As someone that used to frequently play Counter Strike, I feel the need to correct your statement of CS's purpose. It was demonstrated to me time and time again that the purpose of Counter Strike is to run ahead of your team mates and drop a flash bang just before they round a corner where the opposing team is holed up. This is followed closely by knifing team mates in the back while hopping around and lagging behind to see how many of them you can kill with a single AWP round.
I've always been under the impression that acetaminophen is added to narcotics mainly for the purpose of making it so one cannot take large quantities of said narcotic without getting sick. So, I'm not really sure what the problem is here... they shouldn't have been mixed in from the get go imo. The only good thing that comes of including it is that it's able to regulated less strictly that way. (I'm side stepping my opinion on regulation here.)
I was once asked to count the number of classes and methods that existed in a product I worked on to "measure its complexity and richness"... yah... After laughing myself to tears, I wandered around the office... one, two, three, four. four dataclasses! ahahah... No one seemed to get it:(
I have a project just for little personal programs, and it includes a file that's completely overwritten constantly just for very simple "The documentation sucks, so I have to write a program to see what this really does" kinds of things. It's the first thing I create on a new environment, and it pretty much alleviates your problem.
If we all know it works that way, there's no point in saying it anymore since everyone will know it just means "the computer", so who cares if they're right most of the time? I think people should just stick with "computer" if they don't know. It's easier to know what to expect from them at that point.
I can understand wanting a laptop with beefier hardware... video card for example... but three button trackpad? I'll never go back to pc laptop trackpads/whatever.
Neglecting software, that's the one thing that drives me nuts moving away from my macbook pro: two buttons and certain areas on the track pad to scroll or some horrifying scroll button... How is that better than scrolling with two fingers and right clicking with two fingers? I have one button for my track pad and I never even use that. I'd be fine if they took it out. Except for gaming, I actually prefer to use the macbook pro track pad to a mouse.
Right, but what do you do with the child when you're done with it? Throw it in the trash? Recycle it? Rent it out? I know the last two year old child I tried to throw out would just not shut up in the trash bag. Even after repeated vigorous shakings:-/
However, just like my old tv, someone picked him up at the dumpster really quick thank god.
Were there places to go before cars existed? Were there sick people before anti-biotics? What happened before plumbing? We should get rid of those things imo.
Yah... I know all about the hot coffee lawsuit... I have lawyer friends. They get hard ons explaining how it was not as irrational as it sounded to people that have yet to hear it. You'll notice I did not say it was frivolous. I simply asked why someone brought that one forth but people gashing up their hands and/or ruining their purchases are not. Frivolous or not, someone looked at their situation and said "I just got burned by by spilling coffee on myself. I think I'll sue." Where're the people doing the same over this ridiculous packaging?
I am glad at least to give you the little bit of pleasure to post The Truth to everyone else on slashdot... Bravo:)
You can dance around it all you like... but it doesn't change the end result. People every day are injured in some way by this "two plastic bubbles melted together" method of packaging. Because it practically requires bladed weapons to open.
I have instructions on jars that tell me to twist open a cap... I'd say the whole twist cap thing is pretty self explanatory, yet people feel the need to put instructions on how to open jars.
You know why there's no instructions on how to open a solid lump of plastic? Because it being able to be opened isn't on their mind at all... not that it isn't their "main concern". They'd put it in a solid lead bubble with a cytotoxic theft deterrent system, but sadly that costs them more money.
Why is it people are sued for their coffee being too hot... but people haven't sued the crap out of corporations for packages that quite frankly maim their customers?
Most christians I know have little problem with telling you what they think of your heathen games/beliefs/culture/etc. And would look down on their fellow believers for trying to hide it under pretty words. So, not sure who they'd be trying to please with their stance... they'll piss non-christians off by not wanting to take "dirty money" from a simple game making company. They'll piss off a large number of christians for not having the balls so to speak to say exactly why they won't take money if in fact what they stated is not sincere.
Agreed. This is why I was leery to get the 3G version. I had a 3G phone with ATT before, and it was abysmal. Sure the internet access was faster than my previous Palm, but I just could not make phones calls more often than I could. I'd get dropped during the ring phase often. Once I got through, it was just a matter of time (minutes) before I'd get knocked off again.
When I turned off 3G, I had no more problems with calls. So, I'd just swap them back and forth for whatever I was doing at the time. It was very annoying.
So... not sure what is at fault here the phone or the network, but I'd suggest the network unless the iPhone is internally like the HTC tyton just based on my own anecdotal evidence. Personally, I've not noticed many issues with dropped calls on my iPhone, but I use it as a phone far less than most people do I'm sure.
My main annoyance with my iPhone right now is that damn screen not coming back on when I take it away from my face. I've had to restart it to hang up before...
Thats all well and good but eventually they'll need to implement a retention program of some sorts after killing a large number of employees. If you think the US looks evil now, wait till we have the Department of Necromancy. Only so many people are going to buy the whole "resurrected through the combined powers of Bush and Jesus" line.
You got to the oh so high level of 6... You didn't even go to 10 when, as a hunter, you get your pet... which is a defining aspect of the hunter class. As simplistic as WoW is, you can't really comment on it.
You started as a troll or an orc in Durotar which is similar to the grand canyon. Hey, little vegetation and lots of orange... You should have started a blood elf or a tauren if you wanted something pretty to look at or undead if you wanted something dreary.
All the physical damage classes start off the same way pretty much. autoshot then autoattack. Casters start with *spam whatever spell they give you at first repeatedly*. It makes the learning curve not exist. As you level up, you get tend to get crowd control spells/abilities and are much more able to take on multiple enemies.
You should have picked the other easy pve class (you realize you picked the easiest pve class didn't you?) where you could at low levels be taking on three things at time using chain fear and your demon pet.
Chances are if you're willing to spend that kind of money on that kind of phone... you already have a computer. And by chances I mean, you do. Smartphones are actually aimed at people that will be moving information from a computer to a phone and back... synching... How many people own a phone like this and don't have a computer. I'd love to see that tiny ass number.
Universities haven't been about education (vs getting a job) for... well, as long as I've had a brain enough to think about college. If university wasn't about "getting a degree", you wouldn't have tests. There'd just be a forum and people coming to be enlightened. And, as much as I would absolutely love that, that isn't going to happen. As long as there are student records that employers can get a hold of, university will never be just about learning. Though becoming more well rounded would be a great side benefit;)
For it to be just about educating people, teachers wouldn't get paid salaries, students could attend for free, and there'd be no third party record keeping.
I believe the "for enlightenment's sake" people should see wikipedia as their utopia. Or close enough at least.
I don't think there's a real problem for women at all, nor do I agree with this enormous asymmetry in the sexes regarding... sex. My exposure to women has greatly eclipsed my exposure to other males, and I really don't see the mysteriousness and these great differences in sexuality guys (well, and women themselves) tend to attribute them. The only even remotely consistent difference I've seen is that many males have dominant type fantasies and vice versa in females. And obviously that varies enormously.
You don't think women see some guy walk by and think about how "hot" he is? Or how good he might be in bed? Sometimes I wonder if guys think girls don't think this way to save their egos... If you think they don't, you should hang out with more of them on a friend basis.
I mean, don't vibrators kinda blow away the whole "women can't experience sexual pleasure without amorphous attributes like humor, success, etc" theory? There's sex... and there's emotional intimacy. They're different things but they can be combined to create greater things... do men not feel this way?
Really? Man, I should have gotten last years model.... I can't run with all the graphics settings all the way up on my Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro.
Hell, I was getting 19fps in Shatt last night running no mods. Classy:)
If "they" give us victories like this to make us more likely to think things are not so bad or getting better while they continue to rape our rights over things they actually give a rat's ass about.
Have you ever seen thermite? I haven't. I wouldn't know what it looked like from a hamburger. But I know what an iPhone looks like.
You can't fight logic. The choice is clear!
in at least WoW. I have a ton of characters, and more of them are female than male simply because the females are less boring. (I play more alliance than horde.)
Look at the humans... you have a couple really ugly faces... one normal one... and facial hair/color. Woo woo. Most males look alike in WoW just with a different hair style... and not very different at that.
Call me crazy but I like to accessorize... (And if that make me "teh g4y" as people online like to suggest, whatever) Females? They get things like... ear rings... facial tatoos... wildly different hair styles.... horn styles... more than one face that doesn't look like ass... With males it's more of a "hmm... what kind of beard do I want..." type decision.
I'm not going to throw out the old tried and true "If I have to stare at someone's ass for X hours a day" obligatory response.... The males are simply boring... I have two male characters that I actually like lookswise... and they're both Draenai. *shrug*
What's with the stigma attached to it anyway? Women can play male characters but not the other way around? Why does that make any sense? I have in fact had women ask me before "what's up with the female toon" when they were playing a male O.o It's not like I run around hitting on people with a female character. (Well, ok ok... I do really enjoy/flirt'ing with hunters' cats or bears with my feral druid, but come on, cut a guy some slack...)
I will say though that it can be really annoying playing a female character though. I bring all my alts into our guild just to avoid the insane amount of random invites I get from people. Doesn't avoid all the random group invites though. (Don't get me wrong... I'm not an online hermit, but it's really annoying to have an invite pop up out of no where "who and where the fuck is this guy? And what does he want?") It's more than a little sad:-/
I always thought it was just because AT&T's 3G network is abysmal. At least, it always was for me. I was lucky if I could dial out much less keep a call going for more than a minute or two. Full bars most of the time too. The internet was nice and fast but as long as I had 3G enabled, the phone rarely worked. It was infuriating. As soon as you disabled that, it worked fine again. Not only that, but Cingular/AT&T are the most incompetent people I've ever talked to about a service being sold. They had no idea about the ISP(DA)@CINGULARGPRS.COM vs the WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM settings. I called back thinking I just got a stupid operator, but the result was the same. You get better information about their services and settings on wiki sites than talking to them directly. And not slightly better either.
If I were Apple, in keeping with the "just works" mentality, I wouldn't have enabled 3G (ideally I'd have put a radio on there but had it disabled by default, but whatever) either. *shrug* The speed bothers the hell out of me, but I still browse the web on my iphone way more than I ever did on my htc (cingular 8525).
That being said, I'd love having 3g capability on the iphone. (Though I would disable it when not using the internet if it used more power; I actually use mine as an ipod as well as a phone)
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As someone that used to frequently play Counter Strike, I feel the need to correct your statement of CS's purpose. It was demonstrated to me time and time again that the purpose of Counter Strike is to run ahead of your team mates and drop a flash bang just before they round a corner where the opposing team is holed up. This is followed closely by knifing team mates in the back while hopping around and lagging behind to see how many of them you can kill with a single AWP round.
I've always been under the impression that acetaminophen is added to narcotics mainly for the purpose of making it so one cannot take large quantities of said narcotic without getting sick. So, I'm not really sure what the problem is here... they shouldn't have been mixed in from the get go imo. The only good thing that comes of including it is that it's able to regulated less strictly that way. (I'm side stepping my opinion on regulation here.)
I was once asked to count the number of classes and methods that existed in a product I worked on to "measure its complexity and richness"... yah... After laughing myself to tears, I wandered around the office... one, two, three, four. four dataclasses! ahahah... No one seemed to get it :(
I have a project just for little personal programs, and it includes a file that's completely overwritten constantly just for very simple "The documentation sucks, so I have to write a program to see what this really does" kinds of things. It's the first thing I create on a new environment, and it pretty much alleviates your problem.
If we all know it works that way, there's no point in saying it anymore since everyone will know it just means "the computer", so who cares if they're right most of the time? I think people should just stick with "computer" if they don't know. It's easier to know what to expect from them at that point.
I can understand wanting a laptop with beefier hardware... video card for example... but three button trackpad? I'll never go back to pc laptop trackpads/whatever.
Neglecting software, that's the one thing that drives me nuts moving away from my macbook pro: two buttons and certain areas on the track pad to scroll or some horrifying scroll button... How is that better than scrolling with two fingers and right clicking with two fingers? I have one button for my track pad and I never even use that. I'd be fine if they took it out. Except for gaming, I actually prefer to use the macbook pro track pad to a mouse.
Right, but what do you do with the child when you're done with it? Throw it in the trash? Recycle it? Rent it out? I know the last two year old child I tried to throw out would just not shut up in the trash bag. Even after repeated vigorous shakings :-/
However, just like my old tv, someone picked him up at the dumpster really quick thank god.
Were there places to go before cars existed? Were there sick people before anti-biotics? What happened before plumbing? We should get rid of those things imo.
Yah... I know all about the hot coffee lawsuit... I have lawyer friends. They get hard ons explaining how it was not as irrational as it sounded to people that have yet to hear it. You'll notice I did not say it was frivolous. I simply asked why someone brought that one forth but people gashing up their hands and/or ruining their purchases are not. Frivolous or not, someone looked at their situation and said "I just got burned by by spilling coffee on myself. I think I'll sue." Where're the people doing the same over this ridiculous packaging?
I am glad at least to give you the little bit of pleasure to post The Truth to everyone else on slashdot... Bravo :)
You can dance around it all you like... but it doesn't change the end result. People every day are injured in some way by this "two plastic bubbles melted together" method of packaging. Because it practically requires bladed weapons to open.
I have instructions on jars that tell me to twist open a cap... I'd say the whole twist cap thing is pretty self explanatory, yet people feel the need to put instructions on how to open jars.
You know why there's no instructions on how to open a solid lump of plastic? Because it being able to be opened isn't on their mind at all... not that it isn't their "main concern". They'd put it in a solid lead bubble with a cytotoxic theft deterrent system, but sadly that costs them more money.
Why is it people are sued for their coffee being too hot... but people haven't sued the crap out of corporations for packages that quite frankly maim their customers?
Most christians I know have little problem with telling you what they think of your heathen games/beliefs/culture/etc. And would look down on their fellow believers for trying to hide it under pretty words. So, not sure who they'd be trying to please with their stance... they'll piss non-christians off by not wanting to take "dirty money" from a simple game making company. They'll piss off a large number of christians for not having the balls so to speak to say exactly why they won't take money if in fact what they stated is not sincere.
Agreed. This is why I was leery to get the 3G version. I had a 3G phone with ATT before, and it was abysmal. Sure the internet access was faster than my previous Palm, but I just could not make phones calls more often than I could. I'd get dropped during the ring phase often. Once I got through, it was just a matter of time (minutes) before I'd get knocked off again.
When I turned off 3G, I had no more problems with calls. So, I'd just swap them back and forth for whatever I was doing at the time. It was very annoying.
So... not sure what is at fault here the phone or the network, but I'd suggest the network unless the iPhone is internally like the HTC tyton just based on my own anecdotal evidence. Personally, I've not noticed many issues with dropped calls on my iPhone, but I use it as a phone far less than most people do I'm sure.
My main annoyance with my iPhone right now is that damn screen not coming back on when I take it away from my face. I've had to restart it to hang up before...
Thats all well and good but eventually they'll need to implement a retention program of some sorts after killing a large number of employees. If you think the US looks evil now, wait till we have the Department of Necromancy. Only so many people are going to buy the whole "resurrected through the combined powers of Bush and Jesus" line.
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You got to the oh so high level of 6... You didn't even go to 10 when, as a hunter, you get your pet... which is a defining aspect of the hunter class. As simplistic as WoW is, you can't really comment on it.
You started as a troll or an orc in Durotar which is similar to the grand canyon. Hey, little vegetation and lots of orange... You should have started a blood elf or a tauren if you wanted something pretty to look at or undead if you wanted something dreary.
All the physical damage classes start off the same way pretty much. autoshot then autoattack. Casters start with *spam whatever spell they give you at first repeatedly*. It makes the learning curve not exist. As you level up, you get tend to get crowd control spells/abilities and are much more able to take on multiple enemies.
You should have picked the other easy pve class (you realize you picked the easiest pve class didn't you?) where you could at low levels be taking on three things at time using chain fear and your demon pet.
Welcome to 2008.
Chances are if you're willing to spend that kind of money on that kind of phone... you already have a computer. And by chances I mean, you do. Smartphones are actually aimed at people that will be moving information from a computer to a phone and back... synching... How many people own a phone like this and don't have a computer. I'd love to see that tiny ass number.
Universities haven't been about education (vs getting a job) for... well, as long as I've had a brain enough to think about college. If university wasn't about "getting a degree", you wouldn't have tests. There'd just be a forum and people coming to be enlightened. And, as much as I would absolutely love that, that isn't going to happen. As long as there are student records that employers can get a hold of, university will never be just about learning. Though becoming more well rounded would be a great side benefit ;)
For it to be just about educating people, teachers wouldn't get paid salaries, students could attend for free, and there'd be no third party record keeping.
I believe the "for enlightenment's sake" people should see wikipedia as their utopia. Or close enough at least.
I don't think there's a real problem for women at all, nor do I agree with this enormous asymmetry in the sexes regarding ... sex. My exposure to women has greatly eclipsed my exposure to other males, and I really don't see the mysteriousness and these great differences in sexuality guys (well, and women themselves) tend to attribute them. The only even remotely consistent difference I've seen is that many males have dominant type fantasies and vice versa in females. And obviously that varies enormously.
You don't think women see some guy walk by and think about how "hot" he is? Or how good he might be in bed? Sometimes I wonder if guys think girls don't think this way to save their egos... If you think they don't, you should hang out with more of them on a friend basis.
I mean, don't vibrators kinda blow away the whole "women can't experience sexual pleasure without amorphous attributes like humor, success, etc" theory? There's sex... and there's emotional intimacy. They're different things but they can be combined to create greater things... do men not feel this way?
Really? Man, I should have gotten last years model.... I can't run with all the graphics settings all the way up on my Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro. Hell, I was getting 19fps in Shatt last night running no mods. Classy :)
If "they" give us victories like this to make us more likely to think things are not so bad or getting better while they continue to rape our rights over things they actually give a rat's ass about.
Have you ever seen thermite? I haven't. I wouldn't know what it looked like from a hamburger. But I know what an iPhone looks like. You can't fight logic. The choice is clear!
in at least WoW. I have a ton of characters, and more of them are female than male simply because the females are less boring. (I play more alliance than horde.)
Look at the humans... you have a couple really ugly faces... one normal one... and facial hair/color. Woo woo. Most males look alike in WoW just with a different hair style... and not very different at that.
Call me crazy but I like to accessorize... (And if that make me "teh g4y" as people online like to suggest, whatever) Females? They get things like... ear rings... facial tatoos... wildly different hair styles.... horn styles... more than one face that doesn't look like ass... With males it's more of a "hmm... what kind of beard do I want..." type decision.
I'm not going to throw out the old tried and true "If I have to stare at someone's ass for X hours a day" obligatory response.... The males are simply boring... I have two male characters that I actually like lookswise... and they're both Draenai. *shrug*
What's with the stigma attached to it anyway? Women can play male characters but not the other way around? Why does that make any sense? I have in fact had women ask me before "what's up with the female toon" when they were playing a male O.o It's not like I run around hitting on people with a female character. (Well, ok ok... I do really enjoy /flirt'ing with hunters' cats or bears with my feral druid, but come on, cut a guy some slack...)
I will say though that it can be really annoying playing a female character though. I bring all my alts into our guild just to avoid the insane amount of random invites I get from people. Doesn't avoid all the random group invites though. (Don't get me wrong... I'm not an online hermit, but it's really annoying to have an invite pop up out of no where "who and where the fuck is this guy? And what does he want?") It's more than a little sad :-/
I always thought it was just because AT&T's 3G network is abysmal. At least, it always was for me. I was lucky if I could dial out much less keep a call going for more than a minute or two. Full bars most of the time too. The internet was nice and fast but as long as I had 3G enabled, the phone rarely worked. It was infuriating. As soon as you disabled that, it worked fine again. Not only that, but Cingular/AT&T are the most incompetent people I've ever talked to about a service being sold. They had no idea about the ISP(DA)@CINGULARGPRS.COM vs the WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM settings. I called back thinking I just got a stupid operator, but the result was the same. You get better information about their services and settings on wiki sites than talking to them directly. And not slightly better either.
If I were Apple, in keeping with the "just works" mentality, I wouldn't have enabled 3G (ideally I'd have put a radio on there but had it disabled by default, but whatever) either. *shrug* The speed bothers the hell out of me, but I still browse the web on my iphone way more than I ever did on my htc (cingular 8525).
That being said, I'd love having 3g capability on the iphone. (Though I would disable it when not using the internet if it used more power; I actually use mine as an ipod as well as a phone)
"or ship them elsewhere"
Like perhaps to... a moon base?