How is this any worse from having to deal with a Catholic man who refuses to use condoms, or any other religious sect?
If you're dead set about your religion, you're prolly not going to intermarry regardless. Jewish people are a little more lenient 'cause there's not a big pool to pick from to begin with, and inbreeding like chihuahuas isn't a great option either.
Compromises abound, but you've got to be willing to bend too, ya know?
Reform Jews have no problem with intermarriage. We just insist you raise the kids Jewish, which isn't that hard of a step (and it doesn't mean they have to end UP Jewish, but raisin' em so ain't asking much).
Having a few 'mundane' games is one thing, particularly if we're talking Nintendo's type of mundane in terms of Nintendogs, WiiPlay, and the like.
The fact is, Fantastic games are what sell systems. I begged for my first PlayStation (one) thanks to Spyro the Dragon, and had Sega been on the ball a little more, NiGHTS would've let 'em sell quite a few more systems too. Brain Age is an okay game, but when I reach for my DS, I have Elite Beat Agents, Mario, Sonic, Cooking Mama, FF3... you get where I'm going with this.
Brain Age is a good secondary game as a 'pick up and play' offering. It's NOT what made the DS a success.
She's had a few endorsement deals that you'd know about if you stepped inside a mall within the past five years, including a relatively recent one with MAC makeup. (the joys of being geeky AND female, eh?)
So to answer your question, no, she doesn't make that big of an impression; just enough to keep the name relatively fresh.
She makes more of one than your presidential candidate does though.
What about SQL injections? Those just use the EXISTING domain, whatever it is, and append their bad code on it. Instant phish without even needing much sheep's clothing.
So getting more women and older users buying their first personal consoles, expanding the market, lowering the entry point for new enthusiasts, and coming up with a series of great first-party titles to buoy these systems rather than depending on third-party support is a BAD thing?!
Okay, I may buy 'this is bad for all the people doing things the old way', but this is only because the Wii and DS are two radically different paradigms. Once these interfaces take off, we may see the WiiMote and Nunchuk turn into a smaller, sleeker 'WiiWand' with 'Wiiry Stone' attachment, or the DS Lite become the DS Nano (or maybe the DS Slim, or DS Micro, DSleek . . . you get the idea.)
Nintendo is unlikely to change the interfaces AGAIN so soon, simply because these were so dramatically different from the norm, and I estimate that even if they update the hardware within the next few years, what we'll be seeing are not new systems in the vein of the PS3 where the engine development is the radical difference, but rather changes in form factor.
Expect crazy leaps of intuition like a WiiDR pad or DS games that are both DS-playable but have DS++ elements for whatever the DS's successor is, by all means, but since the most drastic part of Nintendo's great leap forward has already been accomplished, we shouldn't see another new switch in the actual computational hardware anytime soon.
As a CS major, I found out quickly that a LOT of the boys had more programming know-how than I did -- and I swept the floor with the idiots I put up with in AP CS! In both classes I was the 'Odd Girl Out', but I quickly went from one of the smarter students to the midrange once the pool widened.
I CAN program, I just sort of prefer to program when I can instantly see what I'm doing; i.e. interfaces and website programming as opposed to engines and threads. Admittedly I've got a hard liberal arts slant going on, which affects at least some of my work.
The problem is that the CS programs at most places are aimed for a VERY narrow subsection, both of boys and of girls, and this serves nobody's best interests. Ironically, it's also why people are looking for 'More Women' in the hopes they'll crack the nut. Georgia Tech's recent broadening of their CS degree with the 'Threads' program is an interesting approach by allowing for a more customizable education -- and theoretically open the door to more people in general (not just women) who might be scared off by the narrower curriculum -- but I don't think it's enough.
In a situation where the speaker is key (or can be heard DAMN well) the way Jobs typically is, then it's good to use powerpoint strictly as reinforcement. However, when you're talking about a giant classroom where the speaker is tiny, Powerpoint is a good way to get the information across.
Either way, a 'good' powerpoint should be used strictly as reinforcement. It's when you're teaching from the slides when you get into trouble.
My point is that rythym gets used in a lot of games.
Have to shoot a boss with a certain rythym to force 'em back? Or maybe there's a rythym minigame in an action/adventure saga? What about a rythym-based hybrid (like a rythym puzzler or a rythmic combat game?)
How does 'the ability to keep a beat' become anything even close to copyrightable, let alone enforceable, to restrict?
i.e. "Stop reacting to the bullies, they'll go away."
Knowing how to use a firearm doesn't save you from a car bomb, etc. etc.
Focus on how to prevent the crime by putting your crosshairs on the CRIMINAL, or else you're just feeding into the mentality that she deserves whatever she has coming just because she's female.
Hell, my ex made it IMPOSSIBLE for me to post on Livejournal for about a year after we'd split, because every time I posted there (no matter how short or what), he claimed it was "free time" I spent online avoiding him, as though now that I no longer spoke to him I somehow had a responsibility to be elbow-deep in work 24/7, and so every time I made even a *TINY* post, for the the next three weeks I'd be receiving emails and anyone who had the misfortune to know me online would receive pornographic spam from his account impersonating me.
To make matters worse, he somehow managed to know exactly when I logged onto certain forums, impersonated friends (to know when I'd made FO posts), and eventually I was stuck playing children's websites just to avoid one single asshole, albeit a persistent one. Technically I still pretty much am, except now I'm actually - guess what? - too busy to put up with him, because I eventually got off most of the internet just to be sane again and got into other things.
Unless you want to call me and every other person who's used the privacy filters on sites like this Drama Whores, you need to get your head out of the sand.
Every New OS consumes about half the resources of the old one. The difference this time around is that Vista is not necessarily an improvement over XP enough to justify the extra gobbling.
So, yeah, anything that runs Vista should be 'that much better off' running XP, because unless and until new apps come around that take advantage of Vista enough, there's no reason to make the leap.
My Dad's new 'Vista-Ready' machine came with XP, and we're KEEPING it on XP precisely because this this thing is a graphical dream on it. It's got an nVidia card, sweet processors, ability to support two 22" widescreen monitors... all for under $1000, because it's 'merely' an XP machine, albeit a Vista-capable one.
If this is their idea of 'Vista-Capable', why would I want to go to an operating system where these awesome specs are merely ADEQUATE?
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Orclevgam's Corrolary to Godwin's Law doesn't roll off the tongue right.
I don't mod it, but I imagine someone thought it relevant as a counter to 'all religions do it'.
How is this any worse from having to deal with a Catholic man who refuses to use condoms, or any other religious sect?
If you're dead set about your religion, you're prolly not going to intermarry regardless. Jewish people are a little more lenient 'cause there's not a big pool to pick from to begin with, and inbreeding like chihuahuas isn't a great option either.
Compromises abound, but you've got to be willing to bend too, ya know?
Hey, Jews riot too.
Difference being, you have to push the Jews a whole lot further before they'll riot, but when they do, they'll annex London as New Israel.
Reform Jews have no problem with intermarriage. We just insist you raise the kids Jewish, which isn't that hard of a step (and it doesn't mean they have to end UP Jewish, but raisin' em so ain't asking much).
Having a few 'mundane' games is one thing, particularly if we're talking Nintendo's type of mundane in terms of Nintendogs, WiiPlay, and the like.
The fact is, Fantastic games are what sell systems. I begged for my first PlayStation (one) thanks to Spyro the Dragon, and had Sega been on the ball a little more, NiGHTS would've let 'em sell quite a few more systems too. Brain Age is an okay game, but when I reach for my DS, I have Elite Beat Agents, Mario, Sonic, Cooking Mama, FF3... you get where I'm going with this.
Brain Age is a good secondary game as a 'pick up and play' offering. It's NOT what made the DS a success.
She's had a few endorsement deals that you'd know about if you stepped inside a mall within the past five years, including a relatively recent one with MAC makeup. (the joys of being geeky AND female, eh?)
So to answer your question, no, she doesn't make that big of an impression; just enough to keep the name relatively fresh.
She makes more of one than your presidential candidate does though.
I so misread that as reading "RuPaul supporters".
Probably to the same effect though.
It's called 'security in redundancy'. Y'know, the same reason you backup your important files every week or so.
One flaw in one database of many can't hurt you the way one flaw in one database pretending to be many can.
If it helps, I told them that even if I liked the idea, centralizing things was just BAD BAD BAD from an intelligence OR security standpoint.
You know how SSNs are currently such a big target for identity theft? Think about how vulnerable these NON-ENCRYPTED barcodes will be.
What about SQL injections? Those just use the EXISTING domain, whatever it is, and append their bad code on it. Instant phish without even needing much sheep's clothing.
Is one thousand frustrated geeks trying to find a Japanese translator...
So getting more women and older users buying their first personal consoles, expanding the market, lowering the entry point for new enthusiasts, and coming up with a series of great first-party titles to buoy these systems rather than depending on third-party support is a BAD thing?!
Okay, I may buy 'this is bad for all the people doing things the old way', but this is only because the Wii and DS are two radically different paradigms. Once these interfaces take off, we may see the WiiMote and Nunchuk turn into a smaller, sleeker 'WiiWand' with 'Wiiry Stone' attachment, or the DS Lite become the DS Nano (or maybe the DS Slim, or DS Micro, DSleek . . . you get the idea.)
Nintendo is unlikely to change the interfaces AGAIN so soon, simply because these were so dramatically different from the norm, and I estimate that even if they update the hardware within the next few years, what we'll be seeing are not new systems in the vein of the PS3 where the engine development is the radical difference, but rather changes in form factor.
Expect crazy leaps of intuition like a WiiDR pad or DS games that are both DS-playable but have DS++ elements for whatever the DS's successor is, by all means, but since the most drastic part of Nintendo's great leap forward has already been accomplished, we shouldn't see another new switch in the actual computational hardware anytime soon.
As a CS major, I found out quickly that a LOT of the boys had more programming know-how than I did -- and I swept the floor with the idiots I put up with in AP CS! In both classes I was the 'Odd Girl Out', but I quickly went from one of the smarter students to the midrange once the pool widened.
I CAN program, I just sort of prefer to program when I can instantly see what I'm doing; i.e. interfaces and website programming as opposed to engines and threads. Admittedly I've got a hard liberal arts slant going on, which affects at least some of my work.
The problem is that the CS programs at most places are aimed for a VERY narrow subsection, both of boys and of girls, and this serves nobody's best interests. Ironically, it's also why people are looking for 'More Women' in the hopes they'll crack the nut. Georgia Tech's recent broadening of their CS degree with the 'Threads' program is an interesting approach by allowing for a more customizable education -- and theoretically open the door to more people in general (not just women) who might be scared off by the narrower curriculum -- but I don't think it's enough.
Sadly, it too was pirated (from someone else who happened to respond to my posts a while back).
But hey, it works.
Yes, let's. This isn't the first time I've had someone fall into my sarchasm...
It depends on the presentation.
In a situation where the speaker is key (or can be heard DAMN well) the way Jobs typically is, then it's good to use powerpoint strictly as reinforcement. However, when you're talking about a giant classroom where the speaker is tiny, Powerpoint is a good way to get the information across.
Either way, a 'good' powerpoint should be used strictly as reinforcement. It's when you're teaching from the slides when you get into trouble.
My point is that rythym gets used in a lot of games.
Have to shoot a boss with a certain rythym to force 'em back? Or maybe there's a rythym minigame in an action/adventure saga? What about a rythym-based hybrid (like a rythym puzzler or a rythmic combat game?)
How does 'the ability to keep a beat' become anything even close to copyrightable, let alone enforceable, to restrict?
Isn't that akin to telling a computer programmer he can't use while loops?
ANY item of intrinsic scarcity can become a means of exchange then. If I roll up the Mona Lisa and sell it, that art has intrinsic scarcity.
We could make currency out of anything from jewelry to beanie babies, and it could be just as easy a standard as gold with the right belief behind it.
If you can hoard it, if it's rare, and if it's a means of exchange, it's currency. That's all there is to it.
i.e. "Stop reacting to the bullies, they'll go away."
Knowing how to use a firearm doesn't save you from a car bomb, etc. etc.
Focus on how to prevent the crime by putting your crosshairs on the CRIMINAL, or else you're just feeding into the mentality that she deserves whatever she has coming just because she's female.
All it takes is ONE idiot to try and ruin you.
Hell, my ex made it IMPOSSIBLE for me to post on Livejournal for about a year after we'd split, because every time I posted there (no matter how short or what), he claimed it was "free time" I spent online avoiding him, as though now that I no longer spoke to him I somehow had a responsibility to be elbow-deep in work 24/7, and so every time I made even a *TINY* post, for the the next three weeks I'd be receiving emails and anyone who had the misfortune to know me online would receive pornographic spam from his account impersonating me.
To make matters worse, he somehow managed to know exactly when I logged onto certain forums, impersonated friends (to know when I'd made FO posts), and eventually I was stuck playing children's websites just to avoid one single asshole, albeit a persistent one. Technically I still pretty much am, except now I'm actually - guess what? - too busy to put up with him, because I eventually got off most of the internet just to be sane again and got into other things.
Unless you want to call me and every other person who's used the privacy filters on sites like this Drama Whores, you need to get your head out of the sand.
Er, typo - Every OLD OS consumes half the resources that a NEW OS needs.
Sorry!
Every New OS consumes about half the resources of the old one. The difference this time around is that Vista is not necessarily an improvement over XP enough to justify the extra gobbling.
So, yeah, anything that runs Vista should be 'that much better off' running XP, because unless and until new apps come around that take advantage of Vista enough, there's no reason to make the leap.
My Dad's new 'Vista-Ready' machine came with XP, and we're KEEPING it on XP precisely because this this thing is a graphical dream on it. It's got an nVidia card, sweet processors, ability to support two 22" widescreen monitors... all for under $1000, because it's 'merely' an XP machine, albeit a Vista-capable one.
If this is their idea of 'Vista-Capable', why would I want to go to an operating system where these awesome specs are merely ADEQUATE?