Was my own car though, 2.2 VTEC. It turned out it was actually the first car I bought on the game as well, weird (first played the game about 7 years ago, only bought the car a couple of months ago)! Most people would get about 15-20hp most from exhaust and intake I think, on a Prelude.. This is where my snobbishness rears its ugly head. I've always kind of ignored that scene; my experience has only been with the American musclecars and their modern-day equivalents.
Since the Zune can't play MS "Play For Sure" DRMed music, I don't think this new likely scheme will be something we really want.
Since when did "what we want" have anything to do with what Microsoft is selling us? Easy. Microsoft is in the business of selling new wants to people.
After trying GT2 again recently I see the settings aren't amazingly realistic with what you can do (bought my own car on there and it gave about 30 HP extra just with a new air filter and exhaust - lol..).. Actually, that's not unrealistic at all depending on the car.
Why let a telephone conversation go on this long? After two minutes I would have written a nice letter explaining things. Some things cannot be explained over the phone properly and this article highlights that fact.
Dear Sir,
That's actually a really good point. At least in banking call centers, the idea is to get the customer off of the phone as quickly as possible. You hear the phrase "time is money" all the time -- but in a call center environment, that's taken very literally. Shaving an average of one second off of a call, annualized across all call centers, can literally save a company millions.
Let's just save some time and determine every form of antisocial behavior to be a disease. That way when we fuck up, we don't have to blame it on our character flaws.
It's the disease, ya know. I can't help it. Please excuse parent. He's got a disease known FoPS -- Forthright Posting Syndrome. He knows not what he does...
If that's their target demographic, then yes. I don't believe that it is -- that web site looked to me like what a parent would expect a kid's web site to look like./Not/ what one would actually look like.
It was no accident that site was 'discovered' as fake. How easy would it be for someone to use a privacy service on their registration? Personally, I think it worked very well - that site got more traffic than it ever would have if it had been legit.
And if you don't feel like doing this all this in-house, then you can almost certainly pay someone to do it for you -- and they will almost certainly charge you a lot less than SuSE or Red Hat, for a product that almost certainly matches your requirements more closely than SuSE's or Red Hat's.
In mathematical terms, let's say "almost certainly" = 80% chance. Now, we'll extract the essential parts of that paragraph:
"...almost certainly pay someone..." * "...almost certainly < RH/SuSE..." * "...almost certainly matches requirements..."
And convert it to the appropriate notation:
.80 *.80 *.80 =.512
Put it in proper format and precision: 51%, +/-2% margin of error
So what it seems parent was saying is that you have a roughly one in two chance of getting what you by using Gentoo in a corporate setting.
"I regret having to inform you that your name is in the database."
He regrets having to inform us, not that they were hacked. For that matter, he doesn't even regret that your name was in the database -- only that he has to tell you about it.
Milk is generally THOUGHT to be a good source of calcium, but in fact is not: http://www.afpafitness.com/articles/MILKDOC.HTM The information in the above source seems reasonable enough, and well-backed with scientific reports. Please read it, I assure it is worth it. So I've read this article, and all I can say is -- what complete crap! He draws conclusions with no evidence (I guess his say-so that he "read 500 scientific studies" is enough -- unreferenced studies, I might add.).
How would I summarize the articles? They were only slightly less than horrifying. First of all, none of the authors spoke of cow's milk as an excellent food, free of side effects and the "perfect food" as we have been led to believe by the industry. The main focus of the published reports seems to be on intestinal colic, intestinal irritation, intestinal bleeding, anemia, allergic reactions in infants and children as well as infections such as salmonella. Wow, open right up with the scare tactics! Because we know in the countries where people drink a lot of milk, all of these things are epidemic! Note that he didn't say that milk caused these problems but inferred it by saying that they were the focus of the unsourced studies he allegedly read.
Our paleolithic ancestors are another crucial and interesting group to study. Here we are limited to speculation and indirect evidences, but the bony remains available for our study are remarkable. There is no doubt whatever that these skeletal remains reflect great strength, muscularity (the size of the muscular insertions show this), and total absence of advanced osteoporosis. And if you feel that these people are not important for us to study, consider that today our genes are programming our bodies in almost exactly the same way as our ancestors of 50,000 to 100,000 years ago. The last I heard, our ancestors of 50,000 - 100,000 years ago did not commonly live for 30+ years. This is the typical minimum age for onset of osteoporosis.
Consider for a moment, if it was possible, to drink the milk of a mammal other than a cow, let's say a rat. Or perhaps the milk of a dog would be more to your liking. Possibly some horse milk or cat milk. Do you get the idea? Well, I'm not serious about this, except to suggest that human milk is for human infants, dogs' milk is for pups, cows' milk is for calves, cats' milk is for kittens, and so forth. Clearly, this is the way nature intends it. Just use your own good judgement on this one. That's the way to do it. Make a comparison designed to get an emotional reaction, then reinforce that reaction. That's scientific.
It seems that the public is uneasy about this product and in one survey 43 per cent felt that growth hormone treated milk represented a health risk Source? Oh, wait, he doesn't have one. And I'm sorry, is he citing a public survey in a 'scientific' paper?
Oh, and what kind of scientific discourse would be complete without anecdotal evidence?
I had one patient who did exactly that. He had no obvious vices. He didn't smoke or drink, he didn't eat meat, his diet and lifestyle was nearly a perfectly health promoting one; but he had a passion. You guessed it, he loved rich ice cream. A pint of the richest would be a lean day's ration for him. On many occasions he would eat an entire quart - and yes there were some cookies and other pastries. Good ice cream deserves this after all. He seemed to be in good health despite some expected "middle age spread" when he had a devastating stroke which left him paralyzed, miserable and helpless, and he had additional strokes and died several years later never having left a hospital or rehabilitation unit. Was he old? I don't think so. He was in his 50s.
So don't drink milk for health.
Wow. Here's a surprise. Guy eats like crap his whole life -- ice cream, mind you, not milk, and not in reasonable quantity -- and then dies from it. Blame milk! (Literally. Very next line. )
Most users want their programs to look like they were written for their OS, and they don't want to feel that it was dumped on their OS by accident. Eh? You mispronounced. "Most users" == "me and the people I'm presuming to think for."
Most computer users actually know what an operating system is, nevermind the concept that there's a "non-native" and a "native" look and feel.
I am not a neuro-scientist, but a medical doctor I know explained deja vu as simply when the signals from the same event reach the two sides of the brain a split second apart.
The second one triggers the "I've seen this before" experience in the brain, which is technically true, but not in the distant past, rather in the very near past (less than a second ago). Unfortunately, that explanation doesn't make a lot of sense. It's obvious to anyone who's had it occur that deja vu is not restricted to the senses. For me, it's far more often the feeling that a situation is recurring -- including the feeling that situation is recurring.
Burnout is fatigue. Material things aren't worthless, because if they were worthless you wouldn't work so hard for them. Sounds like someone raising their voice in futile protest against what he subconsciously perceives as truth. Erm... or I could be reading too much into it. Personally, I've been burned out and wide awake at the same time...
And souls are just imaginary, so everything is souless. Eh? Prove it.
It's been QUITE a while since the last benchmark included things like thread creation, compile times, crypto operations, etc.... I wonder why that is.. True enough; but wouldn't there be possible legal issues in deliberately misrepresenting a product while posing as a 'neutral' party?
Often you'll see huge differences in the bars and it could amounts to a 1% difference in performance Also true, I've found that the pictures are pretty but the numbers tell a lot more.
And if you're "best box" is an X2 4800+ then shut your gob, that's a decent processor. What are you doing where you're really hurting for more performance anyways?
Software development, and NWN2 building and development. I've actually no complaints about the desktop, I'm just shopping around for a new laptop that can handle the work (and the 3d load that NWN2 puts on it), so that I'm not glued to my office all night. I have a two year old AMD64-3700 that literally won't even run the game or tools (admittedly a function of the video card, and not the processor); but I'm frequently running enough CPU-intensive tasks -- and waiting for a sluggish computer -- to justify a dual-core to myself.
Unfortunately, since my best box is an X2 4800, I can't answer any of that directly. All I (and most people) have to go by are the various published benchmarks. And unfortunately, stating that they're fabrications doesn't prove the fact. I would be interested in seeing something that supports that.
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Since when did "what we want" have anything to do with what Microsoft is selling us? Easy. Microsoft is in the business of selling new wants to people.
Why let a telephone conversation go on this long? After two minutes I would have written a nice letter explaining things. Some things cannot be explained over the phone properly and this article highlights that fact.
Dear Sir,
That's actually a really good point. At least in banking call centers, the idea is to get the customer off of the phone as quickly as possible. You hear the phrase "time is money" all the time -- but in a call center environment, that's taken very literally. Shaving an average of one second off of a call, annualized across all call centers, can literally save a company millions.
Damn! I missed the opportunity for an excellent pun! I should've named it FoPos (faux pas...)
It's the disease, ya know. I can't help it. Please excuse parent. He's got a disease known FoPS -- Forthright Posting Syndrome. He knows not what he does...
If that's their target demographic, then yes. I don't believe that it is -- that web site looked to me like what a parent would expect a kid's web site to look like. /Not/ what one would actually look like.
Sony has name recognition, yes -- but PSP doesn't have nearly as much, especially among parents looking for gifts.
In advertising, any press is good press. It's about name recognition -- at least that's what friends in the business have told me.
It was no accident that site was 'discovered' as fake. How easy would it be for someone to use a privacy service on their registration? Personally, I think it worked very well - that site got more traffic than it ever would have if it had been legit.
6. There is no #6!
If you'll recall correctly, it's not the lawmakers that this puts at risk; it's the lawyers.
In mathematical terms, let's say "almost certainly" = 80% chance. Now, we'll extract the essential parts of that paragraph:
"...almost certainly pay someone..." * "...almost certainly < RH/SuSE..." * "...almost certainly matches requirements..."
And convert it to the appropriate notation: .80 *.80 = .512
.80 *
Put it in proper format and precision: 51%, +/-2% margin of error
So what it seems parent was saying is that you have a roughly one in two chance of getting what you by using Gentoo in a corporate setting.
Thems bettin' odds, there.
He regrets having to inform us, not that they were hacked. For that matter, he doesn't even regret that your name was in the database -- only that he has to tell you about it.
The information in the above source seems reasonable enough, and well-backed with scientific reports. Please read it, I assure it is worth it. So I've read this article, and all I can say is -- what complete crap! He draws conclusions with no evidence (I guess his say-so that he "read 500 scientific studies" is enough -- unreferenced studies, I might add.). How would I summarize the articles? They were only slightly less than horrifying. First of all, none of the authors spoke of cow's milk as an excellent food, free of side effects and the "perfect food" as we have been led to believe by the industry. The main focus of the published reports seems to be on intestinal colic, intestinal irritation, intestinal bleeding, anemia, allergic reactions in infants and children as well as infections such as salmonella. Wow, open right up with the scare tactics! Because we know in the countries where people drink a lot of milk, all of these things are epidemic! Note that he didn't say that milk caused these problems but inferred it by saying that they were the focus of the unsourced studies he allegedly read. Our paleolithic ancestors are another crucial and interesting group to study. Here we are limited to speculation and indirect evidences, but the bony remains available for our study are remarkable. There is no doubt whatever that these skeletal remains reflect great strength, muscularity (the size of the muscular insertions show this), and total absence of advanced osteoporosis. And if you feel that these people are not important for us to study, consider that today our genes are programming our bodies in almost exactly the same way as our ancestors of 50,000 to 100,000 years ago. The last I heard, our ancestors of 50,000 - 100,000 years ago did not commonly live for 30+ years. This is the typical minimum age for onset of osteoporosis. Consider for a moment, if it was possible, to drink the milk of a mammal other than a cow, let's say a rat. Or perhaps the milk of a dog would be more to your liking. Possibly some horse milk or cat milk. Do you get the idea? Well, I'm not serious about this, except to suggest that human milk is for human infants, dogs' milk is for pups, cows' milk is for calves, cats' milk is for kittens, and so forth. Clearly, this is the way nature intends it. Just use your own good judgement on this one. That's the way to do it. Make a comparison designed to get an emotional reaction, then reinforce that reaction. That's scientific. It seems that the public is uneasy about this product and in one survey 43 per cent felt that growth hormone treated milk represented a health risk Source? Oh, wait, he doesn't have one. And I'm sorry, is he citing a public survey in a 'scientific' paper?
Oh, and what kind of scientific discourse would be complete without anecdotal evidence?
I had one patient who did exactly that. He had no obvious vices. He didn't smoke or drink, he didn't eat meat, his diet and lifestyle was nearly a perfectly health promoting one; but he had a passion. You guessed it, he loved rich ice cream. A pint of the richest would be a lean day's ration for him. On many occasions he would eat an entire quart - and yes there were some cookies and other pastries. Good ice cream deserves this after all. He seemed to be in good health despite some expected "middle age spread" when he had a devastating stroke which left him paralyzed, miserable and helpless, and he had additional strokes and died several years later never having left a hospital or rehabilitation unit. Was he old? I don't think so. He was in his 50s.So don't drink milk for health.
Wow. Here's a surprise. Guy eats like crap his whole life -- ice cream, mind you, not milk, and not in reasonable quantity -- and then dies from it. Blame milk! (Literally. Very next line. )Stupid, stupid, stupid. I meant to say, "Few computer users actually know..."
Most computer users actually know what an operating system is, nevermind the concept that there's a "non-native" and a "native" look and feel.
::bangs head on desk after checking his links:: Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Ummm... that'd be ECMA you're thinking of. This would be EMCA. Two different groups.
The second one triggers the "I've seen this before" experience in the brain, which is technically true, but not in the distant past, rather in the very near past (less than a second ago). Unfortunately, that explanation doesn't make a lot of sense. It's obvious to anyone who's had it occur that deja vu is not restricted to the senses. For me, it's far more often the feeling that a situation is recurring -- including the feeling that situation is recurring.
Phew, that's a relief! I thought for a moment it meant "Visual Basic Improvised Explosive Device" -- one of those could be the end of us all!
Eh? What are you talking about, Visual Basic is an Improvised Explosive Device.Unfortunately, since my best box is an X2 4800, I can't answer any of that directly. All I (and most people) have to go by are the various published benchmarks. And unfortunately, stating that they're fabrications doesn't prove the fact. I would be interested in seeing something that supports that.
Arg. Disregard the last sentence of parent post. Bad editing on my part.