And "one in two" is shittily worded and unclear - there are much simpler ways to put it without trying to sound technical. This is exactly what I see from my students on a daily basis - an attempt to put style over substance. Clear and concise is the rule of thumb.
Duh? "one in two" merely means that you get one unit higher (or lower) whenever you go two units further, whatever the unit is, it's perfectly meaningful and clear.
Hey, if stopping animal-human hybrid research can mean "jail and slaugther each and every furry i'd probably vote for him too, even though i'm not american right now.
The decision for energy independance actually started with De Gaulle, whose one and only goal was to make France a leading country of the world again (or part of the leading gang, which is also a reason why he pushed forward a unified europe, nuclear research including nukes, space research (france was the third country to send a satellite to orbit, after the Soviet Union and the USA), and getting as fast as possible out of the US' economic clutches).
While the 1973 Oil Schock did speed up things, the "Energetic Independance" goal started in 1945 when De Gaulle created the CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique) whose goal was to promote the use of nuclear power in the fields of science, industry and national defense.
Napoleon crowned himself, he didn't need anyone to do that, and he was actually a fucking smart guy, most french laws still come from Napoleon's Code which was one of the most advanced pieces of civil law at the time.
I fail to see how he was evil, too. Sure he did declare war to everyone in europe, but then again you couldn't live 10 years without a war somewhere at that time, and france, being the biggest and most populated country of the western world (even before the napoleonic wars) had it's share of it.
Was he evil because he actually, like, won battles?
Since we... duh... surrendered to spain? Probably happened, we've been known for surrendering, we can probably find one war during our 1500 years of history when we surrendered to someone at least remotely related to spain. Or to someone who'd surrendered to spain in the past, or would in the future.
Uh? so what? How the hell is that related with free speech? Or is the witness protection program a breach of free speach too, because you can't easily go smash the witness' face with a bat?
Another common mistake people make is thinking that the french army fought at all during WWII. The 360.000 dead or wounded obviously dropped their guns on their feet when they surrendered or something.
In other news, Donald Rumsfeld declares that Abu Graïb is good for iraki prisoneers and Joseph Stalin declares that gulags are good for political opponents. More exciting news on the redefinition and ironic use of "good" at 11.
If you have that much precious medals, they only remain precious as long as you don't try to sell too much of it.
Have != try to sell. Check the diamonds, we do have far too many diamonds, but De Beers managed to market them very nicely and keep the price high for more than a century. If the De Beers cartel wasn't monopoly, the price of diamonds wouldn't be a tenth of what it currently is.
In fact, had De Beers not existed, no one would give a flying fuck about diamonds.
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If you slay the King of All Evil (or whatever) and this is supposed to make a permanent impact on the world, what happens when you log into a server that still has its King of All Evil? Do you get to kill him again?
Yep, for two reasons:
Top tier guilds would leave the field REALLY fast as soon as there isn't any more high level content to slaughter, or you have to release content of high quality (and high difficulty) at a quite frightening pace
Casual gamers won't even be able to dream of seeing that kind of content (since it'll have been slaughtered for two years when they'll reach it).
Basically, what you'll get will be a single guild at the very top locking everyone else out of the high level content (by having the stuff and firepower to take it down first), and everyone else at the very bottom.
And even inside of the top guild, people will suicide on a daily basis due to insane loot repartition issues (when you have 40 peoples who've spent 20, 30, 40 hours(in multiple sessions, half a dozen of wipe sor more, etc etc etc) working for a kill, they all want a share of the pie)
Except that if you read the fine print your ISP more than likely promised you "up to 2MB/s", not a flat, fixed 2MB/s.
That's how every ISP behaves here (in france), you buy an offer for "up to 8MB/s", "up to 15MB/s", "up to 20MB/s", if you're lucky (close to the DSLAM with acceptable quality copper lines) you get that, if you're unlucky (3000m or more from the DSLAM for example) you may only get half that, or a quarter of that, and if you're unhappy well tough luck, you may give a try at switching ISP.
No, historic use is that 25 years ago NO ONE tried to rip CDs to mp3 to use their mp3 players, there is therefore no reason to allow people to do it now.
(whut? audio cassettes? they don't exist, now shut up and pay)
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At the moment, they're using multiple servers for a single content: a "game server" is not mapped 1:1 to a physical server, Everquest already needed dozens of machine for each game server, and it trusted the client a lot (far too much, which lead to quite a few client hacks and various data sniffing). Current MMOs trust the client far less, which is sensible but results in an even higher load on the server side.
There is more than likely heavy load-balancing involved, but no way in hell to merge everything to a big server farm holding every single WoW player.
Oh, BTW, money-grubbing SOE also implement the ability to move your character from one server to another, but it cost you $50, and I'm not even sure you were left with any equipment.
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In Everquest, the server splits just split one server between two different servers. You kept you character, but you went to half the population.
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Dude, he claims to be a teacher, if anything calling him a fucktard was under the bottom rather than over the top.
Duh? "one in two" merely means that you get one unit higher (or lower) whenever you go two units further, whatever the unit is, it's perfectly meaningful and clear.
A mule can handle that, issue is that the mule will retaliate, that thing probably won't.
Scroll to the middle of the page for that part, you can see the chart here, Joel's comment being
95% of the gaming population swears that it sucks, 5% didn't answer the question.
100% of those numbers were pulled out of my ass a few seconds ago.
(seriously, it sucks, badly, it was the worst FPS of that time, and it basically ended Romero's career as a PC dev, and more or less shut Ion Storm).
Hey, if stopping animal-human hybrid research can mean "jail and slaugther each and every furry i'd probably vote for him too, even though i'm not american right now.
Long live to the Fursecution
How about Hate Idiots, not Americans?
Every country would be great without the idiots populating it, and this is one of the few rules that doesn't bear any exception.
The decision for energy independance actually started with De Gaulle, whose one and only goal was to make France a leading country of the world again (or part of the leading gang, which is also a reason why he pushed forward a unified europe, nuclear research including nukes, space research (france was the third country to send a satellite to orbit, after the Soviet Union and the USA), and getting as fast as possible out of the US' economic clutches).
While the 1973 Oil Schock did speed up things, the "Energetic Independance" goal started in 1945 when De Gaulle created the CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique) whose goal was to promote the use of nuclear power in the fields of science, industry and national defense.
Flamebait? Why? Plain and simple truth.
Napoleon crowned himself, he didn't need anyone to do that, and he was actually a fucking smart guy, most french laws still come from Napoleon's Code which was one of the most advanced pieces of civil law at the time.
I fail to see how he was evil, too. Sure he did declare war to everyone in europe, but then again you couldn't live 10 years without a war somewhere at that time, and france, being the biggest and most populated country of the western world (even before the napoleonic wars) had it's share of it.
Was he evil because he actually, like, won battles?
Since we... duh... surrendered to spain? Probably happened, we've been known for surrendering, we can probably find one war during our 1500 years of history when we surrendered to someone at least remotely related to spain. Or to someone who'd surrendered to spain in the past, or would in the future.
Let them sink then, they're the modern equivalent of parasites.
Wrong on point one, how about actual facts on point two.
Are you aware that these acts are forbidden in most of europe, along with holocaust denial?
Uh? so what? How the hell is that related with free speech? Or is the witness protection program a breach of free speach too, because you can't easily go smash the witness' face with a bat?
Another common mistake people make is thinking that the french army fought at all during WWII. The 360.000 dead or wounded obviously dropped their guns on their feet when they surrendered or something.
In other news, Donald Rumsfeld declares that Abu Graïb is good for iraki prisoneers and Joseph Stalin declares that gulags are good for political opponents. More exciting news on the redefinition and ironic use of "good" at 11.
Have != try to sell. Check the diamonds, we do have far too many diamonds, but De Beers managed to market them very nicely and keep the price high for more than a century. If the De Beers cartel wasn't monopoly, the price of diamonds wouldn't be a tenth of what it currently is.
In fact, had De Beers not existed, no one would give a flying fuck about diamonds.
Yep, for two reasons:
Basically, what you'll get will be a single guild at the very top locking everyone else out of the high level content (by having the stuff and firepower to take it down first), and everyone else at the very bottom.
And even inside of the top guild, people will suicide on a daily basis due to insane loot repartition issues (when you have 40 peoples who've spent 20, 30, 40 hours(in multiple sessions, half a dozen of wipe sor more, etc etc etc) working for a kill, they all want a share of the pie)
Welcome to Capitalist Western World, want some lube?
Except that if you read the fine print your ISP more than likely promised you "up to 2MB/s", not a flat, fixed 2MB/s.
That's how every ISP behaves here (in france), you buy an offer for "up to 8MB/s", "up to 15MB/s", "up to 20MB/s", if you're lucky (close to the DSLAM with acceptable quality copper lines) you get that, if you're unlucky (3000m or more from the DSLAM for example) you may only get half that, or a quarter of that, and if you're unhappy well tough luck, you may give a try at switching ISP.
No, historic use is that 25 years ago NO ONE tried to rip CDs to mp3 to use their mp3 players, there is therefore no reason to allow people to do it now.
(whut? audio cassettes? they don't exist, now shut up and pay)
At the moment, they're using multiple servers for a single content: a "game server" is not mapped 1:1 to a physical server, Everquest already needed dozens of machine for each game server, and it trusted the client a lot (far too much, which lead to quite a few client hacks and various data sniffing). Current MMOs trust the client far less, which is sensible but results in an even higher load on the server side.
There is more than likely heavy load-balancing involved, but no way in hell to merge everything to a big server farm holding every single WoW player.
Oh, BTW, money-grubbing SOE also implement the ability to move your character from one server to another, but it cost you $50, and I'm not even sure you were left with any equipment.
In Everquest, the server splits just split one server between two different servers. You kept you character, but you went to half the population.