I seem to remember hearing that very little power is generated by the legs, with the exception of when they are used in conjunction with the rest of the body in a dolphin kick style. That's (one reason) why you don't see short stocky swimmers; because wingspan is much more important. Kicking is basically just used to keep the lower half of the body aloft.
Yes, but just because they are competitors doesn't mean that Gates has to be a bitch, because it just makes him look cheap and petty (note that this standard applies to Google as well...I'm not just trying to bag on MS). Attack their products, not the people who make them, and when you do attack their products you should be able to back it up.
ie. Disparaging Google as using "antiquated" word searches when you can't even do that much yourself is disingenuous.
Elevators go up and down. The only thing that straightforward on a computer is the CD drive (and even that sometimes causes my system to freeze:-) )
I'm not suggesting that the usability of computers cannot be improved; far from it. But just as some people are simply very bad drivers, some people will not be able to use some programs because they don't have the training, they aren't willing to practice, or they just don't "get it". Trying to cater to these people by writing programs that a 5-year-old could use probably results in programs that only a 5-year-old would want to use.
I get your point, but I think that to describe this in terms of police is a little inaccurate because that really is the police's job. Perhaps this is closer to a heavily-armed civilian militia (I hesitate to say "Mafia" or "gang", but you could argue points there too) taking on the police role?
Oh my good God, I do need reading classes. An explanation (though not an excuse) for my behaviour:
I read "I didn't say Macs are outrageously expensive" and remembered that you had indeed said those words; tracking backwards I saw that you did indeed say that. Unfortunately, the previous post was the troll's snippet of your original post that simply said "how outrageously expensive Macs are", which obviously was not the intent of your post. Apparently everyone but me got that little detail...
In summary, I am very sorry for wasting what little brain power was required to respond to that post, and for being even more of an imbecile than usual.
Ah, but there is a reason why Gamblor is not up there. The time/emotion/patience demands imparted upon a victim by Girlfriendlor make said victim more susceptible to Alcoholicus. The financial demands of Alcoholicus usually supercede the notoriously materialistic Gamblor, and without the funds to support his blow habit he heads off to the nearest VLT jungle.
(Editors note: the absence of Boyfriendlor is not due to sexism on the author's part. Boyfriendlor has been enslaved by World of Warcraft and is on the verge of getting a mount for his Tauren Warrior)
FPS my ass. There are no (well, WERE no) video cards capable of doing that in the typical office.
No my friend, thou had best be wary of the Terrible Time-wasting Triumvirate.
Doom, you say? Half-Life? Quake? Nay.
Solitaire. Freecell. Minesweeper.
Hands-down the most destructive weapons ever wielded by the Hell-Spawned Demons of Computer Procrastination, these Three sit atop the Procrastination empire, answering only to Alcoholicus, Girlfriendlor and the Weed & Pizza twins.
I'm as eager to blame parents for child stupidity as anyone, but I didn't see anything in the article that suggested the parents were at fault.
Blaming parents for child behaviour is sometimes as stupid as blaming video games for child behaviour, because this guy was 16 or 17 years old when he committed this crime. Until we see evidence that the parents were somehow negligent then I suggest we consider that the child is at fault. After all, at 16-17 years old I was pretty damn sure that shooting people was a bad idea.
"Life is like a video game. We all gotta die sometime." Please. That's either the words of a seriously deranged individual or some of the most obviously scripted bullshit I have ever seen.
Stop shifting blame. Blame the kid for being an asshat and a murderer until other factors come to light.
You honestly think the government is more responsible because you have guns? You actually believe your government is afraid of you? Talk about an inflated sense of self-worth:-)
Seriously though, your "tradition of cleaning house when needed" would come to an abrupt end when that small gathering of armed civilians gets an Apache-helicopter-beatdown. Don't kid yourself about being able to wrest control of the government away by force.
Funny enough, do you know what the US would look like if this scenario were to play out?
Unfortunately, this only hurts people who are struggling to make ends meet. The family of 4 has to take their kids out of soccer because they can't afford to drive them there anymore. Meanwhile the disgustingly rich still drive around in their land monsters.
We don't have less guns in Canada, we are frigging gun nuts! The difference is that we tend not to use them on each other, as indicated by the homicide rate in my province (typically around 1 per capita)
And that's the problem. The government should not be using force to dictate what kinds of cars people drive.
So the government should mind its own business because a few irresponsible people value their egos over the environment? This is EXACTLY what the government should be doing; intervening for the benefit of the vast majority of people in the country (and world, for that matter).
There are a hell of a lot of iPod users/fans here at/., and I doubt most of them have been influenced by the teeny bop stars and U2. (granted, some of it IS rabid Apple-fanboy behaviour, but I digress)
The iPod is more popular because it was the first out of the gate, had far more storage than the Flash memory offerings, looked/looks better than any other product available today and is far more simple to use than Creative's or anyone else's device. (iTunes is easy, scroll wheel is a godsend) The last one is particularly important, considering that many/most people are barely computer-literate and are rather frightened of technology.
Marketing and envious, keeping-up-with-the-Jones buying has certainly put the iPod where it is today. But the initial and ongoing popularity is because it is simply the best product available. The Creative product IS good, but the iPod is better.
Photosynthesis as found in plants generates carbohydrates and oxygen, but if you remove the organic component all you are really doing is using light to split water into hydrogen and oxygen; IIRC, this is a difficult thing to copy in a test tube.
No shortage of money? Before you chastise me about not being aware of the situation, perhaps you should look ahead more than a week or a month, because there WILL be a shortage of money.
As an interesting aside, I have said this before on Slashdot, but human eyes are pretty pathetic in terms of their sophistication.
I see your point, but I would like to mention that our eyes are capable of incredibly fast response times. I work with a nitrogen laser that pulses in batches of 5 shots on the order of a few tens of picoseconds each. There is a gap between the laser and the fibre-optic cable, and you can actually resolve each pulse with both your eyes and ears. Rhodopsin responds to light by photoisomerizing and then reverting back in femtoseconds.
So don't feel TOO bad about your primitive vision!
I believe the number is $64 million if you add up BC, Ontario and Alberta's contributions to the $40 million. I was referring to the citizens themselves. If every adult in Canada put up $10 we would have ~$200 million in aid for those people.
Multiplayer fixes? The game has been out for about 45 days. Relax.
As far as your commentary on the single player, I spent far too much time listening to other people about the abruptness of the ending, and found myself expecting the game to end for about 6 straight levels. I think that you are suffering from the same problem.
Why does there NEED to be Earth levels? More specifically, why would that make or break the game? Just because you wanted the conflict to take place on Earth does not make the game bad. Why is playing as another well-developed, interesting character who functions in exactly the same manner as the Spartan, except with an AWESOME NINJA CLOAK capability with STEALTHY INSTANT KILL LASER NINJA SWORDS a bad thing? Why do you think that the ending of the game was bad? I believe that you went into this game with the expectation that it was going to be bad and were not going to be happy with anything else, and as far as I am concerned, you received the product that you deserve.
I see the game as a minor improvement on the previously fantastic game, with the IMPROVEMENTS (emphasis important here) being in character depth, weapon choice, dual wielding, opponent variety and intelligence, and vehicle use/hijacking.
If in 2 months the glitches have not been resolved then I will side with you in the multiplayer gripes. In the meantime, until you can explicitly explain to my why the single player campaign is not good I will have to chalk up your "Insightful" rating to typical fanboy bullshit.
(Please pardon the tone of my post. Listening to lazy fellow Canadians explain why they do not have to help with the tsunami aid effort gets me quite agitated)
I believe the point the poster was making is that once the magnetic field fails, the plasma touches the wall of the container. This causes the temperature of the plasma to drop considerably, to a point where it is no longer stable. The heat transfer to the wall of the vessel is small, lets say about 2 degrees C.
There is probably a better reason, but I assumed that the reason was that Canada is simply not a big enought market to prioritize opening there. When you consider that California has a bigger economy and population than Canada, that isn't really that much of a stretch.
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I seem to remember hearing that very little power is generated by the legs, with the exception of when they are used in conjunction with the rest of the body in a dolphin kick style. That's (one reason) why you don't see short stocky swimmers; because wingspan is much more important. Kicking is basically just used to keep the lower half of the body aloft.
Yes, but just because they are competitors doesn't mean that Gates has to be a bitch, because it just makes him look cheap and petty (note that this standard applies to Google as well...I'm not just trying to bag on MS). Attack their products, not the people who make them, and when you do attack their products you should be able to back it up.
ie. Disparaging Google as using "antiquated" word searches when you can't even do that much yourself is disingenuous.
Elevators go up and down. The only thing that straightforward on a computer is the CD drive (and even that sometimes causes my system to freeze :-) )
I'm not suggesting that the usability of computers cannot be improved; far from it. But just as some people are simply very bad drivers, some people will not be able to use some programs because they don't have the training, they aren't willing to practice, or they just don't "get it". Trying to cater to these people by writing programs that a 5-year-old could use probably results in programs that only a 5-year-old would want to use.
I get your point, but I think that to describe this in terms of police is a little inaccurate because that really is the police's job. Perhaps this is closer to a heavily-armed civilian militia (I hesitate to say "Mafia" or "gang", but you could argue points there too) taking on the police role?
MS? I doubt the Microsoft keyboard will cause RSI, let alone MS.
Hey! I can see the Slashdot article now:
"M$ causes MS!"
Oh my good God, I do need reading classes. An explanation (though not an excuse) for my behaviour:
I read "I didn't say Macs are outrageously expensive" and remembered that you had indeed said those words; tracking backwards I saw that you did indeed say that. Unfortunately, the previous post was the troll's snippet of your original post that simply said "how outrageously expensive Macs are", which obviously was not the intent of your post. Apparently everyone but me got that little detail...
In summary, I am very sorry for wasting what little brain power was required to respond to that post, and for being even more of an imbecile than usual.
by emilymildew (646109) on Thursday March 03, @09:45AM
Mention that the next time someone talks about how outrageously expensive Macs are
by emilymildew (646109) on Thursday March 03, @10:45AM
I didn't call Macs outrageously expensive
WOW. You must be a politician.
Maybe you should learn to read what I am saying.
Maybe you should learn to remember what you said 60 minutes ago.
Ah, but there is a reason why Gamblor is not up there. The time/emotion/patience demands imparted upon a victim by Girlfriendlor make said victim more susceptible to Alcoholicus. The financial demands of Alcoholicus usually supercede the notoriously materialistic Gamblor, and without the funds to support his blow habit he heads off to the nearest VLT jungle.
(Editors note: the absence of Boyfriendlor is not due to sexism on the author's part. Boyfriendlor has been enslaved by World of Warcraft and is on the verge of getting a mount for his Tauren Warrior)
FPS my ass. There are no (well, WERE no) video cards capable of doing that in the typical office.
No my friend, thou had best be wary of the Terrible Time-wasting Triumvirate.
Doom, you say?
Half-Life?
Quake?
Nay.
Solitaire. Freecell. Minesweeper.
Hands-down the most destructive weapons ever wielded by the Hell-Spawned Demons of Computer Procrastination, these Three sit atop the Procrastination empire, answering only to Alcoholicus, Girlfriendlor and the Weed & Pizza twins.
I'm as eager to blame parents for child stupidity as anyone, but I didn't see anything in the article that suggested the parents were at fault.
Blaming parents for child behaviour is sometimes as stupid as blaming video games for child behaviour, because this guy was 16 or 17 years old when he committed this crime. Until we see evidence that the parents were somehow negligent then I suggest we consider that the child is at fault. After all, at 16-17 years old I was pretty damn sure that shooting people was a bad idea.
"Life is like a video game. We all gotta die sometime." Please. That's either the words of a seriously deranged individual or some of the most obviously scripted bullshit I have ever seen.
Stop shifting blame. Blame the kid for being an asshat and a murderer until other factors come to light.
You honestly think the government is more responsible because you have guns? You actually believe your government is afraid of you? Talk about an inflated sense of self-worth :-)
Seriously though, your "tradition of cleaning house when needed" would come to an abrupt end when that small gathering of armed civilians gets an Apache-helicopter-beatdown. Don't kid yourself about being able to wrest control of the government away by force.
Funny enough, do you know what the US would look like if this scenario were to play out?
Iraq.
You do realise that I didn't say a word about global warming, right?
We use gasoline for a lot of good things. The dumbest use we have come up with yet is burning it to make our cars move.
Christ I need sleep.
Per 100,000.
Thanks
Unfortunately, this only hurts people who are struggling to make ends meet. The family of 4 has to take their kids out of soccer because they can't afford to drive them there anymore. Meanwhile the disgustingly rich still drive around in their land monsters.
We don't have less guns in Canada, we are frigging gun nuts! The difference is that we tend not to use them on each other, as indicated by the homicide rate in my province (typically around 1 per capita)
And that's the problem. The government should not be using force to dictate what kinds of cars people drive.
So the government should mind its own business because a few irresponsible people value their egos over the environment? This is EXACTLY what the government should be doing; intervening for the benefit of the vast majority of people in the country (and world, for that matter).
There are a hell of a lot of iPod users/fans here at /., and I doubt most of them have been influenced by the teeny bop stars and U2. (granted, some of it IS rabid Apple-fanboy behaviour, but I digress)
The iPod is more popular because it was the first out of the gate, had far more storage than the Flash memory offerings, looked/looks better than any other product available today and is far more simple to use than Creative's or anyone else's device. (iTunes is easy, scroll wheel is a godsend) The last one is particularly important, considering that many/most people are barely computer-literate and are rather frightened of technology.
Marketing and envious, keeping-up-with-the-Jones buying has certainly put the iPod where it is today. But the initial and ongoing popularity is because it is simply the best product available. The Creative product IS good, but the iPod is better.
Photosynthesis as found in plants generates carbohydrates and oxygen, but if you remove the organic component all you are really doing is using light to split water into hydrogen and oxygen; IIRC, this is a difficult thing to copy in a test tube.
No shortage of money? Before you chastise me about not being aware of the situation, perhaps you should look ahead more than a week or a month, because there WILL be a shortage of money.
As an interesting aside, I have said this before on Slashdot, but human eyes are pretty pathetic in terms of their sophistication.
I see your point, but I would like to mention that our eyes are capable of incredibly fast response times. I work with a nitrogen laser that pulses in batches of 5 shots on the order of a few tens of picoseconds each. There is a gap between the laser and the fibre-optic cable, and you can actually resolve each pulse with both your eyes and ears. Rhodopsin responds to light by photoisomerizing and then reverting back in femtoseconds.
So don't feel TOO bad about your primitive vision!
I believe the number is $64 million if you add up BC, Ontario and Alberta's contributions to the $40 million.
I was referring to the citizens themselves. If every adult in Canada put up $10 we would have ~$200 million in aid for those people.
Multiplayer fixes? The game has been out for about 45 days. Relax.
As far as your commentary on the single player, I spent far too much time listening to other people about the abruptness of the ending, and found myself expecting the game to end for about 6 straight levels. I think that you are suffering from the same problem.
Why does there NEED to be Earth levels? More specifically, why would that make or break the game? Just because you wanted the conflict to take place on Earth does not make the game bad. Why is playing as another well-developed, interesting character who functions in exactly the same manner as the Spartan, except with an AWESOME NINJA CLOAK capability with STEALTHY INSTANT KILL LASER NINJA SWORDS a bad thing? Why do you think that the ending of the game was bad? I believe that you went into this game with the expectation that it was going to be bad and were not going to be happy with anything else, and as far as I am concerned, you received the product that you deserve.
I see the game as a minor improvement on the previously fantastic game, with the IMPROVEMENTS (emphasis important here) being in character depth, weapon choice, dual wielding, opponent variety and intelligence, and vehicle use/hijacking.
If in 2 months the glitches have not been resolved then I will side with you in the multiplayer gripes. In the meantime, until you can explicitly explain to my why the single player campaign is not good I will have to chalk up your "Insightful" rating to typical fanboy bullshit.
(Please pardon the tone of my post. Listening to lazy fellow Canadians explain why they do not have to help with the tsunami aid effort gets me quite agitated)
I believe the point the poster was making is that once the magnetic field fails, the plasma touches the wall of the container. This causes the temperature of the plasma to drop considerably, to a point where it is no longer stable. The heat transfer to the wall of the vessel is small, lets say about 2 degrees C.
I consider myself to be a relatively new user (under 2 years). Look at my ID. Then look at yours. Notice the similarity?
There is probably a better reason, but I assumed that the reason was that Canada is simply not a big enought market to prioritize opening there. When you consider that California has a bigger economy and population than Canada, that isn't really that much of a stretch.