It will never happen. For one thing, they can justify releasing a new game every year because rosters change, players get better, etc.
You should just be glad there's competition in the industry, or they'd happily release the exact same game year after year with no changes to gameplay, charging $50 for updated statistics. And people would buy it, too.
No, the numbers do not "speak for themselves". You're assuming a 0 investment would result in no change at all in test scores. That's a very weak premise; I think anyone with a basic grasp of logic could see this. Your numbers are meaningless.
I think that's wrong, as does everyone else here who's actually taken the SAT, because like everything else you've said, you're apparently just making it up. SAT scores range from 400-1600, which is a 1.5% increase in raw scores, which might mean something significant if the scores worked the way you think they do, which they don't.
And since you claimed "no increase" in test scores, and there was some increase, you're wrong about that too. Why can't you just admit that you're an idiot, and that the education system isn't to blame?
Generating nuclear power for poor people is even harder. You can't buy a good reactor for less than $150,000 these days. I guess everyone below the poverty line is just going to have to build their own coal-burning power plant in their back yard.
You mean besides the 18 point improvement in SAT scores (after re-centering pre-1995 scores; obviously, the raw scores improved considerably more) between 1992 and 2000? That's just according to the College Board; I don't have access to the made up figures you're using. I'm sure scores on a standardized test consisting of just the question "What is your name?" showed a 0% change over the same time period.
By that time your OS install will take about 2 TB on its own, and all of your image files will be 2 gigapixel images with 128-bit color, and your multi-terabyte drive will fill up just as fast as the small stack of floppy disks that used to hold all of the data you could imagine needing.
Register.com doesn't appear to have a way to lock domains or check if they're locked, and the only mentions of locking I could find using their search tool were to point out that if you locked your domain with your previous registrar, they can't take it over until you unlock it.
Of course, it's possible they lock them all and just don't bother to tell you unless you try to leave them.
Anyone who thinks GPL'ed software deserves copyright protection is obviously just a **AA apologist who is trying to get support for copyrights in general.
The spammers in this case comitted many counts of fraud. If they'd been charged with that (which probably would have been a tougher case to make than proving they'd sent emails that hid their identity), they probably would have gotten a much longer sentence. Everyone, the spammers included, should be happy that the prosecuters decided to make an example of them for spamming instead of putting together a solid fraud case with a few thousand consecutive sentences.
Well, if the host in question was Wolf Blitzer, I think he'd have a right to be shocked if anyone accused him of being a liberal. At least, he'd assume they'd never actually seen his reporting before.
And while we're at it, they should make it illegal not to go to an approved Christian church every Sunday or to speak in public about anything important. Damn that 1st Amendment.
If the guy had said "as a statistician..." he didn't believe you can accurately count votes, I might buy it. Anyone who says "As a physicist, I'd like you to show me how to perform an error-free measurement" is an asshat.
I do believe that each precinct should be able to count its ballots accurately and that the state governments should be capable of simple addition, yes.
When one precinct registers 6 times as many votes as people who actually cast ballots, I think there's a serious problem. It's not that hard to count 638 ballots.
As for fraud or mistakes becoming statistically insignificant, look at that one precinct. Bush actually got 57.2% of the vote, and the initial results had him with 94%. And quite frankly, I'd rather have the significant error, because those get caught.
I have 2 pens on my desk. I could count them repeatedly for years without any sort of weird quantum effects creating any uncertainty in my measurement.
We're talking about counting ballots. These are macroscopic measurements, and any actual physicist (not a pretend one, like you) should understand that there's no problem at all in measuring things accurately unless they're really tiny and moving really fast. Either you're a liar or the most incompetent physicist ever.
I bet if you got pulled over for speeding you'd try to convince the cop that there's no way he could possibly accurately measure your speed and at the same time know what road you were driving on.
Well, to be fair to Discovery/TLC, I'd really rather watch a bunch of real people build something cool or fix up their house than a "reality" show about "real" people who have to do disgusting things and/or stab each other in the back to win cash and prizes.
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You should just be glad there's competition in the industry, or they'd happily release the exact same game year after year with no changes to gameplay, charging $50 for updated statistics. And people would buy it, too.
No, the numbers do not "speak for themselves". You're assuming a 0 investment would result in no change at all in test scores. That's a very weak premise; I think anyone with a basic grasp of logic could see this. Your numbers are meaningless.
And since you claimed "no increase" in test scores, and there was some increase, you're wrong about that too. Why can't you just admit that you're an idiot, and that the education system isn't to blame?
It costs you $4.00 to walk home?
Generating nuclear power for poor people is even harder. You can't buy a good reactor for less than $150,000 these days. I guess everyone below the poverty line is just going to have to build their own coal-burning power plant in their back yard.
You mean besides the 18 point improvement in SAT scores (after re-centering pre-1995 scores; obviously, the raw scores improved considerably more) between 1992 and 2000? That's just according to the College Board; I don't have access to the made up figures you're using. I'm sure scores on a standardized test consisting of just the question "What is your name?" showed a 0% change over the same time period.
Sure, and Kodak hasn't made any improvements to their paper in the past 50 years. They actually spend their entire R&D budget on pizza.
By that time your OS install will take about 2 TB on its own, and all of your image files will be 2 gigapixel images with 128-bit color, and your multi-terabyte drive will fill up just as fast as the small stack of floppy disks that used to hold all of the data you could imagine needing.
Of course, it's possible they lock them all and just don't bother to tell you unless you try to leave them.
Hmm. I'd just change my login name to "spamabuse", but then everyone else's spam filters would probably delete any mail I tried to send them.
Anyone who thinks GPL'ed software deserves copyright protection is obviously just a **AA apologist who is trying to get support for copyrights in general.
The spammers in this case comitted many counts of fraud. If they'd been charged with that (which probably would have been a tougher case to make than proving they'd sent emails that hid their identity), they probably would have gotten a much longer sentence. Everyone, the spammers included, should be happy that the prosecuters decided to make an example of them for spamming instead of putting together a solid fraud case with a few thousand consecutive sentences.
Since you have no idea what "market capitalization" means, it's probably safe to ignore your theories of economics, I'd think.
I think he was talking about actual Celebrity Jeopardy, not the SNL skit. The real thing isn't as funny, because it's so sad.
One could argue that blogs right now bring you poorly-written Xeroxed leaflets and vanity-press books, ON DEMAND.
Coincidentally, this is also why TV and movies will never supplant the novel as the dominant form of entertainment. Oh wait...
Uh, yeah, because Star Trek invented the concept of a captain keeping track of the events on a ship. Right.
Well, if the host in question was Wolf Blitzer, I think he'd have a right to be shocked if anyone accused him of being a liberal. At least, he'd assume they'd never actually seen his reporting before.
And while we're at it, they should make it illegal not to go to an approved Christian church every Sunday or to speak in public about anything important. Damn that 1st Amendment.
If the guy had said "as a statistician..." he didn't believe you can accurately count votes, I might buy it. Anyone who says "As a physicist, I'd like you to show me how to perform an error-free measurement" is an asshat.
When one precinct registers 6 times as many votes as people who actually cast ballots, I think there's a serious problem. It's not that hard to count 638 ballots.
As for fraud or mistakes becoming statistically insignificant, look at that one precinct. Bush actually got 57.2% of the vote, and the initial results had him with 94%. And quite frankly, I'd rather have the significant error, because those get caught.
16 bits ought to be enough for anyone.
We're talking about counting ballots. These are macroscopic measurements, and any actual physicist (not a pretend one, like you) should understand that there's no problem at all in measuring things accurately unless they're really tiny and moving really fast. Either you're a liar or the most incompetent physicist ever.
I bet if you got pulled over for speeding you'd try to convince the cop that there's no way he could possibly accurately measure your speed and at the same time know what road you were driving on.
Well, to be fair to Discovery/TLC, I'd really rather watch a bunch of real people build something cool or fix up their house than a "reality" show about "real" people who have to do disgusting things and/or stab each other in the back to win cash and prizes.
Obviously your hearing isn't too good. I can hear all those extra electrons moving through those extra cables if I don't wear my tin foil earplugs.