I am not sure if you are trying to be humorous or really just a moron. Before public education literacy was not very high. I agreed with your first post that basic education should be completed by age 11 or 12 but people still either need to be taught a trade or pushed to pursue higher education.
Your idea would leave it totaly in the hands of uneducated parents many of which would probably still be between 16-21 themselves. What this would create is a class inside society that had very little chance to climb the social ladder. On top of this you would end up with a less skilled work force that would have a lower average income and end up with lower government funds.
Furthermore, children at the age of 12 are definitely not ready to make any solo decision about the direction of their lives or are they mature enough to be put out in a job. It seems to me that until someone is into their mid 20's they don't tend to make the best employees.
Anyway, I think you are just trying to be a controversy starter.
The reason that people scoff at Inteligent Design is that it ISN'T science. Science is predicated on testable theories that can change. ID is all about an unprovable entity creating nature as we currently know it. I am not going to debate whether it is possible that God/Aliens/FSM made the Universe but I do know it isn't science. What Intelligent Design is, is Philosophy. The major difference between ID and Big Bang is that it may be possible in the future to ammend the Big Bang theory but there is no way to change the ID "facts". So, yes "intellectuals" will listen to people that have theories with testable assumtions over people that just have "faith".
Algae bloom would only be a problem if they allowed the Algae to mature. Which they harvest it daily. Also the biggest problem of Algae bloom is when it is in a water way with fish and it blooms dies then takes Oxygen out of the water to decompose the dead algae. Considering that none of the problems with an algae bloom will be availible to happen with an algae farm I would just chalk up talk about it to those who have never had a Ecology class.
I don't think you read the article clearly. It discusses 2 corporations or research groups. 1 Builds a filter which is installed into a Exhaust stack and can handle a 1 mega watt plant currently. The other being the focal point of the story just soaks CO2 directly out of the air like a sponge soaks up water. The Tubes they describe are what the test algae are residing in bolted onto the Exhaust stack to get maximum exposure to CO2.
I would not pick you as a suitable person to be describing as able to keep a computer running if you don't know the difference between hardware and software. However, I could grow a rose garden, not award winning, but I could grow one. I could do minor repairs on my car and would know where to go to fix it if it was something I couldn't handle. The key being I can find places to get help. The difference between a car and a computer a quite large especially in the number of pieces of hardware that are envolved. I could also bake a cake or cook when needed, it just wouldn't be that tasty.
The point is people need to know the basics if they don't they are keeping their heads in the sand. Also, for people that aren't getting to the twilight of their lives we have had computers in our life for longer than they weren't there. The people who actually buy these consoles are the same people that typically know their assholes from their elbows when it comes to computers. So, yes the console is slowly merging into just another home PC.
Maybe you don't realize this but consoles are already computers. They just haven't been fully pushed into the PC category. the Xbox had hardware that was virtually identical to a computer I had built. The new xbox has the latest ATI card in it that isn't out on PC yet but will mostlikely be out shortly. The point is you are just wrong.
People have problems buying crappy computers not because they don't understand technobabble. No one understands what a computer salesman is actually saying. The difference between someone that gets screwed on their computer purchase be it from purchasing a crap fully system or crappy parts is the lack of reading. It is not hard to go to google and look up the hardware you are getting in either case. It is not tech intensive. Don't make excuses for computer illiterate people when it isn't their computer literacy that is causing their problems.
Can you honestly say that it is any easier to hook up a console than a PC. Now-a-days the only thing it takes to build your own computer and to install the software is the ability to read. Hell I could get my dad to build his own computer it would just take me convincing him that it wasn't scary then again he isn't going to be playing consol video games either. Face it the people who buy and play console games are between the ages of 14-30 for the largest portion of the market. The age limit will steadily increase as the NES user gets older but all of those people know how to opperate a computer.
The BS about granny not being able to install computer games to play doesn't fly and as consoles are simply becoming dumbed down computers that are totally focused on graphical display they are ever so closely venturing into the computer realm. The new 360 has usb and all that jazz it has a mouse and keyboard you can use. Someone will probably even figure out how to put any OS you want on it. Lets face it even if we don't call the current generation of consoles PC's they already have all the hardware to be classified as such and soon they will have all the software to. Then it will just be a proprietary PC built by MS for gaming and will probably be integrated with other MS software suites via the internet.
Hogwash. Total and complete trash. To be able to play video games at full render you don't need the latest generation of video cards simply because of the cycle of video game design makes it impossible for them to develop a game based off of future hardware set ups except in the case of consoles, which have garunteed specs.
However, the OP is correct the console gaming market is drawing to a close I would guess either the next generation or the generation after will just simply be a computer created by microsoft that is optimized for gaming the way mac's have always been optimized for movie editing etc. On your comment about your TV....you could buy a TV out card for your PC and play games on your TV, but you didn't think about that. Also, unless you have forked out a considerable amount of cash your TV's resolution will be significantly less than a 19" monitor can handle. Also, you will have to sit far enough away as the screen size becomes insignificant.
The true glory days for he console were the original 8 bit NES the 16bit sega and Snes then the n64 and original PS. The PS2 and Xbox tried to be just striped down computers with only massive graphical ability. What do you think the xbox3 is going to be or the PS4?
Heh in a lot of situations it is a requirement for a raid or an attack group to have good communication. This means using a voice program of some sort. Although I don't talk to everyone on these programs I am willing to bet that the proportioin of women to men in the TS and Vent sessions hold for the game. The reason for this is because the whole point of the game are the massed group coordination stuff, which, I doubt a woman would opt out of just to remain anonymous.
Lets put it this way. Out all the people I have talked to on TS or Vent even if there are 20-30 people on at the same time there is never more than 2 that are female. Yet female toons make up roughly 40% of the population of games. The likelihood that it is a female playing a male toon is very low while the likelihood of it being a female playing a female toon is only slightly higher. There are more women playing MMO's but I wouldn't bet there are many MMO's where they represent more than 10% of the total population.
I'll answer this one. As a general rule of thumb I figure everyone I talk to in WoW or any Other MMO is a dude. If they come onto the Teamspeak or Vent server and are revealed to be a woman then I change my opinion. However, I have found that Men play both male and female avatars where women will almost exclusively play female avatars. In fact I have never met a woman that plays a male avatar.
Definitely. If people were absolutely free you could do anything and not get in trouble for it. However, that also means anyone else could in retribution do things back to you. This creates a sort of balance until one person gets the bright idea of forming an organized control on violence and starts dictating what is permissable. Which is why we have laws but eventually the laws over protect and allow for abuses that are almost as bad as the ones they prevent. I know a lot of kids taht would probably not steal stuff if they knew the store they stole from could break their arm if they got caught and not be liable for the damages.
When it comes to just real ass hats, allowing people to punch them in the face w/o legal repercussions 1 time yet protecting from the abuse of someone punching many other someones is definitely a good idea.
You missed the point of the article. It was about optimization. A true hardcore gamer optimizes everything they can. Be it killing, population growth, disease, etc. Upon that basis he builds to the point that the morality of an all powerfull being is not what it is to a lesser person. He is 100% correct that the way you could deal with his made up problems most efficiently were as he presented.
I am sure even in Katamari that you have found optimized ways to make your stars or whatever. Part of the fun in Katamari is the gentle destruction you are causing.
You make some good points but you miss part of it. Americans used to be more polite due to both fear of injury and (this is a guess for the second) less people to deal with. Honestly tho if you knew everyone around you could pop you one right in the face would you act like an ass to some stranger. Cause although that stranger might not have his card the 40 other people might take exception to what you are doing and pop you right in the face. As you say one of the great things about being an American is stating your opinion w/o fear of being silenced and your thought that fear of getting punched in the face would hinder this. I think it would help in this regard. How might it help you ask? Simple, you just couldn't act like an ass while you presented your opinion neither would it be a good idea to use violence when supporting a cause because the other side might just have parity in size and card stacks.
Don't take this the wrong way because what you say is true just not quite right. The heat could go away and it isn't heat that is causing global warming. It is carbon dioxide in the Ozone that traps heat. Without enough of it in the Ozone you have an ice age but with 2 much you get a hotter planet. But in good news either way the earth will correct itself we just might no be around to see it.
There is a difference between someone that comes to a country starts a business and "produces" something and someone that comes and tries to get welfare. And "unfortunate masses" never built crap. Businessmen with an eye for coin found the cheapest labor force at their disposal and worked them there is nothing heroic about working for minimum wage.
Your comment about xenophobia can be shoved right back where it came from. It has no place in a debate. I don't think my country or our way of life is the best but it is OURS when you come into it you stop trying to live like you did in your old country and adopt your new one. It seems as though people forget when they immigrate that the country they are moving to didn't choose them, they chose the country.
If I wanted some of their culture I would move to their country. I don't mind people moving in that bring something with them i.e. an education or skills of some sort, but I don't like poor immigrants that expect their new country to offer them any favors. If I moved to say Russia I wouldn't expect them to go out of their way to protect my cultural heritage or write all official documents in my language or give me housing. If I left my old country obviously it wasn't because I enjoyed it. Pretty much my view is if you feel you want to cling to your old language and culture you should be sent back to your old country.
I haven't ready the replies yet some of which I will probably be echoing. It's not the governments job to improve the quality of life for "immigrants". The reason people tend to hate immigrants, and I do have bunch of dislike for them, is that they bring nothing to your country. Part of the problem is the culture immigrants come from is vastly different than the ones they go to. That wouldn't be a problem if they would give up their old culture and allegiances for their new homeland but many want to cling to it. Why are you moving to a new country if you don't want to abandon your old one?
In the case of France they should have called out the military after 2 nights of rioting and beaten the crap out of the rioters. Destroying other peoples property in a bid for attention or entertainment should be punished severly.
Yes there are restrictions on high-end computing stuff. I am not sure if it is still the case but for a long time PGP encryption would land you jail time if you copied it to a disc and left the US with it.
You clearly haven't been reading the articles. Others have stated what the EULA was and it wasn't changed to include information about the hidden malware until after these articles started getting out. Furthermore, just because it is in a EULA does not make the EULA valid or legal. A company can put lots of stuff in the EULA it doesn't mean they hold up in court. Most cases in the US regarding EULA's have come down to judges dictating that they are far to restrictive and illegal.
The blood elf outside of MC is neutral also but they are going to the horde. Why not Crappy goblins for allinace. Or they may come up with something equally retarded of a race that should be horde but give them to the alliance.
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I am not sure if you are trying to be humorous or really just a moron. Before public education literacy was not very high. I agreed with your first post that basic education should be completed by age 11 or 12 but people still either need to be taught a trade or pushed to pursue higher education.
Your idea would leave it totaly in the hands of uneducated parents many of which would probably still be between 16-21 themselves. What this would create is a class inside society that had very little chance to climb the social ladder. On top of this you would end up with a less skilled work force that would have a lower average income and end up with lower government funds.
Furthermore, children at the age of 12 are definitely not ready to make any solo decision about the direction of their lives or are they mature enough to be put out in a job. It seems to me that until someone is into their mid 20's they don't tend to make the best employees.
Anyway, I think you are just trying to be a controversy starter.
The reason that people scoff at Inteligent Design is that it ISN'T science. Science is predicated on testable theories that can change. ID is all about an unprovable entity creating nature as we currently know it. I am not going to debate whether it is possible that God/Aliens/FSM made the Universe but I do know it isn't science. What Intelligent Design is, is Philosophy. The major difference between ID and Big Bang is that it may be possible in the future to ammend the Big Bang theory but there is no way to change the ID "facts". So, yes "intellectuals" will listen to people that have theories with testable assumtions over people that just have "faith".
Not if you have ever seen algae. Algae bubbles off oxygen even w/o being fed CO2. It fixes CO2 from the outside air and converts it into Oxygen.
Algae bloom would only be a problem if they allowed the Algae to mature. Which they harvest it daily. Also the biggest problem of Algae bloom is when it is in a water way with fish and it blooms dies then takes Oxygen out of the water to decompose the dead algae. Considering that none of the problems with an algae bloom will be availible to happen with an algae farm I would just chalk up talk about it to those who have never had a Ecology class.
I don't think you read the article clearly. It discusses 2 corporations or research groups. 1 Builds a filter which is installed into a Exhaust stack and can handle a 1 mega watt plant currently. The other being the focal point of the story just soaks CO2 directly out of the air like a sponge soaks up water. The Tubes they describe are what the test algae are residing in bolted onto the Exhaust stack to get maximum exposure to CO2.
I would not pick you as a suitable person to be describing as able to keep a computer running if you don't know the difference between hardware and software. However, I could grow a rose garden, not award winning, but I could grow one. I could do minor repairs on my car and would know where to go to fix it if it was something I couldn't handle. The key being I can find places to get help. The difference between a car and a computer a quite large especially in the number of pieces of hardware that are envolved. I could also bake a cake or cook when needed, it just wouldn't be that tasty.
The point is people need to know the basics if they don't they are keeping their heads in the sand. Also, for people that aren't getting to the twilight of their lives we have had computers in our life for longer than they weren't there. The people who actually buy these consoles are the same people that typically know their assholes from their elbows when it comes to computers. So, yes the console is slowly merging into just another home PC.
Maybe you don't realize this but consoles are already computers. They just haven't been fully pushed into the PC category. the Xbox had hardware that was virtually identical to a computer I had built. The new xbox has the latest ATI card in it that isn't out on PC yet but will mostlikely be out shortly. The point is you are just wrong.
People have problems buying crappy computers not because they don't understand technobabble. No one understands what a computer salesman is actually saying. The difference between someone that gets screwed on their computer purchase be it from purchasing a crap fully system or crappy parts is the lack of reading. It is not hard to go to google and look up the hardware you are getting in either case. It is not tech intensive. Don't make excuses for computer illiterate people when it isn't their computer literacy that is causing their problems.
I have a buddy that has well over 200 days played and that makes me sad
Can you honestly say that it is any easier to hook up a console than a PC. Now-a-days the only thing it takes to build your own computer and to install the software is the ability to read. Hell I could get my dad to build his own computer it would just take me convincing him that it wasn't scary then again he isn't going to be playing consol video games either. Face it the people who buy and play console games are between the ages of 14-30 for the largest portion of the market. The age limit will steadily increase as the NES user gets older but all of those people know how to opperate a computer.
The BS about granny not being able to install computer games to play doesn't fly and as consoles are simply becoming dumbed down computers that are totally focused on graphical display they are ever so closely venturing into the computer realm. The new 360 has usb and all that jazz it has a mouse and keyboard you can use. Someone will probably even figure out how to put any OS you want on it. Lets face it even if we don't call the current generation of consoles PC's they already have all the hardware to be classified as such and soon they will have all the software to. Then it will just be a proprietary PC built by MS for gaming and will probably be integrated with other MS software suites via the internet.
Hogwash. Total and complete trash. To be able to play video games at full render you don't need the latest generation of video cards simply because of the cycle of video game design makes it impossible for them to develop a game based off of future hardware set ups except in the case of consoles, which have garunteed specs.
However, the OP is correct the console gaming market is drawing to a close I would guess either the next generation or the generation after will just simply be a computer created by microsoft that is optimized for gaming the way mac's have always been optimized for movie editing etc. On your comment about your TV....you could buy a TV out card for your PC and play games on your TV, but you didn't think about that. Also, unless you have forked out a considerable amount of cash your TV's resolution will be significantly less than a 19" monitor can handle. Also, you will have to sit far enough away as the screen size becomes insignificant.
The true glory days for he console were the original 8 bit NES the 16bit sega and Snes then the n64 and original PS. The PS2 and Xbox tried to be just striped down computers with only massive graphical ability. What do you think the xbox3 is going to be or the PS4?
LOL 40 days is nothing. I started in April and have roughly 85days played maybe more.
Heh in a lot of situations it is a requirement for a raid or an attack group to have good communication. This means using a voice program of some sort. Although I don't talk to everyone on these programs I am willing to bet that the proportioin of women to men in the TS and Vent sessions hold for the game. The reason for this is because the whole point of the game are the massed group coordination stuff, which, I doubt a woman would opt out of just to remain anonymous.
Lets put it this way. Out all the people I have talked to on TS or Vent even if there are 20-30 people on at the same time there is never more than 2 that are female. Yet female toons make up roughly 40% of the population of games. The likelihood that it is a female playing a male toon is very low while the likelihood of it being a female playing a female toon is only slightly higher. There are more women playing MMO's but I wouldn't bet there are many MMO's where they represent more than 10% of the total population.
I'll answer this one. As a general rule of thumb I figure everyone I talk to in WoW or any Other MMO is a dude. If they come onto the Teamspeak or Vent server and are revealed to be a woman then I change my opinion. However, I have found that Men play both male and female avatars where women will almost exclusively play female avatars. In fact I have never met a woman that plays a male avatar.
Definitely. If people were absolutely free you could do anything and not get in trouble for it. However, that also means anyone else could in retribution do things back to you. This creates a sort of balance until one person gets the bright idea of forming an organized control on violence and starts dictating what is permissable. Which is why we have laws but eventually the laws over protect and allow for abuses that are almost as bad as the ones they prevent. I know a lot of kids taht would probably not steal stuff if they knew the store they stole from could break their arm if they got caught and not be liable for the damages.
When it comes to just real ass hats, allowing people to punch them in the face w/o legal repercussions 1 time yet protecting from the abuse of someone punching many other someones is definitely a good idea.
You missed the point of the article. It was about optimization. A true hardcore gamer optimizes everything they can. Be it killing, population growth, disease, etc. Upon that basis he builds to the point that the morality of an all powerfull being is not what it is to a lesser person. He is 100% correct that the way you could deal with his made up problems most efficiently were as he presented.
I am sure even in Katamari that you have found optimized ways to make your stars or whatever. Part of the fun in Katamari is the gentle destruction you are causing.
You make some good points but you miss part of it. Americans used to be more polite due to both fear of injury and (this is a guess for the second) less people to deal with. Honestly tho if you knew everyone around you could pop you one right in the face would you act like an ass to some stranger. Cause although that stranger might not have his card the 40 other people might take exception to what you are doing and pop you right in the face. As you say one of the great things about being an American is stating your opinion w/o fear of being silenced and your thought that fear of getting punched in the face would hinder this. I think it would help in this regard. How might it help you ask? Simple, you just couldn't act like an ass while you presented your opinion neither would it be a good idea to use violence when supporting a cause because the other side might just have parity in size and card stacks.
Anyway I like the suggestion.
Don't take this the wrong way because what you say is true just not quite right. The heat could go away and it isn't heat that is causing global warming. It is carbon dioxide in the Ozone that traps heat. Without enough of it in the Ozone you have an ice age but with 2 much you get a hotter planet. But in good news either way the earth will correct itself we just might no be around to see it.
I don't listen to music so this issue doesn't really effect me much. However, I am glad sony is getting reamed for what it did.
There is a difference between someone that comes to a country starts a business and "produces" something and someone that comes and tries to get welfare. And "unfortunate masses" never built crap. Businessmen with an eye for coin found the cheapest labor force at their disposal and worked them there is nothing heroic about working for minimum wage.
Your comment about xenophobia can be shoved right back where it came from. It has no place in a debate. I don't think my country or our way of life is the best but it is OURS when you come into it you stop trying to live like you did in your old country and adopt your new one. It seems as though people forget when they immigrate that the country they are moving to didn't choose them, they chose the country.
If I wanted some of their culture I would move to their country. I don't mind people moving in that bring something with them i.e. an education or skills of some sort, but I don't like poor immigrants that expect their new country to offer them any favors. If I moved to say Russia I wouldn't expect them to go out of their way to protect my cultural heritage or write all official documents in my language or give me housing. If I left my old country obviously it wasn't because I enjoyed it. Pretty much my view is if you feel you want to cling to your old language and culture you should be sent back to your old country.
I haven't ready the replies yet some of which I will probably be echoing. It's not the governments job to improve the quality of life for "immigrants". The reason people tend to hate immigrants, and I do have bunch of dislike for them, is that they bring nothing to your country. Part of the problem is the culture immigrants come from is vastly different than the ones they go to. That wouldn't be a problem if they would give up their old culture and allegiances for their new homeland but many want to cling to it. Why are you moving to a new country if you don't want to abandon your old one?
In the case of France they should have called out the military after 2 nights of rioting and beaten the crap out of the rioters. Destroying other peoples property in a bid for attention or entertainment should be punished severly.
Yes there are restrictions on high-end computing stuff. I am not sure if it is still the case but for a long time PGP encryption would land you jail time if you copied it to a disc and left the US with it.
You clearly haven't been reading the articles. Others have stated what the EULA was and it wasn't changed to include information about the hidden malware until after these articles started getting out. Furthermore, just because it is in a EULA does not make the EULA valid or legal. A company can put lots of stuff in the EULA it doesn't mean they hold up in court. Most cases in the US regarding EULA's have come down to judges dictating that they are far to restrictive and illegal.
The blood elf outside of MC is neutral also but they are going to the horde. Why not Crappy goblins for allinace. Or they may come up with something equally retarded of a race that should be horde but give them to the alliance.