Wikipedia isn't that great. It's not comprehensive like a real dictionary, and anyone can insert bogus data and garbage up the system.
Worse, it's subject to the biases of whoever writes the article. I've seen some pretty bad stuff, horribly biased, passed off as a real encyclopedia author. It also sucks that people around here tend to insert Wikipedia links, thus inferring that they're somehow authoritative in any way. They're not.
Strategy: The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.
Tactics: The military science that deals with securing objectives set by strategy, especially the technique of deploying and directing troops, ships, and aircraft in effective maneuvers against an enemy.
Except for all the levels (most of them) on which "flood" was disabled. You had to volcano his ass into unproductiveness, then just invade with your people. I would have spend much less time on that game with floods enabled.
Invites are based on how active your account is. Sign up for some high-traffic mailing lists, like linux-kernel or something. Next time a batch of invites comes out, you'll have 4-5 or so.
Utopia was the first one. Boo-hoo you can't rush. What a bummer...game has to actually be decided by strategy! The game can't be won militarily? It must suck, then! kekekekekekeke OMG Zerg rush ^^;;
No, google image search is fully-functional. Only the cache and "google groups" are filtered. NNTP access is OK, but google groups web interface is not there. Weird.
Interesting note, every convenience store in the land has condoms and foams featured prominently next to the checkout register? Strange for a supposedly-prudish authoritarian state.
As an aside, I set up a simple unencrypted squid proxy on a box in the USA, and whenever I encounter "the block", I just hit F12-x in Opera, and reload the site. The simplest of proxies will defeat the Great Firewall.
Nah - if you got the skillz, you'll be accepted in no time. Art, lacking skill, has no such requirement. Merit-based societies [geekdom] are totally different from aristocratic ones [art world].
We don't think much of art, because ninety years ago or so, art turned its back on everyone except those in its little clique. Try creating "art" yourself, as a Machia, and watch yourself get laughed out into the street by Real Artists.
Serves me right, I've been overseas for a while now. I'm definitely getting out of touch. Kinda nice though, watching the Olympics without the farking stories about the athlete's mom, sister, pet dog, etc etc etc. And hardly any commercials. And I can't understand the commentators. Things like this are worth getting out of touch with Southpark.
Endor was supposed to have been the planet of the Wookies. But good ol' master of great ideas, George Lucas, changed it to the Planet of the Care Bears.
Yes, patches frequently do break things. Especially big, complex applications that make money for the company. Support is often contingent upon running the application on a certain kernel and patchlevel. Running out and patching your system with the zero-day is fine for home systems, but it's beyond idiotic to do it in a big business.
I remember when Quicktime's interface came out, it looked all artsy and jazzy, only it violated every rule in the book about Apple interface design, and was widely trashed by the Mac faithful.
Then you get nag screens every time you start the product, asking you if you want to download and install the latest version (Acrobat, looking at you).
I always hated when the indexing daemon ran...killed the HD for a few minutes. Especially noxious on a brand-new install, when you wanted to play with your shiny new desktop, and you had to wait for the damn index run to finish.
My Chinese phone requires Pin Yin input, that is, you type in the letters that spell the character phonetically, and the phone displays the availible characters that can be represented by that sound. Chinese people have no problem with it, myself, I use it on occasion to type in place names, and it's not difficult.
Well, if they had refused orders, they would have been executed by their own side instead of the Allies. Doesn't change the fact that it's still a war crime. Like someone said, lose-lose.
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What's the matter, never heard of Bill Clinton???
Worse, it's subject to the biases of whoever writes the article. I've seen some pretty bad stuff, horribly biased, passed off as a real encyclopedia author. It also sucks that people around here tend to insert Wikipedia links, thus inferring that they're somehow authoritative in any way. They're not.
Wikipedia != encyclopedia.
Wikipedia == blog
Tactics: The military science that deals with securing objectives set by strategy, especially the technique of deploying and directing troops, ships, and aircraft in effective maneuvers against an enemy.
Face it, "RTS" games are nothing but "RTT".
Except for all the levels (most of them) on which "flood" was disabled. You had to volcano his ass into unproductiveness, then just invade with your people. I would have spend much less time on that game with floods enabled.
Invites are based on how active your account is. Sign up for some high-traffic mailing lists, like linux-kernel or something. Next time a batch of invites comes out, you'll have 4-5 or so.
Utopia was the first one. Boo-hoo you can't rush. What a bummer...game has to actually be decided by strategy! The game can't be won militarily? It must suck, then! kekekekekekeke OMG Zerg rush ^^;;
I don't think they block Japanese. Only English and Chinese.
I think they only block the search terms. Otherwise, I wouldn't be seeing this page now (221.136.x.x).
No, google image search is fully-functional. Only the cache and "google groups" are filtered. NNTP access is OK, but google groups web interface is not there. Weird.
Interesting note, every convenience store in the land has condoms and foams featured prominently next to the checkout register? Strange for a supposedly-prudish authoritarian state.
As an aside, I set up a simple unencrypted squid proxy on a box in the USA, and whenever I encounter "the block", I just hit F12-x in Opera, and reload the site. The simplest of proxies will defeat the Great Firewall.
Here's a link to the script, can you find where it says that? I sure don't remember Chewie getting a visa to stay on Endor at the end.
Nah - if you got the skillz, you'll be accepted in no time. Art, lacking skill, has no such requirement. Merit-based societies [geekdom] are totally different from aristocratic ones [art world].
We don't think much of art, because ninety years ago or so, art turned its back on everyone except those in its little clique. Try creating "art" yourself, as a Machia, and watch yourself get laughed out into the street by Real Artists.
Serves me right, I've been overseas for a while now. I'm definitely getting out of touch. Kinda nice though, watching the Olympics without the farking stories about the athlete's mom, sister, pet dog, etc etc etc. And hardly any commercials. And I can't understand the commentators. Things like this are worth getting out of touch with Southpark.
Endor was supposed to have been the planet of the Wookies. But good ol' master of great ideas, George Lucas, changed it to the Planet of the Care Bears.
An economist. Lovely. International economist, actually. Have those people *ever* been right about anything?
Yes, patches frequently do break things. Especially big, complex applications that make money for the company. Support is often contingent upon running the application on a certain kernel and patchlevel. Running out and patching your system with the zero-day is fine for home systems, but it's beyond idiotic to do it in a big business.
"Monkey" is a racist term used by caucasians to denigrate people of color. Deal with it.
A new worm?
I remember when Quicktime's interface came out, it looked all artsy and jazzy, only it violated every rule in the book about Apple interface design, and was widely trashed by the Mac faithful.
Then you get nag screens every time you start the product, asking you if you want to download and install the latest version (Acrobat, looking at you).
I always hated when the indexing daemon ran...killed the HD for a few minutes. Especially noxious on a brand-new install, when you wanted to play with your shiny new desktop, and you had to wait for the damn index run to finish.
My Chinese phone requires Pin Yin input, that is, you type in the letters that spell the character phonetically, and the phone displays the availible characters that can be represented by that sound. Chinese people have no problem with it, myself, I use it on occasion to type in place names, and it's not difficult.
Well, if they had refused orders, they would have been executed by their own side instead of the Allies. Doesn't change the fact that it's still a war crime. Like someone said, lose-lose.