I don't know. I'd think the prison version of "dating" would not be to too many people's liking. In many ways prison is nice: it's got free room and board, reading material; if it weren't for the other prisoners, it'd be paradise.
We can read where it says 'RPG' on the fucking game box and comprehend that it isn't going to be like CS or Quake.
*You* may not be retarded, but I heard a hell of a lot of whining about Mass Effect having "too much dialogue." Along with the complaints like "Why can't I hit what I'm aiming at?" maybe you should consider that not everyone reads the label, and just thinks "ooh, FPS" when they see a screenshot like the ones we've seen to date.
The dialogue trees are generally better in FO2, and the free-form play is on better display there as well.
If you do pick up FO2, make sure to get the unofficial Fallout 2 patch (on top of the 1.02 patch if you didn't buy version 1.02) as it fixes most of the quirks in the second game.
More seriously, Fallout was one of the truly great RPGs, particularly in the level of freedom it afforded you. I spent the better part of a summer break playing Fallout 2, over and over, in different permutations. I know I still missed maybe 5% of the missions, including an enormous conspiracy tying New Reno, NCR and Vault City together which my friend found and I only saw the edges of. I'm simultaneously excited about the release, while dreading the possibility that Bethesda screwed it up.
I was referring to his time in the Illinois State Senate. There are 59 state senators, serving a population of around 13 million. The terms are somewhat confusing, but usually if you call out "State Senator" you mean local, while Senator by itself means U.S. Senator. And no, I have no idea what the rules are for capitalizing the words, and I don't care to look them up right now.
D'oh! I hadn't even realized the grammatical ambiguity there. Sorry about that. I may lean left, but I try not to make unwarranted attacks on politicians of either stripe.
I don't have those sorts of numbers. Not posted all that frequently. But from the medical records we have seen he appears to be in fairly good health for a man his age. If he wasn't, we'd be hearing it every five seconds from the less restrained Democrats.
Except he wasn't even charged (your link is full of speculation that is 7 months out of date). It's guilt by association, with no evidence of any impropriety. Despite what people may think, there is no crime in charging too little for land. Palin and McCain both have more substantial black marks on their records. While I'm sure McCain would love to talk about Rezko more, he knows Obama has been holding Keating Five in reserve for just such an occasion.
For most of that time she served on the City Council and later as Mayor of Wasilla, a town of between 5400 and 8400 people, depending on which estimates you look at. She spent 2003-2004 as a political appointee on Alaska's Oil & Gas Commision before resigning due to corruption, then ran for governor in 2006.
Being a council member or mayor of a town that small isn't in the same league as even a state senator position. Even when Obama was just a state senator he was representing a little under 220,000 people (calculated from population of Illinois over number of senators). Palin's experience as governor helps, but that experience only covers two years.
At age 72, expected lifespan is another 11.2 years (and those numbers are from 1996, it maybe be a few years longer now). If the skin cancer recurs, he's in worse shape, but dying in the next 4-8 years is not a foregone conclusion. Now, you aren't necessarily compos mentis that whole period, but we've established that that is not a requirement to be president.
GPU performance is geared towards floating point and massively parallel operations on small numbers. Unfortunately, neither of those characteristics are particularly handy for dealing with large primes.
Even in the general computing scenarios where they are useful, they are frequently wasting a lot of resources to accomplish the task. The Folding@Home team has noted that due to poor random access performance it is usually more efficient to recompute values than to retrieve them from memory. In practice, this means the seemingly awesome power of the GPU is often reduced by orders of magnitude relative to an equivalent ops/sec rating on a CPU.
Claiming that wind power isn't derived from an external source is somewhat inaccurate. Wind is generated by uneven heating of the Earth's surface and atmosphere. Wind power is just one level of indirection from solar. Same goes for hydroelectric. And all of them, solar included (the act of capturing the heat alters wind patterns too), could have unpredictable effects. I wouldn't put all your eggs in the solar basket. But combine some of each, in proportion to the damage they do and to cover each others weaknesses (solar and wind are often collected under diametrically opposed conditions), and you end up with stable, relatively non-destructive way to fully tap the "free" energy around us.
Oh, and the worry about tidal is plain silly. By the same logic, if people decided to improve solar efficiency by covering the sky in solar absorbing satellites we'd all freeze to death. There is *far* too much coastline to effectively tap any measurable percentage of the Earth's tidal energy, no matter how efficient a particular generator is.
Since when was I arguing party affiliation? We're talking about a specific set of issues not closely associated with either party. Both Democrats and Republicans have members on both sides of the Net Neutrality issues.
I just drove cross country (from Seattle to D.C.). Illinois, Indiana and Ohio all use toll roads. The Midwest is not uniquely different from anywhere else; toll roads are a state policy, not a way of life.
And look at it this way: Cheney aside, a VP has relatively little sway over policy, particularly when compared to a committee head in the Senate. So voting Biden into the vice presidency reduces his ability to push anti-Net Neutrality legislation.
What else do you have to compare it to? How many buildings have you seen destroyed in some way *other* than controlled demolition?
People say it looked like a controlled demolition, but the central buildings did a lot of damage to the surrounding buildings as well. Perhaps the difference between controlled and uncontrolled isn't how it looks at a macro scale, but how much collateral damage is done by the smaller bit of debris coming off it?
Although many of them are doing well on the basis of something *other* than their news business. The Washington Post for instance makes very little money on their news business, but they make the big bucks on their Kaplan Test Prep business. (Their most recent annual profits report had the overall profit down 39% even though Kaplan more than pulled its weight with 14% increase in sales). The New York Times, arguably the most well known and respected paper in the country, had profits drops over 80% in the past year (they also own about.com, no idea how their income stream breaks down). While both of them are still in the black, it's not hard to see where a lot of less well known papers would have serious problems.
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I don't know. I'd think the prison version of "dating" would not be to too many people's liking. In many ways prison is nice: it's got free room and board, reading material; if it weren't for the other prisoners, it'd be paradise.
We can read where it says 'RPG' on the fucking game box and comprehend that it isn't going to be like CS or Quake.
*You* may not be retarded, but I heard a hell of a lot of whining about Mass Effect having "too much dialogue." Along with the complaints like "Why can't I hit what I'm aiming at?" maybe you should consider that not everyone reads the label, and just thinks "ooh, FPS" when they see a screenshot like the ones we've seen to date.
The dialogue trees are generally better in FO2, and the free-form play is on better display there as well.
If you do pick up FO2, make sure to get the unofficial Fallout 2 patch (on top of the 1.02 patch if you didn't buy version 1.02) as it fixes most of the quirks in the second game.
More seriously, Fallout was one of the truly great RPGs, particularly in the level of freedom it afforded you. I spent the better part of a summer break playing Fallout 2, over and over, in different permutations. I know I still missed maybe 5% of the missions, including an enormous conspiracy tying New Reno, NCR and Vault City together which my friend found and I only saw the edges of. I'm simultaneously excited about the release, while dreading the possibility that Bethesda screwed it up.
*drools*
I was referring to his time in the Illinois State Senate. There are 59 state senators, serving a population of around 13 million. The terms are somewhat confusing, but usually if you call out "State Senator" you mean local, while Senator by itself means U.S. Senator. And no, I have no idea what the rules are for capitalizing the words, and I don't care to look them up right now.
D'oh! I hadn't even realized the grammatical ambiguity there. Sorry about that. I may lean left, but I try not to make unwarranted attacks on politicians of either stripe.
I don't have those sorts of numbers. Not posted all that frequently. But from the medical records we have seen he appears to be in fairly good health for a man his age. If he wasn't, we'd be hearing it every five seconds from the less restrained Democrats.
It was an abbreviated story on the front page, and now it's expanded. It's not buried.
Except he wasn't even charged (your link is full of speculation that is 7 months out of date). It's guilt by association, with no evidence of any impropriety. Despite what people may think, there is no crime in charging too little for land. Palin and McCain both have more substantial black marks on their records. While I'm sure McCain would love to talk about Rezko more, he knows Obama has been holding Keating Five in reserve for just such an occasion.
For most of that time she served on the City Council and later as Mayor of Wasilla, a town of between 5400 and 8400 people, depending on which estimates you look at. She spent 2003-2004 as a political appointee on Alaska's Oil & Gas Commision before resigning due to corruption, then ran for governor in 2006.
Being a council member or mayor of a town that small isn't in the same league as even a state senator position. Even when Obama was just a state senator he was representing a little under 220,000 people (calculated from population of Illinois over number of senators). Palin's experience as governor helps, but that experience only covers two years.
At age 72, expected lifespan is another 11.2 years (and those numbers are from 1996, it maybe be a few years longer now). If the skin cancer recurs, he's in worse shape, but dying in the next 4-8 years is not a foregone conclusion. Now, you aren't necessarily compos mentis that whole period, but we've established that that is not a requirement to be president.
GPU performance is geared towards floating point and massively parallel operations on small numbers. Unfortunately, neither of those characteristics are particularly handy for dealing with large primes.
Even in the general computing scenarios where they are useful, they are frequently wasting a lot of resources to accomplish the task. The Folding@Home team has noted that due to poor random access performance it is usually more efficient to recompute values than to retrieve them from memory. In practice, this means the seemingly awesome power of the GPU is often reduced by orders of magnitude relative to an equivalent ops/sec rating on a CPU.
Claiming that wind power isn't derived from an external source is somewhat inaccurate. Wind is generated by uneven heating of the Earth's surface and atmosphere. Wind power is just one level of indirection from solar. Same goes for hydroelectric. And all of them, solar included (the act of capturing the heat alters wind patterns too), could have unpredictable effects. I wouldn't put all your eggs in the solar basket. But combine some of each, in proportion to the damage they do and to cover each others weaknesses (solar and wind are often collected under diametrically opposed conditions), and you end up with stable, relatively non-destructive way to fully tap the "free" energy around us.
Oh, and the worry about tidal is plain silly. By the same logic, if people decided to improve solar efficiency by covering the sky in solar absorbing satellites we'd all freeze to death. There is *far* too much coastline to effectively tap any measurable percentage of the Earth's tidal energy, no matter how efficient a particular generator is.
Since when was I arguing party affiliation? We're talking about a specific set of issues not closely associated with either party. Both Democrats and Republicans have members on both sides of the Net Neutrality issues.
Umm... Did you read my post? That's exactly what I was saying. He has more power as a Senator than he would as VP.
Yeah, but a brown lawn doesn't exactly conceal your identity last I checked.
I just drove cross country (from Seattle to D.C.). Illinois, Indiana and Ohio all use toll roads. The Midwest is not uniquely different from anywhere else; toll roads are a state policy, not a way of life.
And look at it this way:
Cheney aside, a VP has relatively little sway over policy, particularly when compared to a committee head in the Senate. So voting Biden into the vice presidency reduces his ability to push anti-Net Neutrality legislation.
You do realize that most of the standard formats you mentioned aren't really designed for live streaming, right?
Ah, but she's not distracted or threatened (we assume) so she can just take 10.
If you're wondering, yes, I do feel geeky for remembering that without having looked at a D&D source book in the past 5 years.
What else do you have to compare it to? How many buildings have you seen destroyed in some way *other* than controlled demolition?
People say it looked like a controlled demolition, but the central buildings did a lot of damage to the surrounding buildings as well. Perhaps the difference between controlled and uncontrolled isn't how it looks at a macro scale, but how much collateral damage is done by the smaller bit of debris coming off it?
Although many of them are doing well on the basis of something *other* than their news business. The Washington Post for instance makes very little money on their news business, but they make the big bucks on their Kaplan Test Prep business. (Their most recent annual profits report had the overall profit down 39% even though Kaplan more than pulled its weight with 14% increase in sales). The New York Times, arguably the most well known and respected paper in the country, had profits drops over 80% in the past year (they also own about.com, no idea how their income stream breaks down). While both of them are still in the black, it's not hard to see where a lot of less well known papers would have serious problems.
You only used "Smart userbase" to suck up to the moderators. Admit it.
Technically, that would be rule 35.