Maybe you should go back to anticipating it since all the things you've heard are not true. Garbage in, garbage out.
You're wrong.
They might NOT be true. They MAY be true. They aren't KNOWN to be true or untrue. I think they're LIKELY true; I would be happy to be wrong, but I doubt I will be. As the other poster said, maybe the three games will total $140 instead of $180. I wager they'll be $180. They have said they will sell maps, scenarios, and units on battlenet. You seriously think they won't try to market them to you? "Monetize their leverage in the battlenet platform by incentivizing participation?"
Again, neither you or I know for SURE... but again, I'm pretty sure they will. Obviously, the only reason they eliminated local LAN play is to force people to use battlenet. That's a marketing decision, not a developer decision. Blizzard seems to be pulling a Sony... thinking that they are big and popular enough that they can force things on consumers.
I was eagerly anticipating Starcraft II several years ago. Now, after all I've heard, that enthusiasm has completely waned. Charging $180 for a game which will require a battlenet account so that I can be constantly pestered to buy new maps to continue playing with my friends? Bleh.
The quasi/anti-science mad-dog drivel that makes up almost all the rest of the discussion is what they're circling the wagons about. It's like having Joe Sixpack looking come into your workplace screaming that your professional work is bullshit and you should be fired.
And actually having people in power listen to him.
But what if Joe's RIGHT? Joe may be smart. Joe may know how to program. Joe may have caught your error.
Oh... never mind. He's unwashed. Got it.
Crap; come to think of it, I'm not sure I'm worthy to respond to you.
Exactly. The Wii had the largest number of incompetent developers, by far, attracted by the smell of a quick buck from shovelware... and it's probably a good thing that they're jumping ship to an even more exploitative, fad-driven device.
Hell, if a bunch of Wii developers move to the iPhone, the average quality of developers on both will rise. I don't think any important developers are going to abandon the Wii.
A bit of thought, if you're willing to invest it, should make you very embarrassed that you said all that publicly. The Wii could stop selling NOW, and it's doubtful the 360 or PS3 would EVER catch up to it. Nintendo has already won this console generation in terms of sales, profit, and popularity.
The WHO hyped up a potential pandemic to stop it becoming a pandemic.
Much like politicians hype up the threat from Child Pornography and Terrorism. (I think slashdotters are roundly condemning that fearmongering in another thread right now.) Why does all our hard-learned cynicism go out the window when climate change is mentioned?
the physics of Quake 1 still has a legacy today (rocket jumping, bunny hopping).
And how is that a good thing exactly?
I agree; those are both ridiculous gameplay elements. I've always thought it was amusing that FPS players, arguably the cutting edge of photorealistic video game graphics and game physics, don't see a problem with characters behaving like a Loony Tunes cartoon.
A jump should take you no more than eighteen inches in the air, and totally ruin your aim during and for a few moments afterward; and moving by dropping a bomb underneath you... it's ok for a game that's meant to be silly, but most FPS pretend to be deadly serious.
Doom was intended to be played on the keyboard. That's why it maps to a controller or phone much better than later FPS that were designed around mouse control.
Fire Emblem:Radiant Dawn. I've put over a hundred hours into that, and still some levels on hard will take a dozen restarts to beat. And the AI doesn't cheat; when you lose, it's because you screwed up.
There's a lot of punishing games for the Wii (just like all the other consoles) -- and they don't have to be "hardcore" to be difficult. Go watch a youtube video of "We Cheer 2".
"I dont like eclipse too much, I think its a little more bloated for my needs"
and
"Netbeans just has a lot of the features out of the box where as eclipse you have to download everything"
are contradictory statements.
Replace Eclipse with Firefox, and Netbeans with Opera. You'll see the statement isn't contradictory at all. It may be true or false, but that depends on the quality of the program and how well the built-in functionality matches the normal use.
I've seen dozens of stories about this, and never got the impression that Google was going to sell the books it's scanning. I thought it was purely free searching and browsing, with google profiting maybe from contextual advertising.
Are they planning selling print-on-demand copies? For cost, or to turn a profit?
The usefulness does depend on the problem. Anything using sets or arrays larger than a few number is going to be much easier and faster (and less prone to error) on a spreadsheet. A spreadsheet is probably more useful for experimentation, as well. For typical evaluation of expressions, though, a calculator is probably much faster. The smartest thing to do is use whichever is more efficient for the task, where the efficiency is based on both your own skillset and the tool.
I know we can't make too many assumptions, but I think common sense would indicate there's trillions of these things floating out there. I would think there's more of these in the galaxy than stars, if you just continue the mass/frequency curve past the point that fusion ignites.
Agree. I bought a Wacom tablet as an extra for one of my machines, and liked it so much that I bought another, and use them as the primary controller for both the PCs at my workdesk. It is nice to be able to hold a pen or mouse in your hand, and move back and forth between machines using the same controller.
Another feature that some Wacom tablets offer is that they can detect 'lean'... if you hold your pen at an angle while drawing, it can respond with a different amount of spread or line thickness.
As I said, I haven't checked it in a year or two. The only thing I ever go to Yahoo for because one of my long-term email addresses is through yahoo.
However, I just double-checked, and it's still there. If you have the "personal assistant" enabled, which gives you a brief summary of recent email, weather, stocks, etc., it will also display astrology, and there's no option to turn it off.
It's a weird thing for a company to do. They would be aghast at the idea of displaying a tab on "Christianity" or some other religion and giving no option to turn it off, but force a much more ridiculous astrology tab.
It feels a bit like not being able to turn off the "astrology" tab on your Yahoo home page. While it doesn't actively HURT you, it's unpleasant to have it in your face, and it would be nice if the site gave you an option to turn it off.
(I haven't look at my yahoo home page in a year or two, though, so maybe they eventually fixed that.)
Worth noting that Chrome, as the fastest, is still only eight frames per second, which would be dreadful even for a turn-based game. I didn't see where they said how powerful of a machine they ran it on, so I assume it's a moderately powerful pc. Still, it's within an order of magnitude of where it needs to be, so it'll probably be running smoothly within a year or two.
In my experience, the vast majority of home-schoolers do it because of the low quality of public education, not a religious agenda. I don't homeschool my children, but I would if I could. As it is, a few weekly discussions and explanations with my children enables them to stay months or years ahead of other students in their high-school.
I wouldn't be surprised if you could reach a 60% correlation between AGE and party affiliation; and I'm sure you can between GENDER and affiliation. Was the study normalized for those sorts of obvious flags?
We've already known that evolution depends on both inheritance of genetic matter and mutation of genetic matter. This is a third mechanism for generating traits, but it stills falls under the umbrella of natural selection. If the change is beneficial, and leads to more offspring, the change will be selected for. Certainly worth study, and we may not have known the full scope of the phenomena, but it doesn't really contradict Darwinian evolution at all.
As a side note... I wonder if the fact this occurs in nature will silence some of the people objecting to genetic splicing?
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Maybe you should go back to anticipating it since all the things you've heard are not true. Garbage in, garbage out.
You're wrong.
They might NOT be true. They MAY be true. They aren't KNOWN to be true or untrue. I think they're LIKELY true; I would be happy to be wrong, but I doubt I will be. As the other poster said, maybe the three games will total $140 instead of $180. I wager they'll be $180. They have said they will sell maps, scenarios, and units on battlenet. You seriously think they won't try to market them to you? "Monetize their leverage in the battlenet platform by incentivizing participation?"
Again, neither you or I know for SURE... but again, I'm pretty sure they will. Obviously, the only reason they eliminated local LAN play is to force people to use battlenet. That's a marketing decision, not a developer decision. Blizzard seems to be pulling a Sony... thinking that they are big and popular enough that they can force things on consumers.
I was eagerly anticipating Starcraft II several years ago. Now, after all I've heard, that enthusiasm has completely waned. Charging $180 for a game which will require a battlenet account so that I can be constantly pestered to buy new maps to continue playing with my friends? Bleh.
The quasi/anti-science mad-dog drivel that makes up almost all the rest of the discussion is what they're circling the wagons about. It's like having Joe Sixpack looking come into your workplace screaming that your professional work is bullshit and you should be fired.
And actually having people in power listen to him.
But what if Joe's RIGHT? Joe may be smart. Joe may know how to program. Joe may have caught your error.
Oh... never mind. He's unwashed. Got it.
Crap; come to think of it, I'm not sure I'm worthy to respond to you.
I'm guessing you didn't bother to read the Google Code TOS [google.com]? It puts the blame solely on the developer.
Isn't that where blame would belong?
Exactly. The Wii had the largest number of incompetent developers, by far, attracted by the smell of a quick buck from shovelware... and it's probably a good thing that they're jumping ship to an even more exploitative, fad-driven device.
Hell, if a bunch of Wii developers move to the iPhone, the average quality of developers on both will rise. I don't think any important developers are going to abandon the Wii.
A bit of thought, if you're willing to invest it, should make you very embarrassed that you said all that publicly. The Wii could stop selling NOW, and it's doubtful the 360 or PS3 would EVER catch up to it. Nintendo has already won this console generation in terms of sales, profit, and popularity.
The WHO hyped up a potential pandemic to stop it becoming a pandemic.
Much like politicians hype up the threat from Child Pornography and Terrorism. (I think slashdotters are roundly condemning that fearmongering in another thread right now.) Why does all our hard-learned cynicism go out the window when climate change is mentioned?
So that Apple can store metadata in the filename.
the physics of Quake 1 still has a legacy today (rocket jumping, bunny hopping).
And how is that a good thing exactly?
I agree; those are both ridiculous gameplay elements. I've always thought it was amusing that FPS players, arguably the cutting edge of photorealistic video game graphics and game physics, don't see a problem with characters behaving like a Loony Tunes cartoon.
A jump should take you no more than eighteen inches in the air, and totally ruin your aim during and for a few moments afterward; and moving by dropping a bomb underneath you... it's ok for a game that's meant to be silly, but most FPS pretend to be deadly serious.
Doom was intended to be played on the keyboard. That's why it maps to a controller or phone much better than later FPS that were designed around mouse control.
Fire Emblem:Radiant Dawn. I've put over a hundred hours into that, and still some levels on hard will take a dozen restarts to beat. And the AI doesn't cheat; when you lose, it's because you screwed up.
There's a lot of punishing games for the Wii (just like all the other consoles) -- and they don't have to be "hardcore" to be difficult. Go watch a youtube video of "We Cheer 2".
"I dont like eclipse too much, I think its a little more bloated for my needs"
and
"Netbeans just has a lot of the features out of the box where as eclipse you have to download everything" are contradictory statements.
Replace Eclipse with Firefox, and Netbeans with Opera. You'll see the statement isn't contradictory at all. It may be true or false, but that depends on the quality of the program and how well the built-in functionality matches the normal use.
I think it's clear that space-diamonds will have capabilities far outstripping any of our mundane terrestrial diamonds.
I've seen dozens of stories about this, and never got the impression that Google was going to sell the books it's scanning. I thought it was purely free searching and browsing, with google profiting maybe from contextual advertising.
Are they planning selling print-on-demand copies? For cost, or to turn a profit?
The usefulness does depend on the problem. Anything using sets or arrays larger than a few number is going to be much easier and faster (and less prone to error) on a spreadsheet. A spreadsheet is probably more useful for experimentation, as well. For typical evaluation of expressions, though, a calculator is probably much faster. The smartest thing to do is use whichever is more efficient for the task, where the efficiency is based on both your own skillset and the tool.
I know we can't make too many assumptions, but I think common sense would indicate there's trillions of these things floating out there. I would think there's more of these in the galaxy than stars, if you just continue the mass/frequency curve past the point that fusion ignites.
I keep asking this question: Why can't we detect ET's transmissions?
DRM'ed, no doubt.
Agree. I bought a Wacom tablet as an extra for one of my machines, and liked it so much that I bought another, and use them as the primary controller for both the PCs at my workdesk. It is nice to be able to hold a pen or mouse in your hand, and move back and forth between machines using the same controller.
Another feature that some Wacom tablets offer is that they can detect 'lean'... if you hold your pen at an angle while drawing, it can respond with a different amount of spread or line thickness.
As I said, I haven't checked it in a year or two. The only thing I ever go to Yahoo for because one of my long-term email addresses is through yahoo.
However, I just double-checked, and it's still there. If you have the "personal assistant" enabled, which gives you a brief summary of recent email, weather, stocks, etc., it will also display astrology, and there's no option to turn it off.
It's a weird thing for a company to do. They would be aghast at the idea of displaying a tab on "Christianity" or some other religion and giving no option to turn it off, but force a much more ridiculous astrology tab.
It feels a bit like not being able to turn off the "astrology" tab on your Yahoo home page. While it doesn't actively HURT you, it's unpleasant to have it in your face, and it would be nice if the site gave you an option to turn it off.
(I haven't look at my yahoo home page in a year or two, though, so maybe they eventually fixed that.)
Worth noting that Chrome, as the fastest, is still only eight frames per second, which would be dreadful even for a turn-based game. I didn't see where they said how powerful of a machine they ran it on, so I assume it's a moderately powerful pc. Still, it's within an order of magnitude of where it needs to be, so it'll probably be running smoothly within a year or two.
In my experience, the vast majority of home-schoolers do it because of the low quality of public education, not a religious agenda. I don't homeschool my children, but I would if I could. As it is, a few weekly discussions and explanations with my children enables them to stay months or years ahead of other students in their high-school.
I wouldn't be surprised if you could reach a 60% correlation between AGE and party affiliation; and I'm sure you can between GENDER and affiliation. Was the study normalized for those sorts of obvious flags?
I can't read the article without registering but I wonder if homosexual behavior could be causing horizontal gene transfer in humans.
Sometimes vertical transfers, too.
We've already known that evolution depends on both inheritance of genetic matter and mutation of genetic matter. This is a third mechanism for generating traits, but it stills falls under the umbrella of natural selection. If the change is beneficial, and leads to more offspring, the change will be selected for. Certainly worth study, and we may not have known the full scope of the phenomena, but it doesn't really contradict Darwinian evolution at all.
As a side note... I wonder if the fact this occurs in nature will silence some of the people objecting to genetic splicing?