Knowledge and belief are orthogonal to one another. You can believe and not know (religious people), you can not believe and know (everyone with respect to anthropogenic deities that they do not believe in), you can not believe and not know (this usually involves some nebulous, poorly defined concept of 'god'), etc.
As far as claiming that affirming nonexistence of a god concept is just as invalid a position as affirming its existence, let's first define that god concept. Go with "Thor" or "Set" or "El" and I'd say that you have a much stronger case for nonexistence than existence, seeing as many falsifiable claims have been made regarding these god concepts, and these claims have been falsified.
My home PC isn't beastly enough to run Skyrim (barely manages Oblivion), so I've picked it up for my Xbox 360 and will play it to death on there until my PC either dies or I get fed up with it and upgrade it sometime in 2012, at which point Skyrim for PC will be exactly what it ought to be. Even as it is right now, Skyrim on 360 is far and away the most awesome game I've played on this console in a long, long time, and possibly ever.
If you were to have stopped short at "religious" you'd be right. Since you continued on to the more general "ideological" I don't think you're right. I have seen non-Republicans guilty of some serious anti-science because it didn't gel with their view of the world.
Dang, someone's a little narrow-minded. You can be proud of being an indie game developer all you want, but until dev houses like Bethesda, Bioware, Team Ico, and the like disappear, you're going to have your work cut out for you trying to match the combination of story, immersion, "resonating with people," and visual fidelity that they are capable of on "locked-down console" _and_ PCs.
Play good console (and PC "installed") games so that you know what to aim for when you're working on your own product. Play just bad ones that you consider "shiny paper-thin and hollow" and you merely hold yourself to lower standards.
So what we should be working on is "climate stabilization"! >_>
We are talking about the idea of duplicating the effects of a volcanic eruption so as to "counter"... warming. Not ocean acidification. Not cooling in some regions vs warming in others (climate change, indeed, is different in different parts of the globe). No. Particulates limiting the amount of sun that reaches the surface leads invariably to cooling.
Actually, the guy you replied to isn't wrong. City of birth isn't necessarily an indicator of citizenship. My city of birth is Leningrad, USSR (now St Petersburg, Russia). I am a US citizen. Dun dun duuuunnnnn!
The last sentence of that summary has _got_ to be a wording mistake. The impact CRATER in Siberia is 100km across. The impactor was (I just looked it up), "either an eight-kilometer diameter chrondrite asteroid, or a five-kilometer diameter stony asteroid." Indeed, an asteroid 100km across hitting the surface would leave something just a tad bit more noticeable than anything we've got so far, heh. And yes it would do really bad things to life on the planet; you're right on that count.
I recently bought a Cowon S9, which is a nice little amoled touchscreen PMP that uses a Flash UI. It's decent out of the box, but what makes it extra great is that one can develop and install custom UIs on it (google "cowon s9 Aero Ultimate", "cowon s9 Dark Evolution", and many others) and those happen to be quite good. And half of them are made by high-school students working on their own in their spare time!
So meh. I think that someone should take a look at actual Flash-based players on the market before coming to the sweeping conclusion that it can't work on touchscreens.
If the Y contained nothing, then males would inherit exactly zero traits from their fathers.
That bit is wrong... fathers provide 23 chromosomes in total, just like mothers. Daughters inherit plenty of traits from their fathers, after all, and they don't have a Y chromosome.
Depending on the item, you could re-acquire it. If it was the Wraithguard, there was an alternate (pretty cool and non-cheating, actually) way to get it, and it went on your other hand. People that went a little psycho and decided to off Vivec himself ended up having to go this route.
The Elder Scrolls games (also Bethesda's) are more open then Fallout 3 in that sense -- you can ignore the main quest easier, and even when you complete it, the game continues on.
By the way, Fallout 3's third mini-expansion will change the ending and allow you to continue playing once you complete the main quest. Why they didn't think to do that right away confuses me, since they could have just looked to their Elder Scrolls games from the get-go.
What? Only a handful of web browsers? COME ON MAN! I want at least 15 browsers including Nutscrape 4.7, maybe five or six 2-D graphics applications, about 80 video and music players, four office suites, 10 instant messaging clients, and just about everything else there's a MS version of. I WANT OPTIONS! Hard drive space? Whatevah that is cheap as free. Boot times? Hey I gotta go pee sometime don't I? Customized installs? AS IF!
No seriously, what the fuck, I spend enough time deleting shit I'm not going to use from any newly purchased computer already. I don't want to have to delete yet MORE. Damn, if they want to punish MS they don't have to punish me while they're at it -_-
I agree totally on Conroy and Hammill. When I measure TDK against other Batman films, I also measure it against Mask of the Phantasm, heh.
TDK is FAR, FAR, FAR from perfect, but it is so much closer than the other serious live-action Batman films that it's no contest as far as which is the best of those.
I don't know much about the English voice actors for Cowboy Bebop... I only watch subtitled foreign-language stuff if I have the opportunity.
I didn't think Cowboy Bebop was close to Batman: TAS in terms of overall quality (especially given the last two episodes of Bebop where they realized that they had this big story arc planned all along and had done zero with it up until then). That said, I think it's something that can grow into a franchise that delivers something better than the anime. A movie may well fit into that strategy, but Keanu Reeves turns it into instant fail. Spike is a charismatic, funny character who is actually skilled in martial arts, and Keanu can't even go 1-for-3 as far as that goes. It's ridiculous, but of the big-name actors out there I know of, I'd say Ben Stiller is as good as anyone else for the role. If you want a "perfect" (true-to-form) Spike, I can't think of anyone appropriate so an unknown would have to be cast.
Oh well, at least we've heard nothing about the EVA remake as of late. A good thing if you ask me. Cowboy Bebop, even if you don't want it "tarnished," can be transitioned to live-action far more easily than Evangelion.
Keanu Reeves + martial arts = fail. I'm just hoping it will be so bad it will be funny, the way the first 10 minutes of the Dead or Alive movie was.
Even if he were a karate champion he would be a poor casting choice for Spike, though. Heck even Ben Stiller is a better choice, I'm not kidding. For real they'd need someone I haven't heard of, because I can't think of someone who actually fits the role well at this point.
Concrete block, same exact car going at the same speed in the opposite direction = same thing. That's why I said the ratings test a Hummer colliding with a Hummer and an Odyssey with an Odyssey. Physically, it's the equivalent test, points of impact included.
A test of a Hummer colliding with an Odyssey would give you significantly different results for both cars than the crash-into-a-wall test.
That's why crash safety ratings are totally worthless in the real world.
My points are merely rebuttals to unsubstantiated statements by others. Your "obvious" deduction is nonsensical.
The part about hitting a tree is an anecdote that hardly translates to a Volvo being safer than a large SUV in general. Like I said (maybe in another post, which you apparently DID read...) most collisions are with other cars. Of collisions with other objects, probably just as many are with animals as with something like a tree (probably more). In all these cases, the more massive vehicle with a greater ride height is an advantage. Feel free to dispute that, of course.
I don't drive a Hummer but if I did, the fact that it's a much safer vehicle to be in in the case of a collision with another vehicle would be a major reason for it. When you're sharing the road with a lot of SUVs and pickups, being in one yourself keeps you safer than if you drive a light car with a lower ride height.
You drive a POS car and could care less if it gets wrecked. Exactly. Most people aren't in that situation, so they give the H2 way the same way most drivers give your recklessly driven scrap heap way.
Of course, the occupants of the Hummer won't survive the impact with the Volvo - that nice strong chassis will transmit all the force of the crash to the soft, squashy passengers. A vehicle examiner I know who does a lot of work for insurance companies reckoned that you could *probably* kill all the occupants of a Hummer by kicking the front bumper really hard...
Fire the vehicle examiner. You only need 1 crumple zone in an impact; it doesn't matter what car it's on. The Hummer will use the Volvo's body as the crumple zone, simple as that. This is high school physics.
Have you ever actually *seen* collisions of large SUVs and trucks with light cars? The SUVs AND their passengers fare significantly better than the other car and its passengers, by far most of the time. You have a stiff bumper hitting a much softer part of a car body, which absorbs all of the impact.
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Knowledge and belief are orthogonal to one another. You can believe and not know (religious people), you can not believe and know (everyone with respect to anthropogenic deities that they do not believe in), you can not believe and not know (this usually involves some nebulous, poorly defined concept of 'god'), etc.
As far as claiming that affirming nonexistence of a god concept is just as invalid a position as affirming its existence, let's first define that god concept. Go with "Thor" or "Set" or "El" and I'd say that you have a much stronger case for nonexistence than existence, seeing as many falsifiable claims have been made regarding these god concepts, and these claims have been falsified.
My home PC isn't beastly enough to run Skyrim (barely manages Oblivion), so I've picked it up for my Xbox 360 and will play it to death on there until my PC either dies or I get fed up with it and upgrade it sometime in 2012, at which point Skyrim for PC will be exactly what it ought to be. Even as it is right now, Skyrim on 360 is far and away the most awesome game I've played on this console in a long, long time, and possibly ever.
If you were to have stopped short at "religious" you'd be right. Since you continued on to the more general "ideological" I don't think you're right. I have seen non-Republicans guilty of some serious anti-science because it didn't gel with their view of the world.
Mojang is claiming a trademark on the word 'scrolls' for use in computer games. http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4006:qchtni.6.8
So, Bethesda is totally right to protect their trademark in this case.
Dang, someone's a little narrow-minded. You can be proud of being an indie game developer all you want, but until dev houses like Bethesda, Bioware, Team Ico, and the like disappear, you're going to have your work cut out for you trying to match the combination of story, immersion, "resonating with people," and visual fidelity that they are capable of on "locked-down console" _and_ PCs.
Play good console (and PC "installed") games so that you know what to aim for when you're working on your own product. Play just bad ones that you consider "shiny paper-thin and hollow" and you merely hold yourself to lower standards.
So what we should be working on is "climate stabilization"! >_>
We are talking about the idea of duplicating the effects of a volcanic eruption so as to "counter" ... warming. Not ocean acidification. Not cooling in some regions vs warming in others (climate change, indeed, is different in different parts of the globe). No. Particulates limiting the amount of sun that reaches the surface leads invariably to cooling.
Actually, the guy you replied to isn't wrong. City of birth isn't necessarily an indicator of citizenship. My city of birth is Leningrad, USSR (now St Petersburg, Russia). I am a US citizen. Dun dun duuuunnnnn!
The last sentence of that summary has _got_ to be a wording mistake. The impact CRATER in Siberia is 100km across. The impactor was (I just looked it up), "either an eight-kilometer diameter chrondrite asteroid, or a five-kilometer diameter stony asteroid." Indeed, an asteroid 100km across hitting the surface would leave something just a tad bit more noticeable than anything we've got so far, heh. And yes it would do really bad things to life on the planet; you're right on that count.
I think it might already be used for cooking by KFC and White Castle.
Yes but there's no need to plug that hole with your head! You can use... an album cover...
Mondays...
I recently bought a Cowon S9, which is a nice little amoled touchscreen PMP that uses a Flash UI. It's decent out of the box, but what makes it extra great is that one can develop and install custom UIs on it (google "cowon s9 Aero Ultimate", "cowon s9 Dark Evolution", and many others) and those happen to be quite good. And half of them are made by high-school students working on their own in their spare time!
So meh. I think that someone should take a look at actual Flash-based players on the market before coming to the sweeping conclusion that it can't work on touchscreens.
If the Y contained nothing, then males would inherit exactly zero traits from their fathers.
That bit is wrong... fathers provide 23 chromosomes in total, just like mothers. Daughters inherit plenty of traits from their fathers, after all, and they don't have a Y chromosome.
You can walk up to a girl, and literally say the biggest crap. If it creates the right feeling in her, it will work.
I disagree, I walked up to a girl, and indeed literally said "the biggest crap," and it didn't work.
Hah! I thought of Resident Evil 5. So there. (There's an "ouroboros" virus in the game.)
Depending on the item, you could re-acquire it. If it was the Wraithguard, there was an alternate (pretty cool and non-cheating, actually) way to get it, and it went on your other hand. People that went a little psycho and decided to off Vivec himself ended up having to go this route.
The Elder Scrolls games (also Bethesda's) are more open then Fallout 3 in that sense -- you can ignore the main quest easier, and even when you complete it, the game continues on.
By the way, Fallout 3's third mini-expansion will change the ending and allow you to continue playing once you complete the main quest. Why they didn't think to do that right away confuses me, since they could have just looked to their Elder Scrolls games from the get-go.
What? Only a handful of web browsers? COME ON MAN! I want at least 15 browsers including Nutscrape 4.7, maybe five or six 2-D graphics applications, about 80 video and music players, four office suites, 10 instant messaging clients, and just about everything else there's a MS version of. I WANT OPTIONS! Hard drive space? Whatevah that is cheap as free. Boot times? Hey I gotta go pee sometime don't I? Customized installs? AS IF!
No seriously, what the fuck, I spend enough time deleting shit I'm not going to use from any newly purchased computer already. I don't want to have to delete yet MORE. Damn, if they want to punish MS they don't have to punish me while they're at it -_-
I agree totally on Conroy and Hammill. When I measure TDK against other Batman films, I also measure it against Mask of the Phantasm, heh.
TDK is FAR, FAR, FAR from perfect, but it is so much closer than the other serious live-action Batman films that it's no contest as far as which is the best of those.
I don't know much about the English voice actors for Cowboy Bebop... I only watch subtitled foreign-language stuff if I have the opportunity.
I didn't think Cowboy Bebop was close to Batman: TAS in terms of overall quality (especially given the last two episodes of Bebop where they realized that they had this big story arc planned all along and had done zero with it up until then). That said, I think it's something that can grow into a franchise that delivers something better than the anime. A movie may well fit into that strategy, but Keanu Reeves turns it into instant fail. Spike is a charismatic, funny character who is actually skilled in martial arts, and Keanu can't even go 1-for-3 as far as that goes. It's ridiculous, but of the big-name actors out there I know of, I'd say Ben Stiller is as good as anyone else for the role. If you want a "perfect" (true-to-form) Spike, I can't think of anyone appropriate so an unknown would have to be cast.
Oh well, at least we've heard nothing about the EVA remake as of late. A good thing if you ask me. Cowboy Bebop, even if you don't want it "tarnished," can be transitioned to live-action far more easily than Evangelion.
Keanu Reeves + martial arts = fail. I'm just hoping it will be so bad it will be funny, the way the first 10 minutes of the Dead or Alive movie was.
Even if he were a karate champion he would be a poor casting choice for Spike, though. Heck even Ben Stiller is a better choice, I'm not kidding. For real they'd need someone I haven't heard of, because I can't think of someone who actually fits the role well at this point.
with many more songs priced at 69 cents than $1.29
The majority of songs are crap as opposed to not crap, so that's not surprising nor encouraging.
Concrete block, same exact car going at the same speed in the opposite direction = same thing. That's why I said the ratings test a Hummer colliding with a Hummer and an Odyssey with an Odyssey. Physically, it's the equivalent test, points of impact included.
A test of a Hummer colliding with an Odyssey would give you significantly different results for both cars than the crash-into-a-wall test.
That's why crash safety ratings are totally worthless in the real world.
My points are merely rebuttals to unsubstantiated statements by others. Your "obvious" deduction is nonsensical.
The part about hitting a tree is an anecdote that hardly translates to a Volvo being safer than a large SUV in general. Like I said (maybe in another post, which you apparently DID read...) most collisions are with other cars. Of collisions with other objects, probably just as many are with animals as with something like a tree (probably more). In all these cases, the more massive vehicle with a greater ride height is an advantage. Feel free to dispute that, of course.
I don't drive a Hummer but if I did, the fact that it's a much safer vehicle to be in in the case of a collision with another vehicle would be a major reason for it. When you're sharing the road with a lot of SUVs and pickups, being in one yourself keeps you safer than if you drive a light car with a lower ride height.
You drive a POS car and could care less if it gets wrecked. Exactly. Most people aren't in that situation, so they give the H2 way the same way most drivers give your recklessly driven scrap heap way.
Of course, the occupants of the Hummer won't survive the impact with the Volvo - that nice strong chassis will transmit all the force of the crash to the soft, squashy passengers. A vehicle examiner I know who does a lot of work for insurance companies reckoned that you could *probably* kill all the occupants of a Hummer by kicking the front bumper really hard...
Fire the vehicle examiner. You only need 1 crumple zone in an impact; it doesn't matter what car it's on. The Hummer will use the Volvo's body as the crumple zone, simple as that. This is high school physics.
Have you ever actually *seen* collisions of large SUVs and trucks with light cars? The SUVs AND their passengers fare significantly better than the other car and its passengers, by far most of the time. You have a stiff bumper hitting a much softer part of a car body, which absorbs all of the impact.
See a reply of mine to the same kind of comment as yours, up above.