You can go into the jungle without going all survivorman.

Why do people always have to take things to extremes?

You can face your fears and do something a little dangerous that is 99% safe without going and doing something a lot dangerous that is not safe at all.

The parents was talking about being too afraid to go out into the jungle.

While I would agree that you shouldn't live completely like it's your last day (you do want to save up for things like, say, retirement), you should conquer your fears for the little things, and you can do this with a sense of balance

Death can come for you anywhere. One day, walking through a cross walk in a major city during the middle of the day, I was nearly hit by an asshole driving around a corner too fast in a very nice BMW. I jumped out of the way just in time but the car hit my groceries.

Live your life. Take reasonable precautions like having a guide take you through the jungle, or going with an instructor if you try something dangerous in the beginning, like rally racing. But always live your life, like today was your last day. The world is on fire, and we never know how long we have left.

(Although in fairness we didn't start the fire)

What's stopping you from making it happen?

You know by choosing to explore the star trek universe, you would have the opportunity to explore both 7 of 9 and the planet of another star. ;)

(And in case you think, oh why would I be sure of exploring 7 of 9? Well in the series she's always exploring her humanity. Maybe you could show her about that particular bit. Although I imagine it would be quite mechanical and not enjoyable at all...)

Funny you know my mom used to say the same thing. Every time I played video games she'd tell me how useless they were and what a waste of time.

Back when I was in high school, I had a buddy who wanted to play FIFA all the time. So we'd play online (this was back in the day when you'd have one modem call the other modem). I wasn't really interested in soccer, but I was competitive, and wanted to beat him at the game.

Fast forward 10 years. I ended up getting transferred to Europe. After work we went to a bar the first week I was there, and small talk one night included this funny sport called soccer. And I knew all the teams, and all the rules. And it helped me out professionally.

Thank you video games.

You were saying?

Sounds great where do I get one? I've got about 3000 wifi access points coming into my apartment I'd like to degrade...

Seriously though, I can see how if you live in the country this maybe requires you to pump additional power into your wifi device. But in any city, wifi range is MUCH bigger than apartment size, and it's a non-issue.

Usually prototypes are a scaled down model. If I were a betting man, I'd say the final model will be more like 300kg...

I'd settle for textbooks available in ebook form on a common platform like kindle, as well as pricing them below $50.

YES!

There is no right to a game designed the way you would want to design it. Your right is to vote with your wallets. If the second companies instituted DRM everyone stopped buying their products, then companies would not see DRM as a valid business model.

Option 6: Slag the tablet. Data destruction assured

But there's opportunity cost to committing for another 2 years.

And are you seriously telling me if she gets an iphone 64 GB 5S it's the same price as if she gets the $20 special?

Not true. When I go to the US (or travel) I buy a prepaid sim card for local calls.

Verizon is able to sell you a sim card for your iphone if you have a 5 or later. If you have a 4S, you are right, but it's been some years since that was state of the art.

It's cheaper for cell phone manufacturers to make 1 chip for all the bands, then have to retool for each different cell provider

Phones like the iPhone have the ability to use most american, european, asian, and FAIK african cell phone bands, for years now. Most high end android phones have similar abilities (and some allow multiple sims).

My iphone has never been unable to communicate on a region's network, and I travel a lot, My (unlocked) iphone has worked on all four continents mentioned. Quite a few places in America, most countries in europe west of Czech (and who'd want to go east of there), South East Asia, and Morocco (OK, not all of Africa).

Of course, maybe el cheapo brand cell phones might differ, but if you are paying $20 for a cell, who cares if you can unlock it and use it again?