Civ IV is really good. I played all the Civs including Alpha Centauri and Civ IV was the only one that came close to making me rethink my conviction that 'Alpha Centauri is the best civ-like ever.(period)'.
Actually in In Search of the Valley (a documentary on silicon valley) one interviewee mentions a tech company in the late 90's which regularly rented hookers for its programmers.
So you prefer that your government will spy in secret and not after due democratic process? Nevermind that in today's USA it's mostly the first, but I think you'd agree the second is better
Your comment actually invoked my curiosity. From Wikipedia regarding Siemens: Preceding World War II Siemens was involved in the secret rearmament of Germany. During the Second World War, Siemens supported the Hitler regime, contributed to the war effort and participated in the "Nazification" of the economy. Siemens had many factories in and around notorious extermination camps such as Auschwitz and used slave labor from concentration camps to build electric switches for military uses. In one example, almost 100,000 men and women from Auschwitz worked in a Siemens factory inside the camp, supplying the electricity to the camp.[6]. The Crematorium ovens at Buchenwald still bear the Siemens name.
I mean damn, talk about the evils of corporations..
A must for all those interested in Iran is Persepolis (look mom! no ref tag!), an autobiography of an Iranian woman who fled from Iran in her teens. In the book the author describes her life as a preteen and teen during the cultural revolution. It really succeeds at illustrating how life under a totalitarian regime look like. After reading it you really start to appreciate the fact that you were born into a democratic country.
We always hear about ID and anti-evolution schemes in the USA. Can readers in other parts of the world reflect on ID-like movements in their own countries? How evolution-denial movements fare in Europe for example?
I actually returned to Alpha Centauri yesterday and played many hours in the weekend (though back in the day I bought the Windows version and I now play it on VirtualBox). This game surely enters my best 3 games ever list, maybe even the 1st. This game has the optimal mixture of reasonable graphics, great design, great story, many options and great "feeling". Seriously, every time I return to it the game just blows my mind away,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK there is no VM that allows native access to the graphics card. All the VMs I worked with (Virtual PC, VMWare and QEMU in the past, VirtualBox today) emulate a card on par with an S3 Trident or some other limited card. You can change the video memory size (and remember that this means regular memory speeds! no GDDR3!) but no pixel shaders and other "modern" technologies.
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Nothing to see here, move along...
From a legal and business standpoint, it's more likely he'll dance around on the stage in a Gir suit while singing the doom song.
It's not far-fetched as you think, you know...
wow... devious... you truly live up to your (nick)name!
It's called 'singularity'
This is slashdot, where finding 1 woman is enough of a problem, so wasting 9 women?? /dev/urandom v.s. using /dev/random...
Think using
I could've sworn I left my favorite rug on top of the black hole in the living room... crazy as it sounds, it seems to have just disappeared.
That's a real shame dude... that rug really tied the room together
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wtf? /. editors have control over the related stories section?
doesn't
after a some searching, I could see the interview here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/04/60minutes/main4415771.shtml
What rlz.dll do?
As anyone succeeded seeing the associated video of the interview in linux? :(
With Ubuntu, Firefox and Adobe Flash 9 all I see is a black box
Life endangering toy.
'Broken' instant messaging software.
Not the same thing.
Civ IV is really good.
I played all the Civs including Alpha Centauri and Civ IV was the only one that came close to making me rethink my conviction that 'Alpha Centauri is the best civ-like ever.(period)'.
Harvard and Yale have started their Sith Lords training course for those who don't fit the Jedi criteria.
Dude, they had this program for ages... I think it's called 'MBA'
Actually in In Search of the Valley (a documentary on silicon valley) one interviewee mentions a tech company in the late 90's which regularly rented hookers for its programmers.
Anyone here knows the name of the company?
It just means that information that the government already secretly has will be better organized, not that it will be more secretive
So you prefer that your government will spy in secret and not after due democratic process?
Nevermind that in today's USA it's mostly the first, but I think you'd agree the second is better
Your comment actually invoked my curiosity.
From Wikipedia regarding Siemens:
Preceding World War II Siemens was involved in the secret rearmament of Germany. During the Second World War, Siemens supported the Hitler regime, contributed to the war effort and participated in the "Nazification" of the economy. Siemens had many factories in and around notorious extermination camps such as Auschwitz and used slave labor from concentration camps to build electric switches for military uses. In one example, almost 100,000 men and women from Auschwitz worked in a Siemens factory inside the camp, supplying the electricity to the camp.[6]. The Crematorium ovens at Buchenwald still bear the Siemens name.
I mean damn, talk about the evils of corporations..
In XP it is C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts
...or psychological warfare?
A must for all those interested in Iran is Persepolis (look mom! no ref tag!), :) there you go, Persepolis
Mmmm and no link either
A must for all those interested in Iran is Persepolis (look mom! no ref tag!), an autobiography of an Iranian woman who fled from Iran in her teens.
In the book the author describes her life as a preteen and teen during the cultural revolution.
It really succeeds at illustrating how life under a totalitarian regime look like.
After reading it you really start to appreciate the fact that you were born into a democratic country.
So, how we'll enter the secret cow level this time? :)
We always hear about ID and anti-evolution schemes in the USA.
Can readers in other parts of the world reflect on ID-like movements in their own countries?
How evolution-denial movements fare in Europe for example?
I actually returned to Alpha Centauri yesterday and played many hours in the weekend (though back in the day I bought the Windows version and I now play it on VirtualBox).
This game surely enters my best 3 games ever list, maybe even the 1st.
This game has the optimal mixture of reasonable graphics, great design, great story, many options and great "feeling".
Seriously, every time I return to it the game just blows my mind away,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK there is no VM that allows native access to the graphics card.
All the VMs I worked with (Virtual PC, VMWare and QEMU in the past, VirtualBox today) emulate a card on par with an S3 Trident or some other limited card.
You can change the video memory size (and remember that this means regular memory speeds! no GDDR3!) but no pixel shaders and other "modern" technologies.