Rumors are abound that Blues will not be showing their names now.
BTW, the original thread is over 1200 pages and 24,000 replies now. It is interesting that people are up in a huff over this and not, say, Facebook but the audiences probably differ both in makeup and what they expect.
I assume it's just some official marketing trick and/or environmental plea (won't someone PLEASE think of the state mammal?!).
I don't understand having a motto either. I don't even know what my state's motto is.
Ok, I looked up a few state mottos.
Utah: Industry Maryland: Manly deeds womanly words (Fatti maschil, Parole femine) Colorado: Nothing without the Deity (Nil sine Numine) New Jersey: Liberty and Prosperity Montana: Gold and Silver (Oro y Plata)
I'll second the issues with Opera from upgrading. I remember having lots of problems with earlier versions of 10.x until I did a clean install (instead of upgrading from a 9.x install).
As for autoscroll, do you have a loose mousewheel perchance? If you move the wheel, it will stop the scrolling so if you have a loose one, it can do the same. Mine is getting a bit worn and has a few spots where it scroll without feeling that noticeable click.
Hotmail hasn't been a problem for a while now but I do remember having issues at one point. They were so bad I had to use Firefox. Nowadays, it's just log in and everything is peachy. Well, sometimes I'll click on an email to read or select it for deletion while the 'loading' sign is up on the page and those clicks won't register. I'm more inclined to blame MS than anything else. (I will give MS credit for letting me mark their emails as spam though.)
...they fucking removed options that I prefer. I want the tab bar to go away if I only have one tab open. GIVE ME MY SCREEN SPACE! Also, let me get rid of the background image of the speed dial.
That said, unlike past upgrades which made changes that can only be characterized as "feeling different", I noticed no negative ones this time around. Feels a bit more stable and a little more spry.
Within the same order of magnitude, sure. So is.08 BAC and.35 BAC but the difference in effects is quite pronounced.
But, then again, going from.01 to.05 would mean you're not partying hard enough and going from.5 to 2 means you're still probably dead.
What I mean is that just because there's no apparent effects from the previous spill doesn't mean there will be no apparent effects from one that is gushing over four times the rate.
BTW, as pointed out by another commenter, I math bad. Still not sure how I got it but the figure should be 412,500 barrels a month (about 14k a day).
While CNN is the butt of all media jokes (Hello? Is anyone out there?! TWEET US SOME NEWS PLEASE!), I'll give Anderson Cooper props for talking about the 65ft exclusion zone they're enforcing around response vessels and oil booms.
Call it milking but if the Coast Guard is doing this and BP is hiring police to run off reporters and anyone curious (link), I certainly hope they don't stop talking about it.
Yes, I'd prefer people go with the one that is more grounded in reality than the one that isn't since people seem to take that happens on TV to be reality.
Teaching people that science isn't fast, clean, or clear would go along way. DNA tests take a long time. No, computers can't magically clear up pictures or zoom on anything that looks shiny to get a clear image of the killer.
CSI is like junkfood. L&O is like pub food (not to be confused with bar food). Closer to a real meal but still not the best in terms of necessary nutrition or quantity.
And weak to no media coverage and using the same soldiers over and over until they're ground to a pulp physically and/or mentally and ensure that the general population suffers no ill effects of the war to the point that it doesn't affect more than the occasional purchase of a "Support our troops!" magnetic ribbon.
Isn't that immersion? Here's an item you don't want and doesn't have much use (maybe a few nanites if you recycle it) but you're compelled to carry it around while I hunker down in a chemical storeroom, waiting for my research to complete and then continuing to play Overworld Zero for 20 minutes longer....
Just one more game and I'll get back to gaining control of this FTL spaceship that is currently infested with some sort of parasitic alien lifeform. Ok, mulligans on that last one. That was a bad start too. Seriously this time.
Ha! The same public that has been taught to demand both sides of the argument? To teach the controversy? That is rejecting immunizations to the extent that those diseases are coming back? That believes in some pervert in the sky is watching them shit on the toilet and demands that there be missionary sex only with no condoms? That there's magic in the air, animals, plants, and stickers on phones will protect them from magnetic radiation and selling and promoting ridiculously stupid shit such as 'orgonite'?
You only have an army of people who are willing and open-minded. If they believe in any of the shit above, then they're only following you because it pays the rent.
The hacking 'minigame' wasn't much of anything. The first System Shock did hacking sooo much better but I'll come back to that.
In SS2, you can pick up a portable gaming system that is a parody of Gameboys. It was called Gamepig and most of the games were simple ones you've all played before but had pig related names and artwork. However... there was one game called Overworld Zero. It played like an old school action RPG, running around a randomly-generated looping area, killing monsters and leveling up.
As stupid as it sounds, it's the best game-within-a-game I've ever played.
And as for hacking in the first System Shock, it was soooo much better. You broke open panels and fiddled with wiring until you found the right combo or messed with... I don't even know how to describe it. You had connected nodes (similar to SS2 hacking) but the changes weren't permanent. You clicked one to allow power through but that could change connecting nodes to the opposite setting. Depending on the puzzle difficulty (the game had customizable settings for combat, mission, puzzle, and cyberspace difficulties), they could be really frustrating.
Remember a couple of years ago when scientists were going to prove how bad global warming was because there would be a bumper crop of hurricanes, and there weren't many at all?
While I could google for that, I'm betting it was probably a paper that theorized that an increase in atmospheric temperatures would result in an increase in sea surface temps which, in turn, could result in more and/or stronger hurricanes....then some generic journalist gave it the following headline: Global Warming Creating Mega-Hurricanes!
Oh, you mean Occam's Razor? It won't complicate things too much if I agree with your philosophy that the simplest explanation is usually the right one, will it?
See, the problem is that 'people' want a quick answer. What causes global warming? Well, carbon dioxide traps infrared radiation (aka heat) that is produced when visible light hits the earth and transfers that energy into the matter it hits.
Got that out in a single sentence but I lost everyone at carbon dioxide. All it would take to throw me off is some git saying CO2 is the breath of life or that it snowed last winter.
So, yeah, we understand 'people' and we fucking hate them. They're perfectly fine eating our GM crops, using the internet to communicate near instantly across the planet, taking our drugs and undergoing procedures to save their lives, and living in buildings that are safer and more comfortable than anything built before it. But to try to comprehend the efforts behind it? To show the slightest fucking bit of intellectual curiosity in how things work?
SCIENCE IS COMPLICATED. THE WORLD IS COMPLICATED. We can't help you understand if you don't have the patience. I don't think any scientist would have a problem working backwards from any topic, breaking down all the concepts involved, to help someone with an honest interest in the subject. But who has time for that when Real Housewives is on?!
I wish people would watch Law & Order more. Yeah, I'll sometimes sit through an episode of CSI but at the end of it, they always catch the murder and the murder always confesses at the end, saying they just had to kill or some other bullshit.
OTOH, L&O follows detectives around as they talk to one person who leads them to another and then they go back and, you know, acts like a detective. That and not every episode ends with "Yeah! we got that son of a bitch!" Some have been real downers which does more to stir emotions rather than feeding viewers the same tripe every time.
Grr.. don't even get me started about those science montages.
"Hey, writer dudes say they ran out of dialogue. Can we squeeze in 10 minutes of quick cuts of people looking at vials and microscopes set to music in an incredibly dark room with stylized colored lighting that makes no fucking sense at all?"
I was thinking more in terms of home console (profits from base system) vs home console (profits from base system). You know, Wii vs PS3. Yes, yes, they're not direct as in beer competitors Coors and Bud (in that they're selling the same piss flavored shit) but they are still aiming for the same function so there's a pretty big overlap of markets.
Also, PS3 is getting its own motion controller. Different products are becoming not as different.
Features such as PS2 backward compatibility. I'd mention Linux but, frankly, the backward compatibility is the big one.
Funny that they don't mention dropping hardware for PS2 games. Wikipedia says they don't even emulate anymore. Guess that saves them some time and money too.
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Rumors are abound that Blues will not be showing their names now.
BTW, the original thread is over 1200 pages and 24,000 replies now. It is interesting that people are up in a huff over this and not, say, Facebook but the audiences probably differ both in makeup and what they expect.
No, we can't really explain it any better.
I assume it's just some official marketing trick and/or environmental plea (won't someone PLEASE think of the state mammal?!).
I don't understand having a motto either. I don't even know what my state's motto is.
Ok, I looked up a few state mottos.
Utah: Industry
Maryland: Manly deeds womanly words (Fatti maschil, Parole femine)
Colorado: Nothing without the Deity (Nil sine Numine)
New Jersey: Liberty and Prosperity
Montana: Gold and Silver (Oro y Plata)
Here's the complete list: http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Lists/state_mottos.html
And, seriously, that is Utah's motto.
But if they include splitscreen, that's a lost sale! Or three if it's four player split screen.
At least, that's probably their reasoning.
Seriously, what the hell is the point of having a state anything? They got birds, fish, various rodents or whatever the fuck.
Can them all and save us the time of ever having to debate this shit.
I'll second the issues with Opera from upgrading. I remember having lots of problems with earlier versions of 10.x until I did a clean install (instead of upgrading from a 9.x install).
As for autoscroll, do you have a loose mousewheel perchance? If you move the wheel, it will stop the scrolling so if you have a loose one, it can do the same. Mine is getting a bit worn and has a few spots where it scroll without feeling that noticeable click.
Hotmail hasn't been a problem for a while now but I do remember having issues at one point. They were so bad I had to use Firefox. Nowadays, it's just log in and everything is peachy. Well, sometimes I'll click on an email to read or select it for deletion while the 'loading' sign is up on the page and those clicks won't register. I'm more inclined to blame MS than anything else. (I will give MS credit for letting me mark their emails as spam though.)
Yeah, I can hide it when it's on the left side but it unhides when I put it back up top. Bah.
Thank you for the info though.
Well... I'd do that but I don't have that option and if I go to the customize appearance, the option is grayed out.
http://img443.imageshack.us/f/tabbar1.png/
http://img145.imageshack.us/f/tabbar2.png/
Ah, found out how to get rid of the image. It was under Configure Speed Dial. Imagine that....
...they fucking removed options that I prefer. I want the tab bar to go away if I only have one tab open. GIVE ME MY SCREEN SPACE! Also, let me get rid of the background image of the speed dial.
That said, unlike past upgrades which made changes that can only be characterized as "feeling different", I noticed no negative ones this time around. Feels a bit more stable and a little more spry.
I still want to have the tab bar hide though.
Within the same order of magnitude, sure. So is .08 BAC and .35 BAC but the difference in effects is quite pronounced.
But, then again, going from .01 to .05 would mean you're not partying hard enough and going from .5 to 2 means you're still probably dead.
What I mean is that just because there's no apparent effects from the previous spill doesn't mean there will be no apparent effects from one that is gushing over four times the rate.
BTW, as pointed out by another commenter, I math bad. Still not sure how I got it but the figure should be 412,500 barrels a month (about 14k a day).
Wow, how did I fuck that up? You are correct.
3.3 million barrels over 8 months is 275,000 barrels a month. The Deepwater Horizon spill is spewing more than that every 2 months.
60k barrels * 30 days = 1.8 million barrels
While CNN is the butt of all media jokes (Hello? Is anyone out there?! TWEET US SOME NEWS PLEASE!), I'll give Anderson Cooper props for talking about the 65ft exclusion zone they're enforcing around response vessels and oil booms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXsmLMV1CrM
Call it milking but if the Coast Guard is doing this and BP is hiring police to run off reporters and anyone curious (link), I certainly hope they don't stop talking about it.
Yes, I'd prefer people go with the one that is more grounded in reality than the one that isn't since people seem to take that happens on TV to be reality.
Teaching people that science isn't fast, clean, or clear would go along way. DNA tests take a long time. No, computers can't magically clear up pictures or zoom on anything that looks shiny to get a clear image of the killer.
CSI is like junkfood. L&O is like pub food (not to be confused with bar food). Closer to a real meal but still not the best in terms of necessary nutrition or quantity.
So... $800 million. Alright. How does that compare to profits major telecoms acquired since they got their first boost in the 90s?
And weak to no media coverage and using the same soldiers over and over until they're ground to a pulp physically and/or mentally and ensure that the general population suffers no ill effects of the war to the point that it doesn't affect more than the occasional purchase of a "Support our troops!" magnetic ribbon.
Isn't that immersion? Here's an item you don't want and doesn't have much use (maybe a few nanites if you recycle it) but you're compelled to carry it around while I hunker down in a chemical storeroom, waiting for my research to complete and then continuing to play Overworld Zero for 20 minutes longer....
Just one more game and I'll get back to gaining control of this FTL spaceship that is currently infested with some sort of parasitic alien lifeform. Ok, mulligans on that last one. That was a bad start too. Seriously this time.
They even made a logo for it. http://www.windowsfordevices.com/images/stories/microsoft_instaload_logo.jpg
Neat but not buzzword or logo worthy.
Ha! The same public that has been taught to demand both sides of the argument? To teach the controversy? That is rejecting immunizations to the extent that those diseases are coming back? That believes in some pervert in the sky is watching them shit on the toilet and demands that there be missionary sex only with no condoms? That there's magic in the air, animals, plants, and stickers on phones will protect them from magnetic radiation and selling and promoting ridiculously stupid shit such as 'orgonite'?
No, seriously. Orgonite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccS70UQE0fE
You only have an army of people who are willing and open-minded. If they believe in any of the shit above, then they're only following you because it pays the rent.
You left out the best part of SS2!
The hacking 'minigame' wasn't much of anything. The first System Shock did hacking sooo much better but I'll come back to that.
In SS2, you can pick up a portable gaming system that is a parody of Gameboys. It was called Gamepig and most of the games were simple ones you've all played before but had pig related names and artwork. However... there was one game called Overworld Zero. It played like an old school action RPG, running around a randomly-generated looping area, killing monsters and leveling up.
As stupid as it sounds, it's the best game-within-a-game I've ever played.
And as for hacking in the first System Shock, it was soooo much better. You broke open panels and fiddled with wiring until you found the right combo or messed with... I don't even know how to describe it. You had connected nodes (similar to SS2 hacking) but the changes weren't permanent. You clicked one to allow power through but that could change connecting nodes to the opposite setting. Depending on the puzzle difficulty (the game had customizable settings for combat, mission, puzzle, and cyberspace difficulties), they could be really frustrating.
While I could google for that, I'm betting it was probably a paper that theorized that an increase in atmospheric temperatures would result in an increase in sea surface temps which, in turn, could result in more and/or stronger hurricanes. ...then some generic journalist gave it the following headline: Global Warming Creating Mega-Hurricanes!
Oh, you mean Occam's Razor? It won't complicate things too much if I agree with your philosophy that the simplest explanation is usually the right one, will it?
See, the problem is that 'people' want a quick answer. What causes global warming? Well, carbon dioxide traps infrared radiation (aka heat) that is produced when visible light hits the earth and transfers that energy into the matter it hits.
Got that out in a single sentence but I lost everyone at carbon dioxide. All it would take to throw me off is some git saying CO2 is the breath of life or that it snowed last winter.
So, yeah, we understand 'people' and we fucking hate them. They're perfectly fine eating our GM crops, using the internet to communicate near instantly across the planet, taking our drugs and undergoing procedures to save their lives, and living in buildings that are safer and more comfortable than anything built before it. But to try to comprehend the efforts behind it? To show the slightest fucking bit of intellectual curiosity in how things work?
SCIENCE IS COMPLICATED. THE WORLD IS COMPLICATED. We can't help you understand if you don't have the patience. I don't think any scientist would have a problem working backwards from any topic, breaking down all the concepts involved, to help someone with an honest interest in the subject. But who has time for that when Real Housewives is on?!
I wish people would watch Law & Order more. Yeah, I'll sometimes sit through an episode of CSI but at the end of it, they always catch the murder and the murder always confesses at the end, saying they just had to kill or some other bullshit.
OTOH, L&O follows detectives around as they talk to one person who leads them to another and then they go back and, you know, acts like a detective. That and not every episode ends with "Yeah! we got that son of a bitch!" Some have been real downers which does more to stir emotions rather than feeding viewers the same tripe every time.
Grr.. don't even get me started about those science montages.
"Hey, writer dudes say they ran out of dialogue. Can we squeeze in 10 minutes of quick cuts of people looking at vials and microscopes set to music in an incredibly dark room with stylized colored lighting that makes no fucking sense at all?"
"Yeah, no problem."
I was thinking more in terms of home console (profits from base system) vs home console (profits from base system). You know, Wii vs PS3. Yes, yes, they're not direct as in beer competitors Coors and Bud (in that they're selling the same piss flavored shit) but they are still aiming for the same function so there's a pretty big overlap of markets.
Also, PS3 is getting its own motion controller. Different products are becoming not as different.
Features such as PS2 backward compatibility. I'd mention Linux but, frankly, the backward compatibility is the big one.
Funny that they don't mention dropping hardware for PS2 games. Wikipedia says they don't even emulate anymore. Guess that saves them some time and money too.