Plato was a believer in government that knew what was good for you and would make sure you got it whether you wanted it or not. Marx built his entire political theory on an economic basis that made absolutely no sense at all--the Labor Theory of Value has to rank as one of the most absurd ideas to ever see widespread acceptance; a few moments' thought will give you many obvious disproofs. Not the people I would choose for applied political theory.
Powerpoint doesn't *force* you to have bullet points you read off, but it encourages it, heavily. It has a Wizard specifically created to walk you through creating a presentation constructed in that manner.
No, but I can feel turning clockwise and counterclockwise. Clockwise is warmer, counterclockwise is cooler; I can remember that without even looking at the control. Simple, effective, and I don't need something complicated and expensive that'll break.
Which works when the date you care about and wish to sort by is the timestamp on the file. When each file contains info pertaining to a particular date but is not in fact timestamped with that date, it becomes much less useful.
> why do humans have to make the job easier for the computers, where > computers have been created to make such jobs easier for humans?
I don't see how it's harder or easier to use one format over another. So why not use the one that sorts well?
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I was about 30 in the early 90s. What's more, RTSes are among my favorite genre. I have never played and never even seen a copy of Dune II. I own Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and have played completely through both campaigns.
UNIX changed a lot over the years, and the "et cetera" directory developed into the repository for system configuration files, resulting in the (IMHO, rather ridiculous) back-formations to try to make/etc represent what it actually does now days.
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The correct pronunciation is "et setera", since it is taken directly from Latin.
In which, ironically, it is pronounced "et ketera" (stress on the "ke" and remember to roll the r). English has done really weird things to the pronounciation of Latin.
LEDs and incandescents 'flash' at 60Hz, unless you rectify and filter the input, which you wouldn't because the parts would cost more than the bulb itself.
Incandescents don't flash because the filament cannot shed its heat in the short time between cycles and continues shining. LEDs require rectification because they can't work on AC.
It's one thing for a commenter at Slashdot to call someone an idiot. It's another thing when some freeper or someone at LGF says a certain congressman deserves "two in the back of the head" or fantasizes about the immolation of muslim women and children.
Of course, when someone at Democratic Underground posts about how Bush should be assassinated, it would be totally unreasonable to hold the site owner responsible for that.
The fact that the Saturn was a better 2D machine is kinda irrelevant when you're talking about a 3D game.
The N64 might have had better 3D graphics, but FFVII wasn't going to *fit* on an N64 cartridge. It wasn't just the cut scenes, unless you honestly believe FFVII's three CDs were 95% cut scenes. The largest N64 cartridge ever produced had 10% the data capacity of one CD. Unlike multiple CDs, multiple cartridges were not possible due to technical and cost issues (as far as I know, nobody has ever produced a multiple-cartridge game for any system anywhere). How much prettier the graphics were going to be was irrelevant when putting the game on the system wasn't physically possible to begin with. You may want to remember that Square originally *was* going to do FFVII on the N64 and actually did a fair amount of development on the N64, and dropped it only when Nintendo decided the N64 was going to be cartridge-only.
FFVII came out on the PS1 because it was the only platform of the time on which it would work.
In real life, it's pretty easy to tell fascists from socialists. Fascists want private enterprise and religion all up in government's business, socialists don't.
Socialists just want government all up in private enterprise's and religion's business. Much better, I'm sure.
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Plato was a believer in government that knew what was good for you and would make sure you got it whether you wanted it or not. Marx built his entire political theory on an economic basis that made absolutely no sense at all--the Labor Theory of Value has to rank as one of the most absurd ideas to ever see widespread acceptance; a few moments' thought will give you many obvious disproofs. Not the people I would choose for applied political theory.
Chris Mattern
"Common Usage" n. Feeling better about being wrong because so many other people are wrong too.
Words have meanings. When careless ignorance blurs the meaning of those words our ability to communicate is eroded.
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Powerpoint doesn't *force* you to have bullet points you read off, but it encourages it, heavily. It has a Wizard specifically created to walk you through creating a presentation constructed in that manner.
Chris Mattern
No, but I can feel turning clockwise and counterclockwise. Clockwise is warmer, counterclockwise is cooler; I can remember that without even looking at the control. Simple, effective, and I don't need something complicated and expensive that'll break.
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Yeah, who do you think they are, Sony?
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> I'm still waiting for the videogame where you use the wii-mote to massage a prostate or
> perform an abortion.
Well, there's always this.
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> easy solution: sort them by the date.
Which works when the date you care about and wish to sort by is the timestamp on the file. When each file contains info pertaining to a particular date but is not in fact timestamped with that date, it becomes much less useful.
> why do humans have to make the job easier for the computers, where
> computers have been created to make such jobs easier for humans?
I don't see how it's harder or easier to use one format over another. So why not use the one that sorts well?
Chris Mattern
Man, it's in LA. That's 0.0 sec space!
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103,262,207 US dollars? Wow, everything *is* more expensive in Europe!
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"We don't sell any anti-virus or firewall software when people buy Linux."
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By the way, do you have stairs in your house?
Actually, they reminded me of of this. Why just have boots when you can have trousers?
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I was about 30 in the early 90s. What's more, RTSes are among my favorite genre. I have never played and never even seen a copy of Dune II. I own Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and have played completely through both campaigns.
Chris Mattern
Street Fighter II for the SNES was the sole, exclusive reason I bought an SNES, which was the first game console I ever owned.
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All that plus the chance to get killed in one blow by the princess if you made the mistake of approaching her in a fighting stance!
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I find it so odd that in fact, I don't believe it. Can we get a independent collaboration of this outside of a blog from the tinfoil hat brigade?
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Does it run M.U.L.E. or Archon? Nope? Well, then, don't think I'm interested.
Chris Mattern
UNIX changed a lot over the years, and the "et cetera" directory developed into the repository for system configuration files, resulting in the (IMHO, rather ridiculous) back-formations to try to make /etc represent what it actually does now days.
Chris Mattern
In which, ironically, it is pronounced "et ketera" (stress on the "ke" and remember to roll the r). English has done really weird things to the pronounciation of Latin.
Chris Mattern
Took me awhile before I didn't read it as "weeeirdland".
Chris Mattern
Incandescents don't flash because the filament cannot shed its heat in the short time between cycles and continues shining. LEDs require rectification because they can't work on AC.
Chris Mattern
Of course, when someone at Democratic Underground posts about how Bush should be assassinated, it would be totally unreasonable to hold the site owner responsible for that.
CHris Mattern
The fact that the Saturn was a better 2D machine is kinda irrelevant when you're talking about a 3D game.
The N64 might have had better 3D graphics, but FFVII wasn't going to *fit* on an N64 cartridge. It wasn't just the cut scenes, unless you honestly believe FFVII's three CDs were 95% cut scenes. The largest N64 cartridge ever produced had 10% the data capacity of one CD. Unlike multiple CDs, multiple cartridges were not possible due to technical and cost issues (as far as I know, nobody has ever produced a multiple-cartridge game for any system anywhere). How much prettier the graphics were going to be was irrelevant when putting the game on the system wasn't physically possible to begin with. You may want to remember that Square originally *was* going to do FFVII on the N64 and actually did a fair amount of development on the N64, and dropped it only when Nintendo decided the N64 was going to be cartridge-only.
FFVII came out on the PS1 because it was the only platform of the time on which it would work.
Chris Mattern
Socialists just want government all up in private enterprise's and religion's business. Much better, I'm sure.
Chris Mattern
Government agency announces it should have exanded role, increased powers. Experts reportly shocked at this development.
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