So only fundamentalist Christians are made a bit uncomfortable with some of these new concepts of cloning, use of aborted embryos for research. I would find that a bit surprising. Perhaps this just looks like a good opportunity to insult some group of people that you disagree with, while adding nothing to the debate. Big surprise there.
There was a time when I wanted to add to the "debate." I actively engaged you, humored you- even as my respect for your kind and your idiotic beliefs whithered, I would at least make a show of patronizing you. All the while I suffered through your huffy, self-righteous 'OMG AD-HOMINEM!!1' posts. As I wondered what kind of people would sport such an ugly persecution complex, I realized that most of them
look like a lot this.
I'm in favor of all out Blu-Ray. Blu-Ray is an actual technology to fit more data onto a disk. HD DVD is simply a format. You can still store HD DVD format using Blu-Ray technology. Also, HD DVD can only store between 4 and 7 gigs per disk. Blu-Ray uses a 405nm blue laser, and can store 15 gigs on a one layered disk, 30 gigs on a dual layered disk.
I enjoyed it. The advertising was painful, though. I could deal with either ridiculous product placement, OR the commercial breaks, but both?! How much money did they give these guys?
In any case, I had never seen Painkiller multiplayer before and it looks really fun. The description of the map was good of them to give, making me think about strategy on my own. I didn't think there was enough ingame footage -- but what they had was really interesting anyway.
The players seemed to have a good sense for when items are going to appear. I guess that is very important in a game where armor is probably the most important thing to swing the tide of a fight.
Seriously, what's the problem here? Here in NZ games are rated by the office of film and literature classification in exactly the same way as movies. This seems perfectly sensible to me.
GTA: San Andreas has an R18 rating here. Fair enough, its an adults game, not a kids game.
Why are the publishers against this law? I would have thought it would have given them some protection: When some idiot kid shoots someone, and hoards of drooling ambulance-chasing lawyers start scream "GTA trained them to be killers! Rockstar are responsible!! they must PAY!!!" Then the publisher can turn around and say what were they doing playing the game in the first place?
I played SA right though, and loved it, but I certainly wouldn't want my kids playing it, and I'm not too comfortable with someone elses kids playing it either.
Could we please let the parents determine if something is or isn't "too violent?" Honestly, how are the kids going to buy the game unless the parents give them money?
Google is reviewing bids from tech vendors to build a nationwide optical DWDM network- one theoretically capable of terabit speeds.
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Google's need for bandwidth capacity is increasing rapidly. It currently pays the traditional telecom firms like AT&T who own the long-haul fiber lines a premium for bandwidth. Building its own data transfer network could be seen as a cost savings solution, especially as it could cost as little as $100million (in new spending) to construct one. Google already owns fiber throughout North America and around the world. It just needs to connect it all together.
In the dot-com boom, a large number of telcos built optical fiber networks, each with the business plan of cornering the market in telecommunications by providing a network with sufficient capacity to take all existing and forecast traffic for the entire region served. This was based on the assumption that telecoms traffic, particularly data traffic, would continue to grow exponentially for the foreseeable future.
Unfortunately, the collapse of the dot-com boom left fiber supply greatly exceeding demand of even the most pessimistic forecasts (by a factor of thirty in many areas). The availablity of wavelength division multiplexing further reduced the demand for fiber by increasing the capacity that could be placed on a single fiber by as much as a factor of 100. As a result, the wholesale price of data traffic collapsed. A number of these companies filed for bankruptcy protection, or went bankrupt, as a result.
Sounds to me like it's VIA's C3 bug, not Ubuntu's bug. Maybe you should get a distro compiled for i586 or even i386 instead of for i686, as a workaround?
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Thats what these people are a bunch of. AMIRITE?
There was a time when I wanted to add to the "debate." I actively engaged you, humored you- even as my respect for your kind and your idiotic beliefs whithered, I would at least make a show of patronizing you. All the while I suffered through your huffy, self-righteous 'OMG AD-HOMINEM!!1' posts. As I wondered what kind of people would sport such an ugly persecution complex, I realized that most of them look like a lot this.
Ching chang ching chong cheng chang ching tsing ching tang ching tsing ching chong, fuckface.
...about a bunch of niggers throwing a ball around?
I'm in favor of all out Blu-Ray. Blu-Ray is an actual technology to fit more data onto a disk. HD DVD is simply a format. You can still store HD DVD format using Blu-Ray technology. Also, HD DVD can only store between 4 and 7 gigs per disk. Blu-Ray uses a 405nm blue laser, and can store 15 gigs on a one layered disk, 30 gigs on a dual layered disk.
The games industry can pay low wages and make people slave because it's "cool" and people want to be in it. Sad really.
I enjoyed it. The advertising was painful, though. I could deal with either ridiculous product placement, OR the commercial breaks, but both?! How much money did they give these guys?
In any case, I had never seen Painkiller multiplayer before and it looks really fun. The description of the map was good of them to give, making me think about strategy on my own. I didn't think there was enough ingame footage -- but what they had was really interesting anyway.
The players seemed to have a good sense for when items are going to appear. I guess that is very important in a game where armor is probably the most important thing to swing the tide of a fight.
JWZ has some good information on RSI
GTA: San Andreas has an R18 rating here. Fair enough, its an adults game, not a kids game.
Why are the publishers against this law? I would have thought it would have given them some protection: When some idiot kid shoots someone, and hoards of drooling ambulance-chasing lawyers start scream "GTA trained them to be killers! Rockstar are responsible!! they must PAY!!!" Then the publisher can turn around and say what were they doing playing the game in the first place?
I played SA right though, and loved it, but I certainly wouldn't want my kids playing it, and I'm not too comfortable with someone elses kids playing it either.
It seems perfectly straightfoward to me.
Could we please let the parents determine if something is or isn't "too violent?" Honestly, how are the kids going to buy the game unless the parents give them money?
Sorry if this is getting offtopic.
Unfortunately, the collapse of the dot-com boom left fiber supply greatly exceeding demand of even the most pessimistic forecasts (by a factor of thirty in many areas). The availablity of wavelength division multiplexing further reduced the demand for fiber by increasing the capacity that could be placed on a single fiber by as much as a factor of 100. As a result, the wholesale price of data traffic collapsed. A number of these companies filed for bankruptcy protection, or went bankrupt, as a result.
Sounds to me like it's VIA's C3 bug, not Ubuntu's bug. Maybe you should get a distro compiled for i586 or even i386 instead of for i686, as a workaround?