It's an energy distribution problem, and last I checked the tanks had not been equiped with Type III or Type IV phasers, and still use projectiles. So it'd be safe to assume they'd be able to fire. however I'm sure the puff of smoke from the proectile launch would give their position away.
they're two men among thousands. How many people need to die, on both sides, on their behalves? I just don't see it).
However if you let two die, they can and do take more.
the deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure, the carelessness with regard to civilian casualties. Would carefully targeted strikes on Hezbollah targets be appropriate? Of course
How do you know they aren't one and the same? There have been photos and videos of where Hezbolla fighters are wearing civillian clothing firing from civillian buildings.
There are reports that the 'poor civilians' are being held in the buildings against their will with the express intent of them dying in retalliation and then exploiting it to dupe people just like you to believe that Israel doesn't know how to figure out where a rocket came from. Hell I played Scorched Earth 20 years ago and I can figure out where a rocket or shell came from. Counterbattery launch systems can figure it out while the projectile is still in the air, and over 100 different ones.
This is a complete and culturally different portion of the world. How you are viewed by the other guy is the most important thing ever. If you're viewed as week, they just want to kick you ass more. If you rain holy hell down on them in response to a single kidnapping they'll think twice next time.
Plus, Hezbollah was supposed to have been completely disarmed by the wonderful UN in 2000 as a condition of Israel withdrawing from Lebanon. We see how well that worked.
I'm not a warmonger. I lay awake until the wee hours of the morning thinking of all the people that are dying over one of the dumbest things on earth - organized religion. I wonder how I could protect my family from something that could kill me from over 100 miles away, or 1000 miles, or 10,000 miles. I wonder at what point does a parent have to decide to either die with or abandon a small child because they are screaming and attracting the bad guy, or can't swim when your boat is overturned, or can't get free from a seatbelt when your car is damaged. I can't imagine how I'd react in those situations yet there are people right this very second experiencing them and suffering from the consequences.
Why is that? If I'd gotten a leaflet rained down on me that said go north of this river and we'll leave you alone my ass would have been out the door in a heartbeat. Yet they're staying, some say against their will. Who is right? Hard to say because everyone reporting the news has an agenda. Either for or against. So the news is tainted. Though can we trust someone 'blogging' from there? Just as hard to say, you can stage anything. The amount of distrust of the reports from that region are so loaded that it's impossible for someone on the other side of the planet to know what really is going on.
The only way I watch fox news is if someone holds a gun to my head or it's made fun of on the Daily Show. For the record I'm only to Jun 27 of Daily shows so I've not seen their attempt at humor with the current crisis.
Israel is off their collective rockers, and the world is standing by and letting them get away with it. It's insane.
Me thinks you're either forgetting the rest of the situation or don't care to know.
This started with kidnapping and ransoming of Israeli soldiers.
Then, it continues with rockets raining down into Israeli territory.
Should they just say 'my bad' and let it continue? Do you think if they stop now the other guy is going to go 'cool, we can stop'
Do you think the solider that was working a checkpoint into his country that was kidnapped will live? He wasn't shooting at anyone, they attacked and kidnapped him.
The Rob Galbraith DPI website has a huge database of performance with various cards and various cameras. I use this as a benchmark for deciding when I need a new CF card vs. the Camera I have, and the family of camera I'd love to upgrade too one day.
exactly, if I fear kited the big guy in UBRS again I think I'd puke. Never did get my full armor set, only had the cowl and the gloves, and I bought those.
I was a heavy player of WoW for almost a year. From the initial release in 2004 until about early spring of this year. I just got tired of the grind after getting to 60 in June of 2005. My brother continues to play to this day but I just don't see the fun. I might check it out when Burning Lands or whatever it's called shows up but I've since discovered some decent games to play for fun like BF2 and others.
I'm sure there are a lot of others like me who didn't feel like raiding another dungeon yet again for that one piece of armor
I just got this game on Monday and my 2 year old son has learned several new cuss words. I forgot how frustrating it can get having to time that first jump after the second one. I was never very good at Mario games, my little brother was the genius with them. I'm currently straggling up to 2-1 now after a good few hours of getting to play the game.
The graphics are great and the 2-screen goodness with the 'stacking' of power ups for later use is a very nice touch. I'm very happy with my DS and have bought quite a few titles I'd never thought I'd get with it.
This is my personal preference speaking, I'd not want to stop anyone from doing anything because I believe that is what made the US a great place.
I don't play GTA in any form, I didn't like the idea. I voted with my $, but lots of people voted the other way, that is life. However, GTA doesn't say the goal of the game is to fly 757s in the the WTC. The game is to be a criminal. To me there is a subtle, but important, difference.
I was just commenting on what I thought was an interesting issue for us, I don't consider this a flame war. But down below it appears Godwin's law has already come into play.
After I hit the submit button I thought 'doh!' I had Battle of Britain on the brain and how interesting a game that was. I did not mean to draw the line in 1941 - 1943 but to say War Games are interesting, and don't seem to exploit the situation near as much as a 'Flight 98' or 'Massacre at Columbine' type of game.
I'd love to see a 'Duck Hunt' type game where you pop terrorists in the head when they pop up. We can call it Whac-A-Terrorist or whatever. Personally in games where I get the most uncomfortable is when you are a terrorist. Command and Conquer generals was one of thsoe. I refused to play the arab line because it was too close to 2001 for me and it goobed me out cranking out suicide bombers. BF2 has gotten better but playing the MEC side still bothers me some times.
Would I want games like this to stop being made? no, I guess not. But at the same time things like Columbine and 9/11/01 and the like are too big of a hot button and too close to the heart of too many vocal people to make a game out of. I mean the recent BF2 flap about the 'Terrorist Recruiting Video'fan made video shows how sensative an issue it is these days.
Other than WW 2 simulations I really don't like the idea of making a game based off of a real tragedy. That'd be like creating a '911 simulator' where you try and fly 757s into the world trade center. It's just stupid, and it riles up the anti-gaming crowd rather quickly
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the original NES had one name in Japan and another here. Maybe they'll do that again.
Personally I don't care what it's called. Since the first console came out and took over my family when I was in 9th grade we've always referred to it as playing 'Nintendo' and nothing else. It wasn't my sister screaming 'Mooooooommm, Matt is playing Super Nintendo for hours I want to watch my little pony' or something like that, no matter what console my brother and I had it was always 'Nintendo' in our house, including the Sega Master System, and Sega genesis.
Then I moved out and could tell anyone to screw themselves and go home that didn't like me playing games. But my brother Matt had to endure 10 more years of being kicked off the TV before he got out of school and moved out.
I'd hate to see what shape the rest of your stuff is in.
The above accidents I referenced were over a 8 year period.
The 'rest of my stuff' looks brand new, as does my current thinkpad. My point being, accidents happen, and they're pretty robust by comparison to others I've had (Toshiba, HP). Also 99% of the laptops out there have 98% of the identical internal bits and pieces in them, I'll take reliability & durability over 2% performance difference.
Who cares if it's a little slower. I much prefer the fact that a 280lb geek could step on one closed 600E on the floor at 2AM and not break the screen, or a hatchback is opened and your bag was open and your T21 bounces out onto the pavement and you open it up and it works fine, or a X40 gets a full bottle of Jones Berry Cola poured into it and other than a black cherry-licious smell it keeps working (ok so I replaced the keyboard a few weeks later)
Now a 32 oz glass of tea into a T21 didn't fair nearly as well, but that's a lot of liquid. I was impressed I yanked the power cord in like 0.2 seconds but it kept running on that little thing called a battery.
Hard drive was fine though.
Slight Disclaimer: I work for em, and no matter what happens to them they get repaired, but so far I've not managed to do much to them that requires it, and I'm not gentle with my systems. I shudder to think if I treated the Dell, HPs or Toshibas (little while since I've used on of the Toshibas though). I see bits-o-plastic everywhere.
Well Narf and Blanka have been pretty quiet about who they are and what they do, maybe they're two apple employees and this was their bonus plan all along....;)
Dell, HP, IBM, Apple, and many, many others are most of the time built right next to each other in China. I'd be willing to bet there isn't a single computer where every piece in it is made in the USA, or a US Friendly country (friendly by my definition = NATO)
You'd think people would start to use the reply to all w/o attachments button once in a while but I swear it seems when the biggest file is sent half the people it was sent to reply to all with the attachment still there...
I have notes running an auto-archive of anything >30 days and the myattachment tool running every 7 days ripping anything out 7 days or older.
At least we use powerpoint now. With freelance you could make a 7 page presentation and it'd be 40MB in size with no graphics.
I switched in 2002. the iLife (as they were later called) got me interested and buying my first Apple product in my lifetime.
A powerbook, and an iPod followed about four months later when my wife got tired of me using 'her computer' as I told all my geek friends.
Kinda like getting caught riding a moped at first, but now it's not that big of a deal. I remember the first time I got Tomcat running on it, that shut up the guys that were mad at me for dumping Linux as a desktop client (2002 again mind you, i'm sure things have changed)
I still have my Compute! Magazines. I quit subscribing to it when they quit putting BASIC programs in it.
I never got the floppy drive. There are many casette tapes destroyed against the basement wall after hours of typing in a program, saving it to tape, only to find the casette didn't take and I get some kind of I/O error.
The only thing I hated about the Atari is after I got into Jr. High and learned how to type the fact that most of the punctuation was off in la-la land compared to the standard QWERTY keyboard drove me nuts, and to my best friend's Apple IIe.
By High School my Dad had a Compaq Plus Portable (all 34 pounds of it) and I still remember to this day laughing at him and saying he goofed when he turned it on without a floppy disk in it. I was so ingraineda bout the floppy I'd never heard of a hard disk until that moment. EVen more amusing was the fact that I refused to use the hard drive and booted from a floppy for months before I realized what I had with the massive 10MB of data storage.
The problem is that in my view of the world an R and a X rating and the M vs. 'Adults Only' doesn't mean jack shit. Both aren't appropriate 17 in most cases.
The guys that did South Park proved without a doubt that in order to get an X rating you just need to show some natural, normal, god given human skin. But if you murder half a country in gory & grusome ways it's ok and it's only an R rating (Orgazmo vs. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut)
The top (or bottom depending on your view) of the ratings are flawed. For some dumb reason natural things such as sex, boobs, dicks, and the like are 'evil' yet you can run down the street chopping off heads with a chain saw and that's ok.
That's what amazes me about the uproar over GTA in general. You're beating the shit out of people, stealing cars, and what not. No problem, but you do a pixelated sex scene that really is about as lame as they come considering the tech out there and the whole world is 'rabble rabble' about it.
i'm a 'less is more' kind of guy, so when buying a small (27") LCD with integrated DVD for my bedroom I wanted no cables other than the power & data cable running to it. Cablecard provided that because I didn't want DVR function in my TV in that room.
It only took Time Warner 5 tries for it to work. They also had to visit the house each time and refused to trouble shoot the problem over the phone. It was rather aggravating and troubleshooting 101 seemed to be to swap out the card with another one and hope that fixed it.
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It's an energy distribution problem, and last I checked the tanks had not been equiped with Type III or Type IV phasers, and still use projectiles. So it'd be safe to assume they'd be able to fire. however I'm sure the puff of smoke from the proectile launch would give their position away.
However if you let two die, they can and do take more.
How do you know they aren't one and the same? There have been photos and videos of where Hezbolla fighters are wearing civillian clothing firing from civillian buildings.
There are reports that the 'poor civilians' are being held in the buildings against their will with the express intent of them dying in retalliation and then exploiting it to dupe people just like you to believe that Israel doesn't know how to figure out where a rocket came from. Hell I played Scorched Earth 20 years ago and I can figure out where a rocket or shell came from. Counterbattery launch systems can figure it out while the projectile is still in the air, and over 100 different ones.
This is a complete and culturally different portion of the world. How you are viewed by the other guy is the most important thing ever. If you're viewed as week, they just want to kick you ass more. If you rain holy hell down on them in response to a single kidnapping they'll think twice next time.
Plus, Hezbollah was supposed to have been completely disarmed by the wonderful UN in 2000 as a condition of Israel withdrawing from Lebanon. We see how well that worked.
I'm not a warmonger. I lay awake until the wee hours of the morning thinking of all the people that are dying over one of the dumbest things on earth - organized religion. I wonder how I could protect my family from something that could kill me from over 100 miles away, or 1000 miles, or 10,000 miles. I wonder at what point does a parent have to decide to either die with or abandon a small child because they are screaming and attracting the bad guy, or can't swim when your boat is overturned, or can't get free from a seatbelt when your car is damaged. I can't imagine how I'd react in those situations yet there are people right this very second experiencing them and suffering from the consequences.
Why is that? If I'd gotten a leaflet rained down on me that said go north of this river and we'll leave you alone my ass would have been out the door in a heartbeat. Yet they're staying, some say against their will. Who is right? Hard to say because everyone reporting the news has an agenda. Either for or against. So the news is tainted. Though can we trust someone 'blogging' from there? Just as hard to say, you can stage anything. The amount of distrust of the reports from that region are so loaded that it's impossible for someone on the other side of the planet to know what really is going on.
The only way I watch fox news is if someone holds a gun to my head or it's made fun of on the Daily Show. For the record I'm only to Jun 27 of Daily shows so I've not seen their attempt at humor with the current crisis.
Me thinks you're either forgetting the rest of the situation or don't care to know.
This started with kidnapping and ransoming of Israeli soldiers.
Then, it continues with rockets raining down into Israeli territory.
Should they just say 'my bad' and let it continue? Do you think if they stop now the other guy is going to go 'cool, we can stop'
Do you think the solider that was working a checkpoint into his country that was kidnapped will live? He wasn't shooting at anyone, they attacked and kidnapped him.
The Rob Galbraith DPI website has a huge database of performance with various cards and various cameras. I use this as a benchmark for deciding when I need a new CF card vs. the Camera I have, and the family of camera I'd love to upgrade too one day.
exactly, if I fear kited the big guy in UBRS again I think I'd puke. Never did get my full armor set, only had the cowl and the gloves, and I bought those.
I was a heavy player of WoW for almost a year. From the initial release in 2004 until about early spring of this year. I just got tired of the grind after getting to 60 in June of 2005. My brother continues to play to this day but I just don't see the fun. I might check it out when Burning Lands or whatever it's called shows up but I've since discovered some decent games to play for fun like BF2 and others.
I'm sure there are a lot of others like me who didn't feel like raiding another dungeon yet again for that one piece of armor
That and there is an imbalance starting of men vs. women. If I recall the episode of 60 mins right I believe it was 56% to 44%, and growing.
The one child policy = chuck the baby girl down a well because ancient custom says boy must be first born.
So there are a lot of teens hard up to find the chicks.
least that's what my forced to sit on a plane for 8 hours with nothing more to do than watch 60 min addled brain remembers
Not to mention the winning Cowboyneal option being that dang pink pony one from April Fools 2006
I just got this game on Monday and my 2 year old son has learned several new cuss words. I forgot how frustrating it can get having to time that first jump after the second one. I was never very good at Mario games, my little brother was the genius with them. I'm currently straggling up to 2-1 now after a good few hours of getting to play the game.
The graphics are great and the 2-screen goodness with the 'stacking' of power ups for later use is a very nice touch. I'm very happy with my DS and have bought quite a few titles I'd never thought I'd get with it.
Nah, that'd be different because Iran and Pat Buchanan insist that is a work of fiction anyway.
(this is meant as a joke)
This is my personal preference speaking, I'd not want to stop anyone from doing anything because I believe that is what made the US a great place.
I don't play GTA in any form, I didn't like the idea. I voted with my $, but lots of people voted the other way, that is life. However, GTA doesn't say the goal of the game is to fly 757s in the the WTC. The game is to be a criminal. To me there is a subtle, but important, difference.
I was just commenting on what I thought was an interesting issue for us, I don't consider this a flame war. But down below it appears Godwin's law has already come into play.
After I hit the submit button I thought 'doh!' I had Battle of Britain on the brain and how interesting a game that was. I did not mean to draw the line in 1941 - 1943 but to say War Games are interesting, and don't seem to exploit the situation near as much as a 'Flight 98' or 'Massacre at Columbine' type of game.
I'd love to see a 'Duck Hunt' type game where you pop terrorists in the head when they pop up. We can call it Whac-A-Terrorist or whatever. Personally in games where I get the most uncomfortable is when you are a terrorist. Command and Conquer generals was one of thsoe. I refused to play the arab line because it was too close to 2001 for me and it goobed me out cranking out suicide bombers. BF2 has gotten better but playing the MEC side still bothers me some times.
Would I want games like this to stop being made? no, I guess not. But at the same time things like Columbine and 9/11/01 and the like are too big of a hot button and too close to the heart of too many vocal people to make a game out of. I mean the recent BF2 flap about the 'Terrorist Recruiting Video'fan made video shows how sensative an issue it is these days.
Other than WW 2 simulations I really don't like the idea of making a game based off of a real tragedy. That'd be like creating a '911 simulator' where you try and fly 757s into the world trade center. It's just stupid, and it riles up the anti-gaming crowd rather quickly
the original NES had one name in Japan and another here. Maybe they'll do that again.
Personally I don't care what it's called. Since the first console came out and took over my family when I was in 9th grade we've always referred to it as playing 'Nintendo' and nothing else. It wasn't my sister screaming 'Mooooooommm, Matt is playing Super Nintendo for hours I want to watch my little pony' or something like that, no matter what console my brother and I had it was always 'Nintendo' in our house, including the Sega Master System, and Sega genesis.
Then I moved out and could tell anyone to screw themselves and go home that didn't like me playing games. But my brother Matt had to endure 10 more years of being kicked off the TV before he got out of school and moved out.
I'd hate to see what shape the rest of your stuff is in.
The above accidents I referenced were over a 8 year period.
The 'rest of my stuff' looks brand new, as does my current thinkpad. My point being, accidents happen, and they're pretty robust by comparison to others I've had (Toshiba, HP). Also 99% of the laptops out there have 98% of the identical internal bits and pieces in them, I'll take reliability & durability over 2% performance difference.
Who cares if it's a little slower. I much prefer the fact that a 280lb geek could step on one closed 600E on the floor at 2AM and not break the screen, or a hatchback is opened and your bag was open and your T21 bounces out onto the pavement and you open it up and it works fine, or a X40 gets a full bottle of Jones Berry Cola poured into it and other than a black cherry-licious smell it keeps working (ok so I replaced the keyboard a few weeks later)
Now a 32 oz glass of tea into a T21 didn't fair nearly as well, but that's a lot of liquid. I was impressed I yanked the power cord in like 0.2 seconds but it kept running on that little thing called a battery.
Hard drive was fine though.
Slight Disclaimer: I work for em, and no matter what happens to them they get repaired, but so far I've not managed to do much to them that requires it, and I'm not gentle with my systems. I shudder to think if I treated the Dell, HPs or Toshibas (little while since I've used on of the Toshibas though). I see bits-o-plastic everywhere.
Well Narf and Blanka have been pretty quiet about who they are and what they do, maybe they're two apple employees and this was their bonus plan all along.... ;)
Then they don't use hard drives, processors, and memory chips. There are pieces they use to make their bigger pieces, and they're made overseas.
Dell, HP, IBM, Apple, and many, many others are most of the time built right next to each other in China. I'd be willing to bet there isn't a single computer where every piece in it is made in the USA, or a US Friendly country (friendly by my definition = NATO)
You'd think people would start to use the reply to all w/o attachments button once in a while but I swear it seems when the biggest file is sent half the people it was sent to reply to all with the attachment still there...
I have notes running an auto-archive of anything >30 days and the myattachment tool running every 7 days ripping anything out 7 days or older.
At least we use powerpoint now. With freelance you could make a 7 page presentation and it'd be 40MB in size with no graphics.
Because the other two administrations followed the law, and the current one feels it knows better than the law.
I switched in 2002. the iLife (as they were later called) got me interested and buying my first Apple product in my lifetime.
A powerbook, and an iPod followed about four months later when my wife got tired of me using 'her computer' as I told all my geek friends.
Kinda like getting caught riding a moped at first, but now it's not that big of a deal. I remember the first time I got Tomcat running on it, that shut up the guys that were mad at me for dumping Linux as a desktop client (2002 again mind you, i'm sure things have changed)
I still have my Compute! Magazines. I quit subscribing to it when they quit putting BASIC programs in it.
I never got the floppy drive. There are many casette tapes destroyed against the basement wall after hours of typing in a program, saving it to tape, only to find the casette didn't take and I get some kind of I/O error.
The only thing I hated about the Atari is after I got into Jr. High and learned how to type the fact that most of the punctuation was off in la-la land compared to the standard QWERTY keyboard drove me nuts, and to my best friend's Apple IIe.
By High School my Dad had a Compaq Plus Portable (all 34 pounds of it) and I still remember to this day laughing at him and saying he goofed when he turned it on without a floppy disk in it. I was so ingraineda bout the floppy I'd never heard of a hard disk until that moment. EVen more amusing was the fact that I refused to use the hard drive and booted from a floppy for months before I realized what I had with the massive 10MB of data storage.
The problem is that in my view of the world an R and a X rating and the M vs. 'Adults Only' doesn't mean jack shit. Both aren't appropriate 17 in most cases.
The guys that did South Park proved without a doubt that in order to get an X rating you just need to show some natural, normal, god given human skin. But if you murder half a country in gory & grusome ways it's ok and it's only an R rating (Orgazmo vs. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut)
The top (or bottom depending on your view) of the ratings are flawed. For some dumb reason natural things such as sex, boobs, dicks, and the like are 'evil' yet you can run down the street chopping off heads with a chain saw and that's ok.
That's what amazes me about the uproar over GTA in general. You're beating the shit out of people, stealing cars, and what not. No problem, but you do a pixelated sex scene that really is about as lame as they come considering the tech out there and the whole world is 'rabble rabble' about it.
i'm a 'less is more' kind of guy, so when buying a small (27") LCD with integrated DVD for my bedroom I wanted no cables other than the power & data cable running to it. Cablecard provided that because I didn't want DVR function in my TV in that room.
It only took Time Warner 5 tries for it to work. They also had to visit the house each time and refused to trouble shoot the problem over the phone. It was rather aggravating and troubleshooting 101 seemed to be to swap out the card with another one and hope that fixed it.
All I wanted was the HDTV channels