You COULD move an infantry unit through a forested hex with aircraft overflight in most historical periods
And you CAN do so in Civ 4. Air units don't behave like ground-based units - they are based in cities and fly missions (which take a turn) then return to their home cities, or are set to defend the city and environs from other aircraft. It makes much more sense and is much more fun. I hope this mechanic stays the same in Civ 5.
No-one voted for Brown, and two-thirds of the country voted against the ruling party in the last election yet they were returned with a large majority.
Whilst I understand your wider point, the fact is that Gordon Brown was elected by the people of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath to be their MP. He is an elected politician. Mandelson was appointed as a Lord by Gordon Brown, and given the Minister position by him. Nobody at all voted for Mandelson, except perhaps Brown.
To my mind, this is a gross violation of democracy; much more so than the lack of proportional representation in our country.
What constantly astounds me about Mandelson is the lack of furore about the fact that he's unelected. We didn't vote for this man. How the hell did he get to be running the country?
The pesticides are not sprayed on, they are grown by the plant. But after you harvest your corn, the pesticides made in that corn plant are still there.
Sorry, I was talking about herbicide-resistant crops. I don't know what you're talking about.
And they were now in your body, too, as you can't simply wash them off. They are IN the plant.
Okay... let's explore that. Why would a low level of insecticide necessarily harm you? Are you an insect?
How do you suppose GM "foods" are chasing away insects? Magic?
Who said the crops were chasing away insects? Not me - I said they were attracting them. Maybe you meant to reply to a different post?
Just like being environmentally conscious and opposed to GM crops. Absolute madness. Herbicide-resistant GM crops are fantastic for the local environment - they need much less herbicide use than either conventionally- or organically-grown crops to produce a decent yield, which means more green weeds, more flowers; more bees, butterflies and birds.
I used to work on the UK GM crop split-field trials, where half the field was conventionally-treated conventional crop, and half was herbicide-resistant crop treated with less herbicide (as designed). The GM side was always green, buzzing with insects, and had noticeably more bird-life; the conventional side was bare earth until the crop came through, then stayed much less verdant. The farmers loved the GM crop, as it needed less work (fewer sprayings) and less costly herbicide.
The 'environmental' protesters would always ruin the conventional half of the field. They saw the brown, ugly side and thought 'well that must be the evil GM side'. Of course, once half the split-field trial was trashed, the whole trial was wasted. The experiment didn't provide any useful data, and we in the UK are still spraying our fields with herbicide.
Pretty much exactly the same stuff is dealt with in Charles Stross' book, Halting State. Mini-review: Fun, worth reading. Like all Stross books it's a bit like being in an exploding ideas factory.
In the UK, the biggest daily power surge is always when one of the soaps finishes and everyone puts the kettle on for a nice cuppa. 1200MW or so. We have to borrow electricity from France for it.
Why do I get a sinking feeling whenever I hear the words 'government' and 'database' in the same sentence? It's made much, much worse when the words 'giant' and 'central' are between the two.
These clowns wouldn't be able to keep the data secure anyway, so soon enough any half-witted criminal will be able to do whatever they want with our connection logs.
Well, Liverpool St. will get you to Norwich, and if you've ever been there you'll realise why that might be associated with alcoholism. You've got to cope somehow.
Well, OK. It rather depends on your definition of 'asleep', but machines with spun-down disks and cpus throttled to minimum so they can be passively cooled seem pretty close to 'asleep' to me, and they'd still be able to listen to their network interface. Also wake-on-lan can do some pretty useful things. I'm not sure what this has to do with NAT though.
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even though they're being developed by different companies
Actually, Firaxis developed Civ 4 and is developing Civ 5.
You COULD move an infantry unit through a forested hex with aircraft overflight in most historical periods
And you CAN do so in Civ 4. Air units don't behave like ground-based units - they are based in cities and fly missions (which take a turn) then return to their home cities, or are set to defend the city and environs from other aircraft. It makes much more sense and is much more fun. I hope this mechanic stays the same in Civ 5.
imminently hackable
I'd say you meant eminently, but on second thought, imminently is fine too.
You may be interested in this:
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm
It's just coincidental!
No-one voted for Brown, and two-thirds of the country voted against the ruling party in the last election yet they were returned with a large majority.
Whilst I understand your wider point, the fact is that Gordon Brown was elected by the people of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath to be their MP. He is an elected politician. Mandelson was appointed as a Lord by Gordon Brown, and given the Minister position by him. Nobody at all voted for Mandelson, except perhaps Brown.
To my mind, this is a gross violation of democracy; much more so than the lack of proportional representation in our country.
What constantly astounds me about Mandelson is the lack of furore about the fact that he's unelected. We didn't vote for this man. How the hell did he get to be running the country?
The pesticides are not sprayed on, they are grown by the plant. But after you harvest your corn, the pesticides made in that corn plant are still there.
Sorry, I was talking about herbicide-resistant crops. I don't know what you're talking about.
And they were now in your body, too, as you can't simply wash them off. They are IN the plant.
Okay... let's explore that. Why would a low level of insecticide necessarily harm you? Are you an insect?
How do you suppose GM "foods" are chasing away insects? Magic?
Who said the crops were chasing away insects? Not me - I said they were attracting them. Maybe you meant to reply to a different post?
Biggest problem is the corporations that you have to license the GM stuff from.
Agree with you there. But still, it seems a small price to pay for a much greener (literally) agriculture.
Just like being environmentally conscious and opposed to GM crops. Absolute madness. Herbicide-resistant GM crops are fantastic for the local environment - they need much less herbicide use than either conventionally- or organically-grown crops to produce a decent yield, which means more green weeds, more flowers; more bees, butterflies and birds.
I used to work on the UK GM crop split-field trials, where half the field was conventionally-treated conventional crop, and half was herbicide-resistant crop treated with less herbicide (as designed). The GM side was always green, buzzing with insects, and had noticeably more bird-life; the conventional side was bare earth until the crop came through, then stayed much less verdant. The farmers loved the GM crop, as it needed less work (fewer sprayings) and less costly herbicide.
The 'environmental' protesters would always ruin the conventional half of the field. They saw the brown, ugly side and thought 'well that must be the evil GM side'. Of course, once half the split-field trial was trashed, the whole trial was wasted. The experiment didn't provide any useful data, and we in the UK are still spraying our fields with herbicide.
Greenpeace? Wankers.
And the hit below that:
Why Is Windows So Cheap?
It's a recursive acronym:
BING Is Not Google.
user@marvin:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
4.0
Shouldn't be running sid if you don't know what sid is.
Oh for pity's sake.
Debian: cat /etc/debian_version /etc/redhat-release
Fedora: cat
It's not hard. It's easy. It's one command, for crying out loud. If you can't run one command you've no business using a computer.
You're absolutely right, and this is just my little problem, but...
sometimes I wish people would just s/leverage/use/g on everything they write.
> Now, be honest. How many of us had our first computer experience with MS-DOS or Windows 3.1?
BBC B, baby!
Pretty much exactly the same stuff is dealt with in Charles Stross' book, Halting State. Mini-review: Fun, worth reading. Like all Stross books it's a bit like being in an exploding ideas factory.
Maybe, for one person. The UK government want to do this for everyone, for ever. That's a little less trivial.
Recently? That link's from January 2008.
+1 unbearably smug
+1 scary
In the UK, the biggest daily power surge is always when one of the soaps finishes and everyone puts the kettle on for a nice cuppa. 1200MW or so. We have to borrow electricity from France for it.
True story.
Why do I get a sinking feeling whenever I hear the words 'government' and 'database' in the same sentence? It's made much, much worse when the words 'giant' and 'central' are between the two.
These clowns wouldn't be able to keep the data secure anyway, so soon enough any half-witted criminal will be able to do whatever they want with our connection logs.
It's enough to make you vote Tory. Ugh.
Well, Liverpool St. will get you to Norwich, and if you've ever been there you'll realise why that might be associated with alcoholism. You've got to cope somehow.
Well, OK. It rather depends on your definition of 'asleep', but machines with spun-down disks and cpus throttled to minimum so they can be passively cooled seem pretty close to 'asleep' to me, and they'd still be able to listen to their network interface. Also wake-on-lan can do some pretty useful things. I'm not sure what this has to do with NAT though.