According to TFA, yes, they are required to advertise it at $49.95/month for a 6Mbit connection for the next 3 years, at which time they can raise prices. That is what I pay for 7Mbit DSL service with a static IP (it would be 10 in other areas, but they need to upgrade the hardware at the switching station, which I expect to happen maybe the day before never, and I get a consistent 6.2-6.3). Since Cable is slower than DSL unless they have more bandwidth (with cable I can get 20GB for about $79, and then it is way faster).
But they've always had a plan in that same price range, they just didn't advertise it, and they always had a $10 fee if you didn't bundle TV. Not sure if that is still the case (my guess is the fee is $15-20 by now) because I left them in a huff over service years ago. Service had dropped to about 300kbps during peak hours on a 3Mbps line and that was unacceptable. My complaints maybe didn't fall on deaf ears, because they added a hub and fiber-to-the-neighborhood a year later to handle the overburdened lines, but I'd had it and left already (to much more expensive Speakeasy, which I left after the Best Buy for Business takeover, and by then competing DSL was better).
Oh, I think we have bigger things to worry about... 37% of Americans can't find AMERICA on the map.
I really have to wonder though... Mormons believe each person gets their own planet when they die*, and even God has one (Kolob). Romney would probably say "Grandad, is that you?" before being shot in the face with a blaster.
* - "Then will they become Gods...they will never cease to increase and to multiply, worlds without end. When they receive their crowns, their dominions, they then will be prepared to frame earths like unto ours and to people them in the same manner as we have been brought forth by our parents, by our Father and God” Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 17:143
The US government will have plenty to fear if they don't boost taxes, paying off debt, and funding total obligation. National debt of 15 trillion? It will take time, but we can dig out of that. Total Obligation with Obamacare is estimated at around $82 trillion and growing? Terrifying - that is well over the GDP of the WORLD. Economists say debt-to-GDP is 1:1, I say debt to tax income is 7:1, and that is if we applied all of it just to paying debt, which we can't because 84% of the budget is immovable (Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Defense, and other programs - those three alone are 54%). This obligation is quickly spiraling out of control. If it isn't fixed soon, it will be too late to fix it at all.
I've read 34% of people (56% between 18 and 34) of Americans have ZERO dollars saved for retirement according to polls, and are completely relying on Social Security and Medicare, which are so far underwater that it may be too late to say them (I say it almost certainly is, but we can try). Now think of millions of armed Americans without a paycheck or medical care (Obamacare is doomed as well because it is also total obligation). So what does the government have to fear? The middle and lower classes revolting. Don't count on the military helping, as most of them were poor to begin with.
Worst of all, she's in denial about the fact that SOPA wasn't talking about site blocking, but removing DNS entries, a far different procedure than blocking, and far more damaging to the internet when combined with the lack of due process.
You missed the fact that we also host ICANN, so can effectively censor ALL sites worldwide unless those sites re-inject removed DNS entries. This has serious, far reaching consequences - for instance, US and Canadian copyright laws differ, but the law would be enforced based on US copyright. Also the legislation said any mention of these sites had to be removed, and that means Wikipedia would be censored and Canadians couldn't find information about the site.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want other countries writing laws for me that I was forced to obey through treacherous means. Enforcing censorship at the DNS level absolutely cannot happen in America or we take away freedom for others. I'm sure that is unconstitutional.
The 2D context (canvas) is probably rendered in software, so it makes sense that it is slow - I'd use WebGL 2D for games. WebGL at least uses an established, if old API - OpenGL for Embedded Systems - it was 2.0 last I checked and if that still aligns with OpenGL 2.0 I'd hate to start developing on it because I'd dread the move to 3.0 (porting from OpenGL 2 to OpenGL 3 was a MAJOR pain because the GLSL language changed drastically - if you don't use GLSL, porting is a non-issue). For random numbers you could use a hardware accelerated noise function like this one: https://github.com/ashima/webgl-noise/wiki and then just access the texture procedurally. That may cause issues if the game is online though (hackers would read the memory and edit it on the fly if you copy it out of texture memory into main memory, which you may need to do for speed).
Personally, I didn't find The Day After all that scary, having seen Damnation Alley and other movies with similar themes already (Logan's Run, for instance, which I saw on broadcast television, so it was even sanitized), but I also didn't take the threat of nuclear war with the USSR all that seriously. I didn't buy that either side would actually go through with it, no matter how much posturing was done. What person really wants to be responsible for the termination of life on earth? Neither side had anything to gain and everything to lose. I also happened to see War Games before then, and they put it perfectly - the only winning move is to not play the game. I also saw the Soviets failure in Afghanistan as sapping their will to fight. America had that in Vietnam, though we honestly we should have learned from Korea when China joined in - we had superior technology, they had millions people of people with knives and grenades willing to die for their country, and all because MacArthur had to take the last 10 miles or so of Korea to make the victory complete (and in doing so, pissed off China enough that they declared war).
I also think it is laughable that we said we were "fighting communism," when really we were fighting dictatorships using a communist economic system. No theoretical communism was ever implemented as it was imagined, so calling it communism is a lie - it was a (poorly) distributed resource dictatorship. Go find some Amish or Mennonite communes and see how it is properly done (strong central leader is God though...).
And yeah, I am old enough to remember duck and cover drills, which were absurd when I got older and realized how big a blast radius a fusion bomb had. Unless the bomb missed its target, anyone caught in the blast was a goner (it was second ring, so just outside of "vaporized instantly").
Also to say they can't be detected by sonar is wrong - they can't be detected by sonar from behind or directly in front, since the boat would be moving faster than the sonar waves straight on going forward (unless the boat also absorbs sonar, that is).
Since there is only one current pitcher that throws it, I wonder if school bans on this pitch have led largely to its death. I was banned from throwing the knuckleball in Jr High and High School because it was "too hard on a pitcher's arm," even though I used it in sandlot games fairly effectively. Ultimately lack of arm strength did me in as a pitcher (I could throw harder with a submarine pitch, which I had started using in sandlot games, but the school didn't allow that either), and I wasn't much of a batter once pitches hit 60-70MPH (much less 80 like some of our high school pitchers were throwing).
especially this - If there are no or insufficient record sales, the advance is written off by the record company.
my experience (in the mid 1990s) We didn't sell enough records, so the locks on our studio door were changed and a court order tacked onto the door saying all equipment inside has been repossessed to pay debt owed to studio. Anything that couldn't be proven as personally owned within one week (with the purchase receipt, mind you) would be auctioned off. I lost $2000 in gear that I personally owned (before getting an auction cut - see next sentence), mainly in a set of bass speaker cabinets (I had the receipt for the head, so I was able to recover that, but I had to have the property owner and police there when I took possession of that property and was sadly not able to convince the officer that the head and speakers went together). They actually only "lost" about $4000 (It may have been a little less than that, but it's been so long I'll just use $4k), so I had a check cut out to me after the sale for $800 after the auction. Note that the auction was actually held 3 days earlier than it was supposed to be, and nobody in the band even notified it was happening because they were dirty rotten lying bastards and we couldn't afford to sue them and they knew it. The gear, especially our PA and light system, must have been auctioned off at a massive loss, because they were easily worth 8-10k each, both being relatively new. To this day I don't know how the recording studio even found our practice studio, but I imagine they had one of us followed or something shady. This same studio stole (or in their words, repo'd) another band's tour bus loaded with gear while they were on tour for the same reason. The studio did close a short time later, so I can only assume the behavior was debt driven, but you REALLY need to know who you're getting in bed with in the music industry - it's brutal.
Also I have a hard time feeling sympathy for the studio "loss" - after all, they made thousands of dollars on us and easily recouped the cost of recording, but the way the system works is everyone at the studio gets paid and then the artist pays all expenses including recording time on their cut (it isn't up front). Our songwriter made something like $15k (because songwriting cut is off the top), and I believe that meant the studio head himself made around $20-25k, because I think his cut was 5-10% higher. The band owed $4000. Yep, that's studio math for a "loss" - as the old musician adage goes, everyone makes money except the band. It wouldn't surprise me if they wrote off the $4000 when they went chapter 7.
I've always supported both. Easy to set up on the DNS server, as it is just a list there, and I believe different prefixes can be directed to different ports, as well (and you can redirect at the router, so it is a way to proxy).
I still don't really like TLDs... they should be optional and then ditch.com and make it the default, but that is what most browsers do already, so if you just type slashdot into your browser, you go to www.slashdot.com, which redirects to slashdot.org.
yeah - my thoughts exactly, though I was thinking more of "I sure hope they don't have battery overheating issues that start a fire like Apple did." My second thought was they probably use Magnalium, which are flammable to an extent, but very difficult to light and usually can't be lit without a very hot fire. Magnalium is used in aircraft and car parts like rims.
I doubt you export much of it. The piss (of this type) sold in the USA is brewed in Canada. It's even worse then 'real' Fosters.
You are wrong about Corona though. Mexicans love that piss, don't ask me why, 'Miller High Life' cost much less and tastes exactly the same.
I disagree - Corona tastes and smells like it was brewed with toilet water, which it probably was, Miller High Life has that nasty rice aftertaste like all mass brewed American beers (which are brewed with rice that didn't separate from the chaff and would be thrown away otherwise). I honestly can't tell the difference between Miller, Coors, Budweiser, etc anymore - all I taste is the rice (or corn, which is worse - think Hamms) aftertaste. And Mexicans drink Corona (or Sol) because they are the cheapest beers, just like most Americans drink Miller, Coors, Budweiser, or name your mass produced piss beer.
Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if that were true at one time... while I don't know how rampant pederasts were, in the late 1700s when Australia was established as a penal colony, they only sent men and boys. I believe it was the second or third ship when the prisoners at Botany Bay begged the next load to include women because the situation was "getting out of hand" (I think those were the exact words) and a couple ships after that before they actually got women, mostly prostitutes, if I recall correctly.
The premium is for 48 frames per second, they're already charging you for the 3D part. Last time I went to the theater for a first run movie it was $14 for a matinee with a coupon and $6 for a small popcorn, and that was their smallest screen and not in 3D (they want $16 for a matinee, $22 for prime hours for that)... I think can skip the 3D and wait 2-4 weeks for the $2 theater with $2 popcorn. I don't really give a flying f**** about 3D anyway, and blu-ray vs DVD isn't that big of deal to me either (if I've got the blu-ray, I'll watch it, but I don't think any less of DVD or streaming when I watch in those formats).
Yep - only about 10.5% of gamers use Intel - source: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey suggesting very few of this almost 60% care about graphics at all - all they want to do is bring up their Office spreadsheets or play Solitaire or Facebook games at best. Integrated graphics are extremely cheap to add and they often are added at almost cost to the motherboards and chips they are embedded on (because Intel cares more about selling Motherboards and CPUs). Also many people I know own a desktop for better graphics/games and a laptop or netbook for travel, and very few of these laptops have good graphics (mine and a friend of mine's wife, because she played WoW and is on the road a lot).
I, however am in the other court - I can't even start my day without a GPU on my work laptop, and it needs to have at least OpenGL 1.5 on it. Anything less and I can't bring up CAD visualization software. Some of the newer software I'm working on actually support OpenGL 3 features (which is a huge step in the CAD world - OpenGL 4 would be really cool with hardware tessellation, but they aren't there yet).
PowerVR has always taken the cheap/power friendly road, building for smaller devices and low end graphics needs. They also typically have been a generation or two behind on die shrinks, letting nVidia and AMD absorb the cost of creating the new processes and methods. Compared to AMD and nVidia, they are terrible, but compared to Intel GMA, they aren't all that bad (especially when Intel was doing transformation and lighting on the CPU). They sucked on Linux/FreeBSD because the OSS OpenGL drivers were never very good (at least when I used them) and on Windows because nVidia and AMD are so much better. On phones, though, where low power consumption > graphics throughput, they aren't bad. I certainly wouldn't play a 3D game on mine (it's 2 years old in August), but it plays Angry Birds just fine.
Human infections are relatively rare, but yeah, I've heard of other cases as well. Certainly not the killer it once was, much like tetanus, which many people still think can only be contracted from rusty nails, while the bacterium is dirt dwelling and can be contrived from any puncture wound. Heck, people have contracted it from dirty heroin needles.
I don't see condom breaking penises happening - the species continues to propagate and there is no stress factor forcing such a change with condoms at a cellular level (testicles say yay, we're used, babies formed without a condom or with a broken condom only know success and not about failures and unless brain knowledge factors into evolution, which I seriously doubt or all men would have evolved a penis at least 12 inches long and 2 inches thick that can continuously ejaculate by now and women would never have to fake an orgasm because they would always orgasm, cell knowledge is all it has to go off of). Same thing with certain female birth control like the diaphragm. Progesterone as birth control, on the other hand, I could see as a potential stress factor. Without a stress factor, there really is no reason for an evolutionary mutation.
TFA says the government will foot the 1.8 billion pounds (about 2.8 billion dollars) cost. Not sure if that is just storage or storage and monitoring tools because I didn't read the 123 page paper.
Still, this sounds like a good time to put hard disk and tape drives into my investment portfolio and maybe pray for more Thailand floods (causing another shortage and thus prices going up).
Usually when I hear about bank robbers getting caught in the US, they were doing it to pay for their meth addiction. People on meth are extremely erratic - the tenant I had tore apart a giant teddy bear and tried to flush its head down the toilet and then ran around throwing bear innards everywhere. She lied that she had a job, didn't pay her rent until evicted, and left the place a mess. She also refused rehab (according to her mom, a coworker of my wife). Last I heard she was arrested for shoplifting.
No. It could be, but that is only if you can sell significantly more product at the reduced price. For instance, if the device costs $400 to manufacture and you sell 7 at $3000 because those people are probably insured vs 12 at $800 because there are 5 people uninsured and can't otherwise afford them, where do you make the larger profit? These companies aren't in it to help you, they are in it to turn the biggest profit. It's the American way and one of the things that stinks about capitalism. These companies also prop up their prices with patented technologies since nobody can compete with the patent until it expires. It is like DCA for cancer - no pharmaceutical company will touch it because it is non-patentable, though someone did file for a patent for its use in cancer treatment (but still no pharma interest last I heard). I know the FDA made it illegal in the US, not sure where that is now.
IMO they probably also did it so they had an excuse not to balance single player, especially at higher difficulties where it becomes obvious that only Monk is viable (or maybe Monk is just so OP that it feels that way). I'm extremely disappointed in Demon Hunter skills at level 32 - nothing works on Diablo. Meanwhile, at level 27 and 28 respectively both my monk and barbarian steamrolled him. Wizard and Witch Doctor both failed Diablo single player and succeeded in multiplayer, so this may be a problem for all squishies (and in multiplayer he was a joke). I recently reequipped my Demon hunter with 50 DPS hand crossbows in each hand and dual socketed max dexterity gem armor in 3 slots from Nightmare, so will have to try him again (though I probably will just find a multiplayer game - single player seems to be suicide - armor is 700 now, but my barbarian's was over 1800 and monk 1300 and DPS is over 100 of both of those, but my wizard is 300 more than demon hunter right now [without glass cannon, which I only use in multiplayer] but is also 9 levels higher).
When I took SAT, roughly 70% of the test was reading comprehension, something I do poorly on when timed, so my SAT score were really bad - I don't think I even finished half the test and I felt like a moron when I got my scores back, especially when my best friend aced it. My ACT score, on the other hand, which had less time pressure and less reading comprehension was 28/33 (and again I stumbled on fast reading comprehension, but that was 10% of the test) and that was the same score my friend got (keep in mind neither of us studied for either one like many people do today). When I got my IQ tested (untimed) later that year due to ADHD type of symptoms (which ended up being caused by asthma medication theophylline, where I needed the equivalent of 80 pots of tea a day), I got a 138 - top 1% of the population. I didn't even bother retaking my SAT, as my ACT score and GPA (3.8 average taking all enriched/accelerated learning classes) got me in everywhere I applied. Sure I probably would have failed where another friend got in (MIT with his perfect SAT and ACT score and 4.0/4.0 GPA), but nobody I've ever met was as smart as that guy, except maybe one of my college roommates, and he had an eidetic memory (and whatever your belief on that, I certainly believe it - I asked him to read my textbook in a class he wasn't in and he repeated it back to me verbatim studying each page no more than 2 seconds).
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According to TFA, yes, they are required to advertise it at $49.95/month for a 6Mbit connection for the next 3 years, at which time they can raise prices. That is what I pay for 7Mbit DSL service with a static IP (it would be 10 in other areas, but they need to upgrade the hardware at the switching station, which I expect to happen maybe the day before never, and I get a consistent 6.2-6.3). Since Cable is slower than DSL unless they have more bandwidth (with cable I can get 20GB for about $79, and then it is way faster).
But they've always had a plan in that same price range, they just didn't advertise it, and they always had a $10 fee if you didn't bundle TV. Not sure if that is still the case (my guess is the fee is $15-20 by now) because I left them in a huff over service years ago. Service had dropped to about 300kbps during peak hours on a 3Mbps line and that was unacceptable. My complaints maybe didn't fall on deaf ears, because they added a hub and fiber-to-the-neighborhood a year later to handle the overburdened lines, but I'd had it and left already (to much more expensive Speakeasy, which I left after the Best Buy for Business takeover, and by then competing DSL was better).
Oh, I think we have bigger things to worry about... 37% of Americans can't find AMERICA on the map.
I really have to wonder though... Mormons believe each person gets their own planet when they die*, and even God has one (Kolob). Romney would probably say "Grandad, is that you?" before being shot in the face with a blaster.
* - "Then will they become Gods...they will never cease to increase and to multiply, worlds without end. When they receive their crowns, their dominions, they then will be prepared to frame earths like unto ours and to people them in the same manner as we have been brought forth by our parents, by our Father and God” Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 17:143
The US government will have plenty to fear if they don't boost taxes, paying off debt, and funding total obligation. National debt of 15 trillion? It will take time, but we can dig out of that. Total Obligation with Obamacare is estimated at around $82 trillion and growing? Terrifying - that is well over the GDP of the WORLD. Economists say debt-to-GDP is 1:1, I say debt to tax income is 7:1, and that is if we applied all of it just to paying debt, which we can't because 84% of the budget is immovable (Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Defense, and other programs - those three alone are 54%). This obligation is quickly spiraling out of control. If it isn't fixed soon, it will be too late to fix it at all.
I've read 34% of people (56% between 18 and 34) of Americans have ZERO dollars saved for retirement according to polls, and are completely relying on Social Security and Medicare, which are so far underwater that it may be too late to say them (I say it almost certainly is, but we can try). Now think of millions of armed Americans without a paycheck or medical care (Obamacare is doomed as well because it is also total obligation). So what does the government have to fear? The middle and lower classes revolting. Don't count on the military helping, as most of them were poor to begin with.
Definitely before Windows 3.1, I remember power and reset buttons just above giant TURBO buttons on some 386s, though my 386 didn't have either.
You missed the fact that we also host ICANN, so can effectively censor ALL sites worldwide unless those sites re-inject removed DNS entries. This has serious, far reaching consequences - for instance, US and Canadian copyright laws differ, but the law would be enforced based on US copyright. Also the legislation said any mention of these sites had to be removed, and that means Wikipedia would be censored and Canadians couldn't find information about the site.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want other countries writing laws for me that I was forced to obey through treacherous means. Enforcing censorship at the DNS level absolutely cannot happen in America or we take away freedom for others. I'm sure that is unconstitutional.
The 2D context (canvas) is probably rendered in software, so it makes sense that it is slow - I'd use WebGL 2D for games. WebGL at least uses an established, if old API - OpenGL for Embedded Systems - it was 2.0 last I checked and if that still aligns with OpenGL 2.0 I'd hate to start developing on it because I'd dread the move to 3.0 (porting from OpenGL 2 to OpenGL 3 was a MAJOR pain because the GLSL language changed drastically - if you don't use GLSL, porting is a non-issue). For random numbers you could use a hardware accelerated noise function like this one: https://github.com/ashima/webgl-noise/wiki and then just access the texture procedurally. That may cause issues if the game is online though (hackers would read the memory and edit it on the fly if you copy it out of texture memory into main memory, which you may need to do for speed).
Not to mention Acrobat only checks for and updates after a reboot and often asks you to reboot again.
Personally, I didn't find The Day After all that scary, having seen Damnation Alley and other movies with similar themes already (Logan's Run, for instance, which I saw on broadcast television, so it was even sanitized), but I also didn't take the threat of nuclear war with the USSR all that seriously. I didn't buy that either side would actually go through with it, no matter how much posturing was done. What person really wants to be responsible for the termination of life on earth? Neither side had anything to gain and everything to lose. I also happened to see War Games before then, and they put it perfectly - the only winning move is to not play the game. I also saw the Soviets failure in Afghanistan as sapping their will to fight. America had that in Vietnam, though we honestly we should have learned from Korea when China joined in - we had superior technology, they had millions people of people with knives and grenades willing to die for their country, and all because MacArthur had to take the last 10 miles or so of Korea to make the victory complete (and in doing so, pissed off China enough that they declared war).
I also think it is laughable that we said we were "fighting communism," when really we were fighting dictatorships using a communist economic system. No theoretical communism was ever implemented as it was imagined, so calling it communism is a lie - it was a (poorly) distributed resource dictatorship. Go find some Amish or Mennonite communes and see how it is properly done (strong central leader is God though...).
And yeah, I am old enough to remember duck and cover drills, which were absurd when I got older and realized how big a blast radius a fusion bomb had. Unless the bomb missed its target, anyone caught in the blast was a goner (it was second ring, so just outside of "vaporized instantly").
Also to say they can't be detected by sonar is wrong - they can't be detected by sonar from behind or directly in front, since the boat would be moving faster than the sonar waves straight on going forward (unless the boat also absorbs sonar, that is).
Since there is only one current pitcher that throws it, I wonder if school bans on this pitch have led largely to its death. I was banned from throwing the knuckleball in Jr High and High School because it was "too hard on a pitcher's arm," even though I used it in sandlot games fairly effectively. Ultimately lack of arm strength did me in as a pitcher (I could throw harder with a submarine pitch, which I had started using in sandlot games, but the school didn't allow that either), and I wasn't much of a batter once pitches hit 60-70MPH (much less 80 like some of our high school pitchers were throwing).
especially this - If there are no or insufficient record sales, the advance is written off by the record company.
my experience (in the mid 1990s)
We didn't sell enough records, so the locks on our studio door were changed and a court order tacked onto the door saying all equipment inside has been repossessed to pay debt owed to studio. Anything that couldn't be proven as personally owned within one week (with the purchase receipt, mind you) would be auctioned off. I lost $2000 in gear that I personally owned (before getting an auction cut - see next sentence), mainly in a set of bass speaker cabinets (I had the receipt for the head, so I was able to recover that, but I had to have the property owner and police there when I took possession of that property and was sadly not able to convince the officer that the head and speakers went together). They actually only "lost" about $4000 (It may have been a little less than that, but it's been so long I'll just use $4k), so I had a check cut out to me after the sale for $800 after the auction. Note that the auction was actually held 3 days earlier than it was supposed to be, and nobody in the band even notified it was happening because they were dirty rotten lying bastards and we couldn't afford to sue them and they knew it. The gear, especially our PA and light system, must have been auctioned off at a massive loss, because they were easily worth 8-10k each, both being relatively new. To this day I don't know how the recording studio even found our practice studio, but I imagine they had one of us followed or something shady. This same studio stole (or in their words, repo'd) another band's tour bus loaded with gear while they were on tour for the same reason. The studio did close a short time later, so I can only assume the behavior was debt driven, but you REALLY need to know who you're getting in bed with in the music industry - it's brutal.
Also I have a hard time feeling sympathy for the studio "loss" - after all, they made thousands of dollars on us and easily recouped the cost of recording, but the way the system works is everyone at the studio gets paid and then the artist pays all expenses including recording time on their cut (it isn't up front). Our songwriter made something like $15k (because songwriting cut is off the top), and I believe that meant the studio head himself made around $20-25k, because I think his cut was 5-10% higher. The band owed $4000. Yep, that's studio math for a "loss" - as the old musician adage goes, everyone makes money except the band. It wouldn't surprise me if they wrote off the $4000 when they went chapter 7.
I've always supported both. Easy to set up on the DNS server, as it is just a list there, and I believe different prefixes can be directed to different ports, as well (and you can redirect at the router, so it is a way to proxy).
I still don't really like TLDs... they should be optional and then ditch .com and make it the default, but that is what most browsers do already, so if you just type slashdot into your browser, you go to www.slashdot.com, which redirects to slashdot.org.
yeah - my thoughts exactly, though I was thinking more of "I sure hope they don't have battery overheating issues that start a fire like Apple did."
My second thought was they probably use Magnalium, which are flammable to an extent, but very difficult to light and usually can't be lit without a very hot fire. Magnalium is used in aircraft and car parts like rims.
I doubt you export much of it. The piss (of this type) sold in the USA is brewed in Canada. It's even worse then 'real' Fosters.
You are wrong about Corona though. Mexicans love that piss, don't ask me why, 'Miller High Life' cost much less and tastes exactly the same.
I disagree - Corona tastes and smells like it was brewed with toilet water, which it probably was, Miller High Life has that nasty rice aftertaste like all mass brewed American beers (which are brewed with rice that didn't separate from the chaff and would be thrown away otherwise). I honestly can't tell the difference between Miller, Coors, Budweiser, etc anymore - all I taste is the rice (or corn, which is worse - think Hamms) aftertaste. And Mexicans drink Corona (or Sol) because they are the cheapest beers, just like most Americans drink Miller, Coors, Budweiser, or name your mass produced piss beer.
Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if that were true at one time... while I don't know how rampant pederasts were, in the late 1700s when Australia was established as a penal colony, they only sent men and boys. I believe it was the second or third ship when the prisoners at Botany Bay begged the next load to include women because the situation was "getting out of hand" (I think those were the exact words) and a couple ships after that before they actually got women, mostly prostitutes, if I recall correctly.
The premium is for 48 frames per second, they're already charging you for the 3D part. Last time I went to the theater for a first run movie it was $14 for a matinee with a coupon and $6 for a small popcorn, and that was their smallest screen and not in 3D (they want $16 for a matinee, $22 for prime hours for that)... I think can skip the 3D and wait 2-4 weeks for the $2 theater with $2 popcorn. I don't really give a flying f**** about 3D anyway, and blu-ray vs DVD isn't that big of deal to me either (if I've got the blu-ray, I'll watch it, but I don't think any less of DVD or streaming when I watch in those formats).
Yep - only about 10.5% of gamers use Intel - source: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey suggesting very few of this almost 60% care about graphics at all - all they want to do is bring up their Office spreadsheets or play Solitaire or Facebook games at best. Integrated graphics are extremely cheap to add and they often are added at almost cost to the motherboards and chips they are embedded on (because Intel cares more about selling Motherboards and CPUs). Also many people I know own a desktop for better graphics/games and a laptop or netbook for travel, and very few of these laptops have good graphics (mine and a friend of mine's wife, because she played WoW and is on the road a lot).
I, however am in the other court - I can't even start my day without a GPU on my work laptop, and it needs to have at least OpenGL 1.5 on it. Anything less and I can't bring up CAD visualization software. Some of the newer software I'm working on actually support OpenGL 3 features (which is a huge step in the CAD world - OpenGL 4 would be really cool with hardware tessellation, but they aren't there yet).
PowerVR has always taken the cheap/power friendly road, building for smaller devices and low end graphics needs. They also typically have been a generation or two behind on die shrinks, letting nVidia and AMD absorb the cost of creating the new processes and methods. Compared to AMD and nVidia, they are terrible, but compared to Intel GMA, they aren't all that bad (especially when Intel was doing transformation and lighting on the CPU). They sucked on Linux/FreeBSD because the OSS OpenGL drivers were never very good (at least when I used them) and on Windows because nVidia and AMD are so much better. On phones, though, where low power consumption > graphics throughput, they aren't bad. I certainly wouldn't play a 3D game on mine (it's 2 years old in August), but it plays Angry Birds just fine.
Human infections are relatively rare, but yeah, I've heard of other cases as well. Certainly not the killer it once was, much like tetanus, which many people still think can only be contracted from rusty nails, while the bacterium is dirt dwelling and can be contrived from any puncture wound. Heck, people have contracted it from dirty heroin needles.
I don't see condom breaking penises happening - the species continues to propagate and there is no stress factor forcing such a change with condoms at a cellular level (testicles say yay, we're used, babies formed without a condom or with a broken condom only know success and not about failures and unless brain knowledge factors into evolution, which I seriously doubt or all men would have evolved a penis at least 12 inches long and 2 inches thick that can continuously ejaculate by now and women would never have to fake an orgasm because they would always orgasm, cell knowledge is all it has to go off of). Same thing with certain female birth control like the diaphragm. Progesterone as birth control, on the other hand, I could see as a potential stress factor. Without a stress factor, there really is no reason for an evolutionary mutation.
TFA says the government will foot the 1.8 billion pounds (about 2.8 billion dollars) cost. Not sure if that is just storage or storage and monitoring tools because I didn't read the 123 page paper.
Still, this sounds like a good time to put hard disk and tape drives into my investment portfolio and maybe pray for more Thailand floods (causing another shortage and thus prices going up).
Usually when I hear about bank robbers getting caught in the US, they were doing it to pay for their meth addiction. People on meth are extremely erratic - the tenant I had tore apart a giant teddy bear and tried to flush its head down the toilet and then ran around throwing bear innards everywhere. She lied that she had a job, didn't pay her rent until evicted, and left the place a mess. She also refused rehab (according to her mom, a coworker of my wife). Last I heard she was arrested for shoplifting.
No. It could be, but that is only if you can sell significantly more product at the reduced price. For instance, if the device costs $400 to manufacture and you sell 7 at $3000 because those people are probably insured vs 12 at $800 because there are 5 people uninsured and can't otherwise afford them, where do you make the larger profit? These companies aren't in it to help you, they are in it to turn the biggest profit. It's the American way and one of the things that stinks about capitalism. These companies also prop up their prices with patented technologies since nobody can compete with the patent until it expires. It is like DCA for cancer - no pharmaceutical company will touch it because it is non-patentable, though someone did file for a patent for its use in cancer treatment (but still no pharma interest last I heard). I know the FDA made it illegal in the US, not sure where that is now.
IMO they probably also did it so they had an excuse not to balance single player, especially at higher difficulties where it becomes obvious that only Monk is viable (or maybe Monk is just so OP that it feels that way). I'm extremely disappointed in Demon Hunter skills at level 32 - nothing works on Diablo. Meanwhile, at level 27 and 28 respectively both my monk and barbarian steamrolled him. Wizard and Witch Doctor both failed Diablo single player and succeeded in multiplayer, so this may be a problem for all squishies (and in multiplayer he was a joke). I recently reequipped my Demon hunter with 50 DPS hand crossbows in each hand and dual socketed max dexterity gem armor in 3 slots from Nightmare, so will have to try him again (though I probably will just find a multiplayer game - single player seems to be suicide - armor is 700 now, but my barbarian's was over 1800 and monk 1300 and DPS is over 100 of both of those, but my wizard is 300 more than demon hunter right now [without glass cannon, which I only use in multiplayer] but is also 9 levels higher).
When I took SAT, roughly 70% of the test was reading comprehension, something I do poorly on when timed, so my SAT score were really bad - I don't think I even finished half the test and I felt like a moron when I got my scores back, especially when my best friend aced it. My ACT score, on the other hand, which had less time pressure and less reading comprehension was 28/33 (and again I stumbled on fast reading comprehension, but that was 10% of the test) and that was the same score my friend got (keep in mind neither of us studied for either one like many people do today). When I got my IQ tested (untimed) later that year due to ADHD type of symptoms (which ended up being caused by asthma medication theophylline, where I needed the equivalent of 80 pots of tea a day), I got a 138 - top 1% of the population. I didn't even bother retaking my SAT, as my ACT score and GPA (3.8 average taking all enriched/accelerated learning classes) got me in everywhere I applied. Sure I probably would have failed where another friend got in (MIT with his perfect SAT and ACT score and 4.0/4.0 GPA), but nobody I've ever met was as smart as that guy, except maybe one of my college roommates, and he had an eidetic memory (and whatever your belief on that, I certainly believe it - I asked him to read my textbook in a class he wasn't in and he repeated it back to me verbatim studying each page no more than 2 seconds).