Well, if I ignore your inability to grasp that millions of other people read the drivel that comes out of your keyboard, I can see your point.
Understanding however that the entire point of posting on an Internet forum is so that others can read and understand what you wrote means that you should prefer punctuation methods that involve communicating without unnecessary confusion and obfuscation.
Re:Majority of households still don't have one.
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HD Wii By 2011?
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You don't need a 40" TV to get HDTV -- and you shouldn't need to spend $1000 to get high definition.
The problem isn't CARBON and I'm sick and tired of that shortcut in the media. The problem is CO2 -- Carbon Dioxide, its a gas, not a solid.
Carbon on its own doesn't cause any problems for global warming at all. Coal in the ground isn't causing global warming, the tree in your back yard isn't either, unless you burn either of them.
Parentheses also have meaning, but not the way in which you used them. Points or commas, or just good sentence structure might be good starting points next time.
... whereas I spent hours out in the fields between cities assassinating random soldiers and then trying to get away.
The whole premise of the game is that you're living out the genetic memory (bah) of your ancestor's actions, so while the game is very open in what you can do, there are specific actions that must take place (since there's no room for altering history).
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As I recall, Intel didn't start making power-conscious CPUs until Transmeta showed its hand and started bragging about its power savings.
Intel started doing some work (or paying for technology) and suddenly had competing CPUs for sale.
How did you watch the games, by Chinese broadcast, or by your own country's broadcaster? I watched the intro on Australian, Canadian and American networks and got different views of the opening ceremonies.
One of those even bothered to point out that the footsteps were taped beforehand and given to the outlets as pre-made footage to be played.
What I don't get about the "faked" fireworks is this -- are we that jealous that China pulled off such a STUNNING opening that we have to nit-pick at one tiny feature? That lighting, the drummers, the organization, the structuring, the organization, the music, the dancers, the orchestration of the whole thing was magnificent. As a Canadian, I'm glad we didn't win this bid because I doubt we'd have pulled something that fantastically awesome out of our hats.
Actually, AC was a very intuitive control system for a complex action system -- right button for right hand, left button for left hand, bottom button for feet and top button for head.
Contextually, each does what you would expect them to do with those things in mind.
What I missed in AC was the ability to fail -- fail to hide, fail to blend in, fail to run along a rooftop without falling, and so on. Somehow I could run forever without running out of stamina or tripping or anything so long as I stayed away from people that get in the way.
Which is exactly why I love tinydns -- just rsync the data file over to any other servers I host, grep for the appropriate domains if I so choose, and voila, updated live DNS service a-la-carte.
Run tinydns on every machine that has a public facing interface and you've got replicated DNS on all the machines that your customers can see anyway. Besides, unlike some other programs, it uses minimal memory to run.
By contrast, games like Wurm actively encourage users to simply purchase their in-game gold from their online store. Some players also sell in-game gold through forums at slightly lower rates.
Nobody denies that Saddam committed atrocities of various forms. He was even tried and hung for them (and then pardoned, posthumously).
The point the original poster was making was that at the time of the invasion by the US and its coalition of the willing the justification was the existence of weapons of mass destruction that were imminently usable. This claim turned out to be false.
White hat hackers break lots of things without permission. Is DVD Jon a black hat for hacking the CSS system allowing us easier DVD access on Linux now? He'd certainly never have gotten permission to do that.
Nor would many researchers get permission to test the products they test for defects (physical hacking).
Let me follow this logic -- if HE caused the campus-wide lock-down, that's worse than leaving the campus insecure to more ill-intentioned persons?
I don't follow.
The security problem didn't exist because he hacked the system, the security problem allowed him to hack the system. The security problem should have required a lock-down before he ever hacked it, but the team at the University didn't realize it (or didn't care).
Oh, sorry, you're in the camp of people who actually believe you won't go to jail for doing the right thing because our laws are perfect and the legal system has no flaws.
Innocent people do jail time, innocent people are further up on the 'got screwed over by the justice system' list than this guy, so don't go on about how he wouldn't be facing jail time if he'd technically done the right thing.
My science classes openly discussed all sorts of pseudo-science. Giving children a wide range of knowledge and understanding helps them make better critical decisions.
Not teaching about the beliefs of a large percentage of the population no different from some conservative parents who don't want their kids taking sex-ed classes at school.
They'll learn about it somewhere, why not in a controlled environment?
Up here in the land of the free (that's Canada), we're looking at introducing a multi-religion curriculum to the school system.
Not teaching religion at all is a very strange way to educate your children when you think about it. We cover mythology and fictional literature and even discuss disproved theories like perpetual motion machines. We have classes that discuss legal theories from around the world that aren't in place here, and yet you'd not teach about one of the most fundamentally important forming parts of western culture?
Religion has shaped (for better or worse) a huge piece of the world in which children now live, and not teaching them about it and its effects on society is like walking around with blinders on.
To those who labelled my previous posts trolls, look up the definition and read them again;-)
Don't forget space junk. I'm not sure what proportion of that damage is due to leaking oil/fuel moving and extremely high velocities leaving small holes in the solar arrays, but its an issue that wouldn't exist (yet) on the moon.
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Well, if I ignore your inability to grasp that millions of other people read the drivel that comes out of your keyboard, I can see your point.
Understanding however that the entire point of posting on an Internet forum is so that others can read and understand what you wrote means that you should prefer punctuation methods that involve communicating without unnecessary confusion and obfuscation.
You don't need a 40" TV to get HDTV -- and you shouldn't need to spend $1000 to get high definition.
HDTVs here are selling from about $300.
Of course, we have better broadband access too.
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The problem isn't CARBON and I'm sick and tired of that shortcut in the media. The problem is CO2 -- Carbon Dioxide, its a gas, not a solid.
Carbon on its own doesn't cause any problems for global warming at all. Coal in the ground isn't causing global warming, the tree in your back yard isn't either, unless you burn either of them.
You're making the poor assumption that the Slashdot population is educated.
Parentheses also have meaning, but not the way in which you used them. Points or commas, or just good sentence structure might be good starting points next time.
Obviously you have a short attention span because Penny Arcade has only rarely resorted to cheap toilet humour in its comic strips.
... whereas I spent hours out in the fields between cities assassinating random soldiers and then trying to get away.
The whole premise of the game is that you're living out the genetic memory (bah) of your ancestor's actions, so while the game is very open in what you can do, there are specific actions that must take place (since there's no room for altering history).
As I recall, Intel didn't start making power-conscious CPUs until Transmeta showed its hand and started bragging about its power savings.
Intel started doing some work (or paying for technology) and suddenly had competing CPUs for sale.
No, THEY didn't, your media outlet did.
How did you watch the games, by Chinese broadcast, or by your own country's broadcaster? I watched the intro on Australian, Canadian and American networks and got different views of the opening ceremonies.
One of those even bothered to point out that the footsteps were taped beforehand and given to the outlets as pre-made footage to be played.
What I don't get about the "faked" fireworks is this -- are we that jealous that China pulled off such a STUNNING opening that we have to nit-pick at one tiny feature? That lighting, the drummers, the organization, the structuring, the organization, the music, the dancers, the orchestration of the whole thing was magnificent. As a Canadian, I'm glad we didn't win this bid because I doubt we'd have pulled something that fantastically awesome out of our hats.
Actually, AC was a very intuitive control system for a complex action system -- right button for right hand, left button for left hand, bottom button for feet and top button for head.
Contextually, each does what you would expect them to do with those things in mind.
What I missed in AC was the ability to fail -- fail to hide, fail to blend in, fail to run along a rooftop without falling, and so on. Somehow I could run forever without running out of stamina or tripping or anything so long as I stayed away from people that get in the way.
Just wait till they see you using map and lambda functional expressions. Personally I love list comprehensions in Python:
taxes = [ tax_calc(item) for item in items ]
Throw in something like:
taxed_items = zip(items, taxes)
for fun.
Which is exactly why I love tinydns -- just rsync the data file over to any other servers I host, grep for the appropriate domains if I so choose, and voila, updated live DNS service a-la-carte.
Run tinydns on every machine that has a public facing interface and you've got replicated DNS on all the machines that your customers can see anyway. Besides, unlike some other programs, it uses minimal memory to run.
Well, Jack Thompson lol -- see here for details.
All too often that's exactly how these situations work. Hire someone to do a job that they think they know how to find the people to do.
I run tinydns for the record, to host my DNS entries. Can't imagine why I'd get someone else to do it.
By contrast, games like Wurm actively encourage users to simply purchase their in-game gold from their online store. Some players also sell in-game gold through forums at slightly lower rates.
Nobody denies that Saddam committed atrocities of various forms. He was even tried and hung for them (and then pardoned, posthumously).
The point the original poster was making was that at the time of the invasion by the US and its coalition of the willing the justification was the existence of weapons of mass destruction that were imminently usable. This claim turned out to be false.
White hat hackers break lots of things without permission. Is DVD Jon a black hat for hacking the CSS system allowing us easier DVD access on Linux now? He'd certainly never have gotten permission to do that.
Nor would many researchers get permission to test the products they test for defects (physical hacking).
Let me follow this logic -- if HE caused the campus-wide lock-down, that's worse than leaving the campus insecure to more ill-intentioned persons?
I don't follow.
The security problem didn't exist because he hacked the system, the security problem allowed him to hack the system. The security problem should have required a lock-down before he ever hacked it, but the team at the University didn't realize it (or didn't care).
His actions changed nothing but awareness.
In a democratic country, whether its illegal or not should also be up for debate.
Oh, sorry, you're in the camp of people who actually believe you won't go to jail for doing the right thing because our laws are perfect and the legal system has no flaws.
Innocent people do jail time, innocent people are further up on the 'got screwed over by the justice system' list than this guy, so don't go on about how he wouldn't be facing jail time if he'd technically done the right thing.
My science classes openly discussed all sorts of pseudo-science. Giving children a wide range of knowledge and understanding helps them make better critical decisions.
Not teaching about the beliefs of a large percentage of the population no different from some conservative parents who don't want their kids taking sex-ed classes at school.
They'll learn about it somewhere, why not in a controlled environment?
Up here in the land of the free (that's Canada), we're looking at introducing a multi-religion curriculum to the school system.
Not teaching religion at all is a very strange way to educate your children when you think about it. We cover mythology and fictional literature and even discuss disproved theories like perpetual motion machines. We have classes that discuss legal theories from around the world that aren't in place here, and yet you'd not teach about one of the most fundamentally important forming parts of western culture?
Religion has shaped (for better or worse) a huge piece of the world in which children now live, and not teaching them about it and its effects on society is like walking around with blinders on.
To those who labelled my previous posts trolls, look up the definition and read them again ;-)
Don't forget space junk. I'm not sure what proportion of that damage is due to leaking oil/fuel moving and extremely high velocities leaving small holes in the solar arrays, but its an issue that wouldn't exist (yet) on the moon.
When people see that I resize browser windows to be able to see more than one thing at a time, it actually confuses some people I know.
I hate browser windows that are too wide -- narrow columns are faster to scan for a good reader. That's why newspapers use narrow columns.