I'm kind of surprised that Joss Whedon didn't do something along those lines, actually. NPH is homosexual, after all, and Joss Whedon enjoys breaking gender and sexual-preference stereotypes. I guess he wanted this to be more mainstream. *shrug*
I disagree, at least with the spirit of the post. Most market-leading companies will do very well keeping their promises for a while, then they'll build a user base, refine on their core business model, and become very good at what they do. At some point, they'll fuck it up (like ebay's doing now, like google's nearly done with privacy many time) to the point where a large portion of the user base leaves. EBay's done very well for its sellers for a long time now, and it's only in the past year or two that it's started to get into serious trouble. If you count this deal as the time when they fuck it up, they've been serving people quite well for over a decade. That's pretty good in my book.
The water is absolutely sublime - but be careful not to attempt to breath while your head is under water, as you will drown (or give it a try if you like - you are free to do so if you wish).
Just as long as you return the changed water back to the pool, that is.
I think a lot of people in this topic are missing the "pre" part of the description. Tolkien, Heinlein, even Card are all better for teens rather than preteens. However, "Invitation to the Game" is right on that level (I read it around 12 or 13). I would add David Edding's "Belgariad" and "So You Want to be a Wizard" by Diane Duane. Finally, "Dealing with Dragons" by Patricia Wrede. These are all books that I read while i was younger and that I have picked up again in adulthood without disappointment.
The reason that this is entirely applicable to real-world application is that firefox 1&2 had memory footprints that made grown men cry. I've had firefox take up more than a gigabyte of memory on my desktop. In terms of real world performance, that's huge.
There is only one thing holding back Linux You're right, the lack of games is holding back the adoption of Linux. Well, that and the lack of professional grade image/video editing tools. So it's one of two things.
Come to think of it, configuration isn't all that simple either. With my windows box, I can install multiple video cards, bridge connections, route through proxies, etc, all with a nice gui interface. On Ubuntu, I've had to go to the command line for even simple tasks like using two monitors. So, games are one of three things.
Not to mention support. For Ubuntu, support is $250 / desktop, and Linux is harder for a sysadmin to support since it doesn't have all the nice gui tools that windows does. So maybe we should just say one of several things, eh?
Microsoft should be offering them millions if not billions of dollars to make it an xbox exclusive. Japan is one of the largest gaming markets in the world, and FF games get huge lines and are real console movers. I would expect the PS3 to make a huge jump after this is released in the US and Europe alone.
However, if it were an XBox exclusive, even for just a year, they would be able to mount a serious attack in japan and move consoles in one of the biggest video game markets in the world.
the physical strength differences between men and women that are not the result of different lifestyles (men doing more manual labor thus using and developing muscle strength more) are fairly small...there is a rather large margin between male and female weightlifting olympic records (when comparing same weight classes) as high as 30% I believe you rebutted your own comment. Doesn't that pretty much show that the difference is biological rather than lifestyle? I'm stronger than my wife by a reasonably large margin, and she has a more physical job than I do. In other words, my experience doesn't back that up at all.
I'm saying don't bail anyone out. If they could have afforded a regular mortgage, then they should have gotten one. As it was, they gambled and they lost. I'm not going to pay for someone's losses in Vegas, why would I pay for their losses in the housing market?
LOL, first of all, the only reason this is flamebait is cultural, not physical/biological.
Second of all, the characters you play in MMOs are going to be the exceptions to the rule, so having strong women that are great at fighting makes sense.
I've seen it usually go the other way on regulations, though. Usually regulations are intended to keep people out of the market, like licenses for cabs in New York, or licenses for interior decorators in Las Vegas.
And I agree that frameworks should be there to keep people from being exploited, but the people who are getting hit hardest by these loans are those who were trying to exploit the system without taking the time to learn about it or the time to do it properly. At best they were trying to get a home that they obviously couldn't afford by relying on the economy continuing to do well. This isn't brain surgery, this is basic stuff that people need to learn to live life.
Who do you think carries more weight with legislators? This isn't a legislative issue at all. If fraud was committed, then they can take them to court. If fraud wasn't committed, then they have to swallow the losses and hopefully learn their lessons. As for the lending banks being payed for if they fail, well, that's not too right either, is it? Corporations that make dumb decisions should suffer the losses as easily or more easily than the average consumer.
Maybe one day America will finally reach adulthood and start looking after the people. We do, we just do it a different way. We believe that you look after the people by giving them choice to do what they want. The belief is that I don't know what you need any more than you know what I need. The government doesn't give money to corporations, it allows them to provide services to the people that the people are willing to pay for.
The current crisis is because someone who doesn't know what they're doing hears about this great new way to make money, so they tried to do it themselves. Instead of seeking out sound financial advice, they bought a video off of an infomercial on at 3am. They were blinded by the promise of lots of money and didn't look after themselves and didn't thing for themselves.
I, on the other hand, stayed out of the mess. My brother stayed out of the mess, my whole family stayed out of the mess with the exception of my aunt. She didn't take subprime loans, she just bought houses that were undervalued anyway, fixed them up and sold them for a profit. She was doing the same general thing as the people who need to be bailed out, but she did it properly so that everyone benefited. Why should we have to pay for the mistakes of people who didn't take the time and the effort to do it right?
I believe the government should look out for the people, and I believe that it shouldn't line the pockets of the big corporations, but I don't think that there's anything inherently evil about big corporations any more than there's anything inherently evil about government. I just believe that people are benefited more by the freedom of choice than by people who think they're superior to the average person making that choice for them.
Make sure to wave when you are over Michigan man. I'll be the one on my lawn green with envy. I hope you'll be wearing at least a bright red shirt or something, because otherwise you're going to blend right in.
Then prosecute for fraud and make the fraudster pay. Unless, as I suspect, they went in without doing the required research first and didn't read/understand the contracts they signed. Either way, there's no reason for me to pay for that mistake and they need to learn their lesson.
However, many people (not the crowd that reads this) don't have even a slight understanding of what any of it means, let alone know how to realistically budget for years in advance or how to prepare for less than status quo times. And in the future they'll either learn how to do that or else fail. Unless, that is, we keep them from failing.
For me, all I say is try it. Whether it's hard coded into the brain, or I was raised to it, or whatever, there's a lot of benefits that come from religion in just my personal life. Add in the community that comes with it and it's a no-brainer for me.
Shhh! KDawson finally flamed properly; you see, usually he asks an inflammatory question and people complain about the question. However, in this he's hit a nerve because almost nobody on this forum will speak up in defense of young earth creation. In effect, he's been able to be both an asshat AND popular with slashdot. Why are you trying to take this away from him?
And, for the record, creationists who don't believe in evolution are propping up their faith with something that will inevitably fail. They need to realize that science doesn't attack their beliefs, it's illuminates and enlarges them. You'd have to be dumb to believe that evolution disproves creationism and vice versa.
Wow, there are a lot of good things in there, but overall I think you're wrong.
People do sit pretty far back. But HD is 1920x1080. Raise your hand if you have a computer monitor that high. The biggest I have is 1600x1200, which is not widescreen, and is 153,600 pixels fewer than a 1080p screen. Great. I sit 2 feet from my monitor, most people don't sit within 6 feet of their TV. I can't imagine playing an MMO and being able to fit as much chat on my TV and still keep it anywhere near as readable as it is on my computer.
So what? Good MMOs are continuously updated for five to ten years. No reason to think you couldn't port it to a different platform and give it a graphical update in that time. Port to another console? You just want them to wave their magical wand and suddenly the code works, they don't have to work on the timing and threading that's unique to each console, and they don't have to turn it into a major project that takes years? I would rather they work on content and fixing bugs/balance.
And many, many people play console games in pairs, trios, or quartets. We tolerated split-screen for Goldeneye on the N64, where each player might get, what, 180x140 worth of screen space? And now we're on HD displays. And MMOs are considerably more complex than goldeneye. Also, try fitting the chat text into 1/4 of a TV screen. Also, TFA mentions that, done properly, the split screen on the console could be a huge selling point since people play together.
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I'm kind of surprised that Joss Whedon didn't do something along those lines, actually. NPH is homosexual, after all, and Joss Whedon enjoys breaking gender and sexual-preference stereotypes. I guess he wanted this to be more mainstream. *shrug*
Thank you sir. You truly are merciful.
I disagree, at least with the spirit of the post. Most market-leading companies will do very well keeping their promises for a while, then they'll build a user base, refine on their core business model, and become very good at what they do. At some point, they'll fuck it up (like ebay's doing now, like google's nearly done with privacy many time) to the point where a large portion of the user base leaves. EBay's done very well for its sellers for a long time now, and it's only in the past year or two that it's started to get into serious trouble. If you count this deal as the time when they fuck it up, they've been serving people quite well for over a decade. That's pretty good in my book.
The water is absolutely sublime - but be careful not to attempt to breath while your head is under water, as you will drown (or give it a try if you like - you are free to do so if you wish).
Just as long as you return the changed water back to the pool, that is.
I think a lot of people in this topic are missing the "pre" part of the description. Tolkien, Heinlein, even Card are all better for teens rather than preteens. However, "Invitation to the Game" is right on that level (I read it around 12 or 13). I would add David Edding's "Belgariad" and "So You Want to be a Wizard" by Diane Duane. Finally, "Dealing with Dragons" by Patricia Wrede. These are all books that I read while i was younger and that I have picked up again in adulthood without disappointment.
The reason that this is entirely applicable to real-world application is that firefox 1&2 had memory footprints that made grown men cry. I've had firefox take up more than a gigabyte of memory on my desktop. In terms of real world performance, that's huge.
Come to think of it, configuration isn't all that simple either. With my windows box, I can install multiple video cards, bridge connections, route through proxies, etc, all with a nice gui interface. On Ubuntu, I've had to go to the command line for even simple tasks like using two monitors. So, games are one of three things.
Not to mention support. For Ubuntu, support is $250 / desktop, and Linux is harder for a sysadmin to support since it doesn't have all the nice gui tools that windows does. So maybe we should just say one of several things, eh?
Microsoft should be offering them millions if not billions of dollars to make it an xbox exclusive. Japan is one of the largest gaming markets in the world, and FF games get huge lines and are real console movers. I would expect the PS3 to make a huge jump after this is released in the US and Europe alone.
However, if it were an XBox exclusive, even for just a year, they would be able to mount a serious attack in japan and move consoles in one of the biggest video game markets in the world.
You can tell which intel is poor because it's got [citation needed] all over the place.
TFA never even uses the word "new", so I'm guessing that it's an editing problem.
I'm saying don't bail anyone out. If they could have afforded a regular mortgage, then they should have gotten one. As it was, they gambled and they lost. I'm not going to pay for someone's losses in Vegas, why would I pay for their losses in the housing market?
LOL, first of all, the only reason this is flamebait is cultural, not physical/biological.
Second of all, the characters you play in MMOs are going to be the exceptions to the rule, so having strong women that are great at fighting makes sense.
I've seen it usually go the other way on regulations, though. Usually regulations are intended to keep people out of the market, like licenses for cabs in New York, or licenses for interior decorators in Las Vegas.
And I agree that frameworks should be there to keep people from being exploited, but the people who are getting hit hardest by these loans are those who were trying to exploit the system without taking the time to learn about it or the time to do it properly. At best they were trying to get a home that they obviously couldn't afford by relying on the economy continuing to do well. This isn't brain surgery, this is basic stuff that people need to learn to live life.
The current crisis is because someone who doesn't know what they're doing hears about this great new way to make money, so they tried to do it themselves. Instead of seeking out sound financial advice, they bought a video off of an infomercial on at 3am. They were blinded by the promise of lots of money and didn't look after themselves and didn't thing for themselves.
I, on the other hand, stayed out of the mess. My brother stayed out of the mess, my whole family stayed out of the mess with the exception of my aunt. She didn't take subprime loans, she just bought houses that were undervalued anyway, fixed them up and sold them for a profit. She was doing the same general thing as the people who need to be bailed out, but she did it properly so that everyone benefited. Why should we have to pay for the mistakes of people who didn't take the time and the effort to do it right?
I believe the government should look out for the people, and I believe that it shouldn't line the pockets of the big corporations, but I don't think that there's anything inherently evil about big corporations any more than there's anything inherently evil about government. I just believe that people are benefited more by the freedom of choice than by people who think they're superior to the average person making that choice for them.
Then prosecute for fraud and make the fraudster pay. Unless, as I suspect, they went in without doing the required research first and didn't read/understand the contracts they signed. Either way, there's no reason for me to pay for that mistake and they need to learn their lesson.
Well, yeah, you're all on drugs. Duh.
Now, if you can get someone high up, like the president, to say that they've done drugs, then you might be able to convince people...
You can bite his shiny, metal head.
Very few two-year-old computers get any gaming love at all.
For me, all I say is try it. Whether it's hard coded into the brain, or I was raised to it, or whatever, there's a lot of benefits that come from religion in just my personal life. Add in the community that comes with it and it's a no-brainer for me.
Shhh! KDawson finally flamed properly; you see, usually he asks an inflammatory question and people complain about the question. However, in this he's hit a nerve because almost nobody on this forum will speak up in defense of young earth creation. In effect, he's been able to be both an asshat AND popular with slashdot. Why are you trying to take this away from him?
And, for the record, creationists who don't believe in evolution are propping up their faith with something that will inevitably fail. They need to realize that science doesn't attack their beliefs, it's illuminates and enlarges them. You'd have to be dumb to believe that evolution disproves creationism and vice versa.