Did they weaken its perceived value by connecting it to the enemy or making it salty tea? If they switched the drinks and made it so you got a shot of salty tea when your team mates passed you, and a shot of juice when an "enemy" passed you, would they have had the same results?
Did people choose the seats with the towels associated with their team because the juice tasted better, or because it was their team? Also, I'm not a statistics expert, but is 3/4 of such a small sample size even statistically significant?
YouTube has been on a spree deleting lots of videos that use songs or parts of songs by Warner Music Group. I think I could stand having a short advertisement before watching a video (but not during it) if it meant people could post these videos again.
I noticed this as well. I think there was a recent iPhone article that made no mention of MacBooks, yet had the tag "macbook" on it. Maybe people think "MacBook" is the company, like they used to think "MAC" was. That doesn't make much sense though.
Why is there a minimum age to begin with? I think if a 14 year old can compete at the level of those a few years older, she should be allowed to. Is the age requirement only in gymnastics? Wasn't Michael Phelps 15 in his first Olympics in 2000?
Oh yeah - I believe at NC State, all physics majors must choose between Fortran and Java in their curriculum, in addition to the VPython used in the first two classes, and anything that might be used in the other physics classes.
I was also in that class. I enjoyed the labs very much, especially when we did VPython stuff. Even though the non-CSC students sometimes struggled with the programming, I think seeing the results of the programs made many people more interested in what we were doing.
My favorite one was when we had to model the moon orbiting earth, then launch a space craft from the earth, and have it have it end up doing figure 8s around the earth and moon. I think most people enjoyed that one, and it's a very believable real-world use of programming physics stuff.
Maybe they mean the MTBF for drives that are just on, but not being used. I've never put any stock into those numbers, because I've had too many drives fail to believe that they're supposed to be lasting 100 years. I've had 3 die in the last 3 years alone (all in my server, so probably getting more than average use, but still...)
I know this is Slashdot, but why can't people RTFA before commenting? They aren't using the seeds or rankings in the program - only game stats, home quart advantage, etc. They ran it on the last 9 years of data and it picked final four teams 30% more often than analysts. (30/36 vs 23/36).
The linked article didn't mention it, but from the GA Tech web site, it said that it correctly identified several overrated teams that lost early on (like Georgetown), and underrated teams that went farther than expected (like WVU). The program picks Kansas to win this year.
My car (Volvo S40) has this coating on its radiator. I'm not sure how many other cars have it, but it seems cheap enough that it shouldn't affect the cost of a car to put it on all of them.
I noticed, one of the options there in that pic was death by Pastry. What a horrible way to go... I disagree. I think it would be a very tasty way to go.
The engineers warned that the O-rings could potentially fail in the conditions they were in. The launch had been delayed because of weather several times, and the shuttle sat on the launch pad for days in temperatures the o-rings were not designed for. Could they have designed it from the start in such a way that it wouldn't have happened? I'm sure they could have, but I don't see at as much different than driving into a brick wall in a car without airbags. They added airbags in later models to increase the change of survivability, but it doesn't mean the older designs were flawed.
I think it was more of a managerial flaw than a design flaw.
Two accidents out of 120 flights is half of the time? I also don't see how either accident proves that the NASA engineers aren't smart. Neither accident was really a design failure.
Why is this modded insightful? There are no stars in the video because their luminosity is very low compared to the light reflected from the moon. The moon would be overexposed if stars were visible, which would make the video pointless. They wanted to video the moon, not a big glowing white ball with stars behind it.
When they do end up doing that, songs should still play on the computers they're authorized for since it only "calls home" the first time you try to play it on a computer. Hopefully Apple will be smart enough to provide something to remove the DRM though.
$40-50 to $50-60 is not $40 to $60. It's more like $45 to $55 - a 22% increase, and that's over 10 years. That's less than inflation. So really, games are getting cheaper.
Portal isn't even the same genre as FFXIII or MGS. It seems more like you just hate certain genres. I don't find most FPS games fun, and I've never liked a sports game, but that doesn't mean they aren't valid as games.
If you don't want games with cutscenes, don't buy them. You can't say what a game is or isn't supposed to have just because you want it to be that way. To me a good RPG has to have cutscenes, pre-rendered or not. The only way to get a lot of story into a game is either have a narrator, have a lot of stuff to read in the game, or have cutscenes. If you don't want a story in your game, that's fine with me, but don't try to tell me what I should enjoy in a game. I happen to enjoy drama in a game.
In what way have game prices "skyrocketed?" Most games are about $50-60, which accounting for inflation is no more than they've always been. 10 years ago they were $40-50.
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Did they weaken its perceived value by connecting it to the enemy or making it salty tea? If they switched the drinks and made it so you got a shot of salty tea when your team mates passed you, and a shot of juice when an "enemy" passed you, would they have had the same results?
Did people choose the seats with the towels associated with their team because the juice tasted better, or because it was their team? Also, I'm not a statistics expert, but is 3/4 of such a small sample size even statistically significant?
YouTube has been on a spree deleting lots of videos that use songs or parts of songs by Warner Music Group. I think I could stand having a short advertisement before watching a video (but not during it) if it meant people could post these videos again.
That's what I was wondering as well. I can't imagine that C itself was all that popular. I'd guess C derivatives were more popular.
I noticed this as well. I think there was a recent iPhone article that made no mention of MacBooks, yet had the tag "macbook" on it. Maybe people think "MacBook" is the company, like they used to think "MAC" was. That doesn't make much sense though.
Why is there a minimum age to begin with? I think if a 14 year old can compete at the level of those a few years older, she should be allowed to. Is the age requirement only in gymnastics? Wasn't Michael Phelps 15 in his first Olympics in 2000?
I've used my feet plenty of times with the Playstation controllers. The only buttons hard to get to are the shoulder buttons.
Oh yeah - I believe at NC State, all physics majors must choose between Fortran and Java in their curriculum, in addition to the VPython used in the first two classes, and anything that might be used in the other physics classes.
I was also in that class. I enjoyed the labs very much, especially when we did VPython stuff. Even though the non-CSC students sometimes struggled with the programming, I think seeing the results of the programs made many people more interested in what we were doing.
My favorite one was when we had to model the moon orbiting earth, then launch a space craft from the earth, and have it have it end up doing figure 8s around the earth and moon. I think most people enjoyed that one, and it's a very believable real-world use of programming physics stuff.
"Olympus Mobs?" I guess you really are a World of Warcraft addict :p
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I finished reading it 5 minutes ago, ad my eyes still hurt.
Maybe they mean the MTBF for drives that are just on, but not being used. I've never put any stock into those numbers, because I've had too many drives fail to believe that they're supposed to be lasting 100 years. I've had 3 die in the last 3 years alone (all in my server, so probably getting more than average use, but still...)
lol. home quart advantage. Sorry. I should have converted that to liters before posting.
I know this is Slashdot, but why can't people RTFA before commenting? They aren't using the seeds or rankings in the program - only game stats, home quart advantage, etc. They ran it on the last 9 years of data and it picked final four teams 30% more often than analysts. (30/36 vs 23/36).
The linked article didn't mention it, but from the GA Tech web site, it said that it correctly identified several overrated teams that lost early on (like Georgetown), and underrated teams that went farther than expected (like WVU). The program picks Kansas to win this year.
My car (Volvo S40) has this coating on its radiator. I'm not sure how many other cars have it, but it seems cheap enough that it shouldn't affect the cost of a car to put it on all of them.
Technically, no, it isn't 2.0 for Firewire 800. It is either IEEE 1394b or Firewire 800. Apple has never called it "Firewire 2"
Not to mention Wernher von Braun, who was largely responsible for NASA's early success.
The engineers warned that the O-rings could potentially fail in the conditions they were in. The launch had been delayed because of weather several times, and the shuttle sat on the launch pad for days in temperatures the o-rings were not designed for. Could they have designed it from the start in such a way that it wouldn't have happened? I'm sure they could have, but I don't see at as much different than driving into a brick wall in a car without airbags. They added airbags in later models to increase the change of survivability, but it doesn't mean the older designs were flawed.
I think it was more of a managerial flaw than a design flaw.
Two accidents out of 120 flights is half of the time? I also don't see how either accident proves that the NASA engineers aren't smart. Neither accident was really a design failure.
Why is this modded insightful? There are no stars in the video because their luminosity is very low compared to the light reflected from the moon. The moon would be overexposed if stars were visible, which would make the video pointless. They wanted to video the moon, not a big glowing white ball with stars behind it.
When they do end up doing that, songs should still play on the computers they're authorized for since it only "calls home" the first time you try to play it on a computer. Hopefully Apple will be smart enough to provide something to remove the DRM though.
Facebook and MySpace were never cool to begin with, "old" people or not.
$40-50 to $50-60 is not $40 to $60. It's more like $45 to $55 - a 22% increase, and that's over 10 years. That's less than inflation. So really, games are getting cheaper.
Portal isn't even the same genre as FFXIII or MGS. It seems more like you just hate certain genres. I don't find most FPS games fun, and I've never liked a sports game, but that doesn't mean they aren't valid as games.
If you don't want games with cutscenes, don't buy them. You can't say what a game is or isn't supposed to have just because you want it to be that way. To me a good RPG has to have cutscenes, pre-rendered or not. The only way to get a lot of story into a game is either have a narrator, have a lot of stuff to read in the game, or have cutscenes. If you don't want a story in your game, that's fine with me, but don't try to tell me what I should enjoy in a game. I happen to enjoy drama in a game.
In what way have game prices "skyrocketed?" Most games are about $50-60, which accounting for inflation is no more than they've always been. 10 years ago they were $40-50.