2010 Winter Paralympics - The Big Picture

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This pictures are always inspiring. Those that like some of these pics probably will also like this nike commercial.

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My local rink has a 10 week program for beginning players. They cover the basics of skating, positioning, passing, shooting, etc. They don't even play in a full game until week 9. Not going right into games has helped develop a lot of us into some very good players. We have a group of us that routinely play together against higher talented teams and simply manhandle them solely through solid positioning and strategy that you can't learn just hoping into a pickup game.

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I wouldn't want people finding me if I was Snot Boogie either.

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yeah, that was what i was implying. the parent implied exactly what I was getting at. The only reason you'd suggest a stringbuilder is if you were going for microseconds worth of optimizations, but even thing it seems string.join would still be faster

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string joined = string.Join(" - ", first, second);

seems a lot easier than using a stringbuilder. Not to mention I'd assume this would be more efficient than using a stringbuilder which is not a cheap object to create and use for small amounts of concatenation.

Of course, the new string.join could use a stringbuilder behind the scenes - I don't have reflector handy to investigate.

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wow, that's nice. thanks for the link

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well, of course. if i was worried about 100% coverage from injury at all times I wouldn't get out of bed everyday.

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hmmm, if it weren't for my helmet and shield I'd probably have cracked open my skull and have a fractured orbital bone. I probably would have at least broken my collar bone twice if it weren't for my shoulder pads, and I know my shins would have shattered if it weren't for my shin guards.

So yes, I do think they protect me from injury.

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I have a good maps feature that I would like - worst case and best case trips due to traffic lights. The directions google gives me to hockey involve going past a shit ton of traffic lights. It is far quicker to take the 5 miles out the way route on the expressway to avoid it.

I think they already have speed limit's so one would think they could infer an approximate wait time per intersection that they could add to the drive time even if they can't get that data from cities.

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I'd like to read more on how an open source battery charger software would have fixed this situation at all. I'm not some open source hater by any means, but I think the chances that someone who gave a shit about the source of a freaking battery charger driver would be exactly the type of person who would never be dumb enough to buy a battery charger that needs a windows driver install.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't see how this driver being open source would have changed anything at all.

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While I still think it's a photoshop, that streetview could have been taken months if not years ago. Those graphics could easily have been done over the weekend, and I doubt they'll stay up long anyways.

For example, if streetview is to be taken as infalliable, what does it mean for me if I am currently working in a building that streetview doesn't think exists. I'm about 20 ft from the building with the red top on my desk.

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Depending on your machine, you may want to give Win7 a go. I wiped my old XP machine that I use for goofing around at home with a copy of Win7 from an MS show. Granted, it wasn't too old of a machine. 1.8 GHz P4 with a gig of ram, but Win7 seems to do much better with the limited resources than XP ever did. I don't think it'd run on an 800mhz machine though like XP would.

But that being said, I don't think the people sticking with XP on their 800mhz P3 are the ones going out and upgrading their hard drives to the latest and greatest. And for the few that may accidentally buy one of these drives the backwards comparability certainly makes it a non-issue.

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AnVillen does god's work with these videos.

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I used to think like the parent comment did. I bought Tropico during the steam sale. Instead of cleaning my condo, going out and doing some of my hockey conditioning workouts, and getting dinner with my mom I sat and fucking adjust prices on fake sugar to make more fake money so I could make my fake citizens happier by buying them a fake fucking movie theater.

That's not entertainment. I paid them to turn my mind into a gerbil for 7 hours. I fell into the trap that this game was talking about.

Now, don't get me wrong. I will GLADLY pay $60 for ten hours worth of game play if it is solid. I don't need or even want hundreds of hours of game play anymore. I'm not my gamer score. I don't need 100% completion. I don't need to harvest every mineral from every planet in Mass Effect 2. I don't need to shoot every pigeon in GTA IV. I don't need to complete every courier mission in Assassins Creed. That's not entertainment.

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Fun story, Elvis Grbac was named Sexiest Athlete back in 1998.

Apparently what happened was that Rich Gannon was supposed to get the nod. Well they told the photographer to get pictures of the "Chiefs QB". Well he did, just the wrong one. Once the photos got back to new york they didn't have the heart to tell Elvis that they meant to go with Rich Gannon instead.

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fair enough. but I know that if I saw a pop up little chumpy saying "click here for HD" I'd probably click away from an embeded blog. Others might not, but it would be a happy medium for the labels and the artists

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Did they find any whalers of the moon?

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