Has there ever been a game that makes the player to player talk an in-game element? I.e., you're sneaking up on the guard with a knife, then suddenly another player's voice comes through your comm and the sound alerts the guard?
It's not just the guides, it's the internet, which often has better (and free) guides than the guides. The smartest of us isn't going to notice as many things as a large group. How many people would have come with Regulus Black as RAB in Harry Potter? But now that's a very well-known possible solution to a puzzle from the last Harry Potter book. I'd say some serial TV shows, as well as video games, have had to become more sophisticated for that very reason.
Ok, lets say the world is warming up. Is that bad? Seriously, is that really bad?
The problem isn't so much that it's getting warmer, but that it seems to be doing so quite quickly. The polar bears may be the canary in the coal mine, but it seems like Arctic changes are happening fast enough that the polar bears can't adapt. While mankind doesn't particularly need polar bears for more than their aesthetics, the concern is that temperature changes could have similar effects on creatures we do depend on. And if that happens, we'll have major problems supplying the world enough food. At the very least, we may lose significant diversity in our diet.
This has already happened in seafood; although not due to global climate change, it is due to human action. There used to be laws limiting how often you could serve your servants lobster. Now it's cheaper to serve steak. Tuna? Cod? Wild salmon? All overfished. Yields in the Chesapeake Bay are way down. Drift nets often catch more bycatch than target species. And Zebra mussels are endemic in areas they never used to be, killing the species more useful to us. Again, all of this is not global warming, but it does show the impact we can have on seemingly limitless environments.
That is not to say that I support some of these schemes. Instead, what we want to do is lessen our impact. Create neighborhoods where walking is more practical. Use a carbon "tax" to give people an economic incentive to be more enviromental.
But perhaps that could be a draw. If you could give a few average folks the opportunity to play somehow along with the pros (you might have to limit this to console games to limit cheating), that might create interest. You might even have a pre-show tournament to select the outsiders, and perhaps some tween with mad skillz can make his mark this way.
People watch poker and many other competitions after the event, it's only the "major" sports where live TV is typically called for. So instead of good in-game cameramen, store the entire game! Then a director can pick the shots he wants, edit out the dull bits, etc. Like poker, player profiles embedded in the show would probably enhance the viewer interest, by giving them reasons to root for one player or team over the other, etc. People care much more about the game when it's Doyle Brunson vs. Joseph Hachem vs. Steve Danneman, etc., rather than one stack of cards vs. another.
To continue the poker analogy, poker playing skills and good looks don't overlap that much, with the possible exception of Jennifer Tilly.
As I understand it, the upcoming version of Parallels allows you to use your Boot Camp OS in Parallels. So you haven't installed it as a VM, but you may use it as such. How does the EULA fit with that situation?
NO. You whitelist good sites. Why? Because it's useful right away. Neopets, Millsberry, etc. *want* their site advertised as safe for kids, and will do quickly. In contrast, how long do you think it would take to get every porn purveyor to tag their site, esp. with new sites coming and going all the time? And how are you going to force them to do it, esp. those hosted overseas? And do the Saudis get to force anklepics.com to tag itself as salacious for Fundamentalist Islam?
What's happening for the younger set is they're seeing porn even when they're not trying to, so a whitelist that allows them to go where they want is useful. I was going to do something like this for my daughter with Apple's parental controls, but it's Safari-only.
You don't need the GPS receiver in the van. Some cameras have the GPS built-in, so every picture gets tagged with location, date, position, shooting direction, etc.
Or heck, this from Columbine, site of the infamous shooting:
"Here is more of what the [Washington] Post found was going on at Columbine:
Bullying was rampant and unchecked. For instance, a father told Post reporters about two athletes mercilessly bullying his son, a Jew, in gym class. They sang songs about Hitler, pinned the youngster to the ground, did "body twisters" on him until he was black-and- blue, and even threatened to set him on fire. The father reported the bullying to the gym teacher, but it continued. When the father took his complaint to the guidance counselor, he said, he was told, "This stuff can happen." The outraged father had to complain to the school board to get relief for his son.
Athletes convicted of crimes were neither suspended from games nor expelled from school. The homecoming king, a star football player, was on parole for burglary yet still permitted to play. Columbine's state wrestling champ was allowed to compete despite being on court-ordered probation, and school officials did nothing when he regularly parked his $100,000 Hummer all day in a fifteen-minute parking space.
Sexual harassment by athletes was common and ignored. For example, when a girl complained to her teacher that a football player was making lewd comments about her breasts in class, the teacher, also a football and wrestling coach, suggested she change her seat. When an athlete loudly made similar comments at a Columbine wrestling match, the girl complained to the coach. He suggested she move to the other side of the gym. Finally, the girl complained to a woman working at a concession stand, who called police. The next day a school administrator tried to per suade the girl's mother to drop the charges, telling her that press ing them would prevent the boy from playing football. When the youngster was found guilty, he still was permitted to play."
I eat because I'm hungry. Despite a relatively healthy choice of foods to eat, that ends up making me fat. Suppress my appetite and I wouldn't be fat. Eat 100 extra calories a day (~%4 over what you burn), and you'll gain nearly a pound a month, more than 10 pounds a year, 100 pounds a decade. So for me to be 6', 250 lbs at ~40, that means ~45 extra calories a day over the last twenty years. That's ~1/5 of a "single serving" packet of Chips Ahoy.
I expect obesity to largely disappear in the next thirty years as effective appetite suppressants are developed.
Jim Fixx died at age 52. In comparison, his father had a heart attack at 35 and died of another heart attack at age 42. It may be that Fixx's running added a decade to his life, as he still died of a heart attack triggered by extreme cholesterol blockages of his arteries.
Oct. 7, 2002 George W. Bush "The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas."
Not "we believe", not "we have evidence that indicates", not "sources tell us"; he said "we know." Yes, I know the difference between a lie and a mistake.
Aug. 26, 2002 Dick Cheney, Vice President "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."
Why do people just ignore or hand-wave away adult stem-cell research?
I don't, I just want both.
Non-embryonic stem cells are pre-programmed to do something useful. Thus it's relatively easy to get them to do that something. Embryonic stem cells are like a computer without a program. It'll take a lot of work to get them to do useful things, but they'll be capable of doing just about anything.
I expect at some point we'll figure out how to "erase the programming" of non-embryonic stem cells and make them also capable of doing anything, and won't need embryonic ones. Presumably the best cells are gotten from the patient (due to lack of rejection), so a method of generating pluripotent stem cells from the patient's tissues is one ultimate goal.
But to get there, we need to do research, and researchers will achieve the most if they can choose the research paths they think will yield the most useful results. Thus some want to do embryonic stem cell research now, rather than waiting until someone can come up with another method of creating them.
Most people want embryonic stem cells for one or a combination of three reasons:
Arrant nonsense. You started acceptably, and then became an offensive idiot.
Consider an analogy. Stem cells are "like" pieces of paper. Embryonic ones are blank, other ones have writing on them already. (Remember this is an analogy.) Because the other ones have useful info on them, they are more immediately useful, and indeed therapeutic uses for stem cells have come from non-embryonic cells. However, that also limits what you can do with these cells without "erasing" the current writing, and replacing it with whatever you need. Right now we don't know how to "erase" or "write" on the stem cells, and that's what research is investigating.
I'm sure that in time we'll solve both of these issues. I expect that at some point they'll take a tiny vial of blood, extract stem cells of some sort, and convert them into pluripotent stem cells to cure what ails you. And no embryos will be involved. The issue is how to get there and how long it will take. The belief of pro-embryonic stem cell research folks like myself is that it will take longer if researchers are limited in what they can research.
As for ethical issues, you're dead when your cerebrum is no longer capable of functioning; I believe you're not alive until your cerebrum is capable of functioning. No conscious thought? No humanity.
I had a manager when I worked at a gas station who was verbally abusive. It wasn't a matter of volume; it was the tone. It was like he was hocking venom at you or flicking daggers.
"I can't believe this shit..." Made you feel like you were a three-year-old.
Sheesh, I don't need a boss like that. My wife does that enough already.
I should feel safer, yet it COMPLETELY FAILS to prevent my becoming a victim? Do YOU have a brain tumor?
In fairness, many people commit more than one crime, usually many more. The cameras may reduce the number of these criminals on the streets by making it easier to catch and detain them after their first crime.
What we don't really care for is the tens of billions spent on Viagra or hair-loss ads.
But they make money for the company. It seems to me that complaining about this is rather like complaining about the amount of money spent on video-game development and ads or the amount spent developing a new sports car; how does it harm medical research? If anything, at least "male enhancement" drug research gives some additional insights into how the human body works. You might worry about it luring researchers away from working on treatments for more serious ailments, but I think it has the opposite effect; it makes more money available to hire more researchers and for better salaries, making that profession more attractive to bright young students.
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Yeah, can you believe those UN guys? Their inspectors tried to tell us Iraq didn't have any WMDs, the morons.
Has there ever been a game that makes the player to player talk an in-game element? I.e., you're sneaking up on the guard with a knife, then suddenly another player's voice comes through your comm and the sound alerts the guard?
It's not just the guides, it's the internet, which often has better (and free) guides than the guides. The smartest of us isn't going to notice as many things as a large group. How many people would have come with Regulus Black as RAB in Harry Potter? But now that's a very well-known possible solution to a puzzle from the last Harry Potter book. I'd say some serial TV shows, as well as video games, have had to become more sophisticated for that very reason.
Ok, lets say the world is warming up. Is that bad? Seriously, is that really bad?
The problem isn't so much that it's getting warmer, but that it seems to be doing so quite quickly. The polar bears may be the canary in the coal mine, but it seems like Arctic changes are happening fast enough that the polar bears can't adapt. While mankind doesn't particularly need polar bears for more than their aesthetics, the concern is that temperature changes could have similar effects on creatures we do depend on. And if that happens, we'll have major problems supplying the world enough food. At the very least, we may lose significant diversity in our diet.
This has already happened in seafood; although not due to global climate change, it is due to human action. There used to be laws limiting how often you could serve your servants lobster. Now it's cheaper to serve steak. Tuna? Cod? Wild salmon? All overfished. Yields in the Chesapeake Bay are way down. Drift nets often catch more bycatch than target species. And Zebra mussels are endemic in areas they never used to be, killing the species more useful to us. Again, all of this is not global warming, but it does show the impact we can have on seemingly limitless environments.
That is not to say that I support some of these schemes. Instead, what we want to do is lessen our impact. Create neighborhoods where walking is more practical. Use a carbon "tax" to give people an economic incentive to be more enviromental.
But perhaps that could be a draw. If you could give a few average folks the opportunity to play somehow along with the pros (you might have to limit this to console games to limit cheating), that might create interest. You might even have a pre-show tournament to select the outsiders, and perhaps some tween with mad skillz can make his mark this way.
People watch poker and many other competitions after the event, it's only the "major" sports where live TV is typically called for. So instead of good in-game cameramen, store the entire game! Then a director can pick the shots he wants, edit out the dull bits, etc. Like poker, player profiles embedded in the show would probably enhance the viewer interest, by giving them reasons to root for one player or team over the other, etc. People care much more about the game when it's Doyle Brunson vs. Joseph Hachem vs. Steve Danneman, etc., rather than one stack of cards vs. another.
To continue the poker analogy, poker playing skills and good looks don't overlap that much, with the possible exception of Jennifer Tilly.
As I understand it, the upcoming version of Parallels allows you to use your Boot Camp OS in Parallels. So you haven't installed it as a VM, but you may use it as such. How does the EULA fit with that situation?
The power of your argument overwhelms me.
NO. You whitelist good sites. Why? Because it's useful right away. Neopets, Millsberry, etc. *want* their site advertised as safe for kids, and will do quickly. In contrast, how long do you think it would take to get every porn purveyor to tag their site, esp. with new sites coming and going all the time? And how are you going to force them to do it, esp. those hosted overseas? And do the Saudis get to force anklepics.com to tag itself as salacious for Fundamentalist Islam?
What's happening for the younger set is they're seeing porn even when they're not trying to, so a whitelist that allows them to go where they want is useful. I was going to do something like this for my daughter with Apple's parental controls, but it's Safari-only.
You don't need the GPS receiver in the van. Some cameras have the GPS built-in, so every picture gets tagged with location, date, position, shooting direction, etc.
If it could get rid of those stupid floaters, I would be *so* happy...
Is that because there's "ass-survey" in the URL?
frankly your characterization of all of us Americans as litigious bastards is unfair and makes you look like a jackass.
Yeah, you should sue him for libel!
Or heck, this from Columbine, site of the infamous shooting:
e /Columbine.html
"Here is more of what the [Washington] Post found was going on at Columbine:
Bullying was rampant and unchecked. For instance, a father told Post reporters about two athletes mercilessly bullying his son, a Jew, in gym class. They sang songs about Hitler, pinned the youngster to the ground, did "body twisters" on him until he was black-and- blue, and even threatened to set him on fire. The father reported the bullying to the gym teacher, but it continued. When the father took his complaint to the guidance counselor, he said, he was told, "This stuff can happen." The outraged father had to complain to the school board to get relief for his son.
Athletes convicted of crimes were neither suspended from games nor expelled from school. The homecoming king, a star football player, was on parole for burglary yet still permitted to play. Columbine's state wrestling champ was allowed to compete despite being on court-ordered probation, and school officials did nothing when he regularly parked his $100,000 Hummer all day in a fifteen-minute parking space.
Sexual harassment by athletes was common and ignored. For example, when a girl complained to her teacher that a football player was making lewd comments about her breasts in class, the teacher, also a football and wrestling coach, suggested she change her seat. When an athlete loudly made similar comments at a Columbine wrestling match, the girl complained to the coach. He suggested she move to the other side of the gym. Finally, the girl complained to a woman working at a concession stand, who called police. The next day a school administrator tried to per suade the girl's mother to drop the charges, telling her that press ing them would prevent the boy from playing football. When the youngster was found guilty, he still was permitted to play."
http://www.newfoundations.com/Clabaugh/CuttingEdg
I eat because I'm hungry. Despite a relatively healthy choice of foods to eat, that ends up making me fat. Suppress my appetite and I wouldn't be fat. Eat 100 extra calories a day (~%4 over what you burn), and you'll gain nearly a pound a month, more than 10 pounds a year, 100 pounds a decade. So for me to be 6', 250 lbs at ~40, that means ~45 extra calories a day over the last twenty years. That's ~1/5 of a "single serving" packet of Chips Ahoy.
I expect obesity to largely disappear in the next thirty years as effective appetite suppressants are developed.
Jim Fixx died at age 52. In comparison, his father had a heart attack at 35 and died of another heart attack at age 42. It may be that Fixx's running added a decade to his life, as he still died of a heart attack triggered by extreme cholesterol blockages of his arteries.
Are you an adult, that you know the difference between a lie and a mistake?
http://zfacts.com/p/581.html
Oct. 7, 2002
George W. Bush
"The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas."
Not "we believe", not "we have evidence that indicates", not "sources tell us"; he said "we know." Yes, I know the difference between a lie and a mistake.
Aug. 26, 2002
Dick Cheney, Vice President
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."
Last year I bought a Samsung [DVD player] about two inches thick that does DTS and has an HDMI input at Costco for $60.
Well, no wonder it was so cheap! They're supposed to have an HDMI output!
I'm not that much of a Trek geek, I don't think, but isn't it "Tea, Earl Gray, hot"? I doubt you wanted to replicate the actual Earl...
OK, now, granted, this exact machine won't be offered for sale to joe average user
Except, of course, on eBay.
Why do people just ignore or hand-wave away adult stem-cell research?
I don't, I just want both.
Non-embryonic stem cells are pre-programmed to do something useful. Thus it's relatively easy to get them to do that something. Embryonic stem cells are like a computer without a program. It'll take a lot of work to get them to do useful things, but they'll be capable of doing just about anything.
I expect at some point we'll figure out how to "erase the programming" of non-embryonic stem cells and make them also capable of doing anything, and won't need embryonic ones. Presumably the best cells are gotten from the patient (due to lack of rejection), so a method of generating pluripotent stem cells from the patient's tissues is one ultimate goal.
But to get there, we need to do research, and researchers will achieve the most if they can choose the research paths they think will yield the most useful results. Thus some want to do embryonic stem cell research now, rather than waiting until someone can come up with another method of creating them.
Most people want embryonic stem cells for one or a combination of three reasons:
Arrant nonsense. You started acceptably, and then became an offensive idiot.
Consider an analogy. Stem cells are "like" pieces of paper. Embryonic ones are blank, other ones have writing on them already. (Remember this is an analogy.) Because the other ones have useful info on them, they are more immediately useful, and indeed therapeutic uses for stem cells have come from non-embryonic cells. However, that also limits what you can do with these cells without "erasing" the current writing, and replacing it with whatever you need. Right now we don't know how to "erase" or "write" on the stem cells, and that's what research is investigating.
I'm sure that in time we'll solve both of these issues. I expect that at some point they'll take a tiny vial of blood, extract stem cells of some sort, and convert them into pluripotent stem cells to cure what ails you. And no embryos will be involved. The issue is how to get there and how long it will take. The belief of pro-embryonic stem cell research folks like myself is that it will take longer if researchers are limited in what they can research.
As for ethical issues, you're dead when your cerebrum is no longer capable of functioning; I believe you're not alive until your cerebrum is capable of functioning. No conscious thought? No humanity.
I had a manager when I worked at a gas station who was verbally abusive. It wasn't a matter of volume; it was the tone. It was like he was hocking venom at you or flicking daggers.
"I can't believe this shit..." Made you feel like you were a three-year-old.
Sheesh, I don't need a boss like that. My wife does that enough already.
I should feel safer, yet it COMPLETELY FAILS to prevent my becoming a victim? Do YOU have a brain tumor?
In fairness, many people commit more than one crime, usually many more. The cameras may reduce the number of these criminals on the streets by making it easier to catch and detain them after their first crime.
What we don't really care for is the tens of billions spent on Viagra or hair-loss ads.
But they make money for the company. It seems to me that complaining about this is rather like complaining about the amount of money spent on video-game development and ads or the amount spent developing a new sports car; how does it harm medical research? If anything, at least "male enhancement" drug research gives some additional insights into how the human body works. You might worry about it luring researchers away from working on treatments for more serious ailments, but I think it has the opposite effect; it makes more money available to hire more researchers and for better salaries, making that profession more attractive to bright young students.
VectorWorks imports and exports DWG files. A lot less expensive than Microstation, and easier to use by most reports than AutoCAD LT.