James Loewen's book is very good, too bad you just advertized it in a horrible post that has nothing to do with the book. I'm going to guess you haven't read it and just put it in because it criticizes American culture.
Chess itself didn't spring out fully formed from the mind of some Indian intellectual or general. It started out as a dice-based game called Chaturanga(meaning army), lost the dice around the time of Alexander the Great and Indian contact with the Greeks(in fact, it is even argued that the Greek game of pentegrammai was an influence on Chaturanga losing the dice), and eventually in the Renaissance some guy realized that some of the units were heavily imbalanced and replaced them with the bishop and queen, making what we now know as Chess. I'm not sure if I'm arguing with, against, or orthogonal to your point though.
I think StarCraft was the first RTS game I played that had three races, though.
Dune II(which predates even the game retronymed Tiberian Dawn, and was created by Westwood) had House Atreides, House Harkonnen, and House Ordos, though I don't know if you played it.
There are about ten thousand variants of Chess. If you want I can even link you to a few. This one wouldn't be out of place being called Chess 2. Even Chess is pretty much an evolved version of an earlier game called Chaturanga--Chaturanga 2, if you will. The rules of ancient games(with the possible exception of Go--no, wait, there are twenty ways to score endgame positions in that game, depending on what Go league you're in) are so good precisely because they changed a lot before getting to where they are today.
Consider that no sports are interesting unless you're 1)playing them or 2)watching a personal acquaintance(i.e. not a professional player, and preferably not a college player unless it's your cousin or best friend or such) play.
From what I've heard being a good soccer player has nothing to do with any innate talent and everything to do with having the right birthdate so that you're at the maximum age when you sign up for junior soccer leagues, making it seem like you have more innate talent because you're bigger and stronger.
Even in North Carolina(part of the southern US but nowhere near as far down as, say, Alabama) my biology teacher taught evolution, although apparently if your parents kicked and screamed enough you could get out of biology class for that part of it.
It crashed even if I started with a completely different version in a completely different directory. It does it before the Windows debug program could even attach itself or whatever.
I have never had problems running GTK+ apps on the myriad of non-Gnome window managers I have tried(including KDE, WindowMaker, and fluxbox, and my current WM, Xfce) and I even run several of them on fucking Windows 2000 without problems caused by GTK+. In addition, GTK+ is not the exclusive property of Gnome(Xfce also uses GTK+ and it's much better than Gnome or KDE) and GTK+(not Gnome--programs based on Gnome libraries themselves tend to not be very good) programs are almost always better than KDE(very few programs use Qt without using KDE, unfortunately) programs: if you look at Gaim-I mean Pidgin and Krapete-I mean Kopete, there's no comparison.
Personally I find KDE-based interfaces to be worse than GTK+(just so you know, GTK+ means Gimp ToolKit, or at least used to--GTK+ came before Gnome, and Xfce also uses GTK+ without being as poorly-thought-out as Gnome)-based interfaces. Then again, I also think Slackware automates exactly the things that shouldn't be automated and leaves to humans exactly the things that shouldn't be left to humans, so I think it's a fundamental mindset difference here. Seriously, though, there's a reason GTK+ applications win out in mindshare against KDE applications: look at Gaim/Pidgin then look at Kopete. Not a single person, including KDE users, that I have talked to likes Kopete because Kopete is a steaming pile of Krap that seems to have been spawned by the same demon seed that created Windows Millenium. With a few exceptions(amaroK or however it's capitalized, for example, wasn't too bad although I still prefer good old fashioned mplayer) KDE applications are pretty fucking horrible.
In the past ten years, only four attacks(I'm counting the number of planes here, it was all on one day) in the United States have been perpetrated by Muslims. However, thirty-two bombings against abortion clinics have been perpetrated by anti-choice* Christians in 2007 alone.
*When you start blowing people up you lose all right to be called "pro-life".
1) Al Gore wasn't even mentioned in that post.
2) You misspelled "Barack".
3) Barack Obama's father is in fact an African Muslim but his mother is Christian and he was raised by his mother. By some strange coincidence, he happens to be Christian.
4) Calling him a "nigger" doesn't exactly help your argument.
5) Please leave the United States and go back to Hell where you racists belong.
I use Opera on Windows because Firefox has decided to mysteriously crash on me whenever I try to start it. Its flash support is fine but its Javascript support is horrible compared to Firefox.
More likely the other way around: the people who actually care about the art will let anybody experience it, while the people who only care for money will charge unnecessary costs.
Guess what? All the spying people claim Steam causes--it could be done just as easily with just a HL2 executable if Valve wanted to do it. But since they let you play without the CD the entire Slashdot community is up in arms. I'll admit Steam is slightly buggy but I prefer it to having to have the CD in the computer whenever you play.
(I may be in for another one when I replace my computer and try to reinstall things!)
Probably not, as long as your computer meets the specs for your games. When I installed Steam on my sister's computer(and let her use my account) it worked even though I still played on my own computer. The only problems we had involved the fact that my sister's computer was below minimum requirements for HL2.
Personally I prefer Steam to having to have the disk in your drive to play the game although if I were Valve I would give you a choice. The iTunes DRM for music annoys me because it makes it harder to play it on Linux but Steam doesn't annoy me nearly as much because I can't play HL2 on Linux even if there was no copy protection.
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If all you want is the Sci-Fi channel, just go to iTunes and get the five or six shows which are the only good shows on the channel.
That's vague enough to work!
James Loewen's book is very good, too bad you just advertized it in a horrible post that has nothing to do with the book. I'm going to guess you haven't read it and just put it in because it criticizes American culture.
Edison didn't invent the lightbulb. He did invent the predecessor to the MPAA though.
Chess itself didn't spring out fully formed from the mind of some Indian intellectual or general. It started out as a dice-based game called Chaturanga(meaning army), lost the dice around the time of Alexander the Great and Indian contact with the Greeks(in fact, it is even argued that the Greek game of pentegrammai was an influence on Chaturanga losing the dice), and eventually in the Renaissance some guy realized that some of the units were heavily imbalanced and replaced them with the bishop and queen, making what we now know as Chess. I'm not sure if I'm arguing with, against, or orthogonal to your point though.
There are about ten thousand variants of Chess. If you want I can even link you to a few. This one wouldn't be out of place being called Chess 2. Even Chess is pretty much an evolved version of an earlier game called Chaturanga--Chaturanga 2, if you will. The rules of ancient games(with the possible exception of Go--no, wait, there are twenty ways to score endgame positions in that game, depending on what Go league you're in) are so good precisely because they changed a lot before getting to where they are today.
Consider that no sports are interesting unless you're 1)playing them or 2)watching a personal acquaintance(i.e. not a professional player, and preferably not a college player unless it's your cousin or best friend or such) play.
From what I've heard being a good soccer player has nothing to do with any innate talent and everything to do with having the right birthdate so that you're at the maximum age when you sign up for junior soccer leagues, making it seem like you have more innate talent because you're bigger and stronger.
Even in North Carolina(part of the southern US but nowhere near as far down as, say, Alabama) my biology teacher taught evolution, although apparently if your parents kicked and screamed enough you could get out of biology class for that part of it.
I have a feeling my grandparent post's poster would rather donate his body to science than have a grave anyways.
It crashed even if I started with a completely different version in a completely different directory. It does it before the Windows debug program could even attach itself or whatever.
I have never had problems running GTK+ apps on the myriad of non-Gnome window managers I have tried(including KDE, WindowMaker, and fluxbox, and my current WM, Xfce) and I even run several of them on fucking Windows 2000 without problems caused by GTK+. In addition, GTK+ is not the exclusive property of Gnome(Xfce also uses GTK+ and it's much better than Gnome or KDE) and GTK+(not Gnome--programs based on Gnome libraries themselves tend to not be very good) programs are almost always better than KDE(very few programs use Qt without using KDE, unfortunately) programs: if you look at Gaim-I mean Pidgin and Krapete-I mean Kopete, there's no comparison.
Personally I find KDE-based interfaces to be worse than GTK+(just so you know, GTK+ means Gimp ToolKit, or at least used to--GTK+ came before Gnome, and Xfce also uses GTK+ without being as poorly-thought-out as Gnome)-based interfaces. Then again, I also think Slackware automates exactly the things that shouldn't be automated and leaves to humans exactly the things that shouldn't be left to humans, so I think it's a fundamental mindset difference here. Seriously, though, there's a reason GTK+ applications win out in mindshare against KDE applications: look at Gaim/Pidgin then look at Kopete. Not a single person, including KDE users, that I have talked to likes Kopete because Kopete is a steaming pile of Krap that seems to have been spawned by the same demon seed that created Windows Millenium. With a few exceptions(amaroK or however it's capitalized, for example, wasn't too bad although I still prefer good old fashioned mplayer) KDE applications are pretty fucking horrible.
In the past ten years, only four attacks(I'm counting the number of planes here, it was all on one day) in the United States have been perpetrated by Muslims. However, thirty-two bombings against abortion clinics have been perpetrated by anti-choice* Christians in 2007 alone.
*When you start blowing people up you lose all right to be called "pro-life".
O'RLY? I hardly know 'er!
1) Al Gore wasn't even mentioned in that post.
2) You misspelled "Barack".
3) Barack Obama's father is in fact an African Muslim but his mother is Christian and he was raised by his mother. By some strange coincidence, he happens to be Christian.
4) Calling him a "nigger" doesn't exactly help your argument.
5) Please leave the United States and go back to Hell where you racists belong.
Super Mario Brothers is easy to create but hard to think up in the first place. Halo is the opposite: hard to create but easy to think up.
I use Opera on Windows because Firefox has decided to mysteriously crash on me whenever I try to start it. Its flash support is fine but its Javascript support is horrible compared to Firefox.
More likely the other way around: the people who actually care about the art will let anybody experience it, while the people who only care for money will charge unnecessary costs.
Guess what? All the spying people claim Steam causes--it could be done just as easily with just a HL2 executable if Valve wanted to do it. But since they let you play without the CD the entire Slashdot community is up in arms. I'll admit Steam is slightly buggy but I prefer it to having to have the CD in the computer whenever you play.
Personally I prefer Steam to having to have the disk in your drive to play the game although if I were Valve I would give you a choice. The iTunes DRM for music annoys me because it makes it harder to play it on Linux but Steam doesn't annoy me nearly as much because I can't play HL2 on Linux even if there was no copy protection.