People with guns that want to kill you ARE going to kill you most of the time, even if you also have a gun.
People driving drunk don't (99% of the time anyway) want to kill anyone. Alcoholics generally don't want to kill themselves either.
Heat of the moment crimes, such as one spouse murdering their cheating spouse when they find out about an affair, are unquestionably reduced when guns are hard to come by for the average citizen. Sure some of them will still use knives, and some might even beat their spouse to death. But there is absolutely no question that it is FAR easier to kill someone with a gun, and that if you're not thinking rationally because you're overly emotional, you are going to end up killing someone more often when you have easy access to a gun, as opposed to not having a gun lying around.
the Prius has been around since 1999 and there are many examples where a Prius has topped 1,000,000kms before being turned over for a new(er) model).
... if it had been going 456km/day EVERY DAY since 1999. Highly doubtful.
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How is Tecmo Super Bowl being left off of all these lists???
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These ads are "not acceptable"? Since when are their "acceptable" and "non-acceptable" ads? If you want to view the information for "free", that's the price you pay.
"This is supposed to be a free site". Says who? I doubt it's in their mission statement.
The reality is that any site getting that many hits, using that much bandwidth, and having that many employees to pay is going to cost a lot of money to run. If advertisements weren't used then nobody would be able to use it for "free".
Why do so many people think *everything* should be free and that operating large websites doesn't cost anything??
The cable company does give out phone numbers... depending on where you are. Going east coast again, Eastlink (Halifax, NS) has been providing land line phone service for years, in addition to their internet and cable services. Access Communications in Saskatchewan will be rolling it out in the not-too-distant future as well.
And yes, I definitely meant 90s in my original post. NBTel (Saint John, NB), via their "iMagicTV" division, pioneered a pretty lame tv over phone line service back in the late 90s.
TV over phone lines won't arrive in 2005, it arrived back in the 90s. NBTel(now Aliant)/iMagicTV was one of the earlier adopters. It didn't do well back then and it faces an uphill battle now.
So the kid was making a choice to use his browser of preference. You then went and deleted it. You forced him to use YOUR browser of choice by eliminating all other options.
Let me guess your opinion on a subject - you're pissed that M$ bundles IE with Windows and puts an icon on the desktop. What you're doing is just as bad or worse (at least they don't actively destroy other browsers). If people using Macs want to use IE then you're being pretty damn arrogant to prevent them from doing so.
NHLPA, NFLPA, MLBPA... these are unions who workers average much better pay than coders. Their members are the very best at their professions in the entire world.
As can be seen with the current NHL lockout, the NHLPA union is fueled by greed. It does not prop up the lazy but rather tries to maximize benefits for the very best. The lowest rung NHL players are the ones "suffering" (hardly) the most in the current lockout.
The NHLPA was founded by low paid, exploited players back in the 50's. It was formed not to prop up the lazy but to keep players from being exploited - threats, low pay, and league-wide blacklisting for players with the temerity to ask for more money, were the norm. ALL players had a right to fight back.
Over the years the power has shifted from the owners to the players in the union, and the current NHLPA agenda is corrupted to favour only greed for its players.
Back to the point though - unions are not just formed by the "bottom of the profession" by "lazy" workers.
The write-up correctly refers to the game as Marble Madness 2. The full title of the game is "Marble Madness II : Marble Man". See it here.
The write-up also correctly points out that Mr Evans is the *sole* owner of the two MMII's in existence. There aren't "only 3 or so in existence" - he has the only two.
Because what's missing nowadays is "fun". To get the best items/cars/etc you need to play the game *to death*. I can't imagine who actually had "fun" playing Gran Turismo 3 through to 100% completion or until getting all cars. GT3 is a fun game. Grinding out endurance race after endurance race until the random award car is the one you WANT is not fun. Racing the limited selection of tracks over 600 times - well enough to win - and having to tweak out each no car along the way is repetitive tedium.
Tetris is fun from the second you start a game. The learning curve is low. There are no items that you need to unlock to have maximum enjoyment. The same can be said of classic arcade games like Ms Pac-Man, Bombjack, and Pole Position. I still enjoy those games to this day, ~20 years after their release.
There is no connection between kaillera and the popularity of classic games. Many classics aren't of the simultaneous multiplayer variety but rather are played by one player at a time. Kaillera lends little to these.
Fighting games, if I'm not mistaken, are not played much with MAME on Kaillera. People seem to be using more specific dedicated emulators for use with Neo-Geo etc to play their fighting games.
Regarding WINE, perhaps it has changed, but back when I used it you needed to have official Windows DLLs and such for it to work.
So this Linux game compatibility through WINE you're discussing is pretty much bunk since you need to buy Windows in the first place!
These potential converts from the M$ world aren't going to buy Windows to play games on Linux, they'll buy Windows to play games on Windows.
The average PC user is NOT savvy enough to dual-boot and certainly not savvy enough to configure WINE. Wizards be damned, because the average PC user doesn't even know that dual-booting can be accomplished! The average PC user is far, far below the average/.er on the computer proficiency scale.
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Damn those duelling cores! I think we found your problem...
10 provinces.
NB = 506
NS = 902
PEI = 902
NL = 709
MB = 204
SASK = 306
So 60% of the provinces have only one area code, one of which is shared across two. You're way off base here.
Toronto - 4.5M
Montreal - 3.2M
Vancouver - 2.2M
Ottawa - 1.1M
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11M/32M = ~33%
Not even close.
Actually, this guy is more impressive still. Way more than four buttons to push on this one.
You can certainly be a professional in the sport you compete in. Summer olympics - NBA players. Winter Olympics - NHL players.
Your statistics don't take into account intent.
People with guns that want to kill you ARE going to kill you most of the time, even if you also have a gun.
People driving drunk don't (99% of the time anyway) want to kill anyone. Alcoholics generally don't want to kill themselves either.
Heat of the moment crimes, such as one spouse murdering their cheating spouse when they find out about an affair, are unquestionably reduced when guns are hard to come by for the average citizen. Sure some of them will still use knives, and some might even beat their spouse to death. But there is absolutely no question that it is FAR easier to kill someone with a gun, and that if you're not thinking rationally because you're overly emotional, you are going to end up killing someone more often when you have easy access to a gun, as opposed to not having a gun lying around.
How is Tecmo Super Bowl being left off of all these lists???
These ads are "not acceptable"? Since when are their "acceptable" and "non-acceptable" ads? If you want to view the information for "free", that's the price you pay.
"This is supposed to be a free site". Says who? I doubt it's in their mission statement.
The reality is that any site getting that many hits, using that much bandwidth, and having that many employees to pay is going to cost a lot of money to run. If advertisements weren't used then nobody would be able to use it for "free".
Why do so many people think *everything* should be free and that operating large websites doesn't cost anything??
Because CDN is the short form of "Canadian", not "Canada". The articile title reads "Canadian Government", not "Canada Government"
Yes, he's Canadian :)
The cable company does give out phone numbers... depending on where you are. Going east coast again, Eastlink (Halifax, NS) has been providing land line phone service for years, in addition to their internet and cable services. Access Communications in Saskatchewan will be rolling it out in the not-too-distant future as well.
And yes, I definitely meant 90s in my original post. NBTel (Saint John, NB), via their "iMagicTV" division, pioneered a pretty lame tv over phone line service back in the late 90s.
TV over phone lines won't arrive in 2005, it arrived back in the 90s. NBTel(now Aliant)/iMagicTV was one of the earlier adopters. It didn't do well back then and it faces an uphill battle now.
So the kid was making a choice to use his browser of preference. You then went and deleted it. You forced him to use YOUR browser of choice by eliminating all other options.
Let me guess your opinion on a subject - you're pissed that M$ bundles IE with Windows and puts an icon on the desktop. What you're doing is just as bad or worse (at least they don't actively destroy other browsers). If people using Macs want to use IE then you're being pretty damn arrogant to prevent them from doing so.
(BTW : My comment has been posted with FireFox)
NHLPA, NFLPA, MLBPA... these are unions who workers average much better pay than coders. Their members are the very best at their professions in the entire world.
As can be seen with the current NHL lockout, the NHLPA union is fueled by greed. It does not prop up the lazy but rather tries to maximize benefits for the very best. The lowest rung NHL players are the ones "suffering" (hardly) the most in the current lockout.
The NHLPA was founded by low paid, exploited players back in the 50's. It was formed not to prop up the lazy but to keep players from being exploited - threats, low pay, and league-wide blacklisting for players with the temerity to ask for more money, were the norm. ALL players had a right to fight back.
Over the years the power has shifted from the owners to the players in the union, and the current NHLPA agenda is corrupted to favour only greed for its players.
Back to the point though - unions are not just formed by the "bottom of the profession" by "lazy" workers.
Umm, who would have programmed the OS/2 operating system then?
...the lengths printer companies will go to to find out who's filling customer's ink cartridges with non-official(tm) ink!
The write-up correctly refers to the game as Marble Madness 2. The full title of the game is "Marble Madness II : Marble Man". See it here.
The write-up also correctly points out that Mr Evans is the *sole* owner of the two MMII's in existence. There aren't "only 3 or so in existence" - he has the only two.
Because what's missing nowadays is "fun". To get the best items/cars/etc you need to play the game *to death*. I can't imagine who actually had "fun" playing Gran Turismo 3 through to 100% completion or until getting all cars. GT3 is a fun game. Grinding out endurance race after endurance race until the random award car is the one you WANT is not fun. Racing the limited selection of tracks over 600 times - well enough to win - and having to tweak out each no car along the way is repetitive tedium.
Tetris is fun from the second you start a game. The learning curve is low. There are no items that you need to unlock to have maximum enjoyment. The same can be said of classic arcade games like Ms Pac-Man, Bombjack, and Pole Position. I still enjoy those games to this day, ~20 years after their release.
Bob 2K4
There is no connection between kaillera and the popularity of classic games. Many classics aren't of the simultaneous multiplayer variety but rather are played by one player at a time. Kaillera lends little to these.
Fighting games, if I'm not mistaken, are not played much with MAME on Kaillera. People seem to be using more specific dedicated emulators for use with Neo-Geo etc to play their fighting games.
- Streaming media presents a bias there towards Windows?
1) How is this relevant AT ALL to CPU benchmarking?
- Based on this streaming media "bias", you don't know how much you trust NASA?
1) What the hell does choice of streaming media have to do with trust?
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2) Just because a corporation/government division uses Windows doesn't mean they're any more or less trustworthy than anyone else
I was going to mod this, but "inaccurate" and/or "author confused!" aren't mod options.
They should be!
Easy -> edit ls.bat
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@echo off
dir
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Advanced -> edit ls.bat
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@echo off
[convert ls options to dir switches]
dir [converted switches]
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Regarding WINE, perhaps it has changed, but back when I used it you needed to have official Windows DLLs and such for it to work.
/.er on the computer proficiency scale.
So this Linux game compatibility through WINE you're discussing is pretty much bunk since you need to buy Windows in the first place!
These potential converts from the M$ world aren't going to buy Windows to play games on Linux, they'll buy Windows to play games on Windows.
The average PC user is NOT savvy enough to dual-boot and certainly not savvy enough to configure WINE. Wizards be damned, because the average PC user doesn't even know that dual-booting can be accomplished! The average PC user is far, far below the average