If you do that and the each skill is ballanced with every other then choosing the skills becomes meaningless, so is my damage/healing/tanking ability going to be the same no matter what skills i choose? or will choosing some skills give me better damage? in which case all your doing is forcing people to select a particular skill set to cause the most damage which may as well just be a class.
wow already has a spec system that allows players to choose talents for a specific play style as they progress in the game, they are divded into 3 groups for each class, selecting talents from all 3 generally gives a weak end result while focusing on one or two gives a much stronger charchter. The only difference is that the available talents are different for each class so your choice of class still restricts you to some rolls and your choice of talents (which can be changed later) allow you to specialise and gain ability in one area.
Ok but you only have to have the source code available, so as long as you keep a copy you can sit back and do nothing while canonical are still in buisness then if they go bust make your copy available. Also notice that you can charge for the copy of the source code to recoup your loses from burning and posting a dvd. Depending on what your distributing how many requests for the source are you realistically going to get espicialy if you havent edited the source yourself theres probably a good chance it would still be available from where ever you got it. If you do have a large number of requests for your source on the other hand from people who have bought your product, well clearly you've been sucessful in selling it to a lot of people so should be able to afford distributing the source.
There is an unfortunate side to this. A lot of teens and their parents are still duped into believing that a degree will still lead to a guaranteed "good" job. There's plenty of material out there to counter-act this view and show that in many (possibly even now a majority) of cases, it's a waste of time and money. Unfortunately, this usually gets dismissed as right wing ranting (which I will no doubt get accused of in the replies to this post). The other unfortunate side is that some employers with vacancies that could be filled by a bright high-school graduate seem to feel the need to advertise for a graduate just to "keep up with the Jonses", though I've noticed a slight reversal of this trend recently.
The long running trend appears to be that there is a qualifications inflation of sorts, with more people able to stay in education for longer (a good thing if you ask me) what is happening is jobs where you needed no qualifications in the past now require a basic qualification (high school diploma or something, I'm no american) and jobs that would have required A-levels in the UK are now expecting a university education.
This is problamatic on two fronts really, firstly its essentially a waste of time, if you have to attend university to get a reasonable job but have no real interest in the course you're studying then its a big expensive waste of time that leaves you really over qualified in some respects but under qualified in others to do the job you didn't really need to go to university to do in the first place.
The other is the class divides that still exist in respect to the access to education, even though education is a lot more accessible now than it has been in the past continuing to university is still a large undertaking and one that is not available to everyone. This means that university graduates are driving those who were unable to go further down the job food chain.
More should be done to allow those who are interested in furthering their education to do so, without forcing people to continue in education for longer than they want or need to be.
When you "remind" people about how the Welfare State created chavs do you also remind them that we have never had an underclass at any point in history before the 1940s?
Wait what? what do you mean by underclass? because I don't think thats true.
I never said it was easy just that you shouldn't, you are dead right it is too hard at the moment. In EU legislation was passed to encourage the proper disposal of electronics. I believe the legislation requires the companys that sell the goods to also accept goods for recycling but I'm not entirely sure. The problem is as you've pointed out that there is at the moment no simple method of recycling electronic goods. The solution should really be to make recycling of electronics much easier, having more places to take them for a start.
Do you really have to pay to have your phone recycled that really is crime.
Yes to be honest the amount of tax payers money being wasted on these kinds of expenses is nothing compared to the millions and millions being spent on things like identity cards the god awfull new NHS computer system and nuclear weapons. I would have no problem with MPs being paid much more if they actually did their jobs properly, it would probably end up cheaper.
My point was that not everyone took advantage, it may be human nature to a certain degree but as people we can still make choices and some people choose not to take advantage of the system and some people did. People should not be able to say "oh but its human nature" to get away with acting like a dick.
Except for the large number of MPs that didn't claim for everything under the sun. So apparently not everyone would have or did feel the need to steal everything that isn't bolted down.
I'm sorry but when homeopathic companies and individuals around the world make obscene amounts of money lying to people about a product that doesn't work telling them it will make them feel better and then the people buying it complain about vaccine industry propaganda somethings not right.
Well the subject must have had some idea it was being given to help with something, the body language and way in which the people giving it act has a large effect on the placebo. I'm sure it was given just before the subject went to sleep... I wonder what they could possibly have thought it was connected with.
The reason the times may have coincided and why I asked about why that time was chosen to give the remedy is because people often do these things when the problem is at its worse, if the sleep problems were peaking at the time the remedy was given then you expect symptoms to get better with time anyway. This is actually how a lot of homeopathic and pharmaceutical cold remedies appear to 'cure' the cold.
Yea and when I get a cold I don't take anything you're just buying into the multibillion dollar homeopathic propaganda machine trying to sell you a cure for anything
Unaware of the intended effect? You mean it was slipped in their food without them noticing? The people giving it didn't know the intended effect either? (this has been shown to have an effect on how effective a placebo is). Was the uneasy sleep getting worse? why wait before trying this remedy? The underlying cause for the uneasy sleep may well have been resolved by itself.
The fact that the homeopathic nature of the sugar or water has no effect. Me hitting you with a brick could have a placebo effect if I dress up the treatment well enough, so that could 'work' as much as homeopathic cures. Working as well as placebo does not count as working, if you develop a new drug and it works as well as not giving the drug you don't declare your trial a success and start prescribing it to people.
Really though so is every other homeopathic company. Sure they say its homeopathic water or sugar but really it is just water or sugar there are no differences.
Do they? I was under the impression that prescribing a placebo as treatment and lieing to a patient would be unethical. If I'm ill and there is no treatment surely I have a right to be told that. If I'm ill and there is a treatment (ie works better than placebo) then the doctor should be giving that.
Another factor you may have overlooked here is very high population density of modern cities. When you have a large number of tall buildings close together you could have an order of magnitude more people with higher power needs (lifts, pumping water etc) living in a space with the same area and same available solar power.
The space available for batteries could also be limited. I think cities will in general require large scale power distribution and generation to feed the high populations. Transmission losses could also be minimised using high voltage direct current lines.
Personally I think self sufficiency should be the aim both at an individual and also community level. However larger scale cooperation and supply of power, water etc will still be required in areas that can't sustain the population density there.
What's interesting is that you wish for 40-70% efficient cells with a view to small scale self sufficient energy generation but even with current solar technology the entire current electricity and energy needs of the planet could be met with solar power covering a surprisingly small amount of the worlds deserts. Personally I think roof solar panels and other methods of lowering the 'carbon footprint' of typical homes and people are a good thing but it's also important to realise that we do not need to wait for a scientific break through to make green/renewable energy a reality.
As a physics student I did see python being used, mainly because it makes sorting and manipulating data very easy and little programs can be written very quickly in it. However for Monte Carlo simulations which is what i spent some of my time doing the language of choice was either C or Fortran. In simulations where the amount of computer time available is a major restraint then I don't think python would be used.
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He wasn't actually american though apparently he was an immigrant.
If you do that and the each skill is ballanced with every other then choosing the skills becomes meaningless, so is my damage/healing/tanking ability going to be the same no matter what skills i choose? or will choosing some skills give me better damage? in which case all your doing is forcing people to select a particular skill set to cause the most damage which may as well just be a class.
wow already has a spec system that allows players to choose talents for a specific play style as they progress in the game, they are divded into 3 groups for each class, selecting talents from all 3 generally gives a weak end result while focusing on one or two gives a much stronger charchter. The only difference is that the available talents are different for each class so your choice of class still restricts you to some rolls and your choice of talents (which can be changed later) allow you to specialise and gain ability in one area.
You go through all the trouble of collecting their DNA samples and then arrest them based on their domain lookups? seems a bit convoluted
Ok but you only have to have the source code available, so as long as you keep a copy you can sit back and do nothing while canonical are still in buisness then if they go bust make your copy available. Also notice that you can charge for the copy of the source code to recoup your loses from burning and posting a dvd. Depending on what your distributing how many requests for the source are you realistically going to get espicialy if you havent edited the source yourself theres probably a good chance it would still be available from where ever you got it. If you do have a large number of requests for your source on the other hand from people who have bought your product, well clearly you've been sucessful in selling it to a lot of people so should be able to afford distributing the source.
If sex were not so demonized (in Britain) then perhaps they could learn biology (including sex education) in school.
As far as I am aware they do, sex was covered both in biology and in sex education. The biology text book had a drigram of people having sex.
1. guessing one rotation of our galaxy around the universe as one God year
Our galaxy does not rotate around the universe
I know its a sore issue as to whether its a good idea to beat a child, but I heard Bill Gates used to beat windows and look what happened there.
There is an unfortunate side to this. A lot of teens and their parents are still duped into believing that a degree will still lead to a guaranteed "good" job. There's plenty of material out there to counter-act this view and show that in many (possibly even now a majority) of cases, it's a waste of time and money. Unfortunately, this usually gets dismissed as right wing ranting (which I will no doubt get accused of in the replies to this post). The other unfortunate side is that some employers with vacancies that could be filled by a bright high-school graduate seem to feel the need to advertise for a graduate just to "keep up with the Jonses", though I've noticed a slight reversal of this trend recently.
The long running trend appears to be that there is a qualifications inflation of sorts, with more people able to stay in education for longer (a good thing if you ask me) what is happening is jobs where you needed no qualifications in the past now require a basic qualification (high school diploma or something, I'm no american) and jobs that would have required A-levels in the UK are now expecting a university education.
This is problamatic on two fronts really, firstly its essentially a waste of time, if you have to attend university to get a reasonable job but have no real interest in the course you're studying then its a big expensive waste of time that leaves you really over qualified in some respects but under qualified in others to do the job you didn't really need to go to university to do in the first place.
The other is the class divides that still exist in respect to the access to education, even though education is a lot more accessible now than it has been in the past continuing to university is still a large undertaking and one that is not available to everyone. This means that university graduates are driving those who were unable to go further down the job food chain.
More should be done to allow those who are interested in furthering their education to do so, without forcing people to continue in education for longer than they want or need to be.
When you "remind" people about how the Welfare State created chavs do you also remind them that we have never had an underclass at any point in history before the 1940s?
Wait what? what do you mean by underclass? because I don't think thats true.
I never said it was easy just that you shouldn't, you are dead right it is too hard at the moment. In EU legislation was passed to encourage the proper disposal of electronics. I believe the legislation requires the companys that sell the goods to also accept goods for recycling but I'm not entirely sure. The problem is as you've pointed out that there is at the moment no simple method of recycling electronic goods. The solution should really be to make recycling of electronics much easier, having more places to take them for a start.
Do you really have to pay to have your phone recycled that really is crime.
Allready you shouldn't just be throwing away your electronic devices when they stop working.
Yes to be honest the amount of tax payers money being wasted on these kinds of expenses is nothing compared to the millions and millions being spent on things like identity cards the god awfull new NHS computer system and nuclear weapons. I would have no problem with MPs being paid much more if they actually did their jobs properly, it would probably end up cheaper.
My point was that not everyone took advantage, it may be human nature to a certain degree but as people we can still make choices and some people choose not to take advantage of the system and some people did. People should not be able to say "oh but its human nature" to get away with acting like a dick.
Except for the large number of MPs that didn't claim for everything under the sun. So apparently not everyone would have or did feel the need to steal everything that isn't bolted down.
I'm sorry but when homeopathic companies and individuals around the world make obscene amounts of money lying to people about a product that doesn't work telling them it will make them feel better and then the people buying it complain about vaccine industry propaganda somethings not right.
Well the subject must have had some idea it was being given to help with something, the body language and way in which the people giving it act has a large effect on the placebo. I'm sure it was given just before the subject went to sleep... I wonder what they could possibly have thought it was connected with.
The reason the times may have coincided and why I asked about why that time was chosen to give the remedy is because people often do these things when the problem is at its worse, if the sleep problems were peaking at the time the remedy was given then you expect symptoms to get better with time anyway. This is actually how a lot of homeopathic and pharmaceutical cold remedies appear to 'cure' the cold.
Yea and when I get a cold I don't take anything you're just buying into the multibillion dollar homeopathic propaganda machine trying to sell you a cure for anything
Unaware of the intended effect? You mean it was slipped in their food without them noticing? The people giving it didn't know the intended effect either? (this has been shown to have an effect on how effective a placebo is). Was the uneasy sleep getting worse? why wait before trying this remedy? The underlying cause for the uneasy sleep may well have been resolved by itself.
The fact that the homeopathic nature of the sugar or water has no effect. Me hitting you with a brick could have a placebo effect if I dress up the treatment well enough, so that could 'work' as much as homeopathic cures. Working as well as placebo does not count as working, if you develop a new drug and it works as well as not giving the drug you don't declare your trial a success and start prescribing it to people.
Really though so is every other homeopathic company. Sure they say its homeopathic water or sugar but really it is just water or sugar there are no differences.
MDs prescribe them regularly.
Do they? I was under the impression that prescribing a placebo as treatment and lieing to a patient would be unethical. If I'm ill and there is no treatment surely I have a right to be told that. If I'm ill and there is a treatment (ie works better than placebo) then the doctor should be giving that.
Another factor you may have overlooked here is very high population density of modern cities. When you have a large number of tall buildings close together you could have an order of magnitude more people with higher power needs (lifts, pumping water etc) living in a space with the same area and same available solar power.
The space available for batteries could also be limited. I think cities will in general require large scale power distribution and generation to feed the high populations. Transmission losses could also be minimised using high voltage direct current lines.
Personally I think self sufficiency should be the aim both at an individual and also community level. However larger scale cooperation and supply of power, water etc will still be required in areas that can't sustain the population density there.
What's interesting is that you wish for 40-70% efficient cells with a view to small scale self sufficient energy generation but even with current solar technology the entire current electricity and energy needs of the planet could be met with solar power covering a surprisingly small amount of the worlds deserts. Personally I think roof solar panels and other methods of lowering the 'carbon footprint' of typical homes and people are a good thing but it's also important to realise that we do not need to wait for a scientific break through to make green/renewable energy a reality.
As a physics student I did see python being used, mainly because it makes sorting and manipulating data very easy and little programs can be written very quickly in it. However for Monte Carlo simulations which is what i spent some of my time doing the language of choice was either C or Fortran. In simulations where the amount of computer time available is a major restraint then I don't think python would be used.