Can't they come up with a better name than that? Something that combines a place or condition with an animal name? Something like "streetcornerzebra" or "bridgetroll"?
Actually, I'm not. I understand why people think that way and therefore by heavy cars and SUVs themselves, but I would rather drive a small, light car that I can maneuver with and (hopefully) avoid collisions while ensuring that I don't do too much damage to other people.
Besides, I really enjoy driving maneuverable cars (even if it's just a kia rio) rather than driving a larger vehicle with a huge turning radius.
That's not true. Only fools and crazy people believe in conspiracies that span multiple government agencies involving hundreds of people in the same country as the people trying to find the truth and no evidence for said conspiracy.
So, al-qaeda conspiracy = likely, government conspiracy = unlikely. See how that works out?
I'm curious about how you think they screwed up World of Warcraft. One of the great things about Starcraft was how everyone had played it, no matter whether they were a hardcore gamer or not. The same thing's happened with WoW. They've developed the story fairly well, the mechanics are well balanced and open to being used to tweak your character but without requiring it, and created an experience that's unmatched by anyone in the genre (wow, that last sentence sounds like an ad).
I just fail to see where they've abandoned their morals and lost vision/path. I'm honestly curious to hear your views on what's happened.
Just call it Linux. Calling it Gnu/Linux completely ignores the work that's gone into making Linux a household name. "Linux" is a weird enough name, throwing a little-known water buffalo that nobody knows how to pronounce is disastrous.
It's also the one that's the most blatantly illegal and steps on the most toes inside and outside of government. I'll vote for the illegal squeaky wheel any day.
*laughing so hard he's crying*
did anyone actually read this?
The war on science where all science that don't fit a fundamentalist view is smeared, seems to be a quite new tactic, invented in the USA. *laughing so hard he poops his pants a little*
When has science ever NOT been smeared when it doesn't fit the fundamentalist view? The Catholic church is the most obvious example, but ask any scientist how easy it is to get funding after you publicly doubt global warming. We're humans, we instantly discredit anything that doesn't fit into our preconceived notions.
But don't let that keep you from smearing the USA just because it doesn't fit your view of what it should be.
But rather than comfort her, she grew angry because Meghan had been talking naughty online That's not fair to her mom, though. In spite of what children think, parents are still human, and they can react wrongly. The truth is that Meghan talking to the person on the other end in that way was just wrong, and that if Meghan hadn't gotten into those conversations, she wouldn't have had the problem. Instead of confronting the problem that Meghan had at the time, it sounds like she went for trying to prevent it happening in the future the only way that Meghan could have. The mother had no control whatsoever over the person on the other side of the chats, but she had some control over Meghan, and she focused on that.
Although you're right in that her mother will be haunted by that for the rest of her life. The mother's going to crucify herself over and over again for that mistake; let's give her the benefit of the doubt and say that, at the time, compassion would have been nice but her reaction was completely logical unless she knew what was going to happen.
There are a lot of uses for a low gravity, low temperature* (half the time, anyway), high sunlight satellite. Power generation would be easy if we could solve the transportation issue. Retirement village for those who are extremely wealthy, taking a lot of pressure off of their joints. Tourism, of course. Data processing centers for those applications where scientists wait months before being able to use the computing power anyway. Eventually, assuming that colonization ended up being practical, it could be used as a refueling station/rest stop for space craft, giving them a place to land which doesn't require as much power to take off from.
Most importantly, I'm reminded of Amara's law: we're going to overestimate its usefulness in the short term, and underestimate it for the long term.
*The lack of an atmosphere will make it so that heat doesn't dissipate in that direction very quickly, but I'm thinking that the dark side of the moon itself would be a kickass heat sink.
My friend's wife is GM-ing for the first time, having only played two roleplaying games previous to this one. It happens, and it's getting more frequent as nerds are becoming more mainstream.
Usually it's not the concept of Microsoft's software that's all that bad, it's the specific implementation. This makes sure that their implementation is always the only one out there.
Also, patenting something based on the brain is ridiculous. Might as well patent "bi pedal motion", sue everyone in the world and get it over with.
That's one of the things that bothers me most about D&D. My favorite characters in Gurps have been because of their disadvantages, something that D&D doesn't have. Healers can be honest-to-goodness healers instead of (arguably) the most powerful fighting character in the game. My fighting character can be ridiculously bad at poetry but always showing it to people. Little touches like that turn the game into a true story instead of an abstract FPS.
Also, the article spells out the combat-oriented nature of D&D, then the writer pretty much says straight up that he's never encountered non-combat situations. I understand there are players and GMs like that, but those aren't the games that I play. Whatever happened to awarding experience/character points for resolving the situation without pulling out your sword (literal or metaphorical)?
It sounds like D&D becoming even more pidgeon-holed into its niche without incorporating the things other games do better. Please, wizards, play a few Gurps campaigns (at least one of which with a pacifist), read a few palladium books, and incorporate what they do well into your products!
Disclaimer: at least 50% of my games are D&D, and I'm currently DM-ing a D&D game. This isn't coming from someone who hates the system, this is coming from someone who wishes the system weren't all about combat.
First off, you're not trolling, the mods need to get a clue. Second, I absolutely love the awesome bar. It's annoying when a visitors over and a porn site pops up, but usually I just type in part of the word and then I'm good to go. As someone else said, there are other ways to replicate what you're looking for, but there wasn't any way to get the functionality of the awesome bar.
Actually, I believe they were just identifying the type of supercomputer that it was. There are a few types, one of which is to use linux to cluster a bunch of lesser computers until they're to the level of being a supercomputer. The only way that they could have put the same information into the statement while making "linux" less prominent would have been to use a more awkward phrasing, like making the statement passive (ie "surgery performed on dog by linux cluster supercomputer"). Initially, I would have agreed with your statement, but upon further reflection I believe the headline to be more than satisfactory.
And not only it works, it works really well and the performance improvements in ff3 are so great that the speed different is noticeable. The speed improvements for javascript are significant. We use an application at my job that's heavily, heavily into Ext with hundreds of stupid little objects being manipulated whenever a change is made (it's an awful app). With FF3, it works with less than a 1 second pause. With FF2, guys can sit there for upwards of 15 seconds between changes.
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You mean shadowmushroon and watersnake, their techno music player and wiki software?
Can't they come up with a better name than that? Something that combines a place or condition with an animal name? Something like "streetcornerzebra" or "bridgetroll"?
Come on, Mozilla, get your act together.
Actually, I'm not. I understand why people think that way and therefore by heavy cars and SUVs themselves, but I would rather drive a small, light car that I can maneuver with and (hopefully) avoid collisions while ensuring that I don't do too much damage to other people.
Besides, I really enjoy driving maneuverable cars (even if it's just a kia rio) rather than driving a larger vehicle with a huge turning radius.
That's not true. Only fools and crazy people believe in conspiracies that span multiple government agencies involving hundreds of people in the same country as the people trying to find the truth and no evidence for said conspiracy.
So, al-qaeda conspiracy = likely, government conspiracy = unlikely. See how that works out?
Strengthening the first sale doctrine does have bearing on Copyright issues, although how much depends on the judge.
I'm curious about how you think they screwed up World of Warcraft. One of the great things about Starcraft was how everyone had played it, no matter whether they were a hardcore gamer or not. The same thing's happened with WoW. They've developed the story fairly well, the mechanics are well balanced and open to being used to tweak your character but without requiring it, and created an experience that's unmatched by anyone in the genre (wow, that last sentence sounds like an ad).
I just fail to see where they've abandoned their morals and lost vision/path. I'm honestly curious to hear your views on what's happened.
Just call it Linux. Calling it Gnu/Linux completely ignores the work that's gone into making Linux a household name. "Linux" is a weird enough name, throwing a little-known water buffalo that nobody knows how to pronounce is disastrous.
So, a console?
Copyright infringement, people posting things they're legally/contractually obligated not to post, etc.
It's also the one that's the most blatantly illegal and steps on the most toes inside and outside of government. I'll vote for the illegal squeaky wheel any day.
What if your research isn't about global warming?
But don't let that keep you from smearing the USA just because it doesn't fit your view of what it should be.
Although you're right in that her mother will be haunted by that for the rest of her life. The mother's going to crucify herself over and over again for that mistake; let's give her the benefit of the doubt and say that, at the time, compassion would have been nice but her reaction was completely logical unless she knew what was going to happen.
There are a lot of uses for a low gravity, low temperature* (half the time, anyway), high sunlight satellite. Power generation would be easy if we could solve the transportation issue. Retirement village for those who are extremely wealthy, taking a lot of pressure off of their joints. Tourism, of course. Data processing centers for those applications where scientists wait months before being able to use the computing power anyway. Eventually, assuming that colonization ended up being practical, it could be used as a refueling station/rest stop for space craft, giving them a place to land which doesn't require as much power to take off from.
Most importantly, I'm reminded of Amara's law: we're going to overestimate its usefulness in the short term, and underestimate it for the long term.
*The lack of an atmosphere will make it so that heat doesn't dissipate in that direction very quickly, but I'm thinking that the dark side of the moon itself would be a kickass heat sink.
My friend's wife is GM-ing for the first time, having only played two roleplaying games previous to this one. It happens, and it's getting more frequent as nerds are becoming more mainstream.
Usually it's not the concept of Microsoft's software that's all that bad, it's the specific implementation. This makes sure that their implementation is always the only one out there.
Also, patenting something based on the brain is ridiculous. Might as well patent "bi pedal motion", sue everyone in the world and get it over with.
That's one of the things that bothers me most about D&D. My favorite characters in Gurps have been because of their disadvantages, something that D&D doesn't have. Healers can be honest-to-goodness healers instead of (arguably) the most powerful fighting character in the game. My fighting character can be ridiculously bad at poetry but always showing it to people. Little touches like that turn the game into a true story instead of an abstract FPS.
Also, the article spells out the combat-oriented nature of D&D, then the writer pretty much says straight up that he's never encountered non-combat situations. I understand there are players and GMs like that, but those aren't the games that I play. Whatever happened to awarding experience/character points for resolving the situation without pulling out your sword (literal or metaphorical)?
It sounds like D&D becoming even more pidgeon-holed into its niche without incorporating the things other games do better. Please, wizards, play a few Gurps campaigns (at least one of which with a pacifist), read a few palladium books, and incorporate what they do well into your products!
Disclaimer: at least 50% of my games are D&D, and I'm currently DM-ing a D&D game. This isn't coming from someone who hates the system, this is coming from someone who wishes the system weren't all about combat.
After reading your comment, I came to the conclusion that "lubetube" would be the greatest name for a porn version of youtube ever.
Turns out, I wasn't the only person that thought so...
First off, you're not trolling, the mods need to get a clue. Second, I absolutely love the awesome bar. It's annoying when a visitors over and a porn site pops up, but usually I just type in part of the word and then I'm good to go. As someone else said, there are other ways to replicate what you're looking for, but there wasn't any way to get the functionality of the awesome bar.
Actually, I believe they were just identifying the type of supercomputer that it was. There are a few types, one of which is to use linux to cluster a bunch of lesser computers until they're to the level of being a supercomputer. The only way that they could have put the same information into the statement while making "linux" less prominent would have been to use a more awkward phrasing, like making the statement passive (ie "surgery performed on dog by linux cluster supercomputer"). Initially, I would have agreed with your statement, but upon further reflection I believe the headline to be more than satisfactory.
They did. Firefox 3 uses half the memory that 2 did and it doesn't become unusable after keeping it open for a while.