Sounds like you're making the same mistake the guys designing the suits made. You don't tell athletes, who are well trained and practiced in speed skating a certain way to change their form to accommodate a new suit design. You design the suit for the preexisting use case, and if you failed to consider something, like the fact that the top tier skaters skate with a lower stance than the derp from the office did during your R&D test runs, it's a design flaw.
The IOC is self-funded, from selling the broadcast rights and corporate sponsorships. NOCs are funded jointly by the IOC and their respective nations; NOCs of poorer nations get more funding from the IOC than richer nations.
The vast majority of people don't disagree with the concept of a state-run fire department, or police department, which is what I was getting at. While you, and a few others, might agree with the concept of anarchy, it's not that "[people] simple accept that it is the prevailing way", it's that people by and large don't have a fundamental disagreement with these institutions.
That's exactly how people started handling the "divers" in Russia - a huge number of people hooked up dashcams to have proof in court when someone decides to jump in front of their car.
Someone blind is more likely to hear the tire roar than the engine anyway because it's much louder at anything other than heavy acceleration or total stop, idiot.
"Remove them from Israel/Palestine" frequently came with a sometimes explicit, sometimes implicit "by killing them". The situation in the Middle East is not quite as bad as it used to be, but only a couple years ago Ahmadinejad was ready to use nukes to do it.
Pokemon sells consoles to kids, you're right. Other games work better for other demographics - I know I'm more interested in a new Zelda or Smash Bros. game than Pokemon. However, it doesn't really matter who they sell them to if they're selling out thanks to the franchise's latest release. The 3DS experienced a 135% boost in sales in the month following the release of Pokemon, and it's pretty easy to attribute the majority of those extra sales to Pokemon XY when you consider the historical trend of a spike in system sales just after Pokemon main series game release dates.
Still not quite on the money. They fucked up, yes, but it has nothing to do with where they positioned the console on price and performance. Their main issue, which has been an issue for every single Nintendo console since the SNES, is the timing of their first party games, combined with their third party developer support. Nintendo has a history of weak third party releases, with games that aren't quite up to par on their console and general lack of releases, which means they rely heavily on first party development. However, where's the first party support for WiiU? It was there for Wii and heavily pushed consoles out the door, it was there for the 3DS and outright saved the console, and on and on. On WiiU, excluding remakes like Winwaker HD, they're lacking games from many of their major franchises right now, with no release dates in sight. There's no Mario Kart, no (new) Zelda, no new Metroid, no new Donkey Kong, no new Smash Bros., no Pokemon, and I could rattle off many more franchises that just don't have games for the new console, and don't have any announced entries with a release date to fill the void. Nintendo has this terrible habit of releasing a console with weak first party support when that's what sustains their entire business model, and with WiiU, the future doesn't look bright specifically because of their lack of announced titles with release dates.
Given all this news about Nintendo lately, I bet their stock is tanking. If I knew there was a Pokemon coming in the next year, I'd buy as much stock as I could, because everyone knows that Pokemon alone outright sells consoles.
I don't think you know what "statist" means - if you believe the government should be involved in any single one of having fire and police departments, building roads, health inspections, or anything else a government does that's widely considered an acceptable action for government, you can be called a "statist". Statist is an extraordinarily broad term, which you seem to not comprehend.
They're buying it from a company which collects the information from the credit card issuers. You cannot opt out of your credit card information being collected by this third party. You cannot choose which entities can buy your information from this third party company. There's no opt-out equivalency - you've opted in to corporate collection by signing up for a credit card, and the government is just buying information the same way any other entity could given the impetus.
I wasn't going for the stereotype. Rather, I was emphasizing that the software is in such an early stage of development that your typical Windows user is far less likely to buy the product than a typical Linux user. This isn't something you'd find in Steam's early access section, it's something you would normally find only on the computer of a developer who just started building the game.
To put in perspective just how early in development this game is, they have a few things you can build (less than 10 total), and a couple of characters that you can move around. Camera controls exist but are wonky, moving the camera outside of the starting area will leave you completely lost on the map, there's graphical issues on the sections outside the cave, and on and on. There were also no gameplay mechanics whatsoever that were working the last time I looked, which was about a month ago.
That would be wrong. Alpha is where you begin testing, whether or not all of the final functionality is present. Software is usually considered in beta when it is feature-complete - this implies that in any prior stage, it may not be feature-complete. By your definition, Maia is pre-alpha; by the widely-accepted definition, Maia is alpha.
Maia isn't a game that's "soon to be released". Maia is in a very early alpha stage with very little of the final functionality - you'd expect Linux to be over represented in that particular sample.
It's really just that card in particular from AMD, and not others, that are affected by the price spike due to Bitcoin mining. That card is already old news to gamers.
Actually, the US doesn't have laws against prostitution at the federal level. It's regulated at the state and local levels, which is why it's only legal in Nevada (under very strict regulation, only in brothels), and still illegal in some counties in Nevada. The federal government would only get involved if there's a human trafficking or prostitution ring that spans multiple states, or tax evasion.
You get less lumens from a given "wattage-equivalent" CFL than an incandescent of that wattage. Unfortunately, the manufacturers decided that 600 lumens from a CFL is equivalent to 700 from an incandescent when designing their bulbs. It's the most substantiated criticism of CFLs, IMO, but has nothing to do with government regulation - it's a flaw of the product design groups at many companies producing CFLs.
It's a level of abstraction. If the only difference is that a "reactive" paradigm allows you to write the same code in less lines, each of which is less complex, it's an improvement over creating events/triggers. I don't know whether that's actually the case, but if it is, the above applies.
It depends on the district, which grade and the exact courses. In high school, I had 15ish kids in my AP computer science class, and double that in every general education course. The elementary school had around 25 per class for 5th grade, but was only around 12 in 1st grade. I'd expect that many districts follow this highly variable approach, rather than stick themselves to a single target number of students per class.
It's a chilling choice, but the train dilemma is flawed when you consider that it would never happen in real life anyway. I'm not saying that the 5 vs. 1 scenario wouldn't happen, but I highly doubt someone is even going to consider the second option at all if presented with the scenario. If the thought doesn't even cross the person's mind, there's not a choice being made between the options. If no choice is being made in reality, the thought experiment is worthless as a way explain human behavior. The whole concept of the thought experiment is undermined when you realize that it's not something any person would ever end up doing because of another variable that the thought experiment does not consider.
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Sounds like you're making the same mistake the guys designing the suits made. You don't tell athletes, who are well trained and practiced in speed skating a certain way to change their form to accommodate a new suit design. You design the suit for the preexisting use case, and if you failed to consider something, like the fact that the top tier skaters skate with a lower stance than the derp from the office did during your R&D test runs, it's a design flaw.
You didn't manage to find Titanium Backup Pro + (Dropbox | Box | Google Drive)? You clearly didn't look very hard.
The IOC is self-funded, from selling the broadcast rights and corporate sponsorships. NOCs are funded jointly by the IOC and their respective nations; NOCs of poorer nations get more funding from the IOC than richer nations.
Do you think there wouldn't be US ships in the general area anyway? Do you think the NSA/CIA/DHS are hiring extra staff just for the Olympics?
I'll give you the delegation's security, but the others are costs that exist regardless as to whether the Olympics happen to be around this year.
Considering neither Bud nor Coke has over 50% marketshare...
The vast majority of people don't disagree with the concept of a state-run fire department, or police department, which is what I was getting at. While you, and a few others, might agree with the concept of anarchy, it's not that "[people] simple accept that it is the prevailing way", it's that people by and large don't have a fundamental disagreement with these institutions.
That's exactly how people started handling the "divers" in Russia - a huge number of people hooked up dashcams to have proof in court when someone decides to jump in front of their car.
Someone blind is more likely to hear the tire roar than the engine anyway because it's much louder at anything other than heavy acceleration or total stop, idiot.
"Remove them from Israel/Palestine" frequently came with a sometimes explicit, sometimes implicit "by killing them". The situation in the Middle East is not quite as bad as it used to be, but only a couple years ago Ahmadinejad was ready to use nukes to do it.
Pokemon sells consoles to kids, you're right. Other games work better for other demographics - I know I'm more interested in a new Zelda or Smash Bros. game than Pokemon. However, it doesn't really matter who they sell them to if they're selling out thanks to the franchise's latest release. The 3DS experienced a 135% boost in sales in the month following the release of Pokemon, and it's pretty easy to attribute the majority of those extra sales to Pokemon XY when you consider the historical trend of a spike in system sales just after Pokemon main series game release dates.
Still not quite on the money. They fucked up, yes, but it has nothing to do with where they positioned the console on price and performance. Their main issue, which has been an issue for every single Nintendo console since the SNES, is the timing of their first party games, combined with their third party developer support. Nintendo has a history of weak third party releases, with games that aren't quite up to par on their console and general lack of releases, which means they rely heavily on first party development. However, where's the first party support for WiiU? It was there for Wii and heavily pushed consoles out the door, it was there for the 3DS and outright saved the console, and on and on. On WiiU, excluding remakes like Winwaker HD, they're lacking games from many of their major franchises right now, with no release dates in sight. There's no Mario Kart, no (new) Zelda, no new Metroid, no new Donkey Kong, no new Smash Bros., no Pokemon, and I could rattle off many more franchises that just don't have games for the new console, and don't have any announced entries with a release date to fill the void. Nintendo has this terrible habit of releasing a console with weak first party support when that's what sustains their entire business model, and with WiiU, the future doesn't look bright specifically because of their lack of announced titles with release dates.
Given all this news about Nintendo lately, I bet their stock is tanking. If I knew there was a Pokemon coming in the next year, I'd buy as much stock as I could, because everyone knows that Pokemon alone outright sells consoles.
I don't think you know what "statist" means - if you believe the government should be involved in any single one of having fire and police departments, building roads, health inspections, or anything else a government does that's widely considered an acceptable action for government, you can be called a "statist". Statist is an extraordinarily broad term, which you seem to not comprehend.
They're buying it from a company which collects the information from the credit card issuers. You cannot opt out of your credit card information being collected by this third party. You cannot choose which entities can buy your information from this third party company. There's no opt-out equivalency - you've opted in to corporate collection by signing up for a credit card, and the government is just buying information the same way any other entity could given the impetus.
I wasn't going for the stereotype. Rather, I was emphasizing that the software is in such an early stage of development that your typical Windows user is far less likely to buy the product than a typical Linux user. This isn't something you'd find in Steam's early access section, it's something you would normally find only on the computer of a developer who just started building the game.
To put in perspective just how early in development this game is, they have a few things you can build (less than 10 total), and a couple of characters that you can move around. Camera controls exist but are wonky, moving the camera outside of the starting area will leave you completely lost on the map, there's graphical issues on the sections outside the cave, and on and on. There were also no gameplay mechanics whatsoever that were working the last time I looked, which was about a month ago.
That would be wrong. Alpha is where you begin testing, whether or not all of the final functionality is present. Software is usually considered in beta when it is feature-complete - this implies that in any prior stage, it may not be feature-complete. By your definition, Maia is pre-alpha; by the widely-accepted definition, Maia is alpha.
Maia isn't a game that's "soon to be released". Maia is in a very early alpha stage with very little of the final functionality - you'd expect Linux to be over represented in that particular sample.
It's really just that card in particular from AMD, and not others, that are affected by the price spike due to Bitcoin mining. That card is already old news to gamers.
Actually, the US doesn't have laws against prostitution at the federal level. It's regulated at the state and local levels, which is why it's only legal in Nevada (under very strict regulation, only in brothels), and still illegal in some counties in Nevada. The federal government would only get involved if there's a human trafficking or prostitution ring that spans multiple states, or tax evasion.
You get less lumens from a given "wattage-equivalent" CFL than an incandescent of that wattage. Unfortunately, the manufacturers decided that 600 lumens from a CFL is equivalent to 700 from an incandescent when designing their bulbs. It's the most substantiated criticism of CFLs, IMO, but has nothing to do with government regulation - it's a flaw of the product design groups at many companies producing CFLs.
It's a level of abstraction. If the only difference is that a "reactive" paradigm allows you to write the same code in less lines, each of which is less complex, it's an improvement over creating events/triggers. I don't know whether that's actually the case, but if it is, the above applies.
It depends on the district, which grade and the exact courses. In high school, I had 15ish kids in my AP computer science class, and double that in every general education course. The elementary school had around 25 per class for 5th grade, but was only around 12 in 1st grade. I'd expect that many districts follow this highly variable approach, rather than stick themselves to a single target number of students per class.
It's a chilling choice, but the train dilemma is flawed when you consider that it would never happen in real life anyway. I'm not saying that the 5 vs. 1 scenario wouldn't happen, but I highly doubt someone is even going to consider the second option at all if presented with the scenario. If the thought doesn't even cross the person's mind, there's not a choice being made between the options. If no choice is being made in reality, the thought experiment is worthless as a way explain human behavior. The whole concept of the thought experiment is undermined when you realize that it's not something any person would ever end up doing because of another variable that the thought experiment does not consider.
Because tons of companies give away free stuff for likes.
That's some semantic bullshit, like when teachers in high school would make you ask "May I use the restroom?" instead of "Can I use the restroom?".