Right, but the sex minigame doesn't add any additional violence. The only thing it adds is sexual content. So the only logical conclusion is that the "updated" AO rating is based solely on the new "sexual content".
While it's true that that won't work with the addition, I hardly think XOR will work either. Still, that's the kind of knowledge that I suspect Microsoft is looking for.
Wow, it sure is lucky your buttcheek somehow managed to hit the Enter button! Otherwise you'd never have hit Submit and we would never have found out about your valiant aciton!
I agree that today's artificial constraints are not necessarily a good thing, but they do often stimulate creativity rather than having a retarding effect. Adding boundaries to a creative idea can often help push you in the direction of the best solution.
I am grateful to you for firing michael. Not only was he a shitty editor, but he was totally belligerent and always abusing his power. Zonk is a great improvement. However, it seems that despite earning 20K a year just to read this site and hit the "Approve" button on submitted stories, Zonk still won't take the time to actually read his own site. Get Zonk to stop with the freakin' dupes, seriously. He just needs to read the site for maybe half an hour a day.
"You have to take them out. It is the only way. You can't sweet talk terrorists into being nice people."
True, but the way we're currently going about it is hardly the most effective. And we mustn't let our government twist this tragedy around as the USA did for 9/11.
"They're brainwashed enough to strap explosives on their bodies and blow up children."
What about the adults? Do people suddenly stop mattering when they hit the age of 18?
The original comment which you took offence to was: "Maybe someone's mad they didn't get to host the Olympics?? Sheesh."
In what way does this make fun of the bombing victims? I don't see any thing along the lines of "haha, they got blown up". Here's my point: the original post was making fun of the people who did the bombing, not the victims. So in what way is it offensive to the victims of the bombings? But, hey, I don't think you actually bothered to, you know, read the fuckin' comment before you took offence. No, you just saw someone making a comment that wasn't "oh no this is a tragedy this is all blair's fault:(:(" and assumed they were making fun of the victims. You are a hypersensitive whiner.
"Just the right kind of attitude to keep the cycle of hatred going and going."
No, it isn't. If anything, the grandparent poster was apathetic. Apathy doesn't keep the cycle of hatred going. The thing that keeps the cycle of hatred going is blind rage. "HOW COULD THEY DO SUCH A THING???" If anything, apathy acts to help halt the cycle of hatred.
After all, regardless of whether we care or not, they're still dead. We can't magically bring back from the dead the victims of these bombings by crying crocodile tears about them or using them as an excuse to start a phony war. Life isn't all sunshine and roses. The dead are dead; let's recognise that and move on.
The parent poster is quite obviously a moron. He wants anyone who disagrees with his viewpoint to be killed. For a self-proclaimed patriot, it seems odd that he's forgotten about a little thing the USA was founded on called freedom of speech.
Stop being such a fucking pussy. I think it's funny, you think it's not. Fine, difference of opinion, whatever. But stop trying to pretend that you somehow have the moral high ground just because you think it's not funny. Oh, and learn the meaning of the word "racism", too.
Wireless is, for me, nice but not essential. The real killer feature which this has in my view is its ability to play OGGs up to a nominal bitrate of 180KB/s. This, combined with its 8Gb of musical capacity at 128KB/s, make this the perfect music player who find OGG much easier to use than AAC, FLA, MP3 and WMA. It also allows me to store even the longest Yes albums on a single device!
To be honest, I found the article on the takeup of Linux more interesting than whether or not geeks in another country are just like us. The fact that Linux is being used in the space infrastructure of Saudi Arabia will no doubt help to accelerate its adoption in poorer countries such as the Indian south subcontinent and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I was also impressed by the sheer standard of Linux knowledge displayed by the Saudi computer expert considering that over there in the country they estimate its market share to be only 4%. (Note that that's greater than in the UK or the US, though.)
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That guy must have been a newbie, 'cause it took him two tries to run into the red marker.
Right, but the sex minigame doesn't add any additional violence. The only thing it adds is sexual content. So the only logical conclusion is that the "updated" AO rating is based solely on the new "sexual content".
While it's true that that won't work with the addition, I hardly think XOR will work either. Still, that's the kind of knowledge that I suspect Microsoft is looking for.
When we spam your channel with gigantic colourised ASCII penises and Harry Potter slashfic, that's not us typing it all in by hand, you know.
Wow, it sure is lucky your buttcheek somehow managed to hit the Enter button! Otherwise you'd never have hit Submit and we would never have found out about your valiant aciton!
Dilbert already did it. You guys are about five or six years behind.
Now Slashdot is doing reviews of furry porn. This place has really gone downhill lately.
The advantage of using addition is that it works with floating point numbers as well as integers. Xor won't.
...is how much it sucks. How the hell can it keep selling at such inflated prices?
I agree that today's artificial constraints are not necessarily a good thing, but they do often stimulate creativity rather than having a retarding effect. Adding boundaries to a creative idea can often help push you in the direction of the best solution.
There are no buzzwords, just the big sweeping generalisation of the calibre of "New media in the blogosphere is the future".
I am grateful to you for firing michael. Not only was he a shitty editor, but he was totally belligerent and always abusing his power. Zonk is a great improvement. However, it seems that despite earning 20K a year just to read this site and hit the "Approve" button on submitted stories, Zonk still won't take the time to actually read his own site. Get Zonk to stop with the freakin' dupes, seriously. He just needs to read the site for maybe half an hour a day.
"You have to take them out. It is the only way. You can't sweet talk terrorists into being nice people."
True, but the way we're currently going about it is hardly the most effective. And we mustn't let our government twist this tragedy around as the USA did for 9/11.
"They're brainwashed enough to strap explosives on their bodies and blow up children."
What about the adults? Do people suddenly stop mattering when they hit the age of 18?
I notice also that he's just stopped responding. Ah, well.
The original comment which you took offence to was: "Maybe someone's mad they didn't get to host the Olympics?? Sheesh."
:( :(" and assumed they were making fun of the victims. You are a hypersensitive whiner.
In what way does this make fun of the bombing victims? I don't see any thing along the lines of "haha, they got blown up". Here's my point: the original post was making fun of the people who did the bombing, not the victims. So in what way is it offensive to the victims of the bombings? But, hey, I don't think you actually bothered to, you know, read the fuckin' comment before you took offence. No, you just saw someone making a comment that wasn't "oh no this is a tragedy this is all blair's fault
"Just the right kind of attitude to keep the cycle of hatred going and going."
No, it isn't. If anything, the grandparent poster was apathetic. Apathy doesn't keep the cycle of hatred going. The thing that keeps the cycle of hatred going is blind rage. "HOW COULD THEY DO SUCH A THING???" If anything, apathy acts to help halt the cycle of hatred.
After all, regardless of whether we care or not, they're still dead. We can't magically bring back from the dead the victims of these bombings by crying crocodile tears about them or using them as an excuse to start a phony war. Life isn't all sunshine and roses. The dead are dead; let's recognise that and move on.
The parent poster is quite obviously a moron. He wants anyone who disagrees with his viewpoint to be killed. For a self-proclaimed patriot, it seems odd that he's forgotten about a little thing the USA was founded on called freedom of speech.
Stop being such a fucking pussy. I think it's funny, you think it's not. Fine, difference of opinion, whatever. But stop trying to pretend that you somehow have the moral high ground just because you think it's not funny. Oh, and learn the meaning of the word "racism", too.
I'm from London and I appreciated it. Stop trying to stamp out humour just because of a few explosions.
...would it be possible to apply these same "hacking" techniques to open source TiVo solutions like Freevo?
Wireless is, for me, nice but not essential. The real killer feature which this has in my view is its ability to play OGGs up to a nominal bitrate of 180KB/s. This, combined with its 8Gb of musical capacity at 128KB/s, make this the perfect music player who find OGG much easier to use than AAC, FLA, MP3 and WMA. It also allows me to store even the longest Yes albums on a single device!
To be honest, I found the article on the takeup of Linux more interesting than whether or not geeks in another country are just like us. The fact that Linux is being used in the space infrastructure of Saudi Arabia will no doubt help to accelerate its adoption in poorer countries such as the Indian south subcontinent and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I was also impressed by the sheer standard of Linux knowledge displayed by the Saudi computer expert considering that over there in the country they estimate its market share to be only 4%. (Note that that's greater than in the UK or the US, though.)