"My advice for you all is to read early accounts of the rise of the Soviet state, and/or especially the transition years in Eastern Europe. Totalitarianism has a very recognizable feel, even in the very beginning, before you can barely feel its grip, you can smell it's breath long before it starts to squeeze."
China doesn't pretend to respect peoples rights to view whatever they want, and outside of North Korea they are probably the closest thing to a soviet state that is left in the world. So other the pointing out the blindingly obvious, what exactly was your point?
If you can make it to the 10th floor fairly regulary then I would say that you're doing pretty well. My characters generally will die within the first 7 floors, or will run for a long time (20+ levels).
My biggest suggestion would be to go slower. You seem to do a lot of things that are easily avoided if you don't play so fast. Hitting floating eyes, kicking down doors, putting on unided amulets, drinking unided potions, these are all things that fall in the catagory of trying to rush things.
The best source of playing strategies is probably the rec.games.roguelike.nethack newsgroup. The people there are generally a great sources of information and ideas.
So anyone who says they have used Emacs, Vi, TeX, LyX, Edit, Word Perfect or any other word processing software must be not be telling the truth because Microsoft aparently gained a monopoly in the word processor market when I wasn't paying attention.
Right more regulation will solve the problem, because all the regulation thrown into prescription drugs has just done wonders for number of places that claim to sell drugs.
There needs to be more effort on enforcing the laws that are already in place before a bunch of new ones are passed.
Could someone explain to me why everyone seem to assume that in order for a bacteria to kill us it has to infect us (or infect anything for that matter)?
It would be easy to totally screw up an ecosystem by introducing a new chemical process into the mix. Something comes along and converts an important soil nutrient into an unusable form, suddenly farms produce less and (more) people starve.
Heck, it doesn't even need to be something that directly effects life at all. Get a bacteria that can dissolve and oxidize iron and watch the chaos erupt as everything made of iron or steel begins to fall apart.
Yeah, because I want an OS that won't do what it's told. It should be the users responsibility to insure "fairness", users incapable of this sould be denied access to the important systems, if they have a good reason for hogging system resources, then the system should let them. How does an OS know how important my task is compared to all the other tasks?
What about having more one-way streets then is typical? I've been in several places that do this, and it has the effect that not only can the lights be easily configured on the one way streets, but also that traffic flow on the nearby side streets is generally heavily biased in one direction durring "rush hour" so they to can be setup to increase efficiency.
Did you read the article at all or is there some part of this that you don't understand?
Hubble's exquisite sensitivity allowed astronomers to do a reliable census of the total stellar population in the galaxy. This allowed them to reliably identify the oldest stars inhabiting the galaxy, thereby setting an upper limit on the galaxy's age
That's because taking your car would be an act of theft, leaving you with no car. It is not the same as copying a program, whereby you would not lose anything tangible.
If a company is not selling the product anymore, then how can copying a program deny them a sale? They're not making any money off of it.
You could easily lose something tangible. If I own the rights to SoftwareWidget v1, I could decide to stop making copies available before I release SoftwareWidget v2. If suddenly during that time everyone who wants a copy of SoftwareWidget decides to make their own copy of version 1 then that is very likely going to lower my sales of version 2.
Personally i would never give a kid as young as 6 $60 for his birthday. That's just rediculous.
With two sets of grandparents, and 7 pairs of aunts and uncles it wasn't that hard for all the birthday money to add up to a fairly high amount. I'd only get $5 or so from each of them, but added together, and with a few other people that would send me money, it became pretty easy to build up money.
You never got any money for a birthday when you were a kid? I used to get ~$60 a year when I was 6, do you really think that means I was old enough to buy a game like GTA:SA?
So what...you're saying flashlights of the future will be 1,000 times brighter, sort my socks, and play showtunesy? Otherwise I don't quite get what you're saying. All I need is a flashlight, the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum isn't going to change that much in 20 years that suddnely technology that lets my flashlight run for hours now will only work for minutes in the future.
Steam allows automatic patching, so once a bug is found and fixed, it can be applied immediately; no more having to search for patches.
ITYM "Steam allows automatic patching, so once a bug that isn't effecting you is found and fixed, a patch can be applied to your game that stands a chance of breaking something else."
If a patch is a fix for a problem that I don't have, why should I install it? All it does is stand a chance of breaking something else. I fail to see how this is a positive step.
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"My advice for you all is to read early accounts of the rise of the Soviet state, and/or especially the transition years in Eastern Europe. Totalitarianism has a very recognizable feel, even in the very beginning, before you can barely feel its grip, you can smell it's breath long before it starts to squeeze."
China doesn't pretend to respect peoples rights to view whatever they want, and outside of North Korea they are probably the closest thing to a soviet state that is left in the world. So other the pointing out the blindingly obvious, what exactly was your point?
If you can make it to the 10th floor fairly regulary then I would say that you're doing pretty well. My characters generally will die within the first 7 floors, or will run for a long time (20+ levels). My biggest suggestion would be to go slower. You seem to do a lot of things that are easily avoided if you don't play so fast. Hitting floating eyes, kicking down doors, putting on unided amulets, drinking unided potions, these are all things that fall in the catagory of trying to rush things. The best source of playing strategies is probably the rec.games.roguelike.nethack newsgroup. The people there are generally a great sources of information and ideas.
So anyone who says they have used Emacs, Vi, TeX, LyX, Edit, Word Perfect or any other word processing software must be not be telling the truth because Microsoft aparently gained a monopoly in the word processor market when I wasn't paying attention.
Right more regulation will solve the problem, because all the regulation thrown into prescription drugs has just done wonders for number of places that claim to sell drugs. There needs to be more effort on enforcing the laws that are already in place before a bunch of new ones are passed.
Could someone explain to me why everyone seem to assume that in order for a bacteria to kill us it has to infect us (or infect anything for that matter)?
It would be easy to totally screw up an ecosystem by introducing a new chemical process into the mix. Something comes along and converts an important soil nutrient into an unusable form, suddenly farms produce less and (more) people starve.
Heck, it doesn't even need to be something that directly effects life at all. Get a bacteria that can dissolve and oxidize iron and watch the chaos erupt as everything made of iron or steel begins to fall apart.
Yeah, because I want an OS that won't do what it's told. It should be the users responsibility to insure "fairness", users incapable of this sould be denied access to the important systems, if they have a good reason for hogging system resources, then the system should let them. How does an OS know how important my task is compared to all the other tasks?
What about having more one-way streets then is typical? I've been in several places that do this, and it has the effect that not only can the lights be easily configured on the one way streets, but also that traffic flow on the nearby side streets is generally heavily biased in one direction durring "rush hour" so they to can be setup to increase efficiency.
Did you read the article at all or is there some part of this that you don't understand?
Hubble's exquisite sensitivity allowed astronomers to do a reliable census of the total stellar population in the galaxy. This allowed them to reliably identify the oldest stars inhabiting the galaxy, thereby setting an upper limit on the galaxy's age
That's because taking your car would be an act of theft, leaving you with no car. It is not the same as copying a program, whereby you would not lose anything tangible.
If a company is not selling the product anymore, then how can copying a program deny them a sale? They're not making any money off of it.
You could easily lose something tangible. If I own the rights to SoftwareWidget v1, I could decide to stop making copies available before I release SoftwareWidget v2. If suddenly during that time everyone who wants a copy of SoftwareWidget decides to make their own copy of version 1 then that is very likely going to lower my sales of version 2.
Personally i would never give a kid as young as 6 $60 for his birthday. That's just rediculous. With two sets of grandparents, and 7 pairs of aunts and uncles it wasn't that hard for all the birthday money to add up to a fairly high amount. I'd only get $5 or so from each of them, but added together, and with a few other people that would send me money, it became pretty easy to build up money.
You never got any money for a birthday when you were a kid? I used to get ~$60 a year when I was 6, do you really think that means I was old enough to buy a game like GTA:SA?
So what...you're saying flashlights of the future will be 1,000 times brighter, sort my socks, and play showtunesy? Otherwise I don't quite get what you're saying. All I need is a flashlight, the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum isn't going to change that much in 20 years that suddnely technology that lets my flashlight run for hours now will only work for minutes in the future.
Which means it was in the November issue, which appeared in the middle of October. If you look right now you can find things labled "December 2004".
Steam allows automatic patching, so once a bug is found and fixed, it can be applied immediately; no more having to search for patches.
ITYM "Steam allows automatic patching, so once a bug that isn't effecting you is found and fixed, a patch can be applied to your game that stands a chance of breaking something else."
If a patch is a fix for a problem that I don't have, why should I install it? All it does is stand a chance of breaking something else. I fail to see how this is a positive step.