The point being made is that there simply is no "modest living" option. It's either "sign your soul away and hit it big" or "slum it, bitch." I'm not saying what I think here, but you seem to be deliberately misunderstanding people.
That's as maybe, but by refusing to understand "radiate cold" as inverse radiation of heat, you just being willfully ignorant. Technically, there's no such thing as sucking - "negative" pressure is just positive pressure acting in the other direction. But we still understand the phrase, and don't actually care.
In other news, subtraction doesn't exist, you can only add negative numbers. Language is a convenience tool, and sometimes it's just more convenient to say that something sucks air, or radiates cold, or whatever.
Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Not to be on the offensive, since I'm no lawyer or ethicist or whatever, but that seems to be in direct contradiction to what you just said.
However, there exists no law on record that grants you any right to security. Granting such a right would require that protection be given, and the protecting party be held responsible should you still be blown up.
Surely the person held responsible is the person responsible for blowing you up? Take a look at article 9, noone shall be arrested randomly. There doesn't have to be a central authority stopping people from arresting you, and taking responsibility when they do; in ye olde tymes, we (presumably) still had such a right, even if it wasn't codified. Does this mean there had to be some town-mob-ombudsman/responsible person to whom you could complain if a mob arrested you for no reason? I don't think so.
The problem for many people seems to be a matter of degree. This proposal can apparently used to impose much crazier restrictions than those used for ASBOs. The real issue I find is just how much evidence you'll need for one of these things. If you don't need enough evidence to convict them just how little is it possible to get away with? Perhaps this is a wider issue (not necessarily a problem, though) that needs to be looked at in the judicial system.
When will people learn? Not everyone has the means or motive to fix someone's buggy code. It does not take a programmer to notice a bug. It does take a programmer to fix it, though! I can tell when someone sings out of tune, but that doesn't mean I can sing in tune. Likewise, I can tell when someone's painting is dodgy, but that doesn't mean I want to paint a picture.
As I recall, when I first used it, I found it awful. When it was first released as open source, it was, I am led to believe, barely useable - in spite of what people tell you about the interface just being "different." So yes, a lot of the groundwork was laid by commercial programming, but hot damn, has it come on since then. With the amount of recoding they do, I expect there will be little original code left, shortly.
In the past year or so, every single release has something that got the modeller in me excited. Each time, there has been at least one feature that is almost immediately applicable, usually more, and with a raft of bugfixes and minor features that I doubt I'll use. Blender has been for quite a while a very impressive piece of software, and that is ignoring the fact that it is free. It is one of the main, (in my opinion) achievements of the F/OSS movement, and is competable with professional applications. If development continues at this rate, I expect is will quite possible be better than its expensive competitors.
But there are nonetheless hundreds of good actors that aren't stars, and many stars that are not good actors. I don't really see why names bring people in as much as they apparently do, though, since a name is relatively unrelated to the performance. That only goes for not putting the name to an acting ability, but still.
Shouldn't be too difficult to power if it remains light - solar panels, perhaps. I can't imagine it needing much more than small batteries to operate cellophane + gold wings, though, even with a (light) payload.
Nothing may be perfect, but you can acheive the best possible with reference to a clearly defined standard. For the question, "what is two plus two?" "four" is the perfect answer, given the standard of human mathematics. For CSS implementation, complying completely to all of the CSS specification is perfect.
How does the program make it from CD to hard disk to RAM? Copying.
Re:And this is indeed a serious problem with EBay.
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You've ignored even the introduction, haven't you? (I know, I must be new here.) If you bid early, you are increasing the amount you have to pay later, and increasing the likelihood of someone outbidding you, since they can see your bids. If you bid the same maximum at the very end, then the worst that can happen is that someone else has outbid you, or you get it for the same price as before. The best that can happen is that, without information on your bids, other bidders have bid lower than they may otherwise have done, and you get the item for less.
Technically, if everyone were immune to psychological influences and bid precisely at their unwavering maximum, sniping would have no effect. As it stands, this is not the case, and sniping is a better tactic.
£50 per game for the XBox 360? I call that a worrying price after the initial investment. I've seen new game prices get higher in recent years, but I was never aware of them getting that high - £30 was what I would've expected to pay a little while ago for a new PC game.
Worms of any variety is truly timeless. As you say, it's a combination of all the bits of cartooniness - along with a solid idea and a good variety of weapons. Other games using the same gameplay idea are less successful, in my opinion, due to the lack of seriousness exhibited by worms.
Another series that for me is truly timeless is the Thief series. The first two games used the same engine - not even particularly advanced back in the day. Now they look downright outdated, but nonetheless, there is something truly satisfying about giving a guard a good solid THUMP and down he goes... And that "gling" noise when you steal loot... aaahhh.
One thing that struck me recently is that the platformer is still a very fun game concept. Play N to see what I mean. It's an absolute pain in the ass, but very fun. Back to the old days, I say;)
Re:What's the big deal about Nethack?
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It was one of the first games I ever saw played - I can remember quite vividly my dad playing it on a black and white laptop, back when our BBC Micro was also cool (I'm a young gamer, ok?) so I'm drawn to it almost entirely out of nostalgic reasons. I think I shall try and play it properly sometime...
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The point being made is that there simply is no "modest living" option. It's either "sign your soul away and hit it big" or "slum it, bitch." I'm not saying what I think here, but you seem to be deliberately misunderstanding people.
That's as maybe, but by refusing to understand "radiate cold" as inverse radiation of heat, you just being willfully ignorant. Technically, there's no such thing as sucking - "negative" pressure is just positive pressure acting in the other direction. But we still understand the phrase, and don't actually care.
In other news, subtraction doesn't exist, you can only add negative numbers. Language is a convenience tool, and sometimes it's just more convenient to say that something sucks air, or radiates cold, or whatever.
(Disclaimer: I may have forgotten the actual most common cause of death.)
The Bill of Rights, though, does not just limit what governments should be doing, but what everyone should be doing with respect to other people.
Where did I mention the US Constitution? If you take a look, the one document I did mention happened to be the Universal Bill of Rights.
The problem for many people seems to be a matter of degree. This proposal can apparently used to impose much crazier restrictions than those used for ASBOs. The real issue I find is just how much evidence you'll need for one of these things. If you don't need enough evidence to convict them just how little is it possible to get away with? Perhaps this is a wider issue (not necessarily a problem, though) that needs to be looked at in the judicial system.
Eh, what? Your freedom includes the right to blow me up? Your freedoms stop where my rights start.
Pressure support's been in for more than a year - I've been using GIMP with pressure support for at least two or three.
When will people learn? Not everyone has the means or motive to fix someone's buggy code. It does not take a programmer to notice a bug. It does take a programmer to fix it, though! I can tell when someone sings out of tune, but that doesn't mean I can sing in tune. Likewise, I can tell when someone's painting is dodgy, but that doesn't mean I want to paint a picture.
As I recall, when I first used it, I found it awful. When it was first released as open source, it was, I am led to believe, barely useable - in spite of what people tell you about the interface just being "different." So yes, a lot of the groundwork was laid by commercial programming, but hot damn, has it come on since then. With the amount of recoding they do, I expect there will be little original code left, shortly.
In the past year or so, every single release has something that got the modeller in me excited. Each time, there has been at least one feature that is almost immediately applicable, usually more, and with a raft of bugfixes and minor features that I doubt I'll use. Blender has been for quite a while a very impressive piece of software, and that is ignoring the fact that it is free. It is one of the main, (in my opinion) achievements of the F/OSS movement, and is competable with professional applications. If development continues at this rate, I expect is will quite possible be better than its expensive competitors.
But there are nonetheless hundreds of good actors that aren't stars, and many stars that are not good actors. I don't really see why names bring people in as much as they apparently do, though, since a name is relatively unrelated to the performance. That only goes for not putting the name to an acting ability, but still.
Shouldn't be too difficult to power if it remains light - solar panels, perhaps. I can't imagine it needing much more than small batteries to operate cellophane + gold wings, though, even with a (light) payload.
Nothing may be perfect, but you can acheive the best possible with reference to a clearly defined standard. For the question, "what is two plus two?" "four" is the perfect answer, given the standard of human mathematics. For CSS implementation, complying completely to all of the CSS specification is perfect.
How does the program make it from CD to hard disk to RAM? Copying.
Technically, if everyone were immune to psychological influences and bid precisely at their unwavering maximum, sniping would have no effect. As it stands, this is not the case, and sniping is a better tactic.
They still teach evolution where you come from? The advantage of jealousy is pretty obvious, given just a little thought.
Like, OMG!! You know slashdot's going down the pan when its members say 'lol.' And contract 'a lot.'
£50 per game for the XBox 360? I call that a worrying price after the initial investment. I've seen new game prices get higher in recent years, but I was never aware of them getting that high - £30 was what I would've expected to pay a little while ago for a new PC game.
Another series that for me is truly timeless is the Thief series. The first two games used the same engine - not even particularly advanced back in the day. Now they look downright outdated, but nonetheless, there is something truly satisfying about giving a guard a good solid THUMP and down he goes... And that "gling" noise when you steal loot... aaahhh.
One thing that struck me recently is that the platformer is still a very fun game concept. Play N to see what I mean. It's an absolute pain in the ass, but very fun. Back to the old days, I say ;)
It was one of the first games I ever saw played - I can remember quite vividly my dad playing it on a black and white laptop, back when our BBC Micro was also cool (I'm a young gamer, ok?) so I'm drawn to it almost entirely out of nostalgic reasons. I think I shall try and play it properly sometime...
I thought just the same thing. One of my aquarium black filters should do the trick, if chopped up enough.