I recently dusted off my copy of Civilization III and have been playing it day-in and day-out for the past couple weeks. While it does not cover every aspect of a kingdom, country, or government, it certainly teaches you a lot about handling your people, keeping people happy, HANDLING BUDGETS, and a teeny bit about war (and the effects thereof on your people).
It would never happen, but I think it'd be great to require presidential candidates to be required to sit down for an extended CIV session (8-16 hours, maybe more?) and play against one another in a televised CIV game, with color commentary. You could see how each candidate chooses to run their kingdom, how 'happy' they keep their citizens, how easily they succumb to waging war to get what they want, etc.
Simply put, Russia cannot afford to keep sending Soyuz up there time after time again. They don't have the riches the US apparently does. So they fund their flights anyway they can.
Looking at the alternatives (neglecting ISS and letting it fall apart because we won't go up there with our crappy Space Shuttle anymore) I certainly have no problem with some jet-set millionaire travelling up there.
Plus, I think 6 months of training will make sure they don't accidentally kick any switches marked "Self Destruct".
"Prepare ship for Ludicrous Speed! Fasten all seatbelts, seal all entrances and exits, close all shops in the mall, cancel the three ring circus, secure all animals in the zoo!"
What have I DONE!?!?! MY BRAINS ARE GOING INTO MY FEEEET!!!
FYI - Civilization is on the PSOne. (And of course PS2). Not a bad game, and they did it fairly well, but I'd still prefer to play it on the PC.
But, IMHO, Console games, when done well, far exceed anything I play on a PC. Besides for Civ, I play all my games on consoles. Very hard to ignore the fact that playing console games allows you to bask in 32" - 65" TV Glow goodness, while PC Monitors only give you a partial tan and retinal cancer.
Hah! I purchased the EXECUTIVE Version of the soundtrack of the album of the trailer of the film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
It's cleaned of all offensive material, apart from 4 coonts, 1 clitoris, and a foreskin. And, as they are only mentioned in this opening statement, you are past them now.:)
anyway, point being... consumers aren't always logical.
Good evening.
The last scene was interesting from the point of view of a professional logician because it contained a number of logical fallacies; that is, invalid propositional constructions and syllogistic forms, of the type so often committed by my wife. "All wood burns," states Sir Bedevere. "Therefore," he concludes, "all that burns is wood." This is, of course, pure bullshit. Universal affirmatives can only be partially converted: all of Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan. "Oh yes," one would think.
However, my wife does not understand this necessary limitation of the conversion of a proposition; consequently, she does not understand me. For how can a woman expect to appreciate a professor of logic, if the simplest cloth-eared syllogism causes her to flounder.
For example, given the premise, "all fish live underwater" and "all mackerel are fish", my wife will conclude, not that "all mackerel live underwater", but that "if she buys kippers it will not rain", or that "trout live in trees", or even that "I do not love her any more." This she calls "using her intuition". I call it "crap", and it gets me very *irritated* because it is not logical.
"There will be no supper tonight," she will sometimes cry upon my return home. "Why not?" I will ask. "Because I have been screwing the milkman all day," she will say, quite oblivious of the howling error she has made. "But," I will wearily point out, "even given that the activities of screwing the milkman and getting supper are mutually exclusive, now that the screwing is over, surely then, supper may, logically, be got." "You don't love me any more," she will now often postulate. "If you did, you would give me one now and again, so that I would not have to rely on that rancid Pakistani for my orgasms." "I will give you one after you have got me my supper," I now usually scream, "but not before" -- as you understand, making her bang contingent on the arrival of my supper.
"God, you turn me on when you're angry, you ancient brute!" she now mysteriously deduces, forcing her sweetly throbbing tongue down my throat. "Fuck supper!" I now invariably conclude, throwing logic somewhat joyously to the four winds, and so we thrash about on our milk-stained floor, transported by animal passion, until we sink back, exhausted, onto the cartons of yoghurt.
I'm afraid I seem to have strayed somewhat from my original brief. But in a nutshell:
Sex is more fun than logic -- one cannot prove this, but it "is" in the same sense that Mount Everest "is", or that Alma Cogan "isn't".
For some strange reason, I don't think my drug-dealing bail-bonding 'young urban professional' neighbors are using these phone-over-power-line devices.:)
Slightly offtopic, but I recently purchased one of those Phone-Line through the Power Lines adapters from Radio Shack.
What you do is plug one adapter into the wall circuit in a room with a phone jack, and hook the phone line up to it. Then, in another room without the phone jack, you plug the 'receiver' into the wall, and you can plug a phone into it.
Strangely enough, it works. I can even connect to the internet (at 28.8 or less, usually) through this circuit.
BUT - and a big BUT at that, is I keep on getting mixed lines, I hear other people talking on the line, and the most annoying part of it is that whomever's line I am crossed with, when they make a phone call to somewhere else, MY phone number shows up on that person's caller ID. So then I get phone calls at 1am from shady people asking me "Did you call here?!?". At first it was fun listening to their phone calls, apparently someone's boyfriend got caught in a drug deal and needed to be bailed out, but after 4 or 5 of those 1am calls I decided to ditch the whole thing.
So, I for one would not be too interested in this technology unless I see it proven first. In someone else's house. And knowing how bad it worked for the phone, I'm scared stiff to know what people could grab off my line if I use it for the internet.
Excitedness Ensues...
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I just saw a commercial late last night on my cable box from Adelphia (my cable provider) that stated that there is either available now, or coming soon, a PVR (TIVO-like device) for my digital cable.
Although I will hate giving my cable company another $10 a month to rent this thing, if I were a betting man I'd say it a lock.
*Can't wait to waste more of my life watching the TV shows I can't stay awake to see*
Adult Swim, Monty Python episodes, and all the Comedy Central shows I can handle!!! WOO!
As a user of iTunes (mainly because I drink way too much soda during the day, and redeem free songs from Pepsi on iTunes) I have grown to really like their service. If it continues to grow (by adding on to their somewhat meager existing library) they will definitely have a new source of income online selling music. From me, anyhow.
And I may just have to go buy an iPod now to hook up to my iTunes service.
Kudos, Apple... you have got a hard-core Mac hater to use your products. I would call that an amazing success.
I for one LOOK for the M rated games. I hate playing E (for Everyone), I like a little naughtiness, a little blood, a little violence, a little sexual innuendo.
If I see two similar games, and one is rated M, and one is rated T (for teen) and I have no other research to go on, I will pick the M rated one.
But whatever happened with the A-O rating? I still haven't found any games (in the US) for PS2 or GameCube (I don't have XBOX) that is rated Adults-Only... of course I haven't been frequenting the porn shops as often as I should, so maybe those stores carry them?
Just once, JUST ONCE, I'd like our knee-jerking media to actually provide details to the public on how to combat a virus, or trojan horse, or whatever, in the text of their article. I understand the unwashed masses read Yahoo News and Washington Post, but maybe if we started to inform the public on how to find out if you're infected, and how to remove the offending virus, more people would actually check to see if they are infected, and might re-think their surfing & downloading habits.
I understand the average user can't use Registry Editor, but maybe provide a simple link or website to get a tool to remove the Phatbot thing a ma jig./end rant
Along the same idea: Near my Dad's house they are currently doing a lot of logging, so a lot of protestors have been seen in the area, damaging equipment, sabotaging trucks, etc.
So now there are signs up everywhere stating:
"NO TRESPASSING! And if you are an environmental activist, try wiping your butt with plastic toilet paper!"
(for others not versed in Irish history - St. Patrick is actually St. Paidrig in the local Gaelic language, so the abbreviation should be St. Paddy not St. Patty)
Was anyone else supremely disappointed to see the word 'Guinness' (possibly mispelled) and find that the article was not about beer, with this being the day before St. Patty's day and all?
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Sure you're not quoting Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget?
Next time Gadget!!! NEXXXXT TIIIIMMMEEE...
(ree-oowwwr) (I don't recall the cats name)
I recently dusted off my copy of Civilization III and have been playing it day-in and day-out for the past couple weeks. While it does not cover every aspect of a kingdom, country, or government, it certainly teaches you a lot about handling your people, keeping people happy, HANDLING BUDGETS, and a teeny bit about war (and the effects thereof on your people).
It would never happen, but I think it'd be great to require presidential candidates to be required to sit down for an extended CIV session (8-16 hours, maybe more?) and play against one another in a televised CIV game, with color commentary. You could see how each candidate chooses to run their kingdom, how 'happy' they keep their citizens, how easily they succumb to waging war to get what they want, etc.
(offtopic? sorry...)
Simply put, Russia cannot afford to keep sending Soyuz up there time after time again. They don't have the riches the US apparently does. So they fund their flights anyway they can.
Looking at the alternatives (neglecting ISS and letting it fall apart because we won't go up there with our crappy Space Shuttle anymore) I certainly have no problem with some jet-set millionaire travelling up there.
Plus, I think 6 months of training will make sure they don't accidentally kick any switches marked "Self Destruct".
What have I DONE!?!?! MY BRAINS ARE GOING INTO MY FEEEET!!!
FYI - Civilization is on the PSOne. (And of course PS2). Not a bad game, and they did it fairly well, but I'd still prefer to play it on the PC.
But, IMHO, Console games, when done well, far exceed anything I play on a PC. Besides for Civ, I play all my games on consoles. Very hard to ignore the fact that playing console games allows you to bask in 32" - 65" TV Glow goodness, while PC Monitors only give you a partial tan and retinal cancer.
What do you call people from the underwater world/city of Atlantis?
Like we need another enemy in the world.
This is going to really piss off the Atlanteans.
Where's Hagbard when you need him.
(this isn't off topic if you have any idea what i'm talking about, so leave me alone, modders!)
Hah! I purchased the EXECUTIVE Version of the soundtrack of the album of the trailer of the film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
:)
It's cleaned of all offensive material, apart from 4 coonts, 1 clitoris, and a foreskin. And, as they are only mentioned in this opening statement, you are past them now.
Good evening.
The last scene was interesting from the point of view of a professional logician because it contained a number of logical fallacies; that is, invalid propositional constructions and syllogistic forms, of the type so often committed by my wife. "All wood burns," states Sir Bedevere. "Therefore," he concludes, "all that burns is wood." This is, of course, pure bullshit. Universal affirmatives can only be partially converted: all of Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan. "Oh yes," one would think.
However, my wife does not understand this necessary limitation of the conversion of a proposition; consequently, she does not understand me. For how can a woman expect to appreciate a professor of logic, if the simplest cloth-eared syllogism causes her to flounder.
For example, given the premise, "all fish live underwater" and "all mackerel are fish", my wife will conclude, not that "all mackerel live underwater", but that "if she buys kippers it will not rain", or that "trout live in trees", or even that "I do not love her any more." This she calls "using her intuition". I call it "crap", and it gets me very *irritated* because it is not logical.
"There will be no supper tonight," she will sometimes cry upon my return home. "Why not?" I will ask. "Because I have been screwing the milkman all day," she will say, quite oblivious of the howling error she has made. "But," I will wearily point out, "even given that the activities of screwing the milkman and getting supper are mutually exclusive, now that the screwing is over, surely then, supper may, logically, be got." "You don't love me any more," she will now often postulate. "If you did, you would give me one now and again, so that I would not have to rely on that rancid Pakistani for my orgasms." "I will give you one after you have got me my supper," I now usually scream, "but not before" -- as you understand, making her bang contingent on the arrival of my supper.
"God, you turn me on when you're angry, you ancient brute!" she now mysteriously deduces, forcing her sweetly throbbing tongue down my throat. "Fuck supper!" I now invariably conclude, throwing logic somewhat joyously to the four winds, and so we thrash about on our milk-stained floor, transported by animal passion, until we sink back, exhausted, onto the cartons of yoghurt.
I'm afraid I seem to have strayed somewhat from my original brief. But in a nutshell:
Sex is more fun than logic -- one cannot prove this, but it "is" in the same sense that Mount Everest "is", or that Alma Cogan "isn't".
Goodnight.
For some strange reason, I don't think my drug-dealing bail-bonding 'young urban professional' neighbors are using these phone-over-power-line devices. :)
I'm moving next week anyhow, no big deal.
Slightly offtopic, but I recently purchased one of those Phone-Line through the Power Lines adapters from Radio Shack.
What you do is plug one adapter into the wall circuit in a room with a phone jack, and hook the phone line up to it. Then, in another room without the phone jack, you plug the 'receiver' into the wall, and you can plug a phone into it.
Strangely enough, it works. I can even connect to the internet (at 28.8 or less, usually) through this circuit.
BUT - and a big BUT at that, is I keep on getting mixed lines, I hear other people talking on the line, and the most annoying part of it is that whomever's line I am crossed with, when they make a phone call to somewhere else, MY phone number shows up on that person's caller ID. So then I get phone calls at 1am from shady people asking me "Did you call here?!?". At first it was fun listening to their phone calls, apparently someone's boyfriend got caught in a drug deal and needed to be bailed out, but after 4 or 5 of those 1am calls I decided to ditch the whole thing.
So, I for one would not be too interested in this technology unless I see it proven first. In someone else's house. And knowing how bad it worked for the phone, I'm scared stiff to know what people could grab off my line if I use it for the internet.
$.02
On Monday morning, before 3 mountain dews? Very dumbed down.
:)
"Company releases beta stuff" would suffice.
OK, Developers got my attention, because I am one.
I understood the word "Releases".
And that's about it, from that title.
All I can think of is Gary Larson's comic strip where it has the "what you say" vs. "what they hear" when you speak to a dog...
Blah blah blah GINGER blah blah blah blah GINGER...
I just saw a commercial late last night on my cable box from Adelphia (my cable provider) that stated that there is either available now, or coming soon, a PVR (TIVO-like device) for my digital cable.
Although I will hate giving my cable company another $10 a month to rent this thing, if I were a betting man I'd say it a lock.
*Can't wait to waste more of my life watching the TV shows I can't stay awake to see*
Adult Swim, Monty Python episodes, and all the Comedy Central shows I can handle!!! WOO!
I had no idea Space Ghost has that many followers... must be the Martians watching Adult Swim via satellite...
I'm waiting for the A-O rated game that has graphics and gameplay like Final Fantasy X... now THAT would be a game.
As a user of iTunes (mainly because I drink way too much soda during the day, and redeem free songs from Pepsi on iTunes) I have grown to really like their service. If it continues to grow (by adding on to their somewhat meager existing library) they will definitely have a new source of income online selling music. From me, anyhow.
And I may just have to go buy an iPod now to hook up to my iTunes service.
Kudos, Apple... you have got a hard-core Mac hater to use your products. I would call that an amazing success.
I for one LOOK for the M rated games. I hate playing E (for Everyone), I like a little naughtiness, a little blood, a little violence, a little sexual innuendo.
If I see two similar games, and one is rated M, and one is rated T (for teen) and I have no other research to go on, I will pick the M rated one.
But whatever happened with the A-O rating? I still haven't found any games (in the US) for PS2 or GameCube (I don't have XBOX) that is rated Adults-Only... of course I haven't been frequenting the porn shops as often as I should, so maybe those stores carry them?
Time to dust off the "Thumb" and see if I can get off this godforsaken mudball.
Is the asteroid construction-equipment yellow, with lots of lumps?
Just once, JUST ONCE, I'd like our knee-jerking media to actually provide details to the public on how to combat a virus, or trojan horse, or whatever, in the text of their article. I understand the unwashed masses read Yahoo News and Washington Post, but maybe if we started to inform the public on how to find out if you're infected, and how to remove the offending virus, more people would actually check to see if they are infected, and might re-think their surfing & downloading habits.
/end rant
I understand the average user can't use Registry Editor, but maybe provide a simple link or website to get a tool to remove the Phatbot thing a ma jig.
Happy St. Paddy's Day everyone, btw.
This is your last change to hit the self-destruct override button...
"Out of Order"
FUCK! Even in the FUTURE nothing works!
Along the same idea: Near my Dad's house they are currently doing a lot of logging, so a lot of protestors have been seen in the area, damaging equipment, sabotaging trucks, etc.
So now there are signs up everywhere stating:
"NO TRESPASSING!
And if you are an environmental activist, try wiping your butt with plastic toilet paper!"
Ta an ceart agat.
Sorry. Forgot my Gaelic roots.
(for others not versed in Irish history - St. Patrick is actually St. Paidrig in the local Gaelic language, so the abbreviation should be St. Paddy not St. Patty)
Was anyone else supremely disappointed to see the word 'Guinness' (possibly mispelled) and find that the article was not about beer, with this being the day before St. Patty's day and all?
(Offtopic +1, Beer)
And the special gamepads, Gravis pads, and the steering wheels, and gas/brake pedal doo-dads, and multiple monitor support, and, and, and...
Lot of work to be done.