It's highly regional. Japan I'm told is mostly Live Messenger (MSN). I actually like the MSN protocol more than AIM or anything else. The client too is very nice once you patch it to remove the ads and some other things. Unfortunately all of my friends still use AIM and there is nothing I can do to get them to switch. Some started using Skype for VOIP but they usually only turn it on when they want to make a call, preferring to use AIM the rest of the time.
ID is NOT science and it never will be. There is no such thing as an "ID scientist," they are fundamentalists and all of them have the hidden (but usually not so hidden) agenda of pushing radical Christianity while rejecting and corrupting a true scientific world view. Creationism IS intelligent design.
Intelligent design and its supporters don't deserve to be given equal time in the debate anymore than a denier deserves equal time when discussing the holocaust.
It's obvious to gamers that it's a bad move, from a business perspective, especially to people unfamiliar with the technical side of things, it looks like a smart thing to do. Multiplayer is the biggest selling point of Starcraft so they figure by locking it down more people will be forced to buy the game. They're taking two huge risks with this. The first, is thinking that whatever scheme they are using to enforce this restriction is actually going to work and remain effective, and the second is that they will make more money from people buying the game because they can't play for free. The reality is that LAN play WILL happen with or without Blizzard's approval, and a lot of people who would have bought this game aren't going to.
Based on the information blizzard has given us you will need an internet connection to play multiplayer, even if all the players are local. All the copies of the game have to be authenticated with battlenet, while playing your internet connection isn't being used. So you won't be able to play at a LAN that has no net connection until someone releases a work around for it.
Everyone complaining about LAN play seems to be slightly misunderstanding the situation. Yes, by what they've said you will need a connection to play the official way but once you're in game you are only using the LAN connection. They essentially are forcing you to use battlenet as a matchmaking service, even for local games. If everyone is playing from the same room then the connection doesn't go over the internet at all.
And I'm sure some inventive hacker will create a battlenet emulator that will provide true LAN play without an internet connection.
That's rubbish! You're lying and we all know it. What really happened was you were put on a waiting list to receive your rationed treatment options or more likely told you were too old and would need to be euthanized. If you were in the US you'd be alive and in debt, just like God intended.
I think laziness and incompetence is the culprit here, less so than arrogance, although that may still play a part some of the time. The writer of that article probably thinks he understands the issue, and never bothered to check if he was getting something wrong.
What you seem to be advocating is called exploitation.
You probably think that what is best for business is ultimately always what's best for society as a whole. That simply and demonstrably is not true. I'd rather see every member of society who wishes to work able to find a job, be productive, and make enough money to live rather than sitting idle while collecting government benefits or turning to crime - or both.
Counterfeiting and piracy have grown in recent years in both magnitude and complexity, according to ICE.
That's nice. Now how is that connected to the "crime" of modding a console? How is what he did connected to piracy other than the strained connection that modding consoles inevitably leads to piracy which he should be held responsible for? Even if you buy that, how is any of it inolved with "counterfeiting"? No one is stamping out illegal copies of games to be sold as the real thing here. Wrong issue entirely.
Some estimates indicate that 5 percent to 8 percent of all the goods and merchandise sold worldwide are counterfeit.
Again, a completely irrelevant fact mentioned only for the purpose of trying to connect his "crime" to a larger and more obviously illegal sounding one.
I wish mainstream news outlets would hire people to do research and write informed articles, because the alternative seems to be just parroting whatever the alphabet soup of government agencies tells them about the issue. Though, I guess now I know to watch out for those counterfeit modded game consoles.
My understanding of the German school system (as it was explained to me in German class back in high school) is that you have three branches of primary education, only the most academically rigorous of which (Gymnasium) goes on to University. It always seemed like a great way to organize things, in my opinion. It naturally stratifies your workforce into trade school, middle management, and higher "professional" level jobs--in theory, of course. Has this system been abandoned? Is it now more like the American system where everyone is lumped together and all students are told they need to go to University, even the ones who would be better off learning a trade or just going straight to finding a job?
There are few situations where a bicycle wouldn't be a better, cheaper, and more efficient option. The segway is cool, but it's a solution looking for a problem. It's over engineered, too expensive, and in the vast majority of situations offers no benefit over the alternatives.
I'm aware that IE8 still has most of the usual problems for web designers. I meant that it is pretty good from an end user's point of view. It's a faster, more secure, more feature rich browser and it IS more standards compliant than previous versions of IE.
At the very least it will get them on a current version of IE. IE8 is actually pretty good. MS finally started improving their browser once they had some serious competition, and that's good for everyone regardless of what you use. Outdated IE users are bad for the whole internet.
In California WE PAY FAMILY MEMBERS TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR OWN FAMILY! If they have to quit their job to do so, or work less hours. This is a cheaper and better solution than paying for their care entirely through insurance or state run institutions.
They are unionized as well. Unions are a symptom of a larger disease. Which leads us to your next complaint,
We are going to be guaranteeing health care to all. This isn't a bad thing. We already have the most expensive health care system in the world and we still can't cover everyone. It's abhorrent to me that there is an entire industry who's purpose is to stand between you and your doctor and find a way to NOT pay for your treatment. The health insurance industry simply should not exist. It's counter productive to the health of the individual, and consequently, the health of the nation as a whole.
Murderers sit on death row for decades. As someone who opposes the death penalty in all cases, I find this a good thing. Ideally there wouldn't be a death row at all.
Teenagers graduate high school not because they know anything but because to hold them back would damage their psyche. There were kids in my high school class who did not graduate, that was THIS decade.
More arousal and longer buildup means more ejaculate. Also a factor is the time since last orgasm. There are also various medical conditions and anomalies that can have an effect there too. I'd say that arousal probably has the least to do with it out of those three factors.
And either way, it's not the sperm deciding to travel faster when inside an attractive woman, it's that they can travel more easily when they are in more seminal fluid which is released in larger quantities in certain situations.
You should have told the police he stole your stash of child pornography along with the phone, they would have found him before lunch. Or say he had a mid-Eastern accent when he answered.
I met a future girlfriend while mountain biking...
I think I know what you were trying to say (you met a girl while mountain biking who then later became your girlfriend) but the way you said it makes it sound like it was a time traveling bicycle or you're some creepy guy stalking her trying to make her love you.
Because under a socialist government everyone gets paid the exact same averaged dollar amount per year regardless of what job they do and how good/efficient they are at it right? No one is advocating that kind of system, not even the real socialists nutcases.
What you described is not socialism or socialist policy and it's intellectually dishonest to call it so.
Quite the contrary. The politicians job is NOT to carry out the will of the people, that is a secondary function when it isn't neglected entirely. Their primary job is to raise money to get reelected. Considering that to vote in congress those politicians had to be elected they were all very good at their job.
They can be more dangerous, but everything in life is a risk reward trade off. Motorcycles are economical to ride, cheaper to own overall, and most importantly more fun:)
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It's highly regional. Japan I'm told is mostly Live Messenger (MSN). I actually like the MSN protocol more than AIM or anything else. The client too is very nice once you patch it to remove the ads and some other things. Unfortunately all of my friends still use AIM and there is nothing I can do to get them to switch. Some started using Skype for VOIP but they usually only turn it on when they want to make a call, preferring to use AIM the rest of the time.
That's a bit harsh. What kind of math are we talking about? I only ever studied math as far as algebra and geometry, so am I a subhuman?
ID is NOT science and it never will be. There is no such thing as an "ID scientist," they are fundamentalists and all of them have the hidden (but usually not so hidden) agenda of pushing radical Christianity while rejecting and corrupting a true scientific world view. Creationism IS intelligent design.
Intelligent design and its supporters don't deserve to be given equal time in the debate anymore than a denier deserves equal time when discussing the holocaust.
It's obvious to gamers that it's a bad move, from a business perspective, especially to people unfamiliar with the technical side of things, it looks like a smart thing to do. Multiplayer is the biggest selling point of Starcraft so they figure by locking it down more people will be forced to buy the game. They're taking two huge risks with this. The first, is thinking that whatever scheme they are using to enforce this restriction is actually going to work and remain effective, and the second is that they will make more money from people buying the game because they can't play for free. The reality is that LAN play WILL happen with or without Blizzard's approval, and a lot of people who would have bought this game aren't going to.
Based on the information blizzard has given us you will need an internet connection to play multiplayer, even if all the players are local. All the copies of the game have to be authenticated with battlenet, while playing your internet connection isn't being used. So you won't be able to play at a LAN that has no net connection until someone releases a work around for it.
Everyone complaining about LAN play seems to be slightly misunderstanding the situation. Yes, by what they've said you will need a connection to play the official way but once you're in game you are only using the LAN connection. They essentially are forcing you to use battlenet as a matchmaking service, even for local games. If everyone is playing from the same room then the connection doesn't go over the internet at all.
And I'm sure some inventive hacker will create a battlenet emulator that will provide true LAN play without an internet connection.
I'm using 7 right now and copying is just as fast as XP, and that bug was fixed in Vista a long time ago.
That's rubbish! You're lying and we all know it. What really happened was you were put on a waiting list to receive your rationed treatment options or more likely told you were too old and would need to be euthanized. If you were in the US you'd be alive and in debt, just like God intended.
Some people even have more than two. My grandfather has a third, smaller kidney that is fully functional.
I think laziness and incompetence is the culprit here, less so than arrogance, although that may still play a part some of the time. The writer of that article probably thinks he understands the issue, and never bothered to check if he was getting something wrong.
What you seem to be advocating is called exploitation.
You probably think that what is best for business is ultimately always what's best for society as a whole. That simply and demonstrably is not true. I'd rather see every member of society who wishes to work able to find a job, be productive, and make enough money to live rather than sitting idle while collecting government benefits or turning to crime - or both.
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Counterfeiting and piracy have grown in recent years in both magnitude and complexity, according to ICE.
That's nice. Now how is that connected to the "crime" of modding a console? How is what he did connected to piracy other than the strained connection that modding consoles inevitably leads to piracy which he should be held responsible for? Even if you buy that, how is any of it inolved with "counterfeiting"? No one is stamping out illegal copies of games to be sold as the real thing here. Wrong issue entirely.
Some estimates indicate that 5 percent to 8 percent of all the goods and merchandise sold worldwide are counterfeit.
Again, a completely irrelevant fact mentioned only for the purpose of trying to connect his "crime" to a larger and more obviously illegal sounding one.
I wish mainstream news outlets would hire people to do research and write informed articles, because the alternative seems to be just parroting whatever the alphabet soup of government agencies tells them about the issue. Though, I guess now I know to watch out for those counterfeit modded game consoles.
My understanding of the German school system (as it was explained to me in German class back in high school) is that you have three branches of primary education, only the most academically rigorous of which (Gymnasium) goes on to University. It always seemed like a great way to organize things, in my opinion. It naturally stratifies your workforce into trade school, middle management, and higher "professional" level jobs--in theory, of course. Has this system been abandoned? Is it now more like the American system where everyone is lumped together and all students are told they need to go to University, even the ones who would be better off learning a trade or just going straight to finding a job?
You can't teach intelligence, and age does not cure stupidity.
Being an English major, I am thankful that there will always be work editing the words of others for clarity and correctness :p
There are few situations where a bicycle wouldn't be a better, cheaper, and more efficient option. The segway is cool, but it's a solution looking for a problem. It's over engineered, too expensive, and in the vast majority of situations offers no benefit over the alternatives.
I'm aware that IE8 still has most of the usual problems for web designers. I meant that it is pretty good from an end user's point of view. It's a faster, more secure, more feature rich browser and it IS more standards compliant than previous versions of IE.
At the very least it will get them on a current version of IE. IE8 is actually pretty good. MS finally started improving their browser once they had some serious competition, and that's good for everyone regardless of what you use. Outdated IE users are bad for the whole internet.
In California WE PAY FAMILY MEMBERS TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR OWN FAMILY!
If they have to quit their job to do so, or work less hours. This is a cheaper and better solution than paying for their care entirely through insurance or state run institutions.
They are unionized as well.
Unions are a symptom of a larger disease. Which leads us to your next complaint,
We are going to be guaranteeing health care to all.
This isn't a bad thing. We already have the most expensive health care system in the world and we still can't cover everyone. It's abhorrent to me that there is an entire industry who's purpose is to stand between you and your doctor and find a way to NOT pay for your treatment. The health insurance industry simply should not exist. It's counter productive to the health of the individual, and consequently, the health of the nation as a whole.
Murderers sit on death row for decades.
As someone who opposes the death penalty in all cases, I find this a good thing. Ideally there wouldn't be a death row at all.
Teenagers graduate high school not because they know anything but because to hold them back would damage their psyche.
There were kids in my high school class who did not graduate, that was THIS decade.
I read "D:" and my brain parsed it as an emoticon.
More arousal and longer buildup means more ejaculate. Also a factor is the time since last orgasm. There are also various medical conditions and anomalies that can have an effect there too. I'd say that arousal probably has the least to do with it out of those three factors.
And either way, it's not the sperm deciding to travel faster when inside an attractive woman, it's that they can travel more easily when they are in more seminal fluid which is released in larger quantities in certain situations.
You should have told the police he stole your stash of child pornography along with the phone, they would have found him before lunch. Or say he had a mid-Eastern accent when he answered.
I met a future girlfriend while mountain biking...
I think I know what you were trying to say (you met a girl while mountain biking who then later became your girlfriend) but the way you said it makes it sound like it was a time traveling bicycle or you're some creepy guy stalking her trying to make her love you.
Because under a socialist government everyone gets paid the exact same averaged dollar amount per year regardless of what job they do and how good/efficient they are at it right? No one is advocating that kind of system, not even the real socialists nutcases.
What you described is not socialism or socialist policy and it's intellectually dishonest to call it so.
Quite the contrary. The politicians job is NOT to carry out the will of the people, that is a secondary function when it isn't neglected entirely. Their primary job is to raise money to get reelected. Considering that to vote in congress those politicians had to be elected they were all very good at their job.
They can be more dangerous, but everything in life is a risk reward trade off. Motorcycles are economical to ride, cheaper to own overall, and most importantly more fun :)