We're hardly on our "nationalistic high horses". Believe it or not, the world isn't one giant country - and different countries will have different curriculums and standards. Not so much in hard sciences like physics/chemistry/etc, although there are many regional differences; spelling/imperial-metric measurements, laws and views on controversial science such as cloning, and quotes or facts from American based institutions (eg, 'the FDA says this-that-and-the-other about such-and-such a drug). The main concern is on "soft-science" or non-science subjects - the rest of the world has little concern for America's history, geography, literature or politics - it's just not relevant to us.
If they ever did translate copyrighted material into other languages, they would probably overlook these things, or not include regional instances etc (although this would certainly be fixed by the wiki crowd)... And they would most likely make only one english translation..
However, the good looking man already in the lower class in very unlikely to be picked out of it by a wealthy woman. Infact, what is likely is that he will have more children, by more (lower class) women, than his upper class counter parts.
If you take grandparent's hypothesis to be true (that poor people are generally uglier, and that pretty people move up) then the good looking men among the poor will breed with the average/ugly women among the poor (since, as you say, they won't move up, and they dont have any other choice) and have (theoretically) average looking children. The children will then have their own children with other average-to-ugly people; ie, the lower class will converge (head towards but never quite reach) towards ugly. However, since we're dealing with a population and not a pot of paint, there will be instances of both particularly ugly and particularly good looking people. The good looking women will move up (subtracting from the available 'beauty pool') and the good looking men will stay, changing very little (although marginally improving the poor pool, since they're disposed to have more children). It's kind of like grass - the tall get cut, so everything that height or below stays, thereby shrinking the average height of the grass.
I don't know about the USA, but in a lot of other industrialised countries, people who are both talented and cunning enough can break into higher classes, bringing with them (perhaps) ugliness, thus diluting the prettyness of the rich; and conversely, rich people can fall if they are untalented or foolish. By the same logic as TFA, the STUPID end up at the bottom, with prettyness being distributed relatively evenly between the middle and upper classes.. although I grew up in a reasonably affluent area, and believe me - that sifting process either isn't happening or hasn't progressed much... the stupid certainly haven't fallen yet:(
What about the ~0.3589793238462643383279502884197 of a person you left off?
~0.3589's of a person? sounds like grandparent post isn't the only one with "things left off"....
Yeah.... they should think about switching the gameplay up a little, instead of churning out the same thing with different graphics and changing all the names.
I don't see why they don't just downgrade the cutscene quality; barely anyone watches the cutscenes more than once anyway. I can't imagine sitting there thinking "WOW LQQK AT THE 1080i CUTSCENE!!!! WHAT QUALITY!!!!!!". I CAN, however, imagine sitting there thinking "come on, come on, get back to the game already!"
Aargh! For crying out loud, the test was ability to recall words, not IQ. People with amnesia/altzheimers aren't necessarily "stupid", eg, you wouldn't ever see them looking into loaded guns' barrels..
Grandparent is probably complaining about the journalistic spin on the report, where they hint at a link between correlation and causation... read/watch any news story which quotes a new study and you'll see that the study almost never fully supports the journalist's claims - they take a fact and lead it to ridiculous, illogical conclusions.
I fully agree with you... I have hard disks chock-a-block with episodes of TV shows (which I uh...paid...for?) and a system set up so I can watch it by pressing a couple of buttons and waiting half a minute (for the video server to boot), yet I often find myself watching broadcast TV because it's still easier than hard disk content:\
The Iraqis probably realise Qaeda=Base so they'll say, [fort], or [camp], or [home], or [installment] etc etc:|
Besides, if it's translated, the arabs will say "Al Qaeda durka durka durka" which will translate as "The Base is being attacked" - ie, 'Al Qaeda' will translate too.. the problem will be if they actually want to say Al Qaeda, the computer will translate it, and the sentance will end up being "The Base has been spotted, we're going to attack it"
85? No wonder you're getting headaches. I'm surprised anyone would make a 21" CRT with such a low maximum refresh for a reasonable resolution such as 1280x1024 (higher than a lot of LCDs) (or perhaps you were running at 2400x1200?)... even a few of the junky 17" I have go up to 120 on 800x600.
It's just 1950s tech blinking at youComputers are ~1890's technology and cars are ~1915 technology, I don't see anyone complaining about either of those..
Although this post was OT, i'll bite:)
CRTs still have quite a large niche - young/poor people, and have many advantages over LCDs/Plasmas/these new fangled Laser TVs. I am sitting in front of 2 21" CRTs which I picked up off eBay for less than $100AU each; that's much less than a poor quality 15" LCD (~$150AU). The only disadvantage is they are bigger (but who uses the space behind their screens anyway?), heavier (harder to steal, an important factor if you live in a poor area), and use more power (although the extra money you spend on your power bill is still less than what you saved). So long as you're willing to get a decent model (which sets you back maybe $5) you can get 120Hz-160Hz refresh rate, so they aren't going to cause any eye irritations barring you having an accute medical condition. Plus, they are much hardier than LCDs (anything you could do to damage a CRT would most certainly completely destroy an LCD), and (at least in my experience) last a lot longer than LCDs. If you say "but CRTs don't look good, I want to impress people with my LCD" then maybe you should think more about impressing people with yourself and less about impressing them with your computer equipment:P.
That's because, unlike watching football, watching people play video games is a new concept - thus it is "forward". No-one said it was better, just "forward" (forward does not necessarily = better).
Yeah, I've always wondered... do you (USA-sians) guys cover *all* the previous days murders on the news (list their names?), or just local murders, or do you just ignore anyone who wasn't rich/famous? Murders here (Australia) are usually the first to third story on the news..
Yeah, what a bunch of idiots! They're so stupid, they thought they could spend all day screwing around in front of a camera and get paid buttloads for it!
oh wait..
[on topic] I vaguely remember someone doing something similar in the Gobi desert about 5 or 10 years ago? Although not 600 gallons in 20 feet...
Wow that was the first thing i thought when i read this...
Maybe if we send them a TV with a nuclear UPS, a big pushbutton for switching it on, and a really good satellite reciever? Sure the radio waves for the tv show will have long come and gone, but at least they got a TV out of it...:\
I'm personally against computer magazines like PC World, they're like the IT version of sensationalist "a current affairs" shows (Today Tonight/20-20/60 Minutes/Hard Copy?).. and if you had no other access to news you could read them and try and work out the truth from them.. but since you have the internet there's very little point, sites like slashdot are much more in depth (even if they are quite sensationalistic)
With all the components (optical drive, ATX mobo, expansion cards and HDDs), there's almost no reasonable way to make it more space-efficient (ie, takes up less space) without seriously compromising heat dissipation.
Since almost every computer component is very close in shape to a rectangular prism/rectangle, and rectangular prisms tesselate most easily with other rectangular prisms, there's no way to radically change the shape of the box without wasting space or making the whole thing very very hard to cool. Also, most computer desks or spaces assigned for towers are rectangular.. so the only practical entries into this will still have to retain the rectangle shape to be 'backward compatible' with the already existing components.
If you're sick of your beige box, why put some stickers on it and paint it purple? or better yet, build it into old hollowed out tv sets, with the screen as the window.
Yeah, and real CTs would get their weapons paid for.
And irl no-one would re-spawn, so the game should uninstall itself the first time you die.. Sometimes a little fantasy is good in games.
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Yeah.... they should think about switching the gameplay up a little, instead of churning out the same thing with different graphics and changing all the names.
I don't see why they don't just downgrade the cutscene quality; barely anyone watches the cutscenes more than once anyway. I can't imagine sitting there thinking "WOW LQQK AT THE 1080i CUTSCENE!!!! WHAT QUALITY!!!!!!". I CAN, however, imagine sitting there thinking "come on, come on, get back to the game already!"
Aargh! For crying out loud, the test was ability to recall words, not IQ. People with amnesia/altzheimers aren't necessarily "stupid", eg, you wouldn't ever see them looking into loaded guns' barrels..
Grandparent is probably complaining about the journalistic spin on the report, where they hint at a link between correlation and causation... read/watch any news story which quotes a new study and you'll see that the study almost never fully supports the journalist's claims - they take a fact and lead it to ridiculous, illogical conclusions.
hmmmmm it's a shame the weight you lost wasn't from your massive ego :\
I fully agree with you... I have hard disks chock-a-block with episodes of TV shows (which I uh...paid...for?) and a system set up so I can watch it by pressing a couple of buttons and waiting half a minute (for the video server to boot), yet I often find myself watching broadcast TV because it's still easier than hard disk content :\
AAYYYYEEEEEOWWWW!
Jeez, don't you know, rock always wins!! How can paper beat rock??
That's because, unlike watching football, watching people play video games is a new concept - thus it is "forward". No-one said it was better, just "forward" (forward does not necessarily = better).
Yeah, I've always wondered... do you (USA-sians) guys cover *all* the previous days murders on the news (list their names?), or just local murders, or do you just ignore anyone who wasn't rich/famous? Murders here (Australia) are usually the first to third story on the news..
It might be easier/cheaper to convert the car's existing engine to accept ethanol, and ethanol is reasonably enviromentally friendly.
Yeah, what a bunch of idiots! They're so stupid, they thought they could spend all day screwing around in front of a camera and get paid buttloads for it! oh wait.. [on topic] I vaguely remember someone doing something similar in the Gobi desert about 5 or 10 years ago? Although not 600 gallons in 20 feet...
I'm personally against computer magazines like PC World, they're like the IT version of sensationalist "a current affairs" shows (Today Tonight/20-20/60 Minutes/Hard Copy?).. and if you had no other access to news you could read them and try and work out the truth from them.. but since you have the internet there's very little point, sites like slashdot are much more in depth (even if they are quite sensationalistic)
Yeah, and real CTs would get their weapons paid for. And irl no-one would re-spawn, so the game should uninstall itself the first time you die.. Sometimes a little fantasy is good in games.