I've been playing City of Heroes since 2006. It had absolutely the best MMO gaming community I've ever come across. If you've ever played it you know what I mean. Teaming was the essence of it's model. Pick-up-groups (PUGS) routinely can stick together throughout an entire evening of playing missions, PUGs! for goodness sake. And the team members actually talk with each other, and joke around constantly while playing. It also had a gaming engine where character moves and powers we're motion capture based and not the oh so artificial looking and cartoonish computer generated human motion. Also it had a very tightly connected feel when playing your "toon" as we call them. Most games have a very squishy disconnect feel between your keyboard and the toon. It really felt immersive. Also the game developers were incredibly responsive and receptive to and part of it's gaming community.It had it's shortcomings of course like any game. I literally welled up when I learned of its closing. Some folks don't understand the emotional connection some of us have to this game. It's something you have to experience and can't really be explained. Farewell City of Heroes you are sorely missed.:-(.......
"MAY have discovered the Higgs-Boson"; "MAY have discovered new form of matter". "I MAY be writing this comment from the space station". Is this multi-billion dollar technological wonder ever going the actually discover anything definitively.
It would seem that for MMO's that are F2P the supposed "need" for DRM is completely obviated. For most F2P MMOs revenue comes from in-game purchases. I was reading some other articles that for Sony, and NCSoft they saw very large increases in revenue from games when they went F2P.
I am drowning in F2P games on my PC. An embarrassment of riches. I haven't touched, never mind even bought a game for, my console in about a year.
In the excerpt of the article at the top they changed it FROM ("And people who want much slower but conventional broadband can get it for free if they pay a $300 connection fee.") TO: ("and regular 'conventional' internet for a one time $300 fee."). They beat me to the punch. I was about to comment that "much slower" is a bit, unintentionally I'm sure, misleading.
"Up to 5Mbps download, 1Mbps upload speed" [ https://fiber.google.com/plans/residential/ ]
From what I understand teachers are reluctant to give deserved low grades. There is so much competition to get into college that parents gasp in terror at even any bad grade. Parents apply intense pressure on teachers to elevate what should be a low or failing grade.
I read thru the referenced platform document and I find it baffling how any reasonable person could be against teaching critical thinking skills to kids.
From what I understand the standing part of the Supreme Courts ruling is that a police officer can request proof of citizenship if they have reasonable suspicion they someone isn't legal, and it has to be in the course of otherwise typical law enforcement such as a traffic stop or such, profiling isn't allowed. My question is can someone give me an example of what could cause such reasonable suspicion, excluding of course the unlawful profiling of skin color, language, dress, etc. I'm not being snarky, I can't think of anything.
"We are being asked to change our morality and principals to match what I think are immoral and unethical business models.'"
If I read it correctly, according to page 20 this well citation-ed paper music was not copyrighted for most of human history.
http://www.rbs2.com/copyrm.pdf
"The overall slant changes due to the entry of articles with opposite slants, leading toward neutrality for many topics, not necessarily within specific articles."
I disagree with that statement. Two opposing "slants" don't make a "neutral". Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia not a political debate forum.
Holy crap! I can be indefinitely detained for "unknowingly" supporting terrorism?! How can I prevent myself from doing something I don't know I'm doing? I'm confused o.O
The media (tv news AND journalists) have a large degree of fault in the public's distrust in science. False balance, equating correlation with causation (they love using the phrase "scientists have found a link between x and y), and basic lack of fact checking propagates incorrect information and sometimes outright lies. Also most scientist seem to horrible communicating skills when communicating to the media and the public.
Slashdot Mirror
Gmail is the most feature poor email system I have ever used.
Cell phone usage is a level 2b carcinogen, the same as coffee, pickled vegetables and talcum powder. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3142790/
Fracking was explicitly exempted from the federal Clean Water Act http://sites.duke.edu/sjpp/2011/ensuring-safe-drinking-water-in-the-age-of-hydraulic-fracturing/
I've been playing City of Heroes since 2006. It had absolutely the best MMO gaming community I've ever come across. If you've ever played it you know what I mean. Teaming was the essence of it's model. Pick-up-groups (PUGS) routinely can stick together throughout an entire evening of playing missions, PUGs! for goodness sake. And the team members actually talk with each other, and joke around constantly while playing. It also had a gaming engine where character moves and powers we're motion capture based and not the oh so artificial looking and cartoonish computer generated human motion. Also it had a very tightly connected feel when playing your "toon" as we call them. Most games have a very squishy disconnect feel between your keyboard and the toon. It really felt immersive. Also the game developers were incredibly responsive and receptive to and part of it's gaming community.It had it's shortcomings of course like any game. I literally welled up when I learned of its closing. Some folks don't understand the emotional connection some of us have to this game. It's something you have to experience and can't really be explained. Farewell City of Heroes you are sorely missed. :-(.......
OR it could spread unchecked bringing about the dreaded zombie Apocalypse!
"MAY have discovered the Higgs-Boson"; "MAY have discovered new form of matter". "I MAY be writing this comment from the space station". Is this multi-billion dollar technological wonder ever going the actually discover anything definitively.
After the horror that was the three prequel movies hopefully George Lucas won't be directing this new one.
How funny. I already do this to reduce the chance of identity theft. I call it poisoning the well.
It would seem that for MMO's that are F2P the supposed "need" for DRM is completely obviated. For most F2P MMOs revenue comes from in-game purchases. I was reading some other articles that for Sony, and NCSoft they saw very large increases in revenue from games when they went F2P. I am drowning in F2P games on my PC. An embarrassment of riches. I haven't touched, never mind even bought a game for, my console in about a year.
In the excerpt of the article at the top they changed it FROM ("And people who want much slower but conventional broadband can get it for free if they pay a $300 connection fee.") TO: ("and regular 'conventional' internet for a one time $300 fee."). They beat me to the punch. I was about to comment that "much slower" is a bit, unintentionally I'm sure, misleading. "Up to 5Mbps download, 1Mbps upload speed" [ https://fiber.google.com/plans/residential/ ]
From what I understand teachers are reluctant to give deserved low grades. There is so much competition to get into college that parents gasp in terror at even any bad grade. Parents apply intense pressure on teachers to elevate what should be a low or failing grade.
I read thru the referenced platform document and I find it baffling how any reasonable person could be against teaching critical thinking skills to kids.
From what I understand the standing part of the Supreme Courts ruling is that a police officer can request proof of citizenship if they have reasonable suspicion they someone isn't legal, and it has to be in the course of otherwise typical law enforcement such as a traffic stop or such, profiling isn't allowed. My question is can someone give me an example of what could cause such reasonable suspicion, excluding of course the unlawful profiling of skin color, language, dress, etc. I'm not being snarky, I can't think of anything.
As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, 'Sunlight Is the Best Disinfectant'
"We are being asked to change our morality and principals to match what I think are immoral and unethical business models.'" If I read it correctly, according to page 20 this well citation-ed paper music was not copyrighted for most of human history. http://www.rbs2.com/copyrm.pdf
Is this award as epic-ally absurd as it seems to me on the face of it?
Oh crap. I was surprise last night when I got a Windows 7 update notification that was off the normal super Tuesday windows update. ::crosses fingers::
"The overall slant changes due to the entry of articles with opposite slants, leading toward neutrality for many topics, not necessarily within specific articles." I disagree with that statement. Two opposing "slants" don't make a "neutral". Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia not a political debate forum.
It's rare that I seem to hear much about Microsoft does in the basic research areas.
I'm confused. How does locking up water in LAND reservoirs increase sea levels? No I didn't read the source article.
Holy crap! I can be indefinitely detained for "unknowingly" supporting terrorism?! How can I prevent myself from doing something I don't know I'm doing? I'm confused o.O
The media (tv news AND journalists) have a large degree of fault in the public's distrust in science. False balance, equating correlation with causation (they love using the phrase "scientists have found a link between x and y), and basic lack of fact checking propagates incorrect information and sometimes outright lies. Also most scientist seem to horrible communicating skills when communicating to the media and the public.
Well that's as slick as a baby sliding across a greasy, frozen over pond in January. Chew on that metaphor Mr Algorith!
What this means is info on a presidents trips will be locked down even further. I'm not sure if that is a good or bad thing.
Well, duh.