Arguing your version of reality just seems increasingly delusional.
If Hizbollah is not a threat, why did we have this conflict then?
We didn't have the conflict. The FBA simply symbolically stood with their Hizbollah brothers. The conflict was about demonstrating strength, impacting the political arena (by both action and observation), and making sure what the real boundaries are...primarily that it would require the IDF to roll through Beruit to bring other foreign armies into the conflict. The IDF is now assured cart-blanche access to most of Lebanon on a whim.
Countries don't go to war for shit and giggles, they have clear goals for doing so.
Of course they don't. You believe press-conference statements with the myriad of other political factors that actually move armies.
Fact remains that Israel failed to reach their objectives, period.
Keep telling yourself that, because it makes it more true, right?
While I believe everyone has a right to make tasteless and what, in America, is considered DANGEROUS games, I believe Columbin is a tool who is both incredibly stupid and a crappy profiteer. He's obviously aware that his game was both crappy AND grossly inappropriate. Just because an event makes for good TV, doesn't mean American society will tolerate an attempt to relive the joys of the perpetrators. AFAICT he has simply been unable to find a way to profit from the Columbine shootings, but he seems to enjoy the endless press.
My very first reaction, frankly, was to head to my toilet bowl and throw up.
If the creator of some educational game heard that someone had gone on a shooting rampage and had been known for playing this educational game, there would not be an upchuck response. Why not? Because it would be a bizarre coincidence, not an obvious correlation. I don't assume ID workers get sick when they hear some shooter played Quake...rather they know he wasn't hacking this time. Seriously, why would you have some kind of gut reaction unless you had failed to fully realize what the game was going to be used for (in terms of politics) and how it would inevitably be tied to some aberrant behavior? While I think you have the right to make the game, I don't feel sympathy for pretending to be concerned after the fact, unless you were too stupid to recognize possible consequences from the start...at which point I don't feel sympathy in that case either. I call liar in this case.
It's interesting to notice that the press on the internet is not much different than the paper press. Rehashing the same events over and over nostalgic and interviewing dolts who are, in turn, trying to use the press.
As far as I know it's not revisionist. It's reality. Hizbollah lost nearly every engagement...scratch that, every engagement. You can claim that an organization is a "force" or something to "deal with". I'd be worried about the "Fluffy Bunny Army" that also won that engagement, as they consist of me and my brother against Israel. We're still standing. Your perceptions are as irrelevant as my claims, because they are based on assumptions that both the FBA and Hizbollah exist in any meaningful way, outside of individual coordination. We might qualify as a gang, not some military force. The victory was that IDF went into a fully armed conflict with an unknown enemy and they promptly stomped them as well as collected information on who backs them and how to disrupt that in the future (bomb all the roads into or out of certain countries). Let's say *I* fire a rocket into Israel, would that make the FBA on par with Hizbollah? It's really laughable. There's no point discussing it with you any further when you're willing to assume that a conflicts' outcome is based on your arbitrary rules. I'm sure you do well in your circles with that nonsense.
Reduction in Hizbollah military power. Demonstrating military superiority and functionality. They succeeded in each of those ACTUAL goals. I find it curious that people don't label IDF as the winner, but fall back on "they didn't achieve world peace" as a failure. Why would you suggest that some type of utopian fantasy would be a goal?
It's hard for Hezbollah to tell who won when Heezy militia started out in mud-huts riding camels. Israel walked in, looked around, walked out. It certainly wasnt fo-Heezy that they stopped, but that there's little point in spreading thin to chase ghosts, when you've clearly demonstrated military superiority and had some valuable live target practice. Shoulda been what we did with Iraq the second time.
Time to install Gentoo: 4 days. Time to install CentOS: 4 hours. Time to install Mandrake: Who would do that?
Sorry, when your defense of your distro install is "at least it's not Slackware, go back and RTFM" you've failed to be progressive. You insist that people have to know how to use your very specific tools when there are other distros who manage to automate the same processes, while maintaining configurability. Gentoo package management is ok (I think the etc rebuild is nice), but Gentoo in general sucks for beginners who will learn the wrong way to do things. Do it the Gentoo way or you're out of luck.
"We've killed everyone in the area, moving on to the next village."
"They are falling back in a northernly direction, sending missile salvos 1, 2, and 3 miles ahead of our mechanized division to thin out the runners and reduce resistance as we proceed."
Protective legislation is allowed through, not pushed up through grassroots, so while I'm inclined to think it's more the rule than not, it still doesn't ring true that all legislation favors the wealthy and powerful.
On the other hand, almost all laws favor the status quo, by intention. That's a reality IMO. It just so happens the status quo includes keeping the wealthy and influential, that way.
Boinger: Open Source is good for some things, but you can't do it in all industries, like the gaming industry. Jack9: Open Source developed games are the future. It's one of the industries that will actually work better. Boinger: How do those guys expect to be paid? Jack9: Ads on a racetrack, billboards, on the backs of their avatars. Welcome to capitalism. Boinger: huh...I guess that might work.
I believe you have chosen to ignore the benefits, due to some bias toward Wikipedia.
Starting with the articles that people have put effort into viewing and correcting in the past, you have overcome the main hurdle of a resource intelligencia - practicality. Why not start with the subjects that you know people want to know about (and care about) rather than trying to guess what human knowledge is important to chronicle, first? Because you rather defend the mess that is Wikipedia, I guess.
You actually think he *just* learned that? Wow, you're just making noise...Ad-hominem much? In other news,
This guy is an idiot. -Chacham
WoW Chacham calls *himself an idiot*. Try making a technical argument, it might not seem as ridiculous next time you post.
Anyone can play your child's game to get attention, by defending PostgreSQL vs MySQL like it's necessary. Making up semi-intelligent abstract comparisons like
MySQL is made for speed compromising to act like a database where it does not break its own convenience. PostgreSQL is a database which will compromise for speed, if it does not break the database.
The statement, states a philosophical difference that doesn't exist. You're back to stating fiction, within the same post *sigh*. Not only have you failed to actually illustrate why Rasmus is wrong on any particular point, but you come off like you're a driveling moron. Thx for the bandwidth anyways.
and the result of the study is that a more expensive human CSRs are just as inadequate as automated services. I disagree with your red-herring of defining "satisfaction". Unsatisfied customers are the norm, which means they are satisfied within the SINGLE RULE "are they still using the product/service", not some arbitrary abstract definition you dug up.
Customer service's job is to turn unsatisfied customers into satisfied customers.
As a matter of fact, it isn't CSR's job to turn customers. I'm not sure what industry you are talking about, but this is about MMORPG CS. MMORPG Customer Service is about mitigating customer expectations. Outside of a cancellation call, a CSR is dealing with a satisfied MMORPG customer that has expectations outside of the norm or is dealing with an irregular event. This is what MMORPG CS data has shown. Saying reality is something else (something about serve every customer or lose them), doesn't change it, nor is it justified.
Of course, Gabe and Tycho are wrong again in this respect. While the paint and easel are not "Art" per se, the computer program that composes the video game is art. There is revelation and ultimately cartharsis in code.
All online advertisers know that spyware makes money. It also burns your distribution pipes, but that's not important when you're going bankrupt. You'll see struggling NETWORKS use more and more ads, then more and more intrusive ads before outright spyware installs. 430$ a day is ridiculously small potatoes. A small ad network has access to 12 million unique IPs a day and you make thousands legitimately on that. Spyware installs get you the hundreds of thousands up front, when you need it and want out.
That's not really saying much...any developer can crash a computer reasonably easily...
Without proper sandboxing (like VMware or Bootcamp) this is true. Lots of OS's properly prevent a simple runaway. Some IDEs also prevent simply runaways. It seems like "reasonably easy" in-part because of the prevalence of Windows, IMO.
At the 3 software development companies I've worked at in the last year, all XP stations, crash frequently. This isn't specifically XP's fault, but the fault of the apps or specific needs of developers. If you leave it running at the login for months, I'm sure it's very stable...and useless.
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We didn't have the conflict. The FBA simply symbolically stood with their Hizbollah brothers. The conflict was about demonstrating strength, impacting the political arena (by both action and observation), and making sure what the real boundaries are...primarily that it would require the IDF to roll through Beruit to bring other foreign armies into the conflict. The IDF is now assured cart-blanche access to most of Lebanon on a whim.
Of course they don't. You believe press-conference statements with the myriad of other political factors that actually move armies.
Keep telling yourself that, because it makes it more true, right?
It's amazing how much we see eye to eye, and I'm your foe why?
If the creator of some educational game heard that someone had gone on a shooting rampage and had been known for playing this educational game, there would not be an upchuck response. Why not? Because it would be a bizarre coincidence, not an obvious correlation. I don't assume ID workers get sick when they hear some shooter played Quake...rather they know he wasn't hacking this time. Seriously, why would you have some kind of gut reaction unless you had failed to fully realize what the game was going to be used for (in terms of politics) and how it would inevitably be tied to some aberrant behavior? While I think you have the right to make the game, I don't feel sympathy for pretending to be concerned after the fact, unless you were too stupid to recognize possible consequences from the start...at which point I don't feel sympathy in that case either. I call liar in this case.
It's interesting to notice that the press on the internet is not much different than the paper press. Rehashing the same events over and over nostalgic and interviewing dolts who are, in turn, trying to use the press.
As far as I know it's not revisionist. It's reality. Hizbollah lost nearly every engagement...scratch that, every engagement. You can claim that an organization is a "force" or something to "deal with". I'd be worried about the "Fluffy Bunny Army" that also won that engagement, as they consist of me and my brother against Israel. We're still standing. Your perceptions are as irrelevant as my claims, because they are based on assumptions that both the FBA and Hizbollah exist in any meaningful way, outside of individual coordination. We might qualify as a gang, not some military force. The victory was that IDF went into a fully armed conflict with an unknown enemy and they promptly stomped them as well as collected information on who backs them and how to disrupt that in the future (bomb all the roads into or out of certain countries). Let's say *I* fire a rocket into Israel, would that make the FBA on par with Hizbollah? It's really laughable. There's no point discussing it with you any further when you're willing to assume that a conflicts' outcome is based on your arbitrary rules. I'm sure you do well in your circles with that nonsense.
On /., even the truth gets modded down as flamebait. Nice.
Reduction in Hizbollah military power. Demonstrating military superiority and functionality. They succeeded in each of those ACTUAL goals. I find it curious that people don't label IDF as the winner, but fall back on "they didn't achieve world peace" as a failure. Why would you suggest that some type of utopian fantasy would be a goal?
Sure they did. I'll take that kind of loss all day long. I believe the military took that kind of loss in thailand today.
It's hard for Hezbollah to tell who won when Heezy militia started out in mud-huts riding camels. Israel walked in, looked around, walked out. It certainly wasnt fo-Heezy that they stopped, but that there's little point in spreading thin to chase ghosts, when you've clearly demonstrated military superiority and had some valuable live target practice. Shoulda been what we did with Iraq the second time.
Time to install Gentoo: 4 days.
Time to install CentOS: 4 hours.
Time to install Mandrake: Who would do that?
Sorry, when your defense of your distro install is "at least it's not Slackware, go back and RTFM" you've failed to be progressive. You insist that people have to know how to use your very specific tools when there are other distros who manage to automate the same processes, while maintaining configurability. Gentoo package management is ok (I think the etc rebuild is nice), but Gentoo in general sucks for beginners who will learn the wrong way to do things. Do it the Gentoo way or you're out of luck.
So they cracked communications such as
"We've killed everyone in the area, moving on to the next village."
"They are falling back in a northernly direction, sending missile salvos 1, 2, and 3 miles ahead of our mechanized division to thin out the runners and reduce resistance as we proceed."
"Good hit. They didn't have a chance."
Protective legislation is allowed through, not pushed up through grassroots, so while I'm inclined to think it's more the rule than not, it still doesn't ring true that all legislation favors the wealthy and powerful.
On the other hand, almost all laws favor the status quo, by intention. That's a reality IMO. It just so happens the status quo includes keeping the wealthy and influential, that way.
Boinger: Open Source is good for some things, but you can't do it in all industries, like the gaming industry.
Jack9: Open Source developed games are the future. It's one of the industries that will actually work better.
Boinger: How do those guys expect to be paid?
Jack9: Ads on a racetrack, billboards, on the backs of their avatars. Welcome to capitalism.
Boinger: huh...I guess that might work.
Hey Boinger, remember that?
I believe you have chosen to ignore the benefits, due to some bias toward Wikipedia.
Starting with the articles that people have put effort into viewing and correcting in the past, you have overcome the main hurdle of a resource intelligencia - practicality. Why not start with the subjects that you know people want to know about (and care about) rather than trying to guess what human knowledge is important to chronicle, first? Because you rather defend the mess that is Wikipedia, I guess.
You actually think he *just* learned that? Wow, you're just making noise...Ad-hominem much? In other news,
WoW Chacham calls *himself an idiot*. Try making a technical argument, it might not seem as ridiculous next time you post.
Anyone can play your child's game to get attention, by defending PostgreSQL vs MySQL like it's necessary. Making up semi-intelligent abstract comparisons like
The statement, states a philosophical difference that doesn't exist. You're back to stating fiction, within the same post *sigh*. Not only have you failed to actually illustrate why Rasmus is wrong on any particular point, but you come off like you're a driveling moron. Thx for the bandwidth anyways.
and the result of the study is that a more expensive human CSRs are just as inadequate as automated services. I disagree with your red-herring of defining "satisfaction". Unsatisfied customers are the norm, which means they are satisfied within the SINGLE RULE "are they still using the product/service", not some arbitrary abstract definition you dug up.
As a matter of fact, it isn't CSR's job to turn customers. I'm not sure what industry you are talking about, but this is about MMORPG CS. MMORPG Customer Service is about mitigating customer expectations. Outside of a cancellation call, a CSR is dealing with a satisfied MMORPG customer that has expectations outside of the norm or is dealing with an irregular event. This is what MMORPG CS data has shown. Saying reality is something else (something about serve every customer or lose them), doesn't change it, nor is it justified.
Of course, Gabe and Tycho are wrong again in this respect. While the paint and easel are not "Art" per se, the computer program that composes the video game is art. There is revelation and ultimately cartharsis in code.
All online advertisers know that spyware makes money. It also burns your distribution pipes, but that's not important when you're going bankrupt. You'll see struggling NETWORKS use more and more ads, then more and more intrusive ads before outright spyware installs. 430$ a day is ridiculously small potatoes. A small ad network has access to 12 million unique IPs a day and you make thousands legitimately on that. Spyware installs get you the hundreds of thousands up front, when you need it and want out.
A brilliant deduction.
I sure didn't.
Soap has also siezed the globe. The fact you don't use it, doesn't affect that statement.
Depends on how you define "crash". The condition is important, not the mechanism.
This implies you haven't rebooted on LEGITIMATE patching recently http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/200
At the 3 software development companies I've worked at in the last year, all XP stations, crash frequently. This isn't specifically XP's fault, but the fault of the apps or specific needs of developers. If you leave it running at the login for months, I'm sure it's very stable...and useless.