Visa are honest and trustworthy compared to paypal..
I don't use Paypal for anything mission-critical but I've had far better experiences with them than I have with Visa.
Paypal has never frozen my account for "suspicious activity" (three purchases from one company, each purchase froze it), frozen my account without notifying me for two weeks, well after I'd figured it out on my own when I couldn't make a purchase and had already resolved it, or frozen my wife's account when mine was the one that got compromised despite their assurances hers would be fine.
Because this happened in Florida, and if you don't like your job there you are shit out of luck because there aren't many open jobs for you to choose from (if any).
So because the job market sucks starting a fire in your office to get out early is better than quitting?
I had about the same reaction. Well, that and the otherwise generally-inaccurate science, such as the astronaut wrapping himself in insulation to protect him from the cold of deep space.
In reality, without any atmosphere to draw heat away from him via convection, he would really only lose heat via black-body radiation. Sure, the virtually-nothing of space is nearly absolute zero, but that is only because there is virtually nothing but empty space to absorb the heat from the sunlight... and by the same token it cannot absorb the heat from your body either. It is a common misconception.
Are we are going to get the same piss-poor treatment of science in this one?
Well, it is called science fiction for a reason. To me, Sunshine was never about the science so much as the people and their circumstances. Till they introduced the sunburned space zombie mentioned in an earlier post anyway.
This reader adds, "Just a thought, but maybe if the studios offered a low-cost, for-profit, legitimate download site without DRM, they could receive the profits at the expense of the cyberlockers."
Does anyone else feel the same way about such business model suggestions? "They know best because they're n that position" certainly isn't foolproof logic, but they definitely spend a lot more time and money and have a more realistic understanding of what impact pricing and distribution methods will have on revenue than know-nothings that always seem to recommend business practices that are in their best interest.
Interesting thought but I figure if companies can come up with solutions in their best interest it's only fair that I do the same. If piracy is really as bad as they say it is it's in everyone's best interest to find a middle ground.
Of course as a traveler I'm still an asshole because even though I can communicate with everyone I should learn all 27 EU languages as a show of good faith I guess.
Pro travel tip: you only need to know two phrases in any language if the primary purpose of your trip is tourism. 1) "Do you speak English?" and 2) "Where is the bathroom?".
You're not expected to learn the whole language but attempting to communicate with locals in their native tongue will score you points in most countries. Anywhere but France and the French part of Belgium anyway; most people there refuse to speak anything but French and will not talk to you if your accent is less than perfect. Though in Belgium I got by on "I only speak English and Dutch so just pick whichever offends you less".
Just how many Europeans can speak to 75% of the population of Europe in their native languages?
13% of the EU population can speak with 51% of the EU in their native language if their native language is English.
18% of the EU population can speak with 32% of the EU in their native language if their native language is German.
Given those parameters, I guess the only way to answer your question is to figure out how many direct descendants of German immigrants are living in the United Kingdom, Ireland or Malta.
The most important scientific achievements are made by people who succeed in using simple childish concepts when dealing with complex problems (have you ever heard of Feynman diagrams?).
So what you're saying is that the most important scientific achievements are made by people who dick around with lots of expensive equipment?;)
Good post. I've had several people call me on the same stance and my response to them is always this: I don't know what my decision will be if I ever have to kill someone, I just hope it's the right one.
Once you start buying food to make energy for a car or a home, food price skyrocket and developing nations only get poorer.
Wouldn't it be possible to use garbage potatoes for this process as well? I mean, the potato might be too rotten to eat but it could still work in this system. That way, you sidestep the whole starvation issue since they were going into the trash anyway.
The Wright Brothers invented the flying car in 1903 when my grandmother was a baby.
Just to clarify, when you say "the Wright Brothers invented the flying car in 1903" are you referring to the fact that they had the first recorded controlled, powered, and sustained heavier-than-air flight or the flying car (the Aerobile) built by Waldo Waterman in 1937?
A surprise is something people don't expect. Previous Portal 2 teaser material has shown that Valve fully expect the Internet to dissect everything it says and does. When they say "we've got a surprise for E3" they're either lying or it's something they know no-one could predict. HL2E3 and DNF are both eminently predictable and denying them doesn't make them any more surprising, so it's neither of those.
It will be something to do with Portal 2, a game which won't be released for another year, at least, so don't get too excited.
Nobody should expect a movie to follow the video game's plot exactly. I thought it was a pretty good tribute myself, though I do agree that they really should have kept the game's ending.
It was absolutely one of the better movie adaptations I've seen, I even enjoyed it. I also know it could never have lived up to my expectations because they were even longer in the making than the movie.
When I saw A Walk to Remember with my wife she spent weeks ranting about how much they took out of the book and to this day, it still bothers her because she has a completely different movie in her mind. I expected something similar to happen in this instance, of course. Despite that healthy dose of reality, the rabid fanboy in me just can't let go of this feeling that it was just Pirates of the Caribbean in the desert (case in point: Jack Sparrow ostrich racing).
All I can say is that after the butchering which was called the Prince of Persia, I have yet another reason to hate disney with a passion.
I liked prince of persia greatly. I have no idea why you think it sucked so bad.
Probably because they introduced extra family members, made the Sands of Time more of a macguffin than anything, rewrote Farah and her dynamic with the prince, changed the Vizier to the clichéd crazy uncle, didn't turn anyone into a sand monster and changed what I thought was a pretty amusing and appropriate ending in the game to an "oh my god, I could have seen that coming if I was blind" ending in the movie.
Try squeezing a wet towel, you won't get all the water out. Now imagine this towel absorbs oil instead of water; you'll have a hell of a time getting all the oil out.
Athletes meet cheerleaders and gamers meet avatars, and those avatars are probably better looking than the cheerleaders. And don't tell me I'm sexist because there is almost no chance that you are 1) female, 2) heterosexual, 3) a gamer, and 4) reading this post.
This may come as a shock to you, but there have been real women on the Internet for a while now.
Ummm, yes. Our rights ARE more important than a few hundred lives. That was kind of the whole point of the revolutionary war.
I think you touched on something important here. To steal a line from George Bernard Shaw: liberty means responsibility. Too many people want their rights recognized without recognizing their responsibilities. You have the right to free speech but you have the responsibility to think before you speak. You have the right to bear arms but you have the responsibility to use them only in defense or survival (or target practice, but you get the idea). You have the right to be on the road but you have the responsibility to do so safely.
Basic freedoms are essential but they don't give people carte blanche with regards to others. Going back to the war, those people made the ultimate sacrifice so we could live free; I think the bare minimum we can do is sacrifice a few seconds to help someone else feel safe.
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Not to mention the simple, inescapable thermodynamic certainty that a machine that is consuming less electrical power will produce less heat.
My wife's hairdryer consumes less electrical power than a 360 and still runs hotter. ;)
Visa are honest and trustworthy compared to paypal..
I don't use Paypal for anything mission-critical but I've had far better experiences with them than I have with Visa.
Paypal has never frozen my account for "suspicious activity" (three purchases from one company, each purchase froze it), frozen my account without notifying me for two weeks, well after I'd figured it out on my own when I couldn't make a purchase and had already resolved it, or frozen my wife's account when mine was the one that got compromised despite their assurances hers would be fine.
This service sounds like the Zune of money transfers.
Because this happened in Florida, and if you don't like your job there you are shit out of luck because there aren't many open jobs for you to choose from (if any).
So because the job market sucks starting a fire in your office to get out early is better than quitting?
I had about the same reaction. Well, that and the otherwise generally-inaccurate science, such as the astronaut wrapping himself in insulation to protect him from the cold of deep space.
In reality, without any atmosphere to draw heat away from him via convection, he would really only lose heat via black-body radiation. Sure, the virtually-nothing of space is nearly absolute zero, but that is only because there is virtually nothing but empty space to absorb the heat from the sunlight... and by the same token it cannot absorb the heat from your body either. It is a common misconception.
Are we are going to get the same piss-poor treatment of science in this one?
Well, it is called science fiction for a reason. To me, Sunshine was never about the science so much as the people and their circumstances. Till they introduced the sunburned space zombie mentioned in an earlier post anyway.
I'll bet it will be great, until about half-way through, when the sunburned space zombie appears.
I wish I could mod you insightful... /sigh
This reader adds, "Just a thought, but maybe if the studios offered a low-cost, for-profit, legitimate download site without DRM, they could receive the profits at the expense of the cyberlockers."
Does anyone else feel the same way about such business model suggestions? "They know best because they're n that position" certainly isn't foolproof logic, but they definitely spend a lot more time and money and have a more realistic understanding of what impact pricing and distribution methods will have on revenue than know-nothings that always seem to recommend business practices that are in their best interest.
Interesting thought but I figure if companies can come up with solutions in their best interest it's only fair that I do the same. If piracy is really as bad as they say it is it's in everyone's best interest to find a middle ground.
Of course as a traveler I'm still an asshole because even though I can communicate with everyone I should learn all 27 EU languages as a show of good faith I guess.
Pro travel tip: you only need to know two phrases in any language if the primary purpose of your trip is tourism. 1) "Do you speak English?" and 2) "Where is the bathroom?".
You're not expected to learn the whole language but attempting to communicate with locals in their native tongue will score you points in most countries. Anywhere but France and the French part of Belgium anyway; most people there refuse to speak anything but French and will not talk to you if your accent is less than perfect. Though in Belgium I got by on "I only speak English and Dutch so just pick whichever offends you less".
Just how many Europeans can speak to 75% of the population of Europe in their native languages?
13% of the EU population can speak with 51% of the EU in their native language if their native language is English.
18% of the EU population can speak with 32% of the EU in their native language if their native language is German.
Given those parameters, I guess the only way to answer your question is to figure out how many direct descendants of German immigrants are living in the United Kingdom, Ireland or Malta.
That was a good movie. Too bad they never made any sequels.
The most important scientific achievements are made by people who succeed in using simple childish concepts when dealing with complex problems (have you ever heard of Feynman diagrams?).
So what you're saying is that the most important scientific achievements are made by people who dick around with lots of expensive equipment? ;)
Good post. I've had several people call me on the same stance and my response to them is always this: I don't know what my decision will be if I ever have to kill someone, I just hope it's the right one.
Once you start buying food to make energy for a car or a home, food price skyrocket and developing nations only get poorer.
Wouldn't it be possible to use garbage potatoes for this process as well? I mean, the potato might be too rotten to eat but it could still work in this system. That way, you sidestep the whole starvation issue since they were going into the trash anyway.
The Wright Brothers invented the flying car in 1903 when my grandmother was a baby.
Just to clarify, when you say "the Wright Brothers invented the flying car in 1903" are you referring to the fact that they had the first recorded controlled, powered, and sustained heavier-than-air flight or the flying car (the Aerobile) built by Waldo Waterman in 1937?
A surprise is something people don't expect. Previous Portal 2 teaser material has shown that Valve fully expect the Internet to dissect everything it says and does. When they say "we've got a surprise for E3" they're either lying or it's something they know no-one could predict. HL2E3 and DNF are both eminently predictable and denying them doesn't make them any more surprising, so it's neither of those.
It will be something to do with Portal 2, a game which won't be released for another year, at least, so don't get too excited.
So you're saying that the announcement is a lie?
But does it come in boxers as well as briefs?
I, for one, won't be satisfied until someone produces a banana hammock based on this technology.
What next, shooting french fries at passing motorists?
Now that's what I call Fast Food.
Or ice cream cones. Now that's what I call a Sticky Situation.
I scream,
You scream,
We all scream fo-- oh god, my eyes! The goggles do nothing!
Duke Nukem Forever will happen eventually. It's a huge pile of money sitting on the table, waiting for someone to pick it up.
It's also the laughingstock of games and the posterchild for vaporware.
Personally, I wouldn't touch that steaming pile of shame with a ten foot pole.
Nobody should expect a movie to follow the video game's plot exactly. I thought it was a pretty good tribute myself, though I do agree that they really should have kept the game's ending.
It was absolutely one of the better movie adaptations I've seen, I even enjoyed it. I also know it could never have lived up to my expectations because they were even longer in the making than the movie.
When I saw A Walk to Remember with my wife she spent weeks ranting about how much they took out of the book and to this day, it still bothers her because she has a completely different movie in her mind. I expected something similar to happen in this instance, of course. Despite that healthy dose of reality, the rabid fanboy in me just can't let go of this feeling that it was just Pirates of the Caribbean in the desert (case in point: Jack Sparrow ostrich racing).
I wonder what the billboards for the local strip clubs will smell like.
Sweaty perverts and broken dreams I imagine.
All I can say is that after the butchering which was called the Prince of Persia, I have yet another reason to hate disney with a passion.
I liked prince of persia greatly. I have no idea why you think it sucked so bad.
Probably because they introduced extra family members, made the Sands of Time more of a macguffin than anything, rewrote Farah and her dynamic with the prince, changed the Vizier to the clichéd crazy uncle, didn't turn anyone into a sand monster and changed what I thought was a pretty amusing and appropriate ending in the game to an "oh my god, I could have seen that coming if I was blind" ending in the movie.
That's just a guess though.
Squeeze?
Try squeezing a wet towel, you won't get all the water out. Now imagine this towel absorbs oil instead of water; you'll have a hell of a time getting all the oil out.
Athletes meet cheerleaders and gamers meet avatars, and those avatars are probably better looking than the cheerleaders. And don't tell me I'm sexist because there is almost no chance that you are 1) female, 2) heterosexual, 3) a gamer, and 4) reading this post.
This may come as a shock to you, but there have been real women on the Internet for a while now.
Ummm, yes. Our rights ARE more important than a few hundred lives. That was kind of the whole point of the revolutionary war.
I think you touched on something important here. To steal a line from George Bernard Shaw: liberty means responsibility. Too many people want their rights recognized without recognizing their responsibilities. You have the right to free speech but you have the responsibility to think before you speak. You have the right to bear arms but you have the responsibility to use them only in defense or survival (or target practice, but you get the idea). You have the right to be on the road but you have the responsibility to do so safely.
Basic freedoms are essential but they don't give people carte blanche with regards to others. Going back to the war, those people made the ultimate sacrifice so we could live free; I think the bare minimum we can do is sacrifice a few seconds to help someone else feel safe.
Wow. Imagine seeing 3D in real life! That would be just awesome!
Eh, it'd probably be cheaper just to watch Avatar again.