Well, Alhambra is a rework of Stimmt So!- which is clearly a stock market game. I don't think Alhambra "feels" like a tile laying game- it is certainly a different beast from Carcassonne.
Taken to the logical extreme, any click-through that doesn't result in a sale was a fraudulent one.
Why stop there? One group took it even farther- they said that some clicks which resulted in sales were still fraudulent!
Events identified as fraudulent in these reports, which actually match real clicks
in our logs, often converted at nearly the same rate (and in some cases better)
compared to other clicks. For example, in one case where 800 paid clicks were
marked as fraudulent, the rate of conversion for these clicks was 5.1%, which
compared favorably with the 5.8% overall conversion rate the advertiser achieved
on approximately 24000 paid clicks.
With that said, iTunes is still, sadly, the best MP3 player application.
The bizarre thing about that quote is that the complaints almost all derived from the fact the author was not trying to use iTunes as an MP3 player; he had ripped all of his music into AIFF format and then tried to use iTunes to do many things outside of the norm: keep two copies of all of his files, store his large (uncompressed) files on slow disks, and burn files to an external firewire CD drive.
I happen to be a person who considers a good album to be a work of art in its own right, not just a collection of songs. Not being able to easily play my mp3s by album easily keeps me from ever considering an iPod.
I do not understand this statement. Here are the steps to play a particular album on an iPod:
1. Click Music.
2. Click Artists.
3. Scroll to the particular artist.
4. Click.
5. If you have multiple albums by that artist, scroll to the appropriate album.
6. Hit the play portion of the wheel or dedicated play button.
If you wish to listen to all albums for a particular artist, skip steps 4 and 5. It will play the albums in alphabetical order. If you know the name of the album you wish to listen to, but not the artist, change the word "artist" to "album" in steps 2 and 3.
You may have cause and effect backwards. These scores appear to be self-reported. The department of Defense has realized that the best way to get more money is to give themselves a bad score.
Will departments use low scores to justify increased budgets for security related projects? According to the article, the scores were reported by the departments themselves. Surely it will be easier for the IT supervisor of a "D-" departments to hire more security specialists than it will be for the IT supervisor of a "B+" department.
There have been numerous responses already which argue with the opinions in this review, but there are a few statements which are demonstrably false.
'Survival' pits you against a never-ending lineup of opponents, and is one of the primary sources of unlockables.
'Survival' mode ends after 100 opponents. 'Survival' mode unlocks nothing (though you can receive achievements on your profile after 20, 50, 80, and 100 opponents, and for collecting all of the items.) Most things (costumes, new characters) are unlocked through, surprise, surprise, 'Story' and 'Time Attack' modes.
'Time Attack' challenges you to defeat six opponents, each twice in a row.
'Time Attack' has eight rounds. You do not need to defeat the opponent twice in a row- it is best two out of three.
Somehow, the movie adaptation portion of this comment doesn't seem to ring true.
I checked xbox.ign.com, ps2.ign.com, and ps.ign.com. I don't think IGN has a reputation for unbiased reviews, but it has a nice searchable database which goes back several years. I found a total of 6 Batman games: Batman & Robin, Batman Beyond, Batman Vengeance, Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu, Batman: Begins, and Batman: Dark Tomorrow. Only Batman Vengeance received what would be considered a "good" rating (8.0 and 8.2 for PS2 and Xbox, respectively). The 2.2 for Batman: Dark Tomorrow is the 12th lowest score ever for an XBox game. Batman Beyond is tied for 9th lowest score ever (2.0) for a Playstation game (though it is tied with a large number of other games for that dishonor.) The rest were in the 5's and 6's, generally considered to be "bad game" territory.
While you might argue that the games were actually worse than that, does it really matter? Once we recognize that a game is bad, do we really demand that reviews quantify the exact amount of badness present?
Is the v4 address space actually mapped in to the v6 address space now so that hosts with v4 addresses are automatically capable of talking v6 if there is a v6 path?
The patent-infringement portion of the case has since been dismissed, under a federal law that says a company can't be sued for infringement if the development was for the exclusive use of the government.
The lawsuit being spoken of in the article had to do with trade-secret theft and breach of contract, not the patent.
If 99.99999% uptime is an actual, nationwide user uptime percentage, I know where over 1% of all downtime existed in the last year. Assuming 250 million customers, that translates to 9125 days of downtime. Yates City, IL has rural customers who lose their service every time it rains, requiring service calls to restore it. Among three lines I know of in that area, there were at least 100 days of downtime in the last year.
Measured by the metric used in this study (number of successful connections/number of attempted connections) my land line worked approximately 50% of the times attempted last month. Now, that was downtime for just one day, but during that time there were 25 failed attempts to call me (by just 2 people). In order for me to achieve 99.99% uptime, I will have to have 13.7 trouble-free years of phone service to make up for the 12 hours I was down.
This feature has been around since at least NT4. The user has to have the "Run as a service" right, and the service is set up in the "Log On" section of the Services control panel.
Or, if you prefer, "error" was left out of the summary. According to the article, it is the amount of error in the three day forecast which has been halved since 1998.
This story seems to be a quest for the "Google scandal of the day" we've grown addicted to this month. The initial statement was that the shares would be priced so that winners would be able to buy 80% of the "won" shares. An "informal survey of five fund managers and small investors by CBS MarketWatch came up with an allocation of about 75 percent." That's very different from "75% of what they should have."
IANADT, but it seems that an upward movement was almost inevitable, given the pre-set condition that the price would be set such that fewer shares would be received than "won".
In 2003, 76.9% of all cases reviewed by the Supreme Court were reversed or vacated. 76% (fewer than average, though not by much) of the ninth's cases were reversed or vacated. Source
Your source seems to indicate that the DC district court was the most overturned by total cases handled in 2003 (though quick Googling did not turn up actual numbers for caseloads.) As for percentage of cases heard by the Supreme Court overturned (probably what the OP meant), here is a source to back the OP's comment.
No, there should not. While these particular sanctions no longer exist, other sanctions exist against other countries, and will presumably exist in the future. Sanctions are not an end unto themselves, they are a means of coercing the sanctioned party in some way. This means all sanctions are intended to end eventually. The "violating a law no longer in effect" clause would diminish the effectiveness of sanctions, since potential violators would need only evade discovery until the sanctions are lifted.
A quite extreme example of this is Iraq right now. Should we "let slide" anyone who broke sanctions there? After all, sanctions are lifted now. Of course, if the sanctions had been strictly held to, perhaps they would have actually diminished Saddam's power, instead of increasing it.
Technically, both misspelling and non-ASCII character sets appear to be violations of the rule, according to Section III, technical considerations (ii) and (i), respectively.
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Well, Alhambra is a rework of Stimmt So!- which is clearly a stock market game. I don't think Alhambra "feels" like a tile laying game- it is certainly a different beast from Carcassonne.
1. Click Music.
2. Click Artists.
3. Scroll to the particular artist.
4. Click.
5. If you have multiple albums by that artist, scroll to the appropriate album.
6. Hit the play portion of the wheel or dedicated play button.
If you wish to listen to all albums for a particular artist, skip steps 4 and 5. It will play the albums in alphabetical order. If you know the name of the album you wish to listen to, but not the artist, change the word "artist" to "album" in steps 2 and 3.
You may have cause and effect backwards. These scores appear to be self-reported. The department of Defense has realized that the best way to get more money is to give themselves a bad score.
Will departments use low scores to justify increased budgets for security related projects? According to the article, the scores were reported by the departments themselves. Surely it will be easier for the IT supervisor of a "D-" departments to hire more security specialists than it will be for the IT supervisor of a "B+" department.
Somehow, the movie adaptation portion of this comment doesn't seem to ring true.
I checked xbox.ign.com, ps2.ign.com, and ps.ign.com. I don't think IGN has a reputation for unbiased reviews, but it has a nice searchable database which goes back several years. I found a total of 6 Batman games: Batman & Robin, Batman Beyond, Batman Vengeance, Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu, Batman: Begins, and Batman: Dark Tomorrow.
Only Batman Vengeance received what would be considered a "good" rating (8.0 and 8.2 for PS2 and Xbox, respectively). The 2.2 for Batman: Dark Tomorrow is the 12th lowest score ever for an XBox game. Batman Beyond is tied for 9th lowest score ever (2.0) for a Playstation game (though it is tied with a large number of other games for that dishonor.) The rest were in the 5's and 6's, generally considered to be "bad game" territory.
While you might argue that the games were actually worse than that, does it really matter? Once we recognize that a game is bad, do we really demand that reviews quantify the exact amount of badness present?
Adding an extension tube does not change the focal length of the lens. It lowers the minimum focus distance for the lens.
Yes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_mapped_address
The Wizard of Oz as a "populist allegorical indictment of the gold standard" is also an urban legend:
http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/Populism.htm
If 99.99999% uptime is an actual, nationwide user uptime percentage, I know where over 1% of all downtime existed in the last year. Assuming 250 million customers, that translates to 9125 days of downtime. Yates City, IL has rural customers who lose their service every time it rains, requiring service calls to restore it. Among three lines I know of in that area, there were at least 100 days of downtime in the last year.
Measured by the metric used in this study (number of successful connections/number of attempted connections) my land line worked approximately 50% of the times attempted last month. Now, that was downtime for just one day, but during that time there were 25 failed attempts to call me (by just 2 people). In order for me to achieve 99.99% uptime, I will have to have 13.7 trouble-free years of phone service to make up for the 12 hours I was down.
What would your dream shooting locations have been, if you could have shot anywhere except Earth?
This feature has been around since at least NT4. The user has to have the "Run as a service" right, and the service is set up in the "Log On" section of the Services control panel.
Or, if you prefer, "error" was left out of the summary. According to the article, it is the amount of error in the three day forecast which has been halved since 1998.
I am not a day trader.
IANADT, but it seems that an upward movement was almost inevitable, given the pre-set condition that the price would be set such that fewer shares would be received than "won".
In 2003, 76.9% of all cases reviewed by the Supreme Court were reversed or vacated. 76% (fewer than average, though not by much) of the ninth's cases were reversed or vacated. Source
Your source seems to indicate that the DC district court was the most overturned by total cases handled in 2003 (though quick Googling did not turn up actual numbers for caseloads.) As for percentage of cases heard by the Supreme Court overturned (probably what the OP meant), here is a source to back the OP's comment.
Perhaps the WMDs have valid passports.
A quite extreme example of this is Iraq right now. Should we "let slide" anyone who broke sanctions there? After all, sanctions are lifted now. Of course, if the sanctions had been strictly held to, perhaps they would have actually diminished Saddam's power, instead of increasing it.
Technically, both misspelling and non-ASCII character sets appear to be violations of the rule, according to Section III, technical considerations (ii) and (i), respectively.