Have you played the PC demo? It's actually quite impressive, and IGN reviewed it very positively. Yeah, it's a little early for awards, I guess, but it certainly has been a surprisingly well-received game. I've played the demo several times, and I normally hate franchise games.
I'm confused now. I'm not sure where I implied cheating on a test with a laptop. I only mentioned cheating to say that the people who fail classes because they have laptops are the sort of people who would have found another way to fail, by and large, without the laptop.
While my laptop is to me an invaluable study aid for tests, because it gives me a unified repository for my notes and, more importantly, is completely searchable (even the handwriting), it certainly wouldn't do me an ounce of good to try and pull it out during a test.
Yes and no. If you buy the "core system," which is $299 but sans hard drive, then you can't play Live or Xbox 1 games. If you buy the full system for $399, it includes a removable 20gb hard drive. You can then play a large selection of old games. Microsoft's goal is to eventually port every game, and they probably will in a short time after launch. You'll just have to connect to live to download a patch to sit on your HDD for old games you want to play.
'Motion' and 'stationary' are 100% relative terms. If I am the planet earth, am I orbiting the sun and rotating? Yes, but not anymore than I am sitting absolutely still while the universe goes nuts all around me.
This is not about science so much as semantics. Are the forces at work such that common sense indicates the sun exerts so much a higher influence on earth that earth can be described as rotating the sun, as opposed to the other way around? Yes. But when we use terms like "moving" and "stationary," there need to be qualifiers like "relative to...", especially in space, because they are essentially relative terms.
I'd hate to see laptops taking away because some idiot is abusing them. That idiot will fail the class; he would have failed the class without it too, if only by sleeping or reading a book or cheating and getting caught or whatever.
I bring my laptop (an old Toshiba Tablet PC) to every class I go to at my college and usually have it on my desk for the majority of the class time, unless it's "Listening to Music" and we're watching some DVD or something. Have I used my tablet's wi-fi to hop on facebook once or twice? Yes. Have I checked my email here and there? Yes. The catch? Usually I do these things for legitimate, school-related purposes. I collaborate with project partners on facebook. I use email to communicate with professors. If the professor is actually talking, I'm probably not going to be on wi-fi, but rather in GoBinder taking notes on hte Tablet. I've got a 150mb GoBinder file full of handwritten notes if the professors want me to prove I've been listening.
Admittedly, part of my motivation is that I've got a weak battery and so I tend to only flip the wi-fi switch on for a few minutes at a time if I'm going to use it at all in class. The biggest part of my motivation? I'm paying thousands of dollars a year to go to school here. If I don't do well, I lose my scholarship, and then I'll be paying THREE TIMES as much to go here. Why in God's name would I spend that kind of money on something and then dork around on facebook all class until I flunk out?
Seriously, though. What the hell does "stationary" mean in space?
Nothing, that's what. If anything's stationary. it's the observer. So yes, Earth is as stationary as a planet can be, and the universe revolves in a really complicated way around us.
You know, I think I'd put down extra just to have the 360's brick integrated with the plug, just so I could threaten people with it / watch it rip the power sockets out of my wall.
What if someone is going five under the limit. You try to pass them and they speed up, so you have to got a bit faster and it takes a bit longer to go around them - say 1/2 mile or more. Under the new system you are indeed getting a ticket.
The solution is to always pass in the oncoming lane. This will in fact convince the cameras that you are travelling at negative speeds and the would-be fine will instead be credited to your account.
My family has already decided that if there's a significant mutation, we're going out to the islands and staying up there. Plenty of food, from deer to fish to crab to clams to garden vegetables. Most importantly, very low population density, and we can simply hop in the jeep and bury ourselves in the woods until things blow over, if need be.
I'm beginning to wonder how much of the dental hygiene industry is FUD. I don't know, and hence will keep brushing and flossing and seeing a dentist. But for what it's worth, as I child I had horrible brushing habits, like as in I might floss once a month and brush twice a week, at most. Yet I've never had a single cavity or other problem.
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I read that too. In the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
Come to think of it, I wonder if that's a scientifically accurate claim. I mean, most of that book is trustworthy...
I was gonna say... more like a buck fifty from every man, woman, and child in America. Or in otherwords, probably something like what we spend on McDonalds in the lunch hour.
I realize I should be falling for this, but here goes anyway.
What he was allegedly talking about doesn't exist. There is not and has never been an original text of the entire Bible. There have at some point been original texts of the individual books in some way shape or form, but that's not what he was addressing. The idea of an "original translation" is only meaningful if every other translation is derivitive, which is not the case.
I'm really not sure what you are arguing against, or why you are doing it. I addressed a minor misstatement becuase I thought he might misunderstand something. Now we're on a semantic rabbit-trail.
There has never been an "original text" of the entire Bible, it's a compilation. But even if there was, the original is by definition not a translation.
I also argued that there was a section on personal hygene in the Hebrew scrolls that had stuff like women should wear veils and men be clean shaven (sorry, Jesus), but that is suspiciously cut from their version of the bible.
It's not cut from their version as far as I know, and that's a pretty gross oversimplification. The passage has all sorts of specifics about men not trimming bangs, nobody wearing skin of mixed cloth (anyone with a polyester shirt is going to hell), etc. The reasons for many of these can be traced to health and cultural identity.
Most modern Christian denominations make the rather simple and pretty reasonable argument that the Hebrew covenant was superceded by the New Covenant in the New Testament, and further that the Hebrew Covenant was always intended to be forward-looking and anticipatory rather than purely legalistic.
Yes, actually, they usually do. Off-topic though it is, most religious schools are very welcoming toward non-religious students. Not all, obviously, but most.
Because what we're really talking about here are the natural sciences -- biology, physics, astronomy, etc. It doesn't make any sense to attribute the study of the supernatural to the plainoldboringnatural sciences. Go study the hermeneutic sciences if you're up for that.
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Have you played the PC demo? It's actually quite impressive, and IGN reviewed it very positively. Yeah, it's a little early for awards, I guess, but it certainly has been a surprisingly well-received game. I've played the demo several times, and I normally hate franchise games.
I'm confused now. I'm not sure where I implied cheating on a test with a laptop. I only mentioned cheating to say that the people who fail classes because they have laptops are the sort of people who would have found another way to fail, by and large, without the laptop.
While my laptop is to me an invaluable study aid for tests, because it gives me a unified repository for my notes and, more importantly, is completely searchable (even the handwriting), it certainly wouldn't do me an ounce of good to try and pull it out during a test.
Yes and no. If you buy the "core system," which is $299 but sans hard drive, then you can't play Live or Xbox 1 games. If you buy the full system for $399, it includes a removable 20gb hard drive. You can then play a large selection of old games. Microsoft's goal is to eventually port every game, and they probably will in a short time after launch. You'll just have to connect to live to download a patch to sit on your HDD for old games you want to play.
They are supposed to make it up in game sales. In reality, Microsoft is losing money on the Xbox franchise as a whole.
Missing the point?
'Motion' and 'stationary' are 100% relative terms. If I am the planet earth, am I orbiting the sun and rotating? Yes, but not anymore than I am sitting absolutely still while the universe goes nuts all around me.
This is not about science so much as semantics. Are the forces at work such that common sense indicates the sun exerts so much a higher influence on earth that earth can be described as rotating the sun, as opposed to the other way around? Yes. But when we use terms like "moving" and "stationary," there need to be qualifiers like "relative to...", especially in space, because they are essentially relative terms.
Precisely.
I'd hate to see laptops taking away because some idiot is abusing them. That idiot will fail the class; he would have failed the class without it too, if only by sleeping or reading a book or cheating and getting caught or whatever.
I bring my laptop (an old Toshiba Tablet PC) to every class I go to at my college and usually have it on my desk for the majority of the class time, unless it's "Listening to Music" and we're watching some DVD or something. Have I used my tablet's wi-fi to hop on facebook once or twice? Yes. Have I checked my email here and there? Yes. The catch? Usually I do these things for legitimate, school-related purposes. I collaborate with project partners on facebook. I use email to communicate with professors. If the professor is actually talking, I'm probably not going to be on wi-fi, but rather in GoBinder taking notes on hte Tablet. I've got a 150mb GoBinder file full of handwritten notes if the professors want me to prove I've been listening.
Admittedly, part of my motivation is that I've got a weak battery and so I tend to only flip the wi-fi switch on for a few minutes at a time if I'm going to use it at all in class. The biggest part of my motivation? I'm paying thousands of dollars a year to go to school here. If I don't do well, I lose my scholarship, and then I'll be paying THREE TIMES as much to go here. Why in God's name would I spend that kind of money on something and then dork around on facebook all class until I flunk out?
Seriously, though. What the hell does "stationary" mean in space?
Nothing, that's what. If anything's stationary. it's the observer. So yes, Earth is as stationary as a planet can be, and the universe revolves in a really complicated way around us.
(I do, however, love Steam. But bad example.)
Let me be the first to say that I'd rather eat Cliffs Notes than Cliff Bars. Any day.
mmm... fiber...
The solution is to always pass in the oncoming lane. This will in fact convince the cameras that you are travelling at negative speeds and the would-be fine will instead be credited to your account.
My family has already decided that if there's a significant mutation, we're going out to the islands and staying up there. Plenty of food, from deer to fish to crab to clams to garden vegetables. Most importantly, very low population density, and we can simply hop in the jeep and bury ourselves in the woods until things blow over, if need be.
Bad idea! You're just contributing to the problem!
Hmm... *Buys stock in Purell Instant Hand Sanitizer (Kills 99.9% germs without water!)*
I'm beginning to wonder how much of the dental hygiene industry is FUD. I don't know, and hence will keep brushing and flossing and seeing a dentist. But for what it's worth, as I child I had horrible brushing habits, like as in I might floss once a month and brush twice a week, at most. Yet I've never had a single cavity or other problem.
I read that too. In the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
Come to think of it, I wonder if that's a scientifically accurate claim. I mean, most of that book is trustworthy...
Nobody. Hence the tinfoil hats. Remember?
I was gonna say... more like a buck fifty from every man, woman, and child in America. Or in otherwords, probably something like what we spend on McDonalds in the lunch hour.
I realize I should be falling for this, but here goes anyway.
What he was allegedly talking about doesn't exist. There is not and has never been an original text of the entire Bible. There have at some point been original texts of the individual books in some way shape or form, but that's not what he was addressing. The idea of an "original translation" is only meaningful if every other translation is derivitive, which is not the case.
I'm really not sure what you are arguing against, or why you are doing it. I addressed a minor misstatement becuase I thought he might misunderstand something. Now we're on a semantic rabbit-trail.
There has never been an "original text" of the entire Bible, it's a compilation. But even if there was, the original is by definition not a translation.
Yes, actually, they usually do. Off-topic though it is, most religious schools are very welcoming toward non-religious students. Not all, obviously, but most.
I'm pretty sure it would be a potent argument against evolution, and perhaps for some kind of "special" intelligence, if you know what I mean.
Because what we're really talking about here are the natural sciences -- biology, physics, astronomy, etc. It doesn't make any sense to attribute the study of the supernatural to the plainoldboringnatural sciences. Go study the hermeneutic sciences if you're up for that.