"If 830--or any record--happens as a result of boneheaded play, tactical ignorance, or the pursuit of a good time, should it count?"
yes it should, if the great players are so great then they should be willing to accept a challenge. if the experts want to claim the record then they should try for it, rather than dogging on amateurs for playing what they consider foolish play. in my book the only thing that should be taken into consideration in records like this; "is it clean". as long as he didn't cheat thats all that matters, those so called experts are just elitist haters. its like saying that i can't break the course record at my local muni because i'm not a member of the pga, or that i can't weigh in a world record catch because i don't belong to the igfa.
well if i can't afford to light and heat my home becuase of some legislation pushed through by some filthy rich hippies who made electricity all but unattainable for the common man, then my work productivity will fall as that of my fellow workers; and when the production drops off the company executives will close down the factory and move it to mexico or china. then i'm really screwed.
i guess this similar to the anti-walmart movement, yes walmart does put small stores out of business when people aren't willing to pay for the quaint small town exspensive general stores that city people love so much. the flip side is that if it were not for walmart millions of americans would be starving to death today.
the point is that anything which costs money is related to the economy and no amount of future enviromental gains can bring a starved baby in the ghetto back to life.
my thoughts exactly, and the fact that "Slightly more than half the money raised by the Prop 87 tax would be earmarked to help cut gasoline and diesel use", while "27 percent would be put toward alternative-energy research at California universities" is just more proof that all they want to do is slowly bleed the oil companies out of business.
Nerds are a small demographic, but they can also be the canary in the coal mine with stuff like this.
maybe, but they need to realize that nerds are also very fickle and as soon as the taint of popularity falls on a product the nerds will start leaving it for the next psuedo underground product that is essentially the same thing only not popular.
as long as they didnt add a level grind like all other mmos, the system of skills in UO is what makes it timeless. i love the lack of a rigid class system also; the ability to raise and lower skills so i can create my perfect character.
400 years ago was smack in the middle of the little ice age. so are we a little warmer than a mild ice age, and why are some people aparently so obsessed with having a static gloabal climate? if you are follower of the religion of science then you need a dynamic global climate to create life. alegedly. if you follow another religion then you need Marduk or something.
1. the global climate has and will continue to change regarless of human involvement. we may have sped it up, but "global warming" has been in effect for about 400-500 years; since the end of the little ice age.
2. more nuclear reactors and one fast reactor for every normal reactor. no more coal, coal gas, heating oil, wind, water, etc. power plants needed.
here are some cliffs for those who don't want to read it all.
1. the author plays alot of street fighter and probably alot of fps games 2. the author is angry that his mad mousing skills can't help him in a rpg 3. the author doesn't understand how rpg's work 4. the author wants a rpg that is really a fps 5. the author apparently wants the ability to pull out a noob cannon and scream "boom headshot" 6. the author hasn't listened to all those l2p tells 7. the author doesn't play well with others
further more, and to steal a quote from maddox, if you're too much of an impressionable idiot to play World of Warcraft, don't. WoW isn't teaching any lessons, it's a game and it has certain rules that the player agrees to play by.
but most distros include a lot more content that the windows install cd. so you could say that linux is a steak and lobster dinner while windows is just a slice of cheese between slices of week old bread
just what we fatasses needed, another excuse. "its not my fault im fat its genetic; im powerless to change my genetic makeup therefore its ok to be fat." theres nothing worse than a fat person who wants to be thin, but is too lazy to do it.
...these findings suggest that it is likely to take a significant conscious effort to change one's level of physical activity...
when does it not take a conscious effort to be active? im fat cause i drink beer, eat fried foods, and watch too much tv. when im tired of being fat and happy ill pull a buddha (minus the religion) and change my glutonus ways.
im reminded of the time my brother was picking on some whale when he was in third grade. the girl, who was polishing off a 1 pound bag of m&m's, was telling my brother that it wasnt her fault that she was fat becuase it was glandular. needless to say my brother couldnt finish the argument because he was too busy laughing at the poor fat girl.
it might make me a bad loonix fan boy, but i dont use linux on my main computer exclusively. i flip flop; i'll go about six months to a year with linux on my main computer and then some game will come out that will make me reinstall windows to play it. i know all about cedega and have used it to play older games, which it works great for, but it just doesn't cut the mustard for newer games.
if only blizzard would have finished the linux client for WoW, i would have been free of windows forever. the main stumbling block for me is that i haven't found an mmorpg that i like and that also has a linux client. almost every fps it seems has a linux client, so im good there. now that my WoW obsession is over i'll probaly go back to linux for a while.
After years of Dvorak's predictions of doom and gloom about the demise of beleagured Apple, he's probably just pissed that his predictions weren't only wrong, but that Apple's enjoying some success. So he does what everyone else does--blame it on the media.
There are times when nostalgia gets in the way of a person's sight. It IS our baby, but it's all grown up now.
I don't have any particular problem with the status quo. I also generally agree with Bush. In this case I think their view on this is short-sighted and rather silly.
Conversely, the rest of the world is acting like having control over the internet is their *right*, which it is not. If we reliquish control (which I am _not_ arguing against), then everyone else need to realize that *we* are relinquishing control over something that was *ours*.
12 minutes to get *infected, 1440 minutes in a day times $400 a computer equals $48000 a day.
*considering that there have been a few articles stating that computers can get infected with spyware and viruses within 12 minutes of connecting to the internet.
In any case, Wired has been using North Shore for a number of years. I found some online gripes about the North Shore letters dating back to 2002 (and you can see one of the firm's letters for yourself at http://urbanideas.com/images/nsa.jpg).
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"If 830--or any record--happens as a result of boneheaded play, tactical ignorance, or the pursuit of a good time, should it count?"
yes it should, if the great players are so great then they should be willing to accept a challenge. if the experts want to claim the record then they should try for it, rather than dogging on amateurs for playing what they consider foolish play. in my book the only thing that should be taken into consideration in records like this; "is it clean". as long as he didn't cheat thats all that matters, those so called experts are just elitist haters. its like saying that i can't break the course record at my local muni because i'm not a member of the pga, or that i can't weigh in a world record catch because i don't belong to the igfa.
like my friend says, "myspace is for child predators and their prey."
well if i can't afford to light and heat my home becuase of some legislation pushed through by some filthy rich hippies who made electricity all but unattainable for the common man, then my work productivity will fall as that of my fellow workers; and when the production drops off the company executives will close down the factory and move it to mexico or china. then i'm really screwed.
i guess this similar to the anti-walmart movement, yes walmart does put small stores out of business when people aren't willing to pay for the quaint small town exspensive general stores that city people love so much. the flip side is that if it were not for walmart millions of americans would be starving to death today.
the point is that anything which costs money is related to the economy and no amount of future enviromental gains can bring a starved baby in the ghetto back to life.
my thoughts exactly, and the fact that "Slightly more than half the money raised by the Prop 87 tax would be earmarked to help cut gasoline and diesel use", while "27 percent would be put toward alternative-energy research at California universities" is just more proof that all they want to do is slowly bleed the oil companies out of business.
Nerds are a small demographic, but they can also be the canary in the coal mine with stuff like this.
maybe, but they need to realize that nerds are also very fickle and as soon as the taint of popularity falls on a product the nerds will start leaving it for the next psuedo underground product that is essentially the same thing only not popular.
as long as they didnt add a level grind like all other mmos, the system of skills in UO is what makes it timeless. i love the lack of a rigid class system also; the ability to raise and lower skills so i can create my perfect character.
400 years ago was smack in the middle of the little ice age. so are we a little warmer than a mild ice age, and why are some people aparently so obsessed with having a static gloabal climate? if you are follower of the religion of science then you need a dynamic global climate to create life. alegedly. if you follow another religion then you need Marduk or something.
i only have three things to say
1. the global climate has and will continue to change regarless of human involvement. we may have sped it up, but "global warming" has been in effect for about 400-500 years; since the end of the little ice age.
2. more nuclear reactors and one fast reactor for every normal reactor. no more coal, coal gas, heating oil, wind, water, etc. power plants needed.
3. et cetera.
http://www.somethingawful.com/legal/
here are some cliffs for those who don't want to read it all.
1. the author plays alot of street fighter and probably alot of fps games
2. the author is angry that his mad mousing skills can't help him in a rpg
3. the author doesn't understand how rpg's work
4. the author wants a rpg that is really a fps
5. the author apparently wants the ability to pull out a noob cannon and scream "boom headshot"
6. the author hasn't listened to all those l2p tells
7. the author doesn't play well with others
further more, and to steal a quote from maddox, if you're too much of an impressionable idiot to play World of Warcraft, don't. WoW isn't teaching any lessons, it's a game and it has certain rules that the player agrees to play by.
...a quantum byte or 'qubyte,' or eight qubits.
10 qubits if you selling hard drives.
but most distros include a lot more content that the windows install cd. so you could say that linux is a steak and lobster dinner while windows is just a slice of cheese between slices of week old bread
when does it not take a conscious effort to be active? im fat cause i drink beer, eat fried foods, and watch too much tv. when im tired of being fat and happy ill pull a buddha (minus the religion) and change my glutonus ways.
im reminded of the time my brother was picking on some whale when he was in third grade. the girl, who was polishing off a 1 pound bag of m&m's, was telling my brother that it wasnt her fault that she was fat becuase it was glandular. needless to say my brother couldnt finish the argument because he was too busy laughing at the poor fat girl.
this was the first thing that i thought of when i saw the title of the book http://www.robotcombat.com/video_oldglory_hi.html
it might make me a bad loonix fan boy, but i dont use linux on my main computer exclusively. i flip flop; i'll go about six months to a year with linux on my main computer and then some game will come out that will make me reinstall windows to play it. i know all about cedega and have used it to play older games, which it works great for, but it just doesn't cut the mustard for newer games.
if only blizzard would have finished the linux client for WoW, i would have been free of windows forever. the main stumbling block for me is that i haven't found an mmorpg that i like and that also has a linux client. almost every fps it seems has a linux client, so im good there. now that my WoW obsession is over i'll probaly go back to linux for a while.
quoted for truth
quoted for mother f*cking truth
QFT
After years of Dvorak's predictions of doom and gloom about the demise of beleagured Apple, he's probably just pissed that his predictions weren't only wrong, but that Apple's enjoying some success. So he does what everyone else does--blame it on the media.
QFMFT
go Astros!
cliffs for people who dont want to read ...
1. america invents internet
2. america shares its new toy
3. eurotrash want the toy
4.
5. profit?
on fps in WoW or CS:S while in linux land?
this is the best response i have seen to this situation
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http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=12310
Yes. It is an American internet.
There are times when nostalgia gets in the way of a person's sight. It IS our baby, but it's all grown up now.
I don't have any particular problem with the status quo. I also generally agree with Bush. In this case I think their view on this is short-sighted and rather silly.
Conversely, the rest of the world is acting like having control over the internet is their *right*, which it is not. If we reliquish control (which I am _not_ arguing against), then everyone else need to realize that *we* are relinquishing control over something that was *ours*.
in case you missed the comical 90's reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technology
i hear it has "push" technology
personally i thought both so long and mostly harmless didnt fit with the first three, but i still liked them.
12 minutes to get *infected, 1440 minutes in a day times $400 a computer equals $48000 a day.
*considering that there have been a few articles stating that computers can get infected with spyware and viruses within 12 minutes of connecting to the internet.
from the article:
Longstanding relationship
In any case, Wired has been using North Shore for a number of years. I found some online gripes about the North Shore letters dating back to 2002 (and you can see one of the firm's letters for yourself at http://urbanideas.com/images/nsa.jpg).