Intentionally or not, Shadowrun is much more than a game. It reflects the attitudes and values of younger, technologically-centered Americans. It may also project their futures, at least of the ones who are individualistic, creative and discontented.
And there was silly old me thinking the rest of the world had corporations and computers too. Thankyou for pointing out that it is, of course, only americans that this applies too.
Cuba a threat to the US? How? The only threat they ever posed to the US was as a staging ground for the Russians, which is hardly the case any more. It's not like they could invade the US is it?
Click the START BUTTON...Click RUN...and type FILE:///CON\CON..... Now Press OK..... um, you can just make that a link, unless they fixed that a href="file:///con\con"
Arizona's got Wet Beaver Creek... now tell me that wasn't a joke.
I don't think it was - a comedy chat show host heard about that over here in the UK, and phoned up their tourist office, dropping all sorts of lines like "So what time of year is your Wet Beaver Creek open then?" And the woman on the end of the phone didn't see the joke at all - even with an entire audience in fits of laughter on the other end of the phone.
My dissection of your fatally flawed logic was your statement that infinity and zero are not numbers, then your use of infinity as a number to prove that zero isn't a number.
I quote: since I just said that 5/infinity is 0 and 1,000,000/infinity is 0, then: (5/infinity)/(1,000,000/infinity) = 1 Assuming that infinity is a constant for this, then we would get that 5/1,000,000 = 1. Not quite right. That's why 0 is not a number.
So what you're saying is: Zero is not a number and nor is infinity. But I can only demonstrate that zero is not a number by saying that infinity is a number.
There is the flaw. It may just be badly worded, in which case I apologise. Oh, and the Null comment was in response to someone else who said zero=nothing. Should have posted it as a separate reply really, sorry.
Speaking as not only devil's advocate, but as one of his daemons, I feel obliged to point out that the higher prices charged by BT are part of the competition drive by Oftel (The Telecomms fair trade regulator for those not in the UK).
BT are not allowed to bring their prices down without significant justification, simply because BT have the capacity to drive competitors out of the market. None of BT's current competitors (no, not even CWC) could sustain a price war at the moment, so Oftel hold a restricting barrier against price cuts by BT.
Hopefully, in the next few years, the UK fixed line Telecomms market will become competitive enough to satisfy Oftel that we can be left to our own devices.
How many times have you gone to a web page just because the name of it matched something close to what you were looking for only to find it was completely off topic?
And anyway, I like the lack of plot, childish dialogue and cringing one-liners in Xena.
A lot of people do, and I think that's fair enough - but there is nothing out there in the TV or cinema market to cater for those who like their fantasy to have some bite. I don't care how they do it, whether a 3 hour film, or a several part TV serial, but I'd like to see some truly well written fantasy on the screens.
I'll still turn over and watch Xena after, though:-)
Yeah, but Xena and the like have no plot, childish dialogue and cringing one-liners. Hardly the sort of Monstrous Life Eating Literary Work (TM) that The Lord Of the Rings or Ghormanghast are.
No offence intended to fans of Xena et al, but I think to make fantasy cinema a reality, the sort of stories that keep your nose in a book until 5am need to reach to big screen, instead of pulp mass-attraction 'fun' fantasy.
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I grew up in Gloucester (next to Cheltenham and GCHQ) and now live in London, and because London is so much more expensive, £24,000 in Gloucester is worth about £40,000 in London.
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only so that he can draw clever but wholly bogus analogies between sex and coding.
He's simply jealous because we know the secret of the late night infinite loop
While not Time_To_Go_Back_To_Work Make sweet lurve, baby Wend
Actually the entire Christian religion is based on one gullible husband accepting the first excuse his wife can come up with to cover up her sleeping around!!
"Oh - It's a virgin birth. Well that's OK then"
This was meant to be a joke, and no offence is intended to any religious types out there.
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Intentionally or not, Shadowrun is much more than a game. It reflects the attitudes and values of younger, technologically-centered Americans. It may also project their futures, at least of the ones who are individualistic, creative and discontented.
And there was silly old me thinking the rest of the world had corporations and computers too. Thankyou for pointing out that it is, of course, only americans that this applies too.
Cuba a threat to the US? How? The only threat they ever posed to the US was as a staging ground for the Russians, which is hardly the case any more. It's not like they could invade the US is it?
Erm...The Cuban missile crisis?
Click the START BUTTON...Click RUN...and type FILE:///CON\CON ..... Now Press OK..... um, you can just make that a link, unless they fixed that a href="file:///con\con"
That was fixed a long, long time ago.
PSX2 will take over for the PSX as the #1 box, without a doubt. Why? 10 little letters: Squaresoft.
The X-box is Windows based. Squaresoft release their games under Windows (esp. FF8).
What's the problem?
Must be some Amercian Colloquialism.
What?
I'm British, and have never been to the US, and beaver has been acceptable slang for female genitalia for as long as I can remember.
Arizona's got Wet Beaver Creek... now tell me that wasn't a joke.
I don't think it was - a comedy chat show host heard about that over here in the UK, and phoned up their tourist office, dropping all sorts of lines like
"So what time of year is your Wet Beaver Creek open then?"
And the woman on the end of the phone didn't see the joke at all - even with an entire audience in fits of laughter on the other end of the phone.
Scarily to the entire British Nuclear stockpile was held at the base he was at which was a small site near Seven Oaks in Kent
I thought the entire British nuclear arsenal consisted of Tridents, kept afloat at all times?
BTW, I was born near Sevenoaks (one word), and neither of my heads have ever noticed anything nuclear-related about the place.....
Military Intelligence?
My dissection of your fatally flawed logic was your statement that infinity and zero are not numbers, then your use of infinity as a number to prove that zero isn't a number.
I quote:
since I just said that 5/infinity is 0 and 1,000,000/infinity is 0, then: (5/infinity)/(1,000,000/infinity) = 1
Assuming that infinity is a constant for this, then we would get that 5/1,000,000 = 1. Not quite right. That's why 0 is not a number.
So what you're saying is:
Zero is not a number and nor is infinity. But I can only demonstrate that zero is not a number by saying that infinity is a number.
There is the flaw. It may just be badly worded, in which case I apologise.
Oh, and the Null comment was in response to someone else who said zero=nothing. Should have posted it as a separate reply really, sorry.
Would you like to explain the difference between zero with no remainder and zero remainder zero please?
They're the same, aren't they.
So you say that zero is a concept, like infinity. You then attempt to prove this by defining infinity as a constant number.
Fatally flawed logic there, sonny.
Zero is not nothing. Try coding something and switching zero around with NULL/Nothing. It's not going to compile!
Something that sticks to the fundamentals of programming, like BASIC, Pascal, Ada, or (maybe) C.
Even though these languages may not be all that useful now, they're some of the best learning languages, IMO.
screw the customer if he cant figure it out
Nice one. That's really going to help with bringing Linux to the world, isn't it?
Developers go where the market is.
The market is where the non-technical people are.
Educate these people. If you 'screw' them, you screw Linux.
Speaking as not only devil's advocate, but as one of his daemons, I feel obliged to point out that the higher prices charged by BT are part of the competition drive by Oftel (The Telecomms fair trade regulator for those not in the UK).
BT are not allowed to bring their prices down without significant justification, simply because BT have the capacity to drive competitors out of the market. None of BT's current competitors (no, not even CWC) could sustain a price war at the moment, so Oftel hold a restricting barrier against price cuts by BT.
Hopefully, in the next few years, the UK fixed line Telecomms market will become competitive enough to satisfy Oftel that we can be left to our own devices.
How many times have you gone to a web page just because the name of it matched something close to what you were looking for only to find it was completely off topic?
A perfect example: accidentally went to www.ifoseek.com instead of www.infoseek.com at work.
In front of my Boss and his Boss.
And anyway, I like the lack of plot, childish dialogue and cringing one-liners in Xena.
:-)
A lot of people do, and I think that's fair enough - but there is nothing out there in the TV or cinema market to cater for those who like their fantasy to have some bite. I don't care how they do it, whether a 3 hour film, or a several part TV serial, but I'd like to see some truly well written fantasy on the screens.
I'll still turn over and watch Xena after, though
Yep - I'll be watching it.
Anyone know what time it's on?
Yeah, but Xena and the like have no plot, childish dialogue and cringing one-liners. Hardly the sort of Monstrous Life Eating Literary Work (TM) that The Lord Of the Rings or Ghormanghast are.
No offence intended to fans of Xena et al, but I think to make fantasy cinema a reality, the sort of stories that keep your nose in a book until 5am need to reach to big screen, instead of pulp mass-attraction 'fun' fantasy.
I grew up in Gloucester (next to Cheltenham and GCHQ) and now live in London, and because London is so much more expensive, £24,000 in Gloucester is worth about £40,000 in London.
only so that he can draw clever but wholly bogus analogies between sex and coding.
He's simply jealous because we know the secret of the late night infinite loop
While not Time_To_Go_Back_To_Work
Make sweet lurve, baby
Wend
What he means is, why is the /. story icon for the Internet a ring network.
Quite amusingly, has anyone noticed just how slow www.internet2.edu really is?
Try https://www.rewebber.de It is a free anonymous encrypted proxy with the option of URL encryption.
Amusingly enough, I'm blocked from that URL too!
It was called "Caravan of Courage", and was indeed completely pants.
Actually the entire Christian religion is based on one gullible husband accepting the first excuse his wife can come up with to cover up her sleeping around!!
"Oh - It's a virgin birth. Well that's OK then"
This was meant to be a joke, and no offence is intended to any religious types out there.