Want to find out if there are any time travelers? Just read the Fortune 500 list of most wealthy people. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Carlos Slim, etc.
Had I traveled back from the future, I would certainly bet all my money on the stock market or raise a technology company with future knowledge. Gathering resources are essential to any kind of mission they were sent to, or if they have no mission at all, who wouldn't like to live comfortably and rich.
36 sq ft cubicle? LUXURY !!!!
I share an 80 sq ft cubicle with four other people. That's 20 sq ft per worker. I don't need a bat to reach my neighbor, I just need to turn around and extend my arm.
In case you are interested, I work in R&D in a Fortune 500 company but in a 3rd world country.
It could be worse, though. I wouldn't like to work in an open space (no walls, no privacy whatsoever) or crammed side to side (as those who work in call centers).
Insightful comment, but maybe by first installing a 'private' (or 'commercial') P2P network these conglomerates feel entitled to push for stronger restrictions on public P2P networks since there should be no need anymore for them (since all legal free download will still be available, but controlled).
Their logic may go like this
1) getting scr**ed by public P2P
2) establish several private P2P
3) go to congress with argument that there is no more need for public P2P
4) public (uncontrolled) P2P becomes illegal
5) profit !!!
If Cuba's helathcare is a failure the let's compare Cuba to the US.
According to the World Health Organization (see http://www.who.int/countries ) the results are:
Life expectancy at birth m/f (years):
Cuba: 76/80
US: 75/80
Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f (years, 2003):
Cuba: 67/70
US: 67/71
Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births):
Cuba: 7
US: 8
Probability of dying between 15 and 60 years m/f (per 1 000 population):
Cuba: 127/82
US: 137/80
Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2005):
Cuba: 333
US: 6,347
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP (2005):
Cuba: 7.6
US: 15.2
They should just suck it up, and enjoy the free publicity.
Ah, but isn't Bethesda's response to the ESRB more free publicity?
I think that Bethesda has done right, publicity-wise, by not sucking it up and continuing the fight on the media.
As they fight, everyone else listens.
Coca-Cola in Oblivion? Mmmm... what if an alchemist sends you on a herb gathering quest and when he finally mixes the potion he asks you how you would call it?... guess what could be the only dialog choice?
I think its a reasonable request to be able to put an ipod nano in your pocket, unprotected, and expect not to look like crap after a few days of use.
As reasonable as buying a brand new SUV, drive it through a dirt/mud/gravel road and expect it to be clean and scratch free (the way they are shown in TV commercials).
I also bought a 4GB black nano and after a week of intense use there is not one gross visible scratch. There are some very thin scratches though, but they are invisible even when holding the nano at mere inches from my eyes.
And talking about design... mine still works perfectly, as it was designed to. The way I see it, the nano was designed to be a slim portable music player with an extra bit of fashion component. If anyone buys it mainly because it's fashionable, he should be going for something else, like a diamond ring (they are harder to scratch) or other bling-bling.
Excuse me for being a "date Nazi", but July 7 is not yesterday, last week would be more appropiate.
Though I'm with you about considering this story a dupe (at least most comments will be dupes), to be fair, strictly speaking it is not because the previous stories (yes, plural) were about previews and this is a review.
Just bring to court several unknown witness, make them write out their love life, economic life, luck, etc. for last week (while keeping all this info secret). And then ask this astrologer to predict all this info from her undisturbed charts of the previous week.
See if they match. If all of them are accurate she has proven her claim that her predictions worked beforehand, if not case dismissed.
And if she is a well known and successful astrologer, maybe she has previously published yearly predictions, check them out and see if they match up to reality.
"Is it confusing if IE has tabs, but other core parts of the Windows experience, like Windows Media Player or the shell, don't have?"
Big lie.
Couldn't agree more. The "Windows experience" is full of tabs. A couple of quick examples:
- Open the "Internet options" in IE. Two rows of tabs!
- Desktop's (or any file's) "Preferences" (just a right click away).
And don't tell me the average user has never opened any of these options windows. Heck, I know a three year old kid that knew how to change screen resolutions!
Why spend $2200+ on naming a cruiser after yourself (or anyone else)?
Wouldn't it be cheaper to change your own name to some other? I mean, if you want to be remembered for ever or to flaunt your famous name onto others, why not change it to an already existing name?
- "Hi, my name is Majere, Raistlin Majere."
or
"Conan Barbarian and Xena Princess would like to invite you to the baptism of their daughter, Red Sonja Barbarian..."
I can see the follow up of Soviet Russia jokes already...:p
Many people are not aware, but we all use it to some degree everyday! In fact, I'm using it right now to write this message!
For example: when I want to press the "W" key, my mind concentrates on that action, sends an electrical pulse to the muscles in my arms, which in turn make one of my fingers hit that key... and voila! Telekinesis! Moving a key with your mind is easy!
I downloaded Gigli because the MPAA needed to suck wind on that one for daring to put in the theatres and wasting both MY money and the theatre's money.
You downloaded Gigli?!?!
Dude, you just wasted broadband time to the MPAA!!
What about making a political version of GTA?
GTA Capital City D.C.
The factions:
- The Dems: they'll approach you to tax you (lose money)
- The Reps: they'll kill you on-site if they see you steal an expensive car.
- The Greens: they drive electric cars only.
- The Reds: drive Lada and run vodka stores.
- The Krishna: always on foot. Street cannon fodder.
- The Maos: they ride bikes and wear the same shirts.
-... and many more! (The Rastas, The Pacifists, The Moral Minority, etc. etc.)
The missions:
The Reps will ask you to drive over members of all other groups, and once the neighborhood is clean they will call Hall & Burton to run every store there is and charge you extra. You will meet the Reps boss Dub-U (a.k.a Dumb-O) and its two uberlieutenants: Chain-E and Rhum-E. Be careful not to anger them or you will get 8 stars (stealth bombers will appear).
The greens will give you a golf buggy (electric, of course) and ask you to close down all gas stations in town. Once you do that, everyone will be forced to use a golf buggy. The nuclear plant is also on their list, but that is another mission.
Come to Capital City! The people will give you a big smile, a hearty handshake (and while at it, will pick your pocket with their free hand).
Capital City, where you literally eliminate your opposition.
Hey! I always have a good attitude towards everything !
So I think they should have chosen ME... ME I TELL YOU !!! >:(
This... this... gets me on my nerves!!
Control yourself... control... yes!
Whew! I'm back in control! You see how easy it is for me to control my attitude?
I know I should have manned that ship.
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Had I traveled back from the future, I would certainly bet all my money on the stock market or raise a technology company with future knowledge. Gathering resources are essential to any kind of mission they were sent to, or if they have no mission at all, who wouldn't like to live comfortably and rich.
36 sq ft cubicle? LUXURY !!!!
I share an 80 sq ft cubicle with four other people. That's 20 sq ft per worker. I don't need a bat to reach my neighbor, I just need to turn around and extend my arm. In case you are interested, I work in R&D in a Fortune 500 company but in a 3rd world country.
It could be worse, though. I wouldn't like to work in an open space (no walls, no privacy whatsoever) or crammed side to side (as those who work in call centers).
Insightful comment, but maybe by first installing a 'private' (or 'commercial') P2P network these conglomerates feel entitled to push for stronger restrictions on public P2P networks since there should be no need anymore for them (since all legal free download will still be available, but controlled).
Their logic may go like this
1) getting scr**ed by public P2P
2) establish several private P2P
3) go to congress with argument that there is no more need for public P2P
4) public (uncontrolled) P2P becomes illegal
5) profit !!!
There is no need for the ????
If Cuba's helathcare is a failure the let's compare Cuba to the US.
According to the World Health Organization (see http://www.who.int/countries ) the results are:
Life expectancy at birth m/f (years):
Cuba: 76/80
US: 75/80
Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f (years, 2003):
Cuba: 67/70
US: 67/71
Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births):
Cuba: 7
US: 8
Probability of dying between 15 and 60 years m/f (per 1 000 population):
Cuba: 127/82
US: 137/80
Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2005):
Cuba: 333
US: 6,347
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP (2005):
Cuba: 7.6
US: 15.2
Reach your own conclusions.
They should just suck it up, and enjoy the free publicity.
Ah, but isn't Bethesda's response to the ESRB more free publicity?
I think that Bethesda has done right, publicity-wise, by not sucking it up and continuing the fight on the media.
As they fight, everyone else listens.
A similar theory is the also famous 1421 Theory
42... oddly familiar.
Say, does it also involves dolphins and mice?
Coca-Cola in Oblivion? Mmmm... what if an alchemist sends you on a herb gathering quest and when he finally mixes the potion he asks you how you would call it?... guess what could be the only dialog choice?
This is a great short story by George R. R. Martin! It now appears in the compilation called 'A Song for Lya'.
I think its a reasonable request to be able to put an ipod nano in your pocket, unprotected, and expect not to look like crap after a few days of use.
As reasonable as buying a brand new SUV, drive it through a dirt/mud/gravel road and expect it to be clean and scratch free (the way they are shown in TV commercials).
I also bought a 4GB black nano and after a week of intense use there is not one gross visible scratch. There are some very thin scratches though, but they are invisible even when holding the nano at mere inches from my eyes.
And talking about design... mine still works perfectly, as it was designed to. The way I see it, the nano was designed to be a slim portable music player with an extra bit of fashion component. If anyone buys it mainly because it's fashionable, he should be going for something else, like a diamond ring (they are harder to scratch) or other bling-bling.
Wait 'til they hire Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and/or Linus Torvalds...
Was posted yesterday
:)
:)
Excuse me for being a "date Nazi", but July 7 is not yesterday, last week would be more appropiate.
Though I'm with you about considering this story a dupe (at least most comments will be dupes), to be fair, strictly speaking it is not because the previous stories (yes, plural) were about previews and this is a review.
The previous stories about We Love Katamari may be seen here:
Katamari on E3
News of release
and
News of sequel
Seems that the expectation was quite high around here.
Say, is a PC version expected? Or do I have to get over my psychological allergy to consoles?
There is a simple solution to this:
Just bring to court several unknown witness, make them write out their love life, economic life, luck, etc. for last week (while keeping all this info secret). And then ask this astrologer to predict all this info from her undisturbed charts of the previous week.
See if they match. If all of them are accurate she has proven her claim that her predictions worked beforehand, if not case dismissed.
And if she is a well known and successful astrologer, maybe she has previously published yearly predictions, check them out and see if they match up to reality.
"Is it confusing if IE has tabs, but other core parts of the Windows experience, like Windows Media Player or the shell, don't have?"
Big lie.
Couldn't agree more. The "Windows experience" is full of tabs. A couple of quick examples:
- Open the "Internet options" in IE. Two rows of tabs!
- Desktop's (or any file's) "Preferences" (just a right click away).
And don't tell me the average user has never opened any of these options windows. Heck, I know a three year old kid that knew how to change screen resolutions!
Why spend $2200+ on naming a cruiser after yourself (or anyone else)?
:p
Wouldn't it be cheaper to change your own name to some other? I mean, if you want to be remembered for ever or to flaunt your famous name onto others, why not change it to an already existing name?
- "Hi, my name is Majere, Raistlin Majere."
or
"Conan Barbarian and Xena Princess would like to invite you to the baptism of their daughter, Red Sonja Barbarian..."
I can see the follow up of Soviet Russia jokes already...
Duped story is not the word I would use in this case... I'd say it's a rerun.
:-/
Seriously Taco, if duped stories are this common, why is it that redundant posts give you bad Karma? I sn't this a 'Do as I say, not as I do'?
Try NASA's Astronomy picture of the day site and then click on the image to download a high res pic.
Enjoy!
Here is NASA's Astronomy picture of the day site Astronomy picture of the day with the same picture and a brief explanation (with hyperlinks).
Enjoy
And don't forget Telekinesis!
Many people are not aware, but we all use it to some degree everyday! In fact, I'm using it right now to write this message!
For example: when I want to press the "W" key, my mind concentrates on that action, sends an electrical pulse to the muscles in my arms, which in turn make one of my fingers hit that key... and voila! Telekinesis! Moving a key with your mind is easy!
The virtual boyfriend will be available only in vibrating phones.
I know... I'm going to hell. And so is everyone with a smirk on their face. See you there.
I'm not worried about Jar-Jar, his abscence in ep. 4, 5, and 6 may be easily explained: he could have been in Alderaan during the blast.
:-p
What worries me is that Lucas will certainly create a new insufferable character for 7, 8, and 9. Maybe Jar-Jar had a grandson?
I wonder if Lucas will call Mark Hamill, Carrie Fischer, and/or Harrison Ford back?
You do realize that he is ranting?
;-)
Rant:
1: to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
He is talking too excitedly to have time to pause and take a breath.
I downloaded Gigli because the MPAA needed to suck wind on that one for daring to put in the theatres and wasting both MY money and the theatre's money.
You downloaded Gigli?!?!
Dude, you just wasted broadband time to the MPAA!!
What about making a political version of GTA?
... and many more! (The Rastas, The Pacifists, The Moral Minority, etc. etc.)
:-)
GTA Capital City D.C.
The factions:
- The Dems: they'll approach you to tax you (lose money)
- The Reps: they'll kill you on-site if they see you steal an expensive car.
- The Greens: they drive electric cars only.
- The Reds: drive Lada and run vodka stores.
- The Krishna: always on foot. Street cannon fodder.
- The Maos: they ride bikes and wear the same shirts.
-
The missions:
The Reps will ask you to drive over members of all other groups, and once the neighborhood is clean they will call Hall & Burton to run every store there is and charge you extra. You will meet the Reps boss Dub-U (a.k.a Dumb-O) and its two uberlieutenants: Chain-E and Rhum-E. Be careful not to anger them or you will get 8 stars (stealth bombers will appear).
The greens will give you a golf buggy (electric, of course) and ask you to close down all gas stations in town. Once you do that, everyone will be forced to use a golf buggy. The nuclear plant is also on their list, but that is another mission.
Come to Capital City! The people will give you a big smile, a hearty handshake (and while at it, will pick your pocket with their free hand).
Capital City, where you literally eliminate your opposition.
Hey! I always have a good attitude towards everything !
:)
So I think they should have chosen ME... ME I TELL YOU !!! >:(
This... this... gets me on my nerves!!
Control yourself... control... yes!
Whew! I'm back in control! You see how easy it is for me to control my attitude?
I know I should have manned that ship.
She did make a prediction, her answer was:
"The cards show.. snow.. and ice... and, oh my! The Devil!. This only means one thing: when Hell freezes over."