This seems like a ploy to be able to skimp on maintenance people and stores of replacement parts. After all, if mechanical difficulties is on their "Act of God" list, they don't need to rush to repair the plane, so they can just keep a few of the most common parts and some mechanics at a few central locations, and then fly them out to where they're needed. Ran out of parts and available mechanics? Too bad. God shouldn't have broken the plane.
That's not what reverse discrimination is. That would be unduely favouring a minority, such as hiring a completely unskilled person for a skilled position, just because she was a woman, or he was black, and you had qualified people who weren't in a minority applying for the position.
I get you were probably trying to be funny, but next time, don't abuse a poor term so in your attempt.
Yeah... that's not true. Not in the slightest. You might get lucky and have the enemy become demoralized. What's more likely, when you're in their territory, is that they're going to stop caring if they live, since they know they're going to die, and then adopt more damaging tactics. Instead of getting a guy dropping off a briefcase with a pound of C4, who tries to get out of blast radius, you get a guy driving a truck with a few hundred pounds of C4 driving straight in to a target. And then you get all the other fighters doing similar, in hopes of inflicting as much damage as possible before they die at your hands. So, how do you cope when a single car-bomb can have a block-wide or greater blast area, and it's not terribly difficult to bolt on enough plating to make it possible to aim the vehicle and get it close enough to do damage?
Or an even worse-case scenario is you kill enough people that all of a sudden YOU are the evil one, and the entire country starts working against you, so literally every hand will be willing to slip a knife in your back. In that case, you're pretty much fucked. You can't pretend to be fighting to liberate the country any more, and if you leave, you're leaving a populace with a deep-seated grudge against you, and a working knowledge of your supplies and basic tactics.
No, the best way to fight a war is to not have to fight it. If you can prove that you can improve the life of the majority of the populace, without them having to give up certain things they hold dear (differs depending on country, and even individual population segments), then they're not going to want to fight you, since all they're doing in that case is hurting themselves. A small segment may resist, but if you have the majority of the people on your side, they'll even *help* against those resisters.
You really don't have even a basic understanding of large-scale warfare against a populace that doesn't include the phrase "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," do you?
92,000 files at 15 kilobytes per file is 1.31 gigabytes. Fifteen would be a pathetically short file, so you can count on it being at least double and more, so yes, it is a large size.
The most likely thing is the leaker is actually a small group of people working together over a few months. Even two people working together over a few months could likely copy that many files without suspicions arising.
No, but if you could refract it, and spread it out over a larger than expected area, it could change the profile to a great enough degree for it to be useful.
Couldn't be the "Obongo" bit, or the off-topic, incendiary nature of the post that got him that, could it? Nah, it's gotta be the raging hard-on everyone has for Obama, and not the fact that someone correctly noted that the post was not designed to spark intelligent discourse, but instead to inflame and derail.
That's a bit harsh. I'd say he's being responsible, wanting to ensure communications in case of an emergency. Better than sliding down a hill due to some loose rocks, spraining your ankle, and then discovering that "oh fuck, I can't talk to anyone."
I think you've a fundamental misunderstanding of the point, here. It's to communicate in case of an emergency, not to be reminded to pick up the milk on the way home.
I'm not sure where this "If you're in an area with Rogers, there's only Rogers." Here in Alberta, we've got Shaw for cable, as well as Telus for... whatever they offer. As far as I know, any area with Rogers has at least one other competing cable company. So there's not just alternatives, there's equivalent alternatives.
Further, there have been recent changes to cars that make them safer for pedestrians (primarily in Europe, but some of the design changes have come to the US as well.)
As someone with no interest in cars beyond when they almost run over me, I've obviously not paid attention, so could you give a quick summary, or point me in the right direction of what to search for? Googleing "pedestrian safety improvements" wasn't really helpful.
I'd wager that if games capped the turning speed on mouse controls console gamers would be _much_ more competitive with PC gamers. As it stands now though, PC gamers have an advantage that I would have to classify as unfair, not superior.
"If you handicapped someone, they'd have less of an advantage."
I'm sorry, but you're looking at it completely back-ass-wards, and possibly as stupidly as you can. You do not get an even playing field by artificially limiting how well the best players can do. If it's purely an equipment difference, you improve the bad equipment.
If you're going to make it so that I can't play to the best of my ability, just to make up for the bad equipment other people are using, I'm probably not going to enjoy the game very much. You'll have your even playing field, because all the PC gamers will have walked off it.
A) Unless you're going to model interior ship combat as well, there's no way to justify that certain people are spaced, some killed outright, taken prisoner, etc.
B) Consider both actual gameplay mechanics and player response. Sure, it may be funny to you, but what happens to the person being spaced? Are they respawned back where they started from? Where they were going? Nearest planet? Does it have differing effects than other methods of character death? Can it be used as a form of griefing?
No, if you're allowing raids on ships, then either have the crew taken prisoner, if it's a guild/clan PvP thing, and then players need to escape, or have them "escape on life pods" and show up on the nearest planet.
We had to specifically name digital rights or we couldn't publish an ebook, and it was a major pain if there were any photos in the book, since we had to negotiate rights for those as well. In fact, many of the older books, we didn't even bother. We just made them sans pictures, which really crippled some books. But that's copyright for you.
Also, it was negotiated that print and ebook would give the same royalty rates, but we bumped up royalties by 5% overall. Just for a non-representative example, I suppose. Being a University Press, and Canadian, we're not really playing in the same field as US textbook publishers, or trade publishers.
A bit obscure, yes. Rarely used, well, depends on who you hang around with. Best avoided, probably, since there's many other excellent words to be used.
However, the point really is the fact that he groundlessly accused someone of racism, rather than taking the 30 seconds that it took me to look it up, to check the origin of the word. That's what I take exception to. People taking a non-existent moral high ground, rather than looking in to something. On a small scale, you get misunderstandings like this. On slightly larger scales, you get parents burning books that teach their children witchcraft (Harry Potter, remember?).
And I highly doubt the person was joking. Implying someone is racist isn't exactly funny. Flat out stating it, can be. I've seen some good stand-up comedians running with bits like that. But implying? No.
[I agree about the hating the submission system. Same thing happened to me.]
A bit obscure, yes. Rarely used, well, depends on who you hang around with. Best avoided, probably, since there's many other excellent words to be used.
However, the point really is the fact that he groundlessly accused someone of racism, rather than taking the 30 seconds that it took me to look it up, to check the origin of the word. That's what I take exception to. People taking a non-existent moral high ground, rather than looking in to something. On a small scale, you get misunderstandings like this. On slightly larger scales, you get parents burning books that teach their children witchcraft (Harry Potter, remember?).
And I highly doubt the person was joking. Implying someone is racist isn't exactly funny. Flat out stating it, can be. I've seen some good stand-up comedians running with bits like that. But implying? No.
Decrying a guy, because a word sounds similar to another, and not bothering to, oh, say, take 30 seconds to check? Yeah, accusing someone baselessly of racism is AT LEAST foot in mouth. It's not like I accused him of being an asshole or a moron. He spoke thoughtlessly. That's pretty close to the definition of "foot in mouth."
I was right there with you, until A WILD DICTIONARY APPEARS: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/niggardly 1. reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly. 2. meanly or ungenerously small or scanty
I can see why you put the word "real" in quotes, since you weren't talking about professional designers, who will, in fact, invoice your ass for creating mock-ups, used or not. After a contract is made, they'll come up with several variations based on client input, true, but never on a speculative job.
same difference, no? Both populated by masses of gibbering, maddening creatures, shiny bling that's not worth anything, cheaters all over, and English skills someone around pre-Kindergarten.
You know, I think my dad WAS going to do that, with me, but when we went out, I really didn't show much interest. Of course, it was the guise of shooting some gophers on a friend's farm, so at least the trip wasn't a complete wash, and he popped some vermin.
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This seems like a ploy to be able to skimp on maintenance people and stores of replacement parts. After all, if mechanical difficulties is on their "Act of God" list, they don't need to rush to repair the plane, so they can just keep a few of the most common parts and some mechanics at a few central locations, and then fly them out to where they're needed. Ran out of parts and available mechanics? Too bad. God shouldn't have broken the plane.
I'll do it. I need 3 million sticks of TNT, 12 million cars, 2 million doses of LCD, access to a major religion's power centre, and a set of keys.
Oh, also 10 feet of rope and 4 disco balls.
That's not what reverse discrimination is. That would be unduely favouring a minority, such as hiring a completely unskilled person for a skilled position, just because she was a woman, or he was black, and you had qualified people who weren't in a minority applying for the position.
I get you were probably trying to be funny, but next time, don't abuse a poor term so in your attempt.
the remainder realizes the fight is not worth it.
Yeah... that's not true. Not in the slightest. You might get lucky and have the enemy become demoralized. What's more likely, when you're in their territory, is that they're going to stop caring if they live, since they know they're going to die, and then adopt more damaging tactics. Instead of getting a guy dropping off a briefcase with a pound of C4, who tries to get out of blast radius, you get a guy driving a truck with a few hundred pounds of C4 driving straight in to a target. And then you get all the other fighters doing similar, in hopes of inflicting as much damage as possible before they die at your hands. So, how do you cope when a single car-bomb can have a block-wide or greater blast area, and it's not terribly difficult to bolt on enough plating to make it possible to aim the vehicle and get it close enough to do damage?
Or an even worse-case scenario is you kill enough people that all of a sudden YOU are the evil one, and the entire country starts working against you, so literally every hand will be willing to slip a knife in your back. In that case, you're pretty much fucked. You can't pretend to be fighting to liberate the country any more, and if you leave, you're leaving a populace with a deep-seated grudge against you, and a working knowledge of your supplies and basic tactics.
No, the best way to fight a war is to not have to fight it. If you can prove that you can improve the life of the majority of the populace, without them having to give up certain things they hold dear (differs depending on country, and even individual population segments), then they're not going to want to fight you, since all they're doing in that case is hurting themselves. A small segment may resist, but if you have the majority of the people on your side, they'll even *help* against those resisters.
You really don't have even a basic understanding of large-scale warfare against a populace that doesn't include the phrase "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," do you?
92,000 files at 15 kilobytes per file is 1.31 gigabytes. Fifteen would be a pathetically short file, so you can count on it being at least double and more, so yes, it is a large size.
The most likely thing is the leaker is actually a small group of people working together over a few months. Even two people working together over a few months could likely copy that many files without suspicions arising.
No, but if you could refract it, and spread it out over a larger than expected area, it could change the profile to a great enough degree for it to be useful.
That is a ruddy good question. I've always thought region codes were rather stupid, personally, though I know why they're used.
It's not flying, it's falling, with STYLE!!
Microsoft Windows is really so much harder to use than Ubuntu. Everything on Ubuntu just works,
I'm almost positive I've seen this exact post before. And it's still fucking wrong because my soundcard STILL doesn't work in Ubuntu.
Couldn't be the "Obongo" bit, or the off-topic, incendiary nature of the post that got him that, could it? Nah, it's gotta be the raging hard-on everyone has for Obama, and not the fact that someone correctly noted that the post was not designed to spark intelligent discourse, but instead to inflame and derail.
That's a bit harsh. I'd say he's being responsible, wanting to ensure communications in case of an emergency. Better than sliding down a hill due to some loose rocks, spraining your ankle, and then discovering that "oh fuck, I can't talk to anyone."
I think you've a fundamental misunderstanding of the point, here. It's to communicate in case of an emergency, not to be reminded to pick up the milk on the way home.
I'm not sure where this "If you're in an area with Rogers, there's only Rogers." Here in Alberta, we've got Shaw for cable, as well as Telus for... whatever they offer. As far as I know, any area with Rogers has at least one other competing cable company. So there's not just alternatives, there's equivalent alternatives.
Further, there have been recent changes to cars that make them safer for pedestrians (primarily in Europe, but some of the design changes have come to the US as well.)
As someone with no interest in cars beyond when they almost run over me, I've obviously not paid attention, so could you give a quick summary, or point me in the right direction of what to search for? Googleing "pedestrian safety improvements" wasn't really helpful.
Bad example, with Ubisoft's DRM.
I'd wager that if games capped the turning speed on mouse controls console gamers would be _much_ more competitive with PC gamers. As it stands now though, PC gamers have an advantage that I would have to classify as unfair, not superior.
"If you handicapped someone, they'd have less of an advantage."
I'm sorry, but you're looking at it completely back-ass-wards, and possibly as stupidly as you can. You do not get an even playing field by artificially limiting how well the best players can do. If it's purely an equipment difference, you improve the bad equipment.
If you're going to make it so that I can't play to the best of my ability, just to make up for the bad equipment other people are using, I'm probably not going to enjoy the game very much. You'll have your even playing field, because all the PC gamers will have walked off it.
I agree with everything but the spacing.
A) Unless you're going to model interior ship combat as well, there's no way to justify that certain people are spaced, some killed outright, taken prisoner, etc.
B) Consider both actual gameplay mechanics and player response. Sure, it may be funny to you, but what happens to the person being spaced? Are they respawned back where they started from? Where they were going? Nearest planet? Does it have differing effects than other methods of character death? Can it be used as a form of griefing?
No, if you're allowing raids on ships, then either have the crew taken prisoner, if it's a guild/clan PvP thing, and then players need to escape, or have them "escape on life pods" and show up on the nearest planet.
We had to specifically name digital rights or we couldn't publish an ebook, and it was a major pain if there were any photos in the book, since we had to negotiate rights for those as well. In fact, many of the older books, we didn't even bother. We just made them sans pictures, which really crippled some books. But that's copyright for you.
Also, it was negotiated that print and ebook would give the same royalty rates, but we bumped up royalties by 5% overall. Just for a non-representative example, I suppose. Being a University Press, and Canadian, we're not really playing in the same field as US textbook publishers, or trade publishers.
A bit obscure, yes. Rarely used, well, depends on who you hang around with. Best avoided, probably, since there's many other excellent words to be used.
However, the point really is the fact that he groundlessly accused someone of racism, rather than taking the 30 seconds that it took me to look it up, to check the origin of the word. That's what I take exception to. People taking a non-existent moral high ground, rather than looking in to something. On a small scale, you get misunderstandings like this. On slightly larger scales, you get parents burning books that teach their children witchcraft (Harry Potter, remember?).
And I highly doubt the person was joking. Implying someone is racist isn't exactly funny. Flat out stating it, can be. I've seen some good stand-up comedians running with bits like that. But implying? No.
[I agree about the hating the submission system. Same thing happened to me.]
A bit obscure, yes. Rarely used, well, depends on who you hang around with. Best avoided, probably, since there's many other excellent words to be used.
However, the point really is the fact that he groundlessly accused someone of racism, rather than taking the 30 seconds that it took me to look it up, to check the origin of the word. That's what I take exception to. People taking a non-existent moral high ground, rather than looking in to something. On a small scale, you get misunderstandings like this. On slightly larger scales, you get parents burning books that teach their children witchcraft (Harry Potter, remember?).
And I highly doubt the person was joking. Implying someone is racist isn't exactly funny. Flat out stating it, can be. I've seen some good stand-up comedians running with bits like that. But implying? No.
Decrying a guy, because a word sounds similar to another, and not bothering to, oh, say, take 30 seconds to check? Yeah, accusing someone baselessly of racism is AT LEAST foot in mouth. It's not like I accused him of being an asshole or a moron. He spoke thoughtlessly. That's pretty close to the definition of "foot in mouth."
I was right there with you, until A WILD DICTIONARY APPEARS:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/niggardly
1. reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.
2. meanly or ungenerously small or scanty
Origin:
1520–30
Whereas the word you object to has origins of 1640–50 ( http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nigger )
So, how's that foot tasting?
I can see why you put the word "real" in quotes, since you weren't talking about professional designers, who will, in fact, invoice your ass for creating mock-ups, used or not. After a contract is made, they'll come up with several variations based on client input, true, but never on a speculative job.
same difference, no? Both populated by masses of gibbering, maddening creatures, shiny bling that's not worth anything, cheaters all over, and English skills someone around pre-Kindergarten.
You know, I think my dad WAS going to do that, with me, but when we went out, I really didn't show much interest. Of course, it was the guise of shooting some gophers on a friend's farm, so at least the trip wasn't a complete wash, and he popped some vermin.