That's a whole lot better than it was a few years ago.
They still need to work on their Japanese a good bit, though. Translating my first sentence from English to Japanese to English spit out:
This is the way it is much more than a few years ago the entire
.
I believe they are getting very strong on the vocabulary and context clues bit but having a difficult time translating between different Subject-Object-Verb formats.
I've done mapping in both Unreal and Source, and while I prefer the favorable programming in Unreal (i.e. you can make giant maps with no concerns about creating "laggy" areas), it's definitely easier to create what you want quickly in Source.
You're right that a two-man couple or a two-woman couple entering into a marriage is different than a man and woman entering into a marriage. Genders and sexual orientations aside, a pair of men or a pair of women cannot reproduce.
I'm well aware of the "control" element of marriage. I couldn't give a flying fuck about that.
Marriage should be, at its core, a social contract between two persons that they are in a relationship with one another. Love, gender, sexual orientation, and the ability to reproduce should be irrelevant in the government's eyes as far as things are concerned. Two people who care enough about each other for whatever reason to get married are, in my opinion, generally a good thing socially.
Loveless marriages are common, but the partners stay together to finish raising their children.
Childless marriages are common, often by choice of the parents but also often by one or more of the parents being sterile.
And in the case of childless marriages - whether by choice, sterility, or lack of both genders in the partnership - they are a prime force in adoption kids that the good ol' heterosexuals have given up for whatever reason.
The levy system is not ideal, but it's the best thing we have. As far as I hear, Canada likes it.
Frankly, if I had to pay an extra $1 on a spindle of CDs or an extra $10 on an iPod and in exchange get the right to download whatever the hell media I want, I (as an American) would gladly take that option.
There are also companies that provide "DDoS-resistant" hosting. The Church of Scientology switched over to such a host after their site got horribly steamrolled.
You learn how to type rather quickly when you don't own a microphone and are trying to finish that sentence before an incoming rocket hits you in the face.
"Haha dude you totally gotyourbuttkickedlol" *flees*
$60/month cable Internet access ($50/month if bundled with a cable package)
~$20/month Verizon DSL Internet (not that great)
Dialup
FIOS isn't here yet
Run a private line to my house through a business-class provided like Speakeasy
I would love to have the choices you have over the choices I have. $65/month is your most expensive package? $60/month is the only package here worth buying.
Most of the people who played TFC for a couple of years whenever they were bored with Counter-Strike loved TF2.
The people who came over from Quake TF (the game that Quake players played because multiplayer Quake was too easy for them) to play TFC and played it for ten years probably hated TF2. It was the end of a legacy.
Here are some videos of TFC skills for you to watch. Mind you, these are from a Japanese TFC league (fpsjp's TFC league) in 2004, eight years after TFC came out:
If you search around you can find the original AVI files. I happen to have them myself. If you'd like 'em toss me an e-mail.
Incidentally, if you have TFC and you'd like to play sometime (I can show you the really fun high-end skills), add me to Steam. My steam name is the same as my Slashdot name, ihmhi.
Someone please mod the parent out of the gutter, it is most certainly not a troll post. Someone is using Troll as -1 Disagree. A snippet of the parent post:
Newegg, you're one of the online businesses that I've actually come to respect. I've had excellent customer service from you in the past. This is a problem.
Radio silence does not cut it here. This is what I need to hear from you:
"Dear customers: We have been deeply concerned to hear reports that a few of our customers have received bogus goods after making purchases on Newegg. We have determined that the complaints are legitimate. We rigorously attempt to maintain the highest quality...
If marriage was about reproduction, then sterile people wouldn't be allowed to marry.
Besides, you're right. I mean, why even let all the gays marry? All those kids up for adoption probably have loads of fun in orphanages and foster homes!
Am I the only one who misses traditional demos and shareware?
You could play one third of DOOM completely for fucking free. One third!
Even after that fact, the demos put out there were always limited (first few levels), but they never "broke" on you. Companies that break their demos rarely get my business.
but I think almost everyone who played both would agree that TF2 was much better.
Good Sir, as a TFC player for 5+ years I wholeheartedly disagree.
Saying TF2 is an improvement over TFC is like saying a monster truck is an improvement over a riding lawnmower. Sure they both have four wheels and an engine, but they are vastly different beasts.
In one fell swoop, Valve's TF2 handed off a giant "fuck you" to the skills community (i.e. people who did things like rocket jumping maps and the like) and the high end league players - the very people who kept the game alive after it had supposedly "died". All of the wonderful movement skills were gone - sticky and rocket jumpng are nothing compared to what you could do with concussion grenades, a rocketjump with a frag in hand, etc.
TF2 represents the fate of every other awesome high skill and/or high speed game that has ever existed. Slowed down and dumbed down. Admittedly the graphics are beautiful and the gameplay is great, but the only thing TF2 has in common with its forebears is the name and the names of the classes.
The only thing I care about is how sensitive the touchscreen and stylus is.
Does it detect velocity and pressure? If so, this could be like a Cintiq in your backpack. I'd handily buy one just for all of the random crazy shit I'm writing and sketching all day.
When the singularity happens and everyone is plugged into the HiveMind, I'll be driving around in a Lexus stealing all of their cool stuff and raiding their fridges.
I invite you to check out Fortress Forever, a Half-Life 2 Mod that does its best to stay true to TFC and QTF. Much like any other Team Fortress game (any veteran can speak of at least half a dozen TF mods for various games), it has its improvements and its weaknesses. It is still under constant development. I haven't had the pleasure of playing it for a good while, though, as I'm a bit burned out on the TF experience. (In my nightmares, someone breaks into my house and I've forgotten how to concaim.)
For someone who calls himself an experienced user and has shown at least some level of technical competence in the past, I don't think Bennett Haselton uses IE and Norton because he thinks they're good. It could be a work computer or a test machine (nowhere does he state whether its his own personal computer or a work computer).
I think what he's saying makes a good bit of sense (for once). A feature like this would be really useful, especially for the less technically minded users. Combining it with a database of websites (similar to an online antivirus database - maybe Google's complaint registry?) would allow an inquisitive user to look things like this up.
The thing is, they already spent a ton of money developing the DRM. They're still going to use the whole "activation server" bit, which as I understand it is currently in use. It would be hard to imagine that there aren't people still working on this even though a portion of the DRM for the game has been cracked.
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That's a whole lot better than it was a few years ago.
They still need to work on their Japanese a good bit, though. Translating my first sentence from English to Japanese to English spit out:
This is the way it is much more than a few years ago the entire
.
I believe they are getting very strong on the vocabulary and context clues bit but having a difficult time translating between different Subject-Object-Verb formats.
Trivially easy to find. Took me all of five seconds to find this item, and it's by a good quality company like Nikon!
No, I'm trying to point out that for pretty much any levy or form of taxation you're inevitably paying for stuff that you won't necessarily be using.
I've done mapping in both Unreal and Source, and while I prefer the favorable programming in Unreal (i.e. you can make giant maps with no concerns about creating "laggy" areas), it's definitely easier to create what you want quickly in Source.
Dibs on the IM BTMN plate!
Yeah, just like all those people who pay towards unemployment benefits and are never out of a job. Thiefs!
No, I'm not confused at all.
You're right that a two-man couple or a two-woman couple entering into a marriage is different than a man and woman entering into a marriage. Genders and sexual orientations aside, a pair of men or a pair of women cannot reproduce.
I'm well aware of the "control" element of marriage. I couldn't give a flying fuck about that.
Marriage should be, at its core, a social contract between two persons that they are in a relationship with one another. Love, gender, sexual orientation, and the ability to reproduce should be irrelevant in the government's eyes as far as things are concerned. Two people who care enough about each other for whatever reason to get married are, in my opinion, generally a good thing socially.
Loveless marriages are common, but the partners stay together to finish raising their children.
Childless marriages are common, often by choice of the parents but also often by one or more of the parents being sterile.
And in the case of childless marriages - whether by choice, sterility, or lack of both genders in the partnership - they are a prime force in adoption kids that the good ol' heterosexuals have given up for whatever reason.
The levy system is not ideal, but it's the best thing we have. As far as I hear, Canada likes it.
Frankly, if I had to pay an extra $1 on a spindle of CDs or an extra $10 on an iPod and in exchange get the right to download whatever the hell media I want, I (as an American) would gladly take that option.
There are also companies that provide "DDoS-resistant" hosting. The Church of Scientology switched over to such a host after their site got horribly steamrolled.
You learn how to type rather quickly when you don't own a microphone and are trying to finish that sentence before an incoming rocket hits you in the face.
"Haha dude you totally gotyourbuttkickedlol" *flees*
Where I live (Newark, NJ), my choices are:
I would love to have the choices you have over the choices I have. $65/month is your most expensive package? $60/month is the only package here worth buying.
Because if they tracked clicks instead of views the whole house of cards would fall apart and everyone would lose a lot of money.
Well unless magic 3-D printers that crank out HDTVs and Rolexes exist by then, I'll have plenty of stuff to steal.
Most of the people who played TFC for a couple of years whenever they were bored with Counter-Strike loved TF2.
The people who came over from Quake TF (the game that Quake players played because multiplayer Quake was too easy for them) to play TFC and played it for ten years probably hated TF2. It was the end of a legacy.
Here are some videos of TFC skills for you to watch. Mind you, these are from a Japanese TFC league (fpsjp's TFC league) in 2004, eight years after TFC came out:
Last Dinosaur 1
Last Dinosaur 2
If you search around you can find the original AVI files. I happen to have them myself. If you'd like 'em toss me an e-mail.
Incidentally, if you have TFC and you'd like to play sometime (I can show you the really fun high-end skills), add me to Steam. My steam name is the same as my Slashdot name, ihmhi.
Someone please mod the parent out of the gutter, it is most certainly not a troll post. Someone is using Troll as -1 Disagree. A snippet of the parent post:
Newegg, you're one of the online businesses that I've actually come to respect. I've had excellent customer service from you in the past. This is a problem.
Radio silence does not cut it here. This is what I need to hear from you:
"Dear customers: We have been deeply concerned to hear reports that a few of our customers have received bogus goods after making purchases on Newegg. We have determined that the complaints are legitimate. We rigorously attempt to maintain the highest quality...
If marriage was about reproduction, then sterile people wouldn't be allowed to marry.
Besides, you're right. I mean, why even let all the gays marry? All those kids up for adoption probably have loads of fun in orphanages and foster homes!
Am I the only one who misses traditional demos and shareware?
You could play one third of DOOM completely for fucking free. One third!
Even after that fact, the demos put out there were always limited (first few levels), but they never "broke" on you. Companies that break their demos rarely get my business.
but I think almost everyone who played both would agree that TF2 was much better.
Good Sir, as a TFC player for 5+ years I wholeheartedly disagree.
Saying TF2 is an improvement over TFC is like saying a monster truck is an improvement over a riding lawnmower. Sure they both have four wheels and an engine, but they are vastly different beasts.
In one fell swoop, Valve's TF2 handed off a giant "fuck you" to the skills community (i.e. people who did things like rocket jumping maps and the like) and the high end league players - the very people who kept the game alive after it had supposedly "died". All of the wonderful movement skills were gone - sticky and rocket jumpng are nothing compared to what you could do with concussion grenades, a rocketjump with a frag in hand, etc.
TF2 represents the fate of every other awesome high skill and/or high speed game that has ever existed. Slowed down and dumbed down. Admittedly the graphics are beautiful and the gameplay is great, but the only thing TF2 has in common with its forebears is the name and the names of the classes.
The only thing I care about is how sensitive the touchscreen and stylus is.
Does it detect velocity and pressure? If so, this could be like a Cintiq in your backpack. I'd handily buy one just for all of the random crazy shit I'm writing and sketching all day.
When the singularity happens and everyone is plugged into the HiveMind, I'll be driving around in a Lexus stealing all of their cool stuff and raiding their fridges.
I invite you to check out Fortress Forever, a Half-Life 2 Mod that does its best to stay true to TFC and QTF. Much like any other Team Fortress game (any veteran can speak of at least half a dozen TF mods for various games), it has its improvements and its weaknesses. It is still under constant development. I haven't had the pleasure of playing it for a good while, though, as I'm a bit burned out on the TF experience. (In my nightmares, someone breaks into my house and I've forgotten how to concaim.)
For someone who calls himself an experienced user and has shown at least some level of technical competence in the past, I don't think Bennett Haselton uses IE and Norton because he thinks they're good. It could be a work computer or a test machine (nowhere does he state whether its his own personal computer or a work computer).
I think what he's saying makes a good bit of sense (for once). A feature like this would be really useful, especially for the less technically minded users. Combining it with a database of websites (similar to an online antivirus database - maybe Google's complaint registry?) would allow an inquisitive user to look things like this up.
The thing is, they already spent a ton of money developing the DRM. They're still going to use the whole "activation server" bit, which as I understand it is currently in use. It would be hard to imagine that there aren't people still working on this even though a portion of the DRM for the game has been cracked.
I don't know, sounds like he's talking out of his ass.
You haven't lost the opportunity.
"Daddy, why are you letting me play this game when Jimmy's parents say he can't?"