Just wanted to give some word-of-mouth advertising to this game which (due to bad marketing and bad release timing) has been largely overlooked by most gamers. It's the best RTS game out there IMHO. More strategy, less click-fest.
Download a beta from http://www.timegate.com/kow/ and then buy the game (you can pick it up now for ~$20 in most places I think).
Nah - the 1/1000 and the 1000 years are completely independent here, they just happen to be the same. One represents a healthy, young persons risk of dying in any given year (accident, crime, disease etc). The other represents the expected lifespan that Mr. Grey ("Dreamcatcher" anyone?) predicts.
Uh, no, that's not at all what it means. If you have a.001 chance of dying each year, that means you have a.999 chance of living, and over 50 years you have a.999 ^ 50 = about.95 chance of living. 95% is very different from 50%.
Actually YOU are wrong.
It is.999^1000 you need to to calculate (the likelihood of living to 1000, not to 50, you got your basic numbers mixed up there, but no worry my 11 year old son does the same:-).
0.999^1000 is about 0.36, which is close enough to 50% to use as an example (and in fact he said the chance of dying every year is LESS than 1 in 1000 so if you instead use 0.9993^1000 you get pretty close to 50%)
I don't agree with his viewpoints (I think there's more to it than cell damage, what about bone wear etc) but at least his math was ok on this one.
I have a somewhat similar problem with my T42. Except mine won't go INTO standby or hibernation every 2nd time. Pattern is this:
1) Boot up
2) do work
3) close lid (=> go to standby)
4) [/me Sleep]
5) Open lid
6) do work
7) close lid. It will now say "preparing to stand by", but it will never happen.
8) Hold power button for 5 secs to do a hard shutdown.
9) Goto 1 (what, goto's are harmful?, bah humbug)
I've been blaming XP SP2 for a while but maybe that is NOT the case...
/Claus
But that is completely insane. They're saying you can refuse to give it but that may mean you have to go without the service requesting it and then they mention a utility as an example and say "the choice is yours". So if you want to keep your SSN as private as possible you may have to live without electricity and water? It that what they call choice?/Claus
1) Use 100 email addresses.
2) Register 100 times at VotePair.
3) Promise 100 times to vote for Nader (or other 3rd party candidate)
4) Get 100 people in swing states voting for Kerry instead of a 3rd party candidate.
5) Break promise made on VotePair and voila!
Finally I CAN make a difference. AND I don't even have to be a US citizen to do so - cool.
In fact I like the VotePair idea in terms of provoking discussion and election reform. Even being a Kerry supporter I don't like the "vote dealing" and the "exploit" mentioned above though. It's undemocratic and the goal doesn't justify the means. I just wish Sinclair Broadcasting had the same attitude.
Yeah - I know step 3 above should have been "Profit"... /Claus
Considering how many questions have been raised as to whether Moore's movie presents truth or propaganda, one has to wonder whether airing such a controvercial movie on the eve of an election helps or hurts the political process
Why should this be different than any other political statements. It's ALL propaganda!
The article itself says that extra-solar planets have been detected for more than 10 years via gravitational observations. The fact that this one is photographed doesn't seem to add the much more interest to it since the "photograph" will probably be something only scientist working directly with this technique would recognize as anything but background noise.
I had these problems once. I got one of the big trackballs that's operated with the palm and thumb. It did help my wrist but after a while I started getting should pains (from moving my arm instead of my wrist). So I switched back to the mouse again for a while and so forth. Thing is that any repetitive motion is bad so by varying the device you can give each "pain-point" some rest now and then.
Still waiting for the thought-controlled input device, but then I guess that will just give you a headache instead:-)
it would be time to dump those Scientific-Atlanta shares (if I had any).
There's just no room for a new player in this area right now. Starting up from scratch with no game support, no previous industry experience and no real synergy from other product ranges (the cable set top box is a bit peripheral), not to mention probably not with the cash reserves to carpet-bomb the consumers with marketing and ads. This is either vaporware or the downfall of SciAtl.
Has the evolution of technology in the workplace (computer, internet, email, etc...), which is suppose to make your job easier, made it any less stressful?
These tools were NOT supposed to make your job easier, they were supposed to make you more productive and they certainly have (even if spam, non-work-related surfing etc counts in the other direction). I don't think this necessarily implies having a more stressful work environment.
is the mantra to use for anything related to the IRS. It seems since they came under the DHS their backlogs have more than tripled (from my own experience so may not be statistically significant). I'm applying for a green card and here are some of the numbers:
Green Card process duration so far: 2 year 3 months
Expected remaining duration: 1 year 6 months
Duration of "Advance Parole" application last time: 8 month. If you don't know what this is, it is a special permit to leave and reenter the US while in the green card process. The permit is for 1 year making the 8 month application process all the more striking. You really need to apply early here. I was left not being able to travel outside the country (business or personal) for 4 months.
EAD application: Renewal just starting now - who knows how long that will take.
And yes I do have attorneys handling everything and no I'm originally from Denmark - not what would be considered a high-risk country requiring extra scrutiny.
the first project, which is a portable laptop power supply made with a pile of D-cell batteries, a battery holder and some wire
Just try to explain that to the TSA people at the airport when you try to haul your "laptop battery" through security.
"No Officer, this pile of batteries with wires sticking out everywhere is just a spare battery for my laptop...wait - what are you doing with those handcuffs - heeeelp".
Yes, but the implication was more than an handful of nations. Unless the suggestion was to install thousands of launch sites across space-capable nations and/or the rest of the world.
There is no way this makes sense.
Each laucnh site can launch many of these not just one! I'm not saying this whole idea sounds practical (and the article also says so) but getting a few thousands of these MADMEN off the ground shouldn't be the hardest part. Presumably any such asteroid would be detected many years in advance so you'll have plenty of time to launch the "weapons of asteroid destruction" from current launch sites (even if there are just a couple of handfuls (or whatever) of these around the world).
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Some may call it a dupe even...
Just wanted to give some word-of-mouth advertising to this game which (due to bad marketing and bad release timing) has been largely overlooked by most gamers. It's the best RTS game out there IMHO. More strategy, less click-fest.
Download a beta from http://www.timegate.com/kow/ and then buy the game (you can pick it up now for ~$20 in most places I think).
Claus
Actually YOU are wrong.
It is .999^1000 you need to to calculate (the likelihood of living to 1000, not to 50, you got your basic numbers mixed up there, but no worry my 11 year old son does the same :-).
0.999^1000 is about 0.36, which is close enough to 50% to use as an example (and in fact he said the chance of dying every year is LESS than 1 in 1000 so if you instead use 0.9993^1000 you get pretty close to 50%)
I don't agree with his viewpoints (I think there's more to it than cell damage, what about bone wear etc) but at least his math was ok on this one.
Claus
I have a somewhat similar problem with my T42. Except mine won't go INTO standby or hibernation every 2nd time. Pattern is this:
1) Boot up
2) do work
3) close lid (=> go to standby)
4) [/me Sleep]
5) Open lid
6) do work
7) close lid. It will now say "preparing to stand by", but it will never happen.
8) Hold power button for 5 secs to do a hard shutdown.
9) Goto 1 (what, goto's are harmful?, bah humbug)
I've been blaming XP SP2 for a while but maybe that is NOT the case...
/Claus
But that is completely insane. They're saying you can refuse to give it but that may mean you have to go without the service requesting it and then they mention a utility as an example and say "the choice is yours". So if you want to keep your SSN as private as possible you may have to live without electricity and water? It that what they call choice? /Claus
Yes
As in VotePairing :-)
1) Use 100 email addresses.
/Claus
2) Register 100 times at VotePair.
3) Promise 100 times to vote for Nader (or other 3rd party candidate)
4) Get 100 people in swing states voting for Kerry instead of a 3rd party candidate.
5) Break promise made on VotePair and voila!
Finally I CAN make a difference. AND I don't even have to be a US citizen to do so - cool.
In fact I like the VotePair idea in terms of provoking discussion and election reform. Even being a Kerry supporter I don't like the "vote dealing" and the "exploit" mentioned above though. It's undemocratic and the goal doesn't justify the means. I just wish Sinclair Broadcasting had the same attitude.
Yeah - I know step 3 above should have been "Profit"...
Why should this be different than any other political statements. It's ALL propaganda!
Yeah those pesky bulky 50x30x0.5 mm^3 credit cards - don't want to lug one of those around.
The article itself says that extra-solar planets have been detected for more than 10 years via gravitational observations. The fact that this one is photographed doesn't seem to add the much more interest to it since the "photograph" will probably be something only scientist working directly with this technique would recognize as anything but background noise.
Claus
Still waiting for the thought-controlled input device, but then I guess that will just give you a headache instead :-)
The noise from the glass crashing down will give it away in an instant ;-)
There's just no room for a new player in this area right now. Starting up from scratch with no game support, no previous industry experience and no real synergy from other product ranges (the cable set top box is a bit peripheral), not to mention probably not with the cash reserves to carpet-bomb the consumers with marketing and ads. This is either vaporware or the downfall of SciAtl.
These tools were NOT supposed to make your job easier, they were supposed to make you more productive and they certainly have (even if spam, non-work-related surfing etc counts in the other direction). I don't think this necessarily implies having a more stressful work environment.
And yes I do have attorneys handling everything and no I'm originally from Denmark - not what would be considered a high-risk country requiring extra scrutiny.
Just try to explain that to the TSA people at the airport when you try to haul your "laptop battery" through security.
"No Officer, this pile of batteries with wires sticking out everywhere is just a spare battery for my laptop...wait - what are you doing with those handcuffs - heeeelp".
Each laucnh site can launch many of these not just one! I'm not saying this whole idea sounds practical (and the article also says so) but getting a few thousands of these MADMEN off the ground shouldn't be the hardest part. Presumably any such asteroid would be detected many years in advance so you'll have plenty of time to launch the "weapons of asteroid destruction" from current launch sites (even if there are just a couple of handfuls (or whatever) of these around the world).
Thousands of MADMEN - not thousands of NATIONS.
Umm - how can a BACTERIA be a VIRUS since these are completely different organisms?