Did he take into account that European prices usually include taxes that are sometimes excluded in the list price in the US, one wonder? Also, I assume that most countries have import-taxes on software too...
That is what I find so boring about most modern games. All of them are targeted at the largest markets, which seem to be games that I find extremely boring. I don't find multiplayer modes important at all and I don't like first person shooters, racing games, fighting games or sports games. And I don't like RPG's with "quest - reward" gameplay...
I'm the market segment that the market forgot. =( As it is now, I mainly replay adventure and platform games from the 80's and 90's, but I'm beginning to run out of games since you can't replay an adventure game within a few years of completing it without remembering all the puzzles... Adventure games are like books in that regard. =) When they've spent a few years in the shelf, you can re-read them at full enjoyment.
The worst kind of puzzle games are the one that has action elements. If I want that kind of game, I'll play that kind of game and not a puzzle/adventure game. It's like Lucas Arts Indiana Jones III, where you have do fight all the time. Sucks. Or Delphine Software (I think it was theirs) Operation Stealth. An arcade water scooter chase has no place in an adventure game! Sucks.
It's like all those platform games that have racing sequences. Every single PS2 platform game has them. Seems like game designers are incapable of leaving those crappy parts out of their otherwise excellent games.
Anyhow. I think puzzle/adventure games do benefit from improved graphics and processor power, it's just that very few makes puzzle/adventure games that take benefit of them. For instance, a game like Grim Fandango could be made to look absolutely fabulous with modern graphics. One could easily make a game in the same style as Ico for instance, removing all that boring "shadow bashing" and adding more mystery and puzzles...
Hell, even the boom they're using to tow the plane is cool! =-D Looks a bit strange to have two people handle the nosewheels though. Wonder if there's a chance of damage to the steering mechanism is they should happen to steer the thing at different angles. =/
The anti-nuclear power people usually aren't that afraid of the actual pollution that nuclear power creates. They're simple uninformed about the subject and scared to hell of anything that has any connection to any radioactivity at all. In my experience with these kind of people, lots of them can't even distinguish between ionizing radiation and electro magnetic radiation. Radiation is radiation. =P
The thing is, everyone else is already doing it the "easy", non-environmentally friendly way. And being environmental about it might also prove to be cheaper per flight in the end, since going the brute force way usually involve massive amounts of toxic and hard to handle substances. If you can get to orbit using lesser amount of cheaper fuel that's cheap to handle and store, that's a huge gain compared to "mainstream" spaceflight today.
Thought about the same thing. Is aluminium more environmentally friendly to produce than other materials used in laptops? Or is it the process of making it out of one piece of aluminium as opposed to using several pieces of aluminium? =/
But actual experience indicates that the opposite is the case.
Might be so. Haven't looked at actual scientific finding per mission vs cost of mission in a manned vs unmanned context. Just threw around my opinion of what "feels" logical to me.
Comparing, for instance, the amount of science done as a result of men on the moon vs probes on the moon, manned missions probably win due to the soil brought back on the manned missions. Comparing science per mission in earth orbit, I'd say probes/satellites win.
There's also the speed factor. With a probe mission, you probably get results faster, counting time from the start of the project until scientific results come out of said project.
That said, there will most probably be different kinds of results in manned vs probe missions, so they don't replace each other. Both are necessary in order to gain a broader knowledge.
And manned missions is so much sexier.;-)
I use the word "probably" and "probable" a lot, since we can't know for sure until there has been manned missions to the places that we so far only has sent probes to investigate.
Well... These days I mostly play old adventure games via Scummvm. I've even refurbished my old Amiga 1200 so that I can play old favorites without an emulator. =) Some strategy games are good too. Did play World of warcraft for a while, but it got really boring quite quickly.
I do own a PS2, but I tend to get bored with most games after 10 - 20 minutes of play. Best PS2 games I've played recently is Okami and a PS2 port of Flashback
I'm simply not the target audience of most games released. =(
The Olympics is usually a financial loss for the arranging nation, mostly being about nationalism and international marketing. Maybe the Chinese want to make it, at least, brake even. Remember, every single dime foreigners pay during the Olympics is an income for the arranging nation, either direct or through taxes.
I'd say that you get more science per dollar if you send probes. There's also the endurance. With humans, when the mission plan says "go home", you go home or die. With a probe, if you realize that the probe actually can keep going after the mission is over, you can simply prolong the mission, lowering the cost/science every extra mission day you get out of it, since the biggest cost is getting it there.
On the other hand, a manned mission can bring a few probes and leave them running when they leave...
Icy have a tendency to get wet when in contact with something warm, like a mars rover or such. I thought that ice was supposed to sublimate into gas in the martian atmosphere, though. =/
Then the solution is clear. Use a smaller warhead but encase it in as many tons of water as you can lift into the needed trajectory, preferably done as a shaped-charge. Then use many of these, timed and positioned so that the asteroid continually passes through a "sidewind" of water-vapor. This would give it a continuous gentle push, also avoiding the problem of having it break up in thousands of individual rocks.
Couple this with the fact that every single one of these will probably have its orbit be known by any nation capable of tracking satellites and those who think that they might be on the US hit list will be actively monitoring them...
Of course, with the correct trajectory, they should be able to only do the burn while being shadowed by the earth. =/
Anyways, nukes in space is a fatally idiotic idea. If the US put some there, the Chinese will be close behind. I wouldn't feel safe with those two nations having such a sharp and poisoned knife that close to each others throats.
Well, in the US it will take between 0 and 4 years to perform that operation. Another solution is to move to another country. Easier. Fixes the problem immediately. =)
Or, you can demand that all candidates for any government position are required to make a medical exam with full public disclosure. That way, you know beforehand if they're physically fit to hold such a position. Also, make them do a public mental health and IQ test, so that you don't fall for someone like Bush again, who might be physically fit to run a country, but not mentally.
On a more serious note, this is one of the more fun games I've seen released so far. Disclaimer: First Person Shooters, Car games and Beat 'em ups (Read: Fighting games), Sports games and any platformer or RPG that contains racing sequences royally sucks, OMNSHO. This rules out most games on PS3, XB360 and even most Wii games. Actually, it rules out most games released on any platform the last 10 - 15 years... =/
They also make a few software's, for some of which they charge a fee. If I buy anything from Apple, hardware or software, I am their customer. If I haven't yet bought anything from them, I am a potential customer.
If you are hostile to your customers, you'll soon make them take their business somewhere else in the future. If you are hostile to you potential customers, they'll never become your customers.
Also, being hostile to your customers might scare off the potential ones.
Why not simply put a few 3G towers around the solar system? Then all probes can send data via SMS, pictures via MMS and even do video calls to send realtime videos! And the phone companies can get their part of the NASA/ESA/Whatever-budgets they so rightfully deserve. =)
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Did he take into account that European prices usually include taxes that are sometimes excluded in the list price in the US, one wonder?
Also, I assume that most countries have import-taxes on software too...
If you take an adventure puzzle game and make the puzzles optional, you have a movie. =)
Yeah, there where some really badly designed adventure games.
That doesn't mean that well designed adventure games with logical puzzles suck.
That's what people like me are asking for.
Not more games like "Kings Quest 1" or "Space Quest 1".
Think more like "The Dig".
That is what I find so boring about most modern games.
All of them are targeted at the largest markets, which seem to be games that I find extremely boring.
I don't find multiplayer modes important at all and I don't like first person shooters, racing games, fighting games or sports games.
And I don't like RPG's with "quest - reward" gameplay...
I'm the market segment that the market forgot. =(
As it is now, I mainly replay adventure and platform games from the 80's and 90's, but I'm beginning to run out of games since you can't replay an adventure game within a few years of completing it without remembering all the puzzles...
Adventure games are like books in that regard. =)
When they've spent a few years in the shelf, you can re-read them at full enjoyment.
The worst kind of puzzle games are the one that has action elements.
If I want that kind of game, I'll play that kind of game and not a puzzle/adventure game.
It's like Lucas Arts Indiana Jones III, where you have do fight all the time. Sucks.
Or Delphine Software (I think it was theirs) Operation Stealth. An arcade water scooter chase has no place in an adventure game! Sucks.
It's like all those platform games that have racing sequences. Every single PS2 platform game has them.
Seems like game designers are incapable of leaving those crappy parts out of their otherwise excellent games.
Anyhow.
I think puzzle/adventure games do benefit from improved graphics and processor power, it's just that very few makes puzzle/adventure games that take benefit of them.
For instance, a game like Grim Fandango could be made to look absolutely fabulous with modern graphics.
One could easily make a game in the same style as Ico for instance, removing all that boring "shadow bashing" and adding more mystery and puzzles...
Hell, even the boom they're using to tow the plane is cool! =-D
Looks a bit strange to have two people handle the nosewheels though. Wonder if there's a chance of damage to the steering mechanism is they should happen to steer the thing at different angles. =/
The anti-nuclear power people usually aren't that afraid of the actual pollution that nuclear power creates. They're simple uninformed about the subject and scared to hell of anything that has any connection to any radioactivity at all.
In my experience with these kind of people, lots of them can't even distinguish between ionizing radiation and electro magnetic radiation.
Radiation is radiation. =P
The thing is, everyone else is already doing it the "easy", non-environmentally friendly way.
And being environmental about it might also prove to be cheaper per flight in the end, since going the brute force way usually involve massive amounts of toxic and hard to handle substances.
If you can get to orbit using lesser amount of cheaper fuel that's cheap to handle and store, that's a huge gain compared to "mainstream" spaceflight today.
Thought about the same thing.
Is aluminium more environmentally friendly to produce than other materials used in laptops?
Or is it the process of making it out of one piece of aluminium as opposed to using several pieces of aluminium? =/
But actual experience indicates that the opposite is the case.
Might be so. Haven't looked at actual scientific finding per mission vs cost of mission in a manned vs unmanned context.
Just threw around my opinion of what "feels" logical to me.
Comparing, for instance, the amount of science done as a result of men on the moon vs probes on the moon, manned missions probably win due to the soil brought back on the manned missions.
Comparing science per mission in earth orbit, I'd say probes/satellites win.
There's also the speed factor.
With a probe mission, you probably get results faster, counting time from the start of the project until scientific results come out of said project.
That said, there will most probably be different kinds of results in manned vs probe missions, so they don't replace each other.
Both are necessary in order to gain a broader knowledge.
And manned missions is so much sexier. ;-)
I use the word "probably" and "probable" a lot, since we can't know for sure until there has been manned missions to the places that we so far only has sent probes to investigate.
I searched for my little brothers nickname and got 6 hits, all related to him in one way or another. =)
On the other hand, I can't seem to find myself in Cuil, which I can in Google.
Must have been fixed amazingly quick. I have no problem using it now... =)
Well... These days I mostly play old adventure games via Scummvm. I've even refurbished my old Amiga 1200 so that I can play old favorites without an emulator. =)
Some strategy games are good too.
Did play World of warcraft for a while, but it got really boring quite quickly.
I do own a PS2, but I tend to get bored with most games after 10 - 20 minutes of play.
Best PS2 games I've played recently is Okami and a PS2 port of Flashback
I'm simply not the target audience of most games released. =(
The Olympics is usually a financial loss for the arranging nation, mostly being about nationalism and international marketing.
Maybe the Chinese want to make it, at least, brake even.
Remember, every single dime foreigners pay during the Olympics is an income for the arranging nation, either direct or through taxes.
I'd say that you get more science per dollar if you send probes.
There's also the endurance.
With humans, when the mission plan says "go home", you go home or die.
With a probe, if you realize that the probe actually can keep going after the mission is over, you can simply prolong the mission, lowering the cost/science every extra mission day you get out of it, since the biggest cost is getting it there.
On the other hand, a manned mission can bring a few probes and leave them running when they leave...
Icy have a tendency to get wet when in contact with something warm, like a mars rover or such.
I thought that ice was supposed to sublimate into gas in the martian atmosphere, though. =/
Then the solution is clear.
Use a smaller warhead but encase it in as many tons of water as you can lift into the needed trajectory, preferably done as a shaped-charge.
Then use many of these, timed and positioned so that the asteroid continually passes through a "sidewind" of water-vapor.
This would give it a continuous gentle push, also avoiding the problem of having it break up in thousands of individual rocks.
Couple this with the fact that every single one of these will probably have its orbit be known by any nation capable of tracking satellites and those who think that they might be on the US hit list will be actively monitoring them...
Of course, with the correct trajectory, they should be able to only do the burn while being shadowed by the earth. =/
Anyways, nukes in space is a fatally idiotic idea.
If the US put some there, the Chinese will be close behind.
I wouldn't feel safe with those two nations having such a sharp and poisoned knife that close to each others throats.
Unless some country takes someone putting nukes in orbit as threat to their national security and shoot them down.
Such moves have been seen before.
Well, in the US it will take between 0 and 4 years to perform that operation.
Another solution is to move to another country.
Easier. Fixes the problem immediately. =)
Or, you can demand that all candidates for any government position are required to make a medical exam with full public disclosure.
That way, you know beforehand if they're physically fit to hold such a position.
Also, make them do a public mental health and IQ test, so that you don't fall for someone like Bush again, who might be physically fit to run a country, but not mentally.
Finally, a game that makes the PS3 justice! =D
On a more serious note, this is one of the more fun games I've seen released so far.
Disclaimer: First Person Shooters, Car games and Beat 'em ups (Read: Fighting games), Sports games and any platformer or RPG that contains racing sequences royally sucks, OMNSHO.
This rules out most games on PS3, XB360 and even most Wii games.
Actually, it rules out most games released on any platform the last 10 - 15 years... =/
They also make a few software's, for some of which they charge a fee.
If I buy anything from Apple, hardware or software, I am their customer.
If I haven't yet bought anything from them, I am a potential customer.
If you are hostile to your customers, you'll soon make them take their business somewhere else in the future.
If you are hostile to you potential customers, they'll never become your customers.
Also, being hostile to your customers might scare off the potential ones.
And, if you use an apple to apply the Apple made Apple label, you can honestly argue that the label was put there by "apple". ^_^
That was due to the asymmetric design of AGP.
PCI-Express is symmetric, so it doesn't have this limitation.
Hmm...
Why not simply put a few 3G towers around the solar system?
Then all probes can send data via SMS, pictures via MMS and even do video calls to send realtime videos!
And the phone companies can get their part of the NASA/ESA/Whatever-budgets they so rightfully deserve. =)