Having played this game religiously for 3 years, I might not have the most impartial perspective but I can still say that I've tried the other games mentioned and have found none as entertaining as tremulous. Your ability to walk on walls/ceiling on the alien side will most likely be the first thing to grab your attention. Once you get used to that, you'll enjoy the fact that those little critters you always fought in single-player FPSs now have a human intelligence behind them, giving rise to quite an intricate style of combat. Aside from this, the way in which spawns are placed by the builder-classes along with the defences and other support structures gives the game a more dynamic feel. All in all, the game is just FUN and I recommend it whole-heartedly.
If you are interested in trying it, the latest official version (1.1) is actually quite outdated. The official reason for this is that the devs have opted for one big update (1.2) in the far, far (possibly never) future. Progress can be seen but is working at a snails pace. In the meantime, back-ports and modded-clients are being updated far more frequently and can be found at http://downloads.mercenariesguild.net/ (just a case of replacing executables). The TJW backport is the well accepted standard. MGdev is currently working as a 1.2 test mod which uses many of the proposed balance changes for 1.2 but without any of the major graphical changes that 1.2 will (eventually) give. Also, TremX is a notably popular mod with less focus on balance and instead adds crazy abilities to both sides.
'If something is more likely to survive, it survives more often'. Sounds pretty obvious, but that's what evolution in this sense amounts to. The atom too is so abundant simply because it's a stable structure which survived where other structures did not.
Progressively apply the term more generally and it won't be long before you're saying "Things that are, exist". There's a good reason why we make the distinction where the object is considered living or not. Life is a notable step further wherein the complexity has reached a new scale. Analogy is fine, but sensationalism like this serves only to confuse.
AFAIK if it does something other than look pretty, it's not art.
Also note that this is not your usual LED job. Those are slits in the mechanism that could be just as easily illuminated by candles from behind.
I agree.
Mr Bettinson didn't have to give a reason for refusal, but he did. This was taken by the people at hexus to be a threat or hint that they would accept so long as a better review was given.
Did Mat Bettinson say he'd conditionally accept? It was a straight refusal in my eyes. So any reasons given for the refusal would serve to inform rather than persuade.
Seems to me that threatening a reviews site is a bad move. Rather than give into the threat, they may as well right an account of it. The scandal will draw peoples attention to the review site. Review site wins, Alienware grumbles.
Rather than trying to force good reviews, a more diplomatic approach would have been to hint or bribe. Maybe even trick and swindle.
..and of course, when a novice comes along and makes a huge block of black text because his page-breaks were lost in the HTML format he was apparently typing in it doesn't nessecarily become more obvious as a huge red block.
I don't see how this proposal has to mean restrictions / unfairness etc.
Isn't it simply an attempt at giving the user more information about the article they are dealing with? Isn't it an intuitive way of telling the difference between old and new text.
If so, then it is only the opinions/biases you form from the information that can cause trouble (at least directly). Say for example a piece of disputable text survives not by people agreeing with the content but through simply not disagreeing. If a portion of the reviewers decide that information must be correct if it lasted so long, then the information is more likely to survive a correction and erroneous facts may be taken as gospel.
So long as the system is used sensibly, there should not be any disadvantage (other than perhaps a frustratingly colourful article).
I'd also like to point out that opposing views don't have to conflict with public interest in factual representation so long is it is accepted that the opposing views exist. Surely to give the different accounts of what is true, is more universally true than bias to a particular side.
Slashdot Mirror
"The agency is hoping the interaction between writers and bureaucrats will inspire them to fund scientific studies"
Kindly stay away from my furniture till you can tell the difference.
Come to think of it, stay away from my rock collection and excrement too.
This was clearly an orchestrated retaliation, months in the planning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFX-dKpcDz8
I'm having more trouble understanding how the Age of Steam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Steam/) ALLOWED games to be downloaded than how it prevented it.
Having played this game religiously for 3 years, I might not have the most impartial perspective but I can still say that I've tried the other games mentioned and have found none as entertaining as tremulous. Your ability to walk on walls/ceiling on the alien side will most likely be the first thing to grab your attention. Once you get used to that, you'll enjoy the fact that those little critters you always fought in single-player FPSs now have a human intelligence behind them, giving rise to quite an intricate style of combat. Aside from this, the way in which spawns are placed by the builder-classes along with the defences and other support structures gives the game a more dynamic feel. All in all, the game is just FUN and I recommend it whole-heartedly.
If you are interested in trying it, the latest official version (1.1) is actually quite outdated. The official reason for this is that the devs have opted for one big update (1.2) in the far, far (possibly never) future. Progress can be seen but is working at a snails pace. In the meantime, back-ports and modded-clients are being updated far more frequently and can be found at http://downloads.mercenariesguild.net/ (just a case of replacing executables). The TJW backport is the well accepted standard. MGdev is currently working as a 1.2 test mod which uses many of the proposed balance changes for 1.2 but without any of the major graphical changes that 1.2 will (eventually) give. Also, TremX is a notably popular mod with less focus on balance and instead adds crazy abilities to both sides.
"...with the remaining 10% of 'healthy' brains donated by friends or relatives of patients."
Errm.. won't they need them for when they go visit?
'If something is more likely to survive, it survives more often'. Sounds pretty obvious, but that's what evolution in this sense amounts to. The atom too is so abundant simply because it's a stable structure which survived where other structures did not.
Progressively apply the term more generally and it won't be long before you're saying "Things that are, exist". There's a good reason why we make the distinction where the object is considered living or not. Life is a notable step further wherein the complexity has reached a new scale. Analogy is fine, but sensationalism like this serves only to confuse.
Will environmentalists ever stop trying to reverse the second law of thermodynamics?
"Insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
Damn.
Us: We've already delivered autonomous mining trucks!
Japan: Oh yeah! We've already delivered autonomous mining trucks.. ALREADY!
Us: They're always one step ahead!
Wouldn't this be a great deal more effective if it could pin-point your view point aswell?
Don't they celebrate the new year before that happens too?
I figure that's what's happening here.
AFAIK if it does something other than look pretty, it's not art. Also note that this is not your usual LED job. Those are slits in the mechanism that could be just as easily illuminated by candles from behind.
'I still have my 10 year old son[n]y and it works fine :)'
Perhaps, but it's only a matter of time before he grows out of his teletubby phase.
Those lazy chemists.. they can't be bothered to move a molecule. -_-
Are you suggesting that the fish meal needs to defend itself?
Nice one nature..
Give the ability to fight off bird flu to an animal most unlikely to encounter a bird.
Lucky fishes..
I agree. Mr Bettinson didn't have to give a reason for refusal, but he did. This was taken by the people at hexus to be a threat or hint that they would accept so long as a better review was given. Did Mat Bettinson say he'd conditionally accept? It was a straight refusal in my eyes. So any reasons given for the refusal would serve to inform rather than persuade.
Now that I've actually RTFA, it doesn't sound like a threat to me.
"We'd love to have a SKU which we can review and activate on launch day, to coincide with NVIDIA's release."
(The offer is made)
"Hello Tarinder,
I'm afraid, after the last review, our ability to send you any hardware for review is pretty much gone."
(The offer is refused)
"Matt,
the email inviting 'Alienware' to submit a G80 based system was sent without my authority."
(the offer wasn't permitted)
Matt was responding to an invitation. He declined because it's not his job to allow for less-than-perfect reviews.
Could it be that hexus is upset by this refusal?
Seems to me that threatening a reviews site is a bad move. Rather than give into the threat, they may as well right an account of it. The scandal will draw peoples attention to the review site. Review site wins, Alienware grumbles.
Rather than trying to force good reviews, a more diplomatic approach would have been to hint or bribe. Maybe even trick and swindle.
Intimidation is bad! >:(
..and of course, when a novice comes along and makes a huge block of black text because his page-breaks were lost in the HTML format he was apparently typing in it doesn't nessecarily become more obvious as a huge red block.
I don't see how this proposal has to mean restrictions / unfairness etc. Isn't it simply an attempt at giving the user more information about the article they are dealing with? Isn't it an intuitive way of telling the difference between old and new text. If so, then it is only the opinions/biases you form from the information that can cause trouble (at least directly). Say for example a piece of disputable text survives not by people agreeing with the content but through simply not disagreeing. If a portion of the reviewers decide that information must be correct if it lasted so long, then the information is more likely to survive a correction and erroneous facts may be taken as gospel. So long as the system is used sensibly, there should not be any disadvantage (other than perhaps a frustratingly colourful article). I'd also like to point out that opposing views don't have to conflict with public interest in factual representation so long is it is accepted that the opposing views exist. Surely to give the different accounts of what is true, is more universally true than bias to a particular side.