While I never played Tunnel Runner (was probably a bit before my time) I have to say thanks for reminding me of a game I did play a lot of when I was little http://www.mobygames.com/game/tunnels-of-armageddon Tunnels of Armageddon. Wasn't released until 89, but the tunnel bits still look similar.
Seems to me that it is impossible to verify that the machine analysis is correct, only that it matches the analysis done by a trained human. Proving correct attribution would require either a signature on each piece or the testimony of the original artisans.
Well see you just didn't read the whole article. Step two involves bringing to life and asking an army of zombie stonecutters.
While I agree that no LAN is a dumb move, I disagree with the inability for people to reliably host large numbers of people on a home connection. I used to have LANs of Day of Defeat with 5-15 people all the time on a regular home Comcast connection where we would all hop in the same server and play online. This was several years ago and we are talking about a FPS which can hold many more people than a RTS. I am sure most home net speeds have improved since then and most RTS is going to be 1v1, 2v2, or 4v4. We had more than that.
I still think no LAN is a dumb idea, I just don't buy into this we can't have multiple people playing from one connection thing. Heck I did regular StarCraft games online where our team would all be at my place back when I had dual chan ISDN (though that was pretty fast for a home connection back then).
Why would the people revolt? I'd be willing to bet most Chinese citizens think these restrictions are reasonable.
It's one of those "common sense" type ideas in Western nations that everybody wants a democracy and that everybody wants nearly unlimited personal freedom. It's simply not true. Many (maybe most) Chinese people not only approve of some limits on speech and civil liberties but think the government may not be going far enough. Many of my co-workers are Chinese citizens, and they are just as happy to have the government set ridiculous (by Western standards) limits on civil liberties, tell people what an ideal society looks like, and go along happily, as long as there's food on the table, taxes are low (or non-existent), and the occasional corrupt official is put in prison/sentenced to death. So what if the government owns most major businesses and that the low taxes are a result of not giving the people a chance to share in the wealth? The biggest complaints I've heard from them over the last year have been that the US needs to butt out and that food prices have been too high (mainly because the standard of living is going up).
High minded ideals are great for students, but the people living over there (and here, for that matter) are more concerned with being fed, with educating/raising their children, and with getting on without too much trouble.
That sounds much more like a hierarchy of needs thing than a real ideology. If you are worried about food on the table, safety, and having enough money to get by then obviously personal freedom takes a back seat. If you, on the other hand, have all or most of the above then you might start to care more about other things.
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I can't speak on Iraq, but WWII isn't a good example. A lot of disarming / gun control did occur there. I am not saying it would have made a difference, but I will say that is a bad example because "They gunna take our guns and then they gonna come fer us!" did sort of go on there.
Also WWII leaders like Hitler change things. For example Ghandi style non-violent civil disobedience can work in many situations, but I don't think it would have been even remotely effective against a leader who has a goal of genocide. That doesn't mean it is never a viable approach.
Microsoft is still selling Xbox systems as a loss, but do you know why the keep doing it?
Actually I think you are confusing Microsoft with Sony. Unless the recent price cuts changed this, Microsoft has been making money on 360 sales for a very long time now. It is Sony that still eats a huge loss on each system sold.
So a $1000 i7 Extreme is an easy choice over a $250 Phenom II 955?
AMD in a heartbeat
Why exactly are you comparing an extreme model to a Phenom? The Extremes are sort of an outlier. Also it is all relative. For a 'high end desktop processor' I would take a $180ish E8400 over a $200ish X4 940. Then again if you are really using a lot of applications that would benefit from quad the tables could easily be flipped. Really all depends on what you are running etc. Either way I think most people consider Intel's extreme models out of the realm of desktop PC, gamer or no. They obviously sell or Intel wouldn't have them, but they have never really been a great value to most imo.
I think you got it right with the last line. Lower quality mp3s sound 'louder' because of compression and also more boomy or bass heavy. To see said effect play a 128 mp3 in a bass-box car. Ick. However they may like that.
That said I am a college kid (though an old one at 25) and I def don't prefer 128mp3s.
You know you don't have to have a bunch of auto update junk on Windows right? I don't have anything like that other than Windows updates and AV updates on my Windows box. And you also know that Ubuntu and the like can annoy you just as much with updates, right? Just making sure...
Also dependancy hell, while much improved, is far from gone. I just got into the other day trying to get NTFS write support on a Ubuntu machine a friend has. I don't recall having any trouble getting it done on my own nix box, but it was a damn nightmare on his. I eventually got it done, and I am pretty sure he had mucked it up in the first place, but I can assure you it is still very real.
I am not sure what you or the horrible article are talking about.
Since when was replacing a DLL in one install proof ofsome "draconian DRM"? Sometimes programs tend not to work when you randomly change files they use, just a thought... There is no proof that the random mucking around had anything to do with DRM, it doesn't even say that it would work under XP/Wine/whatever. There isn't even an article here. Just some troll that somehow got on the main page.
The fact that this was modded up and this 'article' was accepted just speaks volumes about how much anit-Microsoft stuff is really just fluff and trolls.
Maybe Windows 7 is full of security holes and DRM, but this is... nothing. No proof, not even a real explanation of what is going on. When is pretty bad considering all the real things you can slam Microsoft and Windows for. Do we really need to fall back on making stuff up at this point?
I agree with you, but I wouldn't say it is just for big cities. I didn't bother to vote this time even though I would have leaned towards Obama (actually a lib, but lesser of two evils by far imo). Why? Because I live in Tennessee and we are a disgustingly red state, so I didn't even bother. I would also prefer a popular vote.
Kids in America might be known for many things, but buying into everything they are told in early education about anything even remotely debatable isn't one of them, or at least wasn't when I was in early education (class of 02).
That and I am not aware of any large body of public education that currently teaches purely creationism in the US.
As an American I have never heard anyone in the US call themselves a "a Darwinist" so I don't see what your point proves.
As for the wipe public references to deities into oblivion, why bother? I think it would be better if the world at large stopped trying to feel better about themselves because they are "right". Forcing science on someone for no reason isn't any better than forcing religion on someone imo.
If you want to believe in creationism, go crazy. I don't care. You are free to have that opinion. If you want to accept evolution, likewise, have a field day. I, again, don't care about your personal thoughts. It has no impact on me and you are free to disagree with my own.
What does impact me is the annoying ongoing battle, with minimal relevance to society as a whole, is this idea that 'everyone must think what I think'. It is stupid, let it go. I mean if people are breaking the law with violence or forcing ideas on someone then sure, go after them for that. Otherwise? Let people think what they want on issues of religion vs science. Fighting that battle is just an exhaustive waste for no fathomable reason that has yet to ever achieve any measurable goal. Trying to do so again for the 100,000,000th time is unlikely to change that outcome.
Modded "flamebait"... Ok, I guess that pointing out that the largest country in terms of KM does not = the largest wind power producer is obvious trolling and Germans don't get any form of negative or black humor... To be fair I guess these are both things known by most of the world, though apparently not Germans.
Yes, pat your selves on the back. America (9,161,923 SQ KM) has over taken Germany (357,021 SQ KM). Good work.
I don't really see how that is informative. The size of Germany was not really under debate, the title was not "US found to be larger than Deutschland", and I think most had at least some idea it wasn't as large as the US... The things don't just SPAWN, they have to be built. Otherwise we would all be chasing the Russian record.
But going straight for the numbers, I have to assume you are German. In that case, I must point out that Germany would be much larger if we hadn't won a certain war. That and we don't know about yer fancey smancey kilometre over hur!!:)
, and Steam (which for some reason usually gets a free pass)
Steam gets a free pass, from me anyway, for being the best bridge between the two sides atm. You have the big wigs who want the game locked down so that no one can pirate it or resell it (despite that being impossible) and users who just want to play the game and not pay more for an inferior version (in comparison to pirates who often pay nothing for the better experience).
Steam still is DRM for the most part, but at least it offers me stuff in return. I don't have to mess with CDs. After a reinstall I just download Steam, login and it is done. It will reinstall and download all my games for me. No mess, no fuss, no calling someone to get my key activated. It is also an easy place to buy from. I might not to get EB or whatever before it closes and I don't want to wait for shipping from somewhere, so I can just download it on Steam and get it right then. I can even have it downloaded already for the release.
Is it perfect? No. We still pay the same price despite not getting a manual or box or anything because b&m would cry bloody murder for one thing. It is still restricted in many ways, but I think it is by far the best solution we have right now. That is why I give them a "free pass".
I have noticed this too. The people who consume the most, well... consume the most. They are just content whores:) Some they will pirate, things they can easily get and like they will buy as much of as they can. They just want the content, whatever is the easiest way for them to get it most of the time. At least this is what I have seen.
Not really. If anything, it would be the 'pro' version of Windows NT.
Windows 2k came well after the release of NT. I want to say that was in 92-94. 2k was more of a descendant of NT. 2k was the 'pro' version with 98 and ME being the 'home' versions of the time. At least according to marketing. I personally used 2k pro from when it was out until well into the XP era.
I'd rather see them go back to having a single version that doesn't have features arbitrarily crippled. Or at worst, a server and a workstation edition like in the NT4 / Win2K days.
Well to be fair 2k was sort of the 'pro' version of 98/ME. At least in how it was marketed. It also had multiple versions; pro, server, advanced server, and I think a couple more. I used 2k on my home machine for a very long time before going to XP, but I think more of the traditional home PCs were 98 or ME at the time.
I think one version would be better too, but I don't think they are likely to do so. I think they want to have a lower priced version for people who just want the basics and to be able to charge more for people who want more. The mess of versions right now is probably to have something 'at every price point' and maybe get a few people to say "whatever, screw it I will just get ultimate" to make a few more bucks. I doubt, however, that this strategy is really worthwhile.
Looking at how Apple is rising in the marketplace they may want to dump all the features into one version so they can say "see we just have one too" and (incorrectly) contend that they counter ilife. Not only that it would give them another silly 'fact' that you have just one non-server windows version, but look at all the confusing Linux choices! Not that I am saying any of that matters/would be accurate, or that they will do it, just tossing out ideas.
If I remember right, starter is a stripped down version they just sell in developing countries at a big discount in at attempt to combat some piracy by giving users a low priced option. Home would just be home again like in XP. Business would be enterprise. It is the ones after that where it gets pointless and confusing. They would do better to stick with home and pro. Then an ultimate after that if they just MUST toss in extras.
I agree with this both as an IT worker and an email user. A bunch of junk still comes in, but I rarely ever see spam anymore on my gmail or work email. I have an old yahoo account from around 97 that still gets some in, but even there, not much.
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Actually a bit older than that. 2002 or 2003 I think.
The Cookie monster will most certainly be displeased...
While I never played Tunnel Runner (was probably a bit before my time) I have to say thanks for reminding me of a game I did play a lot of when I was little http://www.mobygames.com/game/tunnels-of-armageddon Tunnels of Armageddon. Wasn't released until 89, but the tunnel bits still look similar.
Seems to me that it is impossible to verify that the machine analysis is correct, only that it matches the analysis done by a trained human. Proving correct attribution would require either a signature on each piece or the testimony of the original artisans.
Well see you just didn't read the whole article. Step two involves bringing to life and asking an army of zombie stonecutters.
While I agree that no LAN is a dumb move, I disagree with the inability for people to reliably host large numbers of people on a home connection. I used to have LANs of Day of Defeat with 5-15 people all the time on a regular home Comcast connection where we would all hop in the same server and play online. This was several years ago and we are talking about a FPS which can hold many more people than a RTS. I am sure most home net speeds have improved since then and most RTS is going to be 1v1, 2v2, or 4v4. We had more than that.
I still think no LAN is a dumb idea, I just don't buy into this we can't have multiple people playing from one connection thing. Heck I did regular StarCraft games online where our team would all be at my place back when I had dual chan ISDN (though that was pretty fast for a home connection back then).
Why would the people revolt? I'd be willing to bet most Chinese citizens think these restrictions are reasonable.
It's one of those "common sense" type ideas in Western nations that everybody wants a democracy and that everybody wants nearly unlimited personal freedom. It's simply not true. Many (maybe most) Chinese people not only approve of some limits on speech and civil liberties but think the government may not be going far enough. Many of my co-workers are Chinese citizens, and they are just as happy to have the government set ridiculous (by Western standards) limits on civil liberties, tell people what an ideal society looks like, and go along happily, as long as there's food on the table, taxes are low (or non-existent), and the occasional corrupt official is put in prison/sentenced to death. So what if the government owns most major businesses and that the low taxes are a result of not giving the people a chance to share in the wealth? The biggest complaints I've heard from them over the last year have been that the US needs to butt out and that food prices have been too high (mainly because the standard of living is going up).
High minded ideals are great for students, but the people living over there (and here, for that matter) are more concerned with being fed, with educating/raising their children, and with getting on without too much trouble.
That sounds much more like a hierarchy of needs thing than a real ideology. If you are worried about food on the table, safety, and having enough money to get by then obviously personal freedom takes a back seat. If you, on the other hand, have all or most of the above then you might start to care more about other things.
I can't speak on Iraq, but WWII isn't a good example. A lot of disarming / gun control did occur there. I am not saying it would have made a difference, but I will say that is a bad example because "They gunna take our guns and then they gonna come fer us!" did sort of go on there.
Also WWII leaders like Hitler change things. For example Ghandi style non-violent civil disobedience can work in many situations, but I don't think it would have been even remotely effective against a leader who has a goal of genocide. That doesn't mean it is never a viable approach.
Microsoft is still selling Xbox systems as a loss, but do you know why the keep doing it?
Actually I think you are confusing Microsoft with Sony. Unless the recent price cuts changed this, Microsoft has been making money on 360 sales for a very long time now. It is Sony that still eats a huge loss on each system sold.
So a $1000 i7 Extreme is an easy choice over a $250 Phenom II 955?
AMD in a heartbeat
Why exactly are you comparing an extreme model to a Phenom? The Extremes are sort of an outlier. Also it is all relative. For a 'high end desktop processor' I would take a $180ish E8400 over a $200ish X4 940. Then again if you are really using a lot of applications that would benefit from quad the tables could easily be flipped. Really all depends on what you are running etc. Either way I think most people consider Intel's extreme models out of the realm of desktop PC, gamer or no. They obviously sell or Intel wouldn't have them, but they have never really been a great value to most imo.
ARM is largely irrelevant to the regular desktop PC. Not totally, but pretty close. Why exactly do you think an ARM processor would be superior?
I think you got it right with the last line. Lower quality mp3s sound 'louder' because of compression and also more boomy or bass heavy. To see said effect play a 128 mp3 in a bass-box car. Ick. However they may like that.
That said I am a college kid (though an old one at 25) and I def don't prefer 128mp3s.
You know you don't have to have a bunch of auto update junk on Windows right? I don't have anything like that other than Windows updates and AV updates on my Windows box. And you also know that Ubuntu and the like can annoy you just as much with updates, right? Just making sure...
Also dependancy hell, while much improved, is far from gone. I just got into the other day trying to get NTFS write support on a Ubuntu machine a friend has. I don't recall having any trouble getting it done on my own nix box, but it was a damn nightmare on his. I eventually got it done, and I am pretty sure he had mucked it up in the first place, but I can assure you it is still very real.
I am not sure what you or the horrible article are talking about.
Since when was replacing a DLL in one install proof ofsome "draconian DRM"? Sometimes programs tend not to work when you randomly change files they use, just a thought... There is no proof that the random mucking around had anything to do with DRM, it doesn't even say that it would work under XP/Wine/whatever. There isn't even an article here. Just some troll that somehow got on the main page.
The fact that this was modded up and this 'article' was accepted just speaks volumes about how much anit-Microsoft stuff is really just fluff and trolls.
Maybe Windows 7 is full of security holes and DRM, but this is ... nothing. No proof, not even a real explanation of what is going on. When is pretty bad considering all the real things you can slam Microsoft and Windows for. Do we really need to fall back on making stuff up at this point?
I agree with you, but I wouldn't say it is just for big cities. I didn't bother to vote this time even though I would have leaned towards Obama (actually a lib, but lesser of two evils by far imo). Why? Because I live in Tennessee and we are a disgustingly red state, so I didn't even bother. I would also prefer a popular vote.
Kids in America might be known for many things, but buying into everything they are told in early education about anything even remotely debatable isn't one of them, or at least wasn't when I was in early education (class of 02).
That and I am not aware of any large body of public education that currently teaches purely creationism in the US.
As an American I have never heard anyone in the US call themselves a "a Darwinist" so I don't see what your point proves.
As for the wipe public references to deities into oblivion, why bother? I think it would be better if the world at large stopped trying to feel better about themselves because they are "right". Forcing science on someone for no reason isn't any better than forcing religion on someone imo.
If you want to believe in creationism, go crazy. I don't care. You are free to have that opinion. If you want to accept evolution, likewise, have a field day. I, again, don't care about your personal thoughts. It has no impact on me and you are free to disagree with my own.
What does impact me is the annoying ongoing battle, with minimal relevance to society as a whole, is this idea that 'everyone must think what I think'. It is stupid, let it go. I mean if people are breaking the law with violence or forcing ideas on someone then sure, go after them for that. Otherwise? Let people think what they want on issues of religion vs science. Fighting that battle is just an exhaustive waste for no fathomable reason that has yet to ever achieve any measurable goal. Trying to do so again for the 100,000,000th time is unlikely to change that outcome.
Modded "flamebait"... Ok, I guess that pointing out that the largest country in terms of KM does not = the largest wind power producer is obvious trolling and Germans don't get any form of negative or black humor... To be fair I guess these are both things known by most of the world, though apparently not Germans.
Yes, pat your selves on the back. America (9,161,923 SQ KM) has over taken Germany (357,021 SQ KM). Good work.
I don't really see how that is informative. The size of Germany was not really under debate, the title was not "US found to be larger than Deutschland", and I think most had at least some idea it wasn't as large as the US... The things don't just SPAWN, they have to be built. Otherwise we would all be chasing the Russian record.
But going straight for the numbers, I have to assume you are German. In that case, I must point out that Germany would be much larger if we hadn't won a certain war. That and we don't know about yer fancey smancey kilometre over hur!! :)
, and Steam (which for some reason usually gets a free pass)
Steam gets a free pass, from me anyway, for being the best bridge between the two sides atm. You have the big wigs who want the game locked down so that no one can pirate it or resell it (despite that being impossible) and users who just want to play the game and not pay more for an inferior version (in comparison to pirates who often pay nothing for the better experience).
Steam still is DRM for the most part, but at least it offers me stuff in return. I don't have to mess with CDs. After a reinstall I just download Steam, login and it is done. It will reinstall and download all my games for me. No mess, no fuss, no calling someone to get my key activated. It is also an easy place to buy from. I might not to get EB or whatever before it closes and I don't want to wait for shipping from somewhere, so I can just download it on Steam and get it right then. I can even have it downloaded already for the release.
Is it perfect? No. We still pay the same price despite not getting a manual or box or anything because b&m would cry bloody murder for one thing. It is still restricted in many ways, but I think it is by far the best solution we have right now. That is why I give them a "free pass".
Sounds like don't use it primarily for games, but how are the dpads? They always looked too far inward to be comfortable to me.
I have noticed this too. The people who consume the most, well... consume the most. They are just content whores :) Some they will pirate, things they can easily get and like they will buy as much of as they can. They just want the content, whatever is the easiest way for them to get it most of the time. At least this is what I have seen.
Not really. If anything, it would be the 'pro' version of Windows NT.
Windows 2k came well after the release of NT. I want to say that was in 92-94. 2k was more of a descendant of NT. 2k was the 'pro' version with 98 and ME being the 'home' versions of the time. At least according to marketing. I personally used 2k pro from when it was out until well into the XP era.
I'd rather see them go back to having a single version that doesn't have features arbitrarily crippled. Or at worst, a server and a workstation edition like in the NT4 / Win2K days.
Well to be fair 2k was sort of the 'pro' version of 98/ME. At least in how it was marketed. It also had multiple versions; pro, server, advanced server, and I think a couple more. I used 2k on my home machine for a very long time before going to XP, but I think more of the traditional home PCs were 98 or ME at the time.
I think one version would be better too, but I don't think they are likely to do so. I think they want to have a lower priced version for people who just want the basics and to be able to charge more for people who want more. The mess of versions right now is probably to have something 'at every price point' and maybe get a few people to say "whatever, screw it I will just get ultimate" to make a few more bucks. I doubt, however, that this strategy is really worthwhile.
Looking at how Apple is rising in the marketplace they may want to dump all the features into one version so they can say "see we just have one too" and (incorrectly) contend that they counter ilife. Not only that it would give them another silly 'fact' that you have just one non-server windows version, but look at all the confusing Linux choices! Not that I am saying any of that matters/would be accurate, or that they will do it, just tossing out ideas.
If I remember right, starter is a stripped down version they just sell in developing countries at a big discount in at attempt to combat some piracy by giving users a low priced option. Home would just be home again like in XP. Business would be enterprise. It is the ones after that where it gets pointless and confusing. They would do better to stick with home and pro. Then an ultimate after that if they just MUST toss in extras.
I agree with this both as an IT worker and an email user. A bunch of junk still comes in, but I rarely ever see spam anymore on my gmail or work email. I have an old yahoo account from around 97 that still gets some in, but even there, not much.