I think there are a lot of gamers out there with Ipaqs who don't want extraneous 3-D graphics and action games.
Then they probably will have no problems finding developers to write such games. But what is the problem with these developers doing their thing? Are you saying the two cannot co-exist, that development of 3D games must cease before your 2D games can be written?
Does anybody else think that CivIII sounds waaay to similar to Call to Power 2?
No, not at all. CivIII sounds many leagues above that travesty. CTP2 has one advantage over old CIV II: production queues, though less useful than in SMAC.
What I really miss is production routing, which Empire had back in 1988. If I have a frontline somewhere I would really like that I can say that units produced in FarFromWarCity automatically move to FrontlineCity, and not have to manually order them there.
I don't recall the question of God ever being brought up in the movies.
Does a religion require a god (capitalized or not)? Is Buddhism a religion? Are only the Buddhist sects which idolizes the buddhas religions? Is a monotheistic religion less a religion than a polytheistic one, having less gods? Are pantheistic faiths - including Christian variations - religions?
"Jedism" as I've seen it explained is a philosophical system that tries to explain existensial questions, just like any other religion which hasn't devolved into a powerbase for a corrupt priesthood.
I like the Bloom County variant: That science-geek kid asks somethging like "Why are we here? Why do we exist?" and Opus, getting bored, answers: "Why not?"
Actually, that's not true. We have no evidence for purple gorrilas, but we do have (supposedly) eyewitness accounts of Jesus being resurrected.
Wait a few hundred years, and Alistair MacLean's "Goodbye California" might be an eyewitness account that someone almost blew half of California into the Pacific.
Won't be more true, though.
With the Judeo-Christian God, it's not easy to see, because he's pretty much been around since the dawn of writing (8000 years?).
No. The Christian god is apparently an adaptation of Zoroastrian dualism, he's Ahura Mazda, Jesus is Mithra and the Devil is Ahriman. The Jewish religion, on the other hand, grew out of an apparent polytheistic culture (there are mentions of many other gods in the OT), with Yahwe as Israel's tribal god who gets a "monopoly" as thanks for saving them from Egypt, with Satan ("accuser/opponent") more of a balancing force than a Lord of Evil-thingy.
Maybe.
However: Monotheistic religions generally appear to be instruments of political control, and thus should be dismissed as such. Frequently, religious leaders also appear not to follow their teachings, which also indicates a certain lack of substance behind it.
So to actively say that there is absolutely no God presupposes evidence that you don't have,
No. It may simply mean: "I think those guys are lying, in order to gain some advantage over other people." I don't have to assume anything someone says has truth behind it just because the "proof" is too old to be validated or refuted.
Think about it: L. Ron Hubbard won his bet that he could create a new religion out of nothing, and there are people actually believing in Dianetics and the rest of that sci-fi universe. Why can't people realize that something like it could have happened some two thousand years ago as the Roman empire dwindled?
I thought they recently got rid of the death penalty in the civilian code, and only kept it in the military code (e.g. for deserting, treason etc.)? Or was it just suggested?
If I view an ad, I am not paying: The advertiser is supposed to pay whomever's page I have loaded.
I'm equally depressed by the sorry mofos that use filters. That is kinda like stealing.
No it's not. It's like throwing the ad insert in a newspaper without looking at it. The advertisers still pay, but in the internet world they can detect that you threw it away, so they decline to pay.
Do you do the same in stores?
Cut out the totally flawed analogy game, already! There is nothing in the average store which can be likened to popup ads and Flash animations.
The store wants you to buy the goods, and thus makes it easy for you to do so. A web page author should desire that people read his article, so why ruin the experience with something that takes the attention away? It's like if the store hired a troupe of acrobats to perform so that people watched them instead of looking for things to buy.
First off, lets all just accept the fact that there will be civilian casualties. This cannot be avoided. These are terrorists who hide amongst common civilians. If a village has 1,000 people and 100 of them are terrorists, and we can't tell the terrorists from the common citizen, then we have no choice but to bomb the whole place.
Reminds me of some European war against heresy back in the Dark Ages, where some commander was asked how you could identify who were heretics and who had the "right" faith.
The answer? "Kill them all, and let God sort it out".
I assume you will give the same advice when figting crime in the USA? "This block most likely holds ten armed robbers - let's torch it!"
our way of life.
Your way of taking life, you mean. You're justifying killing civilians - that puts you very close to the terrorists you claim to be against.
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There are songs that people who were involved in this tragedy (and that is many of us, all over this country) are not going to want to hear in the coming months.
You can of course explain what, say, Ozzy Osbourne's "Suicide Solution" - a warning about drinking - has to do with the terrorist attack?
Ah, the guilt by association of course extends to the CIA which RAINED many of these terrorists back when the Taliban et al were "good guys" in the fight agains K0mm0n1sm?
Is there any chance IBM will be releasing AIX under the GPL?
Doubtful. Unless I'm sadly mistaken, AIX contains code from OSF's reference implementation of OSF/1, the bastard which mutated into AIX and Digital Unix at least. I don't think they could just release that.
Opera has XML support, but without an associated CSS will just render any PCDATA content inline. If the content is WML (e.g. from a WAP server), it has a "preinstalled" CSS file it uses.
I do agree that IE's default XML rendering - showing the document tree indented - is more convenient, though.
Results of Search in 1996-2001 db for:
AN/"intel corporation": 3598 patents.
I am sure you can see the difference in value between patents awarded to a corporation with a R&D department which actually researches the stuff they have patents for, and those of a leech with no research, just the "administration" of other people's patents.
No, they need agricultural know-how which would let them grow better crops, they need less of the available workforce in armies and they need less arable land ruined by bombshells.
In short, they need a far better potential for producing their own food. "Teach a man to fish" and all that.
Even Melbourne House had a few, like a Sherlock Holmes one with a decent syntax parser which could understand stuff like
Watson, "Where is the doctor?"
Oh, in case you've forgotten: They also had the very popular adaption of The Hobbit and the way less popular adaptions of the first two volumes of LotR.
For one thing, it includes a common JIT and ahead-of-time compiling framework for multiple languages.
Several languages already compile to the JVM, including Smalltalk, Python etc. Someone is nice enough to keep an updated list of them. The advantage the CLR does have is that you have cross-language inheritance, that is your C# class can extend a Java (when the binding is ready) class and so on.
C# is also cleaner than Java to many.
Um, have you actually read the language spec? Any language that uses goto in such ways is evil.
Ostensibly standards-based and open.
Which standards are those? XML? Java has it. SOAP? Java has it. Microsoft has delivered C# to ECMA (here are HP's notes on it), but since the object model is COM/DCOM, what else than their Windows will ever use it?
These two things, plus MS's monopoly, may well be enough to convince or coerce people into dropping Java completely.
Especially the single vendor approach. For Java, there are a huge number of vendors competing with mature tools and libraries. For C#, there is Visual Studio.NET, currently in beta.
A Java applet can draw in the space it's given, take keyboard input when it has focus, and open new windows, just like a web page can, but it can't do much else.
Yes, it can.
ASP: server-side, so it doesn't even try to do the same thing that Java did.
JSP: Server-side Java technology that matches ASP. There is a lot more to Java than applets, like there is a lot more to C than device drivers in Unix.
Oh, as if Java isn't proprietary.
I'm not seeing any ISOfication coming soon..
BFD. The process in the JCP is just as open as any ISO JTC could ever hope to be. But, hey, why should I respond? You probably aren't using the WWW either, since it's not covered by ISO standards. Now, where did I put that X.400 gateway...
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Then they probably will have no problems finding developers to write such games. But what is the problem with these developers doing their thing? Are you saying the two cannot co-exist, that development of 3D games must cease before your 2D games can be written?
What? But it gave us the metric calendar! :-P (Which nobody uses anymore)
No, not at all. CivIII sounds many leagues above that travesty. CTP2 has one advantage over old CIV II: production queues, though less useful than in SMAC.
What I really miss is production routing, which Empire had back in 1988. If I have a frontline somewhere I would really like that I can say that units produced in FarFromWarCity automatically move to FrontlineCity, and not have to manually order them there.
Does a religion require a god (capitalized or not)? Is Buddhism a religion? Are only the Buddhist sects which idolizes the buddhas religions? Is a monotheistic religion less a religion than a polytheistic one, having less gods? Are pantheistic faiths - including Christian variations - religions?
"Jedism" as I've seen it explained is a philosophical system that tries to explain existensial questions, just like any other religion which hasn't devolved into a powerbase for a corrupt priesthood.
Budhism is that way, Taoism lives in that house over there, and right across the street from there is some other gang using plastic light-sabers.
I like the Bloom County variant: That science-geek kid asks somethging like "Why are we here? Why do we exist?" and Opus, getting bored, answers: "Why not?"
Kinda sums it up.
Wait a few hundred years, and Alistair MacLean's "Goodbye California" might be an eyewitness account that someone almost blew half of California into the Pacific.
Won't be more true, though.
With the Judeo-Christian God, it's not easy to see, because he's pretty much been around since the dawn of writing (8000 years?).
No. The Christian god is apparently an adaptation of Zoroastrian dualism, he's Ahura Mazda, Jesus is Mithra and the Devil is Ahriman. The Jewish religion, on the other hand, grew out of an apparent polytheistic culture (there are mentions of many other gods in the OT), with Yahwe as Israel's tribal god who gets a "monopoly" as thanks for saving them from Egypt, with Satan ("accuser/opponent") more of a balancing force than a Lord of Evil-thingy.
Maybe.
However: Monotheistic religions generally appear to be instruments of political control, and thus should be dismissed as such. Frequently, religious leaders also appear not to follow their teachings, which also indicates a certain lack of substance behind it.
So to actively say that there is absolutely no God presupposes evidence that you don't have,
No. It may simply mean: "I think those guys are lying, in order to gain some advantage over other people." I don't have to assume anything someone says has truth behind it just because the "proof" is too old to be validated or refuted.
Think about it: L. Ron Hubbard won his bet that he could create a new religion out of nothing, and there are people actually believing in Dianetics and the rest of that sci-fi universe. Why can't people realize that something like it could have happened some two thousand years ago as the Roman empire dwindled?
I thought they recently got rid of the death penalty in the civilian code, and only kept it in the military code (e.g. for deserting, treason etc.)? Or was it just suggested?
If I view an ad, I am not paying: The advertiser is supposed to pay whomever's page I have loaded.
I'm equally depressed by the sorry mofos that use filters. That is kinda like stealing.
No it's not. It's like throwing the ad insert in a newspaper without looking at it. The advertisers still pay, but in the internet world they can detect that you threw it away, so they decline to pay.
Do you do the same in stores?
Cut out the totally flawed analogy game, already! There is nothing in the average store which can be likened to popup ads and Flash animations.
The store wants you to buy the goods, and thus makes it easy for you to do so. A web page author should desire that people read his article, so why ruin the experience with something that takes the attention away? It's like if the store hired a troupe of acrobats to perform so that people watched them instead of looking for things to buy.
In order to be balanced, you need about the same amount of liberal and non-liberal content.
And it takes an army of liberal journalists to weigh up for the drug-induced paranoid rantings of David Horowitz... But he's entertaining sometimes.
Reminds me of some European war against heresy back in the Dark Ages, where some commander was asked how you could identify who were heretics and who had the "right" faith.
The answer? "Kill them all, and let God sort it out".
I assume you will give the same advice when figting crime in the USA? "This block most likely holds ten armed robbers - let's torch it!"
our way of life.
Your way of taking life, you mean. You're justifying killing civilians - that puts you very close to the terrorists you claim to be against.
Provided you get an FCC license:
You can of course explain what, say, Ozzy Osbourne's "Suicide Solution" - a warning about drinking - has to do with the terrorist attack?
Ah, the guilt by association of course extends to the CIA which RAINED many of these terrorists back when the Taliban et al were "good guys" in the fight agains K0mm0n1sm?
Doubtful. Unless I'm sadly mistaken, AIX contains code from OSF's reference implementation of OSF/1, the bastard which mutated into AIX and Digital Unix at least. I don't think they could just release that.
Opera has XML support, but without an associated CSS will just render any PCDATA content inline. If the content is WML (e.g. from a WAP server), it has a "preinstalled" CSS file it uses.
I do agree that IE's default XML rendering - showing the document tree indented - is more convenient, though.
Ah, that must be the reason it's used extensively (look at a MIB sometime) in SNMP.
Sky is colorless, but appears blue due to absorption or refraction or whatever it was called.
AN/"intel corporation": 3598 patents.
I am sure you can see the difference in value between patents awarded to a corporation with a R&D department which actually researches the stuff they have patents for, and those of a leech with no research, just the "administration" of other people's patents.
In short, they need a far better potential for producing their own food. "Teach a man to fish" and all that.
Watson, "Where is the doctor?"
Oh, in case you've forgotten: They also had the very popular adaption of The Hobbit and the way less popular adaptions of the first two volumes of LotR.
Yeah, I loved the cloth map in Ultima V (the last, great Ultima before that isometric drek); a very nice touch, and actually useful in the game, too.
Several languages already compile to the JVM, including Smalltalk, Python etc. Someone is nice enough to keep an updated list of them. The advantage the CLR does have is that you have cross-language inheritance, that is your C# class can extend a Java (when the binding is ready) class and so on.
C# is also cleaner than Java to many.
Um, have you actually read the language spec? Any language that uses goto in such ways is evil.
Ostensibly standards-based and open.
Which standards are those? XML? Java has it. SOAP? Java has it. Microsoft has delivered C# to ECMA (here are HP's notes on it), but since the object model is COM/DCOM, what else than their Windows will ever use it?
These two things, plus MS's monopoly, may well be enough to convince or coerce people into dropping Java completely.
Especially the single vendor approach. For Java, there are a huge number of vendors competing with mature tools and libraries. For C#, there is Visual Studio.NET, currently in beta.
Yes, it can.
ASP: server-side, so it doesn't even try to do the same thing that Java did.
JSP: Server-side Java technology that matches ASP. There is a lot more to Java than applets, like there is a lot more to C than device drivers in Unix.
BFD. The process in the JCP is just as open as any ISO JTC could ever hope to be. But, hey, why should I respond? You probably aren't using the WWW either, since it's not covered by ISO standards. Now, where did I put that X.400 gateway...