I'm no nutritionist, but I've always understood the term "empty calories" in a slightly different way then you are using it. Empty calories, in the way it has been explained to me, doesn't refer to the nutritional value per calorie, but more in the ability to satisfy appetite per calorie. For example a large salad will fill you up with a relatively small amount of calories. A bottle of soda (non-diet) is likely to have more calories, and will fill you up less (if at all). Thus the soda is considered empty calories because you have consumed calories without impacting your hunger, which causes you to consume more calories.
Your wish is granted. I set up dual monitors on my last install of Ubuntu (which at the time was 8.04) without any terminal commands at all. And on top of that one of my monitors is portrait and one is landscape. No terminal needed to set it up, no fiddling with xorg.conf files, just a display manager a la Windows to configure it properly.
I can definitely speak to Guitar Hero inspiring musicianship and boosting sales of real guitar equipment. Since playing Guitar Hero for the first time, less than a year ago, I have purchased 2 guitars, 2 amps, a plethora of accessories and quite a bit in instruction. I've been playing now for about 6 months and love every minute of it, even practice. Not as easy as Guitar Hero is (obviously), but so much more rewarding when you learn a new lick on a real guitar than when you perfect a song on GH, IMHO.
BINGO. A great example of this (for me) is Guitar Hero. I started playing last year and had fun on Easy and Medium. When I got to Hard it was such a steep jump for me that I would get booed off on a song 20% of the way through that I could play nearly perfectly or perfectly on Medium. So I was left with a choice. Do I spend my time trying to get better or do I invest my time more wisely? I chose the latter and decided to take up real guitar. This is not to say that games aren't fun and spending time playing games is wasted, but if you're grinding away for years trying to get better at a game, chances are in 10 years the game will be defunct or replaced, and that time would have been better served trying to improve a skill with more practical use.
In at least one city near me, tickets aren't automatic. Essentially, the camera takes the video of you running a red light, but an officer still decides if you were actually breaking the law. That being said, the method for determining an offender (according to the article I linked) seems capricious, and would still be open to abuse per the main article. You would however be able to face your "accuser" in the form of the officer who saw your video and "wrote" the ticket for him or her to explain their actions.
I think you misunderstand him. There are standalone CD burners (i.e., not hooked up through a computer, just audio in and a record function and maybe a copy CD function) that would only accept music cd-rs. A buddy of mine had one, sucked because my data cd-rs (which I had tons of) wouldn't work, so I would always have to buy music cd-rs if I wanted to use it.
Wrong. 3 vs. 2 in some games will have a completely different dynamic than 30 vs. 20.
Let's assume some sort of turn based strategy game where you have a group of units. Let's also say it takes 2 hits for these units to die, and they get a shot off in beginning of a turn. The turns will go as follows:
Turn 1 ends:
3 vs 2 becomes 2 vs.5 (1 man at half health)
30 vs 20 becomes 20 vs 5
Turn 2 ends:
2 vs.5 becomes 1.5 (2 men, 1 at half health) vs 0
20 vs 5 becomes 17.5 (18 men, 1 at half health) vs 0
As we can see in the first scenario, 3 wins with essentially half their man power left over. In the second 30 wins with MORE than half their manpower leftover.
I think you may be over generalizing a lot there. I went to a very poor high school. Right across the street from some housing projects and most of the students fell below the poverty line. That being said, we had NO metal detectors and NO security guards. We did have a police officer permanently stationed at our school, but from what I saw this was a county-wide policy and somewhat of a figure head position, not for actual security reasons. I don't even think I actually saw our officer once my whole time in high school. The movies that depict the sorts of environments that you describe are typically overly dramatic in their depiction, or they only apply to the absolute worst schools in the absolute worst neighborhoods. By no means is what you describe ubiquitous or even prevalent in my experience.
Actually it's somewhat odd* that the concept of private vs. public school has come up in this discussion. They're the same wolf in different clothes essentially. On one hand we have our teacher who basically thinks there is no such thing as a free lunch. You get what you pay for. Then we have our indignant poster who seems to think that this lackadaisical attitude comes from the fact that she's the free option, so if you want something better, pay for it. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
*I was going to say ironic, but some ironic usage nazi would have swooped in.
Perhaps I'm in the minority also, but I went to school in a very large school district that encompasses a major metro area that had the same policy. Bring something non-school related? Teacher confiscates it. Now software CDs probably WOULDN'T fall under that, but depending on the teacher, it could, as it is at their discretion.
My issue with Root wouldn't be his sportsbook business as much as his fleecing of the ignorant. Around here on the local sports radio station you can't go an hour without hearing an ad for Root's phone line. Which, when called, gives the traditional sports prediction scam: Give half the people one pick, and the other half the other pick. You're bound to be right 50% of the time, and then you've suckered in someone to pay you for future random picks.
Yes, this is a pain in the butt, but as others have noted, it's nothing new. I've been having this issue since my first AT&T (formerly Cingular), i.e., GSM, phone. There is a trick to fix this though: magnets. Simply loop your speaker wire through a magnet, as this article indicates.
Ahh, but you miss a valid point about what marketing people call "demographics." You see, there is a sort of people who use IE because they like it. But there is, in my experience, a much larger portion of people who use it, because they don't know any different. These sorts of people fall into your majority of people who don't use FF, and don't use plugins. These are not going to be Google's demographic as they don't even have the concept that something REPLACES Internet Explorer. Internet Explore IS the web for them. Thus Google would be wise to cater to the "power users" who aren't ignorant of other browsers and usually do enjoy having some sort of customization ability, i.e., addons.
With the iphone, sign up for a longish contract and you pay full price for the phone. That's not how it works in all situations. For existing contract holders it's actually somewhat fair. When I got my iPhone I had two options: either renew my contract and get a discounted phone or buy an iPhone and no contract renewal is forced. I chose the latter.
That depends a LOT on where you live. In Florida the law treats a notice of resignation as a courtesy on the employees part. That is to say the employer does not have to accept the courtesy and may legally tell them go ahead and go anytime between the time it was submitted and when you finally leave.
I would be in that camp. I'm about to start taking lessons for my guitar I got because of Guitar Hero. Mainly because I got to the end of Medium and was struggling and decided I could either practice, and get good enough to advance, or I could spend that time practicing a real guitar, and actually have some real world utility. I chose the latter.
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What does this have to do with Norton Anti-Virus?
I'm no nutritionist, but I've always understood the term "empty calories" in a slightly different way then you are using it. Empty calories, in the way it has been explained to me, doesn't refer to the nutritional value per calorie, but more in the ability to satisfy appetite per calorie. For example a large salad will fill you up with a relatively small amount of calories. A bottle of soda (non-diet) is likely to have more calories, and will fill you up less (if at all). Thus the soda is considered empty calories because you have consumed calories without impacting your hunger, which causes you to consume more calories.
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In Soviet Russia achievement: your monitor spits coffee on you!
Your wish is granted. I set up dual monitors on my last install of Ubuntu (which at the time was 8.04) without any terminal commands at all. And on top of that one of my monitors is portrait and one is landscape. No terminal needed to set it up, no fiddling with xorg.conf files, just a display manager a la Windows to configure it properly.
I can definitely speak to Guitar Hero inspiring musicianship and boosting sales of real guitar equipment. Since playing Guitar Hero for the first time, less than a year ago, I have purchased 2 guitars, 2 amps, a plethora of accessories and quite a bit in instruction. I've been playing now for about 6 months and love every minute of it, even practice. Not as easy as Guitar Hero is (obviously), but so much more rewarding when you learn a new lick on a real guitar than when you perfect a song on GH, IMHO.
BINGO. A great example of this (for me) is Guitar Hero. I started playing last year and had fun on Easy and Medium. When I got to Hard it was such a steep jump for me that I would get booed off on a song 20% of the way through that I could play nearly perfectly or perfectly on Medium. So I was left with a choice. Do I spend my time trying to get better or do I invest my time more wisely? I chose the latter and decided to take up real guitar. This is not to say that games aren't fun and spending time playing games is wasted, but if you're grinding away for years trying to get better at a game, chances are in 10 years the game will be defunct or replaced, and that time would have been better served trying to improve a skill with more practical use.
In at least one city near me, tickets aren't automatic. Essentially, the camera takes the video of you running a red light, but an officer still decides if you were actually breaking the law. That being said, the method for determining an offender (according to the article I linked) seems capricious, and would still be open to abuse per the main article. You would however be able to face your "accuser" in the form of the officer who saw your video and "wrote" the ticket for him or her to explain their actions.
I think you misunderstand him. There are standalone CD burners (i.e., not hooked up through a computer, just audio in and a record function and maybe a copy CD function) that would only accept music cd-rs. A buddy of mine had one, sucked because my data cd-rs (which I had tons of) wouldn't work, so I would always have to buy music cd-rs if I wanted to use it.
Wrong. 3 vs. 2 in some games will have a completely different dynamic than 30 vs. 20.
.5 (1 man at half health) .5 becomes 1.5 (2 men, 1 at half health) vs 0
Let's assume some sort of turn based strategy game where you have a group of units. Let's also say it takes 2 hits for these units to die, and they get a shot off in beginning of a turn. The turns will go as follows:
Turn 1 ends:
3 vs 2 becomes 2 vs
30 vs 20 becomes 20 vs 5
Turn 2 ends:
2 vs
20 vs 5 becomes 17.5 (18 men, 1 at half health) vs 0
As we can see in the first scenario, 3 wins with essentially half their man power left over. In the second 30 wins with MORE than half their manpower leftover.
Wholeheartedly agree. It's great, and I don't even like Ruby.
Are you sure you don't mean that things taken out in class that weren't school related were confiscated?
That was implied. Since most school still need cause to search you, only items that are brought out are discovered, and thus confiscated.
I think you may be over generalizing a lot there. I went to a very poor high school. Right across the street from some housing projects and most of the students fell below the poverty line. That being said, we had NO metal detectors and NO security guards. We did have a police officer permanently stationed at our school, but from what I saw this was a county-wide policy and somewhat of a figure head position, not for actual security reasons. I don't even think I actually saw our officer once my whole time in high school. The movies that depict the sorts of environments that you describe are typically overly dramatic in their depiction, or they only apply to the absolute worst schools in the absolute worst neighborhoods. By no means is what you describe ubiquitous or even prevalent in my experience.
Actually it's somewhat odd* that the concept of private vs. public school has come up in this discussion. They're the same wolf in different clothes essentially. On one hand we have our teacher who basically thinks there is no such thing as a free lunch. You get what you pay for. Then we have our indignant poster who seems to think that this lackadaisical attitude comes from the fact that she's the free option, so if you want something better, pay for it. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
*I was going to say ironic, but some ironic usage nazi would have swooped in.
Perhaps I'm in the minority also, but I went to school in a very large school district that encompasses a major metro area that had the same policy. Bring something non-school related? Teacher confiscates it. Now software CDs probably WOULDN'T fall under that, but depending on the teacher, it could, as it is at their discretion.
I have mod points, but I can't seem to find the "-1 Groan" or "-1 Throw a Tomato" mod options.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
My issue with Root wouldn't be his sportsbook business as much as his fleecing of the ignorant. Around here on the local sports radio station you can't go an hour without hearing an ad for Root's phone line. Which, when called, gives the traditional sports prediction scam: Give half the people one pick, and the other half the other pick. You're bound to be right 50% of the time, and then you've suckered in someone to pay you for future random picks.
Yes, this is a pain in the butt, but as others have noted, it's nothing new. I've been having this issue since my first AT&T (formerly Cingular), i.e., GSM, phone. There is a trick to fix this though: magnets. Simply loop your speaker wire through a magnet, as this article indicates.
Ahh, but you miss a valid point about what marketing people call "demographics." You see, there is a sort of people who use IE because they like it. But there is, in my experience, a much larger portion of people who use it, because they don't know any different. These sorts of people fall into your majority of people who don't use FF, and don't use plugins. These are not going to be Google's demographic as they don't even have the concept that something REPLACES Internet Explorer. Internet Explore IS the web for them. Thus Google would be wise to cater to the "power users" who aren't ignorant of other browsers and usually do enjoy having some sort of customization ability, i.e., addons.
I would say it's not likely for you. I have a similar time profile to you and I gave Eve a try. Definitely was not my thing.
If it was Ron Paul would be the Republican nominee.
That depends a LOT on where you live. In Florida the law treats a notice of resignation as a courtesy on the employees part. That is to say the employer does not have to accept the courtesy and may legally tell them go ahead and go anytime between the time it was submitted and when you finally leave.
I would be in that camp. I'm about to start taking lessons for my guitar I got because of Guitar Hero. Mainly because I got to the end of Medium and was struggling and decided I could either practice, and get good enough to advance, or I could spend that time practicing a real guitar, and actually have some real world utility. I chose the latter.