I read a story not too long ago about some guy in his 60s who was taking 18 different medications prescribed for things ranging from high cholesterol, exhaustion, arthritis, and depression, and he recently was experiencing forgetfulness, so his doctor was going to put him on Alzheimer's medication. He went to a friend of his who was a pharmacist, and the guy looks at the list and says almost everything he's taking drugs for is a side effect of a drug interaction. He writes up a list of other drugs he could be using and mails it off to his doctor, who refuses to listen to the pharmacist. So the old guy gets a new doctor and is now on 4 medications for his cholesterol and arthritis and all his other problems vanished.
I'd rather play Super Smash Brothers with a wavebird than a wiimote. My roommate and I got a Wii a couple years ago, bought two or three games... then spent the rest of our time playing on our PS2 or virtual console games. With our traditional control schemes. We didn't really get back into playing with it until SSB:B came out, and even then we didn't use the wiimote.
If 2 SEK is US$0.13, anything less than US$0.06 is lower than 1 SEK. For more fun experiment with other exchange rates to see if you can convert to an even more worthless currency!
My guess is that it was a decision made to say to the world "We're taking the high ground with all these nuclear plants we're building and NOT using them to make more bombs, unlike our commy bastard neighbors on the other side the of pond."
At the time, that might have been a good decision just to ensure nobody could point fingers at our reactors and say we're making nukes. The cold war has been over for 20 years though... Maybe we should get with the times:|
The only way a film could work to really make coal plants -scary- to people is if the climax included a plant exploding and taking out half a city with it. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure that coal plants won't take too many city blocks with them when they go, and I'm also pretty sure that even as stupid and gullible as Americans may be, they wouldn't believe it. The proper way to redeem nuclear power in the eyes of the public is not to sully the name of other power sources, but to showcase the benefits of nuclear energy. The problem is that any media surrounding nuclear power is either bad (Reactor explodes, zombies eat your face, the world is over) or science fiction (yay, DeLoreans). I can't think of a single movie where the nuclear reactor saved the day for mankind.
In America you can still find SDTVs at any big-box store with an electronics department, and generally for under $200-$300US. You might not find big 40" behemoth screens like you used to, but the smaller sizes are still around - in fact I think there's a whole separate market for SDTVs under 20". These all cost less than half of what an HDTV of similar size would, so it's no wonder why people still buy them here.
I think you're the one that lost track of the argument.
He blamed the stupidity of the middle ages on religion. Someone else came in saying "Well that's not true, these things all were the reasons for stupidity in the middle ages." He refuted this claim with "Those things were caused by religion."
The declining technology was caused by religious abolition of science in general. With the entire civilization weakened due to allowing the technology that allowed Rome to grow so large to fall into misuse (namely aqueducts, public baths, and roads) that opened the door for invasion and disease.
Please tell me you are not suggesting that the infrastructure of the world is being held up solely by faith.
My water/internet/phone/TV all work because there's a company out there that I am paying in exchange for the service. There is no faith or belief involved, other than maybe hoping my tubes don't freeze in winter.
Do not confuse atheism (lack of faith) for anarchy (lack of government, which incidentally isn't in charge of any of the 4 above things anyway...). They are two incredibly different things.
That's Jefferson Davis dancing with Benedict Arnold and Satan. Truth is, there have been political cartoons in America just like this one demonizing our enemies for as long as there has been political dissent (read: As long as there has been America). I just can't find any on Google that are actually readable. The difference of course being this news story is a 'news story' and a political cartoon is generally more of an opinion piece.
Snob much? Admittedly Doctor Who barely has even the thinnest grounding in modern day science holding it up, but it's still science fiction. Until you can prove to me that time traveling aliens don't exist, anyway. Good luck with that:)
Original Deus Ex and the Thief series (both by Ion Storm iirc) had buttons that let you 'lean' to see around a corner. Yes, you still expose yourself somewhat but an enemy would have to be much closer to see you than if you were just side stepping to get a look. In Deus Ex I think you could even fire a weapon while leaning making for fun stealth kills. This was all of two extra buttons (lean left and lean right) which could easily be reduced to one if you make it context sensitive depending on where you're standing in relation to a wall.
The only reason they wouldn't have this feature? Console ports. I'm sick of good games being dumbed down for consoles honestly. I don't want every key on my keyboard to do something, sure - this isn't a damn flight simulator or something - but there are a lot more than 10 buttons on my keyboard.. hell there are 7 on my freaking mouse alone. They should do something.
This was on Project Earth on the Discovery channel about a week ago. They couldn't put together a method for separating salt water particles into small enough groups to get into the clouds before airing the episode, so instead of that they set off 300 salt-flares to get a simulated effect.
The funny thing about this method is that it is deliberately putting tons of salt into the air. The episode that aired previous to the cloud-seeding (instant air dropped forests) explained that many coastal forest areas had died out due to salt water rains. It seems to me that this project might cause a lot more problems than will solve them.
To be fair, what they show in the videos is only a very brief snippet of the time I expect you are intended to spend in Megaton. They most likely wanted to show that your decisions in the quests you accept and complete have very obvious and massive changes to the game's story - he didn't have to set up the bomb (He actually had an option to defuse it!) but they wanted to show everyone the nuke scene.
He also only talked to 3 people in the town, the sheriff, a girl who obviously had a quest he refused to take, and the guy with the bomb. Fallout is about exploration. Wanna take bets on whether there are more NPCs with quests in Megaton?
I think I had that version of Sim City too - it wanted a series of symbols that were on the bottom of the pages in the book.
In another one of those ooooold games I had, called Life & Death in which you played surgeon, you'd randomly get a phone call from a pizza place and have to give them the hospital's phone number; and couldn't do anything else until you got it right. Of course, it was in the manual.
Do you really think that someone could determine a song based on 10KBs of non-sequential data? Really? I think that used to be a game show actually. But yeah, there's no case.
Wait - does that work? If a federal judge presides over a case and comes to a ruling, then changes their mind later they get to redo the whole thing? I can't possibly be reading that right._.
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I read a story not too long ago about some guy in his 60s who was taking 18 different medications prescribed for things ranging from high cholesterol, exhaustion, arthritis, and depression, and he recently was experiencing forgetfulness, so his doctor was going to put him on Alzheimer's medication. He went to a friend of his who was a pharmacist, and the guy looks at the list and says almost everything he's taking drugs for is a side effect of a drug interaction. He writes up a list of other drugs he could be using and mails it off to his doctor, who refuses to listen to the pharmacist. So the old guy gets a new doctor and is now on 4 medications for his cholesterol and arthritis and all his other problems vanished.
I'd rather play Super Smash Brothers with a wavebird than a wiimote. My roommate and I got a Wii a couple years ago, bought two or three games... then spent the rest of our time playing on our PS2 or virtual console games. With our traditional control schemes. We didn't really get back into playing with it until SSB:B came out, and even then we didn't use the wiimote.
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/090423.jpg
This comic sums that argument up nicely.
But only if the president does it :(
If 2 SEK is US$0.13, anything less than US$0.06 is lower than 1 SEK. For more fun experiment with other exchange rates to see if you can convert to an even more worthless currency!
But they also published a book about the hypothetical situation if they HAD overbilled him. Fox was going to run a special, but it got cancelled.
It's just a matter of weight ratios really.
http://xkcd.com/435/
For those who don't get it -_-;;
All of those are just applied mathematics.
Thank you XKCD.
My guess is that it was a decision made to say to the world "We're taking the high ground with all these nuclear plants we're building and NOT using them to make more bombs, unlike our commy bastard neighbors on the other side the of pond."
At the time, that might have been a good decision just to ensure nobody could point fingers at our reactors and say we're making nukes. The cold war has been over for 20 years though... Maybe we should get with the times :|
The only way a film could work to really make coal plants -scary- to people is if the climax included a plant exploding and taking out half a city with it. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure that coal plants won't take too many city blocks with them when they go, and I'm also pretty sure that even as stupid and gullible as Americans may be, they wouldn't believe it.
The proper way to redeem nuclear power in the eyes of the public is not to sully the name of other power sources, but to showcase the benefits of nuclear energy. The problem is that any media surrounding nuclear power is either bad (Reactor explodes, zombies eat your face, the world is over) or science fiction (yay, DeLoreans). I can't think of a single movie where the nuclear reactor saved the day for mankind.
In America you can still find SDTVs at any big-box store with an electronics department, and generally for under $200-$300US. You might not find big 40" behemoth screens like you used to, but the smaller sizes are still around - in fact I think there's a whole separate market for SDTVs under 20". These all cost less than half of what an HDTV of similar size would, so it's no wonder why people still buy them here.
I think you're the one that lost track of the argument.
He blamed the stupidity of the middle ages on religion. Someone else came in saying "Well that's not true, these things all were the reasons for stupidity in the middle ages." He refuted this claim with "Those things were caused by religion."
The declining technology was caused by religious abolition of science in general. With the entire civilization weakened due to allowing the technology that allowed Rome to grow so large to fall into misuse (namely aqueducts, public baths, and roads) that opened the door for invasion and disease.
Please tell me you are not suggesting that the infrastructure of the world is being held up solely by faith.
My water/internet/phone/TV all work because there's a company out there that I am paying in exchange for the service. There is no faith or belief involved, other than maybe hoping my tubes don't freeze in winter.
Do not confuse atheism (lack of faith) for anarchy (lack of government, which incidentally isn't in charge of any of the 4 above things anyway...). They are two incredibly different things.
Since WWI, the US and western countries have had a habit of building up bad press against the people they don't like.
Since World War 1? Try a little earlier.
That's Jefferson Davis dancing with Benedict Arnold and Satan. Truth is, there have been political cartoons in America just like this one demonizing our enemies for as long as there has been political dissent (read: As long as there has been America). I just can't find any on Google that are actually readable. The difference of course being this news story is a 'news story' and a political cartoon is generally more of an opinion piece.
Snob much? Admittedly Doctor Who barely has even the thinnest grounding in modern day science holding it up, but it's still science fiction. Until you can prove to me that time traveling aliens don't exist, anyway. Good luck with that :)
Original Deus Ex and the Thief series (both by Ion Storm iirc) had buttons that let you 'lean' to see around a corner. Yes, you still expose yourself somewhat but an enemy would have to be much closer to see you than if you were just side stepping to get a look. In Deus Ex I think you could even fire a weapon while leaning making for fun stealth kills. This was all of two extra buttons (lean left and lean right) which could easily be reduced to one if you make it context sensitive depending on where you're standing in relation to a wall.
The only reason they wouldn't have this feature? Console ports. I'm sick of good games being dumbed down for consoles honestly. I don't want every key on my keyboard to do something, sure - this isn't a damn flight simulator or something - but there are a lot more than 10 buttons on my keyboard.. hell there are 7 on my freaking mouse alone. They should do something.
No, but it turns out that proving that God doesn't exist makes him disappear in a puff of logic.
I fondly remember playing E.T. in my youth. And not understanding a damn second of it, either!
This was on Project Earth on the Discovery channel about a week ago. They couldn't put together a method for separating salt water particles into small enough groups to get into the clouds before airing the episode, so instead of that they set off 300 salt-flares to get a simulated effect.
The funny thing about this method is that it is deliberately putting tons of salt into the air. The episode that aired previous to the cloud-seeding (instant air dropped forests) explained that many coastal forest areas had died out due to salt water rains. It seems to me that this project might cause a lot more problems than will solve them.
To be fair, what they show in the videos is only a very brief snippet of the time I expect you are intended to spend in Megaton. They most likely wanted to show that your decisions in the quests you accept and complete have very obvious and massive changes to the game's story - he didn't have to set up the bomb (He actually had an option to defuse it!) but they wanted to show everyone the nuke scene.
He also only talked to 3 people in the town, the sheriff, a girl who obviously had a quest he refused to take, and the guy with the bomb. Fallout is about exploration. Wanna take bets on whether there are more NPCs with quests in Megaton?
You can't do that! It wasn't a review copy!
I think I had that version of Sim City too - it wanted a series of symbols that were on the bottom of the pages in the book.
In another one of those ooooold games I had, called Life & Death in which you played surgeon, you'd randomly get a phone call from a pizza place and have to give them the hospital's phone number; and couldn't do anything else until you got it right. Of course, it was in the manual.
Wait - does that work? If a federal judge presides over a case and comes to a ruling, then changes their mind later they get to redo the whole thing? I can't possibly be reading that right ._.