Yes, and this particular MMORPG is famous for eschewing the monster whomping of other MMORPGs and embracing role playing. That is the whole point it sells itself on, how it positions itself to customers.
More likely, this is somebody who comes from the literary school of role play, where powerful themes such as racism and sexism are strongly present. There is a big difference between somebody on a sports game hollering into his mic that the other team are a bunch of fags and somebody portraying a Jewish man in a concentration camp pondering the morals of convincing the guards to execute the homosexuals in the next building rather than his family the next day.
The first is thoughtless hate originating from the player. The second is a thought provoking and difficult positioning of yourself into a role.
Women have been treated as less than men throughout history, and still are in many cases. This is historically correct, not politically correct.
As for your second comment, there are plenty of people who don't bemoan the vapid entertainment on TV because they have discovered that powerful works of art exist elsewhere. These people take their dollars to those works. If this game positions itself there and is successful (a combination of quality, marketing and luck), those people will line up with their money.
As a role player, I've played racist character (both for human races and various clans and/or species), sexist characters (try playing a 150 year old vampire from the deep south with*out* being racist and sexist), sadist, psychotic, mentally deficient, masochist, martyr, zealots of various natures, and members of the opposite sex plus a dozen races, species and creature types.
What the *hell* do they think role playing is?
Role playing the concentration camps of WWII results in some very dark moments and the introspection lasts long after the game is over - much the same as reading a powerful novel or history of the era. It makes for powerful literature, which is what role playing can be. The strong themes of discrimination exist historically, and since much of role play (including this work) often pulls from history, to exclude those aspects is to whitewash who we are and have been as human beings.
That's fairly close. Gizmodo is really really good at exposing you to neat new things and is pretty responsible in distinguishing bad rumors, well sourced rumors and fact. After that, it is most certainly a "geek hanging out" rant site.
Which, in some cases, isn't bad. Good pictures, good attribution of sources, a keen sense for neat stuff... it's not a terrible site.
Well, he didn't mention the weight of the discs either. I'll assume that the omission means that both are within the weight range that you would expect for an optical disc. The fact that he omitted the resistance to damage means that it is likely what you would expect from the normal range of existing discs. Some manufacturers have made tweaky discs, but most formats are fairly resistant to light scratches.
Anyone who does not know how things work is not a pureblood geek. They are a half breed and are polluting the geek master . . . uh, this is getting ugly isn't it?
How *what* works? I have been coding since back when you had to solder together the computer first (S-100, yum), and I've tossed together a couple.com executables under DOS with raw opcodes. Am I a geek? Naw... my girlfriend is a geek:
She can't solder, she can't program. She *can* however, rip apart spinach to a molecular level, maintaining photosynthetic capabilities, use liquid helium to bring it down to a few degrees Kelvin, and then show you detailed info about the tetra manganese cluster of photosystem II. She knows how *that* works.
In modern Windows setups, several types of cards will not work in combination. Recent ones will, but there are some combinations that just don't work. I have significant experience using multihead in Windows, DOS and *nix (My current setup is two G450s and a AiW Pro for a total of five screens, although I am actively using only four).
After that, no, you don't need to have programs that understand multimonitor setups. Of course, you can't multitask in DOS, which limits the use, but the next best thing, TSRs, would run on one monitor while your app ran on the other.
You can't side windows back and forth between monitors... but then, you can't slide windows back and forth on the same monitor.:)
Basically, given the limitations inherent to DOS (things like one app at a time, plus TSRs), it is functionally the same. Apps that take over the video card (just like in windows) would run on just on one monitor (just like in windows - old RTS games run on one monitor no matter how many you have).
Obviously there are things you can't do in DOS on CGA-MDA setups (like slide windows back and forth)... because you can't do that at *all* on that platform, regardless of monitor count. What you *can* do with DOS, you can do on two monitors. FWIW, MDA is text only, no color - no graphics at all.
Um... there were only two kinds of cards. You plugged them in and it worked. DOS came with a command (mode) to switch between them.
We're not talking lots of technical selection: there were only two choices in *existence*... or you could use both. And have support right from the operating system.
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Hell, Win98 did it just as easily as the current Windows versions.
A *leedle* earlier than that.
A two monitor setup was pretty common for the original IBM PC starting around 1981. The CGA and MDA (or Hercules) cards would address different memory. Many apps would use the MDA for one view and the CGA for the other. Spreadsheet on MDA, graph on CGA for many spreadsheets (remember, spreadsheets were the "killer app" of the era). Borland's IDEs used MDA for source, CGA for output.
You can go back before that (I've seen S-100 bus systems with multiple monitors, and I think the Z80 plugin card to run CP/M on the Apple ][ allowed a second monitor), but dual monitor usage was fairly common long before Win98.
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It's available in 3.3 right now. It has very subtle animations, nice low contrast in points that shouldn't stand out and high contrast for the items (like slider bars) that you want to see. Buttons have a soft glow when you mouse over them, the critical ones (close window) glow red. Progress bars have a very subtle stippling that moves as the bar grows.
Very nice looking, totally rendered on the fly and surprisingly fast, even on slow machines (no pixmaps to load, so it's got a small memory footprint, too).
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Nope. There's a global keybindings panel in the Control Center. You can also generally access the same panel (slimmed down to only the commands that the app uses) by clicking on "Settings|Configure Shortcuts...". There is a UI standard for many of the shortcuts, although you can globally change them to "Windows like" or "Mac like" or "Emacs like", etc.
I generally RPG (tabletop) as my same sex (male). I say generally because I often am GM, so I have to play many female NPCs. With most console RPGs, you have little choice who your main character is (and it usually changes a couple times).
In fighting games and so on, however, I almost always pick female. Not only for your reason (look at something attractive), but they tend to be more powerful versus their size.
SMB2 - Princess Mushroom all the way. Serious precision jumping.
No, they say what is and what is not legally considered Unix. The popular definition includes many other operating systems that are similar.
Tomatos are legally a vegetable[1], scientifically a fruit, and considered by many people to be either one. Champaign is technically only from a certain region in France, in American common usage it is just about any sparkling wine. Terms can often be approached legally or semantically. "Unix" in this case is short for "that OS that you created", not "an OS certified by the OpenGroup". If they dubbed, say, MS-DOS 4.01 Unix, it may be legally Unix but most people wouldn't consider it "real Unix".
[1] In America, for tariff reasons. Decision of the Supreme Court in late 1800s.
Depends if you're talking by bytesize or file count. If you do anything other than very casual recording, you'll fill hard drives very quickly with your own stuff.
There are also questions of what class of people can vote. Since nobody is allowed to vote for President (other than the several hundred members of the electoral college), each state has different rule on what constitutes a voter.
Technically, a state can pick a president by dart, theocratic selection or popular vote, the last being most popular with (IIRC) 38 states choosing to formally decide that whoever wins the popular vote gets the electoral vote... but...
*Who* votes? In some states felons are excluded. In others, you have different residency requirements (live between two states correctly, and you get two votes - or none at all). In yet others, there is an attempt to allow non-citizens to vote (since they live here... call them illegal immigrants and you're racist: they are "undocumented citizens").
Everything right now is done at the state level, and each state has a different definition of who can vote. How do you reconcile? You're going to be taking away votes from some people and giving votes to other people who were decided to not to be allowed to vote.
Whups - that comes from reading a single paragraph and not the entire site. I could blame Google, but Google is a tool; I misused it by not verifying the whole source and not passing it by my SO (while I am not a working scientist, she is).
I *do* have a significantly better reference, but it is dead tree and possibly out of date.
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" contains information about it toward the end of the book. Having recently moved, most of my books are boxed up, or I would post an excerpt. If anybody has a copy and could reference it, I'd appreciate it, especially in light of my rather embarrassingly bad reference.
If anybody is interested in getting info on this (potentally after this weekend when I unpack my books), feel free to email me at evan7632.net@timewarp.org with the subject Heaviest Element. I'll go ahead and mail you the information when I find - and *verify* - it.
Above all else, I feel bad about having posted that information and thus propagated incorrect information on the web. Many apologies.
You assume that my post was an rebuttal. It wasn't. It was more a standalone point that tangentally related to the post I was replying to.
It is my fault for making that unclear, especially when I started the second paragraph with the pronoun "You". It is intended to be a general "You" referring to the reader, not a specific one referring to the person whose post I happened to hit reply to.
Gore did not win. The several hundred electoral votes were cast and Bush won.
You can complain however you want about how Florida handled their votes, but states can cast their votes any way they want, including by the choice of the governor, theocratic selection or dartboard. If there were any laws broken, they were Florida laws, and the Florida courts have determined that none were.
To make it utterly clear: States do not have to let individuals cast votes at all for the President. They do so currently, but have no legal reason to. Florida operates (like many states) on a 'whoever gets the most votes gets all our electoral votes'. They also do not let certain people vote, as is their perogative.
Florida chose to vote how they did and reviewed the vote themselves, by their laws, and decided it was okay. There are *no* Federal laws compelling electoral votes whatsoever.
For the reasons previously given, the limiting value, the equivalent of zero in each scalar dimension, is eight units of one-dimensional, or four units of two-dimensional, rotational displacement. In the notation used herein, the latter is a 4-4 magnetic combination. However, as indicated in Chapter 24, the destructive limit is not reached until the displacement in the electric dimension also arrives at the equivalent of the last magnetic unit. A rotational combination (atom) is therefore stable, at zero magnetic ionization, up to 4-4-31, or the equivalent 5-4-(1), which is element 117. One more step reaches the limit at which the rotational motion terminates.
I first heard about it from Feynman who was, I think, the person who found the limit. It has to do with positions of the electrons or something to do with orbitals. Once there are a certain number of electrons, a value goes to zero or infinity.
A bit of Googling doesn't bring it up...
Ah! I remember - something about the electrons having to exceed c past a certain shell. Damned if I can remember the whole thing or the number. 117? 147? 217? Something like that. Turns out the number is one of the classic constants (a minor one) and pops up in interesting places.
It's one of those facts that is interesting but not terribly useful unless that is your field of research.
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PHP4's OO features were pretty much a late cycle hack. PHP5's OO was thought out early and carefully designed.
If anything, the fact that PHP4's OO features worked as well as they did was impressive. The fact that they were limited was due to the point at which they were implemented. If anything, it illustrates the need to plan features early in the development cycle.
Yast reads and writes to files in/etc/sysconfig. The rc files all also read those same files. There are no "suse config" files, at least no more so than in any other *nix.
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The first is thoughtless hate originating from the player. The second is a thought provoking and difficult positioning of yourself into a role.
Women have been treated as less than men throughout history, and still are in many cases. This is historically correct, not politically correct.
As for your second comment, there are plenty of people who don't bemoan the vapid entertainment on TV because they have discovered that powerful works of art exist elsewhere. These people take their dollars to those works. If this game positions itself there and is successful (a combination of quality, marketing and luck), those people will line up with their money.
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As a role player, I've played racist character (both for human races and various clans and/or species), sexist characters (try playing a 150 year old vampire from the deep south with*out* being racist and sexist), sadist, psychotic, mentally deficient, masochist, martyr, zealots of various natures, and members of the opposite sex plus a dozen races, species and creature types.
What the *hell* do they think role playing is?
Role playing the concentration camps of WWII results in some very dark moments and the introspection lasts long after the game is over - much the same as reading a powerful novel or history of the era. It makes for powerful literature, which is what role playing can be. The strong themes of discrimination exist historically, and since much of role play (including this work) often pulls from history, to exclude those aspects is to whitewash who we are and have been as human beings.
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Which, in some cases, isn't bad. Good pictures, good attribution of sources, a keen sense for neat stuff... it's not a terrible site.
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How *what* works? I have been coding since back when you had to solder together the computer first (S-100, yum), and I've tossed together a couple .com executables under DOS with raw opcodes. Am I a geek? Naw... my girlfriend is a geek:
She can't solder, she can't program. She *can* however, rip apart spinach to a molecular level, maintaining photosynthetic capabilities, use liquid helium to bring it down to a few degrees Kelvin, and then show you detailed info about the tetra manganese cluster of photosystem II. She knows how *that* works.
She also looks good as an Orion Slave Girl.
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After that, no, you don't need to have programs that understand multimonitor setups. Of course, you can't multitask in DOS, which limits the use, but the next best thing, TSRs, would run on one monitor while your app ran on the other.
You can't side windows back and forth between monitors... but then, you can't slide windows back and forth on the same monitor. :)
Basically, given the limitations inherent to DOS (things like one app at a time, plus TSRs), it is functionally the same. Apps that take over the video card (just like in windows) would run on just on one monitor (just like in windows - old RTS games run on one monitor no matter how many you have).
Obviously there are things you can't do in DOS on CGA-MDA setups (like slide windows back and forth)... because you can't do that at *all* on that platform, regardless of monitor count. What you *can* do with DOS, you can do on two monitors. FWIW, MDA is text only, no color - no graphics at all.
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We're not talking lots of technical selection: there were only two choices in *existence*... or you could use both. And have support right from the operating system.
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Evan "long before the concept of 'video driver'"
A *leedle* earlier than that.
A two monitor setup was pretty common for the original IBM PC starting around 1981. The CGA and MDA (or Hercules) cards would address different memory. Many apps would use the MDA for one view and the CGA for the other. Spreadsheet on MDA, graph on CGA for many spreadsheets (remember, spreadsheets were the "killer app" of the era). Borland's IDEs used MDA for source, CGA for output.
You can go back before that (I've seen S-100 bus systems with multiple monitors, and I think the Z80 plugin card to run CP/M on the Apple ][ allowed a second monitor), but dual monitor usage was fairly common long before Win98.
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Evan "using 4 monitors in xinerama, 6 if you count X exports onto the laptops"
Very nice looking, totally rendered on the fly and surprisingly fast, even on slow machines (no pixmaps to load, so it's got a small memory footprint, too).
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In fighting games and so on, however, I almost always pick female. Not only for your reason (look at something attractive), but they tend to be more powerful versus their size.
SMB2 - Princess Mushroom all the way. Serious precision jumping.
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Evan
Tomatos are legally a vegetable[1], scientifically a fruit, and considered by many people to be either one. Champaign is technically only from a certain region in France, in American common usage it is just about any sparkling wine. Terms can often be approached legally or semantically. "Unix" in this case is short for "that OS that you created", not "an OS certified by the OpenGroup". If they dubbed, say, MS-DOS 4.01 Unix, it may be legally Unix but most people wouldn't consider it "real Unix".
[1] In America, for tariff reasons. Decision of the Supreme Court in late 1800s.
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Technically, a state can pick a president by dart, theocratic selection or popular vote, the last being most popular with (IIRC) 38 states choosing to formally decide that whoever wins the popular vote gets the electoral vote... but...
*Who* votes? In some states felons are excluded. In others, you have different residency requirements (live between two states correctly, and you get two votes - or none at all). In yet others, there is an attempt to allow non-citizens to vote (since they live here... call them illegal immigrants and you're racist: they are "undocumented citizens").
Everything right now is done at the state level, and each state has a different definition of who can vote. How do you reconcile? You're going to be taking away votes from some people and giving votes to other people who were decided to not to be allowed to vote.
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I *do* have a significantly better reference, but it is dead tree and possibly out of date. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" contains information about it toward the end of the book. Having recently moved, most of my books are boxed up, or I would post an excerpt. If anybody has a copy and could reference it, I'd appreciate it, especially in light of my rather embarrassingly bad reference.
If anybody is interested in getting info on this (potentally after this weekend when I unpack my books), feel free to email me at evan7632.net@timewarp.org with the subject Heaviest Element. I'll go ahead and mail you the information when I find - and *verify* - it.
Above all else, I feel bad about having posted that information and thus propagated incorrect information on the web. Many apologies.
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It is my fault for making that unclear, especially when I started the second paragraph with the pronoun "You". It is intended to be a general "You" referring to the reader, not a specific one referring to the person whose post I happened to hit reply to.
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You can complain however you want about how Florida handled their votes, but states can cast their votes any way they want, including by the choice of the governor, theocratic selection or dartboard. If there were any laws broken, they were Florida laws, and the Florida courts have determined that none were.
To make it utterly clear: States do not have to let individuals cast votes at all for the President. They do so currently, but have no legal reason to. Florida operates (like many states) on a 'whoever gets the most votes gets all our electoral votes'. They also do not let certain people vote, as is their perogative.
Florida chose to vote how they did and reviewed the vote themselves, by their laws, and decided it was okay. There are *no* Federal laws compelling electoral votes whatsoever.
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Evan
For the reasons previously given, the limiting value, the equivalent of zero in each scalar dimension, is eight units of one-dimensional, or four units of two-dimensional, rotational displacement. In the notation used herein, the latter is a 4-4 magnetic combination. However, as indicated in Chapter 24, the destructive limit is not reached until the displacement in the electric dimension also arrives at the equivalent of the last magnetic unit. A rotational combination (atom) is therefore stable, at zero magnetic ionization, up to 4-4-31, or the equivalent 5-4-(1), which is element 117. One more step reaches the limit at which the rotational motion terminates.
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A bit of Googling doesn't bring it up...
Ah! I remember - something about the electrons having to exceed c past a certain shell. Damned if I can remember the whole thing or the number. 117? 147? 217? Something like that. Turns out the number is one of the classic constants (a minor one) and pops up in interesting places.
It's one of those facts that is interesting but not terribly useful unless that is your field of research.
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If anything, the fact that PHP4's OO features worked as well as they did was impressive. The fact that they were limited was due to the point at which they were implemented. If anything, it illustrates the need to plan features early in the development cycle.
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