Learn to ride this bike, and you can have a lot of fun.
If Eve is a bike, then instead of having pedals and handlebars to control, it has complicated and unintuitive set of buttons that take a full day of tutorials to understand. Then once you get this bike, you have to ride the same trails over and over until you can get a better bike. Then once you get a better bike you ride a more challenging set of trails over and over, until the boredom is unbearable. Once you get a good enough bike to race against other bikes (or you just get sick of the trails), you find that all the veterans will always have better equipment, skills, and money then you. So only way to way to win at bike races is to get a bunch of friends, sit outside a gate, and beat the shit out of any unsuspecting bikers that come through, and then race them while they have broken legs.
1. $300-$400 is about a 50% increase of price over a decent Phenom II setup.
2. The 920 i7 is only marginally better than the 940 PII, from the benchmarks I've seen.
3. The i7 920 will not "last longer" than the P2. If a CPU becomes obsolete, a CPU that's 20% faster is most likely obsolete as well. 24 fps might be better than 20 fps, but it's not nearly enough for first person shooters.
4. I don't do video encoding, image processing, or compile any large projects on my home computer, so I think I will rarely see the benefits.
I'm just not convinced that spending an extra $400 will yield me any significant benefit. Although maybe I'm just not as rich as you.
For me, the fact that the i7 is only about 10-20% faster than the Phenom for more than twice the cost, it's simply not worth considering for me. Then again, I do most of my gaming on consoles
Not to mention the fact most games bottleneck at the graphics card, and not the CPU. So that 10%-20% faster CPU isn't guaranteed to give you 10%-20% increase in FPS. Phenom II is definitely the way to go if you want the best gang for your buck, imo.
Obama has a child-like view of the world. The notion that everyone can be reasoned with isn't diplomacy, it's stupidity. Ask a rape victim how saying no to her attacker went over.
Saying Obama has a child-like view of the world is a ridiculous claim. He obviously isn't going down the diplomacy route for every single situation. If that were true, he would be pulling troops from Afghanistan, but instead, he wants to reinforce efforts there with more troops. Like most intelligent and observational people, Obama realized that when we drop more bombs on a country, and we act more like an occupational military, it's more likely we will create enemies then destroy them. So he is truly taking the approach of "Military action only when necessary" instead of Bush's philosophy of "Convince the public that military action is necessary, even though it isn't."
That's an interesting point, indeed. However, I would like to know what the probability of us being first is. How old is earth relative to the rest of the universe? How long does it take for intelligent life to form, and is that a long time relative to the age of the universe? Considering the size of the universe, I would say the chances of us being first (if there are others) are pretty insanely low, if not impossible, but what do I know, I'm just a slashdotter.
It's a really BAD precedent to set, to legally enforce the idea that a software developer can FORCE a customer to use their product only in specific ways they outline.
Blizzard isn't really forcing anyone to play in a specific way. They are asking for the right to kick people out who are worsening the experience for everyone else. Are you saying that bars shouldn't be allowed to kick out belligerents who are being annoying, obnoxious, and possibly dangerous? Your operating system analogy is bad one (not saying mine isn't bad either, but it's better) because using "any" P2P software isn't inherently bad at all. There really isn't any evidence that having P2P software on your computer would worsen the experience of people on other computers.
Or imagine if you bought the latest edition of a "Call of Duty" game, only to find out the EULA stated it was illegal to play except on weekends? Blizzard has effectively won the legal ability for developers to state and enforce anything like this they'd like to put in the agreement!
Not that I'm saying that the judges ruling isn't cause for concern, but you are blowing things out of proportion to the point where I don't know how you got modded insightful. I'm sure the judges ruling wasn't "software developers can enforce their users to do whatever the fuck they want." In other words, I'm not worried that a developer will create some ridiculous EULA that will limit my ability to play as a gamer. I'm worried that, as a developer myself, if I write a piece of software that might enhance (not necessarily in the form of cheating) the experience of a game or a set of games in any way, that I will be at their mercy, and can only pray that they don't use this ruling to sue me.
I don't think you have read this entire thread. The GP and GGP were saying you couldn't directly take over buildings in Starcraft (excluding the zerg queen being able to infest a Terran command center, but really it still becomes a Zerg building type (Infested Commanded Center)). Neither GP nor GGP were implying that it was impossible to have both buildings, just that there was no way to directly convert them to your side (like command and conquer).
This reminds me of Agent Smith's comments in The Matrix about humans being better classified as a virus than a mammal since we can't seem to contain ourselves to live with the resources available.
Are you actually saying that you agree with agent Smith's views?? Wow. You realize that he was an antagonist that hated humans, right?
There's no such thing as a Robotics Lab in Starcraft. There is, however, a Robotics Support Bay and a Robotics Facility, but those are Protoss buildings. Having a Terran and a Protoss prerequisite makes so sense. Perhaps you meant a Physics Lab? Now if you excuse me, I have to dodge the incoming projectiles that have been thrown at me by people who don't give a shit.
You can say the exact same thing with movies: it's all fake, no-one actually dies. In either medium, violence is depicted, and that's why the adjective "violent" is assigned to them.
Regardless, I think you and GP are making the same point. If it's pretend, why the hell does it matter if there is blood or not?
And they'd still complain about it being cold, even as you sat there sweating like a pig, wearing a wife-beater, with your feet in cold water, and a cold can of wife-beater in your hand.
Maybe he wouldn't feel so hot if he wasn't beating his wife all the time?
WTF? are you so blinded by Obama lust that you'd be willing to sacrifice your left testicle. I never said he'd have a good justification, just that he'd want to do it. What if the reason was as you say, but there was no reliable evidence that it would work? would you still be ok with being partial emasculated?
Wow, talk about taking about what people say out of context. You obviously aren't reading what I am writing. It's almost like you're a fox news interviewer. You are no longer worth my time.
If Obama's policy were to take all men over the age of 15 and cut out their left testicle, that wouldn't be a good policy, and desiring him to fail would not be bad for Society.
I obviously wouldn't want the EXECUTION of this policy to succeed. But if it were executed, I would at least hope that the removing of everyone's left testicle would provide significant health benefits (maybe reduces risk of testicular cancer or HIV transmission). So in a way I still would want the policy to succeed.
besides this is all about what Rush thinks Obama is going to try to do. If Obama turns around and starts trying to revive the economy using methods that Rush is espousing, then he'll wish Obama all the success in the world implementing his plans.
I still don't think Limbaugh makes any sense though. Even if he think Obama is implementing, in his opinion, some horribly detrimental policies. If these policies surpass his expectations and succeed, it means that economy turned around and things are looking hopeful again. I just don't see why any one wouldn't want that.
You think that is obvious? You don't think poison or a big bomb might be a lot more effective? I'd argue that largely untrained children with guns are a lot less effective than other techniques they could turn to or at the very least you need to provide some data if you want me to accept this hypothesis.
Since when do we not restrict people having large explosives or biological weapons? Just because the GP didn't mention these weapons, you assume that he wants to restrict guns but not restrict explosives. Talk about a fucking straw man, sheesh.
But I think what the OP says is true. Restrict people from having guns, school attacks will be less deadly.
Okay, you think that. Why do you think that? Do you have any information or is it just based upon emotion? Do you have any actual studies to back up your hypothesis or is it completely untested?
Do people need to make a hypothesis for every claim they make? Come on, man. The GP is obviously just using some common sense. If you got attacked by a mugger, would you rather be mugged by an armed person or not? Don't be stupid.
by placing emphasis on this portion of your transcript it becomes apparent that, while Rush says he wants Obama to fail, it's becuase of Policy decisions he's expected to make, and he wants those policy decisions to fail b/c he believes they are bad for America.
This makes no sense. If a policy fails, regardless if it's a good policy or a bad policy, it still has a negative effect on society. I thought Iraq was one of the most monumentally horrible policy decisions made during my adult life time, but I would never hope that it would fail. Failing would mean thousands of US soldiers dead for no reason, a country left in chaos, and a more unstable and dangerous Middle East. Likewise, if Obama's policies fail, it would entail an economy that's worse than it is now, which would likely raise the unemployment rate, homelessness, crime, etc. In light of these facts, I conclude that Limbaugh is a huge asshole.
Sorry for making the assumption that if you can buy a PS3, and have the free time to play it, that you have enough disposable income to upgrade your computer once every 3 years. Also, upgrading your 8 year old computer will not only allow you to play better games, it will make your non-gaming activities move along faster, giving you more free time.
Best Regards, Cornflake
P.S. Writing slashdot comments in the form a letter is fun.
How much sleep does everyone really need? Maybe this should be an ask slashdot thing.
Yeah, I agree I think that would be a interesting discussion.
I think the reason why you have trouble sleeping more then 4 hours a night is because your body's biological time-clock is schedule based. Since you've only slept 3-4 hours a night your body gets used to it. However, even if you feel okay, sleeping this sparingly weakens your immune system and probably has other long term health effects.
Doesn't "kamikaze" translate to Divine Wind/Spirit Wind?
I'm not a huge WWII buff, but I believe during the Pacific War (or whatever), the Japanese government recruited literally all of their young men (including college students). They basically were given a kamikaze short course on how to fly, and then were sent on their final mission. My guess is that the gov't used the spiritual connotation as propaganda. I think very few kamikaze pilots believed they were doing it for divine ascension.
Slashdot Mirror
It's an excellent example of transparency and openness in dealing with a situation most companies would be anxious to sweep under the rug.
Yeah, like CCP has never been guilty of sweeping things under the rug.
Learn to ride this bike, and you can have a lot of fun.
If Eve is a bike, then instead of having pedals and handlebars to control, it has complicated and unintuitive set of buttons that take a full day of tutorials to understand. Then once you get this bike, you have to ride the same trails over and over until you can get a better bike. Then once you get a better bike you ride a more challenging set of trails over and over, until the boredom is unbearable. Once you get a good enough bike to race against other bikes (or you just get sick of the trails), you find that all the veterans will always have better equipment, skills, and money then you. So only way to way to win at bike races is to get a bunch of friends, sit outside a gate, and beat the shit out of any unsuspecting bikers that come through, and then race them while they have broken legs.
1. $300-$400 is about a 50% increase of price over a decent Phenom II setup.
2. The 920 i7 is only marginally better than the 940 PII, from the benchmarks I've seen.
3. The i7 920 will not "last longer" than the P2. If a CPU becomes obsolete, a CPU that's 20% faster is most likely obsolete as well. 24 fps might be better than 20 fps, but it's not nearly enough for first person shooters.
4. I don't do video encoding, image processing, or compile any large projects on my home computer, so I think I will rarely see the benefits.
I'm just not convinced that spending an extra $400 will yield me any significant benefit. Although maybe I'm just not as rich as you.
For me, the fact that the i7 is only about 10-20% faster than the Phenom for more than twice the cost, it's simply not worth considering for me. Then again, I do most of my gaming on consoles
Not to mention the fact most games bottleneck at the graphics card, and not the CPU. So that 10%-20% faster CPU isn't guaranteed to give you 10%-20% increase in FPS. Phenom II is definitely the way to go if you want the best gang for your buck, imo.
Maybe I can buy myself a good UID and the girls will go crazy on me.
I believe you might have come up with the worst strategy for getting girls, ever.
Obama has a child-like view of the world. The notion that everyone can be reasoned with isn't diplomacy, it's stupidity. Ask a rape victim how saying no to her attacker went over.
Saying Obama has a child-like view of the world is a ridiculous claim. He obviously isn't going down the diplomacy route for every single situation. If that were true, he would be pulling troops from Afghanistan, but instead, he wants to reinforce efforts there with more troops. Like most intelligent and observational people, Obama realized that when we drop more bombs on a country, and we act more like an occupational military, it's more likely we will create enemies then destroy them. So he is truly taking the approach of "Military action only when necessary" instead of Bush's philosophy of "Convince the public that military action is necessary, even though it isn't."
That's an interesting point, indeed. However, I would like to know what the probability of us being first is. How old is earth relative to the rest of the universe? How long does it take for intelligent life to form, and is that a long time relative to the age of the universe? Considering the size of the universe, I would say the chances of us being first (if there are others) are pretty insanely low, if not impossible, but what do I know, I'm just a slashdotter.
It's a really BAD precedent to set, to legally enforce the idea that a software developer can FORCE a customer to use their product only in specific ways they outline.
Blizzard isn't really forcing anyone to play in a specific way. They are asking for the right to kick people out who are worsening the experience for everyone else. Are you saying that bars shouldn't be allowed to kick out belligerents who are being annoying, obnoxious, and possibly dangerous? Your operating system analogy is bad one (not saying mine isn't bad either, but it's better) because using "any" P2P software isn't inherently bad at all. There really isn't any evidence that having P2P software on your computer would worsen the experience of people on other computers.
Or imagine if you bought the latest edition of a "Call of Duty" game, only to find out the EULA stated it was illegal to play except on weekends? Blizzard has effectively won the legal ability for developers to state and enforce anything like this they'd like to put in the agreement!
Not that I'm saying that the judges ruling isn't cause for concern, but you are blowing things out of proportion to the point where I don't know how you got modded insightful. I'm sure the judges ruling wasn't "software developers can enforce their users to do whatever the fuck they want." In other words, I'm not worried that a developer will create some ridiculous EULA that will limit my ability to play as a gamer. I'm worried that, as a developer myself, if I write a piece of software that might enhance (not necessarily in the form of cheating) the experience of a game or a set of games in any way, that I will be at their mercy, and can only pray that they don't use this ruling to sue me.
I don't think you have read this entire thread. The GP and GGP were saying you couldn't directly take over buildings in Starcraft (excluding the zerg queen being able to infest a Terran command center, but really it still becomes a Zerg building type (Infested Commanded Center)). Neither GP nor GGP were implying that it was impossible to have both buildings, just that there was no way to directly convert them to your side (like command and conquer).
This reminds me of Agent Smith's comments in The Matrix about humans being better classified as a virus than a mammal since we can't seem to contain ourselves to live with the resources available.
Are you actually saying that you agree with agent Smith's views?? Wow. You realize that he was an antagonist that hated humans, right?
You're no longer President, George. Let the grown ups handle these issues now.
I feel a little nerdish for doing this, but....
There's no such thing as a Robotics Lab in Starcraft. There is, however, a Robotics Support Bay and a Robotics Facility, but those are Protoss buildings. Having a Terran and a Protoss prerequisite makes so sense. Perhaps you meant a Physics Lab? Now if you excuse me, I have to dodge the incoming projectiles that have been thrown at me by people who don't give a shit.
*ducks
You can say the exact same thing with movies: it's all fake, no-one actually dies. In either medium, violence is depicted, and that's why the adjective "violent" is assigned to them.
Regardless, I think you and GP are making the same point. If it's pretend, why the hell does it matter if there is blood or not?
And they'd still complain about it being cold, even as you sat there sweating like a pig, wearing a wife-beater, with your feet in cold water, and a cold can of wife-beater in your hand.
Maybe he wouldn't feel so hot if he wasn't beating his wife all the time?
And in other news six is afraid of 7, because 7, 8, 9
Oh, that makes sense! I always thought 6 was just a big pussy.
Microsoft spent billions of dollars of replacing the RRoD'd units, and the issues have been resolved in newer versions of the console.
Let me get this straight. You would rather MS just recall every single 360, even though most of them don't RRoD (defect rate was around 33%)?
WTF? are you so blinded by Obama lust that you'd be willing to sacrifice your left testicle. I never said he'd have a good justification, just that he'd want to do it. What if the reason was as you say, but there was no reliable evidence that it would work? would you still be ok with being partial emasculated?
Wow, talk about taking about what people say out of context. You obviously aren't reading what I am writing. It's almost like you're a fox news interviewer. You are no longer worth my time.
If Obama's policy were to take all men over the age of 15 and cut out their left testicle, that wouldn't be a good policy, and desiring him to fail would not be bad for Society.
I obviously wouldn't want the EXECUTION of this policy to succeed. But if it were executed, I would at least hope that the removing of everyone's left testicle would provide significant health benefits (maybe reduces risk of testicular cancer or HIV transmission). So in a way I still would want the policy to succeed.
besides this is all about what Rush thinks Obama is going to try to do. If Obama turns around and starts trying to revive the economy using methods that Rush is espousing, then he'll wish Obama all the success in the world implementing his plans.
I still don't think Limbaugh makes any sense though. Even if he think Obama is implementing, in his opinion, some horribly detrimental policies. If these policies surpass his expectations and succeed, it means that economy turned around and things are looking hopeful again. I just don't see why any one wouldn't want that.
You think that is obvious? You don't think poison or a big bomb might be a lot more effective? I'd argue that largely untrained children with guns are a lot less effective than other techniques they could turn to or at the very least you need to provide some data if you want me to accept this hypothesis.
Since when do we not restrict people having large explosives or biological weapons? Just because the GP didn't mention these weapons, you assume that he wants to restrict guns but not restrict explosives. Talk about a fucking straw man, sheesh.
But I think what the OP says is true. Restrict people from having guns, school attacks will be less deadly.
Okay, you think that. Why do you think that? Do you have any information or is it just based upon emotion? Do you have any actual studies to back up your hypothesis or is it completely untested?
Do people need to make a hypothesis for every claim they make? Come on, man. The GP is obviously just using some common sense. If you got attacked by a mugger, would you rather be mugged by an armed person or not? Don't be stupid.
by placing emphasis on this portion of your transcript it becomes apparent that, while Rush says he wants Obama to fail, it's becuase of Policy decisions he's expected to make, and he wants those policy decisions to fail b/c he believes they are bad for America.
This makes no sense. If a policy fails, regardless if it's a good policy or a bad policy, it still has a negative effect on society. I thought Iraq was one of the most monumentally horrible policy decisions made during my adult life time, but I would never hope that it would fail. Failing would mean thousands of US soldiers dead for no reason, a country left in chaos, and a more unstable and dangerous Middle East. Likewise, if Obama's policies fail, it would entail an economy that's worse than it is now, which would likely raise the unemployment rate, homelessness, crime, etc. In light of these facts, I conclude that Limbaugh is a huge asshole.
Wrong chair thrower, my friend. I believe he was talking about Steve Ballmer.
Dear philspear,
Sorry for making the assumption that if you can buy a PS3, and have the free time to play it, that you have enough disposable income to upgrade your computer once every 3 years. Also, upgrading your 8 year old computer will not only allow you to play better games, it will make your non-gaming activities move along faster, giving you more free time.
Best Regards,
Cornflake
P.S. Writing slashdot comments in the form a letter is fun.
Dear AC:
Please play TF2 on a PC: The platform that TF2 (or any fps for that matter) was meant to be played on.
Thanks
How much sleep does everyone really need? Maybe this should be an ask slashdot thing.
Yeah, I agree I think that would be a interesting discussion.
I think the reason why you have trouble sleeping more then 4 hours a night is because your body's biological time-clock is schedule based. Since you've only slept 3-4 hours a night your body gets used to it. However, even if you feel okay, sleeping this sparingly weakens your immune system and probably has other long term health effects.
Doesn't "kamikaze" translate to Divine Wind/Spirit Wind?
I'm not a huge WWII buff, but I believe during the Pacific War (or whatever), the Japanese government recruited literally all of their young men (including college students). They basically were given a kamikaze short course on how to fly, and then were sent on their final mission. My guess is that the gov't used the spiritual connotation as propaganda. I think very few kamikaze pilots believed they were doing it for divine ascension.