OH, and when I say economy -- the game is segregated into matches each of which last anywhere between 15 - 75 minutes, but can be extended by vote. Your character can level up -- but characters aren't persistant -- you get a new one at the end of each match. And the economy is started fresh each time (the economy consists of "red stone" and "gold" which are used to build tech and buy tech respectively... controlling access to gold and stone are the primary ways in which a game is won)
I've always wanted to play an RTS where all the grunts on the ground were live players.
It exists, Its called "Savage". s2games.com. One of the best games ever made without a doubt. The company that distributed it totally screwed it up by releasing it before it was ready, and the guys who wrote it really did a lot of hard work on it to get it ready for prime time.
The genius of the game is that its *EXTREMELY* tactical but at the same time dumbasses can play it and smack stuff. It really takes a couple months of playing to understand the very intricate game economy, and how the weaponry and tech trees in the game interact with the game economy... but its flipping brilliant. There are a couple games coming out based on a similiar concept (one is just a mod to savage, the other is supposed to be a complete re-write which will take place in more like of a medieval time)
'People talked to each other, strangers met each other,'
I suppose if thats the kind of coffee shop the guy wants to have, hes entitled to it.. however, myself... I goto coffee shops to work. however I make sure to buy plenty of stuff to "pay my rent":)
Besides, why would you want to listen to the utter crap which is today's ClearChannel dominated FM radio landscape? Do you not have enough advertisements and reptition in your life?
Yea most of it is crap, but some of it isnt:) NPR... I like the john and ken show (although thats AM here in southern california). Also, apparently you dont goto a gym? Most gyms have 4 or 5 televisions in a room and they broadcast their audio over FM. It really helps kill the time.
What I really want from the ipod is OGG support... im sick of closed formats. Which is why im sticking with my iriver:)
PDF sucks, but PDF and HTML are for *completely* different purposes. PDF is a *layout* format, its designed to fix high quality output to exact dimensions for printing.
HTML is a markup language meant to make low quality output accessable on a variety of platforms, formats.
The inevitable situation is that we will have unlimited space -
One of the basic presmises of engineering is function will expand to meet capacity. On a disc like that -- why not store uncompressed HDTV content? Medical Records? I have about 600GB of hd space, I could do a complete backup on 1 disc:)
I think they're mistaken about the REASON you cant but pain... at least, here in California -- its becuase gangs use them for grafitti (sp?).
Of course the whole thing is fucking stupid, theres still plenty of grafitti and to think that gang members would be stopped by such a trivial protection... the only person it really stops from getting paint is kids who wanna spray paint their models and toys.
As/400's are great for accounting and manufacturing. They are *NOT* used by IT professionals or Scientists and are only used in accounting (primarily gambling -- to monitor slot machines) and manufacturing.
AS/400's are hopelessly complex even to seasoned IT professionals such as myself, and they're only around is not because people like them but because the work SO GOD DAMNED WELL:)
point being, tractors work well to but you dont drive one day to day do you?:)
Forty-six percent of all poor households own their own homes.
I find that hard to believe, here in california at least even the middle class can barely afford houses. In San Diego only *15%* of the population can afford to finance a house purchase.
You are right, but you don't know WHY you're right. So here's why you're right: because every mac fanboy uses as his first argument "The G5 architecture is better". Intel-Macs would be the same as any PC to these fanboys, and the same to me. Whats the difference between Linux on Intel and Apple on Intel? About 1500$ for the same equipment:-) Plus I *REALLY* don't see how Apple can switch architectures at this point. But stranger things have happened. If they were to do this they would need a damn good reason, and thats whats missing, whats the *REASON*?
(Please note I will not debate on if the G5 architecture is actually better -- I also wont respond to fanboy trolls)
And Wal-Mart exists because it passes its healthcare on to the local state's tax-supported public services
I worked at walmart for a while after college -- The people there were just miserable, and I dont mean shitty people, actualy most of the people were pretty nice, it was just like being on the ship of the damned. The smarter among us knew where the ship was headed, the less aware didn't. And the undertext was always, dont tell anyone. Management was stupid, but they could spot the smart people -- who didn't generally last long. I got along by pretending to be not stupid, but not smart either. They want someone just smart enough to stock their shoes, electronics, etc, and not be trouble -- but stupid enough to believe their lies. They lied constantly, did rotten (and sometimes illegal) things, and just generally made your life shit. The guys who had been there for 15 years, were worn to the nub by life. I was originally thinking of trying to become the store manager or something -- I was *BY FAR* the most educated employee with a BS, but after a while my conscience started to bother me. I *literally* felt by working at this company I was selling out myself, the country, and my own interests.
I quit after a few months when they decided to make me permanant... my back was hurting so bad from the labor that I couldn't sleep more then 3 hours at once (i'd wake up with knotted muscles, have to stretch for 20 - 30 mins, then go back to sleep) And it wasn't like I could afford the walmart insurance, which IIRC was about 30% of your wage (7$ an hour).
The other thing that struck me (coming from a household that made over 200k a year) was how poor the people working there were. I remember one girl bragging abuot how well she was doing -- she had a dvd player and a ps2.
Instead of yet another service to be charged for, what about receiving broadcast TV?
DING DING DING! Yes you got it. I can't describe how little I give a shit about watching tv on my cell phone, just like I didnt give a shit about taking pictures with my phone, using my phone as an organizer, or any of the other fucktarded things they've tried to get me to buy. I will admit text messaging is marginally useful, however, sprint (whose the devil) charges *$10 month* for unlimited text messaging... HOLY SHIT!
*BSD I can deal with, but how many actual web sites running on Windows servers use Apache rather than IIS?
Some, for sure. However PHP has *massive* performance problems on windows, so anyone running PHP should be using Linux. ZEND even sells a suite which claims that it brings windows PHP performance up to linux levels.
This article is complete crap, probably MS paid for like usual.
If you do the equation above, you find that 37% of responses *AREN'T ACCOUNTED FOR*. Could it be that 37% of managers is using linux or PLANNING on using linux? Seems to be the logical conclusion to draw when 48% aren't planning on using linux, and 15% say they may evaluate it in the future.
What they are doing is down-right vile, but disagreeing with corporate practices doesn't justify theft (obtaining something without proper payment).
Why not? Seriously, they do underhanded rat bastard shit *all* day, they steal money from musicians, steal money from consumers (do you remember the price fixing thing from a few years ago? That cost me at least 1000$) they're ruined music for several generations now, and we're supposed to treat them with kid gloves?
I really think this is why MS has waited so long to solve the spyware problem.
I was about to rail on you, then I realized I heard someone tell me the other day they bought a new computer (dell) because their old one was "gunked up."
If you're an audiophile and you don't want to be tied to media, encode to a lossless codec (such as FLAC) instead. OGG, like MP3, is lossy -- so if you lose your original media, your other copy is no longer pristine.
Yea... the problem with being an audiophile is so much of it is voodoo:) I did lots of listening tests and determined that at quality setting 7 *I* was unable to tell the difference between an OGG and a CD on my setup. Good enough for me:) I will just re-encode my CDs if I need to change formats (i've done it before, its not fun, but with a good CD reader and a fast computer it isn't too bad).
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OH, and when I say economy -- the game is segregated into matches each of which last anywhere between 15 - 75 minutes, but can be extended by vote. Your character can level up -- but characters aren't persistant -- you get a new one at the end of each match. And the economy is started fresh each time (the economy consists of "red stone" and "gold" which are used to build tech and buy tech respectively... controlling access to gold and stone are the primary ways in which a game is won)
It exists, Its called "Savage". s2games.com. One of the best games ever made without a doubt. The company that distributed it totally screwed it up by releasing it before it was ready, and the guys who wrote it really did a lot of hard work on it to get it ready for prime time.
The genius of the game is that its *EXTREMELY* tactical but at the same time dumbasses can play it and smack stuff. It really takes a couple months of playing to understand the very intricate game economy, and how the weaponry and tech trees in the game interact with the game economy... but its flipping brilliant. There are a couple games coming out based on a similiar concept (one is just a mod to savage, the other is supposed to be a complete re-write which will take place in more like of a medieval time)
I suppose if thats the kind of coffee shop the guy wants to have, hes entitled to it .. however, myself ... I goto coffee shops to work. however I make sure to buy plenty of stuff to "pay my rent" :)
The "Atmosphere" ? You mean the noisy chatter? Seriously, what do you mean?
Yea most of it is crap, but some of it isnt :) NPR ... I like the john and ken show (although thats AM here in southern california). Also, apparently you dont goto a gym? Most gyms have 4 or 5 televisions in a room and they broadcast their audio over FM. It really helps kill the time.
What I really want from the ipod is OGG support ... im sick of closed formats. Which is why im sticking with my iriver :)
PDF sucks, but PDF and HTML are for *completely* different purposes. PDF is a *layout* format, its designed to fix high quality output to exact dimensions for printing.
HTML is a markup language meant to make low quality output accessable on a variety of platforms, formats.
That is madness :)
One of the basic presmises of engineering is function will expand to meet capacity. On a disc like that -- why not store uncompressed HDTV content? Medical Records? I have about 600GB of hd space, I could do a complete backup on 1 disc :)
Point being -- you can always use more space.
Of course the whole thing is fucking stupid, theres still plenty of grafitti and to think that gang members would be stopped by such a trivial protection ... the only person it really stops from getting paint is kids who wanna spray paint their models and toys.
AS/400's are hopelessly complex even to seasoned IT professionals such as myself, and they're only around is not because people like them but because the work SO GOD DAMNED WELL :)
point being, tractors work well to but you dont drive one day to day do you? :)
Not sure if you're a troll or not, but us in the linux community don't want to *WIN THAT WAY*.
I find that hard to believe, here in california at least even the middle class can barely afford houses. In San Diego only *15%* of the population can afford to finance a house purchase.
Sounds exactly like the South here in the US which votes for any dumbass who claims to hate fags and love god.
(Please note I will not debate on if the G5 architecture is actually better -- I also wont respond to fanboy trolls)
Face it, he's the new john katz around here.
Yea, the kernel really needs a fork() huh? :)
I worked at walmart for a while after college -- The people there were just miserable, and I dont mean shitty people, actualy most of the people were pretty nice, it was just like being on the ship of the damned. The smarter among us knew where the ship was headed, the less aware didn't. And the undertext was always, dont tell anyone. Management was stupid, but they could spot the smart people -- who didn't generally last long. I got along by pretending to be not stupid, but not smart either. They want someone just smart enough to stock their shoes, electronics, etc, and not be trouble -- but stupid enough to believe their lies. They lied constantly, did rotten (and sometimes illegal) things, and just generally made your life shit. The guys who had been there for 15 years, were worn to the nub by life. I was originally thinking of trying to become the store manager or something -- I was *BY FAR* the most educated employee with a BS, but after a while my conscience started to bother me. I *literally* felt by working at this company I was selling out myself, the country, and my own interests.
I quit after a few months when they decided to make me permanant... my back was hurting so bad from the labor that I couldn't sleep more then 3 hours at once (i'd wake up with knotted muscles, have to stretch for 20 - 30 mins, then go back to sleep) And it wasn't like I could afford the walmart insurance, which IIRC was about 30% of your wage (7$ an hour).
The other thing that struck me (coming from a household that made over 200k a year) was how poor the people working there were. I remember one girl bragging abuot how well she was doing -- she had a dvd player and a ps2.
How could a person possibly use 5000 text messages a month? :) The most ive ever used is 200 in month.
DING DING DING! Yes you got it. I can't describe how little I give a shit about watching tv on my cell phone, just like I didnt give a shit about taking pictures with my phone, using my phone as an organizer, or any of the other fucktarded things they've tried to get me to buy. I will admit text messaging is marginally useful, however, sprint (whose the devil) charges *$10 month* for unlimited text messaging ... HOLY SHIT!
Some, for sure. However PHP has *massive* performance problems on windows, so anyone running PHP should be using Linux. ZEND even sells a suite which claims that it brings windows PHP performance up to linux levels.
If you do the equation above, you find that 37% of responses *AREN'T ACCOUNTED FOR*. Could it be that 37% of managers is using linux or PLANNING on using linux? Seems to be the logical conclusion to draw when 48% aren't planning on using linux, and 15% say they may evaluate it in the future.
The game is *fixed*, and you can't win playing a fixed game.
Why not? Seriously, they do underhanded rat bastard shit *all* day, they steal money from musicians, steal money from consumers (do you remember the price fixing thing from a few years ago? That cost me at least 1000$) they're ruined music for several generations now, and we're supposed to treat them with kid gloves?
I was about to rail on you, then I realized I heard someone tell me the other day they bought a new computer (dell) because their old one was "gunked up."
Yea ... the problem with being an audiophile is so much of it is voodoo :) I did lots of listening tests and determined that at quality setting 7 *I* was unable to tell the difference between an OGG and a CD on my setup. Good enough for me :) I will just re-encode my CDs if I need to change formats (i've done it before, its not fun, but with a good CD reader and a fast computer it isn't too bad).