I like the idea of match making but only when there is still the option to host/join a game as well. Match-making means very long waits as the game goes into its death. That only accelerates its death. Another option is a skill meter next to the server in the server list. Natural-Selection 2 does this and it's nice to pick your own skill level. If you join a low-skill server to crush all the noobs that will only last for 10 minutes or so because your presence will bump the meter up. You will quickly find someone around your skill-level on the opposing team. Kills/Assists/Deaths are also preserved on the teams list until the next game starts. So as people choose sides, you can quickly see if one side looks stacked.
I joined the Army because i wanted to (this was pre-9/11). I now write software at double the State's average income. I accept that most people think that soldiers are stupid. I think those people are ill-informed. I met some incredibly sharp people during my time there. But i do feel that the good ones don't stay long. It is incredibly taxing for people who think about consequences (both future and past). It takes a certain level of insensitivity to thrive as a soldier. I enjoyed the suck, tolerated the bullshit, but barely coped with mission failure. Sometimes you can make all the right moves and still lose.
The US Army you knew and the one that stands today are very different. I'd even say that the US Army changed drastically from 2001 to present. It doesn't want thick-skull yes-men to pull triggers. It wants ALL types of people. Diversity has turned out to be a huge asset. You need thinkers, doers, builders, nice people, and even mean people. Everyone brings useful perspectives, skills, and ideas, there is no need to fit everyone into the same mold. The Army is a lot more tolerant of some things and completely intolerant of others. Racism and drugs are not tolerated. Sexism is something they still struggle with though. This new breed of soldier treats their work like it is a profession, not just a job or career to pay the bills. Don't get me wrong though, there are a bunch of people who don't give a shit about the Army or even the US. For some it is just a paycheck. But who do you think gets the promotion? The guy/gal who is going through the motions or the guy/gal who studies and has military hobbies (shooting, running, engineering)?
TL:DR - your past experiences are no longer relevant to today's veterans. Also, M16 variants are actually reliable rifles now. Amazing, i know : )
I bought an HD 6970 (used from ebay) just two weeks ago. Really enjoying it so far. The new cards need PCIe 3.0 and this old mobo can't do that : / It seems like a gpu upgrade every two years is good enough. CPU upgrades are super easy too if the socket is long-lived. Just wait until a cpu model goes into the bargain bin, which doesn't take very long at all.
You have an opinion that is out of sync with reality. The Red Cross is supposed to be a neutral party between the various factions. They can inspect detention/pow facilities to ensure each side is complying with the various laws of war. They can also deliver mail, medical aid, and all sorts of stuff to pretty much anyone they want. They don't approve of any war. They try to keep it "civil". Blah, i'm not going to bother replying to the rest of your post. It is borderline flamebait.
What's your system? Anything that is intermittent is probably not hardware. Games often crash on cue because of a driver problem and crash randomly because of heat buildup. If yours is random then i'm guessing heat. You can monitor your cpu and gpu temps to see if they are getting above recommended levels. If your temps are fine then you are straight up lying or have some flaky ram. Memtest86 is a great tool (and free) for discovering bad ram.
It's important to isolate what exactly your problem is. Just pointing at the computer and saying "it has AMD in it and AMD sucks" would be a failure on your part. If your brand new Intel box (with NVIDIA gpu) had a problem you'll have to do the exact same thing. Instead of throwing out the baby with the bath water, give some more time to diagnosing what exactly is going on. It's possible your AMD cpu and gpu are both totally borked. But you really don't know and i highly doubt that is the case.
Yeah, it sounds backwards. Hotels want a photocopy of the guest's ID because it gives them a place to send the bill if the guest paid with cash and trashed the room. You don't need the ID if they paid with card. I'm guessing guests for airbnb wouldn't need an ID card, just their account name.
Yeah, but the difference is NYC isn't filled with climate change denying hill billies with petrified civil war era brains. People in New England are actually capable of solving problems.
Apparently, the people in New England are also bigots.
It's illegal to use WP as a weapon. But you can use it to make smoke and provide illumination. It looks to me like Israel used it as a weapon. They have never denied using it and they have promised to not use it again. I'd say that's a lot better than lying about it and continuing to use it.
I totally agree with development costs. If HTC wanted to make an android phone, they'd likely have to use parts that already have linux drivers or they'd have to pay a team to write them. But i feel like i should also point out that this benefits everyone. Open source drivers are a big thing. I don't think you can use this as a point against android though. No matter what the OS was, they'd have to get drivers to interface with the phone hardware. But i completely agree that there are costs involved with it.
You are incredibly misinformed. It costs nothing to put android on a phone (even for a phone manufacturer). The manufacturer has to get a license to put the play store on the device, but that is about compliance. If nokia wanted to do their own thing then they wouldn't have had to spend a penny or ask anyone's permission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#Licensing
This sounds like what business would be like in a world without police. You can't call the police to apprehend a thief or return any money. But you can hire someone to kill the thief and return the money.
Not exactly sure why you were downvoted but they are offering the OS free. You can download it, just like any typical linux distro. If modifying a distro was a violation of DMCA then we are all in big trouble : ) PS3's problem was they didn't want people to have access the hardware. They didn't want the system changed to play cloned discs. Piracy was a really really big concern for them. Steam, not so much. They add a small hurdle and don't even pretend that it prevents piracy. Consoles have always been locked down. PCs have rarely ever been locked down.
The "What's Half-Life?" question is probably followed by googling "half-life" and quickly realizing that they are missing something great. Metacritic over 90?! That's an instant buy. Of course then they find out the game is quite old and the high-ratings are also old, lol. But Half-Life 2 seems to have held up very well.
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I like the idea of match making but only when there is still the option to host/join a game as well. Match-making means very long waits as the game goes into its death. That only accelerates its death. Another option is a skill meter next to the server in the server list. Natural-Selection 2 does this and it's nice to pick your own skill level. If you join a low-skill server to crush all the noobs that will only last for 10 minutes or so because your presence will bump the meter up. You will quickly find someone around your skill-level on the opposing team. Kills/Assists/Deaths are also preserved on the teams list until the next game starts. So as people choose sides, you can quickly see if one side looks stacked.
I joined the Army because i wanted to (this was pre-9/11). I now write software at double the State's average income. I accept that most people think that soldiers are stupid. I think those people are ill-informed. I met some incredibly sharp people during my time there. But i do feel that the good ones don't stay long. It is incredibly taxing for people who think about consequences (both future and past). It takes a certain level of insensitivity to thrive as a soldier. I enjoyed the suck, tolerated the bullshit, but barely coped with mission failure. Sometimes you can make all the right moves and still lose.
The US Army you knew and the one that stands today are very different. I'd even say that the US Army changed drastically from 2001 to present. It doesn't want thick-skull yes-men to pull triggers. It wants ALL types of people. Diversity has turned out to be a huge asset. You need thinkers, doers, builders, nice people, and even mean people. Everyone brings useful perspectives, skills, and ideas, there is no need to fit everyone into the same mold. The Army is a lot more tolerant of some things and completely intolerant of others. Racism and drugs are not tolerated. Sexism is something they still struggle with though. This new breed of soldier treats their work like it is a profession, not just a job or career to pay the bills. Don't get me wrong though, there are a bunch of people who don't give a shit about the Army or even the US. For some it is just a paycheck. But who do you think gets the promotion? The guy/gal who is going through the motions or the guy/gal who studies and has military hobbies (shooting, running, engineering)?
TL:DR - your past experiences are no longer relevant to today's veterans. Also, M16 variants are actually reliable rifles now. Amazing, i know : )
I think it would create a new problem from citizen veterans. But you are right, they would certainly follow orders. Legal or otherwise.
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Burn the heretic. Kill the mutant. Purge the unclean.
All of the 7xxx series required PCIe 3.0: http://www.amd.com/US/PRODUCTS/DESKTOP/GRAPHICS/7000/7730/Pages/radeon-7730.aspx#2
The new cards are rebranded 7xxx.
280x requires PCI Express x16 3.0 : /
I bought an HD 6970 (used from ebay) just two weeks ago. Really enjoying it so far. The new cards need PCIe 3.0 and this old mobo can't do that : / It seems like a gpu upgrade every two years is good enough. CPU upgrades are super easy too if the socket is long-lived. Just wait until a cpu model goes into the bargain bin, which doesn't take very long at all.
You have an opinion that is out of sync with reality. The Red Cross is supposed to be a neutral party between the various factions. They can inspect detention/pow facilities to ensure each side is complying with the various laws of war. They can also deliver mail, medical aid, and all sorts of stuff to pretty much anyone they want. They don't approve of any war. They try to keep it "civil". Blah, i'm not going to bother replying to the rest of your post. It is borderline flamebait.
What's your system? Anything that is intermittent is probably not hardware. Games often crash on cue because of a driver problem and crash randomly because of heat buildup. If yours is random then i'm guessing heat. You can monitor your cpu and gpu temps to see if they are getting above recommended levels. If your temps are fine then you are straight up lying or have some flaky ram. Memtest86 is a great tool (and free) for discovering bad ram.
It's important to isolate what exactly your problem is. Just pointing at the computer and saying "it has AMD in it and AMD sucks" would be a failure on your part. If your brand new Intel box (with NVIDIA gpu) had a problem you'll have to do the exact same thing. Instead of throwing out the baby with the bath water, give some more time to diagnosing what exactly is going on. It's possible your AMD cpu and gpu are both totally borked. But you really don't know and i highly doubt that is the case.
Yeah, it sounds backwards. Hotels want a photocopy of the guest's ID because it gives them a place to send the bill if the guest paid with cash and trashed the room. You don't need the ID if they paid with card. I'm guessing guests for airbnb wouldn't need an ID card, just their account name.
Yeah, but the difference is NYC isn't filled with climate change denying hill billies with petrified civil war era brains. People in New England are actually capable of solving problems.
Apparently, the people in New England are also bigots.
It's illegal to use WP as a weapon. But you can use it to make smoke and provide illumination. It looks to me like Israel used it as a weapon. They have never denied using it and they have promised to not use it again. I'd say that's a lot better than lying about it and continuing to use it.
It's down because demand is down. As in, a large group of people stopped buying fuel.
I totally agree with development costs. If HTC wanted to make an android phone, they'd likely have to use parts that already have linux drivers or they'd have to pay a team to write them. But i feel like i should also point out that this benefits everyone. Open source drivers are a big thing. I don't think you can use this as a point against android though. No matter what the OS was, they'd have to get drivers to interface with the phone hardware. But i completely agree that there are costs involved with it.
you still have a login name, just using a cert instead of a password.
You are incredibly misinformed. It costs nothing to put android on a phone (even for a phone manufacturer). The manufacturer has to get a license to put the play store on the device, but that is about compliance. If nokia wanted to do their own thing then they wouldn't have had to spend a penny or ask anyone's permission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#Licensing
This sounds like what business would be like in a world without police. You can't call the police to apprehend a thief or return any money. But you can hire someone to kill the thief and return the money.
Laws are not Morals.
Not exactly sure why you were downvoted but they are offering the OS free. You can download it, just like any typical linux distro. If modifying a distro was a violation of DMCA then we are all in big trouble : ) PS3's problem was they didn't want people to have access the hardware. They didn't want the system changed to play cloned discs. Piracy was a really really big concern for them. Steam, not so much. They add a small hurdle and don't even pretend that it prevents piracy. Consoles have always been locked down. PCs have rarely ever been locked down.
ooop, the disc is scratched. Re-buy the game. You know, old school : )
The "What's Half-Life?" question is probably followed by googling "half-life" and quickly realizing that they are missing something great. Metacritic over 90?! That's an instant buy. Of course then they find out the game is quite old and the high-ratings are also old, lol. But Half-Life 2 seems to have held up very well.
If the research results in something tangible, i think it would be used.
SSH is broken? That would be news.
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If one of the ingredients was scarce to find commercially but highly concentrated in the human body.. i could see it : )