signup for and agree to a clean fight (queensbury rules ect) and you are still going down for assault and or murder X if you either put lead foil in your wraps or shoot your gloves with mercury. I'm guessing you had a hard time thinking up a more absurd analogy than that one? Sure, analogies can be a bit of a stretch but the one you provided is the goatse of all analogies.
Still, the time requirements are quite high, and even $1000 is a quite high cost for what is an infinitesmal (if even that) perceived benefit. Sure it's high... for shareware perhaps. But if you're selling an antivirus package to Joe Consumer and he gets to choose between your competitor's which is fully certified to run on Windows and your which isn't, guess which he'll choose? I think that's worth far more than $1000.
Colonizing anywhere other than earth is such an expensive endevour, that I suspect natural human pervisity will lead us to some 4th solution. Maybe this natural human attribute to which you refer will lead us to a definition of pervisity.
Then again, when feelings are involved, people have been known to pay some very expensive freight.... Weren't they charging $5000 a while back to put ashes in orbit? That's far cheaper than some caskets.
So this means global warming is a good thing. With all the electricity we'll be able to make, it's no problem to just run enough air conditions to solve the problem.
You may recall the post-war embarrassment revealing that Microsoft had parked U-Notebooks right off the coast in the closest harbor to Cupertino, California. With Microsoft's blitzkrieg campaign imploaded, Apple can safely enter the waters once again. Why else do you think Apple release Das Boot Camp?
The Bible does not list Noah had any daughters. It does however list Noah and his wife, his sons and their wives. Good point. I must've been thinking of Adam and Eve.
Heresy! We have a perfectly rational explanation. 6000 years ago God created the Earth. There were people on it and those people were bad. So He caused a flood and wiped out everyone but Noah's family. And now, generations later, we're the result of Noah's sons and daughters having sex with each other to repopulate the Earth. Now whether you believe in God or not, I'm sure you can agree that this is the most sensible explanation for Kansas.
"No vot tak vzyat' i hvatat' cheloveka za to, chto on kupil tam komp'yuter kakoj-to i ugrozhat' emu tyur'moj, eto chush' sobach'ya" Cool! Putin speaks Klingon.
Won't work. Actually, it did. The poster you replied to who wondered "First... post?" did, in fact, get first post.
Sorry. Only computers can handle a task like this. It is automation or failure. That could very well be the explanation. Perhaps the first poster automated the process. It would certainly explain the outcome.
But don't try to tell me that the LoTRO is the "original". That only applies to the setting. You're right... cloning of the world/genre is the only aspect I meant to address in my comment. WOW certainly got the formula right for how you interact with the world.
Aside from possibly preferring Middle Earth to Azeroth, I'm having difficulty finding a good reason for someone to pick LotRO over WoW.
Is there something I'm missing? Someone who has played neither now has two games to choose from. But keep in mind that while LOTRO isn't a WOW clone set in Middle Earth, WOW *is* a LOTR clone set in Azeroth. Some may want the original.
I work for a vendor. Our software doesn't address this application, but I'll tell you, if I get an RFP like this (provide information to me... and have a one in 39 chance of being selected), I say pound salt. Here's my website. Read it, you lazy ass. Don't have me answer your silly questionnaire just so I can waste my time, and then eliminate me and 37 of my competitors. Somehow, I don't think your software would have met the requirements anyways.:)
Most of what you read over seas is way blown over hyperbole of small isolated events. Er... he did say he lives in Canada. What seas does one typically cross at the 49th parallel?
Check out the article on MirrorDot -- quoting from the page:
We took the genetic code from huge data files and assigned a color to every of the four bases. Then we rendered these fascinating pictures, showing the genetic code of humans in color. You can see crazy structures and strange patterns in the images, best viewed when shutting your eyes just a little bit. Click on a link to a chromosome above and use your imagination to get a new view of your genes. Sounds like junk science to me.
This is the same principle as the Bible Code which has been shown over and over to be rubbish. If you line things up in various ways you can find just about any pattern you want given sufficiently long input.
For those who do not want to register... Consider installing BugMeNot extension for Firefox. Right-click, choose "Login with BugMeNot", worked the first time.
Anyone have the original video? The URL (http://www.apple.com/ilife/video/ilife04_32C.html ) in the PDF is a 404... Apple should really put it back up.
This is very neat. Is there a way to get the same functionality in linux? No doubt someone will take these features and clone them while Linux fanboys everywhere complain that Microsoft never innovates.
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Air conditioners also sometimes make a nice "whooooosh!" sound, similar to the one just heard.
So this means global warming is a good thing. With all the electricity we'll be able to make, it's no problem to just run enough air conditions to solve the problem.
Heresy! We have a perfectly rational explanation. 6000 years ago God created the Earth. There were people on it and those people were bad. So He caused a flood and wiped out everyone but Noah's family. And now, generations later, we're the result of Noah's sons and daughters having sex with each other to repopulate the Earth. Now whether you believe in God or not, I'm sure you can agree that this is the most sensible explanation for Kansas.
After watching that for five minutes, I can't tell if that guy's trying to be sincere or if the whole thing is satire. Scary stuff.
... as the crowd throws rose pedals. Is that from some strange kind of botanical bicycle?Is there something I'm missing? Someone who has played neither now has two games to choose from. But keep in mind that while LOTRO isn't a WOW clone set in Middle Earth, WOW *is* a LOTR clone set in Azeroth. Some may want the original.
Damn, reading comprehension isn't my strong suit in the morning. Eliminate, leaving one. Right, I get it... now where's that coffee?
This is the same principle as the Bible Code which has been shown over and over to be rubbish. If you line things up in various ways you can find just about any pattern you want given sufficiently long input.
Anyone have the original video? The URL (http://www.apple.com/ilife/video/ilife04_32C.html ) in the PDF is a 404... Apple should really put it back up.