just what I was about to say, more or less. Pluto is really light and far from the Sun, I guess (without basing this guess on any fact) with a Neptune sized object on a pretty excentric orbit getting close to Pluto might do it, but idk what it would take to achieve such a thing tho.
However for achieving that on an object such as a kind of brown dwarf, I'm not sure but I think it would have to be from a binary system to have been slashdotted away like this.
While it's nice to list some old games that are cool, I think it's kind of silly to try to establish a list or whatsoever of the old games that stood the test of time, because it's such a subjective thing, you can basically take any old game from Spacewar to NBA Live '97 and say "hmmm! this game stood the test of time! it's just as fun to play as when it came out".
But basically all games are about as fun to play as when they came out, provided that you're inclined to like old games as much as new ones.
Additionally, the fact that the Wii is going to offer such a unique interface device will, I think, allow us to see "graphics" which will be completely absent on the other consoles. What I mean by this is that because the wiimote offers such a more intimate and intuitive interface with the console's game world that we will be able to interact with it in ways that will have the effect of looking even more "real-life" than a console with simply raw video processing power.
Example: by being able to hold a cooking skillet or wok and flip, shake, swirl and turn the food around in it the resulting imagery on the screen should looks very much and especially FEEL very much more "life like" than by being forced to use a joystick or keypad to move the virtual cookware.
I think the word you're looking for is "immersion"
The chance is equal to zero, he didn't reluctantly admit to be the boss of it. Terrorists don't reluctantly admit the attacks, terrorists claim their attacks, revendication is part of the purpose of an attack, terrorists don't deny their attacks, saying stuff like "as a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie", and then less than 9 days later (the interview was from the 28th september, the video was broadcasted the 7th october, you can presume it was not made on the 7th but even earlier) admit it reluctantly (btw he also denied having anything to do with the attacks earlier on al-Jazeera)
Look at it this way, he said in interviews that he didn't do it. Then he said in videos he did it. But where are these videos coming from? Al Jazeera.
It appears that a very few days before the airing of that first bin Laden tape (on the 7th october 2001) the US pressured al-Jazeera.
From the Committee to Protect Journalists : "Following a meeting yesterday (October 3, 2001, 4 days before the broadcasting) in Washington, D.C., with U.S. secretary of state Colin Powell, Qatari ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani acknowledged that U.S. officials had asked him to use his influence to rein in Al-Jazeera's news coverage." (you can also find about it here). I let you make your own conclusions
You probably also have heard of how his videos are controversial, although systematically authentified by the American intelligence, maybe some site like this one will convince you that it's not him on the tape?
You can find it one many websites on google by typing 'ummat bin laden', but here is a random link.
The most interesting part of the interview:
I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle.
How not having a two-party system would change anything? In my country (France) you always have like 16 parties for each presidential election so in the end it's the less divided side that wins, not the most popular. So I like the american two-party system because at least the result of the elections show the trend more accurately.
Btw you get that bin Laden interview quoted in that documentary Loose Change 9/11. Good documentary, plus it's the only video i've ever seen mentionning that interview, for some mysterious reason, that interview isn't very widely known. I wonder whether it's because it was a newspaper interview or because he said that he didn't do it that nobody cared about that interview, i'll go for the first option tho.
It appears clearly from this short discussion that I am a moral relativist, and that you are a universalist. People like me deny that there are universal moral values, and people like you, due to the nature of their philosophy, are convinced that universal moral values do exist, that's why you simply said "Wrong" to state how you don't see your point of vue as a simple point of vue but rather as the truth.
However, you cannot prove me wrong/force your point of vue as the truth upon me due to that fundamental philosophical difference between us:-)
Yes, the wildly popular Grand Theft Auto series, in which the gamer plays a criminal on the make in the big city, is pretty amoral.
Speak for yourself, because as you should know your moral values are yours and are not shared by everybody, nor are supposed to make authority, and there is no way anything can be objectively amoral either.
Personally, I don't find GTA amoral. It could take everything that makes Custer's Revenge as bad/good/interesting, or it could have kids, cats, dogs and goldfishes to be killed, I still wouldn't find it amoral, period.
lol trust me, if it was on a tape, then bin Laden didn't say it. The easiest way to back the claim that it's not him on the tapes is that what he claims on his tapes isn't consistent with what he claimed in interviews (example : that Daily Ummat interview from october 2001 where he claims not to have anything to do with the attacks).
bin Laden cited a British estimate that it cost al Qaeda about $500,000 to carry out the attacks of September 11, 2001
I'd like to know where you got that from as well:-)
~2k from 9/11 + 2.5k in Iraq(Which seems silly but we can add them in if you want...) / 6 = ~750 / year.
No you should exclude the deaths of americans in Iraq, since I presume you've never been to Iraq and never will (and for the people who do, their odds should be calculated differently). If you calculate the odds for an american to die from terrorism, well normally you should use last year's figure but that wouldn't fun because IIRC from 2002 to now no american died from terrorism on the american territory (correct me if i'm wrong) so let's just use almost 5-year old 9/11 so you can have odds different than 0.
So with 3,000 death (from wikipedia : "At least 2,986 people were killed in total") for about 300,000,000 people (from wikipedia : "As of July 2006, there are an estimated 298,444,215 people in the United States") in 6 years, you have, provided that we consider that another 9/11 might happen within the next 6 years, which is quite unlikely, 1 out of 600,000 odds of dying from terrorism within a one-year period.
No good reason to be scared, according to me, but if you're one of the persons who think they are likely to win lottery, you should be crapping your pants.
You got perharps the most pathetic First Post of the Month, not only you got one typo in the title and two in the two-word post, but the actual first post was posted 6 minutes earlier.
The problem is that it's nicer to browse shared folders than ask people to send stuff. Never tried VPN, but if it's all about sharing files, FTP (with FileZilla server) is my choice. I just make account for whatever I wanna share, give passwords, look at what they're looking at, and laugh at some retards who manually try to break in the inexisting "Administrator" account and scare them off with a mean welcome message.
Plus you can log to your account on some friend's FTP server from anywhere and nearly any kind of connected computer.
I don't like it, but I can't quite figure out whether it's because it looks too much like the current design, because it looks too different from the current design or simply because it's new/different.
Why change it tho? (I might get a -1, Redundant for that sole line, I know)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no browser-based MMORPGs on MMOG chart, as you should see a mention of for example Urban Dead which count enough players to be in. So what's wrong with BBMMORPGS? Do they not appear on this site because they are browser based or because they are free?
Oh, well, we have no reason to assume that it takes 8 copies of the data, it's mentionned nowhere, they just, from what I quoted, directly take the "32" figure from "32-bits" and divide megabytes with it. Sounds like nothing else but a mistake.
Thanks for helping clearing the grand-parent post anyways:-).
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To sum up the parent : "The 1980's called. They want their failed marketing concepts back"
Unlike XP which "phones home" with each install, Win 98 can be installed, and re-installed on successive machines.
Windows XP phones home? The iso's of it I get from eMule are neither expensive nor phone home. And if they did, I'd use again reset5
yeah, it looks very GNOME-ish (not that I don't like GNOME) plus it's big, I mean eveyrthing takes more place on the screen.
If only the new layout was an option (although one by default)
just what I was about to say, more or less. Pluto is really light and far from the Sun, I guess (without basing this guess on any fact) with a Neptune sized object on a pretty excentric orbit getting close to Pluto might do it, but idk what it would take to achieve such a thing tho.
However for achieving that on an object such as a kind of brown dwarf, I'm not sure but I think it would have to be from a binary system to have been slashdotted away like this.
Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you're a hitman or a videogamer
I can't quite figure out in which category Dick Cheney fits.
But basically all games are about as fun to play as when they came out, provided that you're inclined to like old games as much as new ones.
Example: by being able to hold a cooking skillet or wok and flip, shake, swirl and turn the food around in it the resulting imagery on the screen should looks very much and especially FEEL very much more "life like" than by being forced to use a joystick or keypad to move the virtual cookware.
I think the word you're looking for is "immersion"
Like?
I especially like George Bush's reaction to his claims of innocence : "No question he is the prime suspect. No question about that." lol.
The chance is equal to zero, he didn't reluctantly admit to be the boss of it. Terrorists don't reluctantly admit the attacks, terrorists claim their attacks, revendication is part of the purpose of an attack, terrorists don't deny their attacks, saying stuff like "as a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie", and then less than 9 days later (the interview was from the 28th september, the video was broadcasted the 7th october, you can presume it was not made on the 7th but even earlier) admit it reluctantly (btw he also denied having anything to do with the attacks earlier on al-Jazeera)
Look at it this way, he said in interviews that he didn't do it. Then he said in videos he did it. But where are these videos coming from? Al Jazeera.
It appears that a very few days before the airing of that first bin Laden tape (on the 7th october 2001) the US pressured al-Jazeera.
From the Committee to Protect Journalists : "Following a meeting yesterday (October 3, 2001, 4 days before the broadcasting) in Washington, D.C., with U.S. secretary of state Colin Powell, Qatari ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani acknowledged that U.S. officials had asked him to use his influence to rein in Al-Jazeera's news coverage." (you can also find about it here). I let you make your own conclusions
You probably also have heard of how his videos are controversial, although systematically authentified by the American intelligence, maybe some site like this one will convince you that it's not him on the tape?
The most interesting part of the interview :
I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle.
How not having a two-party system would change anything? In my country (France) you always have like 16 parties for each presidential election so in the end it's the less divided side that wins, not the most popular. So I like the american two-party system because at least the result of the elections show the trend more accurately.
Btw you get that bin Laden interview quoted in that documentary Loose Change 9/11. Good documentary, plus it's the only video i've ever seen mentionning that interview, for some mysterious reason, that interview isn't very widely known. I wonder whether it's because it was a newspaper interview or because he said that he didn't do it that nobody cared about that interview, i'll go for the first option tho.
It appears clearly from this short discussion that I am a moral relativist, and that you are a universalist. People like me deny that there are universal moral values, and people like you, due to the nature of their philosophy, are convinced that universal moral values do exist, that's why you simply said "Wrong" to state how you don't see your point of vue as a simple point of vue but rather as the truth.
However, you cannot prove me wrong/force your point of vue as the truth upon me due to that fundamental philosophical difference between us :-)
Definitly. Two words : Doom II (Pitfall! II and SimCity 2000 are good examples as well)
Speak for yourself, because as you should know your moral values are yours and are not shared by everybody, nor are supposed to make authority, and there is no way anything can be objectively amoral either.
Personally, I don't find GTA amoral. It could take everything that makes Custer's Revenge as bad/good/interesting, or it could have kids, cats, dogs and goldfishes to be killed, I still wouldn't find it amoral, period.
bin Laden cited a British estimate that it cost al Qaeda about $500,000 to carry out the attacks of September 11, 2001
I'd like to know where you got that from as well :-)
I cannot find anything close to such a quote anywhere. Where you got that from?
Anyways, the Bush administration would gladly give bin Laden the one dollar just so they can spend the million dollar on "terrorism".
No you should exclude the deaths of americans in Iraq, since I presume you've never been to Iraq and never will (and for the people who do, their odds should be calculated differently). If you calculate the odds for an american to die from terrorism, well normally you should use last year's figure but that wouldn't fun because IIRC from 2002 to now no american died from terrorism on the american territory (correct me if i'm wrong) so let's just use almost 5-year old 9/11 so you can have odds different than 0.
So with 3,000 death (from wikipedia : "At least 2,986 people were killed in total") for about 300,000,000 people (from wikipedia : "As of July 2006, there are an estimated 298,444,215 people in the United States") in 6 years, you have, provided that we consider that another 9/11 might happen within the next 6 years, which is quite unlikely, 1 out of 600,000 odds of dying from terrorism within a one-year period.
No good reason to be scared, according to me, but if you're one of the persons who think they are likely to win lottery, you should be crapping your pants.
"In other news, shooting yourself in the foot still hurts". I think this quote is appropriate.
You got perharps the most pathetic First Post of the Month, not only you got one typo in the title and two in the two-word post, but the actual first post was posted 6 minutes earlier.
They must be looking for trouble
Plus you can log to your account on some friend's FTP server from anywhere and nearly any kind of connected computer.
*hesitates to click the Post Anonymously button*
Why change it tho? (I might get a -1, Redundant for that sole line, I know)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no browser-based MMORPGs on MMOG chart, as you should see a mention of for example Urban Dead which count enough players to be in. So what's wrong with BBMMORPGS? Do they not appear on this site because they are browser based or because they are free?
Thanks for helping clearing the grand-parent post anyways :-).