They made good games on old PCs, arguably better games than they make for new PCs. Any game developer who can't make a fun, worthwhile game on an 8 bit CPU with 64K of RAM won't be able to make a better game on an i7 with 8 gigs of RAM.
You're the lucky one, if the bands you listen to expound on a musical idea for 7-8 good minutes. Most bands can't come up with an idea that's good for much more than 2 or 3 minutes of material.
You don't need to know someone's physical location for that, just their location in the network. Traceroute to both CDNs, use the one with the fewest hops. Problem solved.
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What evidence is that? I'd be very interested in that, considering the overwhelming opinion of experts is that we're on the left side. See the Washington Post piece I linked in my reply to the other post in this thread.
I don't use Safari. But if I were to see someone using this version of Firefox, I would have mistaken it for Safari. The only real differences are that the url bar and tab bar are swapped, and the search bar is gone.
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WTF are you talking about? Are you using proprietary binary blobs? If so, that's your problem. Complain to nVidia or ATI or whoever. In kernel drivers always work.
However, many users will not understand that setting the home page is under [alt] > Tools > options > General tab. Non-tech savvy people dont understand all of this multi layered categorization
If you want a flat list of configuration options instead of a nested hierarchy, everything is available under about:config. It's even searchable.
Next you will complain that "non-tech savvy people can't handle being bombarded by a list of hundreds of configuration options".
You can make bombs out of plastic(e.g. CO2 bombs). All a gun is is a bomb with a projectile attached. If you make the walls thicker, and don't intend on reusing the item, you will have no problem imparting a projectile with enough kinetic energy to take a human life.
Does it matter? The public official got his revenge on the twitter user. Even the best possible outcome of this situation will not save the twitter user from spending months, if not years defending this, and thousands of dollars of his own money.
Prosecutors, lawyers, judges, and politicians all too often get away with wielding the courts as a weapon. We need a way to hold them accountable for this. Any time a prosecutor tries to exceed his constitutional authority, he should be punished. Seriously punished. This prosecutor deserves to go to jail.
No, it really should be deny all, manually whitelist. What if you want to play audio from a website in the background? If it pauses when you switch tabs, that's no good. Or if you have more than one video embedded into one page. You don't want them to all start at once.
A persistent friends list. Cross-game chat via the RealID system.
Useless in single player.
Persistent characters that are stored server-side (no more having to play online once every 90 days, nor item duplication cheats). Persistent party system.
Useful in single player, but they don't require constant connections. Save your character/party state when you disconnect. Use that saved state for offline play. Upload the changes to the server on next reconnect. Done.
The rest of your features all fall under one of the two above categories.
Why do you assume that we think or care whether we're part of a huge group? It's a simple calculation. I don't want my gaming to be affected by my connectivity, so I don't buy games that require connectivity. Problem solved.
I don't like ketchup either. Do you assume that I believe I'm part of some righteous boycott of tomato products when I ask for my burger without ketchup?
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Even assuming Hauser's law is valid, you cannot draw that conclusion from that data. All that would imply is that the slope of Laffer's curve is shallow at this point.
But FWIW, Hauser's law is bunk anyway. Just another case of lying with statistics. The tax code is a very complex beast, and trying to represent it with two numbers, the tax rate and revenues, is a fool's errand. Get back to me when Hauser tries an honest analysis and measures tax rates and tax receipts from the same bracket.
Also, you and I aren't economists. If you ask economists where the Laffer curve peaks, you get answers ranging from around 30-50%. Notice how most economists have a few sentences of qualifiers around their estimates. The guy from the National Review mindlessly parrots back the 19% from Hauser. Figures, because Hauser's "Law" is nothing but a talking point that no actual economist takes seriously.
It's easier to think of this in terms of linear distance between transmitter and receiver. If you do the math, this gives you a radius of about 62 miles.
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They made good games on old PCs, arguably better games than they make for new PCs. Any game developer who can't make a fun, worthwhile game on an 8 bit CPU with 64K of RAM won't be able to make a better game on an i7 with 8 gigs of RAM.
You can mount iso9660 filesystems with the mount option 'mode' to give permissions to whoever you want.
Keyboard and mouse is objectively better, because every time K&M goes up against a joypad, K&M wins.
You can get great joysticks for $3 at goodwill.
Games have not been about what "you'd rather" since the mid 1990's, but rather about what the market is willing to pay for.
Which is why mid-90s games are still better than the crap they push out today.
You're the lucky one, if the bands you listen to expound on a musical idea for 7-8 good minutes. Most bands can't come up with an idea that's good for much more than 2 or 3 minutes of material.
Yeah, but then you'd actually have to talk to Eric Raymond.
You don't need to know someone's physical location for that, just their location in the network. Traceroute to both CDNs, use the one with the fewest hops. Problem solved.
What evidence is that? I'd be very interested in that, considering the overwhelming opinion of experts is that we're on the left side. See the Washington Post piece I linked in my reply to the other post in this thread.
I don't use Safari. But if I were to see someone using this version of Firefox, I would have mistaken it for Safari. The only real differences are that the url bar and tab bar are swapped, and the search bar is gone.
Which is entirely false.
WTF are you talking about? Are you using proprietary binary blobs? If so, that's your problem. Complain to nVidia or ATI or whoever. In kernel drivers always work.
Yes, this is exactly the problem i'm complaining about.
However, many users will not understand that setting the home page is under [alt] > Tools > options > General tab. Non-tech savvy people dont understand all of this multi layered categorization
If you want a flat list of configuration options instead of a nested hierarchy, everything is available under about:config. It's even searchable.
Next you will complain that "non-tech savvy people can't handle being bombarded by a list of hundreds of configuration options".
Looks exactly like Safari.
Because it's a catch phrase, and Picard is on TV.
This is what open source is for.
You can make bombs out of plastic(e.g. CO2 bombs). All a gun is is a bomb with a projectile attached. If you make the walls thicker, and don't intend on reusing the item, you will have no problem imparting a projectile with enough kinetic energy to take a human life.
I've had enough of your rabble-rousing!
Does it matter? The public official got his revenge on the twitter user. Even the best possible outcome of this situation will not save the twitter user from spending months, if not years defending this, and thousands of dollars of his own money.
Prosecutors, lawyers, judges, and politicians all too often get away with wielding the courts as a weapon. We need a way to hold them accountable for this. Any time a prosecutor tries to exceed his constitutional authority, he should be punished. Seriously punished. This prosecutor deserves to go to jail.
No, it really should be deny all, manually whitelist. What if you want to play audio from a website in the background? If it pauses when you switch tabs, that's no good. Or if you have more than one video embedded into one page. You don't want them to all start at once.
A persistent friends list.
Cross-game chat via the RealID system.
Useless in single player.
Persistent characters that are stored server-side (no more having to play online once every 90 days, nor item duplication cheats).
Persistent party system.
Useful in single player, but they don't require constant connections. Save your character/party state when you disconnect. Use that saved state for offline play. Upload the changes to the server on next reconnect. Done.
The rest of your features all fall under one of the two above categories.
Why do you assume that we think or care whether we're part of a huge group? It's a simple calculation. I don't want my gaming to be affected by my connectivity, so I don't buy games that require connectivity. Problem solved.
I don't like ketchup either. Do you assume that I believe I'm part of some righteous boycott of tomato products when I ask for my burger without ketchup?
Even assuming Hauser's law is valid, you cannot draw that conclusion from that data. All that would imply is that the slope of Laffer's curve is shallow at this point.
But FWIW, Hauser's law is bunk anyway. Just another case of lying with statistics. The tax code is a very complex beast, and trying to represent it with two numbers, the tax rate and revenues, is a fool's errand. Get back to me when Hauser tries an honest analysis and measures tax rates and tax receipts from the same bracket.
Also, you and I aren't economists. If you ask economists where the Laffer curve peaks, you get answers ranging from around 30-50%. Notice how most economists have a few sentences of qualifiers around their estimates. The guy from the National Review mindlessly parrots back the 19% from Hauser. Figures, because Hauser's "Law" is nothing but a talking point that no actual economist takes seriously.
It's easier to think of this in terms of linear distance between transmitter and receiver. If you do the math, this gives you a radius of about 62 miles.