Reading comprehension failure? I didn't say liberals are retarded. I said people who are liberal because it is hip are retarded. If you don't think that failure to think for yourself is retarded I am not sure what can be done for you. Also, yes I think you could find correlational data to link geeks to a particular political view and I said that I think that view is typically that both sides are worthless.
Seems a bit trollish. If anything geeks are more likely to flame you for not knowing some obscure bit of information.
Perhaps the "hipness" of being a geek has drawn in a few mindless idiots though. In my opinion geeks fall in to one of two categories. The "hip" crowd that is also usually very liberal, also because it is hip. These people are usually borderline retarded. At the other end of the spectrum are the real geeks who can't help but be a geek. These people typically don't buy in to any political propaganda and lean towards general distrust and dislike of the government regardless of party,
He missed another important feature required for a game to be massively successful. It has to allow creativity and be fairly open ended. EX: Minecraft. People don't play minecraft to survive zombies. People play because the game lets them create. I think that is also why people enjoy RPGs, you are slowly creating a character. Another example would be Diablo II. The main draw of that game was that with the various items, skills, etc... you could come up with your own character build and create. The inability to "re-spec" made a large portion of that. When you completed a character, it was something you painstakingly created to your specifications and an example of your creativity much like building hot rod etc...
As per the Flyn effect people are getting smarter and smarter but our jobs / lives are becoming more and more mundane. The creativity we used to have to use for our own survival loves to find an outlet.
Small peltiers will last a long time, because they aren't as affected by thermal expansion as their larger brethren. . They still have horrible efficiency though.
You can already order the parts and assemble something just like this. Its easy to get high power levels with a pulsed laser but you aren't going to be doing much to steel with these. Zap tiny little craters in to it mostly. As for a blinding weapon, you can create a 2 watt laser that will set things on fire or cause severe eye damage for about 100 bucks. Count on going to jail just as if you had shot the person in the eye with a BB gun or stabbed them with a pencil though.
Population control and pushing people to adopt will have the smart people with self control stop breeding and just adopt meanwhile the people who were too stupid to stop breeding when they didn't have the income or food to support kids aren't really going to suddenly stop because you add a stern suggestion or some legal muscle. If they aren't worried about starvation, child mortality, etc... Sounds like a brilliant idea if your plan is to breed humans to be impulsive and stupid.
If humans wan't to act like animals that breed until they run out of food, let the same population limiting mechanisms that work on animals work on them. What will be the end result of increasing production to support higher and higher numbers?
So you're saying when you purchase something digitally, you are renting it for an indeterminate period to be determined by their good graces?
Also, digital editions are typically no cheaper. On books for instance, when they just come out in hard back, the digital edition has a hard book price. Yep, I just bought a 14 dollar ebook the other day that I had been waiting for.
Violation of rights? What if Ford banned you from your car for inflammatory remarks? This is a product he paid for being remotely disabled... Someone needs to give the gaming industry a good dose of "Act Right". Taking away our right to resell games, horribly restrictive TOS, crap tons of DRM, now remote disabling if you annoy them...
While wrong... if their objective is to win and have as few deaths as possible, seems like a good strategy since the government can make its self an enemy of the army, bleeding them as much as the enemy. Call em home or give what they need.
I keep waiting for us to do something halfway exciting in space. Instead we blow our money on being world police. Screw all that. Cut the military budget in half and we could have a colony on mars.
I bought an Archos 70 on release day for $250. Capacitive screen, stereo, microsd support, hardware acceleration for every popular video codec. Same price as a netbook but slower, smaller, lighter, and thinner. I use it for all the things I used to use my netbook for. The only concession I have had to make is that although flash video works its a pain. There is supposed to be hardware support for flash playback on the way though.
Do I think other tablets are a waste? yes. I'm not trying to be an infomercial, I just bought one of the only sane tablet on the market. The only other sane tablet IMO is a hacked nook color. If I had to do it over again it would be a hard choice. Better hardware on the nook but software side its much weaker. No hardware video support and you have to count on users for operating system work.
I'm allowed to use my own peripherals but if I were wanting to use my own tower I would have to essentially donate it. For things to work here the IT has to have complete access to my computer, if it were my property it would be a bit awkward. Most of the workers here don't even have admin access because of they get a virus etc... it could leak private info. Not give someone administrative privileges on their own hardware? see how that goes over.
If their network does not have enough oomph to do a VOIP call then they are massively overselling and ripping off all of their customers to begin with.
Now consider this, if you are bothering to price check an item it must be a fairly large purchase and it must be something you are interested in and want. At that point, its likely you will pay a fair percentage extra just to have "instant" shipping.
Where this will kick them in the pants is on massive ripoff items. Walk in to a bestbuy store here, a geforce 9800gt will run you probably $300.... ATI HD4850? $350. They have some items in there lurking with over 100% markup over online retail. I'm glad less people will be conned! (Video cards ALWAYS here)
Bored people looking for a little excitement and a cause.
Not a bad cause really, if nothing else it has brought attention to the fact that these companies bent under the governments will and cut off funding to wikileaks even though our government hasn't figured out anything to charge them with yet.
Should have been "clean it you can keep it". It sounds cruel at first, people getting blown up trying their shot at cleaning explosives from a house.... but as a broke guy not to long out of college, I would give it a shot:D
Wouldn't it be great if this whole TSA ordeal was the straw that broke the camel's back? People finally waking up and realizing how much freedom they have given up. It would be amazing for the US to do so where so many other countries just kept on heading down that road.
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I bet level 19 twink pvp becomes real popular lol.
Reading comprehension failure? I didn't say liberals are retarded. I said people who are liberal because it is hip are retarded. If you don't think that failure to think for yourself is retarded I am not sure what can be done for you. Also, yes I think you could find correlational data to link geeks to a particular political view and I said that I think that view is typically that both sides are worthless.
Seems a bit trollish. If anything geeks are more likely to flame you for not knowing some obscure bit of information. Perhaps the "hipness" of being a geek has drawn in a few mindless idiots though. In my opinion geeks fall in to one of two categories. The "hip" crowd that is also usually very liberal, also because it is hip. These people are usually borderline retarded. At the other end of the spectrum are the real geeks who can't help but be a geek. These people typically don't buy in to any political propaganda and lean towards general distrust and dislike of the government regardless of party,
He missed another important feature required for a game to be massively successful. It has to allow creativity and be fairly open ended. EX: Minecraft. People don't play minecraft to survive zombies. People play because the game lets them create. I think that is also why people enjoy RPGs, you are slowly creating a character. Another example would be Diablo II. The main draw of that game was that with the various items, skills, etc... you could come up with your own character build and create. The inability to "re-spec" made a large portion of that. When you completed a character, it was something you painstakingly created to your specifications and an example of your creativity much like building hot rod etc... As per the Flyn effect people are getting smarter and smarter but our jobs / lives are becoming more and more mundane. The creativity we used to have to use for our own survival loves to find an outlet.
Small peltiers will last a long time, because they aren't as affected by thermal expansion as their larger brethren. . They still have horrible efficiency though.
You can already order the parts and assemble something just like this. Its easy to get high power levels with a pulsed laser but you aren't going to be doing much to steel with these. Zap tiny little craters in to it mostly. As for a blinding weapon, you can create a 2 watt laser that will set things on fire or cause severe eye damage for about 100 bucks. Count on going to jail just as if you had shot the person in the eye with a BB gun or stabbed them with a pencil though.
Is this so when you have your main task going, there are 3 more cores to eat up battery power in the background?
Population control and pushing people to adopt will have the smart people with self control stop breeding and just adopt meanwhile the people who were too stupid to stop breeding when they didn't have the income or food to support kids aren't really going to suddenly stop because you add a stern suggestion or some legal muscle. If they aren't worried about starvation, child mortality, etc... Sounds like a brilliant idea if your plan is to breed humans to be impulsive and stupid.
If humans wan't to act like animals that breed until they run out of food, let the same population limiting mechanisms that work on animals work on them. What will be the end result of increasing production to support higher and higher numbers?
So you're saying when you purchase something digitally, you are renting it for an indeterminate period to be determined by their good graces? Also, digital editions are typically no cheaper. On books for instance, when they just come out in hard back, the digital edition has a hard book price. Yep, I just bought a 14 dollar ebook the other day that I had been waiting for.
Ok so hes not just banned from this game, hes banned from any and all he bought from them but doesn't yet have installed at the moment.
Violation of rights? What if Ford banned you from your car for inflammatory remarks? This is a product he paid for being remotely disabled... Someone needs to give the gaming industry a good dose of "Act Right". Taking away our right to resell games, horribly restrictive TOS, crap tons of DRM, now remote disabling if you annoy them...
While wrong... if their objective is to win and have as few deaths as possible, seems like a good strategy since the government can make its self an enemy of the army, bleeding them as much as the enemy. Call em home or give what they need.
Nah, we never leave an area completely. We will leave some military bases and politicians behind to impose our will.
I keep waiting for us to do something halfway exciting in space. Instead we blow our money on being world police. Screw all that. Cut the military budget in half and we could have a colony on mars.
I bought an Archos 70 on release day for $250. Capacitive screen, stereo, microsd support, hardware acceleration for every popular video codec. Same price as a netbook but slower, smaller, lighter, and thinner. I use it for all the things I used to use my netbook for. The only concession I have had to make is that although flash video works its a pain. There is supposed to be hardware support for flash playback on the way though. Do I think other tablets are a waste? yes. I'm not trying to be an infomercial, I just bought one of the only sane tablet on the market. The only other sane tablet IMO is a hacked nook color. If I had to do it over again it would be a hard choice. Better hardware on the nook but software side its much weaker. No hardware video support and you have to count on users for operating system work.
I'm allowed to use my own peripherals but if I were wanting to use my own tower I would have to essentially donate it. For things to work here the IT has to have complete access to my computer, if it were my property it would be a bit awkward. Most of the workers here don't even have admin access because of they get a virus etc... it could leak private info. Not give someone administrative privileges on their own hardware? see how that goes over.
The better to track you with *cue evil laugh*
How this helps us must be over my head. I can't see $20 or $30 per PC price difference even filtering down to us.
If their network does not have enough oomph to do a VOIP call then they are massively overselling and ripping off all of their customers to begin with.
Next move is the pitchforks and fire... Or we could just smile and take it as we are sold out again.
Now consider this, if you are bothering to price check an item it must be a fairly large purchase and it must be something you are interested in and want. At that point, its likely you will pay a fair percentage extra just to have "instant" shipping. Where this will kick them in the pants is on massive ripoff items. Walk in to a bestbuy store here, a geforce 9800gt will run you probably $300.... ATI HD4850? $350. They have some items in there lurking with over 100% markup over online retail. I'm glad less people will be conned! (Video cards ALWAYS here)
Bored people looking for a little excitement and a cause. Not a bad cause really, if nothing else it has brought attention to the fact that these companies bent under the governments will and cut off funding to wikileaks even though our government hasn't figured out anything to charge them with yet.
Should have been "clean it you can keep it". It sounds cruel at first, people getting blown up trying their shot at cleaning explosives from a house.... but as a broke guy not to long out of college, I would give it a shot :D
Wouldn't it be great if this whole TSA ordeal was the straw that broke the camel's back? People finally waking up and realizing how much freedom they have given up. It would be amazing for the US to do so where so many other countries just kept on heading down that road.