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Taylor 7405 High-capacity (440 lb) Electronic Digital Scale
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ITEM#: 12125985Sturdy and precise, the Taylor electronic digital scale measures your weight accurately to the tenth of a pound. The large screen is easy to read and user friendly. Made from rubber and metal, this scale is built to last, and its sleek design makes it a perfect fit for both men and women. Get a head start on your health with this digital scale. Whether you're watching the pounds melt away or monitoring every muscle gain, this scale's strong metal frame, high capacity and sleek numbers are sure to do the job. It's able to measure in kilograms or pounds, and batteries are included to get you started right away. A five-year manufacturer's warranty is also included.
- Watch your weight with a Taylor 7405 digital scale
- High-capacity electronic scale features jumbo 2-inch digits in a 2.1-inch Accu-Glo blue display
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- Super high capacity that is accurate to 440/200 kg in 0.2 lb/0.1 kg increments
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Takes 3 or 4 times before i get the same weight. It starts high and comes down.Read More
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The scale worked right out of the box. High quality, accurate and easy to read.Read More
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if you're heavy like me, when you're at the upper end of it's capability it sometimes doesn't show the correct weight and it goes through batteries like greased owl s**!Read More
Weighs Accurately and Easy to Read
I would definitely recommend the scales for home use. They seem to weigh accurately and the large digital lighted numbers are easy to read and at good price. The beauty of ordering from Overstock is you don't have to go from store to store trying to find what you're looking for and comparing prices. So much easier and less time consuming to do it on line.Read More
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This scale has been great! I started my weight loss at 359 pounds and have used this scale until now I am about 295. It has been about a year. It has a great backlight and the numerals are very big. Easy to see. The only thing that people need to know is that the scale holds onto the last value and if you get on a second time and the weight is within a pound or so it will display the previous reading. You can get around this by letting it read another weight that is different ( like you spouse) and then you can get a second reading for yourself. The scale display flashes when it stores that weight. I have really liked this scale.Read More
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I have been using this scale for quite some time since the summer. I am very happy with my readings as I have been losing a steady amount of weight and I feel it has been more accurate than the traditional scale I used previously. Easy to read. I often step on it twice to confirm the readings. very happy with it. I would recommend to anyone. I was 210lbs and I currently weigh in at 173lbs.Read More
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This is a great scale. It gives an accurate reading, fast!Read More
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I needed a dependable scale.
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I wouldn't dream of telling anyone my weight. Is there any way to clear the memory after each weighing?
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it clears automatically
What is the weight of the scale? I'm looking for one to take on trips and pack in my luggage.
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what is the lowest weight this scale will measure?
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Hello hunthard, unfortunately I was not able to locate information on the minimum weight measurements of the Taylor 7405 High-capacity (440 lb) Electronic Digital Scale. The scale is designed to measure in increments of 0.2 lbs however because it is meant to measure bodyweight it may not be accurate for items weighing less than a few pounds. Thank you for shopping with us.
don't know. I sent it back because the weight fluctuated minute by minute
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The scale works properly on low-pile carpet
I sent it back.......weight fluctuated
Almost no scale will work well if it is on a soft surface that gives. Short carpet can sometimes be OK but shag would not be good. I have a board under mine that is the same size because I want to use it on carpet. It works fie this way
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This runs on 4 AAA batteries. Batteries are included.
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This scale uses alkaline batteries.
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Yes, this scale can be stored on its side. Please feel free to contact us again with any further questions.
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Who would have thought Mitt Romney looked so good under those suits...
Shussssh don't tell the Saudi Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice or they will be conducting penis size test next! http://www.newstiller.com/life-and-style/641-can-you-ever-be-too-handsome
Why is this man imitating the shape of a uterus and fallopian tubes?
It doesn't matter what his first physical impression is; if he can't make me laugh I won't give him a second look.
Once seen in this light, the image cannot be unseen!
Where is this fuss about the attraction preferences coming from? The male sex drive is so powerful that if it were to be eliminated, the entire economy would crash in one day. There would be nobody to work nobody in school. All we would do is lie around and eat and fart and get fat. The sex drive is what makes men get up in the morning. It's the machine that runs the world. Why do men want to be successful? To get women... it doesn't get much deeper than this.
EEEeeeewwww! Poor you!!!
what's wrong with this pic ?
Rubbish. It boggles the mind how stupid, artificial and misinterpreted these "studies" are. The author is should be ashamed of himself for either being so mindless or going for the sensational piece. Women aren't so concerned with physical features as men generally are. Kanazawa has shown quite the opposite trend: women are favored for their physical traits, while men are favored for their intelligence. Now the trick, of course, is that selection isn't universally the same. Men of lower intelligence will have worse at selecting for physical beauty, while women of low intelligence will be worse at selecting for intelligent men. The trend observed is that intelligent men tend to pair up with attractive women, thus producing more attractive and intelligent offspring (that's the explanation of the statistics).
Shame on you Economist for print rubbish. Asking "which is more attractive physically" doesn't answer the question "which man do you prefer/love more?". How could you have no know that?
unfortunately I think you are comparing studies from the 1950's to the modern day. People (thank god) have changed because of more equality in the workplace.And you really shouldn't 'waste your ink' on saying something is rubbish, people will decide for themselves based on all the information.
"women are favored for their physical traits, while men are favored for their intelligence"
have you ever been to a bar?
Nice atricle and advice to sit up. I got a friend who is over 2 meters tall and attends gym. He is well educated, likes reading... but he has yet to earn for his own accomodation. For this reason he stands no chance against short, fat guy who earns a lot. So it is definitelly about money. Women WERE used to like tall guys 'cause tall guys were assumed to be better hunters or field workers. Nowadays a rich man (regardless of his look) has far greater success among ladies. So go to gyms only to keep yourself fit but do not expect girls are going to love you for that.
it's all about money
My wife married me when I had no bank account, DID have college loans and was out-of-work. (I also am not good-looking.)
We are now in our fifth decade of marriage and have awakened together for over 15,000 mornings.
Even though we sense the twilight gathering we rejoice.
So nice to read a comment that isn't snarky or crass. You sound like a real gentleman. Your wife is very lucky.
It's true, women come from broken homes (like men do) anymore and it's purely superficial. In the same way that guys want DDD breasts that will watch sports with them 24-7.
I like brains, good character, good looks, level headed, somewhat athletic and not broke. Employed and educated is good too. And of course, it's "good luck!" I don't have DDD breasts and can only watch 1 hour of hockey each night and that's it!
These types of men do exist, they are out there.
The trouble is that guys communicate what superficial women want to hear- of course for their selfish purposes. And vice versa... Trouble is that the expected spiel is more like a business transaction- not what I want to hear out of a potential partner. Then dating gets boring from here on out. Like seriously guys, especially the ones in California.
Your degree and your business is much more interesting than your real estate. I'm happy that you have a place to live. But oh my god change the topic every once in a while PLEASE!
Just trust me on this one.
was she good looking? if she was, would she settle with you? honestly?
good to hear, and may i wish you and her many more mornings waking up together.
Some women are attracted to other women. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
If women are so "selective", why is it that the poorest countries and the poorest, least educated and lowest social status persons breed like rabbits? The answer is, nobody is really that "selective"--the overwhelming majority of people end up married at one point and there are a statistically minute number of "40-year-old virgins". That women might be slightly more "selective" is probably statistical noise.
How do you know that 40-year-old-virgins are not the consequence of male selection process rather than the female ones? :P
I found this piece to be sophomoric. I am sure if you expanded your line of questioning and asked wymin worldwide what makes for an attractive male, some of the answers would be the same: someone who does not exhibit violent or overall criminal behavior, someone who is kind, someone who respects her humin rights like her reproductive rights, and someone who will be an equal partner (e.g., will do half of household work and half of baby care). I do not think that finding a man with these basics in order is unrealistic. If it is, that is a sad commentary on the state of manhood in 21st century global society. How about a piece on all of this?
So you want a woman?
Maybe women just don't want to boink digitally generated photographs of men? I think the photos looked horrid. All it might show is that women aren't as willing to look at isolated body parts. None of the photos you showed looks like a real, live man. They all look like what they are--digitally generated characters.
This study is hardly an 'experiment'.
It used a convenience sample of women recruited from around the ANU/Civic area - hardly a representative sample of opposite attracted women.
Furthermore, it's hardly surprising that when viewing 3D avatars with only physical characteristics varied that the women then used those physical characteristics to make a decision, in the absence of any other information like personality, status, education etc etc.
If I showed you pictures of fruit and varied the size and colour of the fruit, it would hardly be remarkable that changes in the size and colour influenced your decision as to which individual piece of fruit you preferred!!!
What surveys like this fail to recognize is that women are individuals, not a monolithic group. Subjects, not objects. All have different tastes. For me, the most important factor, if all I have is a photo to go by, is a flat stomach. Guts make me ill. But the flat-stomached guy could open his mouth and be a jerk (as many have below). So a photo tells you nothing at all.
I don't think this was the definitive study on human attraction. Just a statistical analysis, which is still open for debate...just like practically everything else out there that is subjective in nature.
I think what they're trying to "prove," Denise and Stuart and others, is that women, like some men, DO respond to digitally generated body parts. But women clearly don't. Most thinking people, I would imagine, could not look at a digitally generated image of a "person" and think, "Yeah, I want some of that!" What's cool is that the Australian women whose responses they studied didn't feel compelled to say, "Yeah, I'd hit that" when they really didn't feel it.
All they are proving is that academics get way to much money for pointless studies.
All they are proving is that academics get way too much money for pointless studies.
If men are poring over men's magazines to discover what women want, this is their first mistake. Men's magazines have naked pictures of women the men would like to have. Few straight or Lesbian women are attracted to Maxim and Playboy sweeties. Men who know how to ask questions in the right way, then actually listen, get much better results with women than do men who don't do these things.
It's high time they did a real attractiveness study. These digital dudes are a far cry from the real thing. The bit about height, that's just a limitation of the current study. Women may not necessarily like a certain height, but my sense tells me that most women want a man who is taller than she is by a few inches.
I'm not sure why studying attraction is so important. Can't we just be left alone to feel what we feel and do what we do? Study why people are poor or why they harm themselves and others, for God's sake. Some things should just be left alone.
Just because all of the pictures shown "fell short of perfection" doesn't mean that the optimum is outside the range tested. Like apparently most women, I like the broad shoulder/narrow waist look, but even if I thought a man had the perfect body, I wouldn't rate him highly as a sexual partner if he looked like he is a little too concerned with his own body: he probably would be that way in bed, too. In fact, the men that I have found most sexually attractive during my life were often not the most physically attractive.
There was a great study done a few years ago of the top characteristics American college women found attractive. 7 out of the top 10 reasons were physical, height, physique, etc. They noticed a different set of answers for Asian women who grew up outside the US. For them, 8 out of the top characteristics were non-physical, such as ability to provide, same religion, etc, being those things that make for a long lasting relationship.
However, the one over-riding factor that women find attractive is money.
Dear Mr/Ms (?) Rodriguez,
Historically, in Europe, it was always about the size of the guys d--k. The great William Shakespeare's plays reflect the traditional British obsession with size - for example:
- "Commedy of Errors" (3 inches).
- "Love's Labour's Lost" (4 inches).
- "Much Ado about Nothing" (5 inches).
- "Measure for Measure" (6 inches).
- "As You Like It" (7 inches).
- "All's Well That Ends Well" (8 inches).
- "Midsummer Night's Dream" (9 inches).
- "Taming of the Shrew" (10 inches).
- "The Tempest" (11 inches).
- "Twelfth Night" (12 inches).
It in interesting that in Asian countries, the emphasis is on prolonged foreplay and "staying power" rather than size. As for money, I think that that is an American obsession - it is less important in Asia and Europe.
Well, I will leave the research to the researchers.
One thing which seems curious to me: Justin Bieber has lots of female fans apparently. What gives?
Women like men who look like women?
Twitter: @sachi_bbsr
Justin looks like a man - like a young man.
A young man with a high level of estrogen.
He is popular among the young teenage girl demographic, who historically prefer youthful, non-threatening men.
Nobody who's 30 wants to date Justin Bieber.
Women are "more picky"? Excuse me? The real world proves the contrary. As women mostly focus on character most men can allow themselves to be sloppy and out of proportion. Hence the reason why the male species in the western world is lacking colour, decoration and "push-ups". Even more now than before as the fear of looking "gay" is preventing males to enhance anything.
By character, I assume you mean income right?
There is a fine line. Women don't want to be equally or less attractive than their male.
They want to be the "beautiful" one in the relationship.
They will find the beautiful men attractive, but the reason they don't want more than just a casual romp with them is because they know these men are more likely to be unfaithful. Not to say that the less attractive men won't cheat if given the opportunity, just that they will be somewhat more satifisfied with who they have, or have less options which entice them to stray
that is possibly what an insecure woman would think, but, as you say, if a less attractive man is not less likely to cheat, that zeros out the argument.
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HELSINKI: The Flame malware has caused lasting damage to the security industry's anti-hacker efforts, with its ability to copy Microsoft's signature destroying companies' trust in Windows patches and updates, according to renowned security researcher Mikko Hypponen.
Microsoft was forced to update its security certificate platform in response to the discovery of the Flame malware attack in an effort to prevent the use of unsigned security certificates being presented to users as authentic and issued by the Redmond firm.
The F-Secure security chief said that as a result firms may now stop installing critical updates to their networks and computers from Microsoft, at the risk of making them easier targets for cyber criminals.
"The fact is Flame spoofs Microsoft updates. That means they [the creators of Flame] have the crown jewels", said Hypponen.
"Now people don't trust Microsoft updates and that means we're going backwards, which isn't a good thing. We had it where people were automatically updating their systems with the latest software, now they're wary again."
However, Hypponen pointed out that as Flame is an advanced malware designed for espionage, it is designed to attack a small set of targets, so firms should not be too hasty in stopping their updates.
"Our customers have never been hit by Flame, it goes after very specific targets. If normal cyber criminals are like muggers, Flame's like James Bond - it doesn't go after everyone, but it gets the people it wants to," he said.
Hypponen also echoed F-Secure chief executive Christian Fredrikson's sentiment that Flame was a wakeup call for the security industry.
"We can protect you against all the little attacks and we're always looking for new threats. We want to detect them all, but we failed," said Hypponen.
Flame was uncovered in early May and is believed to have been created by a nation state, most likely the US and Israel, to target Iranian government computer systems.
Hypponen added he thought it was highly likely an advanced nation state was behind the creation of the malware.
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Is there a way to ease the debugging process by getting each function call along with the parameter and return values automatically output, as the program execution is progressing?
Maybe a tool that adds that outputting code before and after each function, which I can use while debugging and then cancel afterwards?
I'm writing the code in Eclipse on Windows and compiling with GNU C++ on a Linux server without a graphical interface — so no KCachegrind available. Valgrind + callgrind alone produces a mass of text that does not seems very usable to me…
The GDB debugger is somewhat an option, but it's slow and too detailed if I want data per (my) function call, not each statement.
When searched for this, I remember reading that there are two special functions that can be defined that would automatically execute upon starting and ending of each function, which could then be defined to output the variables. However, it was for some other programming language or specific C++ IDE.


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extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon
sea salt
2 cloves
garlic, minced
1 tablespoon
chopped fresh rosemary
1/2 teaspoon
ground black pepper
6 small
zucchini, sliced lengthwise into 1/4-inch thick strips
3 tablespoons
balsamic vinegar
Wished I would have made more! The family loved it. Since we all don't like rosemary, I used a teaspoon of basil leaves. The kids would not have liked balsamic, so I sprinkled some grated Parmesan at the end. Will definitely make this again since I have more zucchini than I know what to do with. I would probably use only 1/2 teaspoon salt next time.
My husband tried this recipe when his zucchini patch started to produce great quantities of squash. We wanted something that wasn't pan fried with cheese on top, like we always prepare it. This was fast, easy, healthy, and delicious. He didn't change a thing in the recipe. The flavor complemented the grilled pork we were eating. Since we always have the ingredients on hand, even the fresh rosemary, I saved it to my Recipe Box. We did use a good quality balsamic vinegar to ensure a great flavor.
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This turned out a bit sweet, I know the balsamic vinegar is sweet, but the zucchinis have enough natural sweetness that the combination was cloying. I think that just a bit of lemon juice with the olive oil would make a good difference. Makes a very pretty presentation.
Skipped the balsamic and loved it!
This is by far my favorite "healthy" recipe. We double the oil mixture and spread it over sliced eggplant and have an amazing, healthy dinner, all cooked on the grill in no time!
Somehow I managed to forget the Balsamic and this was still delicious. I tossed the zucchini in the basting sauce before grilling and then basted with the remaining sauce. I can't wait to try again with the Balsamic added.
This turned out AWESOME!!! I used Basil because I didn't have Rosemary, and used a suggestion someone else said, to add some Romano Cheese on top after taking off the grill. Mmm Good, It was almost gone before everyone got firsts, should have made more.
Good accompaniment to grilled food, but not great. Would make again.
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Calories: 138
Calories from Fat: 114
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First snow of the winter season, and a marvellous sundown on late afternoon. Beautiful colors, a cloudy sky and a peaceful country road make up this scenery. The old tree watches the hills and mountains in the distance, just like it did all days before.
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Unabridged audio CD; approximately 2 hours 36 minutes; 3 CDs; performed by Simon Vance.
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When you pray, are you talking to a God who exists? Or is God nothing more than your imaginary friend, like a playmate contrived by a lonely and imaginative child?
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The 56-year-old thinks that his compatriots are asking too much of the Barcelona superstar whenever he takes the field for ArgentinaAthletic Bilbao coach Marcelo Bielsa believes that the Argentine public puts too much pressure on Lionel Messi when he plays for the Albiceleste.
While the 24-year-old continues to break records at Barcelona, he has often received criticism in his homeland for failing to replicate his club form on the international stage.
However, the former Argentina coach says that the burden of expectation placed upon Messi's shoulders has worked against him.
"Messi is a completely proven player. And you know what Argentines do with people we admire? We subject them to a number of tests that nobody can pass, unless you are a world champion, like Diego Maradona," Bielsa said during a press conference.
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The Robert Toombs Christian Academy Crusaders used the height of Lance Stokes, the muscle of Jacob Raiford and the quickness of Toreea Stokes to down Bulloch Academy 72-61 Thursday.
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TWIN CITY - Emanuel County Institute was hard at work Wednesday late into the long shadows of a cool December day at Rountree Stadium.
An honor and a privilege are the sentiments expressed by Bulloch Academy seniors Darion Carter and Ethan Lovett after they were selected to play in the 2007 Georgia Independent School Association (GISA) All-Star football game this Saturday in Macon.
ATLANTA - From the salty marshes and ocean shoreline of the Georgia coast to the majestic skyline of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 12 Georgia communities - including Statesboro - have been selected as the official Host Venues for the sixth annual Tour de Georgia, scheduled April 21-27, 2008. The introduction of these Host Venues was announced today by Lt. Governor Casey Cagle at a press conference at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite. Cagle also recognized the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children's as the new beneficiary for the Tour next year.
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The Georgia High School Association released its new region alignments on Friday, and there were plenty of changes for area teams.
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When senior guard Cassandra McBride moved to Portal from Statesboro with her mother, she knew a change of scenery would be a difficult adjustment. The one thing that stayed the same? McBride - a junior for the Statesboro Lady Blue Devils in 2006 - wanted to keep playing basketball.
The much-anticipated debut of the Bulloch Academy boys' basketball machine wasn't without its spits and sputters.
Monnette Bennett has made it official.
Last season, the Bulloch Academy boys' basketball team went a perfect 10-0 in the region play and swaggered through the season-ending tournament to capture its first region title in 15 years.
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Guidance for 2012 budget will emphasize accountability, performance and security
Despite spending $500 billion on information technology over the past 10 years, the government is still mired in paperwork and remains unresponsive to citizens who are increasingly using online transactions in their daily lives, federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said Tuesday.
"When it comes to dealing with the government, we tend to take them back a decade or two or three," Kundra told a Washington audience composed largely of government workers. "It's not because of a lack of investment," but because those investments have gone into costly, overly complex projects that take on lives of their own without producing results, he said.
Kundra spoke at a government IT forum hosted by InformationWeek, during which he outlined guidance for how agencies handle IT investments in their fiscal 2012 budgets, emphasizing accountability, performance and security.
He identified three areas for guidance that will be emphasized in budget preparation:
Kundra emphasized the need for government to bring its budget guidance and policy into line with best practices used in the private sector, including simplified procurement to shorten project time frames, increased transparency both across government and with the public, and better analysis of the impact of projects.
The administration already has implemented a Federal IT Dashboard to show the status of agency IT programs and Kundra said that a citizens service dashboard is being created to help the public understand the impact of these programs.
Federal IT has been the victim of bureaucracy and overly long procurement cycles that have produced dinosaurs rather than agile, market-based programs, Kundra said.
But he cited several instances where agencies already have made changes, including this week's announcement by the Treasury Department that it intends to phase out almost all paper checks for benefits payments by 2013. Recipients now can receive government payments through direct deposit to bank accounts or by debit card, but those methods will become the default for payments after March 2013.
Doing away with paper checks is expected to save the government hundreds of millions of dollars over five years as well as reduce fraud. "That's a no-brainer," Kundra said.
He also pointed out that NASA has halted a $1.5 billion contract to accommodate data center consolidation.
"CIOs in every department are charged with making sure they are building out this plan for consolidation" in their budgets, he said. All investments in infrastructure should be in line with requirements for reducing redundancy and improving efficiency.
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Many experts feel that FLOPS is not a relevant measurement because it fails to take into account factors such as the condition under which the microprocessor is running (e.g., heavy or light loads) and which exact operations are included as floating-point operations. For this reason, a consortium of vendors created the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), which provides more meaningful benchmark values.
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Diablo and Diablo II creative director Stieg Hedlund has admitted that the direction Blizzard took with Diablo III wasn't what he would have done.
When asked, "What did you think of Diablo III?", Hedlund stated, "It's hard to separate personal feelings about something like that from how the game was perceived. I think the audience really didn't react to it very well. A lot of the changes were things that they perceived as negative."
He added, "Personally, I was just so deeply involved in the creation of the world and how everything worked in it… The direction a lot of things went was not something that I felt was where I would have gone. But I don't want to Monday-morning quarterback them. It's a tough thing to follow up on, the success of Diablo and Diablo II, and not encroach on the territory of World of Warcraft."
Back in August 2012, Diablo II developer David Brevik gave his own criticism of Diablo III, and was promptly attacked by then-game director Jay Wilson, who dismissed on Facebook, "F--k that loser." Wilson was relieved of his duties for Diablo III this past January, and two months later he himself admitted the auction houses were a mistake.
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