They wouldn't need to be written if not for those software patents. Instead, those developers would have spent their time writing something new. Very good example of how patents have retarded growth.
Perhaps in third-world countries they just practice the ghetto technique of suicide-by-cop (or in their case suicide-by-Hutu or whatever) So they still do it, it just doesn't show up in the statistics that way.
all the defensive Americans marking as Troll anything that highlights the ridiculousness of calling this particular game "Football"
This is a website run in America by a bunch of friends from Wisconsin. It can be expected that it will use American spellings and American terms for things.
So any post placed here complaining about the American terms used by the Americans running the site will be controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant and/or off-topic, with the inevitable result of provoking other users into an emotional or disciplinary response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion. It turns out this is the exact definition of a Troll
What you put into a time capsule are physical objects. Think back to 17 years ago... What would be more fun to stumble across - an mp3 of I'm Too Sexy [youtube.com] , or a working minidisc [wikipedia.org] player?
I have a working minidisc player right here in my desk drawer. It's been a few years since I used it since I got the iRiver, but its still there with its A/C adapter.
First off, he created the SS before he took over the country and before he rebuilt the military (from next to nothing).
Secondly, they were to protect him not from the military, but from the SA. (If you think politics in a democracy is rough, you don't even want to look at a despotisim).
Thirdly, this "ineffective" fighting force nearly conquered all of Europe by itself. I'd hate to see them put together something you consider effective.
You really shouldn't get your history from Hogan's Heroes reruns.
What if the dragons were geneticly engineered from smaller flying creatures, and the swords are due to a collapse of advanced society formerly capable of things like energy weapons and interstellar travel?
That's essentially what happened in the Pern universe. You start out thinking you're reading a fantasy book, and several books later realise that all this time you were actually reading SF.
My rule of thumb: Any genera distinction that can change retroactively with a bit more information about the universe doesn't really exist.
Not true. CD's break (get scratched, dropped, lost, etc). I played Starcraft to completion the week it was released, then never played again. However, I've bought it twice more. Why? Because my son still plays it online. If it weren't for his continuing interest in online play, we wouldn't have needed to buy it again even once.
They weren't identical, but they were similar. Each piece had its analogs. (Still, I could kick anyone's ass, human or computer, with the unicorn).
Starcraft would be more like if one of the two sides in Archon had nearly all little sword guys, but 3 times as many of them.
The way to tell would probably be by examining the shape of its orbit. If it describes roughly the same elipse as other planets in the system, just a different size (and reversed) then the folks who say it was a native planet that got peturbed are probably right.
If instead it has a totally different shape of orbit (like Pluto in our system) then it is probably a captured object (like Pluto).
I'm not sure where the "too smart eat" line is, but I've quit eating in my own class at least. Birds concern me to some degree, but crustaceans don't. Anyway, if it has a neocortex, I won't eat it.
So you'll eat crawfish, but will you suck the heads?:-)
Well, that's nice, but it also prevents anyone from playing at work during lunch breaks. If you see a group of guys playing and want to join in, you'll go buy the game even if you hadn't heard of it before. They got a lot of business for Starcraft that way.
Actually, I grew up here in Oklahoma, and we generally call it a "bathroom" here too. Restroom is not unheard of, and I've even heard "washroom", but "bathroom" is most common. However, when children are involved in the conversation, it is "potty".
I suspect you just ran into a localized regionalisim.
How many more years until realtors no longer sell houses in certain areas to sex offenders? Or even more scary, how long until we only let them live in certain areas?
Already happened. Check out this story. Turns out Miami passed restrictions on where offenders can live that are so restrictive that the only place available to them is under a bridge. Seriously.
Actually, in most areas you can get on that list for "indecent exposure", which is what the cops charge you with if you get caught taking a wizz in an alley after a night of drinking. Perhaps that's not the best decision in the world, but when a guy's gotta go, he's gotta go. Is that really something that deserves being treated like a child molester for life?
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*sigh* So now IEEE is getting into the buggywhip business too?
All these futile attempts to put the digital genie back into some kind of analog bottle are starting to get rather tiresome.
They wouldn't need to be written if not for those software patents. Instead, those developers would have spent their time writing something new. Very good example of how patents have retarded growth.
Perhaps in third-world countries they just practice the ghetto technique of suicide-by-cop (or in their case suicide-by-Hutu or whatever) So they still do it, it just doesn't show up in the statistics that way.
all the defensive Americans marking as Troll anything that highlights the ridiculousness of calling this particular game "Football"
This is a website run in America by a bunch of friends from Wisconsin. It can be expected that it will use American spellings and American terms for things.
So any post placed here complaining about the American terms used by the Americans running the site will be controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant and/or off-topic, with the inevitable result of provoking other users into an emotional or disciplinary response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion. It turns out this is the exact definition of a Troll
So sue the mods for definition of character.
Perhaps instead of a hot Jupiter what they have found is a cold sun?
What you put into a time capsule are physical objects. Think back to 17 years ago... What would be more fun to stumble across - an mp3 of I'm Too Sexy [youtube.com] , or a working minidisc [wikipedia.org] player?
I have a working minidisc player right here in my desk drawer. It's been a few years since I used it since I got the iRiver, but its still there with its A/C adapter.
Speech synthesis is unnecessary to his function... are you unhappy that your perl compiler doesn't speak in plain english?
Perhaps he uses Ada.
Errr...hadn't that same Death Star just destroyed an entire inhabited planet? I think the death toll balance was comfortably on its side.
Err...this is total twaddle.
First off, he created the SS before he took over the country and before he rebuilt the military (from next to nothing).
Secondly, they were to protect him not from the military, but from the SA. (If you think politics in a democracy is rough, you don't even want to look at a despotisim).
Thirdly, this "ineffective" fighting force nearly conquered all of Europe by itself. I'd hate to see them put together something you consider effective.
You really shouldn't get your history from Hogan's Heroes reruns.
What if the dragons were geneticly engineered from smaller flying creatures, and the swords are due to a collapse of advanced society formerly capable of things like energy weapons and interstellar travel?
That's essentially what happened in the Pern universe. You start out thinking you're reading a fantasy book, and several books later realise that all this time you were actually reading SF.
My rule of thumb: Any genera distinction that can change retroactively with a bit more information about the universe doesn't really exist.
No, I quit playing months ago. Perhaps you want to talk to Bill.
Not true. CD's break (get scratched, dropped, lost, etc). I played Starcraft to completion the week it was released, then never played again. However, I've bought it twice more. Why? Because my son still plays it online. If it weren't for his continuing interest in online play, we wouldn't have needed to buy it again even once.
They weren't identical, but they were similar. Each piece had its analogs. (Still, I could kick anyone's ass, human or computer, with the unicorn). Starcraft would be more like if one of the two sides in Archon had nearly all little sword guys, but 3 times as many of them.
I don't understand the analogy at all. I'm pretty sure Tom Petty wrote a good song once. Give me a few minutes and it will come to me...
have been on average a baron wasteland of terrible purely "Hollywood" style
Oooh. Dibs on "Baron Wasteland" for my Champions Online name!
The way to tell would probably be by examining the shape of its orbit. If it describes roughly the same elipse as other planets in the system, just a different size (and reversed) then the folks who say it was a native planet that got peturbed are probably right.
If instead it has a totally different shape of orbit (like Pluto in our system) then it is probably a captured object (like Pluto).
I'm not sure where the "too smart eat" line is, but I've quit eating in my own class at least. Birds concern me to some degree, but crustaceans don't. Anyway, if it has a neocortex, I won't eat it.
So you'll eat crawfish, but will you suck the heads? :-)
Well, that's nice, but it also prevents anyone from playing at work during lunch breaks. If you see a group of guys playing and want to join in, you'll go buy the game even if you hadn't heard of it before. They got a lot of business for Starcraft that way.
Actually, I grew up here in Oklahoma, and we generally call it a "bathroom" here too. Restroom is not unheard of, and I've even heard "washroom", but "bathroom" is most common. However, when children are involved in the conversation, it is "potty".
I suspect you just ran into a localized regionalisim.
How many more years until realtors no longer sell houses in certain areas to sex offenders? Or even more scary, how long until we only let them live in certain areas?
Already happened. Check out this story. Turns out Miami passed restrictions on where offenders can live that are so restrictive that the only place available to them is under a bridge. Seriously.
Actually, in most areas you can get on that list for "indecent exposure", which is what the cops charge you with if you get caught taking a wizz in an alley after a night of drinking. Perhaps that's not the best decision in the world, but when a guy's gotta go, he's gotta go. Is that really something that deserves being treated like a child molester for life?
To think of all that effort the US went through during the Cold War to deny Russia any good year-round ice-free ports.
Now, thanks to our profligarate lifestyles, Russia is about to have hundreds of them. I hope they at least thank us...
OK, so now who is going to log onto WoW to help therapists with their MMO addiction?
Perhaps this is just a secret plan to rid us of all those annoying therapists.
Your northern neighbors up here in Oklahoma have a saying: If you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
If you live in Minnesota in winter, don't drive in short sleeves
Don't be silly, everybody in Minnesota knows that.
OK...everyone except Vikings fans.