If you've played Starfox 64, most of the levels are "on rails", as opposed to the free-flying boss fights. When referring to shooters, "rails" indicates a path that players are obliged to follow from the level's beginning to its end.
don't forget that terrorist action also requires a moral justification, and in this case, that moral justification comes from a literal reading of the Koran
Are you so certain that their justification is not the above-mentioned "what the US/UK axis has done to destroy LIBERTY throughout the world for more than 75 years"? My intent in writing was to convey that if we had treated a Christian country as we had treated the middle east, we would currently be beseiged by Christian fundamentalists. That is, the Koran is not their justification; how they've been treated is their justification.
1. I don't see why sending the file names one by one would be useful. 2. Perhaps we could simply ask the user to remember the program's name, as implemented in the command line. That would certainly be less kludgy.
If they weren't fundamentalist Muslims, they'd be fundamentalist Christians, or fundamentalist something else- does it really make a difference if radicals kill in the name of Yahweh or Allah?
Oppression and ignorance breed fundamentalist creeds, and the grandparent rightly labels the U.S. as the root of the oppression.
Can your GUI easily distinguish all files ending in.mp3 and then send them, in sequence(not in parallel), to a music player to play them?
I believe the method is: 1) Sort by file type (if you're not viewing details by default in Explorer, you're doing it wrong). 2) Select the mp3's, right click and choose "Enqueue in Foobar2000/Winamp/etc."
Of course, this assumes that your mp3 player has shell integration, but aren't you also assuming the same thing for your CLI?;)
I guess I just don't like the idea of someone being 'better' than me. If someone trains, or works harder than me, that doesn't make them better, just a harder worker, which I don't mind.
Unless, of course, you place value upon a strong work ethic, in which case they're still 'better' than you.:)
Could be worse... could be FOX news. At least the comedians do some investigating, rather than read whatever the White House press secretary hands them as enthusiastically as possible.
Perhaps they could make a capture the flag variant where players could create these "portals" near the enemy flag...
Maybe they could add "classes", such that the Engineer constructs portals (maybe even, say, sentry guns), Medics could heal their teammates, etc, so as to encourage teamplay. Of course, level design and balance would be made easier if all the levels were symmetrical, with each team having their own fortress.
What would really seal the deal though, is if they gave this "team fortress" mod away for FREE with every copy of Half-Life. I challenge Valve to continue pushing the envelope in gameplay innovation.
if you had enough equipment (sampling, drum machine, mixing) and write some rhymes...anyone can do it.
That's the idea. Lower the barrier to entry. You get a lot more crap, but you also get more gems. The reason I love hip-hop is that the only requirement for excelling (not the same as getting rich) at it is to have something meaningful to say...
Which, if you think about it, is what separates the people who sing, play instruments, and have a grasp of music theory from those whose producers do. Compare, say, Johnny Cash to Alan Jackson; or The Temptations to Milli Vanilli.
Since this is rapidly becoming a "post your hip-hop recommendation" thread... everyone download some Micranots. While they are no longer performing as a group, MC I Self Divine and DJ Kool Akiem define, for me, everything that is legitimate about hip hop. They will cling to the top slot in my playlist until my last breath wheezes from my lungs.
Given that the current administration had advance warning that Bin Laden was planning an attack and chose to ignore it, I fail to see what use additional surveillance and secrecy would be, or how it would've prevented the September 11 attacks.
(95*9)+145 = 1000. Divide by 10 to get the average and you end up with
a) 100 for the average IQ. b) 90% of the test-takers being below mean IQ.
Now, this example does not refute the grandparent's point that most people are idiots, as it only requires a change from "Half of all people are below average intelligence." to "At least half of all people...", however, the sample could be skewed as follows:
Nine scores of 110 and one score of ten, for an average of 100, with 90% of people having above average intelligence. This is called a nonrepresentative sample, and such anomalies disappear once the testing audience is large enough. So... just keep increasing the number of your lab rats until you get a bell curve and everything should work out okay.
P.S. "Intelligence Tests" do not measure intelligence. Never have, never could, never will. On the other hand, they are fine measures of test-taking ability, and might be useful in bureacracies to gauge someone's ability to fill out paperwork.;)
Don't know if this is a troll or not, but commercial hemp has no THC and has been that way since at least 1999. The politicians kill attempts to introduce it with fearmongering over the possibility of people growing marijuana in the fields alongside the commercial hemp, as the two plants appear identical.
I think the real solution is to throw the current, holier-than-thou administration out on its ass and follow Mexico's lead regarding controlled substances.
iTunes takes up to 15 seconds before it updates the list. contrast to winamp that does it in 5.
Contrast to foobar2000, which seems to have no seek time at all on a playlist of 4000 items. It also has easy tag editing, and judging from other posts here, it scales up as well.
I think it's actually the definition of anarchy, which means you're arguing in circles.
The internet, despite being funded by the government, is a creature born relatively free of arbitrary strictures, conceived, in fact, with the intention of circumventing them.
The policeman should wait until the man with the gun actually says, "give me the money", and takes hostages before trying to arrest him?
Actually, yes, he should. By the same token, if you attempt to shoplift something and accidentally drop it before you leave the store, you are not guilty of shoplifting.
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If you've played Starfox 64, most of the levels are "on rails", as opposed to the free-flying boss fights.
When referring to shooters, "rails" indicates a path that players are obliged to follow from the level's beginning to its end.
Translation: "I have never heard of Ringworld or Larry Niven."
Actually, I was disagreeing with this:
don't forget that terrorist action also requires a moral justification, and in this case, that moral justification comes from a literal reading of the Koran
Are you so certain that their justification is not the above-mentioned "what the US/UK axis has done to destroy LIBERTY throughout the world for more than 75 years"? My intent in writing was to convey that if we had treated a Christian country as we had treated the middle east, we would currently be beseiged by Christian fundamentalists. That is, the Koran is not their justification; how they've been treated is their justification.
1. I don't see why sending the file names one by one would be useful.
2. Perhaps we could simply ask the user to remember the program's name, as implemented in the command line. That would certainly be less kludgy.
If they weren't fundamentalist Muslims, they'd be fundamentalist Christians, or fundamentalist something else- does it really make a difference if radicals kill in the name of Yahweh or Allah?
Oppression and ignorance breed fundamentalist creeds, and the grandparent rightly labels the U.S. as the root of the oppression.
Can your GUI easily distinguish all files ending in .mp3 and then send them, in sequence(not in parallel), to a music player to play them?
;)
I believe the method is:
1) Sort by file type (if you're not viewing details by default in Explorer, you're doing it wrong).
2) Select the mp3's, right click and choose "Enqueue in Foobar2000/Winamp/etc."
Of course, this assumes that your mp3 player has shell integration, but aren't you also assuming the same thing for your CLI?
I guess I just don't like the idea of someone being 'better' than me. If someone trains, or works harder than me, that doesn't make them better, just a harder worker, which I don't mind.
:)
Unless, of course, you place value upon a strong work ethic, in which case they're still 'better' than you.
Could be worse... could be FOX news. At least the comedians do some investigating, rather than read whatever the White House press secretary hands them as enthusiastically as possible.
My sarcasm apparently went unnoticed. Team Fortress allows Engineers to construct portals already.
Perhaps they could make a capture the flag variant where players could create these "portals"
near the enemy flag...
Maybe they could add "classes", such that the Engineer constructs portals (maybe even, say, sentry guns), Medics could heal
their teammates, etc, so as to encourage teamplay. Of course, level design and balance would be made easier if all the levels
were symmetrical, with each team having their own fortress.
What would really seal the deal though, is if they gave this "team fortress" mod away for FREE with every copy of Half-Life.
I challenge Valve to continue pushing the envelope in gameplay innovation.
if you had enough equipment (sampling, drum machine, mixing) and write some rhymes...anyone can do it.
That's the idea. Lower the barrier to entry.
You get a lot more crap, but you also get more gems.
The reason I love hip-hop is that the only requirement
for excelling (not the same as getting rich) at it
is to have something meaningful to say...
Which, if you think about it, is what separates the people who sing,
play instruments, and have a grasp of music theory from those whose
producers do. Compare, say, Johnny Cash to Alan Jackson; or The Temptations
to Milli Vanilli.
Since this is rapidly becoming a "post your hip-hop recommendation" thread...
everyone download some Micranots. While they are no longer performing
as a group, MC I Self Divine and DJ Kool Akiem define, for me, everything
that is legitimate about hip hop. They will cling to the top slot in my playlist
until my last breath wheezes from my lungs.
That said, I'll pass the mic...
Not just for homos anymore.
Yes, the hand is the power behind the throne. Shocking, I know...
Given that the current administration had advance warning that Bin Laden was planning an attack and chose to ignore it, I fail to see what use additional surveillance and secrecy would be, or how it would've prevented the September 11 attacks.
(95*9)+145 = 1000. Divide by 10 to get the average and you end up with
;)
a) 100 for the average IQ.
b) 90% of the test-takers being below mean IQ.
Now, this example does not refute the grandparent's point that most people are idiots,
as it only requires a change from "Half of all people are below average intelligence."
to "At least half of all people...", however, the sample could be skewed as follows:
Nine scores of 110 and one score of ten, for an average of 100, with 90% of people having
above average intelligence. This is called a nonrepresentative sample, and such anomalies
disappear once the testing audience is large enough. So... just keep increasing the number of your
lab rats until you get a bell curve and everything should work out okay.
P.S. "Intelligence Tests" do not measure intelligence. Never have, never could, never will. On the other hand, they are fine measures of test-taking ability, and might be useful in bureacracies to gauge someone's ability to fill out paperwork.
Don't you think it might be wiser to train the dogs to sniff for the bag's contents, good troll?
That's why the MPAA actually ran the tests at UPS ;)
I sooo wanted to be the first one to come up with the holodeck comparison. I made a /. account practically just for this.
Being as this story is "from the holodeck-wannabe dept.", I'd say your efforts were doomed before they began.
Don't know if this is a troll or not, but commercial hemp has no THC and has been that way since at least 1999. The politicians kill attempts to introduce it with fearmongering over the possibility of people growing marijuana in the fields alongside the commercial hemp, as the two plants appear identical.
I think the real solution is to throw the current, holier-than-thou administration out on its ass and follow Mexico's lead regarding controlled substances.
iTunes takes up to 15 seconds before it updates the list. contrast to winamp that does it in 5.
Contrast to foobar2000, which seems to have no seek time at all on a playlist of 4000 items. It also has easy tag editing, and judging from other posts here, it scales up as well.
I think it's actually the definition of anarchy, which means you're arguing in circles.
The internet, despite being funded by the government, is a creature born relatively free of arbitrary strictures, conceived, in fact, with the intention of circumventing them.
If you cannot master your rage, then rage will be your master.
Hear, hear! Won't someone think of the children? To hell with the old people...
Seriously, what the hell do kids have to do with constitutional rights, other than not having any until they're eighteen years old?
The policeman should wait until the man with the gun actually says, "give me the money", and takes hostages before trying to arrest him?
Actually, yes, he should. By the same token, if you attempt to shoplift something and accidentally drop it before you leave the store, you are not guilty of shoplifting.
Sure it is. Sculpting's harder than drawing in the real world, too.