Yeah, this. And while we're at it the entire premise is ridiculous because if you're capable of reading google maps you can read a normal map. I've yet to meet anyone, anywhere, that couldn't read a map that had a legend on it for whatever odd choice of symbols it used.
And that's why 4:3 is still better than widescreen, and CRT is still better than LCD. I'm getting a 22" soon that can do 2000x1500 @85hz, if the text ever gets too small I'll just override font sizes.
Do you keep your LCD further away from you than you would a crt? Do you put things behind your LCD? If the answer to those is "no" then you could use a 100lb trinitron and you wouldn't be "killing any space" more than you would with a 5lb LCD.
If you want a decent resolution you're not really going to find it without getting a CRT or a VERY expensive LCD. The widescreen virus has infected everyone and shutdown their brains and now people think that they're better off with lower resolutions that old giant CRTs had in 1998.
I'd mod parent up but I'm too interested in this thread...
As far as I've ever seen being directly related to one and friends with a few other of those managers most of those "Skills, techniques, and tools" are just the stereotypical "inspirational" stuff with lots of buzzwords and very little substance that's mostly about taking up time and producing paperwork from nothing.
There ARE genuine skills a manager needs but most of those seem to be abstracts rather than actual book skills like a tech person needs more of.
Out of 4 schools in three states I didn't meet a single HS level math teacher that didn't feel that way. Consider yourself lucky for having studied under the very small minority of HS teachers that can't be outthought by a spoon of yeast.
Tell that to every high school teacher in america. As far as they're concerned the ability to memorize every piece of useless trivia thrown at you over an entire year means far more than your ability to actually find the solution to a given problem.
If that thing's using lasers instead of just cheapo LEDs with something restricting the beam I REALLY don't want to be near it when it hits something reflective. I still cringe when I think about the time my friend tried to use his laser pointer in a rainstorm.
This. Until we're in holodecks or getting direct neural stimulation that is utterly indistinguishable from reality the whole thing is a nonissue as the rational mind will simply know the difference between reality and fiction, just like when watching a movie.
No, not really, it does however show that you fell victim to the fallacy that because I made a clerical error in referring to a violent extremist branch of Shia by the name of the violent and extremist branch of Sunni everything I said is discredited.
It's kinda like arguing whether you just got shot by an AK47 or an AKM. Sure there's differences, some of them fairly important in terms of comparing them as guns, but your sucking chest wound won't go away just because you called it an ak47 when it was an akm.
Islam: check Violent and extremist branch of islam: check Sunni or Shia side: fail
Whatever, i don't particularly care whether they're sunni or shia, the operative part is that they're violent extremists who believe in a god given mandate of kill or convert.
Exactly. Open trade and relations with the chinese works because their govt is corrupt because it just wants power and riches and will do whatever it can to balance the two against it's citizens whether that's another tianmen or largely letting them live their lives in peace if not actual freedom.
Iran on the other hand literally believes that god himself demands they maim and/or kill anything standing in the path of their aims of nuclear genocide and creating a wahhabist world and nothing you do or say is ever going to change that unshakeable belief that the most important thing is to kill or convert as many nonbelievers as possible.
In short you can convince someone whose a greedy asshole to give you a lightbulb so EVERYONE in the room can see. You can't convince the guy chewing on pieces of his own face in the corner not to try and rearrange your insides when the voices tell him to.
They're dominant but not because of ANTICOMPETITIVE measures, they dominate the market because (imho, ofc) their shit is just that good that I want to use it instead of anything else.
If bing maps turns out to be better than google maps I'll use it in a heartbeat.
Yeah that's a dissapointment. It was kinda nice bringing your own small army against Metal's MUCH larger army. Especially the few sections where instead of sitting in an arena having enemies thrown at you the object is to just blast your way through an otherwise obscenely overpowering horde of enemies.
It's not just that it had less enemies, the enemies it did have weren't used as well and the weapons just didn't feel as satisfying. Plus they took a character everyone had already formed a mental image of and turned her into "Netty". Following that line of mistakes SS1+SE was "serious" with some fun thrown in. SS2 was just campy in a way that didn't work.
I like the new look for the classics though, and if they redid the multiplayer so it worked better this time around I'd easily be willing to rebuy them for $25-$30. What's particularly impressive is that they managed to do what nobody else so far has done, make a game in a desert that doesn't use too much bloom.
Actually for the most part they cost virtually nothing since the signal that the sms data is in is being sent ANYWAY, they just stick a little extra data in there and plain text is microscopic in terms of how much data it makes up. Isn't it something on the order of a few bytes for a word?
I suppose it depends on the game. If you went true realism in terms of destructive power players destroying buildings would very rarely be an issue even if they had grenades and RPGs. Without actual shaped charges and large quantities of high explosives it'd be difficult for someone to take out the average "Near-Future" reinforced structure of a game building.
But then you'd have people screaming over how unrealistic it is that one frag grenade doesn't blow a 5 foot pit in the ground.
Now if we could get some diagrams explaining who the GP was responding to because clicking "parent" goes to my post and I don't mention that anywhere. Maybe he meant the cellphone co's price listings?
But that's just like the agents in Enter the Matrix. Either you keep it within the rules of the game and thus run the risk of the player actually beating your supposedly impossibly stacked but still realistic odds, or it's still going to wind up being another readily recognizable arbitrary mission failure and restriction.
When it comes down to it even a truly realistic game where even high explosives have difficulty rearranging the landscape I'm still going to find a way, one way or another, to do something that was either unexpected or unwanted.
So you've either got arbitrary restrictions or arbitrary game ending scenarios because I just happened to collapse a skyscraper or fourty that the plot needs.
If you will notice he only had ONE dash before his signature, he took you up on your rebate offer of an extra Fuck in exchange for a single-dash signature.
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Yeah, this. And while we're at it the entire premise is ridiculous because if you're capable of reading google maps you can read a normal map. I've yet to meet anyone, anywhere, that couldn't read a map that had a legend on it for whatever odd choice of symbols it used.
And that's why 4:3 is still better than widescreen, and CRT is still better than LCD. I'm getting a 22" soon that can do 2000x1500 @85hz, if the text ever gets too small I'll just override font sizes.
Do you keep your LCD further away from you than you would a crt? Do you put things behind your LCD? If the answer to those is "no" then you could use a 100lb trinitron and you wouldn't be "killing any space" more than you would with a 5lb LCD.
If you want a decent resolution you're not really going to find it without getting a CRT or a VERY expensive LCD. The widescreen virus has infected everyone and shutdown their brains and now people think that they're better off with lower resolutions that old giant CRTs had in 1998.
I'd mod parent up but I'm too interested in this thread...
As far as I've ever seen being directly related to one and friends with a few other of those managers most of those "Skills, techniques, and tools" are just the stereotypical "inspirational" stuff with lots of buzzwords and very little substance that's mostly about taking up time and producing paperwork from nothing.
There ARE genuine skills a manager needs but most of those seem to be abstracts rather than actual book skills like a tech person needs more of.
Yeah, now instead of handling a controller that feels like a dinner plate I can just get a dinner plate...
Gym uniform, showers.
That aside I think we've discovered one of the reasons their suicide rate is so high.
Out of 4 schools in three states I didn't meet a single HS level math teacher that didn't feel that way. Consider yourself lucky for having studied under the very small minority of HS teachers that can't be outthought by a spoon of yeast.
Tell that to every high school teacher in america. As far as they're concerned the ability to memorize every piece of useless trivia thrown at you over an entire year means far more than your ability to actually find the solution to a given problem.
I thought EVE already allowed you to convert ISK into USD through them at a fixed exchange rate...
If that thing's using lasers instead of just cheapo LEDs with something restricting the beam I REALLY don't want to be near it when it hits something reflective. I still cringe when I think about the time my friend tried to use his laser pointer in a rainstorm.
This. Until we're in holodecks or getting direct neural stimulation that is utterly indistinguishable from reality the whole thing is a nonissue as the rational mind will simply know the difference between reality and fiction, just like when watching a movie.
No, not really, it does however show that you fell victim to the fallacy that because I made a clerical error in referring to a violent extremist branch of Shia by the name of the violent and extremist branch of Sunni everything I said is discredited.
It's kinda like arguing whether you just got shot by an AK47 or an AKM. Sure there's differences, some of them fairly important in terms of comparing them as guns, but your sucking chest wound won't go away just because you called it an ak47 when it was an akm.
Islam: check
Violent and extremist branch of islam: check
Sunni or Shia side: fail
Whatever, i don't particularly care whether they're sunni or shia, the operative part is that they're violent extremists who believe in a god given mandate of kill or convert.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8ip_aEku38
Isn't it WONDERFUL...
Exactly. Open trade and relations with the chinese works because their govt is corrupt because it just wants power and riches and will do whatever it can to balance the two against it's citizens whether that's another tianmen or largely letting them live their lives in peace if not actual freedom.
Iran on the other hand literally believes that god himself demands they maim and/or kill anything standing in the path of their aims of nuclear genocide and creating a wahhabist world and nothing you do or say is ever going to change that unshakeable belief that the most important thing is to kill or convert as many nonbelievers as possible.
In short you can convince someone whose a greedy asshole to give you a lightbulb so EVERYONE in the room can see. You can't convince the guy chewing on pieces of his own face in the corner not to try and rearrange your insides when the voices tell him to.
Always fun convincing people they needed to rewind an 8 track.
They're dominant but not because of ANTICOMPETITIVE measures, they dominate the market because (imho, ofc) their shit is just that good that I want to use it instead of anything else.
If bing maps turns out to be better than google maps I'll use it in a heartbeat.
Yeah that's a dissapointment. It was kinda nice bringing your own small army against Metal's MUCH larger army. Especially the few sections where instead of sitting in an arena having enemies thrown at you the object is to just blast your way through an otherwise obscenely overpowering horde of enemies.
I think I need to reinstall the originals now...
It's not just that it had less enemies, the enemies it did have weren't used as well and the weapons just didn't feel as satisfying. Plus they took a character everyone had already formed a mental image of and turned her into "Netty". Following that line of mistakes SS1+SE was "serious" with some fun thrown in. SS2 was just campy in a way that didn't work.
I like the new look for the classics though, and if they redid the multiplayer so it worked better this time around I'd easily be willing to rebuy them for $25-$30. What's particularly impressive is that they managed to do what nobody else so far has done, make a game in a desert that doesn't use too much bloom.
Actually for the most part they cost virtually nothing since the signal that the sms data is in is being sent ANYWAY, they just stick a little extra data in there and plain text is microscopic in terms of how much data it makes up. Isn't it something on the order of a few bytes for a word?
I suppose it depends on the game. If you went true realism in terms of destructive power players destroying buildings would very rarely be an issue even if they had grenades and RPGs. Without actual shaped charges and large quantities of high explosives it'd be difficult for someone to take out the average "Near-Future" reinforced structure of a game building.
But then you'd have people screaming over how unrealistic it is that one frag grenade doesn't blow a 5 foot pit in the ground.
Now if we could get some diagrams explaining who the GP was responding to because clicking "parent" goes to my post and I don't mention that anywhere. Maybe he meant the cellphone co's price listings?
But that's just like the agents in Enter the Matrix. Either you keep it within the rules of the game and thus run the risk of the player actually beating your supposedly impossibly stacked but still realistic odds, or it's still going to wind up being another readily recognizable arbitrary mission failure and restriction.
When it comes down to it even a truly realistic game where even high explosives have difficulty rearranging the landscape I'm still going to find a way, one way or another, to do something that was either unexpected or unwanted.
So you've either got arbitrary restrictions or arbitrary game ending scenarios because I just happened to collapse a skyscraper or fourty that the plot needs.
If you will notice he only had ONE dash before his signature, he took you up on your rebate offer of an extra Fuck in exchange for a single-dash signature.