Read some of Dawkins' work, particularly The God Delusion, in it he states that no one can assume a 100% atheist stance. He makes it clear that no-one can disprove the existance of God, in the same way no-one can disprove the existance of pink unicorns, the flying spaghetti monster and fairies at the bottom of the garden, so technically we are all agnostics.
So with that being said you should have no problem with him at all.
Sure, Nvidia could build and market their own 80286 tomorrow, but would have to go cap in hand to Intel and AMD if they wanted to add MMX, 3DNow, AMD64, PNI and other instructions added over the years. The patents on these still have many years to run.
Their only real hope is that AMD doesn't survive the next 18 months (a sad thought, but a real possibility) and that Nvidia can scream monopoly and force Intel into a cross-licensing agreement. This of course would be history repeating as it's exactly how AMD became a player in x86 all those years ago.
I found the religious overtones of the ceremony quite disturbing. If he really wanted to reaffirm the separation of church and state he could have started there and then by doing away with the bibles, the preachers and the 'so help me Gods'.
In the UK, the British Humanist Association, the Richard Dawkins Foundation and others do have charitable status; the latter also having similar status in the US. So they are indeed subject to tax breaks.
Don't use mmogchart.com as even a guide to players subs. Only Blizzard are up-front about their numbers, and why wouldn't they when they are so far ahead of the pack? For most MMO publishers, subscription figures are secret and never make it outside of the boardroom. For these publishers, Mmogchart.com can only resort to speculation and heresay to arrive at their figures.
You sound like another bitter ex-SWG player who can't let go of the fact they ruined *your* game. Yes they fucked up, and Smedley has admitted as such, though people often overlook the influence LucasArts had over the changes and lay the blame totally on SOE. Get over it and move on.
A very valid argument although I'm sorry some crack-addled mod didn't agree.
Case in point would be a family member who works for one of the world's largest networking and comms tech companies. Now you would think that they would be leading the way in telecommuting and video conferencing for their employees. Nope, they fly her all over the world to attend meetings, many of which have questionable business value.
Though you'd be surprised that even in tech companies many members of senior management are complete luddites when it comes to things like that.
I keep telling my UK friends that there's a simple solution to the Gatso camera problem. It involves an old truck tyre, two liters of petrol, and a match.
Approach your prey from behind, hang the tyre from the camera box, fill the interior with the petrol, light, and run.
Problem solved.
Chip H.
3.5 billion is small change compared to 25+ billion on propping up the Northern Rock.
If you really want to see taxpayers' money being burned, go work in local government or the NHS. I've worked in the NHS for just six months now, which has been more than enough time to open my eyes to how this government is no different than Labour governments of old, tax and spend with little to show for it.
'Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.' 'All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. '
Two descriptions of Fascism by Benito Mussolini which apply to today's China perfectly. Though as you rightly point out meaning of the word Fascist has been lost on those who nowadays use it merely as an insult. Those same people are those who usually cannot accept that China is the archetypal Fascist state, in my view even more Fascist than Italy ever was in the 20s.
Nvidia used to play a similar game. ATi would launch a new card, then Nvidia would immediately release a new set of Detonator drivers giving anything up to a whopping 30% increase in performance. Now that sort of boost in performance can only mean that the previous drivers were intentionally crippled. Intel largely did the same thing with the late PIIs and early PIIIs, releasing them just to keep ahead of AMD, instead of releasing the highest performing processors that their process tech would allow.
Thing is that this tactic can be dangerous, Intel had egg on their face when AMD launched the 1GHz Athlon, if anyone remembers they launched the 1GHz PIII a few days later but couldn't produce any quantity for months. Nvidia got caught out by ATi's 9800 Pro which couldn't be beat for best part of a year.
I've played many MMOs and the one I keep coming back to is EQ2. The devs have performed and astonishing turnaround for a game that was at best mediocre at launch and have turned it into the most polished and content filled game out there.
Where SOE are not doing it justice is in promotion and distribution of EQ2. Boxed copies of the game are virtually impossible to find in Europe.
Actually the modified L85-A2 is a very accurate and reliable weapon, but you're right in that they shouldn't have bothered spending the money on them and just replaced them.
The thing that really pisses me off is that the US insisted that NATO countries adopt the abysmal 5.56mm round. There were far better cartridges around at the time notably the British.280
I'm not going to take the time to dig up links but there's a fair number of videos on YouTube of US soldiers carrying AKs when on patrol. I'm not going to speculate the reasons why.
Why not buy the sheet music and tabs you want, or wait and use the tab/lyric sites operated by the publishers themselves? That way, you support the artists, not some guy who's making a living by making unauthorized copies of others' work.
Most of the sheet music and tabs I want aren't available for purchase anywhere, yet they're still subject to takedown notices on every tab site I know. So please tell exactly what am I to do in this situation?
Eight years ago a game called Everquest was launched that was to define the fantasy MMO. Since then all we have seen is at best a refinement of the genre, at worst merely a rehash. LOTRO falls between them, bringing a beautifully crafted (though rather small) world with the same old gear-driven, level treadmill style of gameplay that for me is becoming increasingly tiresome. Another point worth mentioning is that there is a glaring lack of content, at this moment even a casual player will end up hitting the level cap in a matter of weeks and it seems that there is precious little end-game content, which is precisely what drove me from WoW.
What MMORPGs need right now is a title that is revolutionary, a real sandbox game whose direction the players get to influence. Star Wars Galaxies was heading that way until Sony killed it with the gameplay changes. Age of Conan and Warhammer look promising but as it stands I expect disappointment.
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Read some of Dawkins' work, particularly The God Delusion, in it he states that no one can assume a 100% atheist stance. He makes it clear that no-one can disprove the existance of God, in the same way no-one can disprove the existance of pink unicorns, the flying spaghetti monster and fairies at the bottom of the garden, so technically we are all agnostics.
So with that being said you should have no problem with him at all.
Sure, Nvidia could build and market their own 80286 tomorrow, but would have to go cap in hand to Intel and AMD if they wanted to add MMX, 3DNow, AMD64, PNI and other instructions added over the years. The patents on these still have many years to run.
Their only real hope is that AMD doesn't survive the next 18 months (a sad thought, but a real possibility) and that Nvidia can scream monopoly and force Intel into a cross-licensing agreement. This of course would be history repeating as it's exactly how AMD became a player in x86 all those years ago.
I found the religious overtones of the ceremony quite disturbing. If he really wanted to reaffirm the separation of church and state he could have started there and then by doing away with the bibles, the preachers and the 'so help me Gods'.
Why do climate modelling?
Obviously climate modelling has to be carried to out to find out what impact running energy-hungry supercomputers has on the environment.
In the UK, the British Humanist Association, the Richard Dawkins Foundation and others do have charitable status; the latter also having similar status in the US. So they are indeed subject to tax breaks.
Don't use mmogchart.com as even a guide to players subs. Only Blizzard are up-front about their numbers, and why wouldn't they when they are so far ahead of the pack? For most MMO publishers, subscription figures are secret and never make it outside of the boardroom. For these publishers, Mmogchart.com can only resort to speculation and heresay to arrive at their figures.
You sound like another bitter ex-SWG player who can't let go of the fact they ruined *your* game. Yes they fucked up, and Smedley has admitted as such, though people often overlook the influence LucasArts had over the changes and lay the blame totally on SOE. Get over it and move on.
Countries are already starting to use WiMax and no doubt when the problems around scaling it are fixed...
Unfortunately, that involves fixing those pesky laws of physics.
Good idea until the Goatse man turns up, he's got plenty of space to hide stolen goods.
A very valid argument although I'm sorry some crack-addled mod didn't agree.
Case in point would be a family member who works for one of the world's largest networking and comms tech companies. Now you would think that they would be leading the way in telecommuting and video conferencing for their employees. Nope, they fly her all over the world to attend meetings, many of which have questionable business value.
Though you'd be surprised that even in tech companies many members of senior management are complete luddites when it comes to things like that.
Don't worry, we're on to it
Probably because the iPhone doesn't shut itself off at random like my and all my co-worker's E65s do.
Sorry, couldn't resist using this thread as a rant against the E65.
Why is it so expensive?
No doubt because the inventor holds a patent on it, how else would you get x50+ markup on the cost of making them?
Nah, real geeks build fake ILS systems.
3.5 billion is small change compared to 25+ billion on propping up the Northern Rock.
If you really want to see taxpayers' money being burned, go work in local government or the NHS. I've worked in the NHS for just six months now, which has been more than enough time to open my eyes to how this government is no different than Labour governments of old, tax and spend with little to show for it.
Mod up please.
'Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.'
'All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. '
Two descriptions of Fascism by Benito Mussolini which apply to today's China perfectly. Though as you rightly point out meaning of the word Fascist has been lost on those who nowadays use it merely as an insult. Those same people are those who usually cannot accept that China is the archetypal Fascist state, in my view even more Fascist than Italy ever was in the 20s.
Indeed, it reminds of a Mexican beer that tastes like soapy piss.
I don't quite understand you, are you trying to say we're fucked?
Nvidia used to play a similar game. ATi would launch a new card, then Nvidia would immediately release a new set of Detonator drivers giving anything up to a whopping 30% increase in performance. Now that sort of boost in performance can only mean that the previous drivers were intentionally crippled. Intel largely did the same thing with the late PIIs and early PIIIs, releasing them just to keep ahead of AMD, instead of releasing the highest performing processors that their process tech would allow.
Thing is that this tactic can be dangerous, Intel had egg on their face when AMD launched the 1GHz Athlon, if anyone remembers they launched the 1GHz PIII a few days later but couldn't produce any quantity for months. Nvidia got caught out by ATi's 9800 Pro which couldn't be beat for best part of a year.
Hans, is that you?
Indeed.
I've played many MMOs and the one I keep coming back to is EQ2. The devs have performed and astonishing turnaround for a game that was at best mediocre at launch and have turned it into the most polished and content filled game out there.
Where SOE are not doing it justice is in promotion and distribution of EQ2. Boxed copies of the game are virtually impossible to find in Europe.
That's the worst analogy I've ever heard on Slashdot.
Actually the modified L85-A2 is a very accurate and reliable weapon, but you're right in that they shouldn't have bothered spending the money on them and just replaced them.
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The thing that really pisses me off is that the US insisted that NATO countries adopt the abysmal 5.56mm round. There were far better cartridges around at the time notably the British
I'm not going to take the time to dig up links but there's a fair number of videos on YouTube of US soldiers carrying AKs when on patrol. I'm not going to speculate the reasons why.
Why not buy the sheet music and tabs you want, or wait and use the tab/lyric sites operated by the publishers themselves? That way, you support the artists, not some guy who's making a living by making unauthorized copies of others' work.
Most of the sheet music and tabs I want aren't available for purchase anywhere, yet they're still subject to takedown notices on every tab site I know. So please tell exactly what am I to do in this situation?
Eight years ago a game called Everquest was launched that was to define the fantasy MMO. Since then all we have seen is at best a refinement of the genre, at worst merely a rehash. LOTRO falls between them, bringing a beautifully crafted (though rather small) world with the same old gear-driven, level treadmill style of gameplay that for me is becoming increasingly tiresome. Another point worth mentioning is that there is a glaring lack of content, at this moment even a casual player will end up hitting the level cap in a matter of weeks and it seems that there is precious little end-game content, which is precisely what drove me from WoW.
What MMORPGs need right now is a title that is revolutionary, a real sandbox game whose direction the players get to influence. Star Wars Galaxies was heading that way until Sony killed it with the gameplay changes. Age of Conan and Warhammer look promising but as it stands I expect disappointment.