If you see the benefit of a subscription as "must do at least 8 hours of play per month per dollar of subscription fee", then yes, you don't reap the benefit of a subscription.
However, if you see the benefit of a subscription as "my character is there whenever I'm ready to play, as are my online friends", then MMOs are a bargain whether you play them 10 hours a day or 10 hours a month.
However, there's always Guild Wars and Entropia Universe. In the former, you pay once, and that's it; no monthly fees. In the later, you don't strictly-speaking have to pay for anything, but you buy in-game money with real-world money and that's (to my limited knowledge) the most effective way of getting in-game money. (I don't play either game so I am easily capable of being wrong here.)
As for falling behind, try City of Heroes/City of Villains. Falling behind is less of an issue; you can still team with your friends all you like, no matter how far ahead they get, and still be a contributing part of the team.
Because "Linuxcare" is mentally associated with suckage and failure, and the "Hi! I know we went out of business, but we're back, PLEASE hire us!" sales pitch wasn't working out.
I'm not saying it's right to associate them with that, it's not entirely their fault they fell apart, but that's a perception that many hold regarding them. The name needed to change.
We have zerg hordes anyway, in City of Villains. More than one mastermind (such as my own Dr. Zerg, on Victory) has his robots named "Zergling 1", "Zergling 2", etc.
The problem is you'll be adding heat to that environment, and you have to move it back out. That's harder if you have to duct that heat up to the surface. However, underground has advantages that are very compelling to those of us currently working in data centers on the 11th floor in a hurricane zone.
The usual method is to print the document out, mark out the redacted portions with a magic marker, then photocopy the result. The marked-up printout is then destroyed, to prevent its accidental distribution.
I could have sworn you said "toxic". As in poisonous.
From where did you get this idea that "toxic" means "all who consume a portion will instantly explode into flames"? Wherever you got it, stop listening to them.
Really, it's just supposed to be funny. Remember that? Humour? That thing that makes your tummy wobble up and down with mirth?
Are you suggesting that you found the article that funny? Because I'd give it about a 2 out of 10 for humor, on a scale where Saddam Hussein's mustache gets a 3 and that guy in the "So You Think You Can Dance" commercial smacking his face into the floor is a 9.
Google News is an aggregator. They have just as much right to cherry-pick their sources as you or I do.
If you want an aggregator that includes more sources, make your own. If there are enough people who agree with you and you don't eff it up, you'll make money. More power to you.
Until then, shut the eff up and stop whining. It's not possible for any action taken by Google to be "censorship". Google isn't the government and they aren't a monopoly. It's called "discretion". It's something everyone practices.
And of course, you have the ever-present threat that, with decreased availability of prerecorded porn on the Internet, that pedophiles will decide to make their own; featuring your neighborhood kids at gunpoint as the co-stars. I've never once seen this aspect of the problem seriously considered.
That was the state of affairs prior to widespread availability of the internet. All the DOJ studies show that child porn is on the rise since the internet, not on the decline. Your concern is unlikely to be the case.
Ah, but the Torah was put together by several people, then it was "locked", and copied perfectly ever since.
I'm prepared to accept that it was "locked" and copied faithfully for the last 2000 years. But Moses was around 3,500 years ago. That leaves 1,500 years of the Telephone Game.
Of course, Jesus Christ Superstar takes a very different position on other aspects of this. It appears to me, in a recent listen to the soundtrack only, that Judas doesn't believe Jesus is the son of God at all; he just believes in his friend very deeply as being a good man who is teaching a godly way to live, and then later becomes concerned that he is:
1) Stirring up trouble that will piss off the Romans and get them killing Jews again. 2) Starting to believe his own hype.
While betraying his friend to the Romans for what he believes to be the good of his people, he begins to question whether he is in fact betraying the Son of God and is to be damned for all eternity. He evidently rejects this notion, though, because he goes ahead and does it.
The Torah has been transcribed flawlessly, not even a letter changed, for at LEAST 2000 years.
And talks about events that happened at LEAST 3500 years ago. Not to even mention the events that happened at LEAST 4.5 billion years ago, and events that happened at LEAST 13 billion years ago.
Even if you take the Bible as 100% literal truth, there's a whole week of events that take place before there's a human around to witness them, much less record them.
No, I'm using Jesus Christ Superstar to illustrate this conclusion in a way that's easier for the average schmoe to grasp. Just as Tim Rice and Norman Jewison did when they wrote it.
It's a speculation, but it's one that meets both with observed human behavior and the contradictions in the gospels.
Of course, there is a whole spectrum between "the Bible is literally true" and "there is no God".
I've always thought one of the best portrayals of this is the musical Jesus Christ, Superstar. If you look carefully at the dynamics of the relationship between Jesus and the Apostles, Jesus is growing increasingly frustrated that the people closest to him just don't get it; so much so that he begins to lose faith himself in the path he's on, and has to seek reassurance that any of his message will survive.
Those people who "don't get it" are the ones who wrote the New Testament. It's even worse with the Old Testament, where the documents we have now are even farther removed from what was written closer to the time of the events described, and in some cases represents written transcription of tales told by word of mouth.
It is likely (and I'm of the opinion that God doesn't exist, but I'm setting that aside for this discussion) that everything in the Bible is simply a bunch of flawed humans trying to get their minds around stuff they didn't really understand, and then it got translated and retranslated and mistranslated and untranslated and other words I can't be arsed to make up at the moment, and doesn't represent what people actually SAW or were told at all. This is possible without being any kind of evidence for or against the existence of God.
So, let's not confuse Creationism with Religion. The one comes from the other, but the two are not the same thing, and invalidation of the one doesn't speak to the other.
The server market is important because companies are more likely to pick the same vendor for both their server and desktop if they pick a Linux desktop. If Xandros wants to sell desktops to business, they've got to have a server product.
Plenty of liberals and conservatives care about the environment.
All conservatives care about the environment. Only liberals equate belief that global warming is caused by mankind's actions with caring for the environment.
The fact is, the global warming scare is the latest attempt by the far left to implement their near-genocidal "Earth First" policies to reduce human population by any means necessary.
If mankind's actions were the primary cause of global warming, the 1942-1975 data wouldn't be a cooling trend, or wouldn't have reversed after that time. That gap proves that global warming is primarily a natural phenomenon, and that there is little we can do about it but learn to live with it. Which we could easily do if we weren't burdoned with this leftist albatross of "reduction of greenhouse gasses" around our economic necks.
Everybody knows temperatures are rising; conservatives know it's not mankind's fault, it's not a crisis, and it's not something "broken" that ought to be, or even can be, "fixed".
And you're posting anonymously because you know this too.
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If you see the benefit of a subscription as "must do at least 8 hours of play per month per dollar of subscription fee", then yes, you don't reap the benefit of a subscription.
However, if you see the benefit of a subscription as "my character is there whenever I'm ready to play, as are my online friends", then MMOs are a bargain whether you play them 10 hours a day or 10 hours a month.
However, there's always Guild Wars and Entropia Universe. In the former, you pay once, and that's it; no monthly fees. In the later, you don't strictly-speaking have to pay for anything, but you buy in-game money with real-world money and that's (to my limited knowledge) the most effective way of getting in-game money. (I don't play either game so I am easily capable of being wrong here.)
As for falling behind, try City of Heroes/City of Villains. Falling behind is less of an issue; you can still team with your friends all you like, no matter how far ahead they get, and still be a contributing part of the team.
Because "Linuxcare" is mentally associated with suckage and failure, and the "Hi! I know we went out of business, but we're back, PLEASE hire us!" sales pitch wasn't working out.
I'm not saying it's right to associate them with that, it's not entirely their fault they fell apart, but that's a perception that many hold regarding them. The name needed to change.
We have zerg hordes anyway, in City of Villains. More than one mastermind (such as my own Dr. Zerg, on Victory) has his robots named "Zergling 1", "Zergling 2", etc.
The problem is you'll be adding heat to that environment, and you have to move it back out. That's harder if you have to duct that heat up to the surface. However, underground has advantages that are very compelling to those of us currently working in data centers on the 11th floor in a hurricane zone.
Any game, hooked up to this:
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Just because it's got a window doesn't mean it doesn't have fans.
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The usual method is to print the document out, mark out the redacted portions with a magic marker, then photocopy the result. The marked-up printout is then destroyed, to prevent its accidental distribution.
I could have sworn you said "toxic". As in poisonous.
From where did you get this idea that "toxic" means "all who consume a portion will instantly explode into flames"? Wherever you got it, stop listening to them.
Really, it's just supposed to be funny. Remember that? Humour? That thing that makes your tummy wobble up and down with mirth?
Are you suggesting that you found the article that funny? Because I'd give it about a 2 out of 10 for humor, on a scale where Saddam Hussein's mustache gets a 3 and that guy in the "So You Think You Can Dance" commercial smacking his face into the floor is a 9.
Google News is an aggregator. They have just as much right to cherry-pick their sources as you or I do.
If you want an aggregator that includes more sources, make your own. If there are enough people who agree with you and you don't eff it up, you'll make money. More power to you.
Until then, shut the eff up and stop whining. It's not possible for any action taken by Google to be "censorship". Google isn't the government and they aren't a monopoly. It's called "discretion". It's something everyone practices.
The good news is, you can run your car off dead animals.
The bad news is, you have to wait 65 million years after they're dead.
Overclocked by nearly 25%. Hey, I bet if we immerse it in nonconductive fluorocarbon cooled with liquid nitrogen, I bet we can really spank that AMD!
Not impressed.
Fine; then present the studies that show it's been decreasing.
And of course, you have the ever-present threat that, with decreased availability of prerecorded porn on the Internet, that pedophiles will decide to make their own; featuring your neighborhood kids at gunpoint as the co-stars. I've never once seen this aspect of the problem seriously considered.
That was the state of affairs prior to widespread availability of the internet. All the DOJ studies show that child porn is on the rise since the internet, not on the decline. Your concern is unlikely to be the case.
Ah, but the Torah was put together by several people, then it was "locked", and copied perfectly ever since.
I'm prepared to accept that it was "locked" and copied faithfully for the last 2000 years. But Moses was around 3,500 years ago. That leaves 1,500 years of the Telephone Game.
Of course, Jesus Christ Superstar takes a very different position on other aspects of this. It appears to me, in a recent listen to the soundtrack only, that Judas doesn't believe Jesus is the son of God at all; he just believes in his friend very deeply as being a good man who is teaching a godly way to live, and then later becomes concerned that he is:
1) Stirring up trouble that will piss off the Romans and get them killing Jews again.
2) Starting to believe his own hype.
While betraying his friend to the Romans for what he believes to be the good of his people, he begins to question whether he is in fact betraying the Son of God and is to be damned for all eternity. He evidently rejects this notion, though, because he goes ahead and does it.
Not the same guy in the Gospel of Judas.
The Torah has been transcribed flawlessly, not even a letter changed, for at LEAST 2000 years.
And talks about events that happened at LEAST 3500 years ago. Not to even mention the events that happened at LEAST 4.5 billion years ago, and events that happened at LEAST 13 billion years ago.
Even if you take the Bible as 100% literal truth, there's a whole week of events that take place before there's a human around to witness them, much less record them.
No, I'm using Jesus Christ Superstar to illustrate this conclusion in a way that's easier for the average schmoe to grasp. Just as Tim Rice and Norman Jewison did when they wrote it.
It's a speculation, but it's one that meets both with observed human behavior and the contradictions in the gospels.
Of course, there is a whole spectrum between "the Bible is literally true" and "there is no God".
I've always thought one of the best portrayals of this is the musical Jesus Christ, Superstar. If you look carefully at the dynamics of the relationship between Jesus and the Apostles, Jesus is growing increasingly frustrated that the people closest to him just don't get it; so much so that he begins to lose faith himself in the path he's on, and has to seek reassurance that any of his message will survive.
Those people who "don't get it" are the ones who wrote the New Testament. It's even worse with the Old Testament, where the documents we have now are even farther removed from what was written closer to the time of the events described, and in some cases represents written transcription of tales told by word of mouth.
It is likely (and I'm of the opinion that God doesn't exist, but I'm setting that aside for this discussion) that everything in the Bible is simply a bunch of flawed humans trying to get their minds around stuff they didn't really understand, and then it got translated and retranslated and mistranslated and untranslated and other words I can't be arsed to make up at the moment, and doesn't represent what people actually SAW or were told at all. This is possible without being any kind of evidence for or against the existence of God.
So, let's not confuse Creationism with Religion. The one comes from the other, but the two are not the same thing, and invalidation of the one doesn't speak to the other.
The US and France are rumored to have tested Neptunium bombs, and the Energy Department has declassified materials that say it's possible.
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And bonus; Americium bombs!
However, you're right; things are changing because of that book.
The server market is important because companies are more likely to pick the same vendor for both their server and desktop if they pick a Linux desktop. If Xandros wants to sell desktops to business, they've got to have a server product.
Correction - it takes some highly enriched uranium, a library card, and an electrician to make a nuclear weapon.
Or plutonium, or neptunium. The latter not being as closely regulated as plutonium and uranium.
Blah blah Uranus, blah blah Klingons.
Since when is Solaris 10 Linux?
Plenty of liberals and conservatives care about the environment.
All conservatives care about the environment. Only liberals equate belief that global warming is caused by mankind's actions with caring for the environment.
The fact is, the global warming scare is the latest attempt by the far left to implement their near-genocidal "Earth First" policies to reduce human population by any means necessary.
If mankind's actions were the primary cause of global warming, the 1942-1975 data wouldn't be a cooling trend, or wouldn't have reversed after that time. That gap proves that global warming is primarily a natural phenomenon, and that there is little we can do about it but learn to live with it. Which we could easily do if we weren't burdoned with this leftist albatross of "reduction of greenhouse gasses" around our economic necks.
Everybody knows temperatures are rising; conservatives know it's not mankind's fault, it's not a crisis, and it's not something "broken" that ought to be, or even can be, "fixed".
And you're posting anonymously because you know this too.