I have no idea what they sound like now, but I got tired of them in the late eighties, everything just started sounding so whiny.. almost emo. "Still can't find what I'm looking for", yadda..
That said, I think highly of Bono, he seems a good dude, and doesn't let biases determine who he'll talk to or work with, and has done a tremendous amount of good.
in the US the range is 535-1605 khz... of course any one who isn't from the US could tell you that 1000 khz is equal to 1 mhz....
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Is that an anti-american dig? Just because we don't use metric for everything doesn't mean we're clueless about it. Most people I know would know that 1000k=1M, and millions of us work or study in IT or other scientific fields where kilo, mega, giga, micro, pico, tera, etc..prefixes are common knowledge, despite our continued use of the Imperial system. Anyone who's graduated from a decent high school should know that.
What I will say is I don't understand why folks are against the development of these sorts of things. As long as it's not government mandated as the only way to get a usable tool then let it compete in the market. If it is reliable and functional enough it will succeed if it isn't it won't depending on what people want.
Well, that's exactly the whole question; how reliable and solid can such a thing be with current tech, especially without raising the price out of reach? It's just another thing under control of a cheap consumer grade microprocessor. If it actually works flawlessly and as intended, great.. if not, the false sense of security could cause even more accidents or fail to allow someone to defend themselves.
I'll take this with a grain of salt. Many years ago, "they" said the same thing about chocolate and greasy foods regarding acne breakouts. It was pretty evident to me and every single person I've ever known, including my own dermatologist (back in the day) that this was totally off-base wishful thinking, and the old "myth" was absolutely correct, whatever the biological mechanisms involved. The study was seriously flawed.
The vast majority of people who go to prison for weed are non-violent offenders.
Can you provide a citation for that? I've known a few guys that got busted for minor possession, not a one resulted in even an overnight jail stay.
Frankly, non-violent offender shouldn't go to jail. They should be fined, work weekend crews and be monitored. But they didn't hurt anyone, so don't lock them up. It's just a huge waste of money and potential.
The goal should be to get them so they don't do it again.
Totally agree here. Jail should be for violent offenders who are a physical danger to society. That said, what do we do with the Bernie Maddoffs of the world?
But... I suppose something like Life360 would kinda cool, or someway to track your kids if you're at a large park and want to keep tabs on where they are in case they get lost.. or worse.
There's a huge honking difference between someone taking a casual photo or video in public (and remember, you are out in public, not private), and following you around all day. The latter could be legally be construed as harassment, or possibly even assault, among other things.
Intent is the key thing, here. If they're all over your shit, then yes they're overstepping their bounds and harassing you. OTOH if they're simply wearing google glass at the same cafe you're sitting in, you've no right to shut them down, you're judging them guilty until proven innocent, which infringes on their rights. It's a free country, what right have to you to deny someone else to take a video of their environment when when all concerned are out in a public place? In a sense, their eyes and brain are already doing the same thing, it's why we have eye-witnesses testify in crimes. I've never yet heard a criminal defense say, "that witness had no right to observe and remember my client's actions in public, he didn't give them permission".
And how can you defend the citizen's recording of police if you're going to shut down citizens who record in public?
Well, that 78% is still multiple types of beverages/flavors, and there's still 22% of the company that isn't just beverages.
But in any case, doesn't matter, if a one trick pony is very good at that trick, it's valuable.
Quake 2 was a pretty dull single player game IMO, and the only thing it brought to multiplayer (IMO) was the railgun. I really wanted to like it, but like you said, it just felt hollow. And starting off with nothing more than that lame laser pistol, that thing just sucked all kinds of hairy balls.
More than anything else, Q2 was a demonstration platform for, "Look- color lighting!". Too much of it, in a way. Much like Doom3 was, "Look, shadow volumes!"
As dated as it is, I'll second this.
For whatever reason, I found it, despite it's lack of thematic consistency, the most fun FPS by far.. or maybe I'm just waxing nostalgic.
Carmack's contribution however is to the game engine alone, not gameplay itself (though gameplay will be dependent on the engine's abilities). id's games got very stagnant in terms of of gameplay innovation, just the same thing over and over: shoot enemies, find key, unlock new area, shoot enemies, rinse, lather, repeat. The only things that really changed were the ability to move in true 3D, use colored lighting, more polys, better graphics, etc.. every recent id game has been more or less a demonstration platform for a new or improved engine, but not much else. Valve ushered in a whole new era with it's imaginative and immersive Half Life, and it's scripting sequences.
Depends what you use it for. For ordinary web browsing, asymetrical connections are fine, but if you're gaming, then yeah, the upload is just as important as the download. I did a packet capture once while playing Quake2 (obviously a long time ago) and was quite surprised by the almost equal up/down ratio.
Well, now you know one more.:) I've tried Chrome a couple of times, both at home and at work, and it got on my nerves. I kept going back to Firefox because it behaves better and seems more compatible across the board. I only use Chrome on my Nexus 7.
It sounds nothing like he's from the US. Most of us (especially the older generations) know basic European history better than you might think; however, we're also taught our own history in depth (The original colonies, revolutionary war, civil war, industrial revolution, etc..), something Europeans are not, so naturally we are not quite as versed in your history. But I think most americans at this time would not be defending Russia or Putin over Finland, in any case. Remember, the USSR was the big bad wolf to us for over 25 years.
When people can shut others down simply because they become drama queens over something they find disagreeable, that's when the real problem happens. It shouldn't, but thanks to political correctness, that's how things have been rolling the past 20 years or so, and it keeps getting worse.
It is only a problem when the law is used to silence people, and that has happened very rarely, and virtually never due to political correctness. If Joe doesn't like what Sally has to say and claims that her beliefs are offensive and ill-informed, he has every right to share his opinion and invite others to join him in ignoring what she says. This is basically what happens with "political correctness" - public figures that say stupid and/or offensive things (exercising their freedom of speech) often get criticized by their detractors (who are likewise exercising freedom of speech). You can complain that their detractors have too much influence, but that isn't due to any laws (except maybe those that protect offensive speech in the first place).
Perhaps you are not from the US, but here, people can be legally fired for a belief or statement that is currently politically incorrect. Religious symbols get taken down (by law) because a group of atheists are offended and can't stand to see such a thing (I'm not religious, and I don't care either way), a football team must legally change their name, etc...
It may not affect laws directly so much, but it definitely affects and controls people's lives.
No, that's NOT what I was saying. Did you even read what I wrote? In fact, I pointed out that freedom of speech has limits where things like defamation are concerned, as one example. What, did you need me to bullet list every single example of such limits imaginable to get the point across more clearly?
My gripe is with all the "offense" everyone takes at every little thing these days, but especially when that leads to people being essentially harassed by others' ideologies. But I also believe people have the right to be offended if they want, by trivial things, like for example, a football team being called the Redskins, or a restaurant chain being called "Hooters" with skimpily clad women as waitresses, but it just doesn't give them the right to dictate how everyone else thinks, or in most cases, act.
And what I was talking about was in a much broader context than this case; in case you hadn't noticed, the discussion had evolved into something more generalized.
The way I look at it, (whatever the topic) they have a "right" to be offended all they want (it's their opinion), but they don't have the further right to act on that and shut anyone up/down, unless it's serious defamation or the like.
When people can shut others down simply because they become drama queens over something they find disagreeable, that's when the real problem happens. It shouldn't, but thanks to political correctness, that's how things have been rolling the past 20 years or so, and it keeps getting worse.
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I have no idea what they sound like now, but I got tired of them in the late eighties, everything just started sounding so whiny.. almost emo. "Still can't find what I'm looking for", yadda..
That said, I think highly of Bono, he seems a good dude, and doesn't let biases determine who he'll talk to or work with, and has done a tremendous amount of good.
in the US the range is 535-1605 khz ... of course any one who isn't from the US could tell you that 1000 khz is equal to 1 mhz....
w
Is that an anti-american dig? Just because we don't use metric for everything doesn't mean we're clueless about it. Most people I know would know that 1000k=1M, and millions of us work or study in IT or other scientific fields where kilo, mega, giga, micro, pico, tera, etc..prefixes are common knowledge, despite our continued use of the Imperial system. Anyone who's graduated from a decent high school should know that.
And you'd have endermen and creepers instead of the BSOD.
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What I will say is I don't understand why folks are against the development of these sorts of things. As long as it's not government mandated as the only way to get a usable tool then let it compete in the market. If it is reliable and functional enough it will succeed if it isn't it won't depending on what people want.
Well, that's exactly the whole question; how reliable and solid can such a thing be with current tech, especially without raising the price out of reach? It's just another thing under control of a cheap consumer grade microprocessor. If it actually works flawlessly and as intended, great.. if not, the false sense of security could cause even more accidents or fail to allow someone to defend themselves.
That reminds me of the saccharin studies in the '70s. Anyway, I could've been more clear before, the study I consider most flawed was the acne one.
I'll take this with a grain of salt. Many years ago, "they" said the same thing about chocolate and greasy foods regarding acne breakouts. It was pretty evident to me and every single person I've ever known, including my own dermatologist (back in the day) that this was totally off-base wishful thinking, and the old "myth" was absolutely correct, whatever the biological mechanisms involved. The study was seriously flawed.
Except when announcers refer to Surfaces as "iPads". Then Apple is getting a hell of a deal. :-)
Well honestly, IT is one nerd niche, amateur astronomy is another. I can believe it.
Republican/Democrat has nothing to do with it. God I hate election years, and the year leading up to them.
OMG.. dammit, I can't mod you funny because I've already posted here.
The vast majority of people who go to prison for weed are non-violent offenders.
Can you provide a citation for that? I've known a few guys that got busted for minor possession, not a one resulted in even an overnight jail stay.
Frankly, non-violent offender shouldn't go to jail. They should be fined, work weekend crews and be monitored. But they didn't hurt anyone, so don't lock them up. It's just a huge waste of money and potential. The goal should be to get them so they don't do it again.
Totally agree here. Jail should be for violent offenders who are a physical danger to society. That said, what do we do with the Bernie Maddoffs of the world?
But... I suppose something like Life360 would kinda cool, or someway to track your kids if you're at a large park and want to keep tabs on where they are in case they get lost .. or worse.
There's a huge honking difference between someone taking a casual photo or video in public (and remember, you are out in public, not private), and following you around all day. The latter could be legally be construed as harassment, or possibly even assault, among other things.
Intent is the key thing, here. If they're all over your shit, then yes they're overstepping their bounds and harassing you. OTOH if they're simply wearing google glass at the same cafe you're sitting in, you've no right to shut them down, you're judging them guilty until proven innocent, which infringes on their rights. It's a free country, what right have to you to deny someone else to take a video of their environment when when all concerned are out in a public place? In a sense, their eyes and brain are already doing the same thing, it's why we have eye-witnesses testify in crimes. I've never yet heard a criminal defense say, "that witness had no right to observe and remember my client's actions in public, he didn't give them permission".
And how can you defend the citizen's recording of police if you're going to shut down citizens who record in public?
Well, that 78% is still multiple types of beverages/flavors, and there's still 22% of the company that isn't just beverages.
But in any case, doesn't matter, if a one trick pony is very good at that trick, it's valuable.
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Quake 2 was a pretty dull single player game IMO, and the only thing it brought to multiplayer (IMO) was the railgun. I really wanted to like it, but like you said, it just felt hollow. And starting off with nothing more than that lame laser pistol, that thing just sucked all kinds of hairy balls.
More than anything else, Q2 was a demonstration platform for, "Look- color lighting!". Too much of it, in a way. Much like Doom3 was, "Look, shadow volumes!"
As dated as it is, I'll second this.
For whatever reason, I found it, despite it's lack of thematic consistency, the most fun FPS by far.. or maybe I'm just waxing nostalgic.
Carmack's contribution however is to the game engine alone, not gameplay itself (though gameplay will be dependent on the engine's abilities). id's games got very stagnant in terms of of gameplay innovation, just the same thing over and over: shoot enemies, find key, unlock new area, shoot enemies, rinse, lather, repeat. The only things that really changed were the ability to move in true 3D, use colored lighting, more polys, better graphics, etc.. every recent id game has been more or less a demonstration platform for a new or improved engine, but not much else. Valve ushered in a whole new era with it's imaginative and immersive Half Life, and it's scripting sequences.
Depends what you use it for. For ordinary web browsing, asymetrical connections are fine, but if you're gaming, then yeah, the upload is just as important as the download. I did a packet capture once while playing Quake2 (obviously a long time ago) and was quite surprised by the almost equal up/down ratio.
Well, now you know one more. :) I've tried Chrome a couple of times, both at home and at work, and it got on my nerves. I kept going back to Firefox because it behaves better and seems more compatible across the board. I only use Chrome on my Nexus 7.
It sounds nothing like he's from the US. Most of us (especially the older generations) know basic European history better than you might think; however, we're also taught our own history in depth (The original colonies, revolutionary war, civil war, industrial revolution, etc..), something Europeans are not, so naturally we are not quite as versed in your history. But I think most americans at this time would not be defending Russia or Putin over Finland, in any case. Remember, the USSR was the big bad wolf to us for over 25 years.
When people can shut others down simply because they become drama queens over something they find disagreeable, that's when the real problem happens. It shouldn't, but thanks to political correctness, that's how things have been rolling the past 20 years or so, and it keeps getting worse.
It is only a problem when the law is used to silence people, and that has happened very rarely, and virtually never due to political correctness. If Joe doesn't like what Sally has to say and claims that her beliefs are offensive and ill-informed, he has every right to share his opinion and invite others to join him in ignoring what she says. This is basically what happens with "political correctness" - public figures that say stupid and/or offensive things (exercising their freedom of speech) often get criticized by their detractors (who are likewise exercising freedom of speech). You can complain that their detractors have too much influence, but that isn't due to any laws (except maybe those that protect offensive speech in the first place).
Perhaps you are not from the US, but here, people can be legally fired for a belief or statement that is currently politically incorrect. Religious symbols get taken down (by law) because a group of atheists are offended and can't stand to see such a thing (I'm not religious, and I don't care either way), a football team must legally change their name, etc...
It may not affect laws directly so much, but it definitely affects and controls people's lives.
No, that's NOT what I was saying. Did you even read what I wrote? In fact, I pointed out that freedom of speech has limits where things like defamation are concerned, as one example. What, did you need me to bullet list every single example of such limits imaginable to get the point across more clearly?
My gripe is with all the "offense" everyone takes at every little thing these days, but especially when that leads to people being essentially harassed by others' ideologies. But I also believe people have the right to be offended if they want, by trivial things, like for example, a football team being called the Redskins, or a restaurant chain being called "Hooters" with skimpily clad women as waitresses, but it just doesn't give them the right to dictate how everyone else thinks, or in most cases, act.
And what I was talking about was in a much broader context than this case; in case you hadn't noticed, the discussion had evolved into something more generalized.
The way I look at it, (whatever the topic) they have a "right" to be offended all they want (it's their opinion), but they don't have the further right to act on that and shut anyone up/down, unless it's serious defamation or the like.
When people can shut others down simply because they become drama queens over something they find disagreeable, that's when the real problem happens. It shouldn't, but thanks to political correctness, that's how things have been rolling the past 20 years or so, and it keeps getting worse.