Look up how the IQ system works and then come back. It does not function on Medians. 50% of the population tested is guaranteed to be dumber than whatever the average was for that test group.
Sigh, I've been modded into oblivion by idiots who don't even understand what I posted.
The average is SUPPOSED TO BE (but never actually IS) fixed at 100 and varies by country. For instance a few years ago the average IQ among canadians was 102 while americans was 98... it varies from country to country. Its also not an exact science. Its supposed to function that way, but its not even remotely accurate to anything but the loosest definition of "accurate", its just the best we have.
The "off hand estimate" remark was made in regards to any particular country.
Yes I complain about people being stupid. I also complain about people being ridiculously pedantic. If the IQ system was accurate you would be right. It is not, therefore you are wrong.
This. Majority of the population isn't capable of programming anything more than something very basic.
The logical and critical thinking skills needed are even actively discouraged by many major religions. As such a larger portion of strict adherents from these groups don't end up 'liking' programming.
IQ isn't exactly an exact science but as an off hand estimate the average IQ is ~100. Anyone below that might be able to eventually code-monkey a single language, or even two, but they'll never be able to pick it up easily, and with the rate things change this essentially means they can't do the job.
Programming classes at reputable colleges have an horrible attrition rate that can be largely laid at the door of people just not being able to grasp it.
They often start class sizes here at the local college at around 200 students and if they're lucky maybe 20 graduate.
They could have the same density. This is one tech that sounds like it could make use of some of that empty space that generally lies immediately above the ram sticks. For blade servers this doesn't apply of course but anyone deploying blade servers isn't going to want this stuff until its a much more mature tech anyways.
There was a false idea floating around back in the days of the SIMMS-> DIMMS transfer that SDRAM stood for Static Dynamic Ram and that it switched to DRAM as the abbreviation for DIMMS. This was actually propagated in marketing for awhile.
I've also seen people claim that SIMM stood for Static Inline Memory Module, what was actually the case was that SIMMS were most often a form of PRAM which is just battery backed DRAM, which added to the confusion.
Static Dynamic RAM was actually sort-of a term for awhile but Synchronous Dynamic Ram needed the abbreviation far more as it extremely quickly became the standard.
Therefore you have a situation where often SRAM and SDRAM can mean the same thing to some people.
My cousin who is a Computer Science grad who got his degree around that time actually learned from a Prof who also had incorrect information and argued with me for a long time on the matter until I managed to care enough to dig out the relevant technical documents and show him why he was wrong.
See, its the combination. You can't take things for granted, but if you really looked at it, when you were eating whatever you wanted, you were probably having the full combo etc.
You don't need the full combo, most of the bad shit isn't in the burger, but you should still be able to pig out on bacon, eggs, burgers... just skip the hash brown and the toast.
See, here I see a problem. The first two swaps on your list are not beneficial unless you have a pre-disposition to not being able to process those types of cholesterol or fat properly. Blanket diet requirements don't work. Some people will live longer eating fatty crap than they would if they ate all of what we call "healthy" food.
Shit. I most recently lost 30 lbs eating about 1800 calories a day of wendys and mcdonalds, and not the health food items they now have. I'm talking mcdoubles, baconators, probably what most would consider the worst things on the menu.
Went to the doctor shortly afterwards and the results were as follows.
My cholesterol: Fine. My Sugars: Perfect. My Blood pressure: From High-Normal to Perfect-Normal.
A lot of this shit isn't that bad for you. The worst thing for you at mcdonalds is the french fries and the pop. You can eat every other nasty piece of shit they serve and as long as you don't have fries and pop with it you're fine. Diet pop can replace the regular pop just fine.
They didn't return to it. They basically did wing it at the end.
By following the logic which they ruled that there was no prior art in Apples case, Samsung also was not infringing, as Samsungs code will not run on the apple processor. Its two lanes going in the same direction on the same street. Either the prior art is not invalid(at least on those idiotic grounds) or Samsung is not infringing whatsoever because Apple uses thier own processors and architecture and Samsung uses a different processors and different architecture.
I don't buy MSI or ECS as a general rule for any chip... additionally theres pretty much feature parity for price in AMD vs Intel boards. Not sure where you're shopping
I shouldn't be replying to AC's but you actually bring up a somewhat valid point.
The problem with your theory is the rate at which these sites sprang up, and the fact that all communcations in/out of every building he's been staying in since he got into the UK have been monitored. They probably would have picked up on something like that happening.
Some people take classified documents AND videos detailing war crimes to be "Oh anyone could have just made that stuff up, our guys didn't do that". So we're kind of fighting a losing war here.
Also, corporations and politicians hire people to do this sort of smearing all the time, its not much of a stretch to say its being done to Assange when its basically business-as-usual for these asshats.
Yet another attempt to discredit everything by calling it some sort of great global conspiracy... its nothing of the sort, its business as usual for diplomats and politicians.
The fact of the matter is, news organizations are mostly huge conglomerates now and only a very few swedish publications picked it up in the first place. A small amount of pressure, or sometimes even none is required to get stories killed.
Besides that I've seen stories vanish from CBC here in Canada that have been critical of the Harper government right around the time he starts campaigning. I've had several bookmarked that no longer exist, but much older stories still do, and we would be considered one of the GOOD countries for not doing that sort of shit.
The internet has a bad effect of no-one keeping copies of shit but obviously a few of us need to start.
I really wish I would have kept the article... its pretty much impossible to find with the eleventy billion astro-turfing web sites that have sprung up out of no-where surrounding assange. Thats about as big conspiracy-ish as it gets, and the US military happens to have admitted to having a branch that does just this sort of thing. Why the hell wouldn't they be involved here against a man that's made them look at best ridiculous and at worst war-criminals?
And it's NOT a big conspiracy/secret organization thing or some sort of other bullshit, its a very direct and large application of pressure that has a ripple effect causing those that have pressure put on them to put pressure on others.... and cause things that can start looking like a huge conspiracy to happen. In reality its all still a bit under-handed but isn't anything out of the business-as-usual side of things for politics and governments.
Hell, politicians and bureaucrats are the ones driving this, and they create fake web sites and everything else under the sun to discredit their opponents just to GET elected in the first place, and you expect them to not continue doing this after they are elected? Why would they change tack when they know what they were doing in the first place works?
I mis-spoke a couple of times. Here are the corrections:
The current prosecutor can't get the women to agree to testify at any future trial. As it stands currently the charges are being brought/without witnesses/.
The "trial" I referred to wasn't a trial or even anything like one... it was another prosecutor coming in that had some sort of private hearing to get the charges reinstated. It was after this event that the women were in the swedish media again.
The women didn't appeal to have the charges reinstated, a lawyer did so without the knowledge of the women. They came out and said it straight out in Swedish media right after the trial, and strangely we have heard absolutely nothing from either of the women and when they addressed the media that one time, at least one of the women wanted to have it all over with as she felt she was being used as an excuse for a witch hunt. All reference to these things have largely vanished from the internet and if you actually try to search for any of them approximately 16 of the top 20 search results now consist of web sites that appear to be in support of assange but now "have doubts" and if you read a few lines down they start spouting that he's guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt and needs to be brought to justice for these poor women.
In fact as of right now they can't get the women to testify, and the women cannot redact their previous testimony as it has already been entered into the public record.
The guy is not a saint, and he is a bit of an ass, but without paper guarantee that he will NOT be extradited out of sweden at any time in the future and will be allowed to leave sweden by whatever means and in whatever direction he chooses once he has faced his charges in swedish court and served any jail time or done whatever service is due because of his crime. Without that he is perfectly legitimate in being fucking terrified of going back there.
I should also note that the story you post can't even remotely be correct. Assange remained IN SWEDEN for almost 3 full weeks after the charges were dropped. If what the story said is even remotely true he wouldn't have been allowed to leave the country, instead he actually got express consent to leave the country FROM THE PROSECUTORS OFFICE.
What you point out is actually a problem with the multi-threading on new engines, essentially nearly any quad-core processors will be an improvement over any dual-core processor in those particular applications. MWO is a perfect example of this. It runs like shit on my Phenom XII 550 Black edition that is clocked at 4.6ghz on water cooling at the moment as my current foray into water cooling and overclocking, but runs fantastic on a stock-clocked 4100 I also have in the house(Well, Its normally OC'd because not OCing those chips is stupid, but I set it to stock to see what would happen due to the performance difference I was seeing)
Its not that the game is more CPU intensive really, its just that the engine is written with quad core processors in mind as a minimum, because most people who would play video games on a computer have one.
Many strategy games are the same now, the physics engine and AI and Sound processing plus the CPU-related GFX instructions are sometimes totally seperate threads, and perform poorly on a dual core processor purely due to latency in interupts running two instruction sets that are almost entirely seperated nowadays through a single core. The game engine itself is multi tasking and you have multiple tasks fighting each other for processor time on a dual core.-
Its entirely possible, even probable. They didn't get the same speedy uptake of Windows XP as they thought they would because Windows 2000 was in between ME and XP. Folks that had 2000 felt it worked just fine and were in no rush to upgrade. What they DID get however was a massive ungodly spike of sales for windows XP after everyone knew what Vista was all about(I.E. that it was a piece of shit) and then another spike shortly after windows 7 release because Windows 7 was actually good, and a lot of people were either ready to upgrade due to avoiding vista or just felt they should get windows 7 since it was new and wasn't shit like vista.
Its not that it doesn't matter AT ALL, its that any mid-range CPU(Say 2500k or FX4100) with a high-end graphics card(7870+) will do any current video game on max settings without breaking a sweat and will continue to do so for a couple of years while only swapping the video card.
I can't even begin to understand someone at a performance computer store that would recommend a "balanced approach". At that point you'd be recommending that if someone wants a 7970 they need a fucking $800 i7 to go with it, when the simple fact of the matter is that they don't. The same 2500k or 4170 will still keep up with it just fine. Very few games tax them at all. I've heard everything from Skyrim to Starcraft mentioned, and none of them actually significantly tax the CPU. The most CPU taxing game on the market is EVE Online running multiple clients and even that runs fine on the above mentioned processors. I build my own systems, and systems for friends, I average ~10-12 builds per year, which while not a lot numbers wise are from people who keep coming back and people they send to me. I use high quality parts and will sacrifice performance for build quality on their budget, as such I need to know where the least impact will be made with trimming, and until you start getting down into truly bargain basement budget parts, the CPU is the place to lose cost fast with little to no impact.
They know I'm going to get them the gaming performance they need without forcing them to unnecessarily waste their money. Currently most post $250 processors are a total waste of money unless you have something OTHER than gaming in mind.
Um, it is true. Frame latency doesnt even matter. Its less than 1ms in ALL cases. IE: Its imperceptible.
I just bought a FX4100 purely because it was cheap, had ENOUGH power, and with an excellent video card setup a better intel chip wouldn't provide any sort of noticeable performance increase. Current-Gen CPUs so far overpower current-gen game engines cpu requirements that this argument is just plain silly.
I even see someone making the argument that AI is causing massive cpu load.... get fucking real, AI has improved, but the most CPU intensive AI in a main stream video game to date was in Sins of a Solar Empire, and even on low video settings with 8 AIs running(on hardest diff) and putting them on instant build to churn out units the video card was still the limiter for watching the most massive ridiculous battle.
There are a few Game engines(like Eve Onlines game engine) that were coded mostly in CPU instruction and run mostly on the processor. CCP is in the process of fixing Eves engine and have made great strides but it still eats a lot of CPU time. Not many games exist in the same boat.
Thier DRM is so bad that I crack it every fucking time.
Even though I legitimately own many Ubisoft games I'm counted as a pirate just because I've downloaded a cracked EXE or loader so I don't have to deal with DRM-related crashes.
Like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I and II. Both were DRM Crippled. They'd crash constantly. ALL of my problems disappeared as soon as I installed cracked EXEs. Those games got better reviews from the pirates than from the real players because the DRM-Stripped version was more stable.
My suggestion actually still punishes them severely, and actually makes more severe penalties for statutory rape possible because it limits the age for which statutory rape can be charged.
I agree that there should also be a +/- 2 years rule as someone else mentioned, and there is a +/- 2 years rule here in canada at the moment. The trouble with that one is that the Canadian consent law is 16, when it was 14 kids in high school could just date each other and all was well, now with that law if a just turned 17 year old in grade 12 dates a nearly 15 but still 14 year old in grade 10 its a crime, even though they may have started over 6 months ago while it was still legal.
Yes, but its the same with Icewind Dale and Icewind Dale II which are developed in conjunction(even with some of the same developers) with Baldurs Gate I and II. All thats really changed is the story and a few classes, plus the areas are all new, and the objectives are new. I guess it doesn't work as well with gimicky games as with something that has a solid game mechanic foundation(I.E. D&D in the case of IWD and BG)
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Look up how the IQ system works and then come back. It does not function on Medians. 50% of the population tested is guaranteed to be dumber than whatever the average was for that test group.
Sigh, I've been modded into oblivion by idiots who don't even understand what I posted.
Thank you.
The average is SUPPOSED TO BE (but never actually IS) fixed at 100 and varies by country. For instance a few years ago the average IQ among canadians was 102 while americans was 98... it varies from country to country. Its also not an exact science. Its supposed to function that way, but its not even remotely accurate to anything but the loosest definition of "accurate", its just the best we have.
The "off hand estimate" remark was made in regards to any particular country.
Yes I complain about people being stupid. I also complain about people being ridiculously pedantic. If the IQ system was accurate you would be right. It is not, therefore you are wrong.
This. Majority of the population isn't capable of programming anything more than something very basic.
The logical and critical thinking skills needed are even actively discouraged by many major religions. As such a larger portion of strict adherents from these groups don't end up 'liking' programming.
IQ isn't exactly an exact science but as an off hand estimate the average IQ is ~100. Anyone below that might be able to eventually code-monkey a single language, or even two, but they'll never be able to pick it up easily, and with the rate things change this essentially means they can't do the job.
Programming classes at reputable colleges have an horrible attrition rate that can be largely laid at the door of people just not being able to grasp it.
They often start class sizes here at the local college at around 200 students and if they're lucky maybe 20 graduate.
Considering that at my house last weekend there were over 28 terabytes of transfers done between 9 people..... I'm going to say he's fairly accurate.
They could have the same density. This is one tech that sounds like it could make use of some of that empty space that generally lies immediately above the ram sticks. For blade servers this doesn't apply of course but anyone deploying blade servers isn't going to want this stuff until its a much more mature tech anyways.
I think anti-trust legislation would step in if apple started acquiring companies that compete in a field of competition numbering 2.
There was a false idea floating around back in the days of the SIMMS-> DIMMS transfer that SDRAM stood for Static Dynamic Ram and that it switched to DRAM as the abbreviation for DIMMS. This was actually propagated in marketing for awhile.
I've also seen people claim that SIMM stood for Static Inline Memory Module, what was actually the case was that SIMMS were most often a form of PRAM which is just battery backed DRAM, which added to the confusion.
Static Dynamic RAM was actually sort-of a term for awhile but Synchronous Dynamic Ram needed the abbreviation far more as it extremely quickly became the standard.
Therefore you have a situation where often SRAM and SDRAM can mean the same thing to some people.
My cousin who is a Computer Science grad who got his degree around that time actually learned from a Prof who also had incorrect information and argued with me for a long time on the matter until I managed to care enough to dig out the relevant technical documents and show him why he was wrong.
It depends on your system. I'm 32.
See, its the combination. You can't take things for granted, but if you really looked at it, when you were eating whatever you wanted, you were probably having the full combo etc.
You don't need the full combo, most of the bad shit isn't in the burger, but you should still be able to pig out on bacon, eggs, burgers... just skip the hash brown and the toast.
See, here I see a problem. The first two swaps on your list are not beneficial unless you have a pre-disposition to not being able to process those types of cholesterol or fat properly. Blanket diet requirements don't work. Some people will live longer eating fatty crap than they would if they ate all of what we call "healthy" food.
Shit. I most recently lost 30 lbs eating about 1800 calories a day of wendys and mcdonalds, and not the health food items they now have. I'm talking mcdoubles, baconators, probably what most would consider the worst things on the menu.
Went to the doctor shortly afterwards and the results were as follows.
My cholesterol: Fine. My Sugars: Perfect. My Blood pressure: From High-Normal to Perfect-Normal.
A lot of this shit isn't that bad for you. The worst thing for you at mcdonalds is the french fries and the pop. You can eat every other nasty piece of shit they serve and as long as you don't have fries and pop with it you're fine. Diet pop can replace the regular pop just fine.
They didn't return to it. They basically did wing it at the end.
By following the logic which they ruled that there was no prior art in Apples case, Samsung also was not infringing, as Samsungs code will not run on the apple processor. Its two lanes going in the same direction on the same street. Either the prior art is not invalid(at least on those idiotic grounds) or Samsung is not infringing whatsoever because Apple uses thier own processors and architecture and Samsung uses a different processors and different architecture.
I don't buy MSI or ECS as a general rule for any chip... additionally theres pretty much feature parity for price in AMD vs Intel boards. Not sure where you're shopping
I shouldn't be replying to AC's but you actually bring up a somewhat valid point.
The problem with your theory is the rate at which these sites sprang up, and the fact that all communcations in/out of every building he's been staying in since he got into the UK have been monitored. They probably would have picked up on something like that happening.
Some people take classified documents AND videos detailing war crimes to be "Oh anyone could have just made that stuff up, our guys didn't do that". So we're kind of fighting a losing war here.
Also, corporations and politicians hire people to do this sort of smearing all the time, its not much of a stretch to say its being done to Assange when its basically business-as-usual for these asshats.
Yet another attempt to discredit everything by calling it some sort of great global conspiracy... its nothing of the sort, its business as usual for diplomats and politicians.
The fact of the matter is, news organizations are mostly huge conglomerates now and only a very few swedish publications picked it up in the first place. A small amount of pressure, or sometimes even none is required to get stories killed.
Besides that I've seen stories vanish from CBC here in Canada that have been critical of the Harper government right around the time he starts campaigning. I've had several bookmarked that no longer exist, but much older stories still do, and we would be considered one of the GOOD countries for not doing that sort of shit.
The internet has a bad effect of no-one keeping copies of shit but obviously a few of us need to start.
I really wish I would have kept the article... its pretty much impossible to find with the eleventy billion astro-turfing web sites that have sprung up out of no-where surrounding assange. Thats about as big conspiracy-ish as it gets, and the US military happens to have admitted to having a branch that does just this sort of thing. Why the hell wouldn't they be involved here against a man that's made them look at best ridiculous and at worst war-criminals?
And it's NOT a big conspiracy/secret organization thing or some sort of other bullshit, its a very direct and large application of pressure that has a ripple effect causing those that have pressure put on them to put pressure on others.... and cause things that can start looking like a huge conspiracy to happen. In reality its all still a bit under-handed but isn't anything out of the business-as-usual side of things for politics and governments.
Hell, politicians and bureaucrats are the ones driving this, and they create fake web sites and everything else under the sun to discredit their opponents just to GET elected in the first place, and you expect them to not continue doing this after they are elected? Why would they change tack when they know what they were doing in the first place works?
I mis-spoke a couple of times. Here are the corrections:
The current prosecutor can't get the women to agree to testify at any future trial. As it stands currently the charges are being brought /without witnesses/.
The "trial" I referred to wasn't a trial or even anything like one... it was another prosecutor coming in that had some sort of private hearing to get the charges reinstated. It was after this event that the women were in the swedish media again.
The women didn't appeal to have the charges reinstated, a lawyer did so without the knowledge of the women. They came out and said it straight out in Swedish media right after the trial, and strangely we have heard absolutely nothing from either of the women and when they addressed the media that one time, at least one of the women wanted to have it all over with as she felt she was being used as an excuse for a witch hunt. All reference to these things have largely vanished from the internet and if you actually try to search for any of them approximately 16 of the top 20 search results now consist of web sites that appear to be in support of assange but now "have doubts" and if you read a few lines down they start spouting that he's guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt and needs to be brought to justice for these poor women.
In fact as of right now they can't get the women to testify, and the women cannot redact their previous testimony as it has already been entered into the public record.
The guy is not a saint, and he is a bit of an ass, but without paper guarantee that he will NOT be extradited out of sweden at any time in the future and will be allowed to leave sweden by whatever means and in whatever direction he chooses once he has faced his charges in swedish court and served any jail time or done whatever service is due because of his crime. Without that he is perfectly legitimate in being fucking terrified of going back there.
I should also note that the story you post can't even remotely be correct. Assange remained IN SWEDEN for almost 3 full weeks after the charges were dropped. If what the story said is even remotely true he wouldn't have been allowed to leave the country, instead he actually got express consent to leave the country FROM THE PROSECUTORS OFFICE.
What you point out is actually a problem with the multi-threading on new engines, essentially nearly any quad-core processors will be an improvement over any dual-core processor in those particular applications. MWO is a perfect example of this. It runs like shit on my Phenom XII 550 Black edition that is clocked at 4.6ghz on water cooling at the moment as my current foray into water cooling and overclocking, but runs fantastic on a stock-clocked 4100 I also have in the house(Well, Its normally OC'd because not OCing those chips is stupid, but I set it to stock to see what would happen due to the performance difference I was seeing)
Its not that the game is more CPU intensive really, its just that the engine is written with quad core processors in mind as a minimum, because most people who would play video games on a computer have one.
Many strategy games are the same now, the physics engine and AI and Sound processing plus the CPU-related GFX instructions are sometimes totally seperate threads, and perform poorly on a dual core processor purely due to latency in interupts running two instruction sets that are almost entirely seperated nowadays through a single core. The game engine itself is multi tasking and you have multiple tasks fighting each other for processor time on a dual core.-
Its entirely possible, even probable. They didn't get the same speedy uptake of Windows XP as they thought they would because Windows 2000 was in between ME and XP. Folks that had 2000 felt it worked just fine and were in no rush to upgrade. What they DID get however was a massive ungodly spike of sales for windows XP after everyone knew what Vista was all about(I.E. that it was a piece of shit) and then another spike shortly after windows 7 release because Windows 7 was actually good, and a lot of people were either ready to upgrade due to avoiding vista or just felt they should get windows 7 since it was new and wasn't shit like vista.
Its not that it doesn't matter AT ALL, its that any mid-range CPU(Say 2500k or FX4100) with a high-end graphics card(7870+) will do any current video game on max settings without breaking a sweat and will continue to do so for a couple of years while only swapping the video card.
I can't even begin to understand someone at a performance computer store that would recommend a "balanced approach". At that point you'd be recommending that if someone wants a 7970 they need a fucking $800 i7 to go with it, when the simple fact of the matter is that they don't. The same 2500k or 4170 will still keep up with it just fine. Very few games tax them at all. I've heard everything from Skyrim to Starcraft mentioned, and none of them actually significantly tax the CPU. The most CPU taxing game on the market is EVE Online running multiple clients and even that runs fine on the above mentioned processors. I build my own systems, and systems for friends, I average ~10-12 builds per year, which while not a lot numbers wise are from people who keep coming back and people they send to me. I use high quality parts and will sacrifice performance for build quality on their budget, as such I need to know where the least impact will be made with trimming, and until you start getting down into truly bargain basement budget parts, the CPU is the place to lose cost fast with little to no impact.
They know I'm going to get them the gaming performance they need without forcing them to unnecessarily waste their money. Currently most post $250 processors are a total waste of money unless you have something OTHER than gaming in mind.
Um, it is true. Frame latency doesnt even matter. Its less than 1ms in ALL cases. IE: Its imperceptible.
I just bought a FX4100 purely because it was cheap, had ENOUGH power, and with an excellent video card setup a better intel chip wouldn't provide any sort of noticeable performance increase. Current-Gen CPUs so far overpower current-gen game engines cpu requirements that this argument is just plain silly.
I even see someone making the argument that AI is causing massive cpu load.... get fucking real, AI has improved, but the most CPU intensive AI in a main stream video game to date was in Sins of a Solar Empire, and even on low video settings with 8 AIs running(on hardest diff) and putting them on instant build to churn out units the video card was still the limiter for watching the most massive ridiculous battle.
There are a few Game engines(like Eve Onlines game engine) that were coded mostly in CPU instruction and run mostly on the processor. CCP is in the process of fixing Eves engine and have made great strides but it still eats a lot of CPU time. Not many games exist in the same boat.
Thier DRM is so bad that I crack it every fucking time.
Even though I legitimately own many Ubisoft games I'm counted as a pirate just because I've downloaded a cracked EXE or loader so I don't have to deal with DRM-related crashes.
Like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I and II. Both were DRM Crippled. They'd crash constantly. ALL of my problems disappeared as soon as I installed cracked EXEs. Those games got better reviews from the pirates than from the real players because the DRM-Stripped version was more stable.
My suggestion actually still punishes them severely, and actually makes more severe penalties for statutory rape possible because it limits the age for which statutory rape can be charged.
I agree that there should also be a +/- 2 years rule as someone else mentioned, and there is a +/- 2 years rule here in canada at the moment. The trouble with that one is that the Canadian consent law is 16, when it was 14 kids in high school could just date each other and all was well, now with that law if a just turned 17 year old in grade 12 dates a nearly 15 but still 14 year old in grade 10 its a crime, even though they may have started over 6 months ago while it was still legal.
I mention it in the past tense. Until about 3 years ago when Harper rammed through the law changing it to 16 it was 14.
Yes, but its the same with Icewind Dale and Icewind Dale II which are developed in conjunction(even with some of the same developers) with Baldurs Gate I and II. All thats really changed is the story and a few classes, plus the areas are all new, and the objectives are new. I guess it doesn't work as well with gimicky games as with something that has a solid game mechanic foundation(I.E. D&D in the case of IWD and BG)