Mod the parent down. If any of you bothered to read the article you would know that this is just a copy and paste of the article. I can't believe you people modded it up that high.
AOE II addressed some of this, allowing you to control you armies movements, stance, behavior, etc. Also, if you've ever played against anyone good, just sending mass armies doesn't work, you do have to work with timing and what order to send in what units in order to be more effective. It also depends what you're up against.
The Olympics are the pinnacle of many sports that do not have national/international championships otherwise.
Swimming, track, skiing, speed skating, etc., are all sports where the Olympics is seen as the be all end all of the sport. As far as hockey and sports where professionals are allowed to play, I'd rather watch the Stanley Cup finals anyway. (Although it is nice to see people from other countries besides the US and Canada play.)
Agreed! If I need something computer related, I'll buy it. I'll be more likely to find the best deal on a product that meets my needs and requirements.
I would much prefer to have a gift that wasn't computer related, but related to something else I enjoy doing. For instance, I skateboard in my freetime, so skateboarding stuff is good too (Although, I'm picky about that as well, bad example!).
Anyway, the point is that computer related items do not always make the best gifts unless you provide them with a full URL to exactly the item you want, but what's the fun in that?
Heh, I had no clue that was the CPU, given the time we had it, and I remembered a friend of mine having a 386 around the same time, I just assumed that is what it had. I do remember playing Indy 500 and SimCity on it as well. =]
Sort of like the saying, "If it aien't broke, don't fix it." Oddly enough, one of my old co-workers felt differently, and I had to spent 1/2 my time fixing the messes he created because of that. =]
Heh, I'm not that old (19), but my first computer was a Tandy 1000 from radio shack, I think it had about 8 MB of ram, and I had to boot DOS 3.x from a disk to be able to play games like Flight Simulator and write programs in GWBASIC.
It does amaze me when I meet people my age or just slightly younger that have never used a computer without a GUI. Especially when they are computer science students.
As long as it isn't slander or libel, I see nothing wrong with saying 'The company I work for sucks', or more specifically something like, 'The company I work for charges x amount more for their products than they should.' Unless of course, that can be considered some sort of trade secret.
I would expect your boss to not be very happy with you. If you don't like the practices of your company, and whine and complain about them, then your employer is going to assume that you don't want your job... okay I'm just rambling now.
The government is everything, not just the legislative branch. The government delivers the mail to my mail box, they pull me over when I'm speeding, and I send them almost 20% of my paycheck every year.
Infringing on another person's rights is illegal as well. In this case, they are preventing someone from exercising their rights. You can't simply sign away your first amendment right. (These would be different from Miranda Rights.)
I shouldn't even bother replying to this, but if you are a "Christian" you believe in the teachings of Christ, thus, creation. Islamic faith also teaches creation, and since Judaism is *basically* belief in only the Old Testament, they also believe in creation. I fail to see your point.
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1
From the Quran: "Indeed, the creation of the heavens and the earth is greater than the creation of mankind, but most of mankind do not realize it." (Chapter 40, Verse 57)
Using approximations, There are 2 billion Christians, 1.3 billion Islamics, thus making 3.3 billion, which is more than 50%, thus a definitive majority (I stopped there, since it was already more than 50%, no point in listing the others such as Judaism.).
Here is a link with more details on distributions of religion throughout the world:
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents. ht ml
Come on people, every stupid comment on this article assumes that if you believe in creation, you are a moron, have no capacity for brain function, and that you disregard all science as fiction.
For being such an accepting crowd, you all sure have a great way of stereotyping a very large diverse group of people. Not only that, but Creationist are also the majority. (Creationist != Christian, there are many more religions which believe in creation.)
Any comment that starts off by saying "Ha, damn those creationist bastards, they're all stupid and don't believe in science.", makes you look about as intelligent as the cockroach in my bathroom.
Intelligent conversation and discussion can only occur when you throw away all your stereotypes before stepping up to the table. Some philosopher talked about this once, but basically, you are supposed to try your best to approach the situation without making any assumption about the person/people with whom are you discussing, how it will benefit you, etc. You go in and debate for the purpose of the issue.
Yeah, I don't see how my comment about making it more real meant that I needed to see advertisements, it's just seeing recognizeable brands, instead of "generic cola".
I read the book when I was pretty young, probably saw the movie when I was real young, but don't remember it too well. I really enjoyed the book though.
Paid placement doesn't really work, because frankly, most people don't care what the actor is drinking, or what the writing on the wall says.
It does help to make movies and games more realistic, since they will be using brands that you recognize, but that's about all it has ever done for me.
Besides, unless there is something that limits someone from using a certain product in a movie, it's pretty much going to happen anyway, why pay for it? (I might be wrong here, but you don't have pay Pepsi if you want to film a movie and there is a guy in a scene drinking Pepsi, do you?)
Actually, according to this, it sounds like the problem is that the http server doesn't obey the other rules you set, i.e. to share or not share certain file types, bandwidth limits, number of upload limits, etc.
As far as being able to access any file on your hard drive, I haven't found anything about that. This also appears to be fairly old news.
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Mod the parent down. If any of you bothered to read the article you would know that this is just a copy and paste of the article. I can't believe you people modded it up that high.
AOE II addressed some of this, allowing you to control you armies movements, stance, behavior, etc. Also, if you've ever played against anyone good, just sending mass armies doesn't work, you do have to work with timing and what order to send in what units in order to be more effective. It also depends what you're up against.
Swimming, track, skiing, speed skating, etc., are all sports where the Olympics is seen as the be all end all of the sport. As far as hockey and sports where professionals are allowed to play, I'd rather watch the Stanley Cup finals anyway. (Although it is nice to see people from other countries besides the US and Canada play.)
I would much prefer to have a gift that wasn't computer related, but related to something else I enjoy doing. For instance, I skateboard in my freetime, so skateboarding stuff is good too (Although, I'm picky about that as well, bad example!).
Anyway, the point is that computer related items do not always make the best gifts unless you provide them with a full URL to exactly the item you want, but what's the fun in that?
You still have to give thinkgeek credit for trying! They are trying out items in a market that is pretty much not very targetted on its own.
Actually, I looked into a bit more, it was a Tandy 1000 TX, 80286, 8 Mhz.
Heh, I had no clue that was the CPU, given the time we had it, and I remembered a friend of mine having a 386 around the same time, I just assumed that is what it had. I do remember playing Indy 500 and SimCity on it as well. =]
Sort of like the saying, "If it aien't broke, don't fix it." Oddly enough, one of my old co-workers felt differently, and I had to spent 1/2 my time fixing the messes he created because of that. =]
It does amaze me when I meet people my age or just slightly younger that have never used a computer without a GUI. Especially when they are computer science students.
Win 3.1 wasn't an OS, it was a shell that you ran on top of DOS.
I would expect your boss to not be very happy with you. If you don't like the practices of your company, and whine and complain about them, then your employer is going to assume that you don't want your job... okay I'm just rambling now.
The government is everything, not just the legislative branch. The government delivers the mail to my mail box, they pull me over when I'm speeding, and I send them almost 20% of my paycheck every year.
Infringing on another person's rights is illegal as well. In this case, they are preventing someone from exercising their rights. You can't simply sign away your first amendment right. (These would be different from Miranda Rights.)
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1
From the Quran: "Indeed, the creation of the heavens and the earth is greater than the creation of mankind, but most of mankind do not realize it." (Chapter 40, Verse 57)
Here is a link with more details on distributions of religion throughout the world:
. ht ml
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents
For being such an accepting crowd, you all sure have a great way of stereotyping a very large diverse group of people. Not only that, but Creationist are also the majority. (Creationist != Christian, there are many more religions which believe in creation.)
Any comment that starts off by saying "Ha, damn those creationist bastards, they're all stupid and don't believe in science.", makes you look about as intelligent as the cockroach in my bathroom.
Intelligent conversation and discussion can only occur when you throw away all your stereotypes before stepping up to the table. Some philosopher talked about this once, but basically, you are supposed to try your best to approach the situation without making any assumption about the person/people with whom are you discussing, how it will benefit you, etc. You go in and debate for the purpose of the issue.
Bah.
Bah, there's a fix for the STL problem, but why are you using STL anyway? (At least not for anything important I wouldn't use it.)
Yeah, I don't see how my comment about making it more real meant that I needed to see advertisements, it's just seeing recognizeable brands, instead of "generic cola".
I always assumed blurred out t-shirts had naughty words on them. Oh well.
I read the book when I was pretty young, probably saw the movie when I was real young, but don't remember it too well. I really enjoyed the book though.
Yeah, I was going to say, I much preferred the older ones where he drove Aston Martins =]
It does help to make movies and games more realistic, since they will be using brands that you recognize, but that's about all it has ever done for me.
Besides, unless there is something that limits someone from using a certain product in a movie, it's pretty much going to happen anyway, why pay for it? (I might be wrong here, but you don't have pay Pepsi if you want to film a movie and there is a guy in a scene drinking Pepsi, do you?)
As far as being able to access any file on your hard drive, I haven't found anything about that. This also appears to be fairly old news.
They used to be required by OSHA, but all the RSI rules were repealed. UAW shops still enforce them, but they aren't required to.
Most people work for 8 hours a day. Assembly line workers do the same thing for 8 hours a day plus.