To give them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they meant an open safe, with a big arrow pointed towards it and the words "FREE STUFF!" spray painted on the wall.;-)
Heh, heh. Though I'd also use "Save As..." every once in a while and make redundant backups, such as Thalassemia7.doc, since Windows once managed to fuck up right in the middle of saving. The thought of having a single copy of an important document in a single location on a Windows machine is enough to give me a cold sweat.
It bugs me because the aspect ratio is screwed up. Whatever happened to 4:3? While my 17" LCD is otherwise nice, after this I'm never going to buy another monitor that isn't 4:3. It's just too much of a pain in the ass for games.
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Yeah, I understand. It's just that appeals to "support the troops" usually also demand that you support what they are doing. But they don't deserve insults or disrespect either - it's not their fault that the ones calling the shots are idiots.
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"Remember that those troops are over there so the protesters CAN protest."
Yeah, 'cause the greatest threat to freedom of speech is Saddam Hussein. Suuure. Then again, you might mean they need the gas for their SUVs to get to the protest...
...this urban legend? First, a lot of the questions on the exam were stupid; many of them involved listing rules rather than actually being able to use capital letters etc. in practice. It was probably also a teacher's exam, which would explain some of the strange questions.
Well sure, if you want to pay the extra cash to get name brand computer from a big box retailer. It's much cheaper to either build your own or buy from an independant computer store. Heck, these guys sell a computer that's $30(Can) more than Windows XP Pro.
(I just ordered a Windows-free Desknote laptop from this place.)
Why not just make the track so that a straight line path (at least by a wheeled vehicle) is impossible? ie, a large river or sheer cliff face is in the way.
Why is a standardized controller so important? Mine is almost identical to my PS2's, except with a couple extra trigger-like buttons. My old Gamepad Pro was almost exactly the same, just without the analog pads.
Not to mention that even consoles have alternate controllers you can buy. (ObMSJoke)Heck, for the Xbox, you can even get a gamepad that human hands will fit around!(/ObMSJoke)
Botulinus toxin is one of the most potent ones known, producing paralysis then death - (checks notes) 1 mg can kill 150 people. Most natural sources of poison (such as a snake bite) are just dilute, because not all that much is needed. A snake just needs to be able to kill a rat quickly, it doesn't need to be able to wipe out a town.
Many natural toxins are just as nasty as artificial ones - however, if they were a major source of death/evolutionary failure, we'd have greater resistance to them (like the mongoose). Of course, this "environmental illness" thing is quite different from a very real acute reaction like that, say, produced by an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor ("nerve gas"), which will either kill you, leave you hospitalized for a few months until your body can produce new AChE to replace that irreversibly bound to the toxin, or not reach sufficient levels in your blood to produce an effect.
As the anonymous cowards said, you can't keep it as electricity - unless you keep your car connected to the powerlines (like a trolly bus). If you use batteries, then that just means you'll have to convert it to a form of chemical energy and back again, which is also inefficient.
It might be more efficient, though, to put resources into producing an environmentally-friendly fuel that's easier to deal with, like biodiesel.
Not really... there's no reason that two "efficient" (as close to the thermodynamical maximum as possible) conversions can't be more efficient than one very wasteful conversion.
Plus, as the other poster noted, it'd be easier and cheaper to put strong environment controls (filters, precipitators, whatnot) on power plants than on every single car. Heck, asthma rates might actually stop rising...
You make fun of welfare recipients yet you can't spell "its."
I probably shouldn't continue this nit-picking of grammar, but I can't help it. (-1, Offtopic)
Since your post is a compound sentence, it should have a comma after recipients. You meant to type 'You make fun of welfare recipients, yet you can't spell "its."'.
I'd guess that'd be seven years of practicing geology where a license isn't required (another state/country) or someone who'd been practicing geology for seven years at the time this law was enacted.
Good point. Do you have any recommendations for good games that have car (not hovercraft, etc.) racing with realistic damage models?
The last car racing game I bought was Porsche Unleashed for the PC - the review raved about how realistic it was, and I noticed the screenshots had damage indicators and damaged sections on the cars. But when I played it, I noticed that even though I could bang up the car pretty good and get the indicator to change from green to yellow, orange, etc. the car still drove perfectly fine. Aagh.
I don't consider being able to drive full tilt at a wall and bounce off to be a hallmark of realism.
I only played this game briefly on someone else's machine, and I guess the other physics and stuff might have been realistic, but this seems to me to be a fatal flaw.
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I don't need a computer to keep track of appointments and phone numbers. I do need a computer that can store the equivalent of five heavy medical reference texts (which I could barely lift all at once), fit in my pocket, and work for weeks on a set of AAA's.
A notebook computer would be much harder to carry while walking around for 8 hours a day, wouldn't have the software available for its operating system (though an emulator might work), would take minutes to powerup instead of being instantly ready, and would need to be charged daily.
The phone numbers and appointments thing is just a handy extra.
Zire is the only one that DOESN'T make sense.
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The Zire?! For the same price (or less) you can get a Visor, instead of a machine that'll turn into a paperweight once the battery dies in a year or two, and get a nicer screen and tons of memory for traditional PDA tasks.
For medical reference, which is what I use my PDA for, PDA's with easier expandability make sense, such as the Clie SL10 or the Handera 330. PocketPCs don't - there is far less useful software for them, and both they and the fancy mega colour mp3 palms have pathetic battery life.
I'm not sure who all these multimedia bricks (pocketpc and palm) make sense for...
Yes, this is more of a "robot tech"
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...as in pharmacy technicians, which do a lot of this sort of thing already. With good techs on, most of what the pharmacist does is checking (the work of the tech, as well as the appropriateness of the Rx in the first place) and counselling.
Btw, while a few docs use systems for faxing/writing prescriptions, a lot of physicians are attached to writing them out themselves. Without major improvements in OCR, I can't see this working 100%.
While many films come as dual-layered discs, the actual movie part - without all the alternate angles, comment tracks, extras, etc - should easily fit on a single-layered one. I'd guess something like Das Boot might require some compression, though...
Not necessarily... it hasn't changed that much since the invention of the printing press. While I'm not an expert on the history of the English language, I'm pretty sure there was a lot more change in the 600 years before that than the 600 years after that. (At least as far as writing goes - spoken language is a different story which wouldn't really apply unless you're planning to store audio.)
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Not to mention all the people who live outside the United States but are affected by this kind of crappy law...
To give them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they meant an open safe, with a big arrow pointed towards it and the words "FREE STUFF!" spray painted on the wall. ;-)
Heh, heh. Though I'd also use "Save As..." every once in a while and make redundant backups, such as Thalassemia7.doc, since Windows once managed to fuck up right in the middle of saving. The thought of having a single copy of an important document in a single location on a Windows machine is enough to give me a cold sweat.
It bugs me because the aspect ratio is screwed up. Whatever happened to 4:3? While my 17" LCD is otherwise nice, after this I'm never going to buy another monitor that isn't 4:3. It's just too much of a pain in the ass for games.
Yeah, I understand. It's just that appeals to "support the troops" usually also demand that you support what they are doing. But they don't deserve insults or disrespect either - it's not their fault that the ones calling the shots are idiots.
Yeah, 'cause the greatest threat to freedom of speech is Saddam Hussein. Suuure. Then again, you might mean they need the gas for their SUVs to get to the protest...
...this urban legend? First, a lot of the questions on the exam were stupid; many of them involved listing rules rather than actually being able to use capital letters etc. in practice. It was probably also a teacher's exam, which would explain some of the strange questions.
(I just ordered a Windows-free Desknote laptop from this place.)
Heh, heh. Seriously, though, it would be easier and cheaper to use rubbing alcohol, which wouldn't be a problem.
Why not just make the track so that a straight line path (at least by a wheeled vehicle) is impossible? ie, a large river or sheer cliff face is in the way.
No, it was an attempt to replace religion. There's a difference.
Not to mention that even consoles have alternate controllers you can buy. (ObMSJoke)Heck, for the Xbox, you can even get a gamepad that human hands will fit around!(/ObMSJoke)
Many natural toxins are just as nasty as artificial ones - however, if they were a major source of death/evolutionary failure, we'd have greater resistance to them (like the mongoose). Of course, this "environmental illness" thing is quite different from a very real acute reaction like that, say, produced by an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor ("nerve gas"), which will either kill you, leave you hospitalized for a few months until your body can produce new AChE to replace that irreversibly bound to the toxin, or not reach sufficient levels in your blood to produce an effect.
It might be more efficient, though, to put resources into producing an environmentally-friendly fuel that's easier to deal with, like biodiesel.
Plus, as the other poster noted, it'd be easier and cheaper to put strong environment controls (filters, precipitators, whatnot) on power plants than on every single car. Heck, asthma rates might actually stop rising...
I probably shouldn't continue this nit-picking of grammar, but I can't help it. (-1, Offtopic)
Since your post is a compound sentence, it should have a comma after recipients. You meant to type 'You make fun of welfare recipients, yet you can't spell "its."'.
Sony is using both! I'm so confused... Are they good or evil? They're using blue today, so I guess that must mean... oh, my head hurts.
I'd guess that'd be seven years of practicing geology where a license isn't required (another state/country) or someone who'd been practicing geology for seven years at the time this law was enacted.
The last car racing game I bought was Porsche Unleashed for the PC - the review raved about how realistic it was, and I noticed the screenshots had damage indicators and damaged sections on the cars. But when I played it, I noticed that even though I could bang up the car pretty good and get the indicator to change from green to yellow, orange, etc. the car still drove perfectly fine. Aagh.
I only played this game briefly on someone else's machine, and I guess the other physics and stuff might have been realistic, but this seems to me to be a fatal flaw.
A notebook computer would be much harder to carry while walking around for 8 hours a day, wouldn't have the software available for its operating system (though an emulator might work), would take minutes to powerup instead of being instantly ready, and would need to be charged daily.
The phone numbers and appointments thing is just a handy extra.
For medical reference, which is what I use my PDA for, PDA's with easier expandability make sense, such as the Clie SL10 or the Handera 330. PocketPCs don't - there is far less useful software for them, and both they and the fancy mega colour mp3 palms have pathetic battery life.
I'm not sure who all these multimedia bricks (pocketpc and palm) make sense for...
Btw, while a few docs use systems for faxing/writing prescriptions, a lot of physicians are attached to writing them out themselves. Without major improvements in OCR, I can't see this working 100%.
While many films come as dual-layered discs, the actual movie part - without all the alternate angles, comment tracks, extras, etc - should easily fit on a single-layered one. I'd guess something like Das Boot might require some compression, though...
Not necessarily... it hasn't changed that much since the invention of the printing press. While I'm not an expert on the history of the English language, I'm pretty sure there was a lot more change in the 600 years before that than the 600 years after that. (At least as far as writing goes - spoken language is a different story which wouldn't really apply unless you're planning to store audio.)