Yeah, you say no and maybe you don't get that raise. Maybe you get passed over for promotions. What are you gonna do? Sue and spend more money on a lawyer than you'd have made?
Still, what would be the point of receipt? What good could come from it?
I'm willing to accept I'm just being a negative Nancy and overlooking the obvious so help me understand the benefits of a receipt for the voter.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, it's true. And I don't even program. I do enjoy playing with words and joking with what statement or question means literally versus what it was intended to mean.
I'm still trying to convince people to look at ingredient lists for things like "made from 100% ground beef" vs "made with 100% ground beef". Ok, so one of the ingredients is entirely beef....
Maybe Jobs is a fan of the choice overload theory (I, for some reason, remember it as paralysis of choice but whatever).
It's not like +/- a couple hundred mhz or MB of RAM makes a huge heck of a difference so why not make a couple product lines with reasonably sized differences...?
Fucking toothpaste. Do I need tartar control? Is mine out of control? Is that in "whole care"? Is peroxide in there? WHY CAN'T I GET FUCKING ALL THIS SHIT IN ONE TUBE?
...copy the contents of an inserted game/movie disk over to the PSP which would be good to play for a few days before requiring a shorter validation resync.
I dunno. At least this way it's a clean break. If I had to resync that often, I'd just stop resyncing and forget about it eventually or fly into a rage when I'm stuck away from home and whip out the PSP to kill time.
I'd put "server is a piece of shit" under "company is a piece of shit" which also covers "code/coding/software is a piece of shit" which may or may not be the cause of said server glitches.
Some times games get ahead of the average technology. In WoW before they changed Wintergrasp, you could have any number of players there. Since battles were timed, you'd have many, many, many players there during the day. All that info coming in, who's shooting whom, calculating splash damage, players and vehicles and pet positions.... My computer can barely render it so I can only imagine what the poor world server is getting hammered for in terms of computer resources.
I guess you couldn't figure out where the source of lag comes from. Could be the server being maxed out, could be the local area internet tubes being maxed out, could be (if using wireless) stuff blocking the signal momentarily, could be porn torrents, could be the CIA or little green men....
Low framerate isn't (or shouldn't) be called lag. It should be called "my computer is being a piece of shit again".
When my computer lags, everyone around me seems to pause then, when my computer gets all the data regarding their actions, I see that, people rushing around, spells I used all on cooldown at the same time, etc. I was behind on data but then I got it eventually and caught up.
When my computer is a piece of shit, I still see what happens....one frame every five seconds. It doesn't wait to render everything and play it back at 30fps.
I don't know what word or short phrase I'd use to call that but I gotta agree with the GP about the use of lag.
Fortunately, all I had to do was patent putting edible substances and food stuffs in heated water. Soup, hot chocolate, coffee, hot tubs... yeah, baby. I got 'em covered.
Well, I found part of it. It's called the Guide to the Strange and Unusual and it's by Azal. Sadly, the image links haven't held up through the years nor does the link in his sig here go to any Thief related site.
There was this fansite where they looted and noted every single moveable object. Every guard, every apple, every box and crate and key, every useless item from wooden plates and gobulets to simple flavor items to objects and NPCs that couldn't be manipulated except by spending a long time running at them and nudging them.
They did this and then stacked and sorted and placed all this crap in perfect piles and rows and stacks. They explored every boundry, every wall, ledge, fence, nook and cranny. They'd stack crates, abusing the close-but-not-quite-there physics system to have huge staircases to otherwise unreachable areas. They must've saved and loaded hundreds of times perfecting the bounce off NPCs which negated otherwise fatal falling damage from great heights.
I had a virus that did that. I had just formatted my harddrive and installed XP and, in my youthful wisdom, I went online to get updates for the programs I was going to install....like for the firewall and antivirus.
I find that GoldenEye works quite well due to a few quirks.
Enemies are rarely very high above or down below you so you don't waste much time aiming up or down; just turn left or right. There was lots of areas you could snipe from but NPCs wouldn't shoot through (fenced balconies, etc.).
Multiplayer was slower. There was always a pause between damage taken so just because someone has a machinegun, it didn't do that much more damage than a pistol (though it did let you be a badass and spray bullets everywhere).
So for GoldenEye, it worked. Perfect Dark changed those two things and the clumsiness of the controller became more apparent.
Mm, I've gotta go with Thundarr. Flying mounts is jumping the shark in my opinion.
You mention Howling Fjord. I like Howling Fjord. I liked having a reason to use Levitate. I liked the dangerous terrain. I did quest in Borean Tundra but for reputation and quest rewards. I'd be on my forth character through there except I've been on an achievement spree and neglecting all other characters.
Cold Weather Flying a serious chunk of change? Only if you have no friends, no professions, little to no understanding of the game, and blow any gold you come across on repairs and the auction house.
Flying mounts removes 99% of the dangers you face in the game. Aside from caves and buildings, it's pretty much like this only not instantaneously. Mount up, fly to objective (which will be marked on the map in the new patch), land, kill, loot, mount up, turn in quest.
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Kinda beats George's sex at work on the desk, eh?
"Now, had I been informed pilots aren't allowed to have sex with each other in the cockpit during flight, all this could have been avoided!"
Yeah, you say no and maybe you don't get that raise. Maybe you get passed over for promotions. What are you gonna do? Sue and spend more money on a lawyer than you'd have made?
Still, what would be the point of receipt? What good could come from it?
I'm willing to accept I'm just being a negative Nancy and overlooking the obvious so help me understand the benefits of a receipt for the voter.
Ah, the shredder story again.
http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/siteinfo/newsround/iraq6.html
Next up, Iraqi soldiers throwing premature babies out of incubators in the first Gulf War: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2002/03/01/1174261.php
No receipts.
Boss asks who you voted for. You pause, remembering past instances overhearing his views and how much you disagreed with them.
"The other guy," you say.
"That's good. That's good," he replies. "Got the receipt?"
Feel free to replace boss with anyone in the position to influence your voting habits via unpleasantness.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, it's true. And I don't even program. I do enjoy playing with words and joking with what statement or question means literally versus what it was intended to mean.
I'm still trying to convince people to look at ingredient lists for things like "made from 100% ground beef" vs "made with 100% ground beef". Ok, so one of the ingredients is entirely beef....
For what it's worth, I still hate the Fisher Price look. It's was diabled as soon as XP was installed.
Eh. What's a bit of text?
I leave them up because, well, sometimes they're worth reading.
But as soon as paragraphs of text and frickin' images are allowed, they'll be disabled instantly.
Is there anyway to patent something then effectively void it as if the duration was up thus preventing anyone else from patenting and locking it up?
Maybe Jobs is a fan of the choice overload theory (I, for some reason, remember it as paralysis of choice but whatever).
It's not like +/- a couple hundred mhz or MB of RAM makes a huge heck of a difference so why not make a couple product lines with reasonably sized differences...?
Fucking toothpaste. Do I need tartar control? Is mine out of control? Is that in "whole care"? Is peroxide in there? WHY CAN'T I GET FUCKING ALL THIS SHIT IN ONE TUBE?
I dunno. At least this way it's a clean break. If I had to resync that often, I'd just stop resyncing and forget about it eventually or fly into a rage when I'm stuck away from home and whip out the PSP to kill time.
Wow! It sounds almost too good to be true!
Wait, what's that you say?
You'd think they'd put some lead in then, right?
Right? ..yeah, yeah. I'm getting my coat.
Maybe to set up something like the VLA?
I'd put "server is a piece of shit" under "company is a piece of shit" which also covers "code/coding/software is a piece of shit" which may or may not be the cause of said server glitches.
Some times games get ahead of the average technology. In WoW before they changed Wintergrasp, you could have any number of players there. Since battles were timed, you'd have many, many, many players there during the day. All that info coming in, who's shooting whom, calculating splash damage, players and vehicles and pet positions.... My computer can barely render it so I can only imagine what the poor world server is getting hammered for in terms of computer resources.
I guess you couldn't figure out where the source of lag comes from. Could be the server being maxed out, could be the local area internet tubes being maxed out, could be (if using wireless) stuff blocking the signal momentarily, could be porn torrents, could be the CIA or little green men....
Low framerate isn't (or shouldn't) be called lag. It should be called "my computer is being a piece of shit again".
When my computer lags, everyone around me seems to pause then, when my computer gets all the data regarding their actions, I see that, people rushing around, spells I used all on cooldown at the same time, etc. I was behind on data but then I got it eventually and caught up.
When my computer is a piece of shit, I still see what happens. ...one frame every five seconds. It doesn't wait to render everything and play it back at 30fps.
I don't know what word or short phrase I'd use to call that but I gotta agree with the GP about the use of lag.
Fortunately, all I had to do was patent putting edible substances and food stuffs in heated water. Soup, hot chocolate, coffee, hot tubs... yeah, baby. I got 'em covered.
So... what, is it like this?
ID: Evolution is directed by an unseen, omniscient being who is undetectable and not bound by the laws of physics or the boundries of reality.
Creationism: God did it.
Or am I missing something?
Hmm. Define valid opinions, please.
Well, I found part of it. It's called the Guide to the Strange and Unusual and it's by Azal. Sadly, the image links haven't held up through the years nor does the link in his sig here go to any Thief related site.
Man, my Google-fu is rusty.
There was this fansite where they looted and noted every single moveable object. Every guard, every apple, every box and crate and key, every useless item from wooden plates and gobulets to simple flavor items to objects and NPCs that couldn't be manipulated except by spending a long time running at them and nudging them.
They did this and then stacked and sorted and placed all this crap in perfect piles and rows and stacks. They explored every boundry, every wall, ledge, fence, nook and cranny. They'd stack crates, abusing the close-but-not-quite-there physics system to have huge staircases to otherwise unreachable areas. They must've saved and loaded hundreds of times perfecting the bounce off NPCs which negated otherwise fatal falling damage from great heights.
Damn I want to find that site now.
I had a virus that did that. I had just formatted my harddrive and installed XP and, in my youthful wisdom, I went online to get updates for the programs I was going to install. ...like for the firewall and antivirus.
Needless to say, I formatted it again.
I just wonder how they cope with the tachyon field and quantum neutrinos. Maybe they reversed the polarity?
I find that GoldenEye works quite well due to a few quirks.
Enemies are rarely very high above or down below you so you don't waste much time aiming up or down; just turn left or right. There was lots of areas you could snipe from but NPCs wouldn't shoot through (fenced balconies, etc.).
Multiplayer was slower. There was always a pause between damage taken so just because someone has a machinegun, it didn't do that much more damage than a pistol (though it did let you be a badass and spray bullets everywhere).
So for GoldenEye, it worked. Perfect Dark changed those two things and the clumsiness of the controller became more apparent.
I wonder what would have happened if he sat on it for another billing period.
Mm, I've gotta go with Thundarr. Flying mounts is jumping the shark in my opinion.
You mention Howling Fjord. I like Howling Fjord. I liked having a reason to use Levitate. I liked the dangerous terrain. I did quest in Borean Tundra but for reputation and quest rewards. I'd be on my forth character through there except I've been on an achievement spree and neglecting all other characters.
Cold Weather Flying a serious chunk of change? Only if you have no friends, no professions, little to no understanding of the game, and blow any gold you come across on repairs and the auction house.
Flying mounts removes 99% of the dangers you face in the game. Aside from caves and buildings, it's pretty much like this only not instantaneously. Mount up, fly to objective (which will be marked on the map in the new patch), land, kill, loot, mount up, turn in quest.