What I have heard (and it makes sense) is that the first Civ game you play will always be your favorite. I think that this makes perfect sense. That is the one that first openned your eyes to the Civ world and all other versions have to first live up to your expectations with your first game.
That being said, what are people's favorite Civ and first Civ?
Sigh. Did you read my post? It is pretty clear that I knew what the differences between the two were. All I was doing was adding info to the world at large. This sort of thing seems to be a drawback to all of these "# of friends" comunities.
The same thing has been done with FaceBook. The only difference is that FaceBook still requires each user to actually accept the friendship. That doesn't stop people from running a script that invites everyone to be their friend.
The problem is that your exact statement can be said about the time when CD's first came out.
Tapes were cheaper, and were easier for artists to "sample and extend work". To use that new CD that you bought, you were locked into owning a CD-player. This has nothing to do with how ubiquitous CD's have become, just how they looked at the begining.
I think that there is just as much chance of Nintendo porting Zelda as there is of Sony porting Gran Turismo. The console manufacturers want there to be a game related reason for choosing their console. Having every game available for every platform is great for the consumer, but bad for the smaller console manufaturer.
While this is an interesting article, it really isn't much of a review of the Google Mini. All they do is take it apart, take pictures, and tell you that they set it up after a little bit of trouble. There is nothing about how well it actually works. No benchmarks. No comparisons. They just say that it worked well and leave it at that. Anandtech has had more indepth reviews of mice before.
It is more information that I have seen anywhere else though.
You don't have to remember where you put files any longer, because it doesn't really matter.
While this may be the easy way to do it, it sounds like it would also lead to massive unorganization. How are you going to back up your files if they are scattered all over the place for example. Organization is useful even if it isn't always necessary.
The developers probably want a professional, concise, consistient report. Not the random mess of thousands of emails and message board posts about some nit-pick that one user has that anther user loves. There is a lot to be said for having a clear direction to work towards.
I agree. And how far back are our roots supposed to go? Should he have been wearing a shirt with a tube on it? What about a kite in a lightning storm? A monkey? A pile of goo in the ocean?
Yes, I meant "Should be" free. And, well technically it is. You are allowed to say whatever you want, just be prepared to face the consequences. The same goes for cussing on air/slandering/etc. You CAN do it. There is no automatic beep built into our ears, but that doesn't mean that something won't happen eventually.
Why do most people not yell "fire"? One of two reasons: one, not wanting to cause harm to others. two, fear of the consequences.
Now why do most people not say the "seven dirty words" on the air? One, not wanting to possibly offend the audience. Two, fear of fines/losing job.
As for enforcing morals, I think that most people can agree on a basic set of them that is common throughout almost every society. The finer points may differ, but the main points are there.
Yes, it does. Freedom of Speech means just that. You are free to say anything you want excluding the proverbial 'Fire!' in a crowded theater
By your logic, yelling "Fire" should be just as free as anything else. All it is is freely speaking. The problem comes with other people's reactions to what you said.
This is just the same as most everything else; you have the freedom to say it, but you should also have the control not to say it if it causes that sort of reaction.
What the FCC is doing in most cases is enforcing morals/common sense and not censoring. Of course that doesn't mean that they don't do it badly at times, but that should be the general principle behind it all.
allocate a billion dollars... turning it into the world's best operating system
Or how about they spend that same billion dollars and make Windows the world's best operating system. What makes open source so great that it has to be better than what is currently being done? I am no talking about the benefits of OS, just in the context that this article seems to use: Microsoft spending $1 billion on this project themselves and then making it open source.
Don't you think that this is what Mr. Gate already is trying to do?
Note: before you flame, this is not about OS vs. closed source. This is about corporate goals.
Also along these lines, games seem to be getting away from turn-based strategy games. Sure there are the Civilization games, but there are so many facets to those games that sometimes the real goal gets blurred. Old games like Panzer General and the like had it pretty good for their time. Now everything is real-time strategy and online. They just don't give you the chance to sit there and think about making your next move.
I agree fully with this statement. I have recently been looking at CMS's and this is really the only one that I have found that is easy and allows you to create a site that isn't just a blog. The module system is easy to use, and there are thousands of modules to download on http://mamboforge.net/
16 hours (wma) or 8 hours (mp3) just seems too amazing from something that small. Assuming that half of the device is battery (the other half is controls, memory, processor), this leaves half a cubic inch for a battery.
It would be interesting if true though. At that size, you could just integrate it into the headphones.
As far as I know, there is not flashblock for IE. This means that ~92% of the browsers out there do not block it. And so it should work great for tracking.
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But is this going to lead to more crazy cell phone boosters?
What I have heard (and it makes sense) is that the first Civ game you play will always be your favorite. I think that this makes perfect sense. That is the one that first openned your eyes to the Civ world and all other versions have to first live up to your expectations with your first game.
That being said, what are people's favorite Civ and first Civ?
I thought that whitelisting had been a feature of every email reader/server since spam filtering began.
Sigh. Did you read my post? It is pretty clear that I knew what the differences between the two were. All I was doing was adding info to the world at large. This sort of thing seems to be a drawback to all of these "# of friends" comunities.
The same thing has been done with FaceBook. The only difference is that FaceBook still requires each user to actually accept the friendship. That doesn't stop people from running a script that invites everyone to be their friend.
The problem is that your exact statement can be said about the time when CD's first came out.
Tapes were cheaper, and were easier for artists to "sample and extend work". To use that new CD that you bought, you were locked into owning a CD-player. This has nothing to do with how ubiquitous CD's have become, just how they looked at the begining.
Many people know how big a Tivo is. Not many people know how big a DVR is. Why? Because this device is a DVR, so it is exactly as big as a DVR.
I think that there is just as much chance of Nintendo porting Zelda as there is of Sony porting Gran Turismo. The console manufacturers want there to be a game related reason for choosing their console. Having every game available for every platform is great for the consumer, but bad for the smaller console manufaturer.
While this is an interesting article, it really isn't much of a review of the Google Mini. All they do is take it apart, take pictures, and tell you that they set it up after a little bit of trouble. There is nothing about how well it actually works. No benchmarks. No comparisons. They just say that it worked well and leave it at that. Anandtech has had more indepth reviews of mice before.
It is more information that I have seen anywhere else though.
While this may be the easy way to do it, it sounds like it would also lead to massive unorganization. How are you going to back up your files if they are scattered all over the place for example. Organization is useful even if it isn't always necessary.
I stopped because I figure that finding a cure for cancer or developing new drugs is a lot more useful that finding aliens a decade sooner.
The developers probably want a professional, concise, consistient report. Not the random mess of thousands of emails and message board posts about some nit-pick that one user has that anther user loves. There is a lot to be said for having a clear direction to work towards.
I agree. And how far back are our roots supposed to go? Should he have been wearing a shirt with a tube on it? What about a kite in a lightning storm? A monkey? A pile of goo in the ocean?
Doesn't that mean that they slowed it down by 900million m/s?
So they made light go backwards?
Yes, I meant "Should be" free. And, well technically it is. You are allowed to say whatever you want, just be prepared to face the consequences. The same goes for cussing on air/slandering/etc. You CAN do it. There is no automatic beep built into our ears, but that doesn't mean that something won't happen eventually.
Why do most people not yell "fire"? One of two reasons: one, not wanting to cause harm to others. two, fear of the consequences.
Now why do most people not say the "seven dirty words" on the air? One, not wanting to possibly offend the audience. Two, fear of fines/losing job.
As for enforcing morals, I think that most people can agree on a basic set of them that is common throughout almost every society. The finer points may differ, but the main points are there.
By your logic, yelling "Fire" should be just as free as anything else. All it is is freely speaking. The problem comes with other people's reactions to what you said.
This is just the same as most everything else; you have the freedom to say it, but you should also have the control not to say it if it causes that sort of reaction.
What the FCC is doing in most cases is enforcing morals/common sense and not censoring. Of course that doesn't mean that they don't do it badly at times, but that should be the general principle behind it all.
Well using overclockersclub.com as a news source for stories like this doesn't make too much sense either.
Or how about they spend that same billion dollars and make Windows the world's best operating system. What makes open source so great that it has to be better than what is currently being done? I am no talking about the benefits of OS, just in the context that this article seems to use: Microsoft spending $1 billion on this project themselves and then making it open source.
Don't you think that this is what Mr. Gate already is trying to do?
Note: before you flame, this is not about OS vs. closed source. This is about corporate goals.
Does it still count as 0day though? I think that expecting 0hour is a bit much!
That quote is straight off of the review on Anandtech. At least give credit for the quote when you are sending in a story.
Also along these lines, games seem to be getting away from turn-based strategy games. Sure there are the Civilization games, but there are so many facets to those games that sometimes the real goal gets blurred. Old games like Panzer General and the like had it pretty good for their time. Now everything is real-time strategy and online. They just don't give you the chance to sit there and think about making your next move.
I agree fully with this statement. I have recently been looking at CMS's and this is really the only one that I have found that is easy and allows you to create a site that isn't just a blog. The module system is easy to use, and there are thousands of modules to download on http://mamboforge.net/
Is there a reason why they aren't even close to alphabetical order?
Do the letters stand for something else?
16 hours (wma) or 8 hours (mp3) just seems too amazing from something that small. Assuming that half of the device is battery (the other half is controls, memory, processor), this leaves half a cubic inch for a battery.
It would be interesting if true though. At that size, you could just integrate it into the headphones.
As far as I know, there is not flashblock for IE. This means that ~92% of the browsers out there do not block it. And so it should work great for tracking.