Can't really see myself enjoying this one, even though I was pretty happy with Bioshock. Mostly I'm sure it will be a tedious chore of a multi-hour escort mission, one of the cardinal sins of game design. I absolutely hate the "Keep incompetent person X alive" section of most games. I can only imagine that most of the game will be like the stage in Bioshock where you have to keep the little sister safe so she can open the doors with the tiny holes in them.
While I was mad about no PS3 DLC, What I really realized was that I prefer the Mouse/KB control scheme for Bethesda games. I bought Morrowind for PC and Oblivion and Fallout for PS3. I loved both of them but I always felt that something was lacking on the console versions.
However in fairness, I also preferred Mass Effect on PC after having beaten it on 360.
I now NEVER buy a multiport game on launch day, I wait until a few weeks later and the reports are in and buy the one with the features I want. I know I'm a self indulgent bastard for owning every mainstream game system, I also have a Wii. But Hey gaming IS my only real hobby and plenty of guys will spend waaaaay more on cars or boats or dirtbikes etc...
Not an electrical engineer, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn express last night. I always thought that the wattage was how much electricity the transmitter uses to make the radio waves. Not the power of the waves themselves. However your explanation does make plenty of sense.
Oh how I hated that strategy guide. I looked up the first few clues (on my second playthrough dammit!) and just said "screw it" and went to GameFAQs. I actually haven't bought an RPG strategy guide since then.
Is that 1g the whole way there? or is that assuming that you only hit max speed when you are half the trip away and must brake at -1g for the other half?
My statistics prof used to use the term "infinitesimally small but non-zero probability" when describing things that were regarded as impossible. He was a fun guy, for a math geek.
I've always thought that there should be a minimum number of representatives (Senators, partisans, MPs whatever your country calls them) present on a vote for it to be valid.
It helps the process two ways:
1) The sneaky minority cannot railroad legislation through in a late-night session.
2) Legislators cannot just happen to be "absent" on the day that a controversial bill comes to a vote so they can avoid having to actually take a stand on something.
Modern passenger jets are built on 1960s tech. Modern Automobiles are built on 1960s tech. Modern computers are built on 1960s tech.
All the article was trying to say is that this isn't a new and untested technology, but an evolution of a spacecraft design that successfully made it to the moon 9 times (Once with the guidance system turned off) and landed there 6 times.
Jonesy: Sonar is working, Captain. The Russian disappeared. One minute, he was steady 1000 yards off the bow, and then he was gone. And for a second, I thought I heard...
We choose to build a super toilet on the Moon. We choose to crap on the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
Yes and no. The batteries on a Prius -- and I'm assuming the Insight too -- are highly toxic. While the environmental impact is still undetermined, hybrids are not the panacea for ending pollution. They've simply moved some of the pollution from air -> ground.
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Can't really see myself enjoying this one, even though I was pretty happy with Bioshock. Mostly I'm sure it will be a tedious chore of a multi-hour escort mission, one of the cardinal sins of game design. I absolutely hate the "Keep incompetent person X alive" section of most games. I can only imagine that most of the game will be like the stage in Bioshock where you have to keep the little sister safe so she can open the doors with the tiny holes in them.
Everything is just Zork with fancy pictures.
Well Underwater Morrowind is right out, thanks to Bioshock.
While I was mad about no PS3 DLC, What I really realized was that I prefer the Mouse/KB control scheme for Bethesda games. I bought Morrowind for PC and Oblivion and Fallout for PS3. I loved both of them but I always felt that something was lacking on the console versions.
However in fairness, I also preferred Mass Effect on PC after having beaten it on 360.
I now NEVER buy a multiport game on launch day, I wait until a few weeks later and the reports are in and buy the one with the features I want. I know I'm a self indulgent bastard for owning every mainstream game system, I also have a Wii. But Hey gaming IS my only real hobby and plenty of guys will spend waaaaay more on cars or boats or dirtbikes etc...
What they remind me of are the "God" shoes that Al Bundy invented in an episode of "Married... with children".
Not an electrical engineer, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn express last night. I always thought that the wattage was how much electricity the transmitter uses to make the radio waves. Not the power of the waves themselves. However your explanation does make plenty of sense.
Oh how I hated that strategy guide. I looked up the first few clues (on my second playthrough dammit!) and just said "screw it" and went to GameFAQs. I actually haven't bought an RPG strategy guide since then.
Or that it runs at 7200 RPM.
Or use Whale oil.
Is that 1g the whole way there? or is that assuming that you only hit max speed when you are half the trip away and must brake at -1g for the other half?
Deal with what?
My statistics prof used to use the term "infinitesimally small but non-zero probability" when describing things that were regarded as impossible. He was a fun guy, for a math geek.
Sadly, I worry that this is exactly what happened.
I've always thought that there should be a minimum number of representatives (Senators, partisans, MPs whatever your country calls them) present on a vote for it to be valid.
It helps the process two ways:
1) The sneaky minority cannot railroad legislation through in a late-night session.
2) Legislators cannot just happen to be "absent" on the day that a controversial bill comes to a vote so they can avoid having to actually take a stand on something.
The old Crayola Olblongata.
Fun.
Delete system32.
(no. Don't really.)
+1
Would read again.
Ha Ha! I achieve!
Modern passenger jets are built on 1960s tech.
Modern Automobiles are built on 1960s tech.
Modern computers are built on 1960s tech.
All the article was trying to say is that this isn't a new and untested technology, but an evolution of a spacecraft design that successfully made it to the moon 9 times (Once with the guidance system turned off) and landed there 6 times.
Jonesy: Sonar is working, Captain. The Russian disappeared. One minute, he was steady 1000 yards off the bow, and then he was gone. And for a second, I thought I heard...
Mancuso: Heard what?
Jonesy: I thought I heard singing, sir.
Mancuso: Singing?
Jonesy: Yes, sir.
We choose to build a super toilet on the Moon. We choose to crap on the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
Yes and no. The batteries on a Prius -- and I'm assuming the Insight too -- are highly toxic. While the environmental impact is still undetermined, hybrids are not the panacea for ending pollution. They've simply moved some of the pollution from air -> ground.
You forgot the 4 foot wide fiberglass wing spoiler. That adds 20 or 30 HP minimum.
That's why us folks in the IE love Santa Ana days. All the smog goes back to LA and we get clear (albeit very DRY) weather.