Sorry, but are you saying that the meat industry isn't "organised slaughter" and that hunting season is? I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure the cows, sheep, lambs, pigs etc. don't just happen to wander into the slaughter-house and drop dead of natural causes. People wandering around in the woods shooting at wild animals seems incredibly disorganised compared to raising tame animals for the sole purpose of them being killed for meat in large, purpose-built abbatoirs, then packing the meat and shipping it out to country-wide and international markets...
Exactly right. By the sounds of it, not drinking, no drugs, no smoking, healthy life-style and no casual sex he's liable to die peacefully in his bed at 90 when his organs are on their last legs anyway.
What she failed to realize was that one of Aristotle's students was Alexander the Great, whose deficiencies led to the collapse of the Greek empire when Alexander died.
No offence, but if you insist on using BeOS5, Win95OSR2, Win2K, why the hoo-hah about Firefox's RAM requirements? Just use whatever browser for those platforms that you used to use that will run in 1MB of RAM and quit whining about modern "horsecrap software" written by incompetent programmers.
For example, the iPad requires dongles for everything because including ports for things like USB and HDMI would have made the device considerably thicker, which would diminsh the sense of delicacy that the device gives you when you hold it.
I bought a new car recently. Ford doesn't include an engine because that would have made the car considerably heavier, which would diminish the sense of delicacy the car gives you when you sit in it. It sucks that I have to buy a third-party engine in order to use it how I'd want, but I really commend them for doing a good job communicating the sense of purpose of the car.
Apple is great at marketing shiny over-priced things to people with more money than sense. I'm not sure their marketing department knows what people want, but it seems to be great at convincing people that they want what Apple are offering.
Wow, he completely accurately described the system of leap-years! In Latin! He must have been a genius! Of course, if that's the origin of the system, how can it be wrong?:) It's like lauding the authors of the original SMTP RFC because it completely accurately described the SMTP standard as described by that RFC! Holy Circular Logic Batman!
Oh, and before we congratulate the Pope's astronomer too much, I'll quote the FA:
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Of course, the calendar’s still not completely accurate at this point, because now we’re ahead again. We’ve added a day, when we should have added only 0.8762 days, so we’re ahead now by
1 – 0.8762 days = 0.1238 days.
Funny thing is, no one worries about that. There is no official rule for leap days with cycles bigger than 400 years. I think this is extremely ironic, because the amount we are off every 400 years is almost exactly 1/8th of a day! So after 3200 years, we’ve had 8 of those 400 year cycles, so we’re ahead by
8 x 0.1238 days = 0.9904 days.
Maybe we should go a little easy on him since he did have to write in Latin and didn't have access to sophisticated measuring tools. Though, maybe if they'd spent a little less time persecuting others, designing silly hats and talking to an invisible man they might have done.
Movie and TV producers have been dubbing in bird sounds for decades, including one infamous time CBS backed a golf match with the sounds of birds that have never lived anywhere near the game's location.
Wow, even Edvard Munch's "The Scream" doesn't depict anxiety and despair as effectively as a Venn diagram showing the union of the sets: "pedants", "birders" & "golf watchers". I'd rather have my goolies trapped in a white-hot vice for an hour than go to that party.
Hang on. I think he means that before Q3: Arena and UT there was Doom, Quake and Q2 & Unreal which were all story driven games first and foremost; even though they did have multiplayer, the main-show was still the single-player modes with vague narratives keeping you going (for what they were worth...)
The theme that Grindalf suggests iD and Epic "plundered" is Jaffe's notion that "gameplay is better than story, don't let story get in the way" which resulted in Q3: Arena & UT/UT:2003, neither of which had much (if any) story that I can remember. Grindalf then pointed out that shortly thereafter they returned to making story-based games, i.e. Q4, Doom 3 and Unreal II: The Awakening.
Are you talking specifically about the XBOX 360? I'll plead ignorance of digital distribution on consoles but my wife bought me RAGE & F.3.A.R. and my brother-in-law bought me Star Wars: Force Unleashed 2 via Steam for my last birthday. I gifted the latest humble indie bundle to a friend as well as a copy of Orcs Must Die with all the DLC for Christmas. If you're saying that you need/want to wrap and give a physical object, then well...*shrug*. I know you can get gift-cards for Wii & xbox360 credits but I guess if you want to give an actual physical gift then you probably won't want to give a gift-card...
"Our drone was NOT hacked by the enemy, in fact no outside influence was required to cause our super-expensive, top-secret drone to crash land in enemy territory. We refuse to divulge why precisely this happened, but we can assure you that whatever happened, it was our own fault, and not the work of enemy forces. No questions please."
The logic of your first point is only valid if Google "U.S." is pulling both sets of strings. It's entirely possible for entities outside of the U.S. to outsource sales calls to India ya know. As to the second, Google *is* ultimately responsible for what their branch offices do but let's be reasonable, shall we? If you were in a branch office engaging in fraudulent behaviour to get sales, would you tell your boss? If you were managing a branch office and engaging in fraudulent behaviour to get sales, would you tell head-office?
the criminal element do NOT have access to a hellfire equipped, air force controlled $30 million predator attack drone.
Neither do the police/DHS, idiot, they used unarmed drones.
the fact that they are trying to track down cattle rustlers(!) without even basic firearms
Wrong again, idiot. The day before, a sheriff had been marched off the property at gunpoint. When other police arrived the suspects were spotted by a drone (on it's way back from another mission) and they were carrying rifles and concealing themselves behind barricades, i.e. preparing for either a siege or an ambush on the police. Because the police wanted to avoid a gunfight and bloodshed, they withdrew. The drone was used again the following morning to avoid confrontation and ensure that no-one was harmed; they "swooped in" when the suspects were unarmed. Oh and these cattle-rustlers(!), far from being without even basic firearms, had four rifles and two shotguns on the property.
Would you have preferred that the police had a good old fashioned gunfight with the rustlers resulting in loss of life?
You just need to install the Android app from the printer manufacturer that makes your printer. That's all.
Except my less-than-a-year-old brother colour laser isn't supported by the official brother android app. Now what? (Also, as far as I can tell, it only prints jpgs and pdfs.)
Hang on, let's play "spot the difference" shall we?
- sending a special-forces team onto a private vessel in dock in an allied nation to scuttle it with explosive charges.
- shooting TRESPASSERS infiltrating a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT on FRENCH SOIL.
"Inviting" them back before shooting them is the only PR problem I see in the GP's plan.
It appears that the only reason they weren't shot this time is because Greenpeace called in and said "don't shoot, they're only hanging banners". Quite why they didn't shoot, regardless, is beyond me. Even if Greenpeace have their own secret codeword for claiming responsibility like a terrorist organisation would, they've been infiltrated so many times that such a codeword could well be in the hands of even more dangerously stupid people.
Ironically it seems the French government's/security forces' fear of bad PR is what prevented the protestors being shot down which would have solved the security "problem" before they could hang their banners. Still this is good news for Algerian separatists, foreign spies etc, all they need do is take a banner with them and claim to be with Greenpeace whenever they try to infiltrate a French nuclear power plant.
You seem to labour under the impression that he was sitting on his hands and then decided that he'd create a super dangerous killer virus to massage his ego. As I understand it, the reasoning behind engineering a super-virulent strain like this is that such a mutation could conceivably happen "in the wild", and that if, or when, it does, it would be a Good Thing if we knew how to deal with it.
Not sure I understand their reasoning. They're "outing" collaborators of the Zetas. Surely the Zetas know who their informants are. If Anonymous "outs" some innocent schmuck, why would the Zetas need to kill them as a "weak link"? It makes no sense. If the non-corrupt cops bring one of the innocent, mistakenly "outed" collaborators in for questioning, what are they going to divulge? They know nothing.
By 1960, 55% of all photographs ever taken were of babies; recording the lives of one's children is not a new endeavour. I have precisely 0 interest in seeing a picture of a random child, but I genuinely do like seeing pictures of my friend's children as they grow up. Automatically uploading pictures to Facebook/Flickr/G+ isn't some strange dark new magic, it's standard tech. I can take my 'phone, hold down the "camera" button, *click* and share it instantly yet you talk like the people doing this are taking huge amounts of time out of their day...
By the by, if you want to rant about people filming music concerts, why don't you just wait for the next story about illegal filming at a music concert? Your comment seems a tad contrived in this context.
"If car-makers can put in the added effort to make a product that is safer for all parties in collisions, before the turn of the century, I'm sure Hummer could make Humvees a little better."
"A Humvee is way more complicated than a MODEL T FORD!!!"
If Console game developers can put in the added effort to make a product that is reasonably bug free, or is otherwise unplayable, back before consoles could update the software...
Hang on, off the top of my head, that applies to any game playable on the NES, Gameboy, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Sony Playstation, Sony Playstation 2, Sega Master System, Sega Megadrive, Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar, Atari Lynx etc. If you need older examples of games that are more complex than notepad.exe, there are many more: Final Fantasy IV, Metroid, Castlevania, Terminator 2: Judgement Day
I specifically used the GTA series, up to Vice City, because they were a series of Playstation and PS2 games and fit the original criterion ("reasonably bug free (...) before consoles could update the software") while being significantly more complex than Space Invaders on the Atari 2600, which was an extremely obtuse, cherry-picked example. The GP picked one of the simplest examples of a console game: Space Invaders, so I returned the absurd favour...
Because the grandparent specifically compared Office to old video games, and referring to Space Invaders is the quickest way of demonstrating why that's dumb?
I missed that Office was brought up earlier, but since trolly mcgee cherry-picked the simplest video game he could think of, I'm not inclined to retract my indignation.
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Sorry, but are you saying that the meat industry isn't "organised slaughter" and that hunting season is? I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure the cows, sheep, lambs, pigs etc. don't just happen to wander into the slaughter-house and drop dead of natural causes. People wandering around in the woods shooting at wild animals seems incredibly disorganised compared to raising tame animals for the sole purpose of them being killed for meat in large, purpose-built abbatoirs, then packing the meat and shipping it out to country-wide and international markets...
As others have pointed out, RTFS.
Also: venison.
Exactly right. By the sounds of it, not drinking, no drugs, no smoking, healthy life-style and no casual sex he's liable to die peacefully in his bed at 90 when his organs are on their last legs anyway.
What she failed to realize was that one of Aristotle's students was Alexander the Great, whose deficiencies led to the collapse of the Greek empire when Alexander died.
One of his students! Get some perspective man!
You're ensuring a process by which one demographic (wealthier, more educated) are given all authority over another (less wealthy, less educated).
You say this like it's a bad thing.
Enjoy your Morlocks, chump!
No offence, but if you insist on using BeOS5, Win95OSR2, Win2K, why the hoo-hah about Firefox's RAM requirements? Just use whatever browser for those platforms that you used to use that will run in 1MB of RAM and quit whining about modern "horsecrap software" written by incompetent programmers.
For example, the iPad requires dongles for everything because including ports for things like USB and HDMI would have made the device considerably thicker, which would diminsh the sense of delicacy that the device gives you when you hold it.
I bought a new car recently. Ford doesn't include an engine because that would have made the car considerably heavier, which would diminish the sense of delicacy the car gives you when you sit in it. It sucks that I have to buy a third-party engine in order to use it how I'd want, but I really commend them for doing a good job communicating the sense of purpose of the car.
Apple is great at marketing shiny over-priced things to people with more money than sense. I'm not sure their marketing department knows what people want, but it seems to be great at convincing people that they want what Apple are offering.
Oh, and before we congratulate the Pope's astronomer too much, I'll quote the FA:
Of course, the calendar’s still not completely accurate at this point, because now we’re ahead again. We’ve added a day, when we should have added only 0.8762 days, so we’re ahead now by
1 – 0.8762 days = 0.1238 days.
Funny thing is, no one worries about that. There is no official rule for leap days with cycles bigger than 400 years. I think this is extremely ironic, because the amount we are off every 400 years is almost exactly 1/8th of a day! So after 3200 years, we’ve had 8 of those 400 year cycles, so we’re ahead by
8 x 0.1238 days = 0.9904 days.
Maybe we should go a little easy on him since he did have to write in Latin and didn't have access to sophisticated measuring tools. Though, maybe if they'd spent a little less time persecuting others, designing silly hats and talking to an invisible man they might have done.
Movie and TV producers have been dubbing in bird sounds for decades, including one infamous time CBS backed a golf match with the sounds of birds that have never lived anywhere near the game's location.
Wow, even Edvard Munch's "The Scream" doesn't depict anxiety and despair as effectively as a Venn diagram showing the union of the sets: "pedants", "birders" & "golf watchers". I'd rather have my goolies trapped in a white-hot vice for an hour than go to that party.
Spoken like a true twenty-something! :)
Hang on. I think he means that before Q3: Arena and UT there was Doom, Quake and Q2 & Unreal which were all story driven games first and foremost; even though they did have multiplayer, the main-show was still the single-player modes with vague narratives keeping you going (for what they were worth...)
The theme that Grindalf suggests iD and Epic "plundered" is Jaffe's notion that "gameplay is better than story, don't let story get in the way" which resulted in Q3: Arena & UT/UT:2003, neither of which had much (if any) story that I can remember. Grindalf then pointed out that shortly thereafter they returned to making story-based games, i.e. Q4, Doom 3 and Unreal II: The Awakening.
/* "'Firefox n released' is not a story" */ is a comment.
And you can't give a digital download as a gift
Are you talking specifically about the XBOX 360? I'll plead ignorance of digital distribution on consoles but my wife bought me RAGE & F.3.A.R. and my brother-in-law bought me Star Wars: Force Unleashed 2 via Steam for my last birthday. I gifted the latest humble indie bundle to a friend as well as a copy of Orcs Must Die with all the DLC for Christmas. If you're saying that you need/want to wrap and give a physical object, then well...*shrug*. I know you can get gift-cards for Wii & xbox360 credits but I guess if you want to give an actual physical gift then you probably won't want to give a gift-card...
"Our drone was NOT hacked by the enemy, in fact no outside influence was required to cause our super-expensive, top-secret drone to crash land in enemy territory. We refuse to divulge why precisely this happened, but we can assure you that whatever happened, it was our own fault, and not the work of enemy forces. No questions please."
Way to save face...
The logic of your first point is only valid if Google "U.S." is pulling both sets of strings. It's entirely possible for entities outside of the U.S. to outsource sales calls to India ya know. As to the second, Google *is* ultimately responsible for what their branch offices do but let's be reasonable, shall we? If you were in a branch office engaging in fraudulent behaviour to get sales, would you tell your boss? If you were managing a branch office and engaging in fraudulent behaviour to get sales, would you tell head-office?
the criminal element do NOT have access to a hellfire equipped, air force controlled $30 million predator attack drone.
Neither do the police/DHS, idiot, they used unarmed drones.
the fact that they are trying to track down cattle rustlers(!) without even basic firearms
Wrong again, idiot. The day before, a sheriff had been marched off the property at gunpoint. When other police arrived the suspects were spotted by a drone (on it's way back from another mission) and they were carrying rifles and concealing themselves behind barricades, i.e. preparing for either a siege or an ambush on the police. Because the police wanted to avoid a gunfight and bloodshed, they withdrew. The drone was used again the following morning to avoid confrontation and ensure that no-one was harmed; they "swooped in" when the suspects were unarmed. Oh and these cattle-rustlers(!), far from being without even basic firearms, had four rifles and two shotguns on the property.
Would you have preferred that the police had a good old fashioned gunfight with the rustlers resulting in loss of life?
You just need to install the Android app from the printer manufacturer that makes your printer. That's all.
Except my less-than-a-year-old brother colour laser isn't supported by the official brother android app. Now what? (Also, as far as I can tell, it only prints jpgs and pdfs.)
Hang on, let's play "spot the difference" shall we?
- sending a special-forces team onto a private vessel in dock in an allied nation to scuttle it with explosive charges.
- shooting TRESPASSERS infiltrating a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT on FRENCH SOIL.
"Inviting" them back before shooting them is the only PR problem I see in the GP's plan.
It appears that the only reason they weren't shot this time is because Greenpeace called in and said "don't shoot, they're only hanging banners". Quite why they didn't shoot, regardless, is beyond me. Even if Greenpeace have their own secret codeword for claiming responsibility like a terrorist organisation would, they've been infiltrated so many times that such a codeword could well be in the hands of even more dangerously stupid people.
Ironically it seems the French government's/security forces' fear of bad PR is what prevented the protestors being shot down which would have solved the security "problem" before they could hang their banners. Still this is good news for Algerian separatists, foreign spies etc, all they need do is take a banner with them and claim to be with Greenpeace whenever they try to infiltrate a French nuclear power plant.
Have you any idea how much damage that nuclear weapon would suffer if they let it detonate with Greenpeace in the area?
Thank you for making me chuckle. +5 Funny.
FYI, the "PS1", or "Playstation" as we called it, did prevent burned games from working.
You seem to labour under the impression that he was sitting on his hands and then decided that he'd create a super dangerous killer virus to massage his ego. As I understand it, the reasoning behind engineering a super-virulent strain like this is that such a mutation could conceivably happen "in the wild", and that if, or when, it does, it would be a Good Thing if we knew how to deal with it.
Not sure I understand their reasoning. They're "outing" collaborators of the Zetas. Surely the Zetas know who their informants are. If Anonymous "outs" some innocent schmuck, why would the Zetas need to kill them as a "weak link"? It makes no sense. If the non-corrupt cops bring one of the innocent, mistakenly "outed" collaborators in for questioning, what are they going to divulge? They know nothing.
By 1960, 55% of all photographs ever taken were of babies; recording the lives of one's children is not a new endeavour. I have precisely 0 interest in seeing a picture of a random child, but I genuinely do like seeing pictures of my friend's children as they grow up. Automatically uploading pictures to Facebook/Flickr/G+ isn't some strange dark new magic, it's standard tech. I can take my 'phone, hold down the "camera" button, *click* and share it instantly yet you talk like the people doing this are taking huge amounts of time out of their day...
By the by, if you want to rant about people filming music concerts, why don't you just wait for the next story about illegal filming at a music concert? Your comment seems a tad contrived in this context.
"If car-makers can put in the added effort to make a product that is safer for all parties in collisions, before the turn of the century, I'm sure Hummer could make Humvees a little better."
"A Humvee is way more complicated than a MODEL T FORD!!!"
If Console game developers can put in the added effort to make a product that is reasonably bug free, or is otherwise unplayable, back before consoles could update the software...
Hang on, off the top of my head, that applies to any game playable on the NES, Gameboy, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Sony Playstation, Sony Playstation 2, Sega Master System, Sega Megadrive, Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar, Atari Lynx etc. If you need older examples of games that are more complex than notepad.exe, there are many more: Final Fantasy IV, Metroid, Castlevania, Terminator 2: Judgement Day
I specifically used the GTA series, up to Vice City, because they were a series of Playstation and PS2 games and fit the original criterion ("reasonably bug free (...) before consoles could update the software") while being significantly more complex than Space Invaders on the Atari 2600, which was an extremely obtuse, cherry-picked example. The GP picked one of the simplest examples of a console game: Space Invaders, so I returned the absurd favour...
Because the grandparent specifically compared Office to old video games, and referring to Space Invaders is the quickest way of demonstrating why that's dumb?
I missed that Office was brought up earlier, but since trolly mcgee cherry-picked the simplest video game he could think of, I'm not inclined to retract my indignation.