Never assume he's being malicious. In his one sentence, he gives you the weapon name and the place to find it. That's the very definition of informative.
Even a stopped watch is right twice a day. Just because he's an admitted liar doesn't mean his statements should be disregarded. It only means double-checking them is more important than it would otherwise be.
Now that I think about it, I'm sorry I responded to you. You clearly don't have enough marketable skills or even higher order brain functioning to figure out how one would "earn" 8K a year.:P
Please don't hurt me. _
It's more than possible. My total mandatory expenses in a year are rent, phone, and food. That costs a total of 4800/yr for rent because I chose not to live in my parents' basement, 650/yr for phone, and about 2400/yr for food. Just under the 8k mark. Unlike the previous poster, I make quite a bit more than that to pay for other things, like entertainment and travel (since I opted to not work within a 15-minute walk from my home, although the possibility exists). All it takes, however, to earn less than 8k per year is a part time job and no desire for expensive habits.
I'm pretty sure that one's been around a while, and he just whips it out for sarcastic intrigue. A couple of posts lower, you'll see someone with an ID number in the 30millions, which is 13million higher than The FBI.
On the other hand, if it's the real FBI, then it kind of tells you how late they really are to the IT Party.;)
It was never about the action. It was about the source of the effect. Think about the story of Moses turning his staff into a snake in front of the Egyptian high priests. They also turned their staffs into snakes, as the story goes, but since their "magic" was not from God, it was called sorcerery.
I would disagree. If everyone and their dog had a real thermal imager, then excess heat leakage could be considered publicly available information since anyone off the street could look at your house and see said excess heat leakage. Police can use such information pretty much any way they want.
Currently, the inside of the house is considered private because most people have these funny things called "walls" and "curtains" preventing outsiders from seeing the inside. However, hypothetically, if you ran a drug op out of a house made of transparent glass, an officer on the street could look into your house, see your drug op, and get a warrant for your arrest based on that.
You missed the point. "We hold..." means the founding fathers made a value judgment. Just because they hold those truths to be "self-evident" neither means they are self-evident nor means they are right. If a government represents the people, anything it does democratically is right, even if you or some country's founders might disagree.
Maybe I'm looking through rose-tinted glasses, but I seem to remember this funny little thing that games used to be defined by. I can't remember the word for it... oh yeah. They were Fun. I can live without these new-fangled gimmicks. I don't see games being any more fun with the Natal system than with the Wiimote, nor do I see them being any more fun with Sony's system. The concepts are neat, but they just don't seem efficient. The focus is turning away from good games and more toward gimmicky games.
I'll admit, the Wiimote is gimmicky, but Nintendo hasn't forgotten what Fun is.
I ran my WinXP desktop without AV for a month. I had a router between the computer and the modem--a Linksys, though I've always preferred D-Link. When I reinstalled AVG, no viruses were found in the full scan I ran. That made me not worry at all about the Vista machine I bought a few months later. I installed AVG on that one right before I sold it to a friend of a friend and even ran Trend Micro's Housecall on it to make sure. Once again, no viruses were detected.
Lesson Learned: Don't Buy Into Fearmongering.
It only requires a few unscrupulous groups to voluntarily suggest names of innocent people to inflate the list, increasing the likelihood of false-positives on any given search and reducing the likelihood of being matched themselves within a meaningful time frame.
For the record: I'm a food/beverage industry worker--the poor kind. I hate the MAFIAA but I still don't pirate. Why? Because the "try before you buy" mentality still means you're violating the author's rights to profit from his product. If you don't trust the author's worth, sopssa is right: don't buy it and live with it.
2500 downloads for 1 lost sale
[Citation Needed] Sounds like BS.
You're enjoying the product without paying for it. It's not quite actual theft, but that doesn't make it right.
I have to completely disagree. In the game I'm playing with my brothers and friends (five players +a DM), we each plan our turn during the other players' (or NPCs') turns. When it gets to us, we move our mini to our desired spot, announce our attack and roll dice. Overall, it adds about 5 to 10 seconds per person. This is in contrast with the GURPS game I'm playing where the GM abhores combat maps and grids and yet every player has to ask where the other enemies are in relation to them which adds a lot more confusion and a lot more time than just 10 seconds per person.
Long story short: when you're playing with tactical minds, the combat map and minis save a lot more time.
I would disagree with that. A guy I work with is a Linux Fan. He's technically advanced. He's using Ubuntu. He can't figure out how to give me read access to a given folder on his computer. With Windows, i can do it with my eyes closed.
Yeah yeah. I hear what you're saying. Unfair comparison. Well, his parents can use XP and Vista just fine. They can use MacOS more or less easily, but they keep using him for tech support for it. He convinced them to use Ubuntu. He gets tech support calls every day from them. Which is supposed to be easier, again?
Read here about the Reboot issue:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17565-kepler-spacecraft-sees-its-first-exoplanets.html
Quoting:
The prime suspects are energetic charged particles known as cosmic rays. Earth's atmosphere shields us from these particles' potentially dangerous effects, but they bombard spacecraft at a rate of thousands per second.
If a cosmic ray hits a vulnerable spot in Kepler's electronics, it could cause a voltage spike that mimics a request from ground controllers to reboot the spacecraft's computer. "It could be that the computer is just chugging along doing everything fine, and then a cosmic ray comes sailing through," Fanson says. "All of a sudden it thinks it's been asked to reset, so it resets."
Alternatively, cosmic rays could toggle chips in the computer's memory, making it misinterpret instructions. The reboots could also be caused by a bug in the software, or half a dozen other things, Fanson says. "There are many, many things you have to look at that could be causing it. These systems are very complex," he says.
Everquest. Sony charged my sister (who provided her credit card for me to use. Such a nice sister) for several months before she realized she was paying for three accounts instead of two (her and her husband). I definitely cancelled my account the day I stopped playing, but that didn't stop Sony from continuing the charges.
I realize you were trying for a rhetorical question, but I have a contradictory experience.
Actually, the jocks are my friends and trust me when I say that if they enter the wrong password, it will activate a virus that will take over their facebook accounts.
I'm resistant to letting anyone use my laptop. It's password protected and my roommate, the computer programmer, has commented in disbelief that it's not like he'll ever do anything harmful with it. However, I don't let it stop me.
Look at it from the other side: They're being just as rude, maybe more so. It's rude for your friends to impose their whims on you when you've apparently made it evident enough that you aren't comfortable with letting them all at your machine, willy-nilly.
Well, this idiot strongly disagrees with the notion that war simulation games represent any form of art more significant than a Dwayne Johnson Film. Make a game that rivals this, then get back to me.
You should play Earthbound for the SNES. It's artistic expression is all kinds of cracked out.
One Indian gaming blog predicts Zeebo will struggle, in part due to the cultural reluctance toward digital distribution and also the lack of piratable games."
I've heard it speculated before that piracy in some circumstances encourages overall profit, is this a concrete example of said theory?
given that it's speculation, I'd say it's not a concrete example of anything.
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Never assume he's being malicious. In his one sentence, he gives you the weapon name and the place to find it. That's the very definition of informative.
Even a stopped watch is right twice a day. Just because he's an admitted liar doesn't mean his statements should be disregarded. It only means double-checking them is more important than it would otherwise be.
Now that I think about it, I'm sorry I responded to you. You clearly don't have enough marketable skills or even higher order brain functioning to figure out how one would "earn" 8K a year. :P
Please don't hurt me. _
It's more than possible. My total mandatory expenses in a year are rent, phone, and food. That costs a total of 4800/yr for rent because I chose not to live in my parents' basement, 650/yr for phone, and about 2400/yr for food. Just under the 8k mark. Unlike the previous poster, I make quite a bit more than that to pay for other things, like entertainment and travel (since I opted to not work within a 15-minute walk from my home, although the possibility exists). All it takes, however, to earn less than 8k per year is a part time job and no desire for expensive habits.
I'm pretty sure that one's been around a while, and he just whips it out for sarcastic intrigue. A couple of posts lower, you'll see someone with an ID number in the 30millions, which is 13million higher than The FBI.
;)
On the other hand, if it's the real FBI, then it kind of tells you how late they really are to the IT Party.
It was never about the action. It was about the source of the effect. Think about the story of Moses turning his staff into a snake in front of the Egyptian high priests. They also turned their staffs into snakes, as the story goes, but since their "magic" was not from God, it was called sorcerery.
I would disagree. If everyone and their dog had a real thermal imager, then excess heat leakage could be considered publicly available information since anyone off the street could look at your house and see said excess heat leakage. Police can use such information pretty much any way they want.
Currently, the inside of the house is considered private because most people have these funny things called "walls" and "curtains" preventing outsiders from seeing the inside. However, hypothetically, if you ran a drug op out of a house made of transparent glass, an officer on the street could look into your house, see your drug op, and get a warrant for your arrest based on that.
You missed the point. "We hold..." means the founding fathers made a value judgment. Just because they hold those truths to be "self-evident" neither means they are self-evident nor means they are right. If a government represents the people, anything it does democratically is right, even if you or some country's founders might disagree.
In my experience, being a jerk to a jerk never stops them from being a jerk. It's a neurotic arms race that no one wins.
In fact, the only way that has ever worked in my experience to make people nicer is to be nicer to them regardless of how they act.
So, how long do you think it will be until they rewrite the history books and become the freedom fighters who put down the unlawful regime?
Maybe I'm looking through rose-tinted glasses, but I seem to remember this funny little thing that games used to be defined by. I can't remember the word for it... oh yeah. They were Fun. I can live without these new-fangled gimmicks. I don't see games being any more fun with the Natal system than with the Wiimote, nor do I see them being any more fun with Sony's system. The concepts are neat, but they just don't seem efficient. The focus is turning away from good games and more toward gimmicky games.
I'll admit, the Wiimote is gimmicky, but Nintendo hasn't forgotten what Fun is.
Shift to Neutral? Largely the same effect as turning off the car, except all the power-related features are still on, yes?
I ran my WinXP desktop without AV for a month. I had a router between the computer and the modem--a Linksys, though I've always preferred D-Link. When I reinstalled AVG, no viruses were found in the full scan I ran. That made me not worry at all about the Vista machine I bought a few months later. I installed AVG on that one right before I sold it to a friend of a friend and even ran Trend Micro's Housecall on it to make sure. Once again, no viruses were detected. Lesson Learned: Don't Buy Into Fearmongering.
It only requires a few unscrupulous groups to voluntarily suggest names of innocent people to inflate the list, increasing the likelihood of false-positives on any given search and reducing the likelihood of being matched themselves within a meaningful time frame.
That's still horrible reasoning.
For the record: I'm a food/beverage industry worker--the poor kind. I hate the MAFIAA but I still don't pirate. Why? Because the "try before you buy" mentality still means you're violating the author's rights to profit from his product. If you don't trust the author's worth, sopssa is right: don't buy it and live with it.
2500 downloads for 1 lost sale
[Citation Needed] Sounds like BS.
You're enjoying the product without paying for it. It's not quite actual theft, but that doesn't make it right.
I have to completely disagree. In the game I'm playing with my brothers and friends (five players +a DM), we each plan our turn during the other players' (or NPCs') turns. When it gets to us, we move our mini to our desired spot, announce our attack and roll dice. Overall, it adds about 5 to 10 seconds per person. This is in contrast with the GURPS game I'm playing where the GM abhores combat maps and grids and yet every player has to ask where the other enemies are in relation to them which adds a lot more confusion and a lot more time than just 10 seconds per person.
Long story short: when you're playing with tactical minds, the combat map and minis save a lot more time.
I would disagree with that. A guy I work with is a Linux Fan. He's technically advanced. He's using Ubuntu. He can't figure out how to give me read access to a given folder on his computer. With Windows, i can do it with my eyes closed.
Yeah yeah. I hear what you're saying. Unfair comparison. Well, his parents can use XP and Vista just fine. They can use MacOS more or less easily, but they keep using him for tech support for it. He convinced them to use Ubuntu. He gets tech support calls every day from them. Which is supposed to be easier, again?
Read here about the Reboot issue:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17565-kepler-spacecraft-sees-its-first-exoplanets.html
Quoting:
The prime suspects are energetic charged particles known as cosmic rays. Earth's atmosphere shields us from these particles' potentially dangerous effects, but they bombard spacecraft at a rate of thousands per second.
If a cosmic ray hits a vulnerable spot in Kepler's electronics, it could cause a voltage spike that mimics a request from ground controllers to reboot the spacecraft's computer. "It could be that the computer is just chugging along doing everything fine, and then a cosmic ray comes sailing through," Fanson says. "All of a sudden it thinks it's been asked to reset, so it resets."
Alternatively, cosmic rays could toggle chips in the computer's memory, making it misinterpret instructions. The reboots could also be caused by a bug in the software, or half a dozen other things, Fanson says. "There are many, many things you have to look at that could be causing it. These systems are very complex," he says.
What other MMORG charges AFTER you stop paying?
Everquest. Sony charged my sister (who provided her credit card for me to use. Such a nice sister) for several months before she realized she was paying for three accounts instead of two (her and her husband). I definitely cancelled my account the day I stopped playing, but that didn't stop Sony from continuing the charges.
I realize you were trying for a rhetorical question, but I have a contradictory experience.
Actually, the jocks are my friends and trust me when I say that if they enter the wrong password, it will activate a virus that will take over their facebook accounts.
I'm resistant to letting anyone use my laptop. It's password protected and my roommate, the computer programmer, has commented in disbelief that it's not like he'll ever do anything harmful with it. However, I don't let it stop me.
Look at it from the other side: They're being just as rude, maybe more so. It's rude for your friends to impose their whims on you when you've apparently made it evident enough that you aren't comfortable with letting them all at your machine, willy-nilly.
Right. Canada doesn't care what you take as long as it's Canadian and you apologize to the owner for taking it and thank them for their product.
Well, this idiot strongly disagrees with the notion that war simulation games represent any form of art more significant than a Dwayne Johnson Film. Make a game that rivals this, then get back to me.
You should play Earthbound for the SNES. It's artistic expression is all kinds of cracked out.
One Indian gaming blog predicts Zeebo will struggle, in part due to the cultural reluctance toward digital distribution and also the lack of piratable games."
I've heard it speculated before that piracy in some circumstances encourages overall profit, is this a concrete example of said theory?
given that it's speculation, I'd say it's not a concrete example of anything.
Japanese is a right-to-left language.