20$ on a keyboard/mouse to Xbox adaptor, and using a keyboard and mouse on an Xbox
The turn speed is limited leading to a completely unnatural feel.
In an FPS there is nothing more rewarding than seeing an enemy, reflex-snapping your crosshair over his head in an eigth of a second, firing, and scoring a kill before he even notes your presense. Joysticks / limited turn speed mice simply do not allow you to react that fast.
Games on PCs tend to offer far more in the way of customization. Half-life 2 has well over 100 cvars you can tinker with.
Unofficial mods of games such as Alien Swarm are only available to PC users.
Seems strange, then that many prominent scientists, such as Behe, professor of microbiology at Lehigh and author of many books such as "Darwin's Black Box", would believe in creation then.
Self-delusion is widespread and intelligence isn't always a surefire defense.
Christian creationism - the attribution of the creation of the universe to a benevolent creator - is rediculous.
Assuming the idea that an intelligent creator is reasonable in itself, arbitrarily attributing purely human emotions and attributes to it such as benevolence, anger, love, etc is just that - arbitrary.
law of gravy
Please research scientific nomenclature before trying to use it in an argument.
Look, I love the penguin. I feed the penguin. But don't put down folks WHO YOU NEED to cross over. Yes, some folks NEED these tools because of some PHB. Help them make the case. Don't act all 1337 because you can hand script some animation foo on GiMP.
How about a damage system that actually impairs your avatar? Got shot in the leg? Ok, now you limp everywhere. Boot to the head? Ok, everything is fuzzy and you have tunnel vision. Stabbed in the back? Now you can't raise your weapon up to eye level and have to shoot from the hip.
That's fine for a game that is trying to be as realistic as possible.
For any other type of game, limping around at a disadvantage is simply not fun.
I'm working right now. Yet 50% of my household income goes to pay for things I don't use or need or could afford on my own. If you have to work so hard that you don't have time for kids, don't have kids. If you do have kids, don't force me to pay for your responsibilities.
The tax money you help provide benefits society as a whole. Whether or not you benefit from it personally is irrelevant.
If something is inherently pointless, then it's not a purpose. If that means there is not such thing as purpose, then that's just harsh reality.
Making happiness the goal of life is no more or less valid than making misery or any emotion the goal - in the end we are just basing humanity around nothing more than firing certain patterns of neurons.
Those can't run Master of Orion with sound at an acceptable speed on modern CPUS.
DOSBox can run MOO at more than full speed on my machine, and my machine is far from top-of-the-line.
Did you set your cycles? The default 3000 is inadequate for MOO. ~20,000 works like a charm for me, with all the buttons responding the moment I release the mouse button.
People who base their code of human interaction on magic stories told about prophets are not using reason.
Give a single logical basis on which to base morality. All ideologies are based on something ultimately worthless - happiness, law and order, religion, etc. None of these are rational, because nothing we currently understand has any real value.
The very concept of 'value' is illogical. We value things like happiness and pleasure simply because they are typically triggered by things that are beneficial to survival. Those emotions were evolved for no greater 'purpose' than to maximize the chance an individual has to procreate. They have no real value.
It's simply reflective of reality.
Beyond the absolute assurance each individual has that they exist, there is no reality. Everything else we understand or know is nothing more than empirical knowledge. There is no way to prove or disprove that what we sense is an accurate depiction of reality.
Because of this, all ideologies are nothing more than guesses, and are all equally worthless.
Some idealogies are inherently destructive, parasitic, corrosive to personal liberty, and so on.
Provide a proof as to why destruction is bad. Provide a proof as to why personal liberty is good. Don't make any assumptions - first demonstrate that value exists, then demonstrate how it applies in these cases.
I think that organizing society around democracy, embracing freedom of speech, and condeming those that would actively, deliberately, and because they are children kill children gathering around soldiers or police in the street is an objectively more rational position.
On its own it is no more or less rational than any other ideology. It is only rational in the context of the values/beliefs held by most of those who support it. These values are not inherently correct or incorrect.
In WoW on high-pop PvP servers you get to look forward to getting ganked by characters 20+ levels higher than yourself every fifteen minutes or so. When this happens you have absolutely no chance to defend yourself You are simply going to die without any means of self-defense (let alone retaliation). For a person who is primarily interested in PvP the grind up to level ~40 is simply not enjoyable.
Wind Waker was awful. It's not bad because of the childish graphics, but simply because the game was both rediculously easy and needlessly repetitive.
I died a grand total of once in that game. The last boss didn't even manage to kill me, which was a dissapointment. Far too much of it was filler - locating items with your ship, digging up the triforce bits, that bloody sidequest where you have to slash the combat trainer a thousand times, etc.
Thankfully my copy came with a GC port of OOT which included a 'master quest' version of the game, which made the purchase more than worthwhile.
They just told web developers to put "nofollow" into the REL tag, that's it. It may be acceptable to put whatever you want in there, but you need to use the profile also.
And it's up to web developers to understand the standards and do that, not Google.
What prevents Chinese speaking players from playing on their country's servers?
You have entered unhealthy game time, please go offline immediately to rest. If you do not your health will be damaged and the benefits you can win will be cut to zero.
Thanks for your 1 in 100 conclusion...and you got these numbers where?
Common sense. I've yet to be in a course with a student without access to a computer with the internet outside of the university. For that matter I didn't run into a single one in highschool either, and I knew a fair number of people. The vast majority of people who are going to make it to university are going to have the money to have a computer with net access at home.
And after telling what these kids feel/think, you go on to telling me how i feel/think...you really are stretching yourself now. And yes, I do spend at least 4-5 hours a day studying.
If you spend 4-5 hours a day studying and you still do not know most of the course work then you are likely in the wrong field.
They all are...they know their stuff - they just are biding their time until they get a position they see is better.
Doubtful - I've yet to see a single person do well in anything more than a codemonkey position without an actual love for CS. Simply 'knowing your stuff' isn't enough when programming.
See you are going in circles with me and in the end it boils down to one thing...you have NO proof. You are assuming these kids don't know enough because they don't care enough which is total bullshit on your part. My argument is done on this.
They either don't care, or they are thick. I'd like to believe that people aren't so thick that they can't pick up all the coursework in a couple years if they dedicate hours every day to it.
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In an FPS there is nothing more rewarding than seeing an enemy, reflex-snapping your crosshair over his head in an eigth of a second, firing, and scoring a kill before he even notes your presense. Joysticks / limited turn speed mice simply do not allow you to react that fast.
Games on PCs tend to offer far more in the way of customization. Half-life 2 has well over 100 cvars you can tinker with.
Unofficial mods of games such as Alien Swarm are only available to PC users.
The IF Archive. For some really good stuff check out the winners for the '95-'05 competitions.
s/Assuming/Even assuming/
s/rediculous/ridiculous/
Christian creationism - the attribution of the creation of the universe to a benevolent creator - is rediculous.
Assuming the idea that an intelligent creator is reasonable in itself, arbitrarily attributing purely human emotions and attributes to it such as benevolence, anger, love, etc is just that - arbitrary.
Please research scientific nomenclature before trying to use it in an argument.
su
/some/chmod-000/directory/sun/* && cp -r /home/* /some/chmod-000/directory/sun /some/chmod-000/directory/mon/* && cp -r /home/* /some/chmod-000/directory/mon /some/chmod-000/directory/tue/* && cp -r /home/* /some/chmod-000/directory/tue /some/chmod-000/directory/wed/* && cp -r /home/* /some/chmod-000/directory/wed /some/chmod-000/directory/thu/* && cp -r /home/* /some/chmod-000/directory/thu /some/chmod-000/directory/fri/* && cp -r /home/* /some/chmod-000/directory/fri /some/chmod-000/directory/sat/* && cp -r /home/* /some/chmod-000/directory/sat
crontab -e
0 0 * * 0 rm -rf
0 0 * * 1 rm -rf
0 0 * * 2 rm -rf
0 0 * * 3 rm -rf
0 0 * * 4 rm -rf
0 0 * * 5 rm -rf
0 0 * * 6 rm -rf
Or something to that effect. I didn't test it (so it probably doesn't work just as I typed it), but the idea is obvious.
People are relatively cheap to replace. Technological advances mean far more than individual lives in the long run.
Both of which well-written Perl is fine for.
For any other type of game, limping around at a disadvantage is simply not fun.
That's strange.
Are you using a virgin copy of MOO, and the newest version of DosBox?
I grabbed my copy of MOO off here, and I didn't have any problems of that sort.
Whether or not you like it is also irrelevant.
If something is inherently pointless, then it's not a purpose. If that means there is not such thing as purpose, then that's just harsh reality.
Making happiness the goal of life is no more or less valid than making misery or any emotion the goal - in the end we are just basing humanity around nothing more than firing certain patterns of neurons.
Happiness and joy are emotions evolved to facilitate survival. They do not have some higher purpose.
Did you set your cycles? The default 3000 is inadequate for MOO. ~20,000 works like a charm for me, with all the buttons responding the moment I release the mouse button.
This is with sound enabled.
The very concept of 'value' is illogical. We value things like happiness and pleasure simply because they are typically triggered by things that are beneficial to survival. Those emotions were evolved for no greater 'purpose' than to maximize the chance an individual has to procreate. They have no real value. Beyond the absolute assurance each individual has that they exist, there is no reality. Everything else we understand or know is nothing more than empirical knowledge. There is no way to prove or disprove that what we sense is an accurate depiction of reality.
Because of this, all ideologies are nothing more than guesses, and are all equally worthless.
Provide a proof as to why destruction is bad. Provide a proof as to why personal liberty is good. Don't make any assumptions - first demonstrate that value exists, then demonstrate how it applies in these cases.
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google.com results (I realise you said you can get the google.com results; providing it just in case other cannot).
google.cn results
In WoW on high-pop PvP servers you get to look forward to getting ganked by characters 20+ levels higher than yourself every fifteen minutes or so. When this happens you have absolutely no chance to defend yourself You are simply going to die without any means of self-defense (let alone retaliation). For a person who is primarily interested in PvP the grind up to level ~40 is simply not enjoyable.
Wind Waker was awful. It's not bad because of the childish graphics, but simply because the game was both rediculously easy and needlessly repetitive.
I died a grand total of once in that game. The last boss didn't even manage to kill me, which was a dissapointment. Far too much of it was filler - locating items with your ship, digging up the triforce bits, that bloody sidequest where you have to slash the combat trainer a thousand times, etc.
Thankfully my copy came with a GC port of OOT which included a 'master quest' version of the game, which made the purchase more than worthwhile.
Google has done nothing wrong here.
If you spend 4-5 hours a day studying and you still do not know most of the course work then you are likely in the wrong field.
Doubtful - I've yet to see a single person do well in anything more than a codemonkey position without an actual love for CS. Simply 'knowing your stuff' isn't enough when programming.
They either don't care, or they are thick. I'd like to believe that people aren't so thick that they can't pick up all the coursework in a couple years if they dedicate hours every day to it.
That should read "... universities really don't provide access to any equipment or knowledge in their CS curriculum ...".