A single laser system with a good rate of fire, capable of tracking an air target long enough to destroy it will alter the face of war in a way not seen since the introduction of mechanized assault.
Tsk, Tsk, Tsk; have you people learned NOTHING from years of Sci-Fi? If there's one thing I know about orbital space lasers, it's that orbital space laser will inevitably be used for evil, whether as a compliance-ensuring threat by the government on its own people, or by being hijacked by terrorists/hackers/cyborgs/monolithic AIs bent on world domination.
They're almost as bad as nano-technology for their number of times featured/number of times used to doom humanity ratio. ^_~
Extrapolating from the text, the main difference is that the top level design is a sort of rough outline of what you want, then you refine that, then you code it, then you document what you ACTUALLY HAVE, rather than declare your original design faultless and code from it regardless of whether there's a better way, cause heck, we already wrote all this great documentation for our infallible design!
has anyone tried it on the current 12" iBook? according to the official Requirements it should be playable, but since some min. req. are just a joke i'm wondering if i can play it on my iBook.
Given that I'm playing it on the same system, I'd say yes. Looks beautiful, works great; in fact, my friend keeps complaining about how much better it looks on my laptop than it does on his desktop ^_^
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Well done, Marine. It's always good to hear from the people who were there and not the trolls on Slashdot who accept whatever CNN or the BBC tell them that day.
Actually the GGP was NOT repeating "whatever CNN or the BBC" told him; in fact, there have repeatedly been stories run on BOTH which indicate that a majority of Iraqis were overall in support of the invasion (something along the lines of 60-70% positive or neutral, if I recall; too lazy to actually look it up). The problem is mostly that the minority who HATE that we're there (and they're a fairly small minority,
So GGP was incorrect, the GP sounds more like what my buddy who just got back says, but your post rankles me because it sounds suspiciously like "damned liberal media" bitching/moaning. If it was, then STOP HURTING AMERICA.
Don't get me started on Disney's treatment of Miyazaki's films. Do you have any idea how many times they've delayed the release of Nausicaa? I've been waiting since they originally acquired the rights to distribute his films and claimed they'd be coming every 6 months or so . . . back in 1999. Still no Nausicaa, still no Only Yesterday, still no Whispers of the heart. All of these DVDs, I would buy in a heartbeat, like I did Laputa when it first came out. Apparently, they just don't want my money.
Maybe it's just easier to find stuff now. I don't think so. Do a search on almost any exotic term and the first page on google's right hand column will offer dozens of links to people wishing to sell, "See ebay for greatest selection of VAMPIRE BAT GUANO AND PSITTACOSIS"
And here I was thinking that the sidebar links on politics.slashdot.org keep offering me Best Deals: Politics and Best Deals: America was a cleverly ironic statement ^_~
Would that be more or less embarrassing than when Dan Quayle was heading for Latin America and mentioned that he needed to brush up on his Latin?
Amusingly, even had he actually said it, it wouldn't actually be that bad of an idea. When we lived in Tucson (not far from the Mexican border), my father was actually the "go-to" guy for children who only spoke spainish when none of the doctors who actually spoke spainish were around.
He doesn't speak spainish, but he'd had years of Latin; however, he discovered that if you speak latin with a Mexican accent, even most kids can guess what you're trying to say, and by treating their spainish as badly accented Latin, he could fumble through what they were trying to say.
I can verify from my own experience that the same applies to Italian ^_^
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Now with the 2 full time job thing and cannot make ends meat. Something is very, very wrong with that. I know plenty of people at or around the "poverty level", aka annual incomes around $20,000. And they only have one part time job, and goof around alot and complain that they don't have money. But they eat, have cable, have a place to live, have a car, and aren't that bad off being that they don't even work 40 hours a week.
That's definitely not an impossibility. During college I worked a dull shelf-stocking job for $7 an hour. That amounts to about $240 a week, which is about $200 after taxes at that income bracket, which is $10400/year. These are usually the kind of jobs that people in the group that ends up on welfare can actually manage to get. Now, where I live, an apt. near where I held that job down costs about $500 a month if you share it with two other people. That's $6000 a year, leaving you with $4400 to pay for food, medical care (cause you sure as hell don't get insurance at a grocery store), a car if you need one, the insurance for said car, and any quality of life things you want like computer or internet connection (that you could use to look for a better paying job, try to get more education, etc). For reference purposes, I spent about $50 a week on food, which is granted probably more than I had to, but is about what you need if you want any variety in your diet. So, that $4400 is actually $1800. That's not going to be enough to make the monthlies on your car, and your insurance, so now you need another job, which will probably net you around $3-4K a year, depending on whether or not you can work a full 20 extra hours a week.
Note that I haven't included clothing, nor am I feeding more than one person. Since the grandparent was discussing single mothers, I should also have included the food, clothing and medical care of that child (and there's likely more than one). I also didn't include any money spent on cigarettes/booze, which a lot of these people are sadly addicted to.
Someone making $20000 a year at a friggin' part time job is NOT an example of someone living at the poverty line. Hell, I only make $30K at a full-time, but thankfully I have upward mobility, and can probably get a better job (current one is mostly to build savings for grad school). So realize that what you cited as poverty and its actual reality are two *very* different things.
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I'll tell you one thing that sucks about the Mac UI: You cannot tab to controls other than textboxes.
Actually that's one of my endless frustrations with web browsing in windows; it's a tremendous pain in the ass if, say, there are some links ahead of the login boxes for a website, or if the boxes are broken up by links to help content, etc. This means tabbing through 400 billion "click here for help" and "back to home" or "see this site in swahili" pages, whereas all I really want is to get to the type in boxes or back up into the URL bar. And heaven forbid you accidentally overshoot one (yes I know there's a key chord to go back, but I maintain I shouldn't need it).
So the "suckage" of that particular design decision is at least debatable.
To put it another way, it's difficult to imagine many people playing a Game Boy for as much time as they'd play a PS2, GameCube, or XBOX
Given that I more than maxed out the clock (99:59) on my copy of the original Pokemon in High School, and that I've logged around 40-60 hours in Final Fantasy Tactics: Advanced (and about 15-20 in Fire Emblem; same with Sword of Mana), I'd have to say that's a false assumption. The thing that all these games have in common is that they all have been designed so that you can play them in short, discrete "chunks;" that is, you can get in a few turns of FFT:A waiting for the bus, then suspend the game, then finish the battle on the bus.
I don't even want to think about the number of batteries that these games (not to mention the Castlevanias, which I have played to DEATH) have gone through ^_^;;
This is the classic "I'm rebelling, just like everybody else" response. The subject in this case, having observed that certain opinions are popular, utilizes a great deal of time, effort, and hot air disclaiming any and all such opinions, figuring that anything that's popular must then be false. This crowd, ironically, often presents even less information, fact, or arguement than its "opponents," because it utilizes the strategy of attempting to create authority for its own opinions through the denegration of all other thoughts or ideas as "what everybody else is thinking, so if you ever think the same as anyone else (except for me or people who agree with me), you must just be a sheep."
Ironically, this particular class is no less likely to be modded up than any other, as it exploits the desires of the moderators to appear "impartial" by modding up posts which oppose the common point of view, for the sake of "balance," regardless of whether this particular reaction is actually contributing to discussion of just wailing incessantly about "Slashdot Groupthink" or how the subject is "going to get modded down for this."
NOW we're covered ^_^
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The best comparison is Enterprise. Every Trekkie knows how the universe played out, hence a lot of them hate Enterprise for changing that!
Funny you should mention Berman. From TFA:
Berman: When asked if he had any other advice for George, "He can always hire me if Enterprise doesn't work out".
I think I speak for everyone with a geeky bone in his body when I say . . .
Go Free Speech!!! (Unless you are saying something I disagree with, in which case I try to mod you down to a troll).
Freedom of Speech means the freedom to express ideas. It doesn't mean anyone has to listen. Being modded into oblivion doesn't deny you the right to express an idea; it just indicates that others have expressed the opinion that your idea was trollish.
Thus far our track record in wars that don't directly involve American safety (ie WWII) is pretty poor, particularly in cases where we replaced a sitting, legal government. I can't personally think of any examples where that sort of conflict worked out well for the citizens of the country where the war actually happened (feel free to correct me on this, my knowledge of American military history is far from complete).
I'd say the Korean War worked out well for the people of South Korea. While the people of North Korea remain shut away under an authoritarian "communist" regime, the people of South Korea mostly kick my ass at Starcraft. I know I'd rather be playing Starcraft than singing patriotic songs on pain of death for my crazy midget overlord.
Disclaimer: I am moderate Liberal, Hardcore Libertarian (on the two-axis political spectrum), so I strongly support the freedom to play Starcraft.
Does anyone else find the link on the upper right sidebar to "Best Deals: Politics" to be terribly ironic in the face of selecting questions for an interview with one of the parties opposing corporate ownership of political candidates? ^_^
"Cool! Senate votes to prop up my failing business model for only $300!"
Actually, what I'd really like is for them to take that extra space and use it to include the original japanese voice acting. I cannot stress enough how much this would improve the game. Simply put, American voice actors are, with very few exceptions, terrible. As in, like a thousand needles in my spine. Restoring the original, non-awful voice acting would be the best use of additional space.
While I don't know if it's the same exact model, I'll caution you not to buy Dell LCDs unless you have to. The school I work for has several labs worth of them, and I used to have a couple on my desk for all my computers. We recently purchased several ViewSonics, and were absolutely agog at how much clearer and brighter they are. Sitting them next to each other, the Dells were about 25-30% dimmer, and correspondingly less legible.
This is pertinent, as when I started this job, I had excellent night vision (I have nearly 20/20, for reference). Right about the time we swapped to the ViewSonics, I had noticed that, when driving home at night, I was having a lot more trouble reading road signs, license plates, etc. when there were bright lights about. Since moving to the ViewSonics, my vision has been steadily recovering. YMMV, of course, but I won't spend another 6 months in front of a Dell unless I absolutely have to.
(And before anyone asks, yes, I can pretty much say it's not just because I was just spending more time in front of a computer; my time at Uni was spent almost entirely in front of my iMac's CRT, and that was 4 years w/o any significant decline. Compare this to the decline from 6 months of Dell.)
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What with all the "firsts," karma-whoring, and the like I think the future is now. Or, rather, the future is the past.
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Oh, THAT'S a good moderation.
A single laser system with a good rate of fire, capable of tracking an air target long enough to destroy it will alter the face of war in a way not seen since the introduction of mechanized assault.
Tsk, Tsk, Tsk; have you people learned NOTHING from years of Sci-Fi? If there's one thing I know about orbital space lasers, it's that orbital space laser will inevitably be used for evil, whether as a compliance-ensuring threat by the government on its own people, or by being hijacked by terrorists/hackers/cyborgs/monolithic AIs bent on world domination.
They're almost as bad as nano-technology for their number of times featured/number of times used to doom humanity ratio. ^_~
TIGER PUNCH ;)
That's TIGER UPPERCUT, you insensitive clod!Fun god! Sun God! Ra! Ra! Ra!
Extrapolating from the text, the main difference is that the top level design is a sort of rough outline of what you want, then you refine that, then you code it, then you document what you ACTUALLY HAVE, rather than declare your original design faultless and code from it regardless of whether there's a better way, cause heck, we already wrote all this great documentation for our infallible design!
The study analyzed 93 undergraduate students from Michigan State University
See, that's their problem right there . . . their entire sample was made up of idiots ^_~
I keeed! I keeed!
-A U of M alumnus
you forgot one...
we can all live long enough so that a 6-digit /. id's will become "rare and wise" when there are 10 million /. members. :)
You damned kids with your "800000+" User IDs! Git off my lawn!
has anyone tried it on the current 12" iBook? according to the official Requirements it should be playable, but since some min. req. are just a joke i'm wondering if i can play it on my iBook.
Given that I'm playing it on the same system, I'd say yes. Looks beautiful, works great; in fact, my friend keeps complaining about how much better it looks on my laptop than it does on his desktop ^_^
-Z, AKA
-Harmony, Undead Priest, Medivh realm
-Genevie, Night Elf Druid, Cenarion Circle
Well done, Marine. It's always good to hear from the people who were there and not the trolls on Slashdot who accept whatever CNN or the BBC tell them that day.
Actually the GGP was NOT repeating "whatever CNN or the BBC" told him; in fact, there have repeatedly been stories run on BOTH which indicate that a majority of Iraqis were overall in support of the invasion (something along the lines of 60-70% positive or neutral, if I recall; too lazy to actually look it up). The problem is mostly that the minority who HATE that we're there (and they're a fairly small minority,
So GGP was incorrect, the GP sounds more like what my buddy who just got back says, but your post rankles me because it sounds suspiciously like "damned liberal media" bitching/moaning. If it was, then STOP HURTING AMERICA.
Don't get me started on Disney's treatment of Miyazaki's films. Do you have any idea how many times they've delayed the release of Nausicaa? I've been waiting since they originally acquired the rights to distribute his films and claimed they'd be coming every 6 months or so . . . back in 1999. Still no Nausicaa, still no Only Yesterday, still no Whispers of the heart. All of these DVDs, I would buy in a heartbeat, like I did Laputa when it first came out. Apparently, they just don't want my money.
Maybe it's just easier to find stuff now. I don't think so. Do a search on almost any exotic term and the first page on google's right hand column will offer dozens of links to people wishing to sell, "See ebay for greatest selection of VAMPIRE BAT GUANO AND PSITTACOSIS"
And here I was thinking that the sidebar links on politics.slashdot.org keep offering me Best Deals: Politics and Best Deals: America was a cleverly ironic statement ^_~
Would that be more or less embarrassing than when Dan Quayle was heading for Latin America and mentioned that he needed to brush up on his Latin?
Amusingly, even had he actually said it, it wouldn't actually be that bad of an idea. When we lived in Tucson (not far from the Mexican border), my father was actually the "go-to" guy for children who only spoke spainish when none of the doctors who actually spoke spainish were around.
He doesn't speak spainish, but he'd had years of Latin; however, he discovered that if you speak latin with a Mexican accent, even most kids can guess what you're trying to say, and by treating their spainish as badly accented Latin, he could fumble through what they were trying to say.
I can verify from my own experience that the same applies to Italian ^_^
Now with the 2 full time job thing and cannot make ends meat. Something is very, very wrong with that. I know plenty of people at or around the "poverty level", aka annual incomes around $20,000. And they only have one part time job, and goof around alot and complain that they don't have money. But they eat, have cable, have a place to live, have a car, and aren't that bad off being that they don't even work 40 hours a week.
That's definitely not an impossibility. During college I worked a dull shelf-stocking job for $7 an hour. That amounts to about $240 a week, which is about $200 after taxes at that income bracket, which is $10400/year. These are usually the kind of jobs that people in the group that ends up on welfare can actually manage to get. Now, where I live, an apt. near where I held that job down costs about $500 a month if you share it with two other people. That's $6000 a year, leaving you with $4400 to pay for food, medical care (cause you sure as hell don't get insurance at a grocery store), a car if you need one, the insurance for said car, and any quality of life things you want like computer or internet connection (that you could use to look for a better paying job, try to get more education, etc). For reference purposes, I spent about $50 a week on food, which is granted probably more than I had to, but is about what you need if you want any variety in your diet. So, that $4400 is actually $1800. That's not going to be enough to make the monthlies on your car, and your insurance, so now you need another job, which will probably net you around $3-4K a year, depending on whether or not you can work a full 20 extra hours a week.
Note that I haven't included clothing, nor am I feeding more than one person. Since the grandparent was discussing single mothers, I should also have included the food, clothing and medical care of that child (and there's likely more than one). I also didn't include any money spent on cigarettes/booze, which a lot of these people are sadly addicted to.
Someone making $20000 a year at a friggin' part time job is NOT an example of someone living at the poverty line. Hell, I only make $30K at a full-time, but thankfully I have upward mobility, and can probably get a better job (current one is mostly to build savings for grad school). So realize that what you cited as poverty and its actual reality are two *very* different things.
I'll tell you one thing that sucks about the Mac UI: You cannot tab to controls other than textboxes.
Actually that's one of my endless frustrations with web browsing in windows; it's a tremendous pain in the ass if, say, there are some links ahead of the login boxes for a website, or if the boxes are broken up by links to help content, etc. This means tabbing through 400 billion "click here for help" and "back to home" or "see this site in swahili" pages, whereas all I really want is to get to the type in boxes or back up into the URL bar. And heaven forbid you accidentally overshoot one (yes I know there's a key chord to go back, but I maintain I shouldn't need it).
So the "suckage" of that particular design decision is at least debatable.
To put it another way, it's difficult to imagine many people playing a Game Boy for as much time as they'd play a PS2, GameCube, or XBOX
Given that I more than maxed out the clock (99:59) on my copy of the original Pokemon in High School, and that I've logged around 40-60 hours in Final Fantasy Tactics: Advanced (and about 15-20 in Fire Emblem; same with Sword of Mana), I'd have to say that's a false assumption. The thing that all these games have in common is that they all have been designed so that you can play them in short, discrete "chunks;" that is, you can get in a few turns of FFT:A waiting for the bus, then suspend the game, then finish the battle on the bus.
I don't even want to think about the number of batteries that these games (not to mention the Castlevanias, which I have played to DEATH) have gone through ^_^;;
Did I miss any?
Yup, missed my personal favorite:
Class 5 - "This is all just Slashdot Groupthink"
This is the classic "I'm rebelling, just like everybody else" response. The subject in this case, having observed that certain opinions are popular, utilizes a great deal of time, effort, and hot air disclaiming any and all such opinions, figuring that anything that's popular must then be false. This crowd, ironically, often presents even less information, fact, or arguement than its "opponents," because it utilizes the strategy of attempting to create authority for its own opinions through the denegration of all other thoughts or ideas as "what everybody else is thinking, so if you ever think the same as anyone else (except for me or people who agree with me), you must just be a sheep."
Ironically, this particular class is no less likely to be modded up than any other, as it exploits the desires of the moderators to appear "impartial" by modding up posts which oppose the common point of view, for the sake of "balance," regardless of whether this particular reaction is actually contributing to discussion of just wailing incessantly about "Slashdot Groupthink" or how the subject is "going to get modded down for this."
NOW we're covered ^_^
The best comparison is Enterprise. Every Trekkie knows how the universe played out, hence a lot of them hate Enterprise for changing that!
Funny you should mention Berman. From TFA:
Berman: When asked if he had any other advice for George, "He can always hire me if Enterprise doesn't work out".
I think I speak for everyone with a geeky bone in his body when I say . . .
Nooooooooooooo!
Or, perhaps more thematically appropriately:
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!
Go Free Speech!!! (Unless you are saying something I disagree with, in which case I try to mod you down to a troll).
Freedom of Speech means the freedom to express ideas. It doesn't mean anyone has to listen. Being modded into oblivion doesn't deny you the right to express an idea; it just indicates that others have expressed the opinion that your idea was trollish.
Thus far our track record in wars that don't directly involve American safety (ie WWII) is pretty poor, particularly in cases where we replaced a sitting, legal government. I can't personally think of any examples where that sort of conflict worked out well for the citizens of the country where the war actually happened (feel free to correct me on this, my knowledge of American military history is far from complete).
I'd say the Korean War worked out well for the people of South Korea. While the people of North Korea remain shut away under an authoritarian "communist" regime, the people of South Korea mostly kick my ass at Starcraft. I know I'd rather be playing Starcraft than singing patriotic songs on pain of death for my crazy midget overlord.
Disclaimer: I am moderate Liberal, Hardcore Libertarian (on the two-axis political spectrum), so I strongly support the freedom to play Starcraft.
Does anyone else find the link on the upper right sidebar to "Best Deals: Politics" to be terribly ironic in the face of selecting questions for an interview with one of the parties opposing corporate ownership of political candidates? ^_^
"Cool! Senate votes to prop up my failing business model for only $300!"
Actually, what I'd really like is for them to take that extra space and use it to include the original japanese voice acting. I cannot stress enough how much this would improve the game. Simply put, American voice actors are, with very few exceptions, terrible. As in, like a thousand needles in my spine. Restoring the original, non-awful voice acting would be the best use of additional space.
While I don't know if it's the same exact model, I'll caution you not to buy Dell LCDs unless you have to. The school I work for has several labs worth of them, and I used to have a couple on my desk for all my computers. We recently purchased several ViewSonics, and were absolutely agog at how much clearer and brighter they are. Sitting them next to each other, the Dells were about 25-30% dimmer, and correspondingly less legible.
This is pertinent, as when I started this job, I had excellent night vision (I have nearly 20/20, for reference). Right about the time we swapped to the ViewSonics, I had noticed that, when driving home at night, I was having a lot more trouble reading road signs, license plates, etc. when there were bright lights about. Since moving to the ViewSonics, my vision has been steadily recovering. YMMV, of course, but I won't spend another 6 months in front of a Dell unless I absolutely have to.
(And before anyone asks, yes, I can pretty much say it's not just because I was just spending more time in front of a computer; my time at Uni was spent almost entirely in front of my iMac's CRT, and that was 4 years w/o any significant decline. Compare this to the decline from 6 months of Dell.)
From the first line in TFA:
They "glossed over it" because this is the second article; the first one is about the actual setup and installation for MythTV.
You have just made my day. And, apparently, more people than I would have expected got the joke, too.
And they say latin is a dead language ^_^