You could just explain the error... Its volts, not MegaVolts.
And such a low voltage is hard to expect in a system with that much charge (Someone want to find how much, in Coulombs? =P), so its not very likely to have been 1.21 Gigawatts.
First of all, the summary doesn't explain anything about what this thing actually does, just that it involves stressful situations.
Even reading the article doesn't make it very clear, but it turns out that this is merely a system for getting information from one person to another more quickly. How this is a headline I do not know.
I think some of your confusion may lie in that Ounces can both describe a volume and a weight. Some people have been careless in specifying whether they meant a Fluid Ounce or just a plain Ounce. Ounce is the measure of weight, Fluid Ounce is volume. 16 Fl. Oz. is 473 mL. 16 Oz. is a pound (lb) which you could convert to kilos at your leisure.
But as an addendum, there are way more than 32. I counted up to 30 and got about a third of the way down my services list. 10 are not microsoft, meaning that something like 80 are! 4 dozen was a safe estimate... Goodness I've got to disable some of these!
An IE user? Well, the reason it doesn't work is because IE doesn't feel like complying with standardized web design. So go get yourself a browser that does, like Firefox (unless you want to pay for Opera, or tolerate ads, in which case, go for it.)
I think a major point that you didn't mention (even though all the points you make are very valid) is that of teaching to a standard. Want to learn about Subject X? Too bad, its not on the State Standardized test that you need to pass to graduate, so you don't get to learn it.
I live in Massachusetts. When I was in elementary school they introduced something called the MCAS, which was Massachusetts' new system for testing students. Up until then they'd been using the California Test of Basic Skills as a measurement of how students were doing. But when MCAS was introduced, it was introduced by the state, so it became a graduation requirement. This meant that in elementary and middle school, the majority of subject material was reworked so that students would supposedly do better on this test. This is before Bush's "No Child Left Behind." High school up until that point was not as affected, because of its more diverse and personalized course selections, but by this point English and Math classes take at least 2 weeks out of the curriculum to review, regardless of course level (honestly, the honors students really don't need it.) and soon the system is introducing tests for other subjects, meaning that those classes are going to lose class time as well. On another note, the math curriculum is terrible anyway.
I like your explanation of the reasons for patents and copyrights and the issues with the current system. However, I do not think the "piracy apologetics" would agree with your suggestion to fix it. It seemed to me that basically you urged stronger and mandatory resrictions for five years, then the standard system for even longer than it is today. Pirates and casual downloaders aren't going to agree with your solution, because it leans farther towards restriction than release.
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It also has to do with the data density on the DiamondMaxes. Bigger drives always have better throughput. Seek time is probably worse on them though, since they spin slower too.
Really? When I use 3200x1200 I still wind up with plenty of overlapping windows. Say, one web browser window (800x600), Instant Messenger (300ish pixels on the right, plus a medium sized box for the messages (this is a tabbed box, imagine without tabs, then I'd definitely have a lot of overlap)), one folder (640x480 through 1024x768 depending on pictures or files), and then if I'm doing something productive, another program (which is almost always greater than 1024x768). It may not take all the screen space, but there's definitely a good deal of overlap.
What I'd really like to see is this sort of thing working without needing to drag something around. I want to press one of my mouse buttons (like the Forward button that I never use) and be able to roll back windows so I can see my desktop icons. Then maybe double-click it to make them return to normal.
As a Windows user: Expose is much more useful than the taskbar, but neither solves the problem that the method in question tackles, unless Expose will let you keep whatever you're dragging around attached to the cursor. Will it?
About the "hidden sex scenes" specifically. How can we be expected to make an informed decision without having observed anything ourselves?
Actually I'm serious about this (surprised there isn't anyone else being casual about it though). It seems like it could still possibly be a sex scene not much worse you'd see in James Bond or something, which gets PG-13s.
Seriously though, would you rather have your kid growing up knowing how to satisfy his or her instincts by having sex, or by hurting people? Games with huge amounts of violence will get T ratings... Ever seen Microsoft's title Dungeon Siege? It had gibs for crying out loud (chunks of bloody flesh)! Thats a different topic though, Big Business abuse of the system...
Personally, I think children should be mature enough to see breasts when they're less than a month old. Its often their primary source of nutrition, after all.
If they were mature enough to handle it then, why aren't they mature enough to handle it as a teenager? And honestly, everyone has breasts. Some are larger than others...
Zombies die quicker with shots to the head than shots to the body, at least with the pistol. It takes two or three shots to the head, as opposed to the correctly mentioned six body shots. And this is on the Normal difficulty. But honestly, if you're going to dis DOOM3, don't rattle on something that actually exists! If I recall correctly, it has per-pixel hit detection too.
Football games will NEVER be "pick-up-and-play." The first time I played a football game, I thought, what the hell are these colored lines on these little mini-reperesentations of the field? Bother even explaining it? No. They just assume you already have prior knowledge. Its worse than a game that has a 15 minute tutorial, because it doesn't even offer a way to figure it out, other than trying things over and over until you understand it.
What the rest of the world calls football, THAT makes a pretty easy game to pick up. Stick moves player, A kicks, B shoots, C steals the ball, with another button perhaps to avoid being slide tackled.
NOTE: This is coming from an American with little interest in sports.
With consoles, it doesnt matter. having a different format is in sony's favor (in their opinion at least) because it makes piracy nearly impossible. Also they want people to have to upgrade. Thats how they make money!
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You could just explain the error... Its volts, not MegaVolts. And such a low voltage is hard to expect in a system with that much charge (Someone want to find how much, in Coulombs? =P), so its not very likely to have been 1.21 Gigawatts.
First of all, the summary doesn't explain anything about what this thing actually does, just that it involves stressful situations.
Even reading the article doesn't make it very clear, but it turns out that this is merely a system for getting information from one person to another more quickly. How this is a headline I do not know.
Actually, if they did their site correctly, it would work in everything but IE.
I think some of your confusion may lie in that Ounces can both describe a volume and a weight. Some people have been careless in specifying whether they meant a Fluid Ounce or just a plain Ounce. Ounce is the measure of weight, Fluid Ounce is volume. 16 Fl. Oz. is 473 mL. 16 Oz. is a pound (lb) which you could convert to kilos at your leisure.
But as an addendum, there are way more than 32. I counted up to 30 and got about a third of the way down my services list. 10 are not microsoft, meaning that something like 80 are! 4 dozen was a safe estimate... Goodness I've got to disable some of these!
Standard marketing speech. 32 is almost three dozen, and three is almost four.
An IE user? Well, the reason it doesn't work is because IE doesn't feel like complying with standardized web design. So go get yourself a browser that does, like Firefox (unless you want to pay for Opera, or tolerate ads, in which case, go for it.)
I think a major point that you didn't mention (even though all the points you make are very valid) is that of teaching to a standard. Want to learn about Subject X? Too bad, its not on the State Standardized test that you need to pass to graduate, so you don't get to learn it.
I live in Massachusetts. When I was in elementary school they introduced something called the MCAS, which was Massachusetts' new system for testing students. Up until then they'd been using the California Test of Basic Skills as a measurement of how students were doing. But when MCAS was introduced, it was introduced by the state, so it became a graduation requirement. This meant that in elementary and middle school, the majority of subject material was reworked so that students would supposedly do better on this test. This is before Bush's "No Child Left Behind." High school up until that point was not as affected, because of its more diverse and personalized course selections, but by this point English and Math classes take at least 2 weeks out of the curriculum to review, regardless of course level (honestly, the honors students really don't need it.) and soon the system is introducing tests for other subjects, meaning that those classes are going to lose class time as well. On another note, the math curriculum is terrible anyway.
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Try covering it in tinfoil (seriously.)
I think you hit a profitable niche right in your own sentence:
we really need to flesh out some new ideas and maybe independent developers have a better edge at this?
Thats exactly what I was thinking, but nobody else seemed to have mentioned it!
I like your explanation of the reasons for patents and copyrights and the issues with the current system. However, I do not think the "piracy apologetics" would agree with your suggestion to fix it. It seemed to me that basically you urged stronger and mandatory resrictions for five years, then the standard system for even longer than it is today. Pirates and casual downloaders aren't going to agree with your solution, because it leans farther towards restriction than release.
It also has to do with the data density on the DiamondMaxes. Bigger drives always have better throughput. Seek time is probably worse on them though, since they spin slower too.
Except sometimes it works backwards. When a consumer sees a low price, he's more likely to think the product is low-quality.
I'm still amazed you got your UID to match your handle.
Really? When I use 3200x1200 I still wind up with plenty of overlapping windows. Say, one web browser window (800x600), Instant Messenger (300ish pixels on the right, plus a medium sized box for the messages (this is a tabbed box, imagine without tabs, then I'd definitely have a lot of overlap)), one folder (640x480 through 1024x768 depending on pictures or files), and then if I'm doing something productive, another program (which is almost always greater than 1024x768). It may not take all the screen space, but there's definitely a good deal of overlap.
What I'd really like to see is this sort of thing working without needing to drag something around. I want to press one of my mouse buttons (like the Forward button that I never use) and be able to roll back windows so I can see my desktop icons. Then maybe double-click it to make them return to normal.
As a Windows user: Expose is much more useful than the taskbar, but neither solves the problem that the method in question tackles, unless Expose will let you keep whatever you're dragging around attached to the cursor. Will it?
About the "hidden sex scenes" specifically. How can we be expected to make an informed decision without having observed anything ourselves?
Actually I'm serious about this (surprised there isn't anyone else being casual about it though). It seems like it could still possibly be a sex scene not much worse you'd see in James Bond or something, which gets PG-13s.
Seriously though, would you rather have your kid growing up knowing how to satisfy his or her instincts by having sex, or by hurting people? Games with huge amounts of violence will get T ratings... Ever seen Microsoft's title Dungeon Siege? It had gibs for crying out loud (chunks of bloody flesh)! Thats a different topic though, Big Business abuse of the system...
Personally, I think children should be mature enough to see breasts when they're less than a month old. Its often their primary source of nutrition, after all. If they were mature enough to handle it then, why aren't they mature enough to handle it as a teenager? And honestly, everyone has breasts. Some are larger than others...
It is most likely you would need to use USB for that... and other than a quite significant lag I would expect it to work.
Zombies die quicker with shots to the head than shots to the body, at least with the pistol. It takes two or three shots to the head, as opposed to the correctly mentioned six body shots. And this is on the Normal difficulty. But honestly, if you're going to dis DOOM3, don't rattle on something that actually exists! If I recall correctly, it has per-pixel hit detection too.
I think the proper phrasing of that last bit would be, "Ah, yes, but can it run Linux?" followed by something like "Wait... Damn!"
Football games will NEVER be "pick-up-and-play." The first time I played a football game, I thought, what the hell are these colored lines on these little mini-reperesentations of the field? Bother even explaining it? No. They just assume you already have prior knowledge. Its worse than a game that has a 15 minute tutorial, because it doesn't even offer a way to figure it out, other than trying things over and over until you understand it.
What the rest of the world calls football, THAT makes a pretty easy game to pick up. Stick moves player, A kicks, B shoots, C steals the ball, with another button perhaps to avoid being slide tackled.
NOTE: This is coming from an American with little interest in sports.
With consoles, it doesnt matter. having a different format is in sony's favor (in their opinion at least) because it makes piracy nearly impossible. Also they want people to have to upgrade. Thats how they make money!