Conversely, this should not be used to infer the Duke Nukem Forever will be an awesome game if it is ever released. Oh, it will be. I expect all bots will be running a standard AI package, and it will have full VR, including smell and touch, plugged directly into your brain through the jack you had installed at birth.
It'll be awesome when it's released April 1st, 2054.
Of course, It'lll probably still be running the goddamn Lithtech engine.
If Hitler was killed in 1925. I believe it is very likely that the Germans would have have won WWII.
The major political turning point for the Germans was Hitler convincing President Hindenburg to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree in 1933, removing the more popular communist party from power immediately prior to the election. This created the fascist state, and was the last free election in Germany until after the war.
I also believe that the German offensive was nearly inevitable. The German people were not at all happy about the restitutions they were being forced to pay due to WWI. The restitutions were crippling the German economy, and realistically, payment was probably impossible to sustain. In addition, when Germany gave up in WWI, they had not been pushed entirely out of France, so to the point of view of the average front-line soldier, they appeared to be, if not winning, at least ahead in the war; and that restitution should have been payed by the Entente Powers for Germany to agree to a ceasefire. It wouldn't (and didn't) take the government much convincing for the people to believe they could win the war if it was fought a second time, and it is almost sure that the only way Germany would have stopped paying restitution would be to go back to war.
Assuming the war started in the same fashion, Germany could have crushed the eastern front, and being communist (and not having Hitler in power), could more likely have likely worked out an agreement with Russia. A simple non-aggression pact would have saved the Germans nearly 75% of the casualties that they incurred during the war. Even if an agreement had not been worked out with Russia, Mussolini would likely have joined the Allies, and their subsequent invasion of Greece would have been a disaster for the Allies, not the Axis, allowing Germany to potentially defeat Russia on the eastern front as their invasion would not have been delayed.
In the Pacific, Japan would have still been at war with China, and the oil embargo by the United States, would still likely have led to Pearl Harbor. This would have allied us with communist China, communist Russia, and very possibly communist Germany. Remember that there were significant German and communist sympathies in the United States at the time, and it is very likely that even if the United States had not allied with Germany, the Allied position in WWII would likely have already been hopeless at this point and it seems very unlikely that the United States would have joined the fight against Germany.
I don't believe that killing Hitler in 1925 would have actually accomplished what you think it might have.
As far as the atrocities committed by Hitler and Co? That's hard to say, but there was a very strong anti-Jew sentiment in Germany outside of the Nazi party, and I shudder to think what might have happened if Germany had expanded to *all* of Europe and held it.
If you wish to speak about the stone age, the chinese started the Great Wall, and had built much of it prior to the 5th century BC, which was very advanced for the time...
They were still working on it during the 1600s... Long after it would have been obsolete in any other culture. Those 2000 years of stagnation can't be blamed on WWII and the Japanese.
"Protection for Trolls" Level 5 spell. Can only be cast by a judge who is Chaotic Neutral.
No, I'm fairly certain that's impossible
I don't have all the expansion books, but IIRC, Judge is a prestige class of Lawyer. Judges are required to be Lawful, and tend to be Lawful Neutral.
Of course Lawyers are a Lawful Rogue subclass that gains extra points in concealment and fast talk, tends towards Lawful Evil and the worship of trickster gods.
I don't think that the open access point defense is going to help you all that much (depending on the jury of course). Especially as wiping or removing disks will be a fairly obvious thing and difficult to hide your tracks...
Unless of course you were to say... run your data on an external drive that is only plugged in when running an OS off of a flash drive, both of which could be wiped and thrown away...
I don't know about you, but when I buy a nuke, I want to buy the actual nuke, not a "license" to launch one. I'm not willing to accept that mine might be disabled because the provider has gone out of business and it no longer accepts my license key.
This is bullshit, and the whole reason I've been boycotting the nukes bing sold by the NNSA and their watchdogs.
Yes, I've run into stability issues, but they've all been driver related stability problems.
I had tested Vista on my home system, where SATA driver issues locked Vista up completely (no bluescreen, just instantly stopped) as soon as it tried to read from the controller.
I later tested it with new bleeding edge system I'd built for a voice activated control system, but Vista wouldn't run the software properly (Dragon Naturally Speaking hadn't yet released it's Vista version) and I ran into stability issues with both the Vista 64 and Vista operating systems for this system. Finally I settled on 2003 server, but may test Vista again for this system when Dragon supports Vista 64.
There is plenty of research showing that car safety features encourage less safe driving; drivers always operate at the level of risk they are comfortable with.... Ultimately, seatbelts transfer risk from car occupants to everyone else. This is wrong.
That's an interesting point. I'll bet if you replaced airbags with spikes, people would pay a whole lot more attention to the road...
I'll put Minneapolis and Saint Paul in the categories where you don't really have choice either, in 3 out of the four places I've lived, Comcast was the only provider available. I bike to work often, and at my apartment can practically coast into downtown Minneapolis, but DSL still isn't available...
What is inherently better about OO, and why do I encourage the people I collaborate with to use it?
Save your Office Document as a PDF... wait, only if you have 2007. Open an ODF file... only if you have a third party plugin... Save to html that isn't ridiculously over-encumbered... only if you have a third party tool to clean it up... Work across platforms... only partially, unsupported, with older versions, and with an emulator... Collaborate using a consistent set of features... only if everyone has upgraded at great expense...
Need I go on?
Yes, the later versions of office are increasingly better in a couple of these ways, but only because of competition...
So now ask me again why I'm encouraging competition.
I like it far more than HOMM3. It takes a bit of getting used to the first time depending on what kind of gamer you are, as there are so many extremely different possibilities, (tons of races, different time periods for each race, tons of different magics, tons of artifacts and items, the only problem I had was that there is no way to create the "ultimate" combination.
Which makes it a game with a ton of replay value.
When you get to the point where you can beat the AI regularly (not easy at first IMHO), multi-player is a whole different ballpark, and strategy is completely different, simply because of the way that people play.
A partial, eventual solution to this is to support Linux and independent gaming. For example the expansion to Dominions3 came out today and is for sale at Gamer's Front. Dominions is a fantastic strategy game, I can play it in Linux (or Mac & Windows), it's from a small independent game company, and it's for sale by Gamer's Front (who support independent games).
Win, win, win, win...
It's a bit pricey retail ($54), but comes with a 300 page manual, and the coupon "DOM3-STARDOCK" will get you 20% off until November 15th, making it quite reasonable..
I'm not affiliated with them, it's just pretty much the only game I bother to play these days.
I purchased it at full price to support their business model, but haven't bothered to download it yet since I don't have the time to listen right now and am a bit short of hard drive space... (well that isn't exactly true, but one hard drive is loaned out, two are sitting in a box on my desk, and using my external hard drive when it's hooked into my router locks up the router for some reason I haven't bothered to troubleshoot yet.)
When I do, I'm sure I'll just grab it from my regular torrent site. I burned my CD's to Ogg years ago and threw them away. As they unfortunately haven't yet come out with a portable mp3 player I like that plays Vorbis files well, I've "pirated" my cd collection back.
Illegal? Sure. Unethical? I don't think so.
When I can purchase directly from the artists I do, otherwise I really don't miss it.
I'd like this just for viewing webpages with white text on a black background. Try reversing your default colors sometime and browsing 80% of webpages out there that don't set their defaults properly.
Frustrating enough to drive me back every time, but very useful for viewing your own websites and ensuring your css is complete.
Another site went down at almost the exact same time as Demonoid, and just came back up today. To quote the admin.
DDoS:ed by multiple computers loading pages as fast as the can to try to hose the connection and servers. Hopefully I can block them as soon as they pop up. It's possible that Demonoid is down for the same reason and the other site was attacked first as a test or secondary target.
For my PortableApps usb key, it would have to be Putty for a tool or Q10 for a text editor.
Putty is simply irreplaceable when I'm stuck on Windows.
Q10 is just a light, quick, beautiful, whimsical text editor. I only wish it worked under Linux, but it does default to Unix line breaks, so it has that going for it.
Otherwise, I'd have to go with Yakuake or Katapult.
Yakuake is a Quake style drop down terminal for KDE.
Katapult is a launcher that has almost completely replaced the kde menu for me.
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I'll be satisfied when Google Earth can find my keys.
I can wait though, I'm not going anywhere... apparently.
I ran: That should have been: I should have a back up from last year on tape somewhere...
It'll be awesome when it's released April 1st, 2054.
Of course, It'lll probably still be running the goddamn Lithtech engine.
If Hitler was killed in 1925. I believe it is very likely that the Germans would have have won WWII.
The major political turning point for the Germans was Hitler convincing President Hindenburg to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree in 1933, removing the more popular communist party from power immediately prior to the election. This created the fascist state, and was the last free election in Germany until after the war.
I also believe that the German offensive was nearly inevitable. The German people were not at all happy about the restitutions they were being forced to pay due to WWI. The restitutions were crippling the German economy, and realistically, payment was probably impossible to sustain. In addition, when Germany gave up in WWI, they had not been pushed entirely out of France, so to the point of view of the average front-line soldier, they appeared to be, if not winning, at least ahead in the war; and that restitution should have been payed by the Entente Powers for Germany to agree to a ceasefire. It wouldn't (and didn't) take the government much convincing for the people to believe they could win the war if it was fought a second time, and it is almost sure that the only way Germany would have stopped paying restitution would be to go back to war.
Assuming the war started in the same fashion, Germany could have crushed the eastern front, and being communist (and not having Hitler in power), could more likely have likely worked out an agreement with Russia. A simple non-aggression pact would have saved the Germans nearly 75% of the casualties that they incurred during the war. Even if an agreement had not been worked out with Russia, Mussolini would likely have joined the Allies, and their subsequent invasion of Greece would have been a disaster for the Allies, not the Axis, allowing Germany to potentially defeat Russia on the eastern front as their invasion would not have been delayed.
In the Pacific, Japan would have still been at war with China, and the oil embargo by the United States, would still likely have led to Pearl Harbor. This would have allied us with communist China, communist Russia, and very possibly communist Germany. Remember that there were significant German and communist sympathies in the United States at the time, and it is very likely that even if the United States had not allied with Germany, the Allied position in WWII would likely have already been hopeless at this point and it seems very unlikely that the United States would have joined the fight against Germany.
I don't believe that killing Hitler in 1925 would have actually accomplished what you think it might have.
As far as the atrocities committed by Hitler and Co? That's hard to say, but there was a very strong anti-Jew sentiment in Germany outside of the Nazi party, and I shudder to think what might have happened if Germany had expanded to *all* of Europe and held it.
If you wish to speak about the stone age, the chinese started the Great Wall, and had built much of it prior to the 5th century BC, which was very advanced for the time... They were still working on it during the 1600s... Long after it would have been obsolete in any other culture. Those 2000 years of stagnation can't be blamed on WWII and the Japanese.
No, I'm fairly certain that's impossible
I don't have all the expansion books, but IIRC, Judge is a prestige class of Lawyer. Judges are required to be Lawful, and tend to be Lawful Neutral.
Of course Lawyers are a Lawful Rogue subclass that gains extra points in concealment and fast talk, tends towards Lawful Evil and the worship of trickster gods.
I don't think that the open access point defense is going to help you all that much (depending on the jury of course). Especially as wiping or removing disks will be a fairly obvious thing and difficult to hide your tracks...
Unless of course you were to say... run your data on an external drive that is only plugged in when running an OS off of a flash drive, both of which could be wiped and thrown away...
So you're also a subscriber to the BGFH theory....
Lawrence Lessig has given me a bit of hope that Obama just might be able to steer clear of the *AA's more than most.
I don't know about you, but when I buy a nuke, I want to buy the actual nuke, not a "license" to launch one. I'm not willing to accept that mine might be disabled because the provider has gone out of business and it no longer accepts my license key.
This is bullshit, and the whole reason I've been boycotting the nukes bing sold by the NNSA and their watchdogs.
Sadly enough, this should probably be modded insightful...
Yes, I've run into stability issues, but they've all been driver related stability problems.
I had tested Vista on my home system, where SATA driver issues locked Vista up completely (no bluescreen, just instantly stopped) as soon as it tried to read from the controller.
I later tested it with new bleeding edge system I'd built for a voice activated control system, but Vista wouldn't run the software properly (Dragon Naturally Speaking hadn't yet released it's Vista version) and I ran into stability issues with both the Vista 64 and Vista operating systems for this system. Finally I settled on 2003 server, but may test Vista again for this system when Dragon supports Vista 64.
That's an interesting point. I'll bet if you replaced airbags with spikes, people would pay a whole lot more attention to the road...
Dariel LeBouef, 15+ years in penetration testing...
...what?
I'd give you one, but writing out a precise definition would be unduly burdensome.
If you're wondering that, it's the power supply...
I'll put Minneapolis and Saint Paul in the categories where you don't really have choice either, in 3 out of the four places I've lived, Comcast was the only provider available. I bike to work often, and at my apartment can practically coast into downtown Minneapolis, but DSL still isn't available...
What is inherently better about OO, and why do I encourage the people I collaborate with to use it?
Save your Office Document as a PDF... wait, only if you have 2007. Open an ODF file... only if you have a third party plugin... Save to html that isn't ridiculously over-encumbered... only if you have a third party tool to clean it up... Work across platforms... only partially, unsupported, with older versions, and with an emulator... Collaborate using a consistent set of features... only if everyone has upgraded at great expense...
Need I go on?
Yes, the later versions of office are increasingly better in a couple of these ways, but only because of competition...
So now ask me again why I'm encouraging competition.
I like it far more than HOMM3. It takes a bit of getting used to the first time depending on what kind of gamer you are, as there are so many extremely different possibilities, (tons of races, different time periods for each race, tons of different magics, tons of artifacts and items, the only problem I had was that there is no way to create the "ultimate" combination.
Which makes it a game with a ton of replay value.
When you get to the point where you can beat the AI regularly (not easy at first IMHO), multi-player is a whole different ballpark, and strategy is completely different, simply because of the way that people play.
A partial, eventual solution to this is to support Linux and independent gaming. For example the expansion to Dominions3 came out today and is for sale at Gamer's Front. Dominions is a fantastic strategy game, I can play it in Linux (or Mac & Windows), it's from a small independent game company, and it's for sale by Gamer's Front (who support independent games).
Win, win, win, win...
It's a bit pricey retail ($54), but comes with a 300 page manual, and the coupon "DOM3-STARDOCK" will get you 20% off until November 15th, making it quite reasonable..
I'm not affiliated with them, it's just pretty much the only game I bother to play these days.
I purchased it at full price to support their business model, but haven't bothered to download it yet since I don't have the time to listen right now and am a bit short of hard drive space... (well that isn't exactly true, but one hard drive is loaned out, two are sitting in a box on my desk, and using my external hard drive when it's hooked into my router locks up the router for some reason I haven't bothered to troubleshoot yet.) When I do, I'm sure I'll just grab it from my regular torrent site. I burned my CD's to Ogg years ago and threw them away. As they unfortunately haven't yet come out with a portable mp3 player I like that plays Vorbis files well, I've "pirated" my cd collection back. Illegal? Sure. Unethical? I don't think so. When I can purchase directly from the artists I do, otherwise I really don't miss it.
I'd like this just for viewing webpages with white text on a black background. Try reversing your default colors sometime and browsing 80% of webpages out there that don't set their defaults properly. Frustrating enough to drive me back every time, but very useful for viewing your own websites and ensuring your css is complete.
But once again, this is all just speculation.
For my PortableApps usb key, it would have to be Putty for a tool or Q10 for a text editor.
Putty is simply irreplaceable when I'm stuck on Windows.
Q10 is just a light, quick, beautiful, whimsical text editor. I only wish it worked under Linux, but it does default to Unix line breaks, so it has that going for it.
Otherwise, I'd have to go with Yakuake or Katapult.
Yakuake is a Quake style drop down terminal for KDE.
Katapult is a launcher that has almost completely replaced the kde menu for me.