Driving home after two beers or smoking the wrong plant is a more serious crime than planning on sticking a microchip under someone's skin for the explicit purpose of tracking them.
Nope. You put cursor on "memory". You let every party member die except 1. After the you have one party member left, you use the materia allowing you to multisummon. The first summon puts the boss to sleep (hades? It's been a while) but does little damage. 2nd summon does damage of your choice (bahamut? Doesn't matter really. You could actually beat it with just hades, but it does so little damage...)
Mime. With sufficient haste, you can then simply mime again for the rest of the fight. Ruby never wakes up. You put the coffee cup on once you've got it down to simply miming and the cursor having memory completes the fight.
I did this to show that you don't need to gold chocobo because you get a gold chocobo as a reward for beating ruby.
It'd be interesting to make a bot like this that plays MMOs or something equally repetitive -- is that against terms of service? How would they know?
I remember making a "robot" to beat Ruby Weapon in FF7, which consisted of a coffee cup pressing the X button -- the fight took 2 hours thanks to summon animations.
He's continuing it. not ending [the Iraq war], as promised. He never promised to end it immediately. He promised to do so within a given amount of time, and by most measures, he's doing that.
[H]e hasn't exactly reversed the trend. enemy combatants can still be held indefinitely. he left plenty of loopholes for torture. didn't reverse the patriot act. Ect.[sic] He's attempted to close Gitmo, have a trial for Khalid Sheik Mohammed in NYC, but you know what? It makes for good fear-mongering for Fox News. So congress doesn't have the political will to do it. Don't blame the president when it takes congress to write and pass a bill.
we'll see what happens with [nominating a random woman to SCOTUS] Sotomayor is a pretty qualified judge.
Thus, as tyrannical, as it might like to be, it cannot. A company can be as nepotistic as it wants to be internally; there's no law against that. It doesn't matter how many years you've put in. Hence, tyranny. If some kid wants an office just because of who is daddy was, governments have the potential to deny him thus. But, notice the word potential. Ergo Bush.
Employees are now working at least 12 hours per day, six days a week, yet the letter claims they are being increasingly disregarded and dehumanized by management. Working conditions at RockStar
Terry Gilliam is one of the most fantastic individuals in the history of film.
If you're a geek, you know him as a founding member of Monty Python (Patsy in The Holy Grail or Cardinal "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition" Fang). If you're into film, he's done some fantastic dystopian sci-fi films (Brazil, 12 Monkeys). Talk about breadth of talent.
If anyone has what it takes to do Dick well, it's Gilliam (another random piece of trivia: Gilliam was originally chosen by the author to adapt/direct the Harry Potter books. The studios didn't like Rowling's idea and it never happened.)
I love this survey. I write software; it's what my degree is in, and it's what I do.
I can choose "Software developer", "Software engineer", or "Programmer/analyst". I like engineer. It sounds fancy; that's what the concentration was in school.
Salary went up in my region by 6.3% -- that's better than I've seen in 3 years. But what if I choose developer. That's what I call myself on my resume. My salary went down 1%.
That's why this survey is laughable. And they use average. Everyone else in the statistics community switched to median years ago. Where's your sample size per category? And seriously, 10 years experience as the first hurdle? No standard deviation either?
and I'm out the door by 4 pm to enjoy a beautiful summer spring day.
And we're home at the same time because I don't have to deal with traffic at 6:30 PM. That, and nothing starts until 8 PM or so as far as theaters/shows/etc anyway. You enjoy your afternoon sun. I'll be out at a bar doing live drawing nudes at 10 PM.
I used to work somewhere that exclusively supported 3D on Linux with nVidia cards (we didn't release on Windows).
The drivers and the hardware are simply better on Linux than the competition. If you're trying to develop serious 3D applications on Linux, it's still the way to go. As someone else pointed out, it's not like nVidia's drivers are open source on Windows.
There's a reason why the communist dictators all praise Obama.... Chavez is crazy and makes irrational choices? I can go the other way with this too. If even a totalitarian dictator thinks you're a repressive douche bag, who the hell are your supporters?
It makes as much sense as not listening to [band you like] because [band you hate] likes them.
If he's jobless and living with his family, the least the foundation could do is contact his family and ask if they'd like the money for rent, food, etc. They're essentially paying for his work and even if he doesn't want the prize, they could give it to his family quietly so he can continue to do his work without someone having to worry about rent.
I think you're probably wrong...mostly because you forgot multiplication and division. Here was my actual school curriculum through "High School" (in that, while I was in HS, I was taking courses through a local University math program.)
Your Soviet candy story is re-enacted in Europa, Europa.
While I have for the moral relativism that some people have in this thread ("both sides had hideous propaganda which needlessly vilified others"), there's a certain truths that need to be spoken. Like atheists in the US (while discriminated against) aren't sent to prison camps like their theistic brethren in the USSR.
No society is truly just. But that doesn't mean that we can't try (and get closer) to that ideal and be judged by our distance to it.
Right now beta keys for Starcraft 2 are selling for $200 on ebay. Part of me would rather pay Blizzard $15 than a scalper $200 to be in the beta. And what if you got $15 off the released game? I'm not sure it's a terrible deal.
(Yeah, I'm registered on my battlenet account. If you want to send me a key go ahead;))
If I buy a product made in another country my money goes to that country. Some of it may more may not come back to the US and back into my pocket...It is simple logic that you get rich exporting and poor importing.
Depends on what you mean by "rich". If by rich, you mean owning little pieces of paper with dollar signs on them, then yes. If you mean owning a lot more goods for less work earning them, then no.
Let's take pineapples. Most places in the US have to grow them in special hot-houses or whatnot to produce them, but other countries have better climate. We like to export iron, which say a Caribbean nation might not have very much of, and would cost a lot to get a little. So I go to the store and can buy pineapples from Barbados or some greenhouse in Texas: Barbados has cheaper pineapples, so I buy it from them. Both countries spend less money producing goods: who loses? Who wins? And if China doesn't want to spend our dollars on jets, what are they going to use it for? Toilet paper? Sure, they can trade those dollars to another country, but ultimately the only thing dollars are redeemable for is US goods/services and the US gov't -- and that's why there's currency markets: our goods rise/fall compared to other people's (exception, of course, being China. The second their currency becomes unpegged from ours, we'll start getting jobs as our services will become cheaper overseas. See Nobel Laureate Krugman's most recent piece.)
While I'm not a total free-marketeer (notice how I used a country with a decent human rights record in my example), if all countries with free markets, fair labor, and equal environmental standards do trade, we all come out ahead, and the farmer in Barbados is no less a human being than the iron smelter in Pennsylvania.
Treat your neighbor as you'd like to be treated is as moral as your definition of neighbor I suppose;)
Taiwan is not China (despite the latter's insistence)...which is where most Asus products are made. They have free elections and a free press.
I have zero problems buying products from any country with these two features. Rather than saying "buy made in the USA", we should simply be buying from Europe, Japan, South Korea, India, etc. instead of places with an anti-humanitarian regime that believes in censorship.
I always start with your strategy when I first play a game.
For Civ, try starting with only 2 civilizations on a very small and see how many turns it takes to beat them (be the romans and fast tech to iron if you have to!). I found that early game wars for territory often are helpful. Also, specializing helps. If one city builds all your military stuff (has very high production, low commerce, and a barracks), you're not tempted to build a university there. The other problem with Civ is that people will declare war on you just because your military is weak...so you need to build an army just for diplomacy.
MOO2 it's even easier. The best Civilization I made were a bunch of feudal telepaths who relied on spying to get all their tech (I can't research...but I can take yours...and boy are my ships cheap!) It's very interesting since you make the definitive stand early on to be "average" technologically, but make "0" investments in research.
All in all, having the best tech is great, but an army of spearmen will beat a few pikemen.
If the Supreme Court can rule that a man growing and consuming wheat entirely on his own property is covered by the Interstate Commerce Clause, then everything is. The FDA will have no problem asserting jurisdiction here.
He was feeding the wheat to the chickens he on the open market. It's not exactly "self-use" if you're using it to make another product you then sell. Any other ruling would have forced all chicken growers to grow their own food since they couldn't compete in the market otherwise.
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That's why I said 2 beers. You're more likely to kill someone while on a cell phone than after drinking 2 beers.
Yeah, for once the article understated the headline. A couple of the so-called "editors" could learn from this.
From TFA:
"It's not a threat, but it really is a likely outcome."
But hey, it's Fox news. I'll take some salt with my margarita.
Driving home after two beers or smoking the wrong plant is a more serious crime than planning on sticking a microchip under someone's skin for the explicit purpose of tracking them.
Weird priorities.
I misspoke. You actually use hades second. First summon does damage, then he's immediately put to sleep by hades.
Nope. You put cursor on "memory". You let every party member die except 1. After the you have one party member left, you use the materia allowing you to multisummon. The first summon puts the boss to sleep (hades? It's been a while) but does little damage. 2nd summon does damage of your choice (bahamut? Doesn't matter really. You could actually beat it with just hades, but it does so little damage...)
Mime. With sufficient haste, you can then simply mime again for the rest of the fight. Ruby never wakes up. You put the coffee cup on once you've got it down to simply miming and the cursor having memory completes the fight.
I did this to show that you don't need to gold chocobo because you get a gold chocobo as a reward for beating ruby.
It'd be interesting to make a bot like this that plays MMOs or something equally repetitive -- is that against terms of service? How would they know?
I remember making a "robot" to beat Ruby Weapon in FF7, which consisted of a coffee cup pressing the X button -- the fight took 2 hours thanks to summon animations.
He's continuing it. not ending [the Iraq war], as promised.
He never promised to end it immediately. He promised to do so within a given amount of time, and by most measures, he's doing that.
[H]e hasn't exactly reversed the trend. enemy combatants can still be held indefinitely. he left plenty of loopholes for torture. didn't reverse the patriot act. Ect.[sic]
He's attempted to close Gitmo, have a trial for Khalid Sheik Mohammed in NYC, but you know what? It makes for good fear-mongering for Fox News. So congress doesn't have the political will to do it. Don't blame the president when it takes congress to write and pass a bill.
we'll see what happens with [nominating a random woman to SCOTUS]
Sotomayor is a pretty qualified judge.
Thus, as tyrannical, as it might like to be, it cannot.
A company can be as nepotistic as it wants to be internally; there's no law against that. It doesn't matter how many years you've put in. Hence, tyranny. If some kid wants an office just because of who is daddy was, governments have the potential to deny him thus. But, notice the word potential. Ergo Bush.
Employees are now working at least 12 hours per day, six days a week, yet the letter claims they are being increasingly disregarded and dehumanized by management.
Working conditions at RockStar
Maybe we need unions again?
Yeah, it's totally cool to be cynical. And easy.
Do I think the people who started Google, Earth Viewer 3D (Gooogle Earth), or YouTube found it creatively fulfilling? Probably.
Actually doing it? Hard.
Terry Gilliam is one of the most fantastic individuals in the history of film.
If you're a geek, you know him as a founding member of Monty Python (Patsy in The Holy Grail or Cardinal "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition" Fang). If you're into film, he's done some fantastic dystopian sci-fi films (Brazil, 12 Monkeys). Talk about breadth of talent.
If anyone has what it takes to do Dick well, it's Gilliam (another random piece of trivia: Gilliam was originally chosen by the author to adapt/direct the Harry Potter books. The studios didn't like Rowling's idea and it never happened.)
I love this survey. I write software; it's what my degree is in, and it's what I do.
I can choose "Software developer", "Software engineer", or "Programmer/analyst". I like engineer. It sounds fancy; that's what the concentration was in school.
Salary went up in my region by 6.3% -- that's better than I've seen in 3 years. But what if I choose developer. That's what I call myself on my resume. My salary went down 1%.
That's why this survey is laughable. And they use average. Everyone else in the statistics community switched to median years ago. Where's your sample size per category? And seriously, 10 years experience as the first hurdle? No standard deviation either?
and I'm out the door by 4 pm to enjoy a beautiful summer spring day.
And we're home at the same time because I don't have to deal with traffic at 6:30 PM. That, and nothing starts until 8 PM or so as far as theaters/shows/etc anyway. You enjoy your afternoon sun. I'll be out at a bar doing live drawing nudes at 10 PM.
Novell wins...fatality!
Hopefully they'll finally die. But surely they'll be back in a George Romero movie.
I used to work somewhere that exclusively supported 3D on Linux with nVidia cards (we didn't release on Windows).
The drivers and the hardware are simply better on Linux than the competition. If you're trying to develop serious 3D applications on Linux, it's still the way to go. As someone else pointed out, it's not like nVidia's drivers are open source on Windows.
There's a reason why the communist dictators all praise Obama....
Chavez is crazy and makes irrational choices? I can go the other way with this too. If even a totalitarian dictator thinks you're a repressive douche bag, who the hell are your supporters?
It makes as much sense as not listening to [band you like] because [band you hate] likes them.
If he's jobless and living with his family, the least the foundation could do is contact his family and ask if they'd like the money for rent, food, etc. They're essentially paying for his work and even if he doesn't want the prize, they could give it to his family quietly so he can continue to do his work without someone having to worry about rent.
I think you're probably wrong...mostly because you forgot multiplication and division. Here was my actual school curriculum through "High School" (in that, while I was in HS, I was taking courses through a local University math program.)
1) Counting. Numbers.
2) Simple Addition/subtraction
3) Regrouping/ simple multiplication
4) Fractions/2 digit multiplication
5) Multidigit division with remainders
6) Pre-algebra
7) Algebra 1/2
8) Geometry / Trigonometry
9) Statistics / Pre-calc
10) Calculus A/B
11) Calculus C/Differential Equations
Your Soviet candy story is re-enacted in Europa, Europa.
While I have for the moral relativism that some people have in this thread ("both sides had hideous propaganda which needlessly vilified others"), there's a certain truths that need to be spoken. Like atheists in the US (while discriminated against) aren't sent to prison camps like their theistic brethren in the USSR.
No society is truly just. But that doesn't mean that we can't try (and get closer) to that ideal and be judged by our distance to it.
Right now beta keys for Starcraft 2 are selling for $200 on ebay. Part of me would rather pay Blizzard $15 than a scalper $200 to be in the beta. And what if you got $15 off the released game? I'm not sure it's a terrible deal.
(Yeah, I'm registered on my battlenet account. If you want to send me a key go ahead;))
If I buy a product made in another country my money goes to that country. Some of it may more may not come back to the US and back into my pocket...It is simple logic that you get rich exporting and poor importing.
Depends on what you mean by "rich". If by rich, you mean owning little pieces of paper with dollar signs on them, then yes. If you mean owning a lot more goods for less work earning them, then no.
Let's take pineapples. Most places in the US have to grow them in special hot-houses or whatnot to produce them, but other countries have better climate. We like to export iron, which say a Caribbean nation might not have very much of, and would cost a lot to get a little. So I go to the store and can buy pineapples from Barbados or some greenhouse in Texas: Barbados has cheaper pineapples, so I buy it from them. Both countries spend less money producing goods: who loses? Who wins? And if China doesn't want to spend our dollars on jets, what are they going to use it for? Toilet paper? Sure, they can trade those dollars to another country, but ultimately the only thing dollars are redeemable for is US goods/services and the US gov't -- and that's why there's currency markets: our goods rise/fall compared to other people's (exception, of course, being China. The second their currency becomes unpegged from ours, we'll start getting jobs as our services will become cheaper overseas. See Nobel Laureate Krugman's most recent piece.)
While I'm not a total free-marketeer (notice how I used a country with a decent human rights record in my example), if all countries with free markets, fair labor, and equal environmental standards do trade, we all come out ahead, and the farmer in Barbados is no less a human being than the iron smelter in Pennsylvania.
Treat your neighbor as you'd like to be treated is as moral as your definition of neighbor I suppose;)
Taiwan is not China (despite the latter's insistence)...which is where most Asus products are made. They have free elections and a free press.
I have zero problems buying products from any country with these two features. Rather than saying "buy made in the USA", we should simply be buying from Europe, Japan, South Korea, India, etc. instead of places with an anti-humanitarian regime that believes in censorship.
Idealism is more important than patriotism.
I always start with your strategy when I first play a game.
For Civ, try starting with only 2 civilizations on a very small and see how many turns it takes to beat them (be the romans and fast tech to iron if you have to!). I found that early game wars for territory often are helpful. Also, specializing helps. If one city builds all your military stuff (has very high production, low commerce, and a barracks), you're not tempted to build a university there. The other problem with Civ is that people will declare war on you just because your military is weak...so you need to build an army just for diplomacy.
MOO2 it's even easier. The best Civilization I made were a bunch of feudal telepaths who relied on spying to get all their tech (I can't research...but I can take yours...and boy are my ships cheap!) It's very interesting since you make the definitive stand early on to be "average" technologically, but make "0" investments in research.
All in all, having the best tech is great, but an army of spearmen will beat a few pikemen.
I'd agree. In the reverse direction, I really like unlike the Total War series, I don't have to move diplomats around to create treaties.
You do have to undergo a criminal background check to buy firearms. I'm guessing this guy should no longer pass it.
If the Supreme Court can rule that a man growing and consuming wheat entirely on his own property is covered by the Interstate Commerce Clause, then everything is. The FDA will have no problem asserting jurisdiction here.
He was feeding the wheat to the chickens he on the open market. It's not exactly "self-use" if you're using it to make another product you then sell. Any other ruling would have forced all chicken growers to grow their own food since they couldn't compete in the market otherwise.