I work someone with someone from Korea and asked him about this.
He didn't know why but did add that in Korea group play is the cultural norm. The independent culture of america is not prevalent in korean society at least not as much or revered the way americans do.
I have played sports all my life, in that time I have seen different reasons for different people to excel at different sports I will also include chess in this(avoiding the chess is a sport debate)
Take basketball: Taller the better, ju,mping ability helps. But there are also abilities that are hard to judge.
"Ability to see the floor"
"Knowing where to be to receive a pass" "anticipation on defense" "knack for knowing where the ball is going to be*rebound"
I casually play games like RTS and FPS, I do well but when I play there is usually someone better than I.
My question is what mental and physical attributes make a good RTS and FPS player.
I know practice is important but practice being equal what traits physical and mental are most important.
Like most things their is alot more to pitching than people see.
Changing of speeds and similiar arm motion when doing so is a big thing.
And then location, location location.
Big really changing speeds is such a big deal, and hard to understand until you experience trying to hit a 70 MPH change up when you are expecting a 90 MPH fastball.
I know of no drugs that would help a pitcher like Johnson.
Pin-point accuracy is so important along with control of the pitches(change-ups, slider, curve ball) that drugs may allow him to pitch faster but not better.
Most players in the major leagues can rock a 95 MPH fast ball if they know it's coming and where.
Like saying a car driver gets too much praise and not the car, or a programmer gets too much praise and not the computer. If a fielder went a whole season without an error they wouldn't be praising the pitching staff. Only when the fielder much a great play do they also get talked aobut.
The fielders are there to field. If you didn't have your fielder(including catcher) you could never get a guy out.
Ok i know you don;t like baseball but you statement is not correct.
Suceeding in baseball is getting a hit, getting hit, walking, or in sacrificing. Only getting a hit counts in your average.
You don't get three chance to succeed, if the first pitch you hit a lazy pop-up you are done. Only if you swing and miss, hit a foul ball or take a strike(assuming less than two strikes) do you get another chance.
Sorry to get technical. Baseball is a great game too bad the owners and players have ruined it. Or should i just say money.
The problem is most people seem to lose their "sense" or "willpower" when it comes to credit cards.
I am not one of those people.
But cash allows allows me to set up a budget in the beginning of the month and not stray, or my wife. Using cash it was easier than anyway i have found.
I only used credit cards before i was married and paid off the bills every month, no problem.
But being married I find that a cash system works great.
I don't know how you spend but i would guess setting up a budget and sticking with it, you would have saved over $600 during the same time. I understand very well be wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
Fair enough
Why do you think it's an advertisment?
If you are selling a million dollar machine, you don't get slashdot to post about it.
You find who has the authority to buy and who they listen to and schmooze them.
I agree, but the marketing is done poorly.
'Save the earth so it will be here when we are reincarnated'
Is not a good slogan.
A better slogan might be:
'Save energy, save money, and screw OPEC all at the same time!'
I work someone with someone from Korea and asked him about this.
He didn't know why but did add that in Korea group play is the cultural norm.
The independent culture of america is not prevalent in korean society at least not as much or revered the way americans do.
I have played sports all my life, in that time I have seen different reasons for different people to excel at different sports I will also include chess in this(avoiding the chess is a sport debate)
Take basketball: Taller the better, ju,mping ability helps.
But there are also abilities that are hard to judge.
"Ability to see the floor"
"Knowing where to be to receive a pass"
"anticipation on defense"
"knack for knowing where the ball is going to be*rebound"
I casually play games like RTS and FPS, I do well but when I play there is usually someone better than I.
My question is what mental and physical attributes make a good RTS and FPS player.
I know practice is important but practice being equal what traits physical and mental are most important.
>In many cases, they are asking for information that is confidential communication between us and our lawyers, or between us and our contributors."
....oh yeah
I thought FSF wanted everything open?
Sorry couldn't resist.
ummmm
I hate SCO! and...and M$ and... the RIAA!
Like most things their is alot more to pitching than people see.
Changing of speeds and similiar arm motion when doing so is a big thing.
And then location, location location.
Big really changing speeds is such a big deal, and hard to understand until you experience trying to hit a 70 MPH change up when you are expecting a 90 MPH fastball.
I know of no drugs that would help a pitcher like Johnson.
Pin-point accuracy is so important along with control of the pitches(change-ups, slider, curve ball) that drugs may allow him to pitch faster but not better.
Most players in the major leagues can rock a 95 MPH fast ball if they know it's coming and where.
You obviously haven't played much baseball.
Like saying a car driver gets too much praise and not the car, or a programmer gets too much praise and not the computer.
If a fielder went a whole season without an error they wouldn't be praising the pitching staff.
Only when the fielder much a great play do they also get talked aobut.
The fielders are there to field.
If you didn't have your fielder(including catcher) you could never get a guy out.
Ok i know you don;t like baseball but you statement is not correct.
Suceeding in baseball is getting a hit, getting hit, walking, or in sacrificing. Only getting a hit counts in your average.
You don't get three chance to succeed, if the first pitch you hit a lazy pop-up you are done. Only if you swing and miss, hit a foul ball or take a strike(assuming less than two strikes) do you get another chance.
Sorry to get technical.
Baseball is a great game too bad the owners and players have ruined it. Or should i just say money.
>So this Ken Brown fellow with the 0.500 rating is doing rather splendidly then
Only if he was playing baseball, most other things he's not doing so good.,
In baseball anything over .300(30%) is considered excellent when it comes to hitting.
So to say you are batting(hitting) five hundred means you were successful half the time.
Puerto Ricans and even Koreans I will give you.
Every country plays baseball, most of those other country you mention football(soccer) dominates.
>France generates over 60% of its domestic energy this way and I don't see anyone calling that country an environmental nightmare.
Actually, I have heard it called a few other things though...
From what I have heard, France did the nuclear power thing right.
They got one solid design and all their plants follow this same design. A lot less problems I would guess
So according to your logic, we should never blame the OS for lack of hardware support or number of apps?
>In either case, this sends a loud and clear message to all businesses out there: messing with GPL code will get you burned
Why because then if you do something the GPL'ites don't like we will do something illegal against you?
I think it would be better to take cisco to court, not play software terrorists.
Can recipes be stolen?
Music? Design plans?
Information in a book?
etc
What about other companies that supply cisco with software?
This could hurt more than just cisco.
oh man i was just yanking yer chain.
You make good points especially about how it seems backwards they way the measure MPG....but
>People who by hybrids are, of course, concerned about their mileage, and are the only ones paying this kind of attention to it.
>my non-hybrid 2001 civic HX CVT gets 35-37mpg, depending on what I was doing on that particular tank of gas.
umm, i think you do seem to care.
Not if you fall into the RMS crowd.
Which believes proprietary software is immoral pure and simple.
It seems OSS falls into two groups: pragmatic and idealogical.
And as time moves along the differences between the two grow larger.
Is banning smoking in public building considered to be leftist?
Only if we could put your sorry self in the game also.
The problem is most people seem to lose their "sense" or "willpower" when it comes to credit cards.
I am not one of those people.
But cash allows allows me to set up a budget in the beginning of the month and not stray, or my wife. Using cash it was easier than anyway i have found.
I only used credit cards before i was married and paid off the bills every month, no problem.
But being married I find that a cash system works great.
I don't know how you spend but i would guess setting up a budget and sticking with it, you would have saved over $600 during the same time.
I understand very well be wrong.
Or who they are marketing to.
I am guessing you were marketing to a more informed crowd.