They did not BUY the book, they PAID for a CONTRACT for a SERVICE. This Service ioncluded them being able to read Animal Farms and 1984, and could be revoked any time. In other word, they rented something, and the contract said they could stop being offered that something at ANY time. THIS is the future eBook want to offer. And people says I am crazy to think this is not the future I want. I loan my book , I buy my book, I don't *RENT* them to lose them at the fucking free will of some corporate drone on the other side of the earth. The only eBook I would ever want are the one without DRM. (creative content?).
QUOTE : Researchers developed the drug after looking at how some resistant cancer cells are able to withstand radiotherapy.
It works by inhibiting the protein that initiates the cell suicide programme
In other word it does not repair radiation damage (cue the rad away joke), it just stops all the cells where this protein is present to die. Whether there was a good reason for them to die or not. It might be wonderful for radiation treatment, though. The researcher seems conscient of the risk (like new cancer developping).
I used to belong to that demographic long long ago. But with age I simply lost patience and reading too much from a computer screen is tiring. We were young. Now we are at best middle aged, at worst seniors. Most of us do not want or cannot waste as much time on tiring task. Even if the new demographic of young people was coming in, we a bit older would not want to go through that again and again. The myth that now people only accept instant gratification is just a myth. Many of those I.F. were simply cumbersome and unforgivable but since this is all we had, we accepted it. Most people would not willingly eat stale moldy rotten bread if fresh bread is available. You do it only when there is no fresh bread available and you are starving. Same for the first graphic+novel type of adventure like KQ's. We will not willingly go again in that especially eating the cake right off the start breaking down the game.
Maybe they can revive I.F. as type of ebook. But I doubt it.
The developper kind of disagree, as per the article on spirit master : Spirits persist, rather than being short-term and useful for only one fight. Once your character summons a spirit, it stays with your character until it dies, the spirit dies, you log out, or your character crosses into a new zone. It sound it will be as much zone free as other MMO are. Visually you can go from one place to the next seemlessly, but there are still zones.
And a lot of people willingly recognize that once you start onto a rational path, there is no turn back toward religion. It takes a lot of cognitive dissonance to keep being religious, and accept rationality and a good method based on evidence at the same time.
You are clearly understating the size of the portion you are eating (willingly or unconsciously). Conservation of energy (and therefor conservation of mass since no nuclear process is involved) tells me that the fat/weight you accumulate is directly linked by the amount of nutriment you are extracting from food, minus what you use up during the day and/or exhale and execrate. So yes, if you are eating what people call MODERATE portion, and have even a sedentary life, maybe you would take on weight but very slowly. Over 6 months for example I took in the last 10 years in average half a Kg to a Kg. So yeah over ten years I became slightly overweight (90Kg instead of my preferred ~80Kg). But after losing weight, getting back the same or more than that over 6 month with moderate portion is not possible. Once can only guess that what you call moderate is not what the average person would call moderate.
EVen the greek a few millenia ago KNEW that the earth was not flat. All scientist knew it was round, and I dare say all educated persons, and all sailor educated or not. Recent scholarship, particularly since the 1990s,[3] has shown that with extraordinarily few exceptions "no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat" and that the prevailing view was of a spherical earth.[1] wiki quote.
And again, it was known from 4 BC from greek.
Most if not all player which are REALLY roleplayer (as in pen and paper) rarely gank on each other. This is a breaking experience. What they do is they form groups which are friendly to each member. If they did not the group would implode and people go separate ways. The same happens in computer RPG where roleplayer come and "roleplay". The roleplay IS the goal, the immersing in a foreign world in a group and have fun together. On the other hand those which do PVP and say they roleplay are in reality covering their competition streak with a mantel of roleplaying. The roleplay IS NOT the goal. The PVP is. At least that has been my experience of all "roleplayer" doing pvp. The roleplay was only ever a tool to enhance their enjoyment of the pvp. There might be a few to which the pvp is enhancing the thrill of the roleplay by adding external danger, but in my (anecdotial) experience those must be a rarety as I never met one.
In conclusion people lament you can't roleplay in modern rpg because they are limited in how you can SHOW your role to player and how they are limited in the action you can do. The lament have mostly nothing to do with PVP ever.
What count is (if I understood correctly) that you have one program per state. So on state level the size argument don't hold at all. What COULD be the biggest problem is 1) new edition every year and 2) state/school force use of the new edition instead of skipping once every 4 or 6 years. After all at ground school and at high school level, it ain't as if basic math, physic, reading, biology, history and geography were changing that much. Naturally if school let themselves get caught replacing book every year such program or business model don't make sense.
OK France is 1/5 of the size of the US so maybe it cannot be compared, but I know only France as education system. In the primary/secondary we got the book loaned and had only to pay up a fine if we scribled it or worsened its state. From high school (lycee) and especially university there were old book sold from student to the previous. Some shop even speciliazed into doing that (Gibert Jeune for example in Paris is where I got my expensive QM books...). Only around 1 year out of 4 to 6 years we had to buy new one because change in the programs. But all in one it came relatively cheap. And in case you are asking, that was 25 years ago.
Some of her body part , like bone structure, are 10 years old. Thus it sounds doubtful she will reach the multi-centenarian age you cited. They tried to communicate with her , tried to teach her speaking but it failed. Anyway there is a rearrangement of the pharynx/larynx at the venerable age of 1/2 years old which is needed to be able to physically speak. Without it you can't. Maybe a doctor/biologist can chime in.
Over 30 is way too damn hot, under 0 is way too damn cold (or whatever you feel better for me it is -10, +20). And what is the temperature of ice in fahrenheit scale at standard PST ? Temperature of bopiling water at standard PST ? Without consulting anything I know it is 0/100 for pure water. Fahrentheit it is 32 to 212. Bah.
Afterward the engineer at the NASA and the scientist at the NASA can speak to the rest of the world without having to convert, or FREAKING lose satellite, or mars orbiter.
I know of not a few people which bought HD DVD when it died because it was sold at "cost" and they bought all available HD DVD, for a cheap price. Sure now it is "died" as nothing new will be out, but they got it for cheaper than a nice brand new blue ray... I would not be surprised if the difference between 10% HD DVD and 7% Blu ray is not just due to that...
I eman, let us have a look at COPA and other similar dumb stuff, or gay mariage law. it is all about politic making something useless but targeted at their audience to look as if they did something useful. Since most people don't look past the face value... But here I think this is mostly because people did not even knew about that law. I talked about my colleagues on this in germany. None KNEW about that law. But even when I talked about it to them, they could not care less. Why ? They never use child porn, never use porn, or "violent" video game. I mean, those are the same people which wanted to forbid PAINT BALL.
Only a minority find the result incredible, a vocal minority, but a minority nonetheless. The vast majority are in their home. We don't know what they think or care.
We don't need that much time, we all hand count the ballot (actually vonlonteer are asked during the day from normal voters). By the time it closes, we have enough people to count it within 30m-1h. A few guy are there to explain us what is a blank vote/null vote, and that's it. Usually by the time I am home the result are there. And there are 60+ million people in France so probably 30/40 millions voters too... Same order of magnitude as Iran. There is nothing wrong with having results within a few hours of the closure of all polling place. Really the alughable is that some western place can need so much time (a half day!?) to gather ballot data, when hand counting can be so quick.
The parents have no way to know whether the kid will want to be a model or a genius. And even if they hit jackpot, this is a NORMAL kid, it will have the same chance or possibility as other kids, and will be within the gaussian curve of population. Now if they ENHANCED a kid by changing its gene that would be something different.
I have tried for example to search the term "wortschaft" (economy) and with google I got first wikipedia (de.wikipedia.org)then other stuff like spiegel.de etc... When I said to it "only german page" I STILL got de.wikipedia.org. And i get google news as search result somewhere on the first page (not on top!). But with Bing de.wikipedia.org is gone, probably because it is.org and not.de so bing got ride of it (I assume) so here google shows more completeness of result no matter why, and on the first page I am not getting google news. Why don't I get google news on top ?
Making information more quickly available do not lessen the value of an NDA or its strength. they are both dependent on the value people put on the information, and how willing they are to respect their word and/or a contract, there is no value associated with how quick the info covered by the NDA can be spread. OTOH it become incresingly digfficult to respect a NDA when you have to read and understand 30 pages of legaleze. If anything, it is the lawyer fault by making NDA so obcenly tight and long legalze, they paradoxaly increase the "inadvertent" case of rbeaking NDA. But for the real full disclosure intentional break, there is as much as there ever was.
you cannot be really griefed on most WOW server, as you have to MAKE yourself pvp enabled to be griefed. The rest of the idiot you can just add to your ignore list. You cannot be ganked as a player if you have not made yourself pvp in wow and the server setting are normal.
Freeze and play dead? Someone really should have thought of that _before_ we started broadcasting radio and TV and a planet-wide basis. Those waves really don't stop when they hit the outer atmosphere you know... By now we should be fairly well-known in our galactic neighbourhood.
TV and radio braodcast are not detectable after a few dozen AU, at msot 1 light year (nearest solar system is 4 LY and galaxy width is measured in tens of thousand of LY to give you an idea). The reason for that is that the signal are not directional, and thus the strength of the signal goes weaker as you increase the sphere from which it diffuse to. At a distance we are speaking of, it is virtually undetectable. More or less you would have to make a powerful directional and very narrow signal toward another system to be detected at a few LY distance. Which is why SETI can only detect another specy which WANT to be detected for the same reason.
As for being well known , we would be well known only in a very very small corner of our galaxy EVEN if the signal could travel such a distance... At most 100 LY if you count the first radio broadcast (and be VERY very very generous).
"Could you pelase show us your proof that chimp/ape/human don't share a common ancestor ?" should read "could you please show us proof that the current theory (and the evidence for it) that human/ape/chimp share a common ancestor is false".
Just as much proof exists to say that they, at the very least, could have evolved from separate organisms. Could you pelase show us your proof that chimp/ape/human don't share a common ancestor ?
Shall I even mention the leap of faith required to even consider whether those same 2 animals evolved in the first place? Ha I see you are a creationist then. I hate to rbeak it to you, but the above article is about science, and for science, as of now with the evidence we have, all animal evolve and those two animal, whatever the animal HAVE evolved.
In that many years it will either be remembered and documented (and thus no need for a "special" preservation or it will be forgotten and that special preservation is useless.
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They did not BUY the book, they PAID for a CONTRACT for a SERVICE. This Service ioncluded them being able to read Animal Farms and 1984, and could be revoked any time. In other word, they rented something, and the contract said they could stop being offered that something at ANY time. THIS is the future eBook want to offer. And people says I am crazy to think this is not the future I want. I loan my book , I buy my book, I don't *RENT* them to lose them at the fucking free will of some corporate drone on the other side of the earth. The only eBook I would ever want are the one without DRM. (creative content?).
QUOTE : Researchers developed the drug after looking at how some resistant cancer cells are able to withstand radiotherapy.
It works by inhibiting the protein that initiates the cell suicide programme
In other word it does not repair radiation damage (cue the rad away joke), it just stops all the cells where this protein is present to die. Whether there was a good reason for them to die or not. It might be wonderful for radiation treatment, though. The researcher seems conscient of the risk (like new cancer developping).
I used to belong to that demographic long long ago. But with age I simply lost patience and reading too much from a computer screen is tiring. We were young. Now we are at best middle aged, at worst seniors. Most of us do not want or cannot waste as much time on tiring task. Even if the new demographic of young people was coming in, we a bit older would not want to go through that again and again. The myth that now people only accept instant gratification is just a myth. Many of those I.F. were simply cumbersome and unforgivable but since this is all we had, we accepted it. Most people would not willingly eat stale moldy rotten bread if fresh bread is available. You do it only when there is no fresh bread available and you are starving. Same for the first graphic+novel type of adventure like KQ's. We will not willingly go again in that especially eating the cake right off the start breaking down the game.
Maybe they can revive I.F. as type of ebook. But I doubt it.
The developper kind of disagree, as per the article on spirit master : Spirits persist, rather than being short-term and useful for only one fight. Once your character summons a spirit, it stays with your character until it dies, the spirit dies, you log out, or your character crosses into a new zone. It sound it will be as much zone free as other MMO are. Visually you can go from one place to the next seemlessly, but there are still zones.
And a lot of people willingly recognize that once you start onto a rational path, there is no turn back toward religion. It takes a lot of cognitive dissonance to keep being religious, and accept rationality and a good method based on evidence at the same time.
You are clearly understating the size of the portion you are eating (willingly or unconsciously). Conservation of energy (and therefor conservation of mass since no nuclear process is involved) tells me that the fat/weight you accumulate is directly linked by the amount of nutriment you are extracting from food, minus what you use up during the day and/or exhale and execrate. So yes, if you are eating what people call MODERATE portion, and have even a sedentary life, maybe you would take on weight but very slowly. Over 6 months for example I took in the last 10 years in average half a Kg to a Kg. So yeah over ten years I became slightly overweight (90Kg instead of my preferred ~80Kg). But after losing weight, getting back the same or more than that over 6 month with moderate portion is not possible. Once can only guess that what you call moderate is not what the average person would call moderate.
EVen the greek a few millenia ago KNEW that the earth was not flat. All scientist knew it was round, and I dare say all educated persons, and all sailor educated or not. Recent scholarship, particularly since the 1990s,[3] has shown that with extraordinarily few exceptions "no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat" and that the prevailing view was of a spherical earth.[1] wiki quote. And again, it was known from 4 BC from greek.
Most if not all player which are REALLY roleplayer (as in pen and paper) rarely gank on each other. This is a breaking experience. What they do is they form groups which are friendly to each member. If they did not the group would implode and people go separate ways. The same happens in computer RPG where roleplayer come and "roleplay". The roleplay IS the goal, the immersing in a foreign world in a group and have fun together. On the other hand those which do PVP and say they roleplay are in reality covering their competition streak with a mantel of roleplaying. The roleplay IS NOT the goal. The PVP is. At least that has been my experience of all "roleplayer" doing pvp. The roleplay was only ever a tool to enhance their enjoyment of the pvp. There might be a few to which the pvp is enhancing the thrill of the roleplay by adding external danger, but in my (anecdotial) experience those must be a rarety as I never met one.
In conclusion people lament you can't roleplay in modern rpg because they are limited in how you can SHOW your role to player and how they are limited in the action you can do. The lament have mostly nothing to do with PVP ever.
What count is (if I understood correctly) that you have one program per state. So on state level the size argument don't hold at all. What COULD be the biggest problem is 1) new edition every year and 2) state/school force use of the new edition instead of skipping once every 4 or 6 years. After all at ground school and at high school level, it ain't as if basic math, physic, reading, biology, history and geography were changing that much. Naturally if school let themselves get caught replacing book every year such program or business model don't make sense.
OK France is 1/5 of the size of the US so maybe it cannot be compared, but I know only France as education system. In the primary/secondary we got the book loaned and had only to pay up a fine if we scribled it or worsened its state. From high school (lycee) and especially university there were old book sold from student to the previous. Some shop even speciliazed into doing that (Gibert Jeune for example in Paris is where I got my expensive QM books...). Only around 1 year out of 4 to 6 years we had to buy new one because change in the programs. But all in one it came relatively cheap. And in case you are asking, that was 25 years ago.
Some of her body part , like bone structure, are 10 years old. Thus it sounds doubtful she will reach the multi-centenarian age you cited. They tried to communicate with her , tried to teach her speaking but it failed. Anyway there is a rearrangement of the pharynx/larynx at the venerable age of 1/2 years old which is needed to be able to physically speak. Without it you can't. Maybe a doctor/biologist can chime in.
Over 30 is way too damn hot, under 0 is way too damn cold (or whatever you feel better for me it is -10, +20). And what is the temperature of ice in fahrenheit scale at standard PST ? Temperature of bopiling water at standard PST ? Without consulting anything I know it is 0/100 for pure water. Fahrentheit it is 32 to 212. Bah.
Afterward the engineer at the NASA and the scientist at the NASA can speak to the rest of the world without having to convert, or FREAKING lose satellite, or mars orbiter.
I know of not a few people which bought HD DVD when it died because it was sold at "cost" and they bought all available HD DVD, for a cheap price. Sure now it is "died" as nothing new will be out, but they got it for cheaper than a nice brand new blue ray... I would not be surprised if the difference between 10% HD DVD and 7% Blu ray is not just due to that...
I eman, let us have a look at COPA and other similar dumb stuff, or gay mariage law. it is all about politic making something useless but targeted at their audience to look as if they did something useful. Since most people don't look past the face value... But here I think this is mostly because people did not even knew about that law. I talked about my colleagues on this in germany. None KNEW about that law. But even when I talked about it to them, they could not care less. Why ? They never use child porn, never use porn, or "violent" video game. I mean, those are the same people which wanted to forbid PAINT BALL.
Only a minority find the result incredible, a vocal minority, but a minority nonetheless. The vast majority are in their home. We don't know what they think or care.
We don't need that much time, we all hand count the ballot (actually vonlonteer are asked during the day from normal voters). By the time it closes, we have enough people to count it within 30m-1h. A few guy are there to explain us what is a blank vote/null vote, and that's it. Usually by the time I am home the result are there. And there are 60+ million people in France so probably 30/40 millions voters too... Same order of magnitude as Iran. There is nothing wrong with having results within a few hours of the closure of all polling place. Really the alughable is that some western place can need so much time (a half day!?) to gather ballot data, when hand counting can be so quick.
The parents have no way to know whether the kid will want to be a model or a genius. And even if they hit jackpot, this is a NORMAL kid, it will have the same chance or possibility as other kids, and will be within the gaussian curve of population. Now if they ENHANCED a kid by changing its gene that would be something different.
I have tried for example to search the term "wortschaft" (economy) and with google I got first wikipedia (de.wikipedia.org)then other stuff like spiegel.de etc... When I said to it "only german page" I STILL got de.wikipedia.org. And i get google news as search result somewhere on the first page (not on top!). But with Bing de.wikipedia.org is gone, probably because it is .org and not .de so bing got ride of it (I assume) so here google shows more completeness of result no matter why, and on the first page I am not getting google news. Why don't I get google news on top ?
Making information more quickly available do not lessen the value of an NDA or its strength. they are both dependent on the value people put on the information, and how willing they are to respect their word and/or a contract, there is no value associated with how quick the info covered by the NDA can be spread. OTOH it become incresingly digfficult to respect a NDA when you have to read and understand 30 pages of legaleze. If anything, it is the lawyer fault by making NDA so obcenly tight and long legalze, they paradoxaly increase the "inadvertent" case of rbeaking NDA. But for the real full disclosure intentional break, there is as much as there ever was.
you cannot be really griefed on most WOW server, as you have to MAKE yourself pvp enabled to be griefed. The rest of the idiot you can just add to your ignore list. You cannot be ganked as a player if you have not made yourself pvp in wow and the server setting are normal.
Freeze and play dead? Someone really should have thought of that _before_ we started broadcasting radio and TV and a planet-wide basis. Those waves really don't stop when they hit the outer atmosphere you know... By now we should be fairly well-known in our galactic neighbourhood.
TV and radio braodcast are not detectable after a few dozen AU, at msot 1 light year (nearest solar system is 4 LY and galaxy width is measured in tens of thousand of LY to give you an idea). The reason for that is that the signal are not directional, and thus the strength of the signal goes weaker as you increase the sphere from which it diffuse to. At a distance we are speaking of, it is virtually undetectable. More or less you would have to make a powerful directional and very narrow signal toward another system to be detected at a few LY distance. Which is why SETI can only detect another specy which WANT to be detected for the same reason.
As for being well known , we would be well known only in a very very small corner of our galaxy EVEN if the signal could travel such a distance... At most 100 LY if you count the first radio broadcast (and be VERY very very generous).
"Could you pelase show us your proof that chimp/ape/human don't share a common ancestor ?" should read "could you please show us proof that the current theory (and the evidence for it) that human/ape/chimp share a common ancestor is false".
Just as much proof exists to say that they, at the very least, could have evolved from separate organisms.
Could you pelase show us your proof that chimp/ape/human don't share a common ancestor ?
Shall I even mention the leap of faith required to even consider whether those same 2 animals evolved in the first place?
Ha I see you are a creationist then. I hate to rbeak it to you, but the above article is about science, and for science, as of now with the evidence we have, all animal evolve and those two animal, whatever the animal HAVE evolved.
In that many years it will either be remembered and documented (and thus no need for a "special" preservation or it will be forgotten and that special preservation is useless.