I'm with you there. Even worse is when you read a few articles from various writers on a site and think that its a great website with people you can have an interesting debate with, and then you get a total turdfest of a gem that ruins it forever for you.
For a whole week I was like that with Firedoglake, but then I made the mistake of reading the comments. *shudders* Freaking Digg users man...
While there are non-sport peaceful applications for the stuff, I hate it more than being called a warmonger when people assume liking the military/being in the military == warmongering.
I don't think there is a soldier alive that has seen real combat that wants to do that every day. Maybe a few one offs, but most of these people are doing it because they feel someone has to.
The sad part is they are right. This letter I think articulates the argument pretty well. There are bad people that will do bad things. You need your own kind of people that will stand up to them if you won't do it yourself.
And before you say "there are other ways" let me say you are right. There are. But the problem is those "other ways" don't work if only one side will go through with them, but violence can be responded in kind by anyone.
PS: I chose the most annoying looking page with the text of that letter. I apologize. You can find it elsewhere.
My laptop with 2GB RAM has no issues with Vista Ultimate x64. It does have an AMD64 Turion dual core though.
It came with Vista Home Basic pre-installed which DID run dog slow during everything. I'm pretty sure Microsoft, for whatever reason, purposely crippled the lower versions. Lord knows I've seen similar things happen when people misconfigure their GPO settings or make bad Registry changes manually.
"Since Sealand quite obviously has no chance in Hell in fighting off Great Britain, they're not sovereign."
I guess then a whole lot of countries are not "sovereign" because there is no chance in Hell they could fight off the United States, Great Britain, or Russia if either of those countries decided to go all out on them.
Show of force is not the only, nor even the best, way to prove your sovereignty. It just happens to be the "easiest".
There is a registry key you can create to do the same in Windows. Spend less than 5 minutes on Google and you will find it. Some people just LOVE to pretend the Group Policy is the end all be all of Windows. There is a whole quagmire of stuff that is undocumented with XP.
One of the greater things about humanity is the capacity to take terrible things in stride. A lot of people can make jokes about truly horrific things such as this girl's death or the Holocaust that, so long as you understand it isn't serious, are funny.
Monty Python's "No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition" is a great example of this by the way.
Face it, "trolled to death" is a funny phrase. It's just ridiculous. The majority of people can't imagine being so depressed that it could even happen, even with (potential) evidence that it really did.
I'm by no means a graphic designer but DAMN. Even I can make text look weathered and blend in to fabric. Take a look at the uniform again, looks like someone put a 'better looking' font and blurred out the old or something.
Could be totally wrong, but then like I said I'm no graphics designer.
Probably not. I'd say a lot of people embrace 'mixing them up' to be honest.
In a lot of console games its move move move, pray and spray, move move, spray some more. Even on games where you want some precision, like COD4, I just can't do that with those analog controllers and whenever I watch people they seem to do the same thing.
Nothing with moving left while looking right and vice versa. I haven't yet met anyone that doesn't move both at the same time, though the directions don't necessarily match or mirror each other.
Actually I wouldn't mind (hah) having control of my cursor via my eye movements. I just would want a way to toggle it on and off and for different devices on the fly.
I typically have 3 machines going at once in front of me and would *love* to be able to use only one input device and it would be so much faster if I could just look at where i need the cursor to be...
Probably when I'm dead they'll have it to the level I wish they had it at now, but I know *my* productivity would go up dramatically. The only thing I'd worry about is latency when I open a remote session.
It is a failure because it didn't catch any of its intended targets. Absolutely zero terrorists were caught, and the entire plan was pushed forward in the name of fighting terrorism not petty crime prevention.
By the way, 150,000 people were stopped because of this. Out of those 150,000 people that were read as "suspicious" only 1200 people were arrested. Less than that will probably face jail time.
Do you realize that is LESS than a 1% arrest rate? Less than 1% of people that are flagged as suspicious have any cause to be arrested and you are going to sit here DEFENDING the damn program?!
It wasn't a merger. Face it, the Yahoo Ads division is a total joke. It's bleeding out cash because everyone wants Google's Ads for the most part.
Killing that division is a smart move, but they feel they have to have some form of ads on their search results if they want businesses to come to them. Still not following the logic at this point on that.
The point is though, they were going to become customers of Google. Just because a company *can* do something doesn't mean they should. Personally I think that this was a bad decision on the anti-trust fighter's part. It pretty much says if you have a web presence and are using google don't get too popular.
I'll second that modern FPS games are more involved than they used to be. They actually require more skill than RPGs as well generally. For the "modern warfare" genre the days of pray and spray are almost entirely gone. Almost...
I'll say one thing though: It is sad that a lot of FPS single player campaigns are more imersive than most RPGs. COD4 and Crysis come to mind in that regard.
A fair amount of WoW players had never raided until Kharazan or what ever in Burning Crusade. I'm sure its fun, if you want to spend all of your time getting ready to do that. I personally have reached a point where that is no longer fun. I want to do stuff now.
This is why I largely enjoy WAR over WoW for an MMO, or even EVE. In WAR, I can do everything from the get go. Second I make a character, I'm queued up for some PvP. When I'm not in the mood for that, there's a huge enviroment to explore (Note: I love doing PvE in WoW up to a point for the same reason, the main difference being you need a group or raid in WoW to see a lot of it while in WAR the majority you *can* do solo). I have yet to see a game, even including DAOC, that can match the fun of a massive skirmish in an RvR lake. There's something about having 100 players fight over a castle that is fairly entertaining with only a few exceptions.
But truth be told, this is more why I play games like Oblivion or Fallout 3. Those are RPG video games that you can really just "do whatever" in and have fun doing it from the start. The only part I miss is the interaction with other people.
Blizzard has me skeptical at this point. Unless you are in a Guild that is fairly organized, and demanding on your time, you pretty much miss out on 1/3rd the content and the content they put the most effort into.
Burning Crusade damn near killed WoW (at least for the people I associate with. After that was out for 2 months SO many people just quit or started talking about up and coming MMOs and jumped ship later it surprised me) and the feature list of this new expansion read like they heard what was going to be in WAR and made sure they had what everyone was buzzing about.
I'll just wait for Diablo 3 before I give Blizzard more money. Would of said StarCraft 2, but unless they change the price or the rumor I'm not going to buy 3 versions so I can have all the armies.
How, HOW is this Flamebait? I happen to like Vista as well, now that SP1 is out and the majority of my driver issues are resolved. In fact, literally the only issue I have with my system currently is a VERY small sector on my hard drive or bad memory space on a single stick. I'm not sure which, I occasionally (3 times a month) blue screen due to an issue relating to one or the other. For all I know, its really my motherboard since memtest and SMART test my hardware fine.
Just because YOU don't like Vista doesn't mean others don't. On my desktop I happen to think my system runs smoother and faster and is easier to fix than with XP. To each his own, like several other +5 Insightful in this thread have mentioned...
People are lazy. Lazy people don't read their Terms of Service. We have Terms of Service because people are greedy and the law is set in such a way now that you have to pre-empt lawsuits.
Sad really. *If* people were more honest, a lot of the headaches in life would go away. Since they aren't going to become more honest, just read what the company says they are going to do with the information and determine if its worth the effort.
Me? I don't care. The likelihood that someone will be reading my e-mails is next to nil. The chances of them reading them before I receive them are lower still given they arrive almost as soon as they are sent.
For me, the trade off is acceptable. For when its not I find an alternative (e.g. go to the library, use notepad, etc).
Fun program, but it isn't the same. There is just something about really seeing something in person that photographs and simulations just can't capture.
Which is another boon for Open Source but people would rather complain that Debian is stupid or FireFox is stupid, depending which fanboyism is stronger in the individual.
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I'm with you there. Even worse is when you read a few articles from various writers on a site and think that its a great website with people you can have an interesting debate with, and then you get a total turdfest of a gem that ruins it forever for you.
For a whole week I was like that with Firedoglake, but then I made the mistake of reading the comments. *shudders* Freaking Digg users man...
While there are non-sport peaceful applications for the stuff, I hate it more than being called a warmonger when people assume liking the military/being in the military == warmongering.
I don't think there is a soldier alive that has seen real combat that wants to do that every day. Maybe a few one offs, but most of these people are doing it because they feel someone has to.
The sad part is they are right. This letter I think articulates the argument pretty well. There are bad people that will do bad things. You need your own kind of people that will stand up to them if you won't do it yourself.
And before you say "there are other ways" let me say you are right. There are. But the problem is those "other ways" don't work if only one side will go through with them, but violence can be responded in kind by anyone.
PS: I chose the most annoying looking page with the text of that letter. I apologize. You can find it elsewhere.
My laptop with 2GB RAM has no issues with Vista Ultimate x64. It does have an AMD64 Turion dual core though.
It came with Vista Home Basic pre-installed which DID run dog slow during everything. I'm pretty sure Microsoft, for whatever reason, purposely crippled the lower versions. Lord knows I've seen similar things happen when people misconfigure their GPO settings or make bad Registry changes manually.
"Since Sealand quite obviously has no chance in Hell in fighting off Great Britain, they're not sovereign."
I guess then a whole lot of countries are not "sovereign" because there is no chance in Hell they could fight off the United States, Great Britain, or Russia if either of those countries decided to go all out on them.
Show of force is not the only, nor even the best, way to prove your sovereignty. It just happens to be the "easiest".
I admit, I did too and wanted to know when the human rights organizations were going to jump on it.
There is a registry key you can create to do the same in Windows. Spend less than 5 minutes on Google and you will find it. Some people just LOVE to pretend the Group Policy is the end all be all of Windows. There is a whole quagmire of stuff that is undocumented with XP.
New laws aren't necessarily required for this. The prosecution is doing it wrong.
Bah i hate google sometimes. I meant this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldlyTjXk9A
One of the greater things about humanity is the capacity to take terrible things in stride. A lot of people can make jokes about truly horrific things such as this girl's death or the Holocaust that, so long as you understand it isn't serious, are funny.
Monty Python's "No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition" is a great example of this by the way.
Face it, "trolled to death" is a funny phrase. It's just ridiculous. The majority of people can't imagine being so depressed that it could even happen, even with (potential) evidence that it really did.
Disagree with me? Watch this and don't laugh.
GoogleDocs....
I'm by no means a graphic designer but DAMN. Even I can make text look weathered and blend in to fabric. Take a look at the uniform again, looks like someone put a 'better looking' font and blurred out the old or something.
Could be totally wrong, but then like I said I'm no graphics designer.
Probably not. I'd say a lot of people embrace 'mixing them up' to be honest.
In a lot of console games its move move move, pray and spray, move move, spray some more. Even on games where you want some precision, like COD4, I just can't do that with those analog controllers and whenever I watch people they seem to do the same thing.
Nothing with moving left while looking right and vice versa. I haven't yet met anyone that doesn't move both at the same time, though the directions don't necessarily match or mirror each other.
Whoa...
Didn't realize Vorgon's came to Slashdot.
Actually I wouldn't mind (hah) having control of my cursor via my eye movements. I just would want a way to toggle it on and off and for different devices on the fly.
I typically have 3 machines going at once in front of me and would *love* to be able to use only one input device and it would be so much faster if I could just look at where i need the cursor to be...
Probably when I'm dead they'll have it to the level I wish they had it at now, but I know *my* productivity would go up dramatically. The only thing I'd worry about is latency when I open a remote session.
It is a failure because it didn't catch any of its intended targets. Absolutely zero terrorists were caught, and the entire plan was pushed forward in the name of fighting terrorism not petty crime prevention.
By the way, 150,000 people were stopped because of this. Out of those 150,000 people that were read as "suspicious" only 1200 people were arrested. Less than that will probably face jail time.
Do you realize that is LESS than a 1% arrest rate? Less than 1% of people that are flagged as suspicious have any cause to be arrested and you are going to sit here DEFENDING the damn program?!
You sir, are an idiot. Stop talking. Good day.
It wasn't a merger. Face it, the Yahoo Ads division is a total joke. It's bleeding out cash because everyone wants Google's Ads for the most part.
Killing that division is a smart move, but they feel they have to have some form of ads on their search results if they want businesses to come to them. Still not following the logic at this point on that.
The point is though, they were going to become customers of Google. Just because a company *can* do something doesn't mean they should. Personally I think that this was a bad decision on the anti-trust fighter's part. It pretty much says if you have a web presence and are using google don't get too popular.
But, its not the same then!
I'll second that modern FPS games are more involved than they used to be. They actually require more skill than RPGs as well generally. For the "modern warfare" genre the days of pray and spray are almost entirely gone. Almost...
I'll say one thing though: It is sad that a lot of FPS single player campaigns are more imersive than most RPGs. COD4 and Crysis come to mind in that regard.
A fair amount of WoW players had never raided until Kharazan or what ever in Burning Crusade. I'm sure its fun, if you want to spend all of your time getting ready to do that. I personally have reached a point where that is no longer fun. I want to do stuff now.
This is why I largely enjoy WAR over WoW for an MMO, or even EVE. In WAR, I can do everything from the get go. Second I make a character, I'm queued up for some PvP. When I'm not in the mood for that, there's a huge enviroment to explore (Note: I love doing PvE in WoW up to a point for the same reason, the main difference being you need a group or raid in WoW to see a lot of it while in WAR the majority you *can* do solo). I have yet to see a game, even including DAOC, that can match the fun of a massive skirmish in an RvR lake. There's something about having 100 players fight over a castle that is fairly entertaining with only a few exceptions.
But truth be told, this is more why I play games like Oblivion or Fallout 3. Those are RPG video games that you can really just "do whatever" in and have fun doing it from the start. The only part I miss is the interaction with other people.
Blizzard has me skeptical at this point. Unless you are in a Guild that is fairly organized, and demanding on your time, you pretty much miss out on 1/3rd the content and the content they put the most effort into.
Burning Crusade damn near killed WoW (at least for the people I associate with. After that was out for 2 months SO many people just quit or started talking about up and coming MMOs and jumped ship later it surprised me) and the feature list of this new expansion read like they heard what was going to be in WAR and made sure they had what everyone was buzzing about.
I'll just wait for Diablo 3 before I give Blizzard more money. Would of said StarCraft 2, but unless they change the price or the rumor I'm not going to buy 3 versions so I can have all the armies.
News Flash: The Internet is a potentially dangerous place! There are bad things out there.
Is anyone particularly surprised that a business isn't actively trying to police it? That would be a huge sinkhole of money.
Oh and their anti-malware site protection on search results isn't perfect either. Occasionally stuff still slips through.
Nothing to see here, move along...
Just because YOU don't like Vista doesn't mean others don't. On my desktop I happen to think my system runs smoother and faster and is easier to fix than with XP. To each his own, like several other +5 Insightful in this thread have mentioned...
People are lazy. Lazy people don't read their Terms of Service. We have Terms of Service because people are greedy and the law is set in such a way now that you have to pre-empt lawsuits.
Sad really. *If* people were more honest, a lot of the headaches in life would go away. Since they aren't going to become more honest, just read what the company says they are going to do with the information and determine if its worth the effort.
Me? I don't care. The likelihood that someone will be reading my e-mails is next to nil. The chances of them reading them before I receive them are lower still given they arrive almost as soon as they are sent.
For me, the trade off is acceptable. For when its not I find an alternative (e.g. go to the library, use notepad, etc).
Fun program, but it isn't the same. There is just something about really seeing something in person that photographs and simulations just can't capture.
Which is another boon for Open Source but people would rather complain that Debian is stupid or FireFox is stupid, depending which fanboyism is stronger in the individual.
Windows XP x64 uses the Server 2003 x64 kernel.