I believe that is how he plans to counter the mortality thing. Even if you are 60, the treatments ought to awaken your cells into fixing themselves. If that happens, you would undergo a kind of regeneration, and your body would probably revert to what it was at the end of your development (probably age 30-35.)
If it all happens, that's cool. Then we can work on getting everyone a clean and free source of energy, free internet, and an eternity of WoW.
For anyone who has followed the hype about the PvP battlegrounds system, I have no idea how they'll pull it off.
My server, Thunderhorn, is really quite stable. I remember the login server having issues, and it messed up Thunderhorn for a bit, but that was early December. Since then, I have not had a problem logging in or playing.
Last night, the alliance traded a few raids with the horde. The climax of it ended up with around 90 or 100 players fighting with each other, in the middle of the Barrens. There was so much lag, that I could run around and "hit" everyone on the horde side, yet by the time that my "swing" got to the server, the other player was on the other side of town. The only ones who had success in making contact in combat were the magic users.
If battlegrounds is supposed to be the culmination of hundreds of players working in unison, all fighting it out, I would be afraid to go into it with anyone but a magic user. The lag would be horrendous.
The CIA, Clinton, and Bush administrations were aware of Osama Bin Laden and the risk to the country that he represented. They did not disclose this information, nor prepare for the inevitable. It didn't stop Osama from doing what he was going to do.
Had we acted pre-emptively, we would have avoided the years of war that ensued.
I recall a/. article from a year or two ago that spoke of a small company in the Massachusette's area that produced flawless white diamonds. They used some technique of using a diamond point of action, and layering carbon onto it, like a chip fab does. It seemed like they could produce fairly large quantities at minimal cost. I'm not sure if they have been shot by deBeers yet, tho.
Are the creators of the modem and network card evil? Surely, their products are used more often for the distribution of pirated goods than BitTorrent will ever be. How about the creators of TCP/IP?
I create tools. A tool that is very useful when applied to a certain problem. Yes, the tool will help people do illegal things, but it is not the tool's fault, nor is it the creator's fault. You can use a car to hit someone maliciously. Does this make Ford liable?
Doh. Religion hasn't killed anyone. I've never heard of someone deciding to follow a religion, then promptly falling dead because religion killed them.
People kill people. Not religion. People abuse religion, and use that as an excuse to kill people, but that does not mean that religion has actually killed them.
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WoW can be a grind if you want it to. Instead of killing 300 rats to level, you have to grind out quests instead. People enjoy grinding tho, and you know these people by the fact that they hit lvl 60 two weeks after the servers started.
Now, WoW offers a lot to those who want to have fun. Take fishing, for instance. Before Blizzard nerfed it, you could make a tidy dollar off of fishing. Now, you can just spend time idly chatting and fishing. It is relaxing and fun, in my opinion. I space out the quests too, because I don't want it to feel like I'm the game's errand-boy.
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One of the reasons why I play the MMORPG's is because of the size of the userbase. I pay for the ability to play on a server that supports several tens of thousands of connected players. The more players there are, the more chances I have for interaction, the more chances I have for pawning stuff, and I have a better chance of getting good equipment.
I imagine that these "free servers" couldn't handle a tenth of the load that the Blizzard servers do. Instead of really experiencing the game (which, if single-player, would be extremely boring), these servers are more of a test-drive of the UI. Sure, you can learn how to handle a lot of mobs, experiment with new mods and whatever, but you sure lose out on the rich user experience.
Another one of those people who think that clock speed equates to performance.:sigh:
I'd take a 1 Ghz proc that executes 5 ops/clock over a 3 Ghz proc that executes 1.5 ops/clock, if I were given a choice. Price is also a major determinating factor for me.
You're right. I've watched a number of silent films, from "Birth of a Nation" to "Metropolis." I hated them. I also hated "Citizen Kane."
Old radio plays are great, tho. There is a bit of nostalgia for me, because my parents would listen to "Those were the days" on NPR during weekends. I grew up on that stuff.
But yeah... I can't stand silent films. I can't stand black and white, for that matter. The reason isn't because of some technological feat or whatever, but more because the movies made then were first attempts. No one made movies before, no one knew how to do it. It was far too expensive to have many takes. Movie acting had to overcome the lack of sound, so it was always over the top. Costumes sucked, and typically the stories did too.
How the hell am I supposed to watercool that? My box got uber-hot once I stuck a GeForce 5900XT in, combined with my HD's and CPU. I got a water-cooling system to combat this problem. Do they even make graphics card water blocks that support multiple chips?
But then again, they're spending money on a virtual world that they can exploit. I don't see what this guy can do with this island, other than take screen caps.
Depends. I didn't date in high school, but I really think that it was a *me* thing, and not a result of people hating my geekiness. College was almost the same thing, but I managed to do away with the egotistical pride.
The problems presented in high school are interesting. Everything is blown out of proportion, mostly due to the pubescent state of all of the kids. High school is when sex is always on your mind, and you're shoved into a building with loads of like-minded kids.
The geeks usually have self-esteem problems, which manifest themselves in one of two ways: reclusiveness and obnoxiousness. The reclusive ones are shy, don't talk, and generally look for other reclusive geeks. The obnoxious ones never think highly of themselves, and so have to talk themselves up to their peers... so that they can convince themselves that they are ok. Both of these are detrimental to picking up women.
Things even out after college. Not only has the hormone level evened out, but there is a drastic increase in responsibility. The jocks that I knew from high school all turned into plumbers, electricians, carpenters, construction workers, or firemen. It's sometimes satisfying to compare your successes to theirs by then, but to be honest, it's more than likely that you just don't care about it anymore. That's when you know that you're ripe for a woman.
Being as thin as a stick is bad too, then again humans weren't meant to be on that side of the extreme either.
Keep the paunch off, and minimize the love-handles, and you should be pretty normal. There is no requirement to be toned or really muscular... Just don't be anorexic or obese. It's not good for you.
And make sure that you watch what your children put in their mouths... childhood obesity has been on the rise since the FDA came out with the food pyramid.
A good indication of intelligence is behavior, but not dependence or independence.
For instance, has your cat figured out where it's favorite food is stored? I had a cat that loved a particular type of food so much, that when he saw the empty box on the floor, he got his head stuck in the flap while trying to get any remaining food out. Any other type of food was rejected.
Another indication is the understanding of vocabulary. I have a dog that can distinguish between "mommy," "daddy," "Mike," "out," "ball," "where is...," "bone," and "food." There are a number of other words that she responds to, but these are most immediate. You can say "Mommy" to her, for instance, without any type of voice inflection, and the dog will immediately run to my mom. She does the same for "Daddy" and "Mike." If the word "Ball" is used in any context, she runs to where the ball is, and sits there staring expectantly at it.
Dogs also learn "rules." They can be trained to not do things, which could be just a behavioral trait... until the dog does something unexpected. My dog, for instance, will not jump onto the couch next to you unless you pat the coushin. We never trained her to do this. She'll ask to come up by putting her muzzle on the coushin, though.
These things are an indication of intelligence. The dog has the mental ability to associate certain words with certain actions, and understands and sometimes can answer questions. An automaton like a cricket or a cockroach will never be able to do so. Hell, not even a fish could do so. Certain birds display an amount of intelligence, in that they can figure out how mechanical things work... other birds are about as smart as the bugs are.
Word association for dogs is not a natural thing, either. Feral dogs and wolves do not comprehend words, because they do not need to. Before the domestication of dogs, I'm sure that only instincts ruled their behavior. I'm not so sure of that now. Perhaps there's a bit of intelligence that the humans have bred into them.
Blizzard answered that problem with the concept of soulbound items. There are some items that you get that only you can use from the moment you pick them up. There are other items that you get, that only you can use if you decide to use them. This is how most high level items work.
I'm not even sure if you can sell characters themselves... You'd almost have to sell your whole user account, which is kinda dumb.
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I loved that movie. Mindless, flashy fun. That, and Elizabeth Shue is teh hottie
WoW may also have twice the number of NPC characters, twice the number of quests, twice the spawn rate, twice...
I wouldn't be surprised if they had some inefficient code in there, too.
I believe that is how he plans to counter the mortality thing. Even if you are 60, the treatments ought to awaken your cells into fixing themselves. If that happens, you would undergo a kind of regeneration, and your body would probably revert to what it was at the end of your development (probably age 30-35.)
If it all happens, that's cool. Then we can work on getting everyone a clean and free source of energy, free internet, and an eternity of WoW.
Or... inevitably:
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Are you afraid that the women will hunt you down and lay you if you don't post anonymously?
For anyone who has followed the hype about the PvP battlegrounds system, I have no idea how they'll pull it off.
My server, Thunderhorn, is really quite stable. I remember the login server having issues, and it messed up Thunderhorn for a bit, but that was early December. Since then, I have not had a problem logging in or playing.
Last night, the alliance traded a few raids with the horde. The climax of it ended up with around 90 or 100 players fighting with each other, in the middle of the Barrens. There was so much lag, that I could run around and "hit" everyone on the horde side, yet by the time that my "swing" got to the server, the other player was on the other side of town. The only ones who had success in making contact in combat were the magic users.
If battlegrounds is supposed to be the culmination of hundreds of players working in unison, all fighting it out, I would be afraid to go into it with anyone but a magic user. The lag would be horrendous.
The CIA, Clinton, and Bush administrations were aware of Osama Bin Laden and the risk to the country that he represented. They did not disclose this information, nor prepare for the inevitable. It didn't stop Osama from doing what he was going to do.
Had we acted pre-emptively, we would have avoided the years of war that ensued.
I think you left out a little thing called "The Resurrection." It happens to be the most important day of remembrance to the Christians.
I'm not sure about the cost of the small syntehtic diamond that FEDs require, but I imagine they aren't cheap to make either (does anyone know?).
Wired has a love fest with synthetic diamonds
I recall a /. article from a year or two ago that spoke of a small company in the Massachusette's area that produced flawless white diamonds. They used some technique of using a diamond point of action, and layering carbon onto it, like a chip fab does. It seemed like they could produce fairly large quantities at minimal cost. I'm not sure if they have been shot by deBeers yet, tho.
Or more to the core...
Are the creators of the modem and network card evil? Surely, their products are used more often for the distribution of pirated goods than BitTorrent will ever be. How about the creators of TCP/IP?
I create tools. A tool that is very useful when applied to a certain problem. Yes, the tool will help people do illegal things, but it is not the tool's fault, nor is it the creator's fault. You can use a car to hit someone maliciously. Does this make Ford liable?
Doh. Religion hasn't killed anyone. I've never heard of someone deciding to follow a religion, then promptly falling dead because religion killed them.
People kill people. Not religion. People abuse religion, and use that as an excuse to kill people, but that does not mean that religion has actually killed them.
WoW can be a grind if you want it to. Instead of killing 300 rats to level, you have to grind out quests instead. People enjoy grinding tho, and you know these people by the fact that they hit lvl 60 two weeks after the servers started.
Now, WoW offers a lot to those who want to have fun. Take fishing, for instance. Before Blizzard nerfed it, you could make a tidy dollar off of fishing. Now, you can just spend time idly chatting and fishing. It is relaxing and fun, in my opinion. I space out the quests too, because I don't want it to feel like I'm the game's errand-boy.
One of the reasons why I play the MMORPG's is because of the size of the userbase. I pay for the ability to play on a server that supports several tens of thousands of connected players. The more players there are, the more chances I have for interaction, the more chances I have for pawning stuff, and I have a better chance of getting good equipment.
I imagine that these "free servers" couldn't handle a tenth of the load that the Blizzard servers do. Instead of really experiencing the game (which, if single-player, would be extremely boring), these servers are more of a test-drive of the UI. Sure, you can learn how to handle a lot of mobs, experiment with new mods and whatever, but you sure lose out on the rich user experience.
Another one of those people who think that clock speed equates to performance. :sigh:
I'd take a 1 Ghz proc that executes 5 ops/clock over a 3 Ghz proc that executes 1.5 ops/clock, if I were given a choice. Price is also a major determinating factor for me.
You're right. I've watched a number of silent films, from "Birth of a Nation" to "Metropolis." I hated them. I also hated "Citizen Kane."
Old radio plays are great, tho. There is a bit of nostalgia for me, because my parents would listen to "Those were the days" on NPR during weekends. I grew up on that stuff.
But yeah... I can't stand silent films. I can't stand black and white, for that matter. The reason isn't because of some technological feat or whatever, but more because the movies made then were first attempts. No one made movies before, no one knew how to do it. It was far too expensive to have many takes. Movie acting had to overcome the lack of sound, so it was always over the top. Costumes sucked, and typically the stories did too.
The concept of heaven and hell is a Christian one. Cheney is a Christian. It is unlikely that Moore is. Only Christians go to heaven.
You tell me which one is going to hell.
How the hell am I supposed to watercool that? My box got uber-hot once I stuck a GeForce 5900XT in, combined with my HD's and CPU. I got a water-cooling system to combat this problem. Do they even make graphics card water blocks that support multiple chips?
Blizzard, Sony On-line, etc.
But then again, they're spending money on a virtual world that they can exploit. I don't see what this guy can do with this island, other than take screen caps.
Depends. I didn't date in high school, but I really think that it was a *me* thing, and not a result of people hating my geekiness. College was almost the same thing, but I managed to do away with the egotistical pride.
The problems presented in high school are interesting. Everything is blown out of proportion, mostly due to the pubescent state of all of the kids. High school is when sex is always on your mind, and you're shoved into a building with loads of like-minded kids.
The geeks usually have self-esteem problems, which manifest themselves in one of two ways: reclusiveness and obnoxiousness. The reclusive ones are shy, don't talk, and generally look for other reclusive geeks. The obnoxious ones never think highly of themselves, and so have to talk themselves up to their peers... so that they can convince themselves that they are ok. Both of these are detrimental to picking up women.
Things even out after college. Not only has the hormone level evened out, but there is a drastic increase in responsibility. The jocks that I knew from high school all turned into plumbers, electricians, carpenters, construction workers, or firemen. It's sometimes satisfying to compare your successes to theirs by then, but to be honest, it's more than likely that you just don't care about it anymore. That's when you know that you're ripe for a woman.
Being as thin as a stick is bad too, then again humans weren't meant to be on that side of the extreme either.
Keep the paunch off, and minimize the love-handles, and you should be pretty normal. There is no requirement to be toned or really muscular... Just don't be anorexic or obese. It's not good for you.
And make sure that you watch what your children put in their mouths... childhood obesity has been on the rise since the FDA came out with the food pyramid.
My eyes serve well enough as a signal interface, thank you very much.
Naturally, I have to disagree.
A good indication of intelligence is behavior, but not dependence or independence.
For instance, has your cat figured out where it's favorite food is stored? I had a cat that loved a particular type of food so much, that when he saw the empty box on the floor, he got his head stuck in the flap while trying to get any remaining food out. Any other type of food was rejected.
Another indication is the understanding of vocabulary. I have a dog that can distinguish between "mommy," "daddy," "Mike," "out," "ball," "where is...," "bone," and "food." There are a number of other words that she responds to, but these are most immediate. You can say "Mommy" to her, for instance, without any type of voice inflection, and the dog will immediately run to my mom. She does the same for "Daddy" and "Mike." If the word "Ball" is used in any context, she runs to where the ball is, and sits there staring expectantly at it.
Dogs also learn "rules." They can be trained to not do things, which could be just a behavioral trait... until the dog does something unexpected. My dog, for instance, will not jump onto the couch next to you unless you pat the coushin. We never trained her to do this. She'll ask to come up by putting her muzzle on the coushin, though.
These things are an indication of intelligence. The dog has the mental ability to associate certain words with certain actions, and understands and sometimes can answer questions. An automaton like a cricket or a cockroach will never be able to do so. Hell, not even a fish could do so. Certain birds display an amount of intelligence, in that they can figure out how mechanical things work... other birds are about as smart as the bugs are.
Word association for dogs is not a natural thing, either. Feral dogs and wolves do not comprehend words, because they do not need to. Before the domestication of dogs, I'm sure that only instincts ruled their behavior. I'm not so sure of that now. Perhaps there's a bit of intelligence that the humans have bred into them.
I dunno about you guys, but I read /. to get new information.
You must be extremely new here.
Blizzard answered that problem with the concept of soulbound items. There are some items that you get that only you can use from the moment you pick them up. There are other items that you get, that only you can use if you decide to use them. This is how most high level items work.
I'm not even sure if you can sell characters themselves... You'd almost have to sell your whole user account, which is kinda dumb.
I don't really understand how you're supposed to win in an online game. The game is persistent, and there is no ultimate goal.