I think the assumption is that people don't actually believe in the Jedi Faith. People actually believing in imaginary* friends telling them what to do differ quite a lot of people following a set of philosophical guidelines.
*By necessity, most of them must be imaginary since most religions are exclusive in some fashion
Spritual successor, which doesn't even use the same setting, the setting which was a fundamental part of the success and the reason the game was awesome.
Kinda lika saying kicking around a ham alone would be a spiritual successor to soccer.
If you already have a massive world to lean back on, the flavor of the world is already there.
That is what makes the forgotten realms and planescape games so great, the worlds are so amazingly complex that you get a whole normal fantasy world out of a single region or even country.
Look at that map. Notice the tiny area south of Baldur's Gate reaching the way to Tethyr? That would be the entire Baldur's Gate Saga, barring a few other locations you where at.
That region is not even one of the more mapped out ones in the world.
Every region could house such a game and have automatic flavor.
And here's the kicker, that map is pretty much just the equivalent of Europe+western Asia (think Russia) and Africa. They also have the far east and some limited material about the equivalnet of America.
There is no point in building an actual world for a game, hence, using one that already exists gives you a MUCH richer flavor.
This is one of those cases I must say: Why the fuck would you change the medium of the story?
The thing which really makes the story is how you interact with it and actually experience what is happening. It's awesome and you can go exactly where you want and do exactly what you want all the time.
PST is the best game I've ever played. However, it's a story-based game in the extreme, text upon text upon text.
BG1 is fun and quirky, but very rough around the edges. BG2 is awesome RPG Adventuring with great character interaction, however, the amount of bugs and holes present in the system (especially with the awesome relationships, best ever written for a computer game by far) make it somewhat of an aquired taste.
Also, BGII starts you out at a higher level, thus making it very much harder to get into it since there are so many things to choose from.
Actually, my advice would be to begin with Icewind dale to get the hang of the game mechanics, then switch to either the story-heavy PST or the adventuring BGII.
Huge difference, especially in latency. In general, SIP and Land-lines work wonderfully with crsp quality and without the whole both speak at the same time due to latency issues both cell phones and skype suffer from.
Which is why they seperate it in levels. It's not meant to be the same diagnosis, just that they should be acknowledged as being part of the same problem.
Personally, as a person with AS and with clear autistic lines in my personality and how I function, I don't see the issue.
The main gripe with Aspergers being called a disease instead of what it actually is, a neurological functionality disorder. The disorder part of it is due to people having it (like me) have certain disadvantages compared to the normal person.
A disease is something which is objectively bad. If someone told me they could "cure" my aspergers I would be offended. There are parts of my problem I'd like help alleviating, but loads of the things I gain from having it might get lost and I would probably be a very different person without it.
To say that AS should be cured is kinda like saying that the person questioning society should be lobotomized since they don't fit in.
Neither is windows of course, but the point is, they don't just preload it, they test it and they have to be able to tell customers exactly how things work and so forth.
This requires a special treatment.
Buying a computer without any operating system should be cheaper, buying a computer with an internally developed system should be more expensive.
First of all, if you want a simple solution that just works for very simple virtualization, vmware player works fine (free for personal use, not good for professional use) Next step is virtualbox, lacks a bit of polish but has many really nice features (Open Source Software). Next step is WMware Workstation, has most of the advantages of virtualbox (and some other nice ones), still very much a desktop application, costs some money, probably about the same as office (can't remember). Next step is ESXi, that is, a good, reliable hypervisor, this is ACTUAL virtualization, however, this is for headless operations only (so this requies a dedicated machine). Next step would be Microsoft Hyper-V, basically, you get a host windows OS which can host other machines and, even if it crashes, the guest OSes are still there, it works decently but is expensive. vSphere, this is basically the same as ESXi but with more functionality, especially good cluster functions.
Xen and KVM are awesome as well, but something tells me you are not the "Learn it the hard way" type, so I don't recommend them.
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If there are 1500 male students seeking those 150 scolarships and 500 women seeking those other 150.
Is that equal?
And then that same book could be legally copied from day one.
I've got a cheapass n router and I get 11 MB/s, which is pretty decent considering it's only got 100 Mb/s into it.
Porn is a piece of media created with the intent of provoking sexual arousal.
I've managed to deplete mine in 5 days.
But, otoh, I read 30 books those five days.
AAAND the definition of moving in together would change into being neighbors.
And exactly what are you doing that needs to be done?
The simple fact is, most of us do not perform necessary or even cultivating work.
I think the assumption is that people don't actually believe in the Jedi Faith.
People actually believing in imaginary* friends telling them what to do differ quite a lot of people following a set of philosophical guidelines.
*By necessity, most of them must be imaginary since most religions are exclusive in some fashion
Spritual successor, which doesn't even use the same setting, the setting which was a fundamental part of the success and the reason the game was awesome.
Kinda lika saying kicking around a ham alone would be a spiritual successor to soccer.
You're missing the point.
If you already have a massive world to lean back on, the flavor of the world is already there.
That is what makes the forgotten realms and planescape games so great, the worlds are so amazingly complex that you get a whole normal fantasy world out of a single region or even country.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/wd_maps/FRposterLarge_150.jpg
Look at that map.
Notice the tiny area south of Baldur's Gate reaching the way to Tethyr?
That would be the entire Baldur's Gate Saga, barring a few other locations you where at.
That region is not even one of the more mapped out ones in the world.
Every region could house such a game and have automatic flavor.
And here's the kicker, that map is pretty much just the equivalent of Europe+western Asia (think Russia) and Africa.
They also have the far east and some limited material about the equivalnet of America.
There is no point in building an actual world for a game, hence, using one that already exists gives you a MUCH richer flavor.
This is one of those cases I must say:
Why the fuck would you change the medium of the story?
The thing which really makes the story is how you interact with it and actually experience what is happening.
It's awesome and you can go exactly where you want and do exactly what you want all the time.
PST is the best game I've ever played.
However, it's a story-based game in the extreme, text upon text upon text.
BG1 is fun and quirky, but very rough around the edges.
BG2 is awesome RPG Adventuring with great character interaction, however, the amount of bugs and holes present in the system (especially with the awesome relationships, best ever written for a computer game by far) make it somewhat of an aquired taste.
Also, BGII starts you out at a higher level, thus making it very much harder to get into it since there are so many things to choose from.
Actually, my advice would be to begin with Icewind dale to get the hang of the game mechanics, then switch to either the story-heavy PST or the adventuring BGII.
Huge difference, especially in latency.
In general, SIP and Land-lines work wonderfully with crsp quality and without the whole both speak at the same time due to latency issues both cell phones and skype suffer from.
Which is why they seperate it in levels.
It's not meant to be the same diagnosis, just that they should be acknowledged as being part of the same problem.
Personally, as a person with AS and with clear autistic lines in my personality and how I function, I don't see the issue.
The main gripe with Aspergers being called a disease instead of what it actually is, a neurological functionality disorder.
The disorder part of it is due to people having it (like me) have certain disadvantages compared to the normal person.
A disease is something which is objectively bad.
If someone told me they could "cure" my aspergers I would be offended.
There are parts of my problem I'd like help alleviating, but loads of the things I gain from having it might get lost and I would probably be a very different person without it.
To say that AS should be cured is kinda like saying that the person questioning society should be lobotomized since they don't fit in.
Supporting Linux is not free.
Neither is windows of course, but the point is, they don't just preload it, they test it and they have to be able to tell customers exactly how things work and so forth.
This requires a special treatment.
Buying a computer without any operating system should be cheaper, buying a computer with an internally developed system should be more expensive.
Nope, don't see the problem here.
Virtual Machines ftw.
First of all, if you want a simple solution that just works for very simple virtualization, vmware player works fine (free for personal use, not good for professional use)
Next step is virtualbox, lacks a bit of polish but has many really nice features (Open Source Software).
Next step is WMware Workstation, has most of the advantages of virtualbox (and some other nice ones), still very much a desktop application, costs some money, probably about the same as office (can't remember).
Next step is ESXi, that is, a good, reliable hypervisor, this is ACTUAL virtualization, however, this is for headless operations only (so this requies a dedicated machine).
Next step would be Microsoft Hyper-V, basically, you get a host windows OS which can host other machines and, even if it crashes, the guest OSes are still there, it works decently but is expensive.
vSphere, this is basically the same as ESXi but with more functionality, especially good cluster functions.
Xen and KVM are awesome as well, but something tells me you are not the "Learn it the hard way" type, so I don't recommend them.
In China, you wouldn't be alive to tell that story.
Neither would your family.
Even if it where true in this case, which it probably isn't.
Organizing is not easy work, especially when you lack communications.
They are unfriendly to OSS.
They are friendly to OSS systems.
Quite a big difference.
Poop.
Err, he said 75% and you say a range which includes 75%.
So, you say you are using between 1.5 and 3 Mb/s for a whole family.
Barring peak speeds, this would mean, if you where a typical customer, about 2000 euros a month for 100 Mb/s.
Not unreasonable, just stating what it actually costs.
So to state that you should have a right to 100 Mb/s for 45 euros seems kinda silly.
Of course, I myself pay approximately 7 euros for my 100/100 with static IP and only port 25 blocked.
Or rather, less is more.