I love everything about WoW so far, except that to use the mouse to control your character you need to hold down the right mouse button. Otherwise you get a mouse cursor like in windows which you use to click things onscreen.
In SWG you could use the ALT key to toggle your mouse between cursor mode and character control mode. So long, twisted runs meant only turning on auto run then moving the mouse to make turns. In WoW it's turn on auto run then get a cramp in your finger as you hold down the right mouse button the whole time to steer.
Actually, it'd be kin of useful to be able to switch to IE's rendering engine for certain sites. Many people say they use firefox for everything except their online banking, so wouldn't it be neat to switch to IE's rendering engine instantly when you go to your specified banking site?
So would you prefer a Roman-style privately owned fire department which will come to your house when it catches fire, and wait there negotiating a price with you, raising it as your house gets worse?
You'd at least want that industry regulated to prevent problems, or be able to sue them in a public court if they fail to deliver what they promised? Well there's some tax money.
When you envison your world without taxes, don't forget to look at the whole picture. You'll realize that a lot of the things you take for granted would not be possible without a well coordinated and well funded public effort.
And who are you, A. Custard, to decide what is "best for them" and what isn't?
Me? I'm just Anonymous Custard. I'm not the one who chooses what's best for people; I don't know why you're making it about me. But me and my friends and lots of people who I don't know vote for people who we think will have our best interests in mind. Together, all those people we voted for try to work out what's best for our society.
Because if you run a base, you'll have systems on said base. When said base is assaulted, you may lose people. When you lose your Sun guy to an IED who's going to run your mission critical servers at the forward deploy bases?
One of the 24 other guys who were trained to run the mission critical servers which for some reason were deployed at a forward base.
No one likes paying for any public service until that day comes when they need it, and 3 fire trucks, 10 policemen, and a volunteer ambulance shows up at your house to help you in a major emergency. You can't rely on people to understand this themselves, so you either force them to pay for it through a tax, or you say "I told you so" as they sit there and watch their neighborhood burn down. I know I couldn't just say "I told you so" so we need to tax people. Like in parent and a child, sometimes you have to make people do what's best for them even though it's not what they seem to want.
If you don't want to install it, you can just do ctrl-,ctrl+ which shrinks and grows the font, which resizes the screen and fixes the display errors, too, but it's much easier to let slashfix do it for you.
It's clearly wiretapping because, duh, you're tapping into the wire to record the keystrokes.
But it's not federal wiretapping, or federal anything, because it doesn't cross state lines or involve a federal official. I don't know why the FBI is even involved.
Of course as the temperate zones move north some of the prime farmland in the US will become arrid, which will put a lot more than a few people out of work.. political short-termism gone mad.
Actually, you can. You can be much, much better equipped than the locals, thus overwhelming them with firepower.
I guess was comparing it to other guerilla warfare, like vietcong in vietnam, or americans in the american revolutionary war. If the "guerilla force" is very well armed and takes over a city, I wouldn't consider it guerilla warfare - sounds more like conventional wafare. So for the fallujah example, you could be correct about foreign insurgents, but it's not guerilla warfare.
But for the various random hit and run attacks, I'd think it's far more likely done by someone familiar with the area than by a force that's settled and bunkered down in a place like fallujah.
If Mr. McHenry's problems with wikipedia was just that this one article has an error, you would be correct, however, he is pointing out that the problem is endemic to the literature form, and that without a staff responsible for researching and verifying the accuracy of all of the articles, and held accountable for that accuracy, there is no way that wikipedia should ever be used as an authoritative source for formal research
Even with all that bullshit, my original point still stands: "Encyclopedias, printed or online, are meant as primers, or starting points. Not as a source for research."
This is Slashdot. Bill Gates gives flowers to an old woman and he is the son of Satan. Linus pisses in the old woman's face and Bill Gates is the son of Satan.
Yeah, but if the woman were a typical slashdot reader, then chances are she'd be allergic to the flowers, and getting pissed on would be the closest thing to sex she'd have in her whole life.
Why would I choose a Netscape branded version of Firefox, repleat with pre-set home and search pages aimed at generating ad revenue for one of largest companies in the U.S., when I could simply download and install the free and fully function version from Mozilla.org?
Because it came on your AOL CD and was installed when you installed AOL, and URL's in AOL open in Firefox by default.
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What is this "medical account information" anyway?
Maybe if you pay $500 per month to a cancer treatment center, they'll keep that private because of HIPAA?
And there are plenty of people who have a similar complaint.
I love everything about WoW so far, except that to use the mouse to control your character you need to hold down the right mouse button. Otherwise you get a mouse cursor like in windows which you use to click things onscreen.
In SWG you could use the ALT key to toggle your mouse between cursor mode and character control mode. So long, twisted runs meant only turning on auto run then moving the mouse to make turns. In WoW it's turn on auto run then get a cramp in your finger as you hold down the right mouse button the whole time to steer.
While I agree with you conceptually, there are still sites that require IE for whatever reason.
Actually, it'd be kin of useful to be able to switch to IE's rendering engine for certain sites. Many people say they use firefox for everything except their online banking, so wouldn't it be neat to switch to IE's rendering engine instantly when you go to your specified banking site?
In Soviet Korea, only old people get v4lub13 P3n!s 3n1arg3men+ notices.
So would you prefer a Roman-style privately owned fire department which will come to your house when it catches fire, and wait there negotiating a price with you, raising it as your house gets worse?
You'd at least want that industry regulated to prevent problems, or be able to sue them in a public court if they fail to deliver what they promised? Well there's some tax money.
When you envison your world without taxes, don't forget to look at the whole picture. You'll realize that a lot of the things you take for granted would not be possible without a well coordinated and well funded public effort.
And who are you, A. Custard, to decide what is "best for them" and what isn't?
Me? I'm just Anonymous Custard. I'm not the one who chooses what's best for people; I don't know why you're making it about me. But me and my friends and lots of people who I don't know vote for people who we think will have our best interests in mind. Together, all those people we voted for try to work out what's best for our society.
Because if you run a base, you'll have systems on said base. When said base is assaulted, you may lose people. When you lose your Sun guy to an IED who's going to run your mission critical servers at the forward deploy bases?
One of the 24 other guys who were trained to run the mission critical servers which for some reason were deployed at a forward base.
It's a $100 website, too.
No one likes paying for any public service until that day comes when they need it, and 3 fire trucks, 10 policemen, and a volunteer ambulance shows up at your house to help you in a major emergency. You can't rely on people to understand this themselves, so you either force them to pay for it through a tax, or you say "I told you so" as they sit there and watch their neighborhood burn down. I know I couldn't just say "I told you so" so we need to tax people. Like in parent and a child, sometimes you have to make people do what's best for them even though it's not what they seem to want.
I prefer the "fattest twins on motorcycles" type of world records.
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Installed it, now I never have a problem on
If you don't want to install it, you can just do ctrl-,ctrl+ which shrinks and grows the font, which resizes the screen and fixes the display errors, too, but it's much easier to let slashfix do it for you.
It's clearly wiretapping because, duh, you're tapping into the wire to record the keystrokes.
But it's not federal wiretapping, or federal anything, because it doesn't cross state lines or involve a federal official. I don't know why the FBI is even involved.
- Windows 98
- Windows Me
- Windows NT
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
- Windows 95
Oh, yeah, and that other one... uhh... linux?Damn, I had just that idea a few years ago. The downside is that you have to buy every product that you want the EULA for.
:-)
But you could return it saying you didn't agree with the EULA
Great, now the terrorists will be able to create genetically enhanced supermen to fight our all natural 100% human soldiers. We're doomed!!!
Of course as the temperate zones move north some of the prime farmland in the US will become arrid, which will put a lot more than a few people out of work.. political short-termism gone mad.
So you're saying we should... invade Canada next?
Actually, you can. You can be much, much better equipped than the locals, thus overwhelming them with firepower.
I guess was comparing it to other guerilla warfare, like vietcong in vietnam, or americans in the american revolutionary war. If the "guerilla force" is very well armed and takes over a city, I wouldn't consider it guerilla warfare - sounds more like conventional wafare. So for the fallujah example, you could be correct about foreign insurgents, but it's not guerilla warfare.
But for the various random hit and run attacks, I'd think it's far more likely done by someone familiar with the area than by a force that's settled and bunkered down in a place like fallujah.
You realize those are in the minority, right?
Which - get this - means that most soldiers have the opposite viewpoint
No, they are not in the minority.
Don't just make claims like "do you realize [opinion presented as a fact], right? No, I don't "realize" your retarded opinion.
You're a marine, huh? And you have an opinion of the war to share on /.? Wonderful!
Now everyone, direct your attention away from this broken record and listen to some real soldiers.
Actually, not true. Most of those now engaging Allied forces are mercenaries and others from other countries, not from Iraq.
I've heard that claim a lot... what proof can you offer?
You can't fight as guerilla fighters without being local or having support of the locals.
Okay coward.
Okay, here's the whole quote, dammit:
If Mr. McHenry's problems with wikipedia was just that this one article has an error, you would be correct, however, he is pointing out that the problem is endemic to the literature form, and that without a staff responsible for researching and verifying the accuracy of all of the articles, and held accountable for that accuracy, there is no way that wikipedia should ever be used as an authoritative source for formal research
Even with all that bullshit, my original point still stands: "Encyclopedias, printed or online, are meant as primers, or starting points. Not as a source for research."
This is Slashdot. Bill Gates gives flowers to an old woman and he is the son of Satan. Linus pisses in the old woman's face and Bill Gates is the son of Satan.
Yeah, but if the woman were a typical slashdot reader, then chances are she'd be allergic to the flowers, and getting pissed on would be the closest thing to sex she'd have in her whole life.
Why would I choose a Netscape branded version of Firefox, repleat with pre-set home and search pages aimed at generating ad revenue for one of largest companies in the U.S., when I could simply download and install the free and fully function version from Mozilla.org?
Because it came on your AOL CD and was installed when you installed AOL, and URL's in AOL open in Firefox by default.