In fact the last time I remember a game being shoved out THIS badly broken was Vampire:Bloodlines and that one at least had the excuse of the developer going tits up.

There's a bit more to the story, but yeah. And worth noting that they then worked, unpaid, to put out a patch that fixed the worst of it.

Fantastic game, even though.

In Europe, for about 10 years we have had a series of legal restrictions on what diesle engined can emit, called Euro 1, Euro 2, etc.

From Euro 4, these have been met by running the engine very hot, which creates masses of oxides of Nitrogen, and then neutralising the NOx by squirting ammonia into the exhaust pipe. his works fine in a laboratory environment. Unfortunately, a truck can go from buring 20 ccs of fuel per hour to burning 2 litres a second* in two turns of the crank shaft, and there's not a bat's chance in hell of getting the ammonia to match the NOx during the transition. These engines produce very fine particulates that can go strait through the skin - and enter the blood through the lungs very easily. Real life pollution is very bad. Unfortunately, the option of running the engines cooler and filtering out the lumps of carbon mechanically, was ruled out, because the people selling the Ammonia (pig's piss, sold as "Ad-Blue") paid vast bribes to the European comissioners. MAN Diesel demonstrated an engine that could do this but did not put it into production "for commercial reasons".

Manging the supply of, and carrying expensive 5% Ammonia solution around with them is something truck owners and drivers would go a long way to avoid - though whether that goes as far as buying auto-transmission trucks (which is MAN's product) is another question. They are really difficult to reverse into a loading bay with potholes near where the rear axles come to rest (ie most loading bays). We are talking up to FIVE rear axles here.

* Think: reaches bottom of hill in fully loaded 44 ton truck at just over 56MPH (truck speed limit for Europe) and stamps on the throttle pedal of a 16 litre turbo-charged engine as he hits the incline of the upward hill.

Nothing enw here, move along please

It has been standard practice for at least 10,000 years to hold eggs up to the light and look through them to see if they are fertile. To aid this, you hold them over an egg shaped aperture with a light behind it. In the 1960's when I was taught to do it, it was called "candelling" although we used a 60W bulb (for turkey eggs). Candles are not very bright.

I undertand that the key feature here is to collect multiple, random, scattered rays, and then use "simultaneous equations" to create a 3-D image with a computer instead of a human brain. Most people here (/.) have been pissing on "with a computer" patents for a good ten years.

The problem with Karl Marx, as with most economists of any stripe, is they are incredibly short sighted, and cannot see beyond the present generation very easily.

Thus B replaced A (Aristocrats) by revolution and good business sense, just a generation or three before Karl lived. So he expected P would replace B eventually (because that's what progress means). He failed to take into account original sin, thus B & P really aren't that much better than A, the feudal lords they replaced.

I do know a lot of sysadmins that are now eager to switch to the first good systemd-free Debian fork.

Only if it is completely Unity-Free and WIfi survives a re-boot, even if with static IPs.

...or Get Smart episode? - You be the judge.

Let's face it, it is a merchandising excuse. Di$ney will have fresh Star Wars everything on sale. The movie will be guaranteed to have some cloyingly cute character which can be marketed to kids. Taco Bell and McDonalds will have special toys. They'l re-re-re-re-release extended cuts or special editions of the damned movies. Little children will have R2D2 pyjamas and underpants. And diapers. And sippy cups. And hats. And halloween costumes. Disney will eventually put out 9 more movies, of ever diminishing artistic merit. There will be friggin' Ewok porn. I'm nostalgic about the first series. I mostly liked the second series but it had some issues. But I tried to watch Episode I with my wife, and within five minutes of Jar Jar Binks appearing on screen she said "if he's in the rest of this film I'm leaving". So now if I want to watch it I'm on my own, and the pod racer scene is mostly how I calibrate my home theater. I honestly can't decide if I will see this or not. But let's not for a minute pretend this is being done for any reason besides the zillions of dollars Disney expects to wring from this franchise. If they were doing a billion a year in merchandising for Cars years after it was released, you won't believe the marketing blitz which will accompany this.

So, EXACTLY like the original trilogy?

You appear to be one of the same. You are confusing fundamentalism with moderatism, and then wrapping that up in a nice generalisation which betrays your utter lack of rationality when it comes to people who look different to you. If you are not simply trolling, you are a terrible human being, and your parents and society failed you. The last line shows that you really do like to substitute empirical fact with your own warped ideas of the world, which explains a lot.

I'm simply highlighting that what this guy says should be taken with a pinch of salt as he's not even rational enough to understand that a loud minority does not speak for nearly 2 billion people. Thinking about it, I couldn't give a rat's ass about votes. I've got karma to burn, and I can think of no better way to spend it than showing people that muppets like this exist, and that they are drenched in hate to the point they can't even think rationally. Whatevs, yeah?

This.

Because America doesn't already have the highest per-capita rate of firearms ownership and the highest per-capita rate of homicides by firearm in the world.

Oh, wait...

So you think the media just gloms on to the democrats because they like blue? Because that (or some equally shallow reason) is what would have to happen for zraider to not be implying there are differences in the parties. And your sig is cute! Kawaiiii desuuu!

Yes, you are generalizing, but then using that generalization to tar and feather entire, varied sections of society. You can pretend that it's "levity", but it's demonstrably just lazy thinking. Oh, and calling out moronic behaviour and attitudes isn't hateful, just honest. It might seem hateful to have one's bullshit called out, but that hate lies squarely in the brain of the bullshit peddler.

Those are contained within the caveat offered by the OP. You seem to be willing to do anything to keep this notion of "them vs. us" alive in your head. That's the scary part, and inherently dangerous to boot.

The third strong party in the UK is an anomaly. They only exist to threaten taking votes from the main parties which don't pander to the third party's voters. FPTP is broken.