The ones buying the parts are the ones changing the market, by increasing demand. That is legal because the one to profit isn't the one changing the market situation. The RAM chip makers artificially restricting demand at a level below demand would cause a shortage and price spike, and that would be illegal. That is how OPEC controls oil prices to a degree, although its legal because they are sovereign nations instead of businesses.
According to an article on ars technica over 18 months ago, a member of their game group managed to cobble together most of the game into playable fashion, and wrote a review of the game.
Hmm, you say that, but I can imagine that if there is a genetic propensity for it, it will eventually be selected against, so that people that prefer relationships with real people will have more children, and after a few generations, there might be fewer people that prefer sex with robots. We'll probably also see a rise of organizations like SWRAA (Sex-With-Robots Addicts Anonymous), and surely Christians and Muslims will strongly protest their members from participating in relationships with Robots. I wonder if being a robot owner would become a reason to be eliminated from consideration from political office.
Also, will these human sized, complicated machines be as expensive as a car, where you'll have to go to a robot dealer, get a loan, and which will seem as seedy as the local porn store or topless bar? For me, part of the thrill of dating was the risk that something might fail. If I had a relationship with a robot, I'd be taking the robot for granted, because I know there would be no need to be nice and attentive, because the robot would surely be programmed to do whatever I want, and never protest. I think this would increase robot lovers tendency to not be social, because they wouldn't have to be social to get what they want. Our western society would continue to devolve toward a less civilized society, along the lines of road rage, parental rage at children's sporting events.
Isn't the SR-71s heat situation different than all other planes because it flew around 20 miles high where the atmosphere is so thin that the air resistance and friction are significantly less than a normal plane flying at 7 miles high?
Don't send a copy to the reviewer/publisher. At least you'll get your opening day sales before they can go buy the game and review it a month late in their magazine. Of course, you'll be giving up all kinds of 'free' advertising (hype) if your game is of the type that would benefit from hype.
Word of mouth, or user reviews are still the best advertisement a game will ever have. Professional reviews are just people who do it for a living. I've never had a gaming magazine, but I always check user reviews at places like gamespot.com or metacritic before I consider spending my money. If you don't pony up with the reviewers, I'll still get the same information I have had before, and other people will resort to waiting instead of buying on opening day unless you're selling Halo 4 or Spore, which many people will still wait to read some reviews.
Just a guess, but the note, "less than 80 centimeters variation," would indicate it follows the curve of the earth. If it were flat-flat, it would have a much larger variation than a meter.
Doesn't MS have a certification program or a set of standards that are required before the stickers can be put on a PC? Since the stickers are Microsoft's, and they are on a product carrying their OS, the certainly can be held responsible if their stickers convey inaccurate or misleading information.
Spam is advertising, so Google is just cutting off the competition before they can get to your screen.:)
I've noticed my unread spam (one month's worth) number in gmail originally hovered around 1000 a year ago, then jumped to 2000 earlier this year, and today I noticed it hovering below 900, which is a drop from over 60 a day to under 30. I don't know if this is what they're talking about, but it doesn't matter, as I've maybe seen 10 in my inbox this year.
Well, there was the episode where they found another Riker where he'd been successfully teleported out of a dangerous situation but a copy was accidentally left on the planet.
Season 6, Episode 24, Second Chances
I've seen D&D run that same way. The GM wants to run something with 8 or 16 level characters, they let the player build a level one character, and stack each additional level until they reach the desired level, even allowing prestige classes, etc. Doing this adds time and effort to the upfront character creation time, but allows the GM to run advanced campaigns or modules without having to spend time going over the barely able to survive era early in a character's lifespan. Of course, there is little difference between high level and low level content, as you can scale low level content to be over powered by a low level character, and you can make high level content that is almost impossible for near-God-like characters.
That said, I'd love to see games get away from characters who start puny, which is usually only an excuse to add hours of low level content to avoid being labeled short. A Morrowind or Oblivion that didn't need leveling would still be a great game, because there was so much content, and quests steer the player toward visiting the different locations so they don't miss any of the good stuff. But hours of repetitively using a skill or even paying for lessons which could still take worthless minutes of effort instead of having an option to level up 5 or 10 levels in one visit is just a waste of time and and not fun.
I would also love to drop the use of HP in RPG games, especially in something like KOTOR where one swipe of a light saber or shot with a blaster should kill everyone in the game, regardless of level. Instead, make the weapon either kill or cripple, which gives the player a better chance of a lethal strike on the next attack. Since combat would be more deadly with less chance to correct for getting hit, you have to, within reason, make hits rarer without making them impossible. This would add the illusion of untouchable characters (PC and NPC) that are so good they're impossible to hit and kill, if portrayed correctly, and the winner must have been really good for succeeding in landing the decisive blow.
It's not that already created embryos would be destroyed, it's that if a cure were ever found using embryonic cells instead of alternative methods such as this, the 'need' for embryos would far outstrip the supply, then it would become common practice to create more embryos specifically for the purpose of killing them. I suppose if you define human life as beginning at some time other than the first moment there exists a complete genetic code for building a new human in a single cell, you can consider this ethically permissible, but it seems to me that seems to be scientifically deficient position.
Nope. I object to using embryos for research, but I have no objections to non-embryonic stem cell research. We will support this research to attempt to divert interest and funding from embryonic research. I think it's great that this not only eliminates the interest in doing things the other way, but that it is simpler, less expensive, and has the potential to eliminate potential difficulties from finding genetic matches.
I wonder, if we hadn't been objecting, would anybody have attempted to find this alternative, or would researchers have considered the embryonic method good enough?
"'inadvertent' war on consumers"
Quite simply, they didn't recognize that there are not 2 types of music consumers, 'pirates' and 'customers', but three, 'pirate-non-customers', 'non-pirate-customers' and 'pirate-customers' and while the 'non-pirate-customers' might be the most profitable per-capita, the third is a sizable (maybe even majority) portion of their customers and they don't like being treated like criminals.
From http://www.peanutscollectorclub.com/football.html:
In 1979, Charlie Brown winds up in the hospital for surgery. In a fit of desperation, Lucy promises not to pull the football away the next time, if only he'll get better. Well, he obviously gets better, and all the neighborhood kids await the results. This multi-week "novelette" climaxes in the 8/2/79 daily strip, when she doesn't pull the ball away... but Charlie Brown misses and kicks her arm instead!
This is developing into a new field of study known as Epigenetics. Environmental factors, such as diet and exposure to toxins can activate or deactivate genetics.
I think the reason people want planes is to cut the amount of time it takes to get from point A to point B. I think people figure that if they're in the air, they won't have to stop at stop lights and spend 20 minutes of an our commute sitting still, and they'll probably need to be moving a lot faster to stay aloft, which will also cut the time in the vehicle.
I've long thought that a high speed tram system that can take you door to door anywhere in the city would be ideal, but that would probably become a target of terrorists of all ideologies.
I could only imagine the number of times I'd have to take a flying car to the shop if the risk was falling 100 feet to my death if something went wrong, and how easy it would be for mechanics to make up something wrong to get you to pay for something you don't need.
I guess that's why we've never lost an astronaut, Oh wait. . .
NASA has made errors that have killed people by ignoring somebody who got it right. Of course, the original question about working while the station was on the dark side of the earth forgets the fact that the station rotates earth in less than an hour, and few spacewalks last fewer than 3 or 4 hours.
The balls and machine used to select the numbers might not be perfect, and a certain machine with a select set of balls might be prone to sending certain numbers more often. If you can eliminate the numbers that never come up, you can significantly reduce the number of possible number combinations that it would take to win a jackpot.
For instance, one Powerball ticket has a 1 in 146,107,962 chance of winning. If you could guarantee 10 numbers from the white balls for the PowerBall would not be selected, you could triple your chances of winning, and if you could eliminate 20, you would eliminate 90% of the winning combinations. You could then buy the remaining tickets, and end up with 10 times what you started with, $13 million, if your information was right, and the non-amortized value of the Powerball was worth about $130 million.
I've been told some lotteries have multiple machines, so any information you might have on likeliness of numbers probably should be wiped out by the fact that different machines would have different tendencies.
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Microsoft Home Server Converts Files to a Secure Format for Your Security.
Microsoft will gladly sell you a one use un-convert license when you need to see the data.
The ones buying the parts are the ones changing the market, by increasing demand. That is legal because the one to profit isn't the one changing the market situation. The RAM chip makers artificially restricting demand at a level below demand would cause a shortage and price spike, and that would be illegal. That is how OPEC controls oil prices to a degree, although its legal because they are sovereign nations instead of businesses.
According to an article on ars technica over 18 months ago, a member of their game group managed to cobble together most of the game into playable fashion, and wrote a review of the game.
Hmm, you say that, but I can imagine that if there is a genetic propensity for it, it will eventually be selected against, so that people that prefer relationships with real people will have more children, and after a few generations, there might be fewer people that prefer sex with robots. We'll probably also see a rise of organizations like SWRAA (Sex-With-Robots Addicts Anonymous), and surely Christians and Muslims will strongly protest their members from participating in relationships with Robots. I wonder if being a robot owner would become a reason to be eliminated from consideration from political office.
Also, will these human sized, complicated machines be as expensive as a car, where you'll have to go to a robot dealer, get a loan, and which will seem as seedy as the local porn store or topless bar? For me, part of the thrill of dating was the risk that something might fail. If I had a relationship with a robot, I'd be taking the robot for granted, because I know there would be no need to be nice and attentive, because the robot would surely be programmed to do whatever I want, and never protest. I think this would increase robot lovers tendency to not be social, because they wouldn't have to be social to get what they want. Our western society would continue to devolve toward a less civilized society, along the lines of road rage, parental rage at children's sporting events.
Isn't the SR-71s heat situation different than all other planes because it flew around 20 miles high where the atmosphere is so thin that the air resistance and friction are significantly less than a normal plane flying at 7 miles high?
Next time, do what I do, just send them an email that the email is down . . . oh, wait.
I for one welcome our self-balancing underlings.
Don't send a copy to the reviewer/publisher. At least you'll get your opening day sales before they can go buy the game and review it a month late in their magazine. Of course, you'll be giving up all kinds of 'free' advertising (hype) if your game is of the type that would benefit from hype.
Word of mouth, or user reviews are still the best advertisement a game will ever have. Professional reviews are just people who do it for a living. I've never had a gaming magazine, but I always check user reviews at places like gamespot.com or metacritic before I consider spending my money. If you don't pony up with the reviewers, I'll still get the same information I have had before, and other people will resort to waiting instead of buying on opening day unless you're selling Halo 4 or Spore, which many people will still wait to read some reviews.
Just a guess, but the note, "less than 80 centimeters variation," would indicate it follows the curve of the earth. If it were flat-flat, it would have a much larger variation than a meter.
Doesn't MS have a certification program or a set of standards that are required before the stickers can be put on a PC? Since the stickers are Microsoft's, and they are on a product carrying their OS, the certainly can be held responsible if their stickers convey inaccurate or misleading information.
Spam is advertising, so Google is just cutting off the competition before they can get to your screen. :)
I've noticed my unread spam (one month's worth) number in gmail originally hovered around 1000 a year ago, then jumped to 2000 earlier this year, and today I noticed it hovering below 900, which is a drop from over 60 a day to under 30. I don't know if this is what they're talking about, but it doesn't matter, as I've maybe seen 10 in my inbox this year.
Well, there was the episode where they found another Riker where he'd been successfully teleported out of a dangerous situation but a copy was accidentally left on the planet. Season 6, Episode 24, Second Chances
I've seen D&D run that same way. The GM wants to run something with 8 or 16 level characters, they let the player build a level one character, and stack each additional level until they reach the desired level, even allowing prestige classes, etc. Doing this adds time and effort to the upfront character creation time, but allows the GM to run advanced campaigns or modules without having to spend time going over the barely able to survive era early in a character's lifespan. Of course, there is little difference between high level and low level content, as you can scale low level content to be over powered by a low level character, and you can make high level content that is almost impossible for near-God-like characters.
That said, I'd love to see games get away from characters who start puny, which is usually only an excuse to add hours of low level content to avoid being labeled short. A Morrowind or Oblivion that didn't need leveling would still be a great game, because there was so much content, and quests steer the player toward visiting the different locations so they don't miss any of the good stuff. But hours of repetitively using a skill or even paying for lessons which could still take worthless minutes of effort instead of having an option to level up 5 or 10 levels in one visit is just a waste of time and and not fun.
I would also love to drop the use of HP in RPG games, especially in something like KOTOR where one swipe of a light saber or shot with a blaster should kill everyone in the game, regardless of level. Instead, make the weapon either kill or cripple, which gives the player a better chance of a lethal strike on the next attack. Since combat would be more deadly with less chance to correct for getting hit, you have to, within reason, make hits rarer without making them impossible. This would add the illusion of untouchable characters (PC and NPC) that are so good they're impossible to hit and kill, if portrayed correctly, and the winner must have been really good for succeeding in landing the decisive blow.
An 800x600 resolution on a 6" device sounds pretty high to me. On an 18" monitor, that would be 2400x1800.
It's not that already created embryos would be destroyed, it's that if a cure were ever found using embryonic cells instead of alternative methods such as this, the 'need' for embryos would far outstrip the supply, then it would become common practice to create more embryos specifically for the purpose of killing them. I suppose if you define human life as beginning at some time other than the first moment there exists a complete genetic code for building a new human in a single cell, you can consider this ethically permissible, but it seems to me that seems to be scientifically deficient position.
Nope. I object to using embryos for research, but I have no objections to non-embryonic stem cell research. We will support this research to attempt to divert interest and funding from embryonic research. I think it's great that this not only eliminates the interest in doing things the other way, but that it is simpler, less expensive, and has the potential to eliminate potential difficulties from finding genetic matches.
I wonder, if we hadn't been objecting, would anybody have attempted to find this alternative, or would researchers have considered the embryonic method good enough?
I know you're joking, but FEI Year 1 wasn't set until the year 525. So we're only nearing 1500 years on the same calendar numbering system.
"'inadvertent' war on consumers" Quite simply, they didn't recognize that there are not 2 types of music consumers, 'pirates' and 'customers', but three, 'pirate-non-customers', 'non-pirate-customers' and 'pirate-customers' and while the 'non-pirate-customers' might be the most profitable per-capita, the third is a sizable (maybe even majority) portion of their customers and they don't like being treated like criminals.
From http://www.peanutscollectorclub.com/football.html: In 1979, Charlie Brown winds up in the hospital for surgery. In a fit of desperation, Lucy promises not to pull the football away the next time, if only he'll get better. Well, he obviously gets better, and all the neighborhood kids await the results. This multi-week "novelette" climaxes in the 8/2/79 daily strip, when she doesn't pull the ball away ... but Charlie Brown misses and kicks her arm instead!
Give the submitter a break. He was probably submitting from an iPhone.
This is developing into a new field of study known as Epigenetics. Environmental factors, such as diet and exposure to toxins can activate or deactivate genetics.
Read more at:
Discover Magazine, November 2006
Wikepedia: Epigenetics.
Science Magazine
EBgames.com, PS3 section says it ships tomorrow.
I think the reason people want planes is to cut the amount of time it takes to get from point A to point B. I think people figure that if they're in the air, they won't have to stop at stop lights and spend 20 minutes of an our commute sitting still, and they'll probably need to be moving a lot faster to stay aloft, which will also cut the time in the vehicle.
I've long thought that a high speed tram system that can take you door to door anywhere in the city would be ideal, but that would probably become a target of terrorists of all ideologies.
I could only imagine the number of times I'd have to take a flying car to the shop if the risk was falling 100 feet to my death if something went wrong, and how easy it would be for mechanics to make up something wrong to get you to pay for something you don't need.
I guess that's why we've never lost an astronaut, Oh wait. . .
NASA has made errors that have killed people by ignoring somebody who got it right. Of course, the original question about working while the station was on the dark side of the earth forgets the fact that the station rotates earth in less than an hour, and few spacewalks last fewer than 3 or 4 hours.
The balls and machine used to select the numbers might not be perfect, and a certain machine with a select set of balls might be prone to sending certain numbers more often. If you can eliminate the numbers that never come up, you can significantly reduce the number of possible number combinations that it would take to win a jackpot.
For instance, one Powerball ticket has a 1 in 146,107,962 chance of winning. If you could guarantee 10 numbers from the white balls for the PowerBall would not be selected, you could triple your chances of winning, and if you could eliminate 20, you would eliminate 90% of the winning combinations. You could then buy the remaining tickets, and end up with 10 times what you started with, $13 million, if your information was right, and the non-amortized value of the Powerball was worth about $130 million.
I've been told some lotteries have multiple machines, so any information you might have on likeliness of numbers probably should be wiped out by the fact that different machines would have different tendencies.