Show me another MMORPG (aside from UO = Ultima Online) that doesn't have character classes please?
Perpetuum Online, aka "EVE in mechs". I like there skill system even better. Your skills progress in time, just like in EVE, but you don't have to set a "Skill in training". Just let the SPs accumulate. And if you know what you're doing and where to progress, you just spend the points the way you like. But the grind is even worse than in EVE.
Fallen Earth = Mad Max style MMO. FE has a few factions (classes), but only insofar as you can choose one of them as a suggestion as for where to spent your SP. What I don't like: you have to grind for SP.
But let me explain. Yes, I'm against death penalty (although in my country it doesn't exist). But not because I think death is an inappropriate penalty. It's because death can't be reverted/compensated for in the case of an error.
As for abortion: I really haven't made up my mind there and I freely admit that. On the one hand I think women should have a choice - and women only. No man has a say in there unless he's the one going pregnant. OTOH, there's the old dilemma of "where does life start?". I can't tell. But I nonetheless keep wondering about the fact why mankind gives itself a special treatment. Like in Orwell's Animal farm, "All animals are equal...".
If you're "pro-life" (as they put it), stop killing animals and plants at will. That's the only logic and cosenquent way of handling the subject. If you ever killed even a single bacteria, you've forfeit your right to blame other's for "killing".
Add to that, that most of them also support the death penalty... I never could figure out that twisted logic.
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No. This is the NA perspective. Understand this: only in NA are phones subsidised as a norm. Therefore only in NA are the smartphones a dominant factor in the market. Because nowhere else are they affordable. Not that people are poorer in Europe: rather no one could afford the smartphones in the NA market if they weren't subsidised.
Not true. This is the norm in Germany, too. You get a "free" phone with your contract. After two years (typical contract term), you get the offer to renew your contract, along with another new, "free" phone.
I'm the only person I know whose favorite Alien is 3. Everybody else hates it for one reason or another. I think it's the best one.
It's not my favorite one, that's still the original Alien. But I never understood why people prefer Aliens over Alien 3. Aliens is basically one of the many action movie of its decade, think "Rambo in space" - and as such very much exchangable.
Alien 3 OTOH, reminded me very much of The name of the rose (setting-wise). A movie (and book), I very much enjoyed. It brought back the dark feeling and creepy atmosphere, which I missed in Aliens.
Seriously, I started programming in BASIC in the mid 1980s and besides the AppleBasic of the Apple ][, I've never encountered a BASIC dialect that encouraged the use of GOTO or lacked the ability to create/use subroutines.
I think Ruby fits that bill better than BASIC. Starts out without needing the baggage, but when you're ready for structured programming and objects, it's all right there.
Well, just because the BASIC dialects you know don't do that, doesn't mean they don't exist. Have a look at PowerBASIC, for example. It lets you either do it the good old "structured" way or the OOP way.
It also has tons of other, nifty features, like inline assembler, pointers and all the stuff you'd expect from a full blown compiler.
And you avoid learning GOTO. I don't care how easy it makes initial learning, it's building bad habits that you're going to spend years killing.
Again, PowerBASIC gives you the choice. Either you go with the traditional BASIC error handling (On Error Goto) or you can use exception handling (Try/Catch/Finally).
In my opinion a key point which makes BASIC great as a beginner's language is readability. It's more or less plain english and stays away from all that curley bracket/semicolon stuff. An If/End If-block in BASIC is way easier to spot and understand for a beginner than hunting down a closing "}" (or missing ";").
And no, I'm not affiliated with PB in any way, I'm just a happy and satisfied user who often smiles when typical BASIC cliches come up.
"Both of those countries bank systems dealt with the crisis much better because they had very little gambling with deposits, if they had it at all."
If you think the German bank system dealt with the crisis much better and didn't gamble, let me provide you some information:
- IKB bank crashed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKB_Deutsche_Industriebank#2007_subprime_crisis) - After borrowing billions after billions to it, the Hypo Real Estate finally got nationalized by the government (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypo_Real_Estate) - Severval "Landesbanks" (state-run banks) suffered heavy losses from the debt crisis, too. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSH_Nordbank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BayernLB#Involvement_in_the_mortgage_crisis) - German government finally had to put up a big rescue package to ensure the banking system doesn't collapse (http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,605044,00.html)
There are three indisputable examples of fascism in history (Italy, Spain and Germany).
In every case it was the government taking over the corporations, not the other way around.
Your teachers lied to you.
Erhm.. WHAT?!? I can't tell for Franco and Mussolini, but Hitler was strongly supported by the Thyssens, Krupps, Porsches and the like. And none of their corporations was taken over by the regime. They still exist nowerdays.
Switzerland has figured this out and did the right thing - stayed in Swiss Franks, so those went up by 5 times over the years and Euro is consistently going down.
And U.K., which also kept its currency, took a nose-dive, just like Ireland or Greece. This has nothing to do with currency (other than now Germany and others are forced to bail-out those countries), but more on which industries that country relied on. Producing companies can't just move on as quickly like financial services (U.K.) or call centers (Ireland).
Not only that, but after Ireland lowered their taxes for telco services (that's why you find all the European call centers in Ireland) and with that caused companies to move away their offices from other EU countries to Ireland, causing tax and job losses there, these exact same countries, which suffered from Ireland's low tax policy, are now asked to bail out Ireland.
Of course, companies don't care and move on to the next tax paradise. But how countries still are trying to outsmart each other by giving incentives to companies, if they're moving their offices into those countries, is beyond me. Don't they realize: as soon as the country "next door" offers a minimal better option, they'll move on and kiss your ass good by.
In Germany this is (was?) possible. Not only would you be no longer a member of the church, you would also not pay any taxes anymore towards the church. Not that much money, probably about (currently) 2 or 3 EUR, but I would love to have that option in Belgium.
It's actually pretty easy here. Visit your local court ("Amtsgericht"), tell them you wish to leave your church, show your ID card, sign a form, pay a small fee - you're done. Took me 10-15 minutes back in 1986. If you wish to spare the church tax for the rest of this year, you need to inform the fiscal authorities. Otherwise it's accounted for automatically for next year's tax.
Atheism (the assertion that God does not exist) is as much a religion as any other [...]
Wait a minute... so, you're basically saying my hobbies are not playing basketball, not collecting stamps etc. and the crimes I commited are not being a killer, not being a thief...
Other services I've seen in the EU are Moneybookers (used by Play Asia), similar to PayPal but EU based and apparently subject to some strict laws.
PayPal has registered as a bank in Europe in 2007 (PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. & Cie, S.C.A.). Apparently they had to in order to be able to continue their business in Europe. So I'm pretty sure they fall under the same legislation as Moneybookers in the EU.
If that Mincraft guy is from Sweden, he should talk to his local banking regulation/customer protection office.
Are you a student? Or perhaps early in your business career?
No to both.
In that case, one day you will realise that you yourself are the best judge of how the money you earned is best spent. Why should you surrender over 50% of your income to a faceless state?
Of course, I know best how to spent my money for me. But that means I wouldn't build any roads, for example, as I don't own a car (I don't need one). I wouldn't build any hospitals, because I never went to a hospital and so forth. This is, where the government is better in spending my money for the benefit of our society. Of course, how they spend the money leaves a lot to be desired. But I'm not willing to do it better, therefore I need accept the way it is.
Fucking major citation needed. Seriously, what decade do you think it is?
(Heavy) Rock fans are known to buy shitloads of merchandise. And this regardless of which decade it currently is. Here are some starting points. Google the rest for yourself.
"During this period, Kiss merchandise became a substantial source of income for the group. Some of the products released included a pair of comic books issued by Marvel (the first one of which contained ink mixed with actual blood donated by the group), a pinball machine, Kiss dolls, "Kiss Your Face Makeup" kits, Halloween masks, board games, and many other pieces of memorabilia. Membership in the Kiss Army, the band's fan club, was in the six figures. Between 1977 and 1979, worldwide merchandise sales (in-store and on tour) reached an estimated $100 million" (Source)
"Artists nervously eyeing sliding CD sales have recently alighted upon band-related merchandise and touring as revenue generators that might fill the gap. But heavy metal bands have long relied on those twin income streams to survive away from the mainstream. Copping said some made more from merchandise than ticket sales." (Source)
"That's what I mean in terms of moving parts, and it's the last thing that anybody thinks about when it comes to the things you need for your band to be successful, but it (merchandise) is also one of the most important streams of revenue. There are some bands that really get it. I think for the most part where Cinder Block comes from is from that punk rock ethos, and those guys get it. Metal bands get it." (Source)
"We were all living in big houses and had nice cars, but touring was how we paid our rent and how we drove our pretty cars. We were able to do that even though we literally made zero dollars off albums. I mean, zero. So really you're talking about touring and merchandise as a big part of it." (Source)
Did anyone here experience regular lock-ups on Win7 64, and if so, were you able to and how did you solve the issue?
Not with the game itself. Just like the guy above mentioned, the game itself runs flawless on my gaming notebook w/ Win7 64 Prof. But the Launcher app killed the machine altogether (machine freezes, sound loop, even CTRL+ALT+DEL didn't work), which neither running in comp. mode nor with raised privileges did cure. Starting the main EXE directly instead, worked like a charm.
OT: Germany's financial wizard also didn't get that by being tougher on tax dodgers, a significant amount of the intelligentsia will consider leaving Germany.
I don't consider people to be "intelligent", if they don't realize that contributing to the society is necessary, especially if they're the "strong one's". It's not like most people moving to Switzerland to evade German taxes would starve otherwise, if they stayed here. Granted, you might not be able to afford that Mercedes Benz or Porsche, but getting you from A to B is something your Audi accomplishes more than good enough.
Airlines have no problems with grounding all their planes of that type and replace suspicious parts right away, if a plane has crashed and that part might have been the cause of the crash. They do it on a "Better safe than sorry" basis, which still seems a very reasonable policy to me. They don't wait the months or sometimes years until the complete final report has been released.
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Form what I've read, Russian contractors implemented the Siemens machines in Iran.
That might only be because at that time bombs weren't available.
Perpetuum Online, aka "EVE in mechs". I like there skill system even better. Your skills progress in time, just like in EVE, but you don't have to set a "Skill in training". Just let the SPs accumulate. And if you know what you're doing and where to progress, you just spend the points the way you like. But the grind is even worse than in EVE.
Fallen Earth = Mad Max style MMO. FE has a few factions (classes), but only insofar as you can choose one of them as a suggestion as for where to spent your SP. What I don't like: you have to grind for SP.
Have I written anything the like?
But let me explain. Yes, I'm against death penalty (although in my country it doesn't exist). But not because I think death is an inappropriate penalty. It's because death can't be reverted/compensated for in the case of an error.
As for abortion: I really haven't made up my mind there and I freely admit that. On the one hand I think women should have a choice - and women only. No man has a say in there unless he's the one going pregnant. OTOH, there's the old dilemma of "where does life start?". I can't tell. But I nonetheless keep wondering about the fact why mankind gives itself a special treatment. Like in Orwell's Animal farm, "All animals are equal ...".
If you're "pro-life" (as they put it), stop killing animals and plants at will. That's the only logic and cosenquent way of handling the subject. If you ever killed even a single bacteria, you've forfeit your right to blame other's for "killing".
Add to that, that most of them also support the death penalty ... I never could figure out that twisted logic.
Not true. This is the norm in Germany, too. You get a "free" phone with your contract. After two years (typical contract term), you get the offer to renew your contract, along with another new, "free" phone.
It's not my favorite one, that's still the original Alien. But I never understood why people prefer Aliens over Alien 3. Aliens is basically one of the many action movie of its decade, think "Rambo in space" - and as such very much exchangable.
Alien 3 OTOH, reminded me very much of The name of the rose (setting-wise). A movie (and book), I very much enjoyed. It brought back the dark feeling and creepy atmosphere, which I missed in Aliens.
[Citation needed].
Seriously, I started programming in BASIC in the mid 1980s and besides the AppleBasic of the Apple ][, I've never encountered a BASIC dialect that encouraged the use of GOTO or lacked the ability to create/use subroutines.
Well, just because the BASIC dialects you know don't do that, doesn't mean they don't exist. Have a look at PowerBASIC, for example. It lets you either do it the good old "structured" way or the OOP way.
It also has tons of other, nifty features, like inline assembler, pointers and all the stuff you'd expect from a full blown compiler.
Again, PowerBASIC gives you the choice. Either you go with the traditional BASIC error handling (On Error Goto) or you can use exception handling (Try/Catch/Finally).
In my opinion a key point which makes BASIC great as a beginner's language is readability. It's more or less plain english and stays away from all that curley bracket/semicolon stuff. An If/End If-block in BASIC is way easier to spot and understand for a beginner than hunting down a closing "}" (or missing ";").
And no, I'm not affiliated with PB in any way, I'm just a happy and satisfied user who often smiles when typical BASIC cliches come up.
"Both of those countries bank systems dealt with the crisis much better because they had very little gambling with deposits, if they had it at all."
If you think the German bank system dealt with the crisis much better and didn't gamble, let me provide you some information:
- IKB bank crashed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKB_Deutsche_Industriebank#2007_subprime_crisis)
- After borrowing billions after billions to it, the Hypo Real Estate finally got nationalized by the government (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypo_Real_Estate)
- Severval "Landesbanks" (state-run banks) suffered heavy losses from the debt crisis, too. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSH_Nordbank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BayernLB#Involvement_in_the_mortgage_crisis)
- German government finally had to put up a big rescue package to ensure the banking system doesn't collapse (http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,605044,00.html)
Erhm .. WHAT?!? I can't tell for Franco and Mussolini, but Hitler was strongly supported by the Thyssens, Krupps, Porsches and the like. And none of their corporations was taken over by the regime. They still exist nowerdays.
And U.K., which also kept its currency, took a nose-dive, just like Ireland or Greece. This has nothing to do with currency (other than now Germany and others are forced to bail-out those countries), but more on which industries that country relied on. Producing companies can't just move on as quickly like financial services (U.K.) or call centers (Ireland).
Not only that, but after Ireland lowered their taxes for telco services (that's why you find all the European call centers in Ireland) and with that caused companies to move away their offices from other EU countries to Ireland, causing tax and job losses there, these exact same countries, which suffered from Ireland's low tax policy, are now asked to bail out Ireland.
Of course, companies don't care and move on to the next tax paradise. But how countries still are trying to outsmart each other by giving incentives to companies, if they're moving their offices into those countries, is beyond me. Don't they realize: as soon as the country "next door" offers a minimal better option, they'll move on and kiss your ass good by.
It's actually pretty easy here. Visit your local court ("Amtsgericht"), tell them you wish to leave your church, show your ID card, sign a form, pay a small fee - you're done. Took me 10-15 minutes back in 1986. If you wish to spare the church tax for the rest of this year, you need to inform the fiscal authorities. Otherwise it's accounted for automatically for next year's tax.
Wait a minute ... so, you're basically saying my hobbies are not playing basketball, not collecting stamps etc. and the crimes I commited are not being a killer, not being a thief ...
PayPal has registered as a bank in Europe in 2007 (PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. & Cie, S.C.A.). Apparently they had to in order to be able to continue their business in Europe. So I'm pretty sure they fall under the same legislation as Moneybookers in the EU.
If that Mincraft guy is from Sweden, he should talk to his local banking regulation/customer protection office.
You're sure about that?
I assume you mean Tier 3 BS, not Tech 3 ...
Well, the French could, as this is what Germany already did to them in WW I.
No to both.
Of course, I know best how to spent my money for me. But that means I wouldn't build any roads, for example, as I don't own a car (I don't need one). I wouldn't build any hospitals, because I never went to a hospital and so forth. This is, where the government is better in spending my money for the benefit of our society. Of course, how they spend the money leaves a lot to be desired. But I'm not willing to do it better, therefore I need accept the way it is.
(Heavy) Rock fans are known to buy shitloads of merchandise. And this regardless of which decade it currently is. Here are some starting points. Google the rest for yourself.
"During this period, Kiss merchandise became a substantial source of income for the group. Some of the products released included a pair of comic books issued by Marvel (the first one of which contained ink mixed with actual blood donated by the group), a pinball machine, Kiss dolls, "Kiss Your Face Makeup" kits, Halloween masks, board games, and many other pieces of memorabilia. Membership in the Kiss Army, the band's fan club, was in the six figures. Between 1977 and 1979, worldwide merchandise sales (in-store and on tour) reached an estimated $100 million" (Source)
"Artists nervously eyeing sliding CD sales have recently alighted upon band-related merchandise and touring as revenue generators that might fill the gap. But heavy metal bands have long relied on those twin income streams to survive away from the mainstream. Copping said some made more from merchandise than ticket sales." (Source)
"That's what I mean in terms of moving parts, and it's the last thing that anybody thinks about when it comes to the things you need for your band to be successful, but it (merchandise) is also one of the most important streams of revenue. There are some bands that really get it. I think for the most part where Cinder Block comes from is from that punk rock ethos, and those guys get it. Metal bands get it." (Source)
"We were all living in big houses and had nice cars, but touring was how we paid our rent and how we drove our pretty cars. We were able to do that even though we literally made zero dollars off albums. I mean, zero. So really you're talking about touring and merchandise as a big part of it." (Source)
Not with the game itself. Just like the guy above mentioned, the game itself runs flawless on my gaming notebook w/ Win7 64 Prof. But the Launcher app killed the machine altogether (machine freezes, sound loop, even CTRL+ALT+DEL didn't work), which neither running in comp. mode nor with raised privileges did cure. Starting the main EXE directly instead, worked like a charm.
According to the impressum for Facebook.de, the relevant division for this case is based in Ireland:
I don't consider people to be "intelligent", if they don't realize that contributing to the society is necessary, especially if they're the "strong one's". It's not like most people moving to Switzerland to evade German taxes would starve otherwise, if they stayed here. Granted, you might not be able to afford that Mercedes Benz or Porsche, but getting you from A to B is something your Audi accomplishes more than good enough.
Airlines have no problems with grounding all their planes of that type and replace suspicious parts right away, if a plane has crashed and that part might have been the cause of the crash. They do it on a "Better safe than sorry" basis, which still seems a very reasonable policy to me. They don't wait the months or sometimes years until the complete final report has been released.