According to some of my female friends (who spent a few years in Italy), Italian men are amazing kissers but lousy in bed.
This is, apparently, because they live with their parents until they're 25 - they get loads of practise at the wooing etc, but all their sexual encounters are furtive back-seat-of-the-car experiences.
Nope:
"The Peace Prize is one of five prizes that have been awarded annually since 1901 under the auspices of the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm for outstanding contributions in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace."
If they could create a device that cut your speed when you drive too close to the guy in front, THAT would save lives. It's incredible how many stupid drivers think it's OK to tailgate.
When they said paths, I at first thought of a path into/through the woods...not a public place like mentioned in the article.
You were right to think that - 'footpaths' in the UK are often in the countryside, or along canals or through parks etc. When they are in a city, they often were there before the city; very old routes that have been public pathways for centurys. The laws governing them and right-of-way on them go right back to medieval times.
Hmmm - I'm not sure. When I watch the original trilogy, or for that matter any SFX that is model-based, I can enjoy what I'm seeing (with a little suspension of disbelief).
When I watched the new trilogy, it was just a mess of shapes with nothing to fix the eye on. IT JUST DIDN'T LOOK REAL.
Hmm - me too. When I was 15 I'd leave my maths homework until just before I went to sleep, as I could just power through them (and get top marks).
In the last year I've done some punishing 36-hour coding marathons, and I've found that at about the 20th hour I hit 'the zone' where I can code at full speed, 100% accuracy. I can't even think about talking to clients or doing manager duties as that point, but the code just flows out.
And then.... when I'm into my second night without sleep I get euphoric and start to be able to write lyrics (I'm a musician but have terrible trouble writing lyrics to the music I write).
All the same, I have two friends whose lives have been turned upside down by bi-polar disorders, so I don't really like playing with fire like this.
Yup - fantastic storyling, didn't hurt that the voice acting was done properly and the sound & visual design gave such good atmosphere.
Fallout had the same - really quite spooky.
Sounds like the rhythm method - without which, I wouldn't be here at all.
I have to agree with you - they do take away some of the sensation. My wife hates them too, and is thinking of going back on the pill - but loading your body with extra hormones every month is not to be taken lightly (to be honest, I'd say the same about the injections in TFA).
That link says properly used condoms fail at 2% over the course of a year - if the participants in this study were having sex 100 times a year, that would mean the condoms have a failure rate of 0.02%
Of course, I just picked the "100 times a year" at random, but I bet it's not that far off.
As far as I know, it is possible to play these games in offline mode (obviously not the multiplayer bits) - it's a setting in the Steam App, that allows you to play when you don't have an internet connection.
Just to add to that - I noticed this weekend that the Orange Box was selling on Steam for £5.99.
Say what you like about the DRM system, that is a hell of a good price for those games - that's many hours, some of the best games ever made, for the price of two pints.
Number of times I had to implement sorting algorithms for my degree: 3
Number of times I've had to implement sorting algorithms in my 10 year career: 0
They make good teaching exercises, but any programmer in my team who wasted time building their own sorting algorithms rather than using a library function, would get a few sharp words about efficiency.
"If they weren't making it, someone else would be."
Yeah, but that's the problem - the someone else should be the artist / originator. OK, that's the pipedream, but the fact is that the PRS is a non-profit organisation that collects royalties for musicians (not very efficiently these days, it has to be said), and YouTube / Google _are_ taking money out of their pocket.
Yes, it's shortsighted of the PRS to block YouTube, especially since they have no viable alternative, and the PRS has a very haphazard approach to allocating the received money - but it doesn't just represent the major players, this is the mechanism by which all pro and semi-pro musicians in the UK get their royalties.
I think we need a new version of Godwin's law:
With any Slashdot discussion concerning Britain, it's only a matter of time before somebody mentions Orwell.
Look, have you actually read 1984, or any of Orwell's works? He was righteously angry about many things, but copyright law was not one of them.
Yes, but lack of DRM can be a problem if you're an artist or copyright holder. And lack of DRM is a problem for the customer if it means that no-one is prepared to release their music as a download - it effectively removes that choice from the customer.
Look, DRM is a compromise, and not a very good one at that, but this view that it's there ONLY to serve 'the man' is shortsighted.
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If the women you're sleeping with are not your real friends, it's no wonder you don't like spending time with them.
According to some of my female friends (who spent a few years in Italy), Italian men are amazing kissers but lousy in bed.
This is, apparently, because they live with their parents until they're 25 - they get loads of practise at the wooing etc, but all their sexual encounters are furtive back-seat-of-the-car experiences.
Nope:
"The Peace Prize is one of five prizes that have been awarded annually since 1901 under the auspices of the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm for outstanding contributions in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace."
http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/about_peaceprize/
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/
1) Wary, not weary.
2) Nobel Prize for X, not the Peace Prize.
If they could create a device that cut your speed when you drive too close to the guy in front, THAT would save lives. It's incredible how many stupid drivers think it's OK to tailgate.
Um - no, they haven't pedestrianised it. But it is blocked to traffic (except buses and taxis) during busy periods.
When they said paths, I at first thought of a path into/through the woods...not a public place like mentioned in the article.
You were right to think that - 'footpaths' in the UK are often in the countryside, or along canals or through parks etc. When they are in a city, they often were there before the city; very old routes that have been public pathways for centurys. The laws governing them and right-of-way on them go right back to medieval times.
Hmmm - I'm not sure. When I watch the original trilogy, or for that matter any SFX that is model-based, I can enjoy what I'm seeing (with a little suspension of disbelief).
When I watched the new trilogy, it was just a mess of shapes with nothing to fix the eye on. IT JUST DIDN'T LOOK REAL.
You mean John Sidney McCain?
Hmm - me too. When I was 15 I'd leave my maths homework until just before I went to sleep, as I could just power through them (and get top marks).
In the last year I've done some punishing 36-hour coding marathons, and I've found that at about the 20th hour I hit 'the zone' where I can code at full speed, 100% accuracy. I can't even think about talking to clients or doing manager duties as that point, but the code just flows out.
And then.... when I'm into my second night without sleep I get euphoric and start to be able to write lyrics (I'm a musician but have terrible trouble writing lyrics to the music I write).
All the same, I have two friends whose lives have been turned upside down by bi-polar disorders, so I don't really like playing with fire like this.
Yup - fantastic storyling, didn't hurt that the voice acting was done properly and the sound & visual design gave such good atmosphere. Fallout had the same - really quite spooky.
Sounds like the rhythm method - without which, I wouldn't be here at all.
I have to agree with you - they do take away some of the sensation. My wife hates them too, and is thinking of going back on the pill - but loading your body with extra hormones every month is not to be taken lightly (to be honest, I'd say the same about the injections in TFA).
That link says properly used condoms fail at 2% over the course of a year - if the participants in this study were having sex 100 times a year, that would mean the condoms have a failure rate of 0.02%
Of course, I just picked the "100 times a year" at random, but I bet it's not that far off.
As far as I know, it is possible to play these games in offline mode (obviously not the multiplayer bits) - it's a setting in the Steam App, that allows you to play when you don't have an internet connection.
...which I opted out of the non-easy way, by becoming a CO
Conscientious objector
:-)
or Commanding Officer
?
Just to add to that - I noticed this weekend that the Orange Box was selling on Steam for £5.99.
Say what you like about the DRM system, that is a hell of a good price for those games - that's many hours, some of the best games ever made, for the price of two pints.
Number of times I had to implement sorting algorithms for my degree: 3
Number of times I've had to implement sorting algorithms in my 10 year career: 0
They make good teaching exercises, but any programmer in my team who wasted time building their own sorting algorithms rather than using a library function, would get a few sharp words about efficiency.
No more than 20 hours a week, huh?
I spent less time per week earning my degree!
"I believe in slime and stink and every crawling, putrid thing... every possible ugliness and corruption, you son of a bitch. I believe... in you. "
Well, they know their market: their tedious Flash loading anim counts up from "0% loaded" to "100% loaded"...
So what, meatbag?
Come back when you've got smision.
"If they weren't making it, someone else would be."
Yeah, but that's the problem - the someone else should be the artist / originator. OK, that's the pipedream, but the fact is that the PRS is a non-profit organisation that collects royalties for musicians (not very efficiently these days, it has to be said), and YouTube / Google _are_ taking money out of their pocket.
Yes, it's shortsighted of the PRS to block YouTube, especially since they have no viable alternative, and the PRS has a very haphazard approach to allocating the received money - but it doesn't just represent the major players, this is the mechanism by which all pro and semi-pro musicians in the UK get their royalties.
I think we need a new version of Godwin's law: With any Slashdot discussion concerning Britain, it's only a matter of time before somebody mentions Orwell. Look, have you actually read 1984, or any of Orwell's works? He was righteously angry about many things, but copyright law was not one of them.
Yes, but lack of DRM can be a problem if you're an artist or copyright holder. And lack of DRM is a problem for the customer if it means that no-one is prepared to release their music as a download - it effectively removes that choice from the customer.
Look, DRM is a compromise, and not a very good one at that, but this view that it's there ONLY to serve 'the man' is shortsighted.
But that way the terrorists win!
Or at least, it's encouraging the coding equivalent of a protection racket...
"Hmmm - very 'bottable' code you have here. It would be awful if someone were to write some code that, say, took away the need for grinding....."