You are in with the old crowd here. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a few years old, except for Pripyat, and even then the graphics are the most dated part of the game.
And, yes, gameplay is what really matters. I still break out M.U.L.E. occasionally, and, guess who joins? My hardcore gaming kids, aged 8, 12, and 14.
Read that again: Game play IS the top priority in a game's longevity.
M.U.L.E. Age of Empires Age of Mythology DOOM/DOOM2 Freelancer Serious Sam Oblivion Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield Counter Strike (Half-Life1 AND 2 versions) Quake, Quake2 CTF
These are just a few that drive home the "game play matters" idea. Notice how almost all of those are over 5 years old? My guess is that it is that we are in the era of "Milk the online play", and past the "Make it worthy of replay" era.
You've gotten no virus that you are AWARE of. Smart malware backdoors your PC and keylogs, or uses IRC or similar communication to escalate itself on command. You aren't likely to see that new service running within svchost. I never ran antivirus, until I realized that we are in an age where a decent AV has zero real impact on performance. Even a Windows box, if it is 64 bit, with a modest quad core and 4 or more gigs of RAM, will not feel most antivirus at all. Before you go ape over a modest desktop using 4 cores, realize that AMD has several retail quads between 120 and 200 bucks. I have actually not seen impact on 2.8 Ghz dual core Athlon X2s, as long as there was sufficient memory. The X2s are running sub-$100 right now.
BGP is, like all routing protocols, very secure in and of itself. The difficulty is that a router peering with all routers on the internet can "inject" bad routes, and the "mail" gets reliably delivered to a wrong address. This is ONLY a difficulty if you can somehow gain access to a router that is directly connected to a backbone, and has peering status. You will have to have your own Autonomous System number also, although I am sure you could fake that.
The only time that I have seen even isolated internet routing issues is due to mis-configuration of the router by the owner. Well, that and the extremely rare (yes, really, it is rare) OWNing of an edge router.
I am not all- knowing on this subject; far from it. If someone has something to add/update/correct, please do.
And new regulations cost resources. People will still die to idiocy/understaffing. Why don't you focus your ire on the benefits of paying nurses better AND increasing staffing. If nursing pays better, more people choose that route. More pay also means you can have higher standards. More staffing means less overtime hours. Less overtime offsets some of the increase to base pay.
This is the better approach. No government needed. The industry itself makes a standards group, and self resolves.
People pushing for more government interference on matters like these are likely the same folks wanting to make the millions of illegal immigrants legal, and to further reduce border controls. What happens to already understaffed hospitals when their legitimate patient load goes up by 10% for more than just dire emergencies? BTW, the answer should be self-evident.
This is exactly my thinking. the government protecting me from anything needs to be questioned. Despite idealistic notions, mistakes DO happen. The government cannot guarantee anything here. More regulation of stupid, trivial things takes away time and resources that could be spent on preventing serious issues. Like drug side effects, or the extremely long backlog of drugs needing approval to SAVE lives.
Lawsuits are put to good use in instances like these, where the manufacturers don't differentiate fittings or tubing. The FDA is unneeded.
I don't know about other people's towns, but the wealthy neighborhoods in my town are populated with extreme left liberals. Well, left -appearing-, because if you come after THEIR money, you better bring backup. Many of these people are "directors" for "charities" and non profits. Of course that generous effort that they are always getting praise for is hardly compensated for by the low six figure stipend they get.
If people just looked around them, and actually cared for their fellow man, bought locally, and didn't over spend on credit, we would need almost zero entitlements.
This country is fucked, and BOTH parties are doing us without condoms. Yes, I acknowledge that Repubs fuck us over hard also. I'd just rather have my guns and some semblance of capitalism instead of government programs out the ass, and having others dictate what my family can and can't do in our own home. And again, yes the Patriot Act can also kiss my ass.
While I do see truth in much of what Glenn Beck and others say, I do take a similar stand to yours on "trickle down economics". It did work well in the Reagan era. I believe we are in a different era now, with different dynamics. We produce FAR less real anything, and have a large portion of our economy derived from the stock market. The stock market, in my opinion, is just money arbitrarily assigned to pieces of entities with dubious value or real worth. Of course, I must disclose that I genuinely believe that the "market" is bad for us at this point. So many people making a living off of money is bound to end badly.
I don't need the government to coddle me with any counseling. I don't want the government fucking with MY medical records. The United States government was never meant to do much of what is is doing now.
Do you have actual PROOF Glenn Beck is making ANYTHING up, or are you just shaking your head in a "me too" fashion here. Remember that a lie repeated often enough can be -percieved- as truth. It is still a lie.
It is SO telling that this spew of wannabe-intellectual vitriol is modded insightful. What is sad is what is being told by this. It's pretty obvious to even my low-brow self that this site is overwhelmingly populated by people who believe that it is a bright sunny day (Obama's stimulus and helath care changes are making private sector jobs, and saving lives), when it is actually raining dog piss (ever increasing unemployment, insecure borders, trillions added to the deficit, states going into default, Obama Care being amended so if adds to the deficit.....etc), and they are standing out in it praising the bringer of the warm yellow sunshine.
The only thing I see is that Bush fucked up, followed by Obama promising transparency, jobs, a recession recovery, reduced deficit, Guantanamo closing, and Health care for all at a net profit to the government budget. None of the promises are kept. NONE. Automakers are now part owned by the government AND the unions. States are going into default. We are going to give amnesty to illegal immigrants. We don't get 3 days to review bills and amendments as promised..... Fuck the list gets bigger almost daily. Liberals wanted to lynch the Executive over the BUSINESS aspects of BP oil for going on vacation mid-crisis, while our African(Kenya born, I maintain) overlord goes on multiple grand vacations while the bulk of us are mired in the deepest recession since Reagan entered office.
Left, Right, Center. I don't give a fuck. In fact, I am third-gen Irish don't give a fuck, and even I can see that the ENTIRETY of our government is self-serving and forever growing in scope and control.
If I were an intellectual, would I somehow suddenly like another person telling me that I HAVE to wear a seat belt, and that I must help pay for entitlements for lazy people as well as legitimately forced into poverty? Would I somehow become ignorant of the fact that Social Security is failing due to all of those government written IOUs over the past 2 decades?
God, please make me smart enough to become oblivious to the obvious.
I call B.S. I grew up with 1st edition. 4th has countless modifiers to every aspect. Another ridiculous characteristic is a large number of "powers" for melee classes. Give me a break. I look at my wizard, and see my daughter's Ranger has a similar number of powers. It's garbage. 4th edition is modeled closely to MMOs and similar games. Every one has a tray of "powers", and you are a striker, healer, aoe caster, or defender.
Yep, that's it. The rest are modules, or TRULY optional, like Deities and Demigods.
I don't know what 1st edition YOU played, but there weren't even 6 books in the first five years of the one I played's existence. Not sayong you are lying, but, well, okay, I AM saying you are lying. There were never 30 BOOKS for first edition, much less 50. GTFO.
I did. After trying to play it for over 8 hours, my daughter and I decided that it was horrible, and a complete waste of time. We could not interact, and frequently had collision issues, client crashes, and AI issues. The hack was god-awful to implement, and insufferable to play.
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You are in with the old crowd here. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a few years old, except for Pripyat, and even then the graphics are the most dated part of the game.
And, yes, gameplay is what really matters. I still break out M.U.L.E. occasionally, and, guess who joins? My hardcore gaming kids, aged 8, 12, and 14.
Read that again: Game play IS the top priority in a game's longevity.
M.U.L.E.
Age of Empires
Age of Mythology
DOOM/DOOM2
Freelancer
Serious Sam
Oblivion
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
Counter Strike (Half-Life1 AND 2 versions)
Quake, Quake2 CTF
These are just a few that drive home the "game play matters" idea. Notice how almost all of those are over 5 years old? My guess is that it is that we are in the era of "Milk the online play", and past the "Make it worthy of replay" era.
You've gotten no virus that you are AWARE of. Smart malware backdoors your PC and keylogs, or uses IRC or similar communication to escalate itself on command. You aren't likely to see that new service running within svchost. I never ran antivirus, until I realized that we are in an age where a decent AV has zero real impact on performance. Even a Windows box, if it is 64 bit, with a modest quad core and 4 or more gigs of RAM, will not feel most antivirus at all. Before you go ape over a modest desktop using 4 cores, realize that AMD has several retail quads between 120 and 200 bucks. I have actually not seen impact on 2.8 Ghz dual core Athlon X2s, as long as there was sufficient memory. The X2s are running sub-$100 right now.
BGP is, like all routing protocols, very secure in and of itself. The difficulty is that a router peering with all routers on the internet can "inject" bad routes, and the "mail" gets reliably delivered to a wrong address. This is ONLY a difficulty if you can somehow gain access to a router that is directly connected to a backbone, and has peering status. You will have to have your own Autonomous System number also, although I am sure you could fake that.
The only time that I have seen even isolated internet routing issues is due to mis-configuration of the router by the owner. Well, that and the extremely rare (yes, really, it is rare) OWNing of an edge router.
I am not all- knowing on this subject; far from it. If someone has something to add/update/correct, please do.
BAM!!! good post!
And new regulations cost resources. People will still die to idiocy/understaffing. Why don't you focus your ire on the benefits of paying nurses better AND increasing staffing. If nursing pays better, more people choose that route. More pay also means you can have higher standards. More staffing means less overtime hours. Less overtime offsets some of the increase to base pay.
Everyone wins.
This is the better approach. No government needed. The industry itself makes a standards group, and self resolves.
People pushing for more government interference on matters like these are likely the same folks wanting to make the millions of illegal immigrants legal, and to further reduce border controls. What happens to already understaffed hospitals when their legitimate patient load goes up by 10% for more than just dire emergencies? BTW, the answer should be self-evident.
This is exactly my thinking. the government protecting me from anything needs to be questioned. Despite idealistic notions, mistakes DO happen. The government cannot guarantee anything here. More regulation of stupid, trivial things takes away time and resources that could be spent on preventing serious issues. Like drug side effects, or the extremely long backlog of drugs needing approval to SAVE lives.
Lawsuits are put to good use in instances like these, where the manufacturers don't differentiate fittings or tubing. The FDA is unneeded.
No, but speaking of those doesn't server the GPs agenda.....
Chicago. 'nuff said?
One word:
Pelosi
Where is your data for this. You are making broad negative generalizations with zero citations.
Idiot.
I don't know about other people's towns, but the wealthy neighborhoods in my town are populated with extreme left liberals. Well, left -appearing-, because if you come after THEIR money, you better bring backup. Many of these people are "directors" for "charities" and non profits. Of course that generous effort that they are always getting praise for is hardly compensated for by the low six figure stipend they get.
If people just looked around them, and actually cared for their fellow man, bought locally, and didn't over spend on credit, we would need almost zero entitlements.
This country is fucked, and BOTH parties are doing us without condoms. Yes, I acknowledge that Repubs fuck us over hard also. I'd just rather have my guns and some semblance of capitalism instead of government programs out the ass, and having others dictate what my family can and can't do in our own home. And again, yes the Patriot Act can also kiss my ass.
That post is SO full of FAIL. I will not even bother to start addressing what you got wrong there. I will summarize with : all of it.
Perhaps working class people don't want to ask for a handout, and don't want to pay for someone else's either?
Does this ring a bell: "I ain't asking nobody for nothin', I can get it all on my own...." ?
While I do see truth in much of what Glenn Beck and others say, I do take a similar stand to yours on "trickle down economics". It did work well in the Reagan era. I believe we are in a different era now, with different dynamics. We produce FAR less real anything, and have a large portion of our economy derived from the stock market.
The stock market, in my opinion, is just money arbitrarily assigned to pieces of entities with dubious value or real worth. Of course, I must disclose that I genuinely believe that the "market" is bad for us at this point. So many people making a living off of money is bound to end badly.
^^ This ^^
Unless they use that tactic involving passing on a majority only.
You shouldn't have to post AC to say the truth. I see you feel you do have to post AC for fear of retribution.
The truth was told, so good enough.
I don't need the government to coddle me with any counseling. I don't want the government fucking with MY medical records. The United States government was never meant to do much of what is is doing now.
Do you have actual PROOF Glenn Beck is making ANYTHING up, or are you just shaking your head in a "me too" fashion here. Remember that a lie repeated often enough can be -percieved- as truth. It is still a lie.
It is SO telling that this spew of wannabe-intellectual vitriol is modded insightful. What is sad is what is being told by this. It's pretty obvious to even my low-brow self that this site is overwhelmingly populated by people who believe that it is a bright sunny day (Obama's stimulus and helath care changes are making private sector jobs, and saving lives), when it is actually raining dog piss (ever increasing unemployment, insecure borders, trillions added to the deficit, states going into default, Obama Care being amended so if adds to the deficit.....etc), and they are standing out in it praising the bringer of the warm yellow sunshine.
The only thing I see is that Bush fucked up, followed by Obama promising transparency, jobs, a recession recovery, reduced deficit, Guantanamo closing, and Health care for all at a net profit to the government budget.
None of the promises are kept. NONE. Automakers are now part owned by the government AND the unions. States are going into default. We are going to give amnesty to illegal immigrants. We don't get 3 days to review bills and amendments as promised..... Fuck the list gets bigger almost daily. Liberals wanted to lynch the Executive over the BUSINESS aspects of BP oil for going on vacation mid-crisis, while our African(Kenya born, I maintain) overlord goes on multiple grand vacations while the bulk of us are mired in the deepest recession since Reagan entered office.
Left, Right, Center. I don't give a fuck. In fact, I am third-gen Irish don't give a fuck, and even I can see that the ENTIRETY of our government is self-serving and forever growing in scope and control.
If I were an intellectual, would I somehow suddenly like another person telling me that I HAVE to wear a seat belt, and that I must help pay for entitlements for lazy people as well as legitimately forced into poverty? Would I somehow become ignorant of the fact that Social Security is failing due to all of those government written IOUs over the past 2 decades?
God, please make me smart enough to become oblivious to the obvious.
I call B.S. I grew up with 1st edition. 4th has countless modifiers to every aspect. Another ridiculous characteristic is a large number of "powers" for melee classes. Give me a break. I look at my wizard, and see my daughter's Ranger has a similar number of powers. It's garbage. 4th edition is modeled closely to MMOs and similar games. Every one has a tray of "powers", and you are a striker, healer, aoe caster, or defender.
Garbage.
Let's see:
DM Guide
Player's Handbook
Monster Manual
Monster Manual II
Yep, that's it.
The rest are modules, or TRULY optional, like Deities and Demigods.
I don't know what 1st edition YOU played, but there weren't even 6 books in the first five years of the one I played's existence. Not sayong you are lying, but, well, okay, I AM saying you are lying. There were never 30 BOOKS for first edition, much less 50. GTFO.
Actually, many of the other books include spells, rituals, and powers from level 1 on up. New classes and paths are also included.
Oh, and just to make it more enticing, the added books of course will contain the "cool" (read as over powered) abilities and features.
I did. After trying to play it for over 8 hours, my daughter and I decided that it was horrible, and a complete waste of time. We could not interact, and frequently had collision issues, client crashes, and AI issues. The hack was god-awful to implement, and insufferable to play.
Do nerds only go to private schools?