Can anyone explain the rationale of using this over the more powerful, more versatile Dell Axim? Prices are comparable at the least, and Dell runs specials often enough to make the 624 mhz x51v version price competitive.
So what are you saying -- movies are different from real life? Now it all makes sense; I was wondering why Wolverine and James Bond hadn't teamed up to destroy those giant asteroids hurtling towards Earth.
I'd add a third type -- Action RPGs ala Diablo and Titan Quest. Not as deep as Fallout, Baldur's Gate, or other traditional PC RPGs, but certainly not console-like.
I have a few digital subscriptions that I got for free from offers that show up fairly regularly on deal sites. I don't have a strong preference for digital vs. paper; each has their strong points. Digital is nice because you receive the magazine before the print version is available, generally by about 1-2 weeks (this is based on Games for Windows magazine, which I get in both formats. Hey, it was free -- why not?). The resolution isn't as crisp as I would like, and obviously it lacks the portability of the paper version. The interface in the Zinio reader is slower and more cludgey than it should be, but that is obviously something that can be improved with time. The main advantage of digital is that it's much easier to keep years worth of magazines on a hard drive than to have them taking up a significant amount of room in a closet.
In general, my preference comes down to the format of the magazine. If it's a light, casual read ala gaming mags, than digital is better. If it's something I'll want to spend more time with, curled up on the couch or my recliner and reading more for depth, ala Discover, than print is superior.
If it's artificially interfering with a normal function of life and it's not involved in preventing a life threatening disease, it's just a bad idea.
I think that's a too broad standard. Wisdom teeth are a "normal" part of human development and are not life threatening, but virtually everyone gets theirs removed. And I'm sure the slashdot group think would not care to apply your standard to the question of abortion.
I am concerned about long term effects of drugs such as modafinil, but I can't help but wish it was available OTC. Sleep is the thief that steals away my life; we lose a quarter to a third of our lifespan irrevocably, something I find truly frustrating.
As if this will change the opinions of any of the powers that be in favor of increased legislation and restriction of online content? The argument will shift to "...but that 1% makes up (20 / 30 / 50 / arbitrary number) % of internet traffic! Save the children now!"
Not exactly. It is 100% legal and easy to bypass either. For phone calls, if you feel your personal line is insecure, buy a 'pay as you go' cell phone and register it with made up info. Online, there are darknets and proxies aplenty to keep you as anonymous as you choose. Both of these solutions are completely legal.
Assuming that your numbers are accurate, how much of that is due to increased awareness of and diagnosis of mental health disorders? I doubt that the majority of diagnoses such as depression, ADHD, anorexia, Asperger's, et al are due to stressed pregnant women.
I worked for a time as a games reviewer, and I can say that I personally never knew or witnessed such action. Then again, we were pretty low on the totem pole and never had a "world exclusive". Still, the site was fairly big and reviews were collated at such places as metacritic.com, and even for the biggest releases there was no pressure to give a game any particular score.
No argument here; just responding to the oft-repeated notions that everyone is walking around dehydrated, due to not enough water intake and/or too much caffeine intake.
[S]ome nutritionists insist that half the country is walking around dehydrated. We drink too much coffee, tea and sodas containing caffeine, which prompts the body to lose water, they say; and when we are dehydrated, we don't know enough to drink.
Can it be so? Should healthy adults really be stalking the water cooler to protect themselves from creeping dehydration?
Not at all, doctors say. "The notion that there is widespread dehydration has no basis in medical fact," says Dr. Robert Alpern, dean of the medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Doctors from a wide range of specialties agree: By all evidence, we are a well-hydrated nation. Furthermore, they say, the current infatuation with water as an all-purpose health potion -- tonic for the skin, key to weight loss -- is a blend of fashion and fiction and very little science.
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Regular coffee and tea drinkers become accustomed to caffeine and lose little, if any, fluid. In a study published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, researchers at the Center for Human Nutrition in Omaha measured how different combinations of water, coffee and caffeinated sodas affected the hydration status of 18 healthy adults who drink caffeinated beverages routinely.
"We found no significant differences at all," says nutritionist Ann Grandjean, the study's lead author. "The purpose of the study was to find out if caffeine is dehydrating in healthy people who are drinking normal amounts of it. It is not."
The same goes for tea, juice, milk and caffeinated sodas: One glass provides about the same amount of hydrating fluid as a glass of water. The only common drinks that produce a net loss of fluids are those containing alcohol -- and usually it takes more than one of those to cause noticeable dehydration, doctors say.
Because if a typical clueless parent is Xmas shopping and has the choice of Playstation 3 or XBox 2 for roughly similar prices... well, 3 > 2 so the Playstation must be newer and better.
In short, typical marketing.
We can assume that no intelligent life existed on Earth before man due to the abundance of natural resources (such as oil, coal, iron, copper, etc) in easily accessible locations. If man screws it up and makes himself extinct, that's it for intelligent life on Earth -- the next creatures to evolve a semblance of intelligence will not have access to the necessary raw materials to create a civilization for themselves. All the easy-to-reach resources have been largely exhausted, necessitating the development of technologies as deep drilling and strip mining. These techs would be unavailable to future creatures, as they implicitly depend upon having tools already.
I've thought about this issue myself, and there are two further solutions:
1) Polyandry (multiple husbands for each woman)
2) Increasing age disparity between spouses, with younger and younger women getting married off to men, who the government may say must be 27 years old to marry.
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Can anyone explain the rationale of using this over the more powerful, more versatile Dell Axim? Prices are comparable at the least, and Dell runs specials often enough to make the 624 mhz x51v version price competitive.
So what are you saying -- movies are different from real life? Now it all makes sense; I was wondering why Wolverine and James Bond hadn't teamed up to destroy those giant asteroids hurtling towards Earth.
Very simple solution: HP offers a 'No OS' option that lowers the price by $5. Problem solved.
I'd add a third type -- Action RPGs ala Diablo and Titan Quest. Not as deep as Fallout, Baldur's Gate, or other traditional PC RPGs, but certainly not console-like.
I have a few digital subscriptions that I got for free from offers that show up fairly regularly on deal sites. I don't have a strong preference for digital vs. paper; each has their strong points. Digital is nice because you receive the magazine before the print version is available, generally by about 1-2 weeks (this is based on Games for Windows magazine, which I get in both formats. Hey, it was free -- why not?). The resolution isn't as crisp as I would like, and obviously it lacks the portability of the paper version. The interface in the Zinio reader is slower and more cludgey than it should be, but that is obviously something that can be improved with time. The main advantage of digital is that it's much easier to keep years worth of magazines on a hard drive than to have them taking up a significant amount of room in a closet.
In general, my preference comes down to the format of the magazine. If it's a light, casual read ala gaming mags, than digital is better. If it's something I'll want to spend more time with, curled up on the couch or my recliner and reading more for depth, ala Discover, than print is superior.
If it's artificially interfering with a normal function of life and it's not involved in preventing a life threatening disease, it's just a bad idea.
I think that's a too broad standard. Wisdom teeth are a "normal" part of human development and are not life threatening, but virtually everyone gets theirs removed. And I'm sure the slashdot group think would not care to apply your standard to the question of abortion.
I am concerned about long term effects of drugs such as modafinil, but I can't help but wish it was available OTC. Sleep is the thief that steals away my life; we lose a quarter to a third of our lifespan irrevocably, something I find truly frustrating.
People simply can't believe something that doesn't not exist
Ah, the rare triple negative. And pulled off in fine form, where it is impossible to tell what the sentence means.
Warlords for the Atari 2600. Seriously, it is the most fun I've ever had with a multiplayer console game.
Your tubes are particularly sticky, eh? Time to stop IMing pages, Senator.
This is a logical fallacy called a Biased Sample, also known as a "Pauline Kael"
As if this will change the opinions of any of the powers that be in favor of increased legislation and restriction of online content? The argument will shift to "...but that 1% makes up (20 / 30 / 50 / arbitrary number) % of internet traffic! Save the children now!"
This is one of the longest running, most prevalent urban legends. See 1, 2, 3.
One could also ask, how could any portable video format compete with the UMD, with an installed base of nearly 23 million players.
BTW, how big is the UMD section at BestBuy these days?
Not exactly. It is 100% legal and easy to bypass either. For phone calls, if you feel your personal line is insecure, buy a 'pay as you go' cell phone and register it with made up info. Online, there are darknets and proxies aplenty to keep you as anonymous as you choose. Both of these solutions are completely legal.
Assuming that your numbers are accurate, how much of that is due to increased awareness of and diagnosis of mental health disorders? I doubt that the majority of diagnoses such as depression, ADHD, anorexia, Asperger's, et al are due to stressed pregnant women.
That worked really well that last time it was tried.
I worked for a time as a games reviewer, and I can say that I personally never knew or witnessed such action. Then again, we were pretty low on the totem pole and never had a "world exclusive". Still, the site was fairly big and reviews were collated at such places as metacritic.com, and even for the biggest releases there was no pressure to give a game any particular score.
No argument here; just responding to the oft-repeated notions that everyone is walking around dehydrated, due to not enough water intake and/or too much caffeine intake.
Look, the only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume.
Lies.
Because if a typical clueless parent is Xmas shopping and has the choice of Playstation 3 or XBox 2 for roughly similar prices ... well, 3 > 2 so the Playstation must be newer and better.
In short, typical marketing.
We can assume that no intelligent life existed on Earth before man due to the abundance of natural resources (such as oil, coal, iron, copper, etc) in easily accessible locations. If man screws it up and makes himself extinct, that's it for intelligent life on Earth -- the next creatures to evolve a semblance of intelligence will not have access to the necessary raw materials to create a civilization for themselves. All the easy-to-reach resources have been largely exhausted, necessitating the development of technologies as deep drilling and strip mining. These techs would be unavailable to future creatures, as they implicitly depend upon having tools already.
I've thought about this issue myself, and there are two further solutions: 1) Polyandry (multiple husbands for each woman) 2) Increasing age disparity between spouses, with younger and younger women getting married off to men, who the government may say must be 27 years old to marry.
And people wonder why home schooling is growing by leaps and bounds.