Oh, I see, genetics can have an effect on one's physical attributes but not their mental attributes.
MAYBE, we need an affirmative action program for professional sports. Sounds pretty stupid right? But in the hiring process, it isn't the best qualified it is the best qualified AFTER you have satisfied all of your racial hiring quota's.
If the state or country doesn't have enough money to pay for people to work, people stop showing up to work. Just like a private enterprise.
This is why cutting federal taxes has crippled state and local governments which used to depend on that money getting back to them.
That is why you are seeing increasing fees, tuitions at state colleges get jacked up, and taxes state and local going through the roof wherever they can be pushed through. You also don't see people being replaced when they retire, or leave for the private sector.
Now, this in this case, I have no problem with what this kid has done, as he has actually helped the government do their job better, cheaper, and for free. he probably saved us all a lot of money, because I bet it costs a heck of a lot more than the fee that is charged to serve up those pieces of paper.
In general I think folks need to stop thinking that the... gubmint... has an infinite supply of money, and therefore it is ok to steal from them. It is not. If you don't like what they are doing, get together with some like minded folks and take over your congressional district. Run for office and try to fix the problems instead of complaining about them.
First off... 15 colonies? only 13 founded our country. what are the other two you are talking of?
Secondly, it was far more than one colony that was founded by 'Puritans',
Massachusetts, Puritans Rhode Island, Religious folks fleeing from Puritans Pennsylvania, Quakers New Jersey 'New Lighters' Maryland Catholics Virgina Anglicans
6 of 13 colonies are founded out of religious beginnings, and New York city had/has such a high concentration of jewish folk since it was New Amsterdam
6 1/2 out of 13 isn't exactly propaganda. Its half the story.
I think this, and most of the drug related comments on slashdot are funny.
Any kid that grew up with this stuff has a natural hatred of drugs, with good reason.
but I somewhat agree, they could do drug education much better: They could have these school children take a tour of the lives of drug users, and then ask them the simple question: Is this how you want to live your life? I knew what my answer was at 3, and it hasn't changed since.
I invested $22,000 two years ago, and know I have $19,000, and I think I'm doing pretty damn good. Compound interest? Doesn't interest me. I should have paid off my car and student loans.
Sounds like that girl who claimed that an Obama supporter beat her up just before the last election....
I'm sure someone threw some rocks at this guy (no - I'm really not), but I doubt it was a concerted effort to silence him... or even folks from Iran.
It may even be a prank by some other college kids who were A) drunk or B) don't like this kid anyway(or C) a lie).
In any case, no blood no foul, right? That is why we help Iranians in a potential civil war through our twitter accounts instead of sending them material aid that might actually be able to help them in case things start getting really ugly.
If you really want to help them, start translating the anarchist cookbook into the local language, or smuggle copies of it into the country.
Remember folks: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but computers can never hurt me.
Tanks and guns can kill me dead, but twitter will never harm me.
Planes and bombs can level my village, but a netwar is just crackers having fun.
From everything that I had seen on this game, it seemed like the developers were trying to change the formula of the original Jumpgate to something that more closely resembled some of the more successful MMO's on the market, like WoW, and Warhammer.
They really lost sight of the fact that the people who played Jumpgate when it was first released in 01, are the same people who were not satisfied with those other styles of games then, and aren't now.
Maybe the shock of having friends and family say 'Hey... this isn't jumpgate', will let them take another look at the game they are making a sequel to, and just keep what works, without trying to merge in what works in games made for a completely different audience.
In other news - you can still play the original jumpgate free for two weeks. Graphics are dated, space is a little empty on the off hours, but the core of the game is still fun... if you like skill based games that encourage planning.
Man o man -- I'll be buying that on release day. I just hope it is half as good as the original jumpgate was when the servers had good traffic.
It wasn't nearly as much fun to turn the universe red when there weren't enough folks on to notice:(
Did they ever fix the 'nix hitbox? will be my very first question when I get my hands on this, the next will be 'Where am I going to find a decent joystick in 2009?!?!?! do they still make them?' followed by 'can we still replace the in game music with our own? and rewrite the HUDs?'
The original was awesome - its too bad 3DO screwed it up. Glad to see it back for with a sequel
I really don't get why people go through all this trouble to hack up the wii to do things it wasn't meant to.
Maybe someone can explain with more than just 'because we can!' or 'because nintendo locked us out!'.
I could understand the xbox, and the ps3, as those are superiour graphical environments where you are getting great hardware at a significant discount. The wii's selling point is the great cool new interface to playing games. Hack that up all you want: Wiimote hacking is awesome. but why hack the hardware that talks to it, and isn't that much more advanced than the gamecube, to do things that it just isn't all that great at in the first place?
It is completely valid to correlate the success of an individual with drug use. You will find that many studies have been done (you do the research, I already got my masters), which correlate prevelance of drugs in an environment with economic outcomes of those in that environment. There are several which study mental performance before, after, and during drug use - The egg frying commercial was pretty accurate, by ALL measures. Do the research, and instead of glorifying your successful friends, pity them for what more they could be doing.
as for no evidence of brain damage: perhaps you should do some more research. And reading the 'make marajiana legal' folks self referenced studies don't count.
As for schizophrenia? Its on the long laundry list of potential side effects: If we knew what caused it we would have a cure for it, and no one would ever suffer from it.
I would assume then that the very successful people you know aren't very successful compared to the very successful people that I know, or they are politicians or lawyers, who... well... do I have to say anything else about them?
get off your high horse, or go do some more drugs, but don't push the myth that drugs make you more effective at your job. Unless of course your job is to be a know-nothing know-it-all high octane bullshitter. which of course, drugs would make you more effective at, to the detriment of everyone else, when some poor fool believes the crap you are pushing. Is that where we are now?
The key here is that they undermined the prestige of the state with other states, not with thier own people.
The Goal of this court is to keep INTERNAL morale high. They don't care what we think of them. They are trying to keep thier message consistent within thier country.
Similar things were done here not so long ago, and just as publically, if not more so. Do you know what happened to folks who said that 'maybe communism isn't so bad?' during the 50's?
The guy wasn't shot, he wasn't maimed, his family wasn't killed, he was just put away for 3 years.
Thats progress.
And looking at where they are starting from - it is pretty damn good progress.
Those are the only alternatives to Microsoft, AND the next best thing to it?
Which company is going to provide the install support across all of the offices, who is going to retrain all of the IT staff, who is going to replace every instance of closed format documentation that they already have in place?
I'm not asking that question from the standpoint of !nobody - ms is the way to go!, but from the standpoint, of who is going to be paid for that work, and what thier connection is to the minister who is proposing this.
Someone's nest is being feathered, as the open formats you describe are not free, and they do not come without cost.
This is why governments aren't supposed to pick winners: They are supposed to BLINDLY pick from the bids and estimates and select the one that delivers the most value. Removing MS in this fashion is removing the likely winner from consideration, and opening the field for someone else - You say everyone benifits: I say bologna. The best use of taxpayer dollars, whatever country, benifits everyone - as the taxes that WILL go to the second best option could be spent on schools, free wi-fi, socialized health-care, and dozens of other things that benifit people directly. An open document format? has anyone ever died because they didn't have access to microsoft office on thier linux desktop? because they couldn't use power point cross platform?
Wow -- what a stretch... but that is the context from which I am speaking. Let MS, Quadaffi corp, Google apps, and open source compete on a level playing field of blind estimates, and THEN let the politicians decide where the best value is. Eliminating someone from the field before the biding begins tilts the playing field unfairly, AND towards less justice.
Perhaps all of you LARPers and role players are forgetting the horrific homocides that have happened on several campuses the last few years.
You know the ones, the ones where people show up with guns and shoot everyone? run across the campus quickly going bang bang and people dropping left and right?
Imagine someone doing that while a role playing game with nerf guns is going on? Imagine someone whipping up a bright orange gun near a police officer hunting the bad guy. Question: is it a real gun painted orange? how many seconds to decide? Worse - how long before the bad guys gun IS painted orange?
you know what - imagine for just one second that there might be a history of extreme violence over the last few years, and that college campuses have been and continue to be a prime location for such events, and that maybe a few LARPers, you know, the statistically unlikely to graduate on time, or at all crowd, might be the last group on campus that the administration would want to bow down to.
Imagine for just one minute, that college is a place to get an education first, and have fun second, and that rules to that effect are there for a reason. I played assisins in college too, and we never once needed a gun to have fun. change your rules to respect those around you, or dont be surprised when no one has any respect for you.
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On the other hand black athletes do overwhelmingly better than white ones.
Bullshit.
Is it because of discrimination in the granting of NFL contracts to black guys over the whites?
Oh - you mean in the NFL. I thought you meant Athletes!
You are cherrypicking one sport out of many. grow your sample size a bit.
What color are most professional athletes?
Oh, I see, genetics can have an effect on one's physical attributes but not their mental attributes.
MAYBE, we need an affirmative action program for professional sports. Sounds pretty stupid right? But in the hiring process, it isn't the best qualified it is the best qualified AFTER you have satisfied all of your racial hiring quota's.
Most professional Athletes are white.
so maybe we SHOULD have AA for sports.
I would like all of you folks who are complaining that X is a coward for 'caving' to Islam:
Please walk up to a coworker
Ask him/her to see his/her latest un-cashed paycheck.
go to the bank with him/her, and get it in cash.
Burn the cash. All of it.
Not going to do it? You are a coward for not intentionally pissing off someone who doesn't have any reason to be pissed off with you.
Going to do it? You are an idiot.
Wouldn't even entertain the thought? kind of strikes you as wrong?
Think there might be an analogy that can be drawn here between Money Loving Capitalist Americans and Quran Loving Islamic Muslims?
No... couldn't be.
Don't insult someone you don't have to.
Don't insult someone you don't have to.
Treat others as you would like them to treat you.
One of those is a golden rule. I don't care which one you pick.
Clean kids got polio.
dirty kids didn't.
its not a myth.
http://polio.emedtv.com/polio/polio-history.html
Musashi would agree with him.
the only point is to cut the enemy: it doesn't matter how you cut the enemy.
In the later part of his life, the man didn't even use his wakizashi, he used a carved oar exclusively.
If the state or country doesn't have enough money to pay for people to work, people stop showing up to work. Just like a private enterprise.
This is why cutting federal taxes has crippled state and local governments which used to depend on that money getting back to them.
That is why you are seeing increasing fees, tuitions at state colleges get jacked up, and taxes state and local going through the roof wherever they can be pushed through. You also don't see people being replaced when they retire, or leave for the private sector.
Now, this in this case, I have no problem with what this kid has done, as he has actually helped the government do their job better, cheaper, and for free. he probably saved us all a lot of money, because I bet it costs a heck of a lot more than the fee that is charged to serve up those pieces of paper.
In general I think folks need to stop thinking that the ... gubmint... has an infinite supply of money, and therefore it is ok to steal from them. It is not. If you don't like what they are doing, get together with some like minded folks and take over your congressional district. Run for office and try to fix the problems instead of complaining about them.
First off... 15 colonies? only 13 founded our country. what are the other two you are talking of?
Secondly, it was far more than one colony that was founded by 'Puritans',
Massachusetts, Puritans
Rhode Island, Religious folks fleeing from Puritans
Pennsylvania, Quakers
New Jersey 'New Lighters'
Maryland Catholics
Virgina Anglicans
6 of 13 colonies are founded out of religious beginnings, and New York city had/has such a high concentration of jewish folk since it was New Amsterdam
6 1/2 out of 13 isn't exactly propaganda. Its half the story.
Why doesn't nintendo want arbitrary code to run on its console? Its not like it has an internet connection or anything....
Oh wait it does... Well, its not like that internet connection could be abused through running arbitrary code....
Oh no, absolutely not, none of these guys would EVER do that.
Listen... if you want to run 'homebrew', just get a modded wiimote and use it with your computer, heck redirect the output to your tv if you want.
http://www.wiimotemods.com/
I think they LIKE it when you mod the wiimote.
I think this, and most of the drug related comments on slashdot are funny.
Any kid that grew up with this stuff has a natural hatred of drugs, with good reason.
but I somewhat agree, they could do drug education much better: They could have these school children take a tour of the lives of drug users, and then ask them the simple question: Is this how you want to live your life? I knew what my answer was at 3, and it hasn't changed since.
I invested $22,000 two years ago, and know I have $19,000, and I think I'm doing pretty damn good. Compound interest? Doesn't interest me. I should have paid off my car and student loans.
Sounds like that girl who claimed that an Obama supporter beat her up just before the last election....
I'm sure someone threw some rocks at this guy (no - I'm really not), but I doubt it was a concerted effort to silence him... or even folks from Iran.
It may even be a prank by some other college kids who were A) drunk or B) don't like this kid anyway(or C) a lie).
In any case, no blood no foul, right? That is why we help Iranians in a potential civil war through our twitter accounts instead of sending them material aid that might actually be able to help them in case things start getting really ugly.
If you really want to help them, start translating the anarchist cookbook into the local language, or smuggle copies of it into the country.
Remember folks:
Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but computers can never hurt me.
Tanks and guns can kill me dead,
but twitter will never harm me.
Planes and bombs can level my village,
but a netwar is just crackers having fun.
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From everything that I had seen on this game, it seemed like the developers were trying to change the formula of the original Jumpgate to something that more closely resembled some of the more successful MMO's on the market, like WoW, and Warhammer. They really lost sight of the fact that the people who played Jumpgate when it was first released in 01, are the same people who were not satisfied with those other styles of games then, and aren't now. Maybe the shock of having friends and family say 'Hey... this isn't jumpgate', will let them take another look at the game they are making a sequel to, and just keep what works, without trying to merge in what works in games made for a completely different audience. In other news - you can still play the original jumpgate free for two weeks. Graphics are dated, space is a little empty on the off hours, but the core of the game is still fun... if you like skill based games that encourage planning.
The parent is not 'Informative' The parrent is 'Wrong'. There IS joystick support. Do your research.
I did not see anything in the interview or the trailer that suggested that you couldn't use a joystick.
The original Jumpgate had both available, mouse or joystick, and though the joystick was infinitly more fun, the mouse was usable.
Can you show me why you think they will not support joysticks?
Wow!
I miss that game!
Man o man -- I'll be buying that on release day. I just hope it is half as good as the original jumpgate was when the servers had good traffic.
It wasn't nearly as much fun to turn the universe red when there weren't enough folks on to notice :(
Did they ever fix the 'nix hitbox? will be my very first question when I get my hands on this, the next will be 'Where am I going to find a decent joystick in 2009?!?!?! do they still make them?' followed by 'can we still replace the in game music with our own? and rewrite the HUDs?'
The original was awesome - its too bad 3DO screwed it up. Glad to see it back for with a sequel
Wow!
I Like this answer.
It actually addresses the question that I asked, and I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
I really don't get why people go through all this trouble to hack up the wii to do things it wasn't meant to.
Maybe someone can explain with more than just 'because we can!' or 'because nintendo locked us out!'.
I could understand the xbox, and the ps3, as those are superiour graphical environments where you are getting great hardware at a significant discount. The wii's selling point is the great cool new interface to playing games. Hack that up all you want: Wiimote hacking is awesome. but why hack the hardware that talks to it, and isn't that much more advanced than the gamecube, to do things that it just isn't all that great at in the first place?
It is completely valid to correlate the success of an individual with drug use. You will find that many studies have been done (you do the research, I already got my masters), which correlate prevelance of drugs in an environment with economic outcomes of those in that environment. There are several which study mental performance before, after, and during drug use - The egg frying commercial was pretty accurate, by ALL measures. Do the research, and instead of glorifying your successful friends, pity them for what more they could be doing.
as for no evidence of brain damage: perhaps you should do some more research. And reading the 'make marajiana legal' folks self referenced studies don't count.
As for schizophrenia? Its on the long laundry list of potential side effects: If we knew what caused it we would have a cure for it, and no one would ever suffer from it.
I would assume then that the very successful people you know aren't very successful compared to the very successful people that I know, or they are politicians or lawyers, who ... well... do I have to say anything else about them?
get off your high horse, or go do some more drugs, but don't push the myth that drugs make you more effective at your job. Unless of course your job is to be a know-nothing know-it-all high octane bullshitter. which of course, drugs would make you more effective at, to the detriment of everyone else, when some poor fool believes the crap you are pushing. Is that where we are now?
News for nerds, not news for pill pushers (etc).
The key here is that they undermined the prestige of the state with other states, not with thier own people.
The Goal of this court is to keep INTERNAL morale high. They don't care what we think of them. They are trying to keep thier message consistent within thier country.
Similar things were done here not so long ago, and just as publically, if not more so. Do you know what happened to folks who said that 'maybe communism isn't so bad?' during the 50's?
The guy wasn't shot, he wasn't maimed, his family wasn't killed, he was just put away for 3 years.
Thats progress.
And looking at where they are starting from - it is pretty damn good progress.
I'm prett sure you will be in the same state either way:
Hungry, tired, thirsty, and in need of a trip to the nearest bathroom... unless you have the 1337 catheter add-on for your gaming rig.
In that case, I guess you would be in better shape. Just hungry and tired, because you can always drink from the catheter.
and I bet you would even be able to spell catheter at
Really?
Those are the only alternatives to Microsoft, AND the next best thing to it?
Which company is going to provide the install support across all of the offices, who is going to retrain all of the IT staff, who is going to replace every instance of closed format documentation that they already have in place?
I'm not asking that question from the standpoint of !nobody - ms is the way to go!, but from the standpoint, of who is going to be paid for that work, and what thier connection is to the minister who is proposing this.
Someone's nest is being feathered, as the open formats you describe are not free, and they do not come without cost.
This is why governments aren't supposed to pick winners: They are supposed to BLINDLY pick from the bids and estimates and select the one that delivers the most value. Removing MS in this fashion is removing the likely winner from consideration, and opening the field for someone else - You say everyone benifits: I say bologna. The best use of taxpayer dollars, whatever country, benifits everyone - as the taxes that WILL go to the second best option could be spent on schools, free wi-fi, socialized health-care, and dozens of other things that benifit people directly. An open document format? has anyone ever died because they didn't have access to microsoft office on thier linux desktop? because they couldn't use power point cross platform?
Wow -- what a stretch... but that is the context from which I am speaking. Let MS, Quadaffi corp, Google apps, and open source compete on a level playing field of blind estimates, and THEN let the politicians decide where the best value is. Eliminating someone from the field before the biding begins tilts the playing field unfairly, AND towards less justice.
If Microsoft wasn't the best choice, why elminate them from the process?
Who is going to benifit the most from this, and what is the connection to this group?
Is there an eu msft that they are trying to shepard to the big time, or is it simple corruption?
Who wins with MS out of the picture?
Perhaps all of you LARPers and role players are forgetting the horrific homocides that have happened on several campuses the last few years.
You know the ones, the ones where people show up with guns and shoot everyone? run across the campus quickly going bang bang and people dropping left and right?
Imagine someone doing that while a role playing game with nerf guns is going on? Imagine someone whipping up a bright orange gun near a police officer hunting the bad guy. Question: is it a real gun painted orange? how many seconds to decide? Worse - how long before the bad guys gun IS painted orange?
you know what - imagine for just one second that there might be a history of extreme violence over the last few years, and that college campuses have been and continue to be a prime location for such events, and that maybe a few LARPers, you know, the statistically unlikely to graduate on time, or at all crowd, might be the last group on campus that the administration would want to bow down to.
Imagine for just one minute, that college is a place to get an education first, and have fun second, and that rules to that effect are there for a reason. I played assisins in college too, and we never once needed a gun to have fun. change your rules to respect those around you, or dont be surprised when no one has any respect for you.
I wonder what will happen to thier investments if someone shakes the table, or knocks the computer on its side, or even if there is an earthquake.
What happens when the computer gets dusty, or mold starts to grow on one of the lenses?
how will dust be solved? Water? Bugs (of the insect variety)?