Well of course the US requires the product to be stamped with the nation, not the town/city. Although there's already an urban legend about something similar done in Japan.
But the standard price is $130, any do poor people really play knockoff consoles? I think it's mostly people who just don't know any better and think they're getting a deal, same as CVS's $100 android tablets.
The tabletop non-mobile console will be merged into the home TV;
What? No, of course this will not happen any time in the near future. For anything like it to happen, Android (or something similar) would have to be a viable game platform, and everybody would have to stop liking graphically intense games and get more into "Angry Birds." Neither of these are at all true. Maybe it could happen in a couple decades, but perhaps by then TVs will be passe and we'll all be watching holograms. Why are you browsing games.slashdot in the first place?
For years we were told that milk would make us strong. Milk is still served as the sole diary, even though many kids are intolerant of it. Very few white kids are intolerant of milk. Even in China most kids drink milk.
but children are taught that animal protein is superior to vegetable protien This is absolutely true. Most vegetable proteins are incomplete, and none of them are in the proportions the body wants. The protein from meat, milk, and eggs, is far superior.
McDonalds hambuger is a superior meal to quinoe pilaf I'd love to see state literature comparing a McDonald's hamburger to quinoa pilaf and then recommending the hamburger. Anyway, meat + bread is fine. The fries and the soda are the larger problem.
Somehow a baked potato is inferior to a barbqued ribs with the sauce full of simple carbohydrate. A potato has less of the fat & protein necessary to good health. It isn't exactly rich in vitamins. Of course it depends on overall diet, but personally I would much rather have the meat.
much of the world is very healthy with minimum or no meat. India? Lifespan there is short and everybody dies of heart problems.
The average shelf life of a Twinkie is 7-10 days. They don't last more than 25. There's no weird chemistry, just they don't contain dairy products. The functional part of ancient Egyptian mummification is dehydration using salts. No need to pass on urban legends. http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/twinkies.asp is a relevant link.
Mold won't eat a jar of dry sugar. Mold won't eat a big open bucket of lard. Mold won't eat protein powder. Mold won't eat vitamins. Hold won't eat honey.
It's actually perfectly valid. Most RIM cell phones have a small screen and a huge keyboard, and in a time when having a large library of apps is a selling point, they don't. They look like such a relic. Nobody's lining up around the block for the latest RIM.
But of course in the US we can use any phone model we want. Unlocked cell phones are easily available off of Amazon or whatever, and if we were to purchase a phone model in a foreign country we could use it in the US no problem, except for some extremely low-end models.
RIM is doing shit business around the world.
I can go to the local grocery store or convenience store in the US and get a limited contract. There's maybe 15 places within 10 minutes of my house where I could get a phone with limited voice time. I could order one off the internet from 10 different places. They're easily available, however it isn't that popular in the US. The US has a more open market, in general people prefer that their phone be subsidized by their monthly contract. This really bugs Europeans and for some reason their governments often make it illegal for stores to even do this kind of business. I'm glad to live in a country where I can make the choice myself.
This should surprise nobody. Foxconn has developed as a large international manufacturing conglomerate, and the US has by far the largest manufacturing economy, manufacturing 1.7 trillion dollars a year, compared to China's 1.2 trillion dollars a year.
6'3' 250 lbs with abs is like a bodybuilder. You are guy with a gut.
I guarantee you can not like 225 for 33 reps (~100kg/2 plates). It's similar to a 380 pound bench press for a single rep according to strstd.com. That would be enough to win powerlifting competitions, for instance the Arnold http://www.usapowerlifting.com/results/2012/2012_Arnold_Results.htm has people his weight lifting less than that.
A 10.7s 100m run would be an Olympic record for men 100 years ago. It's faster than any woman has ever run a 100m, for instance.
NFL isn't my favorite thing to watch, but there's something to be said for a spectacle that brings the biggest, strongest, fastest athletes in the world, and puts them in direct physical contact.
Vernon Davis, for instance, is 6'3", 250 lbs. with abs. Bench Presses 225 for 33 reps, vertical jumps 42 inches, runs 100m in 10.7 seconds. You won't find any athlete in any other sport who is more of a well-rounded athlete than that.
You're out of your element and shouldn't try to come off like you have any idea what you're talking about. You mean the balance sheet where they made a profit every quarter for I think 12 quarters in a row, and in their latest quarter took a large hit because of one-time infrastructure expenditure that expanded their business?
If they were doomed, honestly doomed, their stock price would reflect it. Financial experts would leave that sinking shop and the company would be valued at cash on hand, rather than $107B. People involved with Amazon would try to sell off the assets for as much as they could. This is how stocks work. Their valuation is not entirely based off the latest quarterly earning report.
You don't understand the first thing about stocks, do you? Of course the pricing of the company will follow all the information about the company, not just the formal quarterly earning announcements.
Amazon, for instance, told everybody that they were spending massive amounts of money in expanding its infrastructure (mostly, building large warehouses near urban areas, instead of shipping from Nevada to San Francisco for instance).
It's not a shenanigan, it's just people quite sensibly pricing the stock to match the news. For instance, Amazon let people know about the expansion plans, the news was widely disseminated and analyzed, etc.
Right, what we need is a government body determining which computer security holes are worth sending people to jail for three years. Of course, even nuclear programs have been hacked successfully, so basically every single person involved with a computer system needs to become liable for something or another, and sent off to jail.
I use a Mac, be honest Mac products are still very expensive. $2500+ for a Mac Pro desktop computer, what the fuck? And Mac Minis are about as good as laptops hundreds of dollars cheaper.
The reason ultrabooks are failing is because nobody in their right mind pays $1000+ for a computer anymore, except if they need the highest performance (in which case, a desktop is the better choice) or because they've really bought into Apple's marketing (in which case, they buy a Mac).
On the other hand the Pakistan Military allowed the US to use Pakistani airbases for the drone strikes until 8 months ago, requested increased use of drone attacks in 2008, still offer tacit support for the drone attacks, and have themselves said most of those killed in drone strikes were terrorists, despite the political inconvenience of admitting this (by contrast, Pakistan always denied their connection to terrorists working against India in Kashmir, even when the connection was obvious).
The souring of relations with Pakistan centers on the raid on bin Laden, and just the natural friction between the US and a nation with a record of selling nuclear secrets on the black market, supporting the Taliban, and supporting terrorist actions against India.
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Well of course the US requires the product to be stamped with the nation, not the town/city. Although there's already an urban legend about something similar done in Japan.
I suppose we should all go back to Atari 2600s again?
Oh yeah I remember that happened a couple times back in 1997.
But the standard price is $130, any do poor people really play knockoff consoles? I think it's mostly people who just don't know any better and think they're getting a deal, same as CVS's $100 android tablets.
Don't forget iTunes and Safari, which are complete crap and for some reason insist on being part of the Operating system.
The tabletop non-mobile console will be merged into the home TV;
What? No, of course this will not happen any time in the near future. For anything like it to happen, Android (or something similar) would have to be a viable game platform, and everybody would have to stop liking graphically intense games and get more into "Angry Birds." Neither of these are at all true. Maybe it could happen in a couple decades, but perhaps by then TVs will be passe and we'll all be watching holograms. Why are you browsing games.slashdot in the first place?
For years we were told that milk would make us strong. Milk is still served as the sole diary, even though many kids are intolerant of it.
Very few white kids are intolerant of milk. Even in China most kids drink milk.
but children are taught that animal protein is superior to vegetable protien
This is absolutely true. Most vegetable proteins are incomplete, and none of them are in the proportions the body wants. The protein from meat, milk, and eggs, is far superior.
McDonalds hambuger is a superior meal to quinoe pilaf
I'd love to see state literature comparing a McDonald's hamburger to quinoa pilaf and then recommending the hamburger. Anyway, meat + bread is fine. The fries and the soda are the larger problem.
Somehow a baked potato is inferior to a barbqued ribs with the sauce full of simple carbohydrate.
A potato has less of the fat & protein necessary to good health. It isn't exactly rich in vitamins. Of course it depends on overall diet, but personally I would much rather have the meat.
much of the world is very healthy with minimum or no meat.
India? Lifespan there is short and everybody dies of heart problems.
$1 for two (300 calories). That's a pretty normal price for a snack. Cheaper than Doritos.
Any fool on the street can fit a 300 calorie snack into a healthy diet. You could even lose a lot of weight with a diet composed largely of Twinkies. There's nothing unhealthy about it, other than that it's empty calories.
The average shelf life of a Twinkie is 7-10 days. They don't last more than 25. There's no weird chemistry, just they don't contain dairy products.
The functional part of ancient Egyptian mummification is dehydration using salts.
No need to pass on urban legends.
http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/twinkies.asp is a relevant link.
Mold won't eat a jar of dry sugar. Mold won't eat a big open bucket of lard. Mold won't eat protein powder. Mold won't eat vitamins. Hold won't eat honey.
Presumably 4G emergency networks would not be installed in one-horse towns. Duh.
It's actually perfectly valid. Most RIM cell phones have a small screen and a huge keyboard, and in a time when having a large library of apps is a selling point, they don't. They look like such a relic. Nobody's lining up around the block for the latest RIM.
But of course in the US we can use any phone model we want. Unlocked cell phones are easily available off of Amazon or whatever, and if we were to purchase a phone model in a foreign country we could use it in the US no problem, except for some extremely low-end models.
RIM is doing shit business around the world.
I can go to the local grocery store or convenience store in the US and get a limited contract. There's maybe 15 places within 10 minutes of my house where I could get a phone with limited voice time. I could order one off the internet from 10 different places. They're easily available, however it isn't that popular in the US. The US has a more open market, in general people prefer that their phone be subsidized by their monthly contract. This really bugs Europeans and for some reason their governments often make it illegal for stores to even do this kind of business. I'm glad to live in a country where I can make the choice myself.
This should surprise nobody. Foxconn has developed as a large international manufacturing conglomerate, and the US has by far the largest manufacturing economy, manufacturing 1.7 trillion dollars a year, compared to China's 1.2 trillion dollars a year.
You're kidding, right?
6'3' 250 lbs with abs is like a bodybuilder. You are guy with a gut.
I guarantee you can not like 225 for 33 reps (~100kg/2 plates). It's similar to a 380 pound bench press for a single rep according to strstd.com. That would be enough to win powerlifting competitions, for instance the Arnold http://www.usapowerlifting.com/results/2012/2012_Arnold_Results.htm has people his weight lifting less than that.
A 10.7s 100m run would be an Olympic record for men 100 years ago. It's faster than any woman has ever run a 100m, for instance.
NFL isn't my favorite thing to watch, but there's something to be said for a spectacle that brings the biggest, strongest, fastest athletes in the world, and puts them in direct physical contact.
Vernon Davis, for instance, is 6'3", 250 lbs. with abs. Bench Presses 225 for 33 reps, vertical jumps 42 inches, runs 100m in 10.7 seconds. You won't find any athlete in any other sport who is more of a well-rounded athlete than that.
The expanded universe wasn't fan-fiction, Lucas got payed for allowing the characters & the universe to be in the books.
They're terrible drek and on some level I hope Disney does kill the license.
But I hope they bring back C-3PO cereal.
You're out of your element and shouldn't try to come off like you have any idea what you're talking about. You mean the balance sheet where they made a profit every quarter for I think 12 quarters in a row, and in their latest quarter took a large hit because of one-time infrastructure expenditure that expanded their business?
If they were doomed, honestly doomed, their stock price would reflect it. Financial experts would leave that sinking shop and the company would be valued at cash on hand, rather than $107B. People involved with Amazon would try to sell off the assets for as much as they could. This is how stocks work. Their valuation is not entirely based off the latest quarterly earning report.
You don't understand the first thing about stocks, do you? Of course the pricing of the company will follow all the information about the company, not just the formal quarterly earning announcements.
Amazon, for instance, told everybody that they were spending massive amounts of money in expanding its infrastructure (mostly, building large warehouses near urban areas, instead of shipping from Nevada to San Francisco for instance).
It's not a shenanigan, it's just people quite sensibly pricing the stock to match the news. For instance, Amazon let people know about the expansion plans, the news was widely disseminated and analyzed, etc.
Right, what we need is a government body determining which computer security holes are worth sending people to jail for three years. Of course, even nuclear programs have been hacked successfully, so basically every single person involved with a computer system needs to become liable for something or another, and sent off to jail.
The life changer for me was George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones. Actually I like the HBO version better because of the nudity.
This is ABC's decision. As a Libertarian surely you wouldn't want to interfere with the choice that a private company made.
With a 0% chance of winning, basically you would be wasting people's time. Similarly, Jill Stein isn't a part of the presidential debate.
Something about alarm clocks that turn off when you tell them, but then 10 minutes later they won't turn off until you're in the shower.
Also, a card that has your computer desktop password linked to it and you take it from terminal to terminal I think.
I use a Mac, be honest Mac products are still very expensive. $2500+ for a Mac Pro desktop computer, what the fuck? And Mac Minis are about as good as laptops hundreds of dollars cheaper.
The reason ultrabooks are failing is because nobody in their right mind pays $1000+ for a computer anymore, except if they need the highest performance (in which case, a desktop is the better choice) or because they've really bought into Apple's marketing (in which case, they buy a Mac).
On the other hand the Pakistan Military allowed the US to use Pakistani airbases for the drone strikes until 8 months ago, requested increased use of drone attacks in 2008, still offer tacit support for the drone attacks, and have themselves said most of those killed in drone strikes were terrorists, despite the political inconvenience of admitting this (by contrast, Pakistan always denied their connection to terrorists working against India in Kashmir, even when the connection was obvious).
The souring of relations with Pakistan centers on the raid on bin Laden, and just the natural friction between the US and a nation with a record of selling nuclear secrets on the black market, supporting the Taliban, and supporting terrorist actions against India.