Though you are correct, Guildwars is STILL an MMORPG and so the parent's point still stands IMHO. Some of us (myself included) HATE online games if not for the ideal of not paying for your game again and again but for those little P'Killin cheaters that drive us INSANE. Myself and others want, whether a sequel or an original title, a new game that can be played solo or through a LAN, which is the ONLY place I play multiplayer games. Blizzard pioneered the RTS and even though that department has been hosed, there is no reason to stop making those kind of games. It's not like the WoW programmers can't program an RTS. I think Blizzard is simply trying to milk every last dollar from the MMORPG cashcow to the exclusion of thier other genres and titles. Frankly it annoys me...just like reality TV.
As much as I hate it, No it doesn't. The First amendment gives us & the press the right to criticize the government without fear of reprimand or reprisal. If we truly had freedom of speech then the government could not impose censorship or hatespeech laws. There also would be no instances of libel or slander. I could go around freely saying my race is better than yours without a discrimination lawsuit and I could call a policeman or judge a dirty fucktard without being slapped with another charge. At the time the Constitution was written, people didn't appear to have a problem with not being able to call you dirty names (at least historians don't mention it) but they did have a problem with His Majesty lopping off your head or tossing you in prison for saying things about how he ran the place. That was the apparent point of the First Amendment and its reason for being included though many interpretations exist- this being one of them.
This will get modded Flamebait and/or Troll, especially coming from me, but JEEESUS I have already read five comments griping about this technology not solving X problem, causing Y problem, etc. THIS IS BETTER! One guy complains that it won't fix the greenhouse gas problem--it won't make it any worse. Another complains it's gonna use up all our land. Another complains it's gonna poison the environment with pesticides. Look people, will nothing make you guys happy? The main things this tech will do for us is:
reduce our dependence on oil (if Iran decides to quit selling us oil our economy isn't gonna spiral into oblivion like it could now)
it uses trash besides just corn or cane (that's gotta count for something)
alchohol burns cleaner
it will use existing infrastructure that hydrogen won't
We won't have nasty chem plants cranking out far more poisonous fuel cell and/or battery materials
farmers already get paid subsidies to NOT grow stuff, let's change that
Tons of pesticides won't necessarily be needed since even if the crop isn't huge or is partially damaged, it can still be used
The farm tractors can burn thier own product (many farmers already make or use thier own biodiesel)
I can keep going on about this but I think my point is made. Just because this solution doesn't fix EVERYTHING doesn't mean it should be ignored or scrapped. Stop complaining Greenies. At least science and government are FINALLY listening to your incessant complaining for something to be done about pollution and alt fuels. There will NEVER be a solution made that can perfectly cover all bases but this one beats most of the other proposals out there. This is a solid and viable solution and not just placation like these current hybrid cars. There's something to complain about and a true instance of industry throwing you a bone to shut you up./rant
First we had trees that make electricity and now on the same day we have another article about trees making methane. There has GOT to be some kind of evil conspiracy here...better put on my tinfoil hat until I figure it out!
The device I saw wired in between the +12V line running to the ignition coil. Because of this, you can push it all day but it isn't gonna start unless it's an older diesel since no coil power==no spark. Some of the more complicated systems disable the tach signal to the CPU so it never fires the coil or injectors. Regardless though, anyone who can read a Haynes or Chilton's manual and splice some wires can disable this thing in 20 minutes like the article poster wondered. The dealers are hoping most people are ingnorant of electronics and so won't even bother to tinker with it. These are also the same types who only know how to put gas in it and can't open the hood.
When you boil this stuff down it all goes back to the old addage: Locks keep honest people honest.
If you're gonna rip off the dealer then you'll figure out how to disable it. Everyone knows someone or has a cousin who works in a garage right?
Your founding father Thomas Jefferson (for one) had slaves as well and reportedly treated them quite well. However HE wasn't in their position and as you pointed out would've died rather than be one. This didn't stop him from enacting said attrocity though. He could dish it out but not take it so to speak. Don't put any man on a pedestal no matter how noble you believe them to be for all of mankind in one way or another falls prey to sins and is riddled with sin until saved by the giving himself unto God (or some such business-I'm atheist so whadda I know?).
D&D Temple of Elemental Evil does in fact have a gay pirate whipping boy in the town of Nulb which you can woo with a high charisma male character and have him join the party or run away with said character. I used a paladin for a sort of ironic dichotomy. If you attempt to use a female charatcer to do the wooing, he will be replused and barely even speak to her. He also mentions how "it's been a long time since he could have these feelings about another person" when speaking with your male character. So even though your post was meant to be funny, the ingraining of homosexuality in our children has already begun.
It is clearly obvious that the very reason for this is:
1) to circumvent gubment regulations in order to maximize corporate profits
OR 2) to help cause these competitors like Vonage & Packet8 to be forced into regulations like the Megacorp Bells.
Typically whenever a complacent monopoly sees a new popular technology or product that manages to get around a rule that they so diligently lobbied for they must either slap them down for being so pretentious or try to absorb it and make everyone think they created it. Sometimes they just buy it up and then can it.
Whatever the practice it is usually these megacorps that end up stifling budding technologies and forcing us to maintain the status quo. If VOIP is forced to be mainstream with technologies such as what the article proposes, then I can either see only the death or the same heavy regulation being transferred to it that regular telcos have to abide by.
How dare someone try to hone in on their turf!/sarcasm
Don't you reformat ANY time you reinstall the OS? Doing so called upgrades has always seemed to be a source of bugs and whatnot in my system. With a reformat/reinstall you get a nice clean and snappy system-at least until you install all the other bloated crap you used to have. Seriously alot of linux/mac/unix guys shudder with the thought of reformatting all the time but when you use windows all the time you realize that comes with the territory. I even reformat when I try a new linux variant or any other OS for that matter. Sometimes you just need to clean out all the crap that accumulates. That's why you should keep all your important files like docs, mp3's, & mpegs on a different partition or hard drive. You do have another hard drive or partition don't you? I thought most computer savvy geeks had extra hard drives in thier PC's. Also, and I'm sure the other OS guys will use this as an opportunity to flame BUT, whenever my windows machine gets a virus-that's not often-or gets a piece of spyware that AdAware can't get rid of then a good ol format fixes it instead of hours of debugging & file patching. Seriously a reformat & reinstall takes a couple hours depending on HDD size plus the time it takes to reinstall all your progs. If even that is too much time, then image the drive with Ghost or similar and then it only takes the time to copy a CD. I think alot of people such as the new and upcoming geeks and the non-computer people that have one forget that these things aren't appliances. They are tools and they need maintenance. Doing the maintenance for some of these folks scares the hell out of them because they didn't have to do it the way we did back in the day with DOS and the dreaded multiple boot configs to get that 58K of system ram to play Quest for Glory 4 (DAMN YOU HIMEM & EMM386!). This kind of thing is also the same reason everyone says that Linux isn't ready for the desktop but I'll save that for a different flamefest.
Dumbing down computers to appliances equates with the same principal of why we have bad drivers. Everyone wants a car but many, I'd say 75%, NEVER learn to drive! You can't just jump in and go and expect the car to get you from A to B by itself. The same applies for computers. Learn what you're doing before you log on!
This is OT but why have I been seeing PDF Warnings popping up on slashdot posts lately? Was there some evil Adobe story I missed while on vacation? I'm used to the NSFW & New York Times warnings but this one is new to me.
Brodie: Cookie stand's not part of the food court. T.S.: Sure it is. Brodie: The food court is downstairs the cookie stand is upstairs it's not like we're talking quantum physics here! T.S.: The cookie stand is an eatery, an eatery is part of the food court. Brodie: Bullshit! Eateries that operate within the designated square downstairs qualify as food court, anything operating outside the said designated square is considered an autonomous unit for mid-mall snacking.
Actually your question is quite on the reverse of the situation. The real question you should be asking is: I wonder which commercial interests will pay top dollar to for one of thier individuals to be appointed to the task? Think of it, what better way to lobby than to have one of your own dedicated employees INSIDE the govenment. It works for Haliburton via Cheney so just think if Microsoft, Cisco, or even AOL/Time Warner got one of thier "former" CEO's into the gubment as a department head! Kickbacks can really offset that top dollar issue your original question posed. For instance in TN, our representatives make less than $20K/yr but you don't see them shopping at Walmart or driving a rusty POS to the welfare line. This position is considered part time (hah!) so they also keep thier "real" job whether it be a law firm or whatever. But without pointing fingers or riding the conspiracy theory position too hard, they sure seem to get ALOT of govenment contracts just as Haliburton seems to get ALOT of government contracts. Remember the govenment isn't the one to be scared about, it's the corps who lobby/fund/buy them off.
I think you're on to something. My Intel says without the Sun the the Apple cannot grow but dropping the SPARC might not be the best idea because if the Sun went out, then it would have no SPARC to restart itself.
Because, as in my case, the admins block any webmail website like yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc. You might be assuming we're all sysadmins and can bypass the firewalls but alas we cannot. My last college did this as well.
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Though you are correct, Guildwars is STILL an MMORPG and so the parent's point still stands IMHO. Some of us (myself included) HATE online games if not for the ideal of not paying for your game again and again but for those little P'Killin cheaters that drive us INSANE. Myself and others want, whether a sequel or an original title, a new game that can be played solo or through a LAN, which is the ONLY place I play multiplayer games. Blizzard pioneered the RTS and even though that department has been hosed, there is no reason to stop making those kind of games. It's not like the WoW programmers can't program an RTS. I think Blizzard is simply trying to milk every last dollar from the MMORPG cashcow to the exclusion of thier other genres and titles. Frankly it annoys me...just like reality TV.
As much as I hate it, No it doesn't. The First amendment gives us & the press the right to criticize the government without fear of reprimand or reprisal. If we truly had freedom of speech then the government could not impose censorship or hatespeech laws. There also would be no instances of libel or slander. I could go around freely saying my race is better than yours without a discrimination lawsuit and I could call a policeman or judge a dirty fucktard without being slapped with another charge. At the time the Constitution was written, people didn't appear to have a problem with not being able to call you dirty names (at least historians don't mention it) but they did have a problem with His Majesty lopping off your head or tossing you in prison for saying things about how he ran the place. That was the apparent point of the First Amendment and its reason for being included though many interpretations exist- this being one of them.
This will get modded Flamebait and/or Troll, especially coming from me, but JEEESUS I have already read five comments griping about this technology not solving X problem, causing Y problem, etc. THIS IS BETTER! One guy complains that it won't fix the greenhouse gas problem--it won't make it any worse. Another complains it's gonna use up all our land. Another complains it's gonna poison the environment with pesticides. Look people, will nothing make you guys happy? The main things this tech will do for us is:
/rant
reduce our dependence on oil (if Iran decides to quit selling us oil our economy isn't gonna spiral into oblivion like it could now)
it uses trash besides just corn or cane (that's gotta count for something)
alchohol burns cleaner
it will use existing infrastructure that hydrogen won't
We won't have nasty chem plants cranking out far more poisonous fuel cell and/or battery materials
farmers already get paid subsidies to NOT grow stuff, let's change that
Tons of pesticides won't necessarily be needed since even if the crop isn't huge or is partially damaged, it can still be used
The farm tractors can burn thier own product (many farmers already make or use thier own biodiesel)
I can keep going on about this but I think my point is made. Just because this solution doesn't fix EVERYTHING doesn't mean it should be ignored or scrapped. Stop complaining Greenies. At least science and government are FINALLY listening to your incessant complaining for something to be done about pollution and alt fuels. There will NEVER be a solution made that can perfectly cover all bases but this one beats most of the other proposals out there. This is a solid and viable solution and not just placation like these current hybrid cars. There's something to complain about and a true instance of industry throwing you a bone to shut you up.
First we had trees that make electricity and now on the same day we have another article about trees making methane. There has GOT to be some kind of evil conspiracy here...better put on my tinfoil hat until I figure it out!
Conspiracy Theorists Unite!
The pictures of such drooling lust can be found here: http://celebswap.com/pics/index.php?showtopic=1020 38
Colder than a witch's teat in December while she's diggin' 'er own grave I'll wager.
The device I saw wired in between the +12V line running to the ignition coil. Because of this, you can push it all day but it isn't gonna start unless it's an older diesel since no coil power==no spark. Some of the more complicated systems disable the tach signal to the CPU so it never fires the coil or injectors. Regardless though, anyone who can read a Haynes or Chilton's manual and splice some wires can disable this thing in 20 minutes like the article poster wondered. The dealers are hoping most people are ingnorant of electronics and so won't even bother to tinker with it. These are also the same types who only know how to put gas in it and can't open the hood.
When you boil this stuff down it all goes back to the old addage: Locks keep honest people honest.
If you're gonna rip off the dealer then you'll figure out how to disable it. Everyone knows someone or has a cousin who works in a garage right?
Your founding father Thomas Jefferson (for one) had slaves as well and reportedly treated them quite well. However HE wasn't in their position and as you pointed out would've died rather than be one. This didn't stop him from enacting said attrocity though. He could dish it out but not take it so to speak. Don't put any man on a pedestal no matter how noble you believe them to be for all of mankind in one way or another falls prey to sins and is riddled with sin until saved by the giving himself unto God (or some such business-I'm atheist so whadda I know?).
D&D Temple of Elemental Evil does in fact have a gay pirate whipping boy in the town of Nulb which you can woo with a high charisma male character and have him join the party or run away with said character. I used a paladin for a sort of ironic dichotomy. If you attempt to use a female charatcer to do the wooing, he will be replused and barely even speak to her. He also mentions how "it's been a long time since he could have these feelings about another person" when speaking with your male character. So even though your post was meant to be funny, the ingraining of homosexuality in our children has already begun.
It is clearly obvious that the very reason for this is:
/sarcasm
1) to circumvent gubment regulations in order to maximize corporate profits
OR 2) to help cause these competitors like Vonage & Packet8 to be forced into regulations like the Megacorp Bells.
Typically whenever a complacent monopoly sees a new popular technology or product that manages to get around a rule that they so diligently lobbied for they must either slap them down for being so pretentious or try to absorb it and make everyone think they created it. Sometimes they just buy it up and then can it.
Whatever the practice it is usually these megacorps that end up stifling budding technologies and forcing us to maintain the status quo. If VOIP is forced to be mainstream with technologies such as what the article proposes, then I can either see only the death or the same heavy regulation being transferred to it that regular telcos have to abide by.
How dare someone try to hone in on their turf!
I think Congress SUCKS! Who's with me?!
Wow. And I always thought Pluto was the ninth planet. I guess I was one of the original batch of gullible when Chewbacca v0.5 Beta came out.
Don't you reformat ANY time you reinstall the OS? Doing so called upgrades has always seemed to be a source of bugs and whatnot in my system. With a reformat/reinstall you get a nice clean and snappy system-at least until you install all the other bloated crap you used to have. Seriously alot of linux/mac/unix guys shudder with the thought of reformatting all the time but when you use windows all the time you realize that comes with the territory. I even reformat when I try a new linux variant or any other OS for that matter. Sometimes you just need to clean out all the crap that accumulates. That's why you should keep all your important files like docs, mp3's, & mpegs on a different partition or hard drive. You do have another hard drive or partition don't you? I thought most computer savvy geeks had extra hard drives in thier PC's. Also, and I'm sure the other OS guys will use this as an opportunity to flame BUT, whenever my windows machine gets a virus-that's not often-or gets a piece of spyware that AdAware can't get rid of then a good ol format fixes it instead of hours of debugging & file patching. Seriously a reformat & reinstall takes a couple hours depending on HDD size plus the time it takes to reinstall all your progs. If even that is too much time, then image the drive with Ghost or similar and then it only takes the time to copy a CD. I think alot of people such as the new and upcoming geeks and the non-computer people that have one forget that these things aren't appliances. They are tools and they need maintenance. Doing the maintenance for some of these folks scares the hell out of them because they didn't have to do it the way we did back in the day with DOS and the dreaded multiple boot configs to get that 58K of system ram to play Quest for Glory 4 (DAMN YOU HIMEM & EMM386!). This kind of thing is also the same reason everyone says that Linux isn't ready for the desktop but I'll save that for a different flamefest.
Dumbing down computers to appliances equates with the same principal of why we have bad drivers. Everyone wants a car but many, I'd say 75%, NEVER learn to drive! You can't just jump in and go and expect the car to get you from A to B by itself. The same applies for computers. Learn what you're doing before you log on!
That there are some, myself included, that have worked with Windows for WAY WAY too long and still DON'T trust it!
This is OT but why have I been seeing PDF Warnings popping up on slashdot posts lately? Was there some evil Adobe story I missed while on vacation? I'm used to the NSFW & New York Times warnings but this one is new to me.
That Star Wars movie made me pour hot grits all over Natalie Portman!
;)
I know, it's easy to confuse
Brodie: Cookie stand's not part of the food court.
T.S.: Sure it is.
Brodie: The food court is downstairs the cookie stand is upstairs it's not like we're talking quantum physics here!
T.S.: The cookie stand is an eatery, an eatery is part of the food court.
Brodie: Bullshit! Eateries that operate within the designated square downstairs qualify as food court, anything operating outside the said designated square is considered an autonomous unit for mid-mall snacking.
Thank you Thank you Thank you!
I now have something to do for hours! I never knew of this useful "tool". And who says you never learn anything reading Slashdot...
We refer to RPN as "Reverse Polock Notation". Sorry if I've offended any Polocks :)
So THAT'S why my Tivo is full of crap from Lifetime, Oxygen, WE, & IFC. And I just thought those were Tivo suggestions :)
Actually your question is quite on the reverse of the situation. The real question you should be asking is: I wonder which commercial interests will pay top dollar to for one of thier individuals to be appointed to the task? Think of it, what better way to lobby than to have one of your own dedicated employees INSIDE the govenment. It works for Haliburton via Cheney so just think if Microsoft, Cisco, or even AOL/Time Warner got one of thier "former" CEO's into the gubment as a department head! Kickbacks can really offset that top dollar issue your original question posed. For instance in TN, our representatives make less than $20K/yr but you don't see them shopping at Walmart or driving a rusty POS to the welfare line. This position is considered part time (hah!) so they also keep thier "real" job whether it be a law firm or whatever. But without pointing fingers or riding the conspiracy theory position too hard, they sure seem to get ALOT of govenment contracts just as Haliburton seems to get ALOT of government contracts. Remember the govenment isn't the one to be scared about, it's the corps who lobby/fund/buy them off.
NARF!
I, for one, welcome our duplicated robotically amplified cockroach overlords.
I think you're on to something. My Intel says without the Sun the the Apple cannot grow but dropping the SPARC might not be the best idea because if the Sun went out, then it would have no SPARC to restart itself.
:(
Ok maybe it isn't THAT funny
Because, as in my case, the admins block any webmail website like yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc. You might be assuming we're all sysadmins and can bypass the firewalls but alas we cannot. My last college did this as well.
Your comment WOULD have been absolutely hilarious if it weren't so frighteningly close to reality.