Censorship, concentration camps, forced abortion,
determination of profession, border controls,
and billing families for bullets have little or nothing
to do with whether the means of production are held privately or in common.
Which is what the distinction between capitalism and communism is about.
"Communism" is not equivalent to "dictatorship" or "totalitarianism".
The fact that those practicing the latter have often paid lip service to the former is tragedy.
You assume the problem is the server. It's not. It's the client. A world with too many people, or even just one zone with too many people in it, is sufficient to cause the client to fail.
The problem is with the server. Sure, everyone's seen what happens in Ironforge and Orgrimmar.
Yes, my client has crashed a few times in Ironforge while trying to render all the people there.
But that's not what everyone's complaining about.
The complaints are about server lag and queues.
For server lag, it can sometimes take minutes to loot a corpse or interact with a piece of mail.
Queues are obviously not a client problem.
The main reason I bought my iBook was because I wanted a laptop that didn't run Windows.
Such a move would almost certainly ensure that I never buy another Apple product again.
Mine was an Atari 400 with that horrible membrane keyboard. Then I moved up to an 800XL, and later a 130XE. I then skipped the ST models, and eventually moved into IBM PC compatibles.
It's been a while since I watched that show, but it seemed like the beginning of every episode featured the John Doe character spouting a stream of nonsense which was apparently meant to make him seem knowledgeable, but in reality sounded ridiculous to anyone who wasn't completely ignorant.
But then after the first few minutes, it would get a lot better. I wonder how many people switched channels during that scene.
ust recently when Nintendo announced that Twilight Princess was pushed back, the general reaction was "OMG, Nintendo is teh suck. We want it now!!"
That's interesting. It seemed to me that the reaction (among fans) was more like "That's unfortunate, but I'd rather wait for a good and complete game than have a bad or incomplete game earlier." Similarly, quite a lot of people would rather have waited a few more months and gotten two more dungeons in Wind Waker.
This may be a difference in perception, as I may have payed more attention to such an opinion because I share it, and that I would tend to disregard an opposing view. It also may have been a matter of the choice of communities that I monitored.
Of course, I did see plenty of "Nintendo is teh suck" type opinions, but those seemed to be from people with a prior bias against Nintendo, and didn't really care about a Zelda release other than as an opportunity to engage in a flame war.
Taxation without representation was one of the big gripes that the American colonists had with England, their mother country at the time.
The crown was increasing taxes on the colonists to help raise funds
that were depleted during the French and Indian War, but was not giving them representation in Parliament.
A couple hundred years later, we like to believe that the ideals expressed during the founding of the country are still important,
so a complaint such as this is likely to appeal to a US citizen that has even the slightest knowledge of history.
it makes no broad implications on how science and technology affect society.
Progress in surveillance technology allows the state to more easiliy monitor and control the citizens. Recall when Leo McKern as Number Two (I think it was) informs Number Six that The Village is a prototype for how the rest of the world will become. Also recall "The General" with its rapid "education" that renders its students superbly capable of reciting facts, but does nothing about the ability to process those facts. Consider what effect that would have if the entire education system were converted to that sort of model.
This is just stuff off the top of my head. I'm sure others can come up with other examples.
Both the mean and the median values of a sample are considered to be averages.
The same applies to modes, as well as the different types of means (arithmetic, geometric...).
I didn't mind the triforce hunt. I suppose I was already used to sailing around and dredging things up out of the ocean.
My biggest concern was that there weren't enough dungeons.
I hear that there were going to be two more, but they had to push the game out the door.
I would have preferred a later release with more stuff,
but then again I'm the kind of person who waits a year after release to get the game at a cheaper price anyway.
Are you suggesting it should be illegal to buy legal products that are advertised in an annoying way?
I am suggesting that the analogy sucks.
And regarding the rule about punctuation being inside quote marks when it's not part of a quote, that rule sucks. Modern typographical equipment renders it obsolete. I look forward to its death.
The grandparent states a preference for typical Russian restaurants because of the adventure which comes from the language barrier.
The parent then criticizes the grandparent for doing just the opposite.
"Macs Mini", assuming that "Mac" is the noun and "Mini" is an adjective which modifies it.
Otherwise, pluralize the other word. Disclaimer: I don't really care.
By "family" I assume that you're using a euphamism for the mafia.
In this case you may want to use good encryption,
and host the server in a country with weak ties to law enforcement in your native country.
Perhaps you should have been more up-front in your request for information.
The book mentioned in the blurb actually has very little to do with Lagrange points.
It's a tale of a boat that's designed to skim across a sea of dust on the moon,
which runs into a problem, sinks, and has to be rescued.
In fact, I was (figuratively) scratching my head and trying to figure out what the connection is,
when I remembered that one of the characters spotted a heat source from a space station, which (now that I think about it) was probably at a Lagrange point.
After spotting it, he was quickly moved to the lunar surface to assist in the rescue operation.
So the connection between the article subject and the book is rather weak.
I understand that it's there to segue to the author's commentary, but it just doesn't work for me.
Not that anyone cares about what works for me.
I've also noticed that Super Smash Brothers Melee has not become cheaper, but that's not really representative of Gamecube games in general. In most cases, I wait for games to drop to the US$20 level before buying them, and lately I've picked up many games at that price which were US$50 when I first got the cube (a little over a year ago). So many, in fact, that I don't have time to play them.
I don't know what's up with SSBM. Perhaps someone else can clue us in. As for your general experiences with non-dropping prices, it may be particular to Canada or perhaps the stores you visit.
The airlines will take a bunch of that money the federal government gives them (in subsidies) and use it to lobby legislators to prevent just such a thing from happening. God bless America!
There is precedent: phpBB search uses "OR" logic by default.
That's no excuse. Just because one program does something stupid, that doesn't mean a second one should do the same. If I wanted to search for foo OR bar, I'd perform separate searches on each.
OK, now what do you do if the file you want is being released by somebody who uses Gnucleus?
Hope that someone with a good program also has it.
In my area (near Apple HQ in fact), there are
quiteafewgoodradiostations,
none of them owned by Clear Channel / Infinity / Disney / etc.
Not everyone is as fortunate as I am,
but nearly everyone has a nearby NPR affiliate at least.
I haven't noticed any Morpheus nodes connecting to mine lately,
so it might be gone. Good riddance, too. I frequently got lots of false results from Morpheus (and Gnucleus) nodes.
It seems that the morons who wrote it figured that matching a single word of a multiple word query was good enough.
I actually modified my program to drop all results with a Morpheus (or Gnucleus) vendor string.
These "dark ages" you speak of saw the flourishing of art and literature, the invention of many things we take for granted, and, among other things, the first attempts to translate scientific texts into the language of the common people (rather than classical Latin, Greek, or Arabic, none of which were ever similar to any spoken dialect)
It seems that you are confusing the Dark Ages (roughly 500-1000 CE) with the Renaissance (roughly 1300-1500 CE). The monk erased the text during the former, and that cool stuff you mentioned happened during the latter. Good job getting modded up, though.
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Censorship, concentration camps, forced abortion, determination of profession, border controls, and billing families for bullets have little or nothing to do with whether the means of production are held privately or in common. Which is what the distinction between capitalism and communism is about. "Communism" is not equivalent to "dictatorship" or "totalitarianism". The fact that those practicing the latter have often paid lip service to the former is tragedy.
That said, I doubt they're doing this.
Mine was an Atari 400 with that horrible membrane keyboard. Then I moved up to an 800XL, and later a 130XE. I then skipped the ST models, and eventually moved into IBM PC compatibles.
But then after the first few minutes, it would get a lot better. I wonder how many people switched channels during that scene.
This may be a difference in perception, as I may have payed more attention to such an opinion because I share it, and that I would tend to disregard an opposing view. It also may have been a matter of the choice of communities that I monitored.
Of course, I did see plenty of "Nintendo is teh suck" type opinions, but those seemed to be from people with a prior bias against Nintendo, and didn't really care about a Zelda release other than as an opportunity to engage in a flame war.
A couple hundred years later, we like to believe that the ideals expressed during the founding of the country are still important, so a complaint such as this is likely to appeal to a US citizen that has even the slightest knowledge of history.
This is just stuff off the top of my head. I'm sure others can come up with other examples.
Both the mean and the median values of a sample are considered to be averages. The same applies to modes, as well as the different types of means (arithmetic, geometric...).
I didn't mind the triforce hunt. I suppose I was already used to sailing around and dredging things up out of the ocean. My biggest concern was that there weren't enough dungeons. I hear that there were going to be two more, but they had to push the game out the door. I would have preferred a later release with more stuff, but then again I'm the kind of person who waits a year after release to get the game at a cheaper price anyway.
And regarding the rule about punctuation being inside quote marks when it's not part of a quote, that rule sucks. Modern typographical equipment renders it obsolete. I look forward to its death.
The grandparent states a preference for typical Russian restaurants because of the adventure which comes from the language barrier. The parent then criticizes the grandparent for doing just the opposite.
"Macs Mini", assuming that "Mac" is the noun and "Mini" is an adjective which modifies it. Otherwise, pluralize the other word. Disclaimer: I don't really care.
By "family" I assume that you're using a euphamism for the mafia. In this case you may want to use good encryption, and host the server in a country with weak ties to law enforcement in your native country. Perhaps you should have been more up-front in your request for information.
So the connection between the article subject and the book is rather weak. I understand that it's there to segue to the author's commentary, but it just doesn't work for me. Not that anyone cares about what works for me.
I don't know what's up with SSBM. Perhaps someone else can clue us in. As for your general experiences with non-dropping prices, it may be particular to Canada or perhaps the stores you visit.
The airlines will take a bunch of that money the federal government gives them (in subsidies) and use it to lobby legislators to prevent just such a thing from happening. God bless America!
In my area (near Apple HQ in fact), there are quite a few good radio stations, none of them owned by Clear Channel / Infinity / Disney / etc. Not everyone is as fortunate as I am, but nearly everyone has a nearby NPR affiliate at least.
I haven't noticed any Morpheus nodes connecting to mine lately, so it might be gone. Good riddance, too. I frequently got lots of false results from Morpheus (and Gnucleus) nodes. It seems that the morons who wrote it figured that matching a single word of a multiple word query was good enough. I actually modified my program to drop all results with a Morpheus (or Gnucleus) vendor string.