Just because someone sucks at war doesn't make beating them a war crime. The 13:1 ratio of enemies to americans killed doesn't mean the US was massacring people, it may very well just mean the insurgents sucked at fighting the US in a symmetric conflict (eg: they were good at setting off roadside bombs or booby-trapping dead (or merely wounded) comrades, but not so great against the US in a "fair fight" which the battle of Fallujah was). I remember seeing some footage of an insurgent standing in the street, with no cover, literally shooting from the hip at some Americans, who then killed him with one shot. Massacre or Moron? You make the call.
In the final analysis, I will personally trust the Marines' account over the insurgents'. I've known a lot of Marines and in my experience they're pretty truthful and serious about the stuff they've done. Quick to admit mistakes, too. Also, Atomic Games has a fantastic rep and has been making great combat games for years.
Here's a simple formula almost every publisher uses. For every $1MM of development budget, I need to sell ~100K units to break even. (This assumes normal cost of goods, 20 - 30% of the dev budget spent on marketing, etc.) So, if you're pitching at $10MM game, you better expect to sell a million units. But few Wii games especially have bdugets anywhere close to that. OnLive doesn't fix this model, anyway, although I guess it lowers COGs.
WHat's funny is you're like "I'm American... " and then you give some example about how you're too stupid to remember or understand math with fractions. Thus reinforcing sterotypes about Americans being stupid. That's funny. Anyway, In my socket set, the socket is next to the sockets that are bigger and smaller. I used a process of elimination and estimation that usually means I have the correct one. When it comes to measuring, just call that an inch -- 3/32 + 7/8 = 31/32. Feel free to email me if you want to see my work.
Anyway, no English people better be bitching about this, because you use whatever sounds more extreme. "Oh, it's 2 degrees out right now," when its cold, but "It's 98 effing degrees here" when it's hot. Don't try and lie -- I work with English people and I know how it is.
So does my Mac SE. It's almost like Apple popularized the notion of ubiquitous, inter-application copy and paste...
I do have to share a laugh with Apple, that by removing an essential feature, and then re-implementing it later, they get credos without actually having to innovate. Maybe Microsoft should remove USB support from Windows 7 and then reintroduce it at service pack 3 or something.
Yes, it's very easy to spot the wanna-bes with their glowing apples. Then if you see a featureless, flat black laptop back among them, you know you're seeing someone truly cool, with a ThinkPad!
(ftr, I am typing this on a MacBook, as my ThinkPad charges next to me).
Bingo! I wish I had mod points. When you look at a lot of major inventions -- the telephone, the car, the lightbulb, TV, digital general purpose computers, etc. -- you'll find that regardless of whoever eventually was credited with the invention, there were any number of people working on the same problem, at about the same rate, and making very close breakthroughs, at the same time. Sometimes ideas are just "in the air." Typically one guy gets credit, which is sort of sad, but that's kind of the way it is -- at least with lay people. Anyone who is a historian or reads a little more deeply will evetually learn all the other peopel and their possibly claims / contributions. Because there are so many people who were clearly on the right track, you will also get a lot of arguments.
for instance, if you look here , you'll see three groups, each of which has a strong case for being said to be the inevntor of the modern computer (Konrad Zuse, who built a programmable electro-mechanical computer in 1936, Anastoff and Berry who build a digital computer -- that was not general purpose or programmable in 1942, and Eckert and Mauchley, who built a vacuum tube base, programmable, general purpose computer in 1946). I won't get into the details, but it becomes a religious thing at some point -- I once fell out with a friend because I refused to accept Anastoff as the sole inventor of the computer. (My friend was from Iowa).
Wow! I've always heard about "useful idiots" but this is the first time I've seen one post on Slashdot! So, since today we don't need to use any nuclear weapons, or have their detterent potential, you're saying we obviously never will again! Brilliant! I guess since _yesterday_ I didn't need my garden hose, and today looks like it might rain, too, I can throw it away? Come to think of it, why are we keeping all those people in jail, since most of them aren't commiting crimes _now_. And gosh, since my car doesn't have anyone actively opening its door and stealing my stuff, why should Pontiac even include locks on the doors?
Of course, the reason we don't have big countries constantly harassing us, or pushing their harassment further to actual military violance certainly has nothing to do with the deterent effect of our nuclear arsenal. I'm sure if we simply decomissioned our weapons, the Chinese and Russians would do the same, and we could all go somewhere and hold hands together. And we should -- after all, we haven't had to use our weapons in years, and the current global climate says we don't today, so why hold that threat over tomorrow?
The actual solution, assuming your not on a videoconference, is to just bring a magazine or book to work and read that when you're not supposed to be using your computer in the meeting. Or a PSP. They haven't invented a way yet to get disinterested people to be interested in stupid meetings. Even if you're face tp face, you can always just extensively take notes during meetings as a way to take your mind off having to actually pay attention. (If what I just wrote seems counter-intuitive, try it sometime -- extensive note taking both keeps you awake and creates a record of what happened, but it also enables you to totally turn off your brian and makes time pass quickly as you concentrate on things like your margins, handwriting, ink-pressure on the paper, etc.)
I haven't had those issues with my Lenovo Think Pad, but neither have I had any multiple monitor issues with my mac book. It is weird to me that this story got no press anywhere but Slashdot that I can see -- I guess w/o Steve Jobs, Apple isn't news to CNN anymore...
This is so great. I can finally stop buying Apple//c's on eBay now, always trying to buy a "better" model that was never exposed to UV and yellowed. I have 11//c's at thi point... Uh, i really, really, liked the Apple//c. Thanks a million to the retro community for this!
It's not like this anymore, at least with Bank of America. I had someone fraudulently used my debit card to buy like $2000K worth of stuff at an Apple Store and I freaked the fuck out, because I though my $$ was going to be gone for months, but in fact they put the cash back in my checking account IMMEDIATELY (within 10 hours of me calling them), with the provision that they would take it back later if it turned out not to be fraud. About six months later, I got a letter saying "it's all good."
I was stunned by the high quality of the customer service I got, actually.
The biggest problem with the iPhone in Japan (or so I was told by everyone I asked in Japan) is that it requires 2 hands to use effectively. Therefore, you can't use it to text one handed on a crowded subway where you need one hand to hold on to the overhead strap.
ALso, for whatever reason, people seemed less impressed by its fancy pants touch scrolling UI, and more interested in simple lists they could click through, and being able to pull down over the air TV versus d/l videos.
Personally, I agree with my Japanese friends; I'm not a huge fan (I like a keyboard).
But, it's interesting to note that almost every expat American I saw on my last trip had an iPhone, though -- so there might be just more appeal, culturally, to Amercians and westerners for some reason. There's certainly no shortage of cult-of-Mac people in Japan, but it didn't seem to translate to the phone.
The real bummer is my kid's vaccinations are helping those unvaccinated kids, by reducing the number of potential carriers. Unfortunately, if enough retards are like "I didn't get my kid vaccinated and he didn't get polio," (thanks to the smart people's kids vaccinations conveying some "herd protection") you eventually start to lose the herd-immunity bonus effect that's supposed to protect *my* kid if his individual vaccination sucked, or I didn't get him a booster, etc. In short, unvaccinated kids fuck up the safety net for vaccinated children.
I wasn't really well informed on this subject when I had my kid vaccinated, but I had heard a lot of "oh vaccines are bad" crap in the San Francisco, retard, hippy, pregnancy-worshipper community (which, living in Noe Valley, I was forcefully exposed to), so I asked the doctor and his answer impressed me. He was like "do you know anything about math?" And I was like "uh, yeah." And he was like "assuming these retards are right, you kid has a 1:10MM chance of getting autism from this vaccine, and a 1:100K chance of getting the disease." (These numbers are approximate, but you get the idea). I was like "Inject away, baby!" Needless to say, he also explained that any link was extremely unlikely.
The only question we had at the time was Chicken Pox, as it was a new vaccine. He was like "if you could guarentee he'll get chicken pox, as a kid, don't get the vaccine. But if the vaccine takes off in popularity, and you don't get it, you'll wish you did, since he won't be likely to catch it as a kid" (if you don't know, Chicken Pox can be deadly if you're an adult.) So, we did it, and I'm glad we did, because I haven't heard of a single kid we know getting it since then.
I definitely really, really, really feel for people who's kids develop autism and are looking for a reason -- it must be maddening, and I can't even imagine the anguish they must feel. But it ain't vaccines.
It's not too geeky, it's too PATHETIC. If you need a microcontroller running at 14Mhz and C code to blink some heart shaped LEDs, you should just turn in nerd card now. It's like using an anvil to hammer a picture hanging nail.
If you can't create that card with a 555 and a couple resistors, I wouldn't be surprised to see your Valentine laugh in your face and go off with a real He-Man who writes assembly.
Christ! A 14Mhz microcontroller... if you're gonna use that, the damn card better access the internet or play NES games at least.
For sure, it "is" the game -- and listening the (former) BOB guy on the radio feed (RTFA), he seems to take it in stride. But it's sorta cool to see a big piece of game-changing news (from the only MMO that really supports big, game changing news inside the context of the game), get such broad coverage. I don't even play the game, but I listened to the radio interviews because it's kind of an exciting story, and of course, I followed the allegations of BOB getting special access from the Eve developers, so I had some context.
Isn't Steve Jobs vegan? Maybe he should try eating a steak or some fries. I still remember when my anemic, scrawny, vegetarian girlfriend left the doctor and came home crying becuase the doctor told her "You need to start eating animal protein, you're anemic and you're not paying enough attention to your diet to maintain a vegetarian lifestyle." He also told her to put salt on all her food to increase her blood pressure, and advised her to eat red meat if she could.
Man, how I wanted to go that salt-and-red-meat-perscribing doctor! Anyway now she eats hamburgers. Everyone won.
Wait... so attacking the notion that video games incite violance is not a counter-argument to a claim that they do? Um, actually, it is. Especially since despite lots of research looking for a connection, there is no evidence to support the latter conclusion.
My name is stupidly long, so long that my last name is on the second line down on my drivers license. One of my middle names is where my last name should be, and it's a passable last name (like Franklin). The only people who notice are very on the ball TSA types. Everyone else just looks at it and if they remark at all, it's on my sweet picture, not the fact that the ID I'm showing them appears to have a totally different name than is on the credit card.
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Just because someone sucks at war doesn't make beating them a war crime. The 13:1 ratio of enemies to americans killed doesn't mean the US was massacring people, it may very well just mean the insurgents sucked at fighting the US in a symmetric conflict (eg: they were good at setting off roadside bombs or booby-trapping dead (or merely wounded) comrades, but not so great against the US in a "fair fight" which the battle of Fallujah was). I remember seeing some footage of an insurgent standing in the street, with no cover, literally shooting from the hip at some Americans, who then killed him with one shot. Massacre or Moron? You make the call.
In the final analysis, I will personally trust the Marines' account over the insurgents'. I've known a lot of Marines and in my experience they're pretty truthful and serious about the stuff they've done. Quick to admit mistakes, too. Also, Atomic Games has a fantastic rep and has been making great combat games for years.
Here's a simple formula almost every publisher uses. For every $1MM of development budget, I need to sell ~100K units to break even. (This assumes normal cost of goods, 20 - 30% of the dev budget spent on marketing, etc.) So, if you're pitching at $10MM game, you better expect to sell a million units. But few Wii games especially have bdugets anywhere close to that. OnLive doesn't fix this model, anyway, although I guess it lowers COGs.
I have a friend on the last nuclear powered sub to hit another ship, and yes, it's a major bummer for everyone involved.
This is the cover story, but what *really* happened?
WHat's funny is you're like "I'm American... " and then you give some example about how you're too stupid to remember or understand math with fractions. Thus reinforcing sterotypes about Americans being stupid. That's funny. Anyway, In my socket set, the socket is next to the sockets that are bigger and smaller. I used a process of elimination and estimation that usually means I have the correct one. When it comes to measuring, just call that an inch -- 3/32 + 7/8 = 31/32. Feel free to email me if you want to see my work.
5 - 30 = 25 units
more units = more precision.
Anyway, no English people better be bitching about this, because you use whatever sounds more extreme. "Oh, it's 2 degrees out right now," when its cold, but "It's 98 effing degrees here" when it's hot. Don't try and lie -- I work with English people and I know how it is.
I do have to share a laugh with Apple, that by removing an essential feature, and then re-implementing it later, they get credos without actually having to innovate. Maybe Microsoft should remove USB support from Windows 7 and then reintroduce it at service pack 3 or something.
(ftr, I am typing this on a MacBook, as my ThinkPad charges next to me).
Why did you ask that as an "or" question? That's no a zero sum option!
for instance, if you look here , you'll see three groups, each of which has a strong case for being said to be the inevntor of the modern computer (Konrad Zuse, who built a programmable electro-mechanical computer in 1936, Anastoff and Berry who build a digital computer -- that was not general purpose or programmable in 1942, and Eckert and Mauchley, who built a vacuum tube base, programmable, general purpose computer in 1946). I won't get into the details, but it becomes a religious thing at some point -- I once fell out with a friend because I refused to accept Anastoff as the sole inventor of the computer. (My friend was from Iowa).
Of course, the reason we don't have big countries constantly harassing us, or pushing their harassment further to actual military violance certainly has nothing to do with the deterent effect of our nuclear arsenal. I'm sure if we simply decomissioned our weapons, the Chinese and Russians would do the same, and we could all go somewhere and hold hands together. And we should -- after all, we haven't had to use our weapons in years, and the current global climate says we don't today, so why hold that threat over tomorrow?
The actual solution, assuming your not on a videoconference, is to just bring a magazine or book to work and read that when you're not supposed to be using your computer in the meeting. Or a PSP. They haven't invented a way yet to get disinterested people to be interested in stupid meetings. Even if you're face tp face, you can always just extensively take notes during meetings as a way to take your mind off having to actually pay attention. (If what I just wrote seems counter-intuitive, try it sometime -- extensive note taking both keeps you awake and creates a record of what happened, but it also enables you to totally turn off your brian and makes time pass quickly as you concentrate on things like your margins, handwriting, ink-pressure on the paper, etc.)
I haven't had those issues with my Lenovo Think Pad, but neither have I had any multiple monitor issues with my mac book. It is weird to me that this story got no press anywhere but Slashdot that I can see -- I guess w/o Steve Jobs, Apple isn't news to CNN anymore...
Try saving your work...
This is so great. I can finally stop buying Apple //c's on eBay now, always trying to buy a "better" model that was never exposed to UV and yellowed. I have 11 //c's at thi point... Uh, i really, really, liked the Apple //c. Thanks a million to the retro community for this!
I was stunned by the high quality of the customer service I got, actually.
ALso, for whatever reason, people seemed less impressed by its fancy pants touch scrolling UI, and more interested in simple lists they could click through, and being able to pull down over the air TV versus d/l videos.
Personally, I agree with my Japanese friends; I'm not a huge fan (I like a keyboard).
But, it's interesting to note that almost every expat American I saw on my last trip had an iPhone, though -- so there might be just more appeal, culturally, to Amercians and westerners for some reason. There's certainly no shortage of cult-of-Mac people in Japan, but it didn't seem to translate to the phone.
Wait... wtf... I thought Florida had ALLIGATORS, not CROCODILES. Have I been missing something?
I wasn't really well informed on this subject when I had my kid vaccinated, but I had heard a lot of "oh vaccines are bad" crap in the San Francisco, retard, hippy, pregnancy-worshipper community (which, living in Noe Valley, I was forcefully exposed to), so I asked the doctor and his answer impressed me. He was like "do you know anything about math?" And I was like "uh, yeah." And he was like "assuming these retards are right, you kid has a 1:10MM chance of getting autism from this vaccine, and a 1:100K chance of getting the disease." (These numbers are approximate, but you get the idea). I was like "Inject away, baby!" Needless to say, he also explained that any link was extremely unlikely.
The only question we had at the time was Chicken Pox, as it was a new vaccine. He was like "if you could guarentee he'll get chicken pox, as a kid, don't get the vaccine. But if the vaccine takes off in popularity, and you don't get it, you'll wish you did, since he won't be likely to catch it as a kid" (if you don't know, Chicken Pox can be deadly if you're an adult.) So, we did it, and I'm glad we did, because I haven't heard of a single kid we know getting it since then.
I definitely really, really, really feel for people who's kids develop autism and are looking for a reason -- it must be maddening, and I can't even imagine the anguish they must feel. But it ain't vaccines.
If you can't create that card with a 555 and a couple resistors, I wouldn't be surprised to see your Valentine laugh in your face and go off with a real He-Man who writes assembly.
Christ! A 14Mhz microcontroller... if you're gonna use that, the damn card better access the internet or play NES games at least.
For sure, it "is" the game -- and listening the (former) BOB guy on the radio feed (RTFA), he seems to take it in stride. But it's sorta cool to see a big piece of game-changing news (from the only MMO that really supports big, game changing news inside the context of the game), get such broad coverage. I don't even play the game, but I listened to the radio interviews because it's kind of an exciting story, and of course, I followed the allegations of BOB getting special access from the Eve developers, so I had some context.
News. For. Nerds. Stuff. That. Matters.
Man, how I wanted to go that salt-and-red-meat-perscribing doctor! Anyway now she eats hamburgers. Everyone won.
Wait... so attacking the notion that video games incite violance is not a counter-argument to a claim that they do? Um, actually, it is. Especially since despite lots of research looking for a connection, there is no evidence to support the latter conclusion.
My name is stupidly long, so long that my last name is on the second line down on my drivers license. One of my middle names is where my last name should be, and it's a passable last name (like Franklin). The only people who notice are very on the ball TSA types. Everyone else just looks at it and if they remark at all, it's on my sweet picture, not the fact that the ID I'm showing them appears to have a totally different name than is on the credit card.