The unfortunate side effect of legalizing drugs is that we will be in effect giving up on the communities -- and they do exist -- that have managed to resist the drug epidemic of the last several decades.
Anyway, it is impossible to separate the problems of drugs and race in America. Since we cannot talk about the second honestly, we do not have a shot at the first.
Morrowind was like this for me. The frustratingly long walks everywhere. The pointless leveling. The combat style that lacked any element of fun.
I think that this sort of style in gaming is getting more popular in all genres. If developers do not have to worry about fun, they can concentrate on the parts of a game that do not require inspiration. They pretty up the art. They can program by template instead of using new ideas.
Well, first of all, you need to understand that it is only okay to kill white people in games, or at least make sure whites are the majority body count. That rules out games about Pol Pot and the Rwandan murderers right there. And while Stalin is white and did kill a lot of people, they were not from any approved minority victim group, so his genocides do not count. That leaves Hitler as the only one you can make a game about.
Did we get to see this guy before the launch? I am not advocating a conspiracy or anything, but I would bet that China had a backup prepared to make the media appearances if anything had gone wrong. They were certainly quite worried about having the launch televised.
So just buy a PC, you religious nuts. Microsoft has perfectly valid reasons for not giving a crap about Mac users. If I were Bill Gates, I would reply to this by removing Hebrew support from Office for Windows. What are they going to do, use Linux? Yeah right. I can just see productivity plummeting.
I notice this is mainly talking about the toxicity of uranium. This makes me think that depleted uranium from munitions might be a main target for cleanup. It is a heavy metal and all, but I wonder how dangerous it really is once you get past all the media crackpottery on the subject.
In fact, I use Firebird (Phoenix, mainly nightlies) and Thunderbird, which I like a lot. Both Firebird and Opera crash more than IE, in my experience. But I have not used Opera for a while, and even Phoenix is doing better now than it used to a couple months back. Anyway, I just checked the Pivx vulnerabilities page and I notice that they've taken it down as a good faith move towards Microsoft. Wow. I should try submitting that to Slashdot.
Given that XP never gives be blue screen errors, and since I keep it updated and firewalled, I have never had a problem with a virus, I fail to see what more positive experience I would have. You do know that if you don't update your Linux machine you have security problems as well, right?
Did you run memtest and otherwise make sure your hardware was good? It could have been a bad driver. Your description makes it highly unlikely that you are experiencing a software problem.
I use Windows XP and keep it updated. Certain Linux distributions have some features I like, but Microsoft has them all beat. I suppose some people would probably like Macs, but there I know of nothing there that makes me want to try the switch. Microsoft is now as stable and secure as its competitors, given that a user buys good hardware and takes common sense precautions.
What I have had problems with lately is spam messages selling pills or something. Their subject heading contains a line of question marks like "meds????????", but it seems that varying the number of question marks lets some messages get through. I have yet to see a message that I want to keep get wrongly sorted to the Junk folder.
For my regular account Mozilla's filtering works fine. For my hotmail account, I get about 100 messages a day, with about 2-3 not caught by the filter. In the end bayesian filtering cannot ever completely replace the human eye. I think that most people know this, but I have heard some exaggerated claims.
I believe that raising children is the single most important act in any civilization -- for both men and women. Though women have the primary responsibility. It is a shame that our culture has lost so much of the respect for that act that it once had. I do not think that our children are being raised as well as they should be. And I do not think that women who undertake that task are being accorded the respect they should rightfully have.
(P.S. You can read a map?!? Well, I can ask for directions. Of course, I choose not to.)
Completely right. I read an interesting book on that some time back where the anthropologist author explains why no civilization in history has ever been "matriarchal" as it is commonly conceived. He debunks several of supposed exceptions, and then goes on to describe why the male drive causes a disproportionate number of males to attain the highest socially regarded positions in any society. For the same reason that a disproportionate number of males attain the least favored positions - criminals and so on.
But besides all that, I think that chess may be more like professional football than cooking. Some women are very good at it, but the top few hundred players are all male. Some of the difference is probably not due to competitive drive.
"Jane's Weapons of the World lists it as between 4.3 and 4.6 kilograms, depending on its particular type."
It? I sure as hell couldn't tell what she was holding from that picture. All I could get was a good idea of size and proportions.
I'm done with this thread.
And thank god for that. Between your inventing quotes of mine, dodging questions, and pretending to have said something you haven't, it hasn't been a great deal of fun.
I am dubious of this claim. The loss of the HL2 code was not actually as damaging as they claim. The cheats will be out there no matter what.
What game companies should be doing -- only they do not have the smarts to understand why it would be a good idea -- is pursuing open-source development right from the sort. Let any fan who wants to see the status of the completed project log-in and see the code at any time. Hell, let them send in their own code and save you the work.
What would a company lose? Will other game companies steal their code? Yeah right -- like they'd risk it. Valve's grandest dream is for id to steal even one line of HL2 code. They would morph into the SCO of the gaming world in about 5 seconds.
Would they lose out because "techniques" were stolen? Yeah right. Most game programming is the insertion of completely obvious techniques into a huge mess of a game. It is organization that is the hard part, and that cannot be stolen without lifting code wholesale.
So until some company wises up, we are going to hear a lot of whining from game companies about this sort of thing: "We are working so hard for the community, why are they so ungrateful as to do this to us poor programmers, now we'll delay the game." Cry me a river.
How much does the.408 CheyTac weigh again? You said it is lighter than the 11 pound Remington 700?
And is there some reason we are talking about bolt-action rifles and handguns, not semi-automatics? And where did you get the nine-and-a-half-pound rifle figure you mention later on?
It is the momentum of the round leaving the barrel that is the main consideration for how heavy a rifle should be. Yes, caliber alone is not the deciding factor, but in order to make an accurate rifle that uses a heavy round as light as one that does not one must reduce the velocity of the round. It is caliber that is the main trend here, and that was what I was pointing out.
"women are too small to handle full-caliber weapons"
I said that? Where? I am forced to admire your facilities for invention. My actual point was that the particular woman pictured was too small for the particular weapon pictured. Especially if we are to believe that she is carrying it around for the whole game.
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The unfortunate side effect of legalizing drugs is that we will be in effect giving up on the communities -- and they do exist -- that have managed to resist the drug epidemic of the last several decades.
Anyway, it is impossible to separate the problems of drugs and race in America. Since we cannot talk about the second honestly, we do not have a shot at the first.
Not as good as the flamethrower option for South African cars: http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9812/11/flame.thro wer.car/
For an idea of why this was ever considered you can read a few articles of Natasha Marchetti's Mandela Porn: http://exile.ru/176/176160000.html
Guaranteed to make you loose that good feeling that you got when you helped defeat Apartheid.
Morrowind was like this for me. The frustratingly long walks everywhere. The pointless leveling. The combat style that lacked any element of fun.
I think that this sort of style in gaming is getting more popular in all genres. If developers do not have to worry about fun, they can concentrate on the parts of a game that do not require inspiration. They pretty up the art. They can program by template instead of using new ideas.
Well, first of all, you need to understand that it is only okay to kill white people in games, or at least make sure whites are the majority body count. That rules out games about Pol Pot and the Rwandan murderers right there. And while Stalin is white and did kill a lot of people, they were not from any approved minority victim group, so his genocides do not count. That leaves Hitler as the only one you can make a game about.
I have said it before, and I will say it again; Nazis are the only appropriate subject for war game violence.
Why life and not sentience? "Life" as a biological term is something constructed to identify products of evolution.
Despite the Slashdot editor's incompetence about UCSD here, there is an important point to make about all this. The California law on the matter:t ion=edc&group=91001-92000&file=92000-92001 is a violation of the 1st amendment as it stands. It is clearly going much farther than the normal trademark protection.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?sec
Did we get to see this guy before the launch? I am not advocating a conspiracy or anything, but I would bet that China had a backup prepared to make the media appearances if anything had gone wrong. They were certainly quite worried about having the launch televised.
Should a business retaliate against customers? No, that is dumb. Should it retaliate against governments? You bet.
So just buy a PC, you religious nuts. Microsoft has perfectly valid reasons for not giving a crap about Mac users. If I were Bill Gates, I would reply to this by removing Hebrew support from Office for Windows. What are they going to do, use Linux? Yeah right. I can just see productivity plummeting.
I am just going to say: Neat.
I notice this is mainly talking about the toxicity of uranium. This makes me think that depleted uranium from munitions might be a main target for cleanup. It is a heavy metal and all, but I wonder how dangerous it really is once you get past all the media crackpottery on the subject.
In fact, I use Firebird (Phoenix, mainly nightlies) and Thunderbird, which I like a lot. Both Firebird and Opera crash more than IE, in my experience. But I have not used Opera for a while, and even Phoenix is doing better now than it used to a couple months back. Anyway, I just checked the Pivx vulnerabilities page and I notice that they've taken it down as a good faith move towards Microsoft. Wow. I should try submitting that to Slashdot.
Given that XP never gives be blue screen errors, and since I keep it updated and firewalled, I have never had a problem with a virus, I fail to see what more positive experience I would have. You do know that if you don't update your Linux machine you have security problems as well, right?
Did you run memtest and otherwise make sure your hardware was good? It could have been a bad driver. Your description makes it highly unlikely that you are experiencing a software problem.
I use Windows XP and keep it updated. Certain Linux distributions have some features I like, but Microsoft has them all beat. I suppose some people would probably like Macs, but there I know of nothing there that makes me want to try the switch. Microsoft is now as stable and secure as its competitors, given that a user buys good hardware and takes common sense precautions.
What I have had problems with lately is spam messages selling pills or something. Their subject heading contains a line of question marks like "meds????????", but it seems that varying the number of question marks lets some messages get through. I have yet to see a message that I want to keep get wrongly sorted to the Junk folder.
For my regular account Mozilla's filtering works fine. For my hotmail account, I get about 100 messages a day, with about 2-3 not caught by the filter. In the end bayesian filtering cannot ever completely replace the human eye. I think that most people know this, but I have heard some exaggerated claims.
I believe that raising children is the single most important act in any civilization -- for both men and women. Though women have the primary responsibility. It is a shame that our culture has lost so much of the respect for that act that it once had. I do not think that our children are being raised as well as they should be. And I do not think that women who undertake that task are being accorded the respect they should rightfully have.
(P.S. You can read a map?!? Well, I can ask for directions. Of course, I choose not to.)
Completely right. I read an interesting book on that some time back where the anthropologist author explains why no civilization in history has ever been "matriarchal" as it is commonly conceived. He debunks several of supposed exceptions, and then goes on to describe why the male drive causes a disproportionate number of males to attain the highest socially regarded positions in any society. For the same reason that a disproportionate number of males attain the least favored positions - criminals and so on.
But besides all that, I think that chess may be more like professional football than cooking. Some women are very good at it, but the top few hundred players are all male. Some of the difference is probably not due to competitive drive.
"Jane's Weapons of the World lists it as between 4.3 and 4.6 kilograms, depending on its particular type."
It? I sure as hell couldn't tell what she was holding from that picture. All I could get was a good idea of size and proportions.
I'm done with this thread.
And thank god for that. Between your inventing quotes of mine, dodging questions, and pretending to have said something you haven't, it hasn't been a great deal of fun.
I am dubious of this claim. The loss of the HL2 code was not actually as damaging as they claim. The cheats will be out there no matter what.
What game companies should be doing -- only they do not have the smarts to understand why it would be a good idea -- is pursuing open-source development right from the sort. Let any fan who wants to see the status of the completed project log-in and see the code at any time. Hell, let them send in their own code and save you the work.
What would a company lose? Will other game companies steal their code? Yeah right -- like they'd risk it. Valve's grandest dream is for id to steal even one line of HL2 code. They would morph into the SCO of the gaming world in about 5 seconds.
Would they lose out because "techniques" were stolen? Yeah right. Most game programming is the insertion of completely obvious techniques into a huge mess of a game. It is organization that is the hard part, and that cannot be stolen without lifting code wholesale.
So until some company wises up, we are going to hear a lot of whining from game companies about this sort of thing: "We are working so hard for the community, why are they so ungrateful as to do this to us poor programmers, now we'll delay the game." Cry me a river.
How much does the .408 CheyTac weigh again? You said it is lighter than the 11 pound Remington 700?
And is there some reason we are talking about bolt-action rifles and handguns, not semi-automatics? And where did you get the nine-and-a-half-pound rifle figure you mention later on?
It is the momentum of the round leaving the barrel that is the main consideration for how heavy a rifle should be. Yes, caliber alone is not the deciding factor, but in order to make an accurate rifle that uses a heavy round as light as one that does not one must reduce the velocity of the round. It is caliber that is the main trend here, and that was what I was pointing out.
"women are too small to handle full-caliber weapons"
I said that? Where? I am forced to admire your facilities for invention. My actual point was that the particular woman pictured was too small for the particular weapon pictured. Especially if we are to believe that she is carrying it around for the whole game.