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Nearly anything is better than ribbon cables. aibrahim writes "In the recent /. article about Serial ATA some people wanted to know where SCSI was going, and if Serial ATA could deal with some higher end workstation and low end server requirements. Apparently it has been decided that Serial ATA 2 (pdf doc) and Serial Attached SCSI are the answers."
Because being an American is all about first-person shooters. and i starve writes: "For any of you FPS fans out there who have been champing at the bit to see the newest product of our very own government's attempt at a multiplayer video game since Marine Doom your day has final come. America's Army, which utilizes the Unreal Warfare engine was created and designed by the United States Army and is TOTALLY FREE! go grab it off of File Planet right now!"
Before you hit your "JINGO" button, though, An anonymous reader cautions "In typical Army fashion the release of America's Army is a bust. All the servers are either full or down and the way it's set up, you can't play past the basic training without completing some of the training online. Since you can't connect to any of the servers to complete that training you basically can't play the game at all. What a waste of taxpayer money."
Nobody needs to make any cracks about this. Anonymous Coward writes "According to this CNN Article, [some cracks were] found on Space Shuttle Columbia this week, possibly delaying missions for the remainder of the year. This crack is similar to the crack found on Columbia's sister ships, Atlantis and Discovery. "
Worst pun in relation to this gets no prize.
Shouldn't it be first crack in this case?
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
The load will lighten up eventually. Check out the rules of engagement on their site. Will it stop cheating? Not a chance. But maybe they could knock one or two doors down, just for show.
Crack found in third space shuttle
You'd think they were getting high enough already...
Jingoism, indeed.
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." - George Bush
I have to commend Apple on one thing, it isn't their crap for kernel OSX nor is it their candy-coated, not meant for serious use user interface. The thing that really stands out about Apples is the case design.
The problem with PC cases is that it is difficult to get into and install components, at least more difficult than it has to be. Apples have the nice fold-out side panel so that opening the box means having all the components open for review right away. All cables are nicely laid so that there isn't the twisting, jumbled, leaning against the CPU and slowly melting ribbon cable problem that afflicts poorly designed PC cases.
I'm sure that such cases are available for non-Apples, but having been component shopping this past weekend, I can attest to their dearth. Why must PC cases be stuck so far in the past? Can't we learn anything from our friends (not the software people) in Mt. View?
I have been pwned because my
Can I take a crack at it?
Why does the army not release America's Army for the Mac or Linux? Is this an even against all of what a government stands for, they are promoting a single company, which actually has been convicted of anti-trust (M$).
The army needs to figure out they are doing something against the law by promoting a company that was convicted of anti-trust.
"In typical Army fashion the release of America's Army is a bust. All the servers are either full or down and the way it's set up, you can't play past the basic training without completing some of the training online. Since you can't connect to any of the servers to complete that training you basically can't play the game at all. What a waste of taxpayer money."
Wow! I applaud the Army's foray into online gaming, they've cloned every aspect of online gaming, kudos! Tomorrow, there will be a patch, the next day, another one, but that one will break your savegames, but that won't matter, because the master server will still be down....
(Still pissed I can't find a decent roleplaying NWN server....)
look in the install dir /system/tours.ini
:)
make sure the following sections look like this,
Dependency(0)=-1
Dependency(1)=-1
Dependency(2)=-1
Dependency(3)=-1
Dependency(4)=-1
Dependency(5)=-1
Dependency(6)=-1
Dependency(7)=-1
Dependency(8)=-1
(farther down)
TourSeq(0)=0
TourSeq(1)=0
TourSeq(2)=0
TourSeq(3)=0
TourSeq(4)=0
TourSeq(5)=0
TourSeq(6)=0
TourSeq(7)=0
TourSeq(8)=0
There - now you can do all the training offline
Hey, maybe somebody could reverse-engineer the server protocol for the FPSes so people can set up their own servers.
http://www.pcgameworld.com/company.php/id/666
:)
If you go to that link now, you will find that that is the information about the Army game developers. Conviently, it also has the number 666 as its ID in the database.
Coincidence? I think not!
-Vic
does anyone else find the choice of venues rather strange?
however I'll be at a family reunion that day so it's a moot point for me.
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3dgamers has it here
Apparently it has been decided that Serial ATA 2 (pdf doc) and Serial Attached SCSI are the answers."
I'm usually a supporter of ATA hard disks in all but the most high end servers, due to the outrageous cost benefits they offer, but this is just stupid.
SCSI is a far superior technology, there is no denying that. ATA is a hack ontop of a hack, just barely "good enough" in most cases. Only recently have large ATA RAIDs been available, through people like AXUS, Promise, and 3ware, by placing one controller per disk. Another hack on top of a hack, but very cost effective, and it works well.
If we are going to change our interface anyway, why not get rid of the SCSI vs ATA argument completely and just stick with one or the other?
I see no need for a serial SCSI and a serial ATA except for reasons of price descrimination against people who think SCSI is more reliable due to supersitions and tech mythology. The HDAs have been the same in many cases for a long time.
So why not ditch Serial ATA, or ditch serial SCSI, or ditch both and use a mature technology like Fibre Channel (which is already basically serial SCSI).
I don't see what this fragmentation gets us.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Getting more and more like Britain in C19. Oh well, pride, fall, etc.
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Its commmendable that they got it out pretty early, rather than making us wait for years (Duke Nukem). But there are a couple of things which are a bit funny.
:)
After picking up your rifle, if I head off straight to the firing range, boom, the game brings me back in to face the seargeant. After this has happened a couple of times, I kinda loitered around the place after picking up my rifle, And bingo!, the Seargent asks me to move my butt, and I am placed in front of the firing range.
Interestingly, if you pick up your rifle, load up a clip and decide to get rid of the snappy sergeant, then you still could. But a moment later, you are in a 4x4 cell with a cot and a couple of books and could pretty much hear some one playing some musical instrument in the next cell. I guess there were others who tried the same thing.
So there are a couple of issues like the server being unresponsive (thousands of wannabe soldiers trying to connect) and the game not being as colorful as the unreal series. But hey, the realism of the game is what gets me. That and the fact that I scored 36 out of 40 in the Test Firing range. Do you think the US Army would hire sharpshooters based on this score ?
Rapid Nirvana
Uncle Sam wants you to go and frag those biznatches!
Don't give me none of this "nature theme" business.
It will provide universal interconnect with Serial ATA, while offering logical SCSI compatibility
They're using the same physical layer as Serial ATA and doing SCSI on top. A new computer industry standard does the opposite of gratuitous incompatibility (gratuitous compatibility?) and probably makes things *more* convenient. What a pleasant surprise!
I swear you people are sad.
Someone puts somthing out as an advertisment and you bitch that it wasn't advertisted on all platforms.
Xandros are laying people off, is nobody going to mention this?
Great, so, where's the patch that turns it into a The Sims-style system for the Army Corps of Engineers, where you go around installing solar roofs and handing out educational systems to disadvantaged third-world nations?
The only way to win is to not breed the festering terrorists that the marines have to shoot at in the first place.
I kind of like the fragmentation of the different standards. the old ones that are no good will fall away in time, but the new ones will always have advancements making them even more versatile.
/like/ my Syquest SCSI cartridge drive)
For example, my PC has both an IDE expansion (7 IDE devices) and a SCSI card (2 devices) since they don't interfere with each other, i can have up to 24 devices, which is more than i could have with just IDE ATA expansion cards. I rather like the fact that my SCSI card can do 16 devices all on one cable where i have to add a new IDE channel for every 2 ATA drives i want.
Both hap there ups and downs, but they are well mached ups and downs. if we only had one interface, then we would have downs that we couldn't get past.
Imagine if noone ever made the PCI interface, and we had to use hacked together ISA connections for all of our add-ons. Noone complains that a new AGP bus is coming out, and complaints are few for other new interfaces. Anything that is better than what we have is, well, better than what we have.
I can't wait to get more interfaces. But i will always use the old ones, in conjunction. (I happen to
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Another patch that's needed is to have internet-wide messaging capabilities with the Bablefish or Google-API translations, which would naturally be represented in the game with a handheld universal translator
For example, will I be able to shoot myself in the foot and get off the front line if I get scared?
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
The government of the United States presents this great first person shooter to you, bundled with your own personalized version of Magic Lantern! I mean, all you're doing is going around shooting people, it's not like they'd want to spy all over your computer. Just don't tell Osama, I hope he downloads it and they catch him!
> words such "gay" or "jew" will not be tolerated
:(
This is going to be weird for most FPS fans. From personal experience, thats like, 90% of the vocabulary used in Quake 3 online.
Where are the parents? Or maybe they dont care.
"Old man yells at systemd"
If this really is a true simulation of the US military, wouldn't that mean it might give away information on our army to anyone in the world that might want to know this intelligence? This worries me, I hope they didn't include any sensitive information in it.
Whatever gave you the idea that we give a shit what you or anyone else thinks?
(bonus points - be sure to use the words "arrogant" and "cowboys" in your reply)
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
>> This crack is similar to the crack found on Columbia's sister ships, Atlantis and Discovery. "
Your obsession with your sister's crack is really more than I care to contemplate....
it's called Fibre Channel. 'SAS' digresses. SCSI should rightfully die as a transport. Fibre channel already transports SCSI-3, TCP/IP, and others over a single pair loop configuration similar to ethernet. 'Infiniband' will be the forth coming 10GB general replacement for Fibre Channel...
Serial ATA is of course a joke. What should be done is to standardize a basic non-SCA cabling scheme and spec for 'consumer' rated Fibre Channel, instead of going on with this ridiculous ATA bullshit. (Like SCSI should have been standardized on years ago.)
I find this an interesting contrast to the past few years where people have tried various things ranging from restricting sales of violent games (especially FPSs) to banning them outright, with claims that they were causing kids to want to kill each other.
So the US Army comes along and makes a violent FPS. Why aren't they complaining? Apparently it's bad if Id does it, but it's alright for the army.
Who are they expecting needs to be faught against, anyway?
Ok so now I cant even play this game b/c my voodoo card is unsupported. Seems you cant use any voodoo 1/2/3 cards....bullshit! So I guess i wont try it out.
none but yourselves.
and, btw, whatever gave you the idea that someone give a shit about what you [usa people] think?
You boorish, colonial cowboys are far too arrogant.
We have a winner :-)
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
What happened, did the astronaut's bend over wear'n plumber's pants?
"Just Smile and Nod." --Huck
> Whatever gave you the idea that we give a shit what you or anyone else thinks?
heh, you really know how to describe your attitude
I would replace "cowboy" with "redneck" cause few americans are cowboys, but they sure are a lot of rednecks in USia
cracks were] found on Space Shuttle Columbia this week, possibly delaying missions for the remainder of the year. This crack is similar to the crack found on Columbia's sister ships, Atlantis and Discovery
I heard that Colombia's crack is the best of all of them.
You, my man, have set yourself on a course fraught with difficulties and despair.
Good luck. I applaud your choice in battles.
As my father lik@(munch munch)...
I'm with you on that one. But every nation has its rednecks...
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
You're right, you don't give a shit to outsiders. Instead, you keep throwing shit everywere inside your own places.
You know, they design nuclear weapons, but won't let me play with them. :(
;)
Man, that sucks. What the hell?
Yeah, yeah, not the same thing, but it almost is. Military tech need not be shared with civilians, and in fact, it probably shouldn't be, if you're a 'Citizens are just waiting to revolt!' type.
FPS training, though. That's interesting. Maybe I should sign up, I was a terror with my AWP back when Counterstrike didn't suck.
Where's the Greenpeace patch?
;)
Homer: "Don't worry, we have orders not to fire on anyone but Greenpeace."
Does anyone else remember the whole Marvel "no-prize" thing?
Gracefully? It would've been graceful if Washington, at the end, was hiding in a tree like Charlie, sniping.
:P
Gracefully? By the end, we fought on England's terms and thrashed them handily. (And again some years later.)
Gracefully? An officer of our navy sacked several towns on English shores. English shores!
Gracefully? They could've kept fighting. And if they did, they would've continued to lose. Graceful? It was more a surrender than anything else.
They should've tried to tax tobacco. No one gives a flying fark about tea, but you wouldn't have seen anyone throwing good tobacco into the ocean.
For what it's worth, I know the art director on the Army Game project very well. Luke Ahearn is a real class act and will listen to any concerns you guys have.
I used to work with him several years ago when he ran Goldtree Enterprises. They created Cylindrix and Dead Reckoning. They also released a number of FRPG utilities to help GMs run games. The web site is still online.
Review of Cylindrix
Review of Dead Reckoning
It's really a pleasure to see the fruits of labor finally. Army Game has been pretty hush-hush since Luke left New Orleans for the project.
If Nalgene water bottles are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nalgene water bottles.
If "graceful" includes the Revolutionary war, impressment of US sailors, and the war of 1812 in which they marched on our capital and burned the White House, I'd hate to see what "grudgingly" looks like.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
This is actually a ploy to pluck out people who the US government thinks are a security risk - what better way than with a video game? you can assess players tactical ability, skills, reflexes, and more importantly, what makes them tick. Also they are in league with microsoft :)
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I'm having a helluva time downloading it. All the mirrors I can find are swamped too. I've managed to pull maybe 80 meg of it to a machine at work that's hanging off a T3, but even that's been painful. The servers keep dropping the connection, and if it wasn't for resumable downloads, I wouldn't have gotten anywhere.
Anybody know of a "reliable" mirror?
You don't have to wait in line at FilePlanet. Use the mirrors.
mod it up!!
Yes, the venue choices are really odd. I have looked at one or two of the other categories and all the venues are odd...
LordBodak's journal.
A station is similar to what the US types call a ranch, although ranches are very small. Jackeroos (and Jilleroos) go out and round up the cattle or sheep in the paddocks.
Given that the americans come over here to see the real bush, as opposed to those market gardens and spelling pens you call "ranches", they should move their national day to something more appropriate, like 26 Jan.
OS/2 - because choice is a terrible thing to waste.
Actually, the Canadians burned the White House when we tried to invade them. Sure, they act all polite but deep down they're irritable snowbound bastards.
If you fear bin Laden or Al Queda I think you're taking the threat a little too seriously. Since the attack on Tora Bora there simply haven't been any new bin Laden videos with actual new footage of the man himself.
On the other hand, America's enemies are not simply limited to crazy Arabic peoples bitter about America's hegemony. They include a very wary China, a not quite mentally stable North Korea, and a beaten but not cowed Iraq. The thing is, though, that they likely already have our secrets. So basically, it's way too late to worry about the possibility that this game is going to give away military secrets.
I have been pwned because my
I wonder why some idiotic moderators were capable to set this stupid post as "4:Funny". Isn't it obvious this is a typical troll? Oh, for a moment I forgot that Slashdot is run by usa buddies, so all this crap makes sense.
You'll let us know when you've graduated sniper school won't you?
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=army_download
I've had the best luck with the split files.
Search for These files on Kazaa:
Army.1 (19.5MB)
Army.2 (19.5MB)
Army.3 (19.5MB)
Army.4 (19.5MB)
Army.5 (19.5MB)
Army.6 (19.5MB)
Army.7 (19.5MB)
Army.8 (19.5MB)
Army.9 (19.5MB)
Army.10 (13.5MB)
Merge.bat (1KB)
run the merge batchfile to combine downloads
So the latest shuttle launch was cancelled just before the first Israeli crew member was to go into space on it. Does anyone else wonder if the crack is just the story on the press release?
I'm having trouble finding a working version for Linux or Mac OS X. Can anybody point me in the right direction? ArmyOpsRecon.exe doesn't seem to work for me.
This is going to be weird for most FPS fans. From personal experience, thats like, 90% of the vocabulary used in Quake 3 online.
:(
...and pretty much anything with 'crap' in it, such as: :)
:P
Where are the parents? Or maybe they dont care.
As an avid quake3er, I can attest to this, as I am one of the biggest offenders out there. I pay $70 for crappy DSL that won't get me under 100 ping on any server in the known universe, and I cannot swear at all around real people. SO I take my frustrations out on the unsuspecting "virtual people" on Jolt1 in the UK. I'm trying to knock off some of the more filthy things, but some of my favorite things to say are:
"That was worse than giving Chewbacca a blowjob!" when my team gets owned 8 - 0
Craptastic, craptacular, crapulous, crappity crap crap crap, etc.
As for my parents, well seeing as I am 26, they live on the other side of town. And when dad is stuck in rush hour, mom is cooking dinner, and junior is "doing his homework," I'll bet the parents are trusting their kids to be polite and not looking over their shoulders every minute of every day.
When I have kids and internet access, you're darn right I am going to filter and log all kinds of crap, and moderate my children's usage whenever necessary... but who has time to sit over their kid's shoulder while gaming to make sure they don't say "You stupid jew fag!"
-[H]olyGeekboy
SlashSigTheorem: Humorous, Political, Critical, Constructive- If you have a
I so hate it when people who *actually know about something* sre ignored by the /. crowd just because they're not 'in the flow' of whatever parochial, or paranoid discussion happens to be taking place at the time.
Brak: What's THAT?
Thundercleese: A light switch.. of TOTAL DEVASTATION!
the mirrors at
shacknews are quite good, and not overloaded.
Also, instead of using Gamespy Arcade to find servers to play on, plain old Gamespy works better and isn't full of ads in your face. Unfortunately the protocol is closed ("powered by gamespy") or something so All Seeing Eye doesn't work with it.
you're reaching, but your sig is good enough for me!
Blar.
I have never seen a video game so aptly demonstrate what goes terribly wrong when you try to get anything done with an overfunded bureaucracy. Kudos to the developers! :)
Actually from what little I can tell from the training missions (since I can't get on an fscking server), it looks like it could be really good. If only they had either:
1) insured that there were plenty of good servers
2) dropped the silly requirement of playing one map before you could play the others
Should be interesting to see how they handle this. I'm sure it will be handled in an amply bureaucratic and ineffective way.
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"If I meet you/I'll control-alt-delete you."
-- Weird Al "All About The Pentiums"
I stayed up late this morning trying to download it from nVIDIA. I finally got it and put it on my server. It is available here:
http://andrewhitchcock.org/ArmyOpsRecon.exe
It may be slow, but as of last night, it was still faster than the official mirrors who are swamped (and it beats waiting in FilePlanet's line).
And did you ever think about the fact that we don't give a shit about you not giving a shit that we don't give a shit about giving and not giving a shit? And you cared enough to reply...so someone gives a shit somewhere.
:-)
Anyway, looking at the world today, can you honestly say no one gives a shit? It is practically full of shit, so someone somewhere is giving a shit (and plenty of it) about someone giving and/or not giving a shit about shit, so your shitty idea about no one giving a shit isn't worth shit.
Facts collected: We say we don't give a shit. You say you don't give a shit.
But it shows otherwise, and the only logical conclusion is that we are all full of shit, continually giving and taking shit all day and night for the rest of our lives, and are just as full of shit as the next group.
Just imagine that...groups of people priding themselves in not being arrogant, and all they do is dance about with the delusion of superiority claiming that they are better because they are less arrogant. That sounds like a shit sandwich to me.
Anyway, if all you want to do is talk shit, why don't you get straight to the point and eat my ass?
For all of you out there that aren't signed up for slashdot subscription ( I'm one them ) it's time to relize the benefit of the model.
I'm a subscriber to gamespot complete. As a member I get access to their download network. Honestly I forget the name of the provide, someone please respond with it.
Anyways, I was queued for the download before it was released. The second is was, I was first in line for it. I got home for my 4th festivities to find it waiting for me.
Just think of it as a magazine subscriptions with benifits. Sign up for you favorite site!!, put your $ where you mouth is
Interestingly, it appears that the Army game uses Ogg Vorbis for sound... :)
In the system folder of its directory I see the files vorbis.dll and vorbisfile.dll.
If that's the case, I think it's pretty cool...
Now if only they dropped the whole Windows thing
Gigabit Ethernet is not currently a replacement for FC by any means, I'm afraid, unless you discount the whole SAN concept. I think I still have a few years left before I need to think about switch careers (again)...
(this is not a
So, where can I download a version that doesn't require supporting a convited monopoly? I don't own an XBox, and I'm NOT turning my PC into one.
With that money they could have killed extra terrrorists ! They could have bought 1000 murderous machine guns, 1/1500th of a bloody B2 bomber, 1/20th of an Apache helicopter or 1/736th of an intercontinental nuke.
I mean, get some perspective. That's even less money they can spend killing people or they can use to fund terrorists
Seeing that all the download servers are swamped, I'm wondering why nobody uses a P2P server (i.e. gnutella) to allow people to download the game. As more people download the game, and if they feel generous enough to share, there are more servers available to download from. This would allow easier access to getting the game files. All (i think) would be needed is a central program which can verify the file has not been tampered with (md5 checksum?).
With all this banging on about illegal p2p, i wish somebody would put it to good use. What would be better than gnutella is that p2p system mention here a wee bit back (can't be bothered linking). This allows people to download off another user while they are still downloading. I'm sure it would solve a lot of the downloading problems at the moment.
On the game itself, I haven't tried downloading it yet (with it being a 200MB file, and me having a dial-up) but it was a bit crazy of them to only have a couple of servers. I think they might release the servers with the full-game, as I think the RECON version is a beta of some sort. But it should be good (and its free!!).
Coincidence? I think not! :)
Nonono. Pick one:
BH
Fools! They laughed at me at the Sorbonne...!
Even though the cracks in parts of the space shuttle are serious and mean that the space program is delayed even more. I can see some of the headlines. "Columbia crack sinks hope for Atlantis. Discovery causes concern for scientists." Yeah yeah, sue me. :p I need a coffee.
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Owner - ReplicaNet and RNLobby
I love the Orwellian double-speak above the pic on the front page of that link:
Operation: DEFEND YOURSELF ?
Maybe someone should tell the US Military that 'offense' is *not* defense...
Its funny how the US calls its armed forces 'defence forces' and such - when in reality, the US Army is the most offensive force in the world. There is virtually no chance of armed conflict in North America (oceans as natural barriers), but American military is not meant to 'defend' themselves - its meant to goto war around the world. Just look at any of the 70 armed conflicts USofA has been involved in since WWII.
Defence my ass. Warmongers -- and this "Video Game" is patent jinogism (inspite of the editors non sequitor).
I scored 36 out of 40 in the Test Firing range. Do you think the US Army would hire sharpshooters based on this score ?
Only if they let you aim your M-16 with a mouse.
"The US Army wants to make you it's bitch!"
is IP, of course. See the IP Storage set of standards-in-development that includes iSCSI (IPS charter here).
Etherhet cabling is much cheaper than all the other stuff out there, and with 10G Ethernet just standardized, it goes faster too.
hehe dude you've got way to much free time ...
:D
how long did it take you to figure that out?
It's funny, and slightly mind boggling at the same time
I believe the post you were commenting on was referring to Fibre Channel as a mature technology as compared to serial ATA or serial SCSI. Fibre channel is by far and away faster than any other disk arrangements out there, and trumping out the silly FC-AL arguments is old. fibre channel switches do the same for your FC array as a true switch does for your network, compared to a hub. a fully switched mesh for your drives? at 2GB/sec ? I'll take it.
for that matter, the logic for a FC drive isn't that much worse than a SCSI drive, so you can just pick up the same drives as FC disks... we have piles of them for sun boxes, and they work very well.
FC-SCSI bridges are mostly used for lower-end storage devices, to cut down on cost. they have some value in the sense that you can have multiple scsi controllers accessing the drives in an enclosure(usually a proprietary setup, but useful) and then backending FC onto that. this allows for massive redundancy and we all know how much it sucks to have a controller blow at 4 am with no backup!
FC-SCSI bridges are also used for things like tape archives, cheap storage boxes, etc, when you're looking for a way to use that DLT library with your spiffy new SAN.
Don't mock what you don't understand, please.
EOM
It would have been cooler if the actual sum of the numbers was 666.
It is not.
I can't/am too lazy to find an article now but it's interesting how they set it up so your always on the US army team and the other team is always the terrorists. Intestesting how that actually adds to the realism in a way because in the eyes of both teams they are always the good guys defending their country and their way of life against the evil forgein terrorists.
On a side note I think actually making the game is a brilliant move by the army. From the sounds of it it cost somewhere around 5-7 million which is fairly small compared to most advertising campaigns. Combine that with the fact that it is free HUGE numbers of people will download it and it could easily become the most widely played FPS considering the fact that it is a retail quality game and it's free. Imagine Toyota put out a Need for Speed style racing game like this? Just by putting their name at the begainning like any game company does they will get a lot of loyalty from geeks everywhere which will be certainly be a lot more effective than any ad campaign. People tend to like you a lot more when you are directly giving them something very entertaining for free that usually costs money, than when you are just shoving ads in their face.
I stole this Sig
Get 40 out of 40 with a REAL gun, then maybe they would talk (Sniper school is one of the hardest to get into).
Since there are 18 numbers involved, all the author would have to do is have a short program that figures out all possibilities of adding/subtracting those numbers, which is a fairly small number, 2^18=262144. You could point it towards any number, and you are likely to to find the right combination of adding/subtracting.
It's only a matter of time.
no.
you get 40 out of 40, and put most of them through the same hole, then they will be interested.
I watch a guy out 12 shots through the same hole. That's impressive.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Very little guesswork needed! None of that 262144 guesses.
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So does America's Army let you bomb Canadians?
> I'd hate to see what "grudgingly" looks like.
Northern Ireland.
And they left right fucking mess with India/Pakistan. I am sure there are a few other former colonies with no love lost for the British.
Even if we look at one of their recent almost graceful withdrawals, they really left Hong Kong (aka Chinese Takeaway) up shit creek with a paddle, all the last minute attempts at democracy dont seem to have helped much. It might work out in the end though.
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