Too bad everyone set for the A and C arks eventually died from a disease passed on telephone handsets;) If only they hadn't sent off the telephone sanitizers to end up superseding the Golgafrinchans...
And how many people here do you honestly believe follow the world of spiders? Do I get to make fun of you now for not knowing the stats of various football players, or anime release times, or some other bullshit you're normally not interested in? This is a story because it was finally published, which means it's cast to a broader audience than just arachnophiles. Get off your high horse.
If you really are that good, you can still win. Besides... you can change all kinds of options in the multiplayer setup for Mario Kart. It's not a fine-grained handicapping, but it still works reasonably well. You can set me up with pretty much any kart/bike and I can still beat pretty much everyone that comes over, and a lot of people on the Internet when they're not cheating. Really... what you're bitching about is that you are probably just marginally better than the other people, and the handicapping is working as designed. Here's a free hint: stay in second place for most of the race.
Along with the selectable difficulty, I'd want to see an "Adapt Difficulty" checkbox. That way if you select too high (or too low) of a difficulty initially, you don't have to replay large parts of the game. That's the worst part about difficulty selection... if you choose wrong, you have to re-do a bunch of the game, which is usually only interesting to a small portion of gamers.
If in "feminism" you ask for men to change, you seem to want your cake and eat it, too. You don't want women to have to change, you want men to change so women feel more at home. Which is bullshit, and is not feminism. Feminism is empowering women to deal with adversity. It's not trying to make everyone else play nice because their poor widdle feewings might get hurt. Women tell us they don't get into IT because of the way they're treated... and people say they don't want to pay any taxes, either. But they sure as shit wouldn't want to pay for roads and other services directly. There are a number of women who get along fine in IT. They're treated with respect IF THEY SHOW THE SKILLS. IT is almost always a meritocracy, internally at least. If you can't compete and add value, you get made fun of or ignored. Happens to guys, too. That's not sexism, that's just how geeks work. Only difference is that it seems a couple women want to bitch about "equality" when that's exactly what is happening.
See, that's the victim mentality. You want to be part of the crowd, but you don't want to do what they do. See how stupid it sounds when you say it that way? There's a big difference between saying "That's not cool" to the guys and getting all pissy and calling yourself a "feminist" and saying you're having your rights trampled on. You have no right to not be offended. If you don't want to speak up for your rights, stop interacting with other people.
Realize that women have a very different social dynamic than men do. Hell, just read this. Choice quote:
Because female brains tend to focus on and remember details longer, and because the oxytocin girls produce has the effect of causing them to care more about connections and relationships than boys, this can lead to the terrible trio of social conflict for girls: they notice it more, they remember it more and they care more!
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps the women are feeling victimized, and reading a hell of a lot more into it than was actually intended, and that is at least partially their problem to deal with if they're going to work with a lot of men?
What you're asking is for all men in a given field to change the way they think and behave because some women feel uncomfortable. Excuse me, but fuck you. I, and every man I know, try by and large to be decent people. Unfortunately, there is culture clash. The only way through that is to have BOTH SIDES compromise a bit. Getting pissy about every perceived slight is NOT a good way to win friends. Being a frat-boy isn't, either. But I see a hell of a lot more victims feeling entitled to be "treated with respect" due to someone not living up to their expectations than I do 'Bluto' Blutarsky's just being misogynist assholes.
Wow. Do you really think that is ANYTHING like what women experience? Are you fucking insane?
My wife works in technology. Guess what... she has to play by the rules of the "boys club". It's an unfortunate side effect of how things work. She still enjoys it greatly, and banters with the guys because she just doesn't view herself as a victim of anything.
Ever worked in the nursing industry? Or some other female-dominated industry? It's very different. Men end up letting a lot of shit slide in general that women don't. My point is that shit happens. We don't have a right to not be offended. If it really is a hostile environment, then yes, you should be protected. But your feelings? Cry me a fucking river, learn to deal with the real world where not everyone is entitled to be happy all the time.
Get me thinking what? That maybe guys pursue technical things as a hobby more than women? My wife is a very smart, technically proficient woman. She still leaves all the home electronics and such to me. It's just not something she finds fun. It's just an anecdote, but I doubt it's an uncommon state of affairs. FOSS is staffed mostly by people who do it for fun.
Why don't we get on about the sexism in aftermarket car modding? Most of the gearheads are men... that's obviously sexist! Really... why do people keep confusing coincidence with cause?
If you hold down Alt while clicking with the mouse, you can drag any window from anywhere, instead of just the title bar. It's a "hidden key command", but it's not like modifying xorg.conf from a command shell.
Nope. Windows does have a File and Settings transfer wizard, but that won't move programs to my knowledge. And it only works on certain things... I've seen it fail as many times as succeed, with success defined as "anything copied over correctly"
The difference is where software is distributed by sneakernet or via the Intarweb. There's a lot of high-quality piracy going on out there, but it's mostly on the web. If you buy any pirate software, you are almost certainly getting some nasty bugs riding along with it. The only place I know of that people actually buy pirate software is in Asia, though, and usually that's in places where annual family income is in the hundreds of dollars per year, if that.
The iPhone is a big phone. Some people don't WANT their phone to be that large. Or they want keyboards. Or just a touchpad. Or a rollerball. None of those things are available with the iPhone, all are available with Android phones. The original iPods are selling as well as the new iPod Touch. Why didn't Apple kill off the old iPods? Because they were a different interface that people preferred. Same thing with phones.
The iPhone is a product, though. Not a technology. The iPhone (and it's tying to AT&T) is not for everyone, and the fact that it has such a relatively low penetration into the market relative to what the iPod had compared to other mp3 players is what will make this game different than PlaysForSure. Android is simply an OS... any company can make a phone with it that will run the same programs as all the other android phones. That's a HUGE win over what the iPhone promises. You can get a cut-down, cheap android phone if you don't need much, or something that's much more featureful and faster than the iPhone. But you get a phone for YOU, not the phone that Apple tells you that you want. It's the same problem that Apple runs into with their computers... they don't segment the market enough, so they only compete in a few niches. They make very nice hardware if you happen to be in the "more money than sense" niche, but that's not what most people are looking for.
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I don't think so. But then again, I'm not a WASP, and I don't want to control what everyone else does and thinks.
Too bad everyone set for the A and C arks eventually died from a disease passed on telephone handsets ;) If only they hadn't sent off the telephone sanitizers to end up superseding the Golgafrinchans...
At least a number of autistics actually contribute to society as a whole
And those are the times when an "at will" employment agreement is nice.
If you do account locking after a certain amount of tries (as every bank I know of does), it most certainly does add security.
And how many people here do you honestly believe follow the world of spiders? Do I get to make fun of you now for not knowing the stats of various football players, or anime release times, or some other bullshit you're normally not interested in? This is a story because it was finally published, which means it's cast to a broader audience than just arachnophiles. Get off your high horse.
That's not zombie-ism like the spiders. It's just horrible death, a-la your signature
Depends on whether you're playing against the computer or live people. Very different strategies.
Damn good point. Maybe make some hard steps between levels doing the skill level stuff, instead of trying for a smooth leveling?
Mario Kart and F-Zero most certainly are racing games. They're just not racing simulations.
If you really are that good, you can still win. Besides... you can change all kinds of options in the multiplayer setup for Mario Kart. It's not a fine-grained handicapping, but it still works reasonably well. You can set me up with pretty much any kart/bike and I can still beat pretty much everyone that comes over, and a lot of people on the Internet when they're not cheating. Really... what you're bitching about is that you are probably just marginally better than the other people, and the handicapping is working as designed. Here's a free hint: stay in second place for most of the race.
Along with the selectable difficulty, I'd want to see an "Adapt Difficulty" checkbox. That way if you select too high (or too low) of a difficulty initially, you don't have to replay large parts of the game. That's the worst part about difficulty selection... if you choose wrong, you have to re-do a bunch of the game, which is usually only interesting to a small portion of gamers.
If in "feminism" you ask for men to change, you seem to want your cake and eat it, too. You don't want women to have to change, you want men to change so women feel more at home. Which is bullshit, and is not feminism. Feminism is empowering women to deal with adversity. It's not trying to make everyone else play nice because their poor widdle feewings might get hurt. Women tell us they don't get into IT because of the way they're treated... and people say they don't want to pay any taxes, either. But they sure as shit wouldn't want to pay for roads and other services directly. There are a number of women who get along fine in IT. They're treated with respect IF THEY SHOW THE SKILLS. IT is almost always a meritocracy, internally at least. If you can't compete and add value, you get made fun of or ignored. Happens to guys, too. That's not sexism, that's just how geeks work. Only difference is that it seems a couple women want to bitch about "equality" when that's exactly what is happening.
Realize that women have a very different social dynamic than men do. Hell, just read this. Choice quote:
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps the women are feeling victimized, and reading a hell of a lot more into it than was actually intended, and that is at least partially their problem to deal with if they're going to work with a lot of men?
What you're asking is for all men in a given field to change the way they think and behave because some women feel uncomfortable. Excuse me, but fuck you. I, and every man I know, try by and large to be decent people. Unfortunately, there is culture clash. The only way through that is to have BOTH SIDES compromise a bit. Getting pissy about every perceived slight is NOT a good way to win friends. Being a frat-boy isn't, either. But I see a hell of a lot more victims feeling entitled to be "treated with respect" due to someone not living up to their expectations than I do 'Bluto' Blutarsky's just being misogynist assholes.
Wow. Do you really think that is ANYTHING like what women experience? Are you fucking insane?
My wife works in technology. Guess what... she has to play by the rules of the "boys club". It's an unfortunate side effect of how things work. She still enjoys it greatly, and banters with the guys because she just doesn't view herself as a victim of anything.
Ever worked in the nursing industry? Or some other female-dominated industry? It's very different. Men end up letting a lot of shit slide in general that women don't. My point is that shit happens. We don't have a right to not be offended. If it really is a hostile environment, then yes, you should be protected. But your feelings? Cry me a fucking river, learn to deal with the real world where not everyone is entitled to be happy all the time.
Get me thinking what? That maybe guys pursue technical things as a hobby more than women? My wife is a very smart, technically proficient woman. She still leaves all the home electronics and such to me. It's just not something she finds fun. It's just an anecdote, but I doubt it's an uncommon state of affairs. FOSS is staffed mostly by people who do it for fun.
Why don't we get on about the sexism in aftermarket car modding? Most of the gearheads are men... that's obviously sexist! Really... why do people keep confusing coincidence with cause?
I wish everyone thought more like you did
Nope
If you hold down Alt while clicking with the mouse, you can drag any window from anywhere, instead of just the title bar. It's a "hidden key command", but it's not like modifying xorg.conf from a command shell.
Nope. Windows does have a File and Settings transfer wizard, but that won't move programs to my knowledge. And it only works on certain things... I've seen it fail as many times as succeed, with success defined as "anything copied over correctly"
The difference is where software is distributed by sneakernet or via the Intarweb. There's a lot of high-quality piracy going on out there, but it's mostly on the web. If you buy any pirate software, you are almost certainly getting some nasty bugs riding along with it. The only place I know of that people actually buy pirate software is in Asia, though, and usually that's in places where annual family income is in the hundreds of dollars per year, if that.
The iPhone is a big phone. Some people don't WANT their phone to be that large. Or they want keyboards. Or just a touchpad. Or a rollerball. None of those things are available with the iPhone, all are available with Android phones. The original iPods are selling as well as the new iPod Touch. Why didn't Apple kill off the old iPods? Because they were a different interface that people preferred. Same thing with phones.
Those mooninites had it coming, what with their quad-lasers and petty theft and everything
The iPhone is a product, though. Not a technology. The iPhone (and it's tying to AT&T) is not for everyone, and the fact that it has such a relatively low penetration into the market relative to what the iPod had compared to other mp3 players is what will make this game different than PlaysForSure. Android is simply an OS... any company can make a phone with it that will run the same programs as all the other android phones. That's a HUGE win over what the iPhone promises. You can get a cut-down, cheap android phone if you don't need much, or something that's much more featureful and faster than the iPhone. But you get a phone for YOU, not the phone that Apple tells you that you want. It's the same problem that Apple runs into with their computers... they don't segment the market enough, so they only compete in a few niches. They make very nice hardware if you happen to be in the "more money than sense" niche, but that's not what most people are looking for.
The hydrocarbons in gasoline are different than the ones used in plastics. You get a little bit of everything from a single barrel of crude.