You know enough to be dangerous. Yes biodiversity was higher in the distance past when the Earth was warmer, but even more telling is what happened in the distant past when the Earth warmed at a very fast rate. The Permian–Triassic extinction was likely caused by an approximately 10 degree warming event that took place over tens of thousands of years. That lead to the extinction of almost all life on Earth. The current warming trend that the Earth is in is much faster than the trend associated with the Permian-Triassic extinction, and the obvious concern should be that this will lead to an even larger extinction event than the Permian-Triassic extinction. Plants can only migrate at a certain rate. Similarly for animals. Most won't be able to adapt, causing ecosystem failures. Maybe 99.9% of life will go extinct, who knows. Let's just dive right in!
Random fact: You can easily spot the Permian-Triassic sediment deposits because there are two layers: (i) the Permian layer is loaded with fossils, and (ii) the next layer has only sand stone. Why? When almost all of the plants and animals die, all that is left is a giant dust bowl.
Strongly statically typed languages tend to generate faster, more correct machine code. Thanks to type inference and soft typing, such languages also do not require more coding because types do not have to be written by the programmer (type inference) and type errors do not need to be worked around if the code is in fact correct (soft typing). In fact, soft typing demonstrates that the distinction between static and dynamic typing can be blurred.
So on what grounds do you make the claim that strongly statically typed languages are not objectively better?
In the West, the bigots claim that the Muslims are trying to ruin your life. In the Middle East, the bigots claim that the Zionists are trying to ruin your life. You should know that life is a little more complicated than Muslims and Zionists.
Such large movements are not accurate at all, because they require the gamer to move the mouse with elbow and shoulder movements, as opposed to just using their fingertips. I guess with FPS games getting slower and slower, it may be becoming very popular to use a very low sensitivity, but for faster games like the original Quake, high sensitivity will always be king.
The emphasis on "perfect control" is silly. Users should not need to move their mouse fast enough to the point where these perfect control numbers matter. The more important measurements are sample rate and DPI. The higher, the better for both, as it makes mouse movement smoother since the mouse updates come in faster and they don't need to be enlarged as much, which reduces "laggy" and "jaggy" mouse movement. This means that the Fatal1ty 2020 mouse is the current best, assuming the ergonomic aspects are to your liking.
VMware's ESX Server packaging of their virtualization technology includes a stripped down kernel that is basically designed to only run virtualizers. So you get improved performance and reliability due to the simplified host OS. More at the Wikipedia page for VMware.
Anybody who argues that, due to terrorism, our country should compromise its most important ideals, is a person that appeases terrorists with their fear.
Your post seems to imply that a Christian or a Muslim is inferior because of the bad deeds of other Christians or Muslims. Shouldn't we be judging people on an individual basis?
Are Jews and non-Jews given the same opportunity in Israel for immigration and citizenship? No. Can a Jew and a non-Jew be legally married in Israel? No. If an Israeli Muslim marries a Palestinian, can the Palestinian gain Israeli citizenship? No. There are many laws in Israel that discriminate against non-Jews. Most of these laws are in place due to Israel's official stated purpose: to forever remain a Jewish nation. If Jews and non-Jews were given total equality, then more non-Jews would immigrate than Jews, more non-Jews would be born than Jews, etc... The population, culuture, and government would slowly become non-Jewish.
Compare that with the USA. The first ammendment alone forbids such laws. So the USA is secular, while Israel is not. This isn't talked about much in the West, because criticizing Israel is not politically correct in many Western nations, especially the USA.
To this day, does Texas continue to expand its borders deeper into Mexico? To this day, Israel continues to expand its borders deeper into Arab land. So your comparison does not hold. If Texas continued to take Mexican land, to this very day, you can bet there would be some kind of militant conflict, just as there was conflict when Texas originally took land from Mexico.
Israel commits no crimes? Israel continues to trespass on and steal Arab land. In, Texas, for example, it is legal to shoot somebody that trespasses on your land. Apparently many Arabs hold the same principle. What would America do if armed settlers from Iran started colonizing the most valuable parts of the USA?
I stand corrected on the makeup of the Supreme Court. However, I still think that the best vote for somebody that doesn't care for either party, is to vote for a split government, i.e., vote for checks and balances. Voting for a third party is throwing your vote away, but voting for checks and balances is voting to stop the government from doing too much bad stuff.
The best vote that you can make when you don't care for either the Democrat or Republican candidate is to vote in a way that will cause the government to become divided. In other words, you want to try to elect people in a way that the different branches of government are controlled by different parties. That way the checks and balances will keep the government from doing too much damage, as it keeps the branches fighting eachother as opposed to fighting its citizens. Right now the Republicans control the legislative and executive branches of the federal government. The Supreme Court is still roughly 50/50 Rep/Dem.
Hence the best option in this upcoming election, if you don't care for either party, is to give the Democrats a very small majority of the House and Senate. That way the executive branch would be 100% Republican, the legislative branch would be %40 Republican, and the Supreme Court would be 50% Republican. While voting this way is not ideal, it is better than not voting at all. Furthermore, our country was founded on the idea of a government consisting of checks and balances. If you believe in that ideal, then VOTE FOR CHECKS AND BALANCES!
In 2008, if you still don't like what is going on, then continue to vote in a way that keeps control of the government split between parties.
If you used to play QW allot, then you should get back into it. It doesn't take up much space on your hard drive, and it is a great game for quick pick-me-up play sessions. Modern clients are also pretty slick these days. Most have a built in server browser, in addition to improvements to the user interface and the eye candy.
The only thing to be aware of is the fact that there are people that have been playing Quake multiplayer non-stop for 10 years, and they have refined their skills to something that has to be seen to be believed. This applies to both DM and to TF.
You make all of these grand claims about the quality of the Wii's emulation, when all that they have demonstrated is that their emulation can run games that any crap emulator for the PC can easily run. You can bet that Nintendo will only emulate a very small fraction of every game available for their previous systems.
In fact, you have probably never even played emulated games on an Xbox, let alone have you played them on the Wii. I have played them on the Xbox, I know what it is like. I can also deduce that the Wii will not emulate every game that is emulated on the Xbox. Hence my conclusion is drawn from the facts, while yours is imagined. Fanboys do that.
Cart dumpers for 16-bit generation consoles have been available online, every year, for at least 10 years now. GBA kits are easier to find, but tototek, rob webb, lik-sang, and many others have been (and some still do) sell 16-bit generation copiers.
Could all 10 players play Atomic Bomberman on the same big screen TV? Saturn Bomberman can. Also, Saturn Bomberman also supported multiplayer over the internet via Netlink. Still, Bomberman is best played with everybody on the same sofa, playing on the same big screen TV. It is the original party video game....well technically that title probably goes to MULE.
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You know enough to be dangerous. Yes biodiversity was higher in the distance past when the Earth was warmer, but even more telling is what happened in the distant past when the Earth warmed at a very fast rate. The Permian–Triassic extinction was likely caused by an approximately 10 degree warming event that took place over tens of thousands of years. That lead to the extinction of almost all life on Earth. The current warming trend that the Earth is in is much faster than the trend associated with the Permian-Triassic extinction, and the obvious concern should be that this will lead to an even larger extinction event than the Permian-Triassic extinction. Plants can only migrate at a certain rate. Similarly for animals. Most won't be able to adapt, causing ecosystem failures. Maybe 99.9% of life will go extinct, who knows. Let's just dive right in!
Random fact: You can easily spot the Permian-Triassic sediment deposits because there are two layers: (i) the Permian layer is loaded with fossils, and (ii) the next layer has only sand stone. Why? When almost all of the plants and animals die, all that is left is a giant dust bowl.
Strongly statically typed languages tend to generate faster, more correct machine code. Thanks to type inference and soft typing, such languages also do not require more coding because types do not have to be written by the programmer (type inference) and type errors do not need to be worked around if the code is in fact correct (soft typing). In fact, soft typing demonstrates that the distinction between static and dynamic typing can be blurred.
So on what grounds do you make the claim that strongly statically typed languages are not objectively better?
In the West, the bigots claim that the Muslims are trying to ruin your life. In the Middle East, the bigots claim that the Zionists are trying to ruin your life. You should know that life is a little more complicated than Muslims and Zionists.
Why should the government be able to stop a message that somebody else sends to their friends?
Performance isn't everything, but then again, when you are 400 times slower than Java... performance starts to matter.
My Xbox can show me the weather, youtube, movie trailers, and it can play just about every classic video game for the NES, SNES, Genesis, etc.
Such large movements are not accurate at all, because they require the gamer to move the mouse with elbow and shoulder movements, as opposed to just using their fingertips. I guess with FPS games getting slower and slower, it may be becoming very popular to use a very low sensitivity, but for faster games like the original Quake, high sensitivity will always be king.
The emphasis on "perfect control" is silly. Users should not need to move their mouse fast enough to the point where these perfect control numbers matter. The more important measurements are sample rate and DPI. The higher, the better for both, as it makes mouse movement smoother since the mouse updates come in faster and they don't need to be enlarged as much, which reduces "laggy" and "jaggy" mouse movement. This means that the Fatal1ty 2020 mouse is the current best, assuming the ergonomic aspects are to your liking.
What you describe is ethnic cleansing via genocide. You can also ethnically cleanse a land by forcing people of a certain ethnicity to leave a region.
VMware's ESX Server packaging of their virtualization technology includes a stripped down kernel that is basically designed to only run virtualizers. So you get improved performance and reliability due to the simplified host OS. More at the Wikipedia page for VMware.
Anybody who argues that, due to terrorism, our country should compromise its most important ideals, is a person that appeases terrorists with their fear.
Your post seems to imply that a Christian or a Muslim is inferior because of the bad deeds of other Christians or Muslims. Shouldn't we be judging people on an individual basis?
Are Jews and non-Jews given the same opportunity in Israel for immigration and citizenship? No. Can a Jew and a non-Jew be legally married in Israel? No. If an Israeli Muslim marries a Palestinian, can the Palestinian gain Israeli citizenship? No. There are many laws in Israel that discriminate against non-Jews. Most of these laws are in place due to Israel's official stated purpose: to forever remain a Jewish nation. If Jews and non-Jews were given total equality, then more non-Jews would immigrate than Jews, more non-Jews would be born than Jews, etc... The population, culuture, and government would slowly become non-Jewish.
Compare that with the USA. The first ammendment alone forbids such laws. So the USA is secular, while Israel is not. This isn't talked about much in the West, because criticizing Israel is not politically correct in many Western nations, especially the USA.
To this day, does Texas continue to expand its borders deeper into Mexico? To this day, Israel continues to expand its borders deeper into Arab land. So your comparison does not hold. If Texas continued to take Mexican land, to this very day, you can bet there would be some kind of militant conflict, just as there was conflict when Texas originally took land from Mexico.
Israel commits no crimes? Israel continues to trespass on and steal Arab land. In, Texas, for example, it is legal to shoot somebody that trespasses on your land. Apparently many Arabs hold the same principle. What would America do if armed settlers from Iran started colonizing the most valuable parts of the USA?
I stand corrected on the makeup of the Supreme Court. However, I still think that the best vote for somebody that doesn't care for either party, is to vote for a split government, i.e., vote for checks and balances. Voting for a third party is throwing your vote away, but voting for checks and balances is voting to stop the government from doing too much bad stuff.
The best vote that you can make when you don't care for either the Democrat or Republican candidate is to vote in a way that will cause the government to become divided. In other words, you want to try to elect people in a way that the different branches of government are controlled by different parties. That way the checks and balances will keep the government from doing too much damage, as it keeps the branches fighting eachother as opposed to fighting its citizens. Right now the Republicans control the legislative and executive branches of the federal government. The Supreme Court is still roughly 50/50 Rep/Dem.
Hence the best option in this upcoming election, if you don't care for either party, is to give the Democrats a very small majority of the House and Senate. That way the executive branch would be 100% Republican, the legislative branch would be %40 Republican, and the Supreme Court would be 50% Republican. While voting this way is not ideal, it is better than not voting at all. Furthermore, our country was founded on the idea of a government consisting of checks and balances. If you believe in that ideal, then VOTE FOR CHECKS AND BALANCES!
In 2008, if you still don't like what is going on, then continue to vote in a way that keeps control of the government split between parties.
You are confusing component with composite. There is a world of difference.
I thought Zoroastrians were Iranian, i.e., not Arab.
If you used to play QW allot, then you should get back into it. It doesn't take up much space on your hard drive, and it is a great game for quick pick-me-up play sessions. Modern clients are also pretty slick these days. Most have a built in server browser, in addition to improvements to the user interface and the eye candy.
The only thing to be aware of is the fact that there are people that have been playing Quake multiplayer non-stop for 10 years, and they have refined their skills to something that has to be seen to be believed. This applies to both DM and to TF.
Take a time out and step back and listen to yourself. 60 years ago you'd be claiming that you can't trust the scientists because "they are Jews".
Both Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. were released on standalone carts for the NES.
You make all of these grand claims about the quality of the Wii's emulation, when all that they have demonstrated is that their emulation can run games that any crap emulator for the PC can easily run. You can bet that Nintendo will only emulate a very small fraction of every game available for their previous systems.
In fact, you have probably never even played emulated games on an Xbox, let alone have you played them on the Wii. I have played them on the Xbox, I know what it is like. I can also deduce that the Wii will not emulate every game that is emulated on the Xbox. Hence my conclusion is drawn from the facts, while yours is imagined. Fanboys do that.
Cart dumpers for 16-bit generation consoles have been available online, every year, for at least 10 years now. GBA kits are easier to find, but tototek, rob webb, lik-sang, and many others have been (and some still do) sell 16-bit generation copiers.
Could all 10 players play Atomic Bomberman on the same big screen TV? Saturn Bomberman can. Also, Saturn Bomberman also supported multiplayer over the internet via Netlink. Still, Bomberman is best played with everybody on the same sofa, playing on the same big screen TV. It is the original party video game. ...well technically that title probably goes to MULE.