The problem is our prison systems. There are plenty of asian countries where the probability of returning to prison decreases significantly. Most of these prisons are run like military schools and are tailored for training people to conform to society.
Our prisons are simply an unhappy place to be, where bad people do more bad things and have more bad things done to them. None of this promotes reform.
I agree with your assessment, and I think that your solution is valid but only temporary. I think our prisons should be run like reform schools where people have to do back-breaking work and conform to a strict etiquette.
Are you taking into account the dirth of developers for EQOA? EQOA is really the red headed step child of EQ.
In AC a monthly patch can include new dungeons, quests, new islands, new creatures, new combat options, and loads of other new things. EQOA's monthly patches are very subpar in contrast, and I suspect heavily this is due to the memory card limit.
They open up new locations in EQOA that are locked on the disc. But these are always highlevel areas. There were still areas left on the first disc when the expansion came out.
Quests in EQOA are completely server side. This has nothing to do with the memory cards.
They unlock new enemies with the new locations. Sometimes they put new named mobs (bosses) in certain areas, but they usually aren't new enemy types.
Combat options are server side too. Only the animations and special effects have to be on the disc. Did you notice how bad the fishing animations are? That's because they were improvised.
EQOA is very subpar at many things. But the only thing you have touched on is the inability to add new, low level content.
Having played EQOA from release and permanently quiting around Christmas, I must say that I disagree with that.
EQOA uses a 3M (memory card) binary patch. It contains no graphics, no sounds, nothing but compressed binary. Because of this the developers really planned ahead. The play discs are full of unused graphics and stuff. In fact Ogres were on the first disc. The entire second expansion could have been made using the first disc.
EQOA is regularly updated, some of the updates being very big feature wise, like:
Fishing
All of the trade skills
The Auction System
The group finding system (I don't know if they have done this yet)
EQOA devs also make patches as server side as possible. Geometry fixes and new spells are all server side. Most of the play data and menus comes from the server. In the Beta for the EQOA expansion, you could actually log onto the regular servers with the Beta disc and you would get the old unexpanded interface and character selection.
Now it is true that there are limitations on the patching. One thing in particular that they can never fix are graphical bugs like slow down in certain areas.
As much as I have issues with EQOA, so much so that I just can't stand to play it anymore after enjoying it for nearly a year, I must say that they have done a brilliant job at patching.
I don't really have an issue with that until people start asking why us "stupid people would pay so much for an app." It's sort of like asking why somebody would drive with a manual transmission. Frustrating, iddn't it?
My manual car was $1,300 cheaper than an automatic. My manual car is rated at a few more miles per gallon than an automatic. It's how you drive though. My transmission is never going to go bad, costing thousands of dollars in repairs. And most importantly, ain't no punk ass, little, 15 year old bitch down the street gonna steal my car, because he has no clue how to use a stick and 3 pedals.
If the prices were the same, and the car doesn't allow hot wiring, then I would probably buy an automatic.
The second thing you notice about the new version is the GIMP's "dockability." All dialogs (Brushes, Layers, Tool Options, etc.) can now be detached from the main window and shown in a separate window, added to an existing dialog window, or hidden from view. The software saves all changes you make to your view preferences, so that when you next go to work, your tools remain laid out as they were during your last session. This not only allows you to create a custom environment that suits your needs, but also helps reduce screen clutter.
And I do know that the E pager could do just that and more. You can easily fill up 1/4 of the screen or even more with the E pager. The pager was scalable.
So either you are wrong or I haven't been able to understand what you are objecting to?
When I ran Enlightenment, I made the pager fill up nearly the entire screen. I would have made it fill up the entire screen, but there was a hard coded limit to the maximum pager size.
Having it really big was fun. As the pager scans were made you could begin to see a pager in a pager in a pager in a pager...
Linux: A big potluck in the park, where a whole bunch of people gathered together to provide food for everyone. Food is good, but there's no menu, so you often have to wander around looking for what you really want. And you can bring your own if you'd like; if it's better than what someone else brought, theirs gets thrown out and you get their spot at the table, or if it's something new, they'll make room.
You forgot the part where Jeebus came and made the loaves of bread and fish multiply to feed the masses. And then he turned water into wine and we got shitfaced. And then after all that Jeebus introduced the O(1) scheduler, and we all went home happy as Jews.
I thought they were just in the blood. But I tried to ignore/forget that stuff. Are midichlorians in dead matter too? If so that would be a much better explaination.
That's a good idea. I give you my imaginary plus one.
Really, though, I do think I said something different.
I am absolutely sure that we said the exact same thing. But now that I look at it, my physics-speak might have been a bit too thick.
What I described is no more convoluted than the interaction of your mind and a ball which you have dropped. In that scenario, your mind (by opening your hand) allows gravity to do its mysterious work on the ball.
In this case we have the force of the Earth on the ball, and in agreement with Newton's third law, the force of the ball on the Earth. There are no invisible rays of magic flowing between the ball dropper and the Earth and the ball. There is no 3-way interaction here. This is what I was getting at, sorry if it didn't translate.
I know you are a troll, but an important point can be made here. This line of thinking doesn't just make Star Wars unbelievable, which it never was to begin with. That isn't the point at all.
This debunks psychics and parapsychologists. If someone claims to be telekinetic, then they are probably full of shit just on the grounds of basic physics. Saying you are telekinetic is no more valid than saying you are an alchemist. Whereas normally it would be about as believable as a UFO.
I won't pick at you for not reading, but I am quite ashamed that the moderators didn't read.
If you stipulate that it is possible for Yoda's brain to remotely exert a force on the spaceship, then it should also be plausible that Yoda can similarly cause his _surroundings_ to remotely exert a force on the spaceship.
I wrote that right here
If it weren't on Yoda, then that really complicates things, because now you have a 3 way interaction between the spaceship, Yoda, and the mysterious point in space that is "really" doing the pushing!
In this scenario, "Yoda's surroundings", the mysterious third party, would be doing all of the physical work and not Yoda himself. That seems very convoluted to me.
I am going to drift off into something I didn't previously discuss.
In that example Yoda makes the spaceship and the ground repell. It couldn't be the air or water, because they would move away and that would be too slippery, or there would be lots of noticable wind/current. You could also argue that Yoda uses a whole bunch of air, but I'm not going to get into that right now. So lets just say that Yoda makes the spaceship and the ground repell.
Now in another situation where an older Luke creates a pocket of air to surround himself in the middle of space, he would have to be making air attracted to air on opposite sides of himself, or air attracted to himself.
So we have this mysterious force that can attract or repell, it's a relatively long ranged force, and the energy levels are pretty dang low. It has to be E&M, there really is no other choice. From here things get an order of magnitude more fucked up, but I will stop for now.
Actually most all telekinetic abilities are impossible.
Pushing something with your brain completely violates Newton's 3rd law. You would have to explain where the equal and opposite force is.
If Yoda is holding a spaceship up in the air, then there is a mighty big weight pushing down somewhere... If it were on Yoda, then it would crush and kill him. If it weren't on Yoda, then that really complicates things, because now you have a 3 way interaction between the spaceship, Yoda, and the mysterious point in space that is "really" doing the pushing!
Oh and don't think that Magneto's E&M powers can skirt around this. E&M conserves energy-momentum too. You can't do work from nothing.
However, this raises the question, how could it be cut and tailored? If it's immune to bullets, then one would expect it to resist being cut quite well.
Why the same way he cuts his hair!
With his laser vision and an ideal vanity mirror that he apparently got from physics class along side the massless rope and frictionless pully.
(I am not making this up... well I made up where he got the mirror)
When I spent my time in Korea, Capcom fighters weren't that popular.... If they play SNK vs. Capcom, they're playing it for the SNK side of it, NOT the Capcom side.
How many Korean characters does Capcom have? Around Asia they have Japan, China, and Thialand all represented by multiple fighters, but no Korean, Tae Kwan Do fighters.
SNK has had Korean fighters for a long time. KoF has a Korean team.
I think you are looking at the past with rose colored glasses. Have you forgotten the overpriced musicals and the horde of sex comedy movies.
Annectdotale Evidence: I saw a really old B&W movie on AMC. It was one of the first films made by an immmigrant film maker, and it was really good. After sitting through this movie, the first thing I thougt to myself was "Where did movies like this hide?, I never saw very many." It seems like the only good movies from the past were based off of books, and the problem with that is that movies based off of books have an unnatural dialog. They aren't really movies in their own right - distinguished as an art form.
Slashdot Mirror
The problem is our prison systems. There are plenty of asian countries where the probability of returning to prison decreases significantly. Most of these prisons are run like military schools and are tailored for training people to conform to society.
Our prisons are simply an unhappy place to be, where bad people do more bad things and have more bad things done to them. None of this promotes reform.
I agree with your assessment, and I think that your solution is valid but only temporary. I think our prisons should be run like reform schools where people have to do back-breaking work and conform to a strict etiquette.
Are you taking into account the dirth of developers for EQOA? EQOA is really the red headed step child of EQ.
In AC a monthly patch can include new dungeons, quests, new islands, new creatures, new combat options, and loads of other new things. EQOA's monthly patches are very subpar in contrast, and I suspect heavily this is due to the memory card limit.
They open up new locations in EQOA that are locked on the disc. But these are always highlevel areas. There were still areas left on the first disc when the expansion came out.
Quests in EQOA are completely server side. This has nothing to do with the memory cards.
They unlock new enemies with the new locations. Sometimes they put new named mobs (bosses) in certain areas, but they usually aren't new enemy types.
Combat options are server side too. Only the animations and special effects have to be on the disc. Did you notice how bad the fishing animations are? That's because they were improvised.
EQOA is very subpar at many things. But the only thing you have touched on is the inability to add new, low level content.
EQOA uses a 3M (memory card) binary patch. It contains no graphics, no sounds, nothing but compressed binary. Because of this the developers really planned ahead. The play discs are full of unused graphics and stuff. In fact Ogres were on the first disc. The entire second expansion could have been made using the first disc.
EQOA is regularly updated, some of the updates being very big feature wise, like:
EQOA devs also make patches as server side as possible. Geometry fixes and new spells are all server side. Most of the play data and menus comes from the server. In the Beta for the EQOA expansion, you could actually log onto the regular servers with the Beta disc and you would get the old unexpanded interface and character selection.
Now it is true that there are limitations on the patching. One thing in particular that they can never fix are graphical bugs like slow down in certain areas.
As much as I have issues with EQOA, so much so that I just can't stand to play it anymore after enjoying it for nearly a year, I must say that they have done a brilliant job at patching.
Considering that MD is the Japanese name and that the 32X was an American release, that is a bit confusing.
That would be Rinuxa!
I don't really have an issue with that until people start asking why us "stupid people would pay so much for an app." It's sort of like asking why somebody would drive with a manual transmission. Frustrating, iddn't it?
My manual car was $1,300 cheaper than an automatic.
My manual car is rated at a few more miles per gallon than an automatic. It's how you drive though.
My transmission is never going to go bad, costing thousands of dollars in repairs.
And most importantly, ain't no punk ass, little, 15 year old bitch down the street gonna steal my car, because he has no clue how to use a stick and 3 pedals.
If the prices were the same, and the car doesn't allow hot wiring, then I would probably buy an automatic.
The second thing you notice about the new version is the GIMP's "dockability." All dialogs (Brushes, Layers, Tool Options, etc.) can now be detached from the main window and shown in a separate window, added to an existing dialog window, or hidden from view. The software saves all changes you make to your view preferences, so that when you next go to work, your tools remain laid out as they were during your last session. This not only allows you to create a custom environment that suits your needs, but also helps reduce screen clutter.
Like that?
AFAIK the KDE code came from E
And I do know that the E pager could do just that and more. You can easily fill up 1/4 of the screen or even more with the E pager. The pager was scalable.
So either you are wrong or I haven't been able to understand what you are objecting to?
When I ran Enlightenment, I made the pager fill up nearly the entire screen. I would have made it fill up the entire screen, but there was a hard coded limit to the maximum pager size.
...
Having it really big was fun. As the pager scans were made you could begin to see a pager in a pager in a pager in a pager
Linux: A big potluck in the park, where a whole bunch of people gathered together to provide food for everyone. Food is good, but there's no menu, so you often have to wander around looking for what you really want. And you can bring your own if you'd like; if it's better than what someone else brought, theirs gets thrown out and you get their spot at the table, or if it's something new, they'll make room.
You forgot the part where Jeebus came and made the loaves of bread and fish multiply to feed the masses. And then he turned water into wine and we got shitfaced. And then after all that Jeebus introduced the O(1) scheduler, and we all went home happy as Jews.
That Jeebus, he kicks ass.
Ummm the blues?
Blue notes?
Does nobody play the blues anymore?
Wow, a whole genre died and nobody told me.
I thought they were just in the blood. But I tried to ignore/forget that stuff. Are midichlorians in dead matter too? If so that would be a much better explaination.
That's a good idea. I give you my imaginary plus one.
Really, though, I do think I said something different.
I am absolutely sure that we said the exact same thing. But now that I look at it, my physics-speak might have been a bit too thick.
What I described is no more convoluted than the interaction of your mind and a ball which you have dropped. In that scenario, your mind (by opening your hand) allows gravity to do its mysterious work on the ball.
In this case we have the force of the Earth on the ball, and in agreement with Newton's third law, the force of the ball on the Earth. There are no invisible rays of magic flowing between the ball dropper and the Earth and the ball. There is no 3-way interaction here. This is what I was getting at, sorry if it didn't translate.
I know you are a troll, but an important point can be made here. This line of thinking doesn't just make Star Wars unbelievable, which it never was to begin with. That isn't the point at all.
This debunks psychics and parapsychologists. If someone claims to be telekinetic, then they are probably full of shit just on the grounds of basic physics. Saying you are telekinetic is no more valid than saying you are an alchemist. Whereas normally it would be about as believable as a UFO.
I like massless ropes and frictionless pulleys!
And spherical cows!
kevlar's great for stopping a bullet, yet if someone tries to stab you, you might as well be wearing denim.
My Kevlar gloves aren't there to protect my hands from bullets.
Are you just dead wrong, or is there some big difference here?
I won't pick at you for not reading, but I am quite ashamed that the moderators didn't read.
If you stipulate that it is possible for Yoda's brain to remotely exert a force on the spaceship, then it should also be plausible that Yoda can similarly cause his _surroundings_ to remotely exert a force on the spaceship.
I wrote that right here
If it weren't on Yoda, then that really complicates things, because now you have a 3 way interaction between the spaceship, Yoda, and the mysterious point in space that is "really" doing the pushing!
In this scenario, "Yoda's surroundings", the mysterious third party, would be doing all of the physical work and not Yoda himself. That seems very convoluted to me.
I am going to drift off into something I didn't previously discuss.
In that example Yoda makes the spaceship and the ground repell. It couldn't be the air or water, because they would move away and that would be too slippery, or there would be lots of noticable wind/current. You could also argue that Yoda uses a whole bunch of air, but I'm not going to get into that right now. So lets just say that Yoda makes the spaceship and the ground repell.
Now in another situation where an older Luke creates a pocket of air to surround himself in the middle of space, he would have to be making air attracted to air on opposite sides of himself, or air attracted to himself.
So we have this mysterious force that can attract or repell, it's a relatively long ranged force, and the energy levels are pretty dang low. It has to be E&M, there really is no other choice. From here things get an order of magnitude more fucked up, but I will stop for now.
Actually most all telekinetic abilities are impossible.
... If it were on Yoda, then it would crush and kill him. If it weren't on Yoda, then that really complicates things, because now you have a 3 way interaction between the spaceship, Yoda, and the mysterious point in space that is "really" doing the pushing!
Pushing something with your brain completely violates Newton's 3rd law. You would have to explain where the equal and opposite force is.
If Yoda is holding a spaceship up in the air, then there is a mighty big weight pushing down somewhere
Oh and don't think that Magneto's E&M powers can skirt around this. E&M conserves energy-momentum too. You can't do work from nothing.
However, this raises the question, how could it be cut and tailored? If it's immune to bullets, then one would expect it to resist being cut quite well.
... well I made up where he got the mirror)
Why the same way he cuts his hair!
With his laser vision and an ideal vanity mirror that he apparently got from physics class along side the massless rope and frictionless pully.
(I am not making this up
When I spent my time in Korea, Capcom fighters weren't that popular. ... If they play SNK vs. Capcom, they're playing it for the SNK side of it, NOT the Capcom side.
How many Korean characters does Capcom have? Around Asia they have Japan, China, and Thialand all represented by multiple fighters, but no Korean, Tae Kwan Do fighters.
SNK has had Korean fighters for a long time. KoF has a Korean team.
I don't play Tekken, so I can't say.
Doesn't Excel still have pathetically small row limits of a 16 bit integer?
I swear to god that I have seen this post at least 4-5 times. I liked it better when there was no karma to be whored for.
Control Machete
They make all the other hip-hop artists sound like the untalented shit that they are.
There are other good musicians too. Missy Elliot has a good grasp on rythms and obviously knows what a syncopated beat is and how to properly use it.
But all in all, rap is very much like early rock and roll.
Too easy to make.
All sounds the same.
Mostly garbage.
Mac users don't dual boot Windows XP on their G4.
You are either a troll or a fucktard. Pick two.
I think you are looking at the past with rose colored glasses. Have you forgotten the overpriced musicals and the horde of sex comedy movies.
Annectdotale Evidence: I saw a really old B&W movie on AMC. It was one of the first films made by an immmigrant film maker, and it was really good. After sitting through this movie, the first thing I thougt to myself was "Where did movies like this hide?, I never saw very many." It seems like the only good movies from the past were based off of books, and the problem with that is that movies based off of books have an unnatural dialog. They aren't really movies in their own right - distinguished as an art form.