The speed limit is most certainly NOT an excuse to drive dangerously.
In Texas there is a law that states that if you fail to maintain the flow of traffic, you can be fined. That means that if you are driving ONLY 1 mile per hour above the speed limit and at least 5 cars are going around you to pass you, you can be given a ticket for driving TOO SLOW even though you are going ABOVE the speed limit!
Why such a bizarre law in Texas?
Because we're not fucking shitheads. THE RULES OF THE ROAD ARE THERE TO PROMOTE SAFETY. IF, AT ANY TIME, ANY RULE WOULD BE DANGEROUS TO FOLLOW TO THE LETTER, DO NOT OBEY THAT RULE! YOUR FIRST PRIORITY WHILE DRIVING IS SAFETY.
Basically, you're ALLOWED to drive 65 in the fast lane ONLY if doing so would not create a dangerous situation. Due to the fact that many accidents have been attributed to unnecessary lane-changing, if you force multiple drivers to change lanes to overtake your vehicle, you are creating a dangerous driving situation and you can be held liable for ANYTHING that goes wrong in your personal nonviolent protest against speeders.
You know this is probably the biggest hole in the idea. All the MMO company has to do is claim that they took 8.25% tax off of whatever was looted on the mob, and send it to a character designated by the IRS as their avatar.
At that point, the IRS has their money, but they can't do anything with it without hurting the in-game economy. I can picture them giving unfair advantages to certain players by selling the gold, but other than that it's not going to affect the game at all.
Try playing a mage in world of warcraft. A commonly used ability, presence of mind, has the abbreviation pom. Pom and porn look very similar in many typefaces. Mages get a lot of weird looks when they mention using pom to sheep.
Generally a business doesn't really need EVERY computer to be top of the line. It'll be perfectly fine to have a handful of low-end computers at a workspace, especially if they can only run basic programs like Word or Excel. (less distractions)
This is like going into a public school's third-grade class and lamenting on how many of the students will be passing Calculus on their first attempt, many years later.
A far more accurate statistic would be how many businesses can afford to have at least one computer running Vista. Then you'd get a much more accurate assessment of how well it will do in the marketplace, and how much of a splash it will have in the business world.
You mean, like at the end of Return of the Jedi, when the rebels and ewoks were all celebrating and dancing and whatnot while the wreckage of the Death Star II was burning up in the atmosphere, destroying the entire supply of breathable air?...crap.
Time to bust out with this knowledge I been learnin' in school this semester.
Gbps != GBPS.
That's 100 GigaBITS per second they're talking about in the article, not 100 GigaBYTES.
And it's likely an expression of bandwidth. It's not going to speed up data transmission unless bandwidth is your problem.
For example, it will still take data a certain amount of time to reach you because there's a limit to how fast it can travel along a wire. (the speed of light in copper, 2.9x10^8 m/s is a good estimate)
glad you brought that up, because it's especially hilarious that you can switch from specific outfits and models with a double-click.
The woman you're flirting with one second may turn out to be a Tentacled Space Monster the next! Sadly, there are no Tentacled Space Monster outfits in the game yet.:( Or I'd have even funnier stories to tell.
Apparently the sex. Or at least that's the impression I got seeing HORDES of minimalls, sex shops, fashion stores, and "pubs" scattered around the place. It's like a MMOVSC (Massively Multiplayer Online Victoria's Secret Catalog)
Well it's actually a very overdone joke, been posted everywhere. The point is that even though macs are supposedly "just as good", there's a lot of companies who won't make stuff for it because they already know how to make their product work in Windows and don't see the financial benefit of marketing to the Mac.
As a result, there are a lot of really great games that don't get ported over to the Mac. But more importantly, there's a huge library of OLD games, games that were made for the PC and nothing else. For a good example, check out Emperor of the Fading Suns. The installer for the game tries to install DirectX 3.0 on your computer. if that fails, it won't install. It takes quite a bit of effort to get it running under Win XP, from what I hear (I have it on an old "craptop" whenever i feel like playing it), and I don't know that I'd ever be able to get it working in Linux without getting someone to remake the installer pretty much from scratch.
You're supposed to choose someone people DON'T like to play the part of the bad guy.
I recommend Alan Rickman be the PC (because he plays such a great bad guy), and Samuel L. Jackson as the Mac. (This is because I like Sammy J, not because I like macs.)
Then you could have someone like Robert Deniro as the Linux box, because he can do anything he damn well pleases, but he's a 'business' type fellow, and has no time for games.
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The speed limit is most certainly NOT an excuse to drive dangerously.
In Texas there is a law that states that if you fail to maintain the flow of traffic, you can be fined.
That means that if you are driving ONLY 1 mile per hour above the speed limit and at least 5 cars are going around you to pass you, you can be given a ticket for driving TOO SLOW even though you are going ABOVE the speed limit!
Why such a bizarre law in Texas?
Because we're not fucking shitheads. THE RULES OF THE ROAD ARE THERE TO PROMOTE SAFETY. IF, AT ANY TIME, ANY RULE WOULD BE DANGEROUS TO FOLLOW TO THE LETTER, DO NOT OBEY THAT RULE! YOUR FIRST PRIORITY WHILE DRIVING IS SAFETY.
Basically, you're ALLOWED to drive 65 in the fast lane ONLY if doing so would not create a dangerous situation. Due to the fact that many accidents have been attributed to unnecessary lane-changing, if you force multiple drivers to change lanes to overtake your vehicle, you are creating a dangerous driving situation and you can be held liable for ANYTHING that goes wrong in your personal nonviolent protest against speeders.
DO NOT DRIVE SLOW IN THE FAST LANE. EVER.
You know this is probably the biggest hole in the idea.
All the MMO company has to do is claim that they took 8.25% tax off of whatever was looted on the mob, and send it to a character designated by the IRS as their avatar.
At that point, the IRS has their money, but they can't do anything with it without hurting the in-game economy. I can picture them giving unfair advantages to certain players by selling the gold, but other than that it's not going to affect the game at all.
Try playing a mage in world of warcraft. A commonly used ability, presence of mind, has the abbreviation pom.
Pom and porn look very similar in many typefaces. Mages get a lot of weird looks when they mention using pom to sheep.
to put it bluntly...
Left of You is Center.
Where can I nominate "Outstubborn" for the "new word of the year" award?
"Today as we were biking around our neighborhood in a small city we saw a strange vehicle slowly driving around."
And you didn't call the cops?
Seriously.
Not listed under politics.
Just anti-Republican propoganda.
(NEVER anti-Democrat...)
I'm done with this site. Are you also "done" with reality as well, and its "horrible anti-republican bias"?
Generally a business doesn't really need EVERY computer to be top of the line. It'll be perfectly fine to have a handful of low-end computers at a workspace, especially if they can only run basic programs like Word or Excel. (less distractions)
This is like going into a public school's third-grade class and lamenting on how many of the students will be passing Calculus on their first attempt, many years later.
A far more accurate statistic would be how many businesses can afford to have at least one computer running Vista. Then you'd get a much more accurate assessment of how well it will do in the marketplace, and how much of a splash it will have in the business world.
You mean, like at the end of Return of the Jedi, when the rebels and ewoks were all celebrating and dancing and whatnot while the wreckage of the Death Star II was burning up in the atmosphere, destroying the entire supply of breathable air? ...crap.
We win!
They'll probably give it a more French-sounding name, and make a few small tweaks to it, but yeah, that's a pretty safe bet.
(disclaimer: I'm just being funny, not trying to be mean)
"does the site promote the denigration of Humans to the level of meat, or is it completely non-discriminatory?"
If women didn't want to be portrayed that way, they shouldn't have been made out of delicious, delicious meat.
Why do all the stupid puns get modded funny?
That was like, the gaimest joke ever.
What good does it do to aim four times?
Just fire away, geez.
They are still students, after all...
SEARCH your browser history, you KNOW it to be true!
Seriously, you probably troll thousands of times more pages in forums and such than you download in porn.
the current release of Ubuntu is named "Edgy Eft."
The submitter was attempting to make a horrible pun.
Time to bust out with this knowledge I been learnin' in school this semester.
Gbps != GBPS.
That's 100 GigaBITS per second they're talking about in the article, not 100 GigaBYTES.
And it's likely an expression of bandwidth. It's not going to speed up data transmission unless bandwidth is your problem.
For example, it will still take data a certain amount of time to reach you because there's a limit to how fast it can travel along a wire. (the speed of light in copper, 2.9x10^8 m/s is a good estimate)
glad you brought that up, because it's especially hilarious that you can switch from specific outfits and models with a double-click.
:(
The woman you're flirting with one second may turn out to be a Tentacled Space Monster the next!
Sadly, there are no Tentacled Space Monster outfits in the game yet.
Or I'd have even funnier stories to tell.
Apparently the sex. Or at least that's the impression I got seeing HORDES of minimalls, sex shops, fashion stores, and "pubs" scattered around the place. It's like a MMOVSC (Massively Multiplayer Online Victoria's Secret Catalog)
Have you even tried making models and textures for hot grits?
It's harder than it looks!
even bigger mess if it falls over land...
are you kidding?
Have you ever heard of something called a Tsunami?
How in the world was this modded insightful...
Well it's actually a very overdone joke, been posted everywhere. The point is that even though macs are supposedly "just as good", there's a lot of companies who won't make stuff for it because they already know how to make their product work in Windows and don't see the financial benefit of marketing to the Mac.
As a result, there are a lot of really great games that don't get ported over to the Mac. But more importantly, there's a huge library of OLD games, games that were made for the PC and nothing else. For a good example, check out Emperor of the Fading Suns. The installer for the game tries to install DirectX 3.0 on your computer. if that fails, it won't install. It takes quite a bit of effort to get it running under Win XP, from what I hear (I have it on an old "craptop" whenever i feel like playing it), and I don't know that I'd ever be able to get it working in Linux without getting someone to remake the installer pretty much from scratch.
If you've seen the comments the mods label "funny", you know that "funny" to a Slashdot mod is "groan-inducing horrible pun" to everyone else.
And this is coming from a guy who loves puns.
You're supposed to choose someone people DON'T like to play the part of the bad guy.
I recommend Alan Rickman be the PC (because he plays such a great bad guy), and Samuel L. Jackson as the Mac. (This is because I like Sammy J, not because I like macs.)
Then you could have someone like Robert Deniro as the Linux box, because he can do anything he damn well pleases, but he's a 'business' type fellow, and has no time for games.