I never said they were terrible, just that a successful Zerg game relies on a early victory. Once you've reached the higher levels of the tech trees the Zerg can no longer compete against the other two races. The Zerg can easily defeat one of the other races if they pump out enough units early on and their opponent has been focusing on climbing the tech tree rather than also pumping out their cheaper low level units.
Being that it was early in the game and he was focusing on building out his basic infrastructure he didn't have many units to spare. Had he pulled all his drones off production immediately when he saw me coming he might have been able to stop them, but would have left himself crippled for the followup wave of Zealots I had coming his way. The reason I was able to use that tactic was it was a 1v1 game, had I needed to deal with another player I could not have performed the rush as it would have left my base completely undefended. The Zerg, with their very cheap, fast to produce, and weak units can afford to go run them off cliffs at random because they cost virtually nothing to make. They may also leave their base (relatively) undefended while they harass other players because they can produce units much faster than others even though individually those units are far weaker (counting on the other players more concentrated forces to be at their own base doing defense). Essentially the Zerg can afford to spread themselves thin without leaving large gaps in forces.
Noob. 1) Zerg rush isn't the only tactic available to the Zerg. 2) The name originates from creating as many cheap zergling as you can and sending them as early as you can in hopes of surprising your enemy.
Try re-reading my post, you fail at reading comprehension. All the Zerg have is a cheap early advantage, once you get to a longer running game with higher tech trees the Zerg can easily be wiped out because any of the other races more expensive units are more than a match for even the most powerful of the Zerg units. The only hope for Zerg is an early win with overwhelming numbers, hence Zerg Rush. You can however perform a rush with any race, it's just usually better to invest those early resources in building your tech tree for a tactical advantage.
In the fight I referenced I built 3 Zealots and sent them to his base where they easily wiped out the 9 Zerglings he had managed to produce in the same amount of time without losing even a single unit, and then proceeded to destroy the base. Once again a rush is not a Zerg only tactic, merely the best tactic available to them.
I once had an argument with one of my friends (big Zerg fan) that a "Zerg Rush" wasn't anything specific to the Zerg, simply the only tactic you can reasonably use with them. I resolved the argument by performing a Zealot Rush and wiping out his piddling Zerg base. Antaro Adun!
I signed up for this yesterday but so far haven't received any notification. My guess is Blizzard will just select from the pool of everyone that applies, possibly selecting based on hardware specs for a wide variety of system configs.
... are you high? That seems like the kind of thought process you see when someone is stoned. It's called the speed of light not because it's tied to the speed of light, but because light (more accurately photons traveling in a vacuum) happens to be capped at that upper speed boundary. Put another way, its not the maximum speed because that's how fast light goes in vacuum, but light goes that fast in vacuum because it's the maximum speed. We simply use light as a convenient reference point, it's no less valid to refer to it by its proper physics quantity of c without needing to invoke the term light at all.
I don't drink scotch myself, but I remember my father drank Glenfiddich. I can't tell from your post whether you're saying Glenfiddich is a good or bad brand (is it even a brand, or is it a type?). Can you elaborate more on that?
I think it has less to do with the art style than the content. Manga/Anime tends to have more scifi themes than just about anything else (primarily due to the costs involved in doing things like mecha in other media formats) which naturally tends to appeal to nerds/geeks who are often fans of scifi. For great examples of this check out any of Ghost In The Shell, Guyver, Gunslinger Girls, Cowboy Bebop, Serial Experiments Laing (explores psychological aspects of reality), Gundam (to a greater or lesser extent, depends on which of the hundred or so versions you're talking about), Akira, Armitage III, and plenty of others that are too numerous to name.
Do you perhaps see something all your examples have in common?... Just saying.
If your in the position where you're forced to use IE, Office, and Outlook not much you can do, but if you can you should probably switch to Firefox (or Chrome, or Safari, or any combination of the three), OpenOffice.org, and Thunderbird (maybe, depends on how your Outlook server is setup).
Lastly, I'll leave you with parting advice from the magic 8-ball: "Outlook not so good."
You're missing the point. The problem isn't the images, or the theoretical right of the family not to see them, it's the assholes harassing the family by intentionally sending them this stuff. There are laws out there already to prevent harassment of this kind without needing to bring free speech into the argument. It's not about the images being published, it's about intentionally sending these images and comments to the family members. This is no different than if someone was to get images of other nasty accidents and mail them to the family with letters talking about the crash. The content isn't really the issue, and neither is the medium, but rather the intent.
Socialism works sometimes. So does capitalism. Communism can work to when the planets are aligned just right. But as a overall economic policy Socialism doesn't work, as it quickly turns into a race to the lowest common denominator, and it can always go lower. There is no one supreme economic system that's always going to be better than all the others in every situation. Likewise some economic systems are doomed to failure in certain situations.
After talking with some people in the medical field, it seems like an excellent place to start would be in the medical imaging records. Just about all the advanced imaging equipment out there saves the images to a "standard" format that's about as standard as a MS Word file. Every manufacturer has their own custom version of the "standard" that's incompatible with everyone else, and regularly updated, thus ensuring a constant (and broad) income stream.
Actually TFA points out that they opted for carrots due to the supply of non-food grade carrots available to them. What I'm waiting on thought is for our genetic engineering capability to achieve the state of not re-purposing existing biologic materials, but rather custom designing organisms to produce (or be) materials or products.
Can someone explain WTF a "slow earthquake" is, and why we care? From reading the article it sounds like it has something to do with the speed the compression wave propagates through the crust at, but why that matters I'm not quite sure. No matter what the propagation speed is it's still going to tear things up when it finally does get to you.
Oh sure, they have vested interests, everyone does, just not on the scale of what most lobbyists have. That's also why you get a good selection with the intent being that they've have opposing vested interests and cancel each other out. The problem with lobbyists is you've essentially got a few mega-corps ad and marketing departments feeding a steady stream of BS (and money) into the ears of politicians.
This is why you don't have lobbyists, you have consultants. Grab some (as in get a good selection) university professors and ask them their opinion. The key thing is to avoid people with vested interests from providing recommendations. Also, if it's something with scientific data behind it, the supporting research should be published as well.
Aside from the fact that the GP was joking, this sort of thing has been going on in American schools (both public grade schools, and state universities) for a very long time. Richard Feynman writes about it in his book from when he (briefly) served on one of the state school boards as an expert in helping pick out the math and science books. What he found out was that the selection process is based more or less entirely on what the sales reps tell school board. Blatant bribery occurs, and most of the board members never even open the books up, just look at the covers and read the sales pitch provided by the publisher.
From what I understand there's really two forces at work here. The first, is deals publishers make with school to provide kickbacks to the schools (in addition to the cut the school bookstores make). The second is federal regulations that require schools to make a certain percentage of their revenue from non-scholarship sources. That second probably needs a bit of explaining, the idea behind it is that they don't want what are essentially welfare schools that are so expensive the only way anyone goes to them is because the government (or some charity organization) is footing the bill for the student. The problem is, it's not worded that way so what ends up happening is the schools instead require the most expensive books they can get with the largest publisher kickbacks and rotate them out every year so students are constantly having to buy new expensive books which contributes directly to the schools non-scholarship income, rather than the intended behavior of reducing tuition to attract more students (or possibly conducting more privately funded research programs).
Best of both worlds, offer it for download with the physical copy shipping with a coupon for X off the digital copy where X is equal to all but $3 (or whatever) of the cost of the digital copy.
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I never said they were terrible, just that a successful Zerg game relies on a early victory. Once you've reached the higher levels of the tech trees the Zerg can no longer compete against the other two races. The Zerg can easily defeat one of the other races if they pump out enough units early on and their opponent has been focusing on climbing the tech tree rather than also pumping out their cheaper low level units.
Being that it was early in the game and he was focusing on building out his basic infrastructure he didn't have many units to spare. Had he pulled all his drones off production immediately when he saw me coming he might have been able to stop them, but would have left himself crippled for the followup wave of Zealots I had coming his way. The reason I was able to use that tactic was it was a 1v1 game, had I needed to deal with another player I could not have performed the rush as it would have left my base completely undefended. The Zerg, with their very cheap, fast to produce, and weak units can afford to go run them off cliffs at random because they cost virtually nothing to make. They may also leave their base (relatively) undefended while they harass other players because they can produce units much faster than others even though individually those units are far weaker (counting on the other players more concentrated forces to be at their own base doing defense). Essentially the Zerg can afford to spread themselves thin without leaving large gaps in forces.
Noob. 1) Zerg rush isn't the only tactic available to the Zerg. 2) The name originates from creating as many cheap zergling as you can and sending them as early as you can in hopes of surprising your enemy.
Try re-reading my post, you fail at reading comprehension. All the Zerg have is a cheap early advantage, once you get to a longer running game with higher tech trees the Zerg can easily be wiped out because any of the other races more expensive units are more than a match for even the most powerful of the Zerg units. The only hope for Zerg is an early win with overwhelming numbers, hence Zerg Rush. You can however perform a rush with any race, it's just usually better to invest those early resources in building your tech tree for a tactical advantage.
In the fight I referenced I built 3 Zealots and sent them to his base where they easily wiped out the 9 Zerglings he had managed to produce in the same amount of time without losing even a single unit, and then proceeded to destroy the base. Once again a rush is not a Zerg only tactic, merely the best tactic available to them.
I once had an argument with one of my friends (big Zerg fan) that a "Zerg Rush" wasn't anything specific to the Zerg, simply the only tactic you can reasonably use with them. I resolved the argument by performing a Zealot Rush and wiping out his piddling Zerg base. Antaro Adun!
I signed up for this yesterday but so far haven't received any notification. My guess is Blizzard will just select from the pool of everyone that applies, possibly selecting based on hardware specs for a wide variety of system configs.
... are you high? That seems like the kind of thought process you see when someone is stoned. It's called the speed of light not because it's tied to the speed of light, but because light (more accurately photons traveling in a vacuum) happens to be capped at that upper speed boundary. Put another way, its not the maximum speed because that's how fast light goes in vacuum, but light goes that fast in vacuum because it's the maximum speed. We simply use light as a convenient reference point, it's no less valid to refer to it by its proper physics quantity of c without needing to invoke the term light at all.
... I don't know whether to mod that insightful or funny.
I don't drink scotch myself, but I remember my father drank Glenfiddich. I can't tell from your post whether you're saying Glenfiddich is a good or bad brand (is it even a brand, or is it a type?). Can you elaborate more on that?
I think it has less to do with the art style than the content. Manga/Anime tends to have more scifi themes than just about anything else (primarily due to the costs involved in doing things like mecha in other media formats) which naturally tends to appeal to nerds/geeks who are often fans of scifi. For great examples of this check out any of Ghost In The Shell, Guyver, Gunslinger Girls, Cowboy Bebop, Serial Experiments Laing (explores psychological aspects of reality), Gundam (to a greater or lesser extent, depends on which of the hundred or so versions you're talking about), Akira, Armitage III, and plenty of others that are too numerous to name.
Do you perhaps see something all your examples have in common?... Just saying.
If your in the position where you're forced to use IE, Office, and Outlook not much you can do, but if you can you should probably switch to Firefox (or Chrome, or Safari, or any combination of the three), OpenOffice.org, and Thunderbird (maybe, depends on how your Outlook server is setup).
Lastly, I'll leave you with parting advice from the magic 8-ball: "Outlook not so good."
You're missing the point. The problem isn't the images, or the theoretical right of the family not to see them, it's the assholes harassing the family by intentionally sending them this stuff. There are laws out there already to prevent harassment of this kind without needing to bring free speech into the argument. It's not about the images being published, it's about intentionally sending these images and comments to the family members. This is no different than if someone was to get images of other nasty accidents and mail them to the family with letters talking about the crash. The content isn't really the issue, and neither is the medium, but rather the intent.
Socialism works sometimes. So does capitalism. Communism can work to when the planets are aligned just right. But as a overall economic policy Socialism doesn't work, as it quickly turns into a race to the lowest common denominator, and it can always go lower. There is no one supreme economic system that's always going to be better than all the others in every situation. Likewise some economic systems are doomed to failure in certain situations.
You are remiss in not properly linking to some source material on MUMPS.
After talking with some people in the medical field, it seems like an excellent place to start would be in the medical imaging records. Just about all the advanced imaging equipment out there saves the images to a "standard" format that's about as standard as a MS Word file. Every manufacturer has their own custom version of the "standard" that's incompatible with everyone else, and regularly updated, thus ensuring a constant (and broad) income stream.
You fool, if you fail to polarize the deflector dish first you could cause a subspace tear!
Actually TFA points out that they opted for carrots due to the supply of non-food grade carrots available to them. What I'm waiting on thought is for our genetic engineering capability to achieve the state of not re-purposing existing biologic materials, but rather custom designing organisms to produce (or be) materials or products.
Can someone explain WTF a "slow earthquake" is, and why we care? From reading the article it sounds like it has something to do with the speed the compression wave propagates through the crust at, but why that matters I'm not quite sure. No matter what the propagation speed is it's still going to tear things up when it finally does get to you.
So, like, my XBox Funion Edition(TM) red ringed, so I ate it. I can't get it repaired now, but it was delicious.
Race called on account of rabbit attack.
Get over it already, it's on screen for all of like 10 minutes during the entire movie.
In Florida tickets are something like $7.50 for matinee or student, and $12 to $15 for general admission.
Oh sure, they have vested interests, everyone does, just not on the scale of what most lobbyists have. That's also why you get a good selection with the intent being that they've have opposing vested interests and cancel each other out. The problem with lobbyists is you've essentially got a few mega-corps ad and marketing departments feeding a steady stream of BS (and money) into the ears of politicians.
Around here (Florida, TWC trades under the name BrightHouse down here), about $160.
This is why you don't have lobbyists, you have consultants. Grab some (as in get a good selection) university professors and ask them their opinion. The key thing is to avoid people with vested interests from providing recommendations. Also, if it's something with scientific data behind it, the supporting research should be published as well.
Aside from the fact that the GP was joking, this sort of thing has been going on in American schools (both public grade schools, and state universities) for a very long time. Richard Feynman writes about it in his book from when he (briefly) served on one of the state school boards as an expert in helping pick out the math and science books. What he found out was that the selection process is based more or less entirely on what the sales reps tell school board. Blatant bribery occurs, and most of the board members never even open the books up, just look at the covers and read the sales pitch provided by the publisher.
From what I understand there's really two forces at work here. The first, is deals publishers make with school to provide kickbacks to the schools (in addition to the cut the school bookstores make). The second is federal regulations that require schools to make a certain percentage of their revenue from non-scholarship sources. That second probably needs a bit of explaining, the idea behind it is that they don't want what are essentially welfare schools that are so expensive the only way anyone goes to them is because the government (or some charity organization) is footing the bill for the student. The problem is, it's not worded that way so what ends up happening is the schools instead require the most expensive books they can get with the largest publisher kickbacks and rotate them out every year so students are constantly having to buy new expensive books which contributes directly to the schools non-scholarship income, rather than the intended behavior of reducing tuition to attract more students (or possibly conducting more privately funded research programs).
Best of both worlds, offer it for download with the physical copy shipping with a coupon for X off the digital copy where X is equal to all but $3 (or whatever) of the cost of the digital copy.