"there was no significant difference in symptoms between patients taking amoxicillin to those who took the placebo three days after starting the pills were administered."
It is horribly written and the intent is to say that there was no difference between the group that took amoxicillin and the group that took a placebo. However, as written, it might mean that both groups took amoxicillin and one group took a placebo three days after taking amoxicillin and there was no difference in symptoms between the two groups. Of course, if the amoxicillin worked, of course there would be no difference if one group took a placebo three days after taking amoxicillin.
....and you didn't pull out your smartphone to record the whole incident and attempt to get out of the ticket? Now THAT would be a story about how a smartphone got someone out of a traffic ticket.
As someone who has limited ability to access a broadband wifi connection at work (corporate restrictions) to check email, bank balances, etc., I find the $30 data plan the ipad offers to be the best solution.
Part of growing up is learning to communicate. Part of learning to communicate is learning to communicate in different environments. Sometimes you are alone. Sometimes there are others around. Adjusting your behavior and altering the content of your conversation to fit the circumstances is being lost on today's youth.
I commend your parent for limiting your texting to 250 texts per month. My own kids have a 200 texts per month limit and the texts shut off when the limit is reached. My kids can make a phone call and communicate with their friends because they know they can't just arbitrarily send a text without losing another one of those valuable little texts.
These communication skills are valuable tools when you enter the workforce. Those with actual communication skills will prosper.
To understand this seemingly insane logic by the electric company, take an extreme example. Suppose every household on the grid generated sufficient solar electricity to power their homes, but once in a while, the clouds come out over just 1 of those homes. If that 1 home had to pay for the electricity at cost, it would cost that household billions without the other households paying the electric company a connectivity fee to maintain the grid. Think of it as cloud insurance. The electric company will insure your solar system against clouds by maintaining your connection to the grid and allowing you to use electricity from the grid in the event you need it. Without that fee, you would be "mooching" off the full users of the electrical grid who are now paying for your cloud insurance.
"Is this like support from *individual Mormons* in the Proposition 8 campaign, because I don't think that kind of support will go down well with the Iranians either."
Those ungrateful Iranians will never appreciate the individual Mormon support for the Proposition 8 campaign.
Nintendo and Immersion did NOT collaberate on haptic technology. That is an assumption some bloggers came to and is untrue.
As to Microsoft buying a chunk of Immersion, Microsoft sold all Immersion shares later after the shares had increased (no doubt due to Microsoft's investment) essentially paying for their settlement with Immersion. In other words, they got a cheap license from Immersion.
I'm sure there will be alot of comments about the uselessness of force feedback. But before jumping to conclusions, check out the company's release of their next-generation force feedback a couple months ago, which they are no doubt trying to get into the current consoles.
http://www.gamedaily.com/features/?id=1039
"The effect is satisfying, yet it doesn't come close to capturing actual gunfire or explosions, partly because it takes time for these motors to build up speed. But this single, next-generation motor is not only capable of spinning in multiple directions, but it can stop on a dime and is generally much stronger than its predecessors. The result is a richer, more intense experience that will further immerse us in these upcoming games.
To demo this, Immersion had me play a couple of PlayStation 2 games using the standard DualShock, those being EA's Medal of Honor: Frontline and Sony's Gran Turismo 4. Employees encouraged me to fire my character's guns and rev my car's engines, and things happened and felt as they should. But then we moved onto LucasArts' Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast for the PC. The game had been specially rigged to work with this next-gen vibration, and the moment the tester pulled out his character's light saber I was blown away. Unlike in previous Star Wars games, where a controller will output the same level of rumble no matter what's going on, there's varying degrees of it, from when the light saber's powered on, to when its cutting things up and to when it's not being used at all, whereupon which the controller provides a very satisfying "hum". And the vibrations don't stop until the weapon's put away. Furthermore, gunfire is just a lot more intense. Not only does each weapon (blaster pistol, cross bow, disrupter rifle) feel different, but the kick back is superb. The difference between this technology and previous controllers is akin to making the jump from the original Resident Evil on PSOne to Resident Evil 4. It's just in stark contrast to what I've been used to."
"The reason that the 3G didn't really fly as well as it should have was because there was no tactile feedback. You get the 'click' when you press the button on all of the other models, but 3G you didn't get that. In addition, you had to move your thumb to get to the menu buttons."
Immersion Corporation has Jon Rubinstein, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering on their Board of Directors. Apple has licensed Immersion's tactile feedback for the Macintosh platform. Immersion could provide the feel of the "click" in the video wheel. I've heard the technology is really amazing.
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"there was no significant difference in symptoms between patients taking amoxicillin to those who took the placebo three days after starting the pills were administered."
It is horribly written and the intent is to say that there was no difference between the group that took amoxicillin and the group that took a placebo. However, as written, it might mean that both groups took amoxicillin and one group took a placebo three days after taking amoxicillin and there was no difference in symptoms between the two groups. Of course, if the amoxicillin worked, of course there would be no difference if one group took a placebo three days after taking amoxicillin.
....and you didn't pull out your smartphone to record the whole incident and attempt to get out of the ticket? Now THAT would be a story about how a smartphone got someone out of a traffic ticket.
As someone who has limited ability to access a broadband wifi connection at work (corporate restrictions) to check email, bank balances, etc., I find the $30 data plan the ipad offers to be the best solution.
Part of growing up is learning to communicate. Part of learning to communicate is learning to communicate in different environments. Sometimes you are alone. Sometimes there are others around. Adjusting your behavior and altering the content of your conversation to fit the circumstances is being lost on today's youth. I commend your parent for limiting your texting to 250 texts per month. My own kids have a 200 texts per month limit and the texts shut off when the limit is reached. My kids can make a phone call and communicate with their friends because they know they can't just arbitrarily send a text without losing another one of those valuable little texts. These communication skills are valuable tools when you enter the workforce. Those with actual communication skills will prosper.
You got the wrong guy, I hate the Power Company. I'm just explaining the logic.
To understand this seemingly insane logic by the electric company, take an extreme example. Suppose every household on the grid generated sufficient solar electricity to power their homes, but once in a while, the clouds come out over just 1 of those homes. If that 1 home had to pay for the electricity at cost, it would cost that household billions without the other households paying the electric company a connectivity fee to maintain the grid. Think of it as cloud insurance. The electric company will insure your solar system against clouds by maintaining your connection to the grid and allowing you to use electricity from the grid in the event you need it. Without that fee, you would be "mooching" off the full users of the electrical grid who are now paying for your cloud insurance.
"Is this like support from *individual Mormons* in the Proposition 8 campaign, because I don't think that kind of support will go down well with the Iranians either." Those ungrateful Iranians will never appreciate the individual Mormon support for the Proposition 8 campaign.
They can't....the gimp's sleeping.
Yeah, who doesn't reflect on their college days by recalling the pleasant sweet smelling arc welding fumes ....... and the beer bongs.
My Ronco Pop-a-Dent can make that sucker look good as new!
Nintendo and Immersion did NOT collaberate on haptic technology. That is an assumption some bloggers came to and is untrue. As to Microsoft buying a chunk of Immersion, Microsoft sold all Immersion shares later after the shares had increased (no doubt due to Microsoft's investment) essentially paying for their settlement with Immersion. In other words, they got a cheap license from Immersion.
I'm sure there will be alot of comments about the uselessness of force feedback. But before jumping to conclusions, check out the company's release of their next-generation force feedback a couple months ago, which they are no doubt trying to get into the current consoles. http://www.gamedaily.com/features/?id=1039 "The effect is satisfying, yet it doesn't come close to capturing actual gunfire or explosions, partly because it takes time for these motors to build up speed. But this single, next-generation motor is not only capable of spinning in multiple directions, but it can stop on a dime and is generally much stronger than its predecessors. The result is a richer, more intense experience that will further immerse us in these upcoming games. To demo this, Immersion had me play a couple of PlayStation 2 games using the standard DualShock, those being EA's Medal of Honor: Frontline and Sony's Gran Turismo 4. Employees encouraged me to fire my character's guns and rev my car's engines, and things happened and felt as they should. But then we moved onto LucasArts' Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast for the PC. The game had been specially rigged to work with this next-gen vibration, and the moment the tester pulled out his character's light saber I was blown away. Unlike in previous Star Wars games, where a controller will output the same level of rumble no matter what's going on, there's varying degrees of it, from when the light saber's powered on, to when its cutting things up and to when it's not being used at all, whereupon which the controller provides a very satisfying "hum". And the vibrations don't stop until the weapon's put away. Furthermore, gunfire is just a lot more intense. Not only does each weapon (blaster pistol, cross bow, disrupter rifle) feel different, but the kick back is superb. The difference between this technology and previous controllers is akin to making the jump from the original Resident Evil on PSOne to Resident Evil 4. It's just in stark contrast to what I've been used to."
I'm not going to purchase a PS3 just because of the rumble.
"The reason that the 3G didn't really fly as well as it should have was because there was no tactile feedback. You get the 'click' when you press the button on all of the other models, but 3G you didn't get that. In addition, you had to move your thumb to get to the menu buttons." Immersion Corporation has Jon Rubinstein, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering on their Board of Directors. Apple has licensed Immersion's tactile feedback for the Macintosh platform. Immersion could provide the feel of the "click" in the video wheel. I've heard the technology is really amazing.