I got my phone less than a year ago, and it's running 1.5. And it's made by Samsung. And there's no plans on updating it. Samsung dropped all support for it as soon as they released a slightly newer version of the phone. It's not even supported in their "New PC Studio" software that's supposedly the only way to update the phone. Or at least it wasn't 3 months ago.
Not like homeschooling is a better option, where a parent is free to substitute their own "facts," or leave out certain things completely, crippling the child when they attempt to do anything requiring that knowledge, but the true danger of home schooling is the lack of socialization with people of differing backgrounds, leading to an insular world view that assumes everyone is the same, and an inability to cope with society at large.
No, no it doesn't. Previous screening would have worked just as well, and someone already noted that the underoo bomber's family had given intelligence that wasn't followed up on. That means that the TSA FAILED. He never should have made it on to that plane without a thorough questioning and search. I have to admit though, yours is the most creative apologist argument for the TSA I've seen.
I really doubt anyone's missing the point, since the term "security theatre" is right there in the tags. At least speed limits actually serve real purposes, since at faster speeds you can't react in time to many conditions outside your control, and fuel efficiency decreases as you go faster. As far as I can tell, the TSA is only about the theatre.
L4D revolves entirely around how fast you can aim. What the fuck game have YOU been playing? Being able to accurately pick off a pouncing hunter, or a smoker on a building is the entire key to success. If any member of your team can't do that, you're going to spend a lot more resources on healing, and you'll be moving slower.
Oh wait, you play on console, don't you? No wonder you don't think you need to aim, with all that auto-aim help. You know why console shooters use "inaccurate" weapons, rather than those pistols that can hit reliably at those two football field lengths? Because at distance, auto-aim becomes really blatant, and people would notice a lot more easily if you snap off a shot and hit that guy every time. As for the bazillion keys, it's pretty useful to have strafe and lean keys, in addition to being immediately able to switch to any weapon, instead of cycling, or needing to have them mapped in "classes" to the d-pad.
And I particularly like how you praise realism of unrealistic weapons, using cover, and increased lethality of weapons, but ignore the fact that now it's all regenerating health, instead of health packs. That's why it's cover-based, rather than the frenetic pace of shooters of old. So that any retard with a couple days to burn can beat any FPS game. You stand up, pop a few shots off at the enemy, and duck down before you die, and stay there until you get your health back, repeat until they're all dead.
And it's the consolized shooters that are launching with these extreme game-breaking multiplayer bugs, too. Current console FPS games are shit, have been shit for a while, and are probably going to continue to BE shit. And not a single classic FPS should be remade, because as the Goldeneye remake has shown, using current conventions in old games makes the classics shit, too.
Except that everyone knows what a TIE fighter looks like. There's outside materials showing it. You may even be familiar with those materials yourself, though they're still rather dated themselves.
Having played Bioshock, and seen significant portions of System Shock 2, I can fairly confidently say that all that talk of "spiritual successor" was bullshit. There's nearly no parallels at all, except from a vague "ADAM = cyber modules" thing. Bioshock, honestly, has more in common with Deus Ex than SS2.
Actually, it's not just having a better project to invest in. It's having a better project to invest in, at the right time to invest in it, and the ability to sufficiently invest in it. A good project pushed too soon will fail (see: every product that was made, failed, then came back later to large success), and if you can't invest in it, you miss out. Credit gives you the ability to leap on good projects at the proper time, with a sufficient amount of capital. That is the way that credit can help swing the market.
It's not a HUGE swing, really, but I'm guessing that's what Colin was talking about. The ability to act at the proper time, rather than merely when you're able.
Define "overtake." I'd heard about MySpace being in serious decline since at least 2005, which would mean that it wasn't "hot" since before that, so yeah, we're now past 5 years of Facebook being the "up-and-comer"/"hot new thing," which makes it closer to a decade than not. If your definition of "overtake" is simply number of users, or something, then yes, it takes time to overcome the established base of something like that, because hardly anyone ever deletes a profile on stuff like this, they just abandon it. If you've some other metric you're using, I'd like to see it, if just so I can adjust my knowledge base.
Because cross-species compatability even within mammals is really low, and the effort expended solving it would likely be better served in solving host vs. graft issues with people receiving donations from people, since that would increase life expectancy of donor recipients and broaden the pool of acceptable donor parts. Basically, you're right, it's not impossible, it's just more effort than it's currently worth.
There's less need for donor skin, however. More people require blood during medical procedures than need skin, and usually more blood than skin is needed, even within a procedure that needs both. Furthermore, there's ways to keep a person alive with portions of skin missing. No blood is a little bit harder to deal with. During that extra time, you can culture their own skin, should they have any, or wait for a donor.
That's pretty interesting, though I'd think that someone's idea of replacing skyscraper windows with these would be a worthy endeavour, assuming the process is relatively cheap, and the resulting product relatively long-lasting. Would it be worth the effort of doing something like that? And would it have any effect on the amount of air-con needed in summer? Some of the light being blocked from entering the building would cool it, but I'm assuming the panels heat up more due to the electrical current, and would radiate some heat still. I just don't know if it'd be to a noticeable amount.
Exactly. It was mentioned that the Raiders had about dog level intelligence (or higher, by the end), and were continually resurrected to learn from the mistakes that got them killed in the last fight, so they continually became deadlier fighters.
It also makes more sense to do it that way since then the fighters were able to react to situations on solo missions, rather than needing to be connected to a C&C ship, or only be able to deal with minor parameters.
All the theatres I've been to use disposable glasses that you get to keep, or they get thrown out after. Also, the price is tacked on to the ticket price, which still goes to the studios. I'm not really seeing where theatres are getting the better end of this deal, especially since they need to then bother with handing out the glasses and ensuring they have enough of them.
You mean MPAA, right? Your point loses some efficacy when you're throwing shit in the wrong direction. No, I believe what you meant was "YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR!"
Thank you. I'm not a fan of IE by any stretch (sadly, I'm in the more futile "Opera user" segment), but this really seems like a non-story. Maybe I'm just annoyed because of all of Samzenpus's troll stories yesterday being followed up with this, but I think the failure to note anywhere that IE 9 is in beta beyond "roll IE 9 out soon" is a significant failure in the summary.
Have fun as more and more software says "Fuck you" and you can't run it on your fancy-shmancy XP Pro any more, because you think using a decade-old OS is a great idea. Since you said "XP Pro partition," you're apparently no stranger to running multiple OSes. Get with the times, there's ways to get Win7 for pretty cheap. Find one.
We're a left-leaning country. I have a great fucking idea. Nationalize bell. I was never a fan of this privatization shit. Let's get this socialist bit working again, and have the government own the lines, and then companies like Teksaavy (or however it's spelled) just pay the government maintenance rates for access, then anyone can compete, since it's a government entity without an interest in the market AND NOT DIRECTLY OFFERING SERVICES that everyone's going to. Bell charging companies for access while still selling access to individuals is pretty fucking anti-competitive. That way, if an area wants better internet, you just talk to your MP and they put it on the list of infrastructure to be improved in the area.
I mean, fuck, taxpayers already paid for all the lines, so fuck Bell. Yes, I'm just a wee bit angry at this.
Yeah, because Harper's doing so much better. Oh wait, he's not. And yeah, I voted Conservative. Unfortunately, there's a couple issues I chose to hold in slightly higher priority that lined up more with them than with the Liberal party. Too bad they haven't done shit about those issues, either. Maybe I'll just vote Labour.
Hulu doesn't allow access outside the US, this decision pretty much slaughters the ability to use Netflix (10 HD movies at 6 GB uses up ALL your bandwidth), and so that just leaves the illegal method that's still going to burn through your bandwidth. How is this an alternative to cable, again?
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I got my phone less than a year ago, and it's running 1.5. And it's made by Samsung. And there's no plans on updating it. Samsung dropped all support for it as soon as they released a slightly newer version of the phone. It's not even supported in their "New PC Studio" software that's supposedly the only way to update the phone. Or at least it wasn't 3 months ago.
Not like homeschooling is a better option, where a parent is free to substitute their own "facts," or leave out certain things completely, crippling the child when they attempt to do anything requiring that knowledge, but the true danger of home schooling is the lack of socialization with people of differing backgrounds, leading to an insular world view that assumes everyone is the same, and an inability to cope with society at large.
There's also gun blades.
No, no it doesn't. Previous screening would have worked just as well, and someone already noted that the underoo bomber's family had given intelligence that wasn't followed up on. That means that the TSA FAILED. He never should have made it on to that plane without a thorough questioning and search. I have to admit though, yours is the most creative apologist argument for the TSA I've seen.
Woosh.
I really doubt anyone's missing the point, since the term "security theatre" is right there in the tags. At least speed limits actually serve real purposes, since at faster speeds you can't react in time to many conditions outside your control, and fuel efficiency decreases as you go faster. As far as I can tell, the TSA is only about the theatre.
L4D revolves entirely around how fast you can aim. What the fuck game have YOU been playing? Being able to accurately pick off a pouncing hunter, or a smoker on a building is the entire key to success. If any member of your team can't do that, you're going to spend a lot more resources on healing, and you'll be moving slower.
Oh wait, you play on console, don't you? No wonder you don't think you need to aim, with all that auto-aim help. You know why console shooters use "inaccurate" weapons, rather than those pistols that can hit reliably at those two football field lengths? Because at distance, auto-aim becomes really blatant, and people would notice a lot more easily if you snap off a shot and hit that guy every time. As for the bazillion keys, it's pretty useful to have strafe and lean keys, in addition to being immediately able to switch to any weapon, instead of cycling, or needing to have them mapped in "classes" to the d-pad.
And I particularly like how you praise realism of unrealistic weapons, using cover, and increased lethality of weapons, but ignore the fact that now it's all regenerating health, instead of health packs. That's why it's cover-based, rather than the frenetic pace of shooters of old. So that any retard with a couple days to burn can beat any FPS game. You stand up, pop a few shots off at the enemy, and duck down before you die, and stay there until you get your health back, repeat until they're all dead.
And it's the consolized shooters that are launching with these extreme game-breaking multiplayer bugs, too. Current console FPS games are shit, have been shit for a while, and are probably going to continue to BE shit. And not a single classic FPS should be remade, because as the Goldeneye remake has shown, using current conventions in old games makes the classics shit, too.
Except that everyone knows what a TIE fighter looks like. There's outside materials showing it. You may even be familiar with those materials yourself, though they're still rather dated themselves.
Having played Bioshock, and seen significant portions of System Shock 2, I can fairly confidently say that all that talk of "spiritual successor" was bullshit. There's nearly no parallels at all, except from a vague "ADAM = cyber modules" thing. Bioshock, honestly, has more in common with Deus Ex than SS2.
Actually, it's not just having a better project to invest in. It's having a better project to invest in, at the right time to invest in it, and the ability to sufficiently invest in it. A good project pushed too soon will fail (see: every product that was made, failed, then came back later to large success), and if you can't invest in it, you miss out. Credit gives you the ability to leap on good projects at the proper time, with a sufficient amount of capital. That is the way that credit can help swing the market.
It's not a HUGE swing, really, but I'm guessing that's what Colin was talking about. The ability to act at the proper time, rather than merely when you're able.
Define "overtake." I'd heard about MySpace being in serious decline since at least 2005, which would mean that it wasn't "hot" since before that, so yeah, we're now past 5 years of Facebook being the "up-and-comer"/"hot new thing," which makes it closer to a decade than not. If your definition of "overtake" is simply number of users, or something, then yes, it takes time to overcome the established base of something like that, because hardly anyone ever deletes a profile on stuff like this, they just abandon it. If you've some other metric you're using, I'd like to see it, if just so I can adjust my knowledge base.
If it makes you feel better, it's gotten two flamebaits, two insightfuls, and an informative. I liked the informative rating better.
Because cross-species compatability even within mammals is really low, and the effort expended solving it would likely be better served in solving host vs. graft issues with people receiving donations from people, since that would increase life expectancy of donor recipients and broaden the pool of acceptable donor parts. Basically, you're right, it's not impossible, it's just more effort than it's currently worth.
There's less need for donor skin, however. More people require blood during medical procedures than need skin, and usually more blood than skin is needed, even within a procedure that needs both. Furthermore, there's ways to keep a person alive with portions of skin missing. No blood is a little bit harder to deal with. During that extra time, you can culture their own skin, should they have any, or wait for a donor.
Then you should probably shower more often.
wow, you're dumb.
That's pretty interesting, though I'd think that someone's idea of replacing skyscraper windows with these would be a worthy endeavour, assuming the process is relatively cheap, and the resulting product relatively long-lasting. Would it be worth the effort of doing something like that? And would it have any effect on the amount of air-con needed in summer? Some of the light being blocked from entering the building would cool it, but I'm assuming the panels heat up more due to the electrical current, and would radiate some heat still. I just don't know if it'd be to a noticeable amount.
Exactly. It was mentioned that the Raiders had about dog level intelligence (or higher, by the end), and were continually resurrected to learn from the mistakes that got them killed in the last fight, so they continually became deadlier fighters.
It also makes more sense to do it that way since then the fighters were able to react to situations on solo missions, rather than needing to be connected to a C&C ship, or only be able to deal with minor parameters.
All the theatres I've been to use disposable glasses that you get to keep, or they get thrown out after. Also, the price is tacked on to the ticket price, which still goes to the studios. I'm not really seeing where theatres are getting the better end of this deal, especially since they need to then bother with handing out the glasses and ensuring they have enough of them.
You mean MPAA, right? Your point loses some efficacy when you're throwing shit in the wrong direction. No, I believe what you meant was "YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR!"
Thank you. I'm not a fan of IE by any stretch (sadly, I'm in the more futile "Opera user" segment), but this really seems like a non-story. Maybe I'm just annoyed because of all of Samzenpus's troll stories yesterday being followed up with this, but I think the failure to note anywhere that IE 9 is in beta beyond "roll IE 9 out soon" is a significant failure in the summary.
Have fun as more and more software says "Fuck you" and you can't run it on your fancy-shmancy XP Pro any more, because you think using a decade-old OS is a great idea. Since you said "XP Pro partition," you're apparently no stranger to running multiple OSes. Get with the times, there's ways to get Win7 for pretty cheap. Find one.
We're a left-leaning country. I have a great fucking idea. Nationalize bell. I was never a fan of this privatization shit. Let's get this socialist bit working again, and have the government own the lines, and then companies like Teksaavy (or however it's spelled) just pay the government maintenance rates for access, then anyone can compete, since it's a government entity without an interest in the market AND NOT DIRECTLY OFFERING SERVICES that everyone's going to. Bell charging companies for access while still selling access to individuals is pretty fucking anti-competitive. That way, if an area wants better internet, you just talk to your MP and they put it on the list of infrastructure to be improved in the area.
I mean, fuck, taxpayers already paid for all the lines, so fuck Bell. Yes, I'm just a wee bit angry at this.
Yeah, because Harper's doing so much better. Oh wait, he's not. And yeah, I voted Conservative. Unfortunately, there's a couple issues I chose to hold in slightly higher priority that lined up more with them than with the Liberal party. Too bad they haven't done shit about those issues, either. Maybe I'll just vote Labour.
Hulu doesn't allow access outside the US, this decision pretty much slaughters the ability to use Netflix (10 HD movies at 6 GB uses up ALL your bandwidth), and so that just leaves the illegal method that's still going to burn through your bandwidth. How is this an alternative to cable, again?