The reason they man the ISS is because they are studying the science of humans living in space. It is a good field of study since (hopefully) it will be a necessary body of knowledge once we are travelling space frequently.
I was an enormous fan of KOTOR I. I beat it multiple times and loved everything about it.
KOTOR II is one of the most pointless, frustrating, and boring games I've ever played.
It suffers from multiple bugs. (I had to restart my game at one point because of a fatal crash... on the xbox). It has horrible slowdowns and stutters during battles. The load times are on average 4-5 seconds longer than KOTOR I load times. (In computer time, 5 seconds is a LONG time.)
And the story was a total lump of bullshit. It barely made sense, it never inspired me to complete the game (even though I did, out of pure frustrated desire to see something coherent happen), and the characters were useless and paper thin.
Shame on Obsidian for taking such a royal shit on this game, and what could have been an enduring franchise.
I take slight offense to your comments. I am not stupid or lazy, and I use microsoft products because I'm TOO BUSY to hassle with the alternatives.
I do two things with my time; practice my musical instrument, and study physics. I don't have time to learn and administer a linux machine. I've tried, but it was just too much hassle given my aggressive practice/study shedule. My windows machine doesn't make me look anything up or go out of my way to learn how to use it because I already know how, so I stick with it and just cross my fingers and hope for the best.
Not every non-linux user is just too stupid to use linux. Get off the high horse there.
I'm a gamer. I played X-Wing 8 hours a day for a whole summer. I was lapping up Doom while Eric and Dyllan were blasting up Columbine. I mowed down pedestrians and policemen while playing all the GTA's (starting with the original 1 & 2). I understand why games are fun and I certainly don't think they are bad.
But I can definately see why people who don't play games would view them as bad. I mean, look at the habit from a distance. You aren't getting any excercise. The imagry is amdittedly horrid in most cases. Arcade/action style games rarely build any kind of life skill or healthful mental attribute. Games can appear sort of like highly addictive mental masturbation that leads to obesiety and a disconnect with reality.
Of course, those people are wrong. Games kick fucking ass. But I'm just saying, I can see where those types of people are coming from.
I don't care that there's a rating system, but I think it is highly innefficient to make the parent come with the kid EVERY TIME they want a mature game. The parent should be able to sign a form and get a license for the kid that he/she can show at the game store, making it clear that he has parent permission to buy whatever he wants.
I have decided in advance to never have kids so that I will be able to save for a flight into space.
Before you laugh, know that I'm not kidding.
er...also, I don't want kids anyway so it's not a big sacrafice. It's just that now I have a more concrete reason to give my parents other than "I don't want kids".
"but no more than 858 Officers and 1464 Members may be appointed per year."
How the heck do they arrive at these numbers?
I can see them all sitting around in the throne room:
Queen: "I just appointed my 859th Officer!"
Parliment: "WHAT?? NO! 859? Are you crazy! It should be perfectly obvious that Britain should not have more than exactly 858 Officers. Sheesh. What kind of Queen are you anyway?"
Yeah, I know. I wasn't claiming that my experiences dictate market reality. I was just offering my point of view and expressing curiosity as to whether anyone else experienced that.
The xbox/gamecube thing definately comes down to taste. A lot of Nintendo folks say that the only good thing for xbox is Halo, and I totally disagree. I got Halo for fun, but it isn't the driving app on my xbox. I would buy two xboxes just to play Knights of the Old Republic. It's my favorite game of all time. (KOTOR 2 is excellent as well). I also happen to LOVE racing and sports games. The Xbox is ballistic when it comes to those. Not to mention my growing addiction to Crimson Skies and Dead or Alive 3. Combine all that with Xbox live and it just boils down to a top notch video game experience.
I remember that when the xbox was nearing release, and for a while after its release, there was a constant river of slime coming from the hard core Nintendo fan base about how the Xbox was just a paperweight, it was bigger than a Dodge Truck, it was stupid, it was just a pc, it sucked, halo sucked, Microsoft sucked, the controller would eat you and rape your mom because it was so big, and the people who worked for microsoft were souless imps who wrote code in between picking their butts and stepping on puppies.
I went and bought an xbox just because it seemed like anything that so many people hated had to be cool. I was right. It's bitchin' fun. I sometimes wonder if a lot of other gamers didn't choose xbox for the same reason.
Ken Jennings was not available for comment, as he was busy sorting his money by the years in which the individual bills were printed. He then went about adding another 1000 movies to his list of favorite movies.
Art House movies are shit, that's why no one sees them. I would rather see Spiderman or Star Wars over any art house film ever made ever.
Art House movies are based on obscure facets of the human psyche that healthy, productive people can't relate to. That's why those moveis flop.
The stupid blockbuster movies you pan are based on themes of heroism, romance, and adventure; themes that normal people relate to and admire. Thus, good sales.
What would your opinion be if I was running an information booth in the US that provided maps and directions to illegal caches of automatic weapons. I wasn't SELLING the weapons, per se, I was just providing links to other links that connected a person to a vendor that connects business pipelines and customers to eachother in order for them to exchange automatic super weapons.
I would be breaking the law, and your sad addiction to shit that you didn't pay for should not be shrouded under some psuedo holier than thou computer ethics blanket.
Actually making a good record has an enormous learning curve. It's just become socially acceptable to be a poor musician and still be viewed as a sucessful artist.
Our society has extremely low musical standards at the moment, and anyone who can bang on an instrument is labeled a musician.
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The reason they man the ISS is because they are studying the science of humans living in space. It is a good field of study since (hopefully) it will be a necessary body of knowledge once we are travelling space frequently.
As far as I'm concerned, you've only better demonstrated my point that everquest is an unhealthy escape.
So typing /pizza will get you some food.
/exit will get you a life.
I hear that typing
I am so glad this came up.
I was an enormous fan of KOTOR I. I beat it multiple times and loved everything about it.
KOTOR II is one of the most pointless, frustrating, and boring games I've ever played.
It suffers from multiple bugs. (I had to restart my game at one point because of a fatal crash... on the xbox). It has horrible slowdowns and stutters during battles. The load times are on average 4-5 seconds longer than KOTOR I load times. (In computer time, 5 seconds is a LONG time.)
And the story was a total lump of bullshit. It barely made sense, it never inspired me to complete the game (even though I did, out of pure frustrated desire to see something coherent happen), and the characters were useless and paper thin.
Shame on Obsidian for taking such a royal shit on this game, and what could have been an enduring franchise.
God damn that game was disappointing.
How is IBM going to make money off of Linux?
I take slight offense to your comments. I am not stupid or lazy, and I use microsoft products because I'm TOO BUSY to hassle with the alternatives.
I do two things with my time; practice my musical instrument, and study physics. I don't have time to learn and administer a linux machine. I've tried, but it was just too much hassle given my aggressive practice/study shedule. My windows machine doesn't make me look anything up or go out of my way to learn how to use it because I already know how, so I stick with it and just cross my fingers and hope for the best.
Not every non-linux user is just too stupid to use linux. Get off the high horse there.
"strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water."
Cool, there are programmers on Mars.
I run PC Crash* on my computer too.
*windows
I'm a gamer. I played X-Wing 8 hours a day for a whole summer. I was lapping up Doom while Eric and Dyllan were blasting up Columbine. I mowed down pedestrians and policemen while playing all the GTA's (starting with the original 1 & 2). I understand why games are fun and I certainly don't think they are bad.
But I can definately see why people who don't play games would view them as bad. I mean, look at the habit from a distance. You aren't getting any excercise. The imagry is amdittedly horrid in most cases. Arcade/action style games rarely build any kind of life skill or healthful mental attribute. Games can appear sort of like highly addictive mental masturbation that leads to obesiety and a disconnect with reality.
Of course, those people are wrong. Games kick fucking ass. But I'm just saying, I can see where those types of people are coming from.
If you keep computers outside just in case you have to go out there, and wake up to check on them at 3 in the morning, you might be a geek. =)
I don't care that there's a rating system, but I think it is highly innefficient to make the parent come with the kid EVERY TIME they want a mature game. The parent should be able to sign a form and get a license for the kid that he/she can show at the game store, making it clear that he has parent permission to buy whatever he wants.
I think that just for my sake, and for the sake of all my fellow Star Wars fans, we should just start calling them Droids.
I have decided in advance to never have kids so that I will be able to save for a flight into space.
Before you laugh, know that I'm not kidding.
er...also, I don't want kids anyway so it's not a big sacrafice. It's just that now I have a more concrete reason to give my parents other than "I don't want kids".
Riiight. I heard that people in the military also wear pants and brush their teeth. These activities must therefore be bad for society.
"but no more than 858 Officers and 1464 Members may be appointed per year."
How the heck do they arrive at these numbers?
I can see them all sitting around in the throne room:
Queen: "I just appointed my 859th Officer!"
Parliment: "WHAT?? NO! 859? Are you crazy! It should be perfectly obvious that Britain should not have more than exactly 858 Officers. Sheesh. What kind of Queen are you anyway?"
That is the sound of 100,000 nerds adding a new link to their favorites menu.
Yeah, I know. I wasn't claiming that my experiences dictate market reality. I was just offering my point of view and expressing curiosity as to whether anyone else experienced that. The xbox/gamecube thing definately comes down to taste. A lot of Nintendo folks say that the only good thing for xbox is Halo, and I totally disagree. I got Halo for fun, but it isn't the driving app on my xbox. I would buy two xboxes just to play Knights of the Old Republic. It's my favorite game of all time. (KOTOR 2 is excellent as well). I also happen to LOVE racing and sports games. The Xbox is ballistic when it comes to those. Not to mention my growing addiction to Crimson Skies and Dead or Alive 3. Combine all that with Xbox live and it just boils down to a top notch video game experience.
I remember that when the xbox was nearing release, and for a while after its release, there was a constant river of slime coming from the hard core Nintendo fan base about how the Xbox was just a paperweight, it was bigger than a Dodge Truck, it was stupid, it was just a pc, it sucked, halo sucked, Microsoft sucked, the controller would eat you and rape your mom because it was so big, and the people who worked for microsoft were souless imps who wrote code in between picking their butts and stepping on puppies.
I went and bought an xbox just because it seemed like anything that so many people hated had to be cool. I was right. It's bitchin' fun. I sometimes wonder if a lot of other gamers didn't choose xbox for the same reason.
Ken Jennings was not available for comment, as he was busy sorting his money by the years in which the individual bills were printed. He then went about adding another 1000 movies to his list of favorite movies.
Art House movies are shit, that's why no one sees them. I would rather see Spiderman or Star Wars over any art house film ever made ever.
Art House movies are based on obscure facets of the human psyche that healthy, productive people can't relate to. That's why those moveis flop.
The stupid blockbuster movies you pan are based on themes of heroism, romance, and adventure; themes that normal people relate to and admire. Thus, good sales.
I think it's awesome that someone finally got the book thrown at them for cheating hard working professionals out of their profit. It's fun to watch.
Screw the software/music/movie pirates.
Bull.Shit();
What would your opinion be if I was running an information booth in the US that provided maps and directions to illegal caches of automatic weapons. I wasn't SELLING the weapons, per se, I was just providing links to other links that connected a person to a vendor that connects business pipelines and customers to eachother in order for them to exchange automatic super weapons.
I would be breaking the law, and your sad addiction to shit that you didn't pay for should not be shrouded under some psuedo holier than thou computer ethics blanket.
It's true though. Last week I was 30 minutes late for a movie and it had JUST started. The opening credits were still playing.
"I'm waiting for the MMORPG that isn't just non stop mindless click and kill."
How about real life? It's fun, risky, and rewarding.
Actually making a good record has an enormous learning curve. It's just become socially acceptable to be a poor musician and still be viewed as a sucessful artist. Our society has extremely low musical standards at the moment, and anyone who can bang on an instrument is labeled a musician.