I already don't waste power, there's not much more for me to reduce. And since I don't own any power plants or write legislation for a living, I don't know what you expect of me.
Maybe you should complain to the people who DO own power plants or write legislation. Just a thought...
From what I hear, if you go to MIT you'll work 18 hours a day and have no social life. If you go to RPI, you'll work 12 hours a day and have no social life.
The most important thing I learned from RPI was how to fail. It was an important life lesson, but it had nothing to do with my degree. I worked way harder and got way worse grades than I ever did in high school. From what I've heard MIT is a worse version of the same thing. I graduated with an embarrassingly low GPA. But I learned it's more important for me personally to fail at something hard than succeed at something easy.
The upside is that pretty much everyone around the world have heard of MIT, where RPI is only know in the serious engineering community. My first job out of school was working for the Army. No matter how many times I corrected my boss, he still thought I went to RIT.
I'm not religious, but it's very easy to explain if you take the Bible as parables, and not factual accounts. It's just a story to teach important life lessons to a developing desert culture with little to no formal education.
...but I hate the recent trend of having different game mechanics and controls for single player and multiplayer. Off the top of my head I'm thinking of Starcraft 2, Medal of Honor, and I know there's others.
All I can think when I play those kinds of games is that the game was cobbled together from a broken set of priorities. It ruins the experience for me, I expect the single player be training for multiplayer. I would never dream of playing the multiplayer first, even in a game series I was intimately familiar with.
And I definitely agree with Randy, games should be built with a purpose and intent. When you start tacking on features last minute, or adding game play mechanics that don't fit with the world of the game, you're telling your customers that you really don't care about them.
They kept using the slang term "meatpuppets" which is apparently somebody who enters the discussion after being tipped off on it taking place.
How else would you go about entering a conversation that you did not start? How is that possibly a bad thing? Especially for a community based website!
Yikes. That is an incredibly unprofessional bio. It's not a dating page, it should be your qualifications for doing the job. Editing jobs, newspaper work, schooling related to the field, etc. He has none of that.
Protip: photos of you in tie-dye and sandals do not inspire confidence in your professionalism.
I don't understand what you're getting at. First you say:
An organization aids a person in obtaining classified documents
then you say
He had nothing to do with actually getting them
Which are contradictory. You also said
They have chat logs implicating Assange in aiding Bradley Manning with submitting the documents. The law is pretty clear about these things
which clearly isn't true. The law here is very murky, and "aiding in submitting documents" probably isn't a crime. If there was a clear crime comitted here, we'd have heard specifically what it is by now.
And so the game publishers have convinced you that bugs are not an issue. I hate to break it to you, but there are bugs reported on almost every quest (checkout the quests on fallout.wikia.com and see). Performance issues with a major video card manufacturer are also not a minor issue. The worst is that every Bethesda game (Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3) has had issues like this which shouldn't have made it past quality control. This isn't a one time thing. I've played all of these games, they are great games, but I will not buy Bethedsa games anymore until they release the Gamne of the Year edition which has the final patch (and usually a community patch to fix what Bethesda hasn't)
Wow you're not kidding. I haven't played Fallout 3, but I went to the wiki page you mentioned. 3 of the 4 random quests I clicked on had a bug section. One of them was a list of about 5.
An interesting modification to StarCraft which would give AIs a run for their money would be cooperative play where several users operate one team on the field, and where the several users have a hierarchy and delegate command of corps of units to other players, maybe one player handling resources while another scouts while a third consolidates the offensive force.
This is basically what we would do in 4 v 4 Age of Empires. The person farthest from the other team would be "resource bitch". They would focus on tech upgrades to mining and farming, and be responsible for constantly supplying the other players with food, stone, etc. The other players would have no economy but would build cavalry, siege weapons, etc based upon what tech their civilization was best at.
Being left handed, I've had this happen all my life. There's nothing more frustrating than picking up a tool only to find the grip has been molded for a right hand. Or guns with cheek pads only on the left side. Fountain pens don't really work being pushed rather than being pulled. Left handed sports equipment is always more difficult to find.
You adapt at an early age. Yeah it sucks. Basically you have to learn to be halfway decent with your right hand just to get by.
Going to a coffee shop to find every place being used all evening by single persons with their laptop and a cup of coffee (that's most likely cold by then) is really frustrating. It's probably even more frustrating to the owner who sees is investment monopolized by clients that bring only little income to the place.
Simple solution: Just sit down at an empty chair anyway. The most you'll get is some dirty looks. It's not like Mr. Artist is going to do anything about it.
Alternate solution: Talk to the owner. Most small coffee shops are very protective of paying customers, and will work with you to find a free table.
CDs are in fact "records"; they are as much records of performances as LPs were. I don't know why people stopped calling them records just because the media holding the records changed.
EXACTLY. Please mod parent UP!
(It's also reasonable to call a CD an "album," as in a collection of things, in this case, songs.)
By that definition, books and movies are also "records". But if you were to call a DVD player a "record player", you're technically correct, but everyone will look at you funny. A record player plays records, aka LPs.
I'm sure you've seen that Simpsons episode where Martin refers to his brain as his "calculator". Don't be that guy.
I live in Houston on I-10, and due to a huge environmental/safety push they lowered the speed limit from 70 to 55. It was a joke, the highway is built for speed and it has excellent lines of visibility and intelligently designed merging sections, and they make you crawl down it.
The highway may be built for speed, but the cars are not.
Standard cars can survive a front-end collision at about 50mph, and much above that they start to fall apart.
Cars are absolutely designed for speed, and if the highway in question was too, your argument falls apart. In order to have a 50 MPH front end colision in 70 MPH traffic, you'd have to have one rogue car either going 20 MPH or 120MPH. You're arguing against a scenario that simply does not happen with any kind of regularity.
Deadly collisions have to do with difference in speeds, the actual speeds are irrelevent.
Wow, I don't know where the author is going with this. He starts out saying, "I'm not so concerned about whether video games can deliver such a [political] narrative." Later he says, "Ultimately, games will never be able to carry a political message". Then in the comments he says, "I certainly do believe games can carry a strong political message".
And then when someone brings up MGS and GTA he says, "Regarding the narrative in MGS and GTA, I think both franchises earned the right to be autonomous." If anyone can figure out what this guy is trying to say, please let me know.
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Float my body on a wooden raft into a lake. Then have archers shoot flaming arrows at me. As my body burns into the night, everyone on shore drinks and parties until sunrise. LAN parties are included. My will pays for the open bar, hotel rooms. Everyone is required to get laid.
I've found that rock climbing is a great "sport" for me. It's a great workout, and every gym I've been to is full of incredibly friendly people willing to help a new person. It's also great if you're not very social, you can boulder without any assistance if you're completely antisocial, or at most you're working with one other person. Climbing is very techical, so it fits well with my style of thinking. I think of it as the physical version of a rubics cube. Plus you learn a lot of interesting knots.
Plus there are a lot of young, fit women climbers. All you have to say is, "What route are you working on?" and let the conversation go from there. Climbers also like free beer or food, so it's a good chance someone will take you up on it if you offer.
And there's a reason all that stuff is in there. About 90% of the stuff on there is error checking, accountability and oversight. A small part of that is what I do for a living. Yes, it's an unwieldy chart (I have a paper copy, it's stupidly large), but some very smart people have developed that over many years. If you have any specific complaints or questions on the chart, there's a good chance I can answer them.
You think that's bad? I can't install Fire Fox on my work computer (I've tried), and USB ports are blocked from thumbdrives (so no portable FF). The worst part? We're still actually using IE6.
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I already don't waste power, there's not much more for me to reduce. And since I don't own any power plants or write legislation for a living, I don't know what you expect of me.
Maybe you should complain to the people who DO own power plants or write legislation. Just a thought...
From what I hear, if you go to MIT you'll work 18 hours a day and have no social life. If you go to RPI, you'll work 12 hours a day and have no social life.
The most important thing I learned from RPI was how to fail. It was an important life lesson, but it had nothing to do with my degree. I worked way harder and got way worse grades than I ever did in high school. From what I've heard MIT is a worse version of the same thing. I graduated with an embarrassingly low GPA. But I learned it's more important for me personally to fail at something hard than succeed at something easy.
The upside is that pretty much everyone around the world have heard of MIT, where RPI is only know in the serious engineering community. My first job out of school was working for the Army. No matter how many times I corrected my boss, he still thought I went to RIT.
I'm still holding on to my C64 disks. I don't know if the data is any good, but there's no way I'm getting rid of them.
Good night, funny man.
I'm not religious, but it's very easy to explain if you take the Bible as parables, and not factual accounts. It's just a story to teach important life lessons to a developing desert culture with little to no formal education.
...but I hate the recent trend of having different game mechanics and controls for single player and multiplayer. Off the top of my head I'm thinking of Starcraft 2, Medal of Honor, and I know there's others.
All I can think when I play those kinds of games is that the game was cobbled together from a broken set of priorities. It ruins the experience for me, I expect the single player be training for multiplayer. I would never dream of playing the multiplayer first, even in a game series I was intimately familiar with.
And I definitely agree with Randy, games should be built with a purpose and intent. When you start tacking on features last minute, or adding game play mechanics that don't fit with the world of the game, you're telling your customers that you really don't care about them.
They kept using the slang term "meatpuppets" which is apparently somebody who enters the discussion after being tipped off on it taking place.
How else would you go about entering a conversation that you did not start? How is that possibly a bad thing? Especially for a community based website!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SchuminWeb
Yikes. That is an incredibly unprofessional bio. It's not a dating page, it should be your qualifications for doing the job. Editing jobs, newspaper work, schooling related to the field, etc. He has none of that.
Protip: photos of you in tie-dye and sandals do not inspire confidence in your professionalism.
then you say
Which are contradictory. You also said
which clearly isn't true. The law here is very murky, and "aiding in submitting documents" probably isn't a crime. If there was a clear crime comitted here, we'd have heard specifically what it is by now.
Wow you're not kidding. I haven't played Fallout 3, but I went to the wiki page you mentioned. 3 of the 4 random quests I clicked on had a bug section. One of them was a list of about 5.
...seeing a remake of Neverhood Cronicles.
This is basically what we would do in 4 v 4 Age of Empires. The person farthest from the other team would be "resource bitch". They would focus on tech upgrades to mining and farming, and be responsible for constantly supplying the other players with food, stone, etc. The other players would have no economy but would build cavalry, siege weapons, etc based upon what tech their civilization was best at.
Being left handed, I've had this happen all my life. There's nothing more frustrating than picking up a tool only to find the grip has been molded for a right hand. Or guns with cheek pads only on the left side. Fountain pens don't really work being pushed rather than being pulled. Left handed sports equipment is always more difficult to find.
You adapt at an early age. Yeah it sucks. Basically you have to learn to be halfway decent with your right hand just to get by.
Simple solution: Just sit down at an empty chair anyway. The most you'll get is some dirty looks. It's not like Mr. Artist is going to do anything about it.
Alternate solution: Talk to the owner. Most small coffee shops are very protective of paying customers, and will work with you to find a free table.
By that definition, books and movies are also "records". But if you were to call a DVD player a "record player", you're technically correct, but everyone will look at you funny. A record player plays records, aka LPs.
I'm sure you've seen that Simpsons episode where Martin refers to his brain as his "calculator". Don't be that guy.
The highway may be built for speed, but the cars are not. Standard cars can survive a front-end collision at about 50mph, and much above that they start to fall apart.
Cars are absolutely designed for speed, and if the highway in question was too, your argument falls apart. In order to have a 50 MPH front end colision in 70 MPH traffic, you'd have to have one rogue car either going 20 MPH or 120MPH. You're arguing against a scenario that simply does not happen with any kind of regularity.
Deadly collisions have to do with difference in speeds, the actual speeds are irrelevent.
For all you federal employees, donate through the CFC: charity code 10437.
Wow, I don't know where the author is going with this. He starts out saying, "I'm not so concerned about whether video games can deliver such a [political] narrative." Later he says, "Ultimately, games will never be able to carry a political message". Then in the comments he says, "I certainly do believe games can carry a strong political message".
And then when someone brings up MGS and GTA he says, "Regarding the narrative in MGS and GTA, I think both franchises earned the right to be autonomous." If anyone can figure out what this guy is trying to say, please let me know.
Float my body on a wooden raft into a lake. Then have archers shoot flaming arrows at me. As my body burns into the night, everyone on shore drinks and parties until sunrise. LAN parties are included. My will pays for the open bar, hotel rooms. Everyone is required to get laid.
I like this take on it better:
http://insultswordfighting.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-taxonomy-of-gamers-table-of.html
The types are Tourist, Skill player, Completionist. Also, on a value scale, you can range from wholesale to premium.
I've found that rock climbing is a great "sport" for me. It's a great workout, and every gym I've been to is full of incredibly friendly people willing to help a new person. It's also great if you're not very social, you can boulder without any assistance if you're completely antisocial, or at most you're working with one other person. Climbing is very techical, so it fits well with my style of thinking. I think of it as the physical version of a rubics cube. Plus you learn a lot of interesting knots.
Plus there are a lot of young, fit women climbers. All you have to say is, "What route are you working on?" and let the conversation go from there. Climbers also like free beer or food, so it's a good chance someone will take you up on it if you offer.
Correct link: http://www.dau.mil/pubs/IDA/chart%20front.pdf ... and I have to say: wow.
This is why military projects start at $billions and go up from there.
And there's a reason all that stuff is in there. About 90% of the stuff on there is error checking, accountability and oversight. A small part of that is what I do for a living. Yes, it's an unwieldy chart (I have a paper copy, it's stupidly large), but some very smart people have developed that over many years. If you have any specific complaints or questions on the chart, there's a good chance I can answer them.
I never thought of that. Thanks.
You think that's bad? I can't install Fire Fox on my work computer (I've tried), and USB ports are blocked from thumbdrives (so no portable FF). The worst part? We're still actually using IE6.
I never thought I'd long for IE7 so bad.
...fuck RPI.
/bitter