eHarmony specifically caters to women first in their setup; that's why they've been most successful at attracting women.
That said, I've spent a lot of time on a lot of dating sites over the years, and I don't think that there's a qualitative difference between eHarmony and every other dating site out there. I've had two eHarmony relationships that I spent a lot of time and effort on completely fizzle. I'm in a very promising relationship right now with someone I met on Plenty of Fish. At the end of the day, the site you found them on is meaningless; the person you found is everything.
Don't let the "regular" laptop keyboard look fool you, it's even better than the keyboard on my Toshiba, as well as my girlfriend's modern Lenovo laptop. The keys have a buttery softness to them, a firm response, and they're quiet.
Oh baby... wait, are we still talking about the keyboards here?
I used to do tech support in a 3D animation school, and can verify that about 90% of the "artists" there were wannabe's. Maybe 10% had enough talent to make decent money at it.
Sure; it takes years to develop a new console. If they waited until sales of the Wii were seriously waning before working on a next-gen console, they would lose much of their customer base.
The comics aren't any more realistic, though. When he's swinging around Manhattan, he typically shoots web lines that are hundreds of yards long, and he does it dozens of times. Just to shoot one or two of those lines, at the thickness they typically show in the comics, would take all of the web formula in his wrist canisters (both wrists!) as well as the backup canisters around his waist.
Also, think of the explosive force required to shoot a web line that far. The compression in those canisters would have to be friggen HUGE, and a fresh canister would shoot really far and a half-empty canister would drizzle out. And yet, the velocity of the webbing is always constant.
At the end of the day, you just have to remind yourself that it's just fantasy, and not take it too seriously.
"more content later" is another way of saying "It's not done and may never be unless we maintain a certain level of subscriptions. Which they will not.
It seems to me that every MMORPG has been released with the promise of "more content later". I've only started playing WoW in the last six months, but my guild leader has played since day 1, and as we are running around doing quests and dungeons, he's telling us how much has changed since launch, and it's quite a bit.
I think the challenge for new MMORPG releases is to keep most folks from hitting endgame within the first six months, lest the game get a reputation of being "too easy". By the end of the year, they will have added new missions and areas, and nerfed the difficulty of a lot of things.
One question I have about ST:O has to do with armor/clothing... I've played two MMORPG's, and being able to constantly upgrade your look seems to be a big deal.
In the ST universe, the Federation uniforms are very minimalist and rank is denoted by collar pins. Does that mean that, from the first day through the last level, your look doesn't change very much?
SMG doesn't feature much motion control, but the shaking the Wiimote to make him spin always seemed clever to me.
I have Marvel Ultimate Alliance for the Wii, and I hate it. There are a LOT of motion controls, and they feel completely tacked on and confusing. After playing X-Men Legends I and II on the XBox, the XBox controller offers a far superior experience for this genre of games.
Each game genre has its own appropriate control scheme, and motion control is not always what's needed.
The iTablet has been rumored to be a multimedia device (i.e., watching movies). If that turns out to be true, it would be a huge leap over the Courier, which would only be able to watch a movie on a much smaller screen.
After being stomped by Apple in the MP3 market, the digital content delivery market, and the current-gen smartphone market, I have no problem believing that Microsoft is taking their Apple rumors VERY seriously these days.
Apple DOES try to make a profit -- that's why they typically have among the highest profit margins in the industry for their hardware.
On the contrary, I don't really see a second screen as adding that much more value, particularly when the expanded size looks to be roughly the same as the rumored iTablet -- plus, you have the dead space of the hinge dividing the screens.
I'm sure that there will be covers for the iTablet that will fold over the screen, just like there are for the Kindle. So the only real advantage of the Courier would be that it folds into half the length of the iTablet (while doubling the height).
I had a helluva good time watching it -- isn't that all that really matters?
Avatar is getting a lot of criticism because it's so popular. Every movie has flaws that you can pick at; I don't know of a single movie that doesn't have flaws. But a good movie will make you not care about the flaws.
Accuracy has nothing to do with copyright law. It has everything to do with archaeological discoveries and increasing knowledge of the past.
I think many mainline Christian denominations view the original manuscripts as infallible, meaning that copies of manuscripts are not. Of course, no one has possession of the original manuscripts, but archaeology in the last 200 years has unearthed manuscripts that are much more ancient than the ones used for the KJV. Most famously, the Dead Sea Scrolls produced a scroll of Isaiah that is 800 years older than the oldest Isaiah scroll know to exist.
Translation between languages is not an exact science, even between modern languages. Words have shades of meaning that don't translate well, and some words simply don't exist in other languages. The work of translating is therefore somewhat subjective, and the translator generally has to strike a balance between a dynamic translation (trying to convey the meaning of a passage, regardless of how many words are required) and a literal translation (trying to match the passage word-for-word). The New Living Translation is the most dynamic translation on the market; the New American Standard is the most literal. The rest fall somewhere in between.
The languages used in the Bible are "dead languages"; they stopped being used for the common vernacular a long, long time ago. The Greek and Yiddish used today are descendants, but have significant differences. When you are dealing with a dead language, and translating an old manuscript (which was copied by hand thousands of times over the centuries), sometimes the scribes introduced errors (like spelling mistakes), and there may have even been some instances where overzealous scribes inserted verses that weren't previously there.
The KJV represented the best of biblical scholarship for its day. However, since the KJV was written, we've unearthed many much more ancient manuscripts, and archaeology has revealed to us many things about these dead languages that we didn't know before. The best translation on the market today that takes into account the most amount of research, and strikes a good balance between dynamic and literal is probably the NIV.
For the record (no pun intended -- well, ok, maybe it was), churches do have to pay royalties on music these days. About 20 years ago the CCLI was formed, which is the licensing body for Christian artists. While music used in worship is specifically exempted, printing the lyrics for your congregation is not. Since most churches want their congregation to actually be able to sing along, they typically project the lyrics on the wall, and that's what they have to pay the licensing fee for.
I think there's also a training aspect to it... teaching prospective soldiers how to think and act as a team in a ground combat combat situation. For a training tool like that that is accessible to virtually every service member, $33 million is quite a bargain.
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eHarmony specifically caters to women first in their setup; that's why they've been most successful at attracting women.
That said, I've spent a lot of time on a lot of dating sites over the years, and I don't think that there's a qualitative difference between eHarmony and every other dating site out there. I've had two eHarmony relationships that I spent a lot of time and effort on completely fizzle. I'm in a very promising relationship right now with someone I met on Plenty of Fish. At the end of the day, the site you found them on is meaningless; the person you found is everything.
"Yaris, ahead warp factor 9... make it so!"
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Don't let the "regular" laptop keyboard look fool you, it's even better than the keyboard on my Toshiba, as well as my girlfriend's modern Lenovo laptop. The keys have a buttery softness to them, a firm response, and they're quiet.
Oh baby... wait, are we still talking about the keyboards here?
I used to do tech support in a 3D animation school, and can verify that about 90% of the "artists" there were wannabe's. Maybe 10% had enough talent to make decent money at it.
What, you've never played chess with a 12-sided die?
Sure; it takes years to develop a new console. If they waited until sales of the Wii were seriously waning before working on a next-gen console, they would lose much of their customer base.
The comics aren't any more realistic, though. When he's swinging around Manhattan, he typically shoots web lines that are hundreds of yards long, and he does it dozens of times. Just to shoot one or two of those lines, at the thickness they typically show in the comics, would take all of the web formula in his wrist canisters (both wrists!) as well as the backup canisters around his waist.
Also, think of the explosive force required to shoot a web line that far. The compression in those canisters would have to be friggen HUGE, and a fresh canister would shoot really far and a half-empty canister would drizzle out. And yet, the velocity of the webbing is always constant.
At the end of the day, you just have to remind yourself that it's just fantasy, and not take it too seriously.
It's called "Hotmail".
You can thank me later.
It also means that you will have several weeks head start over those players who wait until the game goes GM.
"more content later" is another way of saying "It's not done and may never be unless we maintain a certain level of subscriptions. Which they will not.
It seems to me that every MMORPG has been released with the promise of "more content later". I've only started playing WoW in the last six months, but my guild leader has played since day 1, and as we are running around doing quests and dungeons, he's telling us how much has changed since launch, and it's quite a bit.
I think the challenge for new MMORPG releases is to keep most folks from hitting endgame within the first six months, lest the game get a reputation of being "too easy". By the end of the year, they will have added new missions and areas, and nerfed the difficulty of a lot of things.
The Borg seems like they should be endgame villains.
One question I have about ST:O has to do with armor/clothing... I've played two MMORPG's, and being able to constantly upgrade your look seems to be a big deal.
In the ST universe, the Federation uniforms are very minimalist and rank is denoted by collar pins. Does that mean that, from the first day through the last level, your look doesn't change very much?
SMG doesn't feature much motion control, but the shaking the Wiimote to make him spin always seemed clever to me.
I have Marvel Ultimate Alliance for the Wii, and I hate it. There are a LOT of motion controls, and they feel completely tacked on and confusing. After playing X-Men Legends I and II on the XBox, the XBox controller offers a far superior experience for this genre of games.
Each game genre has its own appropriate control scheme, and motion control is not always what's needed.
Having typed on a Sinclair Spectrum Z-80 keyboard, I can understand why.
I'm just surprised that no one has started in with the Princess of Wales jokes.
Let me also add...
The iTablet has been rumored to be a multimedia device (i.e., watching movies). If that turns out to be true, it would be a huge leap over the Courier, which would only be able to watch a movie on a much smaller screen.
I hate that my XBox 360 sounds like a jet engine every time I turn it on.
Use it as a multimedia station? Yeah, what a joke. I have to crank the volume on everything so I can hear it about the sound of the 360.
After being stomped by Apple in the MP3 market, the digital content delivery market, and the current-gen smartphone market, I have no problem believing that Microsoft is taking their Apple rumors VERY seriously these days.
Apple DOES try to make a profit -- that's why they typically have among the highest profit margins in the industry for their hardware.
I heard that the kids of every parent who buys one will get a pony.
On the contrary, I don't really see a second screen as adding that much more value, particularly when the expanded size looks to be roughly the same as the rumored iTablet -- plus, you have the dead space of the hinge dividing the screens.
I'm sure that there will be covers for the iTablet that will fold over the screen, just like there are for the Kindle. So the only real advantage of the Courier would be that it folds into half the length of the iTablet (while doubling the height).
I had a helluva good time watching it -- isn't that all that really matters?
Avatar is getting a lot of criticism because it's so popular. Every movie has flaws that you can pick at; I don't know of a single movie that doesn't have flaws. But a good movie will make you not care about the flaws.
Accuracy has nothing to do with copyright law. It has everything to do with archaeological discoveries and increasing knowledge of the past.
I think many mainline Christian denominations view the original manuscripts as infallible, meaning that copies of manuscripts are not. Of course, no one has possession of the original manuscripts, but archaeology in the last 200 years has unearthed manuscripts that are much more ancient than the ones used for the KJV. Most famously, the Dead Sea Scrolls produced a scroll of Isaiah that is 800 years older than the oldest Isaiah scroll know to exist.
Translation between languages is not an exact science, even between modern languages. Words have shades of meaning that don't translate well, and some words simply don't exist in other languages. The work of translating is therefore somewhat subjective, and the translator generally has to strike a balance between a dynamic translation (trying to convey the meaning of a passage, regardless of how many words are required) and a literal translation (trying to match the passage word-for-word). The New Living Translation is the most dynamic translation on the market; the New American Standard is the most literal. The rest fall somewhere in between.
The languages used in the Bible are "dead languages"; they stopped being used for the common vernacular a long, long time ago. The Greek and Yiddish used today are descendants, but have significant differences. When you are dealing with a dead language, and translating an old manuscript (which was copied by hand thousands of times over the centuries), sometimes the scribes introduced errors (like spelling mistakes), and there may have even been some instances where overzealous scribes inserted verses that weren't previously there.
The KJV represented the best of biblical scholarship for its day. However, since the KJV was written, we've unearthed many much more ancient manuscripts, and archaeology has revealed to us many things about these dead languages that we didn't know before. The best translation on the market today that takes into account the most amount of research, and strikes a good balance between dynamic and literal is probably the NIV.
For the record (no pun intended -- well, ok, maybe it was), churches do have to pay royalties on music these days. About 20 years ago the CCLI was formed, which is the licensing body for Christian artists. While music used in worship is specifically exempted, printing the lyrics for your congregation is not. Since most churches want their congregation to actually be able to sing along, they typically project the lyrics on the wall, and that's what they have to pay the licensing fee for.
I was just about to make that very point.
Studies have shown that conservatives typically give more to charity than liberals, even though liberals are supposed to be the "bleeding hearts".
I think there's also a training aspect to it... teaching prospective soldiers how to think and act as a team in a ground combat combat situation. For a training tool like that that is accessible to virtually every service member, $33 million is quite a bargain.