Fortunately there is nothing the governments can do to stop the communication and exchange of bytes, and information. Some business depends on the internet, and there is no way they would kill their golden goose, such as Microsoft, Amazon, etc.
> Freedom is anomaly...
Government is anomaly in human history, it never lasts. It's just a little spark in the ocean of tyranny, soon to be extinguished by the masses of people demanding that their voices are heard.
FTFY.
ALL civilizations eventually collapse. They are replaced by the next one. Government is no different.
While it can be argued that each year we have less freedom then the previous year, overall the trend is going up. At least I don't have to worry about being killed if I publish a book that the Jews, Christians, and Muslims don't understand Yeshua like I would of a 1,000 years ago.
So basically it took how many years for MS to re-implement grep ??
It's not installed by default on either WinXP or Vista. Might as well just install Cygwin and get some real utilities while you're at it instead of farting around with the MS toys.
Another trick I used to do back in the day of CRTs...
On either the left side or right side, look slightly past the edge of a monitor. If your CRT has a low vsync, say around ~60 Hz, you should noticing flicker. Increase the vsync until you no longer notice the flicker.
I preferred 100 Hz as the image was rock solid steady, even though I lost brightness.
a) designers. They are a hack and a kludge because its is easier to "balance" 5 - 10 classes than 500 - 1000 skills. b) players. People who don't want to spend the time or effort to specialize their character.
I hate the lack of flexibility when you are forced to pick only "class specific skills." It leads to a cookie-cutter approach.
WoW has regressed even further in that you aren't even allowed to pick where to distribute your stats when you level up.
Ultima and GURPs never had classes, and I am quite thankful that some RPGs just said "NO".
I have found this to be _especially_ important for bug-fixes. Very important to document why things were done a certain way to minimize implicit side effects.
> I'm going to say it's because games (even simulators) tend to stupify the simulation for exactly the reasons you describe. In real life, the behavior of the vehicle can tell me a lot about what it is or isn't doing. Without that feedback, it's too easily to step over the line...
Exactly. When I go around a corner, and start to feel the tires about to give, I know the maximum speed I go and still main control.
In a game there is no feedback for G's or when the tire is about to lose traction and thus all too easy to end up taking a corner TOO fast, and blowing it.
> The problem is, the powers that be over there decided to arbitrarily apply their "noteworthy" filter on everything, and so they've collapsed the infinite array of human knowledge down into a decidedly finite set of "relevant" human knowledge.
I actually like learning about various trivia. They are facts damit! If you aren't interested in those facts, then ignore them. I just don't like someone else deciding that certain facts are "not important"
> Why don't I have a degree? For some reason I've never understood, a CS degree that my University required calculus. I can't hack calculus... my failing that class multiple times destroyed my self-esteem to the point where I dropped out of school rather than try again.
Should of got the Coles Notes. Calculus in 20 mins...
a) Not interested in wasting my time trying to enlighten closed minded bigots - he'll learn the truth about reality when he is dead, b) Don't need the money, c) The world will get "proof" of the paranormal soon enough - its not my purpose this life, and d) While Dad has his own abilities, apparently you missed the part where I mentioned it was Mom with the ability.
People _create_ Governments. Governments _create_ Companies, by giving permission back to people to redirect personal liability to an artificial legal entity. While companies try to buy policies, since their own sole reason for existing is to make (more) money, the power always rests in "We, the people", to dictate their behavior.
You really should watch "The Corporation" sometime.
> It isn't like anyone in the US uses dousing rods to find water. Oh wait?
Actually we used dowsing to find fresh water when I was a kid and I still vividly remember that day. My dad thought it was a bunch of bullshit too until the Y stick mom was holding turned so hard that it tore the bark right off and started to cut both his hands - that's how tight of a grip my Dad was holding on.
Considering we were adjacent to a potash salt lake, I was surprised it worked too. For some reason it only seemed to work really well with a Y willow stick, and using the right amount of push outwards.
There was an even mention of dowsing on Quirks and Quarks with Jay Ingram on CBC radio a few years later. Kind of nice to know we weren't the only crazy ones.
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You get multiple lives
But, yeah, the no save/restore kind of sucks.
Well aren't we the optimistic one.
Fortunately there is nothing the governments can do to stop the communication and exchange of bytes, and information. Some business depends on the internet, and there is no way they would kill their golden goose, such as Microsoft, Amazon, etc.
> Freedom is anomaly ...
Government is anomaly in human history, it never lasts. It's just a little spark in the ocean of tyranny, soon to be extinguished by the masses of people demanding that their voices are heard.
FTFY.
ALL civilizations eventually collapse. They are replaced by the next one. Government is no different.
While it can be argued that each year we have less freedom then the previous year, overall the trend is going up. At least I don't have to worry about being killed if I publish a book that the Jews, Christians, and Muslims don't understand Yeshua like I would of a 1,000 years ago.
That's a variation of the classic 80/20 rule.
So basically it took how many years for MS to re-implement grep ??
It's not installed by default on either WinXP or Vista. Might as well just install Cygwin and get some real utilities while you're at it instead of farting around with the MS toys.
Also missing:
* Nested layer groups
* Support for ALL the blend modes
I have the Acer Aspire One. Got it on sale from Frys for $300 last year.
9 Cell ( 7 to 10 hours!) Spare Battery, $75
http://www.amazon.com/HQRP-Replacement-Lithium-Ion-Subnotebook-Mousepad/dp/B001P0F71G/
Spare AC Adapter, $21
http://www.amazon.com/HQRP-Replacement-Subnotebook-Netbook-Mousepad/dp/B001ODA6II/
Notebook Hardware Control
http://www.pbus-167.com/nhc/nhc.htm
I do the occasional reading of eBooks on it. With Adobe Acrobat you can rotate .pdfs. iRotate will also let you rotate the whole screen.
Cheers
:-( Thanks for clarifying though.
> Are dogs and cats friendly once they've become acquainted?
Yes. Having grown up on a farm, all our cats and dogs slept next to each other and never fought because they grew up together.
I'm still miffed that the resizing was nuked on the Add Bookmark dialog and you have to use an extension to get it back. WTF?
At least the memory leak (not releasing memory when tabs are closed) should be gone...
Another trick I used to do back in the day of CRTs...
On either the left side or right side, look slightly past the edge of a monitor. If your CRT has a low vsync, say around ~60 Hz, you should noticing flicker. Increase the vsync until you no longer notice the flicker.
I preferred 100 Hz as the image was rock solid steady, even though I lost brightness.
I have never found any deals at Worst Buy...
Anything in particular to watch for?
and UO, and the classic pen-n-paper Gurps.
> So thats what classes are for.
Classes are training wheels for both:
a) designers. They are a hack and a kludge because its is easier to "balance" 5 - 10 classes than 500 - 1000 skills.
b) players. People who don't want to spend the time or effort to specialize their character.
I hate the lack of flexibility when you are forced to pick only "class specific skills." It leads to a cookie-cutter approach.
WoW has regressed even further in that you aren't even allowed to pick where to distribute your stats when you level up.
Ultima and GURPs never had classes, and I am quite thankful that some RPGs just said "NO".
Why do you think the 65 mm of Baraka Blu-Ray was scanned at 8K ??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baraka_(film)
http://barakathefilm.com/index-flash.html
Just had a pleasant conversation with them this morning.
You DO realize there are more important things then material possessions or money, right?
The investment in life is in relationships, not artificial value of "things."
> well commented,
Many programmers don't understand that concept:
* Code tells you 'how'
* Comments tell you 'why'
I have found this to be _especially_ important for bug-fixes. Very important to document why things were done a certain way to minimize implicit side effects.
> I'm going to say it's because games (even simulators) tend to stupify the simulation for exactly the reasons you describe. In real life, the behavior of the vehicle can tell me a lot about what it is or isn't doing. Without that feedback, it's too easily to step over the line...
Exactly. When I go around a corner, and start to feel the tires about to give, I know the maximum speed I go and still main control.
In a game there is no feedback for G's or when the tire is about to lose traction and thus all too easy to end up taking a corner TOO fast, and blowing it.
> The problem is, the powers that be over there decided to arbitrarily apply their "noteworthy" filter on everything, and so they've collapsed the infinite array of human knowledge down into a decidedly finite set of "relevant" human knowledge.
A perfect example of that is the bullshit "no trivia" policy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Trivia_sections
I actually like learning about various trivia. They are facts damit! If you aren't interested in those facts, then ignore them. I just don't like someone else deciding that certain facts are "not important"
Diablo 2 as well
> Why don't I have a degree? For some reason I've never understood, a CS degree that my University required calculus. I can't hack calculus... my failing that class multiple times destroyed my self-esteem to the point where I dropped out of school rather than try again.
Should of got the Coles Notes. Calculus in 20 mins...
* http://youtube.com/watch?v=EX_is9LzFSY
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9OkFTDG4fY&NR=1
Cheers
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Sorry
a) Not interested in wasting my time trying to enlighten closed minded bigots - he'll learn the truth about reality when he is dead,
b) Don't need the money,
c) The world will get "proof" of the paranormal soon enough - its not my purpose this life, and
d) While Dad has his own abilities, apparently you missed the part where I mentioned it was Mom with the ability.
You are forgetting one tiny little detail...
People _create_ Governments. Governments _create_ Companies, by giving permission back to people to redirect personal liability to an artificial legal entity. While companies try to buy policies, since their own sole reason for existing is to make (more) money, the power always rests in "We, the people", to dictate their behavior.
You really should watch "The Corporation" sometime.
> It isn't like anyone in the US uses dousing rods to find water. Oh wait?
Actually we used dowsing to find fresh water when I was a kid and I still vividly remember that day. My dad thought it was a bunch of bullshit too until the Y stick mom was holding turned so hard that it tore the bark right off and started to cut both his hands - that's how tight of a grip my Dad was holding on.
Considering we were adjacent to a potash salt lake, I was surprised it worked too. For some reason it only seemed to work really well with a Y willow stick, and using the right amount of push outwards.
There was an even mention of dowsing on Quirks and Quarks with Jay Ingram on CBC radio a few years later. Kind of nice to know we weren't the only crazy ones.
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Dark Matter by any other name is still Ether
Yes. See,
http://www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2008/11/14/13-things-that-do-not-make-sense.html
Ha!
Mod up funny. Although the dupes kind of are one of the running jokes around here.