Having chased my tail before trying to find development versions of RPMs (such as boost, ncurses, etc), I can say that another big advantage of gentoo is that there is no need for separate development versions, as soon as the package is installed, all the headers are too.
great writers can. so what you're saying is that authors of graphic novels can be crap and still get their point across. woohoo....
I think you're twisting the words of your parent post here. Graphic novels are capable of things that literature is not and vice versa, regardless of the writer's ability. For example if you want to describe a scene of carnage and chaos with huge amounts of things happening, books can try and describe it but imho it will never match the impact of a 2-page-spread scene in a comic. Likewise comics can capture expressions and meaningful moments of silence better than books (as can films). But books can be more descriptive, can use language better, can switch tact and time-frame a lot better and probably loads more things I can't think of right now. Every medium has its strengths and its weaknesses, good authors/creators know how best to exploit them.
Cheers, it was a classic game:-) Always good to see other fans around.
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I reckon we will find a giant face, and it will turn out to the home of the sectoids, and it turns out they created us and influenced our evolution, but then we shoot the eye thing and win the war, until 40 years later they come back in an underwater form. What do you reckon? What odds am I offered?
Maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure it was testicular cancer, certainly at first (it may have spread). He describes in his autobiography how it swelled up so I'm pretty sure it was. Testicular cancer of course is made that bit more likely by cycling a lot (it doesn't help them after all). Lance was junior world champion I believe and has always been good... so I don't see why everyone assumes he is on drugs.
Having watched it with people who hadn't read the book, I believe that that (particularly long) fade was to tease people into thinking that it was the end of the film, as it was black for just long enough for them to wonder... and then it faded back in. Clever, I thought.
how do you do arc-trig functions?... No hyperbolic trig functions, either.
Look on the top left of the calculator in scientific mode. There is an "inv" tickbox and a "hyp" one. To get arc-trig, tick the inv box, then click sin. Likewise, sinh can be performed by ticking hyp then pressing sin. Not the most obvious solution but not too bad either imho.
The real issue is, what supposedly responsible person was letting him do this?
"Judge, I move for a motion of boys will be boys" -- Lisa Simpson. You can't watch kids 24 hours a day. They will always get up to some hijinx or other, you can't prevent that. You can try and instill how dangerous things are into them, but this kid was only five. These things happen, and it's just good to see that there are no lawsuits flying about the place for once.
I think the grandparent is aware that bangbus is fantasy, but the problem is: will kids be this aware? If they see pretend rape happening and nothing being said against it, it is not unreasonable to be worried that they will view the real thing as fine too. Remember that a small child's mind works differently to ours.
Games can be not about politics directly, but rather reference them. For example SimCity was fun, and had strong elements of politics (setting taxes, keeping the population happy, dealing with the environment etc). I read an article about the Sims once saying that it was inherently a bit right-wing/capitalist, since the aim was to become richer and buy more stuff (rather than the Sims just being happy with what they have). Sure political-themed games tend to be more strategical, but such is the nature of political issues I guess! They can't be solved by shooting at each other;)
I thought that any act by government restricting our freedom, no matter how benevolent their intent, was a bad thing.
Your statement is too broad. Locking up criminals restricts their freedom but is a good thing. Making us pay taxes restricts our freedom to do what we like with our money, but is a good thing. In this particular case it doesn't seem to me to actually be the government doing this anyway.
Surely in that case the purchase price of the software would be zero, in which case accordingly to the grandparent's plan, the student would be liable for zero.
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Well I found this story in the morning at work (GMT here), so it was still appropriate ;-)
Having chased my tail before trying to find development versions of RPMs (such as boost, ncurses, etc), I can say that another big advantage of gentoo is that there is no need for separate development versions, as soon as the package is installed, all the headers are too.
I think you're twisting the words of your parent post here. Graphic novels are capable of things that literature is not and vice versa, regardless of the writer's ability. For example if you want to describe a scene of carnage and chaos with huge amounts of things happening, books can try and describe it but imho it will never match the impact of a 2-page-spread scene in a comic. Likewise comics can capture expressions and meaningful moments of silence better than books (as can films). But books can be more descriptive, can use language better, can switch tact and time-frame a lot better and probably loads more things I can't think of right now. Every medium has its strengths and its weaknesses, good authors/creators know how best to exploit them.
I'll weigh in with Transmetropolitan which in my opinion is nearly as good as Preacher (ymmv of course).
Cheers, it was a classic game :-) Always good to see other fans around.
I reckon we will find a giant face, and it will turn out to the home of the sectoids, and it turns out they created us and influenced our evolution, but then we shoot the eye thing and win the war, until 40 years later they come back in an underwater form. What do you reckon? What odds am I offered?
Do you use eBay by any chance? ;-)
Maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure it was testicular cancer, certainly at first (it may have spread). He describes in his autobiography how it swelled up so I'm pretty sure it was. Testicular cancer of course is made that bit more likely by cycling a lot (it doesn't help them after all). Lance was junior world champion I believe and has always been good... so I don't see why everyone assumes he is on drugs.
Ah slashdot, the home of generalisations.
Having watched it with people who hadn't read the book, I believe that that (particularly long) fade was to tease people into thinking that it was the end of the film, as it was black for just long enough for them to wonder... and then it faded back in. Clever, I thought.
Look on the top left of the calculator in scientific mode. There is an "inv" tickbox and a "hyp" one. To get arc-trig, tick the inv box, then click sin. Likewise, sinh can be performed by ticking hyp then pressing sin. Not the most obvious solution but not too bad either imho.
Ah, I knew Microsoft would beat slashdot somehow.
"Judge, I move for a motion of boys will be boys" -- Lisa Simpson. You can't watch kids 24 hours a day. They will always get up to some hijinx or other, you can't prevent that. You can try and instill how dangerous things are into them, but this kid was only five. These things happen, and it's just good to see that there are no lawsuits flying about the place for once.
Wow, I didn't realise the market had shrunk to 1.11 people. Wait a min, let me guess - you are legion?
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Darl.
I really hate to see someone that points out that "It'll Last for X years" and it never does.
In this case it did last for X years, if it will be used up by the end of the decade.
I think the grandparent is aware that bangbus is fantasy, but the problem is: will kids be this aware? If they see pretend rape happening and nothing being said against it, it is not unreasonable to be worried that they will view the real thing as fine too. Remember that a small child's mind works differently to ours.
Do you mean before 1800? Kings have tended to die out since then, what with all this democracy malarkey ;-)
Games can be not about politics directly, but rather reference them. For example SimCity was fun, and had strong elements of politics (setting taxes, keeping the population happy, dealing with the environment etc). I read an article about the Sims once saying that it was inherently a bit right-wing/capitalist, since the aim was to become richer and buy more stuff (rather than the Sims just being happy with what they have). Sure political-themed games tend to be more strategical, but such is the nature of political issues I guess! They can't be solved by shooting at each other ;)
I think we'll leave it at a difference of opinion ;) I hadn't seen your AC correction, now I have.
Your statement is too broad. Locking up criminals restricts their freedom but is a good thing. Making us pay taxes restricts our freedom to do what we like with our money, but is a good thing. In this particular case it doesn't seem to me to actually be the government doing this anyway.
I gotta get my building some XML! Reduced bills here I come.
Surely in that case the purchase price of the software would be zero, in which case accordingly to the grandparent's plan, the student would be liable for zero.
What is this, two modded-up posts for the price of one day on slashdot?
I think what the AC meant was: