[blockquote]I don't recall hearing what an ideal rotation rate for the Earth is to sustain life.[/blockquote]
23 hours 56 minutes and four seconds seems good enough:-)
All you are is a complete waste of time whose only method of debate is intimidation.
You mean he works in the Bush administration?:-)
I'm just trying to burn a little karma to stay warm since my region of the planet obviously isn't warming anytime soon (according to the massive blocks of evidence the grandparent has posted. Oh, wait, he's only cited a crappy BBC show).
The average cost of each war the US engages in ends up being around $600 billion (after adjusting each one for inflation). We'll just have to complete the next war in 119/120ths of the time and the cost of the new telescope is covered:)
As a guess - maybe it didn't have to? Up until a few thousand years ago people lived in relatively small and isolated groups, and that fact alone easily prevented the spread of disease. Today we live in mass population centers where disease can spread quite easily, leading to pandemics and whatnot. The human body probably evolved to fight the infrequent diseases and infections it needed to, and the immune system didn't become robust enough to handle much more serious illness because (still guessing) those serious illnesses would have devasted the small and isolated groups.
Gears of War @ 1080i looks pretty darn amazing, even though it's component video. Comparing a high def signal to a non high def signal is silly, a lesson I recently learned. I sold my HDTV and had ordered another. Before the new TV arrived, I was playing on a standard old 4x3 tube. Gears of War looked so much worse on that TV:( (not bad per say, but not nearly as nice as 1080i).
They haven't tested primary cell lines (non-cancerous cells). Nor have they tested any tox in mice.
Maybe you missed the part of the article where they state, "It also killed colon tumors in mice without making the mice sick, they reported in the journal International Cancer Research."
Opportunity (also past expected mission life, right?)
Yep! By about 914 days!
Re:So... it realy sucks, but its the best 360 game
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Zonk's review sucks. This game really is awesome. I think he falls somewhere in the very very small category of people who won't be pleased no matter what you do. I have *never* seen better graphics in any other game, the AI isn't nearly as bad as he imagines, and the multiplayer is great. Your comment is true in a sense that most other games on the 360 look so "first gen" after playing Gears of War.
The AI really isn't that bad, Zonk.
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Wow, spending most of the review focusing on supposedly crappy AI and crappy plot, only to barely mention graphics and the end and some multiplayer action as being great. Personally, I think Gears of War is awesome. The AI really isn't as bad as Zonk makes it seem. The folks on your side duck and cover and flank left or right, and the enemies do, too. On occasion they do pop up for too long, or run for different cover, and go down. If the AI were absolutely "perfect", you could simply hide the whole game and let the bots kill everything for you. Instead, you find yourself running to save them during a firefight. Multiplayer is a blast, too. Co-op is seemless, almost no lag, and deathmatch is the same. This game really shines.
As with the PS3, the 360 wireless controller needs to be wired for recharging, using the Microsoft recharge kit with battery, an extra $20 for the controller to have a rechargeable battery. So, the reviewer isn't quite right about that, they're not always wireless.
I always have a couple rechargable AA batteries sitting in the charger. When one of my 360 controllers starts to blink it's little low battery blink, I just pop in the fresh set, and put the drained ones back in the charger queue. It takes about 15 seconds. No wires involved.
MS could really take some wind out of Sony's "sales" with a $30 to $50 price cut. A drop in price, plus the recent arrival of Gears of War (easily the best looking game I have *ever* seen, and amazingly fun to boot), and a little extra effort from the advertising department could probably take a much bigger bite out of the PS3 launch.
The article discussed mass measurements, and the word weight appears nowhere in the text. I think the submitter made a classic Physics 101 mistake, not the article.
That, and ultra fast load times. A 7200 RPM hard drive is a LOT faster than a DVD drive. So, by modding, you end up with a console that requires no disk switching (and thus no risk of scratched media) and loads game data about 10x as fast. It was a win-win-win for my XBox:)
Hey, the RIAA's cold black heart has a drop of warm kind blood in it afterall:-). Or not. I'm sure they were only considering the bad PR and not the family.
Actually, crushed pills have become one of the main ingredients in meth. You should watch this episode of Frontline.
Here's the link to the full eposide online. It's an eye opener. The sources are not hard to use at all. It's really easy to remove the cornstarch filler from most pills on the market and be left with the main ingredient of interest- pseudoephedrine.
Also, severe control of a main ingredient in a drug has worked in the recent past. Anyone remember quaaludes? Didn't think so.
I don't want control and intrusion as much as the next reasonably educated and politically aware person, but to say harsh controls over substances don't ever work is incorrect.
A magic number is a number put at the beginning of a file to indicate to the OS what kind of file it is. The ELF magic number happens to be 0x7f with the letters 'ELF' following.
True, but any presidential administration can classify pretty much anything they want, just because they want to. They could abuse that privelege for the purposes of covering their involvment in illegal activity. See a problem with this? It's a slippery slope we're on, and it seems to be getting steeper.
This smacks of journalists pompously elevating their self-importance to levels higher than they deserve.
Journalists are incredibly important now a days. They are the last line of defence from a completely secret (and thus unaccountable to the public) government. I, for one, don't want a government that can do anything it wants without the people's consent or knowledge. Congress doesn't seem to be doing a good job of oversite lately, so about the only way the public is going to get to know what's going on is good investigative reporting.
No! Don't do that! There are so few of us already! The best solution is to breed and bring up our numbers. Oh, wait... it looks like we're doomed to extinction.
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[blockquote]I don't recall hearing what an ideal rotation rate for the Earth is to sustain life.[/blockquote] 23 hours 56 minutes and four seconds seems good enough :-)
I'm just trying to burn a little karma to stay warm since my region of the planet obviously isn't warming anytime soon (according to the massive blocks of evidence the grandparent has posted. Oh, wait, he's only cited a crappy BBC show).
The average cost of each war the US engages in ends up being around $600 billion (after adjusting each one for inflation). We'll just have to complete the next war in 119/120ths of the time and the cost of the new telescope is covered :)
As a guess - maybe it didn't have to? Up until a few thousand years ago people lived in relatively small and isolated groups, and that fact alone easily prevented the spread of disease. Today we live in mass population centers where disease can spread quite easily, leading to pandemics and whatnot. The human body probably evolved to fight the infrequent diseases and infections it needed to, and the immune system didn't become robust enough to handle much more serious illness because (still guessing) those serious illnesses would have devasted the small and isolated groups.
Gears of War @ 1080i looks pretty darn amazing, even though it's component video. Comparing a high def signal to a non high def signal is silly, a lesson I recently learned. I sold my HDTV and had ordered another. Before the new TV arrived, I was playing on a standard old 4x3 tube. Gears of War looked so much worse on that TV :( (not bad per say, but not nearly as nice as 1080i).
Here's a link to the image posted the MRO site. Full 6.3MB JPEG! http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/gallery//press/200701 10a/picture-3.jpg
...I wonder how long it took Mr. David X. Cohen to write *that* episode :)
Zonk's review sucks. This game really is awesome. I think he falls somewhere in the very very small category of people who won't be pleased no matter what you do. I have *never* seen better graphics in any other game, the AI isn't nearly as bad as he imagines, and the multiplayer is great. Your comment is true in a sense that most other games on the 360 look so "first gen" after playing Gears of War.
Wow, spending most of the review focusing on supposedly crappy AI and crappy plot, only to barely mention graphics and the end and some multiplayer action as being great. Personally, I think Gears of War is awesome. The AI really isn't as bad as Zonk makes it seem. The folks on your side duck and cover and flank left or right, and the enemies do, too. On occasion they do pop up for too long, or run for different cover, and go down. If the AI were absolutely "perfect", you could simply hide the whole game and let the bots kill everything for you. Instead, you find yourself running to save them during a firefight. Multiplayer is a blast, too. Co-op is seemless, almost no lag, and deathmatch is the same. This game really shines.
"Triforce Johnson" ... there's a great (maybe lame) joke there, somewhere. I wonder what he uses his Power Glove for?
MS could really take some wind out of Sony's "sales" with a $30 to $50 price cut. A drop in price, plus the recent arrival of Gears of War (easily the best looking game I have *ever* seen, and amazingly fun to boot), and a little extra effort from the advertising department could probably take a much bigger bite out of the PS3 launch.
GPUs are going the way of the math co-processor. I think it's inevitable.
The article discussed mass measurements, and the word weight appears nowhere in the text. I think the submitter made a classic Physics 101 mistake, not the article.
That, and ultra fast load times. A 7200 RPM hard drive is a LOT faster than a DVD drive. So, by modding, you end up with a console that requires no disk switching (and thus no risk of scratched media) and loads game data about 10x as fast. It was a win-win-win for my XBox :)
Hey, the RIAA's cold black heart has a drop of warm kind blood in it afterall :-). Or not. I'm sure they were only considering the bad PR and not the family.
Actually, crushed pills have become one of the main ingredients in meth. You should watch this episode of Frontline. Here's the link to the full eposide online. It's an eye opener. The sources are not hard to use at all. It's really easy to remove the cornstarch filler from most pills on the market and be left with the main ingredient of interest- pseudoephedrine.
Also, severe control of a main ingredient in a drug has worked in the recent past. Anyone remember quaaludes? Didn't think so.
I don't want control and intrusion as much as the next reasonably educated and politically aware person, but to say harsh controls over substances don't ever work is incorrect.
A magic number is a number put at the beginning of a file to indicate to the OS what kind of file it is. The ELF magic number happens to be 0x7f with the letters 'ELF' following.
No, just your tinfoil goggles.