So let's see. The telecoms and other utilities spent the vast bulk of the 20th century operating under a socialist notion that "this town heah ain't big enough fer the both of us", and sought "rent seeking" laws giving them a monopoly in that particular town.
Now that towns want to go one step further and do it completely themselves, suddenly they're all so darned interested in fairness and competition and not wanting the towns to give their own stuff preferential treatment in laws.
I don't know. It's nice to see them change their mind, but doing it for the wrong reason seems so...dirty.
> Most of them would be dead with 1960's and 70's technology.
Remember that the next time you think about voting for someone promising to bring you free, socialized, profit-less medical care, that, if you're lucky, will only slow medical tech development 10%.
> I disagree. Seeing a half a dozen of these things rolling down the street would give me > the willies. I just hope their components are covered with lots of armour.
Maybe if you fight back now, humanity doesn't have to get this close to being taken out before someone rises up and teaches you all to fight.
Precisely what rights do you believe you do not have, such that other people have the right to violate them against you, as the default position?
How did they get this right, and why do you grant it to begin with?
People...what? Have the right to take, at their whim, stuff you worked hard to make, because you have no right to property? To take your very life because you have no right to life?
Please list which rights aren't really rights because you think other people have the right (say what?) to violate you.
At some point in the future, we'll be reading a humerous story about how someone put a picture of a butt up there, and "George Bush*" gets recognized, or vice versa.
* Or politician-of-the-month at that point in history
> Well now we're ready to start having everybody test it out.
Using I.E. 6.0 SP 1 from XP...
Bug 1) Filter button is smack dab in the middle of the rainbow slider, with "Filter" under the rainbow, unreadable.
Bug 2) Listing of stories to mod does not appear, vertically, until after all my boxes on the right (e.g. Book Reviews, Games, Hollywood Bitchslap, etc.) People with a lot of boxes will have to scroll quite aways before they get there. This may or may not have something to do with text display size. In any case, it should be side-by-side to the right-hand box column.
> Microsoft has made a 'commitment to make its patents that are required to implement the > specification available without charge.'
Ok
> While JPEG 2000 exists, HD Photo has several advantages (not the least of which is a lot less CPU power is needed).
Has anybody checked that the more efficient algorithms are among those in the patents to be released? What if they're hiding a patentable, very efficient decompression version, which they'll "discover" and patent, after this becomes the standard?
Except there weren't any Terran units, or Protoss units for that matter, that had mastered the powers of both the High Templar -and- the Dark Templar. If you'd killed the Overmind with just 20 Goliaths, it would have just sprung back to life the moment you turned your head.
Well, from a game mechanics point of view, that never happened. It was almost dead like any other unit, if a gigantic bag of hitpoints. From a "role-playing" point of view, apparently, Overmind, you are unaware of the capabilities of these units, if you have so badly miscalculated. And if you think a little overmind sprout will last 2 seconds, think again. And if you think suddenly materializing back into existence, full-sized, is gonna end any differently, think again.
Indeed, given the uncounted trillions we've spent on this galactic war, and the billions of lives lost, devoting a few dozen Heavy Metal units to defending against you indefinitely is cheap in the extreme.
If terrorists can build Saturn Vs, then we're probably on the wrong side of History, as a Klingon commander rhapsodizing philosophically to Kirk might say.
People get born, think their ideas are, or should be, King of the World, can't you all see?
But on the other hand, if people lived forever, we'd probably all be under a brutal dictatorship of Alexander the Great, or someone from 30,000 years before him.
So either people die off, but make the same mistakes, or the most charismatic and brilliant military leaders who ever existed rule you with an iron fist. Your choice.
We know. Seriously, most people do not want live events!
They don't want some invasion messing up their cross-country journey to go "grind some orcs" with their buddies.
Personally, I'd prefer a special server that did just that. I want constant interruptions with unexpected stuff. I'd love to see the server pick up, say, 100 random online Alliance and drop 'em deep somewhere inside Horde territory, where they'd have to get out as a group. All unexpected.
I want a server full of people who do not get upset their transcontinental journey is messed up by a true live invasion (as opposed to City of Heroes static, temporary "invasions" and other crap like that.
I want to see a regular stream of Orcs on Freeport (old EQ) such that, without regular defense, the guards start getting killed by ganged-up orcs. Then the city, or at least that part, is lost. No waiting for tomorrow or a server reboot. Done. Gone. You've gotta go get it back, then keep it.
Put the persistence in the persistent worlds. Put the live in the live worlds.
I hate to burst your bubble, but it's worse than that. This "hardcore mode", where you stick your thing thru the peep show booth hole, well, the "girl" on the other side prolly isn't a girl; they just play one fraudulently.
Young Star Trek! GOD NO! Trek: The Academy Days, sheesh.
> the newly named young Spock, "Heroes" star Zachary Quinto [Sylar]
Oh, that wouldn't be too bad!
Wasn't Spock like 70 or something in TOS? How could he even be a 30-something professor during Kirk's Academy days, to say nothing of some kind of graduate student.
And didn't Spock help invent the teleporter? Or has that been retconned away now, too, thanks to the bastard of Enterprise?
Speaking of which, the regular cartridges were something like $39, as I remember, which, with the apparent approximately 2x multiplier for inflation, would turn into about $80. So even allowing for $60 + $10 to unlock stuff, you're barely breaking even, if not a little behind, the average for cartridges back then.
Eh, I've been buying games long enough to see the price jump about $10 every now and then. In about 8 years, the prices'll jump to $70, then $80, then $90, then finally'll cross $100, which should be in 4 x 8 = 32 years, in which case I'll be in my early '70's and hopefully retired in a little cubicle with an SDHTDV (super duper HDTV) and interactive feely videogame.
> "NASA said today it is investigating suspected sabotage of a recorder placed on the shuttle > Endeavour for delivery to the space station where it will track physical stresses on the orbiting lab."
The article continues:
"The worker, a man in his early 30s with long, platinum blond hair, is currently being held in a facility in Virginia. Sources report he was concerned about 'these kinds of men talking to your god for you', and had previously been a rising star in the President's 'Faith-Based Initiatives' program."
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Yes, but the original reason, to give the eye aid in determining breaks in sentences, still applies.
So let's see. The telecoms and other utilities spent the vast bulk of the 20th century operating under a socialist notion that "this town heah ain't big enough fer the both of us", and sought "rent seeking" laws giving them a monopoly in that particular town.
Now that towns want to go one step further and do it completely themselves, suddenly they're all so darned interested in fairness and competition and not wanting the towns to give their own stuff preferential treatment in laws.
I don't know. It's nice to see them change their mind, but doing it for the wrong reason seems so...dirty.
> Most of them would be dead with 1960's and 70's technology.
Remember that the next time you think about voting for someone promising to bring you free, socialized, profit-less medical care, that, if you're lucky, will only slow medical tech development 10%.
> I disagree. Seeing a half a dozen of these things rolling down the street would give me
> the willies. I just hope their components are covered with lots of armour.
Maybe if you fight back now, humanity doesn't have to get this close to being taken out before someone rises up and teaches you all to fight.
Precisely what rights do you believe you do not have, such that other people have the right to violate them against you, as the default position?
How did they get this right, and why do you grant it to begin with?
People...what? Have the right to take, at their whim, stuff you worked hard to make, because you have no right to property? To take your very life because you have no right to life?
Please list which rights aren't really rights because you think other people have the right (say what?) to violate you.
At some point in the future, we'll be reading a humerous story about how someone put a picture of a butt up there, and "George Bush*" gets recognized, or vice versa.
* Or politician-of-the-month at that point in history
> Well now we're ready to start having everybody test it out.
Using I.E. 6.0 SP 1 from XP...
Bug 1) Filter button is smack dab in the middle of the rainbow slider, with "Filter" under the rainbow, unreadable.
Bug 2) Listing of stories to mod does not appear, vertically, until after all my boxes on the right (e.g. Book Reviews, Games, Hollywood Bitchslap, etc.) People with a lot of boxes will have to scroll quite aways before they get there. This may or may not have something to do with text display size. In any case, it should be side-by-side to the right-hand box column.
> Microsoft has made a 'commitment to make its patents that are required to implement the
> specification available without charge.'
Ok
> While JPEG 2000 exists, HD Photo has several advantages (not the least of which is a lot less CPU power is needed).
Has anybody checked that the more efficient algorithms are among those in the patents to be released? What if they're hiding a patentable, very efficient decompression version, which they'll "discover" and patent, after this becomes the standard?
Well, from a game mechanics point of view, that never happened. It was almost dead like any other unit, if a gigantic bag of hitpoints. From a "role-playing" point of view, apparently, Overmind, you are unaware of the capabilities of these units, if you have so badly miscalculated. And if you think a little overmind sprout will last 2 seconds, think again. And if you think suddenly materializing back into existence, full-sized, is gonna end any differently, think again.
Indeed, given the uncounted trillions we've spent on this galactic war, and the billions of lives lost, devoting a few dozen Heavy Metal units to defending against you indefinitely is cheap in the extreme.
OH FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! They'll let people patent any old obvious thing now! >:(
> They've made the somewhat outrageous demand that every infringing chip
> (and console) be 'impounded and destroyed'.
I wouldn't get too worried. I'm sure they would reconsider if you just heaved enough money
oh, wait
I just got what's going otn.
> Protoss
I still think that Protoss admiral was an idiot for flying his carrier into the giant brain. I assure you, I had that battle well under control.
20 or so of those big terran mobile missle launchers'll do the trick just fine...
A complete breakdown of the final destines of the 9,000 cars follows:
6537 Still operational
2448 Known junked, destroyed, or lost
14 In museums
1 Lost due to quantum entanglement
> is an attempt to make Solaris simply "more Linux-like."
Which is to say, more Unix-like-like.
Rates Per Credit Hour, Fall 2007, Based On Full Credit Load (12-18 Credit Hours)
If terrorists can build Saturn Vs, then we're probably on the wrong side of History, as a Klingon commander rhapsodizing philosophically to Kirk might say.
Crap, that tripod has to take years just to set up.
People get born, think their ideas are, or should be, King of the World, can't you all see?
But on the other hand, if people lived forever, we'd probably all be under a brutal dictatorship of Alexander the Great, or someone from 30,000 years before him.
So either people die off, but make the same mistakes, or the most charismatic and brilliant military leaders who ever existed rule you with an iron fist. Your choice.
We know. Seriously, most people do not want live events!
They don't want some invasion messing up their cross-country journey to go "grind some orcs" with their buddies.
Personally, I'd prefer a special server that did just that. I want constant interruptions with unexpected stuff. I'd love to see the server pick up, say, 100 random online Alliance and drop 'em deep somewhere inside Horde territory, where they'd have to get out as a group. All unexpected.
I want a server full of people who do not get upset their transcontinental journey is messed up by a true live invasion (as opposed to City of Heroes static, temporary "invasions" and other crap like that.
I want to see a regular stream of Orcs on Freeport (old EQ) such that, without regular defense, the guards start getting killed by ganged-up orcs. Then the city, or at least that part, is lost. No waiting for tomorrow or a server reboot. Done. Gone. You've gotta go get it back, then keep it.
Put the persistence in the persistent worlds. Put the live in the live worlds.
> "Dofus"
Star Wars Galaxies?
I hate to burst your bubble, but it's worse than that. This "hardcore mode", where you stick your thing thru the peep show booth hole, well, the "girl" on the other side prolly isn't a girl; they just play one fraudulently.
Young Star Trek! GOD NO! Trek: The Academy Days, sheesh.
> the newly named young Spock, "Heroes" star Zachary Quinto [Sylar]
Oh, that wouldn't be too bad!
Wasn't Spock like 70 or something in TOS? How could he even be a 30-something professor during Kirk's Academy days, to say nothing of some kind of graduate student.
And didn't Spock help invent the teleporter? Or has that been retconned away now, too, thanks to the bastard of Enterprise?
Speaking of which, the regular cartridges were something like $39, as I remember, which, with the apparent approximately 2x multiplier for inflation, would turn into about $80. So even allowing for $60 + $10 to unlock stuff, you're barely breaking even, if not a little behind, the average for cartridges back then.
Eh, I've been buying games long enough to see the price jump about $10 every now and then. In about 8 years, the prices'll jump to $70, then $80, then $90, then finally'll cross $100, which should be in 4 x 8 = 32 years, in which case I'll be in my early '70's and hopefully retired in a little cubicle with an SDHTDV (super duper HDTV) and interactive feely videogame.
> What about all the new content out there?
>
>..Halo 3
(Daffy Duck takes a closeup and turns his eyes cynically and slowly towards the camera) Uh...yeah.
> "NASA said today it is investigating suspected sabotage of a recorder placed on the shuttle
> Endeavour for delivery to the space station where it will track physical stresses on the orbiting lab."
The article continues:
"The worker, a man in his early 30s with long, platinum blond hair, is currently being held in a facility in Virginia. Sources report he was concerned about 'these kinds of men talking to your god for you', and had previously been a rising star in the President's 'Faith-Based Initiatives' program."