The thing is that having friends is a self-interest thing as well. Not screwing allies means you keep those allies and others trust you.
I'll give you another example: the suez crisis. On the one hand: the UK (democracy and long standing US ally), France (ditto), who jointly owned some property that was being stolen, versus Egypt (dictatorship and Soviet ally). Which side did the US support?
Airbus, built by a European consortium, is superior to anything the US makes.
The US has, what, 240M people?
Europe has 750M.
China, over a billion.
The writing is on the wall for the US's hegemony, which has relied a lot on other countries being willing to accept their cheques without ever cashing them (i.e. use their currency as their own).
The US did something similar with atomic research: took all the work the UK had been doing on the understanding they would share the result (the A-bomb) and then refused to.
What constantly amazes me is. given the way the US constantly screws its allies is that a) it still has any and b) the UK still has the fantasy that we have a "special relationship" with the US: the only special relationship we have is the one where we bend over and drop our trousers on demand.
Insightful? The guy obviously hasn't even looked at DDO.
If there's one thing it has it's *proper* quests with a story. It's the single thing that makes it stand out from the other MMORPG's I've played (EQ, WoW).
And as to the comments about not being able to solo a MMORPG: go play the next installment of Elder Scrolls you stupid dicks.
Uhm, what would be the point of re-implementing SQL? Both Hibernate (for Java) and RoR allow you to make SQL queries for none-OO type functions, eg mass updates/deletes, aggregations etc.
As of 1 Jan this year *every* offence, including littering, is now "arrestable". If you are arrested you are required to have your DNA and finger prints taken and they are permanently stored.
Going through parliament right now is a law that will enable ministers to create, repeal and amend laws *without reference to parliament*.
All I can say is welcome to our New Labour overlords.
Really? That's funny because both desktop OSX and xserve come with Apache pre-installed and pre-configured. Perhaps you should, you know, check your facts before trolling?
You're kidding right? Dell hardware is just complete crap! I have a dell laptop I have to use for work and it is dreadful: and it ain't Windows fault. The case is flimsy, cheap plastic, that flexes all over the place. It comes with both a trackpad and a nipple: neither of which work reliably.
In contrast the PowerBooks I bought myself: the cases are solid and the trackpad works flawlessly.
Dell's number 1 problem is their cheap, flimsy, unreliable hardware.
I bought an iPod. Loved it. Bought a PowerBook. Loved it. Bought my wife an iMac. She likes it. I bought a PowerMac G5: its ok but I love the cinema display. I bought a new PB and gave my brother my old one: he and his wife like it. I bought my mum a G3, she still uses her PC:-(
My brother-in-law bought a mac mini after seeing mine (I bought mine on a whim). My niece plans on getting a Mac when she goes to university.
All that from a single iPod sale, none of us had considered Macs before: I'd say the halo effect is working just fine.
I disagree. There is a very big difference between post-Englightenment western Christianity and Islam. The fundamental one in that regard is that the west accepts the separation of church and state, Islam doesnt and that makes a big, big difference.
Now if you'd said there was no difference between modern Islam and medieval christianty I'd have agreed.
Not true. They're the highest court in the land BUT unlike the Supreme Court in the USA they cannot strike down laws that contravene the constitution for the simple reason we don't have one and parliament is sovereign (not the court).
The first part of what you said is misleading: the house of lords cannot thwart the will of parliament, with the sole exception (and this is very recent) of those cases that impact the European Convention of Human Rights. The final statement you make ("they deal with the validity of law as applied") is kind of right of you mean they interpret what parliament ment when it passed the law.
What Bill is basically saying is if the HCC pirate their software Microsoft will go out of business! Damn you HCC look what happened because you didn't steal enough of Bill's code! Windows 2, Windows 3, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP: ALL YOUR FAULT!
33 trillion to 1? Yeah right. All a counterfeiter needs do is make it glow roughly the same green. No need to actually replicate the DNA sequence: no-one will actually check that anyway!
WoW(last time): Although you seem to be against huge singleton population-wide efforts, Blizzard is currently in the middle of the one time war effort. You really get the sense that your contribution matters and that it is a huge team game of everyone working together to complete a massive quest with a long lasting impact on the world.
Only in the sense that woman at home in the UK during WW2 could sense the contribution of their frying pans helped keep the spitfires flying (which was actually bollocks but helped keep up morale).
The current "war" is simply the latest in a long line of "let's drain stuff from the economy by getting the players to give away vast quantities of metal/cloth/herbs/whatever". Zero imagination on Blizzard's part leading up to, surprise, surprise, yet another 40 man raid dungeon 95% of the players will never see inside.
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The thing is that having friends is a self-interest thing as well. Not screwing allies means you keep those allies and others trust you. I'll give you another example: the suez crisis. On the one hand: the UK (democracy and long standing US ally), France (ditto), who jointly owned some property that was being stolen, versus Egypt (dictatorship and Soviet ally). Which side did the US support?
This was solved a long time ago, which you'd know if you weren't simpyl karam-whoring: ctrl-click.
So you'd use OSX 75% and Windows 25% but won't by a Mac. So.... what would you buy?
Airbus, built by a European consortium, is superior to anything the US makes. The US has, what, 240M people? Europe has 750M. China, over a billion. The writing is on the wall for the US's hegemony, which has relied a lot on other countries being willing to accept their cheques without ever cashing them (i.e. use their currency as their own).
What constantly amazes me is. given the way the US constantly screws its allies is that a) it still has any and b) the UK still has the fantasy that we have a "special relationship" with the US: the only special relationship we have is the one where we bend over and drop our trousers on demand.
Insightful? The guy obviously hasn't even looked at DDO.
If there's one thing it has it's *proper* quests with a story. It's the single thing that makes it stand out from the other MMORPG's I've played (EQ, WoW).
And as to the comments about not being able to solo a MMORPG: go play the next installment of Elder Scrolls you stupid dicks.
It already is functional. It works perfectly as a cheap, easy to use desktop computer: which is exactly what Apple market it as.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour
Uhm, what would be the point of re-implementing SQL? Both Hibernate (for Java) and RoR allow you to make SQL queries for none-OO type functions, eg mass updates/deletes, aggregations etc.
And the worst and most bigoted religous are the atheists.
All I can say is welcome to our New Labour overlords.
Really? That's funny because both desktop OSX and xserve come with Apache pre-installed and pre-configured. Perhaps you should, you know, check your facts before trolling?
That's complete bollocks. EJB is not a wrapper around Corba IIOP.
In contrast the PowerBooks I bought myself: the cases are solid and the trackpad works flawlessly.
Dell's number 1 problem is their cheap, flimsy, unreliable hardware.
My brother-in-law bought a mac mini after seeing mine (I bought mine on a whim). My niece plans on getting a Mac when she goes to university.
All that from a single iPod sale, none of us had considered Macs before: I'd say the halo effect is working just fine.
Now if you'd said there was no difference between modern Islam and medieval christianty I'd have agreed.
Heh WOW was made a universal binary 2 weeks ago. You go with that up to date news.
Until the Acer runs OSX it simply isn't possible for it to beat any Mac on features.
Be patient with him, he's, you know, a Windows user.
Not true. They're the highest court in the land BUT unlike the Supreme Court in the USA they cannot strike down laws that contravene the constitution for the simple reason we don't have one and parliament is sovereign (not the court).
The first part of what you said is misleading: the house of lords cannot thwart the will of parliament, with the sole exception (and this is very recent) of those cases that impact the European Convention of Human Rights. The final statement you make ("they deal with the validity of law as applied") is kind of right of you mean they interpret what parliament ment when it passed the law.
What Bill is basically saying is if the HCC pirate their software Microsoft will go out of business! Damn you HCC look what happened because you didn't steal enough of Bill's code! Windows 2, Windows 3, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP: ALL YOUR FAULT!
33 trillion to 1? Yeah right. All a counterfeiter needs do is make it glow roughly the same green. No need to actually replicate the DNA sequence: no-one will actually check that anyway!
DYE! The word is DYE! Perhaps if you spent more time in class and less playing games you'd know that?
Only in the sense that woman at home in the UK during WW2 could sense the contribution of their frying pans helped keep the spitfires flying (which was actually bollocks but helped keep up morale).
The current "war" is simply the latest in a long line of "let's drain stuff from the economy by getting the players to give away vast quantities of metal/cloth/herbs/whatever". Zero imagination on Blizzard's part leading up to, surprise, surprise, yet another 40 man raid dungeon 95% of the players will never see inside.