Some people put on weight when their mobility is reduced (like after having knee surgery). It would have been nice if he stayed as thin as he was in the first season of buffy (because he looked really, really good) but I can't lay the blame at the feet of Boreanz or thought they should stop filming because of it.
I agree that they would have needed at least one more female main character (if they had another season) since it was down to Illyria and the boy's club. It was pretty shocking to see it cancelled since season five was so strong. It is probably my most favored out of all the Angel seasons.
Schools should take a pro-active role in physical exercise (and other areas like sex education) because parents sometimes do a really poor job raising children. Children should not have to suffer due to lack of exposure to certain health issues.
Futuremark wants (but is implied due to lack of clarification) the processor to be a 2.5Ghz processor if it is 32-bit. For those that are running 64-bit the speed in Ghz would probably be a bit lower.
There is a debate over the reliability of wikipedia applies to the reliability of information in general. Everyone reading these posts knows how wikipedia receives information but how many know how paper encyclopedias receive information and verify it? Who are we trusting over the information and is there truly accountability? One of brittanica's researchers is having an off-day or creates a typo, what are the implications? When a print encyclopedia gets information wrong do they offer to buy back all the copies that were purchased?
There is an innate trust of printed material, especially material given to us as children. There are no "This article's information is in debate" messages in print encyclopedias. Wikipedia is unsecure, but print encyclopedias are unsecure as well.
There is no great one truth encapsulated in print encyclopedias. The varied perception of truth are, currently, best represented by Wikipedia's system.
The assumption when I read the title is that the article will be the standard list of issues why video games, in excess, are actually bad for you: Lack of exercise, less socializing with peers, eye-strain.
Instead we are treated to sanctimonious FUD, attempting to scare parents.
The article presumes that my children are some sort of zombie-like sponges of inappropriate material, absorbing every indecency they observe. This tunnel vision moralizing fails to address that children have to possess a well-developed sense of reality taught to them by adults. There are many horrible, shocking, and misleading things in life. You teach your child to analyze and understand where fantasy ends and reality begins. That way a child can differentiate between a violent videogame, which is entertainment, and real horrors, like war, that is anything but.
How was raising kids to play hunt the indian, kill the communist, and shoot the robber any better? I did not see the great moral outcry against such activity written across the pages of history. The fact is, the video game industry, like all entertainment industries, makes a great target for those power-hungry, attention-seeking blowhards of our day. And there is always a steady supply of people that are looking for something to blame rather than take responsibility to proactively encourage discerning thought.
The part of New England I reside in only has large chain stores that sell video games. How many people have locally owned stores (ie not Gamestop, Best Buy, Walmart, etc.) in their area?
How many people out there were actually expecting pricing of our current gen games to not drop? In Japan, where production for older (Neogeo)and even defunct systems (Dreamcast) continued through several console generations, this might be news. Here in the states anyone who would pay $50.00 for an N64 game, Genesis, or Nintendo would be declared non copus mentus. Doesn't matter how well-crafted the game, the US console market is unforgiving of older tech.
This keyboard looks nice but I would buy the first keyboard that allows you to deactivate the caps lock, num lock, and scroll lock using a toggle that is not located next to buttons I use all the time. I have never seen a keyboard with this option but perhaps another magnanimous geek has.
Anti-counterfeit ink? The fact is ink on real money will smear on itself and will smudge on white paper. If a new looking bill does not smudge it is counterfeit! Take a new looking bill out, test it. I guarantee it will leave faint green marks on white paper.
Oh, and money from the federal reserve comes sequentially numbered.
I work in a bank and much to my surprise new US currency does smear, quite easily in fact. If you take a white piece of paper and rub a newly minted bill it will leave a green smudge. The bills will also smudge when you rub them together. They lose this quality over time as more of the ink rubs off.
Money from the federal reserve has sequential numbers so he probably had new bills.
Kind of sad that it had to go all the way to the secret service (who's original jurisdiction was just currency) because anybody with a decent knowledge of the way money is printed could have cleared the guy.
In terms of the abscense of a religion becoming a religion I must disagree. Religion is a belief system and by that I mean you have to take certain things on faith.
Science is not a belief system, it is a proveable system.
When science says something is proveable it is proveable in a controlled system 100% of the time. That is the point of all those high school science classes, you play with acid and it will always act like acid, never a base.
The fuzzier part is where people tend to believe science is like religion is the theoretical part of science.
Faith is belief without any proveable system or empirical evidence. Religion has the constant problem of not being backed up by proof (or the strength of not being backed up by proof, however you want to look at it). Religion generally relies of personal belief and ancient religious texts.
Theories by their very definition imply that the truth is not known. Sets of hypotheses back up a theory. You use what you know to extrapolate what could be. Then you test, and test, and test. Science does not abrogate the existence of deities but given what we can prove there is no evidence of their existence.
The reason why we teach children the scientific theory over religious doctrine is that religion can not be proven by any sort of repeatable test and it is generally backed up by oral history, religious texts, and other cultural hold-overs while science can up with all sorts of other evidence that makes theory the most probable idea.
The special effects group that does all the ships, space battles, etc. with the simulated shaky cam on BG first worked on the special effects in Firefly (extremely well-done show done in by Fox execs) for which they won an emmy.
The reason why most computers are so vulnerable is because of widespread similarity. Evolution does not favor the species that has no variation. Rather the more variation a species has the less likely it will be affected by viruses and other environmental effects.
Seems like the more OS's and dissimilarities in people's systems the less often we would be dealing with widespread virus outbreaks.
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Some people put on weight when their mobility is reduced (like after having knee surgery). It would have been nice if he stayed as thin as he was in the first season of buffy (because he looked really, really good) but I can't lay the blame at the feet of Boreanz or thought they should stop filming because of it.
I agree that they would have needed at least one more female main character (if they had another season) since it was down to Illyria and the boy's club. It was pretty shocking to see it cancelled since season five was so strong. It is probably my most favored out of all the Angel seasons.
Schools should take a pro-active role in physical exercise (and other areas like sex education) because parents sometimes do a really poor job raising children. Children should not have to suffer due to lack of exposure to certain health issues.
Why was the parent rated (Score:5, Funny)?
It's a good point, what else are these kids going to do once they graduate?
Futuremark wants (but is implied due to lack of clarification) the processor to be a 2.5Ghz processor if it is 32-bit. For those that are running 64-bit the speed in Ghz would probably be a bit lower.
There is a debate over the reliability of wikipedia applies to the reliability of information in general. Everyone reading these posts knows how wikipedia receives information but how many know how paper encyclopedias receive information and verify it? Who are we trusting over the information and is there truly accountability? One of brittanica's researchers is having an off-day or creates a typo, what are the implications? When a print encyclopedia gets information wrong do they offer to buy back all the copies that were purchased?
There is an innate trust of printed material, especially material given to us as children. There are no "This article's information is in debate" messages in print encyclopedias. Wikipedia is unsecure, but print encyclopedias are unsecure as well.
There is no great one truth encapsulated in print encyclopedias. The varied perception of truth are, currently, best represented by Wikipedia's system.
The assumption when I read the title is that the article will be the standard list of issues why video games, in excess, are actually bad for you: Lack of exercise, less socializing with peers, eye-strain.
Instead we are treated to sanctimonious FUD, attempting to scare parents.
The article presumes that my children are some sort of zombie-like sponges of inappropriate material, absorbing every indecency they observe. This tunnel vision moralizing fails to address that children have to possess a well-developed sense of reality taught to them by adults. There are many horrible, shocking, and misleading things in life. You teach your child to analyze and understand where fantasy ends and reality begins. That way a child can differentiate between a violent videogame, which is entertainment, and real horrors, like war, that is anything but.
How was raising kids to play hunt the indian, kill the communist, and shoot the robber any better? I did not see the great moral outcry against such activity written across the pages of history. The fact is, the video game industry, like all entertainment industries, makes a great target for those power-hungry, attention-seeking blowhards of our day. And there is always a steady supply of people that are looking for something to blame rather than take responsibility to proactively encourage discerning thought.
Why would they have to protect a game that no one plays?
Dictator? She told me she was an african princess! I feel so used...
The part of New England I reside in only has large chain stores that sell video games. How many people have locally owned stores (ie not Gamestop, Best Buy, Walmart, etc.) in their area?
How many people out there were actually expecting pricing of our current gen games to not drop? In Japan, where production for older (Neogeo)and even defunct systems (Dreamcast) continued through several console generations, this might be news. Here in the states anyone who would pay $50.00 for an N64 game, Genesis, or Nintendo would be declared non copus mentus. Doesn't matter how well-crafted the game, the US console market is unforgiving of older tech.
The bandwidth required to let millions download your ~2gig install file has an inate cost.
Though I admit giving away CD's would be pretty cheap. Available in self-promoting game magazine of your choice!
This keyboard looks nice but I would buy the first keyboard that allows you to deactivate the caps lock, num lock, and scroll lock using a toggle that is not located next to buttons I use all the time. I have never seen a keyboard with this option but perhaps another magnanimous geek has.
Anti-counterfeit ink? The fact is ink on real money will smear on itself and will smudge on white paper. If a new looking bill does not smudge it is counterfeit! Take a new looking bill out, test it. I guarantee it will leave faint green marks on white paper.
Oh, and money from the federal reserve comes sequentially numbered.
I work in a bank and much to my surprise new US currency does smear, quite easily in fact. If you take a white piece of paper and rub a newly minted bill it will leave a green smudge. The bills will also smudge when you rub them together. They lose this quality over time as more of the ink rubs off.
Money from the federal reserve has sequential numbers so he probably had new bills.
Kind of sad that it had to go all the way to the secret service (who's original jurisdiction was just currency) because anybody with a decent knowledge of the way money is printed could have cleared the guy.
Well the pope is refusing to go to the hospital today. Isn't that just Doctor Un-assisted suicide?
In terms of the abscense of a religion becoming a religion I must disagree. Religion is a belief system and by that I mean you have to take certain things on faith. Science is not a belief system, it is a proveable system. When science says something is proveable it is proveable in a controlled system 100% of the time. That is the point of all those high school science classes, you play with acid and it will always act like acid, never a base. The fuzzier part is where people tend to believe science is like religion is the theoretical part of science. Faith is belief without any proveable system or empirical evidence. Religion has the constant problem of not being backed up by proof (or the strength of not being backed up by proof, however you want to look at it). Religion generally relies of personal belief and ancient religious texts. Theories by their very definition imply that the truth is not known. Sets of hypotheses back up a theory. You use what you know to extrapolate what could be. Then you test, and test, and test. Science does not abrogate the existence of deities but given what we can prove there is no evidence of their existence. The reason why we teach children the scientific theory over religious doctrine is that religion can not be proven by any sort of repeatable test and it is generally backed up by oral history, religious texts, and other cultural hold-overs while science can up with all sorts of other evidence that makes theory the most probable idea.
I didn't know that the MPAA was giving out a Desktop Search Tool so I could index all my video files!
I don't know about finding "illegal files" on my computer but sounds like **AA is providing me another desktop search tool!
The special effects group that does all the ships, space battles, etc. with the simulated shaky cam on BG first worked on the special effects in Firefly (extremely well-done show done in by Fox execs) for which they won an emmy.
The reason why most computers are so vulnerable is because of widespread similarity. Evolution does not favor the species that has no variation. Rather the more variation a species has the less likely it will be affected by viruses and other environmental effects. Seems like the more OS's and dissimilarities in people's systems the less often we would be dealing with widespread virus outbreaks.