FYI: I have Shank. And it's a quite typical button bash fight game, like Double Dragon. It's fun to play, not extremely novel, but it's fun to smack around in. It feels right, you mash buttons and stuff happens.
Actually, these are great games. Or, Super Meat Boy, Shank, CaveStory+ and Bit-Trip-Runner are. I already own those, which makes the bundle not that interesting for me. But these are not "low quality" games. I have more playtime in Super Meat Boy then in 2 big AAA combined. (new Deus Ex + Portal 2)
These game studios don't have big bucks for big graphics, they make it up in gameplay value.
What I think would be the best strategy to control this drug issue, will be to make drugs legal in Mexico. In the Netherlands there is a law called something like: "The Blind Eyes Law" which basically states that the government will never know how drugs get into the coffee shops.
Interesting isn't it?
Dutch drug law is quite insane really. It's illegal to import/export/produce. But you are allowed to sell it in small quantities. Also, the penalties for "soft" drugs (mainly cannabis) are quite low. This makes people take the weaker drugs, making the weaker drugs visible makes the strong nasty stuff less attractive.
--Someone from The Netherlands, who never used drugs himself.
A MTBF of 171 is clear and utter bullshit. And claiming it is just plain lies. Unless you put the harddisk in a sealed box and don't touch it for the rest of it's life.
We produce products with a MTBF of 10 years. On average we expect our product to last 10 years, and that's tough. If we wouldn't aim for 10 years MTBF we could cut 15-30% of our production price. Our stuff is made to last, and that's what we pay for (and our customers)
One of the latest (7.2 or something) CyanogenMOD versions allows you to revoke permissions on installed apps. Which is the main reason why I installed Cyanogen.
At least your party tries new things. Mine stood 10 minutes on a floor in a half destroyed building, we me telling them the crunch sounds ever got louder. Finally I had to collapse the building on them.
Which is funny, because a minimal GPL drop requires:
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable.
(from GPLv2 section 3) How I read it, if I cannot reproduce the binary you produced, then you didn't really give me everything I needed by GPL.
Why? Well, because, depending on the decease you are vaccinating against you just lower the odds for not just yourself, but also everyone around you. Most deceases don't have a 100% succes rate. Let's say 30% of the people that catch it get sick. The other 70% have a chance to become carriers, without symptoms they are not sick but infect other people. Let's say 10% of the people can become carriers, and the other 60% are totally immune. With 10% of the people coming in contact with an carrier you get a new carrier that won't be sick. Guess how fast this can spread then?
Now, add vaccination. Vaccination is not 100% effective. But for argument sake, lets say it stops 90% of the infection. So 10% of the people with vaccination can still catch the decease. Of those 10% 30% can become sick, 10% will be carriers without symptoms and 60% is totally immune even without the vaccination having effect. Now we suddenly only have 1% carriers.
Without vaccination the odds of you being a carrier is larger, and so are the odds of infecting someone who had vaccination but the vaccination was ineffective. So you are putting those people at risk. No matter how you change the numbers, the odds with vaccination are always better for everyone. Even if you add a small chance of getting sick from vaccination.
I got "into" this about half a year ago. With friends, we all hadn't played before, only 1 person had played DnD 2nd edition once. And we wanted to play DnD 3.5E.
The biggest challenge is a DM. The Dungeon Master defines the game. The Dungeon Master needs to know the rules. We didn't go look for a DM, I just became DM. Starting by reading the player handbook, understand the key parts of combat and stats. And then just go play. Figure out the rest as you go. With a new group nobody will complain if you make a mistake.
The first game we did was with 3 people, me as DM and 2 players. Just to get a feeling for the rules. We didn't have any dice or miniatures. Filling in the character sheets took about a hour. We only used melee/ranged character, no spellcasting. We used paper to draw out the maps and crosses and lines as characters and enemies. And an Android app to roll dice. It was a blast, and I killed one of my players near the end (just to show that I could). As we progressed with more games, we added more players, dice, miniatures (combination of old board games, and new warhammer miniatures) until we had a full DnD game. We also noticed we had used a few rules wrong. Which is no problem really, it's all about the fun, and we fixed those.
Finding a paper copy of the 3.5 DnD edition is pretty hard because they are no longer sold, but your favorite torrent site should have them in PDF form. However, on http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:System_Reference_Document you have the "DnD 3.5 SRD" which is almost all the rules (except for EXP/level up rules) in a free form. With monsters and everything. Once you get the basic rules the SRD is all you really need, if you want to play D&D 3.5. (We just skip anything "epic" and "psionic", to keep it a bit simpler)
I took a look at Legend, and it looks quite a bit like 3.5 in my eyes. But I miss monsters. With the 3.5 SRD I have a whole huge list of monsters to use, for free.
If you have a group of friends willing to play, then it's just as simple as "go for it" really.
(All the above "facts" from my teacher were gleaned from a single series of the BBC's QI program - and all of them are utter bollocks and not true. You can argue if you want, but the fact is that I'll just ignore you.)
Which makes you no better then any die-hard religious person. If you where truely a man of science then any theory can be challenged with new theories, information and experiments.
Maybe you could give people an incentive to actually buy a PC game? First step would be to stop releasing broken-ass console ports to the PC market, I bet that would help sales a lot. Also, get rid of any additional software to run, i.e., Steam and the other ridiculous spyware crap that is bundled with so many PC games today.
Funny that you mention steam. Because me (and more people like me) see steam as "DRM done right", instead of locking down the game so it becomes unplayable, steam has added value. No more hassle with keys. Download it everywhere. Easy access to forums with problem solutions. Integrated friends/join game functions (making playing with friends easy). Lots of discounts, and many indie games.
Now excuse my while I go kill mom in binding of isaac.
Maybe some people don't want to spend hours tweaking their system so it works. If I cannot install your OS, and run youtube movies out of the box, then it's no good on the desktop.
Also, most complains above here are in the "hardware/driver support" section.
Also, if you apply updates you need to restart those services. If X.org gets updated then you might as well restart you computer. (FYI: X.org runs below all the GUI stuff). I think Windows and Linux are about as stable as an OS. I run windows at home, Linux at work. So I do experience both. All crashes and reboots I had so far I could relate to: "updates on critical parts" or "hardware problems".
I do have to say that hardware problems are usually easier to diagnose in Linux. But I have to give windows credit for detecting that my video drivers crashed (and then continue at 640x480 256 colors VGA mode) that at least allowed me to save my work.
So we need to stop burning coal ASAP, because with nuke plants we can contain the waste, with coal burning we just spread it nice and even across the planet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Coal According to U.S. NCRP reports, population exposure from 1000-MWe power plants amounts to 490 person-rem/year for coal power plants and 4.8 person-rem/year for nuclear plants during normal operation, the latter being 136 person-rem/year for the complete nuclear fuel cycle.
Except for the fact that most people use metric measurements. USA being the only real imperial country, having 250M people of the 7B in the world makes your definition of "most" awkward.
You are comparing bogomips of an ARM vs X86? Now that's the stupidest 'benchmark' you could EVER do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BogoMips "It is not usable for performance comparison between different CPUs."
I don't know for an iPod, but an iPad says "please connect to iTunes" the first time you turn it on, and refuses to do anything until you do so. So you are forced to use iTunes.
The LG-Shine was slide to unlock. And I think many phones before that had a slide to unlock feature. They where sliding phones. So, just apply that to a touchscreen and you have slide to unlock on the iPhone. A good idea, yes. Mind-blowing innovating, no. Should be used to kill competition?... I'm sorry, what was the idea behind patents again?
They test the civil defense siren in the Netherlands once a month, on the first Monday at 12:00. They have been doing so for years without issues, the main difference between a real problem and a test is the length. With the frequent tests you are used to the length, if they are suddenly longer you would notice something is wrong.
Sure, you could do a gas attack at 12:00 on the first Monday, and you would win a few minutes of confusion. But the system will still work.
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FYI: I have Shank. And it's a quite typical button bash fight game, like Double Dragon. It's fun to play, not extremely novel, but it's fun to smack around in. It feels right, you mash buttons and stuff happens.
Actually, these are great games. Or, Super Meat Boy, Shank, CaveStory+ and Bit-Trip-Runner are. I already own those, which makes the bundle not that interesting for me. But these are not "low quality" games. I have more playtime in Super Meat Boy then in 2 big AAA combined. (new Deus Ex + Portal 2)
These game studios don't have big bucks for big graphics, they make it up in gameplay value.
He asked for numbers.
And I got numbers for you, from PyPy (Python JIT), showing that PyPy is faster then C in some cases.
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-is-faster-than-c-again-string.html
What I think would be the best strategy to control this drug issue, will be to make drugs legal in Mexico. In the Netherlands there is a law called something like: "The Blind Eyes Law" which basically states that the government will never know how drugs get into the coffee shops.
Interesting isn't it?
Dutch drug law is quite insane really. It's illegal to import/export/produce. But you are allowed to sell it in small quantities. Also, the penalties for "soft" drugs (mainly cannabis) are quite low. This makes people take the weaker drugs, making the weaker drugs visible makes the strong nasty stuff less attractive.
--Someone from The Netherlands, who never used drugs himself.
A MTBF of 171 is clear and utter bullshit. And claiming it is just plain lies. Unless you put the harddisk in a sealed box and don't touch it for the rest of it's life.
We produce products with a MTBF of 10 years. On average we expect our product to last 10 years, and that's tough. If we wouldn't aim for 10 years MTBF we could cut 15-30% of our production price. Our stuff is made to last, and that's what we pay for (and our customers)
One of the latest (7.2 or something) CyanogenMOD versions allows you to revoke permissions on installed apps. Which is the main reason why I installed Cyanogen.
At least your party tries new things. Mine stood 10 minutes on a floor in a half destroyed building, we me telling them the crunch sounds ever got louder. Finally I had to collapse the building on them.
Which is funny, because a minimal GPL drop requires:
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable.
(from GPLv2 section 3)
How I read it, if I cannot reproduce the binary you produced, then you didn't really give me everything I needed by GPL.
I haven't been vaccinated in 10 years.
Not getting vaccinated is selfishly stupid.
Why? Well, because, depending on the decease you are vaccinating against you just lower the odds for not just yourself, but also everyone around you. Most deceases don't have a 100% succes rate. Let's say 30% of the people that catch it get sick. The other 70% have a chance to become carriers, without symptoms they are not sick but infect other people. Let's say 10% of the people can become carriers, and the other 60% are totally immune. With 10% of the people coming in contact with an carrier you get a new carrier that won't be sick. Guess how fast this can spread then?
Now, add vaccination. Vaccination is not 100% effective. But for argument sake, lets say it stops 90% of the infection. So 10% of the people with vaccination can still catch the decease. Of those 10% 30% can become sick, 10% will be carriers without symptoms and 60% is totally immune even without the vaccination having effect. Now we suddenly only have 1% carriers.
Without vaccination the odds of you being a carrier is larger, and so are the odds of infecting someone who had vaccination but the vaccination was ineffective. So you are putting those people at risk. No matter how you change the numbers, the odds with vaccination are always better for everyone. Even if you add a small chance of getting sick from vaccination.
As a fellow dutch guy I disagree, you can just choose not to listen to the idiot.
I got "into" this about half a year ago. With friends, we all hadn't played before, only 1 person had played DnD 2nd edition once. And we wanted to play DnD 3.5E.
The biggest challenge is a DM. The Dungeon Master defines the game. The Dungeon Master needs to know the rules. We didn't go look for a DM, I just became DM. Starting by reading the player handbook, understand the key parts of combat and stats. And then just go play. Figure out the rest as you go. With a new group nobody will complain if you make a mistake.
The first game we did was with 3 people, me as DM and 2 players. Just to get a feeling for the rules. We didn't have any dice or miniatures. Filling in the character sheets took about a hour. We only used melee/ranged character, no spellcasting. We used paper to draw out the maps and crosses and lines as characters and enemies. And an Android app to roll dice. It was a blast, and I killed one of my players near the end (just to show that I could).
As we progressed with more games, we added more players, dice, miniatures (combination of old board games, and new warhammer miniatures) until we had a full DnD game. We also noticed we had used a few rules wrong. Which is no problem really, it's all about the fun, and we fixed those.
Finding a paper copy of the 3.5 DnD edition is pretty hard because they are no longer sold, but your favorite torrent site should have them in PDF form. However, on http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:System_Reference_Document you have the "DnD 3.5 SRD" which is almost all the rules (except for EXP/level up rules) in a free form. With monsters and everything. Once you get the basic rules the SRD is all you really need, if you want to play D&D 3.5. (We just skip anything "epic" and "psionic", to keep it a bit simpler)
I took a look at Legend, and it looks quite a bit like 3.5 in my eyes. But I miss monsters. With the 3.5 SRD I have a whole huge list of monsters to use, for free.
If you have a group of friends willing to play, then it's just as simple as "go for it" really.
(All the above "facts" from my teacher were gleaned from a single series of the BBC's QI program - and all of them are utter bollocks and not true. You can argue if you want, but the fact is that I'll just ignore you.)
Which makes you no better then any die-hard religious person. If you where truely a man of science then any theory can be challenged with new theories, information and experiments.
Maybe you could give people an incentive to actually buy a PC game? First step would be to stop releasing broken-ass console ports to the PC market, I bet that would help sales a lot. Also, get rid of any additional software to run, i.e., Steam and the other ridiculous spyware crap that is bundled with so many PC games today.
Funny that you mention steam. Because me (and more people like me) see steam as "DRM done right", instead of locking down the game so it becomes unplayable, steam has added value. No more hassle with keys. Download it everywhere. Easy access to forums with problem solutions. Integrated friends/join game functions (making playing with friends easy). Lots of discounts, and many indie games.
Now excuse my while I go kill mom in binding of isaac.
I didn't read the patent. But, how about the system that displays the current stop in a bus? Would that count?
Maybe some people don't want to spend hours tweaking their system so it works. If I cannot install your OS, and run youtube movies out of the box, then it's no good on the desktop.
Also, most complains above here are in the "hardware/driver support" section.
Every OS is as stable as the user.
Also, if you apply updates you need to restart those services. If X.org gets updated then you might as well restart you computer. (FYI: X.org runs below all the GUI stuff). I think Windows and Linux are about as stable as an OS. I run windows at home, Linux at work. So I do experience both. All crashes and reboots I had so far I could relate to: "updates on critical parts" or "hardware problems".
I do have to say that hardware problems are usually easier to diagnose in Linux. But I have to give windows credit for detecting that my video drivers crashed (and then continue at 640x480 256 colors VGA mode) that at least allowed me to save my work.
So we need to stop burning coal ASAP, because with nuke plants we can contain the waste, with coal burning we just spread it nice and even across the planet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Coal
According to U.S. NCRP reports, population exposure from 1000-MWe power plants amounts to 490 person-rem/year for coal power plants and 4.8 person-rem/year for nuclear plants during normal operation, the latter being 136 person-rem/year for the complete nuclear fuel cycle.
...no but srsly, OpenBSD is not actually a giant blowfish out to destroy our cities.
Which would be more exciting then an OpenBSD release. I for one, welcome our new blowfish overlords.
http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=papercraft+bomb&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=650l3477l0l3813l15l10l0l4l4l0l197l1244l4.6l14l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1280&bih=802&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
They seem to be quite common.
Except for the fact that most people use metric measurements. USA being the only real imperial country, having 250M people of the 7B in the world makes your definition of "most" awkward.
So about a 30x30x30cm cube.
You are comparing bogomips of an ARM vs X86? Now that's the stupidest 'benchmark' you could EVER do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BogoMips
"It is not usable for performance comparison between different CPUs."
I don't know for an iPod, but an iPad says "please connect to iTunes" the first time you turn it on, and refuses to do anything until you do so. So you are forced to use iTunes.
Because it's not "on a phone"
Slide to unlock - common item.
Slide to unlock "on a phone" - Innovation!
The LG-Shine was slide to unlock. And I think many phones before that had a slide to unlock feature. They where sliding phones. So, just apply that to a touchscreen and you have slide to unlock on the iPhone. A good idea, yes. Mind-blowing innovating, no. Should be used to kill competition?... I'm sorry, what was the idea behind patents again?
They test the civil defense siren in the Netherlands once a month, on the first Monday at 12:00. They have been doing so for years without issues, the main difference between a real problem and a test is the length. With the frequent tests you are used to the length, if they are suddenly longer you would notice something is wrong.
Sure, you could do a gas attack at 12:00 on the first Monday, and you would win a few minutes of confusion. But the system will still work.