I wasn't the original poster claiming religion was the deciding factor in those wars (well, on on side, in Afghanistan - it might be).
I'm just saying that your claim, about those words from people at those positions beeing meanigless, are detached from reality.
(yes, there are obviously some safety protocols, but formally - he was the man with nuclear trigger when he said those words; and, most importantly, somebody greatly influencing international relations of the US)
While EVE (even few instances of it) can indeed be comfortably alt-tabbed, this "MMOFPS" will be probably quite gfx demanding, requiring quite powerful machine to comfortably run both (notice I didn't say "cheapest", I said "cheapest comfortable"), so it might even out.
Regarding mouse - you do realise that current gen consoles have USB ports? It's only up to the devs to enable using mouse. Also, it seems they want to make this FPS very "tactical", team-based. I would hope they realise that doesn't include twitch-accuracy as deciding game mechanics.
You completelly fail to understand that realities at other places might be different. You describe yourself as an agnostic (if pushed). But you completelly dismiss the factor that you can afford to do that. Me...for a long time, I was describing myself like that at most (and in a milder form; plus, when you think about it, every honest believer is also an agnostic). For safety, broadly understood (not only against physical harm of course). It has become bearable only when dealing mostly with academic/educated community, in a large city, close to border.
And I think I made clear where I live - Poland. Yes, every day (also two cases when I wasn't able to buy food without a trip to another country because for some reason everything has closed down during those particular religious holidays was...irritating); since one example is enough: why do I have to put up with noise of bells early in the morning, every morning? If any ordinary citisen would do that kind of noise (nevermind at this hour), he would face fines. If any ordinary citisen would drink alcohol in public, he would face fines. Those are the laws here. And yet...some people are above them.
(just so you know: for what I'm writing here I'm technically braking some laws; few people were indeed prosecuted in their name; and yet...never religious ones when spilling hate speach at me (the law is quite vague, it talks about "hurting religious feelings", I kid you not, with the freedom to have any, including none, one wishes guaranteed by constitution; one might disagree with such laws as limiting freedom of speech...but they are present. And applied only to some people))
Perhaps this will resonate better with your US-mindset: practices of only one religion are put a blind eye to even if they interfere with our law & constitution. Also, only this one religion/worldview gets treated seriously when it comes to freedoms & protections assured in the constitution. All while too large part of it is a stronghold of hate & intolerance (check one example for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Maryja )
Yes, I, somehow by habit, wrongly assumed that you are religious because in here only religious people don't mind this disgusting (you really won't agree with that description?) situation; even if they often don't agree with state of affairs, they tend to not mind much, being in practice protected by belonging to that one favored group (and in participating they also give power to extremists...)
I think it's funny that you claim that you don't have tolerance for intolerance and then dismiss the deeply held beliefs of millions (billions?) of people as "brainfarts". Then you call me a hypocrite? That's rich.
What do you don't understand? Yes, I will mock deeply ingrained, during upbringing, beliefs precisely because I'm NOT tolerant of them, I'm not tolerant of their intolerance, as I wrote. If their intrusions will stop, they will be "free to privately cheerish" (that's what I wrote above) them, and only then I will limit openly, "blasphemously" dismissing them (because, for example, once basic constitutional rights are enforced it won't be needed anymore). What is hypocritical about that? That I will still think similarly about them? Now I don't have a right to do think freely?
In light of all of the above, you might ask why I generalise to all religions, not only this disfuncional form of "Christianity" (heck, I'm more christian than 90+ % religious folks here, if by christian one understands "living in a way that agrees with the teachings of Jesus from Nazaret") that is present where I live. Well, IMHO you have a skewed view of religions because you are lucky to live in slightly atypical (when you look at whole world) place that manages, more or less, to implement effective safety checks. Religions (understood not as moral and spiritual guidelines, but as social contructs, as systems of memes), if left unchecked, are probably very likely to lead to such situation...simply because such contructs are more fit to survive in an environment that doesn't place enough checks on them.
As a, possibly, current EVE player - why should you be dissapointed? You don't need to have another powerfull PC to be comfortably logged into both full EVE and this, cheap console will suffice.
Good to hear there are still some. Now I'm starting to wonder why they aren't available at my place... (yeah, I've checked just now, the prices still stand at ~$1000 for the same specs, but it's a R400; no cheap R500 in sight; perhaps it has more to do with local Lenovo and it's seriously time to look across the border, in Germany)
Maybe that's because all their European "allies" have backstabbed them at various points in Polish history?
Poland has, throughout much of its history, acted as something more than it is (does so still to some degree...). Furthermore, most of backstabbings were only after we've found ourselves allies that are too disconnected to really matter (remember that world has gotten smaller, betting on UK or France was similar in the past as on US now)
Tell us what you really think asshole. Thanks for reminding me that atheists/agnostics (or whatever you think of yourself as) can be just as intolerant as any monotheistic fundamentalist.
Oh, how cute, another compassionate, loving, caring worshipper. Look, you f*g hypocrite, I do not have tolerance for intolerance. Stop intruding into my life every day, only then you are free to privately cheerish whatever brainfart you have (I might even try to forget all the actual harm, too often in the guise of religion, that I got in my early years). You just don't realise how you intrude into lives of others because you've been formed to be convinced it's all fine and dandy (alternatively beeing, as most/. readership, from the US, you don't realise how it is here (basically - PL was very feudal, it carries on); and you don't have direct, stark comparisons - I have two 60+ % atheistic countries across the border. While it's not a direct causation, it certainly correlates with them surpassing Poland in every positive societal index...and people there are simply helluva nicer (yes ffs, also those who are religious THERE))
Yes, really, at least when talking about absolute, non-relative prices...here.
I imagine your $800 SL wasn't the cheapest model at your place, but for that amount I would be able to buy only the cheapest possible SL, perhaps (not without searching / it might be slightly too little). Cheapest R-series is around $1000 (as a rule - if something is an exclusive item, that sells for a premium, it sells for even greater premium on underdeveloped markets)
Compare this with the situation from 1,5 year ago, with low-end R-series starting at around $650 (here!). Yes, those were models with Pentium Dual Core, Intel GFX and so on - for general usage machine one doesn't need more. But - those were after all true Thinkpads, with Trackpoint, Thinkpad quality & durability, and not significantly more expensive than cheapest POS laptops with similar speed specs. If one wants something like this now, that's almost 100% premium (or 50% with SL that gives you, more or less, just Trackpoint).
Seems Lenovo choose to more strictly segment the market. Those $650 R-series were of course late in R61 life, but I suspect now only SL-series has some chance of becoming that affordable.
Yes, I'm bitter - I almost ended up buying one of those cheap R-series, but for too long it was "no time for new laptop yet".
Seeing that historically vast majority of actual warhead tests went more or less as planned, I don't think anybody was testing fuze timing primarily with uranium/plutanium.
Certainly I wouldn't. I suspect it might be something you can test by examining the effects of fuze explotion on a sphere of fairly inert material.
Leader of a whole fraking country, a man that has the authority to launch the biggest standing nuclear arsenal on the planet, and also his proposed possible succesor...are meaningless?
It's fairly backwards, I think the most religious (even if it's totally half-hearted, deceitful; but from what I've seen in my life I suspect that's an inherent characteristic of religions) country in the EU.
Accidentally, every Polish government prefers to find allies in Washington D.C., not in European capitals...
Even if only in analogue form (photocopies, usually of academic materials; at least in one of the former soviet-block countries...I think I can see a pattern here)
But consider that the most serious cause of problems for a train during earthquake would be partial destruction of the tract / obstruction.
For normal train that means derailing, which are, contrary to popular perception, very survivable in high speed trains (as evidenced by multiple occurences of derailings...)
Monorail would be harder to engineer around it.
In Maglev obstruction would be probably catastrophic (we have an example from Germany; perhaps it has something to do with a need to be much more leightweight, comparatively, for a Maglev)
Wip3out for PS1 would be a better case-study. I could mention many other great looking games, Gran Turismo 2, V-Rally 2, C12, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, Resident Evil 3... but generally, it seems like you took the marketing line of Nintendo from back then a little too much to heart.
No, 64 bits isn't two times better / two times more fun than 32bit. N64 didn't have definite graphical age (overusing bilinear filtering / "soaplook" only made the games look actually worse, usually)
Better don't, better limit them to slow urban usage - while those things are indeed controllable, as Tacvek describes, I don't really see how they can do as rapid manouvers as typical motorbike can thanks to countersteering. Which might prove usefull in an emergency situation, especially considering "not seen" attitude of many car drivers...
(that said, many bikers don't realise they normally countersteer and in an emergency they indeed don't do it, with poor results, so perhaps unicycles would be even better here)
Don't count on knowledge and skills finally gaining upper hand in such selection scenario. As Dr Strangelove, quite accurately IMHO, shown, political connections / nepotism / having rank in the institution that enforces the selection will determine who goes.
And why are you so fixed on OLED? In itself it blows for legibility in sunlight (compare for yourself http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/Sun_sun_sun_And_I_cant_see_a_thing_on_my_phone.php ), which is a large part of equation if we're discussing something really portable. You need transflective/etc.; generally something that works not by emitting light (which gets drown by any sufficienty strong external source), but by reflecting it.
Rejewski made in December 1932, according to historian David Kahn, one of the greatest advances in cryptologic history by applying pure mathematics group theory to breaking the German armed forces' Enigma machine ciphers.
BTW, since most of you are unlikely to read the whole wiki article, there's one very amusing part...;p
On September 17, as the Soviet Army invaded Poland, Cipher Bureau personnel crossed the southeastern border with other Polish military and government personnel, into Romania. They eventually made their way to France where, at "PC Bruno", outside Paris, they continued breaking German Enigma traffic in collaboration with Bletchley Park, fifty miles northwest of London, England. In the interest of security, the allied cryptological services, before sending their messages over a teletype line, encrypted them using Enigma doubles. Henri Braquenié often closed messages with a "Heil Hitler!"
btw, OLED is useless in direct sunlight. From certain point, certain amount of lightning, screen (especially in a battery-powered device) needs to reflective.
...of stupidity, in this case. Don't put a blind eye to it.
Though I'm not sure how it can be implemented in a planned way, if it's not really present in particular society; "you can have acces to something only if you show basic understanding of the principles behind it" is too harsh and probably not doable. What then?
Oh. and ditch fixation with religion (that one's easy, just fallow your own contitution for starters). Throughout the world there is a very strong iverse correlation between that and development indexes. It's not a direct causation so it takes time to trickle down...
Why only one browser was tested with Adblock, when such addond is available in one form or another in all of them? (and some have it even built in; for example you need to only provide a list to Opera (which also has quick method of toggling on/off plugins (of the Flash/Java/etc. kind), so many people browse by default without them))
Don't you people realize how you cheerish only discoveries that have potential to lessen human impact / global temp. change? You do realise that they are made by the same evil global conspiracy of scientists that mostly, by far, support current views regarding global warming?
I, for one, welcome our improving-understanding-of-universe overlords. Without bias.
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I wasn't the original poster claiming religion was the deciding factor in those wars (well, on on side, in Afghanistan - it might be).
I'm just saying that your claim, about those words from people at those positions beeing meanigless, are detached from reality.
(yes, there are obviously some safety protocols, but formally - he was the man with nuclear trigger when he said those words; and, most importantly, somebody greatly influencing international relations of the US)
While EVE (even few instances of it) can indeed be comfortably alt-tabbed, this "MMOFPS" will be probably quite gfx demanding, requiring quite powerful machine to comfortably run both (notice I didn't say "cheapest", I said "cheapest comfortable"), so it might even out.
Regarding mouse - you do realise that current gen consoles have USB ports? It's only up to the devs to enable using mouse. Also, it seems they want to make this FPS very "tactical", team-based. I would hope they realise that doesn't include twitch-accuracy as deciding game mechanics.
You completelly fail to understand that realities at other places might be different. You describe yourself as an agnostic (if pushed). But you completelly dismiss the factor that you can afford to do that. Me...for a long time, I was describing myself like that at most (and in a milder form; plus, when you think about it, every honest believer is also an agnostic). For safety, broadly understood (not only against physical harm of course). It has become bearable only when dealing mostly with academic/educated community, in a large city, close to border.
And I think I made clear where I live - Poland. Yes, every day (also two cases when I wasn't able to buy food without a trip to another country because for some reason everything has closed down during those particular religious holidays was...irritating); since one example is enough: why do I have to put up with noise of bells early in the morning, every morning? If any ordinary citisen would do that kind of noise (nevermind at this hour), he would face fines. If any ordinary citisen would drink alcohol in public, he would face fines. Those are the laws here. And yet...some people are above them.
(just so you know: for what I'm writing here I'm technically braking some laws; few people were indeed prosecuted in their name; and yet...never religious ones when spilling hate speach at me (the law is quite vague, it talks about "hurting religious feelings", I kid you not, with the freedom to have any, including none, one wishes guaranteed by constitution; one might disagree with such laws as limiting freedom of speech...but they are present. And applied only to some people))
Perhaps this will resonate better with your US-mindset: practices of only one religion are put a blind eye to even if they interfere with our law & constitution. Also, only this one religion/worldview gets treated seriously when it comes to freedoms & protections assured in the constitution. All while too large part of it is a stronghold of hate & intolerance (check one example for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Maryja )
Yes, I, somehow by habit, wrongly assumed that you are religious because in here only religious people don't mind this disgusting (you really won't agree with that description?) situation; even if they often don't agree with state of affairs, they tend to not mind much, being in practice protected by belonging to that one favored group (and in participating they also give power to extremists...)
I think it's funny that you claim that you don't have tolerance for intolerance and then dismiss the deeply held beliefs of millions (billions?) of people as "brainfarts". Then you call me a hypocrite? That's rich.
What do you don't understand? Yes, I will mock deeply ingrained, during upbringing, beliefs precisely because I'm NOT tolerant of them, I'm not tolerant of their intolerance, as I wrote. If their intrusions will stop, they will be "free to privately cheerish" (that's what I wrote above) them, and only then I will limit openly, "blasphemously" dismissing them (because, for example, once basic constitutional rights are enforced it won't be needed anymore). What is hypocritical about that? That I will still think similarly about them? Now I don't have a right to do think freely?
In light of all of the above, you might ask why I generalise to all religions, not only this disfuncional form of "Christianity" (heck, I'm more christian than 90+ % religious folks here, if by christian one understands "living in a way that agrees with the teachings of Jesus from Nazaret") that is present where I live. Well, IMHO you have a skewed view of religions because you are lucky to live in slightly atypical (when you look at whole world) place that manages, more or less, to implement effective safety checks. Religions (understood not as moral and spiritual guidelines, but as social contructs, as systems of memes), if left unchecked, are probably very likely to lead to such situation...simply because such contructs are more fit to survive in an environment that doesn't place enough checks on them.
But if you are already an EVE player, and want to try this, console is the cheapest comfortable way to be logged into both at the same time.
As a, possibly, current EVE player - why should you be dissapointed? You don't need to have another powerfull PC to be comfortably logged into both full EVE and this, cheap console will suffice.
Good to hear there are still some. Now I'm starting to wonder why they aren't available at my place... (yeah, I've checked just now, the prices still stand at ~$1000 for the same specs, but it's a R400; no cheap R500 in sight; perhaps it has more to do with local Lenovo and it's seriously time to look across the border, in Germany)
Maybe that's because all their European "allies" have backstabbed them at various points in Polish history?
Poland has, throughout much of its history, acted as something more than it is (does so still to some degree...). Furthermore, most of backstabbings were only after we've found ourselves allies that are too disconnected to really matter (remember that world has gotten smaller, betting on UK or France was similar in the past as on US now)
Tell us what you really think asshole. Thanks for reminding me that atheists/agnostics (or whatever you think of yourself as) can be just as intolerant as any monotheistic fundamentalist.
Oh, how cute, another compassionate, loving, caring worshipper. Look, you f*g hypocrite, I do not have tolerance for intolerance. Stop intruding into my life every day, only then you are free to privately cheerish whatever brainfart you have (I might even try to forget all the actual harm, too often in the guise of religion, that I got in my early years). You just don't realise how you intrude into lives of others because you've been formed to be convinced it's all fine and dandy (alternatively beeing, as most /. readership, from the US, you don't realise how it is here (basically - PL was very feudal, it carries on); and you don't have direct, stark comparisons - I have two 60+ % atheistic countries across the border. While it's not a direct causation, it certainly correlates with them surpassing Poland in every positive societal index...and people there are simply helluva nicer (yes ffs, also those who are religious THERE))
Yes, really, at least when talking about absolute, non-relative prices...here.
I imagine your $800 SL wasn't the cheapest model at your place, but for that amount I would be able to buy only the cheapest possible SL, perhaps (not without searching / it might be slightly too little). Cheapest R-series is around $1000 (as a rule - if something is an exclusive item, that sells for a premium, it sells for even greater premium on underdeveloped markets)
Compare this with the situation from 1,5 year ago, with low-end R-series starting at around $650 (here!). Yes, those were models with Pentium Dual Core, Intel GFX and so on - for general usage machine one doesn't need more. But - those were after all true Thinkpads, with Trackpoint, Thinkpad quality & durability, and not significantly more expensive than cheapest POS laptops with similar speed specs. If one wants something like this now, that's almost 100% premium (or 50% with SL that gives you, more or less, just Trackpoint).
Seems Lenovo choose to more strictly segment the market. Those $650 R-series were of course late in R61 life, but I suspect now only SL-series has some chance of becoming that affordable.
Yes, I'm bitter - I almost ended up buying one of those cheap R-series, but for too long it was "no time for new laptop yet".
Seeing that historically vast majority of actual warhead tests went more or less as planned, I don't think anybody was testing fuze timing primarily with uranium/plutanium.
Certainly I wouldn't. I suspect it might be something you can test by examining the effects of fuze explotion on a sphere of fairly inert material.
Leader of a whole fraking country, a man that has the authority to launch the biggest standing nuclear arsenal on the planet, and also his proposed possible succesor...are meaningless?
"You forgot Poland"...
It's fairly backwards, I think the most religious (even if it's totally half-hearted, deceitful; but from what I've seen in my life I suspect that's an inherent characteristic of religions) country in the EU.
Accidentally, every Polish government prefers to find allies in Washington D.C., not in European capitals...
Even if only in analogue form (photocopies, usually of academic materials; at least in one of the former soviet-block countries...I think I can see a pattern here)
Well, SL is indeed not a Thinkpad; internally it's basically consumer-level Lenovo laptop with few Thinkpad features and similar styling.
I hate them with a passion. Not because they are bad, they're actually very decent machines.
I hate them because they've killed cheap R-series variants.
But consider that the most serious cause of problems for a train during earthquake would be partial destruction of the tract / obstruction.
For normal train that means derailing, which are, contrary to popular perception, very survivable in high speed trains (as evidenced by multiple occurences of derailings...)
Monorail would be harder to engineer around it.
In Maglev obstruction would be probably catastrophic (we have an example from Germany; perhaps it has something to do with a need to be much more leightweight, comparatively, for a Maglev)
Wip3out for PS1 would be a better case-study. I could mention many other great looking games, Gran Turismo 2, V-Rally 2, C12, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, Resident Evil 3... but generally, it seems like you took the marketing line of Nintendo from back then a little too much to heart.
No, 64 bits isn't two times better / two times more fun than 32bit. N64 didn't have definite graphical age (overusing bilinear filtering / "soaplook" only made the games look actually worse, usually)
Better don't, better limit them to slow urban usage - while those things are indeed controllable, as Tacvek describes, I don't really see how they can do as rapid manouvers as typical motorbike can thanks to countersteering. Which might prove usefull in an emergency situation, especially considering "not seen" attitude of many car drivers...
(that said, many bikers don't realise they normally countersteer and in an emergency they indeed don't do it, with poor results, so perhaps unicycles would be even better here)
Don't count on knowledge and skills finally gaining upper hand in such selection scenario. As Dr Strangelove, quite accurately IMHO, shown, political connections / nepotism / having rank in the institution that enforces the selection will determine who goes.
Sunlight is "normal lighting conditions" on this planet; nobody says about trying to read off screen while positioning it as a Sun-reflecting mirror.
You were talking like marketing.
And why are you so fixed on OLED? In itself it blows for legibility in sunlight (compare for yourself http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/Sun_sun_sun_And_I_cant_see_a_thing_on_my_phone.php ), which is a large part of equation if we're discussing something really portable. You need transflective/etc.; generally something that works not by emitting light (which gets drown by any sufficienty strong external source), but by reflecting it.
Though that might had happened earlier than the summary suggests...from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biuro_Szyfrow#Enigma_solved :
Rejewski made in December 1932, according to historian David Kahn, one of the greatest advances in cryptologic history by applying pure mathematics group theory to breaking the German armed forces' Enigma machine ciphers.
BTW, since most of you are unlikely to read the whole wiki article, there's one very amusing part... ;p
On September 17, as the Soviet Army invaded Poland, Cipher Bureau personnel crossed the southeastern border with other Polish military and government personnel, into Romania. They eventually made their way to France where, at "PC Bruno", outside Paris, they continued breaking German Enigma traffic in collaboration with Bletchley Park, fifty miles northwest of London, England. In the interest of security, the allied cryptological services, before sending their messages over a teletype line, encrypted them using Enigma doubles. Henri Braquenié often closed messages with a "Heil Hitler!"
Worked too long in marketing department?...
btw, OLED is useless in direct sunlight. From certain point, certain amount of lightning, screen (especially in a battery-powered device) needs to reflective.
What stranglehold? You can get most of those cellphones fully functional, just not from your carrier.
...of stupidity, in this case. Don't put a blind eye to it.
Though I'm not sure how it can be implemented in a planned way, if it's not really present in particular society; "you can have acces to something only if you show basic understanding of the principles behind it" is too harsh and probably not doable. What then?
Oh. and ditch fixation with religion (that one's easy, just fallow your own contitution for starters). Throughout the world there is a very strong iverse correlation between that and development indexes. It's not a direct causation so it takes time to trickle down...
Why only one browser was tested with Adblock, when such addond is available in one form or another in all of them? (and some have it even built in; for example you need to only provide a list to Opera (which also has quick method of toggling on/off plugins (of the Flash/Java/etc. kind), so many people browse by default without them))
Don't you people realize how you cheerish only discoveries that have potential to lessen human impact / global temp. change? You do realise that they are made by the same evil global conspiracy of scientists that mostly, by far, support current views regarding global warming?
I, for one, welcome our improving-understanding-of-universe overlords. Without bias.