Flashing headlights is a very old practice that has been around as long as cops hiding behind billboards and bushes have - which is to say for several decades.
In some places people have been pulled over for flashing their headlights and charged with obstructing justice or the like. Usully these charges end up in court and are usually dismissed. There are actually precedent setting decisions in some places and countries regarding these types of charges.
Basically, the places where police pull people over for this type of practice are the same places that place ticketing quotas on their police force so they can farm drivers for extra velocity taxes. They get VERY upset when you find away around such cash grabs. After all, speeding tickets are rarely - except in the most extreme cases - about deterrence, but about hidden taxes.
Don't do digital publishing on an iMac and buy a third-party monitor. Not only will you save money but you'll get better color fidelity. The Mac pro is still a great machine for publishing for a variety of reasons.
Time is "real"? Interesting, but debatable thought.
Basically, what you are demanding is anarchy. Because someone else sinks a lot of time into a game, you feel that they should be exempt from the EULA. And if that time is "real" then so is anything else in life that requires a person to invest time in it. Following your logic then, anarchy should be the only rule we live by.
Again, you need to actually play the game, interact with people with opinions similar to yours and with players who's opinions are very different, to actually have an educated opinion about why your model is not only unfair to everyone but YOU but why it won't work in a public game such as WoW.
Don't like it? Great, invent your own game and set your own rules, or have none at all. Someone cracks your game, messes up other players, dominates areas of the game with bots, and generally wreaks havoc, just let them do it because you don't want to take a crap on their fun. Don't whine when your game is deserted by all those paying customers though.
You sure seem to have strong opinions about how "real" it is for a game you have never played.
I have played it and let me tell you something: Only someone completely out of touch with reality could ever mistake a game like this for anything approaching real life. Regardless of how much time you waste/invest in getting cool stuff.
When you play Scrabble there are rules to follow because that's the way inventor wants it played. It's no different in an online world, but to claim that there should be special rules for those can't spell for example, is really just asking for a different game, and that's what you are doing. You're not really complaining about WoW (which you have never played), you're really asking for an entirely different game in which you can do what you want without anybody bothering you about rules.
But it's not the real world. It's not even close to the real world, and it's a world in which the creators can set whatever rules they want. I find it more than just a little bizarre that you complain about wanting the rule of law and in a freakin' game. If you don't like the rules why play it?
While it is true that my very ill mother died while waiting for a heart operation, that really is the exception and not the rule. It can happen in the US too, especially if you can't afford a decent health care plan.
Please be careful about believing everything you read -- more often than not there is either misinformation or a hidden agenda coloring the conclusions, and that pretty much goes for everything written about Canada from US sources.
With respect to Canada's system (and how it is paid for varies from province to province by the way, it's a national mandate but it's not run federally), it definitely is not perfect and Michael Moore only has it partly right, but it is if anything, more or less fair.
Are you basing your opinion on the news article or the article in Plos Pathogens? The latter certainly appears to be a well thought out and well-understood "random attack".
Care to quote the article and give some examples which lead you to believe that this is not quality science?
Are you sure that has a multi-touch track pad? Can you "pinch" with two fingers to zoom, or use two fingers to scroll, or use two fingers down and click to right click? That's how a true multi-touch track pad on the Air works. I have looked at the products at Rock Direct and none of them appear to mention "multi-touch". I suspect they do not use that technology and that is why you need to use a two button mouse because they are simply standard trackpads, which generally suck.
I use a basic four-button Intellimouse for gaming with my MBP even though it has true multi-touch. I just don't have enough manual dexterity beyond normal everyday use:-/
Just because you choose to ignore the trackpad and stick with the tried and true ways doesn't necessarily mean you NEED to use a mouse, or that mice are necessarily "a teensy bit better" (whatever that means). Many people use ONLY the multi-touch trackpad. They feel the mouse actually limits them and moving from keyboard to mouse slows them down. I agree except when I'm playing a game (but even some gamers use only the trackpad).
Perhaps you need to tear yourself away from your beloved mouse for a few days and actually learn how to use the trackpad, because it sounds as if a mouse is very awkward for you since you apparently must move your hand several inches to click something, instead of moving it only an inch or two.
"IMHO, there are many other possibilities here that must be ruled out before Heins can claim that he's increased the efficiency of the motor, let along make a claim to perpetual motion:"
What claim of perpetual motion? There IS NO SUCH CLAIM in TFA. The ONLY person to even suggest such a concept is Tyler Hamilton, the reporter for The Star. The inventor doesn't make such a claim, and the guy from MIT ("a leading expert on electromagnetic and electronic systems"), the one who apparently can't come up with a "trivial" test such as the one you propose, makes no such claim.
From TFA:
"There's no talk of perpetual motion. No whisper of broken scientific laws or free energy. Zahn would never go there - at least not yet. But he does see the potential for making electric motors more efficient, and this itself is no small feat."
Maybe it's a problem for some because it forces you to share your personal data with a foreign, not necessarily trustworthy, government, over and above what a passport already does.
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Flashing headlights is a very old practice that has been around as long as cops hiding behind billboards and bushes have - which is to say for several decades.
In some places people have been pulled over for flashing their headlights and charged with obstructing justice or the like. Usully these charges end up in court and are usually dismissed. There are actually precedent setting decisions in some places and countries regarding these types of charges.
Basically, the places where police pull people over for this type of practice are the same places that place ticketing quotas on their police force so they can farm drivers for extra velocity taxes. They get VERY upset when you find away around such cash grabs. After all, speeding tickets are rarely - except in the most extreme cases - about deterrence, but about hidden taxes.
Don't do digital publishing on an iMac and buy a third-party monitor. Not only will you save money but you'll get better color fidelity. The Mac pro is still a great machine for publishing for a variety of reasons.
Time is "real"? Interesting, but debatable thought.
Basically, what you are demanding is anarchy. Because someone else sinks a lot of time into a game, you feel that they should be exempt from the EULA. And if that time is "real" then so is anything else in life that requires a person to invest time in it. Following your logic then, anarchy should be the only rule we live by.
Again, you need to actually play the game, interact with people with opinions similar to yours and with players who's opinions are very different, to actually have an educated opinion about why your model is not only unfair to everyone but YOU but why it won't work in a public game such as WoW.
Don't like it? Great, invent your own game and set your own rules, or have none at all. Someone cracks your game, messes up other players, dominates areas of the game with bots, and generally wreaks havoc, just let them do it because you don't want to take a crap on their fun. Don't whine when your game is deserted by all those paying customers though.
You sure seem to have strong opinions about how "real" it is for a game you have never played.
I have played it and let me tell you something: Only someone completely out of touch with reality could ever mistake a game like this for anything approaching real life. Regardless of how much time you waste/invest in getting cool stuff.
When you play Scrabble there are rules to follow because that's the way inventor wants it played. It's no different in an online world, but to claim that there should be special rules for those can't spell for example, is really just asking for a different game, and that's what you are doing. You're not really complaining about WoW (which you have never played), you're really asking for an entirely different game in which you can do what you want without anybody bothering you about rules.
But it's not the real world. It's not even close to the real world, and it's a world in which the creators can set whatever rules they want. I find it more than just a little bizarre that you complain about wanting the rule of law and in a freakin' game. If you don't like the rules why play it?
Using the success leads to hatred logic, there is no end to the things we could hate eventually. Even /. isn't immune.
My first reaction to someone who says "trust me" is to not trust them.
While it is true that my very ill mother died while waiting for a heart operation, that really is the exception and not the rule. It can happen in the US too, especially if you can't afford a decent health care plan.
Please be careful about believing everything you read -- more often than not there is either misinformation or a hidden agenda coloring the conclusions, and that pretty much goes for everything written about Canada from US sources.
With respect to Canada's system (and how it is paid for varies from province to province by the way, it's a national mandate but it's not run federally), it definitely is not perfect and Michael Moore only has it partly right, but it is if anything, more or less fair.
CBC is older than PBS by some 35 years. If anything PBS is America's answer to CBC, not the other way around.
Trailer Park Boys is available on Netflix in the US.
"...Ron Jeremy."
The article said nothing about it being apishly hairy.
That's FRONKen-SHTEEN to us.
If the virus can no longer reproduce then a combination of other drug therapies and natural immunity will eventually wipe it out.
Are you basing your opinion on the news article or the article in Plos Pathogens? The latter certainly appears to be a well thought out and well-understood "random attack".
Care to quote the article and give some examples which lead you to believe that this is not quality science?
Why should it when you can just go a web site dedicated to that.
Yeah but if the suit succeeds everyone will win $25!
Are you sure that has a multi-touch track pad? Can you "pinch" with two fingers to zoom, or use two fingers to scroll, or use two fingers down and click to right click? That's how a true multi-touch track pad on the Air works. I have looked at the products at Rock Direct and none of them appear to mention "multi-touch". I suspect they do not use that technology and that is why you need to use a two button mouse because they are simply standard trackpads, which generally suck.
:-/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch
I use a basic four-button Intellimouse for gaming with my MBP even though it has true multi-touch. I just don't have enough manual dexterity beyond normal everyday use
Just because you choose to ignore the trackpad and stick with the tried and true ways doesn't necessarily mean you NEED to use a mouse, or that mice are necessarily "a teensy bit better" (whatever that means). Many people use ONLY the multi-touch trackpad. They feel the mouse actually limits them and moving from keyboard to mouse slows them down. I agree except when I'm playing a game (but even some gamers use only the trackpad).
Perhaps you need to tear yourself away from your beloved mouse for a few days and actually learn how to use the trackpad, because it sounds as if a mouse is very awkward for you since you apparently must move your hand several inches to click something, instead of moving it only an inch or two.
Which laptop do you use by the way?
The Air has a multi-touch track pad -- you don't really need a two button mouse unless you're gaming.
Click and hold and select "open". Presto, one click open.
Right click and select "open."
"IMHO, there are many other possibilities here that must be ruled out before Heins can claim that he's increased the efficiency of the motor, let along make a claim to perpetual motion:"
What claim of perpetual motion? There IS NO SUCH CLAIM in TFA. The ONLY person to even suggest such a concept is Tyler Hamilton, the reporter for The Star. The inventor doesn't make such a claim, and the guy from MIT ("a leading expert on electromagnetic and electronic systems"), the one who apparently can't come up with a "trivial" test such as the one you propose, makes no such claim.
From TFA:
"There's no talk of perpetual motion. No whisper of broken scientific laws or free energy. Zahn would never go there - at least not yet. But he does see the potential for making electric motors more efficient, and this itself is no small feat."
Maybe it's a problem for some because it forces you to share your personal data with a foreign, not necessarily trustworthy, government, over and above what a passport already does.
...MS profits surge, up 79%.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2008/tc20080124_168649.htm
That would be an AURAL distraction if she wouldn't shut up.