It's weird though, they shut down City of Heros ostensibly for this reason, but they keep Guild Wars 1 up and running and still doing special events (and still no subscription fees).
This would be a nightmare. Distributed processing is "easy" when you can break the workload into self-contained stateless chunks of information. By its nature an MMO is extremely state-ful which makes a peer to peer structure difficult. Then you introduce trust issues (how does my node trust the inputs your node is giving me, how does your node trust the health state information mine sent you, how does OPs ever know what we know). I'm not going to sit here and say it's impossible, that's a sure-fire way to find a foot in my mouth, but there are some major hurdles that are nigh-on insurmountable and dicate that you need a central server of some sort.
Though honestly there is a possibility they could scale back the service and allow people to rent servers but then they need to hire a maintenance crew that could be better serving NCSoft's bottom line by assisting in GW2 upkeep. I doubt they'll ever actually release server code or even server binaries as there's probably a ton of proprietary code that is heavily reused in currently active mmos.
No, its an indication that the Matrix was just a release of a movie that quite a few people already had (and had a long time to obtain bargain-bin priced copies) where as Pirates were relatively new movies that I haven't seen drop below $14 yet.
Nature (and the Earth) will persist no matter what we have done to it. If we nuke ourselves into oblivion, there will be a sudden explosion of radiation-resistant creatures. If we die off, something will take our place. We are but expendable life-forms, no different to nature than any other dominate life form.
Extinctions on a vastly greater scale than anything we currently predict have happened before (The K-T Boundary, aka the End Cretaceous extinction that killed the dinosaurs was NOT the largest extinction, and that event took every single dinsaur down and allowed the mammals, previously incredibly inferior and stuck in a rat-like stage of evolution, to diversify and become the dominate type of life form on the planet).
They don't branch out until Junior/Senior classes where you go?
Granted I am a student at Texas A&M (eagerly awaiting when I can weasle my way into a Stroustrup class) but we branch out into C in our data structures class (being the second class a CS major takes).
I do love Stroustrup to death though purely for the fact that he's been strongarming the CS dept. here into moving away from Java and into C++ and C# (I'm sorry but so many of my peers are pointer-stupid something needs to change. Java is easily learned, pointers not so).
Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) and a BartPE disk a friend made for me a while ago that I updated... (it's loaded down with partition magic and some other utilities...)
Poverty in regions is a big mix of factors, from lack of government funding for education to lack of jobs provided by the private sector to sometimes the general unwillingness of the local population really work for what they want (the lazy bum defense). Still doesn't prevent a kid from joining the national guard or the coast guard.
Every choice we make has consequences and there is no such thing as a free lunch.
You have to have the numbers to pull those off. Falling airborn troops become skeet practice (fuck up their parachute and no more soldier), not to mention anti-air defenses (south korea most definitely will have our patriot missile system), and landing craft are bottlenecks. Aim your machine guns at the exit and voila.
Actually, sending in people you care deeply about tends to hamper you abilities to fight a war. Take for instance McClellan during the U.S. Civil War. Had he not been afraid to use the North's overwhelming numbers, McClellan would have ended the civil war much earlier than it did (it took Grant to realize that all he had to do was send wave after wave of troops and he would break Lee, despite the fact that McClellan was the only Northern commander that was near the intellectual level of General Lee).
That being said, what you are trying to say is it would be wrong for Bush to pull strings to keep his loved ones out of harms way, which if he does have anyone in the military (I smell an entire family tree of ivy league pussies... W's dad must feel greatly dissapointed) I have no doubt we would have done that.
As to your last part, I'm tired of that damned argument. These kids willingly joined the army, yes to pay for college, but they were told repeatedly and voluntarily swore an oath (no fucking fine print) that when the U.S. goes to war, they will probably have to ship off and if that is the case, there is nothing they can do about it. I feel little sympathy for these kids, I mean it sucks over there but you did sign up with the military, what did you expect? Why didn't you go for the National Guard, hmm? Your chances of being deployed over seas to hostile combat zone are dramatically reduced in that organization.
I had an old harddrive (4gb... back in the day!) that would randomly stop spinning, so I had to kick the case to get it to spin back up.
Also a more recent issue is I had a computer that randomly after shutdown, windows (including my PE disks and the recovery console) couldn't read the partition, but if I booted up a linux live cd (ubuntu or mepis, whatever I had on hand) and mounted the partition in linux, windows would be good to go again...
As such WE are the easiest to identify. The biggest targets, whether we did anything or not. We a big, we are shiny, and we are filled with suburban gluttons. Face it, everyone hates us and noone has a logical reason to hate us like they do. How have we ruined the world? We didn't cause the terrorist bombings in Spain: terrorists have been bombing long before Iraq. We didn't cause the uprisings in France, hell we've had one of our own (think Rodney King) nearly the same situation. We didn't cause the violence towards the Dutch, that was their own problem. We havn't brought down the world economy, hell the Euro is higher valued than the dollar. Our policies do not affect your or any other country's moral system, your taxation. The only thing we control is pop culture.
So really what logical reason out there is left to hate us? We don't do enough, we do to much, I don't know what the hell the rest of the world wants from US.
No, the attacks would continue. And continue. And continue.
We are the only remaining superpower as such we are expected to be the worlds guardian (we supply a ridiculous percentage of the UN forces), people expect us to throw them money (free food, free supplies), expect us to stay out of their country (conflicts with part one), and not patronize them (conflicts with part 2).
All pulling out of Israel will do is... oh nothing, because the Palestinians aren't attacking Israel because we're there, they are attacking Israel because it's Israel.
The middle east wants Israel NOT to exist.
The U.S. not existing would be icing on the cake.
Any other 'theories' or 'ideas' are delusional at best.
Holy shit. We had that printer, I'm pretty sure it was a III... yeah, it was. It finally died...2ish years ago and was replaced by a 5100 dtn my dad found at an office liquidation sale.
My dad would print materal for about 40 binders for scouts regularly, along with ass loads of flyers and such... Good memories.
I got this printer for my birthday a little while back, and I love this printer.
Fast as can be, small but beastly looking, nice good-high quality picture printing (I have done a few), very very very fast (first page out in around 8 seconds), and comes right up to your price range.
There is a fine line between raising kids and controlling kids.
If this program was implemented in an Elementary (K-5) school, then so be it, but this is high school. At this point parents should be backing off and letting the child make their own decisions and mistakes (when the mistakes won't hurt them in the long run). That way in 4 or less years, when they go out into college and/or the real world, they can function to the top of their ability as contributing members of society... or really good hippies.
Plus this system isn't the parent raising the child. The parent just says "You can't have banana puddin'" and sets a flag in the system on banana pudding and doesn't worry about it again. Good parenting says sitting down with the child and saying "Look, I don't want you to have banana pudding because banana's freak me out and if you get a bad cup you could get food poisoning" etc.
I figure I should make mention I'm not sore about not getting the scholarship.
I personally think we can't really legislate anti-racism. I think however what we can and have done (though we've gone waaay overboard on it) is provide legal limits on what you can do regarding race (equal opportunity employment, etc.) and then sit and wait for the stigmas to filter out of society in a couple generations. I mean look at the youth (yes, I am a youth) of today. In the pop culture world, being black can most times be "in". Give it a couple more generations, say my kids or my kids kids, and these problems we have won't be the problems they have, it'll be problems they read about in their text books. I mean think about how far we've come in just one/two generations since segregation. Black people are EVERYWHERE and noone really cares in the way they once did.
You must realize, the Europeans have transcended all prejudices and other destructive thoughts and emotions. *Tries to hide the recent riots in france, deep distaste for the immigrants in most european countries, denmark's problems, etc. etc. etc.*
This is all silly. The knee-jerk racism reaction is ridiculous. Isn't the whole goal of tolerance and antiracism to teach us to see people as people rather than black people and white people? Black people have as much right to be submissive as a white person if thats what they want!
I guess if you lived in Meriam-Webster's world, yeah, but in todays world, thanks to the Bleeding Hearts and the Religious Right, tolerance and antiracism means treat me special because I'm different (to make amends for when I was treated differently [read: special] in the past).
Remember, everyone wants a free handout and these people that infiltrate our society (everyone's society, the Americans, le French, zee Germans, etc) won't let such a trivial thing like logic and reason stand in their way.
I think the best way to describe the situation in America is not an attempt at tolerance and anti-racism, its more preferential treatment and reverse-racism (when I had better grades and more extra curriculars than a hispanic, but said hispanic gets the multi-thousand dollar scholarship and I get nothing, how is this tolerance and merit-based?)
Hah, I'm sorry, what I meant to say is we probably won't see such a sharp increase as we might in other sites. Infact I have a feeling since google owns AdSense there won't be much change in the advertisements on their page becuase they are looking at boosted advertising on all their customer's sites. Granted I know this doesn't turn into click-throughs, but hey, a man can dream.
As opposed to the socialist worker being offered 1 choice of an inferior product?:P
I'm just thinking of all the wonderful costs this is going ot incur on us customers. While we may not pay directly in cash, companies are going to need more money to cover the tax, and to point out google: how does google make its money? Advertising! Correct, SO if sites like google that rely on onsite advertising to stay afloat, and new costs (like this net tax) come around, what's the next logical step? More advertising. Granted we won't see the advertising on google itself as they profit from other sites using their adservice more than they profit from running ads on their site, but stil...
I don't know I guess my biggest problem is that the Bush administration doesn't understand the difference between a free competative market and sucking big business's dick. Obviously the fellatio choice is pandering and very anti-capatalist (on the other side of the meter from socialism).
Reminds me of the proposition 2 crap that happened down here in Texas. While us citizens were busy screaming about adding proposition 2 to the Texas constitution (it would ban gay marraige), despite the fact that gay marriage was already illegal under state law, our loving congress and our wonderful governor Rick Perry slipped by some amendments that allowed them to spend the principle of the education budget (normally legislature can only spend the interest on things other than education) to give Wal-Mart a multi-million dollar loan to build a distribution center in south texas.
And to think there is still no budget for the public school system down here (we've been bickering about it since our supreme court struck down the curring Robin Hood system about... 1, 2 years ago?)
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It's weird though, they shut down City of Heros ostensibly for this reason, but they keep Guild Wars 1 up and running and still doing special events (and still no subscription fees).
This would be a nightmare. Distributed processing is "easy" when you can break the workload into self-contained stateless chunks of information. By its nature an MMO is extremely state-ful which makes a peer to peer structure difficult. Then you introduce trust issues (how does my node trust the inputs your node is giving me, how does your node trust the health state information mine sent you, how does OPs ever know what we know). I'm not going to sit here and say it's impossible, that's a sure-fire way to find a foot in my mouth, but there are some major hurdles that are nigh-on insurmountable and dicate that you need a central server of some sort. Though honestly there is a possibility they could scale back the service and allow people to rent servers but then they need to hire a maintenance crew that could be better serving NCSoft's bottom line by assisting in GW2 upkeep. I doubt they'll ever actually release server code or even server binaries as there's probably a ton of proprietary code that is heavily reused in currently active mmos.
No, its an indication that the Matrix was just a release of a movie that quite a few people already had (and had a long time to obtain bargain-bin priced copies) where as Pirates were relatively new movies that I haven't seen drop below $14 yet.
I second your opinion.
Nature (and the Earth) will persist no matter what we have done to it. If we nuke ourselves into oblivion, there will be a sudden explosion of radiation-resistant creatures. If we die off, something will take our place. We are but expendable life-forms, no different to nature than any other dominate life form.
Extinctions on a vastly greater scale than anything we currently predict have happened before (The K-T Boundary, aka the End Cretaceous extinction that killed the dinosaurs was NOT the largest extinction, and that event took every single dinsaur down and allowed the mammals, previously incredibly inferior and stuck in a rat-like stage of evolution, to diversify and become the dominate type of life form on the planet).
They don't branch out until Junior/Senior classes where you go?
Granted I am a student at Texas A&M (eagerly awaiting when I can weasle my way into a Stroustrup class) but we branch out into C in our data structures class (being the second class a CS major takes).
I do love Stroustrup to death though purely for the fact that he's been strongarming the CS dept. here into moving away from Java and into C++ and C# (I'm sorry but so many of my peers are pointer-stupid something needs to change. Java is easily learned, pointers not so).
Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) and a BartPE disk a friend made for me a while ago that I updated... (it's loaded down with partition magic and some other utilities...)
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And you're going where with this?
Poverty in regions is a big mix of factors, from lack of government funding for education to lack of jobs provided by the private sector to sometimes the general unwillingness of the local population really work for what they want (the lazy bum defense). Still doesn't prevent a kid from joining the national guard or the coast guard.
Every choice we make has consequences and there is no such thing as a free lunch.
You have to have the numbers to pull those off. Falling airborn troops become skeet practice (fuck up their parachute and no more soldier), not to mention anti-air defenses (south korea most definitely will have our patriot missile system), and landing craft are bottlenecks. Aim your machine guns at the exit and voila.
Actually, sending in people you care deeply about tends to hamper you abilities to fight a war. Take for instance McClellan during the U.S. Civil War. Had he not been afraid to use the North's overwhelming numbers, McClellan would have ended the civil war much earlier than it did (it took Grant to realize that all he had to do was send wave after wave of troops and he would break Lee, despite the fact that McClellan was the only Northern commander that was near the intellectual level of General Lee).
That being said, what you are trying to say is it would be wrong for Bush to pull strings to keep his loved ones out of harms way, which if he does have anyone in the military (I smell an entire family tree of ivy league pussies... W's dad must feel greatly dissapointed) I have no doubt we would have done that.
As to your last part, I'm tired of that damned argument. These kids willingly joined the army, yes to pay for college, but they were told repeatedly and voluntarily swore an oath (no fucking fine print) that when the U.S. goes to war, they will probably have to ship off and if that is the case, there is nothing they can do about it. I feel little sympathy for these kids, I mean it sucks over there but you did sign up with the military, what did you expect? Why didn't you go for the National Guard, hmm? Your chances of being deployed over seas to hostile combat zone are dramatically reduced in that organization.
I had an old harddrive (4gb... back in the day!) that would randomly stop spinning, so I had to kick the case to get it to spin back up.
Also a more recent issue is I had a computer that randomly after shutdown, windows (including my PE disks and the recovery console) couldn't read the partition, but if I booted up a linux live cd (ubuntu or mepis, whatever I had on hand) and mounted the partition in linux, windows would be good to go again...
Didn't quite finish the 2nd paragraph:
As such WE are the easiest to identify. The biggest targets, whether we did anything or not. We a big, we are shiny, and we are filled with suburban gluttons. Face it, everyone hates us and noone has a logical reason to hate us like they do. How have we ruined the world? We didn't cause the terrorist bombings in Spain: terrorists have been bombing long before Iraq. We didn't cause the uprisings in France, hell we've had one of our own (think Rodney King) nearly the same situation. We didn't cause the violence towards the Dutch, that was their own problem. We havn't brought down the world economy, hell the Euro is higher valued than the dollar. Our policies do not affect your or any other country's moral system, your taxation. The only thing we control is pop culture.
So really what logical reason out there is left to hate us? We don't do enough, we do to much, I don't know what the hell the rest of the world wants from US.
No, the attacks would continue. And continue. And continue.
We are the only remaining superpower as such we are expected to be the worlds guardian (we supply a ridiculous percentage of the UN forces), people expect us to throw them money (free food, free supplies), expect us to stay out of their country (conflicts with part one), and not patronize them (conflicts with part 2).
All pulling out of Israel will do is... oh nothing, because the Palestinians aren't attacking Israel because we're there, they are attacking Israel because it's Israel.
The middle east wants Israel NOT to exist.
The U.S. not existing would be icing on the cake.
Any other 'theories' or 'ideas' are delusional at best.
Holy shit. We had that printer, I'm pretty sure it was a III... yeah, it was. It finally died ...2ish years ago and was replaced by a 5100 dtn my dad found at an office liquidation sale.
My dad would print materal for about 40 binders for scouts regularly, along with ass loads of flyers and such... Good memories.
I got that little printer (I posted down below). I love it. It's not my Dad's 5100 dtn but dammit it does everything I need it to do.
I got this printer for my birthday a little while back, and I love this printer.
Fast as can be, small but beastly looking, nice good-high quality picture printing (I have done a few), very very very fast (first page out in around 8 seconds), and comes right up to your price range.
Complimentary NewEgg Link (The exact one that I bought, and I did buy it through newegg)
That particular printer is USB and LPT, however it has a cousin or two floating around with an ethernet hookup if thats what you really want.
Recap: It's a fucking awesome printer!
Real parents do still exist! I thought my parents were the last of a dying breed1
There is a fine line between raising kids and controlling kids.
If this program was implemented in an Elementary (K-5) school, then so be it, but this is high school. At this point parents should be backing off and letting the child make their own decisions and mistakes (when the mistakes won't hurt them in the long run). That way in 4 or less years, when they go out into college and/or the real world, they can function to the top of their ability as contributing members of society... or really good hippies.
Plus this system isn't the parent raising the child. The parent just says "You can't have banana puddin'" and sets a flag in the system on banana pudding and doesn't worry about it again. Good parenting says sitting down with the child and saying "Look, I don't want you to have banana pudding because banana's freak me out and if you get a bad cup you could get food poisoning" etc.
"I have a hammer, so that problem must be a nail"
Priceless!
I figure I should make mention I'm not sore about not getting the scholarship.
I personally think we can't really legislate anti-racism. I think however what we can and have done (though we've gone waaay overboard on it) is provide legal limits on what you can do regarding race (equal opportunity employment, etc.) and then sit and wait for the stigmas to filter out of society in a couple generations. I mean look at the youth (yes, I am a youth) of today. In the pop culture world, being black can most times be "in". Give it a couple more generations, say my kids or my kids kids, and these problems we have won't be the problems they have, it'll be problems they read about in their text books. I mean think about how far we've come in just one/two generations since segregation. Black people are EVERYWHERE and noone really cares in the way they once did.
(yes I know black is not the only race)
You must realize, the Europeans have transcended all prejudices and other destructive thoughts and emotions. *Tries to hide the recent riots in france, deep distaste for the immigrants in most european countries, denmark's problems, etc. etc. etc.*
This is all silly. The knee-jerk racism reaction is ridiculous. Isn't the whole goal of tolerance and antiracism to teach us to see people as people rather than black people and white people? Black people have as much right to be submissive as a white person if thats what they want!
I guess if you lived in Meriam-Webster's world, yeah, but in todays world, thanks to the Bleeding Hearts and the Religious Right, tolerance and antiracism means treat me special because I'm different (to make amends for when I was treated differently [read: special] in the past).
Remember, everyone wants a free handout and these people that infiltrate our society (everyone's society, the Americans, le French, zee Germans, etc) won't let such a trivial thing like logic and reason stand in their way.
I think the best way to describe the situation in America is not an attempt at tolerance and anti-racism, its more preferential treatment and reverse-racism (when I had better grades and more extra curriculars than a hispanic, but said hispanic gets the multi-thousand dollar scholarship and I get nothing, how is this tolerance and merit-based?)
Support them both identically?
You must be crazy...
Hah, I'm sorry, what I meant to say is we probably won't see such a sharp increase as we might in other sites. Infact I have a feeling since google owns AdSense there won't be much change in the advertisements on their page becuase they are looking at boosted advertising on all their customer's sites. Granted I know this doesn't turn into click-throughs, but hey, a man can dream.
As opposed to the socialist worker being offered 1 choice of an inferior product? :P
I'm just thinking of all the wonderful costs this is going ot incur on us customers. While we may not pay directly in cash, companies are going to need more money to cover the tax, and to point out google: how does google make its money? Advertising! Correct, SO if sites like google that rely on onsite advertising to stay afloat, and new costs (like this net tax) come around, what's the next logical step? More advertising. Granted we won't see the advertising on google itself as they profit from other sites using their adservice more than they profit from running ads on their site, but stil...
I don't know I guess my biggest problem is that the Bush administration doesn't understand the difference between a free competative market and sucking big business's dick. Obviously the fellatio choice is pandering and very anti-capatalist (on the other side of the meter from socialism).
Reminds me of the proposition 2 crap that happened down here in Texas. While us citizens were busy screaming about adding proposition 2 to the Texas constitution (it would ban gay marraige), despite the fact that gay marriage was already illegal under state law, our loving congress and our wonderful governor Rick Perry slipped by some amendments that allowed them to spend the principle of the education budget (normally legislature can only spend the interest on things other than education) to give Wal-Mart a multi-million dollar loan to build a distribution center in south texas.
And to think there is still no budget for the public school system down here (we've been bickering about it since our supreme court struck down the curring Robin Hood system about... 1, 2 years ago?)