, and mapping one key to multiple keystrokes isn't new either. If a weapon should have a recharge or reload time, then the game should measure that time out between shots.
Substantial emotional distress is cause for concern. If someone is simply unhappy because they got into an argument with someone, that's not harassment. Harassment is systematic, unwanted, and bothersome attention paid to someone.
A flame war can go on for months between two people, but that negative attention isn't harassment. Person A can repeatedly call person B and be told to go hump a dead coyote, but if person A is initiating the contact then person B isn't harassing person A (possibly the opposite, in fact).
If there's no distress, there's no harassment. That part of the laws is correct. If you make it about whether the perpetrator "intended to cause" some "substantial distress" in another person, then you'll never be able to convict anyone. "I only meant to cause minor emotional distress" would be a valid defense.
Not many people use a gamepad in FPSes on PCs. That's true.
There are special gamer keyboards. The Wolfclaw, the Pro Gamer Command Pad, the DX1, Themaltake Flare, and more offer a different setup of keys that some gamers really find advantageous. They can be really nice for a serious RTS player, too, despite being marketed mostly for FPS players.
I have a flight stick with seven buttons, trigger, a top hat, and throttle. I use it for flight games, and I like it much more for Mechwarrior 4 or many other vehicle-combat games than a keyboard and mouse.
I have a racing wheel and pedal set for car games. I have a game pad for my PC for the PC versions of Madden-type games. There are even more ways to command a PC, though.
Some gamers use a voice command system for some functions, although that can interfere with speaking to your teammates through Teamspeak or Ventrilo.
Some use things like the Fragpedal from Good Work Systems. It lets you have four extra buttons (two per pedal and two pedals) you can use without moving your fingers. I've considered buying that one specifically for fall prone/get up, crouch, reload, and strafe. There are also the Kinesis foot switches, although each USB connection with those is only good for up to three buttons. Perhaps I'd leave reload on the mouse or keyboard with the Savant Elite Triple Action. You can hook up multiple Savant Elite pedals, but the Fragpedal is less expensive already. Maybe I'll just see if I can get used to my car game gas and brake pedal set for FPSes before making such an investment. There are even more expensive versions of this concept out there, mostly meant for people with disabilities or to cut down on wrist strain. They could certainly be useful in gaming, though.
In the PC world, you're expected to invest in the level of game play you are after. Some people are quite competitive with a decent stock keyboard and a two-button mouse. A scroll mouse is a very cheap and now standard device and is much better for most games. A little better keyboard can go a long way to help. Every little bit can help, though. If you lose to a guy who has bought a fancier controller, you either shrug it off as okay or you go an invest in a fancier one yourself.
I think khellendros1984 meant that sticking to a gamepad when a keyboard and mouse are available is like the three-legged racers running in a regular race. That's the opposite of an unbound runner running in a three-legged race. It's not a matter of an unfair advantage. It's a matter of one group holding themselves back unnecessarily.
I'd say that's neither the fault of your brother, the mouse, nor the admin (he probably really thought it was a hacked client). I'd say it's a problem with CoD4 that the developers didn't put a minimum cycle time between rounds fired from a semi-auto rifle. That they were counting on button click speed instead of limiting the actual fire rate of the weapon is a huge design misstep.
Actually, Parrot (the VM) will probably be released as 1.0 well before Perl 6. Rakudo, the official Perl 6 on Parrot implementation, can't really be ready for release until Parrot is anyway. There are a few other Perl 6 implementations in the works, the other most notable one being Pugs.
I've heard that 1.0 of Parrot will be out as early as spring of 2009. If that puts Rakudo out at Christmas 2009 or Christmas 2010, then I think that's a great specification, design, and development effort by such a small team.
Most people working on Perl language development have been working on 5.8 and 5.10 these last eight years. 5.8 is now at the end of new development with 5.8.9 and will only get bug fixes. The 5.10 folks are working on 5.10.1 now. The 5.8 folks will be freed up to help with 5.10 and Perl 6. Of course, there's some overlap among those groups, but you get the idea. More work will be done towards both the 5.10 branch and towards Perl 6 now that work is slowing on the 5.8 branch.
AT&T canceled my sister's contract because she moved to an area outside their coverage. They gave her 90 days of notice IIRC, and didn't charge her early termination since they were the ones terminating the agreement. So not only do they try to keep calls on their networks, but they'll take steps to make sure at least a certain portion of your calls are on their network rather than roaming.
Why would the keyboard and mouse require a different server? Do you really think there are no people playing PC games with different controllers? Game pads, joysticks, custom gaming keyboards, foot pedals, gaming mice with multiple programmable buttons and more can be hooked up to a PC and the PC gamers don't generally bitch about the difference.
The free client allows you to play a game that is supported by in-game ads in proper context and a character perks system which includes buying game currency with real currency.
So you're saying if I have four friends over and we watch The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas should make more money off my DVD than if I watch it alone? Or only that if I sell my Return of the Jedi: Battle at Sarlacc's Pit boardgame or such that he needs more money?
I already bought all three original movies on VHS, two on Beta, all three rereleases on VHS, all three originals on DVD, all three rereleases on DVD, and all three of the new, inferior movies on DVD. (Not to mention Indiana Jones, American Graffitti, etc.)
I also have over 100 original-trilogy action figures, more than a dozen Star Wars video games, at least four Star Wars board games, some ships, an Ewok village, some miniatures, a dozen or so posters (mostly still rolled), comics, coloring books, novels, and I even ate C3PO breakfast cereal when I was a kid.
Now if I resell my Empire Strikes Back cartridge for the 2600 then George Lucas needs more money? You know what, if George Lucas thinks that, then fuck George Lucas and fuck LucasArts. I've spent thousands of dollars on their merchandise over my lifetime. They have no right to demand more just because they are greedy.
Fuck EA, THQ, Blizzard, Valve, and whoever else thinks that fucking way. They have no right either. If they want a stake in the resale then they're going to have to put in on offering it for resale.
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And after a few years, they want to sell you an entirely new set of tools. You buy if you want cordless tools, because the bastards have arbitrarily changed the battery connector layout yet again.
Luckily, we're used to the same phenomenon with gasoline engines. So it should make sense even to people who don't understand the science behind it.
A full tank wouldn't. A mostly empty tank might, but it's not as common as movie directors might hope. It's not gasoline that explodes. It's gasoline vapor or fumes that explode. Gasoline as a liquid just burns, although it does burn rapidly and at a high temperature.
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It's very difficult to sell perpetual rights to something that is only patented for a couple of decades.
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I never worked with anything as exotic as undersea cables, but the answer is the classic "it depends". In theory, one ISP could have a dozen router each with a dozen WAN links and full routing tables. In practice, a local or regional ISP often has two or three routers each with one or two exterior WAN links per city and only enough routing to handle their own customers. There are the big interexchange network access points that the likes of Sprint, AT&T, Level3, and MCI peer at, but most of their customers (including local AT&T central offices and such) just have backhaul lines to those points and do no routing among themselves.
That's due to obscene profit on retail line provisioning, of course.
I bet the coastline where the cable comes out of the water and onto land is shallower than that!
A typical manned sub can't go that deep because it's hollow on the inside. A robotic sub that's tethered to it can.
How deep do you really think the Mediterranean is, though? I'll give you a hint: it's less than 5,000 feet deep on average and shallower along the coastlines. The convenient thing about an undersea cable when you go to tap it is that it's connected to a communications building on land somewhere. We're not, as I understand it, interested in tapping the internal communications of deep sea colonies just yet. So perhaps, just perhaps, a submarine wouldn't have to go to the deepest part of the oceans to tap an undersea cable that is guaranteed to come above the water's surface at its endpoint.
Apparently, no. Warmer weather must no longer cause increased evaporation. Also, it's wonderful that this guy patented a way to suck up half an inch of water times the surface area of the Earth and shoot it into the sky without using any energy.
I want to know how you perform a double-blind study of chiropractic at all. Can you fool a person into thinking they've had a massage and adjustment? Can the chiropractor not know which patients actually got massage and adjustments from them?
The plural of "data" is "data", BTW. The plural is "datum" or "point of data", and these days "data" is increasingly common as also being the singular. That doesn't make it non-plural.
As for anecdotes, there are repeated mentions that "often" practitioners of these different remedies do certain things. The plural of "statistic" is not "anecdote" either.
I'd really like to know why massage, traction, electrical stimulation of a muscle, anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen, ice packs, spinal adjustments, physical therapy, and muscle relaxants are valid treatments when prescribed by an MD or a DO but not a chiropractor. I've had MD doctors refer me to a chiropractor and a chiropractor refer me to an MD. Some pain management clinics have MDs, DOs, physical therapists, and chiropractors in one place.
Just because something is difficult to test double-blind does not mean it's worthless. It just means it's more difficult to validate and quantify. I wonder if the authors have ever double-blind taste tested their favorite restaurant's food.
640x480 right in front of your face at an extremely small dot pitch offers a pretty nice field of view, too. It's not like this is 640x480 at 22" diagonal three feet away. The pixels are really tiny. Higher resolution might be nice, but it's not as necessary on this size of display.
The exact case of a flywheel scroll on a mouse and remapping the scroll wheel to fire may not have been foreseen. I'll give you that. Turbo mode on controllers (yes, even for the PC) isn't exactly new, though, and mapping one key to multiple keystrokes isn't new either. If a weapon should have a recharge or reload time, then the game should measure that time out between shots.
Substantial emotional distress is cause for concern. If someone is simply unhappy because they got into an argument with someone, that's not harassment. Harassment is systematic, unwanted, and bothersome attention paid to someone.
A flame war can go on for months between two people, but that negative attention isn't harassment. Person A can repeatedly call person B and be told to go hump a dead coyote, but if person A is initiating the contact then person B isn't harassing person A (possibly the opposite, in fact).
If there's no distress, there's no harassment. That part of the laws is correct. If you make it about whether the perpetrator "intended to cause" some "substantial distress" in another person, then you'll never be able to convict anyone. "I only meant to cause minor emotional distress" would be a valid defense.
Not many people use a gamepad in FPSes on PCs. That's true.
There are special gamer keyboards. The Wolfclaw, the Pro Gamer Command Pad, the DX1, Themaltake Flare, and more offer a different setup of keys that some gamers really find advantageous. They can be really nice for a serious RTS player, too, despite being marketed mostly for FPS players.
There are special mice just for gamers. Take a look at Trust's Gamer Mouse, the Razer Copperhead, and even the Zalman pistol-grip mouse.
I have a flight stick with seven buttons, trigger, a top hat, and throttle. I use it for flight games, and I like it much more for Mechwarrior 4 or many other vehicle-combat games than a keyboard and mouse.
I have a racing wheel and pedal set for car games. I have a game pad for my PC for the PC versions of Madden-type games. There are even more ways to command a PC, though.
Some gamers use a voice command system for some functions, although that can interfere with speaking to your teammates through Teamspeak or Ventrilo.
Some use things like the Fragpedal from Good Work Systems. It lets you have four extra buttons (two per pedal and two pedals) you can use without moving your fingers. I've considered buying that one specifically for fall prone/get up, crouch, reload, and strafe. There are also the Kinesis foot switches, although each USB connection with those is only good for up to three buttons. Perhaps I'd leave reload on the mouse or keyboard with the Savant Elite Triple Action. You can hook up multiple Savant Elite pedals, but the Fragpedal is less expensive already. Maybe I'll just see if I can get used to my car game gas and brake pedal set for FPSes before making such an investment. There are even more expensive versions of this concept out there, mostly meant for people with disabilities or to cut down on wrist strain. They could certainly be useful in gaming, though.
In the PC world, you're expected to invest in the level of game play you are after. Some people are quite competitive with a decent stock keyboard and a two-button mouse. A scroll mouse is a very cheap and now standard device and is much better for most games. A little better keyboard can go a long way to help. Every little bit can help, though. If you lose to a guy who has bought a fancier controller, you either shrug it off as okay or you go an invest in a fancier one yourself.
I think khellendros1984 meant that sticking to a gamepad when a keyboard and mouse are available is like the three-legged racers running in a regular race. That's the opposite of an unbound runner running in a three-legged race. It's not a matter of an unfair advantage. It's a matter of one group holding themselves back unnecessarily.
I'd say that's neither the fault of your brother, the mouse, nor the admin (he probably really thought it was a hacked client). I'd say it's a problem with CoD4 that the developers didn't put a minimum cycle time between rounds fired from a semi-auto rifle. That they were counting on button click speed instead of limiting the actual fire rate of the weapon is a huge design misstep.
Actually, Parrot (the VM) will probably be released as 1.0 well before Perl 6. Rakudo, the official Perl 6 on Parrot implementation, can't really be ready for release until Parrot is anyway. There are a few other Perl 6 implementations in the works, the other most notable one being Pugs.
I've heard that 1.0 of Parrot will be out as early as spring of 2009. If that puts Rakudo out at Christmas 2009 or Christmas 2010, then I think that's a great specification, design, and development effort by such a small team.
Most people working on Perl language development have been working on 5.8 and 5.10 these last eight years. 5.8 is now at the end of new development with 5.8.9 and will only get bug fixes. The 5.10 folks are working on 5.10.1 now. The 5.8 folks will be freed up to help with 5.10 and Perl 6. Of course, there's some overlap among those groups, but you get the idea. More work will be done towards both the 5.10 branch and towards Perl 6 now that work is slowing on the 5.8 branch.
AT&T canceled my sister's contract because she moved to an area outside their coverage. They gave her 90 days of notice IIRC, and didn't charge her early termination since they were the ones terminating the agreement. So not only do they try to keep calls on their networks, but they'll take steps to make sure at least a certain portion of your calls are on their network rather than roaming.
So people who upgrade their video cards are pirates now?
It's not just market share. They make money on every game. You have to pay royalties to publish games for the 360 or the PS3.
Why would the keyboard and mouse require a different server? Do you really think there are no people playing PC games with different controllers? Game pads, joysticks, custom gaming keyboards, foot pedals, gaming mice with multiple programmable buttons and more can be hooked up to a PC and the PC gamers don't generally bitch about the difference.
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The free client allows you to play a game that is supported by in-game ads in proper context and a character perks system which includes buying game currency with real currency.
Let's use a Star Wars example, LordVader717.
So you're saying if I have four friends over and we watch The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas should make more money off my DVD than if I watch it alone? Or only that if I sell my Return of the Jedi: Battle at Sarlacc's Pit boardgame or such that he needs more money?
I already bought all three original movies on VHS, two on Beta, all three rereleases on VHS, all three originals on DVD, all three rereleases on DVD, and all three of the new, inferior movies on DVD. (Not to mention Indiana Jones, American Graffitti, etc.)
I also have over 100 original-trilogy action figures, more than a dozen Star Wars video games, at least four Star Wars board games, some ships, an Ewok village, some miniatures, a dozen or so posters (mostly still rolled), comics, coloring books, novels, and I even ate C3PO breakfast cereal when I was a kid.
Now if I resell my Empire Strikes Back cartridge for the 2600 then George Lucas needs more money?
You know what, if George Lucas thinks that, then fuck George Lucas and fuck LucasArts. I've spent thousands of dollars on their merchandise over my lifetime. They have no right to demand more just because they are greedy.
Fuck EA, THQ, Blizzard, Valve, and whoever else thinks that fucking way. They have no right either. If they want a stake in the resale then they're going to have to put in on offering it for resale.