Marvel will slowly turn to annoyance as you progress and find out that everytime you log on you have to travel for literally 20 minutes before you do anything. Unless of course you dedicate you life to the game like most players seem to and log in once in the morning and go from there.
I am not sure about Dragon (last time I used it, I think it was worse than this demo), but I believe MS's works out of the box but still trains to your voice over time. This false sense of security in not requiring training, and then the software being trained by someone else inadvertently, could have something to do with it as well. I really find it hard to believ that the software legitimately would misconstrue aunt for mom under actual real-world conditions.
Actually, some accents in America pronounce the two words fairly similarly. Aunt can be pronounces like the word "on" with a "t" at the end. The "t" could easily be lost in an echoing room, leaving it to differentiate between deermom and deeron. In addition, many people (especially among those who pronounce aunt as "ont") pronounce mom without the ending "m". So now, we're trying to get deermom to be interpreted as deermah, when an alternative is deeron. It's actually very likely that this was a voice training issue.
It doesn't really work like that, though. I've met many people who find games that they really like but refuse to spend any time on them because they have to spend their time in WoW. They may want to play other games but they just don't have the time. Alot of them view it as because they are paying $15/month on WoW they want to get as much play time out of it as possible. Others are simply addicted. Some are forced to spend a great number of hours in the game because of their guild (raid guild often require that you do 3 raids a week, each taking 4-6 hours).
It's not really civil disobediance if you are not getting caught. The whole point is to let others know that the people disagree with the laws in an effort to have them changed. That's done by getting caught, tried, and acquitted.
Alot of small crossroads towns that get a a disproportionate amount of traffic just passing through do this to earn revenue from citations. They're called speed traps. And I believe the federal government made them illegal (I may have my state and federal governments confused).
If something happens that requires full attention, I ignore the phone conversation. Many times on my cell phone in the car I say things like, "...Sorry, I wasn't paying attention, there was some idiot swerving into my lane." It involves the same amount mental shuffling as does speaking with someone in the car. It is less difficult than smoking or changing the CDs and no one wants to outlaw those in one's vehicle.
Also, I can hit my turn signal using the hand with which I am driving without releasing the wheel. Any car that you can't do this with is poorly designed.
While I think saying it had ALL of Firefox's extensions integrated was a bit ridiculous, Opera does probably 75% of of the extensions that 90% of the people download. In addition, Opera does support extensions for functionality in alot of secure and stable ways (IE and Firefox both fail in this regard). It would be possible to write an ad-blocking filter update if one so wished (all of Opera's settings are plain text, including their ad-blocking). I don't think you are going to get downloading streamable content in it. The download manager is quite good. One could write a gmail filestore extension, though I'm not familiar with Firefox's so I can't speak to the fact that it could support everything it does. Opera can launch IE for a page if you wish, which IMO, is better as it lets you know you are using IE along with all its security implications. Javascript debugger is not there. Opera supports spell checking out of the box. It comes back after a crash quite beautifully, though I am not sure if it comes back with fields filled out as I've never seen Opera crash in the middle of doing something, only when a new page is coming up.
A few of the other things I am not familiar with for Firefox, so I can't speak to them either.
The main thing is Firefox has a much larger community and more people working on these extensions. If Opera's community were as large, you'd probably see most of these things done as extensions.
Takes Linux just as much time to shutdown as Windows (even a little more in some cases). The difference is, Linux shuts down the sound and graphics early, while Windows waits on them.
They don't open more schools because it makes eceonomic sense to have a large lower class who can labor and a small, highly intelligent (as they are weeding out so many, one assumes it's only the cream of the crop) upper class for the thinking jobs.
This is the principle the modern American school system is based on. Read up on Rockefeller's contributions to American education. In short, he help get the schools designed to spit out uneducated factory workers and only allow the most intelligent or motivated to aspire to something greater.
Can't go wrong with Negro. It's technical (as in Caucasian is technical for white) and it just means black in two major world languages (Spanish and Protuguese). It can also be used in a quaint, historical manner. As an added bonus, prefixing it with "What up..." tends to make it socially acceptable, and racially agnostic.
Well, I'm no economist, but there would at least be amortized loss exceeding cost of production if the units can not be produced in time to have enough units at launch. So if there is a shortage of black DS lites, then there IS loss over and above the cost per unit.
Although, their insurance will probably pay for it. I doubt it's even Nintendo that lost anything, but rather the shipping company which would have insured the goods.
Main problem with global warming data (as far as I'm concerned) is that most of the long term temperature readings we have is from major cities. The better/farther back the data goes, the more likely it is to be from a major urban center. Urban centers, as population increases, and as industry increases, become warmer.
You can actually feel this (in late autumn especially) when going from outside in the suburbs to outside in the city on a calm day (wind will skew things greatly in BOTH directions, depending on if you're in a windy corridor or being blocked by a line of buildings).
I have actually gone through the data (available from some US government website, I wish I could remember which, I think it's noaa.gov, google can probably help). I took random samples (about 100, for a presentation on global warming for school) and then looked up where they were located. If I excluded cities, the global trend was fairly constant (rising early 20th century, falling since then). If I used only oceanic data, the temperature has dropped over the last 100 years.
Most major reports on global warming do not use raw data, but use a fudge factor to accomodate for this effect (urban island effect I believe it is called). The problem is the fudge number is usually calculated to make the math fit the expected result.
This is part of why the calculations are convoluted, though there are other reasons. Sometime between the 15th and 18th centuries (I apologize I do not recall when), the world (especially the Northern Atlantic, affecting Europe and US where the most good long term data is) is though to have gone through a period of great cooling, with average temperatures dropping a few degrees. We have yet to reach the temperatures that existed before this time of cooling. Much of global warming could be due to this effect slingshotting back.
This data is also often accounted for in fudge factors, trying to estimate how quickly we should recover from this and how quickly we are. But the science for understanding the planet's long-term temperature regulation is not well understood, so this number is somewhat suspect as well.
Back to the specific topic of oceanic rising, I haven't personally seen any conclusive data supporting this theory that convinced me they weren't really measuring erosion. On the other hand, I have seen data in some areas that show ocean levels lowering. Though it is probably much easier to measure ocean levels lowering than rising (erosion can not be a factor, if the coast is getting bigger, the ocean is lowering or your tectonic plate is lifting, which I would imagine would be noticed in other ways).
In my opinion, no one has any real proof of global warming due to humans, global warming in general (in the sense that there are catastrophic climatic changes coming), global temperature regulation, or global cooling (there are some proponents that say the the temporary global warming will cause long term global cooling). Take scientific studies with a grain of salt and especially check their references which may have been flawed in the first place. Be very wary of adjusted data that doesn't go to great lengths to firmly convince you of why it has been adjusted. Ignore media stories about the issue. Don't vote for politicians who make laws based on this "science". Don't listen to anyone, including me.
Toilet and running water don't go out that much, though a few years ago they were out for a few days, giving them an average of about 24 hours per year downtime.
My computer (Windows) has some of the least downtime (excluding power outage). Updates from Windows Update are once per month, so I could have at most 5 reboots since the beginning of the year for all of 45 seconds to 1 minute each. So an hour would be a liberal estimate on downtime.
If you include the time I wait while my old DVD player fails to read a disc or locks up temporarily, it far surpasses my PC on downtime. In addition to electrical outages, my cable TV goes out for about 10 hours/year.
My car has some downtime each year, though its hard to compare something that can't reboot itself and won't just come back on on its own. The last time I took it in for repair to the dealer, it took them almost a week to diagnose the problem.
My bank's local branch's ATM was down for over a week last year.
Microwave, oven, coffee maker, fridge have been chugging along fine except during the power outages, so no complaints there.
Internet goes out periodically and unexpectedly every once in a while for up to an hour or two, in addition to scheduled maintenance about once per month for an hour or two.
Phone doesn't have downtime, but then that's what happens when the government forces their competition to maintain uptime.
So, in ascending order of downtime: phone, oven, microwave, fridge, coffee maker (none), Windows (1 hour), DVD player (3 hours), TV (10 hours), toilet, running water (1 day), internet (1.5 days), electricity (2 days), ATM (3 days), car (4 days)
So I think 10-20 hours downtime is very reasonable for a consumer item and is perfectly acceptable for a noncritical device.
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Marvel will slowly turn to annoyance as you progress and find out that everytime you log on you have to travel for literally 20 minutes before you do anything. Unless of course you dedicate you life to the game like most players seem to and log in once in the morning and go from there.
I personally think a pirates MMORPG could be fantastic. Then again, making it pirate-themed won't make it good. It still has to be well executed.
I am not sure about Dragon (last time I used it, I think it was worse than this demo), but I believe MS's works out of the box but still trains to your voice over time. This false sense of security in not requiring training, and then the software being trained by someone else inadvertently, could have something to do with it as well. I really find it hard to believ that the software legitimately would misconstrue aunt for mom under actual real-world conditions.
Actually, some accents in America pronounce the two words fairly similarly. Aunt can be pronounces like the word "on" with a "t" at the end. The "t" could easily be lost in an echoing room, leaving it to differentiate between deermom and deeron. In addition, many people (especially among those who pronounce aunt as "ont") pronounce mom without the ending "m". So now, we're trying to get deermom to be interpreted as deermah, when an alternative is deeron. It's actually very likely that this was a voice training issue.
It doesn't really work like that, though. I've met many people who find games that they really like but refuse to spend any time on them because they have to spend their time in WoW. They may want to play other games but they just don't have the time. Alot of them view it as because they are paying $15/month on WoW they want to get as much play time out of it as possible. Others are simply addicted. Some are forced to spend a great number of hours in the game because of their guild (raid guild often require that you do 3 raids a week, each taking 4-6 hours).
World of Warcraft is terrible for the industry.
There's also Straterra
It's not really civil disobediance if you are not getting caught. The whole point is to let others know that the people disagree with the laws in an effort to have them changed. That's done by getting caught, tried, and acquitted.
I find it amusing when someone points out the slippery slope fallacy in order to confirm their beliefs.
There are solutions similar to web services that can get around this.
And that is why grammar checkers were created
Alot of small crossroads towns that get a a disproportionate amount of traffic just passing through do this to earn revenue from citations. They're called speed traps. And I believe the federal government made them illegal (I may have my state and federal governments confused).
If something happens that requires full attention, I ignore the phone conversation. Many times on my cell phone in the car I say things like, "...Sorry, I wasn't paying attention, there was some idiot swerving into my lane." It involves the same amount mental shuffling as does speaking with someone in the car. It is less difficult than smoking or changing the CDs and no one wants to outlaw those in one's vehicle.
Also, I can hit my turn signal using the hand with which I am driving without releasing the wheel. Any car that you can't do this with is poorly designed.
Yes, just like giving someone small doses of poisons to build up immunities should be encouraged for their own safety. This guy is an idiot...
Chrome can be changed in Opera. It has a very nice skinning system.
While I think saying it had ALL of Firefox's extensions integrated was a bit ridiculous, Opera does probably 75% of of the extensions that 90% of the people download. In addition, Opera does support extensions for functionality in alot of secure and stable ways (IE and Firefox both fail in this regard). It would be possible to write an ad-blocking filter update if one so wished (all of Opera's settings are plain text, including their ad-blocking). I don't think you are going to get downloading streamable content in it. The download manager is quite good. One could write a gmail filestore extension, though I'm not familiar with Firefox's so I can't speak to the fact that it could support everything it does. Opera can launch IE for a page if you wish, which IMO, is better as it lets you know you are using IE along with all its security implications. Javascript debugger is not there. Opera supports spell checking out of the box. It comes back after a crash quite beautifully, though I am not sure if it comes back with fields filled out as I've never seen Opera crash in the middle of doing something, only when a new page is coming up.
A few of the other things I am not familiar with for Firefox, so I can't speak to them either.
The main thing is Firefox has a much larger community and more people working on these extensions. If Opera's community were as large, you'd probably see most of these things done as extensions.
Takes Linux just as much time to shutdown as Windows (even a little more in some cases). The difference is, Linux shuts down the sound and graphics early, while Windows waits on them.
They don't open more schools because it makes eceonomic sense to have a large lower class who can labor and a small, highly intelligent (as they are weeding out so many, one assumes it's only the cream of the crop) upper class for the thinking jobs.
This is the principle the modern American school system is based on. Read up on Rockefeller's contributions to American education. In short, he help get the schools designed to spit out uneducated factory workers and only allow the most intelligent or motivated to aspire to something greater.
I got the impression that it was intentionally muddy sounding and not to due bad production.
I don't know about that. When US got black GBAs, I think the nationwide release numbered about a dozen judging by availability.
Can't go wrong with Negro. It's technical (as in Caucasian is technical for white) and it just means black in two major world languages (Spanish and Protuguese). It can also be used in a quaint, historical manner. As an added bonus, prefixing it with "What up..." tends to make it socially acceptable, and racially agnostic.
As history has shown us, America will simply buy its African American DS Lites from European countries who import them from farther lands.
Well, I'm no economist, but there would at least be amortized loss exceeding cost of production if the units can not be produced in time to have enough units at launch. So if there is a shortage of black DS lites, then there IS loss over and above the cost per unit.
Although, their insurance will probably pay for it. I doubt it's even Nintendo that lost anything, but rather the shipping company which would have insured the goods.
Main problem with global warming data (as far as I'm concerned) is that most of the long term temperature readings we have is from major cities. The better/farther back the data goes, the more likely it is to be from a major urban center. Urban centers, as population increases, and as industry increases, become warmer.
You can actually feel this (in late autumn especially) when going from outside in the suburbs to outside in the city on a calm day (wind will skew things greatly in BOTH directions, depending on if you're in a windy corridor or being blocked by a line of buildings).
I have actually gone through the data (available from some US government website, I wish I could remember which, I think it's noaa.gov, google can probably help). I took random samples (about 100, for a presentation on global warming for school) and then looked up where they were located. If I excluded cities, the global trend was fairly constant (rising early 20th century, falling since then). If I used only oceanic data, the temperature has dropped over the last 100 years.
Most major reports on global warming do not use raw data, but use a fudge factor to accomodate for this effect (urban island effect I believe it is called). The problem is the fudge number is usually calculated to make the math fit the expected result.
This is part of why the calculations are convoluted, though there are other reasons. Sometime between the 15th and 18th centuries (I apologize I do not recall when), the world (especially the Northern Atlantic, affecting Europe and US where the most good long term data is) is though to have gone through a period of great cooling, with average temperatures dropping a few degrees. We have yet to reach the temperatures that existed before this time of cooling. Much of global warming could be due to this effect slingshotting back.
This data is also often accounted for in fudge factors, trying to estimate how quickly we should recover from this and how quickly we are. But the science for understanding the planet's long-term temperature regulation is not well understood, so this number is somewhat suspect as well.
Back to the specific topic of oceanic rising, I haven't personally seen any conclusive data supporting this theory that convinced me they weren't really measuring erosion. On the other hand, I have seen data in some areas that show ocean levels lowering. Though it is probably much easier to measure ocean levels lowering than rising (erosion can not be a factor, if the coast is getting bigger, the ocean is lowering or your tectonic plate is lifting, which I would imagine would be noticed in other ways).
In my opinion, no one has any real proof of global warming due to humans, global warming in general (in the sense that there are catastrophic climatic changes coming), global temperature regulation, or global cooling (there are some proponents that say the the temporary global warming will cause long term global cooling). Take scientific studies with a grain of salt and especially check their references which may have been flawed in the first place. Be very wary of adjusted data that doesn't go to great lengths to firmly convince you of why it has been adjusted. Ignore media stories about the issue. Don't vote for politicians who make laws based on this "science". Don't listen to anyone, including me.
And what generally happens to attorneys who break this law? They get disbarred. In other words - fired. They lose out on money. There's no difference.
Well, I'd better accept it.
Toilet and running water don't go out that much, though a few years ago they were out for a few days, giving them an average of about 24 hours per year downtime.
My computer (Windows) has some of the least downtime (excluding power outage). Updates from Windows Update are once per month, so I could have at most 5 reboots since the beginning of the year for all of 45 seconds to 1 minute each. So an hour would be a liberal estimate on downtime.
If you include the time I wait while my old DVD player fails to read a disc or locks up temporarily, it far surpasses my PC on downtime. In addition to electrical outages, my cable TV goes out for about 10 hours/year.
My car has some downtime each year, though its hard to compare something that can't reboot itself and won't just come back on on its own. The last time I took it in for repair to the dealer, it took them almost a week to diagnose the problem.
My bank's local branch's ATM was down for over a week last year.
Microwave, oven, coffee maker, fridge have been chugging along fine except during the power outages, so no complaints there.
Internet goes out periodically and unexpectedly every once in a while for up to an hour or two, in addition to scheduled maintenance about once per month for an hour or two.
Phone doesn't have downtime, but then that's what happens when the government forces their competition to maintain uptime.
So, in ascending order of downtime: phone, oven, microwave, fridge, coffee maker (none), Windows (1 hour), DVD player (3 hours), TV (10 hours), toilet, running water (1 day), internet (1.5 days), electricity (2 days), ATM (3 days), car (4 days)
So I think 10-20 hours downtime is very reasonable for a consumer item and is perfectly acceptable for a noncritical device.