metadigital

I only have laptops at the moment, so my cables are all printed circuits on IC boards. :D The cables that snake out of my docking station are all tidied away, though, so that I can keep everything clean. I remember way back when I first started work, whilst still at school, as a PC repairman and I confounded a user by diagnosing his keyboard problem as a voltage jump across the PC's cables (including the keyboard cable); I simply separated them and the problem was solved. :D (Stupid unshielded cables.) When I buy my next PC, which will be a gaming rig, I will pay particular attention to air flow, and that means keeping the cables tidy (though one must be mindful of coiling any unshielded cables ... ).

As the train is empty of people, I would derail it.

That happens IRL, though (to me at least), when I pick up a conversation much later as it occurs to me that I don't know the conclusion to it (and so I can't store and appropriately categorize the facts elicited from it when my mind does its admin functions), because I left it dangling due to a tangential discussion sparked by a tiny detail ... :D

That's because Republicans (being one of only two parties that can take office) just happened to be the party that fundamentalist religious groups sided with; they couldn't very well side with the libertarian Democrats, even though

I don't think anyone here morally disagrees with the 100 (red. Iraqies) defending themselves.. although many would probably disagree from either a political/religious or pragmatic viewpoint.. also a tougher moral dilemma usually involves the ones you ask and a tangible number of other people to sacrifised .. like this one: let's say you were in a control room in a trainstation - you suddenly see a train approaching a Y split - on one of the tracks 5 men are reparing a signal (all wearing headphones which means they can't her the train) and on the other track a single man is inspecting the rails (also wearing headphones).. none of them are noticing, or will notice, the approaching train.. the train will hit the five men unless you redirect it.. which only requires you to psuh a single button.. what will you do? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Stop the train, of course. ^_^

I think of all the major religions Buddhism makes the most sense. I'm secular humanist myself. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was going to correct you and say that Buddhism is a philosophy, but it seems that it is more correctly termed a "non-theistic religion (which seems to be self-contradictory, but then again it is metaphysics ). Jung did some non-insignificant study of religion, and he came to the conclusion that Eastern religions were different to Western ones as introverts are different to extroverts in personal psychology; namely that the path to enlightenment in the Orient was through a deeper understanding of the self, whereas the Occident sought to find wisdom through a synthesis of the efforts of others: he reasoned that we need both approaches to facilitate individuation (which was what he believed should be the ultimate goal of a person, usually manifesting at Lebenswende, more commonly referred to as a mid-life crisis: "is this all there is to life?", etc; i.e. right back to metaphysics). Thought this was relevant, too: Major world religions Advaitic(monist) atheist Hindus do accept the idea of a universal principle called Brahman. Consciousness is said to be a property of this universal principle. The physical universe is relatively real, superimposed on Brahman, the absolute reality. The soul is regarded as the consciousness within us. However the individuality of the soul is illusory. Actually all souls are non different from Brahman. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That means Brahman is actually identical to Jung's collective unconscious.

Allegedly ... "

HI-larious juxtaposition.

You're heartless, LC: that's an old archetype.

That is excellent. And NO, I don't feel old just because I remember Tiffany's original version.

Why? Why wouldn't it? The people leading my country don't share the same values as the majority of its inhabitants. Thats not a good thing. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You are guilty of perverting statistics to make your point. FWIIW, Tony Blair's Labour government only secured a vote in the low thirties (33% I think, can't be bothered to check) to win the last General Election in the UK. It happens a lot in democracies, especially with more than a couple of factions to vote for (check out Iraq) and especially when the voting isn't very sophisticated (first past the post is the worst type of dumbing down).

What about toys used for learning aids?

It's pertinent to point out the constituents of "dust" at this point, as some people would be prone to more of it than others (say pet owners, for example). If you keep the pressure higher inside the case (and the case closed!) then that will also help to reduce the dust settling inside.

Well, I wouldn't think so, it can only happen if your controller is operating on the same frequency as another one, say, and they are both within range of each other. I'm just trying to thin outside the box.

The only thing I can think of is that design feels that it becomes too unforgiving. Either that or there is some other issue that I'm not familiar with that makes keeping them in the alerted state problematic. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sounds like Mr Hassat would like Far Cry. I think the only weakness in the Deus Ex gameplay is the limited alarm; now when I play I am not very bothered if I trip an alarm as long as I can get to a hiding place shortly after and wait thirty seconds. The alarm set-up in Splinter Cell is more appropriate, I think, as it tracks total infringements (and whether Sam hides the bodies). Haven't we had this discussion before?

Yeah, the magazine journalists saw it when they went to interview 3dRealms for Prey.

Really? What else is it used for (those poor programmers ... )

I am led to believe that the developers have been play-testing the game since before Prey was revealed, so the gameplay should be second-to-none.

Havok is a plug-in for the engine ... the programmers still have to script the procedure jumps.

Who me? I don't need any "proof". I am merely stating the most probable history, as I have discovered through my own research. I don't have a vested interest either way.

A. He'll only kill you with the sword. And then you can rule the galaxy on your own! And why is Pop-eye playing Lord Crockwrath?

Yes.

Windows CE.

Have you spoken to the religious fundamentalists lately? They are all convinced that the Jews killed Jesus. (But they forgive them because Jesus knew God's plan and wanted to sacrifice himself for "our" sins.) And you don't need to convince me that Jesus the Christ (pious title that conferred political as well as religious authority) was crucified (a political punishment used by the Romans: the Jewish fathers had every right to stone anyone they wanted to death for trespasses) as a rabble rouser, you need to convince those-that-will-never-believe-you, who have their own concept of Jesus (the religious one).

Yeah, Ciar