Pre-historic ecosystems, such as the massive hadrosaur herds, required far more abundant plant growth than is possible in any modern ecosystem.
Animals such as hadrosaurs would grow extremely rapidly from hatchlings to full grown. That took a LOT of plant material for them to eat. And their population density was fairly high. In order for hadrosaur herds to thrive as they did the vegetation had to be extremely fast growing and abundant.
Modern ecosystems are, by comparison to pre-historic ecosystems, virtually deserts.
There is just nothing like the hadrosaur in the modern world, there just isn't the carbon in circulation to sustain the plant life required to support them.
The 'well regulated' part was intended to refer to official inspection of the guns carried by the militiamen.
It implies that the militia is subject to a certain level of oversight by the authorities.
It implies that there is a degree of verification of the individual members of the militia; one might infer that they are required to present their firearms for inspection by a competent gunsmith with an official registering the gun and its owner as having been 'regulated'.
I don't hear of any of this being applied to 'militias' in the USA today, in fact I think that if they tried to enforce it they'd end up with some, er, unscheduled firearm discharges going on.
Read 'raid one thing' as "Farm the shit out of one thing until absolutely everything of value to the guild rots." This was the one aspect of instanced raiding that sucked all the joy out of raiding, for me.
I did Kara about 3 times and Gruul's twice before this occured to me and I/gquit my raiding guild.
Started leveling another toon, had heaps of fun, explored zones and stuff I'd never seen before... then got into the early access programme for Age of Conan...
Its set after he has dealt with a certain insurrection involving a certain Acheronian sorcerer brought back from the dead, but before he met Zenobia and had kids.
So I'd say 45 is a reasonable age.
61 would place it just before "Conan of the Isles" where he leaves Aquilonia forever.
Imagine a game where you can design you own swords and armor, or build your own houses.
There is kind of an attempt at that and let me tell you it has problems...
In There, whenever you move you have to stop for a while to load up all the crazy models and textures that other players have put into the game. The lag is enormous. It can take several minutes to load an area enough to do anything.
In AoC or WoW all the graphics are stored on your computer. When you enter a new area or a spell is case or you see someone wearing something, the graphics are read from your hard drive.
In There much of the graphics are on the server. It has to come down the wire from the server to your screen. Sure, it can cache it, but the cache will be limited and need to be refreshed.
My battery was actually located in a separate carry-on; a backpack or a suitcase or some such.
Or better yet:
Uh yeah Mr Customs officer, the laptop doesn't have batteries installed, I packed them seperately. They are in the luggage in the hold. I figured that laptop batteries are dangerously explosive and it was a bad idea to take them in my carry-on. You wouldn't want me to take a potential bomb on the plane, would you? Oh... wait...
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ZOMG you are so right! What a nublet I am!
Any *experienced* player would know *all* about glider and how to use it...
pffft... glad *you* quit!
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eventually I'll go get bored with the rest of you:)
I really tried very hard to persist and find interest in the game after lvl70. I got two toons to that level.
I got into a raiding guild and did some raiding... and it was boring as hell.
I went back to alts and thats actually interesting and exciting; there are still so many aspects of this game and areas that I have yet to explore. Its a huge world; see it from Horde and Alliance perspective.
Using a cheat to get a toon to 70 is just a huge waste of time and money. Its the leveling process thats really interesting and where you actually learn to play.
By having 'Glided' your way to 70 I am guessing that your ability to play your class will be about as good as someone who bought their account on ebay.
On a positive note, I just hit level 70 (with Glider, I won't deny it), and now I can finally start enjoying the raiding and getting gear and whatnot
Yeah, enjoy your dailies... and waiting hours to find a tank to do heroics... and having to put up with running the same raid instance 20 times to get your shot at some loot...
Politician: "I never said "foo", I said "bar". Moderator: "This clip is from our interview three weeks ago"*plays clip of Politician saying "foo".
I don't think interviewers often really pull this sort of thing... not for politicians or anyone.
I remember hearing an interview with Bertrand Russel (the anti-nuclear peace activist) where he was asked about his earlier support of massive pre-emptive nuclear strikes against Russia.
He flat denied ever having said such a thing.
The interviewer didn't bother to roll out the archive tapes where he was heard saying that the west *must* nuke the Soviets... just took the guy at his word...
(Russel became an anti-nuclear peace activist *after* the Soviets got the bomb, before that he was rabidly pro-nuclear-strike).
So far I hear you saying: "Our One And True Religion solves the problem of life The Right Way, instead of giving the peons all of those silly, confusing 'options'!
He works for Apple. Maybe he is even Steve himself.
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Pre-historic ecosystems, such as the massive hadrosaur herds, required far more abundant plant growth than is possible in any modern ecosystem.
Animals such as hadrosaurs would grow extremely rapidly from hatchlings to full grown. That took a LOT of plant material for them to eat. And their population density was fairly high. In order for hadrosaur herds to thrive as they did the vegetation had to be extremely fast growing and abundant.
Modern ecosystems are, by comparison to pre-historic ecosystems, virtually deserts.
There is just nothing like the hadrosaur in the modern world, there just isn't the carbon in circulation to sustain the plant life required to support them.
Actually this is the REALITY.
The world that we, and our ancestors, have been used to has been a "desert" planet with far less carbon in circulation than (perhaps) ever before.
The Earth was once a lush green place with abundant plant and animal life. By pre-historic standards todays world is just barren and sparse
Whenever you see plant life; thats carbon thats been sucked out of the air.
Whenever you see animal life; thats carbon thats been sucked out of the air and concentrated in plants.
A living planet needs carbon. Ours was almost dead until we started releasing the carbon back into the ecosystem.
The 'well regulated' part was intended to refer to official inspection of the guns carried by the militiamen.
It implies that the militia is subject to a certain level of oversight by the authorities.
It implies that there is a degree of verification of the individual members of the militia; one might infer that they are required to present their firearms for inspection by a competent gunsmith with an official registering the gun and its owner as having been 'regulated'.
I don't hear of any of this being applied to 'militias' in the USA today, in fact I think that if they tried to enforce it they'd end up with some, er, unscheduled firearm discharges going on.
We shall blow up the moon ourselves, if necessary. Nobody can deny us our right of self-defense against the moon.
You want the moon blown up? No big deal...
*takes shirt off*
*flexes*
*does a little warmup routine*
Kaaaaaaa
Meeeeeee
Haaaaaaa
MEEEEEEEEEE
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
now to check the mail from my lady admirers while watching some great new 'exercise' videos...
So what the article says is that they think handhelds are dangerous because they're not bothering to secure them? Seems like an easy fix
Hah!
You clearly haven't dealt with directors and the like.
The only security they are interested in, even tangentially, is financial security.
words that every male geek reading slashdot should read and absorb:
Man is, for woman, a means. The end is always a child.
Take TCP, for example, which requires you to open two TCP ports for every connection, one for control and one for data.
I think that the first instance of TCP there should read FTP
Then the rest of it makes some sense.
You forgot memory.
web 2.0 'applications' soak up gigantic amounts of memory on the webserver side. Thats not the database, thats just the webserver.
You'd be lucky to get away with 2 gigs of RAM on the webserver.
These things are disgusting bloated beasts.
And, of course, everything that isn't related to killing people runs over the regular Internet and would be crippled.
Oh well thats alright then... the military can get on with its core business.
You do realize what "hacking" is, don't you?
Thats the step that precedes stuffing the body into a large plastic bag, isn't it?
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/new_hefty_ad_campaign_targets_body
Read 'raid one thing' as "Farm the shit out of one thing until absolutely everything of value to the guild rots." This was the one aspect of instanced raiding that sucked all the joy out of raiding, for me.
/gquit my raiding guild.
I did Kara about 3 times and Gruul's twice before this occured to me and I
Started leveling another toon, had heaps of fun, explored zones and stuff I'd never seen before... then got into the early access programme for Age of Conan...
Raid one thing and get better loot. Raid the next thing and get better loot. Raid the next thing and get better loot.
You are being less than honest here.
Did you *really* raid Gruuls (for example) just the once and then move on to the next thing?
yeah but I've read most of the books... nearly 30 of them in the last few months.
Its set after he has dealt with a certain insurrection involving a certain Acheronian sorcerer brought back from the dead, but before he met Zenobia and had kids.
So I'd say 45 is a reasonable age.
61 would place it just before "Conan of the Isles" where he leaves Aquilonia forever.
Imagine a game where you can design you own swords and armor, or build your own houses.
There is kind of an attempt at that and let me tell you it has problems...
In There, whenever you move you have to stop for a while to load up all the crazy models and textures that other players have put into the game. The lag is enormous. It can take several minutes to load an area enough to do anything.
In AoC or WoW all the graphics are stored on your computer. When you enter a new area or a spell is case or you see someone wearing something, the graphics are read from your hard drive.
In There much of the graphics are on the server. It has to come down the wire from the server to your screen. Sure, it can cache it, but the cache will be limited and need to be refreshed.
Of course, you have the freedom for example, to vote for whichever candidates your corporate overlords permit you to vote for...
My battery was actually located in a separate carry-on; a backpack or a suitcase or some such.
Or better yet:
Uh yeah Mr Customs officer, the laptop doesn't have batteries installed, I packed them seperately. They are in the luggage in the hold. I figured that laptop batteries are dangerously explosive and it was a bad idea to take them in my carry-on. You wouldn't want me to take a potential bomb on the plane, would you? Oh... wait...
If you are not in America and hate it Stay out! Simple as that
Hey, I don't hate *America*.
I hate your *freedom*!!!
oh, wait...
Nothing there but tractors, eh?!
And outboard motors! Eh!
ZOMG you are so right! What a nublet I am!
Any *experienced* player would know *all* about glider and how to use it...
pffft... glad *you* quit!
eventually I'll go get bored with the rest of you :)
I really tried very hard to persist and find interest in the game after lvl70. I got two toons to that level.
I got into a raiding guild and did some raiding... and it was boring as hell.
I went back to alts and thats actually interesting and exciting; there are still so many aspects of this game and areas that I have yet to explore. Its a huge world; see it from Horde and Alliance perspective.
Using a cheat to get a toon to 70 is just a huge waste of time and money. Its the leveling process thats really interesting and where you actually learn to play.
By having 'Glided' your way to 70 I am guessing that your ability to play your class will be about as good as someone who bought their account on ebay.
In effect, you have cheated *yourself*.
On a positive note, I just hit level 70 (with Glider, I won't deny it), and now I can finally start enjoying the raiding and getting gear and whatnot
Yeah, enjoy your dailies... and waiting hours to find a tank to do heroics... and having to put up with running the same raid instance 20 times to get your shot at some loot...
The game *ENDS* at level 70.
All cars are not built to be compatible. Just try to bolt on some Chevy parts to a Ford or Toyota.
Funny you should say that...
A few people over here have had great success installing a Chevrolet truck body on a Toyota Landcruiser chassis.
Politician: "I never said "foo", I said "bar".
Moderator: "This clip is from our interview three weeks ago"*plays clip of Politician saying "foo".
I don't think interviewers often really pull this sort of thing... not for politicians or anyone.
I remember hearing an interview with Bertrand Russel (the anti-nuclear peace activist) where he was asked about his earlier support of massive pre-emptive nuclear strikes against Russia.
He flat denied ever having said such a thing.
The interviewer didn't bother to roll out the archive tapes where he was heard saying that the west *must* nuke the Soviets... just took the guy at his word...
(Russel became an anti-nuclear peace activist *after* the Soviets got the bomb, before that he was rabidly pro-nuclear-strike).
So far I hear you saying: "Our One And True Religion solves the problem of life The Right Way, instead of giving the peons all of those silly, confusing 'options'!
He works for Apple. Maybe he is even Steve himself.