You must be a monumentally bad driver if you can't maintain your speed to within 10mph. So bad that you really shouldn't be on the road, so any law which got you banned would be just fine by me. The ACPO guidelines have the trigger speed for speed cameras at limit + 10% + 2mph. For a camera in a 30mph zone that's 35mph. You have a perfectly adequate margin, even ignoring the fact that your speedo probably reads a couple of mph low anyway.
There is a driver who lives near me who regularly skips red lights and speeds, unless there is a police car about. Currently, I have no power to report him, even if I have evidence so he carries on knowing full well that he can get away with it.
What the fuck are you talking about? Of course you can report him. Anybody can report a crime to the police.
the local councils have been using the CCTV networks to stalk people for things as trivial as checking whether they live where they said and are eligible for the school they've tried to register their kids at.
I've never understood the objections to that kind of thing. How the hell are the council supposed to do their job if they can't do something as trivial as check to see if what they say is true? Should they simply believe everything they are told? We're not talking about bugging people's homes or rifling though their possessions while they're out - it's watching someone in public, on the street.
Commuity Support Officers make me feel no safer, because they have no powers and using resources for them means less resources for actual Police. They do fuck all. Well, except stand by and watch kids drown.
GTA is too easy because there's no skill involved in combat. The auto-aim from behind cover thing is far too easy and it's the core of most of the missions. Hide behind cover, target enemy, pop up and shoot them. Rinse, repeat, get bored, go play something else. I played GTA 4 for a week and really enjoyed the environment and characters (Brucie is pure genius) and exploring and blowing things up, but after a week it was just a tedious grind of simple, repetitive combat and I haven't touched it since. Being repetitive alone isn't too bad - people have been playing the same maps in CS for years - it's that it's repetitive, unchallenging and long, which makes it a tedious grind. Even easy and repetitive can work if it's short - I like to chill out with a game of Flow every now and then.
It's a common tendancy to think people who did terrible things are wholly different to the rest of us. If they kill their wife, they'll readily kill anyone who annoys them, right? The reality is that while serial killers do exist, most murderers are normal people. They kill someone they know in a rage. He killed his wife in a rage after a nasty argument in the middle of a messy divorce. If you don't think most people are capable of losing control in a rage and doing something they regret you're just denying human nature. You and Hans have a lot more in common than you'd like to think.
It would only be predictable if I always did it and you knew it was me you saw run behind the cover. The former isn't true and the latter is rarely true. The simple fact is that it works - people rarely correctly predict my actions.
We also have tubes a damn sight bigger than back then. The tubes aren't clogged, at least the big ones. You ISP's tubes may be clogged, if they are then you need to find a new ISP or to pay your existing ISP more money for lower contention.
Perhaps not your reality, but it makes a hell of a difference to mine. Knowing the maps is essential, or you won't know where to look for danger or be much good at spotting partially concealed enemies. No matter how good your reactions, having your gun already pointed where the enemy is about to appear is an advantage. If you don't know the map, you can't predict this.
Unpredictability gets me a lot of kills too. A common tactic of mine (which rarely fails) is to feint one way round an obstacle between me an an enemy, so they expect me to reappear from (say) the left side of the cover. While behind cover I change direction, appearing on the right of the cover. They're looking the wrong way, I pwn them.
Rare for FPS players to act simultaneously? You must be a camper. Walking round a corner seeing someone and you both firing simultaneously is very common in the FPSs I've played.
11: No publisher should ever be so stupid as to think a server browser isn't a necessary component of an online game. Infinity Ward, are you listening?
I mean, how on earth would one have freedom if it weren't forced upon us.
As a society, for any meaningful definition of freedom, you do indeed have to have it forced upon you. You're not one of these naive fools who thinks having no rules is equivalent to freedom, are you? Anarchy only provides freedom to the biggest guy.
The price needs to drop below equivalent rotational-based technology -currently $42.00 for 160GB- in order for it to become 'cost effective' to change.
You're making the same mistake the Ask Slashdot questioner made yesterday - you think "cost effective" means "cheapest to buy". If you want "cost effective" you have to consider benefits as well as cost. As an example, in a high-vibration environment HDDs aren't cost effective because they break.
16 GB is enough for most people. If you can't see that your needs are massively abnormal (200MB image files? Yeah, my gran does that every day) I suggest you go out and meet some normal people.
You must live somewhere hot. For the rest of us, insulation is the worst idea imaginable, because the temperature of the server room is higher than the temperature of adjacent rooms / outdoors. But then most of us have warmer server rooms than you too. I've no idea why you think maintaining a temperature of 61 F (16 Celsius) is necessary. Unless the individual systems have truly awful cooling and would otherwise overheat, I suspect you're just wasting money by having the room that cold.
The reason I never used the XP theme (I stuck with the Win2k look while I still used Windows enough to care) is that the window chrome is huge. I don't give a stuff about looks, but I do give a stuff about my screen real-estate being eaten up by "cute" windows. It's not as bad as huge transparent chrome, but it's bad enough.
If I'm smoking occasionally I get the giggles and my brain goes to mush. If I smoke regularly the weed more induces calm and focus than giggles and distraction. The ultimate brain power isn't there, but focus is easier to get and there's plenty of capacity to grind out the more tedious chunks of code.
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Denouncing a regime as oppressive by using the Newspeak definition of "Communism". Oh, the irony.
You must be a monumentally bad driver if you can't maintain your speed to within 10mph. So bad that you really shouldn't be on the road, so any law which got you banned would be just fine by me. The ACPO guidelines have the trigger speed for speed cameras at limit + 10% + 2mph. For a camera in a 30mph zone that's 35mph. You have a perfectly adequate margin, even ignoring the fact that your speedo probably reads a couple of mph low anyway.
What the fuck are you talking about? Of course you can report him. Anybody can report a crime to the police.
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I've never understood the objections to that kind of thing. How the hell are the council supposed to do their job if they can't do something as trivial as check to see if what they say is true? Should they simply believe everything they are told? We're not talking about bugging people's homes or rifling though their possessions while they're out - it's watching someone in public, on the street.
Commuity Support Officers make me feel no safer, because they have no powers and using resources for them means less resources for actual Police. They do fuck all. Well, except stand by and watch kids drown.
You can't get round the corners in GTA 4? I think you should probably give up gaming right now. Driving too for that matter.
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GTA is too easy because there's no skill involved in combat. The auto-aim from behind cover thing is far too easy and it's the core of most of the missions. Hide behind cover, target enemy, pop up and shoot them. Rinse, repeat, get bored, go play something else. I played GTA 4 for a week and really enjoyed the environment and characters (Brucie is pure genius) and exploring and blowing things up, but after a week it was just a tedious grind of simple, repetitive combat and I haven't touched it since. Being repetitive alone isn't too bad - people have been playing the same maps in CS for years - it's that it's repetitive, unchallenging and long, which makes it a tedious grind. Even easy and repetitive can work if it's short - I like to chill out with a game of Flow every now and then.
It's a common tendancy to think people who did terrible things are wholly different to the rest of us. If they kill their wife, they'll readily kill anyone who annoys them, right? The reality is that while serial killers do exist, most murderers are normal people. They kill someone they know in a rage. He killed his wife in a rage after a nasty argument in the middle of a messy divorce. If you don't think most people are capable of losing control in a rage and doing something they regret you're just denying human nature. You and Hans have a lot more in common than you'd like to think.
It wasn't premeditated.
Prisons have been about rehabilitation since they were invented. The place where you just lock people up is a jail.
It would only be predictable if I always did it and you knew it was me you saw run behind the cover. The former isn't true and the latter is rarely true. The simple fact is that it works - people rarely correctly predict my actions.
We also have tubes a damn sight bigger than back then. The tubes aren't clogged, at least the big ones. You ISP's tubes may be clogged, if they are then you need to find a new ISP or to pay your existing ISP more money for lower contention.
Perhaps not your reality, but it makes a hell of a difference to mine. Knowing the maps is essential, or you won't know where to look for danger or be much good at spotting partially concealed enemies. No matter how good your reactions, having your gun already pointed where the enemy is about to appear is an advantage. If you don't know the map, you can't predict this.
Unpredictability gets me a lot of kills too. A common tactic of mine (which rarely fails) is to feint one way round an obstacle between me an an enemy, so they expect me to reappear from (say) the left side of the cover. While behind cover I change direction, appearing on the right of the cover. They're looking the wrong way, I pwn them.
Rare for FPS players to act simultaneously? You must be a camper. Walking round a corner seeing someone and you both firing simultaneously is very common in the FPSs I've played.
11: No publisher should ever be so stupid as to think a server browser isn't a necessary component of an online game. Infinity Ward, are you listening?
Wanna buy a bridge?
As a society, for any meaningful definition of freedom, you do indeed have to have it forced upon you. You're not one of these naive fools who thinks having no rules is equivalent to freedom, are you? Anarchy only provides freedom to the biggest guy.
You're making the same mistake the Ask Slashdot questioner made yesterday - you think "cost effective" means "cheapest to buy". If you want "cost effective" you have to consider benefits as well as cost. As an example, in a high-vibration environment HDDs aren't cost effective because they break.
Look closer, you have your bits and bytes mixed up.
Most use SSDs or 2.5" hard drives. Look at this table - they're all SSD or have HDDs whose capacity suggests a 2.5" form factor.
16 GB is enough for most people. If you can't see that your needs are massively abnormal (200MB image files? Yeah, my gran does that every day) I suggest you go out and meet some normal people.
You must live somewhere hot. For the rest of us, insulation is the worst idea imaginable, because the temperature of the server room is higher than the temperature of adjacent rooms / outdoors. But then most of us have warmer server rooms than you too. I've no idea why you think maintaining a temperature of 61 F (16 Celsius) is necessary. Unless the individual systems have truly awful cooling and would otherwise overheat, I suspect you're just wasting money by having the room that cold.
The reason I never used the XP theme (I stuck with the Win2k look while I still used Windows enough to care) is that the window chrome is huge. I don't give a stuff about looks, but I do give a stuff about my screen real-estate being eaten up by "cute" windows. It's not as bad as huge transparent chrome, but it's bad enough.
If I'm smoking occasionally I get the giggles and my brain goes to mush. If I smoke regularly the weed more induces calm and focus than giggles and distraction. The ultimate brain power isn't there, but focus is easier to get and there's plenty of capacity to grind out the more tedious chunks of code.