I'm confused, the race is really close (252/254) with at least one major swing state still not finished counting and with the race there still at 50%/49% or so. I thought that if it was a tight race you didn't give up.
Check some other news outlets. Many gave OHIO to Bush long ago (putting him at 269 or more). Check the specific voter numbers in OHIO and you'll see why Kerry has conceded. Also note that PA is actually CLOSER than OHIO but the mainstream media did not hesitate calling that for Kerry early last night.
More good election chatter here: http://nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner. asp
Can I do so on a new computer which never had Steam installed on it in the first place?
No, I don't think you can. Valve probably doesn't care since I'm guessing the number of potential customers who have absolutely zero internet access is less than 1%. However, if you have an older computer with steam, you could just copy the steam folder over. Or borrow a friends computer/work computer with internet access to install steam (600K) and create an account, then copy the steam folder over.
Anyway, you're posting to slashdot, which means you have SOME sort of internet access, right?;)
The second, and to me more annoying thnig, is that they've just made it impossible to install and play the game once they go belly-up. As soon as Steam stops becoming available, nobody can play the game on a new installation without hacking it.
This just isn't true. While you do need to go online to create a steam account ONCE, any time after that you can login to Steam in "offline mode" and play ANY of your purchased Steam games in single player mode WITHOUT an internet connection, or even the existence of "online Steam" at all.
Now to buy a new video card (good thing I didn't get a 9800 Pro back when they were released, hey?).
At 1152x864 with no antialiasing and 4xAniso my 9800 Pro gets around 80fps in the source engine video stress test (all other detail settings maxxed). Same settings in CS Source averages 30-100fps (some dips lower on 40+ player servers). My Athlon 3000 CPU is holding me back, not the 9800 pro.
It seems to me that someone who lives in a tightly knit community and only drives a few miles to work and school should invest in a bicycle.
Much cleaner.
How is a bicycle "much cleaner" than a truck that runs on sunlight and water? Let's also not forget the many other advantages of a car/truck over a bike. How easy is it to ride a bike in heavy rain or snow? How easy is it to carry your tuba to school on a bike?
The new expansion to Hidden and Dangerous 2 (called Sabre Squadron) supports multiplayer co-op. The original single player was excellent, so I can't wait to try out the expansion both by myself and with friends!
It is sad that Halo PC, HL2, Doom3 and many many others did not do multiplayer coop. NOLF2 and Descent 3 (and 1 and 2 for that matter) were the last decent FPSes with multiplayer coop.
Supposedly, the next Splinter Cell game will have multiplayer coop...
Bush isn't screwing the environment. Any reduction in CO2 output in this country is fruitless against the output of most of Asia, and African countries. Oh and one volcano erruption and its all over, you people are idiots to believe any of this mumbo jumbo.
Also, lets not forget that plant-life and the oceans release about 97% of all CO2 into the atmosphere. ALL HUMAN ACTIVITY COMBINED only accounts for about 3%. Anyone else here read "The Skeptical Environmentalist"?
I can't believe you brought out the definition of hoard on me like that. No need to get nasty.
Didn't intend to sound nasty, but as I was disputing your statement that I hoard music, I felt it necessary to define the word:)
However, it is my opinion that you and many people like you collect much much more music than you reasonably need to.
Music is never a need. Nobody needs any music. Some things people need are: food, clothes, shelter, etc...
To me, music is a want, and more is always better. About the only thing I would rather do than listen to good music is to play it myself! Why wouldn't more be better? (without getting into the potential legalities or lack thereof in the obtaining of said music)
How can you draw a line? If 10GB of music is okay, why not 11GB? etc...
You're obviously not as bad a case as the subjects of the article though.
I assume that you mean their copyright infriging makes them "bad". Thats a valid opinion for you to have, though I do not share it. I do rather object that you imply that I am also bad because you have assumed that my 225GB of music must somehow involve copyright infringement. You do not know this with any certainty.
This comment seems irrelevent because: 1. Dictionary.com defines "hoard" as "A hidden fund or supply stored for future use". My music collection is anything but "hidden" so I am not hoarding. 2. My music, to me is not crap.
Anyway, I also do not like hoarding crap, but that's not what I'm doing. Any music that I don't listen to is because I do not have time to listen to it all, not because it's crap.
The point I was making was that for me, Java is much easier than any other language I've touched because of the Javadocs (and many other reasons as well). I've not done much perl and no I've not heard of perldoc and POD. If I ever do Perl, I'm sure they will be helpful:)
Also, the system.out.println() vs print argument is silly. I've never used that call in any of my 2 years of professional java coding to my knowledge (I do mostly gui stuff). I think there are thousand of other properties of a language that determine it's usefullness than that.
You're right that I should listen to music more often than I do... anyway, the point isn't to listen to "everything" every month or every year. The point is that if I ever listen to anything once, I might as well keep it. I certainly have not listened to every mp3 I have... YET. And that's important - as long as I listen to every track EVENTUALLY, then to me it is worth having. It's also worth having in case one of my friends/family members asks me if I have something they want to listen to... and I do!;)
To me, a 2nd car (depending on where you live, perhaps also a 1st car!), any A/V budget, and any rent/mortgage above 500/month (where I live in MN) is already WELL BEYOND the basics.
I'd really like to see play counts for the songs of people who have 200 gigs of music. In addition to that I'd like to see how much they actually pay attention to the music they're listening to.
I have 225GB. If you'd like to see a complete file listing, follow my website URL in my slashdot info and email me. I'm a classical musician, and theres so much more of that out there than "pop" music etc...
But that's the beauty of Java. It's very easy to look things up. The Sun Javadocs are vastly helpful, plus you can generate your own javadoc for your own code very easily. Does perl do that?
Therefore, system.out.println() is more difficult to remember than print.
You don't have to remember system.out.println(), you only have to remember how to navigate to sun.com's javadocs. Actually, with any decent java development environment (such as Eclipse or JBuilder), you just have to remember the beginning of the word system, and up pops a box to auto-complete with the full name plus a snippet from the javadoc explaining what it does etc... this is much more intuitive than Perl.
The point is, with Perl, you have to memorize "print". With java you don't have to memorize ANYTHING because it's all so easy to look up.
Just my 2 cents from my own programming experiences.
But everyone on the desktop who's used it considers it a steaming POS.
I respectfully disagree. I've used Java on the desktop and developed Java apps on the desktop, and I think Java quite remarkable. Written properly, it's just as fast as C++/.Net and I personally don't think that it's ugly in any way either. Also, cross-platform capability is a Godsend, and it DOES work if you're not an idiot about it.
If "entertainment" is your sole "point to living", well, then I would say that is a much bigger problem than "being poor". "Entertainment" is NOT a necessity. "Meaning in life" is. Try to find some other meaningful things in life besides entertainment such as interactions with people, or religion.
Here are some numbers for the arrogant posters to digest: one third of all recent tax returns (single AND joint filers) have gross incomes of less than $20K, and almost 50% of them are less than $30K.
$20K/year is plenty for one person to live on. Plenty for food, housing, and cheap transportation. A relative of mine, 5 years out of school, has paid off most college loans, bought a $180K house, two cars, a grand piano, and a sweet tv/surround system, and gotten married. Their combined income is about $40K/year before taxes. I can't imagine half that wouldn't be sufficient for just the basics.
And you are being willfuly obtuse. Fine, try this on for size: Straight folks are allowd to marry another consenting adult, as long as it is a non-incestous relationship. Gay folks are denied the same right by hateful bigots.
You missed a detail: Straight folks are allowed to marry another consenting adult, as long as it is a non-incestous relationship, and THE ADULT IS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX. Gays allowed to do EXACTLY the same thing. But this is what I said in my original argument.
Irrelevant? You made the argument that Gays are asking for "extra" rights that are an abomination to the natural order of things. I provided a link demonstrating that homosexuality does occur in nature. Myabe I'm missing something here. Perhaps you can give a explanation of what you mean by "natural order of things."
Animals, for the most part, have sex to reproduce and create offspring, which is how species exist for more than one generation. This is what I mean by the "natural order of things". Homosexuality obviously does not fit into that picture.
Last time I checked people are animails. You know, hairless apes with big brains who walk upright. Wasn't this covered in your high school biology class?
Yes, people are animals, but not all animals are people. Animals in nature routinely fight and/or kill each other over attracting the opposite sex. By your argument, humans should be allowed to do the same just because "it is not unknown in nature". Your argument is ridiculous. Animals in nature are not part of a nation or a "people". Humans live to a higher standard than "animals". And BTW, I never took biology in high school, I took two years of chem and two of physics.
Are you honestly suggesting that homosexuality and incest are the same?
I never said they are the same, I'm simply drawing parallels between the two to show how ridiculous your arguments are since all your arguments could be applied to supporting incest in the same way that they support homosexuality. Personally, I think both are equally wrong and immoral.
As an aside, I'm glad we could have this little discussion without resorting to the flaming that often occurs on slashdot. Thanks!
Um, no. Straights have the right to marry the person they love. Gays do not. All gay folk want -- and deserve, and will finaly get -- is the same rights that straights have.
IS all that is required for marriage in your mind be that it be to a person you love? Does that mean you should be allowed to marry your dad or your brother because you love him? Your argument that "straights can marry people they love but gays can't" is ludicrous. There's much more to it than that.
Also, your Nat'l Geographic link is irrelevant. We are talking about people not animals. (There are differences between the two, dontcha know!) If National Geographic reported that incest was "not unknown" in the animal kingdom, would you support that as well? Again, you have made another ridiculous argument.
Bush doesn't have to say anything, but by only offering interviews with companies that toe the line, he is endorsing their attempts to intimidate using copyright. This would be fair enough if he was a movie star concerned about controlling his image, but as a paragon of American values, including free speech, he should hold to a higher standard, and should explicitly allow free use of his public statements.
Bush's interview with NBC is NOT a public statement, that's why NBC was allowed to do what they did in the first place. Any true "public" statement made by Bush is free for anyone to use, that's why it's called a "public" statement.
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Check some other news outlets. Many gave OHIO to Bush long ago (putting him at 269 or more). Check the specific voter numbers in OHIO and you'll see why Kerry has conceded. Also note that PA is actually CLOSER than OHIO but the mainstream media did not hesitate calling that for Kerry early last night.
More good election chatter here:
http://nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner
No, I don't think you can. Valve probably doesn't care since I'm guessing the number of potential customers who have absolutely zero internet access is less than 1%. However, if you have an older computer with steam, you could just copy the steam folder over. Or borrow a friends computer/work computer with internet access to install steam (600K) and create an account, then copy the steam folder over.
Anyway, you're posting to slashdot, which means you have SOME sort of internet access, right?
This just isn't true. While you do need to go online to create a steam account ONCE, any time after that you can login to Steam in "offline mode" and play ANY of your purchased Steam games in single player mode WITHOUT an internet connection, or even the existence of "online Steam" at all.
At 1152x864 with no antialiasing and 4xAniso my 9800 Pro gets around 80fps in the source engine video stress test (all other detail settings maxxed). Same settings in CS Source averages 30-100fps (some dips lower on 40+ player servers). My Athlon 3000 CPU is holding me back, not the 9800 pro.
Is anyone else amazed that the winner, Fritz 8, was running on a mere 1.7GHZ laptop???
How is a bicycle "much cleaner" than a truck that runs on sunlight and water? Let's also not forget the many other advantages of a car/truck over a bike. How easy is it to ride a bike in heavy rain or snow? How easy is it to carry your tuba to school on a bike?
The law that was shot down was the 1986 law known as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, not the Patriot Act!
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See here:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2004_09
The new expansion to Hidden and Dangerous 2 (called Sabre Squadron) supports multiplayer co-op. The original single player was excellent, so I can't wait to try out the expansion both by myself and with friends!
It is sad that Halo PC, HL2, Doom3 and many many others did not do multiplayer coop. NOLF2 and Descent 3 (and 1 and 2 for that matter) were the last decent FPSes with multiplayer coop.
Supposedly, the next Splinter Cell game will have multiplayer coop...
Also, lets not forget that plant-life and the oceans release about 97% of all CO2 into the atmosphere. ALL HUMAN ACTIVITY COMBINED only accounts for about 3%. Anyone else here read "The Skeptical Environmentalist"?
Does this mean you consider the Toronto Blue Jays and Montreal Expos to be "United States" teams?
Didn't intend to sound nasty, but as I was disputing your statement that I hoard music, I felt it necessary to define the word
Music is never a need. Nobody needs any music. Some things people need are: food, clothes, shelter, etc...
To me, music is a want, and more is always better. About the only thing I would rather do than listen to good music is to play it myself! Why wouldn't more be better? (without getting into the potential legalities or lack thereof in the obtaining of said music)
How can you draw a line? If 10GB of music is okay, why not 11GB? etc...
I assume that you mean their copyright infriging makes them "bad". Thats a valid opinion for you to have, though I do not share it. I do rather object that you imply that I am also bad because you have assumed that my 225GB of music must somehow involve copyright infringement. You do not know this with any certainty.
This comment seems irrelevent because:
1. Dictionary.com defines "hoard" as "A hidden fund or supply stored for future use". My music collection is anything but "hidden" so I am not hoarding.
2. My music, to me is not crap.
Anyway, I also do not like hoarding crap, but that's not what I'm doing. Any music that I don't listen to is because I do not have time to listen to it all, not because it's crap.
The point I was making was that for me, Java is much easier than any other language I've touched because of the Javadocs (and many other reasons as well). I've not done much perl and no I've not heard of perldoc and POD. If I ever do Perl, I'm sure they will be helpful :)
Also, the system.out.println() vs print argument is silly. I've never used that call in any of my 2 years of professional java coding to my knowledge (I do mostly gui stuff). I think there are thousand of other properties of a language that determine it's usefullness than that.
Just my two cents...
You're right that I should listen to music more often than I do... anyway, the point isn't to listen to "everything" every month or every year. The point is that if I ever listen to anything once, I might as well keep it. I certainly have not listened to every mp3 I have... YET. And that's important - as long as I listen to every track EVENTUALLY, then to me it is worth having. It's also worth having in case one of my friends/family members asks me if I have something they want to listen to... and I do! ;)
To me, a 2nd car (depending on where you live, perhaps also a 1st car!), any A/V budget, and any rent/mortgage above 500/month (where I live in MN) is already WELL BEYOND the basics.
Just my 2 cents...
I have 225GB. If you'd like to see a complete file listing, follow my website URL in my slashdot info and email me. I'm a classical musician, and theres so much more of that out there than "pop" music etc...
Anything not memorized must be looked up.
But that's the beauty of Java. It's very easy to look things up. The Sun Javadocs are vastly helpful, plus you can generate your own javadoc for your own code very easily. Does perl do that?
Therefore, system.out.println() is more difficult to remember than print.
You don't have to remember system.out.println(), you only have to remember how to navigate to sun.com's javadocs. Actually, with any decent java development environment (such as Eclipse or JBuilder), you just have to remember the beginning of the word system, and up pops a box to auto-complete with the full name plus a snippet from the javadoc explaining what it does etc... this is much more intuitive than Perl.
The point is, with Perl, you have to memorize "print". With java you don't have to memorize ANYTHING because it's all so easy to look up.
Just my 2 cents from my own programming experiences.
I respectfully disagree. I've used Java on the desktop and developed Java apps on the desktop, and I think Java quite remarkable. Written properly, it's just as fast as C++/.Net and I personally don't think that it's ugly in any way either. Also, cross-platform capability is a Godsend, and it DOES work if you're not an idiot about it.
Just my 2 cents.
Actually it was Kerry who said that we need to fight a "more sensitive" war on terrorism. (lol)
If "entertainment" is your sole "point to living", well, then I would say that is a much bigger problem than "being poor". "Entertainment" is NOT a necessity. "Meaning in life" is. Try to find some other meaningful things in life besides entertainment such as interactions with people, or religion.
$20K/year is plenty for one person to live on. Plenty for food, housing, and cheap transportation. A relative of mine, 5 years out of school, has paid off most college loans, bought a $180K house, two cars, a grand piano, and a sweet tv/surround system, and gotten married. Their combined income is about $40K/year before taxes. I can't imagine half that wouldn't be sufficient for just the basics.
Sorry, but entertainment is NEVER a NEED for ANYONE.
You missed a detail: Straight folks are allowed to marry another consenting adult, as long as it is a non-incestous relationship, and THE ADULT IS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX. Gays allowed to do EXACTLY the same thing. But this is what I said in my original argument.
Animals, for the most part, have sex to reproduce and create offspring, which is how species exist for more than one generation. This is what I mean by the "natural order of things". Homosexuality obviously does not fit into that picture.
Yes, people are animals, but not all animals are people. Animals in nature routinely fight and/or kill each other over attracting the opposite sex. By your argument, humans should be allowed to do the same just because "it is not unknown in nature". Your argument is ridiculous. Animals in nature are not part of a nation or a "people". Humans live to a higher standard than "animals". And BTW, I never took biology in high school, I took two years of chem and two of physics.
I never said they are the same, I'm simply drawing parallels between the two to show how ridiculous your arguments are since all your arguments could be applied to supporting incest in the same way that they support homosexuality. Personally, I think both are equally wrong and immoral.
As an aside, I'm glad we could have this little discussion without resorting to the flaming that often occurs on slashdot. Thanks!
IS all that is required for marriage in your mind be that it be to a person you love? Does that mean you should be allowed to marry your dad or your brother because you love him? Your argument that "straights can marry people they love but gays can't" is ludicrous. There's much more to it than that.
Also, your Nat'l Geographic link is irrelevant. We are talking about people not animals. (There are differences between the two, dontcha know!) If National Geographic reported that incest was "not unknown" in the animal kingdom, would you support that as well? Again, you have made another ridiculous argument.
Bush's interview with NBC is NOT a public statement, that's why NBC was allowed to do what they did in the first place. Any true "public" statement made by Bush is free for anyone to use, that's why it's called a "public" statement.