Aren't all games repetitive?
FPS: grab weapons shoot at opposition till you die, rinse then repeat
RTS: Build your base, build units, defend against enemy incursions, then when your army is big enough rush the enemy base
Card games: Get hand dealt, evaluate possibilities try to maximize highest scoring in each round/hand, repeat.
Racing Games: Configure car, drive to the front, try to stay in the front.
Even Puzzle games can be repetitive.
See I always think back to Ep VI where C3PO Is talking to the Ewoks about their adventures, and thought the prequels could be a highly dramatized fiction embellished by C3PO trying to retell events that have been scrambled in his circuits for some time. If that were true it would explain why certain traits got so accentuated:D
Human beings are creatures of habbit. We get into a rhythm, when do we wake up, eat breakfast, leave for work, take bathroom breaks, etc. There have been studies that show that people who get distracted at work can lose minutes of productive time answering the distraction before they can get back into that sweet spot of productivity. Music, I believe, provides a bit of rhythm to the day. It can help get your mind focused in the correct direction, and get back to work more efficiently then if you had no music at all.
Now, I have had some experience with this, and I often have headphones on and music playing (virtualized to play on itunes no less because I don't want to take up bandwidth space on an internet radio station.) And I'd say about 80% of the time music helps the day go, and helps me be much more productive. It is easier to get into a groove and then just keep going and working. I am amazed out how productive I am when I am listening to music.
However there are also a few times when the music is as much of a distraction to work as well. Often times when I realize that, I am smart enough to turn off the player, and set the headphones down and refocus the old fashioned way. To me this issue comes down to trust. If they don't trust you to use everything at your disposal to keep yourself focused and on task, then why do you have a job in the first place?
To me if I was a manager, I would want to be able to trust my employess. If I am having to meddle in how they go about doing their job like this, it speaks to a trust issue that under the surface is disrupting the teams ability to work together. Having just read a ton of books on leadership by Maxwell and Scully, I believe that its important to sit down with your manager and air these issues out before they become a major impediment to team success.
Not to play devils adovocate here, but in the eight years since the destruction of the twin towers, what compells you to believe that KSM actually would get a 'fair' trial, and that they can actually find a 'jury of his peers' that won't already think he is guilty?
This could be evidence of Ethics Violations, and if you work for a company with an Ethics Hotline, or if you work for the Government or Department of Defense, it may be your duty to report this problem if it is not taken care of in a timely fashion. They take this sort of thing pretty seriously, and if I recall correctly, they recently passed some rules about just this sort of thing.
I don't give a flip about Murdoch. If your going to rail against Fox, then why not NBC/MSNBC owned by GE whose leader (Imelt) has had direct input to Obama since getting to the white house.
There are no unbiased news sources, but biased or not, Fox shows more from both sides than either of the two major cable networks. The left is just upset because their ideas of ever growing government, higher taxation, and dummed down populace doesn't sell as well on the air ways. Heck I was flipping through, and CNN was advertising during Beck's hour! Talk about crazy.
It was headline news, actually, he was on back and for with that lady Nancy Grace I think it was? As for why he chose to leave for Fox news? I don't know why. Could be Fox offered more money, I don't recall, but we don't even know that CNN wanted to keep him. While I like Glen Beck he is overly dramatic sometimes, and to the channel flippers of the nation, he does come off as nuts at times.
Glenn beck has been on the trails of many of these stories, for a long time, well before he was ever signed to air on Fox News, back when he was still on one of turner's stations, Headline News. Yet noone wants to remember that, het's on fox he must be a liar. So does that mean Alan Colmes, Hiraldo, or anyone else who appears on Fox News must by association be a liar?
I've been watching beck for over two and a half years now. Since I discovered his show over on that other CNN network, headline news. And I don't always agree with him or rush or hannity, but he has brought a lot of things to light that the main stream networks have ignored. Especially this ACORN crap.
Its not totally unbelievable I lost 60 pounds in about 4-6 weeks simply by reducing portions at meals and moving to 5 or 6 small meals a day instead of 3 large ones. It can be done, if I did it over 6 weeks, losing over 4 months would be simple. The key to the diet for me was protein, my body thrives on protein, so every meal had a lean steak or chicken piece (except dinner where anything was allowed), and then alternating a carb with a vegetable at all but one meal where i had both
I can attest to this fact. I recently had an incident where I got a good chunk of Turkey caught in my esophagus. The result was I had to get scoped, and had to change my diet to soft foods for a couple of weeks. That was about two and a half weeks ago. Last week was the first week I began to east some real soft meats (like say hamburgers on a bun). I immediately noticed that my appetite and stomach had changed in just a short amount of time. It was not uncommon before this happened that even a Double Quarter with cheese, large fry and drink would not fill me up. Now I'm lucky if I can eat the entire burger, let alone the fries or anything else. so I'm definitely trying to downsize my portions cause I know I don't need as much as I have been eating. It looks like this will be a good thing:D
This reminds me of the Pixar Movie the Incredibles, where the Villian "Syndrome" says "He'll make everyone super, and when everyone is super, no one will be."
When you try to make everything equal you end up lowering standards, and hurting those among us who are truly exceptional. That isn't smart for a country that needs smarts to solve its problems. Granted I'm not happy with several things, namely the educational system. It should not be about having common standards it should be about achieving a high base standard of education. The current system really dumbs things down, and plays to the lower end of the spectrum leaving the truly bright and gifted, bored, or worse.
But if two speicies can procreate are they really different species? Or is it whether the offspring can reproduce with each other that makes them the same species? (For some reason I'm remined of mules is it?)
As a techie, and a bible believing Christian, I have conflicting feelings about this. On one hand my initial reaction was to think it was so outrageous, but then as i thought some more about it, how is this any different than the advertisements we get bombarded with on TV? I mean the first commercial I thought of is the Lady driving her cadilac, are they trying to entice you with the car? No they are trying to entice you by sublimally making you think hey, if I have a Cadilac I could have a hot gal of my Own driving with me.
I believe this is not an uncommon thing, I mean I'd wager that about three quarters of the ads I've seen on TV lately have some sort of sexual message to try and sell or attract their customers. How about those Go'Daddy Commercials, or the other ones that Danica Patrick is in, do you think they aren't trying to use 'sex' or 'sexual imagery' to sell a product? Of course they are, and many of us as human beings are drawn to that even if we have conservative values. So while I understand the 'outrage' some may have over this event, I'm kind of in the mind of saying, "So what? How is this different from the rest of the world and how they advertise their products and services?"
There are multiple third party solutions on the market already that handle this, I don't know if they are patented but I know the place I used to work used things like CrypKey, Crypto++ and later developed their own solution
I honestly don't have a clue how you got moded 5 Insightful. Lots of people listen to Radio, whether for news talk, music, sports, weather, current events. I listen regularly in the car, because I am not always in a music mood. Remember just because you have converted and switched to top line MP3s, Ipods, or Satellite radio, doesn't mean everyone else has. Some of us like what we get currently. Football games in particular I often have to listen to online. Now this may not be the same sort of thing in a more urban setting, but in rural areas, where TV hasn't been saturated yet, FM and AM are the way to go.
You could just as easily say that those who commit acts of violence like candy, but the reverse does not necessarily true. I mean C'mon KIDS love candy.
Am I the only one who thinks we may find the fourth race (the furlings?) maybe? maybe? And let me go back. There was once an alliance right? of four races, the Nocks, the Furlings, the Ancients, and the Asgard, but one thing that never made sense to me is why those races were once allies.
We know the Asgard had enemies in the replicators during SG-1, but consider this, what brings people together more than a major enemy? However, there was the Wraith but they had been sleeping for quite a while in pegasus and the asgard reportedly had left or been wiped out there near as I can tell. So I cannot help but wonder if there is another boogie man out there that was so powerful that the combined power of the ancients, asgard, Nocks, and whoever the furlings were was needed to be able to keep them in check.
I never liked that they called it a cloak. I know in ST:TNG they had a ship they went to find that had something similar, but technically what it does is Phase shift.
Obama should never have gone to copenhagen. Unemployment is at 9.8% (Would be higher if they actually counted people who are not working but have used up their benefits). Secondly, Obama can't seem to unify his own party on healthcare, and his climate change legislation is floundering in the senate.
I knew the minute Obama announced that he personally was going that we were going to lose it. The man doesn't know when to step aside and let a subordinate handle things. He has been one of the weakest presidents especially on foreign policy that we have had in a long time.
To hear this notion that screening of passengers coming in to the US is why they lost it? C'mon, we had the Salt Lake games not long after 9-11. People need to wake up. Obama should never have gotten involved, and now the failure to land the Olympics will be tied to him and not the other reasons it may be. LIke it, or hate it, that's the facts.
The Kodak's I have seen at Walmart seem to have the most inexpensive cartridges compared to HP, Lexmark etc. And PC Magazine was raving about them, but I'm not sure whether they are efficient or not. We recently switched to a kodak, and have been happy thus far.
You aren't the only one, I bought a flat laying all in one back in 03, and the scanner light died in it after only a few uses (after it was out of warranty) thus making it only a printer. Then to make matters worse, the ink kept going up. We finally ditched it and bought one of those new Kodak ones. I already notice how much crisper the Kodak prints. we'll see how it does on ink though. Its sad cause I used to be an HP Evangelist when it came to printers. Not anymore.
Actually I see this as a good example that any politician, no matter how pure his motives may be, can be misinterpretted in a way as to be seen as an agressor. Reagan clearly never intended to attack the USSR, but that didn't matter, what mattered was what the enemy the USSR thought, and they clearly thought he was ready to push the button.
I believe they call that the law of unintended consequences. Now if only Congress would learn that fact:/
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Aren't all games repetitive? FPS: grab weapons shoot at opposition till you die, rinse then repeat RTS: Build your base, build units, defend against enemy incursions, then when your army is big enough rush the enemy base Card games: Get hand dealt, evaluate possibilities try to maximize highest scoring in each round/hand, repeat. Racing Games: Configure car, drive to the front, try to stay in the front. Even Puzzle games can be repetitive.
See I always think back to Ep VI where C3PO Is talking to the Ewoks about their adventures, and thought the prequels could be a highly dramatized fiction embellished by C3PO trying to retell events that have been scrambled in his circuits for some time. If that were true it would explain why certain traits got so accentuated :D
Human beings are creatures of habbit. We get into a rhythm, when do we wake up, eat breakfast, leave for work, take bathroom breaks, etc. There have been studies that show that people who get distracted at work can lose minutes of productive time answering the distraction before they can get back into that sweet spot of productivity. Music, I believe, provides a bit of rhythm to the day. It can help get your mind focused in the correct direction, and get back to work more efficiently then if you had no music at all.
Now, I have had some experience with this, and I often have headphones on and music playing (virtualized to play on itunes no less because I don't want to take up bandwidth space on an internet radio station.) And I'd say about 80% of the time music helps the day go, and helps me be much more productive. It is easier to get into a groove and then just keep going and working. I am amazed out how productive I am when I am listening to music.
However there are also a few times when the music is as much of a distraction to work as well. Often times when I realize that, I am smart enough to turn off the player, and set the headphones down and refocus the old fashioned way. To me this issue comes down to trust. If they don't trust you to use everything at your disposal to keep yourself focused and on task, then why do you have a job in the first place?
To me if I was a manager, I would want to be able to trust my employess. If I am having to meddle in how they go about doing their job like this, it speaks to a trust issue that under the surface is disrupting the teams ability to work together. Having just read a ton of books on leadership by Maxwell and Scully, I believe that its important to sit down with your manager and air these issues out before they become a major impediment to team success.
Not to play devils adovocate here, but in the eight years since the destruction of the twin towers, what compells you to believe that KSM actually would get a 'fair' trial, and that they can actually find a 'jury of his peers' that won't already think he is guilty?
This could be evidence of Ethics Violations, and if you work for a company with an Ethics Hotline, or if you work for the Government or Department of Defense, it may be your duty to report this problem if it is not taken care of in a timely fashion. They take this sort of thing pretty seriously, and if I recall correctly, they recently passed some rules about just this sort of thing.
I don't give a flip about Murdoch. If your going to rail against Fox, then why not NBC/MSNBC owned by GE whose leader (Imelt) has had direct input to Obama since getting to the white house.
There are no unbiased news sources, but biased or not, Fox shows more from both sides than either of the two major cable networks. The left is just upset because their ideas of ever growing government, higher taxation, and dummed down populace doesn't sell as well on the air ways. Heck I was flipping through, and CNN was advertising during Beck's hour! Talk about crazy.
Lastly, since when is making money anti-american?
It was headline news, actually, he was on back and for with that lady Nancy Grace I think it was? As for why he chose to leave for Fox news? I don't know why. Could be Fox offered more money, I don't recall, but we don't even know that CNN wanted to keep him. While I like Glen Beck he is overly dramatic sometimes, and to the channel flippers of the nation, he does come off as nuts at times.
Glenn beck has been on the trails of many of these stories, for a long time, well before he was ever signed to air on Fox News, back when he was still on one of turner's stations, Headline News. Yet noone wants to remember that, het's on fox he must be a liar. So does that mean Alan Colmes, Hiraldo, or anyone else who appears on Fox News must by association be a liar?
I've been watching beck for over two and a half years now. Since I discovered his show over on that other CNN network, headline news. And I don't always agree with him or rush or hannity, but he has brought a lot of things to light that the main stream networks have ignored. Especially this ACORN crap.
Its not totally unbelievable I lost 60 pounds in about 4-6 weeks simply by reducing portions at meals and moving to 5 or 6 small meals a day instead of 3 large ones. It can be done, if I did it over 6 weeks, losing over 4 months would be simple. The key to the diet for me was protein, my body thrives on protein, so every meal had a lean steak or chicken piece (except dinner where anything was allowed), and then alternating a carb with a vegetable at all but one meal where i had both
I can attest to this fact. I recently had an incident where I got a good chunk of Turkey caught in my esophagus. The result was I had to get scoped, and had to change my diet to soft foods for a couple of weeks. That was about two and a half weeks ago. Last week was the first week I began to east some real soft meats (like say hamburgers on a bun). I immediately noticed that my appetite and stomach had changed in just a short amount of time. It was not uncommon before this happened that even a Double Quarter with cheese, large fry and drink would not fill me up. Now I'm lucky if I can eat the entire burger, let alone the fries or anything else. so I'm definitely trying to downsize my portions cause I know I don't need as much as I have been eating. It looks like this will be a good thing :D
This reminds me of the Pixar Movie the Incredibles, where the Villian "Syndrome" says "He'll make everyone super, and when everyone is super, no one will be." When you try to make everything equal you end up lowering standards, and hurting those among us who are truly exceptional. That isn't smart for a country that needs smarts to solve its problems. Granted I'm not happy with several things, namely the educational system. It should not be about having common standards it should be about achieving a high base standard of education. The current system really dumbs things down, and plays to the lower end of the spectrum leaving the truly bright and gifted, bored, or worse.
But if two speicies can procreate are they really different species? Or is it whether the offspring can reproduce with each other that makes them the same species? (For some reason I'm remined of mules is it?)
As a techie, and a bible believing Christian, I have conflicting feelings about this. On one hand my initial reaction was to think it was so outrageous, but then as i thought some more about it, how is this any different than the advertisements we get bombarded with on TV? I mean the first commercial I thought of is the Lady driving her cadilac, are they trying to entice you with the car? No they are trying to entice you by sublimally making you think hey, if I have a Cadilac I could have a hot gal of my Own driving with me.
I believe this is not an uncommon thing, I mean I'd wager that about three quarters of the ads I've seen on TV lately have some sort of sexual message to try and sell or attract their customers. How about those Go'Daddy Commercials, or the other ones that Danica Patrick is in, do you think they aren't trying to use 'sex' or 'sexual imagery' to sell a product? Of course they are, and many of us as human beings are drawn to that even if we have conservative values. So while I understand the 'outrage' some may have over this event, I'm kind of in the mind of saying, "So what? How is this different from the rest of the world and how they advertise their products and services?"
Why is the google toolbar even an issue if IE 8 allows you to select google as a browser engine just like you can with Fire Fox now?
There are multiple third party solutions on the market already that handle this, I don't know if they are patented but I know the place I used to work used things like CrypKey, Crypto++ and later developed their own solution
I honestly don't have a clue how you got moded 5 Insightful. Lots of people listen to Radio, whether for news talk, music, sports, weather, current events. I listen regularly in the car, because I am not always in a music mood. Remember just because you have converted and switched to top line MP3s, Ipods, or Satellite radio, doesn't mean everyone else has. Some of us like what we get currently. Football games in particular I often have to listen to online. Now this may not be the same sort of thing in a more urban setting, but in rural areas, where TV hasn't been saturated yet, FM and AM are the way to go.
You could just as easily say that those who commit acts of violence like candy, but the reverse does not necessarily true. I mean C'mon KIDS love candy.
Am I the only one who thinks we may find the fourth race (the furlings?) maybe? maybe? And let me go back. There was once an alliance right? of four races, the Nocks, the Furlings, the Ancients, and the Asgard, but one thing that never made sense to me is why those races were once allies.
We know the Asgard had enemies in the replicators during SG-1, but consider this, what brings people together more than a major enemy? However, there was the Wraith but they had been sleeping for quite a while in pegasus and the asgard reportedly had left or been wiped out there near as I can tell. So I cannot help but wonder if there is another boogie man out there that was so powerful that the combined power of the ancients, asgard, Nocks, and whoever the furlings were was needed to be able to keep them in check.
I never liked that they called it a cloak. I know in ST:TNG they had a ship they went to find that had something similar, but technically what it does is Phase shift.
both the Illiad and the Oydssey are far to large to cover in a short amount of time.
Obama should never have gone to copenhagen. Unemployment is at 9.8% (Would be higher if they actually counted people who are not working but have used up their benefits). Secondly, Obama can't seem to unify his own party on healthcare, and his climate change legislation is floundering in the senate.
I knew the minute Obama announced that he personally was going that we were going to lose it. The man doesn't know when to step aside and let a subordinate handle things. He has been one of the weakest presidents especially on foreign policy that we have had in a long time.
To hear this notion that screening of passengers coming in to the US is why they lost it? C'mon, we had the Salt Lake games not long after 9-11. People need to wake up. Obama should never have gotten involved, and now the failure to land the Olympics will be tied to him and not the other reasons it may be. LIke it, or hate it, that's the facts.
The Kodak's I have seen at Walmart seem to have the most inexpensive cartridges compared to HP, Lexmark etc. And PC Magazine was raving about them, but I'm not sure whether they are efficient or not. We recently switched to a kodak, and have been happy thus far.
You aren't the only one, I bought a flat laying all in one back in 03, and the scanner light died in it after only a few uses (after it was out of warranty) thus making it only a printer. Then to make matters worse, the ink kept going up. We finally ditched it and bought one of those new Kodak ones. I already notice how much crisper the Kodak prints. we'll see how it does on ink though. Its sad cause I used to be an HP Evangelist when it came to printers. Not anymore.
Actually I see this as a good example that any politician, no matter how pure his motives may be, can be misinterpretted in a way as to be seen as an agressor. Reagan clearly never intended to attack the USSR, but that didn't matter, what mattered was what the enemy the USSR thought, and they clearly thought he was ready to push the button.
:/
I believe they call that the law of unintended consequences. Now if only Congress would learn that fact