As a commuter who rides the train that feeds Fenway, I can say that's a major detriment. Nothing like 30 minutes in a packed train with sweaty drunk fans to end your day in the office 2-3 times a week.
On a plane, you don't need that large of an explosion to bring the whole thing down.
Care to cite a source? It was my understanding that it in fact took a considerable force to bring a plane down, unless you happened to detonate inside the cockpit. Cabin decompression would at best kill a couple passengers and force an emergency landing.
And while a plane can be used as a weapon more easily than a train, I don't see how liquids would be the controlling factor in such a takeover.
look about 5 degrees (a fist's width at arm's length) to the east of the Sun
I always used a fist's width at arm's length to approximate 10 degrees. I'm not sure where I got it from, but it seems reasonably close to accurate when my thumb is on top. Unless by "width" you mean palm-side to back-side (which would make sense) in which case that's probably about right... forget I said anything.
Anything can happen "if current trends continue" forever.
Not to pick nits, but if in fact current trends do continue, exactly one thing can happen, that which current trends point to. Anything can happen if current trends don't continue, which if you look at enough trends, is always the case.
I'd heard the first in college, but was also informed that the parallel saying in German reversed the two. The main point, I believe, is that you should do one, then the other. Having drinks with varying alcohol content throughout the night (mixed drinks and beers okay, beer-shot-beer-shot not okay) is what puts you under. Of course, I've never seen any real studies regarding this, but conventional wisdom seems to hold true.
A far more valuable phrase should be something like, "If you're already drunk and it's cost you less than $5, you're screwed tomorrow."
I'd love someone who actually knows what they're talking about to chime in (my understanding is vague at best) but as I understand it, corn uses nutrients from the soil that are very replaceable by fertilizer, so by propping up the corn industry the goverment helps out the petroleum industry as well. Other crops tend to require a bit more land management than continually adding ferilizer and farming the same field year after year.
...unless everyone started wearing stylish red/blue lensed glasses and the displays displayed everything in dupicate. Then as the images could be "placed" any distance you want from the viewer.
Of course, there are probably slightly higher tech ways of doing this, but still...
Although, I find it interesting that every case of strap breakage has had only one outcome for the Wiimote: It still works! Um, not necessarily true. My little brother lost handle of the wiimote on a backhand in tennis, sent it against a wall, and I was without a console (only had one controller) until I won an overprice eBay auction for a replacement. The thing didn't shatter, but it also didn't work, either.
...they changed the composition to copper coated zinc in 1982 (I think the 1983 penny was the first year they actually made pennies with the new mix)
I may be wrong, but I believe they made this switch mid-1982. I have faint memories of an assorted set of tests you have to put '82 pennies through to determine which kind they are... IIRC, none of the ones I used were very consistent.
"Uncirculated" is the second-from-highest quality of a coin (second to "Proof", which is typically sealed from the mint and in the case of many coins, of higher quality than a coin that was about to go into circulation). It can in fact have exchanged hands, ie been circulated, but you shouldn't be able to tell from the state of the coin.
These definitions are from a decade ago when I was more involved in coin collecting, but I don't think the hobby is so fast-moving as to change its definitions.
While I wouldn't doubt we see more devices in the upcoming years, hard disks definitely have a place, at least on home computers. I imagine it's rare that anyone with a full 100GB+ HDD has only programs and application data. Giant media files are commonplace, and reading/writing large files is the primary drawback of SSD, and something platter hard drives do very well and very cheaply.
I think what we'll probably see is computers starting to come standard with an "applications" ssd and a "media" hdd.
Or, go to your liquor store and buy a case (or two) of those little airline-sized bottles. Throw them all in a big plastic bag. At least for domestic US flights, you're all set.
I recently did this with an absurd quantity of alcohol on a bachelor party trip with some friends. Of course, we got a good-spirited security guy who laughed at us (and obviously thought about the same thing I do of these regulations) and waved us through. Despite the willingness to anal probe you before you board a flight, these men and women are definetly the bottom rung of a government agency and likely hate these new rules more than you do.
To me, there is a drastic difference between you and a sport hunter. As far as killing animals goes, unless you're a vegitarian, it's very difficult to be morally opposed to hunting. Hunting does not interest me in the slightest, and in fact bothers me a bit emotionally. I do realize, however, that the animals you hunt and kill lead more natural lives and are likely were killed in a more humane way than a vast majority of the meat consumed in the United States, of which I do partake. Because of this, even though I'm a leftist nutjob animal-lover, I'm a strong supporter of lenient (sustainable) hunting laws.
You also whine about having to google to find the proper command to enable the driver for your mat. It's a little unfair to ignore the time you spent googling to find PSXPAD. Or to pretend that copying and pasting a search result to run a single command from a prompt is more difficult than downloading and installing a program. They are different tasks, but I have trouble believe that search->copy->terminal->paste is "harder" than search->download->execute->follow prompts.
I don't have any experience with PSXPAD in particular, but in situations like this, I'm generally quite paranoid about downloading a random.exe and running it on my Windows machine to get some random functionality. Usually, it's only available as a compiled binary, and the site that hosts it is a template php site that could be put together in an hour. If one is to put in the due diligence to make sure such a file is legitimate and/or to repair their newly created WinZombie(R) when it's not, the difficulty of installing measured in effort and expertise required is much higher for the Windows machine.
I've heard from a number of stores (this may be regional to the Houston area) that there's a big shipment scheduled for December 18th. I was mostly asking about Wiimotes after mine was hurled into a brick wall during some tennis, but I understood this day to be a big one for all the Wii stuff (consoles and games included)
Man, this gives me a great idea! I fly a pretty good amount, but my girlfriend does not. She always complains that I get to use the short line, get free upgrades, etc. I was blessed with a gender-neutral name, so when she's flying alone, I could print out a fake boarding pass with her name on it, and buy a ticket with my name on it. She gets the upgrades, and I get the miles.
If we are to assume God did in fact create the universe and all its laws in such a way to make it look as though it's been around a lot longer than it has, and then gave us the tools of analysis and reason to "discover" these laws and the universe's history, who are we to thumb our noses at him and see through his giant fabrication? I mean, if He went to all this effort to make it look like there were dinosaurs 65 million years ago, carefully placing each photon and atom and what-not, we're pretty big jerks to dismiss all his efforts and say, "Yeah, that was nice with the fossil record and the carbon dating and all, but we know the truth. Good try with all that 'evidence' you made us." Even if you really know the secret truth that the universe has only been around 6500 years, lets not go and put a damper on God's efforts. Just go along with the rest of us when we say things like "Evolution" and "Big Bang"-- it'll make God a lot happier. And you don't want to make God angry.
This is a great breakdown of player types. You miss one understressed type in RPGs that gets overinflated in online RPGs. I don't have a good name for them, but they're essentially Builders.
These players tend to spend more time on character creation than playing. They plan out all their stats, profession changes, skills to practice, etc (depending on the game of course) long before they begin their first mission. Often perfectionists, but nearly always they want to create something-- to build something that wasn't there before, usually different than anything else and customized to their liking.
I think there's a little of this trait in everyone you mentioned, but nearly every hardcore MMORPG player falls into this category. Levelling and more often finding good items fuels this player type. Diablo II did (imho) a better job of feeding this kind of player, with ever stronger items and more varied builds. WoW does it by having a pretty well-defined "best" gear, but making sure to continually add new, better, gear over time.
As I think about it, this player probably fits pretty well into your Problem-Solver type, but it removes a lot of the roleplaying aspect of it. Rather than finding ingenious solutions to in-game problems, players now compare DPS in offline calculators.
How many of these $300 upgrades is Vista going to see as a "significant" change? Is MS shooting itself in the foot in that it's cutting out its return customers (like you, if I read your post correctly) who are only sticking around on a PC because of the cost? If every third of those upgrades requires a new Vista license, how long until your average gamers who need good hardware but not necessarily bleeding-edge stuff increase demand for non-Windows gaming to a critical point?
Hey, I was in the same boat for a while. I never had the solid block of time to learn all of Linux, so I weaned myself in rather successfully by doing the following:
1) start by using win32 versions of some popular OSS for your daily or occasional tasks. You probably already use Firefox, but OpenOffice and the GIMP are good ones to put on a windows machine. Perhaps the best lessons for me at this stage were installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP, but go with whatever you use.
2) use them. Go through an upgrade or reconfiguration, and use them for your day-to-day tasks. Linux becomes a really quick thing to pick up if you're already comfortable with all the apps you'll be using. Seriously, if you have experience with all your apps, then it's just a matter of getting stuff installed and set up, and you're at near 100% productivity instead of having to learn how to format paragraphs in your word processor.
3) make your first install on a computer other than your main computer. If absolutely necessary, dual-boot your main computer, but getting set up on a secondary computer is useful for two reasons-- if something's not working correctly or you're in the middle figuring something out, it doesn't stop your day-to-day computing. Also, while you're working on one, you can be browsing the web for guides and tips on the other.
4) don't try to install every package you might possibly need at once. start with a basic setup, then add and configure apps as you have a need for them. all the big distributions have strong app-adding capabilities, so don't worry about not being able to add X after you get the box up and running.
5) three tools you should make sure you have and get familiar with-- google, man, and a text editor.
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As a commuter who rides the train that feeds Fenway, I can say that's a major detriment. Nothing like 30 minutes in a packed train with sweaty drunk fans to end your day in the office 2-3 times a week.
Care to cite a source? It was my understanding that it in fact took a considerable force to bring a plane down, unless you happened to detonate inside the cockpit. Cabin decompression would at best kill a couple passengers and force an emergency landing.
And while a plane can be used as a weapon more easily than a train, I don't see how liquids would be the controlling factor in such a takeover.
I always used a fist's width at arm's length to approximate 10 degrees. I'm not sure where I got it from, but it seems reasonably close to accurate when my thumb is on top. Unless by "width" you mean palm-side to back-side (which would make sense) in which case that's probably about right... forget I said anything.
Not to pick nits, but if in fact current trends do continue, exactly one thing can happen, that which current trends point to. Anything can happen if current trends don't continue, which if you look at enough trends, is always the case.
I'd heard the first in college, but was also informed that the parallel saying in German reversed the two. The main point, I believe, is that you should do one, then the other. Having drinks with varying alcohol content throughout the night (mixed drinks and beers okay, beer-shot-beer-shot not okay) is what puts you under. Of course, I've never seen any real studies regarding this, but conventional wisdom seems to hold true.
A far more valuable phrase should be something like, "If you're already drunk and it's cost you less than $5, you're screwed tomorrow."
I'd love someone who actually knows what they're talking about to chime in (my understanding is vague at best) but as I understand it, corn uses nutrients from the soil that are very replaceable by fertilizer, so by propping up the corn industry the goverment helps out the petroleum industry as well. Other crops tend to require a bit more land management than continually adding ferilizer and farming the same field year after year.
...unless everyone started wearing stylish red/blue lensed glasses and the displays displayed everything in dupicate. Then as the images could be "placed" any distance you want from the viewer.
Of course, there are probably slightly higher tech ways of doing this, but still...
It's a quote from The Simpsons.
ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlord_meme
Short, to the point, and Insightful (though perhaps oversimplified a bit). If only I had mod points...
...they changed the composition to copper coated zinc in 1982 (I think the 1983 penny was the first year they actually made pennies with the new mix)I may be wrong, but I believe they made this switch mid-1982. I have faint memories of an assorted set of tests you have to put '82 pennies through to determine which kind they are... IIRC, none of the ones I used were very consistent.
"Uncirculated" is the second-from-highest quality of a coin (second to "Proof", which is typically sealed from the mint and in the case of many coins, of higher quality than a coin that was about to go into circulation). It can in fact have exchanged hands, ie been circulated, but you shouldn't be able to tell from the state of the coin.
These definitions are from a decade ago when I was more involved in coin collecting, but I don't think the hobby is so fast-moving as to change its definitions.
While I wouldn't doubt we see more devices in the upcoming years, hard disks definitely have a place, at least on home computers. I imagine it's rare that anyone with a full 100GB+ HDD has only programs and application data. Giant media files are commonplace, and reading/writing large files is the primary drawback of SSD, and something platter hard drives do very well and very cheaply.
I think what we'll probably see is computers starting to come standard with an "applications" ssd and a "media" hdd.
Or, go to your liquor store and buy a case (or two) of those little airline-sized bottles. Throw them all in a big plastic bag. At least for domestic US flights, you're all set.
I recently did this with an absurd quantity of alcohol on a bachelor party trip with some friends. Of course, we got a good-spirited security guy who laughed at us (and obviously thought about the same thing I do of these regulations) and waved us through. Despite the willingness to anal probe you before you board a flight, these men and women are definetly the bottom rung of a government agency and likely hate these new rules more than you do.
To me, there is a drastic difference between you and a sport hunter. As far as killing animals goes, unless you're a vegitarian, it's very difficult to be morally opposed to hunting. Hunting does not interest me in the slightest, and in fact bothers me a bit emotionally. I do realize, however, that the animals you hunt and kill lead more natural lives and are likely were killed in a more humane way than a vast majority of the meat consumed in the United States, of which I do partake. Because of this, even though I'm a leftist nutjob animal-lover, I'm a strong supporter of lenient (sustainable) hunting laws.
I don't have any experience with PSXPAD in particular, but in situations like this, I'm generally quite paranoid about downloading a random .exe and running it on my Windows machine to get some random functionality. Usually, it's only available as a compiled binary, and the site that hosts it is a template php site that could be put together in an hour. If one is to put in the due diligence to make sure such a file is legitimate and/or to repair their newly created WinZombie(R) when it's not, the difficulty of installing measured in effort and expertise required is much higher for the Windows machine.
I've heard from a number of stores (this may be regional to the Houston area) that there's a big shipment scheduled for December 18th. I was mostly asking about Wiimotes after mine was hurled into a brick wall during some tennis, but I understood this day to be a big one for all the Wii stuff (consoles and games included)
Man, this gives me a great idea! I fly a pretty good amount, but my girlfriend does not. She always complains that I get to use the short line, get free upgrades, etc. I was blessed with a gender-neutral name, so when she's flying alone, I could print out a fake boarding pass with her name on it, and buy a ticket with my name on it. She gets the upgrades, and I get the miles.
Thanks, terrorists!
I see a bigger problem with that statement.
If we are to assume God did in fact create the universe and all its laws in such a way to make it look as though it's been around a lot longer than it has, and then gave us the tools of analysis and reason to "discover" these laws and the universe's history, who are we to thumb our noses at him and see through his giant fabrication? I mean, if He went to all this effort to make it look like there were dinosaurs 65 million years ago, carefully placing each photon and atom and what-not, we're pretty big jerks to dismiss all his efforts and say, "Yeah, that was nice with the fossil record and the carbon dating and all, but we know the truth. Good try with all that 'evidence' you made us." Even if you really know the secret truth that the universe has only been around 6500 years, lets not go and put a damper on God's efforts. Just go along with the rest of us when we say things like "Evolution" and "Big Bang"-- it'll make God a lot happier. And you don't want to make God angry.
This is a great breakdown of player types. You miss one understressed type in RPGs that gets overinflated in online RPGs. I don't have a good name for them, but they're essentially Builders.
These players tend to spend more time on character creation than playing. They plan out all their stats, profession changes, skills to practice, etc (depending on the game of course) long before they begin their first mission. Often perfectionists, but nearly always they want to create something-- to build something that wasn't there before, usually different than anything else and customized to their liking.
I think there's a little of this trait in everyone you mentioned, but nearly every hardcore MMORPG player falls into this category. Levelling and more often finding good items fuels this player type. Diablo II did (imho) a better job of feeding this kind of player, with ever stronger items and more varied builds. WoW does it by having a pretty well-defined "best" gear, but making sure to continually add new, better, gear over time.
As I think about it, this player probably fits pretty well into your Problem-Solver type, but it removes a lot of the roleplaying aspect of it. Rather than finding ingenious solutions to in-game problems, players now compare DPS in offline calculators.
Me, too.
-TheJorge
I've always liked "Pays for Sure" as a bit more informative
535 days?
It's 5 years, 3 months, and 5 days, or nearly 2000 days. And no, it's not enough.
...And somehow we find ourselves back on topic.
How many of these $300 upgrades is Vista going to see as a "significant" change? Is MS shooting itself in the foot in that it's cutting out its return customers (like you, if I read your post correctly) who are only sticking around on a PC because of the cost? If every third of those upgrades requires a new Vista license, how long until your average gamers who need good hardware but not necessarily bleeding-edge stuff increase demand for non-Windows gaming to a critical point?
Hey, I was in the same boat for a while. I never had the solid block of time to learn all of Linux, so I weaned myself in rather successfully by doing the following:
1) start by using win32 versions of some popular OSS for your daily or occasional tasks. You probably already use Firefox, but OpenOffice and the GIMP are good ones to put on a windows machine. Perhaps the best lessons for me at this stage were installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP, but go with whatever you use.
2) use them. Go through an upgrade or reconfiguration, and use them for your day-to-day tasks. Linux becomes a really quick thing to pick up if you're already comfortable with all the apps you'll be using. Seriously, if you have experience with all your apps, then it's just a matter of getting stuff installed and set up, and you're at near 100% productivity instead of having to learn how to format paragraphs in your word processor.
3) make your first install on a computer other than your main computer. If absolutely necessary, dual-boot your main computer, but getting set up on a secondary computer is useful for two reasons-- if something's not working correctly or you're in the middle figuring something out, it doesn't stop your day-to-day computing. Also, while you're working on one, you can be browsing the web for guides and tips on the other.
4) don't try to install every package you might possibly need at once. start with a basic setup, then add and configure apps as you have a need for them. all the big distributions have strong app-adding capabilities, so don't worry about not being able to add X after you get the box up and running.
5) three tools you should make sure you have and get familiar with-- google, man, and a text editor.
hope this helps