RAM is often overrated - your processor, your OS configuration, and [in the case of games] your video card are often more important than adding another 256MB.
This is almost the opposite of true. I am a full-time service tech, I assemble and upgrade and repair computers for a living, and I have done since the Atari 800 was cool.
Given two PC's, one with a 900Mhz processor and 512MB of RAM, and the other with a 1.2Ghz processor and 128MB of RAM, take the former. It will kick the latter's ass, assuming optimal configuration for both.
In 20+ years, I've assembled LITERALLY thousands of PC's, and tweaked more than I can count for optimum performance, using a plethora of OS's, so my knowledge comes from extensive experience.
The average person performing average tasks can't even tell the difference when he or she is sitting down in from of a machine of 900Mhz or more, everything else being equal. As far as Mhz and Ghz are concerned, most users long ago reached the point of diminishing returns. RAM is far more important, normally, than processing speed, with the video card coming a close second, although this depends on the task being performed.
Bobby Fischer, wanted since 1992 for playing a tournament in Yugoslavia despite U.N. sanctions,
IMHO, the US government has no authority to forbid anyone from visiting anywhere that he or she wishes.
The Ninth Amendment:
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
The Constitution granted powers to the government, and if it is not specifically enumerated, the government cannot exercise it, as far as I understand the way the US is supposed to work.
Under which enumerated power does the US government feel that it can interfere with my travel plans?
Canadians and Norwegians and British, etc., can visit Cuba, but I can't? And I'm from the putative land of the free and home of the brave? Hmm?
A game with "gay" content is not an artistic one (necessarily).
I'm gay. I also happen to be artistic, but that has nothing to do with the type of content that most of my community would like to see.
What would we like to see? Gay-blindness, really. Game mechanics which make no distinction between hetero or homo avatars, and no gay characters who are stereotypes.
Ever heard the joke about the trick-or-treater who dressed as a serial killer? The punchline was that he dressed the same as the everyone else, because serial killers can be anyone.
Gay people can be anyone, and frequently are not whom you would expect.
If I can speak on behalf of the gay community, I would guess that this is our collective wish: to be depicted and treated in games exactly like the hetero majority.
From the main article:
U.S. producers are starting to slip in some risque content,
Gay content is not risque content. See above if you don't get it.
I'm not going to sell heroin to preschoolers, but I'd sell an "M" rated game to anybody who presented the cash.
I'd let my own children play these games, so I'm not being a hypocrite. However, I do manage to actually BE a parent - you know, paying attention to them and knowing who their friends are, and even what games they play - and if I honestly objected to the content of the game once I'd seen it, they wouldn't be playing it again.
Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey Corliss Lamont's The Philosophy of Humanism Herman Wouk's This Is My God Chaim Potok's My Name Is Asher Lev B. F. Skinner's Beyond Freedom & Dignity Isaac Bashevis Singer's In My Father's Court Edward O. Wilson's On Human Nature Isaac Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The Old and New Testaments Leo Rosten's Joys of Yiddish Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained Howard Fast's The Jews: Story of a People Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness C. S. Lewis's Miracles Carl Sagan's Broca's Brain Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker Sigmund Freud's The Future of an Illusion
These are the books that have shaped me. I'm sure I've missed some, but I recommend them for all.
Possibly. However, most people - at least those whom have reached adulthood - are quite capable of having their heroes besmirched without sticking their fingers in their ears and chanting "la-la-la."
My denigration of their masturbatory icon (oh, wait, that spot is currently occupied by Reagan) was admittedly juvenile, but let's suppose I'd posted something similar about a Slashdot patron saint (Linus Torvalds, perhaps), on these hallowed pages - even after the outraged mewling of legions of Slashkiddies, CmdrTaco would not have deleted my comment or revoked my posting priviliges.
Besides, what I said about Bush, although expressed in hyperbole, was arguably true.
I hate to respond to my own post, but I thought I might share the message which earned my banishment from freerepublic.com...
*****
To: Jeff Head I am sorry...but the Uncle who was sending him money, for him to have been questioned after 911 because he was at the same hotel with some of the terrorists who crashed the Pentagon,
He did receive a stipend, yes. From the link you provided:
While AL-HUSSAYEN was a student in the United States, he received a stipend for living expenses from a foreign source.
I live in Idaho. I read the paper every day, in print and on-line versions, and your claims regarding his Uncle I've read nowhere else.
Here is a link to a message I posted on Slashdot which still sums up how I feel about this affair:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=92296&cid=79 40 297...and that is simply how I feel about it and is my opinion.:-)
Indeed. freerepublic.com is so "free" that shortly after I posted there - a very moderate, reasonable comment, incidentally - my message was "Removed by Moderator" and when I next attempt to post a message, I encountered this:
Your posting privilege has been revoked.
Freerepublic.com - where the moderators are too chickshit to allow their flock to engage in conversation which might meaningfully contradict their biases.
This is not a troll or a flamebait, though I suppose it will be moderated as such...
However, it is a rant.
Smoking is NOT different.
I'm 43 years old, and it has been common knowledge that smoking is bad for your health for my entire lifetime.
The cigarette companies have certainly glamorized smoking for my entire lifetime, but no one with two brains cells to rub together ever actually believed that it was harmless.
Smoking appeals to stupid people. I don't care what your IQ or your GPA, if you started smoking from 1960 or after you are a stupid fucker.
Peer pressure isn't a good excuse. Liking the smell or the taste isn't a good excuse, either, any more than enjoying the taste of shit is really a good excuse for a coprophiliac.
There are a few things you shouldn't do: eating shit and smoking are two of them, regardless of the transitory pleasure these activities may give you.
If you are going to smoke, do it in private. I don't give a damn about your rights when exercising them impedes mine.
I like to masturbate, and jerking off in public certainly never hurt anyone. I would even provide my own Kleenex. But how many smokers would like it if I beat off on the bus or the restaurant where they were dining?
The fact that a stupid fuck addicted himself or herself to smoking isn't my problem. Their nasty smoke and ash, ruining my meal and making my clothes and hair stink, is my problem.
Of course, I'm not advocating the banning of smoking, as everyone has the right to be a stupid fuck.
I am tired of listening to smokers whine that smoking is DIFFERENT, someone forced those first cigarettes into their fingers.
This isn't a flame or a troll, but I am absolutely amazed that you said this:
>i>Enterprise is my favorite star trek franchise series don't mess it up please !
I don't personally consider Enterprise to be a part of the Star Trek canon, I find it so awful, so your enthusiasm for the show floors me.
In descending order, my Star Trek favorites rank thusly:
Voyager Deep Space 9 TOS STTNG
Enterprise doesn't appear on the list, because I'm hoping that one day it will be retroactively excised.
I detest Scott Bakula (as an actor, I obviously know nothing about him personally), I hate the non-Trek theme song, and I find none of the characters even remotely interesting, with the storyline earning the same score.
One, your description does not even "vaguely" describe this film.
Second, THX-1138 is best film that George Lucas ever directed, with American Graffiti being almost as good. It is intelligent, literate, funny, with brilliant performances by the actors, wonderful, minimalist dialogue, and the single best example of what can be accomplished on limited budget that I have ever seen, Blair Witch not excepted.
Thank you for your correction. I seriously underestimated the popularity of Christianity. It would appear that Christianity is truly the Coca Cola of religions, and Islam is merely the Pepsi of the new generation.
What does that make Hinduism? Mountain Dew or 7-Up?
Nope. We use units sold or dollars grossed, just like everyone else.
Like everyone else? I am hoping that you are being sarcastic. No one else that I have ever met in my life would equate quality with "units sold or dollars grossed."
If you aren't joking, then I humbly submit that Hinduism is "better" than Christianity based on the same logic, and that Roman Catholics are "better" than Baptists because there are more of them.
Oh, and when the followers of Islam outnumber the follwers of Christianity (and it will happen sooner than later), then Islam will suddenly become "better" than Christianity.
We... plan to examine the variety of games currently on the market and successes in other media such as 'The Passion of The Christ' and the 'Left Behind' series, which proved that Bible-based products can do well in the market if they are well made.
Well-made? Do Christians use different standards of judging craft than non-Christians? Asked another way, have you ever tried to read any of the Tim Lahaye books? If you seriously consider any of the books in the 'Left Behind' series to be well-made, that I can't wait to see some of the games that come out of this conference.
I'm not thick, really, but I can't figure out how to use the CSS Editor Tool in Nvu, and I've struggled with it for hours, and Googled for instructions.
Would you mind providing a little guidance, or at least point me towards some relevant links?
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RAM is often overrated - your processor, your OS configuration, and [in the case of games] your video card are often more important than adding another 256MB.
This is almost the opposite of true. I am a full-time service tech, I assemble and upgrade and repair computers for a living, and I have done since the Atari 800 was cool.
Given two PC's, one with a 900Mhz processor and 512MB of RAM, and the other with a 1.2Ghz processor and 128MB of RAM, take the former. It will kick the latter's ass, assuming optimal configuration for both.
In 20+ years, I've assembled LITERALLY thousands of PC's, and tweaked more than I can count for optimum performance, using a plethora of OS's, so my knowledge comes from extensive experience.
The average person performing average tasks can't even tell the difference when he or she is sitting down in from of a machine of 900Mhz or more, everything else being equal. As far as Mhz and Ghz are concerned, most users long ago reached the point of diminishing returns. RAM is far more important, normally, than processing speed, with the video card coming a close second, although this depends on the task being performed.
You seem to have some trouble understanding the phrase you quoted.
Although rudely phrased, you do have a valid point.
Mea culpa.
Yes, Bobby Fischer is nuts, but this worries me:
Bobby Fischer, wanted since 1992 for playing a tournament in Yugoslavia despite U.N. sanctions,
IMHO, the US government has no authority to forbid anyone from visiting anywhere that he or she wishes.
The Ninth Amendment:
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
The Constitution granted powers to the government, and if it is not specifically enumerated, the government cannot exercise it, as far as I understand the way the US is supposed to work.
Under which enumerated power does the US government feel that it can interfere with my travel plans?
Canadians and Norwegians and British, etc., can visit Cuba, but I can't? And I'm from the putative land of the free and home of the brave? Hmm?
I'm sorry that you were moderated down here; I honestly can't see any reason for it.
Especially the difference between how lesbians are treated verus how gays are treated in the media in general
Agreed. Lesbians make (most) hetero men horny, unless those lesbians are dykes, so they have a far higher degree of acceptance than gay males.
A game with "gay" content is not an artistic one (necessarily).
I'm gay. I also happen to be artistic, but that has nothing to do with the type of content that most of my community would like to see.
What would we like to see? Gay-blindness, really. Game mechanics which make no distinction between hetero or homo avatars, and no gay characters who are stereotypes.
Ever heard the joke about the trick-or-treater who dressed as a serial killer? The punchline was that he dressed the same as the everyone else, because serial killers can be anyone.
Gay people can be anyone, and frequently are not whom you would expect.
If I can speak on behalf of the gay community, I would guess that this is our collective wish: to be depicted and treated in games exactly like the hetero majority.
From the main article:
U.S. producers are starting to slip in some risque content,
Gay content is not risque content. See above if you don't get it.
I'm not going to sell heroin to preschoolers, but I'd sell an "M" rated game to anybody who presented the cash.
I'd let my own children play these games, so I'm not being a hypocrite. However, I do manage to actually BE a parent - you know, paying attention to them and knowing who their friends are, and even what games they play - and if I honestly objected to the content of the game once I'd seen it, they wouldn't be playing it again.
In no particular order:
Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey
Corliss Lamont's The Philosophy of Humanism
Herman Wouk's This Is My God
Chaim Potok's My Name Is Asher Lev
B. F. Skinner's Beyond Freedom & Dignity
Isaac Bashevis Singer's In My Father's Court
Edward O. Wilson's On Human Nature
Isaac Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The Old and New Testaments
Leo Rosten's Joys of Yiddish
Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained
Howard Fast's The Jews: Story of a People
Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian
Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness
C. S. Lewis's Miracles
Carl Sagan's Broca's Brain
Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World
Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker
Sigmund Freud's The Future of an Illusion
These are the books that have shaped me. I'm sure I've missed some, but I recommend them for all.
The e-mail address you have provided is invalid.
I have five Gmail invites to the first five people who ask.
Please include the first and last name that you wish to use.
chasuk@gmail.com
Agreed. You can actually treat customers pretty shabbily, and, if they want your product bad enough, they will return, and return, and return...
Incidentally, I have a Gmail invite available, and I'll give it to the first person who asks for it.
chasuk@gmail.com
*Grabs two brain cells and rubs them together*
Possibly. However, most people - at least those whom have reached adulthood - are quite capable of having their heroes besmirched without sticking their fingers in their ears and chanting "la-la-la."
My denigration of their masturbatory icon (oh, wait, that spot is currently occupied by Reagan) was admittedly juvenile, but let's suppose I'd posted something similar about a Slashdot patron saint (Linus Torvalds, perhaps), on these hallowed pages - even after the outraged mewling of legions of Slashkiddies, CmdrTaco would not have deleted my comment or revoked my posting priviliges.
Besides, what I said about Bush, although expressed in hyperbole, was arguably true.
True. However, on Slashdot, I've never had a message deleted, or my posting priviliges revoked, out of the many MANY messages that I've posted here.
I hate to respond to my own post, but I thought I might share the message which earned my banishment from freerepublic.com...
9 40 297 ...and that is simply how I feel about it and is my opinion. :-)
*****
To: Jeff Head
I am sorry...but the Uncle who was sending him money, for him to have been questioned after 911 because he was at the same hotel with some of the terrorists who crashed the Pentagon,
He did receive a stipend, yes. From the link you provided:
While AL-HUSSAYEN was a student in the United States, he received a stipend for living expenses from a foreign source.
I live in Idaho. I read the paper every day, in print and on-line versions, and your claims regarding his Uncle I've read nowhere else.
Here is a link to a message I posted on Slashdot which still sums up how I feel about this affair:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=92296&cid=7
*****
Pretty threatening and defamatory, wasn't it?
Indeed. freerepublic.com is so "free" that shortly after I posted there - a very moderate, reasonable comment, incidentally - my message was "Removed by Moderator" and when I next attempt to post a message, I encountered this:
Your posting privilege has been revoked.
Freerepublic.com - where the moderators are too chickshit to allow their flock to engage in conversation which might meaningfully contradict their biases.
This is not a troll or a flamebait, though I suppose it will be moderated as such...
However, it is a rant.
Smoking is NOT different.
I'm 43 years old, and it has been common knowledge that smoking is bad for your health for my entire lifetime.
The cigarette companies have certainly glamorized smoking for my entire lifetime, but no one with two brains cells to rub together ever actually believed that it was harmless.
Smoking appeals to stupid people. I don't care what your IQ or your GPA, if you started smoking from 1960 or after you are a stupid fucker.
Peer pressure isn't a good excuse. Liking the smell or the taste isn't a good excuse, either, any more than enjoying the taste of shit is really a good excuse for a coprophiliac.
There are a few things you shouldn't do: eating shit and smoking are two of them, regardless of the transitory pleasure these activities may give you.
If you are going to smoke, do it in private. I don't give a damn about your rights when exercising them impedes mine.
I like to masturbate, and jerking off in public certainly never hurt anyone. I would even provide my own Kleenex. But how many smokers would like it if I beat off on the bus or the restaurant where they were dining?
The fact that a stupid fuck addicted himself or herself to smoking isn't my problem. Their nasty smoke and ash, ruining my meal and making my clothes and hair stink, is my problem.
Of course, I'm not advocating the banning of smoking, as everyone has the right to be a stupid fuck.
I am tired of listening to smokers whine that smoking is DIFFERENT, someone forced those first cigarettes into their fingers.
You correctly interpreted my meaning, Mycroft. :-)
This isn't a flame or a troll, but I am absolutely amazed that you said this:
>i>Enterprise is my favorite star trek franchise series don't mess it up please !
I don't personally consider Enterprise to be a part of the Star Trek canon, I find it so awful, so your enthusiasm for the show floors me.
In descending order, my Star Trek favorites rank thusly:
Voyager
Deep Space 9
TOS
STTNG
Enterprise doesn't appear on the list, because I'm hoping that one day it will be retroactively excised.
I detest Scott Bakula (as an actor, I obviously know nothing about him personally), I hate the non-Trek theme song, and I find none of the characters even remotely interesting, with the storyline earning the same score.
What about it do you find appealing?
One, your description does not even "vaguely" describe this film.
Second, THX-1138 is best film that George Lucas ever directed, with American Graffiti being almost as good. It is intelligent, literate, funny, with brilliant performances by the actors, wonderful, minimalist dialogue, and the single best example of what can be accomplished on limited budget that I have ever seen, Blair Witch not excepted.
Thank you for your correction. I seriously underestimated the popularity of Christianity. It would appear that Christianity is truly the Coca Cola of religions, and Islam is merely the Pepsi of the new generation.
What does that make Hinduism? Mountain Dew or 7-Up?
Nope. We use units sold or dollars grossed, just like everyone else.
Like everyone else? I am hoping that you are being sarcastic. No one else that I have ever met in my life would equate quality with "units sold or dollars grossed."
If you aren't joking, then I humbly submit that Hinduism is "better" than Christianity based on the same logic, and that Roman Catholics are "better" than Baptists because there are more of them.
Oh, and when the followers of Islam outnumber the follwers of Christianity (and it will happen sooner than later), then Islam will suddenly become "better" than Christianity.
We... plan to examine the variety of games currently on the market and successes in other media such as 'The Passion of The Christ' and the 'Left Behind' series, which proved that Bible-based products can do well in the market if they are well made.
Well-made? Do Christians use different standards of judging craft than non-Christians? Asked another way, have you ever tried to read any of the Tim Lahaye books? If you seriously consider any of the books in the 'Left Behind' series to be well-made, that I can't wait to see some of the games that come out of this conference.
I'm not thick, really, but I can't figure out how to use the CSS Editor Tool in Nvu, and I've struggled with it for hours, and Googled for instructions.
Would you mind providing a little guidance, or at least point me towards some relevant links?
Your help would me much appreciated.
Cheers!
Congratulations, we're officially a nation of whining little sissies.
I'm not surprised at that sentiment from someone who apparently thinks that a muscle-head mercenary like Scott Helvenston is a "hero."
Let me guess, Rambo is your favorite movie, right? And testosterone is your favorite beverage?
Can you substantiate even a portion of this ridiculous statement?
Nicola Tesla was... involved with experiments...that the goverment 'feared' so much that they still keep much of his work and ideas from the public.
I didn't think so.
Jesus, does even Slashdot need to cater to conspiracy nuts?