I'm sorry, but whoever modded that post "Redundant" is dumb as hell. By definition, the first post cannot possibly be redundant. Modding it anything else would be more appropriate than Redundant.
I know this is cheesey and crappy, but your post reminded me of this song (of which I've only posted a portion).
Open your eyes
To the millions of lies
That they tell you everyday
Open your mind
To the clever disguise
That the advertisements say
......
Destroy all the land
And kill what you can
Just to make the profits rise
They sell you from birth
For all that you're worth
The money spreads like lies
Not that it's important, as your basic arguement holds true, and I'm just being nit-picky, but I believe that humans and chimpanzees are the closest, sharing 97-98% of their DNA (I've seen varying figures) with gorilla's somewhere around 95% percent the same as humans, and orangutan's somewhere below that (still in the nineties).
I didn't say you should censor yourself, I just disagreed with you. You'll notice nowhere in my post did I say that you shouldn't have been allowed to express your opinion. You, however, said that the original post should have been modded down as flamebait, which is a form of censorship. Therefore you were saying the original should have been censored, I said it shouldn't, but said nothing about you being censored.
Because he disagrees with you that automatically makes him flamebait? That's the kind of attitude that leads to censorship. While you may or may not agree with him, his post was well thought out and clearly intended to express his point of view, not start a flame war.
No no no. Who needs to cure diseases when there are nuisances like pine needles to be got rid of? I mean, diseases don't affect us here in America do they? So why should we care? Oh, they do affect us here in America? And the suffering of human beings is more important than my grass being exactly 2 inches high? Bah, I just can't see that being the case.
The easiest way to appear busy or like you're on an important mission is to carry around a clipboard and/or tablet PC, and keep reffering to it while walking around aimlessly (random computer equipment, like keyboards, also works). This works anywhere. When my friends and I were in high school and into fun habits like borrowing signs, there was this small barricade at a fair that one of my friends wanted, so he got a hard-hat (one his dad had laying around) and a clip board, went to the fair, walked up to the barricade, made a mark on the paper, picked up the barricade and carried it off, in the middle of a crowd of several hundred people, no one said anything.
Off Topic, but is it bad that when I looked at that picture of the building the first thing I thought was "Man, that's some nice modelling, I can't pick out any of the polys," even knowing that it was an actual photograph?
That's not terribly innovative,/. ran a story several weeks ago (possibly months, I really have no concept of time beyond a couple days) about a school in Texas doing the same thing.
I know it sounds snobbish on my part to say this, but most people consider me to be smarter/better at mental tasks than most people (horrible sentence, I don't care). I, however, actually perform better under high-stress conditions. Does anyone know if the research done addressed things like this, and the article just didn't cover it?
Even small boats often have radar on them though, my friend has a boat with room for like 15 people (maybe 7 comfortably) with a radar system on board.
The Cell is going to be in the PS3, so does that mean that the PS3 will be clocked at 4.6 GHz+? That seems like a big leap considering consoles are normally running a little slower than "good" computers at the time they come out.
Isn't it a crime to look at child pornography? If this is the case, are cops comitting a felony by looking at these pics to edit them?
It's also a crime to possess cocaine, but police are allowed to confiscate it and store it for evidence.
I got that same feeling, especially the one with the bed. You can almost see the position... I don't want to think about it though. That image is going to haunt me at night, I can tell.
You make a good point, but in some cases the overwhelming lack of security creates a dire need for totalitarianism. Take Iraq right now as an example. If we simply left right now all hell would break loose (even more so than is already happening). In Peru they needed the crackdown before they could develop the freedoms you (and I) think are so vital. I'm not saying the oppressive regime would just give up power, they almost certainly would not have, but the social situation would not allow the development of a free society like we enjoy. So in that kind of situation, the total lack of security, the only possibilities for survival (which people need to live, they don't need freedom) is for either a strong leader to step in and impose military rule or for a foriegn power to step in, impose military rule until it is secure, and then hand power back to the people (or a puppet goverenment like America is so wont to do).
If you read official NASA stuff, you will find that the space suits are there to keep the guys warm in the cold of space.
That's only half correct. The spacesuits are designed to equilize heat distribution. In space any surface exposed to the sun gets very hot very quickly, and any surface in shade gets very cold very quickly. The current space suits have a water heating/cooling system made of many small tubes carrying water that gets heated up on the sun side and carries that warmth to the shade side, where it gets cooled off and flows back to the sun side, repeat ad infinitum.
Um, as an American I come into contact with them occassionally, and many of the ones who espouse freedom and human rights ARE the same ones who say, "Those fucking Iraqi prisoners got what they deserved." While you're right that not all Americans who espouse human rights et al are in favor of this type of behavior, turn you own example around and realize that many of them are. In fact everyone I've met who favors censorship and torture, etc, by the government does so while paying lip-service to freedom and human rights.
Your comment made me think of something that I'm sure game developers have already thought about: ads, especially for things like cars and airplanes and the like. Physics-intensive products like these are already modeled extensively by their manufacturers. I doubt we'll see it in this generation, but future consoles might see MS taking Ford's body models straight from their impact-analysis programs and porting them straight into the game. They don't have to waste time developing the models, AND they get ad revenue from Ford. Seems like a win-win situation for the game manufacturers.
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I'm sorry, but whoever modded that post "Redundant" is dumb as hell. By definition, the first post cannot possibly be redundant. Modding it anything else would be more appropriate than Redundant.
Open your eyes
To the millions of lies
That they tell you everyday
Open your mind
To the clever disguise
That the advertisements say
... ...
Destroy all the land
And kill what you can
Just to make the profits rise
They sell you from birth
For all that you're worth
The money spreads like lies
And how do they know what's good for you?
Taken from "Open Your Eyes" by Goldfinger
Not that it's important, as your basic arguement holds true, and I'm just being nit-picky, but I believe that humans and chimpanzees are the closest, sharing 97-98% of their DNA (I've seen varying figures) with gorilla's somewhere around 95% percent the same as humans, and orangutan's somewhere below that (still in the nineties).
I didn't say you should censor yourself, I just disagreed with you. You'll notice nowhere in my post did I say that you shouldn't have been allowed to express your opinion. You, however, said that the original post should have been modded down as flamebait, which is a form of censorship. Therefore you were saying the original should have been censored, I said it shouldn't, but said nothing about you being censored.
Because he disagrees with you that automatically makes him flamebait? That's the kind of attitude that leads to censorship. While you may or may not agree with him, his post was well thought out and clearly intended to express his point of view, not start a flame war.
No no no. Who needs to cure diseases when there are nuisances like pine needles to be got rid of? I mean, diseases don't affect us here in America do they? So why should we care? Oh, they do affect us here in America? And the suffering of human beings is more important than my grass being exactly 2 inches high? Bah, I just can't see that being the case.
Anyone care to explain why this isn't funny? I thought he was making a joke about the similarities/indistiguishability between flamebait and troll.
The easiest way to appear busy or like you're on an important mission is to carry around a clipboard and /or tablet PC, and keep reffering to it while walking around aimlessly (random computer equipment, like keyboards, also works). This works anywhere. When my friends and I were in high school and into fun habits like borrowing signs, there was this small barricade at a fair that one of my friends wanted, so he got a hard-hat (one his dad had laying around) and a clip board, went to the fair, walked up to the barricade, made a mark on the paper, picked up the barricade and carried it off, in the middle of a crowd of several hundred people, no one said anything.
Off Topic, but is it bad that when I looked at that picture of the building the first thing I thought was "Man, that's some nice modelling, I can't pick out any of the polys," even knowing that it was an actual photograph?
That's not terribly innovative, /. ran a story several weeks ago (possibly months, I really have no concept of time beyond a couple days) about a school in Texas doing the same thing.
I know it sounds snobbish on my part to say this, but most people consider me to be smarter/better at mental tasks than most people (horrible sentence, I don't care). I, however, actually perform better under high-stress conditions. Does anyone know if the research done addressed things like this, and the article just didn't cover it?
Phantasy Star Online for the Xbox wouldn't let you play the single player, offline mode unless you had an Xbox Live account... dumb as hell.
There are plenty of successful FPS's on consoles, I can't imagine why they wouldn't be able to do well with Doom 3 (as far as porting is concerned).
Was it from George Carlin? It sounds familiar, but I can't place it for sure.
Is that the lighthouse from The Ring?
Even small boats often have radar on them though, my friend has a boat with room for like 15 people (maybe 7 comfortably) with a radar system on board.
The Cell is going to be in the PS3, so does that mean that the PS3 will be clocked at 4.6 GHz+? That seems like a big leap considering consoles are normally running a little slower than "good" computers at the time they come out.
Isn't it a crime to look at child pornography? If this is the case, are cops comitting a felony by looking at these pics to edit them? It's also a crime to possess cocaine, but police are allowed to confiscate it and store it for evidence.
I got that same feeling, especially the one with the bed. You can almost see the position... I don't want to think about it though. That image is going to haunt me at night, I can tell.
You make a good point, but in some cases the overwhelming lack of security creates a dire need for totalitarianism. Take Iraq right now as an example. If we simply left right now all hell would break loose (even more so than is already happening). In Peru they needed the crackdown before they could develop the freedoms you (and I) think are so vital. I'm not saying the oppressive regime would just give up power, they almost certainly would not have, but the social situation would not allow the development of a free society like we enjoy. So in that kind of situation, the total lack of security, the only possibilities for survival (which people need to live, they don't need freedom) is for either a strong leader to step in and impose military rule or for a foriegn power to step in, impose military rule until it is secure, and then hand power back to the people (or a puppet goverenment like America is so wont to do).
um, 11K means 11 Kelvin, there is no such thing as "degrees Kelvin" it's just Kelvin
That's only half correct. The spacesuits are designed to equilize heat distribution. In space any surface exposed to the sun gets very hot very quickly, and any surface in shade gets very cold very quickly. The current space suits have a water heating/cooling system made of many small tubes carrying water that gets heated up on the sun side and carries that warmth to the shade side, where it gets cooled off and flows back to the sun side, repeat ad infinitum.
Don't forget JPGFM (Just Plain Guys From Montana).
Um, as an American I come into contact with them occassionally, and many of the ones who espouse freedom and human rights ARE the same ones who say, "Those fucking Iraqi prisoners got what they deserved." While you're right that not all Americans who espouse human rights et al are in favor of this type of behavior, turn you own example around and realize that many of them are. In fact everyone I've met who favors censorship and torture, etc, by the government does so while paying lip-service to freedom and human rights.
Your comment made me think of something that I'm sure game developers have already thought about: ads, especially for things like cars and airplanes and the like. Physics-intensive products like these are already modeled extensively by their manufacturers. I doubt we'll see it in this generation, but future consoles might see MS taking Ford's body models straight from their impact-analysis programs and porting them straight into the game. They don't have to waste time developing the models, AND they get ad revenue from Ford. Seems like a win-win situation for the game manufacturers.