Agree 100%. Fallout is far too limited, story-wise. But until I was almost done, it gave some of the feeling of Deus Ex, but with almost total freedom of movement (which only makes it possible to solve the main quest quicker, but not change its outcome much). In the end, the freedom seems a bit pointless, though, as part of a game. Walking around and discovering new places becomes tedious as there's nothing to the places except monsters and some loot -- oh, and a point to fast-travel to later.
I'm talking about private property previously owned by Palestinians in Israel and on the West Bank and Gaza, not the land of Israel itself. Both recent and slightly older. For some reason, Israel has a different policy on property stolen by the Nazis, even though that's even older.
Palestinians don't have to be a race for you to think Israeli Jews are somehow superior to them. Which you evidently do believe. You may of course argue over the sematics of race versus ethnic group if you wish, but the bigotry is the same: You're a racist.
You're full of shit. There's no hyperbole in accusing me of anti-Semitism (which you did, suggesting I had something against Jews), it's simply dishonest.
You're imagining things. I attacked your comment that everyone living on Gaza is a bloodthirsty barbarian, something which I (in common with most Jews) believe is not a tenet of Judaism, and a view which is much more obviously Racist than my reaction to it.
OK, let's imagine you're right, but how couldn't the same could be said for Israel? You know, being the state of God's own people and all that. How do you think they discovered they had the right to displace people and confiscate their lands? Your arguments are so one-sided that they become transparently racist and hypocritical, and fairly close to some other group's rhetoric. What the fuck do you mean by 'solve the problem' anyway? A final solution to the Palestine problem?
Also, the comparison of Palestine to North Korea is ludicrous, as NK has something which Palestine lacks, a necessity for mass indoctrination which Israel has denied Palestine for as many years as Israel itself has existed: the central state needed for a state controlled media. The belief that certain groups of people are homogeneous is usually a sign of ignorance, btw. It's also violently opposed by your friend here.
You should be modded down, if there were a idiot mod. Do you seriously think rocket fuel is readily available for everyone on Gaza? That everyone on Gaza fires rockets at Israelis? Stop watching fucking Fox News and grow a brain, idiot.
Bullshit. There are two makers of capable GPUs, and both support Linux well with decent drivers downloadable from their web sites. Installing the drivers is straight-forward for anyone capable of reading simple instructions. Different from Windows, yes, but not in any way difficult. You forget that while Linux is different from Windows, the users aren't in general any less competent.
Also, the fact that you believe there is such a thing as hunting down drivers in the Linux world shows that you have no fucking clue what you're talking about. If that's how you tried solving your problems, then it's obvious why you couldn't get it to work: you're doing it wrong. Don't blame the OS for your own incompetence.
Video is taken from the Latin word 'video' literally meaning 'I see', in modern English usage the visual counterpart to 'audio', sound, not a shorthand for video cassette recorder or video game console. Your idea of non-visual video shows that you have absolutely no clue as to what the word means. Further, microcomputers, keyboards and joysticks don't come into it; the first video games used analogue circuits to generate the graphics.
There's a difference in that the text based games are verbal whereas the likes of Space Invaders, even when implemented in text mode, are visual, and hence video games. Consider the difference between a letter 'd' coming towards you that you have to shoot and the letter 'd' in 'it is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue'. All definitions are by nature arbitrary, but I don't see the point of arguing for one that encompasses everything done on a video screen. Text adventures and the likes of Space Invaders work through different media.
Except of course that on Slashdot it's always asked by a whiny wannabe who thinks that if any idiot (himself) can't use it, then neither should anyone else. There's never any specific follow-up as to what should be done, just that grandma should be able to use it, and use it "out of the box". It's as helpful as telling Barack Obama that people should be rich and happy.
Besides, producing things for general consumption has never been the way of the nerd. The nerd tweaks his tools to do stuff it's not supposed to do, for himself. Not because it's useful, or makes life easier, but because you have to see whether it can be done. Nerdiness is a kind of technological and scientific playfulness (usually combined with a magpie-like attitude to knowledge within a specific field), not the marketing director's feeling for what consumers "want". Thus, you get pieces of software like Konqueror instead of the far simpler yet underpowered and authoritarian Nautilus or Finder (or Dolphin).
Seriously, if you had read through what you just wrote, you would probably not post it. It's just a bunch of rambling nonsense. Here's a hint for you: when I say it might be '+5 insightful', that doesn't mean I support it. Most of the highest rated comments on Slashdot are groupthink.
Slashdot ceased being a nerd site the moment "can grandma use it?" became a valid question in any software discussion... back in 1999. I find it interesting that the GP is marked 'troll' when in other discussions, a similar point might be +5, insightful. But now that the machine is simulated in a game environment, it's back to being 'nerdy' in the Slashdot sense. Really, Slashdot is just a consumer site for gadget freaks.
"it indicates that the connection between CO2 and Global average temperature may be correlational and not causational," you said, which implies "that CO2 doesn't absorb more energy than other gasses" but is rather an unknown. And now you're sidetracking an argument against the science to be against "an entire movement" (nice strawman there) instead. I'll give you one thing: you're not very honest.
But I believe you when you say your argument is really against the environmentalist movement and not against the science, i.e. that you argue for purely ideological reasons. Then: Why is it a waste of time and effort to find ways to cut emissions (which equals consumption, in most cases)? Will oil last forever? Highly unlikely. So cutting back consumption and finding alternate sources of energy is most likely extremely important. Will cutting emissions hurt the economy? Now: what precise and accurate model do you have which predicts how the economy will react to drastic cuts in CO2 emissions? None, of course: economy has just shown (yet again) that the best in the field can't reliably predict one single year ahead. So basically, all Lomborg type arguments can go fuck themselves: they're a pseudo-science trying to get the upper hand on physics.
And you don't want to let a model based on scientific facts dictate policy, for the profound reason that "all models are wrong". Just what exactly do you prefer? That "the free market" should decide?
Sorry, but you're the one with simplified models, pretending historic precedence for rise in temperature being followed by rise in CO2 level is "effect preceding cause". Sidetracking doesn't make you any less wrong.
Everyone knows the climate models are incomplete. That doesn't take away the fact that CO2 increases energy uptake from infrared light in the atmosphere. This isn't a model, it's a simple fact. There will be things that counteract it, perhaps an increase in cloud formation caused by the higher temperatures or whatever, more biomass taking up more carbon from the atmosphere; and other things will further contribute to it (like melting tundra in Siberia releasing tons of methane), and these are the things that makes modeling the climate difficult, not the link between CO2 and energy uptake in itself. The model is needed to predict more accurately, not to show cause and effect. A model doesn't prove anything: as someone harping on about the problems of models, you should know that. But obviously, you don't.
The link between CO2 and temperature is causational, and this is experimentally proven: it absorbs more infrared light than the dominant gasses in the atmosphere, directly heating it. The earth's climate is of course dependent on many other factors, and the CO2 level in the atmosphere likewise depends on other factors than humans burning fossil fuel, and your sorry attempt at criticism just isn't valid.
Oh, shut up. What the fuck is wrong with this site these days, I could swear users here have become more interested in marketing than in technology after OS X became popular.
Nepomuk is the name of one of KDE's small underlying technologies, it's not used for sales and marketing, just like khtml isn't used for sales and marketing. Just shut up if you don't have anything interesting to say.
I don't think you have used KDE. I'm in XP at the moment, and it doesn't feel like KDE at all. Windows don't snap to borders, window placement seems random, the menu is radically different (it is in Vista as well). The only thing that's pretty much the same is the lay-out of the taskbar, with the launcher to the left, then a quicklaunch, then the application tray, the system tray and then the clock, although none of the elements feel the same.
Running unfettered in a 3-legged race will disqualify the contestant. It's not up to the others to 'adapt' to the situation; the unfettered athlete is a cheat and a moron.
It might, but not unless the worst glitches are sorted out and performance is improved. It's a very good game (I've played it a bit on PS3), but a terrible, terrible port to the PC. It should be nothing that a few patches can't fix, though.
No, I read some of the reactions to it and waited for the 1911 release to test it. It's almost unplayable, and full of glitches, so needless to say, I won't buy it either. This is one case for which one download = one lost sale.
Also, it's more littered with nag screens than an unpaid-for shareware release. Log into GTA social club, are you sure you don't want to, etc., it's just too fucking annoying.
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Agree 100%. Fallout is far too limited, story-wise. But until I was almost done, it gave some of the feeling of Deus Ex, but with almost total freedom of movement (which only makes it possible to solve the main quest quicker, but not change its outcome much). In the end, the freedom seems a bit pointless, though, as part of a game. Walking around and discovering new places becomes tedious as there's nothing to the places except monsters and some loot -- oh, and a point to fast-travel to later.
I'm talking about private property previously owned by Palestinians in Israel and on the West Bank and Gaza, not the land of Israel itself. Both recent and slightly older. For some reason, Israel has a different policy on property stolen by the Nazis, even though that's even older.
Palestinians don't have to be a race for you to think Israeli Jews are somehow superior to them. Which you evidently do believe. You may of course argue over the sematics of race versus ethnic group if you wish, but the bigotry is the same: You're a racist.
You're full of shit. There's no hyperbole in accusing me of anti-Semitism (which you did, suggesting I had something against Jews), it's simply dishonest.
You're imagining things. I attacked your comment that everyone living on Gaza is a bloodthirsty barbarian, something which I (in common with most Jews) believe is not a tenet of Judaism, and a view which is much more obviously Racist than my reaction to it.
OK, let's imagine you're right, but how couldn't the same could be said for Israel? You know, being the state of God's own people and all that. How do you think they discovered they had the right to displace people and confiscate their lands? Your arguments are so one-sided that they become transparently racist and hypocritical, and fairly close to some other group's rhetoric. What the fuck do you mean by 'solve the problem' anyway? A final solution to the Palestine problem?
Also, the comparison of Palestine to North Korea is ludicrous, as NK has something which Palestine lacks, a necessity for mass indoctrination which Israel has denied Palestine for as many years as Israel itself has existed: the central state needed for a state controlled media. The belief that certain groups of people are homogeneous is usually a sign of ignorance, btw. It's also violently opposed by your friend here.
I guess that explains why Yitzhak Rabin never was assassinated. Oh, wait.
And? Why do you think they feel justified in shooting rockets at Israeli citizens? Because they are an especially bloodthirsty group of people?
You should be modded down, if there were a idiot mod. Do you seriously think rocket fuel is readily available for everyone on Gaza? That everyone on Gaza fires rockets at Israelis? Stop watching fucking Fox News and grow a brain, idiot.
Bullshit. There are two makers of capable GPUs, and both support Linux well with decent drivers downloadable from their web sites. Installing the drivers is straight-forward for anyone capable of reading simple instructions. Different from Windows, yes, but not in any way difficult. You forget that while Linux is different from Windows, the users aren't in general any less competent.
Also, the fact that you believe there is such a thing as hunting down drivers in the Linux world shows that you have no fucking clue what you're talking about. If that's how you tried solving your problems, then it's obvious why you couldn't get it to work: you're doing it wrong. Don't blame the OS for your own incompetence.
Video is taken from the Latin word 'video' literally meaning 'I see', in modern English usage the visual counterpart to 'audio', sound, not a shorthand for video cassette recorder or video game console. Your idea of non-visual video shows that you have absolutely no clue as to what the word means. Further, microcomputers, keyboards and joysticks don't come into it; the first video games used analogue circuits to generate the graphics.
There's a difference in that the text based games are verbal whereas the likes of Space Invaders, even when implemented in text mode, are visual, and hence video games. Consider the difference between a letter 'd' coming towards you that you have to shoot and the letter 'd' in 'it is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue'. All definitions are by nature arbitrary, but I don't see the point of arguing for one that encompasses everything done on a video screen. Text adventures and the likes of Space Invaders work through different media.
Except of course that on Slashdot it's always asked by a whiny wannabe who thinks that if any idiot (himself) can't use it, then neither should anyone else. There's never any specific follow-up as to what should be done, just that grandma should be able to use it, and use it "out of the box". It's as helpful as telling Barack Obama that people should be rich and happy.
Besides, producing things for general consumption has never been the way of the nerd. The nerd tweaks his tools to do stuff it's not supposed to do, for himself. Not because it's useful, or makes life easier, but because you have to see whether it can be done. Nerdiness is a kind of technological and scientific playfulness (usually combined with a magpie-like attitude to knowledge within a specific field), not the marketing director's feeling for what consumers "want". Thus, you get pieces of software like Konqueror instead of the far simpler yet underpowered and authoritarian Nautilus or Finder (or Dolphin).
Seriously, if you had read through what you just wrote, you would probably not post it. It's just a bunch of rambling nonsense. Here's a hint for you: when I say it might be '+5 insightful', that doesn't mean I support it. Most of the highest rated comments on Slashdot are groupthink.
Slashdot ceased being a nerd site the moment "can grandma use it?" became a valid question in any software discussion ... back in 1999. I find it interesting that the GP is marked 'troll' when in other discussions, a similar point might be +5, insightful. But now that the machine is simulated in a game environment, it's back to being 'nerdy' in the Slashdot sense. Really, Slashdot is just a consumer site for gadget freaks.
"it indicates that the connection between CO2 and Global average temperature may be correlational and not causational," you said, which implies "that CO2 doesn't absorb more energy than other gasses" but is rather an unknown. And now you're sidetracking an argument against the science to be against "an entire movement" (nice strawman there) instead. I'll give you one thing: you're not very honest.
But I believe you when you say your argument is really against the environmentalist movement and not against the science, i.e. that you argue for purely ideological reasons. Then: Why is it a waste of time and effort to find ways to cut emissions (which equals consumption, in most cases)? Will oil last forever? Highly unlikely. So cutting back consumption and finding alternate sources of energy is most likely extremely important. Will cutting emissions hurt the economy? Now: what precise and accurate model do you have which predicts how the economy will react to drastic cuts in CO2 emissions? None, of course: economy has just shown (yet again) that the best in the field can't reliably predict one single year ahead. So basically, all Lomborg type arguments can go fuck themselves: they're a pseudo-science trying to get the upper hand on physics.
And you don't want to let a model based on scientific facts dictate policy, for the profound reason that "all models are wrong". Just what exactly do you prefer? That "the free market" should decide?
Sorry, but you're the one with simplified models, pretending historic precedence for rise in temperature being followed by rise in CO2 level is "effect preceding cause". Sidetracking doesn't make you any less wrong.
Everyone knows the climate models are incomplete. That doesn't take away the fact that CO2 increases energy uptake from infrared light in the atmosphere. This isn't a model, it's a simple fact. There will be things that counteract it, perhaps an increase in cloud formation caused by the higher temperatures or whatever, more biomass taking up more carbon from the atmosphere; and other things will further contribute to it (like melting tundra in Siberia releasing tons of methane), and these are the things that makes modeling the climate difficult, not the link between CO2 and energy uptake in itself. The model is needed to predict more accurately, not to show cause and effect. A model doesn't prove anything: as someone harping on about the problems of models, you should know that. But obviously, you don't.
Sorry, but that's just a strawman attack.
The link between CO2 and temperature is causational, and this is experimentally proven: it absorbs more infrared light than the dominant gasses in the atmosphere, directly heating it. The earth's climate is of course dependent on many other factors, and the CO2 level in the atmosphere likewise depends on other factors than humans burning fossil fuel, and your sorry attempt at criticism just isn't valid.
Oh, shut up. What the fuck is wrong with this site these days, I could swear users here have become more interested in marketing than in technology after OS X became popular.
Nepomuk is the name of one of KDE's small underlying technologies, it's not used for sales and marketing, just like khtml isn't used for sales and marketing. Just shut up if you don't have anything interesting to say.
I don't think you have used KDE. I'm in XP at the moment, and it doesn't feel like KDE at all. Windows don't snap to borders, window placement seems random, the menu is radically different (it is in Vista as well). The only thing that's pretty much the same is the lay-out of the taskbar, with the launcher to the left, then a quicklaunch, then the application tray, the system tray and then the clock, although none of the elements feel the same.
Running unfettered in a 3-legged race will disqualify the contestant. It's not up to the others to 'adapt' to the situation; the unfettered athlete is a cheat and a moron.
Keyboard + mouse is a lot more accurate in an FPS than a game pad. It's as if a top athlete were to participate in the Paralympics: not fair.
It might, but not unless the worst glitches are sorted out and performance is improved. It's a very good game (I've played it a bit on PS3), but a terrible, terrible port to the PC. It should be nothing that a few patches can't fix, though.
No, I read some of the reactions to it and waited for the 1911 release to test it. It's almost unplayable, and full of glitches, so needless to say, I won't buy it either. This is one case for which one download = one lost sale.
Also, it's more littered with nag screens than an unpaid-for shareware release. Log into GTA social club, are you sure you don't want to, etc., it's just too fucking annoying.