I recall downloading official map packs for the original Unreal Tournament which gave us a new game mode and something along the lines of 10-12 maps total... for free. Epic came out with a few packs spread out over about 2 years after the game was released I think.
Free ride's over I guess... it's too bad but if I pay 60$ for a game, I'm not spending another 20$ in DLC for things that make my game prettier. Charge me 20$ for an add on episode, then yeah, that's fine (assuming of course that the original game lasted for more than 8 hours).
No need to worry folks, the FireSheep guys will come up with SheepDog which will make sure that BlackSheep stays the hell put dagnabbit and you'll be able to spy on your friends again in no time.
right after I take my girlfriend back to my place and she sees my extensive collection of hand-painted D&D figurines.
Mine is definitely a keeper because she didn't run for the hills after seeing my collection of Queen of the Damned, Total Recall, Resident Evil 1 and 2 and X-Files movie props. She was rather keen of my Han Solo frozen in carbonite bust and thought that it was cool that it was cast using the original mold.
No, I'm not talking about my mom or a WoW clan mate. I really do have a girlfriend.
Although it would be nice if it was optional, i.e. you receive a notice email/message telling you what the issue is with Ignore and Remove Offending App buttons.
This is the same thing as being filmed by security as you're sitting in a waiting room, walking through a building or picking your nose while waiting in line at the ATM. The only difference is that some of the cost of implementation and maintaining will be recouped by selling the footage.
Perhaps advertisers will finally realize that most people play with their smartphones while the adverts run and only pay attention to the occasional trivia. This is a good thing.
Up here in Quebec we do things differently, we award the contract to a company of our choosing while denying the others an opportunity to bid. We then pass a law saying that doing that is just peachy.
Humm... what you're talking about isn't so much an understanding of math but rather an understanding of personal finances.
I'm fine with how much math is taught in schools now, you need it to learn problem solving skills, not because you'll use algebra in your daily tasks later on. What the kids need is some basic understanding of how personal finances work, that a credit card != an extra salary, that when the mortgage rates go up so do your payments and that buying a brand new Honda Civic with 20k worth of mods at 18-19 years old isn't the soundest of investments. I look at the kids around me and they're so much in debt, it's scary.
It would seem that the people having put this system into place didn't see the Mythbusters episode where they circumvented a "foolproof" fingerprint scanner with gelatin.
Is it me or is there a story on here about how games are too easy or not long enough every couple of weeks or so?
Go back a few years and people were complaining of how difficult and frustration games were (to this day I haven't beaten Mega Man, the first one with the horrible box art).
This is a cycle, we're just in the "easy-peasy" part of it, the difficulty will come back, just like leggings... *shudder* Speaking of which, spandex is a privilege, not a right!
In totally unrelated news, statistics show that tall, slender and well endowed women are more prone to being terrorists, not young middle-eastern bearded men.
[...] our brain makes its best guess based on some sort of heuristic or something to make the catch.
Maybe your brain, but not mine. Mine generally makes me miss the ball by 3 feet or get hit in the nads. Maybe my brain works like old Intel processors?
So I went to the Vocaloid site and listened to all 3 demo songs on there... wow... that sucks something fierce. This is coming from me who actually likes j-pop (TM Revolution, Tamaki Nami, High and Mighty Color, Takahashi Hitomi to name a few).
Most pop artists today are 1 dimensional douche bags, so having a 3 dimensional pop artist is actually a step up from most of the pop artists being pushed on us.
Also, Hatsune Miku has been an incredibly popular subject in the resin figure modeling world. She's been around for a few years, I had no idea that she was a pop star though, I just thought she was the "logo" for some sound software.
This could be done by simply crashing a small probe into it.
Not necessarily. With very dense asteroids (mostly iron) it would work, the impact should nudge it into a less dangerous path. However, if the asteroid isn't dense (think pumice stone) then the impact will either be totally absorbed and nothing will happen, or the asteroid will be shattered into multiple large fragments which will cause multiple smaller craters on the Earth's surface instead of one large one.
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I can't be the only one who sees that this device could bring us Minority Report like interface interaction?
If Mars has high-speed broadband internet access and the science chicks look/act more like Bernadette and less like Amy Farrah Fowler then sign me up.
I recall downloading official map packs for the original Unreal Tournament which gave us a new game mode and something along the lines of 10-12 maps total... for free. Epic came out with a few packs spread out over about 2 years after the game was released I think.
Free ride's over I guess... it's too bad but if I pay 60$ for a game, I'm not spending another 20$ in DLC for things that make my game prettier. Charge me 20$ for an add on episode, then yeah, that's fine (assuming of course that the original game lasted for more than 8 hours).
No need to worry folks, the FireSheep guys will come up with SheepDog which will make sure that BlackSheep stays the hell put dagnabbit and you'll be able to spy on your friends again in no time.
People think that banks are in collusion? But... that's unpossible!
Pfft, next they'll tell us that big oil is doing price fixing at the pumps...
Seriously, we met playing WoW
That's funny, a friend of mine met his wife playing Star Wars Galaxies. At least some good came out of that abomination of a game.
right after I take my girlfriend back to my place and she sees my extensive collection of hand-painted D&D figurines.
Mine is definitely a keeper because she didn't run for the hills after seeing my collection of Queen of the Damned, Total Recall, Resident Evil 1 and 2 and X-Files movie props. She was rather keen of my Han Solo frozen in carbonite bust and thought that it was cool that it was cast using the original mold.
No, I'm not talking about my mom or a WoW clan mate. I really do have a girlfriend.
Although it would be nice if it was optional, i.e. you receive a notice email/message telling you what the issue is with Ignore and Remove Offending App buttons.
This is the same thing as being filmed by security as you're sitting in a waiting room, walking through a building or picking your nose while waiting in line at the ATM. The only difference is that some of the cost of implementation and maintaining will be recouped by selling the footage.
Perhaps advertisers will finally realize that most people play with their smartphones while the adverts run and only pay attention to the occasional trivia. This is a good thing.
Up here in Quebec we do things differently, we award the contract to a company of our choosing while denying the others an opportunity to bid. We then pass a law saying that doing that is just peachy.
Humm... what you're talking about isn't so much an understanding of math but rather an understanding of personal finances.
I'm fine with how much math is taught in schools now, you need it to learn problem solving skills, not because you'll use algebra in your daily tasks later on. What the kids need is some basic understanding of how personal finances work, that a credit card != an extra salary, that when the mortgage rates go up so do your payments and that buying a brand new Honda Civic with 20k worth of mods at 18-19 years old isn't the soundest of investments. I look at the kids around me and they're so much in debt, it's scary.
Verizon Wireless said in a news release that its overcharges were inadvertent.
Of course they were, I too don't notice when my bank account has millions of dollars more that it's supposed to have... 3 years in a f*cking row!
If they truly did not know about the overcharges, the CFO and Controller both need to be fired for incompetence.
From the article:
[...] had fine wires implanted in their brains [...]
Right, because plugging YOUR BRAIN to a computer is so much more convenient than gliding your finger on the screen.
How easy will it be for me to access my hot neighbor's webcam feed, for um... research purposes?
It would seem that the people having put this system into place didn't see the Mythbusters episode where they circumvented a "foolproof" fingerprint scanner with gelatin.
Is it me or is there a story on here about how games are too easy or not long enough every couple of weeks or so?
Go back a few years and people were complaining of how difficult and frustration games were (to this day I haven't beaten Mega Man, the first one with the horrible box art).
This is a cycle, we're just in the "easy-peasy" part of it, the difficulty will come back, just like leggings... *shudder* Speaking of which, spandex is a privilege, not a right!
It would probably be easier and cheaper to just unzip the eye slits of your latex gimp mask.
In totally unrelated news, statistics show that tall, slender and well endowed women are more prone to being terrorists, not young middle-eastern bearded men.
D'uh, that's what the flux capacitor is for, heeelllllooooo!
[...] our brain makes its best guess based on some sort of heuristic or something to make the catch.
Maybe your brain, but not mine. Mine generally makes me miss the ball by 3 feet or get hit in the nads. Maybe my brain works like old Intel processors?
So I went to the Vocaloid site and listened to all 3 demo songs on there... wow... that sucks something fierce. This is coming from me who actually likes j-pop (TM Revolution, Tamaki Nami, High and Mighty Color, Takahashi Hitomi to name a few).
I'm too lazy to read the article but, does it explain how I can have a 2.4% tax rate?
Most pop artists today are 1 dimensional douche bags, so having a 3 dimensional pop artist is actually a step up from most of the pop artists being pushed on us.
Also, Hatsune Miku has been an incredibly popular subject in the resin figure modeling world. She's been around for a few years, I had no idea that she was a pop star though, I just thought she was the "logo" for some sound software.
writing your phone-number in a public convenience with a marker pen can get you unwanted attention.
That's true, just ask Jenny.
This could be done by simply crashing a small probe into it.
Not necessarily. With very dense asteroids (mostly iron) it would work, the impact should nudge it into a less dangerous path. However, if the asteroid isn't dense (think pumice stone) then the impact will either be totally absorbed and nothing will happen, or the asteroid will be shattered into multiple large fragments which will cause multiple smaller craters on the Earth's surface instead of one large one.