How about a FPS with no fecking guns in it, just once?
How about URU, where your not armed. Or the thief series, where your weapons (bow, sword, club) barely work on people who've seen you. Or maybe one of the elder scrolls games, like Oblivion or Morrowind where you've got swords, bows and spells, but you keep them shieved for most of the game. These games don't simply not exist just because you havn't played them and want to bitch about first person games.
The industry is suffering a crippling dearth of innovation and risk-taking, and suggesting that everything has to match up to some prescribed formula as described could not be more damaging for the industry.
My guess is that you havn't read through these "formula" either, if you had, you would know they are deliberately suggesting that the game doesn't just become one more boring linear cliche with poorly implemented and irrelivant features witch just leaves it the same as every other game. But the distingishing feature of those who like to bitch about the game industry not innovating is the staunch refusal to play the games that DO stand out (which happens to be a fair percentage of them) or listen to those people who actually have constructive ideas to change the problems that games today have.
Your problem isn't that you are a Linux n00b but because you are an experienced Windows user. In Windows you need to find out what program you want, then you have to download it, then you have to install it, then you have to make sure that you keep it updated. In Linux (at least in most distros these days) you search for a name or purpose in a package manager, tell it to install and that's it. It will automatically download and install what you need and keep it up-to-date for security, functionality and compatibility. What could suit people (especially n00bs) more than one click system administration? Every tool I want (barring some very obscure developer tools) can be found on ubuntu's graphical package manager, it's awesome.
Just because you're used to something in Windows doesn't make it the best or even the natural method.
It could be reasonably assumed that more people use Linux than a trackball. So, logically there is more reason to expect a game to make effort to support Linux than support a trackball. Especially since Linux wouldn't require Molyneux to totally rethink his control scheme that he seemed to have obsessed over. Very few games do support either because most games can go well in the market without those in fringe technical situations.
Fishermen do trawl, as well as use drift nets etc. Trolling is mostly done by amateur anglers who want to find something big rather than catch many fish, like a fisherman would do to pay his bills.
Leading a target happens in TA only after a unit has 5 or more kills. It's one of the effects that distinguish a veteran from a regular unit. Experience in TA is implemented in an increase of ability rather than health, armour or damage, just one of many reasons I love it so much.
That's why WWII was so interesting, Axis was armed with tanks and planes, the Western Allies made use of its army of Mech Warriors and the Soviet army was built on a strong front line of Bionic Brain Slime.
I remember that in the second battle of el-Alamein, Irwin Rommel researched "Purity of the Aryans" in his Totenkopf tower, giving all his infantry units an extra point of amour and was keeping the Allies busy with constant strikes with his three wheeled motor bikes (called "Bavarian Thigh Slappers") and of course with Charlimagne (complete with rocket launchers) who Rommel summoned at the Ahnenerbe Alter.
Bernard Montgommary was going the the "Three Pub" build strategy and had an initial weakness in his defense, but was able to recover using his "Big Ben" laser towers for base defense, summoned the Black Cyborg Prince with his Alter of Albion and focused on building his Australian mole mechs in his Woolloomoloo University. After he researched "Wombat's Burrow" his mole mechs were able to dig under Rommel's Swastikas and destroy his Concentration camp, forcing Rommel to retreat to Tunisia.
The Great NPC Winston Churchill was known to have said of the victory: "This is not the beginning of the end, but TOTAL PWNAGE ke ke ke ke ke!!!!!!!!!!!111111oneone".
It was closer to 15 to switch but it was hardly a difficult and intensive process. First schools started teaching it exclusively, then the government started using it, then when everyone was used to it they got rid of the old system. Now even my 80 year old grandfather talks in cms and kgs.
Metric isn't infinitely better than Imperial, though it does make formulas much simpler (barely any coefficients in physics equations) and conversion between large and small units far easier (how many inches in a mile?). The point is that the metric system has just enough merit over imperial to be universally accepted in every country but the United States and two third world, war-torn, unstable crapholes, one being a former US colony.
What I want to know is why the US, a country that violently seceded from the British Empire after it was issued with millions of franks worth of French weapons and using French naval support, who's greatest and most internationally famous monument was donated by France, who quickly instituted decimal currency based on francs and centimes, is so reluctant to adopt a French measurement system and is so enthusiastic in keeping the inferior and confusing system of their former enemy.... I'm not saying I like the French or anything, I'm just saying that Americans should universally like them.
Seriously, it is scary that it is possible for someone to reason so badly.
Firstly, he claims conversion is implicit and universal despite mars probes crashing because obviously people DO forget to do it sometimes. Then he throws up some rhetoric involving binary and hexadecimal, number systems which are only used in low level computing because of their affinity with hardware with having two general purpose unit systems used in parallel. Then he brings up seconds, minutes, hours and days when anyone who knows anything about metric knows that only seconds are part of SI, the rest should never be used in calculations. Then he claims that points are somehow better than millimeters because he likes his fonts at exactly 12pt and is not willing to have his fonts 5% smaller to make them 4mm but instead NEEDS that extra.233 millimeters to make his fonts JUST RIGHT but doesn't want to be bothered typing it in. Of course if someone wanted 4mm fonts they would need to type in 11.3394pt in the current system, but of course we all know that fonts are especially right when they are at even numbers of points rather than millimeters. What the hell is a point anyway? Millimeters are used in carpentry, particle physics and trade, points are just another unit made up for one purpose that doesn't really need its own system of measurement.
He summarizes in extolling the virtues of diversity. Diversity is great, don't you just love the Gnome and KDE flamewars on slashdot because any given application only really works properly and looks right with one desktop. And how you can't run OSX applications on your linux box. And how there are more BSDs that you can name but only one of them has proper SMP support but it is neither the one that is portable nor the one which is secure nor the one that is modular. You've gotta love the web pages designed around IE's quirks that don't quite look right under firefox. Oh, and how IPSEC has two types of header which can be used with either of the two modes and how nobody quite supports it because it's too "diverse". I can't begin to explain how having two types of high density optical disk has helped me enjoy high definition video so much quicker. Ever tried to hook up the tail lights of a friends trailer to your car and found out the plug is different? Ever bought some electric guismo from overseas but the plug doesn't fit without an ugly adapter?
In art, food and society you have diversity, in science and technology you have incompatibility.
Nobody could be dumb enough to truly think what the OP thinks, though I live in Australia where we switched to metrics in the 60s to the 80s and cannot imagine anyone having any trouble. That is why I think the OP is a troll or just having a little sarcastic joke that nobody got.
That's why you specify a decimal multiplied with pi. Treat a full circle as 2 of some unit and use a little pi as a unit sign. In the end you have an intuitive scale for common measurements that also can be read as radians, everybody is happy.
Ok, that is fine and good, but then keep also the "straight talk" off this site...no jokes about reproductive (in)abilities of geeks
If nerds cannot reproduce it poses interesting questions about human genetics as the frequency of certain genes may change as the nerd lifestyle isolates people from methods of reproduction, procreation isn't just sexual but has wide reaching implications in human biology. But beyond that, I think talking about sex of any kind as well as porn and suggestive material is inappropriate, not just for benefit of gays but also for women who are often made very uncomfortable by such things, fortunately this kind of thing is comparatively very rare in OSS circles in my experience, most people are mature enough to keep it separate. It is also worthy of note that heterosexuality is not currently a politically charged issue for the most part.
it's a plug for a site where people with similar interests can meet each other
I think the desire to meet and discuss things with people like ourselves is common in humans, it is probably the main reason that there has been so many organizations that traditionally excluded people of different races, different genders and sexual orientations, because obviously it is harder to identify with a wider community of people who do not share our exact perspective. This is generally frowned on as being harmful to society as a whole though and there are laws against certain types. Women in LUGs (as you mentioned) is an interesting example of the opposite, I don't believe is an effort to get laid (I personally far prefer women with different interests for some variety), but an issue to address a perceived inbalance in the section of the wider community that is represented in the LUG. Personally, I think the whole thing is a little misguided in its active focus on certain groups, but it is certainly healthy to keep in mind that one should not become entrenched in a cabal of a certain narrow demographic nomatter what demographic you are part of.
it may help with technical issues unique to gay people and sites.
If you've ever been a curious teenager in a conservative family you'll know that it is not only homosexuals that have issues with privacy, it may be unwise to restrict those people who you discuss things like that with since believe me, there is a WEALTH of information amongst straight guys with strict parents. Anyway, in a world of key loggers, vnc, arp spoofing and tcp dumping, design problems in graphical clients are the least of your worries. A good rule is to keep anything that can compromise you out of environments that you do not control completely until it is encrypted. As for protecting identities of clients, I think anonymity is pretty much what the cypherpunk movement is all about.
As I said before, software issues invariably never come to sexuality.
Sexuality of any kind isn't really related to software (despite what the Ubuntu backgrounds may suggest). Bringing stuff like that into the movement does nothing but politicize something that already was inherently political enough. Like it or not, homosexuality is an issue where as many people will disagree with you as agree with you and you can't prove that your right nomatter what your position is. Stuff like that causes flamewars in useful communication channels just like when Iran or Palestine is mentioned on planet.gnome.org. I don't have a problem with either side as long as they don't use violence but I just wish they would keep their politics somewhere that doesn't affect Ubuntu.
Last I checked, 4 year old VHS tapes are pretty much unwatchable, let alone 20 year old tapes.
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Some troll wanted a reaction and he got one, there's no sense punishing the poor moron who just couldn't help himself and bit. Could someone mod him back up to fix his fledgling karma and his feelings? Thanks.
Want to stump Math grad students? Toss them a dynamic programming problem. They likely won't have ever heard of dynamic programming.
The first time I was explicitly taught dynamic programming was in discrete maths, it was in the context of calculating the Fibonacci sequence with a recursive algorithm in Maple and why it would be so damn slow.
Anyway, dynamic programming is the sort of technique you'd be able to figure out yourself, oh, maybe I should be storing this value rather than recalculating it. And with that, the monkey grabs a bone and triumphs.
the Wii will probably have the best gameplay (AI, Physics, etc.) since companies are being persuaded to concentrate more on that than "oooh... pretty".
That's just like saying that if a girl is ugly she must have a great personality.
That's really stupid, I know tons of ordinary people that had computers long before they had seen windows. There were Apples IIs, Amigas, Macs, Amstrads and even a huge number of IBM compatibles running DOS before Windows came out. You have a very silly and skewed memory of history, 3.1 didn't come out until '92 at which point PCs were well and truly entrenched in the family home.
To solve the Cuban missile crisis and avert nuclear war we basically abandoned our friends (Turkey) in return for Russia doing the same (Cuba).
You don't really believe that missiles were in Turkey or Cuba for the benefit of either of those two nations do you? They were there simply to allow a ballistic missile to hit the capital of the other power before they had a chance to react, not for any intrinsic protection of the host nation. Also, neither country was put into danger from withdrawals.
Also, did anyone really think too much about what the Mujahideen stood for in the '80s apart from getting the Soviets out of Afghanistan? Someone must have known what they were about, since their name literally means "dudes on a jihad". Most of the west got their information from either Regan or Rambo 3, you know when Rambo is fighting Russian tanks and helicopters on horseback and when they are all blown up it ends with a dedication to them. People just thought of them as patriots trying to get an invading force out of their country rather than religious nuts.
Have you actually seen the video mate? One officer had his right arm completely secure, another officer had him pinned by his neck with his knee and was holding the man's left hand away from his face to allow his face to be punched repeatedly. What I saw wasn't restraint but brutal physical punishment. At that point they were not attempting to restrain the man for any reason but to hit him, no handcuffs in sight. Your sarcastic rhetoric is juvenile and simply proves that you have no comprehension of what this discussion was about. If I was American, or moreso a Californian I'd be really embarrassed by that footage, after watching it on the news down here I'm just amazed that anyone on Slashdot could possibly try to justify it, hell, this is the place where researching bombmaking is considered a civil right. It's just like with that Rodney King dude, sure the King is an ultra looser that needs to be locked up, but bashing up unarmed people on the street is barbaric and it just doesn't happen in civilized places, if cops were caught doing that here they'd be fired within a week.
I think your somehow confused into thinking that power is all about resolution. Your probably thinking about having more stream processors, which can give you more pixels but is also useful for giving you more complex shaders (for some really cool looking effects). But graphics is only a small part, having some computational grunt is nice for making more compex games and allowing a greater detail of environmental simulation, having more memory is good for having larger, more detailed game worlds and bigger levels, I think memory has been traditionally a choking point in game consoles but it is improving, the XBox 360 has a respectable 512MB of RAM, the PS3 has an semi-adequate 256MB and Wii has a stingy 128MB of ram, which still kicks the pants off the Xbox's 64MB, PS2's 32MB and gamecube's 24MB. Game programmers and designers LOVE to use as much memory and CPU as they feel like without needing to do much optimization, it means that if they want to make a game in some way that they think is cool, then they can. B.t.w. the Wii is WAAAY more powerful than the XBox, that that isn't the point, 'cause the XBox made for some really limited games like Theif 3 and Deus Ex 2 which both had to be punished heavily to fit into the XBox's core memory. Up until now programmers, artists and designers have endured the limitations for the consoles huge market but if a console gives them a chance to go wild like they would on a PC then they'll jump on it simply so they can have the largest, most detailed and complex game out there, because that's what people seem to like and that's what looks cool.
The second point is valid, there was probably evidence that he deserved it cut out, note that this would not be any sort of justification for the extra judicial punishment he received. However the first point is utter crap. It just looked to me like he was trying to protect his face and the cops didn't like it 'cause they wanted to hit him. Anyway, there were two big strong cops there, they had him pinned, they could have forced his hands together or whatever, but they decided to punch him in the face, there was no reason for that. Anyway, humans held down, especially when their air supply is constricted will struggle and fight, we're wired like that and it really doesn't imply anything about the individual.
Support welfare then, countries with a welfare system pay a little more tax but don't have to deal with poor people since they have just enough money to live somewhere that you don't want to be anyway. The poor move out to the poor suburbs and you don't have to deal with them. That's before you consider the benefit to the homeless people themselves.
I'm sure the guy deserved it, that's not the point. The point is that if he deserved it he should have been arrested in a professional manner, given a fair trial and THEN punished. The courts are there to hand out punishment, not the police, the police are for grabbing suspects, gathering evidence and using force only to control current, dangerous situations, not as agents of retribution. What's the point of having fair courts if your punished before your put before them?
It was in seriously poor taste, WWII and especially incidents like the rape of Nanking was in no part funny. Slashdot should allow editing so I can delete shit that I shouldn't have posted.
Well then, lets hope we can slaughter some civilians, torture some allied POWs and rape some women before our families are nuked and firebombed and we are hanged for war crimes, long live emperor Torvalds!
What I want to know is that since the Imperial Japanese killed far more Chinese than the Nazis killed Jews whether Godwins law works for them too. I know who I'd rather be conquered by, that's for damn sure.
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How about URU, where your not armed. Or the thief series, where your weapons (bow, sword, club) barely work on people who've seen you. Or maybe one of the elder scrolls games, like Oblivion or Morrowind where you've got swords, bows and spells, but you keep them shieved for most of the game. These games don't simply not exist just because you havn't played them and want to bitch about first person games.
The industry is suffering a crippling dearth of innovation and risk-taking, and suggesting that everything has to match up to some prescribed formula as described could not be more damaging for the industry.My guess is that you havn't read through these "formula" either, if you had, you would know they are deliberately suggesting that the game doesn't just become one more boring linear cliche with poorly implemented and irrelivant features witch just leaves it the same as every other game. But the distingishing feature of those who like to bitch about the game industry not innovating is the staunch refusal to play the games that DO stand out (which happens to be a fair percentage of them) or listen to those people who actually have constructive ideas to change the problems that games today have.
Your problem isn't that you are a Linux n00b but because you are an experienced Windows user. In Windows you need to find out what program you want, then you have to download it, then you have to install it, then you have to make sure that you keep it updated. In Linux (at least in most distros these days) you search for a name or purpose in a package manager, tell it to install and that's it. It will automatically download and install what you need and keep it up-to-date for security, functionality and compatibility. What could suit people (especially n00bs) more than one click system administration? Every tool I want (barring some very obscure developer tools) can be found on ubuntu's graphical package manager, it's awesome.
Just because you're used to something in Windows doesn't make it the best or even the natural method.
It could be reasonably assumed that more people use Linux than a trackball. So, logically there is more reason to expect a game to make effort to support Linux than support a trackball. Especially since Linux wouldn't require Molyneux to totally rethink his control scheme that he seemed to have obsessed over. Very few games do support either because most games can go well in the market without those in fringe technical situations.
Fishermen do trawl, as well as use drift nets etc. Trolling is mostly done by amateur anglers who want to find something big rather than catch many fish, like a fisherman would do to pay his bills.
Leading a target happens in TA only after a unit has 5 or more kills. It's one of the effects that distinguish a veteran from a regular unit. Experience in TA is implemented in an increase of ability rather than health, armour or damage, just one of many reasons I love it so much.
That's why WWII was so interesting, Axis was armed with tanks and planes, the Western Allies made use of its army of Mech Warriors and the Soviet army was built on a strong front line of Bionic Brain Slime.
I remember that in the second battle of el-Alamein, Irwin Rommel researched "Purity of the Aryans" in his Totenkopf tower, giving all his infantry units an extra point of amour and was keeping the Allies busy with constant strikes with his three wheeled motor bikes (called "Bavarian Thigh Slappers") and of course with Charlimagne (complete with rocket launchers) who Rommel summoned at the Ahnenerbe Alter.
Bernard Montgommary was going the the "Three Pub" build strategy and had an initial weakness in his defense, but was able to recover using his "Big Ben" laser towers for base defense, summoned the Black Cyborg Prince with his Alter of Albion and focused on building his Australian mole mechs in his Woolloomoloo University. After he researched "Wombat's Burrow" his mole mechs were able to dig under Rommel's Swastikas and destroy his Concentration camp, forcing Rommel to retreat to Tunisia.
The Great NPC Winston Churchill was known to have said of the victory: "This is not the beginning of the end, but TOTAL PWNAGE ke ke ke ke ke!!!!!!!!!!!111111oneone".
It was closer to 15 to switch but it was hardly a difficult and intensive process. First schools started teaching it exclusively, then the government started using it, then when everyone was used to it they got rid of the old system. Now even my 80 year old grandfather talks in cms and kgs.
Metric isn't infinitely better than Imperial, though it does make formulas much simpler (barely any coefficients in physics equations) and conversion between large and small units far easier (how many inches in a mile?). The point is that the metric system has just enough merit over imperial to be universally accepted in every country but the United States and two third world, war-torn, unstable crapholes, one being a former US colony.
What I want to know is why the US, a country that violently seceded from the British Empire after it was issued with millions of franks worth of French weapons and using French naval support, who's greatest and most internationally famous monument was donated by France, who quickly instituted decimal currency based on francs and centimes, is so reluctant to adopt a French measurement system and is so enthusiastic in keeping the inferior and confusing system of their former enemy.... I'm not saying I like the French or anything, I'm just saying that Americans should universally like them.
Seriously, it is scary that it is possible for someone to reason so badly.
Firstly, he claims conversion is implicit and universal despite mars probes crashing because obviously people DO forget to do it sometimes. Then he throws up some rhetoric involving binary and hexadecimal, number systems which are only used in low level computing because of their affinity with hardware with having two general purpose unit systems used in parallel. Then he brings up seconds, minutes, hours and days when anyone who knows anything about metric knows that only seconds are part of SI, the rest should never be used in calculations. Then he claims that points are somehow better than millimeters because he likes his fonts at exactly 12pt and is not willing to have his fonts 5% smaller to make them 4mm but instead NEEDS that extra .233 millimeters to make his fonts JUST RIGHT but doesn't want to be bothered typing it in. Of course if someone wanted 4mm fonts they would need to type in 11.3394pt in the current system, but of course we all know that fonts are especially right when they are at even numbers of points rather than millimeters. What the hell is a point anyway? Millimeters are used in carpentry, particle physics and trade, points are just another unit made up for one purpose that doesn't really need its own system of measurement.
He summarizes in extolling the virtues of diversity. Diversity is great, don't you just love the Gnome and KDE flamewars on slashdot because any given application only really works properly and looks right with one desktop. And how you can't run OSX applications on your linux box. And how there are more BSDs that you can name but only one of them has proper SMP support but it is neither the one that is portable nor the one which is secure nor the one that is modular. You've gotta love the web pages designed around IE's quirks that don't quite look right under firefox. Oh, and how IPSEC has two types of header which can be used with either of the two modes and how nobody quite supports it because it's too "diverse". I can't begin to explain how having two types of high density optical disk has helped me enjoy high definition video so much quicker. Ever tried to hook up the tail lights of a friends trailer to your car and found out the plug is different? Ever bought some electric guismo from overseas but the plug doesn't fit without an ugly adapter?
In art, food and society you have diversity, in science and technology you have incompatibility.
Nobody could be dumb enough to truly think what the OP thinks, though I live in Australia where we switched to metrics in the 60s to the 80s and cannot imagine anyone having any trouble. That is why I think the OP is a troll or just having a little sarcastic joke that nobody got.
That's why you specify a decimal multiplied with pi. Treat a full circle as 2 of some unit and use a little pi as a unit sign. In the end you have an intuitive scale for common measurements that also can be read as radians, everybody is happy.
If nerds cannot reproduce it poses interesting questions about human genetics as the frequency of certain genes may change as the nerd lifestyle isolates people from methods of reproduction, procreation isn't just sexual but has wide reaching implications in human biology. But beyond that, I think talking about sex of any kind as well as porn and suggestive material is inappropriate, not just for benefit of gays but also for women who are often made very uncomfortable by such things, fortunately this kind of thing is comparatively very rare in OSS circles in my experience, most people are mature enough to keep it separate. It is also worthy of note that heterosexuality is not currently a politically charged issue for the most part.
I think the desire to meet and discuss things with people like ourselves is common in humans, it is probably the main reason that there has been so many organizations that traditionally excluded people of different races, different genders and sexual orientations, because obviously it is harder to identify with a wider community of people who do not share our exact perspective. This is generally frowned on as being harmful to society as a whole though and there are laws against certain types. Women in LUGs (as you mentioned) is an interesting example of the opposite, I don't believe is an effort to get laid (I personally far prefer women with different interests for some variety), but an issue to address a perceived inbalance in the section of the wider community that is represented in the LUG. Personally, I think the whole thing is a little misguided in its active focus on certain groups, but it is certainly healthy to keep in mind that one should not become entrenched in a cabal of a certain narrow demographic nomatter what demographic you are part of.
If you've ever been a curious teenager in a conservative family you'll know that it is not only homosexuals that have issues with privacy, it may be unwise to restrict those people who you discuss things like that with since believe me, there is a WEALTH of information amongst straight guys with strict parents. Anyway, in a world of key loggers, vnc, arp spoofing and tcp dumping, design problems in graphical clients are the least of your worries. A good rule is to keep anything that can compromise you out of environments that you do not control completely until it is encrypted. As for protecting identities of clients, I think anonymity is pretty much what the cypherpunk movement is all about.
As I said before, software issues invariably never come to sexuality.
Sexuality of any kind isn't really related to software (despite what the Ubuntu backgrounds may suggest). Bringing stuff like that into the movement does nothing but politicize something that already was inherently political enough. Like it or not, homosexuality is an issue where as many people will disagree with you as agree with you and you can't prove that your right nomatter what your position is. Stuff like that causes flamewars in useful communication channels just like when Iran or Palestine is mentioned on planet.gnome.org. I don't have a problem with either side as long as they don't use violence but I just wish they would keep their politics somewhere that doesn't affect Ubuntu.
Last I checked, 4 year old VHS tapes are pretty much unwatchable, let alone 20 year old tapes.
Some troll wanted a reaction and he got one, there's no sense punishing the poor moron who just couldn't help himself and bit. Could someone mod him back up to fix his fledgling karma and his feelings? Thanks.
The first time I was explicitly taught dynamic programming was in discrete maths, it was in the context of calculating the Fibonacci sequence with a recursive algorithm in Maple and why it would be so damn slow.
Anyway, dynamic programming is the sort of technique you'd be able to figure out yourself, oh, maybe I should be storing this value rather than recalculating it. And with that, the monkey grabs a bone and triumphs.
That's just like saying that if a girl is ugly she must have a great personality.
That's really stupid, I know tons of ordinary people that had computers long before they had seen windows. There were Apples IIs, Amigas, Macs, Amstrads and even a huge number of IBM compatibles running DOS before Windows came out. You have a very silly and skewed memory of history, 3.1 didn't come out until '92 at which point PCs were well and truly entrenched in the family home.
You don't really believe that missiles were in Turkey or Cuba for the benefit of either of those two nations do you? They were there simply to allow a ballistic missile to hit the capital of the other power before they had a chance to react, not for any intrinsic protection of the host nation. Also, neither country was put into danger from withdrawals.
Also, did anyone really think too much about what the Mujahideen stood for in the '80s apart from getting the Soviets out of Afghanistan? Someone must have known what they were about, since their name literally means "dudes on a jihad". Most of the west got their information from either Regan or Rambo 3, you know when Rambo is fighting Russian tanks and helicopters on horseback and when they are all blown up it ends with a dedication to them. People just thought of them as patriots trying to get an invading force out of their country rather than religious nuts.
Have you actually seen the video mate? One officer had his right arm completely secure, another officer had him pinned by his neck with his knee and was holding the man's left hand away from his face to allow his face to be punched repeatedly. What I saw wasn't restraint but brutal physical punishment. At that point they were not attempting to restrain the man for any reason but to hit him, no handcuffs in sight. Your sarcastic rhetoric is juvenile and simply proves that you have no comprehension of what this discussion was about. If I was American, or moreso a Californian I'd be really embarrassed by that footage, after watching it on the news down here I'm just amazed that anyone on Slashdot could possibly try to justify it, hell, this is the place where researching bombmaking is considered a civil right. It's just like with that Rodney King dude, sure the King is an ultra looser that needs to be locked up, but bashing up unarmed people on the street is barbaric and it just doesn't happen in civilized places, if cops were caught doing that here they'd be fired within a week.
I think your somehow confused into thinking that power is all about resolution. Your probably thinking about having more stream processors, which can give you more pixels but is also useful for giving you more complex shaders (for some really cool looking effects). But graphics is only a small part, having some computational grunt is nice for making more compex games and allowing a greater detail of environmental simulation, having more memory is good for having larger, more detailed game worlds and bigger levels, I think memory has been traditionally a choking point in game consoles but it is improving, the XBox 360 has a respectable 512MB of RAM, the PS3 has an semi-adequate 256MB and Wii has a stingy 128MB of ram, which still kicks the pants off the Xbox's 64MB, PS2's 32MB and gamecube's 24MB. Game programmers and designers LOVE to use as much memory and CPU as they feel like without needing to do much optimization, it means that if they want to make a game in some way that they think is cool, then they can. B.t.w. the Wii is WAAAY more powerful than the XBox, that that isn't the point, 'cause the XBox made for some really limited games like Theif 3 and Deus Ex 2 which both had to be punished heavily to fit into the XBox's core memory. Up until now programmers, artists and designers have endured the limitations for the consoles huge market but if a console gives them a chance to go wild like they would on a PC then they'll jump on it simply so they can have the largest, most detailed and complex game out there, because that's what people seem to like and that's what looks cool.
The second point is valid, there was probably evidence that he deserved it cut out, note that this would not be any sort of justification for the extra judicial punishment he received. However the first point is utter crap. It just looked to me like he was trying to protect his face and the cops didn't like it 'cause they wanted to hit him. Anyway, there were two big strong cops there, they had him pinned, they could have forced his hands together or whatever, but they decided to punch him in the face, there was no reason for that. Anyway, humans held down, especially when their air supply is constricted will struggle and fight, we're wired like that and it really doesn't imply anything about the individual.
Support welfare then, countries with a welfare system pay a little more tax but don't have to deal with poor people since they have just enough money to live somewhere that you don't want to be anyway. The poor move out to the poor suburbs and you don't have to deal with them. That's before you consider the benefit to the homeless people themselves.
I'm sure the guy deserved it, that's not the point. The point is that if he deserved it he should have been arrested in a professional manner, given a fair trial and THEN punished. The courts are there to hand out punishment, not the police, the police are for grabbing suspects, gathering evidence and using force only to control current, dangerous situations, not as agents of retribution. What's the point of having fair courts if your punished before your put before them?
It was in seriously poor taste, WWII and especially incidents like the rape of Nanking was in no part funny. Slashdot should allow editing so I can delete shit that I shouldn't have posted.
Well then, lets hope we can slaughter some civilians, torture some allied POWs and rape some women before our families are nuked and firebombed and we are hanged for war crimes, long live emperor Torvalds!
What I want to know is that since the Imperial Japanese killed far more Chinese than the Nazis killed Jews whether Godwins law works for them too. I know who I'd rather be conquered by, that's for damn sure.
Libel I believe when it's published by a media organization.