Secondly, Harley riders (the classic ones, anyway -- some of the yuppies on them now don't count here) are looking for a certain style that stresses comfort and enjoying the ride over cutting down times to get places. The people I know on high-speed bikes can't tell you so much about the surroundings on their way to Vegas because they're busy watching for highway patrol and other dangers of excessive velocity. Meanwhile, the Harley riders, while probably a bit above the speed limit, have more opportunity to enjoy the scenery, and I think end up being more relaxed upon arrival.
Which is why many Harley nuts and custom shops do a lot of hard tails. Comfort my ass. Most HD riders don't put more than a few thousand miles a year on their rides. I think the most telling factor of this would be the stats on manufacturer breakdown on IronButt rides. You aren't doing that kind of time without it being long distance rideable.
is the replay value that is inherent in the "choose your own adventure" style of character development. I've played KOTOR all the way through and received 1 DarkSide point. I'm thinking about trying it again and going for the opposite.
Considering the rumoured Alliance/Horde player imbalance (I've heard numbers from 2:1 Alliance:Horde to 5:1 Alliance:Horde) across the servers, this can almost make sense in a game balance kind of way. Horde being the Protoss to the Alliance's Zerg, to use another Blizzard metaphore.
Of course, Hunters *still* suck, no matter what side you're on, unless you're *realllly* good at kiting.:D
I think the idea that he was implying was "the vehicle parked", i.e. wheels stopped, parking brake on. I don't think it has that either... relying on wheel chalks IIRC.
There shouldn't be *anything* incoming that you don't already know about. Dedicated firewalls are a great boon to security. There are several linux and BSD based distros that are specifically for this purpose. Corperate environments, or those well heeled, have even more options.
A true DMZ is also a good thing to have, seperated by another firewall, if you have enough infrastructure to justify an (n)tiered network.
Firewalls aren't the end-all-be-all, but They do make compromises much less likely.
As to other other combative techniques, I'm shure there's a way to have a daemon monitor the Snort (or other IDS) log and if you get x connections on y port in x time frame, you can add the IP to your firewall. A daemon to clean up said firewall would be good as well...
[quote]Right now, the DS is outselling the PS2 in Japan [gamespot.com]. Sure it's not a "GameBoy" in the purest sense, but it still plays GBA games and has a fairly similar design aside from the extra, touch-sensative screen.[/quote]
I wouldn't call this a fair comparison. PS2 isn't portable. PS2 was launched *much* earlier than the DS. That's two arguements right there that I feel make the comparison invalid.
DS vs PSP *is* a fair comparison, and IIRC, The numbers are even better for the DS.:)
Never one to back down from a challenge, I'll let you in on my reasoning:
QFT: This happens on the same day that reporters who blew Plame's cover are to stand trial. Looking at news.google.com revelas that the bombing story is pushing the reporter's trial well below where it would normally be in news rankings. Yet another suspicious coincidence involving yet another Bush family member in office under questionable means. I think we all know who the real terrorists are, but are too afraid to speak out against the Bush family due to their unjust power.
Realistically, in the grand scheme of things, Plame is merely a mote. Sandy Burger got away with stuffing his socks full of documents from the national archives, and that was also considered a heinous offense. No one screamed too loudly then either. The risks involved in something of this nature are too big to take. If you think that *anyone* in a government that leaks secrets about it's own undercover agents and lets people just walk out with classified documents, is going to attempt to pull a covert like this, I'd question their sanity. The AC reveals that they have another agenda (namely spreding vitrol about Bush) in his statement. I believe that cover ups are harder to execute, for the simple reason that the execution has to be nearly flawless. There's just too many things that can go wrong, esp concerning the number of people that I would believe would be necessary to get this done. Cover ups can also lead to blackmail. Anyone who was involved in perpetrating a cover up now has a leg up on the person who asked for it... Now, that's not to say that these guys can't be "eliminated", but then you expand the circle of people who have pieces... I would think that this would lead to more problems, not less.
There's also a decent rule of thumb.. "Never credit to malice anything that can be sufficently blamed on stupidity." Good old American Pragmatism. Love it.
Granted, this is all speculation from a.. how'd you put it... an "unthinking reaction-machine".
To be fair, I don't think that the current government situation in the US is good either, but this statement by the AC, which has no facts, just speculation, reeks of extremeism. If in 30 years a FOIA case reveals that I'm wrong, hey, I've been wrong before.
And really... name calling? Please.
If you really want to go after people who've done heinous things, lets start with these two:
There's a reason why, when I'm in a dungeon the first time I ask "pet?", and if no one responds with a "it shouldn't be a problem", I dismiss it. It's just too risky to get bad pulls, esp on the longer instances. I guess a lot of hunters haven't learned to let the warrior do his job of holding agro.
The problem with this is that it breaks Free Enterprise. By mandating that all of the other customers subsidize your connection, you really kind of hose a bunch of profits out from the bottom line of the company. I'm shure that the shareholders wouldn't want that to happen.
Living out in the sticks sucks. You get your peace and quiet, but it does come with a cost.
imbalanced content (Alterac Valley Battleground favoring Horde unless Alliance exploits the Horde base)
Care to give some linkage on this? Since I play horde on BoneChewer, I'd like to know exactly how my team sucked so much the last few times I've been in Alterac.
The problem with this sentiment is that there's nothing else that is even coming close to doing research to get us off of this planet. It's not a matter of *if* a comet or an asteroid is going to cause an Mass Extinction Event, it's a matter of when.
I'd like to think that the race is worth keeping around, even if I'm dead when said event happens.
My understanding was that this is already in there, and yes, it does cause rogues (dunno about druids, I don't group with one regularly) to lose all of their marks.
I play a hunter, so it doesn't affect me that much.
Unless I'm mistaken (this would not be unusual), the vendor doesn't pay just for the materials. They pay for the game, at a discounted rate. I speculate that bookstores do this too, however overstocking on an item that costs the vendor $3.00 verses something that costs the vendors say $20.00 is a big difference. The publisher *does* have to make up some of the liability or the production of the game in the distribution, unless the publisher does something like Valve did with steam, and asks the customer to pay for the license online. I didn't buy HL2, but I read many many stories about steam being appended by a very unflattering phrase.:)
The only other way I'm seeing with your idea is that the vendor pays materials cost to the publisher and then would have to send the publisher the royalties. I speculate that no major publisher is going to go with that one, because it *is* too easy to copy most games. Copying a book is tedious at best, but even that's becoming trivial with page feed and duplexing scanners/copiers becoming so common.
The license and the media are two seperate entities to the publisher, yes. However the current model has the two bound at the hip. If systems like steam actually get to where they can work with 99.999 reliability, this may change.
Now, this arguement is *so* far beyond my realm of knowlege, I may be completely off base. Perhaps others that know a little bit more about the distribution side could chime in.
The flaw with the bookstore anaolgy is that it doesn't cost a publisher $BIGNUM to just *produce* the book. Most writers make very modest salaries, and work in very small teams, if not solo. This isn't the case with modern video game titles, where litterally millions of dollars are put into just getting the game to the press.
I'm sorry, I don't think anything can outdo the comic book/cartoon versions of The Tick. I'd be *very* skeptical of it after what happened with the very short lived live action version.
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Secondly, Harley riders (the classic ones, anyway -- some of the yuppies on them now don't count here) are looking for a certain style that stresses comfort and enjoying the ride over cutting down times to get places. The people I know on high-speed bikes can't tell you so much about the surroundings on their way to Vegas because they're busy watching for highway patrol and other dangers of excessive velocity. Meanwhile, the Harley riders, while probably a bit above the speed limit, have more opportunity to enjoy the scenery, and I think end up being more relaxed upon arrival.
Which is why many Harley nuts and custom shops do a lot of hard tails. Comfort my ass. Most HD riders don't put more than a few thousand miles a year on their rides. I think the most telling factor of this would be the stats on manufacturer breakdown on IronButt rides. You aren't doing that kind of time without it being long distance rideable.
Yeah, but your presentation detracts from your message. Nice try, tho.
is the replay value that is inherent in the "choose your own adventure" style of character development. I've played KOTOR all the way through and received 1 DarkSide point. I'm thinking about trying it again and going for the opposite.
++ on System Shock 2. At home, everyone in bed, me playing this game with no lights on and headphones. Scared the !@#$ outta me.
You obviously haven't played on any of the RP servers.
Explain to your manager that his job is to buffer all the political BS, so that you can do your job.
hehe... Ahehhehe... AHAHAAHAHAHHHAHA!!!
Explain to your manager! That's a good one!
slight correction: IIRC, Cay is female.
Considering the rumoured Alliance/Horde player imbalance (I've heard numbers from 2:1 Alliance:Horde to 5:1 Alliance:Horde) across the servers, this can almost make sense in a game balance kind of way. Horde being the Protoss to the Alliance's Zerg, to use another Blizzard metaphore.
:D
Of course, Hunters *still* suck, no matter what side you're on, unless you're *realllly* good at kiting.
I think the idea that he was implying was "the vehicle parked", i.e. wheels stopped, parking brake on. I don't think it has that either... relying on wheel chalks IIRC.
There shouldn't be *anything* incoming that you don't already know about. Dedicated firewalls are a great boon to security. There are several linux and BSD based distros that are specifically for this purpose. Corperate environments, or those well heeled, have even more options.
A true DMZ is also a good thing to have, seperated by another firewall, if you have enough infrastructure to justify an (n)tiered network.
Firewalls aren't the end-all-be-all, but They do make compromises much less likely.
As to other other combative techniques, I'm shure there's a way to have a daemon monitor the Snort (or other IDS) log and if you get x connections on y port in x time frame, you can add the IP to your firewall. A daemon to clean up said firewall would be good as well...
[quote]Right now, the DS is outselling the PS2 in Japan [gamespot.com]. Sure it's not a "GameBoy" in the purest sense, but it still plays GBA games and has a fairly similar design aside from the extra, touch-sensative screen.[/quote]
:)
I wouldn't call this a fair comparison. PS2 isn't portable. PS2 was launched *much* earlier than the DS. That's two arguements right there that I feel make the comparison invalid.
DS vs PSP *is* a fair comparison, and IIRC, The numbers are even better for the DS.
Because tactile feedback is a good thing.
I don't think Godwin's Law is applicable in this case.
Inertia, would be my answer to this question: Inertia of the technological kind keeps x86 on the desktop, even with the 64 bit extensions.
Inertia keeps Microsoft on the desktop, even though it being low hanging fruit for crackers.
Inertia can be a good thing... in this case, it's a bummer. I can safely say that my next game rig will be A64 powered, simply because of... inertia.
Never one to back down from a challenge, I'll let you in on my reasoning:
QFT:
This happens on the same day that reporters who blew Plame's cover are to stand trial. Looking at news.google.com revelas that the bombing story is pushing the reporter's trial well below where it would normally be in news rankings. Yet another suspicious coincidence involving yet another Bush family member in office under questionable means. I think we all know who the real terrorists are, but are too afraid to speak out against the Bush family due to their unjust power.
Realistically, in the grand scheme of things, Plame is merely a mote. Sandy Burger got away with stuffing his socks full of documents from the national archives, and that was also considered a heinous offense. No one screamed too loudly then either.
The risks involved in something of this nature are too big to take. If you think that *anyone* in a government that leaks secrets about it's own undercover agents and lets people just walk out with classified documents, is going to attempt to pull a covert like this, I'd question their sanity.
The AC reveals that they have another agenda (namely spreding vitrol about Bush) in his statement.
I believe that cover ups are harder to execute, for the simple reason that the execution has to be nearly flawless. There's just too many things that can go wrong, esp concerning the number of people that I would believe would be necessary to get this done.
Cover ups can also lead to blackmail. Anyone who was involved in perpetrating a cover up now has a leg up on the person who asked for it... Now, that's not to say that these guys can't be "eliminated", but then you expand the circle of people who have pieces... I would think that this would lead to more problems, not less.
There's also a decent rule of thumb.. "Never credit to malice anything that can be sufficently blamed on stupidity." Good old American Pragmatism. Love it.
Granted, this is all speculation from a.. how'd you put it... an "unthinking reaction-machine".
To be fair, I don't think that the current government situation in the US is good either, but this statement by the AC, which has no facts, just speculation, reeks of extremeism.
If in 30 years a FOIA case reveals that I'm wrong, hey, I've been wrong before.
And really... name calling? Please.
If you really want to go after people who've done heinous things, lets start with these two:
Ed Kennedy
Bill Janklow
Hmm... Kennedy gets *NOTHING*, and Janklow gets 100 days. If Joe Sixpack were invovled in either of these, they'd have the book thrown at them.
In other news, Alcoa (AA - NYSE) is reporting earnings as a result of skyrocketing sales of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil.
On behalf of all actual bastards: !@#$ off
There's a reason why, when I'm in a dungeon the first time I ask "pet?", and if no one responds with a "it shouldn't be a problem", I dismiss it. It's just too risky to get bad pulls, esp on the longer instances. I guess a lot of hunters haven't learned to let the warrior do his job of holding agro.
The problem with this is that it breaks Free Enterprise. By mandating that all of the other customers subsidize your connection, you really kind of hose a bunch of profits out from the bottom line of the company. I'm shure that the shareholders wouldn't want that to happen.
/not intentionally flamebate.
//is not a CableCo Shareholder
Living out in the sticks sucks. You get your peace and quiet, but it does come with a cost.
imbalanced content (Alterac Valley Battleground favoring Horde unless Alliance exploits the Horde base)
Care to give some linkage on this? Since I play horde on BoneChewer, I'd like to know exactly how my team sucked so much the last few times I've been in Alterac.
The problem with this sentiment is that there's nothing else that is even coming close to doing research to get us off of this planet. It's not a matter of *if* a comet or an asteroid is going to cause an Mass Extinction Event, it's a matter of when.
I'd like to think that the race is worth keeping around, even if I'm dead when said event happens.
My understanding was that this is already in there, and yes, it does cause rogues (dunno about druids, I don't group with one regularly) to lose all of their marks.
I play a hunter, so it doesn't affect me that much.
Unless I'm mistaken (this would not be unusual), the vendor doesn't pay just for the materials. They pay for the game, at a discounted rate. I speculate that bookstores do this too, however overstocking on an item that costs the vendor $3.00 verses something that costs the vendors say $20.00 is a big difference. The publisher *does* have to make up some of the liability or the production of the game in the distribution, unless the publisher does something like Valve did with steam, and asks the customer to pay for the license online. I didn't buy HL2, but I read many many stories about steam being appended by a very unflattering phrase. :)
The only other way I'm seeing with your idea is that the vendor pays materials cost to the publisher and then would have to send the publisher the royalties. I speculate that no major publisher is going to go with that one, because it *is* too easy to copy most games. Copying a book is tedious at best, but even that's becoming trivial with page feed and duplexing scanners/copiers becoming so common.
The license and the media are two seperate entities to the publisher, yes. However the current model has the two bound at the hip. If systems like steam actually get to where they can work with 99.999 reliability, this may change.
Now, this arguement is *so* far beyond my realm of knowlege, I may be completely off base. Perhaps others that know a little bit more about the distribution side could chime in.
The flaw with the bookstore anaolgy is that it doesn't cost a publisher $BIGNUM to just *produce* the book. Most writers make very modest salaries, and work in very small teams, if not solo. This isn't the case with modern video game titles, where litterally millions of dollars are put into just getting the game to the press.
I'm sorry, I don't think anything can outdo the comic book/cartoon versions of The Tick.
I'd be *very* skeptical of it after what happened with the very short lived live action version.