16 Player deathmatch over TCP/IP, with players able to join and leave at any time, vs. 4 player deathmatch over LAN (or incredibly painful middleware like KALI) everyone has to join at the same time. Add in threewave CTF, Quakeworld, and Team Fortress for giggles, too (threewave didnt' even require the clients to download a mod).
Quake wasn't just about the graphics, it was about the multiplayer gameplay. I agree that the single-player version felt like a tech demo, but then again, so has every id game since.
Huh?
That's a higher resolution than film is mastered at. Even 6k frames are only used occasionally on really complex and detailed shots, and the frames are 4k or 2k by the time they're burned back out to film. Heck, I think that might be more resolution than IMAX film recorders use, although I'm not entirely sure. Ridiculous, and doesn't entirely pass the sniff test.
Medical risks are normally measured in rates per 100,000, not rates per 100. A 1% risk is extremely high, and tolerated only because the benefits of amnio are significant.
My first interaction with a computer was programming an Apple II. I was six. Granted, I didn't need a compiler, but I certainly wanted one before leaving elementary school.
I got one Saturday at a record store in a mall in the middle of a major city, after someone in line at Gamestop tipped me off. They had plenty (although they required a 2nd controller and game purchase and were out of nunchuks), and had only sold 2 that day by mid-afternoon. I would never have thought to look there, which probably explains why they had them.
He's an idiot in matters of governance and diplomacy, but an absolute genius at politicking. Watch him light up and become articulate and engaged when he's discussing electoral politics.
I agree that the Brother networked printers are awesome, but I urge anyone reading this to shell out the extra $100 for the laser version. The cleaning cycle on those things just guzzles ink (as well as triggers at the oddest hours of the night), and when it decides you're out of any color of ink, you not only can't print or copy, you can't scan, fax, or access the memory card reader.
Science can have useful things to say about political decisions, but politics rarely influences science for the better. Also, take a moment to learn the history of that organization and who founded it, and you will see why they call themselves "concerned scientists" and feel free to engage in political commentary.
What matters is that I could create a movie expressing my opinions about the government/economy/whatever and there wouldn't be any secret service agents knocking on my door telling me I'm a criminal because I'm "anti-government" (which I'm not by the way).
One of the most chilling clauses I have ever read on slashdot. Why did you feel compelled to say that?
Just as a note - it's not slime. It's a toxin injected by a very fast-firing dart the snail uses to hunt. Research on these snails started because every year a few people picked them up on beaches in the Phillipines and dropped dead moments later. Turns out the snails pack a cocktail of toxins that includes the active ingredients in several other well-known venoms. I saw the PriAlt guy speak a few months ago, and it was completely fascinating. Showed video of the snail spearing a clownfish, which had enough time to wriggle about once before it died.
A major problem is that there are hardly any long-term inpatient psychiatric facilities in the country anymore. The deinstituionalization movement of the 1970s argued that long-term hospitalization was detrimental to most severely mentally ill patients (with good reason - see One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, etc.) They also argued that extensive community-based mental health services would better serve patients and society.
Unfortunately, politicians heard the first part of the argument ("Great! We can stop paying for those state hospitals!"), but not the second part, or the part about "most patients". The result is a complete mess, with short-term inpatient facilities in medical hospitals serving as a revolving door for severely mentally ill individuals with no followup, treatment beyond crisis intervention, or continuity of care; and absolutely no options besides jail in most states for non-rich individuals who would be best served by long-term inpatient treatment.
I say that the Bible is factual and true. It is of God, it is God's word and the Gospel of Christ and if evolutionists are going to be critical of the Bible they should at least try reading it with understanding first.
Dollars to donuts you don't read it in the original Hebrew.
The bible is a compilation of texts, and the records of the compiling process exist (hence we know that the book of Esther, for example, was considered and rejected for inclusion.) This process leads to the myriad inconsistencies (or continuity errors, if you want to be glib) in the text. The seven days of creation comes from a different author than the Adam and Eve story, and still other rejected stories exist where Eve is Adam's second wife, etc.
You say you take your reasoning directly from the bible, but
Your thousand years/one day argument is the same one used by the Clarence Darrow character in Inherit the wind to discredit the William Jennings Bryan character, saying that each day of creation could be a million years.
Your reasoning destroys the moral force of the story of Cain and Abel. If humans had been living on earth for a thousand years, with no oversight from god, yet no murder or violence, but Adam and Eve's offspring commit fratricide casually, the implications are extremely problematic.
Your 'literal' reading of the text does not stick to the text. You handwave into existence an entire society of people based on a single line.
I see nothing in the bible to contradict evolution, and in fact find hardcore creationism to be unbiblical and arrogant. If God is really all-knowing enough to create perfectly balanced ecosystems, the wide variety of species on Earth, and an empirical cover story of dinosaurs as a test to man's faith, then why is God so consistently surprised by human behavior in the bible? Why would a god so omniscient need to send down a son to die in order to understand human suffering? It places humans above god intellectually and morally.
Most business-oriented LCD projectors have this feature on the remote to allow either one-handed mouse control, or simultaneous operation of projector features and a built-in laser pointer.
Email doesn't have guaranteed delivery (it may not get to the destination), but the destination mailserver accepting the message is supposed to be a confirmation of delivery.
Apparently (I didn't do much research on this myself since I don't own an xbox 360) the simple act of changing it from vertical to horizontal positions and vice versa can destroy disks. I'm sorry but I can't describe that behavior as anything less than ridiculous. Particularly since optical drive technology is hardly new.
And the physics of angular momentum is even less new.
The PS2 was the first console that had the horsepower to have complex environments, because the N64 and PS could not push enough polygons to do more than very simplistic environments.
It is when the tax cuts are touted by republicans as a way to fix the US economy, and when the regulatory environment in said countries makes a level playing field for labor competition impossible.
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Do your kids eat, or are they LiIon models that plug into the wall overnight?
Quake wasn't just about the graphics, it was about the multiplayer gameplay. I agree that the single-player version felt like a tech demo, but then again, so has every id game since.
Better data collection, analysis, and collation from many more terrestrial and orbital observers?
Better models and more powerful computers to run them on?
30 years' more historical data and advancement in the state of the art?
Huh? That's a higher resolution than film is mastered at. Even 6k frames are only used occasionally on really complex and detailed shots, and the frames are 4k or 2k by the time they're burned back out to film. Heck, I think that might be more resolution than IMAX film recorders use, although I'm not entirely sure. Ridiculous, and doesn't entirely pass the sniff test.
That attack (more or less) already happened, 22 years ago.
Medical risks are normally measured in rates per 100,000, not rates per 100. A 1% risk is extremely high, and tolerated only because the benefits of amnio are significant.
My first interaction with a computer was programming an Apple II. I was six. Granted, I didn't need a compiler, but I certainly wanted one before leaving elementary school.
I got one Saturday at a record store in a mall in the middle of a major city, after someone in line at Gamestop tipped me off. They had plenty (although they required a 2nd controller and game purchase and were out of nunchuks), and had only sold 2 that day by mid-afternoon. I would never have thought to look there, which probably explains why they had them.
My comment was more to not underestimating one's opponent, however.
He's an idiot in matters of governance and diplomacy, but an absolute genius at politicking. Watch him light up and become articulate and engaged when he's discussing electoral politics.
I agree that the Brother networked printers are awesome, but I urge anyone reading this to shell out the extra $100 for the laser version. The cleaning cycle on those things just guzzles ink (as well as triggers at the oddest hours of the night), and when it decides you're out of any color of ink, you not only can't print or copy, you can't scan, fax, or access the memory card reader.
Science can have useful things to say about political decisions, but politics rarely influences science for the better. Also, take a moment to learn the history of that organization and who founded it, and you will see why they call themselves "concerned scientists" and feel free to engage in political commentary.
Defcon. $17.50. Fun. Disturbing. Needs more players.
-Strip clubs start selling paper scrip for tipping at the door. -You buy your gum with the Sacagawea you didn't stuff in her G-string.
One of the most chilling clauses I have ever read on slashdot. Why did you feel compelled to say that?
Just as a note - it's not slime. It's a toxin injected by a very fast-firing dart the snail uses to hunt. Research on these snails started because every year a few people picked them up on beaches in the Phillipines and dropped dead moments later. Turns out the snails pack a cocktail of toxins that includes the active ingredients in several other well-known venoms. I saw the PriAlt guy speak a few months ago, and it was completely fascinating. Showed video of the snail spearing a clownfish, which had enough time to wriggle about once before it died.
Unfortunately, politicians heard the first part of the argument ("Great! We can stop paying for those state hospitals!"), but not the second part, or the part about "most patients". The result is a complete mess, with short-term inpatient facilities in medical hospitals serving as a revolving door for severely mentally ill individuals with no followup, treatment beyond crisis intervention, or continuity of care; and absolutely no options besides jail in most states for non-rich individuals who would be best served by long-term inpatient treatment.
OJ didn't get off on a technicality, he got off on a gullible jury and an outmatched prosecutor.
Dollars to donuts you don't read it in the original Hebrew.
The bible is a compilation of texts, and the records of the compiling process exist (hence we know that the book of Esther, for example, was considered and rejected for inclusion.) This process leads to the myriad inconsistencies (or continuity errors, if you want to be glib) in the text. The seven days of creation comes from a different author than the Adam and Eve story, and still other rejected stories exist where Eve is Adam's second wife, etc.
You say you take your reasoning directly from the bible, but
Most business-oriented LCD projectors have this feature on the remote to allow either one-handed mouse control, or simultaneous operation of projector features and a built-in laser pointer.
Email doesn't have guaranteed delivery (it may not get to the destination), but the destination mailserver accepting the message is supposed to be a confirmation of delivery.
And the physics of angular momentum is even less new.
*cough*Dreamcast*cough*
... unless your child happens to use computers in school, at the public library, etc. Then it's someone else's choice.
It is when the tax cuts are touted by republicans as a way to fix the US economy, and when the regulatory environment in said countries makes a level playing field for labor competition impossible.