It's easy enough to say "might as well" when you're an individual user talking about $75, but if you're attempting to justify the purchase and deployment of, say, 1000 computers, that "might as well" costs $75,000 and isn't such a little sum anymore. You need to back it up with data showing that the additional outlay would be justified by a return in performance.
I'm a little confused, the article spends a lot of time talking about how modders scorn newer games for the Source engine. How is this evolving?
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He was a chemistry professor and he actually stopped being a full-time one when his writing career began to take off and he got too busy for it. Of course, his career included tons of educational books such as The World of Carbon and lots of quality, lesser-known annotations.
Thank god nobody ever looked at UNIVAC and said "Well, my typewriter is much smaller than this -- there's no point in trying to make this beast smaller when it's only slightly faster than I am and I can just solve the problems myself, then type the answers." Don't forget that the first computers were the size of a room.
Yes, I do, actually. It's always in my pants. Carrying my ID with me is as much common sense as wearing pants is. It's been like that as long as I've HAD some form of ID. While I don't carry it when I'm in the bath, it's sure as hell in my pants pocket, which is easy enough to get to since I'm not going to be taken to the police station naked.
Even for people who don't look Japanese, it's not like that gives them some special license to not carry ID... I imagine most Japanese people carry around their wallet or a card wallet of some sort, which has, at minimum, their driver's license or health insurance card, both of which are ID. So it should really be a non-issue.
Japan does this already; people are required to carry their foreigner ID cards or passports while they're in the country. Failure to be able to present them can lead to a visit to the police station or jail. Some areas have lots of people who report being checked for absolutely no apparent reason at all; foreigners in other areas have never experienced this.
Honestly, it doesn't bother me. For me, having my wallet or ID with me when I go out is just common sense... not some kind of panty-twisting injustice that I have to carry like a ball-and-chain. It's just common sense.
So I don't see what the big deal is. Now, on the other hand, if people are just stopped randomly on the basis of their appearance and not because of anything in particular they were doing, then yes, that would bother me. That bothers me in Japan, too. But having to carry an ID? Not a big deal -- you should be doing it already.
Not really. In my opinion, most of facebook's power comes not from the platform, but the fact that so many people use it. Regardless of how good the platform is, if only 50,000 people use it, you're not going to get as much out of it because your friends are all on facebook because their friends are all on facebook.
They COULD have control, but they choose not to. I mean, sure, smaller sites would have problems, but large sites like the one in question easily get enough traffic to be able to choose what they want to advertise. Penny Arcade does it.
They're the Founding Fathers of our government, not the Founding Farmers. I will admit that people have selective memories when it comes to using the past to advancing their personal causes, though.
Yeah, I have a cochlear implant, though I'd love to be able to hear with just one simple injection. The cochlear implant is large, annoyingly bulky, takes money to maintain, vulnerable to weather, and not exactly great for any kind of impact sport (including running quickly).
People have been complaining about Facebook's layout changes ever since it started, but it hasn't put a dent in its popularity at all. Personally, I think the new layout is better than the old one, anyway.
A gaming device wants to take advantage of every last bit of performance available; a phone necessarily has background processes taking away from that ability. Sure, you could make a phone that's good at some types of games (that's what Japanese phones do, for example), and probably make a fair bit of money off of porting 8-bit classics or something, but it's not going to be a great gaming device.
I imagine that, like normal hearing aids and cochlear implant processors, it wouldn't be worn when sleeping. From the looks of it, you'd clean it or soak it in cleaning solution while you sleep, then put it back in when you wake up.
It's too bad, though; this isn't a solution for people who have to go to the cochlear implant, in a lot of cases; it just provides a better path for sound to get to the cochlea, whereas the cochlear implant replaces the cochlea (generally because it's not working properly in some way or another). I'm always hoping for something better, and smaller.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to call Scientologists "terrorists" at the very least. Not only that, but we had a "reason" to go after certain groups and it was government-sanctioned, which makes a huge difference.
More importantly, though, if you justify acts of violence by saying "oh, they're extremists" or "oh, nobody likes them," then perhaps next time you'll be in the group that gets acted out against. Just because Japanese-Americans weren't popular in World War II doesn't mean that anyone would have had the right to act violently toward them. Scientologists aren't popular because their beliefs are corny or stupid, or because the "church" engages in fraudulent practices and is known to abuse members; that doesn't mean that individual Scientologists are religious extremists or bad people any more than the fact that Osama Bin Laden is a Muslim means that all Muslims are terrible people. Scientologists are just a popular group to hate right now.
Not only that, but it would probably be much more practical to set up outposts near the supply to take advantage of them; if we can mine those diamonds, we should certainly be able to set up some industrial outposts to utilize the diamonds properly.
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It's easy enough to say "might as well" when you're an individual user talking about $75, but if you're attempting to justify the purchase and deployment of, say, 1000 computers, that "might as well" costs $75,000 and isn't such a little sum anymore. You need to back it up with data showing that the additional outlay would be justified by a return in performance.
Age? Voyager is hardly brand new.
I'm a little confused, the article spends a lot of time talking about how modders scorn newer games for the Source engine. How is this evolving?
He was a chemistry professor and he actually stopped being a full-time one when his writing career began to take off and he got too busy for it. Of course, his career included tons of educational books such as The World of Carbon and lots of quality, lesser-known annotations.
Thank god nobody ever looked at UNIVAC and said "Well, my typewriter is much smaller than this -- there's no point in trying to make this beast smaller when it's only slightly faster than I am and I can just solve the problems myself, then type the answers." Don't forget that the first computers were the size of a room.
Yes, I do, actually. It's always in my pants. Carrying my ID with me is as much common sense as wearing pants is. It's been like that as long as I've HAD some form of ID. While I don't carry it when I'm in the bath, it's sure as hell in my pants pocket, which is easy enough to get to since I'm not going to be taken to the police station naked.
Even for people who don't look Japanese, it's not like that gives them some special license to not carry ID... I imagine most Japanese people carry around their wallet or a card wallet of some sort, which has, at minimum, their driver's license or health insurance card, both of which are ID. So it should really be a non-issue.
Japan does this already; people are required to carry their foreigner ID cards or passports while they're in the country. Failure to be able to present them can lead to a visit to the police station or jail. Some areas have lots of people who report being checked for absolutely no apparent reason at all; foreigners in other areas have never experienced this.
Honestly, it doesn't bother me. For me, having my wallet or ID with me when I go out is just common sense... not some kind of panty-twisting injustice that I have to carry like a ball-and-chain. It's just common sense.
So I don't see what the big deal is. Now, on the other hand, if people are just stopped randomly on the basis of their appearance and not because of anything in particular they were doing, then yes, that would bother me. That bothers me in Japan, too. But having to carry an ID? Not a big deal -- you should be doing it already.
Not really. In my opinion, most of facebook's power comes not from the platform, but the fact that so many people use it. Regardless of how good the platform is, if only 50,000 people use it, you're not going to get as much out of it because your friends are all on facebook because their friends are all on facebook.
They COULD have control, but they choose not to. I mean, sure, smaller sites would have problems, but large sites like the one in question easily get enough traffic to be able to choose what they want to advertise. Penny Arcade does it.
Lesbianism IS homosexuality.
Beyond that, what about lesbian couples where both wives decide to go for artificial insemination?
Some of us have never seen/used C64s because our public schools had old Apple II machines.
They're the Founding Fathers of our government, not the Founding Farmers. I will admit that people have selective memories when it comes to using the past to advancing their personal causes, though.
Yeah, I have a cochlear implant, though I'd love to be able to hear with just one simple injection. The cochlear implant is large, annoyingly bulky, takes money to maintain, vulnerable to weather, and not exactly great for any kind of impact sport (including running quickly).
I wonder if there could be pockets of gas inside Phobos.
The instant I saw this name, Bronson Pinchot jumped into my memory. MeeGo was a weird show.
Chilled? I was thinking more of S&R possibilities or exploration.
Imagine a swarm of these things communicating via wireless or 3G, sending walking algorithms to each other while traversing difficult terrain.
The sentence in question would probably make more sense if it ended with a "yet."
People have been complaining about Facebook's layout changes ever since it started, but it hasn't put a dent in its popularity at all. Personally, I think the new layout is better than the old one, anyway.
That's a neat idea; do you have links to sources?
It doesn't have to be useful to be neat.
A gaming device wants to take advantage of every last bit of performance available; a phone necessarily has background processes taking away from that ability. Sure, you could make a phone that's good at some types of games (that's what Japanese phones do, for example), and probably make a fair bit of money off of porting 8-bit classics or something, but it's not going to be a great gaming device.
I imagine that, like normal hearing aids and cochlear implant processors, it wouldn't be worn when sleeping. From the looks of it, you'd clean it or soak it in cleaning solution while you sleep, then put it back in when you wake up.
It's too bad, though; this isn't a solution for people who have to go to the cochlear implant, in a lot of cases; it just provides a better path for sound to get to the cochlea, whereas the cochlear implant replaces the cochlea (generally because it's not working properly in some way or another). I'm always hoping for something better, and smaller.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to call Scientologists "terrorists" at the very least. Not only that, but we had a "reason" to go after certain groups and it was government-sanctioned, which makes a huge difference.
More importantly, though, if you justify acts of violence by saying "oh, they're extremists" or "oh, nobody likes them," then perhaps next time you'll be in the group that gets acted out against. Just because Japanese-Americans weren't popular in World War II doesn't mean that anyone would have had the right to act violently toward them. Scientologists aren't popular because their beliefs are corny or stupid, or because the "church" engages in fraudulent practices and is known to abuse members; that doesn't mean that individual Scientologists are religious extremists or bad people any more than the fact that Osama Bin Laden is a Muslim means that all Muslims are terrible people. Scientologists are just a popular group to hate right now.
Not only that, but it would probably be much more practical to set up outposts near the supply to take advantage of them; if we can mine those diamonds, we should certainly be able to set up some industrial outposts to utilize the diamonds properly.