Redivide Iraq politically leaving them with one united army to fight off potential violence from Iran?
There's not going to be any peaceful way to end this, unless you can get back in the Iranian people's good books; hopefully that would stop their leaders from trying another assault at Iraq. Winning back Iraqis might be a lost cause... To be honest once Iraq's army is a real army, one skilled not only in murder but in helping people, they should be able to be ok by themselves. If not, is it really that expensive to send some help once in a while? (as a last result)
No, war against OBL was necessary. A fanatical murderer needs to be brought to justice.
A man yearns for his childhood and you stick him behind bars for years to be raped by real criminals... And yet you will not go out and catch the man who killed 3,000 of your civilians because he openly hates you? And remember, this is not a government nor even a political group; it's some piss-ant SOB hiding out in some mountains with a group of other SOB piss-ants who think they have a right to control everything in the Middle-East.
The war was great up until after the raids in the hills, or whatever that was. From that point on, and arguably any operation in Iraq and neighbours, was terrible. Going into Afghanistan and giving a good F-U to Iraqis supportive of their cause would have been good enough. Wasn't Saddam against al-qaeda? Couldn't you just have used him to help you fight Al-Qaeda? Even if that's "supporting anti-freedom", isn't it still worth it in the end?
I kill a man I go to prison. This sick fuck kills thousands and he should go away scott free?
Yeah, Iraq was a giant mistake. No, it won't kill you. But you can't say Afghanistan wasn't necessary. At least Iraq had a government.
(imho, your problems all stem from the idiots who in a rush to leave the rubble of the newly-crushed ottoman empire redrew the maps by just "drawing lines across a desert in some tents". whoever those morans may be.)
Opera user since 6.0 I think. I waited from 6.0 to upgrade to 9.0 I think. Big difference. =)
The thing is that it's not open and it doesn't come with plugin support (even though a lot of stuff is built in to that 5MB installer) and it acts weird for me sometimes (it's a Qt app that had its own file selector and yet it uses GTK for files now?) but I love it. I think it's more of a I-love-Qt, the main thing I like being the "smooth-tabing". An actual MDI. Pretty sure this is a GTK/Qt thing; I've seen Konqueror in screenshots move its panels to have them cascade, but when I use GTK apps it can't seem to get any better than folder-style tabs.
No, it's just a question of I don't have 300$ to spend on a console. Great library or not.
On the other hand, I bought a gamecube for 150$ back in '04 and have like 10 games for it (another couple were borrowed). Trying to convince myself to buy a 270$ Wii is not easy, when I think about the fact that I could buy that 400$ computer I wanted. (I'm not a paying enthusiast) Bring it down to 200$ though and I might bite, especially with a weaker CAD and so many good games/promotions. But then again I'll buy it just past half its life time, when I can sweep up a ton of games for cheap. (sadly this means I might lose out on some of the better ones, but online stores are my friends...)
Maybe you have 270$ for a console + 40$-50$/games (which is the stupid part, prices really need to fall to make a high-priced Wii worth it; otherwise it's pretty much price fixing) but when I look at that and then see my perfectly working cube and a house in need of repairs, well...
Vista WORKS now, guys. Why don't you try it again and stop basing your idea of Vista on your impression of it at launch, which was no worse than XP when it first came out.
Oh, I've tried it. The problem is, 7 years, and this is all you have to show for it?
About 700MB of RAM on idle. Wow, good job. Thatta boy. At least it'll drive down RAM prices, as now I can buy 2GB of DDR2-800 for 20$. Otherwise, what a useless OS.
It's not like windows security is getting any better. You want security, compatibility, and cool effects? It's ironic because of how much the market has changed in 7 years.
I love that game; a friend of mine works at Microplay (I think that's the name, the quebecer video company...) and played a demo copy with me. The whole running around panting things makes it very interesting; like Sunshine except in the reserve roles.
And yet I see plenty of PS3s, Xboxen, PSPs, whereever I go. A few on fire. =)
I have yet to find a Wii other than at a friend's house. And a few display models. I remember hearing that every walmart store in NA gets a grand total of like THREE wiis (likely an average) per week. Or they did.
Considering the DS is also selling at a blazing rate, it's a marvel they're able to keep up with production. Hats off Nintendo.
DS has seen a minor price drop, something like 20$.
I'm really hoping the Wii will drop to 150$ at one point or another. Else, sorry, but I won't buy it.
I bought a cube for 130$. I think 175$-200$ weak CAD is fair for a Wii in a couple of years, don't you? Of course it's going to be a bitch to find all the good games but I'm prepared.
Adaptec makes a "Gamebridge", works great according to a friend who bought it; I've seen it in action, but since it's limited to s-video at best it's likely not too hot.
With most devices you're going to suffer lag; the tradeoff I observed with the gamebridge is that TV quality was crap.
Just out of curiosity, I know you can download steam games again, but can you make a backup of it and authenticate with the steam client? Do games install as like, %\Portal\ and then you can back that up or move it around, but it would require you to connect with steam and prove you own (log on and authenticate I guess?) it to actually work?
Wondering because I have a capped plan, and I'm not alone, so downloading even 10GB of games is not an option some times.
One great thing about it would be if you can download more than once per purchase. If not, well, that's ok, you should have a copy burnt or backed up.
What I really want to see are games like Civ 1/2/3, Alpha Centauri + Alien Crossfire (and a linux version too!), and other "big hits" up to 2000. I'm wondering if they could sell a Half-Life 1 complete set too; that would be really cool. I don't know if it's even available outside of possibly Steam, and I missed out on it... (speaking of which, would an old Pentium 2 450MHz with the FireGL (yeah, the M1000 Pro) be able to handle it?)
But their collection looks really good, especially for a newer company.
[I wonder if this will ever happen to console games? I don't want to give somebody on eBay 40$ for say Tales of Symphonia, when nothing is going to the developpers anymore; and barely any of it went to them anyway (no worries though, a friend of mine bought it a while back and lent it to me). Nor do I feel particularily good about buying GBA games for 14$ off more obscurish sites... It's not like they're making much off these, are they?]
Better yet, a file system where the directories are those tags.
~/images/photos/birthday
All the files tagged "images" "photos" "birthday".
Or,
~/maps
All files tagged "maps"
And of course, it appears like a normal archaic file system when approached with a typical browser. But turn on "Tag Mode" or use a "tag browser", and voila. I've been trying to figure out how something like this could be done, for a long while, but I'm no real programmer, and it seems nobody is interested...
I remember hearing that it was the (Japanese was what I heard but maybe Koreans or PLA?) army trained its soldiers to "put their minds to sleep" while doing routine drills. From what I recall only parts of the mind need to "go to sleep", the only parts remaining awake are the ones responsible for basic movement and watching out for stuff, I guess just enough to make him go into something like REM without the REM...
Of course I only have one source and I doubt the Slashdot crowd would accept it. But it does help rest the mind and allows you to keep going, even though the body is still worked (and I guess they do it to build resistance? poor bird probably naps a week when it gets there, or eats a fat load...)
When have you ever popped in a CD and had "enjoy" Windows?
Installing Ubuntu is a joke compared to Windows. Admitedly, the manufacturers right more drivers for Windows [in some cases], but then again you install these yourself and almost all suck hard (Realtek, HP's emacs-sized printer drivers, etc)
If you don't mind making backups of your bluray discs, I think K3B et al can burn BD-Rs.
In that case, get yourself a copy of SlySoft AnyDVD HD. I'm hoping SlySoft will eventually work with Wine to get this running on linux (I don't think they'll make a real port any time soon) because it's totally worth the money. A buddy of mine bought it a while back after buying AnyDVD. Stuff's great; especially AnyDVD, because some DVD players are peculiar (although, I think it's more because most people have started using DVD+R and that might be the real problem...) but it seems to work with them anyway.
AnyDVD HD won't let you play blu-rays straight, though. I don't think anything will at this point. However, I'm hoping that if you broke the encryption, you can play them straight off the disc with mplayer. With ATI hopefully bringing a working UVD2 with the next catalyst release (or mplayer/ffmpeg/gstreamer/? patching, because they might have released already), things are really rocking for linux. Then it's just a matter of getting the PVR-2250 to work for Linux, and you've got a Godly mythbox =).
(DumpHD works great and is Java but you need the keys. They can be found, but yeah you're stuck looking for them when newer discs come out. However, might beat paying/cough for SlySoft's AnyDVD and then the HD upgrade (sadly HD doesn't come seperately). I think it can do BD+ just fine. And it's Java so it works for linux right now...)
If there were a gamer's bill of rights for consoles, I think the best resolution for backups would be that if you send in a "proof of purchase", you can buy a backup copy for 10$ each, but just one at a time. The backup discs would have a different "proof-of-purchase", still 100% valid, but knowing the game companies you can only cash this one in once and only if you send the game in with it (or they reuse the old proof-of-purchase).
The reason being is that those 10$ copies would kill the used market. Then again if they limit it to 1-per-bought, not so much, but then you've got to consider it's a bit of an assy deal. Maybe give them grayscale covers and different coloured boxes to show they're backups.
I've been burnt by a scratched disc. I hate being unable to make backups. But to make a backup for a gamecube disc, it seems that not only can I not rip it in my DVDRW, I have to buy a modchip or a Datel SD Media Launcher, break open my gamecube, increase the laser (and thus void the warranty and cut its lifespan) and play games off of optical discs (since nobody wants to tell me whether or not you can play of SD cards).
All things considered, piracy happens when it's easier to go get the pirated material than go buy it, and when there's no initiative to buy it. I don't buy most music because of the new RIAA. I buy movies because they're cheap, and even though the MPAA is eight times as evil as the RIAA movies are big and DVDs are 10$-20$, less at blockbuster. I don't pirate console games because it's tough to get 'em on there. And so many good games are made by small studios (like Tales of Symphonia) that downloading really does hurt.
On the other hand, it's free games, and really easy in the case of the DS. But I will still buy games. I might get a DS backup playing device, if only to play backups and get cool stuff like a browser and homebrew, but I'd still buy all the games I can find. (but with games like Tingle ones, I'd be a bit screwed...)
You've just got to hope people have a moral footing. Which I think they all do. So these things are scams. =/
I'd have to agree 100%. I think this is why they fly more in Europe than drive, at least that's what I saw when I was there...
Driving down highway 401 takes about 8 hours to reach windsor from Ottawa. Fill up just around Toronto. So we'll say you spend 200$ in gas to get there, 200$ back. This is for a van that seats 6 and their stuff for a couple days. Now, how much is a plane ticket? 800$+ IIRC. Yeah, right. Train? I think it's cheap enough, but it's a bit longer. And with 6 people, might as well take the car.
But you know what? For business use trains are fine. Why not? Who are you going to carpool with?
On the other hand I suppose it's good that people got a chance to pay down credit card bills and take some debt out of the system.
There's so many people getting layed off in places like Windsor and Detroit, why don't they convince them to help in these sort of projects? It's often people who worked for GM/Ford for a long time... I'm sure building tracks and trains is not too much harder than building cars? As for laying them down, well, I'm sure some people are up to it. Lets you see some scenery, too.
Or, I hate to say it, but put the 1%-of-the-pop-prisoners of the US help work in these sorts of programs. I'm talking about low-crime stunts though. Things like somebody put in jail for drugs and other bullshit reasons (we're not going to touch that, but is prison really the best punishment?).
Then like you said, instead of leaving kids with plasma TVs, we leave them with a stronger infrastructure, and maybe then they'll take out the iPods and aspire to be good people too.
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Redivide Iraq politically leaving them with one united army to fight off potential violence from Iran?
There's not going to be any peaceful way to end this, unless you can get back in the Iranian people's good books; hopefully that would stop their leaders from trying another assault at Iraq. Winning back Iraqis might be a lost cause... To be honest once Iraq's army is a real army, one skilled not only in murder but in helping people, they should be able to be ok by themselves. If not, is it really that expensive to send some help once in a while? (as a last result)
No, war against OBL was necessary. A fanatical murderer needs to be brought to justice.
A man yearns for his childhood and you stick him behind bars for years to be raped by real criminals... And yet you will not go out and catch the man who killed 3,000 of your civilians because he openly hates you? And remember, this is not a government nor even a political group; it's some piss-ant SOB hiding out in some mountains with a group of other SOB piss-ants who think they have a right to control everything in the Middle-East.
The war was great up until after the raids in the hills, or whatever that was. From that point on, and arguably any operation in Iraq and neighbours, was terrible. Going into Afghanistan and giving a good F-U to Iraqis supportive of their cause would have been good enough. Wasn't Saddam against al-qaeda? Couldn't you just have used him to help you fight Al-Qaeda? Even if that's "supporting anti-freedom", isn't it still worth it in the end?
I kill a man I go to prison. This sick fuck kills thousands and he should go away scott free?
Yeah, Iraq was a giant mistake. No, it won't kill you. But you can't say Afghanistan wasn't necessary. At least Iraq had a government.
(imho, your problems all stem from the idiots who in a rush to leave the rubble of the newly-crushed ottoman empire redrew the maps by just "drawing lines across a desert in some tents". whoever those morans may be.)
Opera user since 6.0 I think. I waited from 6.0 to upgrade to 9.0 I think. Big difference. =)
The thing is that it's not open and it doesn't come with plugin support (even though a lot of stuff is built in to that 5MB installer) and it acts weird for me sometimes (it's a Qt app that had its own file selector and yet it uses GTK for files now?) but I love it. I think it's more of a I-love-Qt, the main thing I like being the "smooth-tabing". An actual MDI. Pretty sure this is a GTK/Qt thing; I've seen Konqueror in screenshots move its panels to have them cascade, but when I use GTK apps it can't seem to get any better than folder-style tabs.
I've always wondered how they did it, though...
Send me one?
No, it's just a question of I don't have 300$ to spend on a console. Great library or not.
On the other hand, I bought a gamecube for 150$ back in '04 and have like 10 games for it (another couple were borrowed). Trying to convince myself to buy a 270$ Wii is not easy, when I think about the fact that I could buy that 400$ computer I wanted. (I'm not a paying enthusiast) Bring it down to 200$ though and I might bite, especially with a weaker CAD and so many good games/promotions. But then again I'll buy it just past half its life time, when I can sweep up a ton of games for cheap. (sadly this means I might lose out on some of the better ones, but online stores are my friends...)
Maybe you have 270$ for a console + 40$-50$/games (which is the stupid part, prices really need to fall to make a high-priced Wii worth it; otherwise it's pretty much price fixing) but when I look at that and then see my perfectly working cube and a house in need of repairs, well...
Except this was Vista Business, and really was likely on the first couple of boots.
Unless you want to tell me it superfetched Office 2003 and a few apps across the network for me?
Still, when does an OS ever need that much RAM?
Gobble it up Vista, gobble it up. This was from a fresh boot, too. I don't think it pre-loads programs while it's booting.
Vista WORKS now, guys. Why don't you try it again and stop basing your idea of Vista on your impression of it at launch, which was no worse than XP when it first came out.
Oh, I've tried it. The problem is, 7 years, and this is all you have to show for it?
About 700MB of RAM on idle. Wow, good job. Thatta boy. At least it'll drive down RAM prices, as now I can buy 2GB of DDR2-800 for 20$. Otherwise, what a useless OS.
It's not like windows security is getting any better. You want security, compatibility, and cool effects? It's ironic because of how much the market has changed in 7 years.
Don't forget DeBlob!
I love that game; a friend of mine works at Microplay (I think that's the name, the quebecer video company...) and played a demo copy with me. The whole running around panting things makes it very interesting; like Sunshine except in the reserve roles.
And yet I see plenty of PS3s, Xboxen, PSPs, whereever I go. A few on fire. =)
I have yet to find a Wii other than at a friend's house. And a few display models. I remember hearing that every walmart store in NA gets a grand total of like THREE wiis (likely an average) per week. Or they did.
Considering the DS is also selling at a blazing rate, it's a marvel they're able to keep up with production. Hats off Nintendo.
DS has seen a minor price drop, something like 20$.
I'm really hoping the Wii will drop to 150$ at one point or another. Else, sorry, but I won't buy it.
I bought a cube for 130$. I think 175$-200$ weak CAD is fair for a Wii in a couple of years, don't you? Of course it's going to be a bitch to find all the good games but I'm prepared.
Because the world never got colder, amirite or what?
Your ideas are good. Yes, things will eventually get warmer, and then colder. But the methods? The explanations? Terrible. At least, for AGW.
I don't "believe in GW". All I know, is that climates do change, and you just have to brace for the worst.
As opposed to
<b[old]></b>
<i[talicise]></i>
<u[nderline]></u>
Etc?
Seriously? And every wiki package seems to change the formatting.
Wiki formatting is lame, sorry. XML and SGML based formatting is so much nicer.
Adaptec makes a "Gamebridge", works great according to a friend who bought it; I've seen it in action, but since it's limited to s-video at best it's likely not too hot.
With most devices you're going to suffer lag; the tradeoff I observed with the gamebridge is that TV quality was crap.
And why exactly are you gaming in the office?...
Just out of curiosity, I know you can download steam games again, but can you make a backup of it and authenticate with the steam client? Do games install as like, %\Portal\ and then you can back that up or move it around, but it would require you to connect with steam and prove you own (log on and authenticate I guess?) it to actually work?
Wondering because I have a capped plan, and I'm not alone, so downloading even 10GB of games is not an option some times.
One great thing about it would be if you can download more than once per purchase. If not, well, that's ok, you should have a copy burnt or backed up.
What I really want to see are games like Civ 1/2/3, Alpha Centauri + Alien Crossfire (and a linux version too!), and other "big hits" up to 2000. I'm wondering if they could sell a Half-Life 1 complete set too; that would be really cool. I don't know if it's even available outside of possibly Steam, and I missed out on it... (speaking of which, would an old Pentium 2 450MHz with the FireGL (yeah, the M1000 Pro) be able to handle it?)
But their collection looks really good, especially for a newer company.
[I wonder if this will ever happen to console games? I don't want to give somebody on eBay 40$ for say Tales of Symphonia, when nothing is going to the developpers anymore; and barely any of it went to them anyway (no worries though, a friend of mine bought it a while back and lent it to me). Nor do I feel particularily good about buying GBA games for 14$ off more obscurish sites... It's not like they're making much off these, are they?]
Shouldn't they also be tagged "alice"?
Multiple tags, multiple tags... One is never enough.
Better yet, a file system where the directories are those tags.
~/images/photos/birthday
All the files tagged "images" "photos" "birthday".
Or,
~/maps
All files tagged "maps"
And of course, it appears like a normal archaic file system when approached with a typical browser. But turn on "Tag Mode" or use a "tag browser", and voila. I've been trying to figure out how something like this could be done, for a long while, but I'm no real programmer, and it seems nobody is interested...
I remember hearing that it was the (Japanese was what I heard but maybe Koreans or PLA?) army trained its soldiers to "put their minds to sleep" while doing routine drills. From what I recall only parts of the mind need to "go to sleep", the only parts remaining awake are the ones responsible for basic movement and watching out for stuff, I guess just enough to make him go into something like REM without the REM...
Of course I only have one source and I doubt the Slashdot crowd would accept it. But it does help rest the mind and allows you to keep going, even though the body is still worked (and I guess they do it to build resistance? poor bird probably naps a week when it gets there, or eats a fat load...)
When have you ever popped in a CD and had "enjoy" Windows?
Installing Ubuntu is a joke compared to Windows. Admitedly, the manufacturers right more drivers for Windows [in some cases], but then again you install these yourself and almost all suck hard (Realtek, HP's emacs-sized printer drivers, etc)
If you don't mind making backups of your bluray discs, I think K3B et al can burn BD-Rs.
In that case, get yourself a copy of SlySoft AnyDVD HD. I'm hoping SlySoft will eventually work with Wine to get this running on linux (I don't think they'll make a real port any time soon) because it's totally worth the money. A buddy of mine bought it a while back after buying AnyDVD. Stuff's great; especially AnyDVD, because some DVD players are peculiar (although, I think it's more because most people have started using DVD+R and that might be the real problem...) but it seems to work with them anyway.
AnyDVD HD won't let you play blu-rays straight, though. I don't think anything will at this point. However, I'm hoping that if you broke the encryption, you can play them straight off the disc with mplayer. With ATI hopefully bringing a working UVD2 with the next catalyst release (or mplayer/ffmpeg/gstreamer/? patching, because they might have released already), things are really rocking for linux. Then it's just a matter of getting the PVR-2250 to work for Linux, and you've got a Godly mythbox =).
(DumpHD works great and is Java but you need the keys. They can be found, but yeah you're stuck looking for them when newer discs come out. However, might beat paying/cough for SlySoft's AnyDVD and then the HD upgrade (sadly HD doesn't come seperately). I think it can do BD+ just fine. And it's Java so it works for linux right now...)
If there were a gamer's bill of rights for consoles, I think the best resolution for backups would be that if you send in a "proof of purchase", you can buy a backup copy for 10$ each, but just one at a time. The backup discs would have a different "proof-of-purchase", still 100% valid, but knowing the game companies you can only cash this one in once and only if you send the game in with it (or they reuse the old proof-of-purchase).
The reason being is that those 10$ copies would kill the used market. Then again if they limit it to 1-per-bought, not so much, but then you've got to consider it's a bit of an assy deal. Maybe give them grayscale covers and different coloured boxes to show they're backups.
I've been burnt by a scratched disc. I hate being unable to make backups. But to make a backup for a gamecube disc, it seems that not only can I not rip it in my DVDRW, I have to buy a modchip or a Datel SD Media Launcher, break open my gamecube, increase the laser (and thus void the warranty and cut its lifespan) and play games off of optical discs (since nobody wants to tell me whether or not you can play of SD cards).
All things considered, piracy happens when it's easier to go get the pirated material than go buy it, and when there's no initiative to buy it. I don't buy most music because of the new RIAA. I buy movies because they're cheap, and even though the MPAA is eight times as evil as the RIAA movies are big and DVDs are 10$-20$, less at blockbuster. I don't pirate console games because it's tough to get 'em on there. And so many good games are made by small studios (like Tales of Symphonia) that downloading really does hurt.
On the other hand, it's free games, and really easy in the case of the DS. But I will still buy games. I might get a DS backup playing device, if only to play backups and get cool stuff like a browser and homebrew, but I'd still buy all the games I can find. (but with games like Tingle ones, I'd be a bit screwed...)
You've just got to hope people have a moral footing. Which I think they all do. So these things are scams. =/
The question is, if you're selling for those prices, what do you expect us to fill it up with?
A TB HDD, well, it's pretty obvious: DVD rips, music, games, pr0n.
I'd have to agree 100%. I think this is why they fly more in Europe than drive, at least that's what I saw when I was there...
Driving down highway 401 takes about 8 hours to reach windsor from Ottawa. Fill up just around Toronto. So we'll say you spend 200$ in gas to get there, 200$ back. This is for a van that seats 6 and their stuff for a couple days. Now, how much is a plane ticket? 800$+ IIRC. Yeah, right. Train? I think it's cheap enough, but it's a bit longer. And with 6 people, might as well take the car.
But you know what? For business use trains are fine. Why not? Who are you going to carpool with?
On the other hand I suppose it's good that people got a chance to pay down credit card bills and take some debt out of the system.
There's so many people getting layed off in places like Windsor and Detroit, why don't they convince them to help in these sort of projects? It's often people who worked for GM/Ford for a long time... I'm sure building tracks and trains is not too much harder than building cars? As for laying them down, well, I'm sure some people are up to it. Lets you see some scenery, too.
Or, I hate to say it, but put the 1%-of-the-pop-prisoners of the US help work in these sorts of programs. I'm talking about low-crime stunts though. Things like somebody put in jail for drugs and other bullshit reasons (we're not going to touch that, but is prison really the best punishment?).
Then like you said, instead of leaving kids with plasma TVs, we leave them with a stronger infrastructure, and maybe then they'll take out the iPods and aspire to be good people too.
But who am I kidding. Just print money.