It's called trolling... and it sometimes happens in the stories or summaries themselves and not only in the comments. Sadly, we can't moderator the articles...
And why couldn't the paper receipt be similarly compromised by the hack? Alternately, who is to prevent a fraudster from forging thousands of receipts and adding them to the paper receipt pile? In this case, the machine may actually hav e the true count, and the paper "back-up" would be fraudulent. When the re-count is ordered - what do you believe? That the voting machine was messed with or the paper trail? What breaks the tie?
Well..since you asked... thanks for mentioning those titles.. . I had them (except for Shark!Shark!) I also really liked Sub Hunt and one I can't remember that was about defusing a bomb... think it was an intellivoice game though..
You forgot the huge US Tsunami rescue/recovery/relief effort... oh wait.. that's right, they US caused the tsunami to take out the poor Muslim parts of Indonesia...
'm curious, how did getting an iRiver solve your problem? Surely it operates by physical contact, rather than telepathy? If your answer is 'I sued the remote,' then why didn't you just use a remote for the iPod? If you prefer the iRiver, then fair enough, your choice, but the iPod does seem to meet your needs here.
I guess I didn't go into adequate detail but here goes... the iPod wheely-thing has not tactile feedback until you have pressed a button. You have to *look* at it to make sure your finger is over the right area. On the other hand, the iRiver has buttons. I can feel the buttons without looking at it, and I know that the nearest button is the play/pause button. Moreover, the form factor of the iPod dictates that it be used (at least one-handedly) by holding it between the first finger and thumb, with the thumb actuating the controls. That doesn't provide for a very good "hold" on the device. Contrast that with iRiver, which is designed to be held in the ball of the palm (i.e. in my fist) which still leaves the buttons on the side of the device easy to access.
You make that sound like a bad thing:^) Seriously though, why would you want to use WMA?
Because some of my music collection is already ripped to this format and I don't want to bother with re-ripping or transcoding, besides, the files are smaller which translates to more songs at the same quality per device. This is important because the iRiver has a smaller capacity than the iRiver.
Have you purchased songs from a WMA music store?No, I have never *purchased* any song off an online music store. However, I can if I want to from within WMP10.
If you get the remote then you can use it as a radio. Yeah, it costs more, but it solves your sweating problem as well. Otr it would if you still had the iPod.
I didn't get the remote... the last thing I want is yet another device to carry with me on my runs. However, this brings up something that I didn't mention. My gym has all the audio channels of the TVs hooked up to radio trasmitters. You check out receivers from the desk. They suck - not to mention the fact that I had two devices in my cupholder, my mp3 player and this receiver, that I would swap back and forth during a long workout. With the iRiver, I don't need to check one out, I just switch back and forth using a button push on the player.
Fair enough. As long as there's a healthy number of dissenters liek you, hopeuflly Apple will keep on improving the iPod. Which in turn will make other amnufacturers compete more. A win for both of us:^)
Agreed... I am a little surprised they haven't gone after the sport market more... the shuffle was close to my needs (as far as form factor, cost, capacity, etc) but I listen to lots of podcasts, language exercises, etc and without a display, I'd be lost...
It plays into the "low end luxury snob" trend that America is so deeply into these days with other non-necessities like Starbucks and high end restaurants.
Not quite sure which "it" you are referring to, iRiver or iPod? Funny you mention Starbucks though because that is in line with my mental stereotype of an iPod user. For lack of any better word, the iPod seemed rather metrosexual to me... very pretty, very stylish - but not very mannly in a rugged or 100-button remote sense. I'm not into style enough to care what my iPod looks like or if it has a shiny metal backplate that doubles as a mirror...
There is no shortage of oil... there is only a shortage of oil at today's prices. Today's prices reflect today's easier methods of recovering oil from the reserves. There is plenty of oil that is simply too expensive to be recovered profitably using current methods. Only two things can happen to rectify this: either the price of oil continues to go up until it does become profitable to go after the "expensive" oil -or- new technology makes recovery of the oil possible (profitable) at current prices.
Excellent points! My personal experience is that there are many segments of the market that are not being explored at all. I searched for a portable mp3 player for months before finally buying a Nano a couple weeks ago. While it was indeed a stylish, nice little device, it was completely unsuited for my needs so I took it back and bought an iRiver T10.
You see, I wanted an mp3 player for some hard-core fitness use. An iPod lpoks great attached to the arm (arm strap not included btw) of the hot chick walking on the treadmill at the gym - but try using an iPod while running intervals. I listen to language tapes a lot so am frequently pausing and resuming the player. This means I have to be holding the device and in the case of the iPod, looking at it you want to hit the right button if you are doing anything other than sitting down. On a stationary bike or treadmill, I am constantly putting it in the cup holder and picking it back up again - sweating all over it, etc... some other observations:
iTunes - fought with it...couldn't stand it... updater had me run the setup program THREE times! (and it installed Quicktime on my machine (ugh))... mark me flamebait but I prefer MediaPlayer 10 (but of course it is incompatable with iPods)
Accessories are ridiculously expensive (although there is a huge selection.) I'm thinking there is a huge market out there for a mp3 manufacturer that is compatable with existing iPod accessories
Didn't come with anything except a sliver of a fabric sack (iRiver came with a plastic shell type cover and armband ($30 dollars extra for iPod)
Doesn't play WMA or Ogg
no radio
I gave it about a week before trading it in for the iRiver. Don't get me wrong, market forces obviously show that the iPod is a great product that meets the needs of most people,... I'm just not one of them... I want a small yet rugged mp3 player - one that I wouldn't cringe each time I drop wondering if $200 just went out the window...
The Force, it turns out, is an inherited, genetic trait. If you don't have the blood, you don't get the Force. Which makes the Jedi not a democratic militia, but a royalist Swiss guard. And an arrogant royalist Swiss guard, at that. With one or two notable exceptions, the Jedi we meet in Star Wars are full of themselves. They ignore the counsel of others (often with terrible consequences), and seem honestly to believe that they are at the center of the universe. When the chief Jedi record-keeper is asked in "Attack of the Clones" about a planet she has never heard of, she replies that if it's not in the Jedi archives, it doesn't exist. (The planet in question does exist, again, with terrible consequences.)
There is a "right to free healthcare" in the US as well. The trick is finding someone to give it to you for free. I think what you mean is the entitilement to free healthcare.
We didn't have the modern industrial society that is thought to be the primary cause of global warming today. They're just using the tree ring study by Esper, Cook, and Schweingruber as the end point for as far back as we can go. Check out this graph and its explanation on the Wikipedia for more data points.
I counter your claims and graph with this graph which clearly shows the cause of global warming is the lack of pirates in modern times.
Heck,.. I miss everything about Ultima Online... I have dabbled in a few others since then, but nothing captured the immersion that UO could - pretty impressive, considering how poor the graphics were.
First off, there were no levels. Pretty much every other fantasy MMORPG follows the EQ "level" concept. I hated this... leveling up your character became the object of the game, rather than the immersion in the univers. UO used a skill system - no levels. If you used a skill, it tended to go up. If you didn't use it, it atrophied. There were many many skills and hundreds if not thousands of objects in the game. Everything seemed to be usable in some way. Use a knife on a tree, you get kindling. Use an axe on a tree and you get logs. Use the kindling you get fire. Use your knife on the carcass and get ribs. Use the ribs on the fire and you get cooked (or burned if you failed) ribs. I still think that UO has a more robust player economy/crafting scene than any other game.
There were always lots of player events and spontaneous quests, and when I didn't want to go hunt monsters, I could go to my favorite player run pub and watch people role-playing being drunk, play a game of chess with someone (in game), attend a play or simply go sight-seeing in the land.
I don't have the time to spend on games like I used to,... but if I did, I'd go back to UO in a heartbeat.
*A Mis-light of an SRB on the pad (prior to launch) - Apparently NASA takes huge precautions with their SRBs due to volatility of the solid fuel.
*A Mis-light of an SRB on launch causing over-rotation of the vehicle away from the lit SRB(NASA *says* this is of infinitely small chance tho)
Well duh... you just have your robotic friend ignite the other one.. just like in the movie.
I had a great tour of a aerospace plant where they had some 3-d printers they used for rapid prototyping of aircraft parts. While there, they demoed for us the making of some chess pieces that would be impossible to carve as they had internal structure (e.g. a Rook with a staircase on the inside. The resin was translucent so you could see it... cool...
The politicization of the approval of judicial appointments is a new phenomena. The Democrats' arguments against Alito center on two points:
First, that he is too conservative / out of the mainstream
Second, that he was nominated to replace O'connor, who the Democrats claim to be a moderate, and as such would "tip the balance of the court".
The vote in committee was right down party lines and I think everyone assumes that the full Senate vote will be very similar.
Let's compare this with Ruth Bader Ginsburg'sconfirmation vote. She was confirmed 96 to 3 (1 not present). That is right, almost every Republican voted for her. This despite her being every bit as liberal as Alito is conservative. Moreover, she was a replacement for Byron White who was significantly more conservative that Ginsburg (he dissented in Miranda vs. Arizona, Roe vs. Wade, and supported an anti-sodomy law although he was more moderate on other issues such as civil rights and the death penalty). So much for the notion that replacements need to be similar idealogically to those they succeed.
Ask yourself what the various levels of government have done to earn a quarter of the wealth spawned by Google.
You mean other than create the internet? Or how about regulating commerce, building infrastructure (highways, etc) or educating the population? Wjat have the various levels of governement done for me, yet I pay taxes on my wealth... what's the difference?
That's where you are wrong... liberals have the right to freedom of speach without criticism, conservatives do not.
Case in point Lawrence Summer. You may recall he is the president of Harvard who caused a storm of controversy when he dared to suggest that the gap between men and women in certain fields may be causes by something other than social conditioning. The Faculty of the Arts and Sciences issed a vote of lack of confidence in him for those remarks and liberal academia as a whole seemed to condemn him.
The message is clear, if you express a conservative viewpoint in academia, then you are attacked. If you are a conservative inquiring into the liberal viewpoints of academia, you are similarly attacked.
Therewill be a ridiculous number of posts to follow no-doubt comparing this to fascism, Naziism, etc... somehow equating mass genocide and political executions with the actions of a group of alumni that simply want the factual positions of a few professors to be documented so that future students can make informed choices in their course selections.
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Conceptual development of the spacecraft ia actually a lot farther along than most people realize.
It's called trolling... and it sometimes happens in the stories or summaries themselves and not only in the comments. Sadly, we can't moderator the articles...
And why couldn't the paper receipt be similarly compromised by the hack? Alternately, who is to prevent a fraudster from forging thousands of receipts and adding them to the paper receipt pile? In this case, the machine may actually hav e the true count, and the paper "back-up" would be fraudulent. When the re-count is ordered - what do you believe? That the voting machine was messed with or the paper trail? What breaks the tie?
Well..since you asked ... thanks for mentioning those titles.. . I had them (except for Shark!Shark!) I also really liked Sub Hunt and one I can't remember that was about defusing a bomb... think it was an intellivoice game though..
Remember Utopia??? Sea Battle??? B-17 Bomber?
You forgot the huge US Tsunami rescue/recovery/relief effort... oh wait.. that's right, they US caused the tsunami to take out the poor Muslim parts of Indonesia...
More so when you read the fine print and realize that the patent was filed by 3D Realms!
I guess I didn't go into adequate detail but here goes... the iPod wheely-thing has not tactile feedback until you have pressed a button. You have to *look* at it to make sure your finger is over the right area. On the other hand, the iRiver has buttons. I can feel the buttons without looking at it, and I know that the nearest button is the play/pause button. Moreover, the form factor of the iPod dictates that it be used (at least one-handedly) by holding it between the first finger and thumb, with the thumb actuating the controls. That doesn't provide for a very good "hold" on the device. Contrast that with iRiver, which is designed to be held in the ball of the palm (i.e. in my fist) which still leaves the buttons on the side of the device easy to access.
You make that sound like a bad thing :^) Seriously though, why would you want to use WMA?
Because some of my music collection is already ripped to this format and I don't want to bother with re-ripping or transcoding, besides, the files are smaller which translates to more songs at the same quality per device. This is important because the iRiver has a smaller capacity than the iRiver.
Have you purchased songs from a WMA music store?No, I have never *purchased* any song off an online music store. However, I can if I want to from within WMP10.
If you get the remote then you can use it as a radio. Yeah, it costs more, but it solves your sweating problem as well. Otr it would if you still had the iPod.
I didn't get the remote... the last thing I want is yet another device to carry with me on my runs. However, this brings up something that I didn't mention. My gym has all the audio channels of the TVs hooked up to radio trasmitters. You check out receivers from the desk. They suck - not to mention the fact that I had two devices in my cupholder, my mp3 player and this receiver, that I would swap back and forth during a long workout. With the iRiver, I don't need to check one out, I just switch back and forth using a button push on the player.
Fair enough. As long as there's a healthy number of dissenters liek you, hopeuflly Apple will keep on improving the iPod. Which in turn will make other amnufacturers compete more. A win for both of us :^)
Agreed... I am a little surprised they haven't gone after the sport market more... the shuffle was close to my needs (as far as form factor, cost, capacity, etc) but I listen to lots of podcasts, language exercises, etc and without a display, I'd be lost...
Not quite sure which "it" you are referring to, iRiver or iPod? Funny you mention Starbucks though because that is in line with my mental stereotype of an iPod user. For lack of any better word, the iPod seemed rather metrosexual to me... very pretty, very stylish - but not very mannly in a rugged or 100-button remote sense. I'm not into style enough to care what my iPod looks like or if it has a shiny metal backplate that doubles as a mirror...
There is no shortage of oil... there is only a shortage of oil at today's prices. Today's prices reflect today's easier methods of recovering oil from the reserves. There is plenty of oil that is simply too expensive to be recovered profitably using current methods. Only two things can happen to rectify this: either the price of oil continues to go up until it does become profitable to go after the "expensive" oil -or- new technology makes recovery of the oil possible (profitable) at current prices.
You see, I wanted an mp3 player for some hard-core fitness use. An iPod lpoks great attached to the arm (arm strap not included btw) of the hot chick walking on the treadmill at the gym - but try using an iPod while running intervals. I listen to language tapes a lot so am frequently pausing and resuming the player. This means I have to be holding the device and in the case of the iPod, looking at it you want to hit the right button if you are doing anything other than sitting down. On a stationary bike or treadmill, I am constantly putting it in the cup holder and picking it back up again - sweating all over it, etc... some other observations:
- iTunes - fought with it...couldn't stand it... updater had me run the setup program THREE times! (and it installed Quicktime on my machine (ugh))... mark me flamebait but I prefer MediaPlayer 10 (but of course it is incompatable with iPods)
- Accessories are ridiculously expensive (although there is a huge selection.) I'm thinking there is a huge market out there for a mp3 manufacturer that is compatable with existing iPod accessories
- Didn't come with anything except a sliver of a fabric sack (iRiver came with a plastic shell type cover and armband ($30 dollars extra for iPod)
- Doesn't play WMA or Ogg
- no radio
I gave it about a week before trading it in for the iRiver. Don't get me wrong, market forces obviously show that the iPod is a great product that meets the needs of most people,... I'm just not one of them... I want a small yet rugged mp3 player - one that I wouldn't cringe each time I drop wondering if $200 just went out the window...The Force, it turns out, is an inherited, genetic trait. If you don't have the blood, you don't get the Force. Which makes the Jedi not a democratic militia, but a royalist Swiss guard. And an arrogant royalist Swiss guard, at that. With one or two notable exceptions, the Jedi we meet in Star Wars are full of themselves. They ignore the counsel of others (often with terrible consequences), and seem honestly to believe that they are at the center of the universe. When the chief Jedi record-keeper is asked in "Attack of the Clones" about a planet she has never heard of, she replies that if it's not in the Jedi archives, it doesn't exist. (The planet in question does exist, again, with terrible consequences.)
Read it all...
That said,... after my wife goes to sleep I can be found playing Civ 3 or Enemy Territory. :)
There is a "right to free healthcare" in the US as well. The trick is finding someone to give it to you for free. I think what you mean is the entitilement to free healthcare.
Offer up your hands... that monitor ain't so great now is it?
I counter your claims and graph with this graph which clearly shows the cause of global warming is the lack of pirates in modern times.
First off, there were no levels. Pretty much every other fantasy MMORPG follows the EQ "level" concept. I hated this... leveling up your character became the object of the game, rather than the immersion in the univers. UO used a skill system - no levels. If you used a skill, it tended to go up. If you didn't use it, it atrophied. There were many many skills and hundreds if not thousands of objects in the game. Everything seemed to be usable in some way. Use a knife on a tree, you get kindling. Use an axe on a tree and you get logs. Use the kindling you get fire. Use your knife on the carcass and get ribs. Use the ribs on the fire and you get cooked (or burned if you failed) ribs. I still think that UO has a more robust player economy /crafting scene than any other game.
There were always lots of player events and spontaneous quests, and when I didn't want to go hunt monsters, I could go to my favorite player run pub and watch people role-playing being drunk, play a game of chess with someone (in game), attend a play or simply go sight-seeing in the land.
I don't have the time to spend on games like I used to,... but if I did, I'd go back to UO in a heartbeat.
You must be living in a land of confusion...
"If there are any girls here I want to do them!"
P:Did it work?
Gravity or the spell?
*A Mis-light of an SRB on launch causing over-rotation of the vehicle away from the lit SRB(NASA *says* this is of infinitely small chance tho)
Well duh... you just have your robotic friend ignite the other one.. just like in the movie.
I had a great tour of a aerospace plant where they had some 3-d printers they used for rapid prototyping of aircraft parts. While there, they demoed for us the making of some chess pieces that would be impossible to carve as they had internal structure (e.g. a Rook with a staircase on the inside. The resin was translucent so you could see it... cool...
The vote in committee was right down party lines and I think everyone assumes that the full Senate vote will be very similar.
Let's compare this with Ruth Bader Ginsburg's confirmation vote. She was confirmed 96 to 3 (1 not present). That is right, almost every Republican voted for her. This despite her being every bit as liberal as Alito is conservative. Moreover, she was a replacement for Byron White who was significantly more conservative that Ginsburg (he dissented in Miranda vs. Arizona, Roe vs. Wade, and supported an anti-sodomy law although he was more moderate on other issues such as civil rights and the death penalty). So much for the notion that replacements need to be similar idealogically to those they succeed.
You mean other than create the internet? Or how about regulating commerce, building infrastructure (highways, etc) or educating the population? Wjat have the various levels of governement done for me, yet I pay taxes on my wealth... what's the difference?
Case in point Lawrence Summer. You may recall he is the president of Harvard who caused a storm of controversy when he dared to suggest that the gap between men and women in certain fields may be causes by something other than social conditioning. The Faculty of the Arts and Sciences issed a vote of lack of confidence in him for those remarks and liberal academia as a whole seemed to condemn him.
The message is clear, if you express a conservative viewpoint in academia, then you are attacked. If you are a conservative inquiring into the liberal viewpoints of academia, you are similarly attacked.
Therewill be a ridiculous number of posts to follow no-doubt comparing this to fascism, Naziism, etc... somehow equating mass genocide and political executions with the actions of a group of alumni that simply want the factual positions of a few professors to be documented so that future students can make informed choices in their course selections.