This depends on what people mean when they says "gamers". Speaking as someone who owns a shop that sells Tabletop games like Warhammer, Magic the Gathering, D&D etc, men outnumber women about 20 to 1. But then the reverse is probably true for stuff like Candy Crush on facebook. But lumping all that stuff together under the umbrella term "gamers" paints a gigantic gloss stroke over some significant differences. There is a big divide between the stuff that involves "being a geek" and stuff like facebook games that don't. Anything that involves "being a geek" has a drastic preponderance of men. Obsessing over made-up fantasy worlds, and taking fanciful nonsense incredibly seriously, aggressively competing to establish prowess. That is apparently (whether it be cultural or not) mostly male behaviour.
I have no axe to grind, I would make twice as much money if more women were into this stuff too. But the reality is, in this large region under the umbrella group of "gamers" barely any of them are. I don't think it makes sense to lump all kinds of gaming together, as it is far from homogeneous.
but each time they are "revealed" after the first two or three just sounds like repetitive droning that no one pays attention to. If everyone let it slide as "the NSA need to be allowed to lie" after the first few, that isn't going to change after the thousandth muted bleat from the distant back-row of reported news 15 years later.
There's another way of thinking about it. When people say there are "no games" for a system, they mean no games that they care about. If you had a system that only had the 200 top selling titles on it and nothing else, the feeling among the general population wouldn't really be that there were no games for it.
When linux has ports of the vast majority of the top selling PC titles, then people will stop saying there are no games for it, irrespective of the size of the long tail of guff no one cares about and creative/interesting indie games that the general population haven't heard of.
Personally I see more value in the creative/interesting indie games. Unfortunately if they're not in the public consciousness, their mean contribution drops off a cliff in terms of Linux adoption/perception as a gaming platform.
I remember watching those cartoons being re-aired in the 80s, I found them tedious. Likewise any hanna-barbera stuff. I loved all the warner bros stuff and tom & Jerry, etc from the 40s & 50s though. In retrospect the glorified action figure advertisements that I grew up on like he-man, transformers, thundercats, turtles were all probably crap. Mysterious Cities of Gold is probably still quite good.
you can't renew any earlier than two weeks in advance. I normally do it at the last minute and drive around without the disc for a couple of days. The police round here don't care, they can check to see if you've paid. Technically you can get fined for not displaying, but the police don't really care about the piddling crap - it's just more work for them.
I've always thought it'd be much easier to avoid this confusion if the nomenclature was Joules and Joules per second. Whenever I see KWh I have to stop for a split second and think "this isn't the rate, even though it mentions a unit of time"
There's a recent Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast where Phil Plait explained exactly what impact a big CME would have on the grid, and I think he said that there are some very large transformers that would be destroyed and would take 5 to 10 years to replace due to there being nowhere tooled up to replace them. I think he said this would mean large chunks of the grid without power for that timespan.
What do you mean by "full hd"? Doesn't it just mean 1080p at certain frame rates? I regularly stream 1080p video from netflix and youtube on a 14mb connection.
I just download MAME ROMs individually as it occurs to me to play them. My ROMs folder is never more than few dozen Mbs. Buying a 2Tb HD and filling it up with what is effectively noise has never struck me as a convenient option.
Alexander, did you even read the post that you linked back to? It describes pretty much exactly what you're doing here. I can't tell if you're an Andy Kaufman style comic maverick or if you're a paranoid schizophrenic. I think it's the latter, and to be honest, initially i found you funny, but now I feel guilty for mocking the afflicted.
The graph flattens off and starts to dip at 2009, then the steep rise after that is an estimate. they could just have easily drawn a line going downwards.
Can you not see that you come off like a raving lunatic? Whether or not you are posting facts isn't the issue.
It's a fact that the earth orbits the sun. But if I post:
The EARTH orbits the SUN. THE EARTH ORBITS THE SUN. EARTH around sun. Not sun around EARTH. I am right and all my detractors that troll me are being paid by flat-earthers to harass me.
..And I jump on slashdot and post a page full of that every time the subject of the sun comes up on slashdot, I would be obviously mentally ill.
These people aren't trolling you because they're paid shills. They're trolling you because you are an easy target because you clearly have mental health problems.
who on earth even watches cams nowadays? There are DVD screeners for almost everything, and even if there aren't, the blu-rays come out within a handful of months. Not that I'm advocating piracy, i'm indifferent to it. To be honest priacy seems a little redundant nowadays as I pay £16 a month for an unlimited card and watch practically everything that comes out in the cinema.
Just speaking purely from the logical perspective, it could be the case that gun proliferation has no impact on crime rates or it increases crime rates, but that there's some other independent factor that has driven crime down to the extent that the impact of guns is hidden. I'm not arguing for one side or the other. I'm just pointing out that the logic, that negative correlation disproves a claim, isn't airtight unless you control for all the variables.
Deloreans have a really strong torsion bar along the hinges of each door that do the majority of the work. The gas struts mostly just hold the doors up once they're open. The torsion bars are strong enough that if you unlatch the door, it just glides up on its own. I've handled one of those doors when detached from the car, and they are seriously heavy.
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Someone chiseled the album sleeve of Deep Purple In Rock into a mountain.
This depends on what people mean when they says "gamers". Speaking as someone who owns a shop that sells Tabletop games like Warhammer, Magic the Gathering, D&D etc, men outnumber women about 20 to 1. But then the reverse is probably true for stuff like Candy Crush on facebook. But lumping all that stuff together under the umbrella term "gamers" paints a gigantic gloss stroke over some significant differences. There is a big divide between the stuff that involves "being a geek" and stuff like facebook games that don't. Anything that involves "being a geek" has a drastic preponderance of men. Obsessing over made-up fantasy worlds, and taking fanciful nonsense incredibly seriously, aggressively competing to establish prowess. That is apparently (whether it be cultural or not) mostly male behaviour.
I have no axe to grind, I would make twice as much money if more women were into this stuff too. But the reality is, in this large region under the umbrella group of "gamers" barely any of them are. I don't think it makes sense to lump all kinds of gaming together, as it is far from homogeneous.
but each time they are "revealed" after the first two or three just sounds like repetitive droning that no one pays attention to. If everyone let it slide as "the NSA need to be allowed to lie" after the first few, that isn't going to change after the thousandth muted bleat from the distant back-row of reported news 15 years later.
There's another way of thinking about it. When people say there are "no games" for a system, they mean no games that they care about. If you had a system that only had the 200 top selling titles on it and nothing else, the feeling among the general population wouldn't really be that there were no games for it.
When linux has ports of the vast majority of the top selling PC titles, then people will stop saying there are no games for it, irrespective of the size of the long tail of guff no one cares about and creative/interesting indie games that the general population haven't heard of.
Personally I see more value in the creative/interesting indie games. Unfortunately if they're not in the public consciousness, their mean contribution drops off a cliff in terms of Linux adoption/perception as a gaming platform.
Multiculturalism literally made America.
I remember watching those cartoons being re-aired in the 80s, I found them tedious. Likewise any hanna-barbera stuff. I loved all the warner bros stuff and tom & Jerry, etc from the 40s & 50s though. In retrospect the glorified action figure advertisements that I grew up on like he-man, transformers, thundercats, turtles were all probably crap. Mysterious Cities of Gold is probably still quite good.
you can't renew any earlier than two weeks in advance. I normally do it at the last minute and drive around without the disc for a couple of days. The police round here don't care, they can check to see if you've paid. Technically you can get fined for not displaying, but the police don't really care about the piddling crap - it's just more work for them.
I wanted a Mad-Max style gasoline-fueled hellscape. It's like they're actively trying to prevent that from happening :(
I've always thought it'd be much easier to avoid this confusion if the nomenclature was Joules and Joules per second. Whenever I see KWh I have to stop for a split second and think "this isn't the rate, even though it mentions a unit of time"
Perhaps it's being expanded in smaller chunks
There's a recent Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast where Phil Plait explained exactly what impact a big CME would have on the grid, and I think he said that there are some very large transformers that would be destroyed and would take 5 to 10 years to replace due to there being nowhere tooled up to replace them. I think he said this would mean large chunks of the grid without power for that timespan.
he's a big Ray Davies fan
What do you mean by "full hd"? Doesn't it just mean 1080p at certain frame rates? I regularly stream 1080p video from netflix and youtube on a 14mb connection.
I just download MAME ROMs individually as it occurs to me to play them. My ROMs folder is never more than few dozen Mbs. Buying a 2Tb HD and filling it up with what is effectively noise has never struck me as a convenient option.
Don't you get a free lawyer if you can't afford one? I'm not American so I don't know
Presumably the best plan would be to get your lawyer to handle that situation.
A cursory googling doesn't paint Steve S. Goddard as someone that has a rigourous approach to statistical analysis.
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Alexander, did you even read the post that you linked back to? It describes pretty much exactly what you're doing here. I can't tell if you're an Andy Kaufman style comic maverick or if you're a paranoid schizophrenic. I think it's the latter, and to be honest, initially i found you funny, but now I feel guilty for mocking the afflicted.
The graph flattens off and starts to dip at 2009, then the steep rise after that is an estimate. they could just have easily drawn a line going downwards.
Can you not see that you come off like a raving lunatic? Whether or not you are posting facts isn't the issue.
It's a fact that the earth orbits the sun. But if I post:
The EARTH orbits the SUN. THE EARTH ORBITS THE SUN. EARTH around sun. Not sun around EARTH. I am right and all my detractors that troll me are being paid by flat-earthers to harass me.
..And I jump on slashdot and post a page full of that every time the subject of the sun comes up on slashdot, I would be obviously mentally ill.
These people aren't trolling you because they're paid shills. They're trolling you because you are an easy target because you clearly have mental health problems.
who on earth even watches cams nowadays? There are DVD screeners for almost everything, and even if there aren't, the blu-rays come out within a handful of months. Not that I'm advocating piracy, i'm indifferent to it. To be honest priacy seems a little redundant nowadays as I pay £16 a month for an unlimited card and watch practically everything that comes out in the cinema.
Just speaking purely from the logical perspective, it could be the case that gun proliferation has no impact on crime rates or it increases crime rates, but that there's some other independent factor that has driven crime down to the extent that the impact of guns is hidden. I'm not arguing for one side or the other. I'm just pointing out that the logic, that negative correlation disproves a claim, isn't airtight unless you control for all the variables.
You're momma didn't complain. ..oh wait
Deloreans have a really strong torsion bar along the hinges of each door that do the majority of the work. The gas struts mostly just hold the doors up once they're open. The torsion bars are strong enough that if you unlatch the door, it just glides up on its own. I've handled one of those doors when detached from the car, and they are seriously heavy.