Bison are starting to replace cows as a reliable meat source
I'm sure they are, for small-scale organic ranchers catering to prestige restaurants. For the other 99.98% of the market, cattle are still king. Compare the numbers: roughly 1.3 billion head of cattle worldwide (100m in the US), compared to only 350,000 bison remaining in the world, with 250,00 being raised for meat.
That means that bison have about.019% of the global market. I wouldn't worry about methane production.: for every bison being raised for meat, there are 5,200 cattle.
That's Great! Please send me the link to the smart phone with visual voicemail, I've been waiting for that feature for years! Also, the easy conference calling would be fantastic. Oh, and which smart phone runs iPhoto and iTunes?
Anyone living in Canada probably know this, but the biggest reason for the disparity in availability is the size of the market: Canada has only about 1/10th the population of the US, and 1/13th the GDP.
Considering that it's every bit as much work to set up all the licensing agreements, applicable contracts etc, it probably is so far down on the priority list that you'll be lucky if you ever get this stuff. This is why you've got the EU: all these small to medium population countries have gained real economic power by binding themselves into a single (more or less) economic entity. Kinda like Voltron, but with funny accents.
I would imagine the priority list is something like US, UK, Japan, the rest of the EU, South Korea... etc etc etc then Canada, right before Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
In other words, it's kind of like owning a Mac, and waiting to play the latest games on it. Sucks, huh?
Well, aside from new uber loot (which there's an endless hunger for, btw), it's a fact that even the best, most elite, organized hard-core guilds in the game find the highest high-level content very challenging. For the rest of us with an average amount of free time to invest, even the moderately high-level stuff is damn near impossible to experience.
When the level cap raises, stuff like Molten Core and BWL drops in relative difficulty, so average players can finally get a shot at the stuff they could only dream about before. It's a win-win. The jaded hard-core get new challenges, and the rest of us get access to parts of the game that were unthinkable before.
This is digital, that was analog. No cookie for you.
Saying that this is the same thing is like saying that optical media (CD et al) are just another form of vinyl record. The principle's somewhat different, even if the method has similarities.
If you like green tea for energy, have you tried white tea? (same plant, just the immature buds, only picked a few days a year.)
While green tea tastes great, but white tea has (in my limited experimentation anyway) way more energy-boosting power, although it can get really bitter if you over-brew it. My favorite right now is a blend that mixes green and white tea and ginger: brew it up and drink it as iced tea. This stuff is the best-tasting blend I've tried, bar none.
It kills me that people try to use the factoid about the temp at which jet fuel burns to try and prove something about the towers collapsing.
Hint: Steel doesn't need to "melt" to lose almost all of its structural strength. "Melt" means to go from a solid to a liquid. All the girders needed to do was soften a little bit, at a temperature far below the burning temp of the jet fuel. Anyone who's worked steel knows this, and it isn't exactly hard to look up. Ask ANY engineer.
Yeah! Spinoffs suck!! Like, say, Starcraft, World of Warcraft (what a blunder!!!), the whole Mario franchise (Donkey Kong spinoff), those are just to name a few of the most egregious "brand dilutions." What morons, eh?
Is image manipulation thaat much better with the latest photoshop than with PS 5.5? With some minor exceptions the answer is clearly no.
Hah! I am forced to disagree in the strongest possible terms..
Speaking as a former production artist and current art director, the last couple of generations of graphics software have introduced powerful tools that streamline my workflow in ways I find it hard to even fathom. Ok, let's talk about Illustrator, for example. From 10 -> CS Adobe added in-application 3D rendering of any 2D artwork onto geometric primitives. This is something I used to either have to fake, or take out of the application and into a 3D renderer in order to render simple bottle/can/box packaging proofs. Marketing wants to make a copy change? Make the change to the 2D art and the 3D rendering is updated in real time. Oh, and the new version of InDesign recognizes that the art has been updated and reloads it into the brochure layout. Automatically.
This is just one feature out of literally hundreds. This one alone saves me an hour or two a day. Seriously, there are projects I can take on today that would have been unthinkable 5 years ago. Pre-press for a 700 page illustrated book project has gone from a week of painful, tedious work down to 30 minutes, of which 20 is letting the PDF render. Seriously.
Here's the thing, unless you use a piece of software all day, every day, you're really not in any position to comment on how much it has or hasn't changed.
Photoshop (et. al.) are software for professionals, despite the number of dilettantes out there using them for sprucing up their MySpace page.
Sorry, but higher insurance rates for young people isn't ageism, it's actuarial tables. Look it up if you don't believe me. The cost of any type of insurance isn't based on arbitrary factors, it's based on the statistical likelyhood of a claim being filed. If you want to blame someone, blame the people in your age group for driving like idiots.
If you have a better way of judging relative risk, start your own insurance company, or just submit your proposal as an application for the Nobel prize for economics. It'll be a shoe-in.
We get cheaper insurance because, gee, we don't fuck up as much. What a shocker.
There's a reason there are anti-discrimination laws in the US, and yes, age IS one of the protected factors. So we discriminate against people at the younger end of the spectrum... thousands of years of experience show that younger than a certain age, people tend not to behave responsibly. Are there exceptions? Of course!...But how many 12 year-olds would you want having driver's licenses?
This isn't a "minor issue", this is turning the most experienced, and often wisest segment of our population into second class citizens. Look at the average ages of our Supreme Court Justices. Now tell me that they can't handle signing up "all on their own" for a damn cell-phone because they might get "confused," because it's so darn "complicated."
When will they learn that this is not what we want.
You mean, what you want. Personally, I'm thrilled that tiny portable storage is growing in capacity at such a fantastic rate 5mb? I can't remember the past project I worked on that clocked in under 5mb. Of course I'm a designer, not a coder and my needs are different.
As far as vacuums, this has less to do with the quality of vacuums than it does your shopping skills. If you REALLY want a vacuum that lasts, just go to a janitorial supply house and buy a commercial vacuum. Of course, they don't have all those fancy features, but they are rugged as hell, and will probably outlive you. Oh, they'll cost a hell of a lot, too, but you get what you pay for.
Red dwarf was about a guy already working on a spaceship who gets tossed into suspended animation for a very long time, just before a freak accident kills all the crew. He wakes millions of years later, to find he's all alone (more or less).
Personally, I guess I just forgot to care about "the whole Bnetd thing". I have yet to see a reason why I should give a shit, honestly. But then, I'm not a politically-motivated open-source advocate. I doubt many of their customers are, considering that their products only run on closed-source platforms, and the most rabid of open-sourcies refuse to use anything that they didn't compile themselves, auditing every line of code and all.
I like their products, and frankly that's good enough for me.
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Bison are starting to replace cows as a reliable meat source
.019% of the global market. I wouldn't worry about methane production.: for every bison being raised for meat, there are 5,200 cattle.
I'm sure they are, for small-scale organic ranchers catering to prestige restaurants. For the other 99.98% of the market, cattle are still king. Compare the numbers: roughly 1.3 billion head of cattle worldwide (100m in the US), compared to only 350,000 bison remaining in the world, with 250,00 being raised for meat.
That means that bison have about
last but not least, it has to be able to seamlessly switch over to WiFi when I'm in range of a hotspot.
thanks again!
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That's Great! Please send me the link to the smart phone with visual voicemail, I've been waiting for that feature for years! Also, the easy conference calling would be fantastic. Oh, and which smart phone runs iPhoto and iTunes?
Thanks in advance!
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"I would like to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like his passengers."
wow, i'm flattered.
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Anyone living in Canada probably know this, but the biggest reason for the disparity in availability is the size of the market: Canada has only about 1/10th the population of the US, and 1/13th the GDP.
Considering that it's every bit as much work to set up all the licensing agreements, applicable contracts etc, it probably is so far down on the priority list that you'll be lucky if you ever get this stuff. This is why you've got the EU: all these small to medium population countries have gained real economic power by binding themselves into a single (more or less) economic entity. Kinda like Voltron, but with funny accents.
I would imagine the priority list is something like US, UK, Japan, the rest of the EU, South Korea... etc etc etc then Canada, right before Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
In other words, it's kind of like owning a Mac, and waiting to play the latest games on it. Sucks, huh?
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Hey! I'm not gay and I prefer DIET Coke. So there.
Otherwise.... yeah pretty much.
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Well, aside from new uber loot (which there's an endless hunger for, btw), it's a fact that even the best, most elite, organized hard-core guilds in the game find the highest high-level content very challenging. For the rest of us with an average amount of free time to invest, even the moderately high-level stuff is damn near impossible to experience.
When the level cap raises, stuff like Molten Core and BWL drops in relative difficulty, so average players can finally get a shot at the stuff they could only dream about before. It's a win-win. The jaded hard-core get new challenges, and the rest of us get access to parts of the game that were unthinkable before.
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This is digital, that was analog. No cookie for you.
Saying that this is the same thing is like saying that optical media (CD et al) are just another form of vinyl record. The principle's somewhat different, even if the method has similarities.
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If you like green tea for energy, have you tried white tea? (same plant, just the immature buds, only picked a few days a year.)
While green tea tastes great, but white tea has (in my limited experimentation anyway) way more energy-boosting power, although it can get really bitter if you over-brew it. My favorite right now is a blend that mixes green and white tea and ginger: brew it up and drink it as iced tea. This stuff is the best-tasting blend I've tried, bar none.
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It kills me that people try to use the factoid about the temp at which jet fuel burns to try and prove something about the towers collapsing.
Hint: Steel doesn't need to "melt" to lose almost all of its structural strength. "Melt" means to go from a solid to a liquid. All the girders needed to do was soften a little bit, at a temperature far below the burning temp of the jet fuel. Anyone who's worked steel knows this, and it isn't exactly hard to look up. Ask ANY engineer.
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Sorry, couldn't help myself. :-)
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I'm pretty sure this is just a description of the equipment, not the actual experiment. It gets a little technical for me near the end, can anyone explain the details?
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Yeah! Spinoffs suck!! Like, say, Starcraft, World of Warcraft (what a blunder!!!), the whole Mario franchise (Donkey Kong spinoff), those are just to name a few of the most egregious "brand dilutions." What morons, eh?
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Is image manipulation thaat much better with the latest photoshop than with PS 5.5? With some minor exceptions the answer is clearly no.
Hah! I am forced to disagree in the strongest possible terms..
Speaking as a former production artist and current art director, the last couple of generations of graphics software have introduced powerful tools that streamline my workflow in ways I find it hard to even fathom. Ok, let's talk about Illustrator, for example. From 10 -> CS Adobe added in-application 3D rendering of any 2D artwork onto geometric primitives. This is something I used to either have to fake, or take out of the application and into a 3D renderer in order to render simple bottle/can/box packaging proofs. Marketing wants to make a copy change? Make the change to the 2D art and the 3D rendering is updated in real time. Oh, and the new version of InDesign recognizes that the art has been updated and reloads it into the brochure layout. Automatically.
This is just one feature out of literally hundreds. This one alone saves me an hour or two a day. Seriously, there are projects I can take on today that would have been unthinkable 5 years ago. Pre-press for a 700 page illustrated book project has gone from a week of painful, tedious work down to 30 minutes, of which 20 is letting the PDF render. Seriously.
Here's the thing, unless you use a piece of software all day, every day, you're really not in any position to comment on how much it has or hasn't changed.
Photoshop (et. al.) are software for professionals, despite the number of dilettantes out there using them for sprucing up their MySpace page.
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Q: You're the head of Sony's worldwide development studios. What the hell is up with that Africa game?
He attacked his Weak Point for MASSIVE DAMAGE.
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Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
It's already begun!
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Or, she's mad as hell and she wants the world to know it. Being retired, she has the time and energy to make herself heard.
I see her point.
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No, of course it isn't new, but we shouldn't be letting it get any worse.
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Sorry, but higher insurance rates for young people isn't ageism, it's actuarial tables. Look it up if you don't believe me. The cost of any type of insurance isn't based on arbitrary factors, it's based on the statistical likelyhood of a claim being filed. If you want to blame someone, blame the people in your age group for driving like idiots.
If you have a better way of judging relative risk, start your own insurance company, or just submit your proposal as an application for the Nobel prize for economics. It'll be a shoe-in.
We get cheaper insurance because, gee, we don't fuck up as much. What a shocker.
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Well, at least we agree on one thing.
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"Insightful"?
...But how many 12 year-olds would you want having driver's licenses?
There's a reason there are anti-discrimination laws in the US, and yes, age IS one of the protected factors. So we discriminate against people at the younger end of the spectrum... thousands of years of experience show that younger than a certain age, people tend not to behave responsibly. Are there exceptions? Of course!
This isn't a "minor issue", this is turning the most experienced, and often wisest segment of our population into second class citizens. Look at the average ages of our Supreme Court Justices. Now tell me that they can't handle signing up "all on their own" for a damn cell-phone because they might get "confused," because it's so darn "complicated."
Speaking for everyone over 30, BITE ME.
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When will they learn that this is not what we want.
You mean, what you want. Personally, I'm thrilled that tiny portable storage is growing in capacity at such a fantastic rate 5mb? I can't remember the past project I worked on that clocked in under 5mb. Of course I'm a designer, not a coder and my needs are different.
As far as vacuums, this has less to do with the quality of vacuums than it does your shopping skills. If you REALLY want a vacuum that lasts, just go to a janitorial supply house and buy a commercial vacuum. Of course, they don't have all those fancy features, but they are rugged as hell, and will probably outlive you. Oh, they'll cost a hell of a lot, too, but you get what you pay for.
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it's just you.
Red dwarf was about a guy already working on a spaceship who gets tossed into suspended animation for a very long time, just before a freak accident kills all the crew. He wakes millions of years later, to find he's all alone (more or less).
Not really anything like this at all.
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Personally, I guess I just forgot to care about "the whole Bnetd thing". I have yet to see a reason why I should give a shit, honestly. But then, I'm not a politically-motivated open-source advocate. I doubt many of their customers are, considering that their products only run on closed-source platforms, and the most rabid of open-sourcies refuse to use anything that they didn't compile themselves, auditing every line of code and all.
I like their products, and frankly that's good enough for me.
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