I'd stop trying to explain that. These people just want to say they hate gay people without saying they hate gay people. To anyone with half a brain, yes, they know you need to go through a marathon of conversation options in order to get the man-on-man action happening.
It must be really hard for you to avoid going out of your way to pick all the appropriate conversation options in order to end up experiencing such a situation. When I played the game, I had to pay close attention in order to purposefully put my character into such a relationship.
There's a difference between questioning a theory based on evidence to the contrary and questioning it simply because it is controversial. One of the few other scientific theories that seems to enjoy this distinction is the theory of evolution. However, you'd be hard pressed to find as many slashdotters making the same argument against that theory.
It was insinuated that continued development would reduce the number of parameters to adjust. If you program, don't you ever put in a bunch of extra settings that a user would never touch, but you would like to play with until you get things just right?
As he stated at the beginning of the demo, the plugin was still in development and there appeared to be a multitude of sliders and settings to set in order to get any particular photo to come out 'just right'. I'm assuming he had limited stage time and felt that saving all those settings to be loaded on an as needed basis would save time.
Otherwise, would you have been more content to sit there and watch him fiddle with sliders and settings for 5-10 minutes per photo in order to achieve the results he produced with saved settings? In fact, he explicitly stated that he was loading some presets.
Additionally, if you look at the file size column when he loads the pre-defined parameters, they are single-didgit file sizes, Most likely 1 KB each.
There's another portal video from earlier this year that I also found to be rather enjoying. Watching this new video reminded me of the one I saw earlier in the year.
I doubt the Canadian government would allow that. Under the Investment Canada Act, a foreign purchase of a domestic company must provide a “net benefit” to the country. I somehow doubt Microsoft buying out RIM would benefit Canada in any way shape or form.
Imagine someone who's never been exposed to company A or their products, but runs across company B products, which are a derivative work of company A's products.
Now imagine that this person enjoyed company B's products so much that they had to have everything that relates to it, so they go out and but all related works produced by company A. Now remember, this person may have otherwise never been exposed to company A's products if it weren't for their exposure to derivative works produced by company B.
Don't tell me this would be a rare occurrence, for this has happend to me many times with respect to music, video, and written works. I have, through consumption of products that infringe on copyright, spent money to acquire the works that inspired them to begin with.
Sadly, I would have to agree with you for the most part. It is because of the generally decrepit community in WoW that people like myself have to find solace in GBLT strongholds like the Proudmoore server.
My friend Blaine Cook (of Rails scaling and Twitter fame), recently wrote an article on this subject as well. He makes some interesting suggestions.
http://blog.romeda.org/2010/04/identity.html
... the left is split and Canadians collectively are too daft to vote strategically
I refuse to ever vote strategically. It will lead to the downfall of a nation if everyone were to think like this. I've always voted for the party/candidate that best represents my interests, which generally happens to to be the NDP. Yes, I am splitting the leftist vote, but at least I can say I haven't sold out my values for the sake of having a lesser of two evils in government.
If everyone were to vote with the mindset of "oh, I don't want them in power, so I'll vote for the most popular opponent", we'll quickly end up with a two-party system not unlike that of the United States. Think of this another way, imagine how many more seats the NDP would have had in the last election if people did not vote strategically! There were very many close calls between the NDP and Conservatives/Liberals in many ridings.
No, I am sorry, I will not cast my vote based on who I don't want in power. I would much rather place a positive vote towards those who I would like to see running this country instead.
I upgraded my home server from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. After the update completed and I rebooted, the system happily announced that I was now running Xubuntu and then refused to boot until I remove the "biosize=16" option for my XFS drives in fstab.
Once the system did boot up, it wouldn't start X, but instead preferred to sit at a swiftly flickering console that could cause seizures.
Actually, isn't the satellite simply intercepting the energy that would have made it to the Earth anyhow?
If this system has about a 50% efficiency, then isn't this satellite actually blocking the other 50% of said energy from actually ever reaching the earth?
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There's also a correlation between cosmic rays and the ozone hole. Just saying.
There is also a correlation between Russia's population decline and the ozone hole. Just saying.
I'd stop trying to explain that. These people just want to say they hate gay people without saying they hate gay people. To anyone with half a brain, yes, they know you need to go through a marathon of conversation options in order to get the man-on-man action happening.
I refer you to my sig line. =p
It must be really hard for you to avoid going out of your way to pick all the appropriate conversation options in order to end up experiencing such a situation. When I played the game, I had to pay close attention in order to purposefully put my character into such a relationship.
Want some company?
Or perhaps you aren't an American.
At this rate it won't be long before they're able to do the same with live cats.
Maybe.
e^(pi*i) = -1 vs. e^(tau*i) = 1
There's a difference between questioning a theory based on evidence to the contrary and questioning it simply because it is controversial. One of the few other scientific theories that seems to enjoy this distinction is the theory of evolution. However, you'd be hard pressed to find as many slashdotters making the same argument against that theory.
It was insinuated that continued development would reduce the number of parameters to adjust. If you program, don't you ever put in a bunch of extra settings that a user would never touch, but you would like to play with until you get things just right?
As he stated at the beginning of the demo, the plugin was still in development and there appeared to be a multitude of sliders and settings to set in order to get any particular photo to come out 'just right'. I'm assuming he had limited stage time and felt that saving all those settings to be loaded on an as needed basis would save time.
Otherwise, would you have been more content to sit there and watch him fiddle with sliders and settings for 5-10 minutes per photo in order to achieve the results he produced with saved settings? In fact, he explicitly stated that he was loading some presets.
Additionally, if you look at the file size column when he loads the pre-defined parameters, they are single-didgit file sizes, Most likely 1 KB each.
There's another portal video from earlier this year that I also found to be rather enjoying. Watching this new video reminded me of the one I saw earlier in the year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorZUFfpvC0
When I first read this headline I could have sworn it was an Onion article.
The full report can be found here.
I doubt the Canadian government would allow that. Under the Investment Canada Act, a foreign purchase of a domestic company must provide a “net benefit” to the country. I somehow doubt Microsoft buying out RIM would benefit Canada in any way shape or form.
Imagine someone who's never been exposed to company A or their products, but runs across company B products, which are a derivative work of company A's products.
Now imagine that this person enjoyed company B's products so much that they had to have everything that relates to it, so they go out and but all related works produced by company A. Now remember, this person may have otherwise never been exposed to company A's products if it weren't for their exposure to derivative works produced by company B.
Don't tell me this would be a rare occurrence, for this has happend to me many times with respect to music, video, and written works. I have, through consumption of products that infringe on copyright, spent money to acquire the works that inspired them to begin with.
Sadly, I would have to agree with you for the most part. It is because of the generally decrepit community in WoW that people like myself have to find solace in GBLT strongholds like the Proudmoore server.
My friend Blaine Cook (of Rails scaling and Twitter fame), recently wrote an article on this subject as well. He makes some interesting suggestions. http://blog.romeda.org/2010/04/identity.html
Not if I file a business method patent on the process first!
... the left is split and Canadians collectively are too daft to vote strategically
I refuse to ever vote strategically. It will lead to the downfall of a nation if everyone were to think like this. I've always voted for the party/candidate that best represents my interests, which generally happens to to be the NDP. Yes, I am splitting the leftist vote, but at least I can say I haven't sold out my values for the sake of having a lesser of two evils in government.
If everyone were to vote with the mindset of "oh, I don't want them in power, so I'll vote for the most popular opponent", we'll quickly end up with a two-party system not unlike that of the United States. Think of this another way, imagine how many more seats the NDP would have had in the last election if people did not vote strategically! There were very many close calls between the NDP and Conservatives/Liberals in many ridings.
No, I am sorry, I will not cast my vote based on who I don't want in power. I would much rather place a positive vote towards those who I would like to see running this country instead.
I can't help but reply to this.
I upgraded my home server from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. After the update completed and I rebooted, the system happily announced that I was now running Xubuntu and then refused to boot until I remove the "biosize=16" option for my XFS drives in fstab.
Once the system did boot up, it wouldn't start X, but instead preferred to sit at a swiftly flickering console that could cause seizures.
I think I'll switch back to Gentoo now. =D
Actually, isn't the satellite simply intercepting the energy that would have made it to the Earth anyhow?
If this system has about a 50% efficiency, then isn't this satellite actually blocking the other 50% of said energy from actually ever reaching the earth?
I didn't know George W. Bush had a slashdot account!
Please oh please mod the parent up.