I know little about politics, but what I do know is that is was the Weimar Government(PR) in Germany in the 1920's and early 30's that let the Nazi party get into power. They would likely have not achieved that if that if the government at the time followed a different system, so perhaps PR is a bad kind of system to have in times of economic strife?
This is the worst part! I don't talk to people who aren't nerds much, but in my school I always got the general feeling that all the norms weren't really that bad. I would walk through social area's and see them talking, working or laughing, but in general seeming pretty intelligent and OK. But then I managed to find my way to some of their profile pages on Bebo.com, a site similar to MySpace, I suppose. All these people I thought were intelligent had these horrible, multicoloured profile pages up with bad spelling and nasty "about me" quizzes.
The atractive, well spoken girl, the one who gets A's in English and who is aiming to go to Oxford, is writing shit like "heres lots gd new ones atm, Wallace n Gromit - every1 shld c that! The Brothers Grimm is also reli reli gd". aa guy in my Chemistry class I talked to, another girl who I attended Astronomy classes with a couple of years back... All of them, coming across as idiots by my measure.
Perhaps I have come off as an elitist nerd in this post, but what I was really aiming for is to show you that actually, these people who write this stuff on MySpace or whatever are not stupid, they are not really idiots. Its just they have not been taught how important it is to write well on the Web, or how they should act on the web. Hopefully they will be integrated into the older internet community at some point.
Hah. With the subtitle thing, once you get used to them you forget that actually, you can't speak Japanese. The number of times I have looked away from my anime to read a webpage on another screen, only to think "Hmm, thats strange... I can't understand it anymore..."
I think ability to read subtitles "without missing anything" is much easier in anime than in, say, a live action film. Quite often in anime there will be talking without any actual animation change, while in a live action thing the visuals seem often to be as important if not more important than the audio track. Not that I watch much non-anime subtitled stuff, being a bit of an Otaku.
You sounds kind of smartass their, friend. Any idiot can read subtitles, and any good nerd who spent their school lunchtimes hiding in the libary can get through a book a day.
Its all supported, its just you have to do lots of wierd stuff such as registering your HL1 CD with Steam. I think you might then need to download steams version of the HL files, I know not. And yes, HalfLife1 and Counter Strike are still fully supported. Anyway, to register your original HL game, log in, go to the "Games" tab and click "Activate a product on Steam". After that its all pretty obvious. Go check an FAQ or something if you need more details.
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I was referring to many proprietary products being much more accessible than Linux. I don't like Microsoft, and I use Linux myself, but to people who are less technologically able the Microsoft "package" is better.
it's kind of like (if you are British) going on holiday. You can go with a package airline, or you can book everything yourself. If you go with the package airline it is easy: You may some people a bit of money and everything is sorted for you - people meet you at the airport and tell you where to go, you get coached to your hotel and have someone to complain to if everything goes wrong.
If you book the holiday yourself, though, you have the freedom to go where ever, whenever, its cheaper and to a lot of people it is the better way of doing things. There is still a lot of people who go with those package Holidays though, even though they cost more etc, because they make it very easy for the people going on them. You don't have to think or try to work anything out yourself.
hopefully that works as a bit of a metaphor for Windows vs. Linux. Linux is loads better, cheaper and gives you more freedom, but people still go with Microsoft because it is easier on them.
By "Linux" do you mean the kernel, the GNU elements or what? I think the Linux Kernal makes up 3% of the code, and GNU about 23%? I am sure I read something ot that effect on some site. Anyway, methinks that If a small percentage of these small percentages of the code originates in the 1960s, it doesn't represent much in the grand scheme of things.
Until GNU/Linux and other Free Software programs can provide the same quality of service for "Normal people", (that is to say your Mum or your Granddad) Commerical Software like microsoft will always be the mainstream. Perhaps to an extent free software already does this, but unless Linux, Open Office etc can afford to spend money on advertising, I don't think the bulk of the non-nerd masses will realise this.
Also, I do not approve of the way you group "google" with Firefox and OpenOffice. Remember, Gates was a good guy once, too.
My parents practice Islam in Britain, and can assure you that they most definitly do not condone the actions of Extremist Terrorists in America an, ideed, Britan. As I stated, there are 1.3 billion practicing Muslims, Muslims in India, Europe, The America's... only a very, very small percentage of them support the attacks against the USA, and only the minority turn a blind eye to these events, so they may live in safety in their countries. Do not assume that "Islamists" (As you say) means only the inhabbitants of several small countries in the Middle East, in the same way you would not assume that "Christian" means inhabbitants of Isreal and perhaps Italy.
Perhaps I was uniformed. But can't you argue like an adult rather than a message board troll? Also, what makes you so sure that there were not Americans 50 years ago who did advocate "killing all the communists". America is a country of what, 650million people? Amoung that number there would be people who thought executing Communist party officals would be the only way to ensure the security of their way of life, particularly doing McCarthy's Red Scare in the 50's.
Islam is practiced by 1.3billion people world wide. Don't you think they are allowed their share of extremists also?
Hang on a sec, I am pretty sure America was very big on Eliminating all traces of Communisn from the world in the last half centuary. Surely if America's Consumerism and Capitalism is a way of life, then Communism is also?
Damn, thats a funny post. The interesting thing is that this kind of stuff happened all the time in B&W1.
At a Lan party once, one of my friends trained his ape creature during a game to be a nasty, bloated, rock eating monster. It was pretty interesting - It used to get beaten up whenever it refused to eat a rock/tree, so it looked really unhappy all the time... It is hard to describe the sight, But a Blue, bruised monkey who keeps dieing from hunger and sickness is a pretty funny.
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Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore.
Gods, that game is going to own so much. I can't wait.
Ah, thats the best thing about horribly overweight and bulky bureaucracy. Nothing changes! I rather like things as they are now, you see.
Mining in a Titan would be more impressively wasteful.
Buy a new Network Card every month? Now with free tinfoil hat!
That conjures up images of Africa and Yams, for some reason. Curse you, Secondary School English GCSE....
I know little about politics, but what I do know is that is was the Weimar Government(PR) in Germany in the 1920's and early 30's that let the Nazi party get into power. They would likely have not achieved that if that if the government at the time followed a different system, so perhaps PR is a bad kind of system to have in times of economic strife?
Damnit! your link just made me spend the last hour or so reading about Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles on Wikipedia...
In person, they are somewhat better
This is the worst part! I don't talk to people who aren't nerds much, but in my school I always got the general feeling that all the norms weren't really that bad. I would walk through social area's and see them talking, working or laughing, but in general seeming pretty intelligent and OK. But then I managed to find my way to some of their profile pages on Bebo.com, a site similar to MySpace, I suppose. All these people I thought were intelligent had these horrible, multicoloured profile pages up with bad spelling and nasty "about me" quizzes.
The atractive, well spoken girl, the one who gets A's in English and who is aiming to go to Oxford, is writing shit like "heres lots gd new ones atm, Wallace n Gromit - every1 shld c that! The Brothers Grimm is also reli reli gd". aa guy in my Chemistry class I talked to, another girl who I attended Astronomy classes with a couple of years back... All of them, coming across as idiots by my measure.
Perhaps I have come off as an elitist nerd in this post, but what I was really aiming for is to show you that actually, these people who write this stuff on MySpace or whatever are not stupid, they are not really idiots. Its just they have not been taught how important it is to write well on the Web, or how they should act on the web. Hopefully they will be integrated into the older internet community at some point.
Hah. With the subtitle thing, once you get used to them you forget that actually, you can't speak Japanese. The number of times I have looked away from my anime to read a webpage on another screen, only to think "Hmm, thats strange... I can't understand it anymore..."
I think ability to read subtitles "without missing anything" is much easier in anime than in, say, a live action film. Quite often in anime there will be talking without any actual animation change, while in a live action thing the visuals seem often to be as important if not more important than the audio track. Not that I watch much non-anime subtitled stuff, being a bit of an Otaku.
You sounds kind of smartass their, friend. Any idiot can read subtitles, and any good nerd who spent their school lunchtimes hiding in the libary can get through a book a day.
Ah, but the images they did have in .hack were really pretty, ne?
Aaah, Micheal Jackson Jokes... will they ever get old?
MJ Puts the Sprem in the Anas!
Its all supported, its just you have to do lots of wierd stuff such as registering your HL1 CD with Steam. I think you might then need to download steams version of the HL files, I know not. And yes, HalfLife1 and Counter Strike are still fully supported. Anyway, to register your original HL game, log in, go to the "Games" tab and click "Activate a product on Steam". After that its all pretty obvious. Go check an FAQ or something if you need more details.
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Or Japanese. Japanese is good. JAPAN.
I was just about to post the exact same statement.
2)a person who has a personal secretary has the secretary in the cube outside his/her office
Heh. You make this sound like how you could keep Chickens in a hutch outside your Backdoor.
it's kind of like (if you are British) going on holiday. You can go with a package airline, or you can book everything yourself. If you go with the package airline it is easy: You may some people a bit of money and everything is sorted for you - people meet you at the airport and tell you where to go, you get coached to your hotel and have someone to complain to if everything goes wrong.
If you book the holiday yourself, though, you have the freedom to go where ever, whenever, its cheaper and to a lot of people it is the better way of doing things. There is still a lot of people who go with those package Holidays though, even though they cost more etc, because they make it very easy for the people going on them. You don't have to think or try to work anything out yourself.
hopefully that works as a bit of a metaphor for Windows vs. Linux. Linux is loads better, cheaper and gives you more freedom, but people still go with Microsoft because it is easier on them.
By "Linux" do you mean the kernel, the GNU elements or what? I think the Linux Kernal makes up 3% of the code, and GNU about 23%? I am sure I read something ot that effect on some site. Anyway, methinks that If a small percentage of these small percentages of the code originates in the 1960s, it doesn't represent much in the grand scheme of things.
Until GNU/Linux and other Free Software programs can provide the same quality of service for "Normal people", (that is to say your Mum or your Granddad) Commerical Software like microsoft will always be the mainstream. Perhaps to an extent free software already does this, but unless Linux, Open Office etc can afford to spend money on advertising, I don't think the bulk of the non-nerd masses will realise this.
Also, I do not approve of the way you group "google" with Firefox and OpenOffice. Remember, Gates was a good guy once, too.
Damn, that guy is the coolest ever... (link)
First its the search engine, then the email, then the news... Now TV that brings it all together? They are trying to steal our minds I tell you!
My parents practice Islam in Britain, and can assure you that they most definitly do not condone the actions of Extremist Terrorists in America an, ideed, Britan. As I stated, there are 1.3 billion practicing Muslims, Muslims in India, Europe, The America's... only a very, very small percentage of them support the attacks against the USA, and only the minority turn a blind eye to these events, so they may live in safety in their countries. Do not assume that "Islamists" (As you say) means only the inhabbitants of several small countries in the Middle East, in the same way you would not assume that "Christian" means inhabbitants of Isreal and perhaps Italy.
Perhaps I was uniformed. But can't you argue like an adult rather than a message board troll? Also, what makes you so sure that there were not Americans 50 years ago who did advocate "killing all the communists". America is a country of what, 650million people? Amoung that number there would be people who thought executing Communist party officals would be the only way to ensure the security of their way of life, particularly doing McCarthy's Red Scare in the 50's.
Islam is practiced by 1.3billion people world wide. Don't you think they are allowed their share of extremists also?
Hang on a sec, I am pretty sure America was very big on Eliminating all traces of Communisn from the world in the last half centuary. Surely if America's Consumerism and Capitalism is a way of life, then Communism is also?
At a Lan party once, one of my friends trained his ape creature during a game to be a nasty, bloated, rock eating monster. It was pretty interesting - It used to get beaten up whenever it refused to eat a rock/tree, so it looked really unhappy all the time... It is hard to describe the sight, But a Blue, bruised monkey who keeps dieing from hunger and sickness is a pretty funny.