Pfft. You obviously don't play online games very often. Standard practice is to assume everybody is gay until proven otherwise, then assume they're lying about their sexual preferences.
But does it really belong in the context of a gaming network? I mean, do I really need to know the sexual preferences of the people I'm griefing? You still die the same, so it doesn't change anything.
It's called "attention whoring" and it is the sole reason sites like Facebook and MySpace exist. Seriously, what the hell does sexual orientation matter when gaming? Do I really need to know that you like it up the ass when I'm backburning said ass as a pyro in TF2? It neither fits the context of the game nor does it change my perspective towards the game. Cuz it's a fucking game, not a social network.
If there's enough accountability within a company, then yeah, your beancounter doesn't want to be "the guy" responsible for turning down a backup that could've saved the company $millions.
Actually now that I think about it all they'd have to do is check the odometer reading in addition to taking the GPS data. If the two don't match up within an acceptable margin of error, then it's been tampered with.
How is that handled in Oregon though? I mean, in California, for somewhat obvious reasons, hybrids are exempt from smog checks, and their emissions are so damn low compared to conventional vehicles anyways that it makes very little sense to require smog checks of them just as a veiled attempt to read the car's odometer.
The difference between a Republican and a Democrat becomes glaringly obvious in a recession.
A Republican won't raise taxes, but will spend the government into its own bankruptcy while pocketing enough to buy himself a banana republic.
A Democrat will raise taxes and spend the government into its own bankruptcy despite the raised taxes while pocketing enough to buy himself a banana republic.
For the best mileage of my car (~400 miles on 13 gallons) that's $4.80 vs $3.12 (at 24 cents a gallon). A 52.5% increase in the gas tax, essentially.
See, they could just increase the gas tax by 50% or thereabouts but they'd look like the bad guys. This way they get away with "abolishing the gas tax" which looks great on TV but not so great on a calculator.
Don't you mean charging more for vehicle registration (renewals)? You get your license plate once, and that's that, it's yours. You have to renew your registration every year though, and the amount ideally would be proportional to the vehicle's rated MPG, among other things (I suspect vehicle age is also a factor).
Activate the switches connected to the radio towers and then use the contrast between signal and noise to find the "hidden" entrances. It's intentional.
And Bethsoft did their homework here. The Morse code actually means something.
I keep bringing up this example in these discussions, but what could become Steam's rival, Stardock's Impulse, doesn't have login restrictions. You can log into your Impulse account to download and play on multiple computers simultaneously and Impulse generally doesn't care.
Except they're not going house to house looking for violators.
In this particular case, they were invited in. If you invite the authorities in, even for something completely unrelated, and they see something amiss, they don't need to come back with a warrant to bust you right then and there for it.
So what, the machines failed to count votes altogether? Or just in some specific circumstances?
If it's the former, I wonder how the hell they managed to get anything done in the first place, and secondly, why would it take this long to file suit against Diebold over it?
If it's the latter, then your analogy is flawed. It's not that the cars won't start, it's that they're not firing on all cylinders all the time. A further complication is that, depending on necessity, not firing on all cylinders when it's not necessary isn't necessarily a Bad Thing, so long as no fuel is being injected into those cylinders.
This is why car analogies are generally a bad idea... incidentally, the AC won't work if the engine doesn't run, unless it's a Prius, but we all know our government wasn't designed that well.
Do you inevitably start wondering what the hell is up with all of those TCP checksum errors when you run a packet sniffer on traffic handled by the onboard NIC?
It's an old bug that nvidia still has yet to fix, started in the nForce4's and has remained in all nforce boards since. You have to disable TCP checksum offloading, otherwise the NIC will continuously discard otherwise perfectly good packets as failing their checksum (and of course, request resends, which will also fail, ad infinitum).
4gb and you're still getting swapping, and it kills your system's performance?
What overall specs are we talking about here?
I mean just for the sake of context, I'm running an AMD X2 5600, 8GB of RAM, Vista x64, and it's installed to a 150GB WD Raptor, so maybe my perceptions are colored by above-average specs, but my hard drive isn't constantly getting pegged either.
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Pfft. You obviously don't play online games very often. Standard practice is to assume everybody is gay until proven otherwise, then assume they're lying about their sexual preferences.
But does it really belong in the context of a gaming network? I mean, do I really need to know the sexual preferences of the people I'm griefing? You still die the same, so it doesn't change anything.
It's called "attention whoring" and it is the sole reason sites like Facebook and MySpace exist. Seriously, what the hell does sexual orientation matter when gaming? Do I really need to know that you like it up the ass when I'm backburning said ass as a pyro in TF2? It neither fits the context of the game nor does it change my perspective towards the game. Cuz it's a fucking game, not a social network.
If there's enough accountability within a company, then yeah, your beancounter doesn't want to be "the guy" responsible for turning down a backup that could've saved the company $millions.
Actually now that I think about it all they'd have to do is check the odometer reading in addition to taking the GPS data. If the two don't match up within an acceptable margin of error, then it's been tampered with.
How is that handled in Oregon though? I mean, in California, for somewhat obvious reasons, hybrids are exempt from smog checks, and their emissions are so damn low compared to conventional vehicles anyways that it makes very little sense to require smog checks of them just as a veiled attempt to read the car's odometer.
The problem there is that most road damage is caused by diesel-powered big rigs. Incidentally, diesel is more efficient than gasoline.
The difference between a Republican and a Democrat becomes glaringly obvious in a recession.
A Republican won't raise taxes, but will spend the government into its own bankruptcy while pocketing enough to buy himself a banana republic.
A Democrat will raise taxes and spend the government into its own bankruptcy despite the raised taxes while pocketing enough to buy himself a banana republic.
Because they'd have to justify a 50% increase in the tax (or more) to break even with their plan of 1.2 cents per mile.
24 cents a gallon vs 1.2 cents a mile.
For the best mileage of my car (~400 miles on 13 gallons) that's $4.80 vs $3.12 (at 24 cents a gallon). A 52.5% increase in the gas tax, essentially.
See, they could just increase the gas tax by 50% or thereabouts but they'd look like the bad guys. This way they get away with "abolishing the gas tax" which looks great on TV but not so great on a calculator.
They likely want something in the guise of "repealing the gas tax" to make themselves look great to the math-challenged masses.
But that'd be obvious.
Cut the wires instead. Who's gonna know?
Don't you mean charging more for vehicle registration (renewals)? You get your license plate once, and that's that, it's yours. You have to renew your registration every year though, and the amount ideally would be proportional to the vehicle's rated MPG, among other things (I suspect vehicle age is also a factor).
Activate the switches connected to the radio towers and then use the contrast between signal and noise to find the "hidden" entrances. It's intentional.
And Bethsoft did their homework here. The Morse code actually means something.
I keep bringing up this example in these discussions, but what could become Steam's rival, Stardock's Impulse, doesn't have login restrictions. You can log into your Impulse account to download and play on multiple computers simultaneously and Impulse generally doesn't care.
Add the largest bank failure in US history (no link, no point (i'm lazy), it's all over the fscking news) to that list.
Leave Steam running for a week or longer and then check its memory usage.
Except you can only be logged into your Steam account on one computer at a time.
Impulse doesn't care.
My best friend built a trailer for his dirtbike back when we were that age. Even had it powder-coated.
His day job is construction and his side job is rebuilding car and boat engines.
FYI, BioShock also has SecuROM.
Except they're not going house to house looking for violators.
In this particular case, they were invited in. If you invite the authorities in, even for something completely unrelated, and they see something amiss, they don't need to come back with a warrant to bust you right then and there for it.
That's what he gets for living in an area with a HOA. He chose his poison when he chose where to live.
So what, the machines failed to count votes altogether? Or just in some specific circumstances?
If it's the former, I wonder how the hell they managed to get anything done in the first place, and secondly, why would it take this long to file suit against Diebold over it?
If it's the latter, then your analogy is flawed. It's not that the cars won't start, it's that they're not firing on all cylinders all the time. A further complication is that, depending on necessity, not firing on all cylinders when it's not necessary isn't necessarily a Bad Thing, so long as no fuel is being injected into those cylinders.
This is why car analogies are generally a bad idea... incidentally, the AC won't work if the engine doesn't run, unless it's a Prius, but we all know our government wasn't designed that well.
Do you inevitably start wondering what the hell is up with all of those TCP checksum errors when you run a packet sniffer on traffic handled by the onboard NIC?
It's an old bug that nvidia still has yet to fix, started in the nForce4's and has remained in all nforce boards since. You have to disable TCP checksum offloading, otherwise the NIC will continuously discard otherwise perfectly good packets as failing their checksum (and of course, request resends, which will also fail, ad infinitum).
And ActiveArmor was garbage.
4gb and you're still getting swapping, and it kills your system's performance?
What overall specs are we talking about here?
I mean just for the sake of context, I'm running an AMD X2 5600, 8GB of RAM, Vista x64, and it's installed to a 150GB WD Raptor, so maybe my perceptions are colored by above-average specs, but my hard drive isn't constantly getting pegged either.