If I'd known how bug ridden HL2 was going to be I would never have bought it.
It took me 3 hours of trying to get the fucking thing installed !
It took another 2 hours to get a game started: it crashed to the desktop without an error every time I tried.
When I finally got in (by running in windowed mode to start, then switching back to full screen to actually play) I started to play. Well wow! But then "load" and "load" and:oad": it seems every five seconds the fucking game has to load the next bit of content: that is so 1990s: haven't these guys learnt anything. The worst level (the level with the zombie hunting priest if you've played) the level is split: each time you cross this split you have to re-load: and you inevitably cross over multiple times doing the level. The guy who designed the level with this split in the middle should be sacked.
Thinking about buying HL2? Take my advice and wait another five years for these munchkins to fix the bugs.
Interestingly President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe also got a very high share of the vote. So do the leaders of many one party states, so I don't think that's really much of an indicator of a functioning democracy.
How many presidential elections have those other parties won? How many seats in congress or the senate do they hold? How many state governorships?
Could the answer to all those questions possible be "none, zero, nada and bugger all"? It's not a multiparty system when the fundamenta setup favours the two incumbent parties so overwhelmingly.
All absolutely true and it also supports my point: the French do not, as the gp claimed, have an inbred hatred/dislike of the US. Personally I applaud their opposition to US cultural imperialism (grass roots opposition to MacDonalds and their support, however strange it seems to us anglophones, of the French lanuage).
It's absolutely true as well: the French are just rude bastards and I really don't like going to France. However as I've applied to join a French company I guess you could call me a masochist (but a well paid one I hope).
"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head," he said."
Re your sig: personally I prefer "Europa Universalis". And what really sticks it to the yanks is that, no matter how much they spread "US" culture it's still basically European at heart;-)
Urban myth. It was kind of the other way around: the fact that his model led to that result ("bees can't fly) showed something was missing from the model. Current models prove that bees can indeed fly (it has to do with how they vibrate their wings or something): which is a pretty lucky thing for the bees who apparently had previously only been kept in the air by the power of belief.
You do know what the EU is don't you? It's (roughly) 30, sovereign, nations that all agree to co-operate. When it comes to co-operation I think Europe can teach the US an awful lot.
Ahem! President Bush announced the war was over a long time ago. What you meant to say was "With the cost of the Iraq peace draining at about $1.5B per week...".
You're assuming, wrongly, that the US is in the driving seat. It isn't. The bottom line is that the US is only the world's *military* super power. In economic and diplomatic terms the EU is and this is a specific example of that being the case.
Which is a great testament to the EU which has its foundations in France's desire to peacefully bind Germany to itself as closely as possible in order to stop yet another invasion. 3 invasions within less than a hundred years would seem to have been a bit of an incentive. (Franco-Prussian, WW1 and WW2 for the historically less-abled).
Huh? That's one of the major differences between Europe and the US: we have multi-party politics here, not the two-party system where you get to pick between two shades of blue. So one of President Chirac's (I notice you appear to be ignorant of his name) opponents was Jean-Marie Le Penn (there's another name you appear to have been ignorant of) he was only one of *FIFTEEN* opponents which included the French Communist party through to Le Penn's right wing National Front.
The ignorance of Americans about the rest of the world constantly amazes me.
Funny, I seem to remember a little fracas in 1776 that the French helped you guys out with. You know, just a little thing, like founding your country... And then of course there's the Statue of Liberty, de Tourquville's paper on democracy: let's face it, until the US started being the big bully on the block France was probably your best friend.
But hey from your sig you're a right-winger, you wouldn't want to go letting facts get in the way of your deeply held beliefs now would you?
It can also be instantly "uncorrected" as was the case with the Hamilton article. The original was more "correct" than the current form: which had evolved into an inferior state.
The problem is that there are too many uninformed monkeys and too few experts AND that equal weight is given to each.
You've heard the expression "a little knowledge is dangerous" ? The reason for the danger is that those with a little knowledge don't know enough to know how little they know. Ditto with wikki: the vast majority of people editing simply don't know how poor their knowledge actually is.
In addition a significant number of people will be editing not because they think they can improve the article but simply to make their mark: the most extreme form of which is deliberate vandalism.
I'm sure my fellow slashdotters would have problem agreeing that the most recent Star Wars movies could have been improved by the attention of an expert editor: the same is true of the wikipaedia.
As some that's, literally 30 minutes ago, bought an X box in order to install xbmc: care to share how to mod an XBox without a mod chip before I fork out the cash for one?
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I have a cpu that's twice as fast as yours, I have twice as much memory and a gpu that's a generation ahead of yours.
I guess Valve spent too much time optimising their game for ancient hardware at the expensive of those of us running a modern system.
I'm running an AMD 3400 with 1 gig of memory and a 7200rpm drive.
If my machine is too slow then there's a problem. Alternatively you're a moron jumping to conclusions.
If I'd known how bug ridden HL2 was going to be I would never have bought it.
It took me 3 hours of trying to get the fucking thing installed !
It took another 2 hours to get a game started: it crashed to the desktop without an error every time I tried.
When I finally got in (by running in windowed mode to start, then switching back to full screen to actually play) I started to play. Well wow! But then "load" and "load" and :oad": it seems every five seconds the fucking game has to load the next bit of content: that is so 1990s: haven't these guys learnt anything. The worst level (the level with the zombie hunting priest if you've played) the level is split: each time you cross this split you have to re-load: and you inevitably cross over multiple times doing the level. The guy who designed the level with this split in the middle should be sacked.
Thinking about buying HL2? Take my advice and wait another five years for these munchkins to fix the bugs.
Hmm let's see.
Get the picture? The world needs the US to wield the big stick, but the US (and the world) then needs the EU to make the peace work.
And oh, the EU has agreed on a common currency: it's called the Euro.
Interestingly President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe also got a very high share of the vote. So do the leaders of many one party states, so I don't think that's really much of an indicator of a functioning democracy.
The states in the US are *not* sovereign. They have do not have the power toi declare war for example, nor to secede from the union.
How many presidential elections have those other parties won? How many seats in congress or the senate do they hold? How many state governorships?
Could the answer to all those questions possible be "none, zero, nada and bugger all"? It's not a multiparty system when the fundamenta setup favours the two incumbent parties so overwhelmingly.
All absolutely true and it also supports my point: the French do not, as the gp claimed, have an inbred hatred/dislike of the US. Personally I applaud their opposition to US cultural imperialism (grass roots opposition to MacDonalds and their support, however strange it seems to us anglophones, of the French lanuage).
It's absolutely true as well: the French are just rude bastards and I really don't like going to France. However as I've applied to join a French company I guess you could call me a masochist (but a well paid one I hope).
"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head," he said."
Stereotype yank? Oooh pretty: let's kill it!
Re your sig: personally I prefer "Europa Universalis". And what really sticks it to the yanks is that, no matter how much they spread "US" culture it's still basically European at heart ;-)
Urban myth. It was kind of the other way around: the fact that his model led to that result ("bees can't fly) showed something was missing from the model. Current models prove that bees can indeed fly (it has to do with how they vibrate their wings or something): which is a pretty lucky thing for the bees who apparently had previously only been kept in the air by the power of belief.
Personally I hate Channel Islanders. Those smug bastards taunting us with their tax free living!
You do know what the EU is don't you? It's (roughly) 30, sovereign, nations that all agree to co-operate. When it comes to co-operation I think Europe can teach the US an awful lot.
Ahem! President Bush announced the war was over a long time ago. What you meant to say was "With the cost of the Iraq peace draining at about $1.5B per week...".
You're assuming, wrongly, that the US is in the driving seat. It isn't. The bottom line is that the US is only the world's *military* super power. In economic and diplomatic terms the EU is and this is a specific example of that being the case.
Which is a great testament to the EU which has its foundations in France's desire to peacefully bind Germany to itself as closely as possible in order to stop yet another invasion. 3 invasions within less than a hundred years would seem to have been a bit of an incentive. (Franco-Prussian, WW1 and WW2 for the historically less-abled).
Huh? That's one of the major differences between Europe and the US: we have multi-party politics here, not the two-party system where you get to pick between two shades of blue. So one of President Chirac's (I notice you appear to be ignorant of his name) opponents was Jean-Marie Le Penn (there's another name you appear to have been ignorant of) he was only one of *FIFTEEN* opponents which included the French Communist party through to Le Penn's right wing National Front.
The ignorance of Americans about the rest of the world constantly amazes me.
Funny, I seem to remember a little fracas in 1776 that the French helped you guys out with. You know, just a little thing, like founding your country... And then of course there's the Statue of Liberty, de Tourquville's paper on democracy: let's face it, until the US started being the big bully on the block France was probably your best friend.
But hey from your sig you're a right-winger, you wouldn't want to go letting facts get in the way of your deeply held beliefs now would you?
Is a pro-life agnostic close enough?
Troll?? Oh come on! That was "+1, Ball Achingly Funny".
No, of course you're not!
The thing is, you're not a geek at all: put your tie back on and get back to the accounts department.
It can also be instantly "uncorrected" as was the case with the Hamilton article. The original was more "correct" than the current form: which had evolved into an inferior state.
The problem is that there are too many uninformed monkeys and too few experts AND that equal weight is given to each.
You've heard the expression "a little knowledge is dangerous" ? The reason for the danger is that those with a little knowledge don't know enough to know how little they know. Ditto with wikki: the vast majority of people editing simply don't know how poor their knowledge actually is.
In addition a significant number of people will be editing not because they think they can improve the article but simply to make their mark: the most extreme form of which is deliberate vandalism.
I'm sure my fellow slashdotters would have problem agreeing that the most recent Star Wars movies could have been improved by the attention of an expert editor: the same is true of the wikipaedia.
Oooh impressive! I see your "study computer science at the university level" and raise you one honours degree and 16 years development experience.
*grin*
As some that's, literally 30 minutes ago, bought an X box in order to install xbmc: care to share how to mod an XBox without a mod chip before I fork out the cash for one?