Good point. However, in the Elements of Style format we get to write great sentences like "After Jesus used the bathroom of Jesus, he used the toilet paper of Jesus to wipe the butt of Jesus."
"If they REALLY were a creative company, one game would feature horrific violence, and the other would be an incrediblely innocent game, the next would be something completely different. But no, everything we've seen out of them at least has this looming undertone of mass violence."
A fine display of research skills on your part, sir. I salute you!
"Man, that Manhunt 2 game looks good! Forbidden fruit, man! But, I don't have a fast PC and it won't run on my Wii... ahh, I'll go buy Mario SuperHeroAdventure 6 instead." Therefore you won't need a fast PC to play it. System requirements for Manhunt 1's PC version from amazon:
1 GHz Pentium III, Athlon or 1.2 GHz Celeron/Duron processor 32 MB AGP graphics card with hardware transform & lighting support 256 MB RAM 1.5 GB hard drive space
Manhunt 2 is also a PS2 port so won't require significantly more power to run. Any PC that can play World of Warcraft or Sims 2 has enough juice for Manhunt 2, and that is a huge number of computers.
Chris Morris made the same one in his Brass Eye TV programme years ago. Anyway, if you have any doubt, from TFA:
Don't our harvestable plants deserve the same level of "comfort" and protection that we now enjoy?
Import, people, import. It's a free market, and the game will be on sale in France/Italy/Netherlands etc. Generally, games in these markets are either completely untranslated (except the manual) or still have English available as an option.
I wasn't particularly interested in this game but will now certainly be buying it - aside from a simple anti-censorship protest I also want to know what's considered bad enough to get banned!
... That I went to a strict Catholic school, had Jesuits as science teachers, and Creation was relegated to Religion hour? In class, it was Darwin or bust, the Earth was some 5 billions years old, and nobody questioned evolution. Ever. And those who taught were priests.
I once asked my biology teacher (Jesuit) about the Bible's recount of the Creation. Answer: "The Bible was written by men, and inspired by God. Do you think He could have gone to some Bronze Age guys and told them about atoms, mass-energy equivalence, aminoacids and DNA? That was Abraham and company He was talking to, not Mr Spock."
You folks need some of these Jesuits types, methinks. As I understand it teaching said Bronze Age people to understand advanced physics and biology is supposed to be well within the powers of an omnipotent immortal being. For fuck's sake, I could probably do it given 40 years with them, access to the labs at my old school and a few dozen textbooks (and maybe a taser).
"People always forget the most obvious privacy invasion. A stranger walks up to you and tells you the names of children, their date of birth, what schools they go to, what classes they are in, their grades, what time they go to school and what time they come home and how they travel between home and school, the names of their friends and to top that off hands you a series of recent photographs of them."
Got it! The stranger is their teacher.
I like riddles, do another one.
"Can skulls really 'absorb' EM radiation?"
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Of course they can. Everything does. Notice how when you put your head near a source of radiant heat it feels warm?
"Do not look into laser with remaining eye" is also appropriate here...
...but then I realised that getting served adverts like "Upgrade your Zerglings TODAY" and "Scourge now two for one at all hatcheries" would actually be pretty cool.
You've got the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and cosmic rays confused. Cosmic rays are very fast moving electrons/protons etc - what causes them isn't entirely understood. Microwaves are photons, which are more-or-less radio, the origin of the CMB is understood.
TFA pretty clearly states that the scientist in question does think that the cloud might be related to the cosmic ray production as well as CMB noise:
The plasma cloud, detailed in April 10 issue of Astrophysical Journal, might be the source of mysterious cosmic rays that permeate our universe.
"One of the most exciting aspects of the discovery is the new questions it poses," said study leader Philipp Kronberg of Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico. "For example, what kind of mechanism could create a cloud of such enormous dimensions that does not coincide with any single galaxy or galaxy cluster? Is that same mechanism connected to the mysterious source of ultra high energy cosmic rays that come from beyond our galaxy?"
They're releasing a distro, I didn't particularly want to add to their server load.
Plus, the quoted figure is quite likely to be bullshit. As I said, 6.06 is OK on 192 meg yet 6.06 also claims 256 meg is the minimum. Why check when I won't believe the numbers? I'd rather hear from someone who's tried it.
Based on the review this is worth upgrading to - but what are the system requirements like? 6.06 is just usable on my 196 meg RAM laptop, will this push it over the edge?
Incidentally, how come SAMBA isn't included by default? This bit me recently when trying to move files between 2 networked (but not on the internet) computers.
Most entertainment isn't emphemeral any more. Everything comes out on digital disks which can be archived for a very long time. We can buy the obscurest of books online with a few mouse clicks. When you publish something it stays published.
When you do something that's been done before no one cares, because the original is still perfectly within our grasp.
But surely, if the United States's 9,000+ nuclear warheads are converted to fuel for peaceful purposes, the terrorists win.
(Wow, that's mind-boggling. Think how many hundreds of millions of civilians the war planners hope to be able to kill with an arsenal like that.) Well, given the world population, I'd say around 65...
Windows Live lets you play against Xbox 360 Live subscribers. However, Windows Live is Windows Vista only, so you can't play against people using Windows XP. Well done, what an impressive cross platform system!
I know 10 or so people who I've occasionally played online with on Windows using XP/2k, and don't know a single Live subscriber. I don't have much incentive to get Windows Live, do I? YMMV, of course.
No, sorry, that calculation doesn't work. There are plenty of similar cancer treatments available. The question is what number of patients per year have a meaningfully better outcome because of this treatment compared to existing, much cheaper treatments, and that number is likely to be small. What, like, 2000 people per year for instance?
Yes, research is better long term. However, if you always spend 100 percent of your funding on research for those long term benefits no one is ever treated. You have to spend money on treatment at some point.
As for the other person's point about running costs. OK, assume it costs 10 million a year. So, it's now 10 thousand dollars a patient - that's still a good deal. If it were provided commercially and I needed it I'd pay that much.
200000000 dollars divided by (2000 patients per year times 20 years of operation) equals 5000 dollars per patient!
Considering only the vast positive economic impact of getting a cancer sufferer out of hospital where they're costing money and into the labour pool where they're making it a cancer treatment would be worth it at a much higher price.
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Good point. However, in the Elements of Style format we get to write great sentences like "After Jesus used the bathroom of Jesus, he used the toilet paper of Jesus to wipe the butt of Jesus."
"If they REALLY were a creative company, one game would feature horrific violence, and the other would be an incrediblely innocent game, the next would be something completely different. But no, everything we've seen out of them at least has this looming undertone of mass violence."
A fine display of research skills on your part, sir. I salute you!
List of Rockstar games.
Hint: Rockstar Table Tennis and Midnight Club do not exactly feature a "looming undertone of mass violence".
1 GHz Pentium III, Athlon or 1.2 GHz Celeron/Duron processor
32 MB AGP graphics card with hardware transform & lighting support
256 MB RAM
1.5 GB hard drive space
Manhunt 2 is also a PS2 port so won't require significantly more power to run. Any PC that can play World of Warcraft or Sims 2 has enough juice for Manhunt 2, and that is a huge number of computers.
Import, people, import. It's a free market, and the game will be on sale in France/Italy/Netherlands etc. Generally, games in these markets are either completely untranslated (except the manual) or still have English available as an option.
I wasn't particularly interested in this game but will now certainly be buying it - aside from a simple anti-censorship protest I also want to know what's considered bad enough to get banned!
... That I went to a strict Catholic school, had Jesuits as science teachers, and Creation was relegated to Religion hour? In class, it was Darwin or bust, the Earth was some 5 billions years old, and nobody questioned evolution. Ever. And those who taught were priests.I once asked my biology teacher (Jesuit) about the Bible's recount of the Creation. Answer: "The Bible was written by men, and inspired by God. Do you think He could have gone to some Bronze Age guys and told them about atoms, mass-energy equivalence, aminoacids and DNA? That was Abraham and company He was talking to, not Mr Spock."
You folks need some of these Jesuits types, methinks. As I understand it teaching said Bronze Age people to understand advanced physics and biology is supposed to be well within the powers of an omnipotent immortal being. For fuck's sake, I could probably do it given 40 years with them, access to the labs at my old school and a few dozen textbooks (and maybe a taser).
That's almost as much as I spend on pornography!
But is absolutely fucking hilarious. Read those links!
"People always forget the most obvious privacy invasion. A stranger walks up to you and tells you the names of children, their date of birth, what schools they go to, what classes they are in, their grades, what time they go to school and what time they come home and how they travel between home and school, the names of their friends and to top that off hands you a series of recent photographs of them."
Got it! The stranger is their teacher.
I like riddles, do another one.
Of course they can. Everything does. Notice how when you put your head near a source of radiant heat it feels warm?
"Do not look into laser with remaining eye" is also appropriate here...
"c = 300,000Km/s (2sf)
Does 100km in 1/3s"
Nope, 100km takes 1/3 of a millisecond or 3x10^-4 seconds
Yeah, and a starving man will appreciate stale bread whereas I complain at a restaurant if the main course is cold.
...but then I realised that getting served adverts like "Upgrade your Zerglings TODAY" and "Scourge now two for one at all hatcheries" would actually be pretty cool.
TFA pretty clearly states that the scientist in question does think that the cloud might be related to the cosmic ray production as well as CMB noise:
They're releasing a distro, I didn't particularly want to add to their server load.
Plus, the quoted figure is quite likely to be bullshit. As I said, 6.06 is OK on 192 meg yet 6.06 also claims 256 meg is the minimum. Why check when I won't believe the numbers? I'd rather hear from someone who's tried it.
Based on the review this is worth upgrading to - but what are the system requirements like? 6.06 is just usable on my 196 meg RAM laptop, will this push it over the edge?
Incidentally, how come SAMBA isn't included by default? This bit me recently when trying to move files between 2 networked (but not on the internet) computers.
Most entertainment isn't emphemeral any more. Everything comes out on digital disks which can be archived for a very long time. We can buy the obscurest of books online with a few mouse clicks. When you publish something it stays published.
When you do something that's been done before no one cares, because the original is still perfectly within our grasp.
(Wow, that's mind-boggling. Think how many hundreds of millions of civilians the war planners hope to be able to kill with an arsenal like that.) Well, given the world population, I'd say around 65...
Anyway, the real reason I posted was this - developer, describing his game:
...it's this big group hug of war, basically. Put that on the advertising and I'll buy it!Windows Live lets you play against Xbox 360 Live subscribers.
However, Windows Live is Windows Vista only, so you can't play against people using Windows XP. Well done, what an impressive cross platform system!
I know 10 or so people who I've occasionally played online with on Windows using XP/2k, and don't know a single Live subscriber. I don't have much incentive to get Windows Live, do I? YMMV, of course.
Yes, research is better long term. However, if you always spend 100 percent of your funding on research for those long term benefits no one is ever treated. You have to spend money on treatment at some point.
As for the other person's point about running costs. OK, assume it costs 10 million a year. So, it's now 10 thousand dollars a patient - that's still a good deal. If it were provided commercially and I needed it I'd pay that much.
200000000 dollars divided by (2000 patients per year times 20 years of operation) equals 5000 dollars per patient!
Considering only the vast positive economic impact of getting a cancer sufferer out of hospital where they're costing money and into the labour pool where they're making it a cancer treatment would be worth it at a much higher price.
Sounds risky. Better to unload the whole clip.
That's not very wise either. Always save a bullet for yourself in case you run into Bob Dole.