If by "Russians" you mean "Soviets" here (which isn't exactly the same thing, you know), then Soviets didn't mass murder people because of their race or ethnicity. Yes, there were massive political repressions, but you always knew that you'd be mostly safe if you conform to the rules. Jews in Nazi Germany didn't have that luxury - they were guilty simply by virtue of being alive.
Stalin killed millions of his own people. Do you really think they all failed to follow the rules? What about all those Polish officers?
There is no real adventuring - despite the randomized maps, there's very little to explore (because there's very little to find, except more monsters). There's no discovery - the identify system is token and adds nothing to the game. There's no problem solving (apart from figuring out how to blast a bunch of monsters before they blast you) because there's no depth - your options are a) attack, or b) attack.
If you think Diablo is basically a real-time Rogue-like, then you've misunderstood what is so great about Rogue.
Have you ever played the original Rogue? How many options do you have there? How many puzzles to solve?
Tell you what, boot up Diablo 1, enter the first dungeon level, and keep going down without ever coming upstairs or using Town Portal. There you have it, a more or less authentic Rogue experience, but in real time.
I don't see the problem. The previous Kindle's are made for reading digital versions of paperback books, while the new Kindle is geared towards digital versions of hardback books.
If the carbon-14 level is extraordinarily high, then it's post-1945, if not, then it's pre-1945.
Aren't there some areas on Earth with sufficiently higher "naturally occuring" radioactivity than normal? Could that skew the results? Or how about places that were more or less shielded from the nuclear testing fallout?
Yes, they do exhibit false matches, and corroborating evidence should be required for a conviction, but they are extremely useful for ruling out suspects that might otherwise be prosecuted.
The first part's the problem. The jury is misled about the chances of a false match.
I seem to recall a bunch of other tests (fbi bullet matching, dna identification) which were assumed to work for decades. So how do you attempt to disprove this one? Test hundreds of bottles of "known" 150 year old whiskeys?
Considering that AC will be resetting the universe each time it succumbs to heat death, causing the development process to start from scratch a few billion years later, I'm betting that the only way DNF ever comes into existence will be as a result of a quantum fluctuation.
As for the Falun Gong software, it proved a little too popular among Iranians. By the end of last year the consortium's computers were overwhelmed. On Jan. 1, the consortium had to do some blocking of its own: It shut down the service for all countries except China.
Ah, I remember how great it was when in my CS class we switched to Win 95 from DOS. Instead of Borland C++ crashing the computer on runtime errors, it only crashed the DOS Prompt! What joy!
That's the thing, pure greed and monopolies by themselves are not Net Neutrality issues. If they raised the bandwidth cap for Hulu users only because Hulu paid them money, that would be a Net Neutrality issue.
Maybe you need to upgrade your video card, but high-end video cards now days are close to photo realistic with raster graphics, and that's kind of my point.
No, they actually are not. Not until you can recreate a LotR movie battle in real time where you can't tell it's CGI.
Hexen II? All you needed was a 3dfx card to play it, Voodoo One did the trick. My 233MHz Pentium ran it just fine. I distinctly remember that Pentium IIs were already out at that point.
1. The US Navy, large as it is, does not have an unlimited number of carriers.
That's why I said "a couple".
2. Even at F-18 speeds...time from detection to launch to being overhead may be 30 minutes. By then, the pirates are already onboard.
30 minutes is still better than however many hours it currently takes for a Navy ship to show up on the scene. There are cases where pirate boats chase the ships for hours before boarding.
I still equate pirating software with theft. I still think that anyone who torrents a commercial game or song or whatnot is not acting morally, no matter what their justification are (overpricing, DRM, EULA, etc). If you think something is not worth the money it costs or the hoops it makes you jump through, don't get it! There are plenty of freeware/opensource/indy alternatives.
That being said, the draconian actions taken by **AA with full government backing simply disgust me. When a backwards country cuts the hands off thieves, you start rooting for the thieves. I find myself in the same predicament here.
It's very simple - if you pretend a problem (child pornography) doesn't exist, it will go away. Next they'll be make the words themselves secretly banned. A generation or two later, no one will know what "child pornography" is. Children will still be abused, of course, but as long as no one talks about it the government doesn't have to do anything.
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Yup, what next, outlaw flag burning?
If by "Russians" you mean "Soviets" here (which isn't exactly the same thing, you know), then Soviets didn't mass murder people because of their race or ethnicity. Yes, there were massive political repressions, but you always knew that you'd be mostly safe if you conform to the rules. Jews in Nazi Germany didn't have that luxury - they were guilty simply by virtue of being alive.
Stalin killed millions of his own people. Do you really think they all failed to follow the rules? What about all those Polish officers?
There is no real adventuring - despite the randomized maps, there's very little to explore (because there's very little to find, except more monsters). There's no discovery - the identify system is token and adds nothing to the game. There's no problem solving (apart from figuring out how to blast a bunch of monsters before they blast you) because there's no depth - your options are a) attack, or b) attack.
If you think Diablo is basically a real-time Rogue-like, then you've misunderstood what is so great about Rogue.
Have you ever played the original Rogue? How many options do you have there? How many puzzles to solve?
Tell you what, boot up Diablo 1, enter the first dungeon level, and keep going down without ever coming upstairs or using Town Portal. There you have it, a more or less authentic Rogue experience, but in real time.
I don't see the problem. The previous Kindle's are made for reading digital versions of paperback books, while the new Kindle is geared towards digital versions of hardback books.
Wow, it all makes sense now! I'm going to lobby for a lower tax rate for everyone who has the online username 'kalirion'. Who's with me?
And guess what the LHC will create.....
If the carbon-14 level is extraordinarily high, then it's post-1945, if not, then it's pre-1945.
Aren't there some areas on Earth with sufficiently higher "naturally occuring" radioactivity than normal? Could that skew the results? Or how about places that were more or less shielded from the nuclear testing fallout?
Yes, they do exhibit false matches, and corroborating evidence should be required for a conviction, but they are extremely useful for ruling out suspects that might otherwise be prosecuted.
The first part's the problem. The jury is misled about the chances of a false match.
I seem to recall a bunch of other tests (fbi bullet matching, dna identification) which were assumed to work for decades. So how do you attempt to disprove this one? Test hundreds of bottles of "known" 150 year old whiskeys?
Not when the problem is SPACE FLU.
Have.
Fucking HAVE.
Sentence fragments.
Fucking SENTENCE FRAGMENTS.
Considering that AC will be resetting the universe each time it succumbs to heat death, causing the development process to start from scratch a few billion years later, I'm betting that the only way DNF ever comes into existence will be as a result of a quantum fluctuation.
The last sentence of the article:
As for the Falun Gong software, it proved a little too popular among Iranians. By the end of last year the consortium's computers were overwhelmed. On Jan. 1, the consortium had to do some blocking of its own: It shut down the service for all countries except China.
It may not unusual for speed reading. It is unusual for someone who actually wants to enjoy the novel, instead of merely absorb some fictional facts.
If it used to be a galactic center, even for a smaller galaxy, wouldn't it be a super massive black hole?
Ah, I remember how great it was when in my CS class we switched to Win 95 from DOS. Instead of Borland C++ crashing the computer on runtime errors, it only crashed the DOS Prompt! What joy!
Have you ever considered submitting to The Daily WTF?
That's the thing, pure greed and monopolies by themselves are not Net Neutrality issues. If they raised the bandwidth cap for Hulu users only because Hulu paid them money, that would be a Net Neutrality issue.
Maybe you need to upgrade your video card, but high-end video cards now days are close to photo realistic with raster graphics, and that's kind of my point.
No, they actually are not. Not until you can recreate a LotR movie battle in real time where you can't tell it's CGI.
Hexen II? All you needed was a 3dfx card to play it, Voodoo One did the trick. My 233MHz Pentium ran it just fine. I distinctly remember that Pentium IIs were already out at that point.
Or it could've merely been one battle in a Time War raging for trillions of years.
Monsanto, makers of the cancerous Aspartame
How much of your body weight in Aspartame do you need to ingest to get cancer?
We're at an impasse here, maybe we should compromise.
1. The US Navy, large as it is, does not have an unlimited number of carriers.
That's why I said "a couple".
2. Even at F-18 speeds...time from detection to launch to being overhead may be 30 minutes. By then, the pirates are already onboard.
30 minutes is still better than however many hours it currently takes for a Navy ship to show up on the scene. There are cases where pirate boats chase the ships for hours before boarding.
I still equate pirating software with theft. I still think that anyone who torrents a commercial game or song or whatnot is not acting morally, no matter what their justification are (overpricing, DRM, EULA, etc). If you think something is not worth the money it costs or the hoops it makes you jump through, don't get it! There are plenty of freeware/opensource/indy alternatives.
That being said, the draconian actions taken by **AA with full government backing simply disgust me. When a backwards country cuts the hands off thieves, you start rooting for the thieves. I find myself in the same predicament here.
It's very simple - if you pretend a problem (child pornography) doesn't exist, it will go away. Next they'll be make the words themselves secretly banned. A generation or two later, no one will know what "child pornography" is. Children will still be abused, of course, but as long as no one talks about it the government doesn't have to do anything.
At least I think that's their plan.