I can't help but think you're making a reference to vanilla World of Warcraft.
I agree, however. After going through tiers 1-8.5, the game's more like a second job than a game anymore. Being in a guild for progression, being the first to down Yogg-Saron in a 25-man raid is nice, but it's definitely not worth it. I mean, there's a push to be better and out-damage everyone else, but sometimes... Sometimes, I wish I could have had that lost sleep rather than that new weapon.
You're right.. Just like I've never seen a FPS in the last year and a half with no plot whatsoever, and a JRPG with no gameplay.
Seriously, just because ice cream's banned, the only person with ice cream is some guy whose offering you free ice cream with his shit on it, doesn't mean you have to enjoy it or eat it.
The problem I see with most FPS is the fact that you'll end up shooting the same thing over and over, with little surprise because, dun-dun-dun, after you pull that lever, a monster pops out. I mean, whatever happened to the gold old days of Nemesis, the guy you couldn't kill in Resident Evil? You'd run like hell if he was chasing you, because you couldn't beat him (until the very end, that is).
That being said, the gameplay of Dead Space is, at the very least, above average. I mean, it's got real-time puzzles that you have to solve (puzzles being how to splatter another enemy) with all kinds of stuff coming at you. That's probably why it's more fun to play than it is to watch. I mean, is it more fun to act in a movie or watch it being acted out?
The problem is that this article deals mainly with intelligent alien life. Take, for example, if you had a race of "goo" creatures on a seemingly barren planet consisting of an atmosphere of gas made up of sulfur, nitrogen, and ammonia.
From our viewpoint, it'd look like yet another barren planet with some sort of "liquid" on the surface that moves around. Now, aside from the fact that this would probably establish a unique entropy (different from a volcanic world and different from a completely dead ice world), this world would not be classified as having a large enough range between it's low chaos and high chaos values. There would be alien life, albeit non-intelligent and lacking and kind of structures besides maybe pools or caves.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Sony try this with Everquest II? I can't say whether EQ's downloadable content was just a bunch of titles and other things, but nonetheless, adding downloadable content to FFXI really makes me start to think that Square Enix is trying to resuscitate a dying game.
I mean, being an ex-fFXI player myself who has played on-and-off since six monthes after it was released in the United States, I can attest to the fact that the last expansions brought welcomed changes, like the additional classes, PvP (roughly, because I can't recall the name at the moment), and some other mission-related fun created periods of playing that I found intriguing enough to resubscribe. The amount of gold farmers dropped after S-E took measures to reduce them (which subsequently royally effed up the rate of inflation. Never buy Crawler's silk in a highly inflated economy and then try to sell it later). And while that's all and very well good, I doubt I'll be paying $30 to download three expansions, or $10 for one.
Sort of like that. Take it more as, "The layout of the cupholders determines what shape the console/dash of the car is, which determines what kind of lights are used for the dash, which determines what kind of seats can be put in the car, [...], which determines what make/model you eventually get."
At least that's how I understand it. Too many assumptions, if you ask me, but I'm not a biologist.
For the sake of efficiency, it would make sense that some of our DNA is RNA, considering you'd be holding somewhere between the massive amount of information DNA would normally carry, and copies of that massive amount of data.
The thing that truly bothers about this article, disregarding the whole "double helix is no longer a viable model" part, is the fact that it's taken so long for someone to admit that the old presumption of, "Okay, so... See this pair of A-G molecules right here in your genome? That means you have blue eyes.", is an incorrect way of thinking. I mean, for the sake of efficiency, changing one pair of DNA molecules around would probably have multiple changes, rather than just one. I mean, how could a piece of information that describes virtually every feature of the human body store information about how a cell is reflective of blue light, 2 picometers wide, and takes a certain combination of chemicals to make.
Personally, I think this "advancement", if it's true and not another kdawrson new story, could help immensely in decoding DNA sequences and modifying DNA. Heck, it might even one day eliminate cancer.
While Firefox is probably never going to reach that critical mass (nor will most average programs) it's probable that a few years from now it will be common place.
I only think that part about Firefox is applicable to Firefox 3, if you know what I mean.
Also, I rarely am able to exceed 4GB total memory use, even with WoW and some other things up at the same time. To be honest, I run out of CPU cycles before I run out of memory.
250GB / 30 days in the average month = 8.3...GB per day.
8.3 / (24 hours * 60 minutes/hr * 60 seconds/minute) = a constant download rate of 0.0028935185 GB/sec, or, 2.83 KB/sec for an entire 30-day span, or (according to my possibly err-prone calculations) 22.63 kB/sec.
Unless there's a bunch of botnets on Comcast downloading pornography every single second of every single day, I don't see that as doing anything but hurting customers of Comcast.
Generous? At first glance, but then again, that 250GB is inclusive of, afaik, ALL traffic on an IP address. Have fun, small, home networks!
GAME sucks. I quit GAME and tried NEW-GAME for a few months. It was worse than GAME. Why can't games be like they were ERAS ago? When I was your AGE, all we had were some STICKS and TORCHES to fight dragons with. We had to walk FIFTEEN-MILES to the nearest CAVE.
The article is about Lori Drew. She deliberately used a false name for a crime. Now, I would imagine if I signed up on MySpace as "David McDavid-Chicken the Third", that'd be fine, so long as I didn't shorten my name to David McDavid.
So therefore, she violated the rulings of re McUlta 189 F. 250, Christianson v. King County 196 F. 791, United States v. McKay 2 F.2d 257. (Name changes in the United States)
Therefore, I would assume, through my very minuscule understanding of the law in the U.S., that's what law is actually being violated.
However, I'm still frightened by this. Are law makers going to turn this into a "If you violate the ToS on this website, you're going to Federal Prison/Hell" type of situation? As far as names go, what with assumed names and such, they can't pin anything on you for that. The part that bothers me is the fact that MySpace, granted someone willing to take the time to do it, will disable an account for ToS violation if something so simple as a user's location or age is incorrect. (Though mainly only when it is obvious that such has been done in an intentional manner.)
If you store a password in a Java applet in a string, you can download that applet and open it in Notepad to find it. I'm assuming this is the same in SWF documents.
Also considering you can pretty much disassemble SWF files, well, that's your fault.
Although I do agree that being able to search Google for vulnerable Flash applications is a major concern, I'm to go out on a limb and say that Adobe, coupled with Google, are going to do something like only make text-containing boxes into crawl-able material.
That aside, I'm hoping that search engines also implement a "only display results without Flash content" feature.
I truly doubt that this will stop another repeat of the many viruses that plagued Windows in the past from happening.
It might, speaking tentatively, stop, or perhaps better yet, slow, the spread of giant botnets.
Even if everything was to be square and safe, viruses rendered immune from spreading via the net, you'd still have some other crazy way of viruses spreading, like throw hardware or, oh, I don't know... iPods?
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I can't help but think you're making a reference to vanilla World of Warcraft.
I agree, however. After going through tiers 1-8.5, the game's more like a second job than a game anymore. Being in a guild for progression, being the first to down Yogg-Saron in a 25-man raid is nice, but it's definitely not worth it. I mean, there's a push to be better and out-damage everyone else, but sometimes... Sometimes, I wish I could have had that lost sleep rather than that new weapon.
You're right.. Just like I've never seen a FPS in the last year and a half with no plot whatsoever, and a JRPG with no gameplay.
Seriously, just because ice cream's banned, the only person with ice cream is some guy whose offering you free ice cream with his shit on it, doesn't mean you have to enjoy it or eat it.
The problem I see with most FPS is the fact that you'll end up shooting the same thing over and over, with little surprise because, dun-dun-dun, after you pull that lever, a monster pops out. I mean, whatever happened to the gold old days of Nemesis, the guy you couldn't kill in Resident Evil? You'd run like hell if he was chasing you, because you couldn't beat him (until the very end, that is).
That being said, the gameplay of Dead Space is, at the very least, above average. I mean, it's got real-time puzzles that you have to solve (puzzles being how to splatter another enemy) with all kinds of stuff coming at you. That's probably why it's more fun to play than it is to watch. I mean, is it more fun to act in a movie or watch it being acted out?
It's ironic, what with the U.S. economy and global economy both being in a large recession.
Although, I thought the same thing as you. I honestly thought he was serious.
The problem is that this article deals mainly with intelligent alien life. Take, for example, if you had a race of "goo" creatures on a seemingly barren planet consisting of an atmosphere of gas made up of sulfur, nitrogen, and ammonia.
From our viewpoint, it'd look like yet another barren planet with some sort of "liquid" on the surface that moves around. Now, aside from the fact that this would probably establish a unique entropy (different from a volcanic world and different from a completely dead ice world), this world would not be classified as having a large enough range between it's low chaos and high chaos values. There would be alien life, albeit non-intelligent and lacking and kind of structures besides maybe pools or caves.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Sony try this with Everquest II? I can't say whether EQ's downloadable content was just a bunch of titles and other things, but nonetheless, adding downloadable content to FFXI really makes me start to think that Square Enix is trying to resuscitate a dying game.
I mean, being an ex-fFXI player myself who has played on-and-off since six monthes after it was released in the United States, I can attest to the fact that the last expansions brought welcomed changes, like the additional classes, PvP (roughly, because I can't recall the name at the moment), and some other mission-related fun created periods of playing that I found intriguing enough to resubscribe. The amount of gold farmers dropped after S-E took measures to reduce them (which subsequently royally effed up the rate of inflation. Never buy Crawler's silk in a highly inflated economy and then try to sell it later). And while that's all and very well good, I doubt I'll be paying $30 to download three expansions, or $10 for one.
Shoo, at least he didn't use Visual Basic.
Sort of like that. Take it more as, "The layout of the cupholders determines what shape the console/dash of the car is, which determines what kind of lights are used for the dash, which determines what kind of seats can be put in the car, [...], which determines what make/model you eventually get."
At least that's how I understand it. Too many assumptions, if you ask me, but I'm not a biologist.
For the sake of efficiency, it would make sense that some of our DNA is RNA, considering you'd be holding somewhere between the massive amount of information DNA would normally carry, and copies of that massive amount of data.
The thing that truly bothers about this article, disregarding the whole "double helix is no longer a viable model" part, is the fact that it's taken so long for someone to admit that the old presumption of, "Okay, so... See this pair of A-G molecules right here in your genome? That means you have blue eyes.", is an incorrect way of thinking. I mean, for the sake of efficiency, changing one pair of DNA molecules around would probably have multiple changes, rather than just one. I mean, how could a piece of information that describes virtually every feature of the human body store information about how a cell is reflective of blue light, 2 picometers wide, and takes a certain combination of chemicals to make.
Personally, I think this "advancement", if it's true and not another kdawrson new story, could help immensely in decoding DNA sequences and modifying DNA. Heck, it might even one day eliminate cancer.
While Firefox is probably never going to reach that critical mass (nor will most average programs) it's probable that a few years from now it will be common place.
I only think that part about Firefox is applicable to Firefox 3, if you know what I mean.
Also, I rarely am able to exceed 4GB total memory use, even with WoW and some other things up at the same time. To be honest, I run out of CPU cycles before I run out of memory.
250GB / 30 days in the average month = 8.3...GB per day.
8.3 / (24 hours * 60 minutes/hr * 60 seconds/minute) = a constant download rate of 0.0028935185 GB/sec, or, 2.83 KB/sec for an entire 30-day span, or (according to my possibly err-prone calculations) 22.63 kB/sec.
Unless there's a bunch of botnets on Comcast downloading pornography every single second of every single day, I don't see that as doing anything but hurting customers of Comcast.
Generous? At first glance, but then again, that 250GB is inclusive of, afaik, ALL traffic on an IP address. Have fun, small, home networks!
GAME sucks. I quit GAME and tried NEW-GAME for a few months. It was worse than GAME. Why can't games be like they were ERAS ago? When I was your AGE, all we had were some STICKS and TORCHES to fight dragons with. We had to walk FIFTEEN-MILES to the nearest CAVE.
Kids nowadays don't know anything about games!
Many websites allow you to use your own question, rather than a preset one. "What is the movie you'd most relate to your high school career?"
"What was the name of craziest teacher you had?"
Better yet, "On Tuesday mornings, which newspaper did you always use to cut out little robot people?"
I was thinking along the lines of, "Indiana Jones and the Search for the Higgs Boson, coming to a theater near you October 21, 2008."
Why do the Olympics need DRM anyway?
Does China make that much of a profit from bootleg DVDs of the Olympics?
I'm sorry, but is this really that big of a piece of news?
A few of the features mentioned in the article, like the free game time, have been there for quite some time already.
Welcome to the real world.
Would you like to play most computer games?
[Y/N]?
Y
Buy a PC?
[Y/N]?
Y
Actually, I would assume the "ball" has a different center of gravity, or something like that, requiring more balance. That's only a guess, though.
"How does it work?"
"Magnets, lots of magnets."
I disagree. I thoroughly think this one is more "It works because of magnets".
But then again, that's just me.
Social Security to be bust in 3 generations.
President announces plan to stem the growth of illegal star migration by building a giant wall between neighboring galaxies.
More at 10.
The article is about Lori Drew. She deliberately used a false name for a crime. Now, I would imagine if I signed up on MySpace as "David McDavid-Chicken the Third", that'd be fine, so long as I didn't shorten my name to David McDavid.
So therefore, she violated the rulings of re McUlta 189 F. 250, Christianson v. King County 196 F. 791, United States v. McKay 2 F.2d 257. (Name changes in the United States)
Therefore, I would assume, through my very minuscule understanding of the law in the U.S., that's what law is actually being violated.
However, I'm still frightened by this. Are law makers going to turn this into a "If you violate the ToS on this website, you're going to Federal Prison/Hell" type of situation? As far as names go, what with assumed names and such, they can't pin anything on you for that. The part that bothers me is the fact that MySpace, granted someone willing to take the time to do it, will disable an account for ToS violation if something so simple as a user's location or age is incorrect. (Though mainly only when it is obvious that such has been done in an intentional manner.)
If you store a password in a Java applet in a string, you can download that applet and open it in Notepad to find it. I'm assuming this is the same in SWF documents.
Also considering you can pretty much disassemble SWF files, well, that's your fault.
Although I do agree that being able to search Google for vulnerable Flash applications is a major concern, I'm to go out on a limb and say that Adobe, coupled with Google, are going to do something like only make text-containing boxes into crawl-able material.
That aside, I'm hoping that search engines also implement a "only display results without Flash content" feature.
I truly doubt that this will stop another repeat of the many viruses that plagued Windows in the past from happening.
It might, speaking tentatively, stop, or perhaps better yet, slow, the spread of giant botnets.
Even if everything was to be square and safe, viruses rendered immune from spreading via the net, you'd still have some other crazy way of viruses spreading, like throw hardware or, oh, I don't know... iPods?
Correct me if I'm wrong, which is entirely possible, but doesn't Collegeboard, not the local school, take care of AP scores?
We ask it if it's really conscious and see if consciousness is really just in the brain.