Bison are herbivores. Second step on the food chain.
Predators like sharks help to keep the prey population in check. If sharks decline, the fish they feed on increase. That leads to a shortage of plankton and other producers. It can have major negative effects on the biosphere.
Nethack is text-based not because of technological constraints (as Falcon's Eye shows) but because the players and developers prefer the feel of the text-based Nethack.
Just because a game is visually simple, it doesn't mean it's computationally simple or has a simpler play. Nethack is one of the most complex games I have ever played, and never ceases to entertain me after years of playing.
It's also much more computationally intensive than you might think -- the full version requires a pretty decent computer. I can run it full-featured (without X running) on my PowerBook 3400, but it sometimes goes into swap. (32MB RAM, though)
Killing sharks for their fins (Americans & Europeans eat it too) is just as stupid as killing bison for their tongues (which is what American pioneers did).
It doesn't change the fact that it's wasteful and horrible to kill an animal to eat a tiny portion of its body to insinuate that people that oppose the practice are racists.
Install a plugin for Mozilla and it works in Galeon. What are you talking about?
Mozilla-XFT and a few nice TrueType fonts looks just as good as IE to me. I believe Mozilla has AA support and nice fonts out of the box for RH.
VBA being a "great scripting language" is a point for debate; whether the average user uses 5% of Office's features is a wholly different one. This particular discussion is on Linux on the desktop, and I've never met a person who couldn't easily use KO, GO, or OO to do what they can do in MSO. So yes, I am comparing (K|G|O)Office to MS Office.
I don't know about X Windows, but X Window is first-rate software if you consider how it's been used effectively in the enterprise for about 20 years now.
Depends on what sort of pictures are on the screen at the time. I know web sites like ninenine.com (not work safe, blah blah) help give a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling... well, maybe not fuzzy.
I'm talking about Oregon here, where the budget moved up maybe 5% last biennium (lots of cuts last year, too). Not to mention the fact that most, if not all of the new spending was actually voted in by referendum.
Also, have you factored in the rate of population growth? A better way to calculate state spending is average expenditures per citizen as opposed to total spending.
There are many factors that contribute to higher spending in one biennium than the previous one other than the liberals dreaming up new wasteful programs. Population growth, inflation, referendums that raise spending, drops in federal funding (we've had some of that), and other such issues.
I'm a libertarian myself. I don't know the situation over in Massachusetts, but the numbers you quote are pretty outrageous. I sympathize.
I'm sorry, you seem to be suffering from the unfortunate misconception that the state government is a company. Common among big-L Libertarians, I'm told.
Tax rates mainly paid for a certain rate of service several years ago. Now, due to a number of circumstances, those tax rates no longer pay for services. Thus taxes must be adjusted upwards -- raised.
Spending has not increased past inflation and devaluation over the last biennium. Revenues have decreased. The only way to keep services at a constant level is to increase tax revenues.
No budget has been been overrun here -- the tax dollars have underrun.
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Yeah, what parent would ever expect a game called 'BMX XXX' to be pornographic? Pure deception! There ought to be a law!
SCO sells Linux, pal. You might have heard of "OpenLinux" and "UnitedLinux."
Bison are herbivores. Second step on the food chain.
Predators like sharks help to keep the prey population in check. If sharks decline, the fish they feed on increase. That leads to a shortage of plankton and other producers. It can have major negative effects on the biosphere.
Nethack is text-based not because of technological constraints (as Falcon's Eye shows) but because the players and developers prefer the feel of the text-based Nethack.
Just because a game is visually simple, it doesn't mean it's computationally simple or has a simpler play. Nethack is one of the most complex games I have ever played, and never ceases to entertain me after years of playing.
It's also much more computationally intensive than you might think -- the full version requires a pretty decent computer. I can run it full-featured (without X running) on my PowerBook 3400, but it sometimes goes into swap. (32MB RAM, though)
That's right, make it an issue of race.
Killing sharks for their fins (Americans & Europeans eat it too) is just as stupid as killing bison for their tongues (which is what American pioneers did).
It doesn't change the fact that it's wasteful and horrible to kill an animal to eat a tiny portion of its body to insinuate that people that oppose the practice are racists.
Hey, hey, God^H^H^HBowie didn't say that the event occurred in 1979.
"Poor Quality?"
Played the game in question, I take it?
Kids ARE hardcore gamers.
It's a joke. Read the article before your knee jerks.
.NET, not C#.
The U.S. copyright act, silly. 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
What you're talking about is the reason for the Lesser General Public License.
Why? I already have a PowerBook.
Which should be roughly when Hurd matures, too, considering Apple's attitude towards x86.
Install a plugin for Mozilla and it works in Galeon. What are you talking about?
Mozilla-XFT and a few nice TrueType fonts looks just as good as IE to me. I believe Mozilla has AA support and nice fonts out of the box for RH.
VBA being a "great scripting language" is a point for debate; whether the average user uses 5% of Office's features is a wholly different one. This particular discussion is on Linux on the desktop, and I've never met a person who couldn't easily use KO, GO, or OO to do what they can do in MSO. So yes, I am comparing (K|G|O)Office to MS Office.
I use both. Does that mean I hate Windows and love "*nix?"
Oh, and Darwin/x86 is roughly equal to the Hurd in terms of hardware support.
There's a FreeBSD Linux now?
Office: KOffice for KDE, GNOME Office for GNOME, Open Office for People Who Like Slow Software. IE: Mozilla, Galeon, Phoenix.
What's wrong with XFree86's web site? It's navigable, simple, readable, and displays correctly in Lynx.
Fancy graphics and DHTML do not a professional web site make.
I don't know about X Windows, but X Window is first-rate software if you consider how it's been used effectively in the enterprise for about 20 years now.
Small correction: It's ESR, not RMS.
Depends on what sort of pictures are on the screen at the time. I know web sites like ninenine.com (not work safe, blah blah) help give a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling... well, maybe not fuzzy.
No, it's decreased tax revenues. Income tax revenues have decreased over the past year.
I'm talking about Oregon here, where the budget moved up maybe 5% last biennium (lots of cuts last year, too). Not to mention the fact that most, if not all of the new spending was actually voted in by referendum.
Also, have you factored in the rate of population growth? A better way to calculate state spending is average expenditures per citizen as opposed to total spending.
There are many factors that contribute to higher spending in one biennium than the previous one other than the liberals dreaming up new wasteful programs. Population growth, inflation, referendums that raise spending, drops in federal funding (we've had some of that), and other such issues.
I'm a libertarian myself. I don't know the situation over in Massachusetts, but the numbers you quote are pretty outrageous. I sympathize.
I'm sorry, you seem to be suffering from the unfortunate misconception that the state government is a company. Common among big-L Libertarians, I'm told.
Tax rates mainly paid for a certain rate of service several years ago. Now, due to a number of circumstances, those tax rates no longer pay for services. Thus taxes must be adjusted upwards -- raised.
Spending has not increased past inflation and devaluation over the last biennium. Revenues have decreased. The only way to keep services at a constant level is to increase tax revenues.
No budget has been been overrun here -- the tax dollars have underrun.