I get what you're saying but I think its worth noting that when the body is under physical stress that the brain tends to release Endorphins (basically natural morphine) and when runners run for an extended period of time they tend to get Runner's High which is high levels of endorphins that block pain. Some research supports the idea that runner's high is addictive and habit forming but as far as I know there is no solid evidence of this yet.
I think you mean more along the lines of socialism, but I get what you are saying.
I wish more people understood this instead of believing whatever Fox News tells them.
I tried the XBox movie rental a couple times.
Its pretty neat compared to having to go out and rent a movie if you happen to live in a rural area like me, but unfortunately the deal-breaker for me is the price versus renting a physical DVD and the 2-day time limit.
The plus side is that I don't have to have a blueray player to rent HD movies using XBox Live.
I made a couple maps during the SDK beta but I don't fully understand the process of packaging the maps and I'm rather short on time, otherwise the rest of the process is real easy for me.
Mapping for Left 4 Dead though is much more complicated then mapping for most other games though.
I tell people to be careful against what packages they might be installing.
I don't know about RPMs, but DEBs in particular don't just copy files and often run scripts as apart of their installation, and these scripts run with administrator privileges.
Linux is rapidly gaining popularity, especially in the netbook sector, so expect to see increasing amount of malware like we've seen with Apple's OS X which is also rapidly gaining popularity among desktop users.
Man I really liked Dead Space from beginning to end and since most people seem to hate it so I'd say its underrated.
But none the less that part of the game pissed me off, though I thought the part leading up to it was pretty well done where you are outside.
Granted the game had a lot of monster closet moments but it kind of kept you on edge if you expected to get raped from behind around every corner.
I'm looking forward to a sequel, but knowing EA I expect a total disappointment since its EA's trademark to take games with massive potential and ruin them, sort of like Core Design managed to do with Tomb Raider (and some other games) before Crystal Dynamics took it over.
DSL and xubuntu aren't really in the same class as far as resource usage.
Yeah I know, but it depends on what you have to spare.
If you have a bottom-of-the-line machine then DSL or Puppy Linux is what you need, otherwise I'd go with Xubuntu.
A lot of desktop environments support multiple desktops and someway to switch between them (The Compiz Cube is probably the most famous), so I really don't see the point in tabbing applications.
I use virtual desktops to divide up what I'm doing at the time (e.g. desktop #1 contains browser and chat applications, desktop #2 contains graphics applications, etc..) and I really wish Windows supported this natively for when I'm not working with Linux.
In most states the age of consent is 16, so anybody between 16 and 17 can legally engage in sexual activity with each other but not with anybody 18 or over.
Furthermore if they make any of their sexual activity public (photos, videos, etc..) then they can be charged with distribution and production of child pornography.
Its really messed up, but I say they need to bring the age of consent up to 18 and the drinking age to back down to 18 so we don't have a bunch of weird conflicting laws like we do now.
Usually we end up in these legal spaghettis when the right wing cries that everyone should think of the children and in doing so Congress completely ignores the impact and conflicts that may arise as a result.
cat/dev/urandom > lolporn.jpg
Alternatively pop in a LiveCD and run `cat/dev/urandom >/dev/sda` a few times.
I'm not endorsing the idea of breaking the law let alone getting away with it, but sometimes in cases like this its necessary to take an extra step to defend yourself from an overzealous government hellbent on labelling everybody sex offenders during an election year.
I really don't think we need 128-bit processors.
As wet as it makes all us/. nerds to think of ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT BITS.. there is nothing that 128-bit can offer us that 64-bit can't already do right now, practically speaking.
Besides look at how long it took for the market to adopt 64-bit, and that move is still in progress.
So in all seriousness, if Microsoft was actually going to support 128-bit processors then it would probably be strictly for the server and super computer markets.
I love Ubuntu but don't bathe yourself in ignorance like Mac users do.
Though unlikely, its entirely possible for a repository to be poisoned or for clever malware to change your repositories, and since you always have to give apt/deb permission to install any packages then this gives poisoned packages a free ride to unload their fury.
You ALWAYS have to be on the look out no matter what OS you use.
I was actually surprised to find that Gnome has a regedit-like utility called gconf-editor.
But thats where the similarities end because gconf-editor is basically a unified front-end editor for XML files, along with the ability to send updates to listening applications.
The great thing about this is that you both get your RegEdit-like interface, you get your human readable data if you want to do it the old fashioned way (Nano, Vim, Vi, Emacs, etc..) and it has little to do with the underlying system so an inexperienced user won't be able to prevent their system from booting by changing one key in some random place.
I have to admit I like the whole idea behind the Registry but in practice it really has some flaws, I'd prefer it to work more like GConf so that applications can have their settings physically stored in different places in a standardized human readable format.
After logging in yesterday on Windows 7 everything appeared to be going as normally but all I got was the standard blue desktop and Explorer never started, but I fixed it with a reboot.
I wonder if it had anything to do with this particular bug.
Somebody I know said he heard a rumor that Infinity Ward is going to add dedicated servers eventually because of all the pressure from the PC community.
IMHO a snowball in hell has a better chance then that because publishers and developers lately are hell bent on fighting piracy and their solution is to setup big brother piracy protection under the guise of "match making" like; Relic Online, IWNet or Battle.Net.
Not only that but Infinity Ward would have to rewrite a substantial amount of networking code to support dedicated servers since the client/server model is very different from peer-to-peer.
So no, unless the planets are aligned just right and pigs fly I say there is no chance in hell that Infinity Ward is going to change this version of CoD.
I applaud Nintendo for this move actually by making older (S)NES titles available on the Wii.
This is similar to Microsoft offering XBox titles on the 360 via the game store.
The only unfortunate side of doing it the legal way is that you have to own those consoles to begin with (Fortunately the Wii isn't very expensive though, but still) and if your favorite classic isn't on there then there is no guarantee that it will ever be released, especially if it was a more of an unpopular or lower quality title like the ones that the AVGN reviews.
If you spread Nazi ideology you may soon face some time in jail, but not if you protest against neo-Nazism. The censorship of videogames is mainly related to a certain law which forbids to show Nazi-symbols, like the swastika. So, if you want to sell a game there, leave them out, and it can be sold. How could law differentiate between videogames and propaganda posters and allow video games to show those symbols while keeping neo-Nazi propaganda from doing so?
Essentially you're saying that a German citizen can only freely express themselves in a way the government deems appropriate.
With all due respect to Germans, I was comparing their government to several other western countries considered to be apart of the "Free World"; the Commonwealth (UK, Canada, Australia, etc...), Switzerland, Sweden and the United States.
The state should not distinguish between "propaganda" and "speech" because this gives the government a huge amount of power to deem other types of speech or expression as inappropriate.
The last time the United States tried to pull a stunt like that was "The House Committee on UnAmerican Activities" from the infamous red scare in the 50s up into the mid-70s.
The United States was afraid of enemy (in this case Nazis, then later communists) propaganda from spreading through the country and in the process people's fundamental freedoms were broken ironically in the name of freedom. Eventually the committee was disbanded sometime in the mid-70s from insurmountable pressure and protest in regard to personal liberties.
From what I can tell Germany's general legislation seems to be more of a "Think of the children!" rather then focused on liberty.
Maybe things are different in Germany and Germans don't have much of a problem with it but from my perspective I was raised in a country which promotes freedom of speech as the utmost important principal ever created and somehow I though that the rest of the western world would also be apart of this idea rather then subscribing to the thought-control legislation of other types of governments.
I've said it once and I'll say it again: Germany is not a free country.
I always hear about them banning something or other for some stupid reason because it isn't good for the public.
The most recent thing I heard about was that German politicians banned paintball because they believe it will lead to less gun-related violence and therefore good for society, and then you can't say anything about Nazis or face jail time or some other severe penalty and video games have to be heavily censored.
I could go on on but in short I put Germany up there with China, not quiet as bad but still the fact that free speech is merely an illusion there makes me feel that Germany has a ways to go in terms of personal liberties when compared to several other democratic countries in the western world.
I switched to ATI because of the price-to-performance ratio versus Nvidia at the time.
I was doubtful and skeptical about their drivers at first because I didn't have good experiences with ATI in the past but I was actually surprised at how far ATI has come, especially in regard to Linux drivers.
As of Catalyst 9.10, and the beta drivers for 9.11, a lot of bugs have been ironed out and my Radeon HD 4870 seems to perform much better then when I first got it.
I would recommend ATI now from personal experience and I would suggest that you take a look at their latest drivers.
If I recall correctly though, extensions only work with builds in the development channel but most people use the stable channel.
This may have changed in the past couple weeks without me noticing though, so I could be wrong.
We need more third party participation in the federal legislative and executive branches.
I saw somebody once that said Democrats and Republicans are just two halves of the same evil, and that we will always be under the thumb of this duopoly.
We The People need to give a third party attention en mass so the media will cover it.. but then again if Ralph Nader or Ross Perot couldn't make it then I guess all hope is lost.
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I get what you're saying but I think its worth noting that when the body is under physical stress that the brain tends to release Endorphins (basically natural morphine) and when runners run for an extended period of time they tend to get Runner's High which is high levels of endorphins that block pain. Some research supports the idea that runner's high is addictive and habit forming but as far as I know there is no solid evidence of this yet.
Valve has solid gold in terms of information in this regard: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
I think you mean more along the lines of socialism, but I get what you are saying.
I wish more people understood this instead of believing whatever Fox News tells them.
I tried the XBox movie rental a couple times.
Its pretty neat compared to having to go out and rent a movie if you happen to live in a rural area like me, but unfortunately the deal-breaker for me is the price versus renting a physical DVD and the 2-day time limit.
The plus side is that I don't have to have a blueray player to rent HD movies using XBox Live.
I smell a class action suit brewing.. or at least some kind of mass legal action if these artists are not payed.
I made a couple maps during the SDK beta but I don't fully understand the process of packaging the maps and I'm rather short on time, otherwise the rest of the process is real easy for me.
Mapping for Left 4 Dead though is much more complicated then mapping for most other games though.
I tell people to be careful against what packages they might be installing.
I don't know about RPMs, but DEBs in particular don't just copy files and often run scripts as apart of their installation, and these scripts run with administrator privileges.
Linux is rapidly gaining popularity, especially in the netbook sector, so expect to see increasing amount of malware like we've seen with Apple's OS X which is also rapidly gaining popularity among desktop users.
Man I really liked Dead Space from beginning to end and since most people seem to hate it so I'd say its underrated.
But none the less that part of the game pissed me off, though I thought the part leading up to it was pretty well done where you are outside.
Granted the game had a lot of monster closet moments but it kind of kept you on edge if you expected to get raped from behind around every corner.
I'm looking forward to a sequel, but knowing EA I expect a total disappointment since its EA's trademark to take games with massive potential and ruin them, sort of like Core Design managed to do with Tomb Raider (and some other games) before Crystal Dynamics took it over.
DSL and xubuntu aren't really in the same class as far as resource usage.
Yeah I know, but it depends on what you have to spare. If you have a bottom-of-the-line machine then DSL or Puppy Linux is what you need, otherwise I'd go with Xubuntu.
Even then they only have very low specs.
... Of course, you'll probably want to nuke the "linux" on them and put Ubuntu on it.
Actually, if it has very low specs then Xubuntu or Damn Small Linux is what would probably fit the best.
A lot of desktop environments support multiple desktops and someway to switch between them (The Compiz Cube is probably the most famous), so I really don't see the point in tabbing applications.
I use virtual desktops to divide up what I'm doing at the time (e.g. desktop #1 contains browser and chat applications, desktop #2 contains graphics applications, etc..) and I really wish Windows supported this natively for when I'm not working with Linux.
In most states the age of consent is 16, so anybody between 16 and 17 can legally engage in sexual activity with each other but not with anybody 18 or over.
Furthermore if they make any of their sexual activity public (photos, videos, etc..) then they can be charged with distribution and production of child pornography.
Its really messed up, but I say they need to bring the age of consent up to 18 and the drinking age to back down to 18 so we don't have a bunch of weird conflicting laws like we do now.
Usually we end up in these legal spaghettis when the right wing cries that everyone should think of the children and in doing so Congress completely ignores the impact and conflicts that may arise as a result.
cat /dev/urandom > lolporn.jpg /dev/urandom > /dev/sda` a few times.
Alternatively pop in a LiveCD and run `cat
I'm not endorsing the idea of breaking the law let alone getting away with it, but sometimes in cases like this its necessary to take an extra step to defend yourself from an overzealous government hellbent on labelling everybody sex offenders during an election year.
"1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual"
I really don't think we need 128-bit processors. /. nerds to think of ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT BITS.. there is nothing that 128-bit can offer us that 64-bit can't already do right now, practically speaking.
As wet as it makes all us
Besides look at how long it took for the market to adopt 64-bit, and that move is still in progress.
So in all seriousness, if Microsoft was actually going to support 128-bit processors then it would probably be strictly for the server and super computer markets.
I love Ubuntu but don't bathe yourself in ignorance like Mac users do.
Though unlikely, its entirely possible for a repository to be poisoned or for clever malware to change your repositories, and since you always have to give apt/deb permission to install any packages then this gives poisoned packages a free ride to unload their fury.
You ALWAYS have to be on the look out no matter what OS you use.
I was actually surprised to find that Gnome has a regedit-like utility called gconf-editor.
But thats where the similarities end because gconf-editor is basically a unified front-end editor for XML files, along with the ability to send updates to listening applications.
The great thing about this is that you both get your RegEdit-like interface, you get your human readable data if you want to do it the old fashioned way (Nano, Vim, Vi, Emacs, etc..) and it has little to do with the underlying system so an inexperienced user won't be able to prevent their system from booting by changing one key in some random place.
I have to admit I like the whole idea behind the Registry but in practice it really has some flaws, I'd prefer it to work more like GConf so that applications can have their settings physically stored in different places in a standardized human readable format.
After logging in yesterday on Windows 7 everything appeared to be going as normally but all I got was the standard blue desktop and Explorer never started, but I fixed it with a reboot.
I wonder if it had anything to do with this particular bug.
Somebody I know said he heard a rumor that Infinity Ward is going to add dedicated servers eventually because of all the pressure from the PC community.
IMHO a snowball in hell has a better chance then that because publishers and developers lately are hell bent on fighting piracy and their solution is to setup big brother piracy protection under the guise of "match making" like; Relic Online, IWNet or Battle.Net.
Not only that but Infinity Ward would have to rewrite a substantial amount of networking code to support dedicated servers since the client/server model is very different from peer-to-peer.
So no, unless the planets are aligned just right and pigs fly I say there is no chance in hell that Infinity Ward is going to change this version of CoD.
I applaud Nintendo for this move actually by making older (S)NES titles available on the Wii.
This is similar to Microsoft offering XBox titles on the 360 via the game store.
The only unfortunate side of doing it the legal way is that you have to own those consoles to begin with (Fortunately the Wii isn't very expensive though, but still) and if your favorite classic isn't on there then there is no guarantee that it will ever be released, especially if it was a more of an unpopular or lower quality title like the ones that the AVGN reviews.
If you spread Nazi ideology you may soon face some time in jail, but not if you protest against neo-Nazism. The censorship of videogames is mainly related to a certain law which forbids to show Nazi-symbols, like the swastika. So, if you want to sell a game there, leave them out, and it can be sold. How could law differentiate between videogames and propaganda posters and allow video games to show those symbols while keeping neo-Nazi propaganda from doing so?
Essentially you're saying that a German citizen can only freely express themselves in a way the government deems appropriate.
With all due respect to Germans, I was comparing their government to several other western countries considered to be apart of the "Free World"; the Commonwealth (UK, Canada, Australia, etc...), Switzerland, Sweden and the United States.
The state should not distinguish between "propaganda" and "speech" because this gives the government a huge amount of power to deem other types of speech or expression as inappropriate.
The last time the United States tried to pull a stunt like that was "The House Committee on UnAmerican Activities" from the infamous red scare in the 50s up into the mid-70s.
The United States was afraid of enemy (in this case Nazis, then later communists) propaganda from spreading through the country and in the process people's fundamental freedoms were broken ironically in the name of freedom. Eventually the committee was disbanded sometime in the mid-70s from insurmountable pressure and protest in regard to personal liberties.
From what I can tell Germany's general legislation seems to be more of a "Think of the children!" rather then focused on liberty.
Maybe things are different in Germany and Germans don't have much of a problem with it but from my perspective I was raised in a country which promotes freedom of speech as the utmost important principal ever created and somehow I though that the rest of the western world would also be apart of this idea rather then subscribing to the thought-control legislation of other types of governments.
I've said it once and I'll say it again: Germany is not a free country.
I always hear about them banning something or other for some stupid reason because it isn't good for the public.
The most recent thing I heard about was that German politicians banned paintball because they believe it will lead to less gun-related violence and therefore good for society, and then you can't say anything about Nazis or face jail time or some other severe penalty and video games have to be heavily censored.
I could go on on but in short I put Germany up there with China, not quiet as bad but still the fact that free speech is merely an illusion there makes me feel that Germany has a ways to go in terms of personal liberties when compared to several other democratic countries in the western world.
I switched to ATI because of the price-to-performance ratio versus Nvidia at the time.
I was doubtful and skeptical about their drivers at first because I didn't have good experiences with ATI in the past but I was actually surprised at how far ATI has come, especially in regard to Linux drivers.
As of Catalyst 9.10, and the beta drivers for 9.11, a lot of bugs have been ironed out and my Radeon HD 4870 seems to perform much better then when I first got it.
I would recommend ATI now from personal experience and I would suggest that you take a look at their latest drivers.
If I recall correctly though, extensions only work with builds in the development channel but most people use the stable channel.
This may have changed in the past couple weeks without me noticing though, so I could be wrong.
We need more third party participation in the federal legislative and executive branches.
I saw somebody once that said Democrats and Republicans are just two halves of the same evil, and that we will always be under the thumb of this duopoly.
We The People need to give a third party attention en mass so the media will cover it.. but then again if Ralph Nader or Ross Perot couldn't make it then I guess all hope is lost.