I feel like the term "semi-infinite" attached to anything remotely valuable _vastly_ underestimates humankind's capacity for consumption.
On a separate note... what does "semi-infinite" even mean? Half of an infinite number is still infinite, at least under the general understanding of infinity.
Just set your bookmark to https://mail.google.com/ - you'll start & stay in SSL. I've been doing this for a really long time ( I can't remember when I even created the bookmarks I have in all my browsers to do exactly this. )
Hate to point it out, but if you're going to mention the $200 cost for the console in your comparison, you should probably throw in the cost of your PC as well. Seeing as you're playing newer games, it's probably significantly more than the console cost.
No amount of spinning will change the fact that America, by a narrow margin, rejected Bush in 2000.
It doesn't take spinning - it's a fact that America did not reject Bush in 2000. Quite the opposite, in fact: America voted Bush into office in 2000.
Read that again - think about the country you live in, and the laws that define it.
Just because you don't like the system does not change the facts, and that's something you are going to have to learn to live with ( most of us do by the time we're out of kindergarden ).
Any time there is a viable third candidate, no candidate will get 50%. That's a mathematical fact.
To emphasize, I'll use numbers close to the ones you used as examples: 51, 34, 15. Did I just violate your "mathematical fact"? Sorry, I guess I'll just have to start acting as if the world revolved around everything you want to be true was actually true.
That way, there won't be campaigning in just "swing" states... because every vote in every corner of the country counts the same.
No, instead campaining will just never happen in lesser populated states. Why would a candidate spend the same amount of time, money, and effort going to Wyoming or Montana, when they can get 10 times as many people by going to just New York.
The electoral college system forces candidates to seek support from the entire nation, rather than just California, and a few east coast states. Yes, there are problems that one side typically goes for votes in one part of the nation, and the other side goes for votes in another part of the nation, with the outcome being decided in "swing" states. But that marginalizes groups much less than removing the electoral college would.
I don't know about whether or not they were "designed" to run that long, but growing up, I remember leaving my Nintendo ( as in, the original NES ) on for weeks and even months at a time when I was in the middle of games that you couldn't save, but I wanted to finish.
Oh, and that same NES still works ( along with all its games ) - I still get it out of the closet from time to time to play some of the classics.
( BTW, I agree with your main point, I just find that the last one doesn't entirely fit from first hand experience. )
I just wonder, how it is possible to participate in an MMO and still do anything with their lives?
I wager that, in fact, it isn't.
I'm sorry that you have a half-dozen friends that have no self control, but from personal experience, this statement is false.
My roommate, my girlfriend, several other friends, and myself all play WoW. Yet somehow, we manage to maintain education, employment, church attendance and participation, and interpersonal relationships, trips to see family, and even playing other games, watching movies, reading books, and playing sports. Oh, and we still manage to get a good amount of sleep every night too.
The problem isn't that WoW allows you to play for more than 3 hours ( from time to time, my friends and I have been known to play the game all day long ). The problem is that your friends have decided that they like the game enough to play for long periods of time every day ( or most days ). They made a choice as to what was most important to them - in this case, it was the enjoyment they get out of playing WoW.
China's three-hour-rule seems like a very, very good idea to be put in place on the server end, all around the world.
Personally, I'd be pissed if this ever were to happen - when I want to play WoW for a long time, I like having the choice to do so.
Just want to pass along my agreement with your post - there's a lot of other posts around that disagree.
I think the most important point is that the teacher felt threatened. I'm sure that there's going to be one or more posts saying that he was probably just out to get the kid, but none of us, including myself, have any idea what was actually going through his head. None of us know the past history between the teacher and this kid, or any other kids at this school.
You're entirely right, this isn't about 9/11 at all - it's about taking action to prevent a tradgedy that may or may not have been in the making.
And for the dissenters: yes, the punishment may have been overly harsh - I don't know the kid or the situation, so I can't speak to that. But, the fact that the teacher was scared is reason enough to act - the first amendment does not provide protection for threats or actions/words percieved as threats, just like it doesn't protect your right to yell "Fire!" in a theatre.
You know, about the only thing this will cause me to lose is my ability to play WoW on my powerful Windows gaming machine. ( Since WoW is pretty much the only PC game I play anymore. ) I can play WoW on my G4 Powerbook, but it's much nicer on the Windows desktop.
So, the end result is, my nice Windows machine becomes a nice Ubuntu/XGL machine, and I buy a nice Mac desktop machine for general work and WoW. Which will work perfectly, since my G4 laptop will be slightly old by that time.
Along with all that, it gives me a great excuse to stop supporting my friends and families who are running Windows machines ( legitimate or not ), since I won't have Windows myself to test against.
So this whole WGA issue that looked mean and bad in the beginning is now looking really good for me!
First off, I don't own a gun. That's mostly for cost reasons however ( cost of purchasing the gun, cost of ammunition, and more importantly cost of training and cost of time spent training ) . I do know several very responsible gun owners however, and I am quite glad that they do exist. Several live in areas where the extra protection to their family is welcome ( and in a couple of cases, tried and necessary ).
Yes, I agree that gun safety is extremely important ( note the two final reasons I don't own a gun - I don't have time or money to spend on keeping myself and others safe from it ) - but it seems quite foolish to throw away the second amendment. I think I'll take the advice of the authors of the constitution over yours.
Cool - I hadn't ever used man -k and didn't even think to look into it after reading the last hint! ( I just thought it was going to be some formatting command for man ) Thanks!
When I first found out about this tool, I thought it was going to be useless compared to locate, but the fact that you can get the title of the man-page entries, plus a short description, is incredibly useful when you don't know exactly what you are looking for.
It's not exactly what you're looking for, but CallWave provides a lot of features in this area. Check out the free CallWave For Your Cell Phone package that lets you screen your calls like you would with an answering machine (among other things).
(Disclaimer: I work for CallWave. Normally I wouldn't shamelessly plug the company I work for, but this is exactly the kind of needs we try to meet.)
Until we get (mathematically) proven applications, running on a (mathematically) proven OS, running on (mathematically) proven hardware, we can't prove safety.
...but we need (mathematically) perfect humans to be able do all that mathematical proving!
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I feel like the term "semi-infinite" attached to anything remotely valuable _vastly_ underestimates humankind's capacity for consumption. On a separate note... what does "semi-infinite" even mean? Half of an infinite number is still infinite, at least under the general understanding of infinity.
Whether you agree with the parent or not, it seems somewhat ironic that the post currently has a score of -1.
Just set your bookmark to https://mail.google.com/ - you'll start & stay in SSL. I've been doing this for a really long time ( I can't remember when I even created the bookmarks I have in all my browsers to do exactly this. )
Hmm... something tells me that it's you who are new here ;)
Why, oh why, can't we have article moderation? This one just screams -1 Flamebait!
Hate to point it out, but if you're going to mention the $200 cost for the console in your comparison, you should probably throw in the cost of your PC as well. Seeing as you're playing newer games, it's probably significantly more than the console cost.
Those responsible for sacking the writers have just been sacked.
It doesn't take spinning - it's a fact that America did not reject Bush in 2000. Quite the opposite, in fact: America voted Bush into office in 2000.
Read that again - think about the country you live in, and the laws that define it.
Just because you don't like the system does not change the facts, and that's something you are going to have to learn to live with ( most of us do by the time we're out of kindergarden ).
To emphasize, I'll use numbers close to the ones you used as examples: 51, 34, 15. Did I just violate your "mathematical fact"? Sorry, I guess I'll just have to start acting as if the world revolved around everything you want to be true was actually true.
No, instead campaining will just never happen in lesser populated states. Why would a candidate spend the same amount of time, money, and effort going to Wyoming or Montana, when they can get 10 times as many people by going to just New York.
The electoral college system forces candidates to seek support from the entire nation, rather than just California, and a few east coast states. Yes, there are problems that one side typically goes for votes in one part of the nation, and the other side goes for votes in another part of the nation, with the outcome being decided in "swing" states. But that marginalizes groups much less than removing the electoral college would.
I don't know about whether or not they were "designed" to run that long, but growing up, I remember leaving my Nintendo ( as in, the original NES ) on for weeks and even months at a time when I was in the middle of games that you couldn't save, but I wanted to finish.
Oh, and that same NES still works ( along with all its games ) - I still get it out of the closet from time to time to play some of the classics.
( BTW, I agree with your main point, I just find that the last one doesn't entirely fit from first hand experience. )
I'm sorry that you have a half-dozen friends that have no self control, but from personal experience, this statement is false.
My roommate, my girlfriend, several other friends, and myself all play WoW. Yet somehow, we manage to maintain education, employment, church attendance and participation, and interpersonal relationships, trips to see family, and even playing other games, watching movies, reading books, and playing sports. Oh, and we still manage to get a good amount of sleep every night too.
The problem isn't that WoW allows you to play for more than 3 hours ( from time to time, my friends and I have been known to play the game all day long ). The problem is that your friends have decided that they like the game enough to play for long periods of time every day ( or most days ). They made a choice as to what was most important to them - in this case, it was the enjoyment they get out of playing WoW.
Personally, I'd be pissed if this ever were to happen - when I want to play WoW for a long time, I like having the choice to do so.
You missed the joke - go get your morning cup of coffee, then reread. Repeat until it's at least slightly humorous.
Damn - I can't believe I spent all my mod points yesterday. This is one I really wish I could mod up!
Just want to pass along my agreement with your post - there's a lot of other posts around that disagree.
I think the most important point is that the teacher felt threatened. I'm sure that there's going to be one or more posts saying that he was probably just out to get the kid, but none of us, including myself, have any idea what was actually going through his head. None of us know the past history between the teacher and this kid, or any other kids at this school.
You're entirely right, this isn't about 9/11 at all - it's about taking action to prevent a tradgedy that may or may not have been in the making.
And for the dissenters: yes, the punishment may have been overly harsh - I don't know the kid or the situation, so I can't speak to that. But, the fact that the teacher was scared is reason enough to act - the first amendment does not provide protection for threats or actions/words percieved as threats, just like it doesn't protect your right to yell "Fire!" in a theatre.
You know, about the only thing this will cause me to lose is my ability to play WoW on my powerful Windows gaming machine. ( Since WoW is pretty much the only PC game I play anymore. ) I can play WoW on my G4 Powerbook, but it's much nicer on the Windows desktop.
So, the end result is, my nice Windows machine becomes a nice Ubuntu/XGL machine, and I buy a nice Mac desktop machine for general work and WoW. Which will work perfectly, since my G4 laptop will be slightly old by that time.
Along with all that, it gives me a great excuse to stop supporting my friends and families who are running Windows machines ( legitimate or not ), since I won't have Windows myself to test against.
So this whole WGA issue that looked mean and bad in the beginning is now looking really good for me!
First off, I don't own a gun. That's mostly for cost reasons however ( cost of purchasing the gun, cost of ammunition, and more importantly cost of training and cost of time spent training ) . I do know several very responsible gun owners however, and I am quite glad that they do exist. Several live in areas where the extra protection to their family is welcome ( and in a couple of cases, tried and necessary ).
Yes, I agree that gun safety is extremely important ( note the two final reasons I don't own a gun - I don't have time or money to spend on keeping myself and others safe from it ) - but it seems quite foolish to throw away the second amendment. I think I'll take the advice of the authors of the constitution over yours.
Dude, that's what collect calls are for.
Cool - I hadn't ever used man -k and didn't even think to look into it after reading the last hint! ( I just thought it was going to be some formatting command for man ) Thanks!
Also, apropos.
When I first found out about this tool, I thought it was going to be useless compared to locate, but the fact that you can get the title of the man-page entries, plus a short description, is incredibly useful when you don't know exactly what you are looking for.
Oh, I'm entirely aware of that - It was a humor thing, really! Apparently it wasn't very good though. Sorry about that!
There. Fixed.
I'm pretty sure those kinds of demonstrations are illegal in most states ;)
(Disclaimer: I work for CallWave. Normally I wouldn't shamelessly plug the company I work for, but this is exactly the kind of needs we try to meet.)
If it wasn't for the "rpdillon (715137) * " above that last comment, I'd say you must be new here... You're way too reasonable.
(I'd mod this up if I had any more points.)
...but we need (mathematically) perfect humans to be able do all that mathematical proving!