Problem is that almost no current, native PC games support four players on one computer, so almost no people have their PCs set up for four players on one computer.
That's not a problem, it's a consequence of the networked nature of PCs. It could be viewed as a business opportunity, though.
Well duh. And multiple people often have their own computers. The point here is that PCs have the option of multiplpayer on one computer or many. You can also do multiplayer on a network where any number of people are around to play at pretty much any time. Compare with an Xbox, which requires everyone to be in the same place.
Live cheap, save money, and drive once you have enough to live on for 3 months. Set up interviews with the line 'I'll be in the area from [date] until [date]'. If you learn how to do this, it'll help you in life. Actually, you need to learn how to plan things: you're in your 20s.
Moron, republicanism is what you call it when your nation IS A REPUBLIC.
Asshole, you call it a republic. The fact that we have a party called republicans means that calling something Republicanism can refer to it being a republic or to it being favored by republicans.
Communism like China or North Korea
Sorry, China is a dictatorship and so is N Korea.
or a theocracy Iran or the USA circa-1996.
Um, yeah, showing your colors as a clinton hater, while ignoring the overt religious overtones from Bush 43.
I agree that Republicanism is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
What the fuck is Republicanism? Republican is a political party, and I can think of a lot of things that are better than the Neocon dream, a representative democracy with a weak executive branch being one of them.
This country would be a whole lot better if our electorate were informed.
As long as you've got the certificates in hand, then hell yeah! Those suckers are probably collectors items. Especially if Pets.com did them up cute with the reporter puppy on them.
You know what's funny? I saw someone using the pets.com sock puppet to sell insurance. I guess that's okay, since the original trademark holder is so much burning dog food.
It's naive of anyone to just say "Americans don't know how to make cars." That's stupid; there's no magic that the Germans and the Japanese have and we don't.
Okay then, Americans don't make good cars. Why that is I could not tell you, but they don't.
Wait a second, you talk about how important suspension is, and then advocate buying a Miata with the weight distribution all blown to hell by the huge chunk of iron in the front?
That was a joke. Anyway, it can't be that bad if it slaloms at 72 mph. Also, read the faq, where handling is addressed - a 53/47 weight ratio is hardly a problem. My current car is 40/60 (MR engine).
However, overclocking a 805 is like buying a dirt cheap supercompact or hatch, modding the engine, and getting a kick out of everytime your 10k car stays neck to neck with 50k sporty cars:-D
which is precisely never, since 50k race cars go 80 in the turns and you never upgraded your suspension. You probably also have nasty crank walk, so you have to turn the wheel to one side to keep a straight line.
Not to derail, but the definition of "theft" does include "ideas" (Webster's Unabridged, 2001 if you need a source), which would indicate that intellectual property like song lyrics can indeed be stolen.
And the legal definition does not. Movies are not ideas, they are copyrighted works.
Btw, you seem to know the lawbooks pretty well. Can you also quote me the section where it states that it's a crime to impersonate a lawyer, or is that one just a misdeamor (or an urban legend)?
Can you point to the part where he impersonated a lawyer? All I see is him quoting law, which better not be a crime. Just because some gullible fool now thinks he's a lawyer doesn't make it impersonation.
Yep, and the submitter's remark, "Notwithstanding the First Amendment's free speech guarantees," is silly because the First Amendment doesn't guarantee 100% free speech in all situations.
How do you get from there to criminal prosecution for pointing out security flaws?
The problem with that statement is that it is not completely true. AIDS viruses go right though the pores of most, if not all condoms. They are not 100% protection against other STDs either.
So what? They lower the incidence so dramatically that it's stupid not to use them (unless you're married and don't mind having kids.
The ONLY 100% sure way to prevent STDs is the old rule: "One man, one woman, one lifetime".
Irrelevant.
Using a condom is like having the fire in the fireplace, but neglecting to put the mesh fire curtain in front. A spark or ember may jump out and catch the house on fire.
No, it's like having the mesh curtain in front. There's a 2% chance of failure per year when used properly.
It is precisely because many, if not most people, not only in the US, but in other nations, don't abstain from sex, until married, that millions, world wide, die or get very sick from uncontrolled sex.
Your agenda is showing. People die from sex for a lot of reasons. In Africa, not teaching people about condoms and telling that raping a virgin cures AIDS may have something to do with the problems there. Then again, who cares about AIDS when you have people running around hacking women's boobs off so they can't nurse their kids?
Gay bashing is most certainly wrong, but the rampant homosexual practices are included in this raging world wide epidemic and resultant suffering.
Piss off. Gays aren't the problem, and trying to label them as such is just a distraction.
Worse than that, this isn't entirely a quirk of the technology; it's partly a basic limitation of physics/information theory. There's a certain amount of energy that must be expended to delete a bit of data, and that's a hard limit.
We're still orders of magnitude away from caring about that, though.
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Problem is that almost no current, native PC games support four players on one computer, so almost no people have their PCs set up for four players on one computer.
That's not a problem, it's a consequence of the networked nature of PCs. It could be viewed as a business opportunity, though.
Well duh. And multiple people often have their own computers. The point here is that PCs have the option of multiplpayer on one computer or many. You can also do multiplayer on a network where any number of people are around to play at pretty much any time. Compare with an Xbox, which requires everyone to be in the same place.
Or Gauntlet. Or Secret of Mana.
Or counterstrike, or Age of Empires, or Starcraft. The point here is that the world is not on one screen.
If a family owns one PC, why should it need to buy three more PCs to play Bomberman?
There you go, assuming all games are Bomberman. It's not like you aren't aware of them.
Do you suggest that I move? If so, how?
Live cheap, save money, and drive once you have enough to live on for 3 months. Set up interviews with the line 'I'll be in the area from [date] until [date]'. If you learn how to do this, it'll help you in life. Actually, you need to learn how to plan things: you're in your 20s.
Moron, republicanism is what you call it when your nation IS A REPUBLIC.
Asshole, you call it a republic. The fact that we have a party called republicans means that calling something Republicanism can refer to it being a republic or to it being favored by republicans.
Communism like China or North Korea
Sorry, China is a dictatorship and so is N Korea.
or a theocracy Iran or the USA circa-1996.
Um, yeah, showing your colors as a clinton hater, while ignoring the overt religious overtones from Bush 43.
How many times have you posted that exact comment?
The US was founded as a republic, therefore our system of government is referred to as republican.
No, it's a representative republic. If you had stayed awake in your civics class, you'd know that instead of making up weird names for it.
Then they should prepare some legislation detailing how to deal with it.
You mean like some sort of fireign intelligence surveillance act?
remember how quickly they put the PATRIOT ACT together...
A year or more, as I recall. They were just waiting for a chance to get it passed, and 9/11 was the perfect opportunity.
I agree that Republicanism is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
What the fuck is Republicanism? Republican is a political party, and I can think of a lot of things that are better than the Neocon dream, a representative democracy with a weak executive branch being one of them.
This country would be a whole lot better if our electorate were informed.
As long as you've got the certificates in hand, then hell yeah! Those suckers are probably collectors items. Especially if Pets.com did them up cute with the reporter puppy on them.
You know what's funny? I saw someone using the pets.com sock puppet to sell insurance. I guess that's okay, since the original trademark holder is so much burning dog food.
Thanks to the Republicans, Glass-Steagall was repealed in 1999 (although, to be fair, Bill Clinton did sign the law repealing it).
If the republicans controlled both houses and passed it with a greater than 2/3rds majority, what's the point in vetoing it?
It's naive of anyone to just say "Americans don't know how to make cars." That's stupid; there's no magic that the Germans and the Japanese have and we don't.
Okay then, Americans don't make good cars. Why that is I could not tell you, but they don't.
Guilty as charged, although I lust after the Lotus Elise and the Porsche Cayman. Both excellent cars, but each is completely different.
Wait a second, you talk about how important suspension is, and then advocate buying a Miata with the weight distribution all blown to hell by the huge chunk of iron in the front?
That was a joke. Anyway, it can't be that bad if it slaloms at 72 mph. Also, read the faq, where handling is addressed - a 53/47 weight ratio is hardly a problem. My current car is 40/60 (MR engine).
Woops - forgot the link.
However, overclocking a 805 is like buying a dirt cheap supercompact or hatch, modding the engine, and getting a kick out of everytime your 10k car stays neck to neck with 50k sporty cars :-D
which is precisely never, since 50k race cars go 80 in the turns and you never upgraded your suspension. You probably also have nasty crank walk, so you have to turn the wheel to one side to keep a straight line.
Should've bought a V8 (Miata).
If I go to jail for larceny, does that mean I didn't commit theft?
You can't go to jail for (civil) copyright infringement, which is what copying one CD is.
So if you steal a CD from walmart it's not actually stealing? I think there's a flaw in that train of thought.
Don't be a dumbass. Theft of a physical object is stealing. Copying a CD is not.
If you don't own the work in the first place, then it's copyright infringement AND stealing.
Cite please. It's one or the other, but not both.
Not to derail, but the definition of "theft" does include "ideas" (Webster's Unabridged, 2001 if you need a source), which would indicate that intellectual property like song lyrics can indeed be stolen.
And the legal definition does not. Movies are not ideas, they are copyrighted works.
Btw, you seem to know the lawbooks pretty well. Can you also quote me the section where it states that it's a crime to impersonate a lawyer, or is that one just a misdeamor (or an urban legend)?
Can you point to the part where he impersonated a lawyer? All I see is him quoting law, which better not be a crime. Just because some gullible fool now thinks he's a lawyer doesn't make it impersonation.
Yep, and the submitter's remark, "Notwithstanding the First Amendment's free speech guarantees," is silly because the First Amendment doesn't guarantee 100% free speech in all situations.
How do you get from there to criminal prosecution for pointing out security flaws?
I sleep for eight hours without moving much and haven't yet woken up in the ICU.
No you don't. You shift around every 45 minutes to an hour. If you didn't move for 8 hours, you'd end up with a bedsore.
The problem with that statement is that it is not completely true. AIDS viruses go right though the pores of most, if not all condoms. They are not 100% protection against other STDs either.
So what? They lower the incidence so dramatically that it's stupid not to use them (unless you're married and don't mind having kids.
The ONLY 100% sure way to prevent STDs is the old rule: "One man, one woman, one lifetime".
Irrelevant.
Using a condom is like having the fire in the fireplace, but neglecting to put the mesh fire curtain in front. A spark or ember may jump out and catch the house on fire.
No, it's like having the mesh curtain in front. There's a 2% chance of failure per year when used properly.
It is precisely because many, if not most people, not only in the US, but in other nations, don't abstain from sex, until married, that millions, world wide, die or get very sick from uncontrolled sex.
Your agenda is showing. People die from sex for a lot of reasons. In Africa, not teaching people about condoms and telling that raping a virgin cures AIDS may have something to do with the problems there. Then again, who cares about AIDS when you have people running around hacking women's boobs off so they can't nurse their kids?
Gay bashing is most certainly wrong, but the rampant homosexual practices are included in this raging world wide epidemic and resultant suffering.
Piss off. Gays aren't the problem, and trying to label them as such is just a distraction.
Worse than that, this isn't entirely a quirk of the technology; it's partly a basic limitation of physics/information theory. There's a certain amount of energy that must be expended to delete a bit of data, and that's a hard limit.
We're still orders of magnitude away from caring about that, though.