It's okay, it's clear the Canada will just be able to outsmart your country anyway. There are millions of guns in Canada. They just don't handout handguns like they're candy.
The first part was talking about the American people having another revolution. Despite the fact that they bought all those guns, they wouldn't fair well fighting their own government with their huge and well trained government.
That the americans of today are not the americans of over 200 years ago. The ones today really aren't prepared to fight for what is important. They've become fat and complacent, and have no problem bending over and taking it from their government again and again. Despite the fact that they are armed to the teeth, most of them would tire before reaching the end of their driveway and when faced against a modern military using modern tactics, they'd be decimated.
At some point Canada is going to have to man-up, invade, and bring democracy back to the USA.
The vibration seating seems to involve pumping the bass through the chair. I tried it yesterday for the first time..most of the time it wasn't anything special, but during the loud battle sequences, the chair really rocked and it was fairly strong to help you "feel" the movie
The theatres in Korea are always packed. Some of the great things they do: 1 - Reserved seating, all seats. You can buy your tickets two or three days ahead if you want and make sure you've got your seat for Friday night. 2 - All major chains have Apps. You can buy your tickets on the app, just show the barcode on your way in (I think you can do this in North America now too) 3 - Ticket Price - Friday night movie is about $7.78 USD, yes there is a surcharge for 3D or "vibration" seating 4 - Concession price - A 2 drink and popcorn combo is around $6 USD 5 - Lobbies full of seating. Waiting for your movie to start? Friends to show up? whatever, there are tables and chairs everywhere. Both inside the main area and down the hallways leading to the theatres themselves if you get in too early and the doors haven't opened up yet. 6 - They don't confiscate snacks. I've never seen them search bags or anything here. You want to bring something in with you, go right ahead 7 - Shows nearly around the clock. The first show of the day is at 8-10am, and they will often have showings until 3 or 4 am. At my local theatre, if I wanted to watch Mission Impossible Tomorrow (Saturday) I could choose: 8:30, 8:50, 9:00, 9:00 (special 32 seat theatre), 10:55, 11:40, 11:45, 13:15, 14:20, 14:30, 16:00, 17:00, 17:15, 18:45, 19:20, 19:45, 20:00 (special 32 seat theatre), 21:30, 22:00, 22:20, 22:45 (special 32 seat theatre), 23:00, 00:15, 00:45, 1:00, 1:30 (special 32 seat theatre), 1:45, 3:00. That's a staggering amount of shows available for one day. None of this, afternoon matinee, early evening, late evening, done garbage. The week days are not much different with shows still starting around 10. 8 - Special theatres. They have a few special theatres around town. Several theatres have some special couple booths for dating. You can buy a ticket for a booth which is a special 2 seat booth with a high back on it. They also have a very nice movie theatre in town which includes a full sit down dinner. 9 - The theatres don't have much to do with it, but in all the movies I've watched here in the last few years, I've never really heard people talking. You get the odd cell phone screen, but it's mostly just someone checking the time, not someone sitting there texting for a long time causing a distraction.
Now, not everything is perfect they do make a few mistakes: 1 - Excessive ads. Really excessive. They even repeat the same ad two times in a row. 2 - A low amount of actual movie previews. For the 10-20 minutes of pre-movie stuff we sit through we only end up seeing 3-4 actual movie previews. I like trailers. 3 - Not enough English subtitles. Not their main concern, but about 2 years ago the government made it one of their tourism aims to see Korean movies subtitled in English in theatres. That year one chain ran a pilot project which saw tons of movies made available to the relatively large foreign population living in the country. Near the end of the year they dropped the ball and since then, it's been rather hit or miss trying to see a movie with subtitles. They often go unadvertised, and run for a very short period of time. You basically have to check weekly and if you see English subtitles, drop everything and go see the movie if it is one you wanted to see because you don't even know if they'd be there next week. Sure they all get released on DVD with English subtitles later, but at the least I like to see the big action movies in theatre.
In the end, I've never been disappointed with a movie going experience in Korea. However, back home in Canada the success rate was not so high. Perhaps around 50/50.
You've got 500 employees sharing data. That's something that needs to be managed. Pitch it simply as focus and efficiency. Moving IT to its own unit allows you to have IT workers focused directly on IT. In the event of a major IT issue, you won't have jack of all trades employees trying to manage several different job roles. You probably don't need a huge department a small number of employees in a central location and one or two in each station.
But also focus on training. The small agile department will allow you to focus IT training and allow the business to take advantage of new technologies more easily. Engineers will learn many things, IT guys will focus on learning things relevant to making IT better in the work place.
Charging $59.99 for a game which then relies on a $14.99/month subscription model. The greed of EA is beyond the pale. This is probably the one game with a chance to dethrone WoW, and if they do, they're looking at making over $100 million a month and they want to jack the base price up $10 in that scenario? Bioware has gone so far down hill. I just don't know why they ever allowed themselves to be bought. They were one of the good guys and completely sold out.
Do you know anything about the PSP? What other competition was there really? Nintendo and Sony, no one else in the game, not hard to be number 2. There were a lot of times when no games were being released for the PSP and the only thing keeping sales going was people hacking it for homebrew/piracy
If it wasn't for piracy the PSP wouldn't have sold. Sony has admitted that in at least one interview. Yet they continually tried to lock it down. That was a handheld that was only $200.. I've seen prices around $500 for this. Sony just doesn't seem to have a clue. The PSP Go was a huge hit for them too
It doesn't need to be. Post counts are not a snapshot thing. They stay there. There are far more stories and activity posted on the weekdays, which are 5/7s of the week, so why would I take a sample from a known dead time that is less representative of the overall week and amount of stories being posted?
Using current stories from today (going back to the day split, 20 stories) there are nearly 4000 posts, an average of 195 posts per story The high volume of 5 days would more then compensate for the dead time of the weekend. Not to mention less stories are posted on the weekend any way.
Claiming to be a first post and actually being a first post are not the same thing, nor relevant. The claim made was that first posts were roughly 1%, they clearly aren't.
When you think about it, first posts do represent roughly 1% (give or take) of all posts
Maybe when you think about it.. The last 10 stories with comments contain approximately 1766 posts, or around 177 posts per story. I don't know how you do math, but in that scenario, 1 != 1% Many stories frequently get 300-500+ posts. First posts aren't anywhere close to 1% on slashdot.
Once again, any iDevice is identical. Safari saves the last pages you had open, available for anyone to access just as the Kindle Fire does. You can lock the Kindle Fire just the same as you can an Apple device and it provides no more security than the Kindle Fire.
Yes, the example that's been done to death and played out. You can't keep trotting her out every time someone wants to justify being fat. Marilyn monroe being desirable at 160lbs doesn't justify the heffer in line at the ice cream shop at 250lbs. Also being a sexy symbol is not just about your beauty, but how you work it.
No, Marilyn was definitely not fat and would not even be considered overweight by today’s standards. However, she was certainly not as tall or skinny as today’s fashion models and many actresses, and she did not wear a size 0 or 2, as is becoming the norm for ‘beautiful women’ in contemporary society. Like all of us, her weight even fluctuated a bit over her lifetime.
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It's okay, it's clear the Canada will just be able to outsmart your country anyway. There are millions of guns in Canada. They just don't handout handguns like they're candy.
The first part was talking about the American people having another revolution. Despite the fact that they bought all those guns, they wouldn't fair well fighting their own government with their huge and well trained government.
That the americans of today are not the americans of over 200 years ago. The ones today really aren't prepared to fight for what is important. They've become fat and complacent, and have no problem bending over and taking it from their government again and again. Despite the fact that they are armed to the teeth, most of them would tire before reaching the end of their driveway and when faced against a modern military using modern tactics, they'd be decimated.
At some point Canada is going to have to man-up, invade, and bring democracy back to the USA.
The vibration seating seems to involve pumping the bass through the chair. I tried it yesterday for the first time..most of the time it wasn't anything special, but during the loud battle sequences, the chair really rocked and it was fairly strong to help you "feel" the movie
The theatres in Korea are always packed. Some of the great things they do:
1 - Reserved seating, all seats. You can buy your tickets two or three days ahead if you want and make sure you've got your seat for Friday night.
2 - All major chains have Apps. You can buy your tickets on the app, just show the barcode on your way in (I think you can do this in North America now too)
3 - Ticket Price - Friday night movie is about $7.78 USD, yes there is a surcharge for 3D or "vibration" seating
4 - Concession price - A 2 drink and popcorn combo is around $6 USD
5 - Lobbies full of seating. Waiting for your movie to start? Friends to show up? whatever, there are tables and chairs everywhere. Both inside the main area and down the hallways leading to the theatres themselves if you get in too early and the doors haven't opened up yet.
6 - They don't confiscate snacks. I've never seen them search bags or anything here. You want to bring something in with you, go right ahead
7 - Shows nearly around the clock. The first show of the day is at 8-10am, and they will often have showings until 3 or 4 am. At my local theatre, if I wanted to watch Mission Impossible Tomorrow (Saturday) I could choose: 8:30, 8:50, 9:00, 9:00 (special 32 seat theatre), 10:55, 11:40, 11:45, 13:15, 14:20, 14:30, 16:00, 17:00, 17:15, 18:45, 19:20, 19:45, 20:00 (special 32 seat theatre), 21:30, 22:00, 22:20, 22:45 (special 32 seat theatre), 23:00, 00:15, 00:45, 1:00, 1:30 (special 32 seat theatre), 1:45, 3:00. That's a staggering amount of shows available for one day. None of this, afternoon matinee, early evening, late evening, done garbage. The week days are not much different with shows still starting around 10.
8 - Special theatres. They have a few special theatres around town. Several theatres have some special couple booths for dating. You can buy a ticket for a booth which is a special 2 seat booth with a high back on it. They also have a very nice movie theatre in town which includes a full sit down dinner.
9 - The theatres don't have much to do with it, but in all the movies I've watched here in the last few years, I've never really heard people talking. You get the odd cell phone screen, but it's mostly just someone checking the time, not someone sitting there texting for a long time causing a distraction.
Now, not everything is perfect they do make a few mistakes:
1 - Excessive ads. Really excessive. They even repeat the same ad two times in a row.
2 - A low amount of actual movie previews. For the 10-20 minutes of pre-movie stuff we sit through we only end up seeing 3-4 actual movie previews. I like trailers.
3 - Not enough English subtitles. Not their main concern, but about 2 years ago the government made it one of their tourism aims to see Korean movies subtitled in English in theatres. That year one chain ran a pilot project which saw tons of movies made available to the relatively large foreign population living in the country. Near the end of the year they dropped the ball and since then, it's been rather hit or miss trying to see a movie with subtitles. They often go unadvertised, and run for a very short period of time. You basically have to check weekly and if you see English subtitles, drop everything and go see the movie if it is one you wanted to see because you don't even know if they'd be there next week. Sure they all get released on DVD with English subtitles later, but at the least I like to see the big action movies in theatre.
In the end, I've never been disappointed with a movie going experience in Korea. However, back home in Canada the success rate was not so high. Perhaps around 50/50.
You've got 500 employees sharing data. That's something that needs to be managed. Pitch it simply as focus and efficiency. Moving IT to its own unit allows you to have IT workers focused directly on IT. In the event of a major IT issue, you won't have jack of all trades employees trying to manage several different job roles. You probably don't need a huge department a small number of employees in a central location and one or two in each station.
But also focus on training. The small agile department will allow you to focus IT training and allow the business to take advantage of new technologies more easily. Engineers will learn many things, IT guys will focus on learning things relevant to making IT better in the work place.
Charging $59.99 for a game which then relies on a $14.99/month subscription model.
The greed of EA is beyond the pale. This is probably the one game with a chance to dethrone WoW, and if they do, they're looking at making over $100 million a month and they want to jack the base price up $10 in that scenario?
Bioware has gone so far down hill.
I just don't know why they ever allowed themselves to be bought. They were one of the good guys and completely sold out.
In the future you should probably be required to submit your post to the FDA to ensure it's safe for human consumption.
If this applies both to oral as well as genital herpes that'd be great. I get a cold sore in the same spot about twice a year and what a pain it is.
Do you know anything about the PSP?
What other competition was there really? Nintendo and Sony, no one else in the game, not hard to be number 2.
There were a lot of times when no games were being released for the PSP and the only thing keeping sales going was people hacking it for homebrew/piracy
If it wasn't for piracy the PSP wouldn't have sold. Sony has admitted that in at least one interview. Yet they continually tried to lock it down.
That was a handheld that was only $200.. I've seen prices around $500 for this. Sony just doesn't seem to have a clue. The PSP Go was a huge hit for them too
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It doesn't need to be. Post counts are not a snapshot thing. They stay there. There are far more stories and activity posted on the weekdays, which are 5/7s of the week, so why would I take a sample from a known dead time that is less representative of the overall week and amount of stories being posted?
Using current stories from today (going back to the day split, 20 stories)
there are nearly 4000 posts, an average of 195 posts per story
The high volume of 5 days would more then compensate for the dead time of the weekend. Not to mention less stories are posted on the weekend any way.
you need to approve photos tagged of you before people can see them..
hardly a concern..
Claiming to be a first post and actually being a first post are not the same thing, nor relevant. The claim made was that first posts were roughly 1%, they clearly aren't.
Maybe when you think about it..
The last 10 stories with comments contain approximately 1766 posts, or around 177 posts per story. I don't know how you do math, but in that scenario, 1 != 1%
Many stories frequently get 300-500+ posts. First posts aren't anywhere close to 1% on slashdot.
Once again, any iDevice is identical. Safari saves the last pages you had open, available for anyone to access just as the Kindle Fire does.
You can lock the Kindle Fire just the same as you can an Apple device and it provides no more security than the Kindle Fire.
and I think he's talking about the people watching my little pony..
Most remotely popular sci fi things (books, movies, tv shows, games) all have their own independent wikia anyway.
Last I checked on idevices when you open safari, it goes to the last viewed pages as well.
Here is a better idea, don't browse pages that you'd be ashamed your wife and child knew you were browsing.
there definitely should be a password for buying things though.
There is a difference between subtle humour and trying to impersonate an individual, even if you think it is a joke.
If it's not obviously a parody, it's fraud.
no, it's not. It's also used in Canada as well. People often refer to highways as "the XX" whatever the number may be.
Outside of North America and western culture, a lot.
They exercise, and watch their diet as anyone should, but they actually do it.
Yes, the example that's been done to death and played out.
You can't keep trotting her out every time someone wants to justify being fat.
Marilyn monroe being desirable at 160lbs doesn't justify the heffer in line at the ice cream shop at 250lbs.
Also being a sexy symbol is not just about your beauty, but how you work it.
and on top of that, the claim that marilyn was 160lbs seems to be utter BS.
http://www.fatnutritionist.com/index.php/the-body-of-marilyn-monroe/
The conclusion:
http://jezebel.com/5299793/for-the-last-time-what-size-was-marilyn-monroe
in fact it seems no one credible seems to remotely believe the claim she was 160lbs, but on slashdot that's a +5.