These problems have been solved before. Wind farms are inevitable, and this pathetic squabbling over "problems" in order to have the authoritarian totalitarian federal government seize more power is disgusting.
After passage of the Patriot Act of 2001, Rep. Paul told Insight Magazine that the 2,200-page bill was not made available to Congress to read before the vote. So the most corrupt Congress in history rubber-stamped the most fascist legislation they had never read. Our constitution enumerates inalienable rights that are emphatically restated in the first 10 amendments known as "The Bill of Rights." Under the Patriot Act, the "right" to free speech, peaceable assembly and security in one's person, papers and effects have been relegated to "privileges" that government can take away at whim. Patriot Act authority has suspended the right to due process and a prompt and public trial; it even cancels protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Agents serving the fascist state can freely wire-tap our phones, enter our homes/offices, search and seize without warrant and detain us indefinitely without charges-ostensibly to keep America safe.
Orwell: The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they need not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.
War, it will be seen, accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way. In principle it would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples and pyramids, by digging holes and filling them up again, or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to them. But this would provide only the economic and not the emotional basis for a hierarchical society. What is concerned here is not the morale of masses, whose attitude is unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but the morale of the Party itself. Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. The splitting of the intelligence which the Party requires of its members, and which is more easily achieved in an atmosphere of war, is now almost universal, but the higher up the ranks one goes, the more marked it becomes. It is precisely in the Inner Party that war hysteria and hatred of the enemy are strongest. In his capacity as an administrator, it is often necessary for a member of the Inner Party to know that this or that item of war news is untruthful, and he may often be aware that the entire war is spurious and is either not happening or is being waged for purposes quite other than the declared ones: but such knowledge is easily neutralized by the technique of doublethink. Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world. All members of the Inner Party believe in this coming conquest as an article of faith. It is to be achieved either by gradually acquiring more and more territory and so building up an overwhelming preponderance of power, or by the discovery of some new and unanswerable weapon. The search for new weapons continues unceasingly, and is one of the very few remaining activities in which the inventive or speculative type of mind can find any outlet. In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for " Science ". The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc [Ingsoc is ol
Too bad they didn't mention giving a patch to Office 2003, since 2007 is utterly unusable, distracting and the Ribbon interface needs a seriously large monitor not to completely destroy screen real estate.
I wish MSFT would give a "Ribbon off/Classic Mode" switch. Its horrible. Its so bad there is software to douche out Ribbon: http://www.addintools.com/english/menuoffice/ We really, really shouldn't need crap like this, MSFT.
We'll see who's who in politics. If DK's fellow congressman put him out to pasture, we know the Bilderbergers and the Military Industrial Complex have Congress in the bag.
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they need not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.
War, it will be seen, accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way. In principle it would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples and pyramids, by digging holes and filling them up again, or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to them. But this would provide only the economic and not the emotional basis for a hierarchical society. What is concerned here is not the morale of masses, whose attitude is unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but the morale of the Party itself. Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. The splitting of the intelligence which the Party requires of its members, and which is more easily achieved in an atmosphere of war, is now almost universal, but the higher up the ranks one goes, the more marked it becomes. It is precisely in the Inner Party that war hysteria and hatred of the enemy are strongest. In his capacity as an administrator, it is often necessary for a member of the Inner Party to know that this or that item of war news is untruthful, and he may often be aware that the entire war is spurious and is either not happening or is being waged for purposes quite other than the declared ones: but such knowledge is easily neutralized by the technique of doublethink. Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world. All members of the Inner Party believe in this coming conquest as an article of faith. It is to be achieved either by gradually acquiring more and more territory and so building up an overwhelming preponderance of power, or by the discovery of some new and unanswerable weapon. The search for new weapons continues unceasingly, and is one of the very few remaining activities in which the inventive or speculative type of mind can find any outlet. In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for " Science ". The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc [Ingsoc is oligarchical collectivism - Ingsoc rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it does so in the name of Socialism]. And even technological progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty. In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards. The fields are cultivated with horse-ploughs while books are written by machinery. But in matters of vital importance - meaning, in effect, war and police espionage - the empirical approach is still encouraged, or at least tolerated. - George Orwell, 1984
The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional po
Re:Just a tad over the top? No ECC = NO buy
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I really like ECC memory. I've built a lot of machines here and there for various purposes and people and can safely say that ECC should be mandated. People oft talk of blue screens, panics, etc. A lot of these are due to bad memory. And these types of errors can often be hard to replicate. I believe EETimes had an article about how bad bad memory is.
Anyhow, I'm on a 975X chipset with 4GB of DDR2 800 MHZ unbuffered ECC memory machine now. Not a single unforced error since I bought this machine and assembled it December, 2006. Nothing. This unit is primarily a gaming rig, the 3DMark 2006 score is 11500 with an 8800GTX, all with ECC memory.
The most irritating thing for me is, looking at the great new CPUs available, is the utter lack of any unbuffered ECC memory in the DDR3 range. This to me is unacceptable. I refuse to compromise so I will wait. Intel has a motherboard featuring DDR2 800 fully buffered memory for the 'high end workstation' , D5400XS, this is $600+. Supermicro offers something similar.
The X38 does DDR2 ECC, and for whatever reason the X48 took that away. I don't get why Intel wants to deny us DDR3 unbuffered ECC? Its really a selling point, a very good thing. If you overclock, its nice to have because it can tell you the limits minus the guesswork, not that I would bother with OC personally.
Fundamentally, without ECC, do you even know if the memory works at all? My experience leads me to believe that without ECC present, the answer is no at all.
Note they pulled SAS / SATA cable out. My guess is that if you leave the smashed disk in there with the SAS cable in, the OS will go nuts.
I've been using ZFS in Solaris 10u5 (and u4) and Im on Solaris 11/Indiana/opensolaris.com right now.
I think sun has ways to go, indiana feels like something between linux and solaris. I dont mind solaris 10u5 , but I cant see myself running this. The interesting thing now is how different indiana is from SXDE 1/08.
Anyways, ZFS is good - steps in the right direction, but as far as I can tell you still cant make a RAID10 (1+0) device in there, and you could with disksuite.
The only one with a history in the race is Ron Paul. Everyone other person in the race flip flops or has no real policy. Ron Paul has a had the same message for 30 years. In fact in an interview he said he was surprised by the sudden popularity because he has been doing and saying the same thing for 30 years.
Freedom is popular. Peace is popular. We are sick of being ruled by the military industrial complex and its propaganda wing, the MSM. We are rejecting authoritarianism. We want our freedom and liberty back, and peace and prosperity and to be paid in a dollar that is worth something and not printed to bail out reckless banks and Wall St.
Have to disagree with regards to gameplay. Common ammunition in DXIW: suck. Weapons: suck. No skills system: stupid. Less biomods: dumb. Biomod efficacy: ranges from complete uselessness to moderately useful - sucked. Real choices actually effecting outcome, few and far between and more near the endgame. Weapon modes, a lot of mutual exclusion and mostly suck. Ammo consumption of the useful weapons: alarmingly high, even with mods. Hacking terminals defocused - dumb. Encumbrance / inventory system - complete trash, it was a horrible setback going from DX to DXIW in terms of game play with the total loss of a useful inventory system. Readable content related to the storyline (newspapers, computer hacks, etc): complete trash in DXIW. Depth of world (desire to look under every pillow to find everything: nearly zero in DXIW )
I have never seen a game fo from such highs in DX to such horrible lows in DXIW. Everything that made DX great was either excluded or nerfed in DX.
They seriously would do well to simply update the DX to UT2004 or better, and simply add content with the same characters, and forget what they are doing now. I have little faith.
Without Warren Specter, this thing is doomed. I really feel bad how they are destroying the Deus Ex name and how they cater to horrible console play.
Yes, you do. I thought, for me, that DX1 was the best game ever. From the skills, to the inventory system, to the great plot. The game was perfect, a lot of people I know thought the same, and it still is.
DX2/DXIW was the worst game I've ever played due to the huge letdown factor. That coupled with the fact its a mediocre game.
For posterity's sake, I argued with Chris Carollo , the Lead Programmer for Deus Ex. here:
He was not supported, and he whined and called for my criticism to be called a troll and called for moderators to attack me.
He was childish, unable to defend his console sellout and had the nerve to try and say it was popular while ignoring the dissatisfaction of the original Deus Ex fans.
I really wish I had a huge sum of money so I could buy this franchise and hire the original DX1 staff. It has a great plot, could easily spawn a decent line of movies and could continue to be engaging and great. If DX3 is set in the time right after the first one, and we can pretend the second one never existed, it could be a great sequel.
Agreed. Are they saying atoms and particles can "watch" other atoms and particles, but atoms and particles that make up monkeys that can think can't watch other atoms and particles or they become dark matter an energy?
Cosmology has come a long way due to the Hubble and many other very useful projects that have really changed cosmology hugely in the last 10 years, but for every trend that bucks a theory, you always get this poppycock trying to explain the unexplainable.
I always say, when arguing about crap like this, is that YOU are IN the box, so observations are while being IN the box are suspect.
Cosmology just needs more time and data. But it will never be right, it will just change to fit the observable universe better. The universe seems to like limits quite a bit, and your understanding of reality could possibly approach the limit of complete understanding, but it will never get there.
Russia under Putin has the potential to be worse now. The USSR had this overture of the rule of law. "The People" demanded justice, etc. After Stalin, they wanted a little less severe regime. Khrushchev resisted Castro's attempts to start a war with the US during the missile crisis (which was started in large part due to Jupiter missles in Turkey).
Now its mafia thugs and a brutal, smart leader working on their own agenda. Spy? Kill with thallium. Journalist? Kill. (Anna Politkovskaya). Oligarchs that don't play ball? Gulag in a remote region.
The thing with Putin is that for every bit of power (strategic and monetary) the US gives away though reckless monetary policy and hyper extension into world affairs, Russia and China are there picking up all the slack the US gives.
Its a bad time. It will get worse. Putin's Russia has the ability to be worse than Khrushchev / Brezhnev / Andropov / Chernenko / Gorbachev's USSR.
Putin Russia is using the playbook the US invented against the US. Buddy up with Iran, and make weapons sales to the US's enemies, watch the US spend inordinate amounts of money (while driving up the price of oil which makes they guys you sell weapons to richer), test out your gear against the enemy without engaging them, and let them deficit spend themselves into oblivion.
GWB's USA will lose its long-enjoyed hegemony faster than the USSR took to collapse itself if this suicidal monetary policy and interventionist foreign policy continues.
Your pay is in fake money, you standard of living **will** drop if things continue this way. Putin and Hu Jintao will vacuum every last drop of standard of living for themselves the more the US gives it away, and it wont ever be given back.
We CentOS users generally buy at least one copy of the fully supported RHEL and file bugs and work like crazy to get the CentOS product to be better by working with RedHat on their bugzilla and on their OS. If you "aren't very good with Linux/*nix" and you buy RHEL you are getting a **lot** of testing and bug squashing by not only RedHat but also all the CentOS folks. Without CentOS, people would be defecting from RedHat to things like SuSE and other distros in my estimation.
It is not about religion. It is about the rights that everyone is born with. Its up to the local / prevailing government to take them away from you, and when they do so, they are in violation of the natural order.
This isn't a debate, this is you learning about the right to self defense.
If you corner a snake and it bites you and deposits its deadly venom and kills you, it was justified in its self defense. The right to self defense is something animals do without sentient minds.
You are advocating that my government strip me of my enumerated and innate rights. Stick to getting rid of your totalitarian problems first before trying to strip me of my rights.
Did your government promise to let you outside today if you said that? Did they promise to give you 1 hour on an offshore proxy so you could see the real internet if you said that?
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The brain seems to make some really loud disjointed cacophonous not so great music - wait, thats NIN right?
Large capacitor anyone ?
These problems have been solved before. Wind farms are inevitable, and this pathetic squabbling over "problems" in order to have the authoritarian totalitarian federal government seize more power is disgusting.
Yes: (Ron Paul is America's last/only hope)
After passage of the Patriot Act of 2001, Rep. Paul told Insight Magazine that the 2,200-page bill was not made available to Congress to read before the vote. So the most corrupt Congress in history rubber-stamped the most fascist legislation they had never read. Our constitution enumerates inalienable rights that are emphatically restated in the first 10 amendments known as "The Bill of Rights." Under the Patriot Act, the "right" to free speech, peaceable assembly and security in one's person, papers and effects have been relegated to "privileges" that government can take away at whim. Patriot Act authority has suspended the right to due process and a prompt and public trial; it even cancels protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Agents serving the fascist state can freely wire-tap our phones, enter our homes/offices, search and seize without warrant and detain us indefinitely without charges-ostensibly to keep America safe.
Orwell:
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they need not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.
War, it will be seen, accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way. In principle it would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples and pyramids, by digging holes and filling them up again, or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to them. But this would provide only the economic and not the emotional basis for a hierarchical society. What is concerned here is not the morale of masses, whose attitude is unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but the morale of the Party itself. Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. The splitting of the intelligence which the Party requires of its members, and which is more easily achieved in an atmosphere of war, is now almost universal, but the higher up the ranks one goes, the more marked it becomes. It is precisely in the Inner Party that war hysteria and hatred of the enemy are strongest. In his capacity as an administrator, it is often necessary for a member of the Inner Party to know that this or that item of war news is untruthful, and he may often be aware that the entire war is spurious and is either not happening or is being waged for purposes quite other than the declared ones: but such knowledge is easily neutralized by the technique of doublethink. Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world. All members of the Inner Party believe in this coming conquest as an article of faith. It is to be achieved either by gradually acquiring more and more territory and so building up an overwhelming preponderance of power, or by the discovery of some new and unanswerable weapon. The search for new weapons continues unceasingly, and is one of the very few remaining activities in which the inventive or speculative type of mind can find any outlet. In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for " Science ". The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc [Ingsoc is ol
Too bad they didn't mention giving a patch to Office 2003, since 2007 is utterly unusable, distracting and the Ribbon interface needs a seriously large monitor not to completely destroy screen real estate.
I wish MSFT would give a "Ribbon off/Classic Mode" switch. Its horrible. Its so bad there is software to douche out Ribbon:
http://www.addintools.com/english/menuoffice/
We really, really shouldn't need crap like this, MSFT.
We'll see who's who in politics. If DK's fellow congressman put him out to pasture, we know the Bilderbergers and the Military Industrial Complex have Congress in the bag.
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they need not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.
War, it will be seen, accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way. In principle it would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples and pyramids, by digging holes and filling them up again, or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to them. But this would provide only the economic and not the emotional basis for a hierarchical society. What is concerned here is not the morale of masses, whose attitude is unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but the morale of the Party itself. Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. The splitting of the intelligence which the Party requires of its members, and which is more easily achieved in an atmosphere of war, is now almost universal, but the higher up the ranks one goes, the more marked it becomes. It is precisely in the Inner Party that war hysteria and hatred of the enemy are strongest. In his capacity as an administrator, it is often necessary for a member of the Inner Party to know that this or that item of war news is untruthful, and he may often be aware that the entire war is spurious and is either not happening or is being waged for purposes quite other than the declared ones: but such knowledge is easily neutralized by the technique of doublethink. Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world. All members of the Inner Party believe in this coming conquest as an article of faith. It is to be achieved either by gradually acquiring more and more territory and so building up an overwhelming preponderance of power, or by the discovery of some new and unanswerable weapon. The search for new weapons continues unceasingly, and is one of the very few remaining activities in which the inventive or speculative type of mind can find any outlet. In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for " Science ". The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc [Ingsoc is oligarchical collectivism - Ingsoc rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it does so in the name of Socialism]. And even technological progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty. In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards. The fields are cultivated with horse-ploughs while books are written by machinery. But in matters of vital importance - meaning, in effect, war and police espionage - the empirical approach is still encouraged, or at least tolerated. - George Orwell, 1984
The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional po
I really like ECC memory. I've built a lot of machines here and there for various purposes and people and can safely say that ECC should be mandated. People oft talk of blue screens, panics, etc. A lot of these are due to bad memory. And these types of errors can often be hard to replicate. I believe EETimes had an article about how bad bad memory is.
Anyhow, I'm on a 975X chipset with 4GB of DDR2 800 MHZ unbuffered ECC memory machine now. Not a single unforced error since I bought this machine and assembled it December, 2006. Nothing. This unit is primarily a gaming rig, the 3DMark 2006 score is 11500 with an 8800GTX, all with ECC memory.
The most irritating thing for me is, looking at the great new CPUs available, is the utter lack of any unbuffered ECC memory in the DDR3 range. This to me is unacceptable. I refuse to compromise so I will wait. Intel has a motherboard featuring DDR2 800 fully buffered memory for the 'high end workstation' , D5400XS, this is $600+. Supermicro offers something similar.
The X38 does DDR2 ECC, and for whatever reason the X48 took that away. I don't get why Intel wants to deny us DDR3 unbuffered ECC? Its really a selling point, a very good thing. If you overclock, its nice to have because it can tell you the limits minus the guesswork, not that I would bother with OC personally.
Fundamentally, without ECC, do you even know if the memory works at all? My experience leads me to believe that without ECC present, the answer is no at all.
Note they pulled SAS / SATA cable out. My guess is that if you leave the smashed disk in there with the SAS cable in, the OS will go nuts.
I've been using ZFS in Solaris 10u5 (and u4) and Im on Solaris 11/Indiana/opensolaris.com right now.
I think sun has ways to go, indiana feels like something between linux and solaris. I dont mind solaris 10u5 , but I cant see myself running this. The interesting thing now is how different indiana is from SXDE 1/08.
Anyways, ZFS is good - steps in the right direction, but as far as I can tell you still cant make a RAID10 (1+0) device in there, and you could with disksuite.
I wish they would bring back "The Winner" with Rob Corddry before doing this. That show was funny as hell and never got the ending it deserved.
Democracy is done.
http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNYA5ggwG84
This is Princeton University, not some wingnut moonbat conspiracy club.
you can expect that the Congress would have a Constitutional Amendment to rectify the problem passed with record speed.
Now that would be due process.
Its better than the Supreme Court just making random stuff up, they aren't elected, you know that.
And the 10th was supposed to delegate laws closer to home, so you know, some nut cant run your life from WashingTOON.
The only one with a history in the race is Ron Paul. Everyone other person in the race flip flops or has no real policy. Ron Paul has a had the same message for 30 years. In fact in an interview he said he was surprised by the sudden popularity because he has been doing and saying the same thing for 30 years.
Freedom is popular. Peace is popular. We are sick of being ruled by the military industrial complex and its propaganda wing, the MSM. We are rejecting authoritarianism. We want our freedom and liberty back, and peace and prosperity and to be paid in a dollar that is worth something and not printed to bail out reckless banks and Wall St.
Have to disagree with regards to gameplay. Common ammunition in DXIW: suck. Weapons: suck. No skills system: stupid. Less biomods: dumb. Biomod efficacy: ranges from complete uselessness to moderately useful - sucked. Real choices actually effecting outcome, few and far between and more near the endgame. Weapon modes, a lot of mutual exclusion and mostly suck. Ammo consumption of the useful weapons: alarmingly high, even with mods. Hacking terminals defocused - dumb. Encumbrance / inventory system - complete trash, it was a horrible setback going from DX to DXIW in terms of game play with the total loss of a useful inventory system. Readable content related to the storyline (newspapers, computer hacks, etc): complete trash in DXIW. Depth of world (desire to look under every pillow to find everything: nearly zero in DXIW )
I have never seen a game fo from such highs in DX to such horrible lows in DXIW. Everything that made DX great was either excluded or nerfed in DX.
They seriously would do well to simply update the DX to UT2004 or better, and simply add content with the same characters, and forget what they are doing now. I have little faith.
Without Warren Specter, this thing is doomed. I really feel bad how they are destroying the Deus Ex name and how they cater to horrible console play.
Yes, you do. I thought, for me, that DX1 was the best game ever. From the skills, to the inventory system, to the great plot. The game was perfect, a lot of people I know thought the same, and it still is.
DX2/DXIW was the worst game I've ever played due to the huge letdown factor. That coupled with the fact its a mediocre game.
For posterity's sake, I argued with Chris Carollo , the Lead Programmer for Deus Ex. here:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=102757&cid=8756222
He was not supported, and he whined and called for my criticism to be called a troll and called for moderators to attack me.
He was childish, unable to defend his console sellout and had the nerve to try and say it was popular while ignoring the dissatisfaction of the original Deus Ex fans.
I really wish I had a huge sum of money so I could buy this franchise and hire the original DX1 staff. It has a great plot, could easily spawn a decent line of movies and could continue to be engaging and great. If DX3 is set in the time right after the first one, and we can pretend the second one never existed, it could be a great sequel.
Agreed. Are they saying atoms and particles can "watch" other atoms and particles, but atoms and particles that make up monkeys that can think can't watch other atoms and particles or they become dark matter an energy?
Cosmology has come a long way due to the Hubble and many other very useful projects that have really changed cosmology hugely in the last 10 years, but for every trend that bucks a theory, you always get this poppycock trying to explain the unexplainable.
I always say, when arguing about crap like this, is that YOU are IN the box, so observations are while being IN the box are suspect.
Cosmology just needs more time and data. But it will never be right, it will just change to fit the observable universe better. The universe seems to like limits quite a bit, and your understanding of reality could possibly approach the limit of complete understanding, but it will never get there.
Russia under Putin has the potential to be worse now. The USSR had this overture of the rule of law. "The People" demanded justice, etc. After Stalin, they wanted a little less severe regime. Khrushchev resisted Castro's attempts to start a war with the US during the missile crisis (which was started in large part due to Jupiter missles in Turkey).
Now its mafia thugs and a brutal, smart leader working on their own agenda. Spy? Kill with thallium. Journalist? Kill. (Anna Politkovskaya). Oligarchs that don't play ball? Gulag in a remote region.
The thing with Putin is that for every bit of power (strategic and monetary) the US gives away though reckless monetary policy and hyper extension into world affairs, Russia and China are there picking up all the slack the US gives.
Its a bad time. It will get worse. Putin's Russia has the ability to be worse than Khrushchev / Brezhnev / Andropov / Chernenko / Gorbachev's USSR.
Putin Russia is using the playbook the US invented against the US. Buddy up with Iran, and make weapons sales to the US's enemies, watch the US spend inordinate amounts of money (while driving up the price of oil which makes they guys you sell weapons to richer), test out your gear against the enemy without engaging them, and let them deficit spend themselves into oblivion.
GWB's USA will lose its long-enjoyed hegemony faster than the USSR took to collapse itself if this suicidal monetary policy and interventionist foreign policy continues.
Your pay is in fake money, you standard of living **will** drop if things continue this way. Putin and Hu Jintao will vacuum every last drop of standard of living for themselves the more the US gives it away, and it wont ever be given back.
Best of luck in the coming years.
I agree with the "not hurting."
We CentOS users generally buy at least one copy of the fully supported RHEL and file bugs and work like crazy to get the CentOS product to be better by working with RedHat on their bugzilla and on their OS. If you "aren't very good with Linux/*nix" and you buy RHEL you are getting a **lot** of testing and bug squashing by not only RedHat but also all the CentOS folks. Without CentOS, people would be defecting from RedHat to things like SuSE and other distros in my estimation.
Yeah, I wish Slashdot would allow a Digg-like quick edit feature for comments. Its a bit of a pain.
For now.
You might want to try closing italics tags with </i>
It is not about religion. It is about the rights that everyone is born with. Its up to the local / prevailing government to take them away from you, and when they do so, they are in violation of the natural order.
This isn't a debate, this is you learning about the right to self defense.
If you corner a snake and it bites you and deposits its deadly venom and kills you, it was justified in its self defense. The right to self defense is something animals do without sentient minds.
If a drag queen respected people's rights, I don't care. How very Racist, sexist and bigoted you are.
You are advocating that my government strip me of my enumerated and innate rights. Stick to getting rid of your totalitarian problems first before trying to strip me of my rights.
Guess that explains Darfur, and all other mass genocides. An unarmed population is required before every genocide.
That makes you someone who wants to expand genocide the world over.
People have a right to defend themselves from oppression.
Did your government promise to let you outside today if you said that? Did they promise to give you 1 hour on an offshore proxy so you could see the real internet if you said that?
Again, read the Sig. Ron Paul.
I'm for Ron Paul and a non-interventionist foreign policy. Read the sig.
ass-hole.