Here we go again, with the ignorant hate of GW Bush and the United States. Did you even KNOW that the US uses a considerably higher percentage of renewable energy sources than countries like the UK and Japan.
Hmm it hits a peak of 3.58 in 2004, but for the majority of this time the US used twice the percentage of renewable sources during this time period.
now I point to energy production:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ranko rder/2038rank.html So lets see... I'll save you the math I did but I calculated that the US DOES produce 10X as much non-renewable electricity as the UK. But look at the flipside of the coin we are producing 21X as much renewable electricity as the UK.
So yeah we are probably leading the world in pollution, but we are probably also leading the world in renewable energy usage. I agree, YES, we should use more renewable energy. But its not because GW is evil, its not because the United States is a terrible polluting machine, and its not because of that media scare tactic (in other words crock of ****) known as Global warming. We should the Earth is going to warm up and cool down on its own and what we do is not going to change that much. But, we are going to run out of fossil fuels and we are going to fill it up with disgusting toxic sludge. Lets go for the heart of the problem instead of pointing fingers and spreading fear.
My University provides me with free DRM downloads from Napster, which I enjoy because I don't have to pay for it, but I dont think I would ever PAY for any DRM'd media. I find that a lot of the songs I download from napster even lag a little when they are playing (under any of my media players) which is absolutely rediculous consider my comp can run HL2 fine without lagging. Not suprisingly I can also run mp3 and ogg without any problems. Then again its all free to me so I suppose I can't complain much.
Honestly, I think the whole deal is bullshit. Its just the big exec's lashing out at small fries because they can't get their hands on the big fish. Guess what? The real pirates out there aren't scared by you suing a college student that knows nothing about computers and had to have someone teach him how to seed a file. In fact they probably feel safer knowing that you are wasting your time suing this kid instead of them.
Personally I think it's a good thing that tons of the Killer Linux apps are going over to windows. In five years from now maybe people will realize that all their apps (firefox, gimp, gaim, open office, etc) are available on linux too, and without half the crap to deal with maybe they'll make the switch. I think for most people the number one reason they wont use linux is because of the 'killer windows apps (and games)' they can't use in linux. So what do the linux users do, bitch and complain that linux support should be provided. The OSS community has a better plan, come up with even better apps for linux, and release them for windows too, so that people can get comfortable with them before they make the switch. Having windows ports of Linux apps is not a bad thing at all, you are just looking at it the wrong way.
Oh yeah also, he's correct. The parachutes are very reliable. And if they do fail a reserve parachute is probably gonna be a better bet then a wingsuit. Out of 300+ people going through five different jumps I only saw one guy pop his reserve, and I think that was just because he had the jitters and that his main actually had opened. Whether its the Army or the Civilian world, they are very careful with their rigging.
I've been through the Army's Basic Airborne Course and I don't see them using wing suits any time soon. For most military applications they still use the old school circular shoots. You can't even pull a flair with those things. Maybe when you get into HALO you might see something crazy like a wingsuit, but for now military parachuting is all about jumping from low altitude and hitting the ground as quickly as you can. And anyone that's done it can tell you that you hit hard.
It seems to me like people were pirating Japanese Television (read anime) long before people started pirating movies. I guess there is the whole Fansubbing legal grey-area and that this isn't really a concern of American TV execs. I guess the big key with TV piracy seems to be availability. People in the US pirate Japanese Television, people in the UK pirate US Television. I think it all ties back to one thing that has been mentioned about 50 times on these forums. Why not make the TV available over the net legitemately. If the price is right people will pay for it where its not available. I watch so few shows that I'd probably be better off paying a dollar per episode than I would paying the cable bill every month!
I used to get motion sick with Quake when it first came out, and the more I played it the less often I would get motion sick. I havne't been motion sick from a game since then until HL2, and it seems like that is also going away as I play the game more. So maybe just playing the games until you get used to them will get rid of the problem. It sounds weird, but it seemed to work for me.
There has to be more to the story than is being told. There is no reason for VU to cancel orders of the CE (which presumably costs much more) unless they have a lower margin of profit on the CE (doubtful). I mean essentially people are saying that VU decided to ship fewer copies of the more expensive version of the game in order to sell more copies of the standard version? There really must be something we are missing here.
I remember back with Fedora Core Test 2 I had all sorts of weird crap going on and stuff just not working that I had no problems with in Gentoo. I was wondering if I could get some sort of gauge of how much the bugs and glitches have been ironed out in this release before giving it a try.
It looks like its time for me to finally break down and buy a PS2. The question is should I buy one of those ultra thin new ones? Or pick up a refurb unit for cheap... cheap is good but thin is sexy... mmmmm thin.
All things considered, I'm would be very surprised if the Iraqi people considered the US to be their liberators and champions of freedom.
That is an incredibly ignorant remark. I'm not going to be so ignorant as to say everybody loves the US in Iraq, but saying the opposite is just as rediculous. My sources for this, how about real accounts from real soldier in Iraq. None of that crap you read in the news means shit in my opinion.
One such account I read regularly (I know the guy): http://www.richbrowntod.blogspot.com/
Personally I think Blogs are a great source of information. They aren't trying to sell papers they aren't trying to get viewers, they aren't trying to shock the world, they are just telling it the way it is, the way they lived it.
Maybe so... but when you have to pop on a new battery every 2 hours it gets to be irratating. I imagine someone will release some sort of external battery with a much longer life, but it will be large and cumbersome compared to the handheld.
I forsee people hauling around massive external battery packs to play this thing. Honestly just get a DS and show Sony you wont put up with bullshit like this.
If they ever busted me for going to the "Network Neighborhood" I'd fight that to the death. Its not like windows automatically shares all your files, in fact in more recent versions it even warns you about sharing files. I would think that would qualify as consent. Either that or everytime you access a webpage on the internet you are violating the AUP too.
Nintendo already has the kid niche secure. They are going to sell a million copies of whatever Pokemon game they come up with next regardless of their ad campaign. These ads are an attempt to expand their market, not a betrayal to their niche. It's very smart of Nintendo, if you just sit on your niche forever your company never grows, and growth means success in big business.
They have a lot of work to do in order to recreate the atmosphere created in DOOM3. That game made me tense in a way no movie ever has. The only comparable feeling would be while playing System Shock 2.
Personally, I think all the arguements about user interfaces and ease of use are stupid. I think its more of a matter of what you have used in the past and are comfortable with in the long run. Personally I started off with DOS and Windows 3.1 and for me the migration to Win95 and WinXP were pretty easy. At this point I find most Mac GUI's confusing. But it's not because WinXP is more user friendly, its just because I'm used to all the things I've become comfortable with in WinXP. Same thing goes for linux, when I first transfered to linux, it was hard to use. After a short time it was incredibly comfortable. And after using Linux for several years with various Window Managers, going back to the XP system was even hard. Anyway, my point is the GUI's out there may be different, but all this crap about ease of use is exactly that... crap.
I think this goes along with the saying: 'If you make something idiotproof, someone will build a better idiot'. Sure maybe they could have designed the accelerometers so that they couldn't be installed backwards. But then again what else might have failed. I guess in the end it all comes down to econnomics. What does the cost-benifit analysis say? Is it better to keep checking and double-checking, or to just send it out like it is. Now, I can understand cost-benifit is a little bit difficult when you are talking about a space probe. But chances are you could keep redesigning and rechecking a probe for 50 years and then something you never thought of will come up and all your plans will go to hell.
Maybe we should just make lots of cheap crappy probes, and hope and expect most to fail instead of one really good expensive one with the hope that it will suceed.
Many of these authors talk about how companies like Bungie, Nintendo, and Valve have been staying tight lipped about their projects instead of hyping them. Saying that this is a great method because then people dont expect more than is delivered. However there is one key element that the authors seem to forget. With Halo2, HL2, and Anything by Nintendo the non hype method only works for one reason. Everybody expects them to have great products to begin with. If Halo 2 was being produced by some no-name software company, without the strong reputation that the original had, nobody would care and the game would do at best mediocre. Same thing goes for Half-Life 2. If you don't believe me go back to the original Halo and original Half-Life. Both these games were pretty heavily hyped up. Hell Half-Life got more than half its steam (no pun intended) from the failed expectation that Team Fortress 2 would be a modification for Half-Life! Instead we only recieved TFC, but that didn't stop HL from being a smash hit!
At anyrate, the whole tight lip thing is bogus in my opinion. Sure a blockbuster developer like Valve or Bungie can pull it off... but how the hell is a team like Lionhead going to get any sales unless people have high expectations for their games?
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Here we go again, with the ignorant hate of GW Bush and the United States. Did you even KNOW that the US uses a considerably higher percentage of renewable energy sources than countries like the UK and Japan.
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http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/pag
check it out 6% Renewable energy in 2004, and it never dropped below 5% in this 5 year period.
So what do we see from the UK over the same period?
http://www.restats.org.uk/electricity.html
Hmm it hits a peak of 3.58 in 2004, but for the majority of this time the US used twice the percentage of renewable sources during this time period.
now I point to energy production:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rank
So lets see... I'll save you the math I did but I calculated that the US DOES produce 10X as much non-renewable electricity as the UK. But look at the flipside of the coin we are producing 21X as much renewable electricity as the UK.
So yeah we are probably leading the world in pollution, but we are probably also leading the world in renewable energy usage. I agree, YES, we should use more renewable energy. But its not because GW is evil, its not because the United States is a terrible polluting machine, and its not because of that media scare tactic (in other words crock of ****) known as Global warming. We should the Earth is going to warm up and cool down on its own and what we do is not going to change that much. But, we are going to run out of fossil fuels and we are going to fill it up with disgusting toxic sludge. Lets go for the heart of the problem instead of pointing fingers and spreading fear.
My University provides me with free DRM downloads from Napster, which I enjoy because I don't have to pay for it, but I dont think I would ever PAY for any DRM'd media. I find that a lot of the songs I download from napster even lag a little when they are playing (under any of my media players) which is absolutely rediculous consider my comp can run HL2 fine without lagging. Not suprisingly I can also run mp3 and ogg without any problems. Then again its all free to me so I suppose I can't complain much.
Honestly, I think the whole deal is bullshit. Its just the big exec's lashing out at small fries because they can't get their hands on the big fish. Guess what? The real pirates out there aren't scared by you suing a college student that knows nothing about computers and had to have someone teach him how to seed a file. In fact they probably feel safer knowing that you are wasting your time suing this kid instead of them.
Personally I think it's a good thing that tons of the Killer Linux apps are going over to windows. In five years from now maybe people will realize that all their apps (firefox, gimp, gaim, open office, etc) are available on linux too, and without half the crap to deal with maybe they'll make the switch. I think for most people the number one reason they wont use linux is because of the 'killer windows apps (and games)' they can't use in linux. So what do the linux users do, bitch and complain that linux support should be provided. The OSS community has a better plan, come up with even better apps for linux, and release them for windows too, so that people can get comfortable with them before they make the switch. Having windows ports of Linux apps is not a bad thing at all, you are just looking at it the wrong way.
Oh yeah also, he's correct. The parachutes are very reliable. And if they do fail a reserve parachute is probably gonna be a better bet then a wingsuit. Out of 300+ people going through five different jumps I only saw one guy pop his reserve, and I think that was just because he had the jitters and that his main actually had opened. Whether its the Army or the Civilian world, they are very careful with their rigging.
I've been through the Army's Basic Airborne Course and I don't see them using wing suits any time soon. For most military applications they still use the old school circular shoots. You can't even pull a flair with those things. Maybe when you get into HALO you might see something crazy like a wingsuit, but for now military parachuting is all about jumping from low altitude and hitting the ground as quickly as you can. And anyone that's done it can tell you that you hit hard.
I know I've seen this already and I don't really get my news anywhere else!
It seems to me like people were pirating Japanese Television (read anime) long before people started pirating movies. I guess there is the whole Fansubbing legal grey-area and that this isn't really a concern of American TV execs. I guess the big key with TV piracy seems to be availability. People in the US pirate Japanese Television, people in the UK pirate US Television. I think it all ties back to one thing that has been mentioned about 50 times on these forums. Why not make the TV available over the net legitemately. If the price is right people will pay for it where its not available. I watch so few shows that I'd probably be better off paying a dollar per episode than I would paying the cable bill every month!
I used to get motion sick with Quake when it first came out, and the more I played it the less often I would get motion sick. I havne't been motion sick from a game since then until HL2, and it seems like that is also going away as I play the game more. So maybe just playing the games until you get used to them will get rid of the problem. It sounds weird, but it seemed to work for me.
There has to be more to the story than is being told. There is no reason for VU to cancel orders of the CE (which presumably costs much more) unless they have a lower margin of profit on the CE (doubtful). I mean essentially people are saying that VU decided to ship fewer copies of the more expensive version of the game in order to sell more copies of the standard version? There really must be something we are missing here.
I remember back with Fedora Core Test 2 I had all sorts of weird crap going on and stuff just not working that I had no problems with in Gentoo. I was wondering if I could get some sort of gauge of how much the bugs and glitches have been ironed out in this release before giving it a try.
you fools have no idea that I would never let you hurt the Wall-Mart
It looks like its time for me to finally break down and buy a PS2. The question is should I buy one of those ultra thin new ones? Or pick up a refurb unit for cheap... cheap is good but thin is sexy... mmmmm thin.
All things considered, I'm would be very surprised if the Iraqi people considered the US to be their liberators and champions of freedom.
That is an incredibly ignorant remark. I'm not going to be so ignorant as to say everybody loves the US in Iraq, but saying the opposite is just as rediculous. My sources for this, how about real accounts from real soldier in Iraq. None of that crap you read in the news means shit in my opinion.
One such account I read regularly (I know the guy): http://www.richbrowntod.blogspot.com/
Personally I think Blogs are a great source of information. They aren't trying to sell papers they aren't trying to get viewers, they aren't trying to shock the world, they are just telling it the way it is, the way they lived it.
It says the SDK is out on steam but I can't seem to find it anywhere on steam. Does anyone know how to get to it?
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"British Prime Minister Tony Blair puts the remains in mass graves at 400,000 so far."
I know that's not an anual number, but I'd say its a more reliable count than yours is.
From: http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/03/16/World/M
Maybe so... but when you have to pop on a new battery every 2 hours it gets to be irratating. I imagine someone will release some sort of external battery with a much longer life, but it will be large and cumbersome compared to the handheld.
I forsee people hauling around massive external battery packs to play this thing. Honestly just get a DS and show Sony you wont put up with bullshit like this.
If they ever busted me for going to the "Network Neighborhood" I'd fight that to the death. Its not like windows automatically shares all your files, in fact in more recent versions it even warns you about sharing files. I would think that would qualify as consent. Either that or everytime you access a webpage on the internet you are violating the AUP too.
*Sigh*
Nintendo already has the kid niche secure. They are going to sell a million copies of whatever Pokemon game they come up with next regardless of their ad campaign. These ads are an attempt to expand their market, not a betrayal to their niche. It's very smart of Nintendo, if you just sit on your niche forever your company never grows, and growth means success in big business.
They have a lot of work to do in order to recreate the atmosphere created in DOOM3. That game made me tense in a way no movie ever has. The only comparable feeling would be while playing System Shock 2.
Personally, I think all the arguements about user interfaces and ease of use are stupid. I think its more of a matter of what you have used in the past and are comfortable with in the long run. Personally I started off with DOS and Windows 3.1 and for me the migration to Win95 and WinXP were pretty easy. At this point I find most Mac GUI's confusing. But it's not because WinXP is more user friendly, its just because I'm used to all the things I've become comfortable with in WinXP. Same thing goes for linux, when I first transfered to linux, it was hard to use. After a short time it was incredibly comfortable. And after using Linux for several years with various Window Managers, going back to the XP system was even hard. Anyway, my point is the GUI's out there may be different, but all this crap about ease of use is exactly that... crap.
Very true. One would think that a relatively inexpensive fix would be to stamp the part 'this way up'.
I think this goes along with the saying: 'If you make something idiotproof, someone will build a better idiot'. Sure maybe they could have designed the accelerometers so that they couldn't be installed backwards. But then again what else might have failed. I guess in the end it all comes down to econnomics. What does the cost-benifit analysis say? Is it better to keep checking and double-checking, or to just send it out like it is. Now, I can understand cost-benifit is a little bit difficult when you are talking about a space probe. But chances are you could keep redesigning and rechecking a probe for 50 years and then something you never thought of will come up and all your plans will go to hell.
Maybe we should just make lots of cheap crappy probes, and hope and expect most to fail instead of one really good expensive one with the hope that it will suceed.
Many of these authors talk about how companies like Bungie, Nintendo, and Valve have been staying tight lipped about their projects instead of hyping them. Saying that this is a great method because then people dont expect more than is delivered. However there is one key element that the authors seem to forget. With Halo2, HL2, and Anything by Nintendo the non hype method only works for one reason. Everybody expects them to have great products to begin with. If Halo 2 was being produced by some no-name software company, without the strong reputation that the original had, nobody would care and the game would do at best mediocre. Same thing goes for Half-Life 2. If you don't believe me go back to the original Halo and original Half-Life. Both these games were pretty heavily hyped up. Hell Half-Life got more than half its steam (no pun intended) from the failed expectation that Team Fortress 2 would be a modification for Half-Life! Instead we only recieved TFC, but that didn't stop HL from being a smash hit!
At anyrate, the whole tight lip thing is bogus in my opinion. Sure a blockbuster developer like Valve or Bungie can pull it off... but how the hell is a team like Lionhead going to get any sales unless people have high expectations for their games?