I originally read your comment "But I don't think that patients have any place in health care, ever." and thought it sounded like a pretty apt summation of health care in the US;-)
True - but the point is I still find those games more fun and exciting to play than a lot of the newer shooters with great graphics. They just haven't got the same oh-my-god-i'm-going-to-die feel to them.
One of my favourite first person shooters was Immercenary on the old 3DO system. The graphics are very basic by today's standards but it still had the power to draw the player in and get the heart thumping and palms sweaty as you raced back to the safe zone with your energy levels touching zero and trying to avoid the killing shot. Similarly, being chased by the end monster (Hans Grosse) in the original Wolfenstein, running through the maze and hoping he wasn't right behind you, trying to get in a distant shot and then scarpering again. Simple graphics but very compelling and immersive game play. Not too many, single player first person shooters have this feel to them these days. And as for the cyberdemon and spiderdemon in Doom! The latest incarnations (Doom3), despite all the graphic refinements had nothing to compare with the nerve-wrackiong trills of trying to beat these bad mothers...
So even in the world of first person, 3D shooters, graphic eye-candy pales besides gameplay. If the grpahics are functionla enough, the player will be immersed anyway.
The trouble is eye-candy sells the game to those who can't try it first, but it's gameplay that makes it a classic with staying power.
it's not about how we can make an environmentally friendly vehicles, it's about how we can make this vehicle more environmentally friendly without compromising the characteristics that caused people to buy it in the first place./
I agree that the government is not doing enough research into cheap penile extension surgery. That could reduce the demand for over-powered, over-sized cars by a good 50%.
The names are Jeeves and Wooster, you cultural philistine;-)
Bertie Wooster, or Bertram Wilberforce Wooster to give him his full name, was a single character.
Having said that, what a great game that could be. As well as stealing the policeman's helmet you could have drive-by hat pinching, Bread Roll Cricket at the Drones Club , Aunt Avoidance, Cow Creamer stealing, Escape the Engagement, Gussie's Newt game, Glossop Hide-and-Seek, and so on...
Then the cars behind the slow person are driving too fast for the conditions.
Sure the slow person should pull over, but that doesn't make it legal for the cars behind to aggressively tailgate him. If they run into the back of the slow car, they are at fault.
Most of the tailgating I see tends to be cars in the fast lane all travelling at excessive speeds - but that's German autobahns for you.
a) if you need to exceed the speed limit to overtake, then you don't need to overtake
b) if you can't complete you overtaking manoeuvre in the amount of clear road space you can see, then you don't overtake
c) if you do need to pull in, then you can reduce your speed and pull back in behind the car you're overtaking
I don't think reckless driving habits are going to be a strong argument against the scheme when this is the sort of behaviour the scheme is designed to reduce;-)
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There are drug vending machines all over the US dispensing drug containing items like coffee, coca cola, red bull, mountain dew,...
They're called the Nazgul for a reason.
I knew it wouldn't be long before somebody invoked Gondor's Law and mentioned the Nagul !
"You claim that emacs sh*ts itself when it gets EAGAIN, and you think
that's an emacs bug. And I think you're full of crap..."
I'm sure there's a job waiting in the diplomatic corps for Mr Torvalds...
Great! At last no more having to buy god-awful Fruit of the Loom or tighty-whitey underwear!
Are they gonna have the food store with some decent cheese and wine and...
oh, wait... you meant Microsoft didn't you?
Bollocks!
I originally read your comment "But I don't think that patients have any place in health care, ever." and thought it sounded like a pretty apt summation of health care in the US ;-)
And 85% couldn't find the damn print option hidden under the shiny round globe thing in the corner...
You know, there are a lot of people who don't have a problem combining religion and science.
But very few of them are scientists...
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True - but the point is I still find those games more fun and exciting to play than a lot of the newer shooters with great graphics. They just haven't got the same oh-my-god-i'm-going-to-die feel to them.
One of my favourite first person shooters was Immercenary on the old 3DO system. The graphics are very basic by today's standards but it still had the power to draw the player in and get the heart thumping and palms sweaty as you raced back to the safe zone with your energy levels touching zero and trying to avoid the killing shot. Similarly, being chased by the end monster (Hans Grosse) in the original Wolfenstein, running through the maze and hoping he wasn't right behind you, trying to get in a distant shot and then scarpering again. Simple graphics but very compelling and immersive game play. Not too many, single player first person shooters have this feel to them these days. And as for the cyberdemon and spiderdemon in Doom! The latest incarnations (Doom3), despite all the graphic refinements had nothing to compare with the nerve-wrackiong trills of trying to beat these bad mothers...
So even in the world of first person, 3D shooters, graphic eye-candy pales besides gameplay. If the grpahics are functionla enough, the player will be immersed anyway.
The trouble is eye-candy sells the game to those who can't try it first, but it's gameplay that makes it a classic with staying power.
Most map readers are being killed off as they struggle with the AZ when driving the car and end up ion the path of an oncoming articulated lorry.
Whereas GPS-using drivers can keep their eye son the road and survive.
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...a penis extension can be had for a lot less than 2.1 million these days...
it's not about how we can make an environmentally friendly vehicles, it's about how we can make this vehicle more environmentally friendly without compromising the characteristics that caused people to buy it in the first place./
I agree that the government is not doing enough research into cheap penile extension surgery. That could reduce the demand for over-powered, over-sized cars by a good 50%.
So do you also have a shroud over your keyboard so they can't see what keys you're hitting? ;-)
Bertie & Wooster: The Game.
The names are Jeeves and Wooster, you cultural philistine ;-)
Bertie Wooster, or Bertram Wilberforce Wooster to give him his full name, was a single character.
Having said that, what a great game that could be. As well as stealing the policeman's helmet you could have drive-by hat pinching, Bread Roll Cricket at the Drones Club , Aunt Avoidance, Cow Creamer stealing, Escape the Engagement, Gussie's Newt game, Glossop Hide-and-Seek, and so on...
top-ho, wot! wot!
'nuff said
I quite agree with the FAA here. They should never have let women qualify to become pilots in the first place...
Oh wait...ah, I see... never mind...
Why should you care?
It's a dinsoaur AND it's a robot!
Yes! A dinosaur AND a robot in one!
All it needs is a frickin' laser mounted on it's head and you can take over the world!
I doubt many would pay $60 for a new game, install it, download cracks and then sell the CD to Gamestop for $30.
If they know about cracks and have internet access, they'd just download a cracked copy straight off and save themselves $30 and a trip to the store.
No one want to discuss the fact that "average intelligence" means that half the people are at and below average intelligence.
But that's not true. Given 4 people with IQs of 50, 100, 100, 100 the average is 87.5 but only one person is below that in the group.
So the answer is to have a group of extremely low-IQ people so that the average IQ is lowered but most people can still be above it.
And you thought there was no future for GWB ! ;-)
Try these:
http://www.boston.com/travel/blog/airport_xray_scanner.jpg
http://kissing.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/scanner32.jpg
http://www.declarepeace.org.uk/captain/murder_inc/site/pics/BodyScanner.jpg
and you still can't see the shiv he has inserted in his body cavity...
Then the cars behind the slow person are driving too fast for the conditions.
Sure the slow person should pull over, but that doesn't make it legal for the cars behind to aggressively tailgate him. If they run into the back of the slow car, they are at fault.
Most of the tailgating I see tends to be cars in the fast lane all travelling at excessive speeds - but that's German autobahns for you.
a) if you need to exceed the speed limit to overtake, then you don't need to overtake
b) if you can't complete you overtaking manoeuvre in the amount of clear road space you can see, then you don't overtake
c) if you do need to pull in, then you can reduce your speed and pull back in behind the car you're overtaking
I don't think reckless driving habits are going to be a strong argument against the scheme when this is the sort of behaviour the scheme is designed to reduce ;-)