Because if you never bother, then it will never change. There might be more blues than you think, just all of them are too jaded to vote, so it comes out overwhelmingly red every time. And if the blues get more and more jaded, then the margin becomes wider, although in reality the margin could be becoming smaller if only you just spoke up.
This is a pure fallacy. Saying that if I voted everyone else in a similar position to me would too is just patently wrong. I can't believe people still cling to nonsensical arguments like this. All major or minor elections I have or could have voted in would have had exactly the same outcome if I had voted or not. My vote or lack of vote did not matter. I'll repeat that... my vote or lack of vote did not matter. That is just a simple statement of fact... asking what would happen if everyone felt like that is irrelevant. Now, campaigning on the other hand may (possibly) affect the outcome. So what I do now is do a bit of campaigning for my preferred party, and don't bother voting (though obviously I say I do... most people seem to hold the view that 1 vote makes a difference).
2) I frankly don't understand this point. EULAs do have to be accessible for reading before they take effect. Thus, they get put on the shrinkwrap or in the installer. If they aren't readable before they become binding, then courts will likely hold them invalid. But, contrary (I think) to the parent, this is almost always the case (i.e. they usually are readable before binding), so this point is no real help.
The point is that the EULAs are often not available before purchase. I drive 10 miles to a shop, buy a game for £40, drive home, open it up, start to install, and then disagree with the EULA. What did I spend my £40 for? What does the contract between me and the shop give me at all? It doesn't give me the right to use the software... I guess it gives me the nice box and CDs, but generally when I buy a game I expect to be able to play it, not just to be able to look at the box. Therefore I'm £40 out of pocket, plus £5 for petrol, the shop won't take the software back as it's been opened, and have a nice box to look at. Lucky old me.
ps. And yes I do know that the shop possibly does have a legal responsibility to take the game back... IANAL though. Unfit for purpose does not really apply here though, since the game is fit for purpose for 99.99% of the population who just click yes to the EULA.
The trouble with this solution is that the king does not have to use his flips, and since he has heard their plan, would not. Thus the count would never reach 2nk+1-3k-1.
The notion we would be able to leap 100 storey buildings is plain wrong. If a flea were the size of a human, it would collapse and die under it's own body weight. I don't understand why more people don't know this.
and he doesn't have an internet connection in Iran.
From his site: (Keep in mind, I can only update my site on my visits home as I have no Internet access within Iran.)
Why not? Claiming that the internet does not extend to Iran is just backwards. All you need is a phone line and a modem.
No, it takes a real moron not to. Come on, do you really think anyone sane would come out publically and claim that the loss of their storyboards was more important than tens of thousands of people dying?
Stores have the right to set their own policy, but if they do start ignoring the guidelines, and MAIMING (Moms Against Irresponsible Murdering In New Gizmos) or some other such group start protesting about it, the games publishers will just stop supplying the store in question. The stores don't really have an option to sell nasty games to minors, since as soon as they do, they will lose their supply of games.
Isn't this how all cars used to work (minus the keyless part option)? The new fangled key ignitions were also described as the start of a new generation, too. And TVR have been doing this for a while, AFAIK.
Those system requirements will be _bare_ minimum. With my system (Atlon 2100+, ti4200, 1gb RAM), the benchmarks are good at low detail. I think I averaged 90fps or so at 16bit colour, 1024*768, all AA & effects off. However, in game, especially later on when things get more complex, I get nowhere near that number. In a busy system, with lots of traffic, I get nasty 5fps spikes quite a lot. I also got an average of 30fps or so on the benchmark with everything on full. X2 is also more processor intensive than most games... you can make it pretty in the small scale, but it's still got to figure out everything else that is going on in the universe. Saying all this, some claim to run it on close to min specs Celeron ok... depends what you mean by ok.
I've played X2 : The Threat for hours and hours and hours on end, one of the most addictive games I've ever played. Be warned though, you will need a semi-decent computer to have it run well... though I guess mine is old and crap and still runs it ok most of the time (Athlon 2100+, ti4200). It is pretty processor intensive, especially later on. This is because each ship in the universe is actually doing something, rather than created only when you see them. Space stations cease to function without the required goods, they all need ships to supply them, etc.
There are 2 main problems with the game : 1) The storyline. Not a huge problem for me, I don't like being locked in, but it wasn't implemented too well. Also, the cut scenes are diabolical, they really are poor. But since they're pretty rare anyway, that's not a biggie. 2) Parts of the economy. In the original game, by far the most profitable stations to buy are solar power plants. They're also one of the cheapest to buy. You can spend tens of millions buying a gamma PPC plant, and it will produce less profit than your Solar power plant you bought for a few hundred thousand. Fortunately, there are mods out there... I use Burianek's version 3 economy mod, which balances up things a lot.
Anyway, definately worth getting, and since it's pretty old now, it should be pretty cheap some places. One of my top 5 games of all time, btw.
My $.02:
Any object that revolves around a star, and is not a star, has enough mass to be roughly spherical (say +/- 1% of a perfect sphere) due to its gravity is a PLANET.
Jupiter:
Equatorial diameter 142,984 km
Polar diameter 133,709 km
I think you're going to have to widen that +/- 1% figure.
As I understand it, this is a condition of selling Windows. Microsoft will not give you OEM pricing unless you promise not to sell a machine without an operating system
Are you sure that's what you meant? Surely it's the other way around...
Quick browse at komplett shows this:
http://komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=303203&cks=SPK
"You must order at least ONE piece of hardware per OS item. ie. ordering 4 operating systems would require you to order 4 pieces of hardware."
All windows software I've bought has been OEM... since I have an almost insatiable need for hardware, the OEM conditions have never been a problem.
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Because if you never bother, then it will never change. There might be more blues than you think, just all of them are too jaded to vote, so it comes out overwhelmingly red every time. And if the blues get more and more jaded, then the margin becomes wider, although in reality the margin could be becoming smaller if only you just spoke up.
This is a pure fallacy. Saying that if I voted everyone else in a similar position to me would too is just patently wrong. I can't believe people still cling to nonsensical arguments like this. All major or minor elections I have or could have voted in would have had exactly the same outcome if I had voted or not. My vote or lack of vote did not matter. I'll repeat that... my vote or lack of vote did not matter. That is just a simple statement of fact... asking what would happen if everyone felt like that is irrelevant. Now, campaigning on the other hand may (possibly) affect the outcome. So what I do now is do a bit of campaigning for my preferred party, and don't bother voting (though obviously I say I do... most people seem to hold the view that 1 vote makes a difference).
2) I frankly don't understand this point. EULAs do have to be accessible for reading before they take effect. Thus, they get put on the shrinkwrap or in the installer. If they aren't readable before they become binding, then courts will likely hold them invalid. But, contrary (I think) to the parent, this is almost always the case (i.e. they usually are readable before binding), so this point is no real help.
The point is that the EULAs are often not available before purchase. I drive 10 miles to a shop, buy a game for £40, drive home, open it up, start to install, and then disagree with the EULA. What did I spend my £40 for? What does the contract between me and the shop give me at all? It doesn't give me the right to use the software... I guess it gives me the nice box and CDs, but generally when I buy a game I expect to be able to play it, not just to be able to look at the box. Therefore I'm £40 out of pocket, plus £5 for petrol, the shop won't take the software back as it's been opened, and have a nice box to look at. Lucky old me.
ps. And yes I do know that the shop possibly does have a legal responsibility to take the game back... IANAL though. Unfit for purpose does not really apply here though, since the game is fit for purpose for 99.99% of the population who just click yes to the EULA.
The trouble with this solution is that the king does not have to use his flips, and since he has heard their plan, would not. Thus the count would never reach 2nk+1-3k-1.
It probably stores it and converts it into energy.
Great, they've devoloped a nuclear plant. Perhaps that's what GWB was looking for?
The notion we would be able to leap 100 storey buildings is plain wrong. If a flea were the size of a human, it would collapse and die under it's own body weight. I don't understand why more people don't know this.
and he doesn't have an internet connection in Iran. :
From his site
(Keep in mind, I can only update my site on my visits home as I have no Internet access within Iran.)
Why not? Claiming that the internet does not extend to Iran is just backwards. All you need is a phone line and a modem.
No, it takes a real moron not to. Come on, do you really think anyone sane would come out publically and claim that the loss of their storyboards was more important than tens of thousands of people dying?
Stores have the right to set their own policy, but if they do start ignoring the guidelines, and MAIMING (Moms Against Irresponsible Murdering In New Gizmos) or some other such group start protesting about it, the games publishers will just stop supplying the store in question. The stores don't really have an option to sell nasty games to minors, since as soon as they do, they will lose their supply of games.
Isn't this how all cars used to work (minus the keyless part option)? The new fangled key ignitions were also described as the start of a new generation, too. And TVR have been doing this for a while, AFAIK.
I think it is very unique.
It's a bit impossible to be very unique
Those system requirements will be _bare_ minimum. With my system (Atlon 2100+, ti4200, 1gb RAM), the benchmarks are good at low detail. I think I averaged 90fps or so at 16bit colour, 1024*768, all AA & effects off. However, in game, especially later on when things get more complex, I get nowhere near that number. In a busy system, with lots of traffic, I get nasty 5fps spikes quite a lot. I also got an average of 30fps or so on the benchmark with everything on full. X2 is also more processor intensive than most games... you can make it pretty in the small scale, but it's still got to figure out everything else that is going on in the universe. Saying all this, some claim to run it on close to min specs Celeron ok... depends what you mean by ok.
I've played X2 : The Threat for hours and hours and hours on end, one of the most addictive games I've ever played. Be warned though, you will need a semi-decent computer to have it run well... though I guess mine is old and crap and still runs it ok most of the time (Athlon 2100+, ti4200). It is pretty processor intensive, especially later on. This is because each ship in the universe is actually doing something, rather than created only when you see them. Space stations cease to function without the required goods, they all need ships to supply them, etc.
There are 2 main problems with the game : 1) The storyline. Not a huge problem for me, I don't like being locked in, but it wasn't implemented too well. Also, the cut scenes are diabolical, they really are poor. But since they're pretty rare anyway, that's not a biggie. 2) Parts of the economy. In the original game, by far the most profitable stations to buy are solar power plants. They're also one of the cheapest to buy. You can spend tens of millions buying a gamma PPC plant, and it will produce less profit than your Solar power plant you bought for a few hundred thousand. Fortunately, there are mods out there... I use Burianek's version 3 economy mod, which balances up things a lot.
Anyway, definately worth getting, and since it's pretty old now, it should be pretty cheap some places. One of my top 5 games of all time, btw.
Hrm.... that sound you just heard was something going way over your head.
Equatorial diameter 142,984 km
Polar diameter 133,709 km
I think you're going to have to widen that +/- 1% figure.
As I understand it, this is a condition of selling Windows. Microsoft will not give you OEM pricing unless you promise not to sell a machine without an operating system
Are you sure that's what you meant? Surely it's the other way around...
Quick browse at komplett shows this: http://komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=303203&cks=SPK
"You must order at least ONE piece of hardware per OS item. ie. ordering 4 operating systems would require you to order 4 pieces of hardware."
All windows software I've bought has been OEM... since I have an almost insatiable need for hardware, the OEM conditions have never been a problem.