Allegory: Prose or verse in which the objects, events or people are presented symbolically, so that the story conveys a meaning other than and deeper than the actual incident or characters described. Often, the form is used to teach a moral lesson.
As a big fan of replaying old games for nostalgia, will I have to continue to pay a monthly licensing fee to play Ultima 4 or Doom 2 one day?
Nah, you'll just subscribe to Origin RPG Classics for $2.95 per month (including such hits as Ultima 1-6, Tangled Tales, Bad Blood, Times of Lore, 2400 AD and a 15 day trial of Origin Space Combat). iDs Doom 2 will be open source so no problem there.
The great thing will be the fact that game companies will promise full offically written emulation software to go with each subscription. Simulate EGA, VGA, 286, 386, 486. Play the games you love on the dream system you never had, or get that nostalgic feel of playing on your junker of a pc!
Sorry, you can't always be the iPod snob that has the latest and/or greatest and needs to show it off to the lesser peons. Others get a turn too. Turns generally last 1-6 months. It's called Apple Leapfrog, thanks for playing!
In Ultima 7 your character could get various day jobs around Brittania. You could drive goods from farms to cities if you owned a wagon, you could follow a (simple) recipe and bake bread, you could take wheat to a mill and then take the processed flour to a bakery, you could smithy some weapons, etc.
You couldn't actually open your own shop and get business, so you were restricted to being paid by the item by your boss (or trading partner) NPCs but it was still a great touch of immersion. But what else could you expect from one of the best RPGs ever made?:-)
Exactly how many muslims do you think there are in the world?
The answer: 1.2 billion. That's more than the number of people in China. If they were all violent radicals as you describe we'd be in the midst of a World War III in proportions that would absolutely dwarf WWI and II combined.
The problem with seeing signs from two miles away is that while you are looking off into the distance, you are ignoring the cars around you.
Just because the binoculars would be built into your eyes doesn't mean that you'd be able to see both the far distance and your surroundings at the same time.
I suppose I could use something gay like flash or java, but I really wanted this to be a pure site. I thought that it would mean that it was Firefox only. Some friends chided me into trying to make it work with Opera and Konq though...
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But for IE, we might never need browser specific hackery at all.
I hate IE as much as the next web developer, but double standard much?
BTW, how does using java make a site "impure"? Oh no, a platform independent network oriented high level programming language. Its chicanery will have no place on my 1337 webspace.
So you're saying the Bible hasn't been proven wrong except for the places that it's been proven wrong that don't count?
Read the book "Misquoting Jesus : the story behind who changed the Bible and why" by Bart D. Ehrman and you'll find a whole bunch of places that the Bible is "wrong" or at least added onto by scribes.
Frex: that story of Jesus telling the mob to "let he who is without sin, cast the first stone" was not in the original texts.
I don't see anywhere in that post where he claimed it was ONLY white christian males that founded the US.
So, what led you to believe that was what he meant?
Oh, nothing much. Just the entire post:
by increased diversity they mean freezing out straight, white, christian males from the country that their straight, white, christian male ancestors founded in order to instill the rights they fought, and many died for, for themselves and their posterity (us). Diversity is just a code word for institutionalized racism against white people.
Sure he didn't say it outright, but you have to admit it's rather heavily implied. You can attempt to insert other groups of people into the phrase "many died for" but that's really pushing it.
Breaking it down:
By increased diversity they mean freezing out [GROUP] from the country that their [GROUP] ancestors founded in order to instill the rights they (note, "they" here does refer back to the noun clause [GROUP]) fought, and many (the many here does not, but by phrasing it is associated with [GROUP]) died for, for themselves (once again referring to [GROUP]) and their ([GROUP]) posterity (us). Diversity is just a code word for institutionalized racism against white people.
Codetek Virtual Desktop Pro. I've moved beyond virtual desktops myself. I used to be incredible anal about my virtual desktops going so far as to label them by program type or even by program. When I switched to OS X from Linux two years ago I was annoyed by the lack of virtual desktops and focus follows mouse, but now with expose and the dock I find virtual desktops clunky and hard to use.
Look, I play RPGs because I want to escape the stress of the real world. Anything that disturbs my immersion into the fantasy world is a bummer.
Perhaps you fail to see that gay people might also want to escape the stress of the real world. Many gay people are still part of very close-minded communities. Can you understand if they want to escape from that real world situation and meet and game with like-minded (or friendly minded) individuals?
I know that the game is supposed to be all about you Dr. V, but when you get a sufficient number of actual people into an online game this kind of "real world" creep is bound to happen.
Think of the small pods (2 gig and down) as miniature radio stations. Don't try to cram a ton of albums on there, but make a smart playlist of 2 gigabytes (or whatever size) of highly rated music (or highly played, or not played in the last two weeks, or any combination, etc.) and have the ipod automatically load that. That's what I do for my 1 gig shuffle.
But it is nice to also have the 60 gig iPod to tote all of my music around on:-)
Ah, many more groups of people than straight, white, Christian males founded, fought for, died for, and built this great nation. Have you even studied US History? Have you even read a book on US History? Have you even glanced at the United States History wikipedia entry?
Homosexual sex was widespread in the Middle Ages and there is abundant information on what church writers and secular legislators thought about it. Shoddy or partisan scholarship and a distinctly modern disdain of homosexuals by scholars until recently marked much of the discussion of the history of this medieval homosexuality. Since 1955, and especially since 1975, much work has been done that is of reasonable quality [1]. The concentration has tended to be on the Church's, or society's, attitude to homosexuality. This paper takes a different tack and looks at the personal experience in the Middle Ages of those we would now call homosexuals and the structures in which they were able to experience their sexuality. Their experience fits in with the wider experience of sexuality in Middle Ages and this also will be considered. Naturally, we can say little about what sexuality felt like for individuals, but a possible framework for their experience can be reconstructed from existing sources. This will be, necessarily, a framework for the experience of homosexual males for significant information exists only about men and boys [2].
The main focus of the present paper will be on the experience of homosexuality for individuals and on what can be gleaned about the subcultures or other kinds of social networks homosexuals belonged to in diverse medieval periods. There are theoretical issues to face in this inquiry, about the concept of homosexual and homosexuality, and the overall place of homosexuality in the study of medieval sexuality. Only after looking at these will we move to a consideration of sources and the uses that can be made of them. A examination of the often ignored issue of why people engaged in homosexual activities will help us to focus better on the core of this paper which will be to consider those medieval societies in which we have knowledge of homosexuality and to see if they fit into any typology. The typologies looked at are of the types of homosexuality we can see present and at the social contexts in which this sexuality was expressed....
Very clearly there were distinct types of sexual activity in different periods and areas, but these activities do not seem to accord with any particular social organization of homosexuals: there was a pederastic emphasis in the Spain, with a developed subculture, and there were relationships conducted on a more equal basis in areas where there is little evidence of homosexual social organization. What has become clear is that homosexuality existed in immensely varied forms in the Middle Ages. A global approach to the whole period is of some use and interest, but to try to understand the lives of homosexual individuals it is necessary to consider their local circumstances and the structures in which they lived.
With the decline of the Roman Empire, and its replacement by various barbarian kingdoms, a general tolerance (with the sole exception of Visigothic Spain) of homosexual acts prevailed. As one prominent scholar puts it, "European secular law contained few measures against homosexuality until the middle of the thirteenth century." (Greenberg, 1988, 260) Even while some Christian theologians continued to denounce nonprocreative sexuality, including same-sex acts, a genre of homophilic literature, especially among the clergy, developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries (Boswell, 1980, chapters 8 and 9).
The latter part of the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, however, saw a sharp rise in intolerance towards homosexual sex, alongside persecution of Jews, Muslims, heretics, and others. While the causes of this are somewhat unclear, it is likely that increased class conflict alongside the Gregorian reform movement in the
I have had some particularly exciting races in Burnout to Burnout:Revenge. I can conclusively say that I'm *not* experiencing what the videogame character would feel (pure terror followed by death and dismemberment) but rather excitment.
Also I've fired a gun, and I've played Quake. I get two very different feelings from both. Perhaps their test subjects weren't "used" to gaming and thus less able to separate the fantasy from the reality?
Why have one? Just to look'n'feel like Adobe? I am not interested in that (and I'm not interested in bringing the Adobe crowd "over" as well, why would I?)
Because if there's one thing OSS does well, it's providing lots of options for the user.
Most of the time, what you're describing isn't streaming, but downloading. Windows media and quicktime both "stream" downloaded content for the user.
Torrenting is the new downloading, if people want to get the latest and greatest on the net then they'll just have to learn how it works. I'm sure that it will just eventually be configured automatically as well though.
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Allegory: Prose or verse in which the objects, events or people are presented symbolically, so that the story conveys a meaning other than and deeper than the actual incident or characters described. Often, the form is used to teach a moral lesson.
The Bible shouldn't be read literally.
For more fun info: http://www.truebiblecode.com/code.html
Oh. And King Kong dies.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/05
As a big fan of replaying old games for nostalgia, will I have to continue to pay a monthly licensing fee to play Ultima 4 or Doom 2 one day?
Nah, you'll just subscribe to Origin RPG Classics for $2.95 per month (including such hits as Ultima 1-6, Tangled Tales, Bad Blood, Times of Lore, 2400 AD and a 15 day trial of Origin Space Combat). iDs Doom 2 will be open source so no problem there.
The great thing will be the fact that game companies will promise full offically written emulation software to go with each subscription. Simulate EGA, VGA, 286, 386, 486. Play the games you love on the dream system you never had, or get that nostalgic feel of playing on your junker of a pc!
Sorry, you can't always be the iPod snob that has the latest and/or greatest and needs to show it off to the lesser peons. Others get a turn too. Turns generally last 1-6 months. It's called Apple Leapfrog, thanks for playing!
So put bookmarks where the tracks start/end. Or only join tracks that go together.
This isn't rocket science people.
Not a concern for this classical listener thanks.
Import (or join) tracks that you want to play without a gap as one mp3. Ding!
If you still want to have the track selection ability, put bookmarks in the mp3 where you want them.
Verbing _words_ weirds language.
In Ultima 7 your character could get various day jobs around Brittania. You could drive goods from farms to cities if you owned a wagon, you could follow a (simple) recipe and bake bread, you could take wheat to a mill and then take the processed flour to a bakery, you could smithy some weapons, etc.
:-)
You couldn't actually open your own shop and get business, so you were restricted to being paid by the item by your boss (or trading partner) NPCs but it was still a great touch of immersion. But what else could you expect from one of the best RPGs ever made?
Where are the "peaceful" muslims?
Exactly how many muslims do you think there are in the world?
The answer: 1.2 billion. That's more than the number of people in China. If they were all violent radicals as you describe we'd be in the midst of a World War III in proportions that would absolutely dwarf WWI and II combined.
The problem with seeing signs from two miles away is that while you are looking off into the distance, you are ignoring the cars around you.
Just because the binoculars would be built into your eyes doesn't mean that you'd be able to see both the far distance and your surroundings at the same time.
Ah. Let's see here. You go from
I suppose I could use something gay like flash or java, but I really wanted this to be a pure site. I thought that it would mean that it was Firefox only. Some friends chided me into trying to make it work with Opera and Konq though...
to
But for IE, we might never need browser specific hackery at all.
I hate IE as much as the next web developer, but double standard much?
BTW, how does using java make a site "impure"? Oh no, a platform independent network oriented high level programming language. Its chicanery will have no place on my 1337 webspace.
Excepting the miracles?
So you're saying the Bible hasn't been proven wrong except for the places that it's been proven wrong that don't count?
Read the book "Misquoting Jesus : the story behind who changed the Bible and why" by Bart D. Ehrman and you'll find a whole bunch of places that the Bible is "wrong" or at least added onto by scribes.
Frex: that story of Jesus telling the mob to "let he who is without sin, cast the first stone" was not in the original texts.
I don't see anywhere in that post where he claimed it was ONLY white christian males that founded the US.
So, what led you to believe that was what he meant?
Oh, nothing much. Just the entire post:
by increased diversity they mean freezing out straight, white, christian males from the country that their straight, white, christian male ancestors founded in order to instill the rights they fought, and many died for, for themselves and their posterity (us). Diversity is just a code word for institutionalized racism against white people.
Sure he didn't say it outright, but you have to admit it's rather heavily implied. You can attempt to insert other groups of people into the phrase "many died for" but that's really pushing it.
Breaking it down:
By increased diversity they mean freezing out [GROUP] from the country that their [GROUP] ancestors founded in order to instill the rights they (note, "they" here does refer back to the noun clause [GROUP]) fought, and many (the many here does not, but by phrasing it is associated with [GROUP]) died for, for themselves (once again referring to [GROUP]) and their ([GROUP]) posterity (us). Diversity is just a code word for institutionalized racism against white people.
Fun!
So use virtual desktops:
Codetek Virtual Desktop Pro. I've moved beyond virtual desktops myself. I used to be incredible anal about my virtual desktops going so far as to label them by program type or even by program. When I switched to OS X from Linux two years ago I was annoyed by the lack of virtual desktops and focus follows mouse, but now with expose and the dock I find virtual desktops clunky and hard to use.
So the Dilbert, "I'm still pumped from using the mouse." quote would actually be heard in real life?
I agree with you.
I was responding to your:
Anyone know of anything additional about this?
Hence the "yes" at the top of my post.
Look, I play RPGs because I want to escape the stress of the real world. Anything that disturbs my immersion into the fantasy world is a bummer.
Perhaps you fail to see that gay people might also want to escape the stress of the real world. Many gay people are still part of very close-minded communities. Can you understand if they want to escape from that real world situation and meet and game with like-minded (or friendly minded) individuals?
I know that the game is supposed to be all about you Dr. V, but when you get a sufficient number of actual people into an online game this kind of "real world" creep is bound to happen.
Think of the small pods (2 gig and down) as miniature radio stations. Don't try to cram a ton of albums on there, but make a smart playlist of 2 gigabytes (or whatever size) of highly rated music (or highly played, or not played in the last two weeks, or any combination, etc.) and have the ipod automatically load that. That's what I do for my 1 gig shuffle.
:-)
But it is nice to also have the 60 gig iPod to tote all of my music around on
Ah, many more groups of people than straight, white, Christian males founded, fought for, died for, and built this great nation. Have you even studied US History? Have you even read a book on US History? Have you even glanced at the United States History wikipedia entry?
The Experience of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages by Paul Halsall, 1988.
Homosexuality.
I have had some particularly exciting races in Burnout to Burnout:Revenge. I can conclusively say that I'm *not* experiencing what the videogame character would feel (pure terror followed by death and dismemberment) but rather excitment.
Also I've fired a gun, and I've played Quake. I get two very different feelings from both. Perhaps their test subjects weren't "used" to gaming and thus less able to separate the fantasy from the reality?
Yeah, with the Cultural Revolution "No Religion" was the idolized religion.
When I first glanced at your post I thought you were talking about the current sad state of FF games (quantity vs. quality).
Given Final Fantasies VIII-present, do you really think that XII will be better?
I'm very happy replaying Final Fantasy IV right now.
Why have one? Just to look'n'feel like Adobe? I am not interested in that (and I'm not interested in bringing the Adobe crowd "over" as well, why would I?)
Because if there's one thing OSS does well, it's providing lots of options for the user.
Most of the time, what you're describing isn't streaming, but downloading. Windows media and quicktime both "stream" downloaded content for the user.
Torrenting is the new downloading, if people want to get the latest and greatest on the net then they'll just have to learn how it works. I'm sure that it will just eventually be configured automatically as well though.