The somewhat clever answer would be that the computer would have already contacted Google Maps and been rerouted around a problematic area. When the computer is making the route instead of a far less knowledgeable driver, it should be an easy thing to require all roadwork to be submitted to a central database that would inform all routing operations.
In other words, this scenario is anachronistic - in the future, the routing accounts for all those weird situations.
And this is how I plan to survive the zombie apocalypse: advertise loud and proud that I'm a board-certified pediatrician and can tell you when to use all these cool drugs you looted.
Funding and acting are different things though. I morally oppose several wars that the US has been involved in and have the option to register as a conscientious objector, but my taxes fund them. Same story here: no one is forcing the nuns to use contraceptives, just fund them.
Meanwhile, if Tesla revolutionizes the modern car and creates a mini-Detroit (Golden Age, not now), I'm pretty sure California's taxpayers will be happy with the investment.
The most common vaccine that conflicts with egg allergies are the influenza vaccines, which are now recommended annually for every child 6 months to 18 years. Even then, it's such an important vaccine that we only avoid it if the child has anaphylaxis (the most severe reaction) to egg.
These statements are incorrect. For one, JWs get most health care routinely. There is an institutional opposition to the use of blood products, but this also doesn't apply to all individuals and is sometimes circumvented with technology (more routine use of self-transfusions).
While many of the vaccine refusers I meet do belong to faith groups, their rationale is not often related to religion. For example, one of the big groups of devout individuals are those who choose to home-school their children because they don't like turning over control to public schools. I think these are the same types of people who independently research the mercury/MMR/autism rumors as a matter of correlation rather than causation.
No real competition? Sure, all of the #1s made it to the Final Four for the first time ever. But two #2s lost in the second round (Duke and Georgetown), one in the third (Tennessee), and one in the Elite 8. So at most, if you give a little leeway in the 2-3 game that's supposed to happen in the Sweet 16, half of the #2s performed to expectation. The other half didn't even make it to the second weekend.
Correction: it will never happen so long as we have career politicians who not only have no science training to speak of, but have no incentive to learn anything about anything that does not directly relate to the 3-4 hot topics amongst their constituents. Furthermore, should one of those hot topics be a science-based issue, they need do no more than learn a few keywords to rile up the masses.
Ah, so the board of directors should be sued for all of their personal assets in order to pay for Joe Coder's mistake in leaving a backdoor opens. How many people do you think would start up businesses if they knew mistakes made by any employee could bankrupt them?
If the current infection isn't destroyed, what is the use of future immunity? And does 'immunity' even have meaning in that case? Actually, *most* vaccines on the market are designed to produce a response against future exposure rather than treating a current infection - that's exactly what immunity means in medical terms. It would be worthless to immunize against most diseases after they've been contracted anyway, since the body has already been presented with immunogens and should be developing a response; HIV/AIDS is a special case because of A) its success at avoiding effective immune response and B) its ability to destroy the immune response.
An HIV vaccine would, depending on price and risks, most likely be distributed to those who do not yet have the disease but may be at high risk. Since some of the highest risk patients (people who engage in unprotected sex and IV drug users) are less likely to go tell their doc they need it, let's hope it gets cheap and safe enough to make it a mandatory childhood shot!
So what Sony has announced is that there's a pricecut, but then they're going to sell a version that has about $20 worth of storage extra and a version that's not as backwards compatible with PS2 and PS games. (That's assuming $1/GB, which is high - it's closer to $0.75/GB.)
Well, the word on the street is that Sony is moving to 80GB HDs not because of the extra space, but because they're cheaper in large quantities than the old (and now less-standard) 60GB HDs. So Sony is actually trying to unload the more expensive stock at a lower price. On the one hand, this lends credibility to the idea that they will drop the 80GB version to $499, but it also leaves a nasty aftertaste in my mouth knowing that people are essentially giving Sony $100 or more (the Motorstorm Blu-Ray can't cost much to produce) that would be better spent on buying an off-the-shelf HD to put in the 60GB version.
That link shows all of the 1+ million sellers on the SNES. The top 10 has 8 Nintendo games and 2 Capcom games (Street Fighter 2 and Street Fighter 2 Turbo). #11-15 adds another 3 Nintendo games and Final Fantasy VI and Dragon Quest VI. #16-20 adds 2 Nintendo games, Final Fantasy V and Dragon Quest V and Chrono Trigger.
So you weren't far off... Nintendo games and Square/Enix are right behind.
"Despite record losses for the game group, their stock shot to a five-year high and they promised to eliminate 80% of their operating loss within one year. Analysts think that Sony's plan for that might include eventually lowering prices for the PS3."
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but how do you eliminate operating loss by lowering prices? Is this one of those crazy "make it up in volume" schemes?
Other people have already pointed out that Wii Sports is not a pack-in for Japan, but I'll add that Golden Week's NPD numbers show Wii sales of 102,522 - greater than the 85k.
I know this is Slashdot, but did you read the summary? This Gisburne fellow posted quite a few videos about Christianity without any problems. It was only when he posted them against Islam that it became a problem, and that because a number of users flagged it. I'm guessing that what we are seeing here is not protection of religion, but protection is Islam - which Americans have an awkward relationship with right now due to the quandary posed by having a significant (and peaceful) Muslim minority while fighting against any number of predominantly-Muslim foes in the name of fighting terrorism. As you can see, it's the sort of fight that political correctness (in all its self-righteous glory) demands.
And your post, if not ignorant, is at least as naive.
While shipped==sold in the longterm, this is not necessarily true in the short-term. What we have here is the rather unique situation of a console launch, where console makers produce as much as they can and retailers get as much as they can to sell. At this point, made==shipped. On the other hand, if shipped != sold (or close to it) in this time period, it becomes apparent that demand is not as high as it should be - which is what is happening right now. Considering their original estimates of shipping 6 million by March assumed (as Kutaragi said) that 5 million people would buy the PS3 even if they didn't make any games for the system, it is fairly clear that a low demand (as seen in low sales) now will equate to an eventual lower shipping rate (with a lag between the launch and when retailers realize they're not selling out their whole stock).
At this point HDTV's development, it's still a costly technology. It's not an early adopter device any more, but it hasn't even come close to reaching critical mass in the general populace yet. Despite this, it's very clear where the future of technology is, and any television station that waits till HDTV is the standard will pay for that in lost revenue in the future.
Not going HD would be like cable companies saying "No need for us to build high speed infrastructure - everybody likes dial-up."
Or the number or percentage of launch games that are ranked above a certain level. Personally, I'd rather have a console with 2 90s and 1 30 than 3 70s.
Sony sued Lik-Sang in most of the EU countries. Not being capable of defending themselves in the face of such an onslaught (monetarily? legally?), Lik-Sang shut down.
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The somewhat clever answer would be that the computer would have already contacted Google Maps and been rerouted around a problematic area. When the computer is making the route instead of a far less knowledgeable driver, it should be an easy thing to require all roadwork to be submitted to a central database that would inform all routing operations. In other words, this scenario is anachronistic - in the future, the routing accounts for all those weird situations.
And this is how I plan to survive the zombie apocalypse: advertise loud and proud that I'm a board-certified pediatrician and can tell you when to use all these cool drugs you looted.
Funding and acting are different things though. I morally oppose several wars that the US has been involved in and have the option to register as a conscientious objector, but my taxes fund them. Same story here: no one is forcing the nuns to use contraceptives, just fund them.
Meanwhile, if Tesla revolutionizes the modern car and creates a mini-Detroit (Golden Age, not now), I'm pretty sure California's taxpayers will be happy with the investment.
The most common vaccine that conflicts with egg allergies are the influenza vaccines, which are now recommended annually for every child 6 months to 18 years. Even then, it's such an important vaccine that we only avoid it if the child has anaphylaxis (the most severe reaction) to egg.
These statements are incorrect. For one, JWs get most health care routinely. There is an institutional opposition to the use of blood products, but this also doesn't apply to all individuals and is sometimes circumvented with technology (more routine use of self-transfusions). While many of the vaccine refusers I meet do belong to faith groups, their rationale is not often related to religion. For example, one of the big groups of devout individuals are those who choose to home-school their children because they don't like turning over control to public schools. I think these are the same types of people who independently research the mercury/MMR/autism rumors as a matter of correlation rather than causation.
No real competition? Sure, all of the #1s made it to the Final Four for the first time ever. But two #2s lost in the second round (Duke and Georgetown), one in the third (Tennessee), and one in the Elite 8. So at most, if you give a little leeway in the 2-3 game that's supposed to happen in the Sweet 16, half of the #2s performed to expectation. The other half didn't even make it to the second weekend.
I think... I'm not an expert either!
Correction: it will never happen so long as we have career politicians who not only have no science training to speak of, but have no incentive to learn anything about anything that does not directly relate to the 3-4 hot topics amongst their constituents. Furthermore, should one of those hot topics be a science-based issue, they need do no more than learn a few keywords to rile up the masses.
Note: this is generally good advice anywhere.
Ah, so the board of directors should be sued for all of their personal assets in order to pay for Joe Coder's mistake in leaving a backdoor opens. How many people do you think would start up businesses if they knew mistakes made by any employee could bankrupt them?
An HIV vaccine would, depending on price and risks, most likely be distributed to those who do not yet have the disease but may be at high risk. Since some of the highest risk patients (people who engage in unprotected sex and IV drug users) are less likely to go tell their doc they need it, let's hope it gets cheap and safe enough to make it a mandatory childhood shot!
Well, the word on the street is that Sony is moving to 80GB HDs not because of the extra space, but because they're cheaper in large quantities than the old (and now less-standard) 60GB HDs. So Sony is actually trying to unload the more expensive stock at a lower price. On the one hand, this lends credibility to the idea that they will drop the 80GB version to $499, but it also leaves a nasty aftertaste in my mouth knowing that people are essentially giving Sony $100 or more (the Motorstorm Blu-Ray can't cost much to produce) that would be better spent on buying an off-the-shelf HD to put in the 60GB version.
That link shows all of the 1+ million sellers on the SNES. The top 10 has 8 Nintendo games and 2 Capcom games (Street Fighter 2 and Street Fighter 2 Turbo). #11-15 adds another 3 Nintendo games and Final Fantasy VI and Dragon Quest VI. #16-20 adds 2 Nintendo games, Final Fantasy V and Dragon Quest V and Chrono Trigger.
So you weren't far off... Nintendo games and Square/Enix are right behind.
"Despite record losses for the game group, their stock shot to a five-year high and they promised to eliminate 80% of their operating loss within one year. Analysts think that Sony's plan for that might include eventually lowering prices for the PS3." Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but how do you eliminate operating loss by lowering prices? Is this one of those crazy "make it up in volume" schemes?
Other people have already pointed out that Wii Sports is not a pack-in for Japan, but I'll add that Golden Week's NPD numbers show Wii sales of 102,522 - greater than the 85k.
I know this is Slashdot, but did you read the summary? This Gisburne fellow posted quite a few videos about Christianity without any problems. It was only when he posted them against Islam that it became a problem, and that because a number of users flagged it. I'm guessing that what we are seeing here is not protection of religion, but protection is Islam - which Americans have an awkward relationship with right now due to the quandary posed by having a significant (and peaceful) Muslim minority while fighting against any number of predominantly-Muslim foes in the name of fighting terrorism. As you can see, it's the sort of fight that political correctness (in all its self-righteous glory) demands.
Nah, it's just because we get a superior product and you get a superiour product - just like on Wheel of Fortune, vowels cost about $250!
And your post, if not ignorant, is at least as naive.
While shipped==sold in the longterm, this is not necessarily true in the short-term. What we have here is the rather unique situation of a console launch, where console makers produce as much as they can and retailers get as much as they can to sell. At this point, made==shipped. On the other hand, if shipped != sold (or close to it) in this time period, it becomes apparent that demand is not as high as it should be - which is what is happening right now. Considering their original estimates of shipping 6 million by March assumed (as Kutaragi said) that 5 million people would buy the PS3 even if they didn't make any games for the system, it is fairly clear that a low demand (as seen in low sales) now will equate to an eventual lower shipping rate (with a lag between the launch and when retailers realize they're not selling out their whole stock).
Not going HD would be like cable companies saying "No need for us to build high speed infrastructure - everybody likes dial-up."
Linux will be ready for mainstream desktop use this year. No, seriously.
Or the number or percentage of launch games that are ranked above a certain level. Personally, I'd rather have a console with 2 90s and 1 30 than 3 70s.
Sony sued Lik-Sang in most of the EU countries. Not being capable of defending themselves in the face of such an onslaught (monetarily? legally?), Lik-Sang shut down.
I'm waiting for the new FPS that allows you to shoot at kids who come on your grass.
If $60 doesn't sell enough to make a profit, they can always have a sale. Imagine how much more volume you could get if you sold everything for $20!