Either you're a fan boy or you just like to argue.
This game COULD have been amazing... but putting out 5 unfinished games doesn't make for a fun game.
Each phase lasts maybe 10-20 minutes, except for space... and space is a nightmare. I was trying to play peacefull, but you can not get by that way... you have to activly go to every place that declares war, and kill them all. No exceptions, no surrenders... because if they surrender they will resume attacks in 5 minutes. After you totally wipe out everything that is hostile to you, and ally with everything else, the game is just spice trade over and over till you have all the gear... then what?
When I crossed $100 million and had all the gear, I went to finish the game. There's one ending, and you get a cute item that has 42 charges (not endless use, just charges)... and what's the point of doing anything then. Running into more people that you have to fight with the HORRIBLE space fighting system?
Because yeah... there's 2 ways to attack a planet... fly in circles dropping bombs while they fly in cirles missing you... or use the shield and just bomb the citys before the shield turns off.
Space is a horrible unfinished abortion of a game part. You either fight an enemy who can send a fleet to every planet you have at the same time (meaning you lose all your bases except the one you defend since you only get 1 ship)... or you wipe out the races by flying in circles till each planets bases either gives up or blows up.
Hopefully patches will fix it... and yes, teraforming is kind of fun for the first 10 planets... gets dull fast.
He's right though, all of the phases leading up to space are either too shallow (Tribal), too dull (Civilization), or over too quickly (Creature) to matter.
I could go on for hours on things that would improve the game, but no one really gives a damn about what COULD have been, what matters is that what we got sucks.
Sarah Palin was chosen because they needed a woman vote and she'll do what she's told to do... she'll read the speaches she's handed, nod in agreement when she's told to, and try to balence out the 'evil s.o.b' look of McCain.
If I was a woman I'd be pretty god damn insulted that she's being 'promoted' simply because she's a woman. It's not her experiance, or her good history with the republican party... it's because she's female.
Moreover, given the increasing diversity of America's population, the dangers of sectarianism have never been greater. Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers. --Obama
This is the viewpoint on religion that earned my vote.
The internet today is an open platform where the demand for websites and services dictates success. You've got barriers to entry that are low and equal for all comers. And it's because the internet is a neutral platform that I can put on this podcast and transmit it over the internet without having to go through some corporate media middleman. I can say what I want without censorship. I don't have to pay a special charge. But the big telephone and cable companies want to change the internet as we know it. They say they want to create high-speed lanes on the internet and strike exclusive contractual arrangements with internet content-providers for access to those high-speed lanes. Those of us who can't pony up the cash for these high-speed connections will be relegated to the slow lanes.
Allowing the Bells and cable companies to act as gatekeepers with control over internet access would make the internet like cable. A producer-driven market with barriers to entry for website creators and preferential treatment for specific sites based not on merit, the number of hits, but on relationships with the corporate gatekeeper. If there were four or more competitive providers of broadband service to every home, then cable and telephone companies would not be able to create a bidding war for access to the high-speed lanes. But here's the problem. More than 99 percent of households get their broadband services from either cable or a telephone company.
So here's my view. We can't have a situation in which the corporate duopoly dictates the future of the internet and that's why I'm supporting what is called net neutrality. --Obama
This is why he earned my vote on technology. It was recorded 2 years ago, so he isn't just acting nice for the election.
He was fighting against the war since not long after it started (I can forgive being blinded by the situation, everyone was.)
I'm not going to say I agree with all of his views... immigration and gay marrige for example (though to be fair, he's been good with his views on homosexual couples except for being pro-civil union). However, he's 100x better then McCain and his puppet woman.
Well if your invisable friend isn't a good enough reason to go to war over what is? The way people talk now days we might not get to go to war anymore, and do you have any idea what that would do to the current setup for our economy. We wealthy few who have fought to purchase the right people for so many years have earned the right to cash in on you children squabbleing.
So give me a better reason for CNN and Fox to show over and over on tv to keep you in your houses and we can drop the whole religion thing. Frankly, I'm not a fan of it either, it's just out of date. Problem is we don't really have any better ideas. I mean we can't get people to openly fight over oil! You know how much that stuffs worth? But now days it's all this hippy crap has become a pain in the ass. I suppose we could ignore another terrorist attack, that seemed to get everyone worked up for a few years. Still, that means waiting for who knows how long to get another war going.
Meh, screw it, lets just shoot at pakastan a few times and see if we can make them do something stupid...
Can almost see the discussion that went on:
"What do we need to seal this deal... a woman? Find me some random pair of tits and tell her to shut up and do what she's told."
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe She's amazingly qualified and has no skeletons which republicans would normally run screaming from (say a pregnant daughter for example).
A black hole small enough to 'orbit' earth would be to small to maintain itself.
Mass trys NOT to collapse into a black hole... that's why things that aren't big enough (like our sun) won't be black holes. You have to get FREAKISHLY high amounts of mass and insane amounts of gravity to get a baby black hole. It wouldn't orbit earth, we'd orbiit the black hole.
The mass is try to strech back out like a squashed sponge, the gravity tries to squash it. Normally the mass wins because gravity is a very very weak force... it takes a huge mass to create a real black hole... the stuff the LHC is planning are black holes because the mass is compressed enough to count them as black holes, not because they are huge gravity wells. They squash 2 atoms or whatever (probably smaller then atoms) together, and for a billionth of a billionth of a second, it's squashed enough to call a black hole, and then matter expands back out (like 2 rubber balls hitting eachother and then bouncing back). What is interesting is how they bounce off of eachother and what that tells them.
Also, this is why we laugh at people who think man made black holes from the LHC will kill us all... they really have no idea what they are talking about. Once we start taking masses the size of jupitor and the sun and running them thru the LHC, I'd be worried. I'd also be confused as to how we fit them in the LHC...
tl;dr - Gravity is very weak, matter wants to have room to strech out. It takes a lot of matter to make a black hole, more then our sun. There are not tiny black holes that last more then theoretical times because they can't stay squashed.
I agree that politics have become very shallow in this country. I'm a little more optimistic than you about Obama's chances.
I was 100% positive that Bush wouldn't get re-elected... that's when my optimism died.
I really wish there was a way to vote where you could say "I'm voting for 'X', but would prefer 'Y' if the total votes would matter... I wouldn't be voting for obama either. My goal right now is minimizing the damage that has been done, which is the same as my goal was 4 years ago. The margin was slight then, and the few (no offence) "I'm voting for the best guy instead of a good guy" votes would have tipped the scales and ended Bushies term. Instead, the message they got wasn't how you like a different cantidate, the message they got was "KEEP THEM DIVIDED AND WE WIN".
Seems like that's working this year, how many idiots are voting for McCain because hillary lost?
I can't vote for you, and won't assume to tell you what's right... but we could use the help.
.0001% of a billion is still a thousand... and there are 200 billion stars in the milky way alone. So just in our neighborhood that's 200,000 possible suspects. Add in the 125 billion galaxys, and we're up to 2.5x10^16 (25,000,000,000,000,000).
And that's assuming phyics are really a constant... there are a lot of things about our galaxy that just don't make sense with the current physics rules... they could have had some changes over time (however slight). ANY change means the best simulation is just pretty lights.
What COULD be done about the scams? Imagine these headlines on/.
New law requires government approval to register URL
Yeah, that'd go over well.
Proposed law states the government can take any URL legaly from a person at will Imagine what that thread would look like...
Or maybe if it wasn't the government... Domain service begins taking back URLs to anything it finds offensive
Maybe with a link to some sad story of how a website got taken down in error.
It's either let someone take controll, or let the scammers have control.
A good person trying to donate to victoms of a disaster, and they're pocketing the money. I agree that a 10 year would be acceptable for scamming people like this.
But then, if it counts for anything, I also think murder and rape should be either life in prison or death a sentence.
Good for you man, glad to see someone RTFA. I'd like to see a double check to be sure the story checks out reasonably, but assuming it does, good for them and good for people RTFA
One line and you spent 20 minutes defending your side of it... I've done the same many times.
So you know, I was half asleep going for 'funny' but hey, was an alright read I guess.
As a side note though, you really need to get over this whole 'lesser of two evils' crap, because if you don't, guess what... the greater of two evils wins. "Well this guy wants war, to eat children, and he once came to my house at through a brick thru my window... but the other guy once sneezed on camera... guess I can't vote this year"
They have a lot of similaritys, but where it matters they are different. McCain wants this war, Obama doesn't, McCain want's the internet destroyed, Obama doesn't. And so on... I'm too damn tired, and once again am posting pre-coffee, so I'm going to wrap this up.
If you agree with Obama in general, and have a few little points (I have a problem with his opinions on gay marrige for example), suck it up. ONE person is not going to be what millions of people want, ever. You take the best option, on the most important issues, and continue to fight to get your voice heard on the other issues. Because in this country, more people will vote McCain without thinking then will vote Obama without thinking... statistics show republicans are far less likely to swing vote. Obama needs every thinking vote he can get.
So, now with a page of rambleing to back it up what I was getting at, I say again. Vote for Obama, it's kind of important. Sorry if you disagree.
What 'features' are you refering to that have been around now for a year
Tab browsing (1994)
Page zoom (1994)
Saving sessions (1996)
Browser based pop up blocking (2000)
Deleting private data (2000)
Mouse gestures (2000)
Bit torrent support (2005)
Speed Dial (2007)
That's the first ones I could come up with, but it should still be enough to get the point across:)
In all fairness, they are getting faster at copying features, so a year isn't exactly accurate now days... and the people who make add ons are even faster at copying new features. So as long as you remember to check for new addons every day, and the people who make them aren't trying to install malware/spyware with your addons, you can keep up with opera just fine.
And Firefox now has the same benifit that IE had going for it... since it became 'cool' to have firefox it's kind of become a 'standard' and pages are designed for it. It's a nice middle ground between IE and Opera. Personally though, I use opera, and on pages that are securely designed to only work on IE/Firefox (one bank I know and a secure log in on my college site which won't work in firefox either), I just open up IE on my second monitor and get thru it.
250gb isn't that bad guys, will only piss off like 5 people, not me, screw'em
200gb isn't that bad guys, will only piss off like 10 people, not me, screw'em
150gb isn't that bad guys, will only piss off like 50 people, not me, screw'em
100gb isn't that bad guys, will only piss off like 500 people, not me, screw'em
OMG! THEY SET THE CAP TO 50gb, As this directly effects me, since the other providers seen how they could lower the caps right along side them... I would like to ask why people are allowed to slowly wittle away at our freedoms, come everyone, join me in fighting this evil company!
(Just woke up, no coffee, not taking the time to make the post not look like I'm being an ass, sorry man)
I wish I could get FIOS, but I live in an apparentment complex that offers free brighthouse cable... which means they won't allow fiberoptic from another company to anyone in the buildings.
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Either you're a fan boy or you just like to argue.
This game COULD have been amazing... but putting out 5 unfinished games doesn't make for a fun game.
Each phase lasts maybe 10-20 minutes, except for space... and space is a nightmare. I was trying to play peacefull, but you can not get by that way... you have to activly go to every place that declares war, and kill them all. No exceptions, no surrenders... because if they surrender they will resume attacks in 5 minutes. After you totally wipe out everything that is hostile to you, and ally with everything else, the game is just spice trade over and over till you have all the gear... then what?
When I crossed $100 million and had all the gear, I went to finish the game. There's one ending, and you get a cute item that has 42 charges (not endless use, just charges)... and what's the point of doing anything then. Running into more people that you have to fight with the HORRIBLE space fighting system?
Because yeah... there's 2 ways to attack a planet... fly in circles dropping bombs while they fly in cirles missing you... or use the shield and just bomb the citys before the shield turns off.
Space is a horrible unfinished abortion of a game part. You either fight an enemy who can send a fleet to every planet you have at the same time (meaning you lose all your bases except the one you defend since you only get 1 ship)... or you wipe out the races by flying in circles till each planets bases either gives up or blows up.
Hopefully patches will fix it... and yes, teraforming is kind of fun for the first 10 planets... gets dull fast.
He's right though, all of the phases leading up to space are either too shallow (Tribal), too dull (Civilization), or over too quickly (Creature) to matter.
I could go on for hours on things that would improve the game, but no one really gives a damn about what COULD have been, what matters is that what we got sucks.
The world of gaming improves dramatically.
EA is to games what Fox is to good TV programs.
Find them, claim them, ignore them when they need you most, cancel them.
And yes, I'm still bitter about "Earth and Beyond"... and "Firefly"
Sarah Palin was chosen because they needed a woman vote and she'll do what she's told to do... she'll read the speaches she's handed, nod in agreement when she's told to, and try to balence out the 'evil s.o.b' look of McCain.
If I was a woman I'd be pretty god damn insulted that she's being 'promoted' simply because she's a woman. It's not her experiance, or her good history with the republican party... it's because she's female.
Epic post is epic
Moreover, given the increasing diversity of America's population, the dangers of sectarianism have never been greater. Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.
--Obama
This is the viewpoint on religion that earned my vote.
The internet today is an open platform where the demand for websites and services dictates success. You've got barriers to entry that are low and equal for all comers. And it's because the internet is a neutral platform that I can put on this podcast and transmit it over the internet without having to go through some corporate media middleman. I can say what I want without censorship. I don't have to pay a special charge. But the big telephone and cable companies want to change the internet as we know it. They say they want to create high-speed lanes on the internet and strike exclusive contractual arrangements with internet content-providers for access to those high-speed lanes. Those of us who can't pony up the cash for these high-speed connections will be relegated to the slow lanes.
Allowing the Bells and cable companies to act as gatekeepers with control over internet access would make the internet like cable. A producer-driven market with barriers to entry for website creators and preferential treatment for specific sites based not on merit, the number of hits, but on relationships with the corporate gatekeeper. If there were four or more competitive providers of broadband service to every home, then cable and telephone companies would not be able to create a bidding war for access to the high-speed lanes. But here's the problem. More than 99 percent of households get their broadband services from either cable or a telephone company.
So here's my view. We can't have a situation in which the corporate duopoly dictates the future of the internet and that's why I'm supporting what is called net neutrality.
--Obama
This is why he earned my vote on technology. It was recorded 2 years ago, so he isn't just acting nice for the election.
He was fighting against the war since not long after it started (I can forgive being blinded by the situation, everyone was.)
I'm not going to say I agree with all of his views... immigration and gay marrige for example (though to be fair, he's been good with his views on homosexual couples except for being pro-civil union). However, he's 100x better then McCain and his puppet woman.
Well if your invisable friend isn't a good enough reason to go to war over what is? The way people talk now days we might not get to go to war anymore, and do you have any idea what that would do to the current setup for our economy. We wealthy few who have fought to purchase the right people for so many years have earned the right to cash in on you children squabbleing.
So give me a better reason for CNN and Fox to show over and over on tv to keep you in your houses and we can drop the whole religion thing. Frankly, I'm not a fan of it either, it's just out of date. Problem is we don't really have any better ideas. I mean we can't get people to openly fight over oil! You know how much that stuffs worth? But now days it's all this hippy crap has become a pain in the ass. I suppose we could ignore another terrorist attack, that seemed to get everyone worked up for a few years. Still, that means waiting for who knows how long to get another war going.
Meh, screw it, lets just shoot at pakastan a few times and see if we can make them do something stupid...
If I were a woman I'd be insulted.
Can almost see the discussion that went on:
"What do we need to seal this deal... a woman? Find me some random pair of tits and tell her to shut up and do what she's told."
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe She's amazingly qualified and has no skeletons which republicans would normally run screaming from (say a pregnant daughter for example).
A black hole small enough to 'orbit' earth would be to small to maintain itself.
Mass trys NOT to collapse into a black hole... that's why things that aren't big enough (like our sun) won't be black holes. You have to get FREAKISHLY high amounts of mass and insane amounts of gravity to get a baby black hole. It wouldn't orbit earth, we'd orbiit the black hole.
The mass is try to strech back out like a squashed sponge, the gravity tries to squash it. Normally the mass wins because gravity is a very very weak force... it takes a huge mass to create a real black hole... the stuff the LHC is planning are black holes because the mass is compressed enough to count them as black holes, not because they are huge gravity wells. They squash 2 atoms or whatever (probably smaller then atoms) together, and for a billionth of a billionth of a second, it's squashed enough to call a black hole, and then matter expands back out (like 2 rubber balls hitting eachother and then bouncing back). What is interesting is how they bounce off of eachother and what that tells them.
Also, this is why we laugh at people who think man made black holes from the LHC will kill us all... they really have no idea what they are talking about. Once we start taking masses the size of jupitor and the sun and running them thru the LHC, I'd be worried. I'd also be confused as to how we fit them in the LHC...
tl;dr - Gravity is very weak, matter wants to have room to strech out. It takes a lot of matter to make a black hole, more then our sun. There are not tiny black holes that last more then theoretical times because they can't stay squashed.
can we mod this guy +6?
I was 100% positive that Bush wouldn't get re-elected... that's when my optimism died.
I really wish there was a way to vote where you could say "I'm voting for 'X', but would prefer 'Y' if the total votes would matter... I wouldn't be voting for obama either. My goal right now is minimizing the damage that has been done, which is the same as my goal was 4 years ago. The margin was slight then, and the few (no offence) "I'm voting for the best guy instead of a good guy" votes would have tipped the scales and ended Bushies term. Instead, the message they got wasn't how you like a different cantidate, the message they got was "KEEP THEM DIVIDED AND WE WIN".
Seems like that's working this year, how many idiots are voting for McCain because hillary lost?
I can't vote for you, and won't assume to tell you what's right... but we could use the help.
Such is the joy of 'really big numbers'.
.0001% of a billion is still a thousand... and there are 200 billion stars in the milky way alone. So just in our neighborhood that's 200,000 possible suspects. Add in the 125 billion galaxys, and we're up to 2.5x10^16 (25,000,000,000,000,000).
And that's assuming phyics are really a constant... there are a lot of things about our galaxy that just don't make sense with the current physics rules... they could have had some changes over time (however slight). ANY change means the best simulation is just pretty lights.
What COULD be done about the scams? Imagine these headlines on /.
New law requires government approval to register URL
Yeah, that'd go over well.
Proposed law states the government can take any URL legaly from a person at will
Imagine what that thread would look like...
Or maybe if it wasn't the government...
Domain service begins taking back URLs to anything it finds offensive
Maybe with a link to some sad story of how a website got taken down in error.
It's either let someone take controll, or let the scammers have control.
How many of those citys other then New Orleans are naturally below sea level, and in a hurricane zone.
Yes, natural disasters happen, but digging a hole and wondering why you're wet when the water splashses in isn't clever either.
I'd say abandon the city... we need to get a feel for how to do that anyway if sea levels keep rising.
A good person trying to donate to victoms of a disaster, and they're pocketing the money. I agree that a 10 year would be acceptable for scamming people like this.
But then, if it counts for anything, I also think murder and rape should be either life in prison or death a sentence.
"I have grandchildren," she said. "The time I have left, I'd like to spend with them. I don't think it's fair to take me away from them."
Don't think it's fare you ripped off all those people either.
Good for you man, glad to see someone RTFA. I'd like to see a double check to be sure the story checks out reasonably, but assuming it does, good for them and good for people RTFA
So that's why trolls do it. Interesting.
One line and you spent 20 minutes defending your side of it... I've done the same many times.
So you know, I was half asleep going for 'funny' but hey, was an alright read I guess.
As a side note though, you really need to get over this whole 'lesser of two evils' crap, because if you don't, guess what... the greater of two evils wins. "Well this guy wants war, to eat children, and he once came to my house at through a brick thru my window... but the other guy once sneezed on camera... guess I can't vote this year"
They have a lot of similaritys, but where it matters they are different. McCain wants this war, Obama doesn't, McCain want's the internet destroyed, Obama doesn't. And so on... I'm too damn tired, and once again am posting pre-coffee, so I'm going to wrap this up.
If you agree with Obama in general, and have a few little points (I have a problem with his opinions on gay marrige for example), suck it up. ONE person is not going to be what millions of people want, ever. You take the best option, on the most important issues, and continue to fight to get your voice heard on the other issues. Because in this country, more people will vote McCain without thinking then will vote Obama without thinking... statistics show republicans are far less likely to swing vote. Obama needs every thinking vote he can get.
So, now with a page of rambleing to back it up what I was getting at, I say again. Vote for Obama, it's kind of important. Sorry if you disagree.
Is that your official judgement?
could you just vote for Obama this time and save the hippy crap for next election? it's kind of important
"Swaying whichever way is not mainstream thinking"
yes. lets stick with the same thinking we had 100 years ago all the time, regardless of changes to public opinion.
The enemy? For fucks sake, we're citizens of the same god damn country.
This is the cancer that is killing america
Tab browsing (1994)
:)
Page zoom (1994)
Saving sessions (1996)
Browser based pop up blocking (2000)
Deleting private data (2000)
Mouse gestures (2000)
Bit torrent support (2005)
Speed Dial (2007)
That's the first ones I could come up with, but it should still be enough to get the point across
In all fairness, they are getting faster at copying features, so a year isn't exactly accurate now days... and the people who make add ons are even faster at copying new features. So as long as you remember to check for new addons every day, and the people who make them aren't trying to install malware/spyware with your addons, you can keep up with opera just fine.
And Firefox now has the same benifit that IE had going for it... since it became 'cool' to have firefox it's kind of become a 'standard' and pages are designed for it. It's a nice middle ground between IE and Opera. Personally though, I use opera, and on pages that are securely designed to only work on IE/Firefox (one bank I know and a secure log in on my college site which won't work in firefox either), I just open up IE on my second monitor and get thru it.
250gb isn't that bad guys, will only piss off like 5 people, not me, screw'em
200gb isn't that bad guys, will only piss off like 10 people, not me, screw'em
150gb isn't that bad guys, will only piss off like 50 people, not me, screw'em
100gb isn't that bad guys, will only piss off like 500 people, not me, screw'em
OMG! THEY SET THE CAP TO 50gb, As this directly effects me, since the other providers seen how they could lower the caps right along side them... I would like to ask why people are allowed to slowly wittle away at our freedoms, come everyone, join me in fighting this evil company!
(Just woke up, no coffee, not taking the time to make the post not look like I'm being an ass, sorry man)
I wish I could get FIOS, but I live in an apparentment complex that offers free brighthouse cable... which means they won't allow fiberoptic from another company to anyone in the buildings.