Yoda was saying that should do whatever you decide needs doing, not attempt it and fail. Either do it (successfully) or don't do it (also successfully).
I like it better when Slashdot submits written questions to the interviewee and gets back a set of written answers.
The questions are clear, the interviewee has time to ponder the answers and then write something coherent (and sometimes also brief). I found the transcript of the audio interview very difficult to read, and believe it's of lower quality than a written interview would have been.
We know you can record sound while you're out and about. Very impressive. Now, do it the other way.
You can pledge to buy one, but they've said they won't sell them at retail (though anything's possible and that could change at some point in the future).
Based on the fact that people are sometimes born XYY or XXYY, it's clear that the two Y's themselves do create a problem.
The bigger problem is not having an X chromosome since many genes found on the X chromosome are found nowhere else. See the Wikipedia article for a list of genetic disorders associated with the X chromosome. (So if you have no X chromosome, you're missing a copy of the genes whose broken copies cause these diseases.)
Upon a quick search, I couldn't find evidence people born with no X chromosomes, and since the other disorders (including people with a single X chromosome--Turner syndrome) are all well-represented in the medical literature, it's a safe bet to assume that lacking an X chromosome is a condition incompatible with human life.
Enemy soldiers, Enemy vehicles, U.S. soldiers, U.S. vehicles, Women, Children, Medical personnel, Animals
Enemy soliders and U.S. soldiers might very well be women. Enemy soldiers might also be children (and U.S. soldiers might be children, too, depending on your definition of "child").
Perhaps you meant "non-combatant" or "civilian" instead of "women and children". "Non-combatant" would also cover "animals," though I'm less worried about an animal being killed by a mine decades after the end of a conflict than about a person being killed under the same circumstances.
All I can say is if I should ever be able to buy a clothing store the first order of business will be to fire the buyers. They're idiots. They have no concept of what consumers want in either sizes or style.
No, they know what sells.
Learn to sew if you don't like it. Or hire a tailor.
My great aunt, who is not in her mid-90s, is 4'10". There was no 'petite' section back when she was a young adult. The only clothes in her size were girls' clothes. So she learned to sew and made all of her own clothes. She also designed and sewed clothes for others, including mother-of-the-bride dresses and wedding dresses and made her living that way. With her experience making her own clothes without a pattern, she became very good at coming up with original, flattering designs for a wide variety of women's shapes.
The moral of the story is that if you percieve a hole in the market, fill it, either for yourself or for everyone. If it's really a hole, it'll soon be filled. If not, it's just you (but if it is just you, you'll have made what you need for yourself and spared us your whining).
Getting tips from a pro - If you watch a world cup soccer match, it doesnt make you a world cup soccer player. But it can give you ideas on how to better yourself, and if you watch it over and over, you understand how it works, then you can just go practice it.
That's just scary.
Porn is sex for the camera. It's sex displayed to arouse the viewer (aka, you), not to pleasure the other participants in the act. Sure, male performers will achieve orgasm, but generally it's not women who watch porn for pointers on how to pleasure their man. If a man is watching porn to figure out how to please a woman, he's got more problems than just that. And he won't even be able to correct that first problem.
YPP! remains fun for the casual player - it's folks who think they should acess to the entire game without either grinding or paying who now find it no fun. (You also have the option of playing on a subscription ocean where, for a single payment a month, everything is available to you.)
But for $10 a month, it doesn't feel casual anymore. It's then a subscription and if I don't play "enough", I don't get my money's worth. But if PP works for you, in either flavor, then more power to you. Whatever floats your particular boat.
P.S. Yes, yes: Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates (YPP). We all get it.
Unlike Puzzle Pirates, Bang! Howdy pits you against other players in little strategy puzzles (mostly, how can I kill them and get the gold nuggets or cattle before they kill me and get the gold or cattle). You can convert your gold nuggets to dollars (like the whatevers to dubloons in PP). You can also buy the "harder" currency with money.
For a "casual" player, PP was actually more friendly, since you could hop on a Navy vessel and just play one of the station puzzles (sailing, carpentry, bilging, navigation) without having to talk to anyone. After a while, they started making the land-based head-to-head puzzles free only on certain days. And to run a store or own a ship, you had to have a badge purchased with dubloons (the harder currency). It was easier to buy it for dollars than grind away to get enough of the light currency to buy dubloons at auction. The whole thing ended up being no fun.
In both games, you can buy new clothes with some of each type of currency. In PP, at least, clothing deteriorated, so if you didn't want to wear rags, you had to buy new clothing at intervals. Also, some colors were more expensive because of scarcer raw materials. The look of both games is cute, as ar the themes, but if you want a casual game, get Tetris or solitaire.
I would like the developers for making Bang! Howdy no fun right out of the gate, so I wasted almost no time with it.
Dianna Abdala, the lawyer in TFA, sounds like a giant dick. If I were hiring lawyers and did a quick search on the applicants' names to see what came up, and I read such an immature emailed exchange, I definitely would not hire her. No matter how good a lawyer she is (and I'm sure she's not the best lawyer ever, so there are plenty to choose from), anyone with an attitude like hers would be really difficult to work with. I wouldn't do that to myself or to the people who had to work with her. YMMV (you may enjoy working with annoying people who can't follow good advice from an expert in their field).
From the article: As for Ms. Abdala, she says a mea culpa "will never happen." She's living on funds provided by her father and has rented office space for her own practice. "I've never been the type to work under someone," she says.
She sounds like one of those people who nobody picks to work with, so she ends up doing all of her work alone and has convinced herself that she enjoys it. I hope the marketplace (ie, her prospective customers) make her suffer (or she'll surely make them suffer, not having learned how to behave in a civil society).
I, and most people I talked with (and most reviews I read), actually HATED the Hitchiker movie. I guess we run in different circles. I'm thrilled not to be in yours.
I did enjoy the scene right after they're all puppets, where one of them vomits yarn. That was the only thing I remember about the movie. I've successfully blocked the rest of its unfunny lengthiness from my mind. Go, me.
Uhm, it makes sense if you're talking about girls.
A girl who hits puberty early will end up associating with boys who are also at least pubescent, which means older and bigger and stronger (even moreso than the usual gap between an average man and average woman of the same age).
All they'd teach in a DM class is how to run a game from a purchased module.
Can't have people making up their own worlds, it would eat into the profit margin.
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How many of us as news junkies? People who like to know what's going on in the world, all over the world, all the time? Have you ever stayed up all night watching CNN, or even your local news on election night? Is this a disorder? No, unless it interferes with your life. If your wife/kids/dog have left you because you can't turn off the television or the internet, then you have a problem and need help.
How many of us have been addicted (yes, and we've used that word) to the beautiful, different world in a MUD or other online multiplayer game? You say you just like to play and/or to interact with the community, but when you shut out your loved ones to play a game or to chat online, it's a problem.
Yes, as the article mentioned, people with internet addictions usually have addictive personalities (and so have other addictions like gambling or sex or food) and/or have other mental problems (depression, anxiety, etc).
If you're the loved one of such a person, realize that they can't help themselves. Don't be overbearing or guilting, just try to get that person help, and to convince that person to consent to help. You may only notic the internet addiction, but there's likely far more to it. If that person felt well enough to get help, then s/he would have already. Help your loved one.
Also possibly useful to discussing this issue, from Gamasutra's interview with Nathan Richardsson of CCP, the company behind EVE Online:
We feel that the emotions involved with losing something of value is just as important as gaining something of value, it makes a very immersive experience. There have to be lows to make the highs more enjoyable. PvP allows us to achieve that.
The Guiding Hand players (and even the scammers from the earlier escapade aka "The Great Scam"--the long write-up by one of the participants in that was very good reading) were doing what the developers intended, within the framework of the game. The Guiding Hand players were definitely not griefers as they continued to play. The "Great Scam" duo may border on griefers, since at least one of them gave away the profits and left the game.
It seems to me that the players in the Guiding Hand Social Club were really just very dedicated roleplayers (as is suggested, then rejected, in the article).
For them to spend a year planning and executing the infiltration, assassination, and thefts shows that they were in it for more than just "getting" the target and her corporation. In my experience in other games, griefers tend to use the power/influence they've accumulated working alone or with random strangers to kill/loot/annoy other random strangers for that moment of glee they get from their target's anguish. It's more about showing their power than it is about personal gain, since they usually target much weaker opponents.
The Guiding Hand was hired to do a job, in game, and they did it, in game. Yes, they also found a way to make it easier for themselves (the article mentions that it's much harder to assassinate a character through purely military means), but it took a year of their time. What they did proved that they are talented in-game manipulators and assassins, and ensures that they'll not lack for lucrative contracts in the future. They spent their time on acquiring in-game resources for themselves by the best means possible, taking them from others who had spent their time gaining them.
For the players of the members of the target corporation (Ubiqua Seraph), this was probably a very upsetting experience. Characters (people) they thought they knew had betrayed them. Would the Guiding Hand members act like that in real life? Most likely not. Would they act like that if real life were like EVE Online's universe? Likely. The Ubiqua Seraph players will probably have real trust issues, if they made that all too common mistake of assuming that your online opponents' characters are your online opponents.
Imagine also being able to dig into old news shows, like every episode of 60 Minutes, 20/20, or Nightline.
These types of newsmagazines usually have three segments in an hour-long show. It would be very useful to be able to search for (and purchase) single segments instead of entire shows.
The same holds true for some cable crafting/DIY programs. Being able to search for and then purchase the a certain project segment would be quite good. (DIYnet.com already lets you search and view segment from its various shows on its website, which is a very nice start, and also free.)
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Homer was saying not to attempt anything, ever.
I like it better when Slashdot submits written questions to the interviewee and gets back a set of written answers.
The questions are clear, the interviewee has time to ponder the answers and then write something coherent (and sometimes also brief). I found the transcript of the audio interview very difficult to read, and believe it's of lower quality than a written interview would have been.
We know you can record sound while you're out and about. Very impressive. Now, do it the other way.
Innumerate posts: Slashdot has gone downhill.
I'm five times the Bob you are.
You can pledge to buy one, but they've said they won't sell them at retail (though anything's possible and that could change at some point in the future).
Arena football?
Pirates v Ninjas v Zombies v Robots v Monkeys v Pimps, since that would be proof of the vibrant "Urban Theme"
I guess you'd want them to save "v Dinosaurs" for the first expansion pack.
The bigger problem is not having an X chromosome since many genes found on the X chromosome are found nowhere else. See the Wikipedia article for a list of genetic disorders associated with the X chromosome. (So if you have no X chromosome, you're missing a copy of the genes whose broken copies cause these diseases.)
Upon a quick search, I couldn't find evidence people born with no X chromosomes, and since the other disorders (including people with a single X chromosome--Turner syndrome) are all well-represented in the medical literature, it's a safe bet to assume that lacking an X chromosome is a condition incompatible with human life.
Enemy soliders and U.S. soldiers might very well be women. Enemy soldiers might also be children (and U.S. soldiers might be children, too, depending on your definition of "child").
Perhaps you meant "non-combatant" or "civilian" instead of "women and children". "Non-combatant" would also cover "animals," though I'm less worried about an animal being killed by a mine decades after the end of a conflict than about a person being killed under the same circumstances.
No, they know what sells.
Learn to sew if you don't like it. Or hire a tailor.
My great aunt, who is not in her mid-90s, is 4'10". There was no 'petite' section back when she was a young adult. The only clothes in her size were girls' clothes. So she learned to sew and made all of her own clothes. She also designed and sewed clothes for others, including mother-of-the-bride dresses and wedding dresses and made her living that way. With her experience making her own clothes without a pattern, she became very good at coming up with original, flattering designs for a wide variety of women's shapes.
The moral of the story is that if you percieve a hole in the market, fill it, either for yourself or for everyone. If it's really a hole, it'll soon be filled. If not, it's just you (but if it is just you, you'll have made what you need for yourself and spared us your whining).
That's just scary.
Porn is sex for the camera. It's sex displayed to arouse the viewer (aka, you), not to pleasure the other participants in the act. Sure, male performers will achieve orgasm, but generally it's not women who watch porn for pointers on how to pleasure their man. If a man is watching porn to figure out how to please a woman, he's got more problems than just that. And he won't even be able to correct that first problem.
I wish I hadn't used all of my mod points today. Parent is insightful and scary and everyone should see it.
But for $10 a month, it doesn't feel casual anymore. It's then a subscription and if I don't play "enough", I don't get my money's worth. But if PP works for you, in either flavor, then more power to you. Whatever floats your particular boat.
P.S. Yes, yes: Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates (YPP). We all get it.
For a "casual" player, PP was actually more friendly, since you could hop on a Navy vessel and just play one of the station puzzles (sailing, carpentry, bilging, navigation) without having to talk to anyone. After a while, they started making the land-based head-to-head puzzles free only on certain days. And to run a store or own a ship, you had to have a badge purchased with dubloons (the harder currency). It was easier to buy it for dollars than grind away to get enough of the light currency to buy dubloons at auction. The whole thing ended up being no fun.
In both games, you can buy new clothes with some of each type of currency. In PP, at least, clothing deteriorated, so if you didn't want to wear rags, you had to buy new clothing at intervals. Also, some colors were more expensive because of scarcer raw materials. The look of both games is cute, as ar the themes, but if you want a casual game, get Tetris or solitaire.
I would like the developers for making Bang! Howdy no fun right out of the gate, so I wasted almost no time with it.
From the article:
As for Ms. Abdala, she says a mea culpa "will never happen." She's living on funds provided by her father and has rented office space for her own practice. "I've never been the type to work under someone," she says.
She sounds like one of those people who nobody picks to work with, so she ends up doing all of her work alone and has convinced herself that she enjoys it. I hope the marketplace (ie, her prospective customers) make her suffer (or she'll surely make them suffer, not having learned how to behave in a civil society).
I did enjoy the scene right after they're all puppets, where one of them vomits yarn. That was the only thing I remember about the movie. I've successfully blocked the rest of its unfunny lengthiness from my mind. Go, me.
A girl who hits puberty early will end up associating with boys who are also at least pubescent, which means older and bigger and stronger (even moreso than the usual gap between an average man and average woman of the same age).
Can't have people making up their own worlds, it would eat into the profit margin.
How many of us have been addicted (yes, and we've used that word) to the beautiful, different world in a MUD or other online multiplayer game? You say you just like to play and/or to interact with the community, but when you shut out your loved ones to play a game or to chat online, it's a problem.
Yes, as the article mentioned, people with internet addictions usually have addictive personalities (and so have other addictions like gambling or sex or food) and/or have other mental problems (depression, anxiety, etc).
If you're the loved one of such a person, realize that they can't help themselves. Don't be overbearing or guilting, just try to get that person help, and to convince that person to consent to help. You may only notic the internet addiction, but there's likely far more to it. If that person felt well enough to get help, then s/he would have already. Help your loved one.
Beware of statements containing "everybody" and "nobody".
Just because something is outside your experience don't mean that "nobody" does it.
Offtopic, I know, but still important. If more people could incorporate this into their worldviews, there'd be less friction based on ignorance.
We feel that the emotions involved with losing something of value is just as important as gaining something of value, it makes a very immersive experience. There have to be lows to make the highs more enjoyable. PvP allows us to achieve that.
The Guiding Hand players (and even the scammers from the earlier escapade aka "The Great Scam"--the long write-up by one of the participants in that was very good reading) were doing what the developers intended, within the framework of the game. The Guiding Hand players were definitely not griefers as they continued to play. The "Great Scam" duo may border on griefers, since at least one of them gave away the profits and left the game.
For them to spend a year planning and executing the infiltration, assassination, and thefts shows that they were in it for more than just "getting" the target and her corporation. In my experience in other games, griefers tend to use the power/influence they've accumulated working alone or with random strangers to kill/loot/annoy other random strangers for that moment of glee they get from their target's anguish. It's more about showing their power than it is about personal gain, since they usually target much weaker opponents.
The Guiding Hand was hired to do a job, in game, and they did it, in game. Yes, they also found a way to make it easier for themselves (the article mentions that it's much harder to assassinate a character through purely military means), but it took a year of their time. What they did proved that they are talented in-game manipulators and assassins, and ensures that they'll not lack for lucrative contracts in the future. They spent their time on acquiring in-game resources for themselves by the best means possible, taking them from others who had spent their time gaining them.
For the players of the members of the target corporation (Ubiqua Seraph), this was probably a very upsetting experience. Characters (people) they thought they knew had betrayed them. Would the Guiding Hand members act like that in real life? Most likely not. Would they act like that if real life were like EVE Online's universe? Likely. The Ubiqua Seraph players will probably have real trust issues, if they made that all too common mistake of assuming that your online opponents' characters are your online opponents.
These types of newsmagazines usually have three segments in an hour-long show. It would be very useful to be able to search for (and purchase) single segments instead of entire shows.
The same holds true for some cable crafting/DIY programs. Being able to search for and then purchase the a certain project segment would be quite good. (DIYnet.com already lets you search and view segment from its various shows on its website, which is a very nice start, and also free.)