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Now that there's ambien and those other zombie drugs, people are sleep driving, jogging, typing, cooking, and eating. I wish I was making those up but every single one has reportedly happened. Maybe drugs that screw with your brain that much that yo go into a semi-conscious zombie haze should be taken off the market. I'm not saying this lady necessarily took them, but that sort of thing has been known to happen on some sleep aids.
sorry but I had to reapir one of those and while using it, I noticed I'm still 5x faster with a mouse. You just can't beat a mouse with your finger ever under any circumstances with any touch technology. It's too slow and inaccurate and requires too much movement.
that's why I runescape I just dressed as NPCs and jumped out and people and freaked them the hell out. Now THAT is fun lol. Seriously, I think every MMORPG I've ever played, I've just messed with people. I dressed in all blue one time in SRO, rode my horse next to someone else, and said "Sir I'm going to have to ask you to pull over." He actually did too. They should make an entire game out of just running around and messing with people cuz I do that anyway.
reeeeeeally? Okay how hard is it to not code your program to send the data off the phone in a format receivable by other users of the software and then have a part of the software that does receive the code then render it for them? You'd absolutely have to do that on purpose since it could very well just be a simple offline app. Why did they even add in network transmission capabilities at all? I still say it's absolutely and completely their fault.
This is why I don't buy lottery tickets or insurance. Any moment now my car or building or whatever could be hit my a meteorite and I could likely sell it for a LOT of money, especially if it was a certain type. If I suddenly saw one smash my car I'd be like, "YEEEESSS!"
well I'm also a guy so I like getting angry and violent with zombies too lol. Aliens in Halo trying to kill me is like "ohhh it's on now" but creepy, scary looking zombies trying to kill me AND make me feel scared, it's more like: "it's soooo on! It's beyond on! DIE DOUCHEBAG ZOMBIE BITCHES! YOU DON'T SCARE ME!" The only real competition for that on the anger level are computer players in UT04 giving an actual challenge and then killing me and saying some actual, auditory bullshit like "YOU WHOOOOOORE" For you non-UT players, they actually do say that. That tends to get me in the FPS spirit real fast lol. I've been known to hunt them back down, point blank them with a flak cannon, and then scream "WHAT'S UP NOW, BITCH? AAAAAAHHH" and then bite some keys off my keyboard in celebration
and in response to the first replier, yeah I actually was mostly serious, I just post things in an entertaining manner:D
I think most people are like me after playing regular FPS games. I don't get scared, I just get motivated and angry. They're like "oooh, are you gonna make it out alive" and I'm thinking "umm yes, and I'm gonna drive this motorcycle so far up that zombie's ass he'll be farting exhaust fumes. Then I'm gonna go BOOM HEADSHOT, BOOM HEADSHOT! Then I'll scream 'THAT'S RIGHT BITCHES!' and then break out the window all actiony and we'll see what's what then! You can't intimidate or scare me!" It's really either that or actually act really scared and freaked out about whether or not you're going to survive the entire game and who the heck wants to feel like that for like 8 hours? You could just walk around New York City alone at night for free to feel that, and most people tend to avoid that feeling. So if they'd just let me scream "****ing zombies, DIE!" and give up trying to scare me, it'd be fine but then that's not really survival horror.
yeah, forget teenagers, put them in everyone's cars! If it's soooo important, they can pull over otherwise the people can wait until they get there. The only thing is, wrapping the end of your key in maybe tin foil but definitely a faraday screen material would probably make it work and that's pretty cheap to do.
amen to that! I finally played with a Wii a couple weeks ago (yeah, yeah, my friends and I are poor) and my first thought was holy crap, a monkey could hold onto this thing. After reading all the stuff here about it, I thought they'd be coated with teflon and self lubricating with WD-40 or something. When you're playing real tennis or golf, how often do you let your real club or raquet go flying out of your hands? And better yet, should you sue the makers because they didn't provide a wrist strap for it. You can sure as hell do more damage by a golf driver going flying at like 60MPH! I don't think the most uncoordinated humans on the planet should be embarrassing themselves by suing over letting their wiimote go.
from shows I've seen on TV, the idea is for it to be made in lots of local facilities to avoid shipping. It's sort of like future gas stations will make their own biodiesel or at least get it from a supplier within 25 miles in like 80% of populated US cities or something close to that. Also they'd have huge battery banks and solar panels and wind turbines so they could recharge electric cars at very little cost to them. Sounds like they'd make a hell of a large profit by doing either or those let alone both.
So when they see that their newly stolen laptop suddenly stops functioning, what do they do? They ditch it somewhere, and I don't mean sell it. You'll NEVER get it back then. I mean yeah it's supposed to stop people from stealing your much more valuable personal data but that should be password protected anyway with a directory hider/protector (not like a compressed archive file with a password cuz that's too slow) so why bother? Now people can just fake the signal and shut your laptop off so it seems like it causes more problems than it fixes.
there was a study that proved that humans can predict truly random (like quantum mirror photon random PCI card thingies) events correctly approximately 26-27% of the time in a 1 in 4 odds situation. That much of a deviation is unheard of. But I do agree with SOME conspiracy theories. Not many but some. I think to keep people from being pissed off and quitting the game, everyone eventually gets a rare drop. Like their odds keep increasing until it happens. I don't know one single person in SRO that played for over 3 months and never got a rare drop. One more that's extremely likely is there's a cap on how many expensive items the server can create in a given period so that a bunch of people don't get lucky and suddenly there's another couple hundred million in the game's economy that came out of nowhere. That would cause bad inflation and some MMORPGs actually hire real economists to prevent the game's economy from crashing. I bet their first suggestion would be to limit expensive items coming out of nowhere. So it's possible destroying rare drops will cause more to happen if there's only supposed to be a certain number in existence at any given time. Btw in Runescape I found way to trick the random number generating process under certain conditions and it worked 100% of the time. It didn't give me rare drops but I could make a random event happen at will. Then I got banned lol.
in UT 99 and 2004 and probably the rest there's also that chain gun weapon. On regular mode that thing shoots like Helen Keller with a paintball gun. Seriously at about 20 feet they can be up to about 5 feet off target. But you don't rely on luck yo hit what you're hitting from a long distance with that gun, you do what you're supposed to and only use it short range, duh! That's why it shoots so poorly, it's a short range weapon! Same the the enforcer really. Use the sniper or lightning gun or even the shock rifle to shoot long distances cuz that's what they're made for. I also can't help but mention that luck when it comes to rare drops in MMORPGs SUCKS! I know people who got 3 SOX items in one day and it took me 2 months to get one. It makes you feel like the game hates you.
PHP? A scripting language? Are you freaking kidding me? Scripting languages are pathetic insults to programming. You don't even have to declare variables before using them or choose their type. There would be some serious oversights of programming basics if you teach them php. In high school I took C++ and that worked out just fine. It was intimidating to think about writing a whole piece of software with that ancient language but it did teach the basics so later when I learned VB.net I could identify all the stuff they screwed up and improved and understood how a framework worked. At my college anyone in the IT field, even if it wasn't programming, had to take intro to VB and that class was pretty well structured. Plus you could actually write something with a GUI like modern programs have. I'd lean towards either C++ or VB.net.
it can stop just as many as it causes. I mean seriously, this is how it would go on the Hitler forums: "Its all teh Jews faults!" Reply: "nah ah! U r a moron. Germany sux. Hitlers a douche. GTFO"
that's cuz they never leave their house to potentially meet you hehehe. btw I'm the same way. I know a lot of people and none of them have ever played second life.
That's funny, when I was like 2 I had to take a vaccination and I had some horrible reaction to it and almost died and they were 100% sure that was the cause. I also didn't react real well to my 17 year old tetanus shot but that was a bit more common. So don't go thinking they're completely and utterly safe either.
I think that you're missing the fact that the majority of Africa has been an unliveable dessert hellhole that can't support human life for pretty much all of human history. What happens when you plant corn in Zimbabwe today is the same as what happened when you planted corn 1000 years ago there. It doesn't grow cuz it's too hot and there's not enough water. No crops means no animals which means no meat and veggies for the humans and the result is starving people in poverty. So either grow seaweed, eat it, and like or move somewhere better.
I have an old 10GB laptop drive inside of a very low profile USB enclosure and it runs like 35x faster than my USB drive or something absurd like that. It's a little more sensitive to bumps but it's not exactly expensive for 10GB drives. You can get a 6 pack of used one on ebay for about $3-7 each. Best of all, in a good enclosure, it still fits in your pocket.
there's all that psychological "people want video games to make themselves happy during a recession" stuff and then there's reality. It's really quite simple: Teenagers buy most video games. Teenagers don't have investments and mortgages that tanked nor are they good at saving instead of spending. Thus, game sales are doing just fine. But of course if the marketing and finance departments at video game companies said that the boss would think they weren't working very hard.
hydrogen peroxide, huh? Does that react with something or what? They didn't really say. I wonder if you can just dump in more and take off again. That'd be cool! Plus, that stuff's cheap in large amounts.
The can absolutely sue you, but they'll lose. If they can't take two blocks of code and say "he stole this" they have nothing. I assume you didn't sign a non-compete agreement though cuz then you'd lose.
I have to say, I never considered Sonic to be me on the old Sega Genesis. In fact, I'd get in arguements with him like "why'd you just hit that spring?!" and "jump, damn it!" But it's actually possible via the default settings in Oblivion to never see your avatar while playing (not counting the first time setup). And while playing, you can pretty much go anywhere and do anything short of most environmental interaction like picking a flower or breaking a chunk off a building. You can run, jump, and hit basically anything and steal stuff with like 10 different techniques that you yourself made up adn the game makers perhaps never intended. I think the progress between the two plus new hardware inventions like haptics controllers will eventually make it so you honestly do think it's you. Actually with full VR or even a holodeck, it basically is you and everything else is fake.
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Now that there's ambien and those other zombie drugs, people are sleep driving, jogging, typing, cooking, and eating. I wish I was making those up but every single one has reportedly happened. Maybe drugs that screw with your brain that much that yo go into a semi-conscious zombie haze should be taken off the market. I'm not saying this lady necessarily took them, but that sort of thing has been known to happen on some sleep aids.
sorry but I had to reapir one of those and while using it, I noticed I'm still 5x faster with a mouse. You just can't beat a mouse with your finger ever under any circumstances with any touch technology. It's too slow and inaccurate and requires too much movement.
that's why I runescape I just dressed as NPCs and jumped out and people and freaked them the hell out. Now THAT is fun lol. Seriously, I think every MMORPG I've ever played, I've just messed with people. I dressed in all blue one time in SRO, rode my horse next to someone else, and said "Sir I'm going to have to ask you to pull over." He actually did too. They should make an entire game out of just running around and messing with people cuz I do that anyway.
reeeeeeally? Okay how hard is it to not code your program to send the data off the phone in a format receivable by other users of the software and then have a part of the software that does receive the code then render it for them? You'd absolutely have to do that on purpose since it could very well just be a simple offline app. Why did they even add in network transmission capabilities at all? I still say it's absolutely and completely their fault.
This is why I don't buy lottery tickets or insurance. Any moment now my car or building or whatever could be hit my a meteorite and I could likely sell it for a LOT of money, especially if it was a certain type. If I suddenly saw one smash my car I'd be like, "YEEEESSS!"
well I'm also a guy so I like getting angry and violent with zombies too lol. Aliens in Halo trying to kill me is like "ohhh it's on now" but creepy, scary looking zombies trying to kill me AND make me feel scared, it's more like: "it's soooo on! It's beyond on! DIE DOUCHEBAG ZOMBIE BITCHES! YOU DON'T SCARE ME!" The only real competition for that on the anger level are computer players in UT04 giving an actual challenge and then killing me and saying some actual, auditory bullshit like "YOU WHOOOOOORE" For you non-UT players, they actually do say that. That tends to get me in the FPS spirit real fast lol. I've been known to hunt them back down, point blank them with a flak cannon, and then scream "WHAT'S UP NOW, BITCH? AAAAAAHHH" and then bite some keys off my keyboard in celebration :D
and in response to the first replier, yeah I actually was mostly serious, I just post things in an entertaining manner
I think most people are like me after playing regular FPS games. I don't get scared, I just get motivated and angry. They're like "oooh, are you gonna make it out alive" and I'm thinking "umm yes, and I'm gonna drive this motorcycle so far up that zombie's ass he'll be farting exhaust fumes. Then I'm gonna go BOOM HEADSHOT, BOOM HEADSHOT! Then I'll scream 'THAT'S RIGHT BITCHES!' and then break out the window all actiony and we'll see what's what then! You can't intimidate or scare me!" It's really either that or actually act really scared and freaked out about whether or not you're going to survive the entire game and who the heck wants to feel like that for like 8 hours? You could just walk around New York City alone at night for free to feel that, and most people tend to avoid that feeling. So if they'd just let me scream "****ing zombies, DIE!" and give up trying to scare me, it'd be fine but then that's not really survival horror.
yeah, forget teenagers, put them in everyone's cars! If it's soooo important, they can pull over otherwise the people can wait until they get there. The only thing is, wrapping the end of your key in maybe tin foil but definitely a faraday screen material would probably make it work and that's pretty cheap to do.
amen to that! I finally played with a Wii a couple weeks ago (yeah, yeah, my friends and I are poor) and my first thought was holy crap, a monkey could hold onto this thing. After reading all the stuff here about it, I thought they'd be coated with teflon and self lubricating with WD-40 or something. When you're playing real tennis or golf, how often do you let your real club or raquet go flying out of your hands? And better yet, should you sue the makers because they didn't provide a wrist strap for it. You can sure as hell do more damage by a golf driver going flying at like 60MPH! I don't think the most uncoordinated humans on the planet should be embarrassing themselves by suing over letting their wiimote go.
from shows I've seen on TV, the idea is for it to be made in lots of local facilities to avoid shipping. It's sort of like future gas stations will make their own biodiesel or at least get it from a supplier within 25 miles in like 80% of populated US cities or something close to that. Also they'd have huge battery banks and solar panels and wind turbines so they could recharge electric cars at very little cost to them. Sounds like they'd make a hell of a large profit by doing either or those let alone both.
So when they see that their newly stolen laptop suddenly stops functioning, what do they do? They ditch it somewhere, and I don't mean sell it. You'll NEVER get it back then. I mean yeah it's supposed to stop people from stealing your much more valuable personal data but that should be password protected anyway with a directory hider/protector (not like a compressed archive file with a password cuz that's too slow) so why bother? Now people can just fake the signal and shut your laptop off so it seems like it causes more problems than it fixes.
there was a study that proved that humans can predict truly random (like quantum mirror photon random PCI card thingies) events correctly approximately 26-27% of the time in a 1 in 4 odds situation. That much of a deviation is unheard of. But I do agree with SOME conspiracy theories. Not many but some. I think to keep people from being pissed off and quitting the game, everyone eventually gets a rare drop. Like their odds keep increasing until it happens. I don't know one single person in SRO that played for over 3 months and never got a rare drop. One more that's extremely likely is there's a cap on how many expensive items the server can create in a given period so that a bunch of people don't get lucky and suddenly there's another couple hundred million in the game's economy that came out of nowhere. That would cause bad inflation and some MMORPGs actually hire real economists to prevent the game's economy from crashing. I bet their first suggestion would be to limit expensive items coming out of nowhere. So it's possible destroying rare drops will cause more to happen if there's only supposed to be a certain number in existence at any given time. Btw in Runescape I found way to trick the random number generating process under certain conditions and it worked 100% of the time. It didn't give me rare drops but I could make a random event happen at will. Then I got banned lol.
in UT 99 and 2004 and probably the rest there's also that chain gun weapon. On regular mode that thing shoots like Helen Keller with a paintball gun. Seriously at about 20 feet they can be up to about 5 feet off target. But you don't rely on luck yo hit what you're hitting from a long distance with that gun, you do what you're supposed to and only use it short range, duh! That's why it shoots so poorly, it's a short range weapon! Same the the enforcer really. Use the sniper or lightning gun or even the shock rifle to shoot long distances cuz that's what they're made for. I also can't help but mention that luck when it comes to rare drops in MMORPGs SUCKS! I know people who got 3 SOX items in one day and it took me 2 months to get one. It makes you feel like the game hates you.
PHP? A scripting language? Are you freaking kidding me? Scripting languages are pathetic insults to programming. You don't even have to declare variables before using them or choose their type. There would be some serious oversights of programming basics if you teach them php. In high school I took C++ and that worked out just fine. It was intimidating to think about writing a whole piece of software with that ancient language but it did teach the basics so later when I learned VB.net I could identify all the stuff they screwed up and improved and understood how a framework worked. At my college anyone in the IT field, even if it wasn't programming, had to take intro to VB and that class was pretty well structured. Plus you could actually write something with a GUI like modern programs have. I'd lean towards either C++ or VB.net.
it can stop just as many as it causes. I mean seriously, this is how it would go on the Hitler forums: "Its all teh Jews faults!" Reply: "nah ah! U r a moron. Germany sux. Hitlers a douche. GTFO"
that's cuz they never leave their house to potentially meet you hehehe. btw I'm the same way. I know a lot of people and none of them have ever played second life.
That's funny, when I was like 2 I had to take a vaccination and I had some horrible reaction to it and almost died and they were 100% sure that was the cause. I also didn't react real well to my 17 year old tetanus shot but that was a bit more common. So don't go thinking they're completely and utterly safe either.
Wow, it's been about 30 seconds and his site is already down. That sucks cuz it sounded REALLY COOL!
I think that you're missing the fact that the majority of Africa has been an unliveable dessert hellhole that can't support human life for pretty much all of human history. What happens when you plant corn in Zimbabwe today is the same as what happened when you planted corn 1000 years ago there. It doesn't grow cuz it's too hot and there's not enough water. No crops means no animals which means no meat and veggies for the humans and the result is starving people in poverty. So either grow seaweed, eat it, and like or move somewhere better.
I hope it has less holes in it than the .NET Framework....ohhhhh :P No time to apply patches to that thing hehehe.
I have an old 10GB laptop drive inside of a very low profile USB enclosure and it runs like 35x faster than my USB drive or something absurd like that. It's a little more sensitive to bumps but it's not exactly expensive for 10GB drives. You can get a 6 pack of used one on ebay for about $3-7 each. Best of all, in a good enclosure, it still fits in your pocket.
there's all that psychological "people want video games to make themselves happy during a recession" stuff and then there's reality. It's really quite simple: Teenagers buy most video games. Teenagers don't have investments and mortgages that tanked nor are they good at saving instead of spending. Thus, game sales are doing just fine. But of course if the marketing and finance departments at video game companies said that the boss would think they weren't working very hard.
hydrogen peroxide, huh? Does that react with something or what? They didn't really say. I wonder if you can just dump in more and take off again. That'd be cool! Plus, that stuff's cheap in large amounts.
The can absolutely sue you, but they'll lose. If they can't take two blocks of code and say "he stole this" they have nothing. I assume you didn't sign a non-compete agreement though cuz then you'd lose.
I have to say, I never considered Sonic to be me on the old Sega Genesis. In fact, I'd get in arguements with him like "why'd you just hit that spring?!" and "jump, damn it!" But it's actually possible via the default settings in Oblivion to never see your avatar while playing (not counting the first time setup). And while playing, you can pretty much go anywhere and do anything short of most environmental interaction like picking a flower or breaking a chunk off a building. You can run, jump, and hit basically anything and steal stuff with like 10 different techniques that you yourself made up adn the game makers perhaps never intended. I think the progress between the two plus new hardware inventions like haptics controllers will eventually make it so you honestly do think it's you. Actually with full VR or even a holodeck, it basically is you and everything else is fake.