I don't know about that. At home, people have probably either heard of IE7/8 or firefox, or have been cajoled by a friend/family member into ditching IE6.
I suspect that the bulk of the lingering IE6 users are trapped there by their company's IT department. The last two places I worked still use IE6 because the company intranet is designed for IE6, and they're loathe to promote general usage of two browsers on each user's computer because of the confusion it could cause. Even if they want to install something else, they don't have permission and/or administrative privileges(I had to use portable firefox instead).
But knowledge goes beyond simple facts about the game like where the sniper holes are, or the reload time of a gun.
Wits and cleverness still involve knowledge because they're direct application of it. If you know an enemy is going from Point A to point B and you know their run speed, you can predict their position in the map to a high degree of accuracy even if you haven't even seen them. You could drop a grenade on them.
Or even player behavior. If you watch how well a player does in a match you can measure his level of skill and confidence. If he's half-way down on his clip and there's a brief pause in the exchange of fire, players with no confidence will move back into cover and reload. So instead of reloading, you charge in with whatever bullets are left in your clip since it's safe to move at that moment. If he's a confident player he'll hold onto those last bullets and try to kill you with them if you step out of cover. This sounds obvious in hindsight, but many people don't stop to think about what the other player is doing, they just think about shooting targets.
Experience counts too, closely associated with confidence. 7 unsuspecting enemies and 7 bullets in the desert eagle, do you whittle them down or go for 7 headshots? Can it be done? Reflexes definitely help you to place each headshot, but it also takes confidence and experience. Confidence to go out there and make the attempt, and experience to stay cool under the pressure to produce 100% accuracy over 7 shots before they can return fire.
But even.00001s reflex kids are helpless when they get shot from the sides or in the back. That's where all those other factors you mentioned come in. I can go on long winning streaks in COD4 without using bullets or kill streak bonuses because people are just running around intending to shoot the first thing they see and never think about the big picture. They're completely blind to their surroundings and that's how they end up eating my knife all day long.
Reflexes are still limited by the rate of fire and accuracy of the gun. If you encounter several people at once, even fantastic aim won't be enough. Like you said, if you memorize a nade spot & time the toss at the start of the round, no amount of reflex can save them if they were foolish enough to run right into the grenade. They have to learn to avoid those spots and use irregular travel times.
The top players all have great reflexes, but everybody caps out eventually and can't improve their aim significantly. From there they build up their knowledge of game mechanics and player behavior to ensure that they won't have to rely on reflexes to bail them out.
It sounds like this "professor" really never learned the details about what he's playing.
In this particular game, player vs. player combat is for the most part consensual. The speed of travel in the game is so fast that the only way to kill someone is for them to be willing to slow down and have a fight to the death. The developers go to greath lengths to minimize the ways in which one player can interfere with other players.
Being killed by a player has no penalty in a PvP zone, you're just sent back to the entrance of the zone. However, the computer controlled "cartoon" enemies in the zone will inflict an experience loss(known as "debt") on the players that die by their hand, and this loss takes a considerable amount of time to mitigate. There are players in this zone who are there to defeat the enemies because they give increased experience, they aren't there to fight or interact with enemy players in any way and are left alone instead.
There's no benefit to winning by dropping the enemy into the computer controlled enemies, since the computer takes the credit for killing him. So essentially, he is disrupting the gameplay of the other players, inflicting a loss of time, and for no personal gain aside from schadenfreude. A classic troll.
He's not bucking social norms, he's being a sociopath as far the game world allows. The results are not suprising, interesting, or even insightful. If he wanted to buck social norms, he should play a healer character who focuses only on his weak offensive abilities. That's the game-equivalent of being a social outcast. He's going for the game-equivalent of Charles Manson.
The situation is different in USA, Iran, and China.
In the USA, there is an established venue for a democratic vote to oust the established government. Voting works in the USA. All the internet has to do is convince people to go out and exercise their right to vote in order to oust people from government.
Iran also has voting, but the results don't match the votes, so it's back to revolution for them. They haven't succeeded (but hopefully it's just a matter of time). The internet has to convince people to go out and possibly die. It remains to be seen if they'll continue to protest against the hard line that their government has started to take. This morning's news seems to say that they're faltering.
In China, they don't have voting, and they don't have a revolution either. Some may not like it but they put up with it. The Internet needs to first get people to care.
The internet caused the incumbent control over the USA's executive and legislative branch to switch from one party to the other...in a two party system.
The internet is having some effect, but it can't be credited for the overthrow of governments yet.
I have the same problem! For most of my life, I've only known one other geek. Just last month I finally met a second! I read several PnP manuals out of curiosity and found them intriguing, but to this day, I've never met anyone that played PnP games...
It's not easy to come by people with these niche interests. No way to pick geeks out of a crowd unless they're living out the stereotype or wearing an obscure reference on their t-shirt.
This isn't a bad idea, look for hobby groups/clubs. I would stay away from one-on-one meetings.
But it doesn't have to necessarily be Craigslist, it could be any kind of gathering.
I'm finding that the tough part about socialization is the investment it requires. It's hard to make this investment when most of the time I'm not even interested in its rewards. You have to invest time and energy, and put yourself out there to pursue conversation with people that might not be worth talking to. I have a lot of things I'd rather be doing instead of talking to people, but after putting off socialization in favor of my interests, I find that I have very few people to talk to when I'm finally interested in doing it. I've recently had to actively pursue socialization now that I'm changing careers and networking will now be an important factor in success. It was uncomfortable at first, but I'm slowly learning to enjoy it.
I've only known one geek for the majority of my life. I've recently met only one other geek. Geeks aren't easy to come by in real-life, maybe it's because we tend to stay glued to our hobbies and interests which means we spend less time out in public. The most likely reason is that you often can't spot a geek just by looking at them, they're probably hygienic and look like any other person.
But you don't have to only talk to other geeks, you don't need to have common interests, just a common experience through which to meet, and a common interest in knowing each other. I have absolutely nothing in common with one of my best friends, but we have fun talking about our lives and our significant others. I don't talk about Battlestar Galactica with her, I can do that on the Sci-Fi forums. She doesn't talk about parties and car shows with me.
Anyway, in the meantime, some tips I've heard: 1) Be interested in the person you're talking to. People like to feel special and they'll reciprocate with more interest in the conversation. Make them feel important and ask follow-up questions 2) Find a common thing to talk about and just start talking. If you're both in a bookstore, talk about books. If you're in class, talk about class, it's a casual opener. While it may feel weird to just walk up and talk to someone, most people are at least curious to meet this strange person who's bold enough to talk to a stranger. If they're not, they probably do have a legitimate reason to be in a hurry, or they may just be shy.
I would definitely prefer a keyboard over the iphone's virtual keyboard.
Multi-tasking is potentially useful. Stat-tracking applications and IM-applications in the background could be handy. Hopefully someone will take the initiative to provide these for use.
However, I'm not that optimistic about the open development model. Apple has immense momentum going with Itunes and the Appstore. The more open development model is more attractive for those who just want to put out a nice useful tool for the public good. But I think that most of the developers who can be incentivized by making money will prefer the large audience of the appstore/itunes, and the proven revenue channel that it provides.
Buyers like that the iphone appears to have an app for everything(per Apple's ad-campaigning). They might not realize that other phones offer apps that are banned or unsupported on the iphone, but they don't care until they're made aware of these possibilities. They just know that the iphone has apps out the wazoo, and the palm pre has a mere fraction of that. If they can't sell the Palm Pre to a huge audience, the developers might stick to pitching to the larger iphone audience...which in turn results in less apps for the Palm Pre. But who knows? Perhaps they'll develop for the Palm Pre anyway because of how hard it is to get noticed amongst the competitive glut on the iphone.
I think they should update both games to current L4D2 technology. Then sell L4D1 and L4D2 as both a standalone and expansion. City of Heroes and City of Villains did this successfully.
Buy 1 of them and pay the price of a standalone game. Buy the 2nd game as an expansion to the first. Then L4D1 players can enjoy the updated tech in the same maps they've been playing and be happy to receive the update they were promised. In order to get more content along with the update, they would be happy to pay expansion prices for another 4 campaigns.
L4D2 players would be able to enjoy their new game, and will probably also want to buy L4D1 content as an expansion prices.
Both the old players and the new players would pay for a standalone+expansion, and the old players still get a nice fat update like they were expecting.
Plus combining the games like this makes sense in terms of mapping and modding so that the user-generated content in production right now can be used to increase the value of both L4D1 and L4D2 at the same time. The sum would be greater than the value of the individual parts.
I bought my wife a 15" laptop with some pretty respectable specs a few months ago. 15" is the cheapest size in the laptop category, going smaller or larger increases the price(unless you go into the netbook category which she considers to be too small, since she doesn't like my EEEpc). She chose the color and she chose pink.
She hasn't been using the brand new laptop. As it turns out, she ends up using her ancient 4 year old laptop most of the time because it's just 12", so it's small enough to carry around and bring into the kitchen to reference recipes, yet big enough to read use to chat with her friends. Ideally, I should've just reduced the specs, and bought a 12"inch pink laptop instead.
Why can't women like small pink laptops? Why can't they like cooking? To hell with what other people think, she works as a programmer, that's "tech" enough. If women want what Dell's marketing, they'll buy it. If not, then Dell just wasted a bunch of money on their campaign.
Juice and soda are both extremely high in excess sugar. The minimal nutrition from juice isn't really worth it. It's better to drink water instead for fluids, and then eat fresh fruit for the vitamins.
If you don't like water(like me), seltzer is also a bit cheaper than soda. The regular price for a 12pack of soda here is about 4 bucks, while seltzer is at 3.30. However, when the sales hit, the soda usually falls to 3 bucks, while the seltzer drops to 1.80! That's when I buy several boxes at once.
Seltzer is just carbonated water, zero calories. They even come in different flavors, but still with no sugar. As you wean off soda, your body's tolerance for sugar changes, and lime seltzer ends up tasting better than sprite. The reason I like seltzer is that it washes mypalate clean, so that I can taste the next bite of food better. Cuts right through the oil.
Still, carbonated water binds with calcium in your body and turns it into calcium carbonate which simply passes through your system instead of strengthening your bones. So if you drink milk to get your calcium fix, it's better to avoid soda/seltzer during that day so that you can absorb the calcium first.
It may be impractical or implausible to vaccinate a major city. However, it may be possible to 100% vaccinate the populations of isolated villages and towns. With fewer people to locate and administer the drug to, the vaccinations could result in a dengue free-area!
While it would be possible for mosquitoes with the disease to come in from other areas, most species (though not all) don't migrate very far and tend stay close to their food source.
Back on topic, Panera bread's solution is to limit wifi to half an hour sessions. Between their peak hours between 11am and 2pm, the half hour is all you get. At other times of the day, you simply need to relogin through their welcome page after the half-hour is up.
McDonalds is far from the first restaurant to implement wifi.
After being sent back in time, Nero could simply escort a willing Spock Prime to the star that went supernova, and then prevent the disaster centuries before it happened. That's it. There's no reason for any of these events to have occurred.
To be fair, imdb scores are often inflated from the initial excitement. It takes about 3-4 weeks for the initial shine to wear off.
Those who've been waiting in anticipation of the movie are the ones most likely to run back to imdb and post glowing reviews so the scores are high at first. Then the actual quality of the movie determines whether the high rating sticks or gets dragged down as more objective reviews, or negative reviews start to trickle in.
However, if the rating starts off low, then the score is probably accurate and the movie is probably terrible.
I liked the movie a lot. It was a good movie, but I agree with GP that it wasn't good "Star Trek". It has nothing to do with the alternate universe explanation (it's far from the first time we've seen this, the Mirror universe provides precedent in several episodes).
It's more about the theme of the movie. It was about action rather than sci-fi. Star Trek explored issues in the future in a way that causes people to reflect upon the present. Star Trek had tons of aimless drivel among its episodes, but the best parts of Star Trek weren't action setpieces, but episodes that made you think. The franchise has touched upon issues like capital punishment, homosexuality, evaluation of moral perspective, discrimination and bias, tradition vs. progression.
However, these things are not easily handled in the framework of a movie. And hell, I like action movies too. I liked the new Star Trek movie and I'm interested in where they go from here.
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Though parent post was moderated as "Funny" I'd still like to point that Star Trek doesn't use a single timeline.
There's been plenty of alternate timelines in the series operating concurrently with the one we've come to know and love. The Mirror universe has made multiple occurences. Also, even if the movie is in the same reality, the previous state of the timeline still exists, as shown by Spock Prime's presence and memories.
If you take a string with points A and B, then loop B back to where point A is...the string between them is still there in the line, it's just looped. Star Trek avoids time travel paradox through alternate realities. Everytime someone in Star Trek alters the past in a way that causes their existence to be a paradox, none is found because of the looping timeline, and so the paradoxical character simply behaves normally and retains the same memories.
I'd say that Democrats/are/ less effective at infringing on civil liberties as Republicans, since the Republicans have held most of the power for the past several years. Now that they're the dominant party in both the white house and Congress we'll see how far they can get.
As for not calling on for BS, isn't that what this slashdot article and the 100+ posts below are about?
How could MS hurt the EU? MS is just a software company dependent upon the protections of the legal infrastructure of the local economy in order to operate.
Worst case scenario, MS stops selling it's software in the EU. Then the EU can just waive copyright protection for MS in the EU so the population can just download it legally from torrent sites. Updates too, since MS would still have to provide updates to the rest of the world which would eventually be downloadable in the EU. The EU will hesitate to make such a precedent, but it's always there on the table since so many businesses rely on MS; they could make an exception for MS.
Or perhaps the businesses in the EU will just be driven to non-MS software, which may induce other businesses around the globe to consider alternative solutions as well.
MS really can't get into a pissing match with the EU. Their best option is to either obey regulation or bribe everyone in sight to prevent things from getting that far.
I appreciate that you're trying to advocate an open-mind towards understanding morality and how we choose what to value, but I have to point out an extremely poor choice by framing it against the idea of "allowing billions to die".
A more appropriate situation to request reevaluation of morals is suggesting that maybe the Chinese people don't want or care for US democracy and are comfortable with someone else making all the decisions for the national community. Or perhaps that some women really are ok with being housewives their whole life instead of having a career.
However, I think everyone is on board with the idea that billions of dead people is a "bad" thing. The situations where billions of dead people would be a preferable choice are so far afield that no one will be able to imagine such a doomsday scenario happening to them. Then the attempt to get them to rethink their values will fail. That's getting into the territory of "World War Z" and Cuba becoming the new world power and only allowing the useful people to enter their zombie-free zone.
It's easier to appreciate and discuss the differences between apples and oranges...as opposed to apples and alien invasion. When the comparison being made is ludicrous it hinders rather than encourages discussion.
They're still people just like everyone else, with human limitations of attention, intelligence, resources, time...
The most likely scenario is that 98% of the info they grabbed is the real stuff. Maaaybe they seeded some wrong values into the schemata to try to minefield attempts to construct them, but the overall structure and general design were successfully stolen. They can't spend a ton of time putting in fake info because this is important information they're stealing while they work on inserting fakes, and even doctored designs can provide insight.
They don't have fake backups standing by because who has the time and resources to simultaneously produce real work and fake work in parallel(and from the same limited body of personnel with sufficient clearance?)
Haha! That's a fantastic diet advertisement. Eat healthier, eat less, and exercise more...and well, if that's doesn't interest you, we DO have an alternative...
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I don't know about that. At home, people have probably either heard of IE7/8 or firefox, or have been cajoled by a friend/family member into ditching IE6.
I suspect that the bulk of the lingering IE6 users are trapped there by their company's IT department. The last two places I worked still use IE6 because the company intranet is designed for IE6, and they're loathe to promote general usage of two browsers on each user's computer because of the confusion it could cause. Even if they want to install something else, they don't have permission and/or administrative privileges(I had to use portable firefox instead).
But knowledge goes beyond simple facts about the game like where the sniper holes are, or the reload time of a gun.
Wits and cleverness still involve knowledge because they're direct application of it. If you know an enemy is going from Point A to point B and you know their run speed, you can predict their position in the map to a high degree of accuracy even if you haven't even seen them. You could drop a grenade on them.
Or even player behavior. If you watch how well a player does in a match you can measure his level of skill and confidence. If he's half-way down on his clip and there's a brief pause in the exchange of fire, players with no confidence will move back into cover and reload. So instead of reloading, you charge in with whatever bullets are left in your clip since it's safe to move at that moment. If he's a confident player he'll hold onto those last bullets and try to kill you with them if you step out of cover. This sounds obvious in hindsight, but many people don't stop to think about what the other player is doing, they just think about shooting targets.
Experience counts too, closely associated with confidence. 7 unsuspecting enemies and 7 bullets in the desert eagle, do you whittle them down or go for 7 headshots? Can it be done? Reflexes definitely help you to place each headshot, but it also takes confidence and experience. Confidence to go out there and make the attempt, and experience to stay cool under the pressure to produce 100% accuracy over 7 shots before they can return fire.
But even .00001s reflex kids are helpless when they get shot from the sides or in the back. That's where all those other factors you mentioned come in. I can go on long winning streaks in COD4 without using bullets or kill streak bonuses because people are just running around intending to shoot the first thing they see and never think about the big picture. They're completely blind to their surroundings and that's how they end up eating my knife all day long.
Reflexes are still limited by the rate of fire and accuracy of the gun. If you encounter several people at once, even fantastic aim won't be enough. Like you said, if you memorize a nade spot & time the toss at the start of the round, no amount of reflex can save them if they were foolish enough to run right into the grenade. They have to learn to avoid those spots and use irregular travel times.
The top players all have great reflexes, but everybody caps out eventually and can't improve their aim significantly. From there they build up their knowledge of game mechanics and player behavior to ensure that they won't have to rely on reflexes to bail them out.
There is extensive role-play in the game.
http://virtueverse.com/index.php/Main_Page
That's the wiki containing some of the history of the roleplay there.
It sounds like this "professor" really never learned the details about what he's playing.
In this particular game, player vs. player combat is for the most part consensual. The speed of travel in the game is so fast that the only way to kill someone is for them to be willing to slow down and have a fight to the death. The developers go to greath lengths to minimize the ways in which one player can interfere with other players.
Being killed by a player has no penalty in a PvP zone, you're just sent back to the entrance of the zone. However, the computer controlled "cartoon" enemies in the zone will inflict an experience loss(known as "debt") on the players that die by their hand, and this loss takes a considerable amount of time to mitigate. There are players in this zone who are there to defeat the enemies because they give increased experience, they aren't there to fight or interact with enemy players in any way and are left alone instead.
There's no benefit to winning by dropping the enemy into the computer controlled enemies, since the computer takes the credit for killing him. So essentially, he is disrupting the gameplay of the other players, inflicting a loss of time, and for no personal gain aside from schadenfreude. A classic troll.
He's not bucking social norms, he's being a sociopath as far the game world allows. The results are not suprising, interesting, or even insightful. If he wanted to buck social norms, he should play a healer character who focuses only on his weak offensive abilities. That's the game-equivalent of being a social outcast. He's going for the game-equivalent of Charles Manson.
The situation is different in USA, Iran, and China.
In the USA, there is an established venue for a democratic vote to oust the established government. Voting works in the USA. All the internet has to do is convince people to go out and exercise their right to vote in order to oust people from government.
Iran also has voting, but the results don't match the votes, so it's back to revolution for them. They haven't succeeded (but hopefully it's just a matter of time). The internet has to convince people to go out and possibly die. It remains to be seen if they'll continue to protest against the hard line that their government has started to take. This morning's news seems to say that they're faltering.
In China, they don't have voting, and they don't have a revolution either. Some may not like it but they put up with it. The Internet needs to first get people to care.
The internet caused the incumbent control over the USA's executive and legislative branch to switch from one party to the other...in a two party system.
The internet is having some effect, but it can't be credited for the overthrow of governments yet.
I have the same problem! For most of my life, I've only known one other geek. Just last month I finally met a second! I read several PnP manuals out of curiosity and found them intriguing, but to this day, I've never met anyone that played PnP games...
It's not easy to come by people with these niche interests. No way to pick geeks out of a crowd unless they're living out the stereotype or wearing an obscure reference on their t-shirt.
This isn't a bad idea, look for hobby groups/clubs. I would stay away from one-on-one meetings.
But it doesn't have to necessarily be Craigslist, it could be any kind of gathering.
I'm finding that the tough part about socialization is the investment it requires. It's hard to make this investment when most of the time I'm not even interested in its rewards. You have to invest time and energy, and put yourself out there to pursue conversation with people that might not be worth talking to. I have a lot of things I'd rather be doing instead of talking to people, but after putting off socialization in favor of my interests, I find that I have very few people to talk to when I'm finally interested in doing it. I've recently had to actively pursue socialization now that I'm changing careers and networking will now be an important factor in success. It was uncomfortable at first, but I'm slowly learning to enjoy it.
I've only known one geek for the majority of my life. I've recently met only one other geek. Geeks aren't easy to come by in real-life, maybe it's because we tend to stay glued to our hobbies and interests which means we spend less time out in public. The most likely reason is that you often can't spot a geek just by looking at them, they're probably hygienic and look like any other person.
But you don't have to only talk to other geeks, you don't need to have common interests, just a common experience through which to meet, and a common interest in knowing each other. I have absolutely nothing in common with one of my best friends, but we have fun talking about our lives and our significant others. I don't talk about Battlestar Galactica with her, I can do that on the Sci-Fi forums. She doesn't talk about parties and car shows with me.
Anyway, in the meantime, some tips I've heard:
1) Be interested in the person you're talking to. People like to feel special and they'll reciprocate with more interest in the conversation. Make them feel important and ask follow-up questions
2) Find a common thing to talk about and just start talking. If you're both in a bookstore, talk about books. If you're in class, talk about class, it's a casual opener. While it may feel weird to just walk up and talk to someone, most people are at least curious to meet this strange person who's bold enough to talk to a stranger. If they're not, they probably do have a legitimate reason to be in a hurry, or they may just be shy.
I would definitely prefer a keyboard over the iphone's virtual keyboard.
Multi-tasking is potentially useful. Stat-tracking applications and IM-applications in the background could be handy. Hopefully someone will take the initiative to provide these for use.
However, I'm not that optimistic about the open development model. Apple has immense momentum going with Itunes and the Appstore. The more open development model is more attractive for those who just want to put out a nice useful tool for the public good. But I think that most of the developers who can be incentivized by making money will prefer the large audience of the appstore/itunes, and the proven revenue channel that it provides.
Buyers like that the iphone appears to have an app for everything(per Apple's ad-campaigning). They might not realize that other phones offer apps that are banned or unsupported on the iphone, but they don't care until they're made aware of these possibilities. They just know that the iphone has apps out the wazoo, and the palm pre has a mere fraction of that. If they can't sell the Palm Pre to a huge audience, the developers might stick to pitching to the larger iphone audience...which in turn results in less apps for the Palm Pre. But who knows? Perhaps they'll develop for the Palm Pre anyway because of how hard it is to get noticed amongst the competitive glut on the iphone.
I think they should update both games to current L4D2 technology. Then sell L4D1 and L4D2 as both a standalone and expansion. City of Heroes and City of Villains did this successfully.
Buy 1 of them and pay the price of a standalone game. Buy the 2nd game as an expansion to the first. Then L4D1 players can enjoy the updated tech in the same maps they've been playing and be happy to receive the update they were promised. In order to get more content along with the update, they would be happy to pay expansion prices for another 4 campaigns.
L4D2 players would be able to enjoy their new game, and will probably also want to buy L4D1 content as an expansion prices.
Both the old players and the new players would pay for a standalone+expansion, and the old players still get a nice fat update like they were expecting.
Plus combining the games like this makes sense in terms of mapping and modding so that the user-generated content in production right now can be used to increase the value of both L4D1 and L4D2 at the same time. The sum would be greater than the value of the individual parts.
Sounds to me like they're Pink-ists.
What's wrong with the color pink? It's just a color.
I bought my wife a 15" laptop with some pretty respectable specs a few months ago. 15" is the cheapest size in the laptop category, going smaller or larger increases the price(unless you go into the netbook category which she considers to be too small, since she doesn't like my EEEpc). She chose the color and she chose pink.
She hasn't been using the brand new laptop. As it turns out, she ends up using her ancient 4 year old laptop most of the time because it's just 12", so it's small enough to carry around and bring into the kitchen to reference recipes, yet big enough to read use to chat with her friends. Ideally, I should've just reduced the specs, and bought a 12"inch pink laptop instead.
Why can't women like small pink laptops? Why can't they like cooking? To hell with what other people think, she works as a programmer, that's "tech" enough. If women want what Dell's marketing, they'll buy it. If not, then Dell just wasted a bunch of money on their campaign.
Juice and soda are both extremely high in excess sugar. The minimal nutrition from juice isn't really worth it. It's better to drink water instead for fluids, and then eat fresh fruit for the vitamins.
If you don't like water(like me), seltzer is also a bit cheaper than soda. The regular price for a 12pack of soda here is about 4 bucks, while seltzer is at 3.30. However, when the sales hit, the soda usually falls to 3 bucks, while the seltzer drops to 1.80! That's when I buy several boxes at once.
Seltzer is just carbonated water, zero calories. They even come in different flavors, but still with no sugar. As you wean off soda, your body's tolerance for sugar changes, and lime seltzer ends up tasting better than sprite. The reason I like seltzer is that it washes mypalate clean, so that I can taste the next bite of food better. Cuts right through the oil.
Still, carbonated water binds with calcium in your body and turns it into calcium carbonate which simply passes through your system instead of strengthening your bones. So if you drink milk to get your calcium fix, it's better to avoid soda/seltzer during that day so that you can absorb the calcium first.
It may be impractical or implausible to vaccinate a major city. However, it may be possible to 100% vaccinate the populations of isolated villages and towns. With fewer people to locate and administer the drug to, the vaccinations could result in a dengue free-area!
While it would be possible for mosquitoes with the disease to come in from other areas, most species (though not all) don't migrate very far and tend stay close to their food source.
Back on topic, Panera bread's solution is to limit wifi to half an hour sessions. Between their peak hours between 11am and 2pm, the half hour is all you get. At other times of the day, you simply need to relogin through their welcome page after the half-hour is up.
McDonalds is far from the first restaurant to implement wifi.
Parent is correct.
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After being sent back in time, Nero could simply escort a willing Spock Prime to the star that went supernova, and then prevent the disaster centuries before it happened. That's it. There's no reason for any of these events to have occurred.
To be fair, imdb scores are often inflated from the initial excitement. It takes about 3-4 weeks for the initial shine to wear off.
Those who've been waiting in anticipation of the movie are the ones most likely to run back to imdb and post glowing reviews so the scores are high at first. Then the actual quality of the movie determines whether the high rating sticks or gets dragged down as more objective reviews, or negative reviews start to trickle in.
However, if the rating starts off low, then the score is probably accurate and the movie is probably terrible.
I liked the movie a lot. It was a good movie, but I agree with GP that it wasn't good "Star Trek". It has nothing to do with the alternate universe explanation (it's far from the first time we've seen this, the Mirror universe provides precedent in several episodes).
It's more about the theme of the movie. It was about action rather than sci-fi. Star Trek explored issues in the future in a way that causes people to reflect upon the present. Star Trek had tons of aimless drivel among its episodes, but the best parts of Star Trek weren't action setpieces, but episodes that made you think. The franchise has touched upon issues like capital punishment, homosexuality, evaluation of moral perspective, discrimination and bias, tradition vs. progression.
However, these things are not easily handled in the framework of a movie. And hell, I like action movies too. I liked the new Star Trek movie and I'm interested in where they go from here.
Though parent post was moderated as "Funny" I'd still like to point that Star Trek doesn't use a single timeline.
There's been plenty of alternate timelines in the series operating concurrently with the one we've come to know and love. The Mirror universe has made multiple occurences. Also, even if the movie is in the same reality, the previous state of the timeline still exists, as shown by Spock Prime's presence and memories.
If you take a string with points A and B, then loop B back to where point A is...the string between them is still there in the line, it's just looped. Star Trek avoids time travel paradox through alternate realities. Everytime someone in Star Trek alters the past in a way that causes their existence to be a paradox, none is found because of the looping timeline, and so the paradoxical character simply behaves normally and retains the same memories.
I'd say that Democrats /are/ less effective at infringing on civil liberties as Republicans, since the Republicans have held most of the power for the past several years. Now that they're the dominant party in both the white house and Congress we'll see how far they can get.
As for not calling on for BS, isn't that what this slashdot article and the 100+ posts below are about?
How could MS hurt the EU? MS is just a software company dependent upon the protections of the legal infrastructure of the local economy in order to operate.
Worst case scenario, MS stops selling it's software in the EU. Then the EU can just waive copyright protection for MS in the EU so the population can just download it legally from torrent sites. Updates too, since MS would still have to provide updates to the rest of the world which would eventually be downloadable in the EU. The EU will hesitate to make such a precedent, but it's always there on the table since so many businesses rely on MS; they could make an exception for MS.
Or perhaps the businesses in the EU will just be driven to non-MS software, which may induce other businesses around the globe to consider alternative solutions as well.
MS really can't get into a pissing match with the EU. Their best option is to either obey regulation or bribe everyone in sight to prevent things from getting that far.
"paying Wall Street back for filling his campaign coffers"
Obama campaign funds:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.php?id=N00009638
I appreciate that you're trying to advocate an open-mind towards understanding morality and how we choose what to value, but I have to point out an extremely poor choice by framing it against the idea of "allowing billions to die".
A more appropriate situation to request reevaluation of morals is suggesting that maybe the Chinese people don't want or care for US democracy and are comfortable with someone else making all the decisions for the national community. Or perhaps that some women really are ok with being housewives their whole life instead of having a career.
However, I think everyone is on board with the idea that billions of dead people is a "bad" thing. The situations where billions of dead people would be a preferable choice are so far afield that no one will be able to imagine such a doomsday scenario happening to them. Then the attempt to get them to rethink their values will fail. That's getting into the territory of "World War Z" and Cuba becoming the new world power and only allowing the useful people to enter their zombie-free zone.
It's easier to appreciate and discuss the differences between apples and oranges...as opposed to apples and alien invasion. When the comparison being made is ludicrous it hinders rather than encourages discussion.
They're still people just like everyone else, with human limitations of attention, intelligence, resources, time...
The most likely scenario is that 98% of the info they grabbed is the real stuff. Maaaybe they seeded some wrong values into the schemata to try to minefield attempts to construct them, but the overall structure and general design were successfully stolen. They can't spend a ton of time putting in fake info because this is important information they're stealing while they work on inserting fakes, and even doctored designs can provide insight.
They don't have fake backups standing by because who has the time and resources to simultaneously produce real work and fake work in parallel(and from the same limited body of personnel with sufficient clearance?)
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