Just as it is untrue that the US used printers (small 68000 series computers) to disrupt the Iraqi networks and sniff traffic, and they are not diverting telephone cable Net traffic at the main connection sites in San Francisco and other locations.
And, I never was in the shack at Yakima, and we never listened to your long-distance phone calls and made fun of you going kissy-kissy with your wife overseas.
Really.
Pay no attention to the curtain, nothing is behind it. Really. And get that dog away from it!
Sometimes it's due to some guild members joining a guild early on, specifically to loot it, and then/gkick out members after they loot it, out of some twisted desire to create problems and be a jerk.
Sometimes it's because the guild leader - who usually is someone who invests a large fraction of time making sure it runs smoothly, and probably bankrolls many important events (guild tabard, guild bank vault, special items), getting sick of all the time demands.
Sometimes it's because recent guild members seem to think it's fun to spam guild chat with useless comments and childish sex talk.
Sometimes key officers who were part of the glue that kept it together no longer think the guild serves their purposes.
Sometimes large groups (usually calling themselves Army of....) become too unwieldy, or guild members start feeling they are operated unfairly.
I said: "Not everyone is like you, or has the evolutionary pressures operating on them that you do. Humans have adapted to many different regions and are impacted differently depending on where they live."
And then u asked: How well aquainted are you with the facts? Have you ever lived in Africa etc, or is this just TV knowledge?
I have lived in a few countries, traveled to Africa, Europe, Central America, Australia/NJ/Fiji, have friends living in about 40 countries, and speak more than four languages. Plus, I work in Medical Genetics at one of the world's topped rank global universities, and we come from all around the world. I'm more than acquainted with the facts. I've even been to a few rural sheep farming areas (guess how many sheep there are per person in NZ, and how many of those live on the South island while most people live on the North island...)
I'm talking about genetics. And science. Not what an untrained person might think, who doesn't realize the difference between one individual human to another individual is greater than the difference between one "race" and another "race".
Life is far more complex than it appears on the surface.
And the supression of diseases has, in fact, led to the alteration in risk profiles thus creating more diseases. Our infectious loads nowadays in first world nations are much lower than they've been for a long time, and the parasitic loads are a lot smaller, but not all of this impacts all humans worldwide. As friends of mine in Africa setting up TB research clinics and Malarial research clinics could attest to.
Natural selection tries to weed out a huge % of the population, but medical science overrides it.
Nature determines that weak and premature infants should die, yet they are kept alive and become adults. Nature determines that some adults should not be breeding, yet fertility drugs override this. Nature determines that various people should die by heart failure etc, but drugs keep them alive.
Not necessarily. You have to realize that most people in the world do not have as many medical resources available to them. Most people in the world have very low standards of medical care, and are in fact largely adapting to infectious diseases - just look at Asia, India, and Africa and how HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis and other such diseases affect the life and death of far more people than even LIVE in the industrialized nations.
Not everyone is like you, or has the evolutionary pressures operating on them that you do. Humans have adapted to many different regions and are impacted differently depending on where they live.
Well, a friend of mine, a Japanese scientist here at the UW, she did make a glow in the dark worm, with a biochemical switch that was fairly easy to activate, so having a glow in the dark goldfish night light isn't that difficult.
You just have to manipulate the embryo with a tag bioluminescent marker.
Sony is a content provider - movies, music, games - in addition to TVs and electronics.
And since the Wii is not using an HDTV display, it's not like they couldn't just realize the market for a game that plays on both the PS3 (with premium content) and on the Wii (lower res) would have greater sales, and still shut out MSFT's xBox360...
Sometimes you have to wake up and smell the failure of the console wars, and realize you need to stay relevant.
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As the multiple postings in the article said, this was more due to Nintendo not cranking out as many games, not that the games weren't good.
And some of that was the focus on Addictive Games, as they mentioned.
As Stephen himself points out in the last posting
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They were shortchanging the Wii in favor of the other consoles, while obsessing over their latest free web download for the PC.
Sure, they included Mario Galaxy, but they didn't spend much time talking about it.
And while I appreciated a different take on BioShock, I still feel like they just don't get how casual gaming has totally changed the market and the value system.
In the original version, where Deckard is NOT a replicant, his actions imply that humans and replicants are of the same moral plane - or that replicants may in fact be more moral, and that Deckard is saved by reaching grace thru his actions with replicants - communing literally with angels and devils and choosing the side of angels.
But in this new version, the implication is that Deckard is a replicant, thus no salvation occurs, as this is all programming, and the highest plateau Deckard can reach is that of humanity.
A much darker image and implying that he is sub-human. And thus a slave, unworthy of his betters, humans.
That said, I'm all for our soldiers experiencing concussion damage versus being dismembered. And in contradiction to what I just said, there are plenty of visibly maimed soldiers returning from this war to remind us that it was in fact real.;_;
I agree. I see them every week or two when I'm at the VA hospital. And, as a former soldier, I probably know more of them than most people do - a few of my friends are partially disabled from Iraq or Afghanistan service.
It's an improvement. But it does not reduce all the impacts.
Biology involves chemicals and reactions. Computer programs involve 1's and 0's. Biological systems are much more complex than computer programs. Just because something works in a computer simulation, doesn't mean it works in the real world./i.
Also, because biological and biochemical systems are changing states at a rapid pace, and are affected by the act of measurement, they are much more difficult to model. Just think of the impacts of protein folding and how DNA, RNA, siRNA, miRNA, and other mechanisms work within your biochemical brain.
Are there 100 cells if the cell is in the process of meiosis - what about when it is virally impacted?
And the biochemical pathways have redundancies and feedback mechanisms that adapt to changing circumstances, too.
Look, I used to be a combat field engineer myself. I've probably been exposed to a lot of blasts to a level where I'm myself at risk from Parkinson's disease... but I was trying to say that while this may help, it does not reduce all risks from explosion, especially the concussive wave and other impacts (e.g. most people don't remember to open their mouths during explosions and have higher damage as a result).
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And you know that this is really Bill G's present to his wife, so that we'll all forget what a turkey Bob was ...
Just as it is untrue that the US used printers (small 68000 series computers) to disrupt the Iraqi networks and sniff traffic, and they are not diverting telephone cable Net traffic at the main connection sites in San Francisco and other locations.
And, I never was in the shack at Yakima, and we never listened to your long-distance phone calls and made fun of you going kissy-kissy with your wife overseas.
Really.
Pay no attention to the curtain, nothing is behind it. Really. And get that dog away from it!
Sometimes it's due to some guild members joining a guild early on, specifically to loot it, and then /gkick out members after they loot it, out of some twisted desire to create problems and be a jerk.
....) become too unwieldy, or guild members start feeling they are operated unfairly.
Sometimes it's because the guild leader - who usually is someone who invests a large fraction of time making sure it runs smoothly, and probably bankrolls many important events (guild tabard, guild bank vault, special items), getting sick of all the time demands.
Sometimes it's because recent guild members seem to think it's fun to spam guild chat with useless comments and childish sex talk.
Sometimes key officers who were part of the glue that kept it together no longer think the guild serves their purposes.
Sometimes large groups (usually calling themselves Army of
All these things are risks.
I said: "Not everyone is like you, or has the evolutionary pressures operating on them that you do. Humans have adapted to many different regions and are impacted differently depending on where they live."
...)
And then u asked: How well aquainted are you with the facts? Have you ever lived in Africa etc, or is this just TV knowledge?
I have lived in a few countries, traveled to Africa, Europe, Central America, Australia/NJ/Fiji, have friends living in about 40 countries, and speak more than four languages. Plus, I work in Medical Genetics at one of the world's topped rank global universities, and we come from all around the world. I'm more than acquainted with the facts. I've even been to a few rural sheep farming areas (guess how many sheep there are per person in NZ, and how many of those live on the South island while most people live on the North island
I'm talking about genetics. And science. Not what an untrained person might think, who doesn't realize the difference between one individual human to another individual is greater than the difference between one "race" and another "race".
Life is far more complex than it appears on the surface.
And the supression of diseases has, in fact, led to the alteration in risk profiles thus creating more diseases. Our infectious loads nowadays in first world nations are much lower than they've been for a long time, and the parasitic loads are a lot smaller, but not all of this impacts all humans worldwide. As friends of mine in Africa setting up TB research clinics and Malarial research clinics could attest to.
Natural selection tries to weed out a huge % of the population, but medical science overrides it.
Nature determines that weak and premature infants should die, yet they are kept alive and become adults. Nature determines that some adults should not be breeding, yet fertility drugs override this. Nature determines that various people should die by heart failure etc, but drugs keep them alive.
Not necessarily. You have to realize that most people in the world do not have as many medical resources available to them. Most people in the world have very low standards of medical care, and are in fact largely adapting to infectious diseases - just look at Asia, India, and Africa and how HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis and other such diseases affect the life and death of far more people than even LIVE in the industrialized nations.
Not everyone is like you, or has the evolutionary pressures operating on them that you do. Humans have adapted to many different regions and are impacted differently depending on where they live.
hot asian and hispanic chicks around.
Oh.
Wait.
Never mind.
Yay, evolution!
And as soon as I can get my Win Vista quadcore PC to boot, I'll tell you more ...
If we put it in a box and dont look...will it still glow?
Only if it wants to.
It's a cat.
Not a dog.
Well, a friend of mine, a Japanese scientist here at the UW, she did make a glow in the dark worm, with a biochemical switch that was fairly easy to activate, so having a glow in the dark goldfish night light isn't that difficult.
You just have to manipulate the embryo with a tag bioluminescent marker.
I can see a definite market for them.
If they survived the landing, all the team members would probably be separated by a country mile.
The military doesn't use miles. We use kilometers.
Get your terminology right.
And it depends on the landing site and training level of the users.
I remember the classified versions back in the 80's, when I was in.
It's not that new - and, yes, it was based on designs by a certain Italian inventor named Leonardo da Vinci.
It's more of an intimidation technique.
I work at the University of Washington.
... LYING.
We don't manipulate information, we create it.
If you went to a top research university, you might know that creating information based on valid peer-reviewed research is not the same as
Let's be clear here. The UW discovers and creates - which is why we're so highly ranked among educational institutions - not manipulates and obscures.
We concentrate on the former and leave the latter for a certain group of people who happen to be in DC.
Sounds like a well thought out marketing strategy that slashdot helped make even more profitable.
Q. What is the purpose of an awards show for a gaming company?
A. Publicity.
You know what would save SONY?
...
Making games for the Wii.
Actually, that's not a bad idea.
Sony is a content provider - movies, music, games - in addition to TVs and electronics.
And since the Wii is not using an HDTV display, it's not like they couldn't just realize the market for a game that plays on both the PS3 (with premium content) and on the Wii (lower res) would have greater sales, and still shut out MSFT's xBox360
Sometimes you have to wake up and smell the failure of the console wars, and realize you need to stay relevant.
As the multiple postings in the article said, this was more due to Nintendo not cranking out as many games, not that the games weren't good.
And some of that was the focus on Addictive Games, as they mentioned.
They were shortchanging the Wii in favor of the other consoles, while obsessing over their latest free web download for the PC.
Sure, they included Mario Galaxy, but they didn't spend much time talking about it.
And while I appreciated a different take on BioShock, I still feel like they just don't get how casual gaming has totally changed the market and the value system.
In the original version, where Deckard is NOT a replicant, his actions imply that humans and replicants are of the same moral plane - or that replicants may in fact be more moral, and that Deckard is saved by reaching grace thru his actions with replicants - communing literally with angels and devils and choosing the side of angels.
But in this new version, the implication is that Deckard is a replicant, thus no salvation occurs, as this is all programming, and the highest plateau Deckard can reach is that of humanity.
A much darker image and implying that he is sub-human. And thus a slave, unworthy of his betters, humans.
Just saying.
And got rid of both WinXP and WinVista in favor of a Mac instead ...
(confused sounds)
Oh, wasn't that the point?
It's dangerous mixing nerds, hookers, and alcohol. Things explode.
... as this story about a pig farmer shows ...
Well, sadly, they did recently
Do they run Linux?
No, they're BSD. Biochemical Signal Determination.
And you better hope they have no Open Sores.
That said, I'm all for our soldiers experiencing concussion damage versus being dismembered. And in contradiction to what I just said, there are plenty of visibly maimed soldiers returning from this war to remind us that it was in fact real. ;_;
I agree. I see them every week or two when I'm at the VA hospital. And, as a former soldier, I probably know more of them than most people do - a few of my friends are partially disabled from Iraq or Afghanistan service.
It's an improvement. But it does not reduce all the impacts.
sorry, I forgot to close the italics properly.
My bad.
Biology involves chemicals and reactions. Computer programs involve 1's and 0's. Biological systems are much more complex than computer programs. Just because something works in a computer simulation, doesn't mean it works in the real world./i.
Also, because biological and biochemical systems are changing states at a rapid pace, and are affected by the act of measurement, they are much more difficult to model. Just think of the impacts of protein folding and how DNA, RNA, siRNA, miRNA, and other mechanisms work within your biochemical brain.
Are there 100 cells if the cell is in the process of meiosis - what about when it is virally impacted?
And the biochemical pathways have redundancies and feedback mechanisms that adapt to changing circumstances, too.
Look, I used to be a combat field engineer myself. I've probably been exposed to a lot of blasts to a level where I'm myself at risk from Parkinson's disease ... but I was trying to say that while this may help, it does not reduce all risks from explosion, especially the concussive wave and other impacts (e.g. most people don't remember to open their mouths during explosions and have higher damage as a result).
But, sure, it's a help.
And there are pills for water, by the way.