I don't know why there's such a fuss over MRSA. I've had a number of abscesses and some were MRSA. The antibiotics I was first prescribed, which weren't very effective against my MRSA worked just as quickly on the regular SA as the stuff they gave me for the MRSA. Anybody want to explain to me why this "superbug" didn't seem any more dangerous to me than the regular bug?
I don't see why game makers are forced to use DirectX at all. id software has been making great looking and successful games using OpenGL. Why can't Blizzard et al make the same decision?
Actually, I think this could be a fantastic machinima short. "Hello, welcome. You're a zergling, eh? Well we have many positions open on the front line! The work is exciting and very suited to your skillset."
WC3 was just all about Creeping and Micromanagement, to the point that I would refuse to call WarCraft 3 real time strategy.
What exactly do you think is involved in real time strategy? Deciding what units to build? Well, building the right units is the first and most important step towards winning in Warcraft. Maybe you like deciding when and how to engage in battle? I've lost plenty of games because I fought a battle when I shouldn't have. Maybe you think real time strategy games should be resource battle games? Who can gather the most gold wins? Well, having an expo gives you a huge advantage over your adversary in WC3. I'm afraid that micromanaging each unit on the field of battle to achieve tactical goals provides an advantage in almost every "strategic" endeavor, from games to real wars. It's not essential, it's only required because not doing it puts you at a huge disadvantage if your opponent can micro effectively. Perhaps you should've started a micro-free league. I'm sure plenty of people who can't be bothered to do more than attack-move would be interested.
The fact that in WC3, the game degenerated into Hero rush is what kept me from playing it.
The hero rush you're talking about isn't a hero rush at all. It's harassment. I take my hero and force you to pay attention to me instead of the units and structures you want to build. I force you to attack me and get nothing out of it instead of creeping. If you don't, you risk losing your workers or having to cancel a building. It's an integral part of multiplayer strategy. As for why you hate it, its because it forces you to do small scale combat before you want to. I'll agree that harassment can turn off new players, but once you get used to it, it's just part of the game.
They definitely understand that the escalation has gone too far. What they'll do is roll back police powers just far enough that they can't spy on lawmakers any more. Everybody else is out of luck.
And when you're done with that, find two perfect cubes whose difference is also a perfect cube. I did this once, but there wasn't enough room in the margin to write the answer.
My answer is 3 and 7.
Who are you to tell me what numbers are perfect and what aren't? I shall decide for myself, in the way of my fathers.
Not to mention quaternions, which can make computation of complicated 3D rotations trivial.
I won't talk about octonions, as I really don't know of any significant uses of octonions.;-)
Iran's economy is marked by a bloated, inefficient state sector, over reliance on the oil sector, and statist policies that create major distortions throughout. Most economic activity is controlled by the state. Private sector activity is typically small-scale - workshops, farming, and services. President Mahmud AHMADI-NEJAD has continued to follow the market reform plans of former President RAFSANJANI, with limited progress. Relatively high oil prices in recent years have enabled Iran to amass some $40 billion in foreign exchange reserves, but have not eased economic hardships such as high unemployment and inflation. The proportion of the economy devoted to the development of weapons of mass destruction remains a contentious issue with leading Western nations.
Or look at how the Iranian rial is valued to some other currency?
rials per US dollar - 8,964 (2005), 8,614 (2004), 8,193.9 (2003), 6,907 (2002), 1,753.6 (2001)
Many Arab Islamist states have terrible economies, in great part due to their Islamist policies. Women can't work, education favors religious teachings over science/technology, et cetera. With globalization occuring, a country really can't afford to promote the worsening of their workforce. As other countries make real gains, the gap will widen until Iran has essentially nothing.
I can't help wondering if the increasingly strident attitudes regarding the surreptitious gathering of citizens' personal information that are expressed by many people and agencies of the state and federal governments of the US has started to leach into the corporate mindset. Not that I thought that they were honest and fair before... just that they weren't so brazenly foolish as to risk discovery of illegal behavior sanctioned by highly placed management and their well-heeled legal advisors.
I can't help wondering if the attitudes of politicians in Transmetropolitan is slowly becoming reality. For those who don't know, they do illegal works and don't even bother trying to cover it up because they assume correctly that people (reporters) rarely try to uncover their deeds. In fact, they don't even know how to do a proper cover-up because of its near uselessness. Every time I read one of these stories on Slashdot I just have to wonder: do these people give a single thought about what happens when they are discovered or do they just assume that if they don't reveal their illegal activites no one will ever know?
My girlfriend and I always joke that California is Oregon's Mexico. Tons of people from there move up here for some reason; I always imagine it's because Oregonians are so much cooler on average than California, but it's probably because it's so much cheaper to live here than the urban centers of California.
Yeah, we all know that egotism would never play a part in any closed source project or company.
Why is it every time someone points to a flaw in any OSS, someone immediately jumps in to say how no matter what the flaw is, OSS is still better than closed-source software? The point is OSS isn't flawless. "Hey OSS community! You've got this problem! Why don't you fix it?" is how I always interpret them, but the modded-up responses never seem to reflect my interpretation; it's always "Oh yeah? Well Microsoft does the same thing, but worse, and they also do this other horrible thing!"
As a former high school student, I have to say that most of my teachers were great. The problem with my school, as in this case I believe, is the administrators.
My school got a bunch of money one year. I believe it was earmarked for capital construction. Know what got upgraded? The adminstration offices and the library. Not the classrooms where students spend 80% of their time. Not the computer labs where actual school work could be done. The library is forgivable, as you could theoretically use it to further your education though most students spend very little time there.
But seriously, a huge renovation for the attendance and main offices? I think the administrators feel that the schools couldn't possibly run without them, when in fact if the main offices disappeared, my school probably would have run fine. They need it get it through their thick heads that their sole purpose is to further the education of their pupils.
Last year at a college ultimate tournament hosted by Stanford, our team went to some pizza place for dinner. One of my teammates unscrewed the shaker lid on the pepper shaker. Consequently, the next guy who grabbed it spilled more than half of the shaker's contents onto his slice of pizza. He just dragged the slice out from underneath the pepper, leaving a plate full of pepper.
There was some talk, and eventually a pot of $40 was going to go to the person who could eat all the pepper. Obviously, I volunteered as I was certain eating the whole plate was possible. Sadly, I didn't finish it but I took a very red and very burning shit the next morning.
I currently have a MRSA infection and am taking antibiotics. This is the fourth staph infection I have had in the past 6 months. Of those, only 1 required my boil to be lanced. The second time around, the doctor took a blood culture to determine the drug-resistance of the bacteria, and once it was confirmed I was put on sulfa which seems to do the trick. So, I would say that diagnosis does not take a long, long time and that it seems to recur even after it's properly diagnosed. But of course, anecdotal evidence means nothing.
Navigation in a 3D relm with a 2D input and display is cumbersome
Which would explain why 3D games don't sell. Somebody should've told John Carmack that the future is two dimensions.
It's not inherently cumbersome, it's that no one has created an awesome interface.
The RIAA is like a union for the record labels it represents. Except instead of collective bargaining, it collectively sues copyright infringers, or collectively gouges CD prices.
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I don't know why there's such a fuss over MRSA. I've had a number of abscesses and some were MRSA. The antibiotics I was first prescribed, which weren't very effective against my MRSA worked just as quickly on the regular SA as the stuff they gave me for the MRSA. Anybody want to explain to me why this "superbug" didn't seem any more dangerous to me than the regular bug?
I don't see why game makers are forced to use DirectX at all. id software has been making great looking and successful games using OpenGL. Why can't Blizzard et al make the same decision?
You must be Catholic.
Sue that someone.
They definitely understand that the escalation has gone too far. What they'll do is roll back police powers just far enough that they can't spy on lawmakers any more. Everybody else is out of luck.
My answer is 3 and 7.
Who are you to tell me what numbers are perfect and what aren't? I shall decide for myself, in the way of my fathers.
Not to mention quaternions, which can make computation of complicated 3D rotations trivial. I won't talk about octonions, as I really don't know of any significant uses of octonions. ;-)
Every time I hear people talking about the cost of a PS3 they always say "price point." Is "price" or "cost" just too dumb sounding?
My girlfriend and I always joke that California is Oregon's Mexico. Tons of people from there move up here for some reason; I always imagine it's because Oregonians are so much cooler on average than California, but it's probably because it's so much cheaper to live here than the urban centers of California.
Yeah, we all know that egotism would never play a part in any closed source project or company. Why is it every time someone points to a flaw in any OSS, someone immediately jumps in to say how no matter what the flaw is, OSS is still better than closed-source software? The point is OSS isn't flawless. "Hey OSS community! You've got this problem! Why don't you fix it?" is how I always interpret them, but the modded-up responses never seem to reflect my interpretation; it's always "Oh yeah? Well Microsoft does the same thing, but worse, and they also do this other horrible thing!"
My school got a bunch of money one year. I believe it was earmarked for capital construction. Know what got upgraded? The adminstration offices and the library. Not the classrooms where students spend 80% of their time. Not the computer labs where actual school work could be done. The library is forgivable, as you could theoretically use it to further your education though most students spend very little time there.
But seriously, a huge renovation for the attendance and main offices? I think the administrators feel that the schools couldn't possibly run without them, when in fact if the main offices disappeared, my school probably would have run fine. They need it get it through their thick heads that their sole purpose is to further the education of their pupils.
There was some talk, and eventually a pot of $40 was going to go to the person who could eat all the pepper. Obviously, I volunteered as I was certain eating the whole plate was possible. Sadly, I didn't finish it but I took a very red and very burning shit the next morning.
I currently have a MRSA infection and am taking antibiotics. This is the fourth staph infection I have had in the past 6 months. Of those, only 1 required my boil to be lanced. The second time around, the doctor took a blood culture to determine the drug-resistance of the bacteria, and once it was confirmed I was put on sulfa which seems to do the trick. So, I would say that diagnosis does not take a long, long time and that it seems to recur even after it's properly diagnosed. But of course, anecdotal evidence means nothing.
Luckily for the RIAA, they don't actually need evidence to prosecute.5 52240
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H. L. Mencken said it first:
There is always an easy solution to every human problem--neat, plausible and wrong.
Clearly you don't understand the average home Windows user.
I wish I had a dollar for every time I said that...
Which would explain why 3D games don't sell. Somebody should've told John Carmack that the future is two dimensions.
It's not inherently cumbersome, it's that no one has created an awesome interface.
Exactly. My father says this all the time.
Prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.
The RIAA is like a union for the record labels it represents. Except instead of collective bargaining, it collectively sues copyright infringers, or collectively gouges CD prices.