While it does make smoking easier, the constant mouse movement makes playing more than 30 minutes painful.
Actually, you hit the nail on something. I was under the impression that in Asia, that gamers in Asia tend to be multi-tasking when playing MMO's (eating, drinking, and smoking) because they are usually gaming in a cafe which offers such products.
But I agree on the Western MMO problems... Makes me want to buy a foot pedal sometimes.
You're in space, there's no air to make you turn using aerodynamic methods, and conversely there's no air to stop you from making a 90 deg turn across the normal axis nor smash your craft to pieces if you tilt it 90 deg across its lateral axis.
Conversely, there is also the issue about ranges of actual combat. Seeing that space is a vacuum, missile and laser engagements should be in theory far outside the range of human sight.
If it becomes necessary to alter my environment, buy a new monitor, and use the developer console to see the game as the designers envisioned, the designers need a new vision.
I dunno. I'd rather have a developer try to be unique and have an over idealistic vision about their game instead of just making another sequel.
Sure maybe only a handful of people will "get it", (you know like the Donnie Darko movie) but overall sometimes you have to do something off the wall and take a risk.
I don't know. Maybe because the "Rich And Wealthy" would be the only ones who could afford it, and thus we'd have an upper-class composed of bodybuilder supermen, and a lower class consisting of only the frail.
At least patents expire. Come to think of it... The Viagra patent is going to expire soon. Soon you'll see just about everyone company making cheap copies which won't really be any different than the original.
Sharing that connection with unrelated people would constitute theft of service (just like sharing your TV cable, for example).
Is it illegal for me to share my Comcast internet connection with my room mate with a wireless router?
So what is the difference between me sharing with them or my father next door?
Either way, the software wasn't intended to share out internet connectivity with strangers. It was designed to give the owner the ability to give their own laptop an internet connection.
He was going to a shrink for years, and admitted to thoughts of suicide.
I personally take offense to this having a personal friend institutionalized during high school for expression something similar. I'd wager millions of Americans visit shrinks and/or have thoughts of suicide yet they don't seem to be in the business of killing other people or labeled as mentally ill.
I'd argue a suicidal person who actually visits a shrink is less likely to want to kill someone than a person who has anger problems and doesn't visit a shrink. Of course I maybe biased about shrinks, but just because you admit you have thoughts about suicide does not automatically make one "mentally ill".
If he wasn't guilty he probaly just got too paranoid about going to jail for a crime he didn't commit and finally went through with it. His coworkers won a lawsuit because of the invasive behavior of the government investigation.
There have been plenty of incidents where depressed persons who were under the impression they were going to jail for a crime they did not commit and decided suicide would save them the trouble and the stress of the trial and the fear of going to prison.
Not to say there were plenty of guilty people who also committed suicide. Its just a possibility and that just because he committed suicide doesn't mean he's automatically guilty.
This is meant on an entirely serious note... should we bring back public floggings for some offenses? I think that would be a lot more effective than the figurative slap on the wrist that is so often employed.
No because the Justice system seems to have a bad habit of convicting innocent people. Its one thing to spend some time in jail because of wrongful conviction.
Why not one of your customers instead of your CEO?
I worked QA for a small time software company and they had a special relationship with one large scale customer who elected to be a beta. Actually, they really weren't the beta at first, but they requested several features and offered to pay big money for it.
It turned out the special features they requested were popular with the regular customers and the developers started to include some of the features with the regular builds.
Wind and solar probably can't deliver the wattage.
I don't know about wind, but they key advantage that solar has over anything else is that it can be decentralized rather than centralized.
I think there are economic incentives to eventually get people off the grid and having to pay anyone anything for electricity again. Paying someone else money for the use of electricity is still paying them no matter if its wind, centralized solar plant, nuclear, coal, or geothermal.
Of course this entails that someday solar will get so efficient that anyone can install it on their rooftop or car and be off the grid completely. It will come eventually, its just a matter of when.
Of course if we are talking about Alaska, solar isn't the optimal solution during winter time.
Though, during the summer, they got all they could ever want.
If you have some time, and some money to invest... Say $13,000. You could buy them, sell them on ebay or Amazon for $185 a piece and make a cool $5,000 for yourself.
The cost in electricity for them to use my "unused" resources is not worth it for SETI which offers and most likely will never offer any tangible benefit to our society.
True, but who are you to say what others due with their free CPU cycles?
Personally, I like protein folding, but if other people want to look for alien life with their cycles then its their computer.
Um, AT&T, Standard Oil, and a few other examples come to mind... plus, if you run a small business and have ever dealt with OSHA, you'll have plenty of other more modern examples ready.
Bear in mind those were pretty progressive governments at time compared to society. Unless you think having a single company determine the price of oil and force you to rent your phone for an arbitrary price is a good thing.
In truth some of our government regulation for small businesses is asinine, but letting single or a select few corporations run the economy is just as bad as having a government planned economy (aka Soviet Union).
If Comcast doesn't want to deal with government regulation now, I'd say it would be fair if they gave back the tax money they got for infrastructure development on public lands back from the telecommunications acts during the 90s.
If it were true, then Somalia would be a paragon of democracy.
Actually, they have a neat system over there. At a checkpoint there is usually 5 guys with AK47s. Anyone (even armed with guns) pay them a toll without a fuss.
However, if a pickup truck with 10 guys with AK47s come through, the 5 guys wave them through without asking for money.
Simply owning a gun doesn't work in anarchy. Having more than the other guy does.
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While it does make smoking easier, the constant mouse movement makes playing more than 30 minutes painful.
Actually, you hit the nail on something. I was under the impression that in Asia, that gamers in Asia tend to be multi-tasking when playing MMO's (eating, drinking, and smoking) because they are usually gaming in a cafe which offers such products.
But I agree on the Western MMO problems... Makes me want to buy a foot pedal sometimes.
You're in space, there's no air to make you turn using aerodynamic methods, and conversely there's no air to stop you from making a 90 deg turn across the normal axis nor smash your craft to pieces if you tilt it 90 deg across its lateral axis.
Conversely, there is also the issue about ranges of actual combat. Seeing that space is a vacuum, missile and laser engagements should be in theory far outside the range of human sight.
If it becomes necessary to alter my environment, buy a new monitor, and use the developer console to see the game as the designers envisioned, the designers need a new vision.
I dunno. I'd rather have a developer try to be unique and have an over idealistic vision about their game instead of just making another sequel.
Sure maybe only a handful of people will "get it", (you know like the Donnie Darko movie) but overall sometimes you have to do something off the wall and take a risk.
Nah. It will just teach children to start out as bankers.
That or the wholesale genocide of all moving animals on the plains regardless of whether you can carry the food or not.
Blizzard's IP is based off of WARs IP, I thought everyone knew that...
Sadly, the abuse of GW IP is making WHFB fans cry... I'm talking about Mythic, not Blizzard.
And the crazy tunnel vision for a teen rating. Seriously, Khorne is weeping softly for the lack of blood in this game.
Do you know how many dead monkeys there are in space?
A lot.
From a managements and sharehold perspective I think it's quite normal and understandable of Apple creating such a policy.
For a term holder then yes, but if you are a long term, then bad PR like this isn't desirable for company image over the course of several years.
Besides, just because you don't disclose the exploit, doesn't mean it goes away.
Oh great... Next you'll be telling me the LHC is going to tear a rift in the Warp and we're going to get invaded by Slaneeshi demonettes.
I don't know. Maybe because the "Rich And Wealthy" would be the only ones who could afford it, and thus we'd have an upper-class composed of bodybuilder supermen, and a lower class consisting of only the frail.
At least patents expire. Come to think of it... The Viagra patent is going to expire soon. Soon you'll see just about everyone company making cheap copies which won't really be any different than the original.
Sharing that connection with unrelated people would constitute theft of service (just like sharing your TV cable, for example).
Is it illegal for me to share my Comcast internet connection with my room mate with a wireless router?
So what is the difference between me sharing with them or my father next door?
Either way, the software wasn't intended to share out internet connectivity with strangers. It was designed to give the owner the ability to give their own laptop an internet connection.
He was going to a shrink for years, and admitted to thoughts of suicide.
I personally take offense to this having a personal friend institutionalized during high school for expression something similar. I'd wager millions of Americans visit shrinks and/or have thoughts of suicide yet they don't seem to be in the business of killing other people or labeled as mentally ill.
I'd argue a suicidal person who actually visits a shrink is less likely to want to kill someone than a person who has anger problems and doesn't visit a shrink. Of course I maybe biased about shrinks, but just because you admit you have thoughts about suicide does not automatically make one "mentally ill".
If he wasn't guilty he probaly just got too paranoid about going to jail for a crime he didn't commit and finally went through with it. His coworkers won a lawsuit because of the invasive behavior of the government investigation.
There have been plenty of incidents where depressed persons who were under the impression they were going to jail for a crime they did not commit and decided suicide would save them the trouble and the stress of the trial and the fear of going to prison.
Not to say there were plenty of guilty people who also committed suicide. Its just a possibility and that just because he committed suicide doesn't mean he's automatically guilty.
I wouldn't surprised if they hadn't bothered in the case of Apple hardware, both due to the hardware itself and the tiny userbase.
Yeah, Vista's user base is pretty tiny since most Mac users use WinXP if they can help it.
This is meant on an entirely serious note... should we bring back public floggings for some offenses? I think that would be a lot more effective than the figurative slap on the wrist that is so often employed.
No because the Justice system seems to have a bad habit of convicting innocent people. Its one thing to spend some time in jail because of wrongful conviction.
Its another to have permanent scars and/or dead.
Why not one of your customers instead of your CEO?
I worked QA for a small time software company and they had a special relationship with one large scale customer who elected to be a beta. Actually, they really weren't the beta at first, but they requested several features and offered to pay big money for it.
It turned out the special features they requested were popular with the regular customers and the developers started to include some of the features with the regular builds.
With this habit, I've never even seen the bar go down more than halfway (nor would I panic if it did - I have a car charger too for business trips).
I've seen a fully charged phone go from full to halfway unexpectedly for no good reason. Of course it was a crappy phone.
Wind and solar probably can't deliver the wattage.
I don't know about wind, but they key advantage that solar has over anything else is that it can be decentralized rather than centralized.
I think there are economic incentives to eventually get people off the grid and having to pay anyone anything for electricity again. Paying someone else money for the use of electricity is still paying them no matter if its wind, centralized solar plant, nuclear, coal, or geothermal.
Of course this entails that someday solar will get so efficient that anyone can install it on their rooftop or car and be off the grid completely. It will come eventually, its just a matter of when.
Of course if we are talking about Alaska, solar isn't the optimal solution during winter time.
Though, during the summer, they got all they could ever want.
If you have some time, and some money to invest... Say $13,000. You could buy them, sell them on ebay or Amazon for $185 a piece and make a cool $5,000 for yourself.
Of course there isn't, but if you read Slashdot you'd think it was a 1:0 ratio.
True, but to prevent all piracy would entail hurting legitimate customers. Would you put up with forced searches just to see a movie?
I know someone who stopped paying for movies and just downloads them now. So some download or bootleg DVD = movie ticket.
I know someone who stopped going to theaters and just uses Netflix.
Just because you can't (or just don't) download movies doesn't mean you'll go to the theater.
There is no 1:1 ration of piracy versus lost sales.
The cost in electricity for them to use my "unused" resources is not worth it for SETI which offers and most likely will never offer any tangible benefit to our society.
True, but who are you to say what others due with their free CPU cycles?
Personally, I like protein folding, but if other people want to look for alien life with their cycles then its their computer.
Um, AT&T, Standard Oil, and a few other examples come to mind... plus, if you run a small business and have ever dealt with OSHA, you'll have plenty of other more modern examples ready.
Bear in mind those were pretty progressive governments at time compared to society. Unless you think having a single company determine the price of oil and force you to rent your phone for an arbitrary price is a good thing.
In truth some of our government regulation for small businesses is asinine, but letting single or a select few corporations run the economy is just as bad as having a government planned economy (aka Soviet Union).
If Comcast doesn't want to deal with government regulation now, I'd say it would be fair if they gave back the tax money they got for infrastructure development on public lands back from the telecommunications acts during the 90s.
If it were true, then Somalia would be a paragon of democracy.
Actually, they have a neat system over there. At a checkpoint there is usually 5 guys with AK47s. Anyone (even armed with guns) pay them a toll without a fuss.
However, if a pickup truck with 10 guys with AK47s come through, the 5 guys wave them through without asking for money.
Simply owning a gun doesn't work in anarchy. Having more than the other guy does.
I don't use Skype (or VoIP for that matter) but I would be curious if anyone knows of any alternatives that is completely open.
Point is: just because something is fantastically advanced technology doesn't automatically mean it can't be smashed by a big rock.
Including earth and a 500km wide asteroid the aliens nudged our way.
But barring that if your space ship can handle a nuclear explosion then you really don't have to worry about what the humans think or do.
If you have a job that can be replaced by a robot we can assume two things:
1. Its boring
2. Its going to be replaced by foreign labor anyways.