Steam for CounterStrike and Half-Life could have it all worked out. It's convenient because you can play on any computer without a CD, while you can't sell the game because it is tied to your Steam account. I think the CD key can be tied to only one Steam account.

If you are like me and do not care about keeping the tally logically consistent, as long as you choose the answer that is true in terms of the question and the poll stats, you would choose "An answer between the most and least popular". There are 5 choices. As long as it is in the middle three spaces, it is correct, so there is a 3/5 chance that you would be right. The most and least popular answers only give a 1/5 chance of winning. This is true as long as everyone chooses randomly and choosing "Why won't this thing let me vote straight ticket?" is not considered winning.

Haha, excellent catch.

Haha, oops, yeah you're right. My sarcasm meter perked up too quickly. "They were also unbelievably unaware of one of the worst bombing raids of the war so far! They slept soundly through it all in their van". Only to miss the "only to awake to the devistation the next morning!"

Wikipedia says it happened. You really should choose a better source than a forum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Blitz There is some pictures too on the page.

Making copies of the song is very cheap; all the cost is in the production. Problem with newspapers is that they can't copyright the news. We "discovered" this "idea of what happened yesterday" first, so therefore, if you want to learn about it, you must buy our newspaper. Capitalism :(. One possible life saver for most of the newspapers is the local news, ie the new sheriff in town. But as people start living in the internet more, they may even stop caring about who the new sheriff is.

NMOS passes a "strong" 0V very well, but passes a "weak" high. This means that it takes longer for NMOS to reach the full value of Vdd, leading to clock trouble. This is why PMOS is on top and NMOS are on the bottom in CMOS logic. By making IOCHRDY signal an active high, I believe this means it becomes difficult to turn the IOCHRDY active, so the logic is slower.

If you have a laptop, then you can get an external keyboard and put it to the left of the laptop's keyboard. You'll have two keyboards, so you can angle them to the correct ergonomic angle. This is not an ideal fix, because the left and right keyboards would be far from each other, and it would be offcenter if you use your laptop's screen, as opposed to an external monitor. However, you do get the comfortable angle for your hands, as well as TY, GH, and NM keys on both the left and right side.

If you do not count the biology vs. religion debate, it is difficult to find bias in the hard sciences. Facts are facts and there is no reason why anyone would have a disputed yet irrefutable idea. Maybe science foundations can set up a program that rewards editors whose articles become featured.

For some reason, when I look at my fingerprints, I think of tree rings. When we were little fetuses still growing fingers, perhaps there was something about how the skin extends itself that causes an oscillation pattern. This would explain why all the ridges curve along the tip of the finger. There are a few major forms of fingerprints that are caused randomly, which may be explained by the environment the hand area was in when the fingers were formed. Maybe whorls are formed when a side of the developing finger was rubbing against something. Arches seem to be the most natural shape, just skin pushing itself out.

If a service is so resilient that it takes a highly unlikely lightning strike for it to go down, then the service is good.

It would actually be more than 6 billion because you'll have to account for all the people that lived at least after 1954, when the previous occurrence happened. How you thought about the probability is very interesting. Instead of treating it as the proportion of the earth surface that is covered with a human body part, you calculated the probability in relation to the number of people actually hit. I think this is sort of like changing a function from the time domain to the frequency domain. Same function, but different way of looking at it. Very nice.

Litigation is the only way to enforce the high prices they charge for each song. The average person can either 1) pay for the song and get in no trouble or 2) torrent the song and possibly get into big trouble. Equilibrium is when the two choices are equally attractive. When the "big trouble" has the price tag of hundreds of thousands of dollars, you know something is problematic in the balance. It is like a tiny pebble trying to balance a huge boulder on a see-saw, the pebble has to be so unreasonably far from the fulcrum. If only the music companies can price the songs at around 10 cents each, then the see-saw would be more reasonable, ie, the pebble can become larger so it can get closer towards the fulcrum. Personally, I see individual songs as a small, almost throwaway value of a dime.

I thought after World War II, Japan wasn't allowed to have a military anymore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_military

So for 150 years, some families pass down their apartment in the ghetto generation after generation?