I at least feel better about money going towards developing a product that may help out ongoing energy problems
Just because its all electric doesn't mean it will solve our energy problems. It just offloads the burden to another infrastructure. Currently our use of fossil fuels is generating most of our electricity, dump a few million electric cars on the grid and sure you save some gas and emissions (and coal plants have much better filtration and carbon capture than combustion engines) but at the cost of stressing our electric grid. The efficiency of converting gas into kinetic energy is relatively high, as far as energy conversions go. Converting fuels into electricity is far less efficient, not to mention losses from battery storage.
don't get me wrong, i'd love for everyone to drive an electric car instead of a combustion engine, but our grid isn't capable of supporting that dream yet. The change will come, but it will be slow, and driven by economics.
So all that bacteria growing on those unhygienic D&D nerds is actually helping them with pathing, i knew they were cheating somehow, i could smell it...
The wine app database shows it at platinum. I myself wouldn't give it more than a gold since it requires some configuration, but compared to the terminal full of errors and fixme's i get when trying to start up impulse, yea i'd say its flawless. Even the autorefresh utility i used with warcraft3 worked like a charm. The only significant bug i experienced was the game turning greyscale when rotating the desktop in compiz fusion, but thats hardly typical usage.
Demigod only came out a few months ago, turned out to be a worthwhile alternative to DotA, and surprisingly more friendly to newcomers. The biggest downside to Demigod however is the conversion from the Wine-friendly stardock client to the newer Impulse client, based on dotnet2. As yet, mono isn't up to the task of running the client, which basically puts linux out of the picture for what would be a very fun game (note* warcraft3 runs flawlessly). A native linux remake of DotA could be very enticing for us penguin lovers.
How about hacking together some linux support?
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Sticking it to M$ and Apple is all well and good (though Apple is starting to win me over, no pun intended), but i really wish these iPhone dev teams would figure out a method to use the phone with my favorite gnome system, ubuntu. Freeing it from the chains of iTunes would go a long way towards this.
Any word on whether or not this method enables tethering on AT&T networks?
Wiki isn't a news site, it's an encyclopedia. 100 years from now, wiki will have an article about the event, but right now it's just an article 7 months delayed, and possibly a mans life saved. I'd say thats worthwhile and keeping in the spirit of wiki.
In my visit to southern France I had more trouble with the ones who DID speak English than the one who didn't. It might have passed for English among the French, but it was far from perfect, and often incomprehensible. And yes I'm sure my French was just as terrible.
Any system of transportation has to fit with the gameplay design. In a level based MMORPG time spent is inherently valuable to the player, and more time spent is equivalent to more accomplished on that character. In WoW for example, most of the auction house prices for commodities are based on the time required to gather them. In Diablo II however, value was closely tied to rarity. One couldn't simply take several hours to farm a boss and be guaranteed a proportionate value for that time spent. This is primarily due to the mechanics of loot being a lottery, which was a necessity that arose from the ease of movement and the ability to kill the same boss quickly in a short period of time.
Skill based games on the other hand, such as realtime strategies or first person shooters, place a much higher value on movement and travel, and present obstacles to force decisionmaking by the player. Instantaneous travel is only more fun if that travel is boring. The best solution to this problem is to make travel incorporate gameplay and trigger conscious decisions by the player.
One game which utilized this concept brilliantly was the Tribes series (1 and 2 primarily, much less so with Vengeance.) In Tribes, the player was given a plethora of options to reach the enemy base. One could use a speedy Shrike fighter to reach any part of the map quickly, but would have to deal with possible dogfights against other fighters, or evading ground to air missiles. Another option was to take a fast ground vehicle, which could evade missiles and most fights, but required the player to navigate a path and take longer. And of course there was the scout armor, which allowed the player to fly for short periods of time, moving quickly across the map but do relatively little damage. This mentality was countered again by the heavy armor, which excelled at sheer firepower but was painfully slow and often a sitting duck when outdoors. A given player had to consider carefully how he preferred to fight, what his intended target was, and how he got there played a large role in this decision.
In WoW movement has been simplified to effectively remove it from any complex decisionmaking process. PVP focuses on either a player moving, or being frozen/stunned, while PVE the movement is little more than a script players follow once they learn an encounter, the decision is made for them.
It wasn't by accident that the only hindrance to players' movement in WoW is time or direct combat with monsters/players, those can be influenced by the game mechanics directly, and encourage the player to weigh his options. In Ultima Online, movement was instant if you could afford the runebooks, and a struggle if you couldn't. The most fun i had in UO was simply walking from one city to the next, fighting my way through jungles, fending off PKers, finding/making food and weapons which were consumed along the way, that sort of environmental interaction was a blast. I personally think UO was ruined by runes (no pun intended) because of all the gameplay that players skipped because of it.
I've been somewhat long winded on this, but my point is that if a game is all about killing some mob at the destination, then the journey won't be nearly as interesting, and it really should be.
Actually, there are settings for visual effects that you don't notice are there and don't miss if they are removed. Drop shadows in particular, along with antialiasing around square windows are insignificant details that probably took a team of developers a long time to produce. Sure you notice them if you compare them side by side, but disable half the performance options in windows vista/7 and most people would forget they ever existed after a few minutes. The system even runs faster with lower memory usage as well.
Once more, your history is somewhat skewed. Britain did not *ignore* the american colonies on the stamp tax, in fact the rest of the British empire paid those same taxes. Would it be fair for the colonials to simply ignore the taxes they didn't agree with? Also, no other colonies had parliamentary representation, not even India. In parliament's eyes, it was the colonists who were being entirely unreasonable, when in fact both sides were somewhat equally violent and greedy.
Iran unfortunately has very little news coverage by foreign sources. This makes it nearly impossible to draw any reliable observations or predictions, very similar to Schrodinger's cat box.
put a bootable linux distro on it, add a startup script that opens a fun christmas flash game, maybe something from http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ , i recommend winterbells.
It fits a christmas theme, but i'm not sure how ya could fit it into the post-apocalyptic fallout3 story. Maybe santa became disgruntled and delivered a tiny thermonuclear device in everyone's stocking?
not quite, the KillerNIC was simply a misguided attempt to shave off a few milliseconds of latency for poser *cough* i mean hardcore gamers.
Which was always funny because they assumed that the 1/200th of a second faster latency would show up on their 120hz monitor, or relieve a few CPU cycles on their overclocked 4ghz quad-core processor. Imagine how many soap-on-a-ropes you could buy these fools for that same $170
This little usb gadget actually looks cool, a bittorent downloader that uses next to no power.
If only we could come up with some sort of mineral oil solution to absorb my body heat, i could power my computer from the heat my body generates! I could even get my neighbors to join in and we could pool our bodyheat to power a super computer. And maybe to relieve boredom we could all play in a "virtual world" so that we don't waste our energy on non-supercomputer related activities. Maybe the Matrix Online would be a good choice.
Oblig.
The archivists bread and butter attack against creatures younger than him is a constant barrage of "Get off my lawn!", strangely effective against herds of halberd wielding bovines.
just because he was originally educated by an institution that firmly believed in astronomy doesn't mean that he wasn't directly contradicting their teachings.
The reason he was persecuted is because he did NOT follow their doctrine, and directly challenged the ptolemaic universe.
the conflict between them has been very beneficial.
I fail to see how the inquisition was beneficial to science.
Theologians shouldn't be silenced, they should be ignored. The last time we let theologians teach us how to view science was when Galileo was censored and placed in house arrest.
The fact that blizzard is so cooperative with community developers at all sets them apart from the evil game houses such as EA and SOE. Blizz always goes to great lengths with game releases to provide platforms for user generated content, and usually incorporates the best content into later versions and releases.
The popular turret D maps in starcraft were redone for the release of warcraft 3, and almost all of the major UI mods in wow from 4 years ago have since been incorporated into the official "vanilla" interface. Blizz is only looking out for the best experience for all it's gamers, and has repeatedly made a point that it does not want any fees attached to wow other than the ~$16 a month to pay for the servers. They don't even charge for the periodic content updates such as sunwell plateau or ulduar, content that Sony would have asked players to pay $50 for in addition to monthly fees. The only goal here is to keep cash out of gameplay, imagine if you could pay $100 for the best UI mods for a competitive advantage? You would have multitudes of unskilled players with too much cash on par with highly skilled players who would rather keep their checkbook intact. That wouldn't be fair to the user base to require third party fees to stay competitive.
actually it could be even simpler than that. If you have all traffic at a certain height go the same direction, say all traffic below 500 feet must fly south, and limit all traffic from 500-600 westbound, 600-700 northbound, etc, and keep the speeds of these vehicles within 100-120 mph, it would be easy to keep them from hitting each other.
Of course changing winds would present issues, and probably wouldn't offer the most direct route, but a 2 mile detour at 100mph is still faster than stop and go traffic at 20.
Sounds like this worm would be really easy to make toothless if it wasn't given admin privileges. Far as i know you would need to sudo any program for it to remove a higher authority program from memory.
UAC isn't a valid replacement for this in windows, its just an irritation. Until windows decides to scrap it's access rights and emulate linux, worms like this are going to get worse.
Did you actually read the article? The bill that was passed only increased the penalties for selling M rated games to minors, and easily avoided penalties at that.
They aren't forbidding anyone from buying the game (who can legally do so), they aren't making it any harder to buy the game (who can legally do so).
In fact, this is the only part of game development that the legislature needs to be involved in, is the sale of it to minors. The biggest hole in Thompson's argument is that none of the kids who shot up their school should have been playing GTA, and the gaming industry repeatedly tells him "some games are not for kids!"
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I at least feel better about money going towards developing a product that may help out ongoing energy problems
Just because its all electric doesn't mean it will solve our energy problems. It just offloads the burden to another infrastructure. Currently our use of fossil fuels is generating most of our electricity, dump a few million electric cars on the grid and sure you save some gas and emissions (and coal plants have much better filtration and carbon capture than combustion engines) but at the cost of stressing our electric grid. The efficiency of converting gas into kinetic energy is relatively high, as far as energy conversions go. Converting fuels into electricity is far less efficient, not to mention losses from battery storage.
don't get me wrong, i'd love for everyone to drive an electric car instead of a combustion engine, but our grid isn't capable of supporting that dream yet. The change will come, but it will be slow, and driven by economics.
So all that bacteria growing on those unhygienic D&D nerds is actually helping them with pathing, i knew they were cheating somehow, i could smell it...
The wine app database shows it at platinum. I myself wouldn't give it more than a gold since it requires some configuration, but compared to the terminal full of errors and fixme's i get when trying to start up impulse, yea i'd say its flawless. Even the autorefresh utility i used with warcraft3 worked like a charm. The only significant bug i experienced was the game turning greyscale when rotating the desktop in compiz fusion, but thats hardly typical usage.
Demigod only came out a few months ago, turned out to be a worthwhile alternative to DotA, and surprisingly more friendly to newcomers. The biggest downside to Demigod however is the conversion from the Wine-friendly stardock client to the newer Impulse client, based on dotnet2. As yet, mono isn't up to the task of running the client, which basically puts linux out of the picture for what would be a very fun game (note* warcraft3 runs flawlessly). A native linux remake of DotA could be very enticing for us penguin lovers.
Sticking it to M$ and Apple is all well and good (though Apple is starting to win me over, no pun intended), but i really wish these iPhone dev teams would figure out a method to use the phone with my favorite gnome system, ubuntu. Freeing it from the chains of iTunes would go a long way towards this.
Any word on whether or not this method enables tethering on AT&T networks?
Wiki isn't a news site, it's an encyclopedia. 100 years from now, wiki will have an article about the event, but right now it's just an article 7 months delayed, and possibly a mans life saved. I'd say thats worthwhile and keeping in the spirit of wiki.
In my visit to southern France I had more trouble with the ones who DID speak English than the one who didn't. It might have passed for English among the French, but it was far from perfect, and often incomprehensible. And yes I'm sure my French was just as terrible.
Any system of transportation has to fit with the gameplay design. In a level based MMORPG time spent is inherently valuable to the player, and more time spent is equivalent to more accomplished on that character. In WoW for example, most of the auction house prices for commodities are based on the time required to gather them. In Diablo II however, value was closely tied to rarity. One couldn't simply take several hours to farm a boss and be guaranteed a proportionate value for that time spent. This is primarily due to the mechanics of loot being a lottery, which was a necessity that arose from the ease of movement and the ability to kill the same boss quickly in a short period of time.
Skill based games on the other hand, such as realtime strategies or first person shooters, place a much higher value on movement and travel, and present obstacles to force decisionmaking by the player. Instantaneous travel is only more fun if that travel is boring. The best solution to this problem is to make travel incorporate gameplay and trigger conscious decisions by the player.
One game which utilized this concept brilliantly was the Tribes series (1 and 2 primarily, much less so with Vengeance.) In Tribes, the player was given a plethora of options to reach the enemy base. One could use a speedy Shrike fighter to reach any part of the map quickly, but would have to deal with possible dogfights against other fighters, or evading ground to air missiles. Another option was to take a fast ground vehicle, which could evade missiles and most fights, but required the player to navigate a path and take longer. And of course there was the scout armor, which allowed the player to fly for short periods of time, moving quickly across the map but do relatively little damage. This mentality was countered again by the heavy armor, which excelled at sheer firepower but was painfully slow and often a sitting duck when outdoors. A given player had to consider carefully how he preferred to fight, what his intended target was, and how he got there played a large role in this decision.
In WoW movement has been simplified to effectively remove it from any complex decisionmaking process. PVP focuses on either a player moving, or being frozen/stunned, while PVE the movement is little more than a script players follow once they learn an encounter, the decision is made for them.
It wasn't by accident that the only hindrance to players' movement in WoW is time or direct combat with monsters/players, those can be influenced by the game mechanics directly, and encourage the player to weigh his options. In Ultima Online, movement was instant if you could afford the runebooks, and a struggle if you couldn't. The most fun i had in UO was simply walking from one city to the next, fighting my way through jungles, fending off PKers, finding/making food and weapons which were consumed along the way, that sort of environmental interaction was a blast. I personally think UO was ruined by runes (no pun intended) because of all the gameplay that players skipped because of it.
I've been somewhat long winded on this, but my point is that if a game is all about killing some mob at the destination, then the journey won't be nearly as interesting, and it really should be.
They're really safe firecrackers though. I bet there have been more people injured and killed by M80's than space flight.
Actually, there are settings for visual effects that you don't notice are there and don't miss if they are removed. Drop shadows in particular, along with antialiasing around square windows are insignificant details that probably took a team of developers a long time to produce. Sure you notice them if you compare them side by side, but disable half the performance options in windows vista/7 and most people would forget they ever existed after a few minutes. The system even runs faster with lower memory usage as well.
Once more, your history is somewhat skewed. Britain did not *ignore* the american colonies on the stamp tax, in fact the rest of the British empire paid those same taxes. Would it be fair for the colonials to simply ignore the taxes they didn't agree with? Also, no other colonies had parliamentary representation, not even India. In parliament's eyes, it was the colonists who were being entirely unreasonable, when in fact both sides were somewhat equally violent and greedy.
Iran unfortunately has very little news coverage by foreign sources. This makes it nearly impossible to draw any reliable observations or predictions, very similar to Schrodinger's cat box.
I know twitter has been getting popular lately, but i think a $10m spyplane that perches is taking things a bit too literally.
put a bootable linux distro on it, add a startup script that opens a fun christmas flash game, maybe something from http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ , i recommend winterbells.
It fits a christmas theme, but i'm not sure how ya could fit it into the post-apocalyptic fallout3 story. Maybe santa became disgruntled and delivered a tiny thermonuclear device in everyone's stocking?
not quite, the KillerNIC was simply a misguided attempt to shave off a few milliseconds of latency for poser *cough* i mean hardcore gamers.
Which was always funny because they assumed that the 1/200th of a second faster latency would show up on their 120hz monitor, or relieve a few CPU cycles on their overclocked 4ghz quad-core processor. Imagine how many soap-on-a-ropes you could buy these fools for that same $170
This little usb gadget actually looks cool, a bittorent downloader that uses next to no power.
If only we could come up with some sort of mineral oil solution to absorb my body heat, i could power my computer from the heat my body generates! I could even get my neighbors to join in and we could pool our bodyheat to power a super computer. And maybe to relieve boredom we could all play in a "virtual world" so that we don't waste our energy on non-supercomputer related activities. Maybe the Matrix Online would be a good choice.
that's an interesting way to threaten someone.
"Hey, if you thought our satellite-rockets were lousy, wait til you see our nukes!"
At least the japanese nuclear radiation doesn't effect humans
Oblig.
The archivists bread and butter attack against creatures younger than him is a constant barrage of "Get off my lawn!", strangely effective against herds of halberd wielding bovines.
The reason he was persecuted is because he did NOT follow their doctrine, and directly challenged the ptolemaic universe.
the conflict between them has been very beneficial.
I fail to see how the inquisition was beneficial to science.
Theologians shouldn't be silenced, they should be ignored. The last time we let theologians teach us how to view science was when Galileo was censored and placed in house arrest.
The fact that blizzard is so cooperative with community developers at all sets them apart from the evil game houses such as EA and SOE. Blizz always goes to great lengths with game releases to provide platforms for user generated content, and usually incorporates the best content into later versions and releases.
The popular turret D maps in starcraft were redone for the release of warcraft 3, and almost all of the major UI mods in wow from 4 years ago have since been incorporated into the official "vanilla" interface. Blizz is only looking out for the best experience for all it's gamers, and has repeatedly made a point that it does not want any fees attached to wow other than the ~$16 a month to pay for the servers. They don't even charge for the periodic content updates such as sunwell plateau or ulduar, content that Sony would have asked players to pay $50 for in addition to monthly fees. The only goal here is to keep cash out of gameplay, imagine if you could pay $100 for the best UI mods for a competitive advantage? You would have multitudes of unskilled players with too much cash on par with highly skilled players who would rather keep their checkbook intact. That wouldn't be fair to the user base to require third party fees to stay competitive.
actually it could be even simpler than that. If you have all traffic at a certain height go the same direction, say all traffic below 500 feet must fly south, and limit all traffic from 500-600 westbound, 600-700 northbound, etc, and keep the speeds of these vehicles within 100-120 mph, it would be easy to keep them from hitting each other.
Of course changing winds would present issues, and probably wouldn't offer the most direct route, but a 2 mile detour at 100mph is still faster than stop and go traffic at 20.
but it is against the legally binding terms of use you signed to get the phone. they could charge you with breach of contract at most.
Sounds like this worm would be really easy to make toothless if it wasn't given admin privileges. Far as i know you would need to sudo any program for it to remove a higher authority program from memory.
UAC isn't a valid replacement for this in windows, its just an irritation. Until windows decides to scrap it's access rights and emulate linux, worms like this are going to get worse.
Since the goal (regulating commercial press activity) is unconstitutional to begin with...
So, you're saying false advertisement laws are unconstitutional...
If you ever get elected, I can finally sell my cancer-curing-dirt-cheap-wonder-drug! Maybe i can even get Billy Mayes to put in a good word.
Did you actually read the article? The bill that was passed only increased the penalties for selling M rated games to minors, and easily avoided penalties at that.
They aren't forbidding anyone from buying the game (who can legally do so), they aren't making it any harder to buy the game (who can legally do so).
In fact, this is the only part of game development that the legislature needs to be involved in, is the sale of it to minors. The biggest hole in Thompson's argument is that none of the kids who shot up their school should have been playing GTA, and the gaming industry repeatedly tells him "some games are not for kids!"