The comment about 55% being male and 43% female, aside from being 2% short, has little meaning if they don't define how they're measuring those numbers. Are they just counting the number of people who've ever played a video game. Does that 43% female count any girl who's ever dropped a quarter into a pac-man machine at the bowling alley? I would imagine that if you looked at other measures of video gaming that males are still well in command, such as total hours spent playing video games, or amount of money spent on video games.
If killing is your only goal, then yes, a sniper rifle is just as good, and requires less training. However, suppose your goal is to kill the target, and then take his briefcase full of secrets. Shooting him from 500 yards will just cause attention to swarm around the target and you'll never get those missle silo sites. There's where you need a ninja to sneak in, dispatch with the bodyguard, slit the target's throat, slice off his hand above the wrist to get rid of the handcuff connecting the target to the breifcase, and then disapear into the night.
I think a point that is understressed is that we don't have a good means of identification to begin with. The driver's license is a convenient means, but hardly foolproof. I mean, photoshop + laminator = Everyone going to the bars around Albany State University is a 21 year old from Wyoming. The DMV has said before that driver's licenses were supposed to be just that, a license to operate a car. It was never designed or supported to be a de facto means of official identification. I recall a news story a while back about how easy it was to even get an official license. Pay the right guys some money, and they give you "official" documents, take your written test, take your driver's test, and then get you an official driver's license. A national ID card may not be the way to go, but almost anything would be better than the current system we adopted more out of convenience than anything else. At least this national ID system would have more support from the federal government to have means of detering counterfiting, like they do for cash. At least to the point where some guy in a dorm can't crank out convincing fakes.
Seriously. I'm an amature musician, I've played piano and percussion (all percussion, mallets, tympani, drumset, all of it) for the better part of 14 years, and I've found that just playing as much as possible is the best way to improve yourself. You know if you're playing well or not, you don't need a computer to tell you that. Quantity gets quality, and there's no shortcut to just sitting down and practicing for hours and hours.
Don't corporate structures have it so that there are different positions at the same level? Like, if he's CEO, then you're "President" or "Chairman of the Board" or something?
Part of the canon regarding lightsabers is that they don't use any energy unless they're in contact with something else, something about perfect energy conservation. Thus, lightsabers don't emit heat unless you're using them for something.
What about sites like the Online Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition or the Online Victoria's Secret Catalogue go? They're not porn, but they're definately in that grey area. Most people would consider them fine for a regular.com, but you gotta figure that there'll be a vocal minority of people who'll be like "All boobies must be XXX, won't somebody PLEASE think of the children? I'm old and stodgy, get off my lawn, blah blah blah".XXX is something that is a good idea, but there's definately some areas that need to be hashed out still.
IANAL either, but I had a different view on gold selling. I always thought that gold selling and such wasn't about selling tangible comidities, but rather about hiring a guy to play the game with you. Everything in the game is "owned" by blizzard, and by paying our monthly fee, we're allowed to utilize their environment and virtual items by the rules they set down. So when we buy gold, we're paying some guy to "be our friend" in the game and play along with us, which could range from helping us in a raid, to trading these items. Thus I submit that gold sellers and such are not comidity brokers selling items, but are gaming assistants who render their services as desired by the purchasing party within the game universe for a set fee, and thus they should be taxed as any other business would provides only services and no products.
This is a brilliant move to promote the stealthyness of SCG. What kind of stealth based game would it be if you could see it coming from 6 months ahead of time? Come christmas time, you'll walk into your local Best Buy, and there will be a huge display which just appeared overnight. Even the register biscuits won't know how it got there. It'll be beautiful.
Flanders drives into his driveway and Bart panics, pleading with
Lisa to leave. Instead she climbs the stairs, but Bart warns her she'll
be trapped. He sees Ned looking angry, walking with an ax.
Bart: [watching Flanders] An ax. He's got an ax! I'll save you, Lisa!
[tries to walk on his broken leg, falls back] Uh, I'll save you by
calling the police. [dials 911]
Voice: Hello, and welcome to the Springfield Police Department Resc-u-
Fone[tm]. If you know the name of the felony being committed,
press one. To choose from a list of felonies, press two. If you
are being murdered or calling from a rotary phone, please stay on
the line.
Bart: [growls, punches some numbers]
Voice: You have selected regicide. If you know the name of the king or
queen being murdered, press one.
The first time a professor handed out his lecture notes I was amazed, moreso by the fact that it was an obvious but overlooked solution
This is common practice in medical schools. A course syllabus with all the lecture notes are given out at the beginning of the semester in most (if not all) medical schools to my knowledge. It's nice, but it's now without its hazards, as some profs sometimes to decide to make exam questions on material they they specifically talk about during class but don't put in the syllabus notes, so you have to be familiar with the material in the syllabus before the lecture so that during class you have to be like "Wait, he said something that wasn't in the course notes, better write that down." It was a hard learned lesson when during my first year, I kept getting burned on exam quesations where I challanged them saying "This topic wasn't in the course notes" and the response was always something like "Well, the professor talked about it for 20 seconds in class 3 weeks ago, so it's a fair question". This particular system always pissed me off, because you'd think that if a topic was important enough to be talked about in class and included on an exam, why the hell isn't it important enough to be in the course notes, espically since 98% of our studying is done from the course notes, espically for classes that were several weeks ago. Oh, it makes me so angry. It's ironic that a school meant to train me in a field that's supposed to be about compassion and understanding is so adept at filling me with ire and rage towards the world. So full of hate... (grumble)... I need a drink (grumble) (mutter) (curse).....
That's too bad. Gannon's fortress was actually quite fun, and the boss battles was probably some of the more challanging in the series.
On the matter of the triforce collection, I not quite sure what people are so mad at about it. Is it having to collect all the maps? They were all little mini-missions, so that part wasn't particularly tedious I thought. Was it collecting rupees to pay Tingle's outrageous transcribing fees? Perhaps, but with the 5000 rupee wallet I don't recall ever needing to do any money hunting in particular. Is it collecting the shards themselves? I suppose that was a tad annoying, but once you had all the maps translated winching up the pieces took only about an hour or so. A task sure, but I recall spending that much time chasing down a quarter peice of heart. I can't tell why you even started playing the game if you were going to be disuaded by such a minor point. If you were looking for an arbitrary reason to hate the game, you could have just said you didn't like the cell shaded graphics and saved yourself the trouble of playing it at all.
This makes a lot of sense really. I mean, how many successful PC to console ports have there been? It's mainly because by porting a PC game to a console, you aren't reaching a larger audience by doing so. Putting WOW on the 360 would be trying to reach the population that owns a 360 but doesn't own a computer. Even of both those guys of them bought it, that probably wouldn't be profitable enough to justify the cost of making it. Everyone who wants to play WOW is doing so, and I don't think there is a significant number of people out there saying "Man, I want to play WOW, but I want to play it on a console instead of my computer".
Technically Treponema Pallidum a spirochete, but spirochetes are typically considered a subset of bacteria, and stain gram negative. I wouldn't go so far as to say they weren't bacteria though.
It's only a week difference in release of the colored units. They could have easily postponed the release of the white one for several days to make a combined release, but there's several possible reasons why not to.
There are going to be people who won't care about color and will want the DS right away and they will come in at the early release date. Then a week later, those who want colored units will come in. Spreading demand out over a week rather than concentrating it on one day will be good for production and for distributors.
Ssecondly, it's not easy to just produce all colors at the same rate. The machinary needed to produce one color over another has to be recalibrated for each variant, and this process isn't practical to do every day. Thus its more efficient to spend a week producing white, and then a week producing blue, and so forth. I'm not an expert by any means, but I remember on a trip to the Ben & Jerry's factory in Vermont that they only produce 2 flavors every day for nationwide distribution, so I'd presume the same principle can apply to different mass production lines. Sure it may cause some hiccups initially, but in the long term it's more efficient to do production this way.
An interesting idea, but the collar pip rank insignia stayed the same through all the uniform iterations. Something I had seen was that the TNG style uniforms (Mostly colored with black shoulders) were the standard duty uniforms while the other style uniforms (Mostly black with colored shoulders and then later with grey shoulders) were some kind of battle uniform, akin to today's military BDU. As such the personell on the front would be wearing the battle fatigues, and then as seen when Sisko visited earth during the starfleet coup, he would change back to the TNG style uniform, which is what everyone else on earth was wearing.
There's no evidence that it's the Enterprise D. More likely it's just a galaxy class vessel, and even then there's no reason to believe that hallways and observation lounges aren't modular structures that can be inserted into any class of vessel. As well, the uniform the crewman is wearing wasn't typical of the Enterprise D. In Generations, it looked like they were transitioning to that style of duty uniform (though use of it was inconsistant among the officers), but then the Enterprise D was destroyed, and by the time the Enterprise E came around they were all using the next style of uniform with the grey shoulders.
I remember at my undergrad which had a required laptop policy, many applications had a dynamic license server, so that only people hooked into the campus network or using the VPN client could use the apps. For ubiquitous applications like microsoft office everyone had their own license, but the higher end apps like matlab and solidworks needed the dynamic license. I remember there being some problems near the end of semesters when the freshmen were working on their CAD finals. There were only a few hundred dynamics licenses that could be allocated at a time, so there were times during that last week before the final project was due that people had problems using solidworks, and they literally couldn't start working until someone else stopped. But that was a while ago, so things might have changed since then.
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The comment about 55% being male and 43% female, aside from being 2% short, has little meaning if they don't define how they're measuring those numbers. Are they just counting the number of people who've ever played a video game. Does that 43% female count any girl who's ever dropped a quarter into a pac-man machine at the bowling alley? I would imagine that if you looked at other measures of video gaming that males are still well in command, such as total hours spent playing video games, or amount of money spent on video games.
If killing is your only goal, then yes, a sniper rifle is just as good, and requires less training. However, suppose your goal is to kill the target, and then take his briefcase full of secrets. Shooting him from 500 yards will just cause attention to swarm around the target and you'll never get those missle silo sites. There's where you need a ninja to sneak in, dispatch with the bodyguard, slit the target's throat, slice off his hand above the wrist to get rid of the handcuff connecting the target to the breifcase, and then disapear into the night.
I think a point that is understressed is that we don't have a good means of identification to begin with. The driver's license is a convenient means, but hardly foolproof. I mean, photoshop + laminator = Everyone going to the bars around Albany State University is a 21 year old from Wyoming. The DMV has said before that driver's licenses were supposed to be just that, a license to operate a car. It was never designed or supported to be a de facto means of official identification. I recall a news story a while back about how easy it was to even get an official license. Pay the right guys some money, and they give you "official" documents, take your written test, take your driver's test, and then get you an official driver's license. A national ID card may not be the way to go, but almost anything would be better than the current system we adopted more out of convenience than anything else. At least this national ID system would have more support from the federal government to have means of detering counterfiting, like they do for cash. At least to the point where some guy in a dorm can't crank out convincing fakes.
Of course they think it's too cheap. Everyone who thinks it's too expensive is out working their second McJob to buy it.
How do you get to Carnagie Hall?
Practice, practice, practice.
Seriously. I'm an amature musician, I've played piano and percussion (all percussion, mallets, tympani, drumset, all of it) for the better part of 14 years, and I've found that just playing as much as possible is the best way to improve yourself. You know if you're playing well or not, you don't need a computer to tell you that. Quantity gets quality, and there's no shortcut to just sitting down and practicing for hours and hours.
Step 4 - Dyrions from planet Gamma 29 declare war on Earth after laser beam melts their capital city.
Step 5 - Plasma bombs detonated in atmosphere, thus undoing years of global warming control.
Don't corporate structures have it so that there are different positions at the same level? Like, if he's CEO, then you're "President" or "Chairman of the Board" or something?
You're right. But then who will construct robots then? Maybe I can build a robot to take over my robot inventing duties....
And I can't think of any other animated TV shows that have been made into a movie
Transformers - The Movie
Ummm, the force?
Part of the canon regarding lightsabers is that they don't use any energy unless they're in contact with something else, something about perfect energy conservation. Thus, lightsabers don't emit heat unless you're using them for something.
What about sites like the Online Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition or the Online Victoria's Secret Catalogue go? They're not porn, but they're definately in that grey area. Most people would consider them fine for a regular .com, but you gotta figure that there'll be a vocal minority of people who'll be like "All boobies must be XXX, won't somebody PLEASE think of the children? I'm old and stodgy, get off my lawn, blah blah blah" .XXX is something that is a good idea, but there's definately some areas that need to be hashed out still.
IANAL either, but I had a different view on gold selling. I always thought that gold selling and such wasn't about selling tangible comidities, but rather about hiring a guy to play the game with you. Everything in the game is "owned" by blizzard, and by paying our monthly fee, we're allowed to utilize their environment and virtual items by the rules they set down. So when we buy gold, we're paying some guy to "be our friend" in the game and play along with us, which could range from helping us in a raid, to trading these items. Thus I submit that gold sellers and such are not comidity brokers selling items, but are gaming assistants who render their services as desired by the purchasing party within the game universe for a set fee, and thus they should be taxed as any other business would provides only services and no products.
This is a brilliant move to promote the stealthyness of SCG. What kind of stealth based game would it be if you could see it coming from 6 months ahead of time? Come christmas time, you'll walk into your local Best Buy, and there will be a huge display which just appeared overnight. Even the register biscuits won't know how it got there. It'll be beautiful.
Flanders drives into his driveway and Bart panics, pleading with Lisa to leave. Instead she climbs the stairs, but Bart warns her she'll be trapped. He sees Ned looking angry, walking with an ax.
Bart: [watching Flanders] An ax. He's got an ax! I'll save you, Lisa! [tries to walk on his broken leg, falls back] Uh, I'll save you by calling the police. [dials 911]
Voice: Hello, and welcome to the Springfield Police Department Resc-u- Fone[tm]. If you know the name of the felony being committed, press one. To choose from a list of felonies, press two. If you are being murdered or calling from a rotary phone, please stay on the line.
Bart: [growls, punches some numbers]
Voice: You have selected regicide. If you know the name of the king or queen being murdered, press one.
The first time a professor handed out his lecture notes I was amazed, moreso by the fact that it was an obvious but overlooked solution
... (grumble) ... I need a drink (grumble) (mutter) (curse).....
This is common practice in medical schools. A course syllabus with all the lecture notes are given out at the beginning of the semester in most (if not all) medical schools to my knowledge. It's nice, but it's now without its hazards, as some profs sometimes to decide to make exam questions on material they they specifically talk about during class but don't put in the syllabus notes, so you have to be familiar with the material in the syllabus before the lecture so that during class you have to be like "Wait, he said something that wasn't in the course notes, better write that down." It was a hard learned lesson when during my first year, I kept getting burned on exam quesations where I challanged them saying "This topic wasn't in the course notes" and the response was always something like "Well, the professor talked about it for 20 seconds in class 3 weeks ago, so it's a fair question". This particular system always pissed me off, because you'd think that if a topic was important enough to be talked about in class and included on an exam, why the hell isn't it important enough to be in the course notes, espically since 98% of our studying is done from the course notes, espically for classes that were several weeks ago. Oh, it makes me so angry. It's ironic that a school meant to train me in a field that's supposed to be about compassion and understanding is so adept at filling me with ire and rage towards the world. So full of hate
Have you ever seen the Risa episodes? All you need is a horgan statue, and the ladies will throw themselves at you.
That's too bad. Gannon's fortress was actually quite fun, and the boss battles was probably some of the more challanging in the series.
On the matter of the triforce collection, I not quite sure what people are so mad at about it. Is it having to collect all the maps? They were all little mini-missions, so that part wasn't particularly tedious I thought. Was it collecting rupees to pay Tingle's outrageous transcribing fees? Perhaps, but with the 5000 rupee wallet I don't recall ever needing to do any money hunting in particular. Is it collecting the shards themselves? I suppose that was a tad annoying, but once you had all the maps translated winching up the pieces took only about an hour or so. A task sure, but I recall spending that much time chasing down a quarter peice of heart. I can't tell why you even started playing the game if you were going to be disuaded by such a minor point. If you were looking for an arbitrary reason to hate the game, you could have just said you didn't like the cell shaded graphics and saved yourself the trouble of playing it at all.
This makes a lot of sense really. I mean, how many successful PC to console ports have there been? It's mainly because by porting a PC game to a console, you aren't reaching a larger audience by doing so. Putting WOW on the 360 would be trying to reach the population that owns a 360 but doesn't own a computer. Even of both those guys of them bought it, that probably wouldn't be profitable enough to justify the cost of making it. Everyone who wants to play WOW is doing so, and I don't think there is a significant number of people out there saying "Man, I want to play WOW, but I want to play it on a console instead of my computer".
Technically Treponema Pallidum a spirochete, but spirochetes are typically considered a subset of bacteria, and stain gram negative. I wouldn't go so far as to say they weren't bacteria though.
It's only a week difference in release of the colored units. They could have easily postponed the release of the white one for several days to make a combined release, but there's several possible reasons why not to.
There are going to be people who won't care about color and will want the DS right away and they will come in at the early release date. Then a week later, those who want colored units will come in. Spreading demand out over a week rather than concentrating it on one day will be good for production and for distributors.
Ssecondly, it's not easy to just produce all colors at the same rate. The machinary needed to produce one color over another has to be recalibrated for each variant, and this process isn't practical to do every day. Thus its more efficient to spend a week producing white, and then a week producing blue, and so forth. I'm not an expert by any means, but I remember on a trip to the Ben & Jerry's factory in Vermont that they only produce 2 flavors every day for nationwide distribution, so I'd presume the same principle can apply to different mass production lines. Sure it may cause some hiccups initially, but in the long term it's more efficient to do production this way.
Interesting idea, but then why did Voyager have all black with colored shoulders?
An interesting idea, but the collar pip rank insignia stayed the same through all the uniform iterations. Something I had seen was that the TNG style uniforms (Mostly colored with black shoulders) were the standard duty uniforms while the other style uniforms (Mostly black with colored shoulders and then later with grey shoulders) were some kind of battle uniform, akin to today's military BDU. As such the personell on the front would be wearing the battle fatigues, and then as seen when Sisko visited earth during the starfleet coup, he would change back to the TNG style uniform, which is what everyone else on earth was wearing.
There's no evidence that it's the Enterprise D. More likely it's just a galaxy class vessel, and even then there's no reason to believe that hallways and observation lounges aren't modular structures that can be inserted into any class of vessel. As well, the uniform the crewman is wearing wasn't typical of the Enterprise D. In Generations, it looked like they were transitioning to that style of duty uniform (though use of it was inconsistant among the officers), but then the Enterprise D was destroyed, and by the time the Enterprise E came around they were all using the next style of uniform with the grey shoulders.
I remember at my undergrad which had a required laptop policy, many applications had a dynamic license server, so that only people hooked into the campus network or using the VPN client could use the apps. For ubiquitous applications like microsoft office everyone had their own license, but the higher end apps like matlab and solidworks needed the dynamic license. I remember there being some problems near the end of semesters when the freshmen were working on their CAD finals. There were only a few hundred dynamics licenses that could be allocated at a time, so there were times during that last week before the final project was due that people had problems using solidworks, and they literally couldn't start working until someone else stopped. But that was a while ago, so things might have changed since then.