I live in my parents house, but make them live in the attic. Or, at least they were still alive the last time I checked, but that was three weeks ago now...
No, not Magic: The Dithering or Pokemon, but good old fashioned Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds and Spades. You can play literally countless variations, skill levels range from the simple (SNAP!) to needlessly complex (have you ever tried to understand Duplicate Bridge rotations), and you can play with any number from one, to more than a dozen. Add in the rules of Texas Hold'em and some gambling chips, and you can even be a bit edgy by running the risk of being arrested (but only in the Land Of The Free).
On top of that, you'll likely be able to play some kind of game with everyone you meet, from kids to adults, and unlike role playing games, some of these may even be women.
No no no. Having looked up the meaning of the.pl subscript and examined the quality of the English grammar exhibited by the editors, I'm fairly certain it means that slashdot is being operated from Poland.
One (of many) uses is, IIRC, for public-key encryption.
That's a use of prime numbers, and primality, but it's not going to provide a use for this new prime. In the grand scheme of things, this was a pointless exercise. But that's not a bad thing necessarily, as a lot of my favourite things (splatter movies, social cricket, snooker, pub quizzes, bad SF novels) are also pointless exercises, in the grand scheme of things.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
Russell was smart, but Yeats was a better writer:
The best lack all convictions, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
I don't think they are discriminating, they just don't care about anyone.
I think that's it in a nutshell. If they've ruined the game for enough people, then they'll stop turning a profit on subscriptions. This is a commerical enterprise, and their decisions must live or die by the laws of supply and demand.
On the other hand. no-one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
If the bandwidth or latency requirements for the game went up with the NGE, would you defend the right of modem users who had previously been able to play the game to get upset or otherwise take action if the NGE made the game effectively unplayable for them?
If the box said "suitable for modem users", then yes I'd defend them, as they have a reasonabe expectation to be allowed to play. Similarly, if the box said "suitable for the severly disabled", I'd defend this guy, too.
Would you defend the right to play of someone who didn't have electricity?
None of the games you've mentioned started out as being playable by some disabled guy and then became unplayable by same disabled guy due to recent rules changes.
It's not a "rule change".
The extra controls weren't added on a whim, but because they are necessary. The game has fundamentally changed from something simple to control something considerably more complex. It's the difference between flying a glider and flying an aeroplane. One is irreducibly more complex than the other, and requires more complex controls.
Also, the NBA, the NFL, most soccer matches, Jenga, Twister, horse-shoe tossing, darts, snooker, being an airline pilot...
Look, being disabled means there are some thing you are not able to do. That's unfortunate, but the alternative is to limit all human activities to those things that quadraplegics can manage.
We got terribly excited by the idea of selecting only a few tracks to put on our iPod. When the excitement died down, we noticed that the music was still shit.
Yeah. And it's ironic that some BBC journalists criticised the Metropolitan Police over the shooting of Jean de Menezes, but would still phone the Met if their premises were robbed.
What? That's not ironic at all. It's called nuance.
Just because eBay has faults, doesn't mean we should stop using them completely.
The market doesn't always pick the technically best solution. They pick the best solution for the current situation.
Bullshit. That's true only if you define "the best solution for the current situation" to mean "the one the market selected".
The infallibility of the market is one of the greatest myths of the capitalist system. If the market chose "the best solution for the current situation", why would anyone bother with marketing and advertising? Marketing exists solely to sway the market *away* from the best solution, and towards the marketers solution.
eBay, and their whore company, PayPal, are a breeding ground for Fraud since they both care more about money, than they do about the common user.
Unlike IBM, Microsoft, AT&T, Ford, GM who are all about promoting the common good over profits... Seriously, practically every corporation cares about profit above everything else. But most of them are smart enough to realise that a minimum level of customer satisfaction is necessary to continue to make profits into the long term. Ebay are a breeding ground for fraud because their management and strategic thinking are entirely short term, and because they have no real competition.
Absolutely no idea. In the most recent occasion, it ran fine one day. Absolutely wouldn't boot past the "Windows XP Pro" splash screen the next. Only alterations in the interim were an update of the Anti-Virus DB and an MS critical update.
Are your machines on 24/7? In my experience, machines that are frequently turned on and off are far more susceptible.
... even though it's better than it used to be, registry corruption is still the number one cause of boot failures in Windows XP. And the contents ntbtlog.txt and the Recovery Console are still horribly inadequate tools for fixing it...
There used to be a fantastic web site about the Bonzo Dog Band. It had an annotated copy of the lyrics, explaining all the 60s pop culture references and in-jokes
On the plus side, some musicians aren't as stupid as their lawyers. neilinnes.org contains lyrics and guitar chords for many Bonzo's songs, all with the full knowledge and blessing of Neil Innes himself.
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The guy uses the phrase "Leftist mass media" in sentence one?!? Since when are arch-capitalists Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner leftists?
I live in my parents house, but make them live in the attic. Or, at least they were still alive the last time I checked, but that was three weeks ago now...
No, not Magic: The Dithering or Pokemon, but good old fashioned Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds and Spades. You can play literally countless variations, skill levels range from the simple (SNAP!) to needlessly complex (have you ever tried to understand Duplicate Bridge rotations), and you can play with any number from one, to more than a dozen. Add in the rules of Texas Hold'em and some gambling chips, and you can even be a bit edgy by running the risk of being arrested (but only in the Land Of The Free).
On top of that, you'll likely be able to play some kind of game with everyone you meet, from kids to adults, and unlike role playing games, some of these may even be women.
"Mission Accomplished!"
No no no. Having looked up the meaning of the .pl subscript and examined the quality of the English grammar exhibited by the editors, I'm fairly certain it means that slashdot is being operated from Poland.
"Very much accelerated at that point" : Folks, that's causality.
You sir, are a cretin.
George W. Bush was second, though.
(Yes, I know, your "to the power of" got nobbled).
On the other hand. no-one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
Would you defend the right to play of someone who didn't have electricity?
The extra controls weren't added on a whim, but because they are necessary. The game has fundamentally changed from something simple to control something considerably more complex. It's the difference between flying a glider and flying an aeroplane. One is irreducibly more complex than the other, and requires more complex controls.
Also, the NBA, the NFL, most soccer matches, Jenga, Twister, horse-shoe tossing, darts, snooker, being an airline pilot...
Look, being disabled means there are some thing you are not able to do. That's unfortunate, but the alternative is to limit all human activities to those things that quadraplegics can manage.
Paging Harrison Begeron...
We got terribly excited by the idea of selecting only a few tracks to put on our iPod. When the excitement died down, we noticed that the music was still shit.
Yeah. And it's ironic that some BBC journalists criticised the Metropolitan Police over the shooting of Jean de Menezes, but would still phone the Met if their premises were robbed.
What? That's not ironic at all.
It's called nuance.
Just because eBay has faults, doesn't mean we should stop using them completely.
The infallibility of the market is one of the greatest myths of the capitalist system. If the market chose "the best solution for the current situation", why would anyone bother with marketing and advertising? Marketing exists solely to sway the market *away* from the best solution, and towards the marketers solution.
And it works. Brilliantly.
Absolutely no idea. In the most recent occasion, it ran fine one day. Absolutely wouldn't boot past the "Windows XP Pro" splash screen the next. Only alterations in the interim were an update of the Anti-Virus DB and an MS critical update.
Are your machines on 24/7?
In my experience, machines that are frequently turned on and off are far more susceptible.
... even though it's better than it used to be, registry corruption is still the number one cause of boot failures in Windows XP. And the contents ntbtlog.txt and the Recovery Console are still horribly inadequate tools for fixing it...