If you want to be the toughest and kill everyone you face, then yeah, pyros are pretty weak. I'd generally blind and slip past individuals rather than killing them.
Really, enemies are more of a hinderance to their own team wandering around blind and hurt than they would be if I killed them, got a point and let them regroup with their pals. So I don't consider their lack of toe-to-toe fighting strength to be a weakness.
They make crazy guerillas, and they're awesome for disrupting defenders from moving into position within their own base and forcing choke points open so the scout can get through.
There's not a lot of nobility in grenade jumping into the enemy base and running through enemy fire so you can napalm the fuck out of the well-oiled elevator defense, die and do it again, but it wins matches (and MVP).
But really, the most fun was stuffing an entire team into the resup room, turning it into an inferno, and hearing the howls of "cheap" and "not fair". No better compliment for a guerilla that I can think of.:D
I'm trying to figure out why the DRM is an issue. My iPod has exactly 0 DRM encumbered songs on it. How did I escape the wrath of Apple? Maybe it is because I don't use the iTunes Music Store. It's not a requirement for an iPod, but a choice.
If you don't like the iPod because it's too popular and has white ear-buds, just say so. Don't try to spread mis-information for some pathetic anti-iPod agenda.
The people who sell the iPod have pushed their buck-a-track with bundled DRM agenda using the iPod as a vehicle. Since I don't support their agenda, I don't buy an iPod. Fortunately for me, there are better players out there so I don't have to.
Clearly the DRM is an issue, because it prompted me not to buy from Apple. Since the topic of the article is "Will the iPod Ever Die", the reasons behind my decision would appear pretty on-topic.
I won't buy an iPod because I want iTunes to fail. I want my music for free, I want it without advertising, I want high quality recordings I can reuse as I see fit, and if I like the music, I'll buy tickets to the show. I want my music player to do playback and recording in a format unencumbered by any DRM so I can create and share as I see fit. Apple doesn't give me that, and financially supports those who try to prevent me from having it. Therefore, I won't buy, and my friends have followed my advice and bought superior alternatives.
1) Quake MegaTF - I used to be one of the top ranked pyros in the game back in the day, and it feels some good to dust off the old skills. Nothing like sealing all the exits from a full room with napalm grenades and burning the entire enemy team to a crisp to get those frustruations out.
2) Baldurs Gate Series - One of the finest games to play across a home network with your girlfriend ever made.
3) Sid Meyers Pirates - You can rest one hand on the keypad, sit like a slug without moving at all and have an engrossing adventure for hours. A very lazy game to play.
4) Neverwinter Nights - Another fine game to play across the network with your girlfriend. Fiendish laughter as the two rogues disappear into the shadows leaving death in their wake.
5) Street Fighter vs X-Men running in MAME - Memories of high school. Wireless gamepads, beer a few buddies and an endless supply of credits.
iRiver makes mp3 players without DRM, with a front mounted microphone AND a line input jack for recording.
I'll pay too much for a DRM encumbered media player and pay $1 a piece for a collection of bits to play in it shortly after monkeys come flying out of my anus and not one moment before, thanks...
But if you avoid any investor seeing your idea (no, they won't bother signing NDA's), you'd better be able to pull the trick on your own, because they won't help.
Well, if your job is to Manage people who are doing a task, and you put forth an image that shoves your own cultural meme right into their faces, that's confrontational, and that means you're not doing your job.
To be good manager is, among other things, to be a good diplomat. To take great pains to ensure that your own cultural peculularities don't clash with others cultural peculularities and create conflict.
A good manager should carry themself in a fashion that wouldn't shock or offend ANYONE they might be called upon to administer, be they a middle aged good christian graphic designer or a tattoo bearing goth hacker who worships the devil.
You want vendor neutral interfaces on your servers and culture neutral managers in your offices for the same reasons; increasing the resources that are available for you to use.
If the law's not flawed, we should be upset that we weren't able to determine conclusively what really happened and might have an anti-social criminal wandering in our midst. The fact that we as a society are not upset speaks volumes.
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Heh... am I the only one that finds it deliciously ironic that a venture capitalist is advising brilliant phds with good ideas that they needn't worry about other people stealing their ideas and shouldn't protect them?
Kind of like a wolf telling you that you don't need to worry about fencing in your sheep.
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This whole article smacks of one critical difference between entrepreneurs with an idea and business majors.
Entrepreneurs with an idea think that money exists as a tool to bring ideas to realization, and they want their idea realized. The money to them is rather irrelevant if it's just doing the same old shit.
Business majors think that ideas exist as ways to make money, and they want their money. The realization of the idea is rather irrelevant to them if it's not the best way to make money.
At the end of the day, both can be opportunities for each other, but neither needs the other.
A brilliant idea can make a business major rich and powerful, but they can still get rich with the same old capitalist tactics they're familiar with and nary a novel idea in sight.
On the other hand, a lot of money can motivate people to support your idea and get it out into circulation, but there are other ways to motivate people than money. For an example of this, look at RMS.
It's my opinion that the best way for an individual to get their idea out there is to not only discard the existing business models, but to create models where other parties particpation is rewarding in and of itself, rather than some distasteful task they are being bribed into completing. If you can do that, it will scale globally and you don't need a dime to pay them. If you can't, you'll probably get crushed by the existing players with WAY more money than you and either be destroyed or absorbed.
Unless you're an existing player with tons of money, of course. Then you can bribe people to get behind whatever silly idea comes into your head.
We should not be here cheering because a man wasn't convicted under this law due to lack of evidence.
The laws should be fair. If someone is breaking the law, we should WANT them to be caught. We should want the truth to be out.
When the people are cheering because the state can't use the mechanics of society to effectively enforce the law, that means there's something very fundimentally wrong.
But of course, when you're running a societal operating system that was built during the time of Kings and Emperors, then hacked to accomodate the co-existance of that system with some sort of "Representative Democracy", then hacked by special interest groups and international cartels ad nauseum until it resembles some sort of Fascist regieme dreamed up by Hitler and George Orwell, you expect there to be a little cruft now and then...
It has 4 processors driving your computing experience forward. Just like a 4x4 has 4 wheels driving you forward. You don't need to be a marketdroid to be sitting around working on a 4-processor design for the consumer market and see the "4x4" reference.
I think it's kind of cool, personally. But then, I drive a Jeep.
The Daily Show consistently makes people aware of what is currently going on in the news. There's no less news than on the other news shows. There really isn't.
What there is less of is spin and propaganda from the talking heads. Where you'd get pro-Bush propaganda, you get some humour splashed in to break the tension so you don't explode when you see what's happening in the world.
No, it's not the best source of news. But it's the best news source in America.
Someone mod this up. If you the people of America don't step up to the plate and take these weapons of mass destruction away from the crazy motherfuckers internally and destroy them yourselves, eventually and inevitably the rest world will have to try and take them from you by force or guile.
I made a new years resolution to improve my posture. I used the following techniques in combination:
1) Handstands. Lots and lots of handstands or faulty attempts thereof. Builds all the core trunk muscles, particularly the back muscles which naturally pulls your shoulders back.
2) Bridging. Balance yourself on your feet and the back of your head and hold a bridge with your back as straight and low to the ground as you can for as long as you can every day. Builds the muscles along the back of the neck, naturally causing your head to rise.
3) Walk with a book on your head. Looks stupid, but I work from home, so I just made it a rule for a while to put a book on my head whenever I pace the apartment chain smoking and thinking out a problem.
Imagine that you couldn't do anything. You weren't educated, you don't know how to build anything, you don't have any "intrinsic" skills of any note whatsoever.
You don't know how to determine what the answers to the questions should be because you don't have the tools or capacity, and you've been taught all your life that you should leave it to "experts" with social recognition to tell you.
So you exist in this state where all your power is external. It lies in your capacity to somehow get others to do the things you want or need. And that power comes from emotional and social relationships. From being cute, or evoking sympathy, or being a bully, or being a fast talker, or whatever. And these relationships need to be constantly maintained, like a plant, or they die.
This is where most people live. That is why they behave the way they do. And the only way they can increase their power is maintain and increase the power of their network, so they constantly worry about what other people think and how they are percieved.
Personally, I feel the same way you do. But I still understand the other side and that there's a twisted internal logic to how they operate.
Some Canadians might be suprised, but many wouldn't.
It wasn't that many years ago that we tried to implement clean fuel additive regulations up here to cut down on health care costs. Fuel companies not only overturned the regulations, they scooped up some tidy damages cash and all their legal fees out of the public coffers.
Oh, and the value of an economy is in the productivity of its population, not how busy they are. All the baby boomers are going to retire, and more of the population than ever before will be retired or a youth. That means more kids and elderly depending on the work of less adults.
You'll see lots of rich old bastards frantically trying to be the one to get their ass wiped in a world where there are more fat old wallets than free hands to do the wiping.
It will lead to either a cultural collapse, or (more likely) to the culture being wiped out because the massive influx of immigrants being brought in to prop up the economy will not share in its values.
When the world goes to shit, you can blame your boomer ancestors and their lovely sense of "selfish entitlement" for it all. This is the writing on the wall.
Heh, I've been waiting for it to start being newsworthy for a decade, and it's right on time.
Interesting that Michael Powell of "Hang those responsible for the wardrobe malfunction think of the religious rights children" fame was chairman behind all this, then suddenly stepped down and allowed the whole thing to be shoved under the carpet. Wonder what concessions he got in exchange.
They SPECIFICALLY requested non-lethal weapons be designed by this company for use in circumstances where it is not appropriate to use non-lethals.
If the company can't pass the same standards that go into designing weapons for crowd control in a police department, do you really want the military to order billions of them and start an international incident where they go blow away a bunch of angry villagers armed with sticks and inspire a bunch of people to come bomb your country?
You're the only one in the group of your sex. That puts you on the outside, but also gives you the "I'm the only one" power. If you're a guy in a group of women or a girl in a group of men, you're in a good position, if you're not too prudish and antisocial to use it. If you are, tough shit. Life sucks sometimes when your expectations clash with reality, don't it?
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I'm [FoE]War. Yeah, I used to hit biscuit all the time. They had one of the best keep-away servers as I recall.
If you want to be the toughest and kill everyone you face, then yeah, pyros are pretty weak. I'd generally blind and slip past individuals rather than killing them.
:D
Really, enemies are more of a hinderance to their own team wandering around blind and hurt than they would be if I killed them, got a point and let them regroup with their pals. So I don't consider their lack of toe-to-toe fighting strength to be a weakness.
They make crazy guerillas, and they're awesome for disrupting defenders from moving into position within their own base and forcing choke points open so the scout can get through.
There's not a lot of nobility in grenade jumping into the enemy base and running through enemy fire so you can napalm the fuck out of the well-oiled elevator defense, die and do it again, but it wins matches (and MVP).
But really, the most fun was stuffing an entire team into the resup room, turning it into an inferno, and hearing the howls of "cheap" and "not fair". No better compliment for a guerilla that I can think of.
I'm trying to figure out why the DRM is an issue. My iPod has exactly 0 DRM encumbered songs on it. How did I escape the wrath of Apple? Maybe it is because I don't use the iTunes Music Store. It's not a requirement for an iPod, but a choice.
If you don't like the iPod because it's too popular and has white ear-buds, just say so. Don't try to spread mis-information for some pathetic anti-iPod agenda.
The people who sell the iPod have pushed their buck-a-track with bundled DRM agenda using the iPod as a vehicle. Since I don't support their agenda, I don't buy an iPod. Fortunately for me, there are better players out there so I don't have to.
Clearly the DRM is an issue, because it prompted me not to buy from Apple. Since the topic of the article is "Will the iPod Ever Die", the reasons behind my decision would appear pretty on-topic.
I won't buy an iPod because I want iTunes to fail. I want my music for free, I want it without advertising, I want high quality recordings I can reuse as I see fit, and if I like the music, I'll buy tickets to the show. I want my music player to do playback and recording in a format unencumbered by any DRM so I can create and share as I see fit. Apple doesn't give me that, and financially supports those who try to prevent me from having it. Therefore, I won't buy, and my friends have followed my advice and bought superior alternatives.
1) Quake MegaTF - I used to be one of the top ranked pyros in the game back in the day, and it feels some good to dust off the old skills. Nothing like sealing all the exits from a full room with napalm grenades and burning the entire enemy team to a crisp to get those frustruations out.
2) Baldurs Gate Series - One of the finest games to play across a home network with your girlfriend ever made.
3) Sid Meyers Pirates - You can rest one hand on the keypad, sit like a slug without moving at all and have an engrossing adventure for hours. A very lazy game to play.
4) Neverwinter Nights - Another fine game to play across the network with your girlfriend. Fiendish laughter as the two rogues disappear into the shadows leaving death in their wake.
5) Street Fighter vs X-Men running in MAME - Memories of high school. Wireless gamepads, beer a few buddies and an endless supply of credits.
Personally, I iPods suck, and didn't buy one.
iRiver makes mp3 players without DRM, with a front mounted microphone AND a line input jack for recording.
I'll pay too much for a DRM encumbered media player and pay $1 a piece for a collection of bits to play in it shortly after monkeys come flying out of my anus and not one moment before, thanks...
You see, people who make more money and have more disposable income spend more money on going out to the bar than those that make less money.
Clearly, alcohol and socializing cause you to make more money.
But if you avoid any investor seeing your idea (no, they won't bother signing NDA's), you'd better be able to pull the trick on your own, because they won't help.
:)
Yeah, that's about what I had in mind
Well, if your job is to Manage people who are doing a task, and you put forth an image that shoves your own cultural meme right into their faces, that's confrontational, and that means you're not doing your job.
To be good manager is, among other things, to be a good diplomat. To take great pains to ensure that your own cultural peculularities don't clash with others cultural peculularities and create conflict.
A good manager should carry themself in a fashion that wouldn't shock or offend ANYONE they might be called upon to administer, be they a middle aged good christian graphic designer or a tattoo bearing goth hacker who worships the devil.
You want vendor neutral interfaces on your servers and culture neutral managers in your offices for the same reasons; increasing the resources that are available for you to use.
If the law's not flawed, we should be upset that we weren't able to determine conclusively what really happened and might have an anti-social criminal wandering in our midst. The fact that we as a society are not upset speaks volumes.
Heh... am I the only one that finds it deliciously ironic that a venture capitalist is advising brilliant phds with good ideas that they needn't worry about other people stealing their ideas and shouldn't protect them?
Kind of like a wolf telling you that you don't need to worry about fencing in your sheep.
This whole article smacks of one critical difference between entrepreneurs with an idea and business majors.
Entrepreneurs with an idea think that money exists as a tool to bring ideas to realization, and they want their idea realized. The money to them is rather irrelevant if it's just doing the same old shit.
Business majors think that ideas exist as ways to make money, and they want their money. The realization of the idea is rather irrelevant to them if it's not the best way to make money.
At the end of the day, both can be opportunities for each other, but neither needs the other.
A brilliant idea can make a business major rich and powerful, but they can still get rich with the same old capitalist tactics they're familiar with and nary a novel idea in sight.
On the other hand, a lot of money can motivate people to support your idea and get it out into circulation, but there are other ways to motivate people than money. For an example of this, look at RMS.
It's my opinion that the best way for an individual to get their idea out there is to not only discard the existing business models, but to create models where other parties particpation is rewarding in and of itself, rather than some distasteful task they are being bribed into completing. If you can do that, it will scale globally and you don't need a dime to pay them. If you can't, you'll probably get crushed by the existing players with WAY more money than you and either be destroyed or absorbed.
Unless you're an existing player with tons of money, of course. Then you can bribe people to get behind whatever silly idea comes into your head.
The point they're trying to make is this:
We should not be here cheering because a man wasn't convicted under this law due to lack of evidence.
The laws should be fair. If someone is breaking the law, we should WANT them to be caught. We should want the truth to be out.
When the people are cheering because the state can't use the mechanics of society to effectively enforce the law, that means there's something very fundimentally wrong.
But of course, when you're running a societal operating system that was built during the time of Kings and Emperors, then hacked to accomodate the co-existance of that system with some sort of "Representative Democracy", then hacked by special interest groups and international cartels ad nauseum until it resembles some sort of Fascist regieme dreamed up by Hitler and George Orwell, you expect there to be a little cruft now and then...
To continue your logic, I, being ShieldWolf, must clearly be typing this with my paws.
Did you expect that Crusoe processors were going to come with a Friday co-processor?
Are you people dense?
It has 4 processors driving your computing experience forward. Just like a 4x4 has 4 wheels driving you forward. You don't need to be a marketdroid to be sitting around working on a 4-processor design for the consumer market and see the "4x4" reference.
I think it's kind of cool, personally. But then, I drive a Jeep.
Wow, you just put up a whole bunch of negative character attacks without a single bit of substantiation. How about that.
Do you work for CNN or something?
The Daily Show consistently makes people aware of what is currently going on in the news. There's no less news than on the other news shows. There really isn't.
What there is less of is spin and propaganda from the talking heads. Where you'd get pro-Bush propaganda, you get some humour splashed in to break the tension so you don't explode when you see what's happening in the world.
No, it's not the best source of news. But it's the best news source in America.
Someone mod this up. If you the people of America don't step up to the plate and take these weapons of mass destruction away from the crazy motherfuckers internally and destroy them yourselves, eventually and inevitably the rest world will have to try and take them from you by force or guile.
The consequences will be dire if you do not act.
I made a new years resolution to improve my posture. I used the following techniques in combination:
1) Handstands. Lots and lots of handstands or faulty attempts thereof. Builds all the core trunk muscles, particularly the back muscles which naturally pulls your shoulders back.
2) Bridging. Balance yourself on your feet and the back of your head and hold a bridge with your back as straight and low to the ground as you can for as long as you can every day. Builds the muscles along the back of the neck, naturally causing your head to rise.
3) Walk with a book on your head. Looks stupid, but I work from home, so I just made it a rule for a while to put a book on my head whenever I pace the apartment chain smoking and thinking out a problem.
Imagine that you couldn't do anything. You weren't educated, you don't know how to build anything, you don't have any "intrinsic" skills of any note whatsoever.
You don't know how to determine what the answers to the questions should be because you don't have the tools or capacity, and you've been taught all your life that you should leave it to "experts" with social recognition to tell you.
So you exist in this state where all your power is external. It lies in your capacity to somehow get others to do the things you want or need. And that power comes from emotional and social relationships. From being cute, or evoking sympathy, or being a bully, or being a fast talker, or whatever. And these relationships need to be constantly maintained, like a plant, or they die.
This is where most people live. That is why they behave the way they do. And the only way they can increase their power is maintain and increase the power of their network, so they constantly worry about what other people think and how they are percieved.
Personally, I feel the same way you do. But I still understand the other side and that there's a twisted internal logic to how they operate.
Some Canadians might be suprised, but many wouldn't.
It wasn't that many years ago that we tried to implement clean fuel additive regulations up here to cut down on health care costs. Fuel companies not only overturned the regulations, they scooped up some tidy damages cash and all their legal fees out of the public coffers.
Oh, and the value of an economy is in the productivity of its population, not how busy they are. All the baby boomers are going to retire, and more of the population than ever before will be retired or a youth. That means more kids and elderly depending on the work of less adults.
You'll see lots of rich old bastards frantically trying to be the one to get their ass wiped in a world where there are more fat old wallets than free hands to do the wiping.
It will lead to either a cultural collapse, or (more likely) to the culture being wiped out because the massive influx of immigrants being brought in to prop up the economy will not share in its values.
When the world goes to shit, you can blame your boomer ancestors and their lovely sense of "selfish entitlement" for it all. This is the writing on the wall.
Heh, I've been waiting for it to start being newsworthy for a decade, and it's right on time.
Interesting that Michael Powell of "Hang those responsible for the wardrobe malfunction think of the religious rights children" fame was chairman behind all this, then suddenly stepped down and allowed the whole thing to be shoved under the carpet. Wonder what concessions he got in exchange.
They SPECIFICALLY requested non-lethal weapons be designed by this company for use in circumstances where it is not appropriate to use non-lethals.
If the company can't pass the same standards that go into designing weapons for crowd control in a police department, do you really want the military to order billions of them and start an international incident where they go blow away a bunch of angry villagers armed with sticks and inspire a bunch of people to come bomb your country?
Wow... a web service based on a cross-site scripting vulnerability.
That's brilliant.
Now third party websites can offer to check my spelling and eavesdrop on my conversations with only one line of code!
I know I'm excited.
What a joke this is.
You're the only one in the group of your sex. That puts you on the outside, but also gives you the "I'm the only one" power. If you're a guy in a group of women or a girl in a group of men, you're in a good position, if you're not too prudish and antisocial to use it. If you are, tough shit. Life sucks sometimes when your expectations clash with reality, don't it?
I want you to choke on a chicken bone and die in your sleep.