There is no such thing as safe driving with an idiot behind the wheel.
Even then, we have inexperienced drivers which don't cause to many accidents, but cause people to do a lot of idiotic things such as tail gating, illegal passing, honking horns, ect. Perhaps the key to solving the problem is in a reevaluation of the psyche of the human mind?
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NoName
PS: Yes am sleep deprived and put random words together with that last sentence, I think it came out nicely enough.
I know what you mean, its funny when you go from a cold climate in New England down south a bit, and when they get a sudden storm and there is actual snow and ice on the ground. No one but you seems to know what they are doing and you can just see a bunch of people fish tailing here and there and its kinda funny how you can just glide right past them.
That's absurd. If you're old enough to drive, you're old enough to take responsibility for the way you do it. If a parent can't trust her kid to drive responsibly, she shouldn't be letting him drive in the first place.
Have you seen some of these peoples parents?
Also, I lived in New Zealand for awhile, at the time, you could get near a full license I believe at the age of 16. The inexperience of these drivers plus the weird rule of going 100km/hr on the mountain paths [cop said sign = min, 100 = max...]. I lost several friends just from inexperience reckless driving, mostly not their own. The key is a step in the right direction but the parents who need to get it, most likely won't because if they would, they should be able to fix this problem without it.
I'm actually quite paranoid that one might hit me in the eye if I drive with the window down.
two things;
one, paranoid people live longer.
two, its actually costs less fuel to run the AC then to have your windows down when your going at I believe 60MPH, because the wind at that speed actually slows your car enough to need more acceleration.
I have had to pass an idiot on the highway before, was my first time on the highway and my parents were kinda freaked out that I knew how to handle the car at 80+... On the highway and on normal roads the logic is slightly different I've found, I mean the speed limit is 65 normally, but I've passed cops going almost 85, didn't get pulled over because I wasn't being reckless and I was keeping up with the other cars. I normally see them pull people for reckless driving, or going 100+.
Well, if hes to busy wanking off, then he won't have the chance to drive, and therefore less likely chance of crashing into said telephone pole as you said.
But he might try this...
A man in Los Angeles really wants to get into the Playboy Mansion after he tried to ram the front gates twice in one week.
One of my friends have gone 90 in a really old pickup of his families ('91 I believe he said). A cop pulled him over, looked at the vehicle and drove off thinking it had to have been some one else, since it looked like you wouldn't be able to get to 60 in it.
Well, carnival games are gambling as well; you pay money, to play a game, to win a prize, with uncertain outcome. That is basically the definition of gambling.
I mean look at WoW, they had a tournament (a few people I know couldn't shut up about it...) awhile ago, and there was an entry fee. Since that was world wide as well, am guessing this will sneak through one of those loop holes or technicalities that we all so love.
Either way, if they can't control cheating, then it will die. If they can (and I mean real control) then its possible it will survive for some time, possibly start something else off.
Whats that quote, something about setting your eyes beyond the horizon or something...
Perhaps they are trying to extend scope range for the time that they hope bullets can go just as far.
Also, with the article they have a sniper and his spotter as picture at the top; so I am guessing it is for enhanced sniping, but usually its not the image but the distance that is the problem to my knowledge. Either way an advance is an advance, were one step closer to... something.
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I do get sad that I won't learn everything that I can, but then again if I knew everything life would suck. We don't live in a black and white world, we live in a world in between and thus have to find a balance in everything. At times this is not only annoying but hard, yet some how we end up balancing this out as well.
Live your life to the fullest and only look back on the meaning, not the event.
I was just thinking "I really need to start playing Deus Ex". I've always meant too but life just drags you away from epic ness... perhaps it was to prevent me from knowing joy, or perhaps it was to prevent me from feeling depressed if Deus Ex3 fails... suppose we shall soon see.
#3) Some people aren't meant to have kids, at least not yet. Unfortunately you have kids you don't want.
This line made me think of the last frame Classhole.
I'm currently in a programing course with the focus on being a video game programmer, 80% of my class acts like freshmen high school students in a study hall. 90% of my class are commuters from home. A theory we have going with the 20% that are not 'giggly' (if you can use that word to describe a 18+ male), is that they are so immature they would die if they had to live on their own. I'm pretty sure when they (if they ever) get around to having kids, they are going to be on/. disagree mail.
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NoName
PS: And no we have girls in the program just none in my class... yea am that unlucky.
Then we've had a number of clients buying new computers and getting stuck with Vista. Their experiences generally range from bad to just plain horrible.
I agree with this statement, most people I know with vista and like it, only web surf or type up projects. They would be as happy with a Mac as they would be with Vista or XP for that matter. I'm not a big fan of Mac or Vista but that's besides the point. The people I hear have trouble, are trying to get by with a budget computer (min requirements or less) and trying to play games on it (10FPS on low quality any one?), or upgrading a incompatible hardware computer to vista thinking everything would go fine because they spent a lot of money on the computer a month before vista came out, so logically it can run vista (PS: life isn't logical!).
I personally have tried vista, and didn't like it enough to make the change (I love XP and windows 3.11 still). I still can't stand that a lot of people bash Vista for stupid reason mostly; the constant security warnings when ever they open a program (My reply: then turn it off), others bash the UI (then download a mod and change it), even more complain about how their graphic cards can't run the cool DX10 effects (then don't use them or stop being cheap and buy something decent for once).
Offtopic: What will be even funnier is when they then try and change from 32bit vista to a 64bit xp without researching what it means and then find out nothing on their computer works. We need nerds to guide these casual users!!! (with out the intent on making the company the most money ala Fire Dog and Geek Squad; though some really do help but others don't understand the difference between ram and hard drive [go into best buy and pretend your buying a computer, act like a complete idiot and watch how they will do 1 of 3 things, take advantage, make mistakes or actually be of some help])
XKCD comic
Since there is likely a few kids in there that either use online forums or play online games try and use examples that relate to that. My 9 year old nephew has been playing rune scape for a year now and I have just started explaining to him how a computer actually works.
Also, never make another job sound cooler or smarter then yours; " I was also going to talk about what I do specifically, which is maintain the computer systems that allow the really smart rocket scientists to get things into space" this makes your job sound sub par.
Give them a reason to learn what they are learning, I'm not sure what 4th graders are learning any more I remember I was learning mostly the basics of algebra, how to type, basics in english, history, science. Give them directions on if they are interested in computers and possibly software or hardware / IT, where they could go to learn more, maybe an easy programing langue or how to take apart an old computer (every one has one sometime in there life) give them websites, books their local library holds, ect.
Good luck with the presentation and tell us how it went.
I agree to a lot of your statements, but... I want to remind you of Lil poison whom is a amazing video game player and a nice person in general, who also is about 10 now I belive. Its not the age group that matters, but the mental and maturity of said group. I've been gaming since I was two, online since I was 8, one thing that I have trouble with the pay to play, is that you still find the kids and people who say they are better just because. I'll still ptp, and I'll still ftp as well, the biggest thing is gameplay and finding the right people to play with and try and make a network.
As others have said, the game industry has been doing this for awhile. I actually quit playing combat arms a few months ago, its a decent FPS and the money you make in the game (from winning or losing based off of a Kill/Death ratio * win||lose )
Maple story has been around for awhile, its fun and free. the way they make money is selling flair items, and they have made ALOT of money. *to lazy to search and paste urls*.
Other games coming out are BattleField Heros (think battlefield and team fortress 2s art style combined) and quake live ( browser based quake arena or quake 3 [I forget which]).
I cant wait for quake live to come out, they have been beta testing for some time.
Ways of making money for these two, battlefield is going to sell accessories for your characters (yea more flair), but they are also going to sell power ups like double exp from battles so you can catch up (or get ahead, they might put level limits on buying these power ups though) to your friends when you were too busy to play, this is a nice aspect and should sell well.
My favorite way, is quake lives aproach, they are going to have InGame Advertisement. Not pop ups or anything. But during loading screens they are going to have advertisment instead of some sort of screen shot. This means the game is free, fun, makes money, besides, who really cares about the loading screen?
A simple answer would be that there is a flaw with the program and they are trying to cover it up. This is neither truth nor fiction but a concept so don't blow it out of proportion or flame about it.
Yea, disclaimers rock.
"Also, voters wearing paraphernalia, caps, t-shirts and stickers, for candidates to the voting precinct, the board of elections said if poll workers see it, they will throw people out."
quote from article: "However, this model affects a lot more than its running costs and complexity and may be practically required for any successful next-generation PvP based MMO." "Could the single server approach become commonplace in the next generation of PvP-based MMO? I, for one, hope it does."
I played Eve for awhile, it is very cool how so many players in one place just change the approach of tasks which are common place in every MMO it seems. I would love for hardware to get a jump on software right now so we can have more games like this, but I think the only reason why it works well with Eve is the near unending world it has created. In a game like WoW, the ocean is the barrier, in Eve there is so much empty dead space that you can just chill in for hours and see nothing. I think if this was adapted for a land based game, the land would have to be even larger causing busy quests (travel from point a, to b, kill 'tree', travel from point b to c, turn in) would take forever to complete. I could see ways of this working but it is unlikely we will get to see it anytime soon.
To above comments: There was a group that transferred from one MMO to EVE, and took down a high level faction as complete newbs. They did this by rushing one of there big ships, with more starting ships then they could target. They would then literally just keep doing 1 damage till they won.
Also one thing that has attracted so many to Eve, is that casual players have just as much chance as hardcore players to keep up. Since skills are RT, they are both gaining skills at the same rate in a way, allowing casual players to log on, have fun and then just train while they are at work (which a lot of WoW players do, using 3rd party software those cheaters!!! I don't hate you, I just hate the system we chose to live in...). At the same time it allows hardcore players to do what they want. A lot of people in Eve have taken roles such as; trying to take over sectors, assassin guilds, mercs, tradesmen, pirates, police, politics and even spies. Eve has created a wonderful system and we should build off there success in the near future.
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There is no such thing as safe driving with an idiot behind the wheel.
Even then, we have inexperienced drivers which don't cause to many accidents, but cause people to do a lot of idiotic things such as tail gating, illegal passing, honking horns, ect. Perhaps the key to solving the problem is in a reevaluation of the psyche of the human mind?
~
NoName
PS: Yes am sleep deprived and put random words together with that last sentence, I think it came out nicely enough.
~
NoName
That's absurd. If you're old enough to drive, you're old enough to take responsibility for the way you do it. If a parent can't trust her kid to drive responsibly, she shouldn't be letting him drive in the first place.
Have you seen some of these peoples parents?
Also, I lived in New Zealand for awhile, at the time, you could get near a full license I believe at the age of 16. The inexperience of these drivers plus the weird rule of going 100km/hr on the mountain paths [cop said sign = min, 100 = max...]. I lost several friends just from inexperience reckless driving, mostly not their own. The key is a step in the right direction but the parents who need to get it, most likely won't because if they would, they should be able to fix this problem without it.
~
NoName
I find few cars on the highway around 2am usually. Maybe start doing one of those 28 hour day schedules and drive at night? :)
I'm actually quite paranoid that one might hit me in the eye if I drive with the window down.
two things;
one, paranoid people live longer.
two, its actually costs less fuel to run the AC then to have your windows down when your going at I believe 60MPH, because the wind at that speed actually slows your car enough to need more acceleration.
I have had to pass an idiot on the highway before, was my first time on the highway and my parents were kinda freaked out that I knew how to handle the car at 80+... On the highway and on normal roads the logic is slightly different I've found, I mean the speed limit is 65 normally, but I've passed cops going almost 85, didn't get pulled over because I wasn't being reckless and I was keeping up with the other cars. I normally see them pull people for reckless driving, or going 100+.
~
NoName
But he might try this...
A man in Los Angeles really wants to get into the Playboy Mansion after he tried to ram the front gates twice in one week.
Which in turn would be both at once...
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NoName
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NoName
I mean look at WoW, they had a tournament (a few people I know couldn't shut up about it...) awhile ago, and there was an entry fee. Since that was world wide as well, am guessing this will sneak through one of those loop holes or technicalities that we all so love.
Either way, if they can't control cheating, then it will die. If they can (and I mean real control) then its possible it will survive for some time, possibly start something else off.
~
NoName
Perhaps they are trying to extend scope range for the time that they hope bullets can go just as far.
Also, with the article they have a sniper and his spotter as picture at the top; so I am guessing it is for enhanced sniping, but usually its not the image but the distance that is the problem to my knowledge. Either way an advance is an advance, were one step closer to... something.
~
NoName
Live your life to the fullest and only look back on the meaning, not the event.
~
NoName
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NoName
Also since history repeats, so do weapons, they just get energy generators.
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NoName
#3) Some people aren't meant to have kids, at least not yet. Unfortunately you have kids you don't want.
This line made me think of the last frame Classhole.
I'm currently in a programing course with the focus on being a video game programmer, 80% of my class acts like freshmen high school students in a study hall. 90% of my class are commuters from home. A theory we have going with the 20% that are not 'giggly' (if you can use that word to describe a 18+ male), is that they are so immature they would die if they had to live on their own. I'm pretty sure when they (if they ever) get around to having kids, they are going to be on /. disagree mail.
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NoName
PS: And no we have girls in the program just none in my class... yea am that unlucky.
he doesn't sleep, he waits.
Also if she is a waitress then it is defiantly Chuck.
Chuck Norris once ate three 72 oz. steaks in one hour. He spent the first 45 minutes having sex with his waitress.
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NoName
PS: And yes... I had to bring a Chuck Norris joke into this.
Then we've had a number of clients buying new computers and getting stuck with Vista. Their experiences generally range from bad to just plain horrible.
I agree with this statement, most people I know with vista and like it, only web surf or type up projects. They would be as happy with a Mac as they would be with Vista or XP for that matter. I'm not a big fan of Mac or Vista but that's besides the point. The people I hear have trouble, are trying to get by with a budget computer (min requirements or less) and trying to play games on it (10FPS on low quality any one?), or upgrading a incompatible hardware computer to vista thinking everything would go fine because they spent a lot of money on the computer a month before vista came out, so logically it can run vista (PS: life isn't logical!).
I personally have tried vista, and didn't like it enough to make the change (I love XP and windows 3.11 still). I still can't stand that a lot of people bash Vista for stupid reason mostly; the constant security warnings when ever they open a program (My reply: then turn it off), others bash the UI (then download a mod and change it), even more complain about how their graphic cards can't run the cool DX10 effects (then don't use them or stop being cheap and buy something decent for once).
Offtopic: What will be even funnier is when they then try and change from 32bit vista to a 64bit xp without researching what it means and then find out nothing on their computer works. We need nerds to guide these casual users!!! (with out the intent on making the company the most money ala Fire Dog and Geek Squad; though some really do help but others don't understand the difference between ram and hard drive [go into best buy and pretend your buying a computer, act like a complete idiot and watch how they will do 1 of 3 things, take advantage, make mistakes or actually be of some help]) XKCD comic
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Noname
Since there is likely a few kids in there that either use online forums or play online games try and use examples that relate to that. My 9 year old nephew has been playing rune scape for a year now and I have just started explaining to him how a computer actually works.
Also, never make another job sound cooler or smarter then yours;
" I was also going to talk about what I do specifically, which is maintain the computer systems that allow the really smart rocket scientists to get things into space"
this makes your job sound sub par.
Give them a reason to learn what they are learning, I'm not sure what 4th graders are learning any more I remember I was learning mostly the basics of algebra, how to type, basics in english, history, science. Give them directions on if they are interested in computers and possibly software or hardware / IT, where they could go to learn more, maybe an easy programing langue or how to take apart an old computer (every one has one sometime in there life) give them websites, books their local library holds, ect.
Good luck with the presentation and tell us how it went.
~~NoName
I agree to a lot of your statements, but... I want to remind you of Lil poison whom is a amazing video game player and a nice person in general, who also is about 10 now I belive. Its not the age group that matters, but the mental and maturity of said group. I've been gaming since I was two, online since I was 8, one thing that I have trouble with the pay to play, is that you still find the kids and people who say they are better just because. I'll still ptp, and I'll still ftp as well, the biggest thing is gameplay and finding the right people to play with and try and make a network.
As others have said, the game industry has been doing this for awhile. I actually quit playing combat arms a few months ago, its a decent FPS and the money you make in the game (from winning or losing based off of a Kill/Death ratio * win||lose )
Maple story has been around for awhile, its fun and free. the way they make money is selling flair items, and they have made ALOT of money. *to lazy to search and paste urls*.
Other games coming out are BattleField Heros (think battlefield and team fortress 2s art style combined) and quake live ( browser based quake arena or quake 3 [I forget which]).
I cant wait for quake live to come out, they have been beta testing for some time.
Ways of making money for these two, battlefield is going to sell accessories for your characters (yea more flair), but they are also going to sell power ups like double exp from battles so you can catch up (or get ahead, they might put level limits on buying these power ups though) to your friends when you were too busy to play, this is a nice aspect and should sell well.
My favorite way, is quake lives aproach, they are going to have InGame Advertisement. Not pop ups or anything. But during loading screens they are going to have advertisment instead of some sort of screen shot. This means the game is free, fun, makes money, besides, who really cares about the loading screen?
A simple answer would be that there is a flaw with the program and they are trying to cover it up. This is neither truth nor fiction but a concept so don't blow it out of proportion or flame about it.
Yea, disclaimers rock.
"Also, voters wearing paraphernalia, caps, t-shirts and stickers, for candidates to the voting precinct, the board of elections said if poll workers see it, they will throw people out."
This is kinda both lame and dumb.
quote from article: "However, this model affects a lot more than its running costs and complexity and may be practically required for any successful next-generation PvP based MMO."
"Could the single server approach become commonplace in the next generation of PvP-based MMO? I, for one, hope it does."
I played Eve for awhile, it is very cool how so many players in one place just change the approach of tasks which are common place in every MMO it seems. I would love for hardware to get a jump on software right now so we can have more games like this, but I think the only reason why it works well with Eve is the near unending world it has created. In a game like WoW, the ocean is the barrier, in Eve there is so much empty dead space that you can just chill in for hours and see nothing. I think if this was adapted for a land based game, the land would have to be even larger causing busy quests (travel from point a, to b, kill 'tree', travel from point b to c, turn in) would take forever to complete. I could see ways of this working but it is unlikely we will get to see it anytime soon.
To above comments:
There was a group that transferred from one MMO to EVE, and took down a high level faction as complete newbs. They did this by rushing one of there big ships, with more starting ships then they could target. They would then literally just keep doing 1 damage till they won.
Also one thing that has attracted so many to Eve, is that casual players have just as much chance as hardcore players to keep up. Since skills are RT, they are both gaining skills at the same rate in a way, allowing casual players to log on, have fun and then just train while they are at work (which a lot of WoW players do, using 3rd party software those cheaters!!! I don't hate you, I just hate the system we chose to live in...). At the same time it allows hardcore players to do what they want. A lot of people in Eve have taken roles such as; trying to take over sectors, assassin guilds, mercs, tradesmen, pirates, police, politics and even spies. Eve has created a wonderful system and we should build off there success in the near future.
~~Noname