Where do people get their numbers from? The PS2 reached 100 million after 5 years 9 months [PDF Warning] and that is straight from the horses mouth. That averages out to 1.4 million units per month, and as per the article, that is 200,000 units less per month than the Wii is selling.
If the Wii continued at its previous rate (1.6 million units/month) it'd reach 100 million 5 months faster than the PS2.
If we assume Nintendo shipped 1.6M/month up to now, and will continue at 2.4M/month from here on out, then the Wii will hit 100M within 4 years 1 month of its launch (1.6M * 23 months + 2.4M * 26), a whopping 21 months faster than the PS2.
Also, to be clear, I am comparing Apples and Apples here. The link above was for shipments, not units sold, and the story is about shipments, not units sold. However, if the Wii continues at it's unprecedented rate, they will certainly sell 100 million units a lot faster than the PS2.
What does that have anything to do with anything? When you count on your hands and feet you aren't counting with base 10, you're counting in unary. Or do you actually have 10 different and easily recognizably unique positions for each of your fingers?
buying a new phone just doesn't seem like a very wise use of money right now
Darned right it isn't. Look at all the stocks right now that are dirt cheap. Heck almost every major home builders stocks are at bargain basement prices. This is the time to buy, buy, buy, but people are just selling. I love it.
Would you be so kind as to point out why no one should vote for McCain? Seriously, I'd like to know, and I don't even plan on voting for him. However, I'm still not decided, so anything you point out would be helpful.
Unfortunately, what you have done in the above post is not any different than what I would expect from Obama or McCain. That is, nobody is talking about issues, they are talking about emotions. Specifically, can you point out what it is about McCain that makes it stupid to vote for him? Bonus points if you can add rebuttals for why I should vote for whomever it is you think ought to be elected (whether it's Obama or a write-in for yourself).
I do however listen to some of the crap they say, to gauge the bias of the network
No, you're only gauging them on how they differ from your own bias. Taking your example, you could say it was 20-2, they could say it was a draw, but iit could have really been 2-20 (for whatever "really" means"). So you might decide they are liberally/conservatively biased when really they just aren't as liberally/conservatively biased as you are.
Who do you think that these wonderful leaders are? They put their pants on one leg at a time just like you and me.
I so need to become a leader. I've been putting on my pants both legs at the same time just so that I can tell people that I'm not like them. I've also been working on a solution to put on both of my socks at the same time just in case it ever comes up.
I'd say it's true that the lawyers are the real winners here, and sometimes, like in this BlockBuster case, the company that loses the class action suit still wins.
That would be true, if it weren't for the lawyers who won. They still have to give up millions of dollars. I view class-action lawsuits as more of a punishment to the company than as a reward or compensation to the class.
I wonder what would happen if a state decided to secede without military force. If South Carolina seceded again, but instead of putting up a military, they just stopped paying the feds and accepting help and whatever else they'd have to do, then when the US military came in to stop them, they all just sat down and let the military walk by. If the military were to start shooting people who weren't defending themselves, I'm pretty sure that would be a disaster of epic proportions. In that situation, what could the US do to stop a seceding state? I would guess nothing. Maybe they could try to start a rebellion in the state to get the locals wanting to rejoin the rest, but that's about all.
Disclaimer: I'm not saying the above is a good idea, just wondering.
The problem with doping is that if it is allowed, only the wealthy who can afford the drugs would win. It'd be a matter of how much money and access to medical research, and not a matter of training and natural talent.
I think the whole middle of that is rather useless.
The problem with doping is that if it is allowed, It'd be... not a matter of training and natural talent.
a Moon base would be the best place to launch a Mars bound rocket from.
I don't understand this, so hopefully you can help me out. If you go through the effort of putting something into space, why not just send it to Mars? Do we gain anything from slowing it down and landing it on the Moon and then having to overcome the Moon's gravity? If you had a rocket already there, and you had to decide whether to send the rocket already on the Moon or to send a rocket on the Earth, then obviously the Moon is the better choice. But why take a rocket from the Earth just to put it on the Moon in order to send it to Mars?
laying down fertilizer on their lawn, and shipping cut grass to landfills - leaving grass where it is provides the new grass with its own fertilizer.
Kinda, sorta. Mostly leaving cut grass where it is leaves you with a lawn choked with decaying grass. It takes a fairly thick layer to actually compost.
writing that nitrates can be worse than NOx (NO, NO2 and others)
What's wrong with writing the truth? Nitrates are poisonous in quantity, and even below toxic levels can cause algal and bacterial blooms in water and soil - blooms which can and do crowd out other organisms from the ecosystem.
excess nitrates in the environment can destroy wetlands and other bodies of water by causing excess algae growth.
I'm going out on a limb here to talk about something I haven't a clue about, but it appears the problem with nitrates (nitrogen?) causing problems with algae has been debunked.
From the article linked:
That might have been the end of the debate. But over the years, the idea that nitrogen removal is needed to control the chemical buildup that causes algae blooms know as "eutrophication" has persisted.
Schindler's latest series of long-term experiments shows that nitrogen removal completely fails to control blue-green algae blooms. He proved this by manipulating nitrogen and phosphorus levels on Lake 227 for 37 years. Nitrogen control, he found, only encouraged algae blooms.
Granted, that only deals with one of the downsides of nitrates you mention. Admittedly, I don't know enough about it, so maybe nitrates and nitrogen are different and so I'm just talking out of my rear.
So I normally would just pass by, but this statement I disagree with.
It sure doesn't hurt that C# is a vastly more pleasant language to work with than C++ or Java or Python or any of the other "preferred" free software languages.
You might think so. I've done work in all of those languages. I much prefer C++ and python over C#. If I want speed of execution, I will take C/C++. If I want speed of development, I will take Python. I find that both of those are much more pleasant to deal with than C#. Just because you like one language over another, doesn't mean it's a "vastly more pleasant language."
That must suck royally. I've seen TDK twice now. The first time it cost $5.50 on opening day because I saw it before 6:00 pm. The second time it cost $5.00 for a 10:00 pm showing because one the grocery stores around here offers discount passes. I've seen it twice for less than the gp could have, and I could see it 3 more times and still not pay as much as you.
The whole point of patents is to protect inventors from large corporations stealing their ideas.
This is exactly correct. When patent law was first started back in 1474 all those large corporations were just walking all over the little guys and stealing their ideas...
Wait, that doesn't seem right. I seem to remember something about "promot[ing] the Progress of Science" being an important part of patent law in the US, which has nothing to do with giving an advantage to anyone but the inventor, whether an individual or corporation, big or little, rich or poor.
Schindler seemed to solve the problem... in the 1960s and early 1970s.
That might have been the end of the debate. But over the years, the idea that nitrogen removal is needed to control the chemical buildup that causes algae blooms... has persisted.
Schindler's latest series of long-term experiments shows that nitrogen removal completely fails to control blue-green algae blooms.
Nitrogen control, he found, only encouraged algae blooms.
So yes, it was already known that phosphorous causes the problems, and it was known well before you went to high school 8 years ago. In fact, it was known before you were born, and it was discovered by this very scientist. His latest studies are showing however that it is the phosphorous and phosphorous alone that causes it. Nitrogen doesn't cause it or even contribute to the problem like people previously thought. Quite the contrary, nitrogen control worsens the problem.
I'm all for the metric system, but 0 and 100 are just as magic of numbers as are 32 and 212. I realized this one day when looking at a clock. I always like it when I look at a clock and it happens to be right on the hour. I thought, "Wow, what are the odds that I'd look at it right when it's 10:00?" But then I realized that it's the same odds as catching the clock at 10:01. There's nothing inherently special about 10:00 more than 10:01 or 10:02 or 10:17 for that matter.
Back to the point, you still have to memorize the numbers for when water freezes and water boils. Celsius users memorize 0 and 100 respectively, Fahrenheit users memorize 32 and 212, Kelvin users memorize 273 and 373, and Rankine users memorize 491 and 671. 0 and 100 might look cleaner (like 10:00 as opposed to 10:33) but they are still numbers that need to be memorized.
Do you realize that when you count with your fingers and hand your are counting in base 1? 1 digit, no matter it's position on the hand or foot, equals 1. I count on my hands in binary all the time. Finger up is a 1, finger down is a 0. Unlike unary however, which fingers are up or down make a difference. Base 3 could be done on the hand somewhat easily (finger all the way down is 0, partway up is 1, all the way up is 2), and you might be able to do base 4, but after that it'd get really difficult ("wait, is my thumb in the 4 or the 5 position?").
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Well, if you have no walls, you have no need for windows.
Where do people get their numbers from? The PS2 reached 100 million after 5 years 9 months [PDF Warning] and that is straight from the horses mouth. That averages out to 1.4 million units per month, and as per the article, that is 200,000 units less per month than the Wii is selling.
If the Wii continued at its previous rate (1.6 million units/month) it'd reach 100 million 5 months faster than the PS2.
If we assume Nintendo shipped 1.6M/month up to now, and will continue at 2.4M/month from here on out, then the Wii will hit 100M within 4 years 1 month of its launch (1.6M * 23 months + 2.4M * 26), a whopping 21 months faster than the PS2.
Also, to be clear, I am comparing Apples and Apples here. The link above was for shipments, not units sold, and the story is about shipments, not units sold. However, if the Wii continues at it's unprecedented rate, they will certainly sell 100 million units a lot faster than the PS2.
What does that have anything to do with anything? When you count on your hands and feet you aren't counting with base 10, you're counting in unary. Or do you actually have 10 different and easily recognizably unique positions for each of your fingers?
Darned right it isn't. Look at all the stocks right now that are dirt cheap. Heck almost every major home builders stocks are at bargain basement prices. This is the time to buy, buy, buy, but people are just selling. I love it.
Would you be so kind as to point out why no one should vote for McCain? Seriously, I'd like to know, and I don't even plan on voting for him. However, I'm still not decided, so anything you point out would be helpful.
Unfortunately, what you have done in the above post is not any different than what I would expect from Obama or McCain. That is, nobody is talking about issues, they are talking about emotions. Specifically, can you point out what it is about McCain that makes it stupid to vote for him? Bonus points if you can add rebuttals for why I should vote for whomever it is you think ought to be elected (whether it's Obama or a write-in for yourself).
No, you're only gauging them on how they differ from your own bias. Taking your example, you could say it was 20-2, they could say it was a draw, but iit could have really been 2-20 (for whatever "really" means"). So you might decide they are liberally/conservatively biased when really they just aren't as liberally/conservatively biased as you are.
I just work where my parents went to school. Now I go downhill both ways.
I so need to become a leader. I've been putting on my pants both legs at the same time just so that I can tell people that I'm not like them. I've also been working on a solution to put on both of my socks at the same time just in case it ever comes up.
That would be true, if it weren't for the lawyers who won. They still have to give up millions of dollars. I view class-action lawsuits as more of a punishment to the company than as a reward or compensation to the class.
I wonder what would happen if a state decided to secede without military force. If South Carolina seceded again, but instead of putting up a military, they just stopped paying the feds and accepting help and whatever else they'd have to do, then when the US military came in to stop them, they all just sat down and let the military walk by. If the military were to start shooting people who weren't defending themselves, I'm pretty sure that would be a disaster of epic proportions. In that situation, what could the US do to stop a seceding state? I would guess nothing. Maybe they could try to start a rebellion in the state to get the locals wanting to rejoin the rest, but that's about all.
Disclaimer: I'm not saying the above is a good idea, just wondering.
I think the whole middle of that is rather useless.
I swear, if Google Street View is available for Mars before Seattle, I will preempt Steve Ballmer and go and kill Google myself.
/throws chair
I don't understand this, so hopefully you can help me out. If you go through the effort of putting something into space, why not just send it to Mars? Do we gain anything from slowing it down and landing it on the Moon and then having to overcome the Moon's gravity? If you had a rocket already there, and you had to decide whether to send the rocket already on the Moon or to send a rocket on the Earth, then obviously the Moon is the better choice. But why take a rocket from the Earth just to put it on the Moon in order to send it to Mars?
Are you suggesting that sound is part of the electromagnetic spectrum?
No, you really do want to leave it there. According to that link, leaving your grass clippings there actually helps to decompose thatch. I read in the Scott's lawn care book that mulching doesn't contribute to thatch and is recommended.
No, nitrates have nothing to do with algal blooms
I'm going out on a limb here to talk about something I haven't a clue about, but it appears the problem with nitrates (nitrogen?) causing problems with algae has been debunked.
From the article linked:
Granted, that only deals with one of the downsides of nitrates you mention. Admittedly, I don't know enough about it, so maybe nitrates and nitrogen are different and so I'm just talking out of my rear.
I found you.
You might think so. I've done work in all of those languages. I much prefer C++ and python over C#. If I want speed of execution, I will take C/C++. If I want speed of development, I will take Python. I find that both of those are much more pleasant to deal with than C#. Just because you like one language over another, doesn't mean it's a "vastly more pleasant language."
That must suck royally. I've seen TDK twice now. The first time it cost $5.50 on opening day because I saw it before 6:00 pm. The second time it cost $5.00 for a 10:00 pm showing because one the grocery stores around here offers discount passes. I've seen it twice for less than the gp could have, and I could see it 3 more times and still not pay as much as you.
This is exactly correct. When patent law was first started back in 1474 all those large corporations were just walking all over the little guys and stealing their ideas...
Wait, that doesn't seem right. I seem to remember something about "promot[ing] the Progress of Science" being an important part of patent law in the US, which has nothing to do with giving an advantage to anyone but the inventor, whether an individual or corporation, big or little, rich or poor.
So yes, it was already known that phosphorous causes the problems, and it was known well before you went to high school 8 years ago. In fact, it was known before you were born, and it was discovered by this very scientist. His latest studies are showing however that it is the phosphorous and phosphorous alone that causes it. Nitrogen doesn't cause it or even contribute to the problem like people previously thought. Quite the contrary, nitrogen control worsens the problem.
Did he? I thought Batman wanted to save Rachel but the Joker swapped the locations.
I'm all for the metric system, but 0 and 100 are just as magic of numbers as are 32 and 212. I realized this one day when looking at a clock. I always like it when I look at a clock and it happens to be right on the hour. I thought, "Wow, what are the odds that I'd look at it right when it's 10:00?" But then I realized that it's the same odds as catching the clock at 10:01. There's nothing inherently special about 10:00 more than 10:01 or 10:02 or 10:17 for that matter.
Back to the point, you still have to memorize the numbers for when water freezes and water boils. Celsius users memorize 0 and 100 respectively, Fahrenheit users memorize 32 and 212, Kelvin users memorize 273 and 373, and Rankine users memorize 491 and 671. 0 and 100 might look cleaner (like 10:00 as opposed to 10:33) but they are still numbers that need to be memorized.
Do you realize that when you count with your fingers and hand your are counting in base 1? 1 digit, no matter it's position on the hand or foot, equals 1. I count on my hands in binary all the time. Finger up is a 1, finger down is a 0. Unlike unary however, which fingers are up or down make a difference. Base 3 could be done on the hand somewhat easily (finger all the way down is 0, partway up is 1, all the way up is 2), and you might be able to do base 4, but after that it'd get really difficult ("wait, is my thumb in the 4 or the 5 position?").
Hey! Why'd you throw it out, man? That was my kimchi.