Are you refering to the Foundation level which they let you download anyway? I'm not aware of any other unlockable content on Halo 2. It was more annoying that they release all of these levels so long after the game and then tried to pressure all the online players into buying it. At least they offered it up for free eventually. Not nearly as annoying as the downloads for Karaoke Revolution/Party that cost $5 for 5 or 6 songs. Yeah, and try figuring out how to unlock things in that "game" without looking it up the requirements on the internet.
The interesting thing about these storms is that they are high-pressure storms, as opposed to hurricanes/cyclones on Earth, which are low-pressure storms. So would the shear line still be low pressure (Bernoulli's Principle?) or would it be high pressure?
If the two storms have the same elliptical shape, and one is twice is wide, then we're still looking at 4x. The area of an elipse is A=pi*a*b. So if the larger storm is twice as wide and twice as high, A'=pi*2a*2b, A'=4*pi*a*b, and presto A'=4*A.
One of the biggest differences I noticed when taking over a project that was written in VB6 and rewriting it and extending it in VB.NET/C# was the error handling. In VB6 the error handling is very kludgy. You can set up an error handler for any function that you want to, but unless you remember to also set up an error handler for every single button, etc. (I guess they run on different threads) on your forms, your application will constantly be crashing in random places as you accidentally add new bugs with your new features or the user does things in an unexpected way. With VB.NET you could set up some try...catch blocks in a few convenient places and they would even catch exceptions thrown by the interactive portions of forms. My product had very few crashes compared to the other huge product that we still had in VB6 that crashed all over the place. I am also a huge fan of OO design and when I ran into a couple of things that I couldn't do well in VB.NET I wrote them in C# and they worked together seemlessly. Good luck, I hope you win.
One of the biggest differences I noticed when taking over a project that was written in VB6 and rewriting it and extending it in VB.NET/C# was the error handling. In VB6 the error handling is very kludgy. You can set up an error handler for any function that you want to, but unless you remember to also set up an error handler for every single button, etc. on your forms, your application will constantly be crashing in random places as you accidentally add new bugs with your new features or the user does things in an unexpected way. With VB.NET you could set up some try...catch blocks in a few convenient places and they would even catch exceptions thrown by the interactive portions of forms. My product had very few crashes compared to the other huge product that we still had in VB6 that crashed all over the place. I am also a huge fan of OO design and when I ran into a couple of things that I couldn't do well in VB.NET I wrote them in C# and they worked together seemlessly. Good luck, I hope you win.
I have seen more convincing arguments for why the earth is flat, evolution is bogus, and we never went to the moon. Not that I believe those 3 arguments, but they do a lot better job than this guy. (Starting off by calling some of the greatest physicist of the last century crackpots is not a good way to start. I didn't do my research, but who is this guy?)
Actually, there are a lot of comapanies (Goole, MapQuest) that use the services of NavTech to get their data. Free map data is unlikely to include new roads and torn-down roads, etc.
So how are the gold/items transferred to IGE and then again to the customers? I imagine it would be in-game. So why don't some of these game companies just ban IGE from playing? It's got to be obvious based on behavior which accounts belong to IGE. One of the reasons this has become such a problem is that the transactions happen in broad daylight. At least if you forced it underground, there would be a lot fewer people willing to spend their money on this stuff. Black market volume would be a lot lower, so it would be harder for farmers to make nearly as much money.
The mass of the star, based on interpolation of
stellar evolutionary models, is 1.3+-0.1 M[Sun]; together with the Doppler amplitude,
K1 = 43.3 m/s, we derive a planet mass, M sin(i) = 0.36 M[Jup], and orbital
radius of 0.042 AU.
We need to forget that George Lucas ever made up the idea of midiclorians. Kind of the same way that we try to forget that they ever made a Highlander 2. Kind of the way the new Superman movie pretends that the series stopped after the second movie and that's where they're picking up.
If a program is written poorly it is possible for it to hold on to a lot of its objects (memory) because Java thinks the program is still using them. I think the easiest way to screw up (but not sure) is to keep a hash around with all of your objects in it. As long as the hash still references the objects, even if nothing else does, the memory will not be freed up. Have you tried killing off specific aplications that are using Java to see if you can find which program is hoarding all of the memory or are you pointing your finger at the Java VM?
Of course the system doesn't really look like the Eye of Sauron. It is an artifact of the way they took the picture. From the article:
This device blocks the glare of a star while gathering the faint reflected light from any surrounding ring.
And from the caption of the image:
The geometrical centre of the ring is offset to the left of the star's position, shown with a yellow dot.
All that black space that looks like the iris is really just the part they covered up so that the star wouldn't saturate the camera (same thing as when they block out the sun to study the corona). And the little dot in the picture where the star is isn't really the star (unless they took it from another picture). So, very cool, but if you were able to look at it and still see it well despite the bright star in the middle, it wouldn't look quite like the picture.
So is it really LESS pollution to drive an electric car than an oil powered one?
Yes. Large power plants can generate power more efficiently while at the same time are able to more effectively put pollution controls in place. While they can put scrubbers and filters on their smokestacks, you would never see that on a car's exhaust.
Not sure, but I'm pretty sure I read that the Greenhouse warming here on Earth was actually supposed to end up causing more of an ice age than Venus' twin.
The way you describe it would still violate the conservation of energy. When matter and anti-matter interact they are annihilated and energy is released. So, in order to create matter/antimatter you would have to consume energy. It's been a while, but they probably think the energy is coming from the background energy of the universe or some zero-state. These types of phenomena might be allowed under the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle though, as long as the dEnergy*dTime is less than hbar(?) or something.
Dating himself? Yeah I guess that does sound like typical/. behavior.
Seriously though, what self-respecting geek isn't going to show this movie to their kids, er, geeks-in-training. This one's on my list (if I can get approval from the wife;) Might have to throw in some Ladyhawke in between Ghostbusters and E.T.
Trials are not Science. They are interpretations of Law. You could do the trial over and over (it is the Constitution that prevents this) and you could gauge how convincing the evidence and the prosecutor's and defence's interpretations are. If anyone wants to argue that trials are a philosphical/psycological/sociological experiment in action, I would bite. (And I agree that guilt cannot be proven to the same degree that you can prove water is H2O. Not unless you observed the crime very well, like with lots of cameras and police around. Then it be pretty certain. The OJ trial of course relied heavily (entirely?) on circumstantial evidence. That just means that its not very solid, so by itself doesn't really prove anything.)
No one is saying that you have to be able to repeat a historical event over and over. That is impossible. All you can do is make a judgment on how likely certain things are. History can be difficult because the writers are always biased.
Historians do practice the scientific method, because they are often coming up with hypotheses and testing them, like when they say, I wonder if the Egyptians could have moved those big blocks by rolling them over huge logs, and then they go out and test its feasability. Sure they will never know for sure whether or not that is how it was definitely done (unless they time travel), but then again we will never know for sure (until we get to ask God) whether F=Gm1m2/r is 100% accurate all of the time. Sure it seems to work for everything, but there are people who doubt its perfection as well, and I don't think anyone here is going to say that physics is not science. You have to keep in mind that even Scientific Laws are not untouchable. They are just things that we are pretty damn sure of and that will take a lot of good evidence to convince us that we are wrong.
Ah, but the sword is still very good on defence for CTF in WaterWorks etc. It is still good in close quarters (with no snipes especially) like in Midship. Personally, I only go for the sword when I'm playing defence or I'll sometimes pickit up if the wielder dies in front of me. If only to keep it out of their hands for a bit. I leave the snipers to the professionals and still stick with the old combo of SMG and PR, unless I am going grenade happy (usually against snipers or rockets).
I just checked and there are several people above 20, one is at 24. For those noobs who are scared about being owned by an elite player, just wait it out for about a week. But instead of worrying, why not try playing against these guys, just to see how good they are. In a couple of weeks, you'll never have the chance because you'll level off at 10 whereas they will be up to 30+ or something. There's nothing wrong with being humbled a little bit now and then. Maybe it will keep you from telling your budds or your would-be-soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend* about how you stuck this guy just before he got splattered by your teammate (if you realize that it's just a game and most of us aren't much better than the rest).
I for one intend to play the big team battle playlist a lot, and if I get completely used by the other team, so be it. At least I'll try. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of griefers and quitters, but hopefully they will start getting suspended and banned. Or at least drop so low in level that I won't see them anymore.
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Of course it's the relative velocities that matter, so... not so much.
When you become the subject of South Park you kind of need to rethink your life.
Are you refering to the Foundation level which they let you download anyway? I'm not aware of any other unlockable content on Halo 2. It was more annoying that they release all of these levels so long after the game and then tried to pressure all the online players into buying it. At least they offered it up for free eventually. Not nearly as annoying as the downloads for Karaoke Revolution/Party that cost $5 for 5 or 6 songs. Yeah, and try figuring out how to unlock things in that "game" without looking it up the requirements on the internet.
The interesting thing about these storms is that they are high-pressure storms, as opposed to hurricanes/cyclones on Earth, which are low-pressure storms. So would the shear line still be low pressure (Bernoulli's Principle?) or would it be high pressure?
If the two storms have the same elliptical shape, and one is twice is wide, then we're still looking at 4x. The area of an elipse is A=pi*a*b. So if the larger storm is twice as wide and twice as high, A'=pi*2a*2b, A'=4*pi*a*b, and presto A'=4*A.
One of the biggest differences I noticed when taking over a project that was written in VB6 and rewriting it and extending it in VB.NET/C# was the error handling. In VB6 the error handling is very kludgy. You can set up an error handler for any function that you want to, but unless you remember to also set up an error handler for every single button, etc. (I guess they run on different threads) on your forms, your application will constantly be crashing in random places as you accidentally add new bugs with your new features or the user does things in an unexpected way. With VB.NET you could set up some try...catch blocks in a few convenient places and they would even catch exceptions thrown by the interactive portions of forms. My product had very few crashes compared to the other huge product that we still had in VB6 that crashed all over the place. I am also a huge fan of OO design and when I ran into a couple of things that I couldn't do well in VB.NET I wrote them in C# and they worked together seemlessly. Good luck, I hope you win.
One of the biggest differences I noticed when taking over a project that was written in VB6 and rewriting it and extending it in VB.NET/C# was the error handling. In VB6 the error handling is very kludgy. You can set up an error handler for any function that you want to, but unless you remember to also set up an error handler for every single button, etc. on your forms, your application will constantly be crashing in random places as you accidentally add new bugs with your new features or the user does things in an unexpected way. With VB.NET you could set up some try...catch blocks in a few convenient places and they would even catch exceptions thrown by the interactive portions of forms. My product had very few crashes compared to the other huge product that we still had in VB6 that crashed all over the place. I am also a huge fan of OO design and when I ran into a couple of things that I couldn't do well in VB.NET I wrote them in C# and they worked together seemlessly. Good luck, I hope you win.
I have seen more convincing arguments for why the earth is flat, evolution is bogus, and we never went to the moon. Not that I believe those 3 arguments, but they do a lot better job than this guy. (Starting off by calling some of the greatest physicist of the last century crackpots is not a good way to start. I didn't do my research, but who is this guy?)
Sorry, Goole should have been GoogleMaps.
Actually, there are a lot of comapanies (Goole, MapQuest) that use the services of NavTech to get their data. Free map data is unlikely to include new roads and torn-down roads, etc.
So how are the gold/items transferred to IGE and then again to the customers? I imagine it would be in-game. So why don't some of these game companies just ban IGE from playing? It's got to be obvious based on behavior which accounts belong to IGE. One of the reasons this has become such a problem is that the transactions happen in broad daylight. At least if you forced it underground, there would be a lot fewer people willing to spend their money on this stuff. Black market volume would be a lot lower, so it would be harder for farmers to make nearly as much money.
The mass of the star, based on interpolation of stellar evolutionary models, is 1.3+-0.1 M[Sun]; together with the Doppler amplitude, K1 = 43.3 m/s, we derive a planet mass, M sin(i) = 0.36 M[Jup], and orbital radius of 0.042 AU.
We need to forget that George Lucas ever made up the idea of midiclorians. Kind of the same way that we try to forget that they ever made a Highlander 2. Kind of the way the new Superman movie pretends that the series stopped after the second movie and that's where they're picking up.
I think you meant "Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?"
If a program is written poorly it is possible for it to hold on to a lot of its objects (memory) because Java thinks the program is still using them. I think the easiest way to screw up (but not sure) is to keep a hash around with all of your objects in it. As long as the hash still references the objects, even if nothing else does, the memory will not be freed up. Have you tried killing off specific aplications that are using Java to see if you can find which program is hoarding all of the memory or are you pointing your finger at the Java VM?
I've heard that red diamonds (not pink) are the rarest and command a very high price.
So is it really LESS pollution to drive an electric car than an oil powered one?
Yes. Large power plants can generate power more efficiently while at the same time are able to more effectively put pollution controls in place. While they can put scrubbers and filters on their smokestacks, you would never see that on a car's exhaust.
Not sure, but I'm pretty sure I read that the Greenhouse warming here on Earth was actually supposed to end up causing more of an ice age than Venus' twin.
Gamma Ray Burst 2005 05 09 b
I would guess that it was the second gamma ray burst (candidate?) detected (since 1200 GMT?). Lot of guessing on my part though.
The way you describe it would still violate the conservation of energy. When matter and anti-matter interact they are annihilated and energy is released. So, in order to create matter/antimatter you would have to consume energy. It's been a while, but they probably think the energy is coming from the background energy of the universe or some zero-state. These types of phenomena might be allowed under the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle though, as long as the dEnergy*dTime is less than hbar(?) or something.
Dating himself? Yeah I guess that does sound like typical /. behavior.
;) Might have to throw in some Ladyhawke in between Ghostbusters and E.T.
Seriously though, what self-respecting geek isn't going to show this movie to their kids, er, geeks-in-training. This one's on my list (if I can get approval from the wife
Trials are not Science. They are interpretations of Law. You could do the trial over and over (it is the Constitution that prevents this) and you could gauge how convincing the evidence and the prosecutor's and defence's interpretations are. If anyone wants to argue that trials are a philosphical/psycological/sociological experiment in action, I would bite. (And I agree that guilt cannot be proven to the same degree that you can prove water is H2O. Not unless you observed the crime very well, like with lots of cameras and police around. Then it be pretty certain. The OJ trial of course relied heavily (entirely?) on circumstantial evidence. That just means that its not very solid, so by itself doesn't really prove anything.)
No one is saying that you have to be able to repeat a historical event over and over. That is impossible. All you can do is make a judgment on how likely certain things are. History can be difficult because the writers are always biased. Historians do practice the scientific method, because they are often coming up with hypotheses and testing them, like when they say, I wonder if the Egyptians could have moved those big blocks by rolling them over huge logs, and then they go out and test its feasability. Sure they will never know for sure whether or not that is how it was definitely done (unless they time travel), but then again we will never know for sure (until we get to ask God) whether F=Gm1m2/r is 100% accurate all of the time. Sure it seems to work for everything, but there are people who doubt its perfection as well, and I don't think anyone here is going to say that physics is not science. You have to keep in mind that even Scientific Laws are not untouchable. They are just things that we are pretty damn sure of and that will take a lot of good evidence to convince us that we are wrong.
Ah, but the sword is still very good on defence for CTF in WaterWorks etc. It is still good in close quarters (with no snipes especially) like in Midship. Personally, I only go for the sword when I'm playing defence or I'll sometimes pickit up if the wielder dies in front of me. If only to keep it out of their hands for a bit. I leave the snipers to the professionals and still stick with the old combo of SMG and PR, unless I am going grenade happy (usually against snipers or rockets).
Agreed.
I just checked and there are several people above 20, one is at 24. For those noobs who are scared about being owned by an elite player, just wait it out for about a week. But instead of worrying, why not try playing against these guys, just to see how good they are. In a couple of weeks, you'll never have the chance because you'll level off at 10 whereas they will be up to 30+ or something. There's nothing wrong with being humbled a little bit now and then. Maybe it will keep you from telling your budds or your would-be-soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend* about how you stuck this guy just before he got splattered by your teammate (if you realize that it's just a game and most of us aren't much better than the rest).
I for one intend to play the big team battle playlist a lot, and if I get completely used by the other team, so be it. At least I'll try. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of griefers and quitters, but hopefully they will start getting suspended and banned. Or at least drop so low in level that I won't see them anymore.
*if you start bragging about your Halo2 skills