There's more to the world than the article. Maybe you should read some of the other comments, like, for example, few of those that have instructions and programs for extracting the game data from the CD's?
D&D certainly wasn't meant to be played so that YOU alone control a party of multiple PC's, but many people playing many characters.
You can do that with NWN, in multiplayer.
True, I don't see a point in only one henchman, or summoned creature, but that they are AI controlled is more along the DnD lines than that player would be directly controlling.
You claim you've tried multiplayer but you still don't understand that it can throw any predefined plot and its empty quests into trashcan and have a live human DM? It's just a matter of who you play with and you could get better plot and more choices than in any other _computer_ game in existence, P&P is obviously still more flexible as it hasn't got any limitations except imagination.
If you try to play OC or any campaing at all with multiple PC's without DM and think you can draw conclusions of what it's like with someone who knows what he's doing on the God's position, then you're very much on crack.
Nobody is expecting anyone to expend any resources "just because of", people are expecting because Bioware promised lots of before release of game that it would be there.
Expecting promises to be fullfilled is not really stupid dreaming now is it?
They can't bitch about a lack of Linux sales if they are not selling any Linux versions now can they?
There should be no way to tell whether any given buyer of the game is going to run linux client or windoze versions since it's not sold in different boxes. Of course they can monitor numbers of client downloaders but that really doesn't tell anything.
With the exception of maybe Japan (even that's only partially), dunno about Korea, none of those countries has ever been "liberated" (and people in them probably thank whatever god(s) they may pray for that) by the US military.
The Soviet Union may have crumbled because of the arms race, but that's not war. And none of them was bombed to stone age by you, so after that collapse of USSR, they had their economics and infastructure somewhat functional and managed to stumble to their legs and declare themselves independent (unlike the countries you HAVE totally destroyed or tried to, mentioned in the grandparent post, including Iraq after last and current war, assuming you even get what you're after in there)
And you should remember that Israeli are invaders. If someone carved off a big chunk of China and thought they could start a comfy living in there, well... you really think they wouldn't be totally obliterated in HOURS?
Under most morally sound jurisdictions on this planet, criminals do have exactly the same rights as citizens.
That's what the laws are for, criminals are not punished by removing their human rights and letting any bypasser do whatever they wish.
That's how things work on international level too, you don't take rights of a nation away and let the biggest bully in the block bomb them to stone age just because they did something wrong. You know, the UN, and things like that - laws which the US is currently breaking. So by your argument you are free game for anyone now too?
They, too, area a nation that has a right and duty to protect itself.
If it takes a van full of anthrax then so be it. After all, looks like that's the only tactic you can succesfully use against a vastly bigger and technically superior enemy who has long since destroyed your enocomics and infastructure for producing more conventional weapons and oppressed for the last ten years you so you can't even try to rebuild it.
As if that's not enough, US has been massing weapons of mass destruction for at least the last sixty years, and has been actively funding and supporting both terrorism and regimes much worse than one currently in control of Iraq. The US is also currently attacking a helpless country against UN judgment. Yeah, clearly the good guys, even the stupidest of us should see that.
Of course if Iraq did any kind of counterstrike on the US ground, even against military target, it would be immediately labeled as terrorism.
And use them against the US. It's clearly a HUGE threat to Iraq. And everybody knows it has loads of the horrible WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, any sort you wish to name, be it nuclear, chemical or biological!
Of course, if the Arabs do it, it's TERRORISM, if the US does it (against the UN judgment who should have a last word in these matters) it's not just all ok but the RIGHT THING to do.
You forgot to mention they will release cheapo version of the "new tech" that will be half the price of "current high end" and still perform the same or better.
And what's wrong with that? Must always have the vert best? Tough.
I like my 1600x1200 just fine for word processing, web browsing, coding, etc.
I have to use 800x600 14" for few days some times and all I can say that it's a PAIN to have so little space when you've used to having four times the area. It'd be even worse on a 20" screen, there's just so much wasted real-estate.
I drive a car because I want to get from point A to point B.
Drive a fricking jet aircraft or a tank if you want your daily virtual penis enlargement, but don't expect it from every other people, all of us do not have a superiority complex, you know.
"Reasonable amount", for fuel supplement would be at least ten times lower than burning hydrogen for the only fuel, and the pressure requirements would be directly proportional to that.
You may very well be right in that the o2 is limiting factor in internal combustion engines and this wouldn't do much good. But isn't that why the carburetor is there? So the engine can decide what's good fuel/air ratio instead of forced 50/50 with way too little oxygen.
I don't need to be afraid of terrorists. We don't have them around here because we DON'T try to tell the rest of the world how to do their own business. Quite unlike the US.
UN doesn't see the problem because there is no problem. Those small countries aren't afraid of US's power (or of course they are, but outcome this war is not going to change that in one direction or the other), but they DO NOT HAVE any terrorist problems nor has Iraq ever bothered them in any way. It's (at least partly) your fault and your problem.
UN's word is the only one that counts on the international level, and if you are not listening to it, you are not doing a right thing, you're doing a WRONG THING.
Citizens of the Britain and Australia happen to think so too, dunno about Spain, even if their leaders are too busy kissing US ass to listen for their own voters - tells much about the so-called democracy, eh? And yes, we have quite similar system, it may suck but it's still better than the alternatives seen so far, so yes, I "like" it. Go on, spread it all you want, but don't do it with guns. Someone put to power by armed forces of another country is not how democracy is supposed to work, you know.
Your past mistakes have generally been PUTTING men like Saddam into power, and otherwise telling others what to do. Then cleaning up the mess. Don't do the first and you don't have to do the second, it's really that easy.
I can try to understand a concern if you show me a real one. Saddam is a bad man, but he's under vervy tight surveillance and can't do anything with an element of surprise, he's no threat.
And what exactly is it that I should feel empathy towards? Lives lost in wtc? Purely hypothetical lives lost in future if Saddam is not put out of power right now? Lives lost when arabs that lost relatives, home, etc. become terrorists take revenge against this and the Afghanistan war?
Why would I feel any more sympathy towards those than I should feel sympathy against iraqi or afghan civilian lives lost in your rampage trough middle east? Are US people somehow supposed to be better and more sympathy deserving people than rest of the homo sapiens on this planet?
And please tell me what is different when someone you call a "terrorist" kills people without consent of the others, and when the US kills people without consent of the others? Others being for example, the UN. Both are trying to hurt or scare the opposite so it does doing it, but neither will succeed and the circle of vengeance goes on forever.
Start expecting next "terrorist" attack soon, people _don't_ like others sticking their big honking nose - no, no, wait, that wasn't nose, ah, yes, bombs, tanks, and the rest of that nice killing machinery and soldiers that's going to be shipped there to shred 'em to pieces - to their business.
WTC was bad, but after this I wouldn't condemn one either. They have just as much of a right to come and kill your on your home turd as you have to do the same. There's no difference between other terrorist organizations and the so-called US military, except one is bigger.
Hint: if you want to bash something, do it good, check your facts. If you don't, and go on like you do, sprouting incorrect shit, you just make YOURSELF look like a MORON that you are.
However, it's pretty fucking obvious how to comment out lines from ini files;
Commenting lines out of random flat text config files is _OBVIOUS_ of all things? How on earth could ANYONE arrive at that conclusion after seeing any number of such files generated by different applications is way beoynd me.
There is no real way to know whether you comment something out of an unknown file with no previous comments by beginning the line with #,//,;, %, ' or <INSERTYOUROWNHERE>, or maybe there's no commenting out lines and it's c-style/* */ pair, or maybe it's not even possible to comment anything out!
how do you comment out (or comment for that matter) an xml file?
Like html file.
<!-- COMMENT LINES HERE -->
It may be a bit harder than ^#, but at least it's CONSISTENT across every possible xml file on the planet and doesn't change according to the mood of the programmer, phase of moon, solar spot activity and alignment of planets. Also multi-line comments are better suited for xml because you usually don't comment out a row, but element that may or may not span multiple rows.
Lots of people think rise of illnesses such as asthma and allergies are more due to efforts to try protect from them than anything else. Of course it's bad to live on a dump, but living in overclean, sterile location may wery well be worse.
If you insulate yourself from universe and never have contact with anything, it's no big surprise your body eventually doesn't know how to manage with it any more.
If someone would be allergic to IRON componds he would be long dead, or if it started later, he soon will be, with or without any house at all.
Hint: his blood is full of it, ever heard of red blood cells and hemoglobin?
He could buy wood and mortar straight from manufacturers before they put in those things big customers (=resellers) need, but that might be expensive, dunno about his financial situation.
Normal, healthy people don't want to be subjects to experiments with pre-alpha technology which might fuck their brain for the rest of their lives, or if someone screwed up bad, kill 'em outright.
If you've got a non-functionin hippocampus there's no harm done if the new one doesn't work either, but if your old one is just fine and you want to change it in hopes that the artificial is better, and it turns out to be 10 times less functional or totally broken,....
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There's more to the world than the article. Maybe you should read some of the other comments, like, for example, few of those that have instructions and programs for extracting the game data from the CD's?
D&D certainly wasn't meant to be played so that YOU alone control a party of multiple PC's, but many people playing many characters.
You can do that with NWN, in multiplayer.
True, I don't see a point in only one henchman, or summoned creature, but that they are AI controlled is more along the DnD lines than that player would be directly controlling.
You claim you've tried multiplayer but you still don't understand that it can throw any predefined plot and its empty quests into trashcan and have a live human DM? It's just a matter of who you play with and you could get better plot and more choices than in any other _computer_ game in existence, P&P is obviously still more flexible as it hasn't got any limitations except imagination.
If you try to play OC or any campaing at all with multiple PC's without DM and think you can draw conclusions of what it's like with someone who knows what he's doing on the God's position, then you're very much on crack.
Nobody is expecting anyone to expend any resources "just because of", people are expecting because Bioware promised lots of before release of game that it would be there.
Expecting promises to be fullfilled is not really stupid dreaming now is it?
You deserve the flamemods.
They can't bitch about a lack of Linux sales if they are not selling any Linux versions now can they?
There should be no way to tell whether any given buyer of the game is going to run linux client or windoze versions since it's not sold in different boxes. Of course they can monitor numbers of client downloaders but that really doesn't tell anything.
Yeah, let's be fair.
With the exception of maybe Japan (even that's only partially), dunno about Korea, none of those countries has ever been "liberated" (and people in them probably thank whatever god(s) they may pray for that) by the US military.
The Soviet Union may have crumbled because of the arms race, but that's not war. And none of them was bombed to stone age by you, so after that collapse of USSR, they had their economics and infastructure somewhat functional and managed to stumble to their legs and declare themselves independent (unlike the countries you HAVE totally destroyed or tried to, mentioned in the grandparent post, including Iraq after last and current war, assuming you even get what you're after in there)
And you should remember that Israeli are invaders. If someone carved off a big chunk of China and thought they could start a comfy living in there, well... you really think they wouldn't be totally obliterated in HOURS?
Under most morally sound jurisdictions on this planet, criminals do have exactly the same rights as citizens.
That's what the laws are for, criminals are not punished by removing their human rights and letting any bypasser do whatever they wish.
That's how things work on international level too, you don't take rights of a nation away and let the biggest bully in the block bomb them to stone age just because they did something wrong. You know, the UN, and things like that - laws which the US is currently breaking. So by your argument you are free game for anyone now too?
They, too, area a nation that has a right and duty to protect itself.
If it takes a van full of anthrax then so be it. After all, looks like that's the only tactic you can succesfully use against a vastly bigger and technically superior enemy who has long since destroyed your enocomics and infastructure for producing more conventional weapons and oppressed for the last ten years you so you can't even try to rebuild it.
As if that's not enough, US has been massing weapons of mass destruction for at least the last sixty years, and has been actively funding and supporting both terrorism and regimes much worse than one currently in control of Iraq. The US is also currently attacking a helpless country against UN judgment. Yeah, clearly the good guys, even the stupidest of us should see that.
Of course if Iraq did any kind of counterstrike on the US ground, even against military target, it would be immediately labeled as terrorism.
And use them against the US. It's clearly a HUGE threat to Iraq. And everybody knows it has loads of the horrible WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, any sort you wish to name, be it nuclear, chemical or biological!
Of course, if the Arabs do it, it's TERRORISM, if the US does it (against the UN judgment who should have a last word in these matters) it's not just all ok but the RIGHT THING to do.
Mozilla managed that just nice.
Funny that the US is leading in that vote.
You forgot to mention they will release cheapo version of the "new tech" that will be half the price of "current high end" and still perform the same or better.
And what's wrong with that? Must always have the vert best? Tough.
Just talk for yourself.
I like my 1600x1200 just fine for word processing, web browsing, coding, etc.
I have to use 800x600 14" for few days some times and all I can say that it's a PAIN to have so little space when you've used to having four times the area. It'd be even worse on a 20" screen, there's just so much wasted real-estate.
Just sell it to terrorists or some government for a good price. Tritium is quite crucial in building some of the more high-tech nukes.
I drive a car because I want to get from point A to point B.
Drive a fricking jet aircraft or a tank if you want your daily virtual penis enlargement, but don't expect it from every other people, all of us do not have a superiority complex, you know.
"Reasonable amount", for fuel supplement would be at least ten times lower than burning hydrogen for the only fuel, and the pressure requirements would be directly proportional to that.
You may very well be right in that the o2 is limiting factor in internal combustion engines and this wouldn't do much good. But isn't that why the carburetor is there? So the engine can decide what's good fuel/air ratio instead of forced 50/50 with way too little oxygen.
But you can rest assured that it was designed by Japanese.
R&D is the most expensive and most important part of car manufacturing just as much as almost every industry.
Command.com is a shell, an userland app just as much as any of those tools.
MS-DOS is io.sys and msdos.sys.
That's economics.
Even if the economic crash came because of arms race, those arms were never used. No war here.
I don't need to be afraid of terrorists. We don't have them around here because we DON'T try to tell the rest of the world how to do their own business. Quite unlike the US.
UN doesn't see the problem because there is no problem. Those small countries aren't afraid of US's power (or of course they are, but outcome this war is not going to change that in one direction or the other), but they DO NOT HAVE any terrorist problems nor has Iraq ever bothered them in any way. It's (at least partly) your fault and your problem.
UN's word is the only one that counts on the international level, and if you are not listening to it, you are not doing a right thing, you're doing a WRONG THING.
Citizens of the Britain and Australia happen to think so too, dunno about Spain, even if their leaders are too busy kissing US ass to listen for their own voters - tells much about the so-called democracy, eh? And yes, we have quite similar system, it may suck but it's still better than the alternatives seen so far, so yes, I "like" it. Go on, spread it all you want, but don't do it with guns. Someone put to power by armed forces of another country is not how democracy is supposed to work, you know.
Your past mistakes have generally been PUTTING men like Saddam into power, and otherwise telling others what to do. Then cleaning up the mess. Don't do the first and you don't have to do the second, it's really that easy.
I can try to understand a concern if you show me a real one. Saddam is a bad man, but he's under vervy tight surveillance and can't do anything with an element of surprise, he's no threat.
And what exactly is it that I should feel empathy towards? Lives lost in wtc? Purely hypothetical lives lost in future if Saddam is not put out of power right now? Lives lost when arabs that lost relatives, home, etc. become terrorists take revenge against this and the Afghanistan war?
Why would I feel any more sympathy towards those than I should feel sympathy against iraqi or afghan civilian lives lost in your rampage trough middle east? Are US people somehow supposed to be better and more sympathy deserving people than rest of the homo sapiens on this planet?
And please tell me what is different when someone you call a "terrorist" kills people without consent of the others, and when the US kills people without consent of the others? Others being for example, the UN. Both are trying to hurt or scare the opposite so it does doing it, but neither will succeed and the circle of vengeance goes on forever.
You don't look like bullies.
You ARE bullies. Or worse.
Start expecting next "terrorist" attack soon, people _don't_ like others sticking their big honking nose - no, no, wait, that wasn't nose, ah, yes, bombs, tanks, and the rest of that nice killing machinery and soldiers that's going to be shipped there to shred 'em to pieces - to their business.
WTC was bad, but after this I wouldn't condemn one either. They have just as much of a right to come and kill your on your home turd as you have to do the same. There's no difference between other terrorist organizations and the so-called US military, except one is bigger.
InnoDB has been in 3.x series FOR TWO YEARS.
Hint: if you want to bash something, do it good, check your facts. If you don't, and go on like you do, sprouting incorrect shit, you just make YOURSELF look like a MORON that you are.
However, it's pretty fucking obvious how to comment out lines from ini files;
//, ;, %, ' or <INSERTYOUROWNHERE>, or maybe there's no commenting out lines and it's c-style /* */ pair, or maybe it's not even possible to comment anything out!
Commenting lines out of random flat text config files is _OBVIOUS_ of all things? How on earth could ANYONE arrive at that conclusion after seeing any number of such files generated by different applications is way beoynd me.
There is no real way to know whether you comment something out of an unknown file with no previous comments by beginning the line with #,
how do you comment out (or comment for that matter) an xml file?
Like html file.
<!-- COMMENT
LINES
HERE
-->
It may be a bit harder than ^#, but at least it's CONSISTENT across every possible xml file on the planet and doesn't change according to the mood of the programmer, phase of moon, solar spot activity and alignment of planets. Also multi-line comments are better suited for xml because you usually don't comment out a row, but element that may or may not span multiple rows.
Lots of people think rise of illnesses such as asthma and allergies are more due to efforts to try protect from them than anything else. Of course it's bad to live on a dump, but living in overclean, sterile location may wery well be worse.
If you insulate yourself from universe and never have contact with anything, it's no big surprise your body eventually doesn't know how to manage with it any more.
If someone would be allergic to IRON componds he would be long dead, or if it started later, he soon will be, with or without any house at all.
Hint: his blood is full of it, ever heard of red blood cells and hemoglobin?
He could buy wood and mortar straight from manufacturers before they put in those things big customers (=resellers) need, but that might be expensive, dunno about his financial situation.
Normal, healthy people don't want to be subjects to experiments with pre-alpha technology which might fuck their brain for the rest of their lives, or if someone screwed up bad, kill 'em outright.
....
If you've got a non-functionin hippocampus there's no harm done if the new one doesn't work either, but if your old one is just fine and you want to change it in hopes that the artificial is better, and it turns out to be 10 times less functional or totally broken,