No gamer in existance and play all three (must pick two). You obviously chose LARP and Table Top, if you were even slightly interested in computer games over the last decade (and had internet access) you would know that RTS was Real Time Stradegy.
I just played through Freespace2 and was amazed at how excelent it is.
I had been wanting to play it since it was new and I read a review at a barber shop, I never could remember the name though. Somehow I figured it out and aquired and played it.
What amazed me most thought was that I could not for the life of me play it with a joystick. I remember in Wing Commander how much I hated the mouse and bought a joystick for it and it was good. In Freespace it was not ideal with a mouse, but far worse with the stick for me. Damn you FPS games ruining my space sim skizzles.
On normal mode I found the game rather easy except for a few mission, but it was awsome anyway, and just the right length of play. I beat it just as I would have tired of playing it and moved on to something else.
It was awsome to fly a fighter and it litterally be minutes to get from one end of a mothership to another.
My parents had a motherboard fail. Took me two hours to diagnose (make sure they hadn't done anything for sure). Called support, 90 minutes on hold followed buy another 2 hours of diagnostics before they agree.
When the new motherboard came it took about 30 minutes to get in and I spent another hour trying to get it to work, call tech support, hold for 30 minutes, 45 minutes more of diagnostics new motherboard. New motherboard took 20 minutes to install.
I spent a total of 7 hours (my dad had spent 2 hours prior as they tried to diagnose the problem on the phone and an hour on hold before that too) on a $70.00 part, consumer support sucks. This was actually a gateway because we had good luck with them in the past.
I can find no possitive or negative info for that fact.
Well it could be taken as negative confirmation on Nintendo's page mentioning the link and saying "Note: Does not apply to Game Boy micro." on their connctivity page.
But still, no real warning saying it is impossible, and considering it seams obvious that it would work with an adapter I am courious.
Unfortunatly for me this is a deal breaker, (having a second GBA for Chrytal Chronicals could give me an excuse to buy one.
Some could say the truly scary thing is if people were put before a court with a fairly low burden of proof (civil court) and not given permission to fully defend themselves, or nobody was willing to do it.
Maybe our sytem is too strongly biased against false positives, but it far surpasses a system biased for them.
BTW a lot of people seam to think that the system is too biased for the plaintiffs as it is.
Having the president appoint supreme court judges is wrong anyway. There should be a better process of selecting them. How's it done in other countries?
I am wrong then, the parts of Hanz Blixe's report seamed to imply that something was definatly being hidden, judged by behavior, but it could not be proven. He advocated one last round of searches with a full army backing them, a plan I could of supported. But instead the US et al decided that the early resolution was enough to warrent war. Of course we new it was still not 100% ethical to invade with the resolution or not (well a large minority of us did). So we went to the UN, and they were like, "we have no proof, so it is unethical, and besides we have strong business ties there".
Then US and UK were like, we want invade anyway.
FWIW, I get most of my news from NPR, BBC World Service, and The Economist and I did not hear anything to the effect of "Iraq has no WMDs". Everything was "Iraq probably does, but we can't prove it".
Of course a country with no ties to Al-Quida and no long range weapons, and a history of using WMDs on its own people mostly is hardly a security risk to the US or the UK, which is why the large minority of Americans (such as myself) thought it was wasted effort.
I am not a supporter of the war in Iraq, but to call it illegal and false pretenses is wrong.
There was a resolution of let us in or else and we (world community) weren't let in, and <i>everybody</i> thought there were WMDs in Iraq (well OK, I guess we went in for oil, so the pretenses could have been false).
I garentee that any other country that discovered them during wartime would have used nuclear weapons too, we just happened to be first and we are not using them, they were used once.
All other buttel points I agree with (well the many many in dictator replacement is a hyperbole).
But we did create the internet, and with the intention of improving our military and then later our civilian communication. It is great that we allowed it to be a globel network, but there is no reason to give it to the UN, the last thing we need is more confilcting interest run buracracy deciding things.
Show me an auction for a hardened laptop with a display meant to be read outside in new condition for anywhere close to $250.00.
The hand crank is a nice add-on, but even without it this has added value to make it worth more than 90% of the laptops on the market for certain applications.
If you have a Toughbook you are willing to sell me for $250.00 I will buy it in a second though.
I am glad you think all french people feel the same way about wine as you do, because there are many who frown upon anything but European wine (Italians are worse). Perhaps in America we talk about a good "cheap" $10.00 bottle of wine because at that price we are happy to find something that does not tasts like Welches (grape juice) + Rubbing Alcohol. In France it is far easier to find a decent 10 euro ($12+) bottle of wine, of course that is of course 20% more money too.
Wine like anyhting with variety is filled with subltle differnces, and we like that too, for $10 you can buy a brand name and get soemthing good, but finding a nice Spanish or Chilean wine that better goes with your food is pleasant, perhaps if we drank wine here more often we wouldn't care but we don't so we do.
FWIW I drink beer more often than wine and stock 3 or 4 different kinds depending on the meal I take what is appropriate, when I drink wine I usually Cabernet Sauvignon with spicy and yeasty (or whatever powder is on the appatizers) Indian food and it goes nice, with some dishes it goes even better than a Pale Ale.
Perhaps you cannot comprehend that we were making fun of our own in the movie because there is no self deprication humor in your culture (I do not know), but the wine snob is a humorous archetype, enough so to feature them in a movie as the comic part of a dark comedy. We make fun of them plenty, as much as we make fun of the snobby French who think they are to good for America and don't understand that American's could make fun of their own kind even as the characters in the movie do so. The women in the movie were reasonable but definatly had a passion for wine, I am sure there are French in the industry that feel the same way as them.
You should be happy to know that the snobby French are not the only ones we make fun of, even if the shop owners are quite rude outside of the big cities.
As a Frenchman please explain to me why I am frowned upon for not knowing the language of a country thousands of miles away? I don't expect the average French person to speak English, nor do I expect the shop owners in a tourest area to hire more than one person who can sort of answer a question in sort of English. I am hundreds if not thousands of miles from anywhere that speaks anything but English, and plan to travel to many different countries how many languages should I learn (I currently speak fluent English, broken Spanish, and a tiny tiny amount of French)? most of the French people I managed to talk to at all spoke little English (about as much as my French) and some spoke Italian also (they were also very polite, it was the poeple on the commercial side out of Paris who weren't) I did not look down on them for not speaking my language and they did not on me, why is it the people that had a commercial interest in me were pricks and snobs?
And yes we make fun of you for always surrendering, I would expect in 30 years when the death count is a generation old you make fun of us for our retarded war mongering and calling a special midnight session od congress for one vegatable of a human, yet let 1000's of people die in the name of "States Rights". And I know that the crass cowboy type is already the butt of some jokes over their (as he is here too). We also make fun of people who now call "Frenchfries" "Freedomfries".
Do you make fun of French wine snobs or do you believe they are non-existant?
I would pay plenty for a rugged Linux laptop with 500 MHz AMD in it. I say I cannot buy one because in an article I read they said it should be a stigma to use it as an adult. The Simputer people were the same way (I twice contacted their sales asking for info, it said on the sight it was as good for people in NY as India, no response). If these companies are making products that are a good value, but still prophitable lets defray the cost some. If it is truly durable I would pay $500 for it over a low end Dell/Gateway. Then they can donate 4 to a school and everyone wins (I would be far more likly to buy one sub $250 though).
I didn't mean that. I meant running around IRL pretending there were Octorocs ect. Not saying you did that, just that it is a typical 8 year old thing to do, gamer or not.
I think it has more to do with the perceived market. I know I did things as stupid as the second add growing up, but I was far younger than the person portrayed. I could definatly see an 8 year old doing that though. As far as an 8 year old able to play Zelda I am not entirly sure, but I would expect they could superficially at least.
The quote is page 7 "I once thought that TBS games were easy to write, but then I saw the source code to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (SMAC). Most players don't realize it, but SMAC actually uses a 3D technique called voxels to render its units on the fly and to draw a height-sensitive landscape with perspective texture mapping and dynamic palette mapping (made possible by self-modifying assembly code). Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was obviously not easy to port to Linux. While it's possible to write a good TBS game without such sophistication, don't think of the TBS genre as an easy way out-its complexity can be deceiving." (Amazon search in a book rules).
The changing size of civilipedia.exe (in CivII) I learned from Thundurbite Anti Virus, which was a virus detector that looked at behavior, not signatures. It seemed to cache the artwork for the pages, because if you deleted it a simpler civilapedia was used, but it still worked, and actually worked better if you played scenarious.
The game ran in Windows 3.1 so it would not suprise me if it still had DOS cruft in it.
Well he does have 3 years to get a new source of 3.5 million a year too.
If he isn't worth 3.5 million a year well, sucks to be him, if he is then he has a good chance of finding a high paying job in the next 3 years.
It is hard to feel pity for someone that was living on credit with 7 figures of income, but there is every reason to believe he was and it could very well bankrupt him.
Art direction of Doom3 is pretty good proof of non-performance IMHO (I actually think the environment was sufficiently creapy, but the enemies look like shit and would have been just as scary as DOOM1 sprites).
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I guess the real question is do you shread your birthcertificate in such a way you can easily reasemble it?
why encrypt the scan then?
Ther are RPG games, LARPS, and Table Top Games
No gamer in existance and play all three (must pick two). You obviously chose LARP and Table Top, if you were even slightly interested in computer games over the last decade (and had internet access) you would know that RTS was Real Time Stradegy.
I just played through Freespace2 and was amazed at how excelent it is.
I had been wanting to play it since it was new and I read a review at a barber shop, I never could remember the name though. Somehow I figured it out and aquired and played it.
What amazed me most thought was that I could not for the life of me play it with a joystick. I remember in Wing Commander how much I hated the mouse and bought a joystick for it and it was good. In Freespace it was not ideal with a mouse, but far worse with the stick for me. Damn you FPS games ruining my space sim skizzles.
On normal mode I found the game rather easy except for a few mission, but it was awsome anyway, and just the right length of play. I beat it just as I would have tired of playing it and moved on to something else.
It was awsome to fly a fighter and it litterally be minutes to get from one end of a mothership to another.
True story.
My parents had a motherboard fail. Took me two hours to diagnose (make sure they hadn't done anything for sure). Called support, 90 minutes on hold followed buy another 2 hours of diagnostics before they agree.
When the new motherboard came it took about 30 minutes to get in and I spent another hour trying to get it to work, call tech support, hold for 30 minutes, 45 minutes more of diagnostics new motherboard. New motherboard took 20 minutes to install.
I spent a total of 7 hours (my dad had spent 2 hours prior as they tried to diagnose the problem on the phone and an hour on hold before that too) on a $70.00 part, consumer support sucks. This was actually a gateway because we had good luck with them in the past.
Cars don't have very long lives as rentals either though.
I rented a car for 8 weeks one time, and 4 weeks in I had to get a new one since their lease was switched over, it was last years model.
I don't see why not either, but nowhere does it give a definitive answer.
I read (skimmed) all the reviews linked in comments here, the one linked in the article, Nintendo's website and Googled for it.
The only answer I got was Nintendo's website with the note I quoted in GP.
Can it connect to the Gamecube at all?
I can find no possitive or negative info for that fact.
Well it could be taken as negative confirmation on Nintendo's page mentioning the link and saying "Note: Does not apply to Game Boy micro." on their connctivity page.
But still, no real warning saying it is impossible, and considering it seams obvious that it would work with an adapter I am courious.
Unfortunatly for me this is a deal breaker, (having a second GBA for Chrytal Chronicals could give me an excuse to buy one.
I guess it is risk vs reward.
To me protecting plain text documents is a small reward, losing such docs is a big risk.
and it better be a bitchen password, with known parts of files to look for.
Some could say the truly scary thing is if people were put before a court with a fairly low burden of proof (civil court) and not given permission to fully defend themselves, or nobody was willing to do it.
Maybe our sytem is too strongly biased against false positives, but it far surpasses a system biased for them.
BTW a lot of people seam to think that the system is too biased for the plaintiffs as it is.
Having the president appoint supreme court judges is wrong anyway. There should be a better process of selecting them. How's it done in other countries?
In soviet Russia supreme court selects you.
Encryption seams pointless to me.
Any sufficiently strong solution runs too high a risk of being stuck (no key).
I would recomend preparing it in advance and keeping it in asaftey deposit box about 3 hours away by car (adjust distance based on paranoia).
Your wallet (with ID) will get you into the box for anything requiring a more hardcore form of ID.
I would also keep it encrypted on the local computer to have two copies.
3 hours by car is close enough to update/retrieve for backup.
Extra registers can and do make a difference.
Called a prostitute.
Is film that fast (60 fps)?
I would expect a lot of extra frames with 60 fps.
I am wrong then, the parts of Hanz Blixe's report seamed to imply that something was definatly being hidden, judged by behavior, but it could not be proven. He advocated one last round of searches with a full army backing them, a plan I could of supported. But instead the US et al decided that the early resolution was enough to warrent war. Of course we new it was still not 100% ethical to invade with the resolution or not (well a large minority of us did). So we went to the UN, and they were like, "we have no proof, so it is unethical, and besides we have strong business ties there".
Then US and UK were like, we want invade anyway.
FWIW, I get most of my news from NPR, BBC World Service, and The Economist and I did not hear anything to the effect of "Iraq has no WMDs". Everything was "Iraq probably does, but we can't prove it".
Of course a country with no ties to Al-Quida and no long range weapons, and a history of using WMDs on its own people mostly is hardly a security risk to the US or the UK, which is why the large minority of Americans (such as myself) thought it was wasted effort.
I am not a supporter of the war in Iraq, but to call it illegal and false pretenses is wrong.
There was a resolution of let us in or else and we (world community) weren't let in, and <i>everybody</i> thought there were WMDs in Iraq (well OK, I guess we went in for oil, so the pretenses could have been false).
I garentee that any other country that discovered them during wartime would have used nuclear weapons too, we just happened to be first and we are not using them, they were used once.
All other buttel points I agree with (well the many many in dictator replacement is a hyperbole).
But we did create the internet, and with the intention of improving our military and then later our civilian communication. It is great that we allowed it to be a globel network, but there is no reason to give it to the UN, the last thing we need is more confilcting interest run buracracy deciding things.
If I were them I would be gunning for AOL/TW right now.
Show me an auction for a hardened laptop with a display meant to be read outside in new condition for anywhere close to $250.00.
The hand crank is a nice add-on, but even without it this has added value to make it worth more than 90% of the laptops on the market for certain applications.
If you have a Toughbook you are willing to sell me for $250.00 I will buy it in a second though.
Takes some balls to do this right after 6 people get arrested for leaking the movie.
I am glad you think all french people feel the same way about wine as you do, because there are many who frown upon anything but European wine (Italians are worse). Perhaps in America we talk about a good "cheap" $10.00 bottle of wine because at that price we are happy to find something that does not tasts like Welches (grape juice) + Rubbing Alcohol. In France it is far easier to find a decent 10 euro ($12+) bottle of wine, of course that is of course 20% more money too.
Wine like anyhting with variety is filled with subltle differnces, and we like that too, for $10 you can buy a brand name and get soemthing good, but finding a nice Spanish or Chilean wine that better goes with your food is pleasant, perhaps if we drank wine here more often we wouldn't care but we don't so we do.
FWIW I drink beer more often than wine and stock 3 or 4 different kinds depending on the meal I take what is appropriate, when I drink wine I usually Cabernet Sauvignon with spicy and yeasty (or whatever powder is on the appatizers) Indian food and it goes nice, with some dishes it goes even better than a Pale Ale.
Perhaps you cannot comprehend that we were making fun of our own in the movie because there is no self deprication humor in your culture (I do not know), but the wine snob is a humorous archetype, enough so to feature them in a movie as the comic part of a dark comedy. We make fun of them plenty, as much as we make fun of the snobby French who think they are to good for America and don't understand that American's could make fun of their own kind even as the characters in the movie do so. The women in the movie were reasonable but definatly had a passion for wine, I am sure there are French in the industry that feel the same way as them.
You should be happy to know that the snobby French are not the only ones we make fun of, even if the shop owners are quite rude outside of the big cities.
As a Frenchman please explain to me why I am frowned upon for not knowing the language of a country thousands of miles away? I don't expect the average French person to speak English, nor do I expect the shop owners in a tourest area to hire more than one person who can sort of answer a question in sort of English. I am hundreds if not thousands of miles from anywhere that speaks anything but English, and plan to travel to many different countries how many languages should I learn (I currently speak fluent English, broken Spanish, and a tiny tiny amount of French)? most of the French people I managed to talk to at all spoke little English (about as much as my French) and some spoke Italian also (they were also very polite, it was the poeple on the commercial side out of Paris who weren't) I did not look down on them for not speaking my language and they did not on me, why is it the people that had a commercial interest in me were pricks and snobs?
And yes we make fun of you for always surrendering, I would expect in 30 years when the death count is a generation old you make fun of us for our retarded war mongering and calling a special midnight session od congress for one vegatable of a human, yet let 1000's of people die in the name of "States Rights". And I know that the crass cowboy type is already the butt of some jokes over their (as he is here too). We also make fun of people who now call "Frenchfries" "Freedomfries".
Do you make fun of French wine snobs or do you believe they are non-existant?
Why can't I buy one?
I would pay plenty for a rugged Linux laptop with 500 MHz AMD in it. I say I cannot buy one because in an article I read they said it should be a stigma to use it as an adult. The Simputer people were the same way (I twice contacted their sales asking for info, it said on the sight it was as good for people in NY as India, no response). If these companies are making products that are a good value, but still prophitable lets defray the cost some. If it is truly durable I would pay $500 for it over a low end Dell/Gateway. Then they can donate 4 to a school and everyone wins (I would be far more likly to buy one sub $250 though).
I didn't mean that. I meant running around IRL pretending there were Octorocs ect. Not saying you did that, just that it is a typical 8 year old thing to do, gamer or not.
I think it has more to do with the perceived market. I know I did things as stupid as the second add growing up, but I was far younger than the person portrayed. I could definatly see an 8 year old doing that though. As far as an 8 year old able to play Zelda I am not entirly sure, but I would expect they could superficially at least.
The book is Programming Linux Games by John Hall.
The quote is page 7 "I once thought that TBS games were easy to write, but then I saw the source code to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (SMAC). Most players don't realize it, but SMAC actually uses a 3D technique called voxels to render its units on the fly and to draw a height-sensitive landscape with perspective texture mapping and dynamic palette mapping (made possible by self-modifying assembly code). Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was obviously not easy to port to Linux. While it's possible to write a good TBS game without such sophistication, don't think of the TBS genre as an easy way out-its complexity can be deceiving." (Amazon search in a book rules).
The changing size of civilipedia.exe (in CivII) I learned from Thundurbite Anti Virus, which was a virus detector that looked at behavior, not signatures. It seemed to cache the artwork for the pages, because if you deleted it a simpler civilapedia was used, but it still worked, and actually worked better if you played scenarious.
The game ran in Windows 3.1 so it would not suprise me if it still had DOS cruft in it.
Off of work so figured I would clarify.
Well he does have 3 years to get a new source of 3.5 million a year too.
If he isn't worth 3.5 million a year well, sucks to be him, if he is then he has a good chance of finding a high paying job in the next 3 years.
It is hard to feel pity for someone that was living on credit with 7 figures of income, but there is every reason to believe he was and it could very well bankrupt him.
Art direction of Doom3 is pretty good proof of non-performance IMHO (I actually think the environment was sufficiently creapy, but the enemies look like shit and would have been just as scary as DOOM1 sprites).