Sorry man, if it means anything, I did find your answer sincerely infortmative. Smart-assyness (my word, copyright pending) is a hobby of mine. "T'is better to be a smart-ass than a dumb-ass," I always say.
Thanks. If I hadn't already posted in this discussion, I'd mod you up +1 Informative. However, to be honest, I was trying to be more of a smart-ass with my question. ^.^;;
Out of curiosity, is that because radium a solid at room temperature, and called something else if it were heated to its vapor-point. Otherwise, I'd say that gaseous radium is none too health to breathe.
Valid points aside, this is probably the first comment I've seen on/. that implies that immigrants will *add* to social programs rather than take away from them.
For the most part, as a child, I disliked sports (and still do), but during some of the "free days" in gym class, I'd resort to Calvin Ball. If a ping-pong table was set-up in the gymnasium, I'd grab a tennis racket and a squash ball, and try to find a classmate that was crazy enough to play against me. I guess it's the rules, and the whole preoccupation with winning that turns me off of sports; so in games like that, I prefered just having fun whacking the ball around. I got the excersise that many people state that sports supply in gym/reccess, and I learned how to "compete" through other methods (academic, for example).
Ten years after school, I'm still thin (I have a soft belly, sure, but it only hangs over my belt if I'm sitting in a certain way) and though not "buff", my limbs are nicely toned. Metabolism, perhaps, but then I also walk everywhere I go (one mile away from work, and all the stores are about as far with a mall about three miles away -all "walking distance" for me). As an adult, I don't play sports -even Calvin Ball- mainly due to a lack of time and opponents. *shrugs*
(Back on topic...) In my opinion, if schools are going to face lawsuits like this, taxes will rise. If taxes are going to rise, then do so beforehand in order to hire a few extra teachers to add extra supervision during gym/reccess so kids can still run around with someone standing close by saying "Billy, look out for that tree," or on the jungle-gym: "Suzy, whatch out for that first step...it's a doozy."
I've compared Wikipedia to The Guide before ("...contains much that is apochryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate..."), so this is just eerie. I think I'll just stick with having H2G2 on my cell...
"Since it was found that life is niether beautiful nor true, it was held in contempt of court and the judge ordered it confiscated from all present." - Adams
"Note to self: Is it foolish to complain about the spelling of made-up words?"
Not really. (Way off-topic...)I write "novel quality" fanfiction as a hobby (see the link next to my name), and I find it annoying when the grammar-checker in MS Word citicizes text in quotations (dialogue). One would think that there would be an option to exclude text found in quotes to avoid this, but apparantly I must be the only one that doesn't type exclusively in Notepad.
What I would like to see is some of the community-created extensions built into the sofware. "What about bloat, though?" some would ask, in which case I say this: Include the features in seperate download, and then include the "custom" option during install. Furthermore, some of the more popular extensions -especially those relating to Tab options- should be incorporated into the normal options dialogue (TabMixPlus, for example).
Also, although I know I can add search engines myself, I'd like to see Wikipedia inlcuded in the default list.
"End-users are already instantly paralyzed when they see a window with three buttons, like a deer in the headlights of an onrushing car."
True, but most people that use Firefox aren't your typical "end-user" that automatically clicks "OK" on dialogue boxes. FF users are a tad brighter than that...usually. I only find the pop-up annoying when I'm logging into a site for the first time after a total browser re-install (or any other situation wherein my passwords are no longer saved) and can't remember what the correct password is, and it saves the incorrect one.
I'm still on my first cup here, so it took me three reads to understand that you meant owning the actual friend, and not that one would have more time to make friends if one didn't own a television...
How about even more simple than that? What about something akin to a portable-DVD player with the video already in the drive. Just have the "big push button", and there you go.
No, in many ways, he's right. Take Final Fantasy (in that, with a lacking numeral, I mean the original) and compare it to say, Final Fantasy 7. Seven doesn't have much in the way of a Class System -save for the Limit Breaks. The mixing and matching of Materia allows for any/every character to be a White/Black/Time Mage/Summoner/Ninja/Knight all at once. In FF1, you are restricted to whatever class you select at the start and are stuck with it. Secondly, FF7 has Megalixirs, which, although a great help in many battles, are "cheap". Thirdly, FF7 has in-dungeon save points, FF1 does not. Hell, in FF1, the ancient Temple of Fiends (2000 years in the past) is a total bitch having to fight random battles, the Four Fiends again, then Chaos, all with what you have when you enter it. The North Cave in FF7 gives you a "use anyplace you want to create a save point -even right before the final battle" item. Combine that with the No Encounters Materia, and the dungeon is a cake-walk. Lastly, compare Chaos to Seraph Sephiroth. Chaos has Crack, which kills the party instantly regardless of HP, and uses Cur4 on himself which is a full-heal. The worst Seph has is Fallen Angel, which only puts one character in Critical (usually, 1hp) and Supernova, which can be easily remedied with a Megalixir.
I won't even begin comparing FF1 to FF10 wherein just *touching* the save point is a full heal for all party members.
Actually, the whole worn-groove issue is a thing of the past with some newer turntables I've seen that use a laser to read the groove. A tad costly at U$15k, though.
Personally, I enjoyed The Salmon of Doubt, and the only thing I didn't like about it is that I will forever be left wondering "What happens next?". If The Children of Hurin is actually completed (as in, has an ending), I can't see it as being all that bad. I suppose it really depends on the reader to decide.
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Sorry man, if it means anything, I did find your answer sincerely infortmative. Smart-assyness (my word, copyright pending) is a hobby of mine. "T'is better to be a smart-ass than a dumb-ass," I always say.
Thanks. If I hadn't already posted in this discussion, I'd mod you up +1 Informative. However, to be honest, I was trying to be more of a smart-ass with my question. ^.^;;
Out of curiosity, is that because radium a solid at room temperature, and called something else if it were heated to its vapor-point. Otherwise, I'd say that gaseous radium is none too health to breathe.
Nah, I think he means the clergy...
Valid points aside, this is probably the first comment I've seen on /. that implies that immigrants will *add* to social programs rather than take away from them.
"...I do pity children whose parents are concerned with "near collisions"...."
If I were a parent, I'd be more concerned with the "near misses". *Crash/cry/wails* "Oh look, they nearly missed..."
For the most part, as a child, I disliked sports (and still do), but during some of the "free days" in gym class, I'd resort to Calvin Ball. If a ping-pong table was set-up in the gymnasium, I'd grab a tennis racket and a squash ball, and try to find a classmate that was crazy enough to play against me. I guess it's the rules, and the whole preoccupation with winning that turns me off of sports; so in games like that, I prefered just having fun whacking the ball around. I got the excersise that many people state that sports supply in gym/reccess, and I learned how to "compete" through other methods (academic, for example).
Ten years after school, I'm still thin (I have a soft belly, sure, but it only hangs over my belt if I'm sitting in a certain way) and though not "buff", my limbs are nicely toned. Metabolism, perhaps, but then I also walk everywhere I go (one mile away from work, and all the stores are about as far with a mall about three miles away -all "walking distance" for me). As an adult, I don't play sports -even Calvin Ball- mainly due to a lack of time and opponents. *shrugs*
(Back on topic...)
In my opinion, if schools are going to face lawsuits like this, taxes will rise. If taxes are going to rise, then do so beforehand in order to hire a few extra teachers to add extra supervision during gym/reccess so kids can still run around with someone standing close by saying "Billy, look out for that tree," or on the jungle-gym: "Suzy, whatch out for that first step...it's a doozy."
I've compared Wikipedia to The Guide before ("...contains much that is apochryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate..."), so this is just eerie. I think I'll just stick with having H2G2 on my cell...
"Since it was found that life is niether beautiful nor true, it was held in contempt of court and the judge ordered it confiscated from all present." - Adams
"Note to self: Is it foolish to complain about the spelling of made-up words?"
Not really. (Way off-topic...)I write "novel quality" fanfiction as a hobby (see the link next to my name), and I find it annoying when the grammar-checker in MS Word citicizes text in quotations (dialogue). One would think that there would be an option to exclude text found in quotes to avoid this, but apparantly I must be the only one that doesn't type exclusively in Notepad.
What I would like to see is some of the community-created extensions built into the sofware. "What about bloat, though?" some would ask, in which case I say this: Include the features in seperate download, and then include the "custom" option during install. Furthermore, some of the more popular extensions -especially those relating to Tab options- should be incorporated into the normal options dialogue (TabMixPlus, for example).
Also, although I know I can add search engines myself, I'd like to see Wikipedia inlcuded in the default list.
"End-users are already instantly paralyzed when they see a window with three buttons, like a deer in the headlights of an onrushing car."
True, but most people that use Firefox aren't your typical "end-user" that automatically clicks "OK" on dialogue boxes. FF users are a tad brighter than that...usually. I only find the pop-up annoying when I'm logging into a site for the first time after a total browser re-install (or any other situation wherein my passwords are no longer saved) and can't remember what the correct password is, and it saves the incorrect one.
Yes, I was assuming that. I would've made that distiction, but I thought it was a given.
I'm still on my first cup here, so it took me three reads to understand that you meant owning the actual friend, and not that one would have more time to make friends if one didn't own a television...
How about even more simple than that? What about something akin to a portable-DVD player with the video already in the drive. Just have the "big push button", and there you go.
True, it's not like you have to throw yourself at the sky and miss...
"When the government designs these things that are supposed to last 90 days, they end up lasting two or three years."
Quiet, you! That line of thinking will result in the US engaged in another "quick" ousting of a dictator in an oil-rich country.
I'd say you're missing more than just knowledge of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide". Dolphins don't lay eggs anywhere...
No, in many ways, he's right. Take Final Fantasy (in that, with a lacking numeral, I mean the original) and compare it to say, Final Fantasy 7. Seven doesn't have much in the way of a Class System -save for the Limit Breaks. The mixing and matching of Materia allows for any/every character to be a White/Black/Time Mage/Summoner/Ninja/Knight all at once. In FF1, you are restricted to whatever class you select at the start and are stuck with it. Secondly, FF7 has Megalixirs, which, although a great help in many battles, are "cheap". Thirdly, FF7 has in-dungeon save points, FF1 does not. Hell, in FF1, the ancient Temple of Fiends (2000 years in the past) is a total bitch having to fight random battles, the Four Fiends again, then Chaos, all with what you have when you enter it. The North Cave in FF7 gives you a "use anyplace you want to create a save point -even right before the final battle" item. Combine that with the No Encounters Materia, and the dungeon is a cake-walk. Lastly, compare Chaos to Seraph Sephiroth. Chaos has Crack, which kills the party instantly regardless of HP, and uses Cur4 on himself which is a full-heal. The worst Seph has is Fallen Angel, which only puts one character in Critical (usually, 1hp) and Supernova, which can be easily remedied with a Megalixir.
I won't even begin comparing FF1 to FF10 wherein just *touching* the save point is a full heal for all party members.
Bah, he probably never learned how to manipulate the game to change the date scene. The Barret one was disturbing...
I've been saying this for years. But, you know these young kids these days. No experience with rabbit-ear modification and what not.
And ruin Slartibartfast's greatest acheivement!?
Actually, the whole worn-groove issue is a thing of the past with some newer turntables I've seen that use a laser to read the groove. A tad costly at U$15k, though.
Yes, it was Quintin's (the main "real" one) first Slide.
Personally, I enjoyed The Salmon of Doubt, and the only thing I didn't like about it is that I will forever be left wondering "What happens next?". If The Children of Hurin is actually completed (as in, has an ending), I can't see it as being all that bad. I suppose it really depends on the reader to decide.