You are off by a factor of ten on the density of corn oil. 77 pounds per gallon should throw a red flag, since that is almost as heavy as lead. End result is corn oil has almost as much energy as the corn itself.
I will say Bioengineering programs are much better as a result for R&D into biology. There is still push back as the changing of the guard is occurring with research guided by engineering methodology slowly gaining ground over almost random testing of traditional biology. Check out systems biology, where you need a strong background in math and computer science to create complex models to use your research results and guide your further research. Note, I was a PhD student in a MolBio program till I dropped out (classes were somewhat depressing how it was really the same stuff as undergrad but slightly more detailed) and eventually moved into programming for the game industry.
Anyways need all the basic headway of traditional biology to have the rich amount of data that allows system biology to work.
Its not a new laptop but at least a 5 year old laptop the ThinkPad X30 it looks like http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-44111
Really its a weird comparison and he's arguing with things like a dvd/cd burner that I've not even used on my desktop computer in over 2 years at this point.
That is actually more of a Chinese date format which is the format frankly that makes the most sense (at least for sorting). American's use MM-DD-YYYY as the standard though there is some use of DD-MM-YYYY and YYYY-MM-DD depending on the field.
Depends on the country, in the US retailers can sell you M rated games, sell you explicit CD's, and movie theaters let you into rated R films (though not NC-17 since that falls under obscenity which isn't protected speech).
Oh found out the number available. There was 1.62 Million Shipped to PAL Countries according to Sony's annual report and thats 9 weeks ago...
So yes, supply is no issue for PAL countries.
Was way more than a million they had available. PS3 has been in common supply in Europe and in fact in several places the stores had to try to discount the consoles a fair bit underneath MSRP to move overstock.
Also considered they sold 800k on the first day so that means took them 10 weeks more to sell 200k more so about 20k a week which while a little over twice as good as its selling in Japan is not very good (Japan for reference sold less than 9k PS3's last week according to MediaCreate http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16168 3> and they are way past the launch period). The issue comes down to the PS3 just is selling pretty awful and worst than the GameCube sold in the previous console generation.
Eh, you know the realmstatus varies btw depending on time of the day right?
Also if you check WarcraftRealms you will find about 50% of the characters they know of over level 10 are PvP and 50% RP or PvE. But, then again its more common from what I understand to see players on PvE servers with multiple characters that are low levels. But sure won't guarantee anything. Its fairly split and definately seems in favor of PvP though if you check the RealmStatus during peak times (about 10PM EST).
Copernicus wasn't pressured for releasing info the world being round but for stating the sun was the center of the solar system.
The favored model of the universe at the time was the Ptolemic system (back from the Roman time). And the Ptolemic model states the world is round. Also look at Roman coins you can see they definately though the world was round since they show a round Earth being held by a god (forget which one and might of been a goddess).
The idea that the majority of people actually believed the world wasn't round was created by Mark Twain and a group of other back when they were alive for some political reason at showing how Europe was backwards thinking and America was forward thinking or something along those lines.
"exploration is made unnecessarily tedious by an utterly brain-dead aggro system, which means that even mobs many, many levels below your own will attack you if they see you"
Ehh??? Mobs 5 levels or more below you are pretty hard to aggro unless you walk on top of them.
"Indeed, the social aspects of WoW are among the weakest. I don't mind playing a MMORPG where you can level-grind solo, but I'll always prefer a situation where grouping brings advantages. Except at the very top levels of WoW (where there's not much left to do anyway), this just doesn't happen. Even as a Mage, the fastest way for me to level up was to run around on my own killing things."
I definately agree that WoW has one of the worst social aspects but there is a slow shift from soloing to grouping as you level up. By level 40 you are spending often up to half your time grouping. Other MMORPG's though I really built a group feeling with others early on and didn't till the 40's for WoW.
Biggest issue in WoW is the lack of usefulness in the professions and how everyone is the exact same in them and every item comes out exactly the same with no variance. Also the complete uselessness in that the time it takes to farm materials for the end profession items better item drops will occur.
And its actually a problem that can be remedied with some simple soldering in of a new resistor. Our ACM at Hopkins has taken to relieving people of monitors with this affliction and fixing them for ourselves resulting in a dramatic increase in 19" & 21" monitors in our office.
I have to really disagree with you. I have an iPod Shuffle and I love it but in my eyes the worst thing about is iTunes. I don't have any great need for an LCD to tell me what song is playing and I can tell what song is playing fine from the first couple of seconds.
If you want to play a particular song I can imagine it would be nice but thats not something I'm particularly interested in...
Thats not how it works in WoW. It still has a defined time that it ends but they keep it a mystery by giving you an estimate of short (zero to thirty minutes), medium (thirty minutes to two hours), long (two hours to eight hours), and very long (greater than eight hours).
Thats only true for some cars and those that don't look normal are still actually keys just a different type. Chrysler cars have the normal cut keys for example that also have the radio transmitter.
It doesn't, his point was someone can't just take a picture and make one from a picture (not that people really would bother with that unless there is something really valuable that key protects).
I'm afraid that Sega has had very few very good games recently. They have had a lot of average games mainly since the death of the Dreamcast besides for a few.
So we get pissed at Sony for having MP3 to ATRAC conversion, but now we have people suggesting to convince people to use OGG we should have MP3 to OGG conversion?
So this way they will do a sound comparison and decide OGG sounds worse at the same filesize?
I would definately choose AAC's over MP3's because the quality at 128kbps for AAC's is much nicer than for MP3's. Now at 50% more bitrate the difference gets hard to hear. Also if iTMS was to sell MP3's bet you would see them adding fairplay on top of them as well.
Wondering since its not like Apple came up with AAC besides the DRM part of the format (I had some AAC files couple years before iTunes and the iPod came along unfortunately the encoder was only so so and so was the Winamp plugin, but the quality was still better while the programs just needed a little fixing up).
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You are off by a factor of ten on the density of corn oil. 77 pounds per gallon should throw a red flag, since that is almost as heavy as lead. End result is corn oil has almost as much energy as the corn itself.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_density_of_corn_oil
I will say Bioengineering programs are much better as a result for R&D into biology. There is still push back as the changing of the guard is occurring with research guided by engineering methodology slowly gaining ground over almost random testing of traditional biology. Check out systems biology, where you need a strong background in math and computer science to create complex models to use your research results and guide your further research. Note, I was a PhD student in a MolBio program till I dropped out (classes were somewhat depressing how it was really the same stuff as undergrad but slightly more detailed) and eventually moved into programming for the game industry. Anyways need all the basic headway of traditional biology to have the rich amount of data that allows system biology to work.
Its not a new laptop but at least a 5 year old laptop the ThinkPad X30 it looks like http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-44111 Really its a weird comparison and he's arguing with things like a dvd/cd burner that I've not even used on my desktop computer in over 2 years at this point.
Being Slashdot and all I shouldn't be surprised but RTFA before stating check facts.
Really is annoying that Facebook defaults to http
That is actually more of a Chinese date format which is the format frankly that makes the most sense (at least for sorting). American's use MM-DD-YYYY as the standard though there is some use of DD-MM-YYYY and YYYY-MM-DD depending on the field.
Depends on the country, in the US retailers can sell you M rated games, sell you explicit CD's, and movie theaters let you into rated R films (though not NC-17 since that falls under obscenity which isn't protected speech).
Yeah, good thing GenCon is on the west coast!
Oh found out the number available. There was 1.62 Million Shipped to PAL Countries according to Sony's annual report and thats 9 weeks ago... So yes, supply is no issue for PAL countries.
Clarification apparently the 800k number was for the first week not first day.
Was way more than a million they had available. PS3 has been in common supply in Europe and in fact in several places the stores had to try to discount the consoles a fair bit underneath MSRP to move overstock.
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8 3> and they are way past the launch period). The issue comes down to the PS3 just is selling pretty awful and worst than the GameCube sold in the previous console generation.
Few articles for you on that
UK Retailers dropping the price below MSRP http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/05/uk-retailer-dro
82% sales drop http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/03/playstation-3-s
Also considered they sold 800k on the first day so that means took them 10 weeks more to sell 200k more so about 20k a week which while a little over twice as good as its selling in Japan is not very good (Japan for reference sold less than 9k PS3's last week according to MediaCreate http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1616
Ummmm the PS2 was cracked long ago... really long ago before the XBox was released.
Now the GCN has only been cracked recently and it was really a pain to be cracked requiring the entire optical drive BIOS to be redone.
Eh, you know the realmstatus varies btw depending on time of the day right?
Also if you check WarcraftRealms you will find about 50% of the characters they know of over level 10 are PvP and 50% RP or PvE. But, then again its more common from what I understand to see players on PvE servers with multiple characters that are low levels. But sure won't guarantee anything. Its fairly split and definately seems in favor of PvP though if you check the RealmStatus during peak times (about 10PM EST).
Copernicus wasn't pressured for releasing info the world being round but for stating the sun was the center of the solar system. The favored model of the universe at the time was the Ptolemic system (back from the Roman time). And the Ptolemic model states the world is round. Also look at Roman coins you can see they definately though the world was round since they show a round Earth being held by a god (forget which one and might of been a goddess). The idea that the majority of people actually believed the world wasn't round was created by Mark Twain and a group of other back when they were alive for some political reason at showing how Europe was backwards thinking and America was forward thinking or something along those lines.
"exploration is made unnecessarily tedious by an utterly brain-dead aggro system, which means that even mobs many, many levels below your own will attack you if they see you"
Ehh??? Mobs 5 levels or more below you are pretty hard to aggro unless you walk on top of them.
"Indeed, the social aspects of WoW are among the weakest. I don't mind playing a MMORPG where you can level-grind solo, but I'll always prefer a situation where grouping brings advantages. Except at the very top levels of WoW (where there's not much left to do anyway), this just doesn't happen. Even as a Mage, the fastest way for me to level up was to run around on my own killing things."
I definately agree that WoW has one of the worst social aspects but there is a slow shift from soloing to grouping as you level up. By level 40 you are spending often up to half your time grouping. Other MMORPG's though I really built a group feeling with others early on and didn't till the 40's for WoW.
Biggest issue in WoW is the lack of usefulness in the professions and how everyone is the exact same in them and every item comes out exactly the same with no variance. Also the complete uselessness in that the time it takes to farm materials for the end profession items better item drops will occur.
Here's a link to one of the many pages showing you how to fix it. Make sure to properly discharge the monitor before working on it. http://www.hutzelman.com/home/hardware/mods/monito r/
And its actually a problem that can be remedied with some simple soldering in of a new resistor. Our ACM at Hopkins has taken to relieving people of monitors with this affliction and fixing them for ourselves resulting in a dramatic increase in 19" & 21" monitors in our office.
If you want to play a particular song I can imagine it would be nice but thats not something I'm particularly interested in...
Thats not how it works in WoW. It still has a defined time that it ends but they keep it a mystery by giving you an estimate of short (zero to thirty minutes), medium (thirty minutes to two hours), long (two hours to eight hours), and very long (greater than eight hours).
Thats only true for some cars and those that don't look normal are still actually keys just a different type. Chrysler cars have the normal cut keys for example that also have the radio transmitter.
It doesn't, his point was someone can't just take a picture and make one from a picture (not that people really would bother with that unless there is something really valuable that key protects).
I'm afraid that Sega has had very few very good games recently. They have had a lot of average games mainly since the death of the Dreamcast besides for a few.
So this way they will do a sound comparison and decide OGG sounds worse at the same filesize?
I would definately choose AAC's over MP3's because the quality at 128kbps for AAC's is much nicer than for MP3's. Now at 50% more bitrate the difference gets hard to hear. Also if iTMS was to sell MP3's bet you would see them adding fairplay on top of them as well.
Wondering since its not like Apple came up with AAC besides the DRM part of the format (I had some AAC files couple years before iTunes and the iPod came along unfortunately the encoder was only so so and so was the Winamp plugin, but the quality was still better while the programs just needed a little fixing up).