Take NWN 1, make modern and sci-fi skins and textures. Improve the multiplayer functionality. Have a world of doors or portals or some such to interconnect worlds. Allow players to rate worlds in terms of balance and design. Allow players to create and script worlds, they can either host the space themselves or pay to have the owners of the engine host it for them. Perhaps high rated worlds are hosted for free.
How is antimatter different than matter aside from it annihilating when it hits matter? Would it be possible to build things out of antimatter? i've never understood what they mean exactly, by ANTImatter. So i wonder is it actually MATTER in the way that matter is? Or is it something totally weird?
That's pretty impressive, given that most desktop computers, while millions of times more powerful than those used to land on the moon, are about as smart as a dead retarded cockroach. Ants and bees are pretty damn clever for something that has a brain the size of the ball point of a pen. Their pretty good at communicating what they need to communicate and even better at working together to make it happen. All without an sort of real hierarchy. They are better at working together than any set of humans of similar numbers. That is because of their simplicity and our complexity... but cooperation is smart or at least... good.
Have the Randroids shown up to decry altruism yet?
Now if only he could make his voice not sound like Weird Al's./Listen to "Animal" and then to the Weird Al polka track where he sings part of "Animal"//Great song writer and composer... has no business being behind a mic.
i think your theory falls apart when we look at Vietnam, Afghanistan (for the USSR) and now Iraq and Afghanistan for the US.
Vastly better tech, training and C2 don't mean much against incredibly numerous, desperate, hidden and batshit insane. Machiavelli said it centuries ago, you cannot defend yourself against the people. That will be true for centuries to come. Could we have pacified Germany after WW2 if the people decided to fight us? The Germans were far more afraid of the Russians than of the Brits and the US, and they were just tired of the whole war thing. There were other factors as well.
Anywho, relax. Things aren't that bad. They're not even close to bad, most of the harm Bush did will be gone by 2010. Even if W. crowns himself Decider for Life, we'll be fine. A tank might stop a few hundred people, but not a few thousand or a few million. Especially if those tanks are driven by our own people. My lifetime of experience of people in our military (my grandparents, my parents, everyone i knew growing up, being in the military and so on), says that our soldiers are more likely to provide their tanks to the revolution than prevent it. The US isn't some banana republic.
One of the great facets of the computer age is that it put more tools in the hands of more people. You can turn your bedroom into a recording studio for far less than you could rent studio time. This means a worse signal to noise ratio, but the cream eventually rises anyway. i've also seen people give their content away for free AND make a living on that content. Homestarrunner.com, like it or not, is a fantastic example of this. The content (what you WANT from them) is free. They sell things you can't download, t-shirts, posters and other whatnottery. They sell enough of this to make a living (or so i suspect).
The music industry can do the same. Give away the content, and write it off as advertising. The single on the radio is a commercial for the album. The album is a commercial for the concert. You can't download the concert experience, t-shirt or a meet and greet with autographs.
i went to a Save Ferris concert a few years back, and they did something very clever. If you bought the new album (not sure if it was in the stores or not), they gave you a "VIP pass". It looked like one of those badges that roadies and stage crew have. It came with a lanyard and everything. The band sat a table, you got in line and filed past them getting autographs. Clever ideas like this can do more good than lawsuits.
i think data, or anything that can be converted to data, is worthless. Data is easy to move and duplicate flawlessly and infinitely. Demand/Supply = Price. As supply approaches infinity, price approaches 0.
Radio didn't kill the recording artists. FM didn't kill AM. Movable type didn't kill writers. The internet won't kill artists. It might mean less work/money for people who don't actually create (executives and stockholders). We might have fewer mega millionaire artists, producers and execs, but we might have more artists or more people with broader horizons. Sell me something i can't download.
*i'm heavily medicated, so i'm sorry if that was incoherent
i think he is talking about his experience as a player, not economics.
And you're still right about having multiple servers would allow for control groups and comparisons. Your statement and his are unrelated.
Personally, i DESPISE MMORPG economies and trade. It brings the plagues of gold farming, twinking and short cuts. One of the things i love about PlanetSide is that everyone can have the same stuff and abilities (maybe not all at once, but in general). That makes the game more about skill, tactics, cooperation/leadership and strategery. In WoW and other MMORPGs you don't have to earn anything, you can buy a character with your real world money, buy all the best items. Then you can mop the floor with a player who earned everything they have, even if you're the same level. The right equipment can compensate for levels (and poor skill).
i'd like to see some Soulbound servers. Then i would see your epic item and KNOW that you EARNED it (or that you bought a character from someone who earned it). Buying characters is tricky because the original owner can get it back by saying you stole their account. i know not everyone is into earning their way through life and/or games, so i'm not saying they should all be soulbound servers... but it would keep me in the game. No, i don't want to play a single player game. i want to play MMORPG with players that have a sense of fair play. Don't try to sell me some BS about "trading is a part of all MMORPGs", it is true statement, but it isn't necessary. i'm not asking to end trading, i just want to play in a game where i can think about how much fun i had playing instead of thinking about how to turn a profit so i can keep up with the 12 year olds who bought money from chinese sweatshops.
But their "terrorists" as you inaccurately call them where locals, not foreigners. Our terrorists (where terrorists means groups/individuals using terror tactics) are outsiders. Your connection isn't interesting, it's wrong and most likely motivated by sophomoric partisanship.
There is a difference between a rebel and terrorist, *if* the speaker is using the terms *honestly*. Terrorism, terrorist tactics, have a specific meaning, it doesn't mean "military activity by people we dislike". Rebels generally give a stand up fight, they are a defacto army. Terrorist aim to change policy through inciting fear (terror). 9/11 is a shining example. We were terrified, and we changed our policies.... A rebel army would do things like attack a loyalist munitions depot, seize radio stations, capture real estate etc. Terrorists do things like poisoning water supplies, setting off bombs in places where people usually feel safe (bus stops, market squares, night clubs). This is not to say that rebels and loyalist types won't use terror tactics.
England couldn't have won for the same reason we can't win in Iraq. The enemy is the population, it wasn't initially, but terrorist groups and religious types made it so. Bush didn't read The Prince.
My point is that terrorist and rebel are NOT RELATIVE TERMS. *Our* revolution, *their* rebellion... those are relative. Terrorism is not relative, it has a specific meaning. It has a real and functional, objective meaning. If England called us terrorists, they would have been dishonest. If our revolutionaries were throwing pipe bombs into crowds in London, that would be terrorism. If we misuse the terms we dilute their meaning and effect. That causes ambiguity, ambiguity makes manipulation easier and communication harder.
That's why it grinds my oats when someone says "you can't have a war against terrorism because it's a tactic, not a person". That's a sophomoric claim. Terrorism refers to people in the same way that Catholicism refers to people that are Catholic. AQ is a part of terrorism, just ONE PART. "The War against Terror" (tWAt) is a war against all the groups that use terrorism. "The war against" metaphor is stupid and needs replacing. But efforts to say that terrorism is a tactic and can't be killed/beaten is misleading. Terrorism is not a monolithic unit like a government, but it still consists of people. It might be more precise to say "War against Terrorists".
But be a good little partisan and call me names like neocon, sheeple, chickenhawk or whatever will impress your friends and avoid being objective. Mod me down as troll or flamebait since that is the/. equivalent of "wrong/disagree". OR put on your grown up pants and realize that there is a world outside of Bush (or at least i hope there will be!)./voted for Gore and Kerry, will vote for whichever Dem gets the nom/served my 4 years and would have done more but for a medical problem/despised Bush since 98 when i had the misfortune of living in Texass
The slope isn't always slippery, that's why we have the term "Slippery Slope Fallacy".
Stop being so paranoid and so arrogant as to think the gov't gives a damn about your screen name on moveon.org.
i don't trust the gov't implicitly, but i'm not paranoid either. The patriot act went too far, but seriously... what freedoms do you think you lost? Since 9/11 my life hasn't changed a bit, aside from arriving at the airport just a little earlier.
Consider the possibility that your paranoia is rooted in who happens to be president more than what that president did.
Security opposes freedom. You have a password on your account and a lock on your house. Those inhibit your freedom of access/movement. The same principle applies to everything else. You don't have the right to go on a killing spree, in exchange for the right to not be the victim of someone else's killing spree.
"You're also obviously unaware of the fact that more innocent people die in car crashes every year than died in terrorist attacks in all of the 20 century"
That is a false comparison. Car crashes are generally not the result of murderous intent. We are always going to be more afraid of death by malice more than accidents. People don't buy cars to kill people. We can't stop all accidents, the risk of an accident is minute in contrast to the inconvenience of walking 30 miles to work. The inconvenience of taking off my shoes is minute in comparison to the inconvenience of being blown to smithereens. Life involves trade offs. We pay taxes so we have have roads, cops etc. Oh oh the oppression! We can't stop the wrecks, but we sure as hell can kill the guys who trained the hijackers. i'm NOT saying that is the only solution, W. dropped the ball on dealing with AQ and Iraq. However, that doesn't mean that we should continue pretending today is 10 Sep 01. The rest of the world has been dealing with islamic terrorism for the past few decades. 9/11 was just our introduction to it.
When i was 10, living in Germany, some terrorist types set off a car bomb where service members and their families shopped. They killed some people. When i was 9, they would call so many bomb threats a day that they would sometimes just send us home instead of evacuating the school over and over again. My perspective on this might be different.
Just because we are uncomfortable with the results of a study, doesn't mean the study or it's conclusions are wrong. Furthermore, the study doesn't say "conservatives are stupid", it says "conservatives and liberals think differently". Is that hard to imagine? Study after study is showing that male and female neurology is different. Men generally show greater ability to focus on a singular task, while women show greater ability at multitasking. Different != better/worse. Teens do most of their thinking in the emotional part of the brain. This explains their passionate reactions to things like music. As we age our analytical brains take over. Teens show that they absorb information more readily than adults. Yet adults are more likely to be able to interpret what the information means and are better at applying the info into the real world.
A few years ago there was another study that would worry you, that said liberals tended to have more activity in the compassion regions of the brain. It seems nature built in a balance. Some people made life worth living, by being compassionate. Others made life possible by being decisive and able to deal with threats.
Introverts have more neural activity than extroverts. It seems that extroverts are so talkative because they don't have as much going on inside. Introverts are too busy talking to themselves to talk to others. This doesn't mean extroverts are dumb, it means they are not the same. And that's ok.
Neurology is real, no matter how politically incorrect it is. We are organic computers, with most of our thinking happening under the surface. We think we know why we do things, but most of it is base instinct responding to very complex problems. This is not to say that we don't have free will or that we are ruled by causality. This study might be wrong, i'm not in a position to say. But to dismiss its findings because we don't like what it implies is silly.
That only works if there you know the/an admin password, or there is no admin pw set.
What is the alternative to passwords? Thumb print devices are hackable. Electronic keys are fine, but they require only possession of the key. So all i need is your key, not to know something only you know. A key and pw combination would be best, but then what happens when you lose the key or the key/reader is borken? No, the pw concept is just fine.
Just use one that is complex enough that someone can't guess. Don't write it on a yellow sticky. Don't use use words or numbers like your SSN, DoB or the like.
Here's a good pattern:
My Son Jeff Was Born in 1998 becomes MSJWBi1998
In 1492, Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue becomes i1492,CStOB
21 random character pw??? Who would use that besides NSA? My pw's are 8 or 9 characters and easy to remember, and they evaluate as "strong".
My vote is for the girl who did the song for Kingdom Hearts. i'm too lazy to google her, but she's damn cute and is a wonderful singer.
i'd rather see Robotech as a TV series filmed in the style of Sin City and Sky Captain.
i know this is won't happen, but we ought to boycott the Olympics and China until they release Taiwan, Hong Kong and Tibet and then free their own people. We can conquer them without firing a shot by using our greatest weapon, our economy. You want to sell us stuff? You want to enjoy our pop culture? Then become a democracy with a mostly free market.
i'll keep on dreaming.
How are Richard and the WotC execs supposed to live with just 1 boat each?
3.5 Was fine. This is a cash grab. i hope the other developers don't, or at least delay adopting 4. They know there is a small market for the books further and further from the core. So to keep the cash flowing they have to keep reinventing the core.
This is why i RARELY buy D&D books. They're too damn expensive for what they are, they don't need to be in color or have color in the background of the text. If WotC wants me to buy more books they should lower the price to something realistic.
i like the idea of OFFERING majors, but requiring them is a bit silly. At that age every girl thinks she is going to be a marine biologist and work with Flipper.
i'd like to see us adopt a system like the Germans have. Send the academic kids to a college prep system, lots of homework, challenging classes etc. The not so brainy kids get a basic education (simple math, lit, etc) and then learn how to DO things, how to MAKE things.
Then of course our culture needs to stop looking down on people who make their cushy lives possible.
i don't need to learn ANOTHER office suite, or worse yet, teach and repair it. My Lusers are very smart people (laser engineers) and they can barely handle Word.
Get an open document format that doesn't lose formatting from one platform to another. Then we can have infinite office suites that are compliant with one standard. That would be fine with me. But ohgodno, not another office suite!
Impact means one object physically striking another. So unless the headline means that someone threw a pirated CD with Windows XP at a CD with Ubuntu, the headline should say "affects". Besides, impact is a noun.
But someone blithers "but, but, but common usage".
NO, bad smitty!
Marketing and Journalism majors with shitty grammar and diction are buggering up the English language. It matters because when some tard starts blurring words together ambiguity increases. We have a word that means "causes change", use it. Common usage can choke on it.
So we keep buying/downloading the newer material, hoping to recapture the feelings we had from the earlier work. But you aren't the same person you were then, neither are the artists.
Such is the nature of bands that last. If you get into a band right away eventually, they will stop doing what got you into them. You will change, they will change. The divergence increases over time. i just to be obsessed with The Cure and Depeche Mode. But i'm not a hyperemotional/hormonal teenager anymore. Robert Smith and Martin Gore aren't in their 20s anymore. They can only write so many versions of Plainsong and People are People. i don't dislike their new stuff in the same way that i dislike country, but i don't care for it. We've grown apart. But that's ok, because VNV Nation and nerd core rap fills that void now for me.
If a band repeats themselves, that too gets old. Most artists want to try different things over time. Instead of begrudging them their evolution or downfall, i just move on.
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Take NWN 1, make modern and sci-fi skins and textures. Improve the multiplayer functionality. Have a world of doors or portals or some such to interconnect worlds. Allow players to rate worlds in terms of balance and design. Allow players to create and script worlds, they can either host the space themselves or pay to have the owners of the engine host it for them. Perhaps high rated worlds are hosted for free.
How is antimatter different than matter aside from it annihilating when it hits matter? Would it be possible to build things out of antimatter? i've never understood what they mean exactly, by ANTImatter. So i wonder is it actually MATTER in the way that matter is? Or is it something totally weird?
i'm tired of other universe me lording his cowboy hat over me.
That's pretty impressive, given that most desktop computers, while millions of times more powerful than those used to land on the moon, are about as smart as a dead retarded cockroach. Ants and bees are pretty damn clever for something that has a brain the size of the ball point of a pen. Their pretty good at communicating what they need to communicate and even better at working together to make it happen. All without an sort of real hierarchy. They are better at working together than any set of humans of similar numbers. That is because of their simplicity and our complexity... but cooperation is smart or at least... good.
Have the Randroids shown up to decry altruism yet?
Now if only he could make his voice not sound like Weird Al's. /Listen to "Animal" and then to the Weird Al polka track where he sings part of "Animal" //Great song writer and composer... has no business being behind a mic.
i think your theory falls apart when we look at Vietnam, Afghanistan (for the USSR) and now Iraq and Afghanistan for the US.
Vastly better tech, training and C2 don't mean much against incredibly numerous, desperate, hidden and batshit insane. Machiavelli said it centuries ago, you cannot defend yourself against the people. That will be true for centuries to come. Could we have pacified Germany after WW2 if the people decided to fight us? The Germans were far more afraid of the Russians than of the Brits and the US, and they were just tired of the whole war thing. There were other factors as well.
Anywho, relax. Things aren't that bad. They're not even close to bad, most of the harm Bush did will be gone by 2010. Even if W. crowns himself Decider for Life, we'll be fine. A tank might stop a few hundred people, but not a few thousand or a few million. Especially if those tanks are driven by our own people. My lifetime of experience of people in our military (my grandparents, my parents, everyone i knew growing up, being in the military and so on), says that our soldiers are more likely to provide their tanks to the revolution than prevent it. The US isn't some banana republic.
Don't be so paranoid, you'll live longer.
Beautifully said.
One of the great facets of the computer age is that it put more tools in the hands of more people. You can turn your bedroom into a recording studio for far less than you could rent studio time. This means a worse signal to noise ratio, but the cream eventually rises anyway. i've also seen people give their content away for free AND make a living on that content. Homestarrunner.com, like it or not, is a fantastic example of this. The content (what you WANT from them) is free. They sell things you can't download, t-shirts, posters and other whatnottery. They sell enough of this to make a living (or so i suspect).
The music industry can do the same. Give away the content, and write it off as advertising. The single on the radio is a commercial for the album. The album is a commercial for the concert. You can't download the concert experience, t-shirt or a meet and greet with autographs.
i went to a Save Ferris concert a few years back, and they did something very clever. If you bought the new album (not sure if it was in the stores or not), they gave you a "VIP pass". It looked like one of those badges that roadies and stage crew have. It came with a lanyard and everything. The band sat a table, you got in line and filed past them getting autographs. Clever ideas like this can do more good than lawsuits.
i think data, or anything that can be converted to data, is worthless. Data is easy to move and duplicate flawlessly and infinitely. Demand/Supply = Price. As supply approaches infinity, price approaches 0.
Radio didn't kill the recording artists. FM didn't kill AM. Movable type didn't kill writers. The internet won't kill artists. It might mean less work/money for people who don't actually create (executives and stockholders). We might have fewer mega millionaire artists, producers and execs, but we might have more artists or more people with broader horizons. Sell me something i can't download.
*i'm heavily medicated, so i'm sorry if that was incoherent
i think he is talking about his experience as a player, not economics.
And you're still right about having multiple servers would allow for control groups and comparisons. Your statement and his are unrelated.
Personally, i DESPISE MMORPG economies and trade. It brings the plagues of gold farming, twinking and short cuts. One of the things i love about PlanetSide is that everyone can have the same stuff and abilities (maybe not all at once, but in general). That makes the game more about skill, tactics, cooperation/leadership and strategery. In WoW and other MMORPGs you don't have to earn anything, you can buy a character with your real world money, buy all the best items. Then you can mop the floor with a player who earned everything they have, even if you're the same level. The right equipment can compensate for levels (and poor skill).
i'd like to see some Soulbound servers. Then i would see your epic item and KNOW that you EARNED it (or that you bought a character from someone who earned it). Buying characters is tricky because the original owner can get it back by saying you stole their account. i know not everyone is into earning their way through life and/or games, so i'm not saying they should all be soulbound servers... but it would keep me in the game. No, i don't want to play a single player game. i want to play MMORPG with players that have a sense of fair play. Don't try to sell me some BS about "trading is a part of all MMORPGs", it is true statement, but it isn't necessary. i'm not asking to end trading, i just want to play in a game where i can think about how much fun i had playing instead of thinking about how to turn a profit so i can keep up with the 12 year olds who bought money from chinese sweatshops.
Awesome sig. i've added it to my collection
But their "terrorists" as you inaccurately call them where locals, not foreigners. Our terrorists (where terrorists means groups/individuals using terror tactics) are outsiders. Your connection isn't interesting, it's wrong and most likely motivated by sophomoric partisanship.
/. equivalent of "wrong/disagree". OR put on your grown up pants and realize that there is a world outside of Bush (or at least i hope there will be!). /voted for Gore and Kerry, will vote for whichever Dem gets the nom /served my 4 years and would have done more but for a medical problem /despised Bush since 98 when i had the misfortune of living in Texass
There is a difference between a rebel and terrorist, *if* the speaker is using the terms *honestly*. Terrorism, terrorist tactics, have a specific meaning, it doesn't mean "military activity by people we dislike". Rebels generally give a stand up fight, they are a defacto army. Terrorist aim to change policy through inciting fear (terror). 9/11 is a shining example. We were terrified, and we changed our policies.... A rebel army would do things like attack a loyalist munitions depot, seize radio stations, capture real estate etc. Terrorists do things like poisoning water supplies, setting off bombs in places where people usually feel safe (bus stops, market squares, night clubs). This is not to say that rebels and loyalist types won't use terror tactics.
England couldn't have won for the same reason we can't win in Iraq. The enemy is the population, it wasn't initially, but terrorist groups and religious types made it so. Bush didn't read The Prince.
My point is that terrorist and rebel are NOT RELATIVE TERMS. *Our* revolution, *their* rebellion... those are relative. Terrorism is not relative, it has a specific meaning. It has a real and functional, objective meaning. If England called us terrorists, they would have been dishonest. If our revolutionaries were throwing pipe bombs into crowds in London, that would be terrorism. If we misuse the terms we dilute their meaning and effect. That causes ambiguity, ambiguity makes manipulation easier and communication harder.
That's why it grinds my oats when someone says "you can't have a war against terrorism because it's a tactic, not a person". That's a sophomoric claim. Terrorism refers to people in the same way that Catholicism refers to people that are Catholic. AQ is a part of terrorism, just ONE PART. "The War against Terror" (tWAt) is a war against all the groups that use terrorism. "The war against" metaphor is stupid and needs replacing. But efforts to say that terrorism is a tactic and can't be killed/beaten is misleading. Terrorism is not a monolithic unit like a government, but it still consists of people. It might be more precise to say "War against Terrorists".
But be a good little partisan and call me names like neocon, sheeple, chickenhawk or whatever will impress your friends and avoid being objective. Mod me down as troll or flamebait since that is the
The slope isn't always slippery, that's why we have the term "Slippery Slope Fallacy".
Stop being so paranoid and so arrogant as to think the gov't gives a damn about your screen name on moveon.org.
i don't trust the gov't implicitly, but i'm not paranoid either. The patriot act went too far, but seriously... what freedoms do you think you lost? Since 9/11 my life hasn't changed a bit, aside from arriving at the airport just a little earlier.
Consider the possibility that your paranoia is rooted in who happens to be president more than what that president did.
Security opposes freedom. You have a password on your account and a lock on your house. Those inhibit your freedom of access/movement. The same principle applies to everything else. You don't have the right to go on a killing spree, in exchange for the right to not be the victim of someone else's killing spree.
"You're also obviously unaware of the fact that more innocent people die in car crashes every year than died in terrorist attacks in all of the 20 century"
That is a false comparison. Car crashes are generally not the result of murderous intent. We are always going to be more afraid of death by malice more than accidents. People don't buy cars to kill people. We can't stop all accidents, the risk of an accident is minute in contrast to the inconvenience of walking 30 miles to work. The inconvenience of taking off my shoes is minute in comparison to the inconvenience of being blown to smithereens. Life involves trade offs. We pay taxes so we have have roads, cops etc. Oh oh the oppression! We can't stop the wrecks, but we sure as hell can kill the guys who trained the hijackers. i'm NOT saying that is the only solution, W. dropped the ball on dealing with AQ and Iraq. However, that doesn't mean that we should continue pretending today is 10 Sep 01. The rest of the world has been dealing with islamic terrorism for the past few decades. 9/11 was just our introduction to it.
When i was 10, living in Germany, some terrorist types set off a car bomb where service members and their families shopped. They killed some people. When i was 9, they would call so many bomb threats a day that they would sometimes just send us home instead of evacuating the school over and over again. My perspective on this might be different.
Awkward != wrong.
Just because we are uncomfortable with the results of a study, doesn't mean the study or it's conclusions are wrong. Furthermore, the study doesn't say "conservatives are stupid", it says "conservatives and liberals think differently". Is that hard to imagine? Study after study is showing that male and female neurology is different. Men generally show greater ability to focus on a singular task, while women show greater ability at multitasking. Different != better/worse. Teens do most of their thinking in the emotional part of the brain. This explains their passionate reactions to things like music. As we age our analytical brains take over. Teens show that they absorb information more readily than adults. Yet adults are more likely to be able to interpret what the information means and are better at applying the info into the real world.
A few years ago there was another study that would worry you, that said liberals tended to have more activity in the compassion regions of the brain. It seems nature built in a balance. Some people made life worth living, by being compassionate. Others made life possible by being decisive and able to deal with threats.
Introverts have more neural activity than extroverts. It seems that extroverts are so talkative because they don't have as much going on inside. Introverts are too busy talking to themselves to talk to others. This doesn't mean extroverts are dumb, it means they are not the same. And that's ok.
Neurology is real, no matter how politically incorrect it is. We are organic computers, with most of our thinking happening under the surface. We think we know why we do things, but most of it is base instinct responding to very complex problems. This is not to say that we don't have free will or that we are ruled by causality. This study might be wrong, i'm not in a position to say. But to dismiss its findings because we don't like what it implies is silly.
That only works if there you know the/an admin password, or there is no admin pw set.
What is the alternative to passwords? Thumb print devices are hackable. Electronic keys are fine, but they require only possession of the key. So all i need is your key, not to know something only you know. A key and pw combination would be best, but then what happens when you lose the key or the key/reader is borken? No, the pw concept is just fine.
Just use one that is complex enough that someone can't guess. Don't write it on a yellow sticky. Don't use use words or numbers like your SSN, DoB or the like.
Here's a good pattern:
My Son Jeff Was Born in 1998 becomes MSJWBi1998
In 1492, Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue becomes i1492,CStOB
21 random character pw??? Who would use that besides NSA? My pw's are 8 or 9 characters and easy to remember, and they evaluate as "strong".
My vote is for the girl who did the song for Kingdom Hearts. i'm too lazy to google her, but she's damn cute and is a wonderful singer. i'd rather see Robotech as a TV series filmed in the style of Sin City and Sky Captain.
i know this is won't happen, but we ought to boycott the Olympics and China until they release Taiwan, Hong Kong and Tibet and then free their own people. We can conquer them without firing a shot by using our greatest weapon, our economy. You want to sell us stuff? You want to enjoy our pop culture? Then become a democracy with a mostly free market. i'll keep on dreaming.
How are Richard and the WotC execs supposed to live with just 1 boat each?
3.5 Was fine. This is a cash grab. i hope the other developers don't, or at least delay adopting 4. They know there is a small market for the books further and further from the core. So to keep the cash flowing they have to keep reinventing the core.
This is why i RARELY buy D&D books. They're too damn expensive for what they are, they don't need to be in color or have color in the background of the text. If WotC wants me to buy more books they should lower the price to something realistic.
Like a... tank?
Time to go to work. Let me hop in my manned ground vehicle (ford taurus in my case).
i like the idea of OFFERING majors, but requiring them is a bit silly. At that age every girl thinks she is going to be a marine biologist and work with Flipper.
i'd like to see us adopt a system like the Germans have. Send the academic kids to a college prep system, lots of homework, challenging classes etc. The not so brainy kids get a basic education (simple math, lit, etc) and then learn how to DO things, how to MAKE things.
Then of course our culture needs to stop looking down on people who make their cushy lives possible.
i've had it with these mother farking germs on my mother frakking hands!
i don't need to learn ANOTHER office suite, or worse yet, teach and repair it. My Lusers are very smart people (laser engineers) and they can barely handle Word.
Get an open document format that doesn't lose formatting from one platform to another. Then we can have infinite office suites that are compliant with one standard. That would be fine with me. But ohgodno, not another office suite!
Like totally. My BFF Jill says it's the causing the fall of western civilization.
At least not until you get home.
Impact means one object physically striking another. So unless the headline means that someone threw a pirated CD with Windows XP at a CD with Ubuntu, the headline should say "affects". Besides, impact is a noun.
But someone blithers "but, but, but common usage".
NO, bad smitty!
Marketing and Journalism majors with shitty grammar and diction are buggering up the English language. It matters because when some tard starts blurring words together ambiguity increases. We have a word that means "causes change", use it. Common usage can choke on it.
Now i might be held accountable for my actions!
So we keep buying/downloading the newer material, hoping to recapture the feelings we had from the earlier work. But you aren't the same person you were then, neither are the artists. Such is the nature of bands that last. If you get into a band right away eventually, they will stop doing what got you into them. You will change, they will change. The divergence increases over time. i just to be obsessed with The Cure and Depeche Mode. But i'm not a hyperemotional/hormonal teenager anymore. Robert Smith and Martin Gore aren't in their 20s anymore. They can only write so many versions of Plainsong and People are People. i don't dislike their new stuff in the same way that i dislike country, but i don't care for it. We've grown apart. But that's ok, because VNV Nation and nerd core rap fills that void now for me. If a band repeats themselves, that too gets old. Most artists want to try different things over time. Instead of begrudging them their evolution or downfall, i just move on.
i smell BS! We all know life and the universe appeared about the same time about 6000 years ago. It says so right here in the bible!