FYI for you out-of-staters, Sandwich is a town here in Massachusetts. I know we supposedly have an over-bearing government here but that doesnt include a Planning Board for your lunch.
I`ve posted about this game before, but CitiesXL is a great example of game producers getting input from the community during development. The game is basically going to be a city managing simulation ala Sim City. So far, it looks like a pretty incredible offering, with some neat elements involving online play. Release date so far is vague, but I`d guess Fall 09.
And regardless of what you think of him do try and remember this: Olbermann is not a reporter. He's a commentator. It seems to me like a lot of people have forgotten the difference between the two.
I know what the difference is.
One is Jon Stewart and the other is Stephen Colbert.
Then again, this is the same group of people who successfully sued the glue manufacturer who created the glue that failed to hold up 2-ton slabs of concrete. Never mind that the glue was never designed for such an application or that no one in their right mind GLUES 2-ton slabs of concrete to the ceiling of tunnels.
Well that`s just a blatant misstatement, and while I`m not saying the MBTA is a well run organization, they don't need additional problems attributed to them.
First of all, the slabs of concrete that fell were part of the Big Dig, which is run by Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, not the MBTA. Both are poorly run transportation organizations in Massachusetts, but they are not the same.
Secondly, the suits in the ceiling collapse were brought by the Massachusetts Attorney General's office not the MBTA. They were brought against many of the companies involved, including the adhesive company and Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, the primary consulting firm. The Turnpike Authority was not really to blame, it was either BPB for using an adhesive meant for wall panels for ceilings, or the adhesive company for not realizing their product was being improperly used. Both were sued by the Massachusetts Attorney General's office and paid millions to the state.
Anyone else reading this article think it was going to be a study of the quality of generic food products vs. name brands (like Frosted Flakes vs. Crunchy Wafers Coated with Sugar?), and the study would be done by Penn State University?
Despite what scientists originally thought, these holes allow 20 times the normal amount of solar particles through when they are facing away from the sun. This being opposite from what the scientists had originally speculated.
So I guess scientists originally thought that the holes shot 20 times the normal amount of solar radiation into space when they faced away from the sun?
Well I was a believer too that she would maybe grab some of the Hilary voters that were looking for a woman to be in a prominent position in Washington. Then I saw her stance on abortion, being very pro-choice, and whatever way you see it that is going to push more women away from the Republican ticket than bring them in.
To be honest, maybe the people are so amazing because they haven`t been exposed to the rest of the world? As an American myself, getting people to act more "American" or "Global"(see American) is not really a good thing. Viva Variety!
They penalize you for only having taken the test once, each time you take it it is adds 10 questions to your total. After the third time taking the test they remove the penalty.
Just to emphasize the fact that players have only become interested. No one goes and gets Tommy John surgery without needing it. Many people claim that it makes the arm stronger in the long run. But it's only done after serious elbow injury. Not to mention the rehab time for the injury is 12-18 months. That's a lot of baseball to miss for optional surgery!
Blacks make up 12-15 percent of the population, but 90+ percent of professional athelets.
Wait really? What a ridiculously misguided statement! Seriously, who is modding this up? Let`s take a quick look to see how inaccurate you are.
First off, let`s decide what sports to look at. I`ll go with the basketball and the NBA, MLB for baseball, and the NFL for football. I won't even count NHL hockey, and leave one of the biggest sports in the country NASCAR, off the board for a few reasons, A) I think you weren`t considering drivers athletes at all when making that claim, and B) them being termed athletes in the first place is a debatable claim.
This states that 75% of NBA players are African-American, and during the 1994-95 season there was an all-time high of 82%. Hmm, not quite 90%+, but let`s look at other sports!
The MLB, which is notoriously losing it`s African-American makeup, had only 8.5% African-American players during the 2005 season! 2005 Race and Gender Report Card
Wow! 90%+ is there, but wait! It`s 90%+ NON-African-American players! And if you want to bring out Latinos and other races into the picture, 28.7% of players were Latino, and 2.5% were of Asian descent. Leaving over 50% of MLB players white! Not exactly one race being better at something than others now is it?
Finally we can move onto the NFL. Which in 2003 had a historic high of 69% African-American players. 2004 Race Report
So no not really 90%+ black players at all! In fact not even close in any of the major sports leagues in the United States. I`m reasonably sure the statistics are consistent for the top soccer leagues around the world, particularly, in Europe, such as the English Premiership and the Primera Liga in Spain. FIFA has made rules that these leagues require a minimum threshold of native players on the club teams so it`s less likely that the teams would consist of over 90% black players.
Seriously though I can`t believe the parent post was so blatantly incorrect and modded up like that. Do a little research or at least have SOME knowledge of what you are talking about before you go crazy. Christ, you could watch an hour of ESPN and see that the 90% figure is wrong.
Well actually Sim City 4 was, and still is, a solid effort from them. They expanded the ability to users to modify aspects of the game and there is still an active community creating user content 5 years after it came out. Many people complained that the game was becoming too complicated and thus didn't garner widespread success. But seriously to summarize the Sim City franchise and not include Sim City 4 does not do the game justice.
Now don't get me wrong, I think EA has done a lot of bad to the gaming industry. Their exclusive contracts with the NFL and NCAA for football (which forced 2k Sports to go exclusive with the MLB), have in my eyes, ruined the sports game industry. Not to mention the worthless Sim City societies that EA recently put out, that wasn't even developed by Maxis.
Seriously though, if you want to> see a great game in development, one that will become the new Sim City, check out Cities Unlimited, http://cuplanet.com/. Monte Cristo is taking in a lot of public input on their forums for the new game and by all accounts it looks like the new Sim City that people have been waiting for.
ELAINE: It must be the fabric. It's rubbing between you thighs when you walk. That's what's making that swooshy sound.
GEORGE: I probably didn't hear it on the way over because of the street noise. This is no good! I got to meet these guys from MacKenzie for lunch in half an hour!
JERRY: So you think you're not gonna get the job because your pants make a noise?
GEORGE: Let's say it comes down to me and one other guy. He's got a nice quiet suit, and I'm whooshing all over the place! Who do you think he's gonna hire?
Needless to say no one at "Mackenzie" will be wearing this stuff.
I`m not necessarily saying that Google's tactics here are evil but damn, strategies and actions like this certainly aren't resounding endorsements of that policy. I also noticed that no one else seems to have brought the policy up. Have we all just given up on the slogan? No one even bothers to call them out on it anymore? I wish I could still believe but it looks like everyone has lost faith in the apparently too idealistic policy.
"We recognize that copyright law guarantees that you, as a member of the public, have certain legal rights," it says, "You may copy, distribute, prepare derivative works, reproduce, introduce into an electronic retrieval system, perform, and transmit portions of this publication provided that such use constitutes 'fair use' under copyright law, or is otherwise permitted by applicable law."'"
IANAL but that sure sounds a lot like "tape recording/ripping movies and putting them on the internet" to me.
While it's interesting to see the statistics for the workforce as a whole, I think it's interesting to point out that this is another major disadvantage for low wage workers. The types of jobs where you can slack off for 1/5th of the day aren't things like janitors, factory workers, or other lower level service personnel. If you factor that into the amount of work done per hour paid, the disparity between salaried office type work and low wage service work is even greater.
When I first started at my office job during college, I was so used to being in the basic service industry that I didn't fit in right away. I was used to just taking a task, doing it, and immediately going back to the boss for the next thing. I didn't realize that the culture I was in was for slower progress on tasks and there wasn't a need to rush and be essentially managed by the boss every second of the day.
Just some things to think about. A lot of people don't realize that for a lot of American workers, and 8 hour day really means 8 hours.
Don't get me wrong, hydrogen fueled vehicles are a great thing for the future but we really need to look at the overall environmental impacts of the hydrogen fueled vehicle. Right now the life cycle emissions of a hydrogen car depend heavily on how the hydrogen is created. While the vehicle itself may have no emissions, the process of creating that hydrogen can be nastier for the environment than a gas powered car. If you are creating hydrogen from coal power plants or compresses natural gas (which is the norm for quite a few operations), then you are having a higher impact on the environment overall than a gas vehicle. But if you`re using renewable resources like hydro power to create the hydrogen, then we are starting to look at true zero emissions vehicles.
This is not to mention the life cycle of the vehicle itself. The manufacturing of hydrogen vehicles can be 3 times more detrimental to the environment than the manufacturing of a gas powered vehicle.
Clearly we are on the right path to less impact on the environment from vehicles, but it really depends on how nations/corporations choose to get their hydrogen fuel. Putting all the emissions in one location rather than from millions of cars is a good start.
Just to help the non-metrically inclined and anyone who has no clue how much are 34,000 km is. It`s about 13,127 square miles. Which is more than half the surface area of Lake Michigan (22,400 sq. miles)
Who`s up for turning the Great Lakes a nice shade of crud green?
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FYI for you out-of-staters, Sandwich is a town here in Massachusetts. I know we supposedly have an over-bearing government here but that doesnt include a Planning Board for your lunch.
And of course NASA's first use for the product will be........ Toolbox handles
Anyone else read the headline and think that Nix was a camera brand and they were switching to them? Sigh long day...
I`ve posted about this game before, but CitiesXL is a great example of game producers getting input from the community during development. The game is basically going to be a city managing simulation ala Sim City. So far, it looks like a pretty incredible offering, with some neat elements involving online play. Release date so far is vague, but I`d guess Fall 09.
And regardless of what you think of him do try and remember this: Olbermann is not a reporter. He's a commentator. It seems to me like a lot of people have forgotten the difference between the two.
I know what the difference is.
One is Jon Stewart and the other is Stephen Colbert.
Then again, this is the same group of people who successfully sued the glue manufacturer who created the glue that failed to hold up 2-ton slabs of concrete. Never mind that the glue was never designed for such an application or that no one in their right mind GLUES 2-ton slabs of concrete to the ceiling of tunnels.
Well that`s just a blatant misstatement, and while I`m not saying the MBTA is a well run organization, they don't need additional problems attributed to them.
First of all, the slabs of concrete that fell were part of the Big Dig, which is run by Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, not the MBTA. Both are poorly run transportation organizations in Massachusetts, but they are not the same.
Secondly, the suits in the ceiling collapse were brought by the Massachusetts Attorney General's office not the MBTA. They were brought against many of the companies involved, including the adhesive company and Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, the primary consulting firm. The Turnpike Authority was not really to blame, it was either BPB for using an adhesive meant for wall panels for ceilings, or the adhesive company for not realizing their product was being improperly used. Both were sued by the Massachusetts Attorney General's office and paid millions to the state.
I need my coffee. Shaxwell House brand coffee.
Despite what scientists originally thought, these holes allow 20 times the normal amount of solar particles through when they are facing away from the sun. This being opposite from what the scientists had originally speculated.
So I guess scientists originally thought that the holes shot 20 times the normal amount of solar radiation into space when they faced away from the sun?
Well I was a believer too that she would maybe grab some of the Hilary voters that were looking for a woman to be in a prominent position in Washington. Then I saw her stance on abortion, being very pro-choice, and whatever way you see it that is going to push more women away from the Republican ticket than bring them in.
Traduttori traditori; "translators are traitors".
And I`m supposed to believe you?!
Probably some kind of pasta.
To be honest, maybe the people are so amazing because they haven`t been exposed to the rest of the world? As an American myself, getting people to act more "American" or "Global"(see American) is not really a good thing. Viva Variety!
They penalize you for only having taken the test once, each time you take it it is adds 10 questions to your total. After the third time taking the test they remove the penalty.
Just to emphasize the fact that players have only become interested. No one goes and gets Tommy John surgery without needing it. Many people claim that it makes the arm stronger in the long run. But it's only done after serious elbow injury. Not to mention the rehab time for the injury is 12-18 months. That's a lot of baseball to miss for optional surgery!
Wait really? What a ridiculously misguided statement! Seriously, who is modding this up? Let`s take a quick look to see how inaccurate you are.
First off, let`s decide what sports to look at. I`ll go with the basketball and the NBA, MLB for baseball, and the NFL for football. I won't even count NHL hockey, and leave one of the biggest sports in the country NASCAR, off the board for a few reasons, A) I think you weren`t considering drivers athletes at all when making that claim, and B) them being termed athletes in the first place is a debatable claim.
So first off the NBA, let's look at the Season Racial and Gender Report Card 2006-2007
This states that 75% of NBA players are African-American, and during the 1994-95 season there was an all-time high of 82%. Hmm, not quite 90%+, but let`s look at other sports!
The MLB, which is notoriously losing it`s African-American makeup, had only 8.5% African-American players during the 2005 season! 2005 Race and Gender Report Card
Wow! 90%+ is there, but wait! It`s 90%+ NON-African-American players! And if you want to bring out Latinos and other races into the picture, 28.7% of players were Latino, and 2.5% were of Asian descent. Leaving over 50% of MLB players white! Not exactly one race being better at something than others now is it?
Finally we can move onto the NFL. Which in 2003 had a historic high of 69% African-American players. 2004 Race Report
So no not really 90%+ black players at all! In fact not even close in any of the major sports leagues in the United States. I`m reasonably sure the statistics are consistent for the top soccer leagues around the world, particularly, in Europe, such as the English Premiership and the Primera Liga in Spain. FIFA has made rules that these leagues require a minimum threshold of native players on the club teams so it`s less likely that the teams would consist of over 90% black players.
Seriously though I can`t believe the parent post was so blatantly incorrect and modded up like that. Do a little research or at least have SOME knowledge of what you are talking about before you go crazy. Christ, you could watch an hour of ESPN and see that the 90% figure is wrong.
Now don't get me wrong, I think EA has done a lot of bad to the gaming industry. Their exclusive contracts with the NFL and NCAA for football (which forced 2k Sports to go exclusive with the MLB), have in my eyes, ruined the sports game industry. Not to mention the worthless Sim City societies that EA recently put out, that wasn't even developed by Maxis.
Seriously though, if you want to> see a great game in development, one that will become the new Sim City, check out Cities Unlimited, http://cuplanet.com/. Monte Cristo is taking in a lot of public input on their forums for the new game and by all accounts it looks like the new Sim City that people have been waiting for.
GEORGE: You're telling me. So, what do you think?
JERRY: Did you hear something?
ELAINE: Yeah, like a swoosh.
JERRY: Yeah.
ELAINE: It must be the fabric. It's rubbing between you thighs when you walk. That's what's making that swooshy sound.
GEORGE: I probably didn't hear it on the way over because of the street noise. This is no good! I got to meet these guys from MacKenzie for lunch in half an hour!
JERRY: So you think you're not gonna get the job because your pants make a noise?
GEORGE: Let's say it comes down to me and one other guy. He's got a nice quiet suit, and I'm whooshing all over the place! Who do you think he's gonna hire?
Needless to say no one at "Mackenzie" will be wearing this stuff.
I`m not necessarily saying that Google's tactics here are evil but damn, strategies and actions like this certainly aren't resounding endorsements of that policy. I also noticed that no one else seems to have brought the policy up. Have we all just given up on the slogan? No one even bothers to call them out on it anymore? I wish I could still believe but it looks like everyone has lost faith in the apparently too idealistic policy.
Anyone know where to get the torrent file for the 4,000 page document?
I for one welcome our future Spanish speaking, bastard, unwed, government teat sucking non-militaristic overlords...
IANAL but that sure sounds a lot like "tape recording/ripping movies and putting them on the internet" to me.
When I first started at my office job during college, I was so used to being in the basic service industry that I didn't fit in right away. I was used to just taking a task, doing it, and immediately going back to the boss for the next thing. I didn't realize that the culture I was in was for slower progress on tasks and there wasn't a need to rush and be essentially managed by the boss every second of the day.
Just some things to think about. A lot of people don't realize that for a lot of American workers, and 8 hour day really means 8 hours.
Two fully functioning arms sitting next to each other in the video..... and no high fives?! What a waste of technology!
This is not to mention the life cycle of the vehicle itself. The manufacturing of hydrogen vehicles can be 3 times more detrimental to the environment than the manufacturing of a gas powered vehicle.
Clearly we are on the right path to less impact on the environment from vehicles, but it really depends on how nations/corporations choose to get their hydrogen fuel. Putting all the emissions in one location rather than from millions of cars is a good start.
You are obviously new here.....
Oh and it`ll probably be there again tomorrow....;)
Who`s up for turning the Great Lakes a nice shade of crud green?