Yep, 7CoG was an awesome game. Kind of hard to avoid killing the natives though; if they touched you they died, so you had to pacify them by giving them gifts while running away from them to make sure you didn't accidently kill any.
To avoid differing versions, costly rewrites and so on, most publishers give their books to a few select committees in Texas (and California) for approval and only if they pass there do they go on to the rest of the country.
Ahh, half of them just flame him because they don't like his politics. Oh, and they don't appreciate the idea that some 50 year old guy can code circles around them.
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Good lord that's almost completely wrong. Wow, good job there.
It's been amply demonstrated that terrorist funding is not just from illegal trade.
Snopes had an interesting article on this. Can't link directly to it, but it's in the Rumors of War subsection, do a search for "shorted".
I'll cut and paste a small section:
On 10 September, another uneventful news day, American Airlines' option volume was 4,516 puts and 748 calls, a ratio of 6:1 on yet another day when by rights these options should have been trading even.
No other airline stocks were affected -- only United and American were shorted in this fashion.
Accelerated investments speculating a downturn in the value of Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch (two New York investment firms severely damaged by the World Trade Center attack) were also observed.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange is investigating each of these trades and at this time is declining to offer comment on its progress. The volume traded and the one-sidedness of the trades, however, make it clear that those who had knowledge of the details of the attacks (which airlines would be involved and that the World Trade Center was a target) were behind them and stood to profit mightily from them.
So we can't have possibly affected the climate, because...it would be hubris to think so. Ok.
ruin such a massive ecosystem that's survived numerous catastrophes over billions of years.
The ecosystem hasn't survived the catastrophes. Every one has changed it to a greater or lesser extent. It's the changes we should be worry about, not that pumping massive amounts of carbon dioxide and other chemicals into the atmosphere will destroy all life.
(Of course this is probably really because you have to opt out of the extra point manually each time you think it unjustified instead of going to the trouble of adding it if you think it justified.)
Also it might be because the No Karma Bonus button is a few pixels away from the submit button.
Of course, people who moderate offtopic tend to be humorless gits it seems; when I get mod points I'll mod down for obvious trolls (and, I know a lot of people will be surprised by this, "I don't agree with them" does not equal "troll"). For some reason I picture the overrated modders as being weaselly little neurotic, obsessive-compulsive accountant-type guys; unjustified maybe, but the image keeps coming to me.
I'm sure this post will be modded overrated by someone who thinks it's just unbearably clever and ironic to do so. Ah well, I can afford the karma.
Heh, nobody's disputing that the earth has warming and cooling cycles. They're disputing the idiotic conclusion that because it does, that's the only possible explanation for global warming.
Let's turn it into an appropriate analogy and you'll immediately see the flaw:
People die of old age. Therefore, if someone just died, they died of old age.
Now see the problem? Murder, suicide, accident, none of those things exist in such a universe.
Of course they want global warming to be true, as they've based their whole being on that hypothesis.
Riiiight, I really want there to be flooding, disease, famine, and drought in my lifetime. That would be super.
Unfortunately there are magazines based on pseudoscience that make it to the bookshelves; not only the crystal-waving, aura-reading kind, but even a few that seem on the surface to be legitimate scientific publications, until you see the bizarre anti-environmentalism or cold fusion stuff.
If many prominent Canadians had been funding and encouraging them for years, maybe.
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It's called "amazon.com".
Seriously, though, my old college library used Amazon when trying to find out information about a book. It has reviews, it's surprisingly complete (considering how many out-of-print books they list), what more could you want?
And, if you're looking mostly at SF, SFSite fulfills many of the functions you list.
Sort of. The Nobel prize is technically supposed to go for one, recent work, but in practice it goes mainly for a lifetime of output. Which is why you get a lot of writers who get the Nobel for their later, weaker works.
Now your organization could have caught only the most obvious bugs (unless you guys have some special ability that no other programmer on earth has); isn't it possible that these obvious bugs are more easily caught by the many-eyes advantage of open source, while deeper bugs may in fact be better found by the more structured methods of proprietary, closed source software engineering?
Isn't Suck the one that formatted everything into one column in the middle of the page in order to disguise the fact that the articles weren't very long, and also not especially clever?
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...blow thine enemy to smithereens, in thy mercy...
Please put "status" in quotation marks when using it in that context...
Yep, 7CoG was an awesome game. Kind of hard to avoid killing the natives though; if they touched you they died, so you had to pacify them by giving them gifts while running away from them to make sure you didn't accidently kill any.
To avoid differing versions, costly rewrites and so on, most publishers give their books to a few select committees in Texas (and California) for approval and only if they pass there do they go on to the rest of the country.
Woo, Texas, where the right-wing trolls control the education system.
Anyone else sick of this damn state too?
When my Soundblaster Live! started acting up I disabled it then went to the onboard sound chip. No noticeable difference.
Gamers needs? You make it sound like gamers need especially good sound, when an 16-bit onboard chip is usually decent enough to use.
Ahh, half of them just flame him because they don't like his politics. Oh, and they don't appreciate the idea that some 50 year old guy can code circles around them.
Good lord that's almost completely wrong. Wow, good job there.
It's been amply demonstrated that terrorist funding is not just from illegal trade.
Snopes had an interesting article on this. Can't link directly to it, but it's in the Rumors of War subsection, do a search for "shorted".
I'll cut and paste a small section:
On 10 September, another uneventful news day, American Airlines' option volume was 4,516 puts and 748 calls, a ratio of 6:1 on yet another day when by rights these options should have been trading even. No other airline stocks were affected -- only United and American were shorted in this fashion. Accelerated investments speculating a downturn in the value of Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch (two New York investment firms severely damaged by the World Trade Center attack) were also observed. The Chicago Board Options Exchange is investigating each of these trades and at this time is declining to offer comment on its progress. The volume traded and the one-sidedness of the trades, however, make it clear that those who had knowledge of the details of the attacks (which airlines would be involved and that the World Trade Center was a target) were behind them and stood to profit mightily from them.
Almost? Shit man, MS gaves us Impossible Creatures and Asheron's Call. What the fuck did the french ever give us?
Diablo, Warcraft, Half-Life, and Tribes.
You DID know Vivendi was a French company, right?
No.
So we can't have possibly affected the climate, because...it would be hubris to think so. Ok.
ruin such a massive ecosystem that's survived numerous catastrophes over billions of years.
The ecosystem hasn't survived the catastrophes. Every one has changed it to a greater or lesser extent. It's the changes we should be worry about, not that pumping massive amounts of carbon dioxide and other chemicals into the atmosphere will destroy all life.
Massachusetts voters were given the option to abolish the state income tax last election. They voted to keep it. The people have spoken.
(Of course this is probably really because you have to opt out of the extra point manually each time you think it unjustified instead of going to the trouble of adding it if you think it justified.)
Also it might be because the No Karma Bonus button is a few pixels away from the submit button.
Of course, people who moderate offtopic tend to be humorless gits it seems; when I get mod points I'll mod down for obvious trolls (and, I know a lot of people will be surprised by this, "I don't agree with them" does not equal "troll"). For some reason I picture the overrated modders as being weaselly little neurotic, obsessive-compulsive accountant-type guys; unjustified maybe, but the image keeps coming to me.
I'm sure this post will be modded overrated by someone who thinks it's just unbearably clever and ironic to do so. Ah well, I can afford the karma.
Heh, nobody's disputing that the earth has warming and cooling cycles. They're disputing the idiotic conclusion that because it does, that's the only possible explanation for global warming.
Let's turn it into an appropriate analogy and you'll immediately see the flaw:
People die of old age. Therefore, if someone just died, they died of old age.
Now see the problem? Murder, suicide, accident, none of those things exist in such a universe.
Of course they want global warming to be true, as they've based their whole being on that hypothesis.
Riiiight, I really want there to be flooding, disease, famine, and drought in my lifetime. That would be super.
Can science journalism do a better job of helping people distinguish science from pseudoscience?
Skeptical Inquirer and Skeptic Magazine do a good job.
Unfortunately there are magazines based on pseudoscience that make it to the bookshelves; not only the crystal-waving, aura-reading kind, but even a few that seem on the surface to be legitimate scientific publications, until you see the bizarre anti-environmentalism or cold fusion stuff.
If many prominent Canadians had been funding and encouraging them for years, maybe.
It's called "amazon.com".
Seriously, though, my old college library used Amazon when trying to find out information about a book. It has reviews, it's surprisingly complete (considering how many out-of-print books they list), what more could you want?
And, if you're looking mostly at SF, SFSite fulfills many of the functions you list.
Yes, it's strange. Usually their fiction reviews are about 30 and 40 year old books.
Sort of. The Nobel prize is technically supposed to go for one, recent work, but in practice it goes mainly for a lifetime of output. Which is why you get a lot of writers who get the Nobel for their later, weaker works.
How on earth can you make a mistake like that? I mean, geeze.
Yep, that army of proofreaders and fact checkers that they've hired must be expensive.
Now your organization could have caught only the most obvious bugs (unless you guys have some special ability that no other programmer on earth has); isn't it possible that these obvious bugs are more easily caught by the many-eyes advantage of open source, while deeper bugs may in fact be better found by the more structured methods of proprietary, closed source software engineering?
Isn't Suck the one that
formatted everything
into one column in the
middle of the page in
order to disguise the
fact that the articles
weren't very long, and
also not especially
clever?
The only arcade I've set foot in over the past few years was doing a very, very brisk business.
Of course, since all the games involved dancing, shooting, or boxing, it was all a bit too exhausting for me to involve myself with.