Well, you don't have to rely on it blindly. I have become quite adept at using it as fallback only when I really don't know where to go. I try to navigate "manually" as much as I can.
As such a GPS unit can be quite a valuable addition to your trips. Not that I want to force you to buy one or anything.
Please remember that "must of" should be "must have". I know that they sound similar when using contractions (must've - which firefox won't even accept) but the first one is wrong while the second one is correct. The second one also makes a lot more sense.
This message is FYI only, not meant to be disrespectfull or anything.
I have found it helpful to only rely on the GPS when I really have no idea where I am going. For mos trips I keep it off. That way I keep up my navigation skills to some degree.
It is also a good idea - though it can be hard to stick with it - to use the GPS as fallback only. You still let the GPS tell you where to go but simultaneously try to figure out which way you yourself would have chosen and keep watching the signs. This also helps if for some reason the GPS screws up (old map, road construction work etc.) or gives unclear directions (confusing intersections etc.) which I have experienced several times.
I see, that wasn't mentioned in the article as far as I remember, or it wasn't written very clear. In that case I completely agree that he was a douche about it.
But that wouldn't work because the point is not to get every upstanding citizen to pay for what they enjoy watching, the point is to squeeze out every last penny out of every person who ever comes into contact with a movie in any way possible.
Most people who enjoy a movie already pay for it. It's everybody else they are after.
If I had bought the game it would be mostly because of PvP. If I subsequently enter a PvP zone I would be mighty pissed if I was prevented/disallowed/discouraged to actually do what I came to do: PvP.
The other users have no right to tell me how to play the game that I bought with my money for my own purposes. That is why the developers set out certain rules so that everbody can agree on how to play the game. If the other players decide to disagree with the rules, it's their fault really. They have no right - although it's hard to stop them - to harass me for playing the game according to the intended rules. That's what I would have bought the game for after all.
I have played alien arena, and while the UI is a bit quirky if I remember correctly, it never pissed me off as much as crysis' did.
I'm not really an FOSS fanatic who thinks that everything FOSS is better than anything purely commercial, but I have no illusions about commercial games either. Sure the games industry has a lot of technical expertise, but even they are only able to make a truly good game once in a while. And I have never been so frustrated with FOSS games as I ever have with commercial ones (bugs, quirky interfaces, quirky controls, etc.)
And if you compare the number of games released for windows with the number of games released for linux (including commercial ones) I am sure that the ratio of good games to bad games on linux is far better than on windows - at least it looks that way to me.
Huh? The crysis menu system is a serious PITA. unnecessary nesting layers, unreadable fonts (using all caps IIRC), horrible delay when clicking on items etc... I have never seen a worse menu system than that of crysis.
"Some modern vaccines are administered after the patient already has contracted a disease, as in the cases of experimental AIDS, cancer and Alzheimer's disease vaccines. Vaccinia given after exposure to smallpox, within the first four days, is reported to attenuate the disease considerably, and vaccination within the first week is known to be beneficial to a degree."
My father - who is a doctor - has confirmed this to be true. Apparently some infections (not only HIV, any infection) ARE treated with a vaccination, although it is not the only part of the treatment.
Thanks for your reply. What I really needed was gnapsters introduction though "The point of the moderation system is not to make sure that only "true" things get posted," - that really helped get the point accross:)
Ok thanks, although I have read most of the FAQ I somehow missed that point. If that is the intention of the moderation system I will try to stick with it in the future. My only problem has been that it is very difficult to mod something "insightfull" if it is clear to me that the poster is obviously wrong - even if he supplies plenty of arguments. But if the moderation system is mostly about the, shall we say "form" of the post instead of the actual content I see the point.
While we are being completely OT, I have a question about your sig - how is that supposed to work?
If I mod something up it is because I believe in what is being said in that post. If I did not personally believe what is being said (e.g. because I have counter arguments, my experience has been different etc.) I have absolutely no reason to mod someone up. The same is true vice versa for downmods.
I would appreciate help on how I should prevent my own beliefs/knowledge/opinions from interfering with my moderation. I just don't see how it is possible.
You may be right about possible stupidities coming and going so that the overall number of possible stupidites stays roughly the same. Nevertheless, that doesn't mean that if there are less options for stupid behavior we would not see less stupid behavior.
This is like arguing that we should give up trying to secure cars from theft. New ways of stealing cars will be invented all the time and old ones will fall out of fashion, so what's the point of even trying to prevent any particular one? You see how completely absurd that argument plays out?
Your second part is just a repetetion of your original post, so there is no sense in repeating myself there.
It is true that people always can find some way to drive unsafe (or generally be stupid). But I think that the more options for unsafe behavior are around, the more will be "used" and the more accidents will happen.
Now if only the stupid people would be affected I wouldn't really mind too much, but if innocent people get killed because some idiot absolutely had to watch TV on his satnav, I don't that would be good.
So if the police decide to lock up every citizen in concentration camps to prevent crime that is ok as well? Obviously the prevention of crime is not enough to make something not a police state.
But it is implemented the wrong way around. The Police can still harass you for nothing - if there is no court case they don't even have to try to make anything admissible evidence. However if there is a court case and you are guilty, it makes sense to allow them to use any found evidence.
A much better implementation would thus be to allow any evidence collected under any circumstances. And to prevent the police from harassing innocent people, the police would be held accountable if they did/took something without getting you sentenced. Any evidence would be admissible, but if you don't get sentenced the police officer will be held accountable (fine, jail time, whatever).
This way criminal can be hunted down by any means necessary while still giving honest people some means to keep the police in check.
It is not a solution without its problems, but it seems more logical than it is now.
While I agree with your main point, I believe it is "fair" to call people idiots if they are ignorant about something and then complain that it does not work for them.
But as long as it truly does not matter to them, I agree that calling them idiots is wrong. I suppose that GP was thinking mostly about the "deliberate idiots" due to his personal experiences and that he forgot about the others who truly don't care. Not that that is an excuse to go about and call people names.
I tried with the ususal F/OSS tools, but they didn't really do the job very well - but that was probably because I had formatted the drive multiple times. The easeus tool however worked like a charm and I'm happy I could get my data back for a comparatively small price.
And yes, I did have backups for most of my files, but some of my latest photos and other documents were not on the latest backup, so this was the only way to get them all back:)
Isn't downloading something instead of buying it giving you a direct/indirect commercial gain? You are saving money after all - wouldn't that technically make it illegal? Or is the term of direct/indirect commercial gain more clearly defined somewhere else?
As a matter of fact, that is similar to what they are doing. My uncle mostly translates manuals, and he usually has/gets a database of earlier translations which the translation software uses to auto-translate some parts. But it is far from being a completely automated process which the GP implied and still requires the user to acknowledge and/or correct translations.
The software even keeps track of which parts were automatically translated and which were manually translated and my uncle gets paid accordingly.
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Well, you don't have to rely on it blindly. I have become quite adept at using it as fallback only when I really don't know where to go. I try to navigate "manually" as much as I can.
As such a GPS unit can be quite a valuable addition to your trips. Not that I want to force you to buy one or anything.
Please remember that "must of" should be "must have". I know that they sound similar when using contractions (must've - which firefox won't even accept) but the first one is wrong while the second one is correct. The second one also makes a lot more sense.
This message is FYI only, not meant to be disrespectfull or anything.
I have found it helpful to only rely on the GPS when I really have no idea where I am going. For mos trips I keep it off. That way I keep up my navigation skills to some degree.
It is also a good idea - though it can be hard to stick with it - to use the GPS as fallback only. You still let the GPS tell you where to go but simultaneously try to figure out which way you yourself would have chosen and keep watching the signs. This also helps if for some reason the GPS screws up (old map, road construction work etc.) or gives unclear directions (confusing intersections etc.) which I have experienced several times.
Is this something that actually happened? A quick search on google gets me no interesting results.
I see, that wasn't mentioned in the article as far as I remember, or it wasn't written very clear. In that case I completely agree that he was a douche about it.
But that wouldn't work because the point is not to get every upstanding citizen to pay for what they enjoy watching, the point is to squeeze out every last penny out of every person who ever comes into contact with a movie in any way possible.
Most people who enjoy a movie already pay for it. It's everybody else they are after.
If I had bought the game it would be mostly because of PvP. If I subsequently enter a PvP zone I would be mighty pissed if I was prevented/disallowed/discouraged to actually do what I came to do: PvP.
The other users have no right to tell me how to play the game that I bought with my money for my own purposes. That is why the developers set out certain rules so that everbody can agree on how to play the game. If the other players decide to disagree with the rules, it's their fault really. They have no right - although it's hard to stop them - to harass me for playing the game according to the intended rules. That's what I would have bought the game for after all.
I have played alien arena, and while the UI is a bit quirky if I remember correctly, it never pissed me off as much as crysis' did.
I'm not really an FOSS fanatic who thinks that everything FOSS is better than anything purely commercial, but I have no illusions about commercial games either. Sure the games industry has a lot of technical expertise, but even they are only able to make a truly good game once in a while. And I have never been so frustrated with FOSS games as I ever have with commercial ones (bugs, quirky interfaces, quirky controls, etc.)
And if you compare the number of games released for windows with the number of games released for linux (including commercial ones) I am sure that the ratio of good games to bad games on linux is far better than on windows - at least it looks that way to me.
Huh? The crysis menu system is a serious PITA. unnecessary nesting layers, unreadable fonts (using all caps IIRC), horrible delay when clicking on items etc... I have never seen a worse menu system than that of crysis.
Bad example, seriously
While your statement is technically correct, vaccines can and do help with existing conditions as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination
"Some modern vaccines are administered after the patient already has contracted a disease, as in the cases of experimental AIDS, cancer and Alzheimer's disease vaccines. Vaccinia given after exposure to smallpox, within the first four days, is reported to attenuate the disease considerably, and vaccination within the first week is known to be beneficial to a degree."
My father - who is a doctor - has confirmed this to be true. Apparently some infections (not only HIV, any infection) ARE treated with a vaccination, although it is not the only part of the treatment.
Thanks for your reply. What I really needed was gnapsters introduction though "The point of the moderation system is not to make sure that only "true" things get posted," - that really helped get the point accross :)
Ok thanks, although I have read most of the FAQ I somehow missed that point. If that is the intention of the moderation system I will try to stick with it in the future. My only problem has been that it is very difficult to mod something "insightfull" if it is clear to me that the poster is obviously wrong - even if he supplies plenty of arguments. But if the moderation system is mostly about the, shall we say "form" of the post instead of the actual content I see the point.
While we are being completely OT, I have a question about your sig - how is that supposed to work?
If I mod something up it is because I believe in what is being said in that post. If I did not personally believe what is being said (e.g. because I have counter arguments, my experience has been different etc.) I have absolutely no reason to mod someone up. The same is true vice versa for downmods.
I would appreciate help on how I should prevent my own beliefs/knowledge/opinions from interfering with my moderation. I just don't see how it is possible.
You may be right about possible stupidities coming and going so that the overall number of possible stupidites stays roughly the same. Nevertheless, that doesn't mean that if there are less options for stupid behavior we would not see less stupid behavior.
This is like arguing that we should give up trying to secure cars from theft. New ways of stealing cars will be invented all the time and old ones will fall out of fashion, so what's the point of even trying to prevent any particular one? You see how completely absurd that argument plays out?
Your second part is just a repetetion of your original post, so there is no sense in repeating myself there.
(OMG - I just made a car analogy - sorry)
It is true that people always can find some way to drive unsafe (or generally be stupid). But I think that the more options for unsafe behavior are around, the more will be "used" and the more accidents will happen.
Now if only the stupid people would be affected I wouldn't really mind too much, but if innocent people get killed because some idiot absolutely had to watch TV on his satnav, I don't that would be good.
I wish I had saved a mod point for this one :D
So if the police decide to lock up every citizen in concentration camps to prevent crime that is ok as well? Obviously the prevention of crime is not enough to make something not a police state.
But it is implemented the wrong way around. The Police can still harass you for nothing - if there is no court case they don't even have to try to make anything admissible evidence. However if there is a court case and you are guilty, it makes sense to allow them to use any found evidence.
A much better implementation would thus be to allow any evidence collected under any circumstances. And to prevent the police from harassing innocent people, the police would be held accountable if they did/took something without getting you sentenced. Any evidence would be admissible, but if you don't get sentenced the police officer will be held accountable (fine, jail time, whatever).
This way criminal can be hunted down by any means necessary while still giving honest people some means to keep the police in check.
It is not a solution without its problems, but it seems more logical than it is now.
Fair enough, but I was not talking about stuff breaking but about using it incorrectly.
While I agree with your main point, I believe it is "fair" to call people idiots if they are ignorant about something and then complain that it does not work for them.
But as long as it truly does not matter to them, I agree that calling them idiots is wrong. I suppose that GP was thinking mostly about the "deliberate idiots" due to his personal experiences and that he forgot about the others who truly don't care. Not that that is an excuse to go about and call people names.
I have had very good results with http://www.easeus-linuxrecovery.com/, although it isn't free.
I tried with the ususal F/OSS tools, but they didn't really do the job very well - but that was probably because I had formatted the drive multiple times. The easeus tool however worked like a charm and I'm happy I could get my data back for a comparatively small price.
And yes, I did have backups for most of my files, but some of my latest photos and other documents were not on the latest backup, so this was the only way to get them all back :)
Isn't downloading something instead of buying it giving you a direct/indirect commercial gain? You are saving money after all - wouldn't that technically make it illegal? Or is the term of direct/indirect commercial gain more clearly defined somewhere else?
As a matter of fact, that is similar to what they are doing. My uncle mostly translates manuals, and he usually has/gets a database of earlier translations which the translation software uses to auto-translate some parts. But it is far from being a completely automated process which the GP implied and still requires the user to acknowledge and/or correct translations.
The software even keeps track of which parts were automatically translated and which were manually translated and my uncle gets paid accordingly.
You do realize, Mr. Wack, that most translations are done by machine nowadays? And that any edits, if they even occur, are lackluster at best?
Citation Needed.
Seriously, my uncle is a translator, and he most certainly does not employ machine translation, simply because it doesn't work.
You are correct of course, it has been a while since I played Oblivion.