What do you call someone who speaks three language? Trilingual
What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual
What do you call someone who speaks one language? American
Europeans do have a tendency to speak more languages that your average american, and one of the languages they speak is almost always english. It probabls has to do with the fact that the countries are so small, and there's a lot of travel between the countries with different languages. My cousin from Switzerland speaks German, French, Italian, and English. He tells me about how his conversations with his school friends frequently occur trilingually: Everyone can understand each other's language, but they each have a prefered language they like to speak in. It's quite amazing. Releasing English based PSP's in Europe is not a problem, and I can't imagine that language the only reason why they're holding back on shifting distribution of produced units.
Reminds me of a story I heard from one of my professors. A guy who was a super genius in electrical engineering graduates college and is hired by the army to do R&D. His first project was design a handheld radio system (This was in the early 70's). He did the calculations and drew the circuit diagrams and double checked everything and believed he had a working circuit for one of the components, so he had the diagram sent to the workshop to have a prototype built. The workshop sent the circuit back saying it wasn't a feasable design, mainly because he had designed the circuit to include a 1 farad capacitor. That one capacitor would have been bigger than the entire system he was trying to design.
How come we aren't hearing any stories like this on the DS? Is the hardware on the DS better, or is it that Nintendo's customer support is more accomodating than Sony?
I don't think anyone except the top 1% of gamers come close to playing 14 RPG's a year. Are 14 RPG's even released in one year? Even if there are that many per year, they certainly aren't 100 hour marathons, maybe 2 of them will be that long. I think that most RPG's take less than 50 hours, or at most sixty.
Your assumption of 1400 hours a year works out to a little less than 4 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Nobody sane is doing that, at least not every single day. Doing that for a week or two when a new game is released sure, that happens to all of us, but seriously not 356 days a year. Odds are that if you are gaming 1400 hours a year, you don't have to worry about laundry or yardwork or housecleaning since you mom does all that for you as you haven't moved out of her basement, and you probably don't have a family of your own either.
Spock was a commander when Kirk was a captain. Considering that Kirk was the youngest captain in Starfleet history, one can presume that they otherwise advanced in rank at similar rates, so they would have had to have graduated around the same time. It could even be a matter of one of them being an upperclassman while the other was a freshman or something similar. I also beleive that at that point in starfleet history, cadets were posted to ships rather than spending all their time at the academy.
Do NOT do a prequel to the TOS cast. If enterprise has taught us anything, it's that trying to write history to canon is full of pitfalls, and the nerds will never forgive even the smallest of errors. You'll also run into the problem that people had with enterprise in that the technology looked more advanced than TOS, simple because computer graphics were more advanced.
Also, it's a bit of a stretch to presume that all the TOS cast would be at the academy together. Kirk and Spock maybe, but all the junior officers are much younger than Kirk, Spock, and Bones (McCoy would have been at starfleet medical anyway).
An awesome show would be an academy show during the dominion war of an unknown group of cadets. So rather than being a futuristic "Saved by the Bell", you can follow these cadets in some of the extended duties they would have had to undertake during the war. We could even see how the attack on Starfleet Headquarters happened, since we only saw the aftermath in DS9.
If a mechanism exists that prevents or corrects mutations across generations, then the theorists may *again* have to go back to the drawing board.
Just because there is a backup mechanism that can prevent mutations from being passed on doesn't mean it works 100% of the time.
In DNA replication, there are enzymes that scan the replicated strands specifically to make sure base pair matching occured correctly, and when it hasn't it can fix the problem. Without it, the number of DNA errors would be several orders of magnitude higher than they are. However, this doesn't always work. For example, take a common replication error is when an incorrect base pair is matched. So where a G should have been matched with a C, an error takes place where a T is matched with a C. Now, ordinarily the error-checking enzyme would notice that error and change the T back to a G, but sometimes it goofs, and fixes the wrong half of the error, so in this case it would change the C (which is the correct base) to an A (to match with the incorrect T). Thus, a mutation has occured in spite of a backup mechanism to insure genetic reproduction. Who's to say that this mechanism of genetic protection in the article can't malfunction in a similar way?
I have to say I liked Beekman more then Bill Nye. Beekman had the "Mad Scientist" feel to him, while Bill Nye was the nerdy and geeky scientist, complete with bow tie. Mr. Wizard was kinda like your grandpa who knew all sorts of neat stuff and you knew he could do so much more cool stuff if mom wasn't so uptight about breaking out the propane tank and the fireworks.
You can pick up my dead skin flake or hair or whatever when it falls off me, but I will resist if you try to stick a swab or needle in me to take your milligram of flesh.
You may be within your rights to resist a forcable taking of a DNA sample, but chances are if a national DNA database is created, there will be certain "incentives" that will make you give over a sample. Think of any number of government services that could be tied to your giving a sample. Maybe you can't go to public school without giving a sample, or you won't get a driver's license if you're not on record, or no federal loans for college, etc. Or maybe it'll simply come down to free deliveries paid for by the government if the parents voluntarily give a sample of their baby's DNA. There's many ways you can be coereced into putting your DNA into the database, none of which are the government kicking down your door and sticking a needle in your vein.
Reminds me of a story I heard from my high school physics teacher. He had a friend in the military doing electronics. One big part of his job was to measure resistors because military specifications required that devices have a very strict tollerance. They wouldn't use anything which was more than 1% outside of specs, and they would simply throw out the rest of the resistors they bought. So my teacher's friend would simply take all these resistors to which he had accurately measured the resistances, and sold them to the local radio shack, since they liked being able to buy resistors that were within like 2-3% of the indicated resistance (I'm not an electrician, but I believe 5% or so is considered an acceptable tollerance for general applications?), and they got them cheap, and the guy made some money since his investment was 0, since as far as the military was concerned, he was simply selling trash. Couldn't something like this be done with chips, isn't there some market for chips that are 99.9% good?
Other people can only see it in their peripheral vision.
Interesting you mention that. Retinal anatomy has it so that on the part of your retina that corresponds to the center of your feild of view, there is a great concentration of cone cells called the fovea. This region of cones give you a much stronger visual aquity at the thing your direct gaze is pointed at. On the other side of things, your peripheral vision is much more sensitive to motion, so you're more likely to pick up motion with more sensitivity on your side. What's also cool is that it gives a reason for why kung fu heroes in the movies always pose their heads at an angle before taking on the dozen ninjas; their peripheral vision gives them much more sensitivity for detecting small movements than staring them straight on.
AOL users already incrypt all their transmissions. Take the simple sentence "Hey dude. What are you doing later? I was thinking we should go to the mall." which becomes incrypted as:
HEY DUDE11!!!1 OMG WUT R U DONG L8R????!?? LOL I WAS THINKNG W3 SHUD GO 2 DA MAL!!1!1!11 WTF LOL
It's a dangerous gambit making a game like was described. Not that it's not intreaguing and has great potential, but rather it will be far to easy for this game to come short in it's attempt to appeal to all people. All the phases of the game have all been successful games in their own right: a diablo style kill-spree type game, a civilation style game, a space-colonization game, etc. I fear that they're going to have to cheap out on all these "mini" games because it's simply not possible to develop 6 good games in the development schedule that'll be given for one game, unless of course it becomes the next DNF. Thus it will be a crappy pac-man game strung to a crappy diablo game strung to a crappy civ game strung to a crappy sim city game, and so on.
Won't work, for the simple reason that a one day boycott isn't effective for protesting the makers of material products. It's the same problem that arises when someone suggests a one day boycott of gasoline purchases to protest gas taxes or oil compainies or whatever. Even if people were on board and were willing to do it, all they would do is either gas up the day before or the day after the "boycott". You aren't going to get any results since you're not really costing them anything since you just end up buying stuff anyway, just a day later. A boycot of a product would need to be weeks or months in duration to be effective. A one day boycot is only effective for protesting service based corporations. For example, since their revenue is based upon working every day, and they can't make up revenue by working more another day the way a product based company can make up sales by selling more product at a later day. So if you wanted to protest a roofing company for example, having a boycott of a day would affect them greatly, since they can't work twice as hard on another day to make it up (you can only schingle roofs so fast). Thus they would have a bigger motivation to change their policies rather than the RIAA who instead of making 1 million dollars a day, would instead make 0 one day, and then 2 million the next.
This is indeed ludricrous. We can't expect game programmers to routinely work 12 hours shifts. Think of the inneffective programming taking place. Only doctors and nurses should work those kind of hours, since apparently they don't need to be on their toes when doing their jobs.
As a medical student, I have to point out that one can't really just "decide" to get an MD degree. There are a lot of hoops to jump through just to get into medical school. Consider that throughout the US, there are 16000 seats in all the medical schools per year, and there are 48000 applicants vying for them. Then, the requirements for admitance to any medical school are as follows - 1 year of biology with lab, one year of chemistry with lab, one year of physics with lab, one year of organic chemistry with lab, one year of english/literature. Those are the requirements for EVERY medical school in the US. Then there are certain schools which require you to have taken biochemistry or calculus as well. More than likely, a person who majored in comp sci hasn't taken biology or organic chemistry, or for that matter, chemistry and physics either. So that's a minimum of 1 year of post bac work before even applying to medical school. Then there's the matter of the MCAT, an eight hour standardized exam from hell testing physics, chemistry, biology, O-Chem, reading comprehension, and writing 2 essays. Oh yeah, it's only offered twice a year (April and August), and it costs about $200 to take. Then there's applying to schools. The harsh reality of applying to med school is that there's no "safety school" that one can apply to that they are garunteed admission like you could do for undergrad. Thus, most people will apply to about 10-15 schools in order to get 1 or 2 acceptances (unless of course, you are L33t with a capital three). Application costs for that many schools will easily run about $1200. Then there's the costs of going out on interviews (med schools do not reimburse you for travel expenses unlike every other civilized interview on the planet). And then once (or if) you get an acceptance, it's four grueling and expensive years (med school has painfully little in common with the wild and hedonistic lifystyle of an undergrad). Then it's 4-8 years of poorly paid residency, though a few do turn to the "dark side" where they pass on the residency and instead work for insurance companies or some other kind of corporation, where they make big bucks, but aren't licensed to practice medicine, but instead use their degree to lend credence towards whatever project they are assigned to. So if medicine is a path you choose, more power to ya, but it's not a decision you can just make one day and be like "Hmmm, I think I'll become a doctor today". All that being said, there is a nationwide shortage of nurses, and male nurses are always in demand. Nursing is a 4 year degree, but with your degree, I'm sure some credits would transfer and you could finish in less time. And with medicine becoming more and more computerized, someone with a strong background in comp sci and medicine/nursing could probably find some pretty good work in hospital IT. But again, medicine is a calling, not a backup plan.
It's designed to counter Sony's upcoming launch with the best weapon Earth has on its side, Master Chief. Go, John 117, go! Save Earth from Sony!
Oh for fucks sake IGN, why don't you just glue your lips to Bill Gates' ass.
Seriously though, are competing releases really a big deal for video games? I mean maybe it can be an issue on whether you want to spend your $300 on Revolution, PS3, or XBox 2. But one game is not going to derail the premere of a new system. It's not like movies where you're competing to get weekend and holiday crowds, since once those time frames are over, you lose a significant portion of potential customers and thus sales. Video games stay in stores for months. They compete with each other in terms of content and awesomeness, not in terms of who edges who out by a day or two.
Something I've been noticing through the many articles that have been posted about Enterprise is that it has become somewhat trendy to hate Star Trek. People will just say that they hate Star Trek and want it to die, many times for no better reason as there are other shows that they themselves consider better. It's similar to how many people regard the New York Yankees, many people hate the Yankees simply because they are the Yankees. They have one of the best traditions in Baseball and a long history of success (something that Star Trek also boasts in the field of Sci Fi). And people will hate them simply for that. If you thought B5 was better than Star Trek, fine, but B5 isn't on amymore, and Enterprise still has a chance (albiet infintessimal) to stay on the air, which is what fans of the show want. It's almost as if fans of other shows are showing signs of envy that when their favorite show went off the air (Firefly, Space-Above and Beyond, whatever), their fans didn't mount an effort to save it that was nearly the size of the effort to save enterprise, and they want Enterprise to fail because they lost their favorite show. What also gets me is how people have written off the show because they thought it sucked in season 1. That's great, because everyone knows that when something sucks once, it'll suck forever and never get better (/sarcasam). Ask anyone about enterprise now, and they'll tell you it's some the best trek since the TNG/DS9 days, and yet people still cling to their arguments about how they stopped watching after 3 episodes in season 1, and haven't watched it since, even though everyone's saying how good it is now, but the won't watch it still, since they are confident the assessment they made 4 years ago is still valid, and nothing ever changes ever.
Oh, and for those people who stopped watching over the theme song, get over yourselves. There's something seriously wrong with you if 45 seconds of music makes you hate a show. Go get a drink or use the bathroom or whatever if it seriously causes you so much mental anguish. If it helps, can personally vouch for there being no soft rock in any episode of Entperprise after the theme.
Nintendo could use this technique of wireless hotspots for content downloading to increase their marketing capabilities. Suppose they make a deal with some large game retailers (EB for instance). Nintendo sets up a hotspot in every EB and says that every week or so, they'll release some new content, like a new mario party style multiplater mini-game or something similar. In return, EB promotes nintendo merchandise more in some way (more shelf space, more banners, something like that). Thus every week, EB will have all the DS people coming back to their store to get the newest content, and more people in the store equals more sales. People are there with their DS's and thus thinking about nintendo when they are in a store that happens to sell nintendo merchandise, so that should translate into more sales for nintendo, and so on and so on.
What I'm getting at is since weight is always going to be a directly proportional to mass by the same constant through his entire life, it's fair enough to say that losing mass = losing weight and vice versa in a vernacular sense.
Presuming that he's never going to leave the surface of the earth, the two can be pretty much interchangable, hence the commonplace conversion of 2.2 pounds to a kilogram.
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It reminds me of a joke I heard once:
What do you call someone who speaks three language? Trilingual
What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual
What do you call someone who speaks one language? American
Europeans do have a tendency to speak more languages that your average american, and one of the languages they speak is almost always english. It probabls has to do with the fact that the countries are so small, and there's a lot of travel between the countries with different languages. My cousin from Switzerland speaks German, French, Italian, and English. He tells me about how his conversations with his school friends frequently occur trilingually: Everyone can understand each other's language, but they each have a prefered language they like to speak in. It's quite amazing. Releasing English based PSP's in Europe is not a problem, and I can't imagine that language the only reason why they're holding back on shifting distribution of produced units.
And just try to find someone to fix a busted ps2 or xbox. The support isnt the same.
That's because it was really easy to service a NES. Fixing any problem on the Nintendo went something like this:
Pick up cartrige
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF (inhale)
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF (inhale)
Pick up Nintendo
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF (inhale)
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF (inhale)
Repeat until disired results are accomplished.
Reminds me of a story I heard from one of my professors. A guy who was a super genius in electrical engineering graduates college and is hired by the army to do R&D. His first project was design a handheld radio system (This was in the early 70's). He did the calculations and drew the circuit diagrams and double checked everything and believed he had a working circuit for one of the components, so he had the diagram sent to the workshop to have a prototype built. The workshop sent the circuit back saying it wasn't a feasable design, mainly because he had designed the circuit to include a 1 farad capacitor. That one capacitor would have been bigger than the entire system he was trying to design.
How come we aren't hearing any stories like this on the DS? Is the hardware on the DS better, or is it that Nintendo's customer support is more accomodating than Sony?
I don't think anyone except the top 1% of gamers come close to playing 14 RPG's a year. Are 14 RPG's even released in one year? Even if there are that many per year, they certainly aren't 100 hour marathons, maybe 2 of them will be that long. I think that most RPG's take less than 50 hours, or at most sixty.
Your assumption of 1400 hours a year works out to a little less than 4 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Nobody sane is doing that, at least not every single day. Doing that for a week or two when a new game is released sure, that happens to all of us, but seriously not 356 days a year. Odds are that if you are gaming 1400 hours a year, you don't have to worry about laundry or yardwork or housecleaning since you mom does all that for you as you haven't moved out of her basement, and you probably don't have a family of your own either.
Spock was a commander when Kirk was a captain. Considering that Kirk was the youngest captain in Starfleet history, one can presume that they otherwise advanced in rank at similar rates, so they would have had to have graduated around the same time. It could even be a matter of one of them being an upperclassman while the other was a freshman or something similar. I also beleive that at that point in starfleet history, cadets were posted to ships rather than spending all their time at the academy.
Do NOT do a prequel to the TOS cast. If enterprise has taught us anything, it's that trying to write history to canon is full of pitfalls, and the nerds will never forgive even the smallest of errors. You'll also run into the problem that people had with enterprise in that the technology looked more advanced than TOS, simple because computer graphics were more advanced.
Also, it's a bit of a stretch to presume that all the TOS cast would be at the academy together. Kirk and Spock maybe, but all the junior officers are much younger than Kirk, Spock, and Bones (McCoy would have been at starfleet medical anyway).
An awesome show would be an academy show during the dominion war of an unknown group of cadets. So rather than being a futuristic "Saved by the Bell", you can follow these cadets in some of the extended duties they would have had to undertake during the war. We could even see how the attack on Starfleet Headquarters happened, since we only saw the aftermath in DS9.
If a mechanism exists that prevents or corrects mutations across generations, then the theorists may *again* have to go back to the drawing board.
Just because there is a backup mechanism that can prevent mutations from being passed on doesn't mean it works 100% of the time.
In DNA replication, there are enzymes that scan the replicated strands specifically to make sure base pair matching occured correctly, and when it hasn't it can fix the problem. Without it, the number of DNA errors would be several orders of magnitude higher than they are. However, this doesn't always work. For example, take a common replication error is when an incorrect base pair is matched. So where a G should have been matched with a C, an error takes place where a T is matched with a C. Now, ordinarily the error-checking enzyme would notice that error and change the T back to a G, but sometimes it goofs, and fixes the wrong half of the error, so in this case it would change the C (which is the correct base) to an A (to match with the incorrect T). Thus, a mutation has occured in spite of a backup mechanism to insure genetic reproduction. Who's to say that this mechanism of genetic protection in the article can't malfunction in a similar way?
I have to say I liked Beekman more then Bill Nye. Beekman had the "Mad Scientist" feel to him, while Bill Nye was the nerdy and geeky scientist, complete with bow tie. Mr. Wizard was kinda like your grandpa who knew all sorts of neat stuff and you knew he could do so much more cool stuff if mom wasn't so uptight about breaking out the propane tank and the fireworks.
You can pick up my dead skin flake or hair or whatever when it falls off me, but I will resist if you try to stick a swab or needle in me to take your milligram of flesh.
You may be within your rights to resist a forcable taking of a DNA sample, but chances are if a national DNA database is created, there will be certain "incentives" that will make you give over a sample. Think of any number of government services that could be tied to your giving a sample. Maybe you can't go to public school without giving a sample, or you won't get a driver's license if you're not on record, or no federal loans for college, etc. Or maybe it'll simply come down to free deliveries paid for by the government if the parents voluntarily give a sample of their baby's DNA. There's many ways you can be coereced into putting your DNA into the database, none of which are the government kicking down your door and sticking a needle in your vein.
Reminds me of a story I heard from my high school physics teacher. He had a friend in the military doing electronics. One big part of his job was to measure resistors because military specifications required that devices have a very strict tollerance. They wouldn't use anything which was more than 1% outside of specs, and they would simply throw out the rest of the resistors they bought. So my teacher's friend would simply take all these resistors to which he had accurately measured the resistances, and sold them to the local radio shack, since they liked being able to buy resistors that were within like 2-3% of the indicated resistance (I'm not an electrician, but I believe 5% or so is considered an acceptable tollerance for general applications?), and they got them cheap, and the guy made some money since his investment was 0, since as far as the military was concerned, he was simply selling trash. Couldn't something like this be done with chips, isn't there some market for chips that are 99.9% good?
Other people can only see it in their peripheral vision.
Interesting you mention that. Retinal anatomy has it so that on the part of your retina that corresponds to the center of your feild of view, there is a great concentration of cone cells called the fovea. This region of cones give you a much stronger visual aquity at the thing your direct gaze is pointed at. On the other side of things, your peripheral vision is much more sensitive to motion, so you're more likely to pick up motion with more sensitivity on your side. What's also cool is that it gives a reason for why kung fu heroes in the movies always pose their heads at an angle before taking on the dozen ninjas; their peripheral vision gives them much more sensitivity for detecting small movements than staring them straight on.
"Mike and Alice said goodbye to their friends at the dock and then boarded the USS www.goldenpalace.com, eager to start their long deserved vacation."
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/e pisode/68764.html
Star Trek was dealing with Nazis well before B&B.
AOL users already incrypt all their transmissions. Take the simple sentence "Hey dude. What are you doing later? I was thinking we should go to the mall." which becomes incrypted as:
HEY DUDE11!!!1 OMG WUT R U DONG L8R????!?? LOL I WAS THINKNG W3 SHUD GO 2 DA MAL!!1!1!11 WTF LOL
Damned if I can decrypt that
It's a dangerous gambit making a game like was described. Not that it's not intreaguing and has great potential, but rather it will be far to easy for this game to come short in it's attempt to appeal to all people. All the phases of the game have all been successful games in their own right: a diablo style kill-spree type game, a civilation style game, a space-colonization game, etc. I fear that they're going to have to cheap out on all these "mini" games because it's simply not possible to develop 6 good games in the development schedule that'll be given for one game, unless of course it becomes the next DNF. Thus it will be a crappy pac-man game strung to a crappy diablo game strung to a crappy civ game strung to a crappy sim city game, and so on.
Won't work, for the simple reason that a one day boycott isn't effective for protesting the makers of material products. It's the same problem that arises when someone suggests a one day boycott of gasoline purchases to protest gas taxes or oil compainies or whatever. Even if people were on board and were willing to do it, all they would do is either gas up the day before or the day after the "boycott". You aren't going to get any results since you're not really costing them anything since you just end up buying stuff anyway, just a day later. A boycot of a product would need to be weeks or months in duration to be effective. A one day boycot is only effective for protesting service based corporations. For example, since their revenue is based upon working every day, and they can't make up revenue by working more another day the way a product based company can make up sales by selling more product at a later day. So if you wanted to protest a roofing company for example, having a boycott of a day would affect them greatly, since they can't work twice as hard on another day to make it up (you can only schingle roofs so fast). Thus they would have a bigger motivation to change their policies rather than the RIAA who instead of making 1 million dollars a day, would instead make 0 one day, and then 2 million the next.
This is indeed ludricrous. We can't expect game programmers to routinely work 12 hours shifts. Think of the inneffective programming taking place. Only doctors and nurses should work those kind of hours, since apparently they don't need to be on their toes when doing their jobs.
As a medical student, I have to point out that one can't really just "decide" to get an MD degree. There are a lot of hoops to jump through just to get into medical school. Consider that throughout the US, there are 16000 seats in all the medical schools per year, and there are 48000 applicants vying for them. Then, the requirements for admitance to any medical school are as follows - 1 year of biology with lab, one year of chemistry with lab, one year of physics with lab, one year of organic chemistry with lab, one year of english/literature. Those are the requirements for EVERY medical school in the US. Then there are certain schools which require you to have taken biochemistry or calculus as well. More than likely, a person who majored in comp sci hasn't taken biology or organic chemistry, or for that matter, chemistry and physics either. So that's a minimum of 1 year of post bac work before even applying to medical school. Then there's the matter of the MCAT, an eight hour standardized exam from hell testing physics, chemistry, biology, O-Chem, reading comprehension, and writing 2 essays. Oh yeah, it's only offered twice a year (April and August), and it costs about $200 to take. Then there's applying to schools. The harsh reality of applying to med school is that there's no "safety school" that one can apply to that they are garunteed admission like you could do for undergrad. Thus, most people will apply to about 10-15 schools in order to get 1 or 2 acceptances (unless of course, you are L33t with a capital three). Application costs for that many schools will easily run about $1200. Then there's the costs of going out on interviews (med schools do not reimburse you for travel expenses unlike every other civilized interview on the planet). And then once (or if) you get an acceptance, it's four grueling and expensive years (med school has painfully little in common with the wild and hedonistic lifystyle of an undergrad). Then it's 4-8 years of poorly paid residency, though a few do turn to the "dark side" where they pass on the residency and instead work for insurance companies or some other kind of corporation, where they make big bucks, but aren't licensed to practice medicine, but instead use their degree to lend credence towards whatever project they are assigned to. So if medicine is a path you choose, more power to ya, but it's not a decision you can just make one day and be like "Hmmm, I think I'll become a doctor today". All that being said, there is a nationwide shortage of nurses, and male nurses are always in demand. Nursing is a 4 year degree, but with your degree, I'm sure some credits would transfer and you could finish in less time. And with medicine becoming more and more computerized, someone with a strong background in comp sci and medicine/nursing could probably find some pretty good work in hospital IT. But again, medicine is a calling, not a backup plan.
It's designed to counter Sony's upcoming launch with the best weapon Earth has on its side, Master Chief. Go, John 117, go! Save Earth from Sony!
Oh for fucks sake IGN, why don't you just glue your lips to Bill Gates' ass.
Seriously though, are competing releases really a big deal for video games? I mean maybe it can be an issue on whether you want to spend your $300 on Revolution, PS3, or XBox 2. But one game is not going to derail the premere of a new system. It's not like movies where you're competing to get weekend and holiday crowds, since once those time frames are over, you lose a significant portion of potential customers and thus sales. Video games stay in stores for months. They compete with each other in terms of content and awesomeness, not in terms of who edges who out by a day or two.
Something I've been noticing through the many articles that have been posted about Enterprise is that it has become somewhat trendy to hate Star Trek. People will just say that they hate Star Trek and want it to die, many times for no better reason as there are other shows that they themselves consider better. It's similar to how many people regard the New York Yankees, many people hate the Yankees simply because they are the Yankees. They have one of the best traditions in Baseball and a long history of success (something that Star Trek also boasts in the field of Sci Fi). And people will hate them simply for that. If you thought B5 was better than Star Trek, fine, but B5 isn't on amymore, and Enterprise still has a chance (albiet infintessimal) to stay on the air, which is what fans of the show want. It's almost as if fans of other shows are showing signs of envy that when their favorite show went off the air (Firefly, Space-Above and Beyond, whatever), their fans didn't mount an effort to save it that was nearly the size of the effort to save enterprise, and they want Enterprise to fail because they lost their favorite show. What also gets me is how people have written off the show because they thought it sucked in season 1. That's great, because everyone knows that when something sucks once, it'll suck forever and never get better (/sarcasam). Ask anyone about enterprise now, and they'll tell you it's some the best trek since the TNG/DS9 days, and yet people still cling to their arguments about how they stopped watching after 3 episodes in season 1, and haven't watched it since, even though everyone's saying how good it is now, but the won't watch it still, since they are confident the assessment they made 4 years ago is still valid, and nothing ever changes ever.
Oh, and for those people who stopped watching over the theme song, get over yourselves. There's something seriously wrong with you if 45 seconds of music makes you hate a show. Go get a drink or use the bathroom or whatever if it seriously causes you so much mental anguish. If it helps, can personally vouch for there being no soft rock in any episode of Entperprise after the theme.
Nintendo could use this technique of wireless hotspots for content downloading to increase their marketing capabilities. Suppose they make a deal with some large game retailers (EB for instance). Nintendo sets up a hotspot in every EB and says that every week or so, they'll release some new content, like a new mario party style multiplater mini-game or something similar. In return, EB promotes nintendo merchandise more in some way (more shelf space, more banners, something like that). Thus every week, EB will have all the DS people coming back to their store to get the newest content, and more people in the store equals more sales. People are there with their DS's and thus thinking about nintendo when they are in a store that happens to sell nintendo merchandise, so that should translate into more sales for nintendo, and so on and so on.
What I'm getting at is since weight is always going to be a directly proportional to mass by the same constant through his entire life, it's fair enough to say that losing mass = losing weight and vice versa in a vernacular sense.
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and thats the way I likes it!!
I suppose a more appropriate quote would be:
"My car weights 175 stones, and that's the way I likes it!"
Presuming that he's never going to leave the surface of the earth, the two can be pretty much interchangable, hence the commonplace conversion of 2.2 pounds to a kilogram.