I dunno how you guys do it in the EU, but in the States, money has to cost less than what it was printed on/minted from...to do otherwise defeats the purpose, see? I was under the impression RFID chips still weren't commodity cheap. How do you get around spending $x Euros on an RFID chip to go in a $y Euro note/coin, assuming for the majority of denominations $y $x
It would truly sadden you to know just how many people havent read the book, or started and stopped because they thought it was boring. You forget that Geeks are one of the subcultures nowadays that actually read regularly
Take my neighbor's kids. (Please!) I have reason to suspect they're smoking pot around the yard. If I rat to the cops and the cops come, find shit, and arrest the kids, the mother will get evicted. This is a drug-free neighborhood. Now the kids are in trouble, the mother (and two brothers) are homeless, and the only thing the family as a whole has learned is "fucksl4shd0t's an asshole". The two kids who I suspect are doing this are around 13 years old. When my wife was 13, she was smoking pot and doing a hell of a lot more. Yet, according to your rule, the legal system should take care of these kids.
I interpret that to mean that they are smoking pot on YOUR property? You have every right to report them--if they get caught otherwise you may well be neck deep in shit because two minors were doing something illegal on a chunk of dirt that is your responsibility. Now, perhaps you ought to have a word with the mother first, but after a while..you made your good faith attempt to get it resolved, call the cops. So they get evicted. that sucks. It would also suck for you to get brought up on drug charges because of someone else's kids
So wait, when a website caters to only one browser, you bitch and moan, and get open source browsers that lie about what they are. Now, you demand that an entire operating system be cut off from IRC....what makes you think that the next day there won't be myriad IRC clients that can lie about their OS...?
Not sure abuot where you are, but in North Carolina the lower grades (elementary and middleschool i believe) have a "writing" test, and then we get one in sophomore english. Those essays get graded in just the way you describe--in Raliegh (state capitol) they hire temps for a weekend to grade all the essays. Basically they sit there and read them ALL, and mark them either US (unscorable) or 1-5 in.5 increments based on a set of criteria. Result? Girl in my class who i know (know, as in, i proofread her practice essays) has trouble writing with proper grammar gets a 4.5, i (who had been getting high marks on my practices) got a 3.5 (barely passing)
The whole system is completely idiotic--especially the part where they hire temp workers, to grade the tests.
DOOM. Kinda speaks for itself. First game i really played, no, really played.
Then there was Crono Trigger and Secret of Evermore on the SNES. Those two RPGs rocked, immersive storyline, great graphics, and the MUSIC!!! Such atmosphere...
Postal. THe first one. This effect was rather frigthening, and it made me give some serious thougth about how games effect people--at any rate i started to have increasingly violent dreams after I begin playing the game. After one particularly graphic one that involved someone i knew, i quit playing, and my dreams promptly went back to normal. Oddly enough the dreams incurred from playing FPS's were nowhere nearly as disturbing.
The onset of SmartPAR and parity files makes missing fragments almost a non-issue. It is far far easier to get an episode of $show from Usenet than to count on a P2P app to get it to you in one piece and quickly. Also consider the fact that download speed from a news server is fairly consistent, whereas with P2P it may well fluctuate madly as you hop connections
The fact that humans and primates have similar bodily systems cannot at ALL be debated. It has been observed and confirmed through much experimentation.
HOW and WHY they are like that, is where Creation vs. evolution comes into play.
More to my point, murdering is malicious, and unprovoked.
Give me a break. Plants don't have nervous systems like animals. Therefore don't feel pain or suffer like when you pour chemicals in their eyes or cut their throat.
Yeah, you got me on that one, but i coudlnt resist;)
That is perhaps the most misunderstood commandment. The implication of the original (ie, non simplified) translation is "Thou shalt not murder." There is a difference between murder and killing. A man was run over nearby my house and killed. Also near my house, an elderly woman was murdered by a burglar. See the difference?
Is it even safe to encourage strict Creationists (or others with strong anti-scientific beliefs) to become doctors? Would they ignore animal research results, etc?"
How exactly do you make that connection between Creationism and ignoring animal research? I hate to break it to you, but the people who typically believe that animals should not be researched upon are the ones who believe they evolved (and thus, are no differnt from humans and deserve the same treatment). Creationism by its very nature puts humans above and beyond other animals, and thus animals are to be utilized by humans.
You make my point. The reason the environment is bad is because some people are getting paid more for the same, or even less, work. As long as they can keep everyone in the dark then people are happy.
Not necessarily. All it takes is someone who THINKS they deserve more money and you have a bad environment
My ex-employer's email server (small ISP) was set up so that it was very necessarily to ask users for their passwords. Us techies didn't have server access to apply temp passwords, and the email server was such that the admin COULDNT see what the passwords was, merely change it.
I not a cracker, but I am the sort of person that could be a cracker, and my urge for such things is fully satisfied by honest programming.
The problem is--what if they were not cracking out of curiousity, but for profit? How do you know that in some fashion or another, they have more to gain by breaking your server wide open than they have in getting a paycheck?
I reccomend Motorola startacs--completely no frills compared to these Nokia toys, but i dropped mine in a toliet bowl (while it was on) once, dried it out and it works like a charm. not to mention all the time's its been dropped and so forth. Forget exactly how much but it was under 100$US
Another hurdle to pass is truly lifelike biomechanics, not just in movement, but in reaction. Get shot in the arm? Your arms gets forced backward forcing the rest of your body to do so. Want to run real fast, instantly do a 180 and jump? Maybe with correct modeling the game'll slow you down as you make that turn, and delay the jump.
You make good points, and those are features i would REALLY like to see in games. But the problem is, that alot of people DONT want to see that---they want to be able to run and strafe and rocket-jump without a modicum of impairment. That's why more people play Quake-style shooters than MOH:AA and Ghost Recon, because they see the movement physics as impairment, not realism
You make one big assumption---that given the run of all the message boards on the internet, students will only go to the "good" ones---that is, the ones that promote discussion and whatnot.
All I can say is, it must have been awhile since you were a student. The purpose of blocking message board sites is so kids dont dick around when they're supposed to be working, tying up what might be already scanty bandwith (my highschool had 1400 students with several labs and all teachers' computers on a 64k ISDN line.) doing things that are not at all school related.
Slashdot Mirror
Up against the wall buddy.
I dunno how you guys do it in the EU, but in the States, money has to cost less than what it was printed on/minted from...to do otherwise defeats the purpose, see? I was under the impression RFID chips still weren't commodity cheap. How do you get around spending $x Euros on an RFID chip to go in a $y Euro note/coin, assuming for the majority of denominations $y $x
Okay, so DX9 transmuted itself into NET in that comment, but you guys know what i mean.
Command and Conquer: Generals requires DX9 installed whether you have a NET card or not.
No, they'll go A through G, then start making chords and arpeggios.
It would truly sadden you to know just how many people havent read the book, or started and stopped because they thought it was boring. You forget that Geeks are one of the subcultures nowadays that actually read regularly
Take my neighbor's kids. (Please!) I have reason to suspect they're smoking pot around the yard. If I rat to the cops and the cops come, find shit, and arrest the kids, the mother will get evicted. This is a drug-free neighborhood. Now the kids are in trouble, the mother (and two brothers) are homeless, and the only thing the family as a whole has learned is "fucksl4shd0t's an asshole". The two kids who I suspect are doing this are around 13 years old. When my wife was 13, she was smoking pot and doing a hell of a lot more. Yet, according to your rule, the legal system should take care of these kids.
I interpret that to mean that they are smoking pot on YOUR property? You have every right to report them--if they get caught otherwise you may well be neck deep in shit because two minors were doing something illegal on a chunk of dirt that is your responsibility. Now, perhaps you ought to have a word with the mother first, but after a while..you made your good faith attempt to get it resolved, call the cops. So they get evicted. that sucks. It would also suck for you to get brought up on drug charges because of someone else's kids
That explains it, i was using an SX-33 myself...
ahh, the good ol' days
I hope you're kiddding. I tried to play doom on 4mb of RAM and it was like playing BF1942 on a TNT2...
So wait, when a website caters to only one browser, you bitch and moan, and get open source browsers that lie about what they are. Now, you demand that an entire operating system be cut off from IRC....what makes you think that the next day there won't be myriad IRC clients that can lie about their OS...?
PS: All your base are belong to us.
Not sure abuot where you are, but in North Carolina the lower grades (elementary and middleschool i believe) have a "writing" test, and then we get one in sophomore english. Those essays get graded in just the way you describe--in Raliegh (state capitol) they hire temps for a weekend to grade all the essays. Basically they sit there and read them ALL, and mark them either US (unscorable) or 1-5 in .5 increments based on a set of criteria.
Result? Girl in my class who i know (know, as in, i proofread her practice essays) has trouble writing with proper grammar gets a 4.5, i (who had been getting high marks on my practices) got a 3.5 (barely passing)
The whole system is completely idiotic--especially the part where they hire temp workers, to grade the tests.
DOOM. Kinda speaks for itself. First game i really played, no, really played.
Then there was Crono Trigger and Secret of Evermore on the SNES. Those two RPGs rocked, immersive storyline, great graphics, and the MUSIC!!! Such atmosphere...
Postal. THe first one. This effect was rather frigthening, and it made me give some serious thougth about how games effect people--at any rate i started to have increasingly violent dreams after I begin playing the game. After one particularly graphic one that involved someone i knew, i quit playing, and my dreams promptly went back to normal. Oddly enough the dreams incurred from playing FPS's were nowhere nearly as disturbing.
The onset of SmartPAR and parity files makes missing fragments almost a non-issue. It is far far easier to get an episode of $show from Usenet than to count on a P2P app to get it to you in one piece and quickly. Also consider the fact that download speed from a news server is fairly consistent, whereas with P2P it may well fluctuate madly as you hop connections
The fact that humans and primates have similar bodily systems cannot at ALL be debated. It has been observed and confirmed through much experimentation.
HOW and WHY they are like that, is where Creation vs. evolution comes into play.
Murduring would be purposeful.
;)
More to my point, murdering is malicious, and unprovoked.
Give me a break. Plants don't have nervous systems like animals. Therefore don't feel pain or suffer like when you pour chemicals in their eyes or cut their throat.
Yeah, you got me on that one, but i coudlnt resist
That is perhaps the most misunderstood commandment. The implication of the original (ie, non simplified) translation is "Thou shalt not murder." There is a difference between murder and killing. A man was run over nearby my house and killed. Also near my house, an elderly woman was murdered by a burglar. See the difference?
Besides, vegetarians kill plants.
Is it even safe to encourage strict Creationists (or others with strong anti-scientific beliefs) to become doctors? Would they ignore animal research results, etc?"
How exactly do you make that connection between Creationism and ignoring animal research? I hate to break it to you, but the people who typically believe that animals should not be researched upon are the ones who believe they evolved (and thus, are no differnt from humans and deserve the same treatment). Creationism by its very nature puts humans above and beyond other animals, and thus animals are to be utilized by humans.
You make my point. The reason the environment is bad is because some people are getting paid more for the same, or even less, work. As long as they can keep everyone in the dark then people are happy.
Not necessarily. All it takes is someone who THINKS they deserve more money and you have a bad environment
My ex-employer's email server (small ISP) was set up so that it was very necessarily to ask users for their passwords. Us techies didn't have server access to apply temp passwords, and the email server was such that the admin COULDNT see what the passwords was, merely change it.
You mean depleted uranium? it's called depleted for a reason you know
I not a cracker, but I am the sort of person that could be a cracker, and my urge for such things is fully satisfied by honest programming.
The problem is--what if they were not cracking out of curiousity, but for profit? How do you know that in some fashion or another, they have more to gain by breaking your server wide open than they have in getting a paycheck?
I reccomend Motorola startacs--completely no frills compared to these Nokia toys, but i dropped mine in a toliet bowl (while it was on) once, dried it out and it works like a charm. not to mention all the time's its been dropped and so forth. Forget exactly how much but it was under 100$US
Another hurdle to pass is truly lifelike biomechanics, not just in movement, but in reaction. Get shot in the arm? Your arms gets forced backward forcing the rest of your body to do so. Want to run real fast, instantly do a 180 and jump? Maybe with correct modeling the game'll slow you down as you make that turn, and delay the jump.
You make good points, and those are features i would REALLY like to see in games. But the problem is, that alot of people DONT want to see that---they want to be able to run and strafe and rocket-jump without a modicum of impairment. That's why more people play Quake-style shooters than MOH:AA and Ghost Recon, because they see the movement physics as impairment, not realism
You make one big assumption---that given the run of all the message boards on the internet, students will only go to the "good" ones---that is, the ones that promote discussion and whatnot.
All I can say is, it must have been awhile since you were a student. The purpose of blocking message board sites is so kids dont dick around when they're supposed to be working, tying up what might be already scanty bandwith (my highschool had 1400 students with several labs and all teachers' computers on a 64k ISDN line.) doing things that are not at all school related.