BUT IT WORKED! A lot of college students pledged their vote for Kerry based on the idea that Bush's administration was planning to bring back conscription.
Why are you defending conscription all of a sudden? I wasn't even talking about pros or cons, rather just the same BS tactic used by politicians before as is being used now.
The US's military strategy is beyond me at this point. I don't understand to what actual purpose the occupation continues. But that's a totally different topic.
The point was that these sister bills were simply used for political gain. As far as what goes on "behind the scenes" regarding anything, that's a different issue. For all we know there's some new provision by the Democrats being tagged onto military spending that taxes online auction sites (not really but if there were it wouldn't change anything I said).
Well, I actually get the coupons and yeah I know they data mine and all that... but I don't understand why anyone would want to *discourage* ANY customers. Isn't that just essentially throwing away some sales?
Best Buy is so evil they stopped sending me coupons! How on earth is lack of "3-day window" coupons a "roadblock to move me away" from Best Buy? That makes NO SENSE:-| No company is going to try and lure customers away, haha.
It's all BS. Enzi was the one who proposed the last extension of the moratorium on internet taxes. I'm not sure what exactly his agenda is this time, but I expect it's just to undermine the Dems a bit. If they ever even get around to voting on this bill, I bet he'll vote against it himself.
It's similar to what the Dems pulled with the "bringing back the draft" BS they tried to claim Republicans were planning during the 2004 election (Dems were the ones who proposed twin bills for it, but then voted against it cause it was just a campaign tool to get college students to pledge votes for Kerry).
Now Republicans seem to be doing the same thing. Propose a BS bill, then claim "it's the Democrats' fault!"
Oh the analog sticks might be the worst on any console since the N64... (well, no, Dreamcast's are worse). Much as I enjoy my PS2 I really dislike having to use the joysticks for anything other than Final Fantasy.
But for folks with small hands, I'd still expect that the actual shape of the handles isn't ideal... I mean, if my hands were smaller I'd just want a smaller version of the 360 controller's handles rather than the tapering ones on the Dualshock..
People who like the Dualshock are folks who I've noticed don't actually GRIP the controller but just let it "rest" in their hands. It's fine for laid-back JRPGs but the lack of anything substantial to hold in your palm makes "intense" games like fighters and FPSs and racers somewhat bothersome for me.
What if it's LeBron? That would rule. You could tell people how you met LeBron randomly at 2 am on the street and how you challenged him to 1-on-1 and he owned you. Even though probably you would be meeting a random big guy you confused for LeBron and got lucky he wasn't a mugger. Oh man I am so random.
The thing is, though, that playing a real guitar is also fun and well within reach for anyone who can afford a 360 and the game. You can't even liken it to a racing game, because driving fast IRL is a usually illegal, and Ferraris are pricey. Forget about the rocket launcher:-P
To be fair, Guitar Hero isn't really about guitar playing at all. It's about pressing buttons on command. Much like DDR isn't about dancing at all. They're "music games" and anyway nobody who plays Guitar Hero or DDR pretends they're Van Halen or Tony Dovolani or anything.
Oops I replied to you by quoting something from a post above yours. Oh well, the two of you share sentiments so it's all good. You might be less concerned about the cock than the other guy, I'll give you that much.
Save some on fuel, spend more on groceries. Great deal if all you're concerned about is OPEC's "cock" but some people can't afford to spend more on groceries and use public transportation. You and I might live in an area with a car:person ratio of 1, but cities like NYC have A LOT (millions) of people who don't.
Yeah, I'm sure the "food is too cheap" argument will go over REAL well with those who barely earn enough to put it on the table for their families. Let alone those who don't earn enough.
Is this a good time to use the "insensitive clod" phrase?:-P
If I think my kid will like it (and it won't make him dumber), I'll buy it. If I'm responsible enough to raise a kid in the first place, let's hope I have the brains to decide what games are "appropriate" for him myself. Ratings are for the parents who want a rebellious streak in their kids down the road.
Whatever changes the Smithsonian makes in the name of giving science exposure, I am fine with. But when they get motivated by politics, and so openly at that, they are compromising everything the Smithsonian stands for!
Yet another reason I prefer NYC's American Museum of Natural History to its inferior counterpart in D.C.
And *I* am one of those folks who feels that there is less certainty to the science behind climate change than some researchers (let alone the public) do. So I should be pleased, but I'm not at all. Putting more research up, whether to clarify the picture or to show that most of it is inconclusive, that would be fine. But "toning down" stuff in an unscientific manner (you can "tone down" projections if a statistical analysis makes it appropriate, I suppose) and hiding information is just irresponsible.
It's been improved recently, I admit. 3 of my friends have one; though the UI is rubbish and the reception for a couple of them isn't killer. I think that both may be due to the service provider and not the phone.
The battery compartment does fly off a lot when it's dropped, I know from experience myself:-) can't really say that's a good thing since the more crap flies off the more crap can be stepped on by accident or find its way under a couch or go down an elevator shaft, heh:-P
Motorola still has no excuse for the HELLOMOTO song, though. Whenever I hear that thing, I just wish I had a real Hammer of Dawn so I could annihilate the offender ^^
How about the Samsung u740 cellphone? It's the size of the Motorola razor, but isn't held together by hopes and dreams, and has a handy-dandy keyboard for texting (and of course it flips both up and to the side for calling and texting, respectively). Probably the best mobile phone I've owned, as it's compact but very functional and well-built.
Yes there was totally an ad for it on this particular Slashdot page just now:-P which is why I thought of it, but I do think it deserves a spot if something like the latest GeForce card is there (can it mow my lawn for me yet or it still just for marginally better graphics?).
By the way, what I described is referred to as the "Language Model" component of a natural language processing system. I'm sure Nuance uses one, so whatever errors it makes are probably from a result of data sparseness during training.
It all depends what sort of corpus the SR system is trained on. So yeah, foreigners will have problems because a system trained for, say, British English will not perform well with American English. For this same reason an SR system trained for "normal" speech will do very poorly with lyrics in music.
As for stuff like "i really admire your analysis" being interpreted as "i really admire urinalysis," that stuff can easily be ironed out by an n-gram based system that "ranks" English sentences based on probability. What is the chance that "urinalysis" will follow "your" which follows "admire"? Such things can be estimated well enough if you use a large corpus to train your n-gram system (as long as the corpus you're using for this is the same "kind" as whatever speech the SR system is interpreting -- that is, newswire, business meeting, etc.)
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Ok seriously before expanding the box with your reply it said
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That's so self-contradictory I didn't even read what you had to say. I'm just posting this to point out your mad irony skills
BUT IT WORKED! A lot of college students pledged their vote for Kerry based on the idea that Bush's administration was planning to bring back conscription.
It wasn't that idiotic, just really underhanded.
Ok, I see. I read those articles and now get what you mean. Well, hey, as long as it's been working there's not much to say :-)
Why are you defending conscription all of a sudden? I wasn't even talking about pros or cons, rather just the same BS tactic used by politicians before as is being used now.
The US's military strategy is beyond me at this point. I don't understand to what actual purpose the occupation continues. But that's a totally different topic.
The point was that these sister bills were simply used for political gain. As far as what goes on "behind the scenes" regarding anything, that's a different issue. For all we know there's some new provision by the Democrats being tagged onto military spending that taxes online auction sites (not really but if there were it wouldn't change anything I said).
Well, I actually get the coupons and yeah I know they data mine and all that... but I don't understand why anyone would want to *discourage* ANY customers. Isn't that just essentially throwing away some sales?
Best Buy is so evil they stopped sending me coupons! How on earth is lack of "3-day window" coupons a "roadblock to move me away" from Best Buy? That makes NO SENSE :-| No company is going to try and lure customers away, haha.
It's all BS. Enzi was the one who proposed the last extension of the moratorium on internet taxes. I'm not sure what exactly his agenda is this time, but I expect it's just to undermine the Dems a bit. If they ever even get around to voting on this bill, I bet he'll vote against it himself.
It's similar to what the Dems pulled with the "bringing back the draft" BS they tried to claim Republicans were planning during the 2004 election (Dems were the ones who proposed twin bills for it, but then voted against it cause it was just a campaign tool to get college students to pledge votes for Kerry).
Now Republicans seem to be doing the same thing. Propose a BS bill, then claim "it's the Democrats' fault!"
I F-ING HATE POLITICS
Oh the analog sticks might be the worst on any console since the N64... (well, no, Dreamcast's are worse). Much as I enjoy my PS2 I really dislike having to use the joysticks for anything other than Final Fantasy.
But for folks with small hands, I'd still expect that the actual shape of the handles isn't ideal... I mean, if my hands were smaller I'd just want a smaller version of the 360 controller's handles rather than the tapering ones on the Dualshock..
People who like the Dualshock are folks who I've noticed don't actually GRIP the controller but just let it "rest" in their hands. It's fine for laid-back JRPGs but the lack of anything substantial to hold in your palm makes "intense" games like fighters and FPSs and racers somewhat bothersome for me.
What if it's LeBron? That would rule. You could tell people how you met LeBron randomly at 2 am on the street and how you challenged him to 1-on-1 and he owned you. Even though probably you would be meeting a random big guy you confused for LeBron and got lucky he wasn't a mugger. Oh man I am so random.
Hah! If $400+40 hours sounds a little steep, considering that he was facing 5 YEARS and a $10,000 fine. He got off 'easy' as a first-time offender.
The thing is, though, that playing a real guitar is also fun and well within reach for anyone who can afford a 360 and the game. You can't even liken it to a racing game, because driving fast IRL is a usually illegal, and Ferraris are pricey. Forget about the rocket launcher :-P
To be fair, Guitar Hero isn't really about guitar playing at all. It's about pressing buttons on command. Much like DDR isn't about dancing at all. They're "music games" and anyway nobody who plays Guitar Hero or DDR pretends they're Van Halen or Tony Dovolani or anything.
Oops I replied to you by quoting something from a post above yours. Oh well, the two of you share sentiments so it's all good. You might be less concerned about the cock than the other guy, I'll give you that much.
Save some on fuel, spend more on groceries. Great deal if all you're concerned about is OPEC's "cock" but some people can't afford to spend more on groceries and use public transportation. You and I might live in an area with a car:person ratio of 1, but cities like NYC have A LOT (millions) of people who don't.
Yeah, I'm sure the "food is too cheap" argument will go over REAL well with those who barely earn enough to put it on the table for their families. Let alone those who don't earn enough.
:-P
Is this a good time to use the "insensitive clod" phrase?
If I think my kid will like it (and it won't make him dumber), I'll buy it. If I'm responsible enough to raise a kid in the first place, let's hope I have the brains to decide what games are "appropriate" for him myself. Ratings are for the parents who want a rebellious streak in their kids down the road.
Whatever changes the Smithsonian makes in the name of giving science exposure, I am fine with. But when they get motivated by politics, and so openly at that, they are compromising everything the Smithsonian stands for!
Yet another reason I prefer NYC's American Museum of Natural History to its inferior counterpart in D.C.
And *I* am one of those folks who feels that there is less certainty to the science behind climate change than some researchers (let alone the public) do. So I should be pleased, but I'm not at all. Putting more research up, whether to clarify the picture or to show that most of it is inconclusive, that would be fine. But "toning down" stuff in an unscientific manner (you can "tone down" projections if a statistical analysis makes it appropriate, I suppose) and hiding information is just irresponsible.
It's been improved recently, I admit. 3 of my friends have one; though the UI is rubbish and the reception for a couple of them isn't killer. I think that both may be due to the service provider and not the phone.
:-) can't really say that's a good thing since the more crap flies off the more crap can be stepped on by accident or find its way under a couch or go down an elevator shaft, heh :-P
The battery compartment does fly off a lot when it's dropped, I know from experience myself
Motorola still has no excuse for the HELLOMOTO song, though. Whenever I hear that thing, I just wish I had a real Hammer of Dawn so I could annihilate the offender ^^
How about the Samsung u740 cellphone? It's the size of the Motorola razor, but isn't held together by hopes and dreams, and has a handy-dandy keyboard for texting (and of course it flips both up and to the side for calling and texting, respectively). Probably the best mobile phone I've owned, as it's compact but very functional and well-built.
:-P which is why I thought of it, but I do think it deserves a spot if something like the latest GeForce card is there (can it mow my lawn for me yet or it still just for marginally better graphics?).
Yes there was totally an ad for it on this particular Slashdot page just now
back to Soviet times. But this time with a healthy mix of organized crime and even more corruption!
In a couple more years it might get to the point where being outspoken like this journalist will get you a one-way-ticket to the far East >_>
By the way, what I described is referred to as the "Language Model" component of a natural language processing system. I'm sure Nuance uses one, so whatever errors it makes are probably from a result of data sparseness during training.
Yeah, Nuance makes good stuff. Well, they've bought up everyone worth anything afaik, so I guess it's only to be expected.
It all depends what sort of corpus the SR system is trained on. So yeah, foreigners will have problems because a system trained for, say, British English will not perform well with American English. For this same reason an SR system trained for "normal" speech will do very poorly with lyrics in music.
As for stuff like "i really admire your analysis" being interpreted as "i really admire urinalysis," that stuff can easily be ironed out by an n-gram based system that "ranks" English sentences based on probability. What is the chance that "urinalysis" will follow "your" which follows "admire"? Such things can be estimated well enough if you use a large corpus to train your n-gram system (as long as the corpus you're using for this is the same "kind" as whatever speech the SR system is interpreting -- that is, newswire, business meeting, etc.)