#2 and #3 are the reasons I don't read them anymore. "Breaking news" that is over a month old is pointless. For the video game print industry to survive, they have to start doing a lot more analysis and in-depth features, vs. trying to tell me about how great E3 was over a month later.
Well, the Etruscans and the Romans did coexist for a not-insignificant amount of time (and, surely, there's no debate from me that the Romans stole stuff from the Etruscan culture, as they did with pretty much everyone they encountered).
Dunno about Egypt, but in Rome, one purpose of stone was to project certain aesthetic visual properties in the buildings it was used to construct. That and Rome had tons of slave labor, so might as well have them doing something, right? May was well be quarrying.
Sorry, "many hundreds" not thousands. It's not helped that the Romans had a tendency to make up their history as they went (and as was convenient at the time), but I generally support your statements.
Depends what you consider to be "Roman". you can go back many thousands of years and still pretty safely consider the civilization to be "Roman". See Wikipedia
A detail, but the "Roman Empire" is less than half of the Roman civilization lifespan. You have to add on the Roman Republic and pre-republic period, which tasks on a thousand years or two.
Any company with a respectable desktop computer base already has access to XP install media and license agreements with MS which allow for the use of Windows 2k/xp for many years to come. It's only the very smallest companies that rely on the OEM installed software for their day-to-day use, so far as I can tell.
Pretty sure it also cost more than the XBox 1 (99% sure, but don't have the figures close at hand), which has a lot to do with it. As a former videogame retailer, there's a magic (though vague) number above which parents start thinking a lot harder about buying consoles (and games, for that matter) for their kids' birthdays/x-mas, whatever. All the consoles other than the Wii are well above that console price. The PS2 is well, well below it, and has tons of games. For better or for worse, the 360 competes price-wise with the Ps2 in the minds of many consumers ("it's $129 new! and has thousands of cheap games!"), not the PS3.
The "average" consumer who buys a system does not get 30 games. That's 30 games for someone who plays an hour a night MAX. Think about it, the consumer who buys a system cuz it has awesome sports games (let's say they like baseball,hockey, and football) would have to buy every licensed title in those leagues for the next TEN YEARS in order to buy thirty games?
You could just have your browser set to wipe cookies when you log out (I'm pretty sure FF has this ability, if not natively, then surely with an extension). Or, if you're a windows user, set up a little logout script that deletes your cookie folder when you logout/reboot (or, set a chron job that deletes your cookies once per your preferred time period... or, set permissions on the cookie folder so that nothing can write to it).
Granted, this doesn't fix the "which one lets me preserve my log in" problem, but at least you could turn off the "ask me every time" cookie option and still feel secure.
Seriously, I usually don't complain about this sort of thing (even when Zonk does it), but why the hell did this make it to the front page? It's an ad, nothing more.
I play electric guitar, electric bass, and drums. I love guitar hero. Why? Because it's fun to play. It's skillset is also wildy divergent from the skillset required for actual guitar work (because, well, it's a rhythm game for your fingers, not a melodic instrument). Some songs are indeed much harder to play in GH than in real life (mostly due to the fact that you can't move vertically from string to string and all chording is lateral).
Whenever there's a GH post anywhere, there's always some pretentious moron who has to point out that he plays guitar/bass/kazoo in real life, and that people who play GH are wasting their time. I dunno what motivates their need to do this, but it always happens.
*sigh* Once again, there's no doubt they had them.... before the first Gulf War. Comeon, even your own post states events and facts that support that.
And once again, there's no doubt that Hussein *wanted* them. But so do *I* (could pay off my student loans with them, I'll bet). But he did not possess, nor have the ability to construct them as of the beginning of the second cold war. Saying that is in a realm so far beyond speculation now that it's silly.
Oh, there's zero doubt in my mind they HAD weapons of mass destruction, because, at least in the case of chemical and biological weapons, the US supplied them.
However, no one believed that Iraq had an active, dangerous WMD program of any sort after the various inspection agencies and groups had gone through Iraq. No one except senior members of the Bush administration, of course.
The problem is that this report confirms again what we knew already. Iraq had a nuclear and WMD weapons development program pre-Gulf War I. No one has been able to find evidence of a program that was active as of the start of the second Gulf War (though they have found old, decrepit chemical warheads from the Iran-Iraq war...), other than to drag out "well, he WANTED to...."
If we attacked every third world despot who WANTED to have WMDs we'd..., er, wait...
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#2 and #3 are the reasons I don't read them anymore. "Breaking news" that is over a month old is pointless. For the video game print industry to survive, they have to start doing a lot more analysis and in-depth features, vs. trying to tell me about how great E3 was over a month later.
Well, the Etruscans and the Romans did coexist for a not-insignificant amount of time (and, surely, there's no debate from me that the Romans stole stuff from the Etruscan culture, as they did with pretty much everyone they encountered).
Dunno about Egypt, but in Rome, one purpose of stone was to project certain aesthetic visual properties in the buildings it was used to construct. That and Rome had tons of slave labor, so might as well have them doing something, right? May was well be quarrying.
Sorry, "many hundreds" not thousands. It's not helped that the Romans had a tendency to make up their history as they went (and as was convenient at the time), but I generally support your statements.
Depends what you consider to be "Roman". you can go back many thousands of years and still pretty safely consider the civilization to be "Roman". See Wikipedia
A detail, but the "Roman Empire" is less than half of the Roman civilization lifespan. You have to add on the Roman Republic and pre-republic period, which tasks on a thousand years or two.
Or, maybe more ironic for the times, "Congratulations, you've let the terrorists win. Have a nice day."
Any company with a respectable desktop computer base already has access to XP install media and license agreements with MS which allow for the use of Windows 2k/xp for many years to come. It's only the very smallest companies that rely on the OEM installed software for their day-to-day use, so far as I can tell.
So, you introduce something else the sensor is looking for up higher on the door. It's not brain surgery.
Or that the sex isn't as fun as the game. How one discerns which is actually the case, I leave to the reader as a thought experiment.
Um... in 200 pixels there's none of that.
"What's that?"
"That's you."
"What am I?"
"A flying ostrich"
"Orly?"
I mean, comeon, Castlevania I motion is "lifelike"? I guess... if you squint.
And are drunk...
Pretty sure it also cost more than the XBox 1 (99% sure, but don't have the figures close at hand), which has a lot to do with it. As a former videogame retailer, there's a magic (though vague) number above which parents start thinking a lot harder about buying consoles (and games, for that matter) for their kids' birthdays/x-mas, whatever. All the consoles other than the Wii are well above that console price. The PS2 is well, well below it, and has tons of games. For better or for worse, the 360 competes price-wise with the Ps2 in the minds of many consumers ("it's $129 new! and has thousands of cheap games!"), not the PS3.
The "average" consumer who buys a system does not get 30 games. That's 30 games for someone who plays an hour a night MAX. Think about it, the consumer who buys a system cuz it has awesome sports games (let's say they like baseball,hockey, and football) would have to buy every licensed title in those leagues for the next TEN YEARS in order to buy thirty games?
Not with that comment you wouldn't.
You could just have your browser set to wipe cookies when you log out (I'm pretty sure FF has this ability, if not natively, then surely with an extension). Or, if you're a windows user, set up a little logout script that deletes your cookie folder when you logout/reboot (or, set a chron job that deletes your cookies once per your preferred time period... or, set permissions on the cookie folder so that nothing can write to it).
Granted, this doesn't fix the "which one lets me preserve my log in" problem, but at least you could turn off the "ask me every time" cookie option and still feel secure.
Whew. I was totally waiting for a ranting, frothing comment like this, and thought that I would be disappointed... but you saved me! Thanks dude!
Hooray for blatant advertising?
Seriously, I usually don't complain about this sort of thing (even when Zonk does it), but why the hell did this make it to the front page? It's an ad, nothing more.
It is relevant to your interests and you'd like to subscribe to his newsletter?
What the hell is it with walks in parks and on beaches that people enjoy so much that it became a cliche?
sounds like she's more of an omega aunt
And me without mod points as a reward. Alas.
Though you forgot to call me an insensitive clod.
You're a tracer! You trace along the lines!
I play electric guitar, electric bass, and drums. I love guitar hero. Why? Because it's fun to play. It's skillset is also wildy divergent from the skillset required for actual guitar work (because, well, it's a rhythm game for your fingers, not a melodic instrument). Some songs are indeed much harder to play in GH than in real life (mostly due to the fact that you can't move vertically from string to string and all chording is lateral).
Whenever there's a GH post anywhere, there's always some pretentious moron who has to point out that he plays guitar/bass/kazoo in real life, and that people who play GH are wasting their time. I dunno what motivates their need to do this, but it always happens.
*sigh* Once again, there's no doubt they had them.... before the first Gulf War. Comeon, even your own post states events and facts that support that.
And once again, there's no doubt that Hussein *wanted* them. But so do *I* (could pay off my student loans with them, I'll bet). But he did not possess, nor have the ability to construct them as of the beginning of the second cold war. Saying that is in a realm so far beyond speculation now that it's silly.
Oh, there's zero doubt in my mind they HAD weapons of mass destruction, because, at least in the case of chemical and biological weapons, the US supplied them.
However, no one believed that Iraq had an active, dangerous WMD program of any sort after the various inspection agencies and groups had gone through Iraq. No one except senior members of the Bush administration, of course.
The problem is that this report confirms again what we knew already. Iraq had a nuclear and WMD weapons development program pre-Gulf War I. No one has been able to find evidence of a program that was active as of the start of the second Gulf War (though they have found old, decrepit chemical warheads from the Iran-Iraq war...), other than to drag out "well, he WANTED to...."
If we attacked every third world despot who WANTED to have WMDs we'd..., er, wait...