Yes, but sometimes it's over responsive. In this case, allergies. The only true long-term healthy solution to allergies is to physically move somewhere else; even if that means another city/state/country.
That's actually not true. People who tend to be allergic will develop allergies to their new environment in less than five years. It's an immune system response.
I've played MMORPGs on and off since 2003. If anything, the trend these days in MMOs in the West is very much against needing the kind of time commitment that was common in the early days of the genre.
In the days before WoW, MMOs generally required a very, very serious investment of time if you really wanted to get much out of them. In Final Fantasy XI, which was (by the most reliable metrics) the most successful pre-WoW MMORPG, simply reaching maximum level would require many months of playtime, most of which was spent grinding (killing enemies over and over again in a repetitive cycle). The end-game content would require many, many consecutive hours spent waiting for rare monsters to spawn. I was working a job with more or less 9-to-5 hours when I played it, which meant I could never get to the top ranks. But for the 18 months or so I played it seriously, it was by far my most time consuming leisure activity (probably peaking at around 30 hours a week).
When I was a kid, we had to walk 1,000,000,000,000,000 miles to school....
Seriously, I have played computer games since before personal computers had hard drives and many others here have too. Grinding is not a new concept.
Every RPG has an element of grinding. When you bring people together online, the grinding has to be magnified to increase the level competition among the larger player set.
FPS games became almost identical once they added online server scoreboards.
Before computer games, kids collected baseball cards. You had to by thousands of cards to get the special one. This would take MONTHS of dedicated income (as a 5 year old) to obtain the cards and tons of free time to sort and rank the cards. (Anything sound familiar?)
Companies have always been really effective at profiting over human's innate competitive drive and need to be special relative to one's peers.
Before, teens needed to have a car to impress the girls
Now, they just need an internet connection and some hand-cream.
I'm not entirely sure a porn habit and one arm twice the size of the other impresses the girls much.
That's why you (1) alternate and (2) do twice as many reps. Plus, you always have soft hands.
Am I the only one who sees the word SCROTUM every time
Ghost of GWB?
How many years has Obama been in office? Eventually you've got to give him some credit... you know, what with the 2nd term and all....
What, specifically, should he be given credit for?
He already got the Nobel Peace Prize before he did anything related to peace.
I would say that he is in the credit hole at this point and still trying to dig his way out.
Sure, the spy may have a license to speed, but if he doesn't have to follow the speed limit, another driver on the same road is going to be correspondingly less able to anticipate how to react safely to another driver who may be cruising at over double the speed limit.
What about construction zones? What about school zones?
This kind of thing is so utterly likely to get completely innocent people killed that I expect to see it being discontinued within a week of implementation.
Last I checked (in the US), most civilians don't follow the speed limit in construction or school zones. So I think this will play out just fine.
In fact, I usually assume that anyone driving under the speed limit is either drunk or has warrants out on them.
How is it efficient if you drive as fast as possible? Fuel mileage decreases once you hit about 50 mph. After that you're driving your costs higher.
A report showing the effect and a chart which gives a graphical representation of this effect.
Time is money, friend.
The only fundamental flaw is with the physicists level of seriousness in documenting this test.
The rubber sheet is used as an analogy to describe the quintessential elements of the space-time theory to people uncomfortable with mathematics. It's not intended to be directly equivalent to an astronomical system! Obviously other effects (like friction and fabric warping) are more dominant on the experiment scales than at astronomical scales.
Reading the paper, there are something like five other references on marbles and spandex to simulate space-time warping. I mean, really? This is probably a good teaching tool for graduate students, but we must have too many underfunded physicists in the world if they are wasting actual research time with spandex and marbles. There are more useful projects that can be investigated cheaply and experimentally.
The NOAA lists -27F as the lowest recorded temperature in Chicago.
They also have a list of days with a temperature below -16F and 1980 wasn't listed.
If you notice, he was very careful to not specify his temperature units.
I think at this point, we can only rule out the Kelvin scale and assume that he must either be a politician or lawyer.
Meteorologists warn that the wind-chill factor could make it feel twice as cold
What the hell does "twice as cold" even mean? If it's intended to mean "double the negative distance from zero", then it's unit-dependent. The same with "half the temperature". Just give an actual temperature, instead of using vagary in an attempt to impress people with how cold it's doing to be.
Obviously, it is the difference between "really cold" and "really really cold!"
Unfortunately, we're just going to use even more natural resources to say warm.
A true environmentalist would freeze to death to save the environment.
Yeah so you could say that in a way, the US is slicing its own throat yet again by trying to bully other countries and deny them "access" to technology when they don't do as they are told. It's pretty arrogant to assume that said countries can never come up with technological advances on their own. But hey - thanks America! You're right, we DON'T need you anymore!
Uh, how is the "US slicing its own throat" by not helping India?
The Indians are obviously smart enough to figure it out themselves, why would they need assistance? It's better for national pride if they do it on their own and they might actually develop some new tech instead of copying old designs.
Personally, I say more power to them. It's not the US and Russia's job to develop all of the world's space tech and then sell it to everyone else. And I respect them a hell of a lot more than other countries who just steal the designs and blatantly copy them.
More disturbing is that it may simply be a matter of time before it fails, and our private messages are out there for all to see.
There is quite a bit of fearmongering here...
Given that they couldn't even secure their internal network properly, it would seem highly unlikely that the NSA has the commitment, expertise, or efficiency to secretly develop cutting edge technology far in excess of what the best academics in the world can do.
That said, instead of everyone standing around and wringing their hands, maybe now would be a good time to start developing more secure encryption algorithms that are more robust to brute force attacks. The encryption community has been resting on their laurels for quite a while now.
Cheney and nine companions killed 417 out of 500 ringneck pheasants, of which the Vice President himself is credited with killing 70, and an unknown number of mallard ducks.[8]
What kind of dick uses live animals just as targets and kills more than many families could eat in a single session? Dick Cheney does. Which I mean, I have no problem with animal slaughter for food or clothing but, we don't call people who work in slaughterhouses hunters.
I don't really like Cheney's personality very much, but think that you are being overly harsh. Usually, most states mandate that all game animal meat must be taken off the birds. Hunters either take it home and eat it or donate it.
Also, unlike the specially bred, steroid-pumped-up chickens that most people buy in the market, there's not that much meat on most wild pheasants. Imagine that you have a family of four and that you all like to eat 6-8 oz. of meat for each dinner. That is about 1.5 pheasant breasts per person, per meal. Thus 70 pheasants would only last for 12 meals with the the remaining scrap meat serving as jerky or other processed products. Is that really an excessive amount of meat?
Finally, I don't fully understand the level of hate that most omnivores have against hunting. Most people buy meat from animals that spent their entire lives caged and then were summarily executed. Hunters are paying more money and expending more effort to obtain meat from animals that lived their lives uncaged or wild before being put down very quickly.
Assume that civilization did not exist and you were a prey animal. Would you rather (1) spend your whole life being force fed in a cage before being killed or (2) spend your life free up until the point that you were killed by a predator? I'd go for #2 myself...
Vegans are really the only ones who have the moral validation to hate hunters. However, humans did evolve to be omnivores...
it's apple only real non AIO desktop other then the mini.
Again, it's not a desktop. It's a workstation. It was not designed for consumers to play games or surf the web. It is intended for professionals for work. As such it was designed with this in mind. Please stop confusing the two.
the mini lags in hardware and does not offer any better video then laptop based Intel on board chips.
Then don't buy a mini.
The imacs are ok but for stuff but for gameing other then maybe the top of line imac with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB upgrade are poor for there screen size.
Then don't buy an iMac.
and for the price of then top imac you can build an high system for about a $1000 less giving you a lot of room to add your own screen as well full desktop CPU's, HDD's, Video cards and more.
Then don't buy an iMac. The crux of your complaint is that Apple doesn't make the system you want them to make. Get over it. Don't buy Apple then. But complaining that Apple hasn't designed a system for you is just complaining to complaining. A Mac Pro was never intended for you. They are intended for professionals. That's like complaining that Mack Trucks doesn't make an 18-wheeler semi truck doesn't that seats 6 comfortably. That's not what it was intended to do.
Really, why the hell would you buy a Mac for gaming anyway? I know that Apple has made their systems more accessible with the Intel chips, but still!!??
As a Mac Pro owner (not the new one), I am telling you that the least painful solution is to buy a non-Apple system to play games and to buy an Apple system to do whatever you want to do on a Mac. Otherwise, you're just asking to spend more money and time working out hardware compatibility issues. You will be far better in the long run to maintain two computers. Sure, it will cost you more money. But with the amount of time that you will waste screwing around with your dual-boot Mac Pro, you could get a second job to buy that second Windows gaming machine.
Also, if cost is a limitation, then you probably shouldn't be buying a Mac or a gaming system...
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