What I've found with Live is to not be in the Underground community. As soon as I switched to one of the family communities, I found a lot less swearing and offensive trash talk.
What's sad is that I used to do networking and multiplayer development for games, but now, this is the section of code I'm least interested in because I know it will just enable behavior that irritates me. I rarely even play online PC games anymore.
A mildly nightmarish array of pins that extended from hyrdraulic cylinders, connected to a mux and central pump system, would probably work just fine. The naieve implementation would have all pins either extending or receeding at once, but if you had two valves per pin, you could simultaneously raise and lower individual pins. Encoders could check the height of each pin, and then the whole thing would just be a representation of a heightmap.
I don't think the X-Men display features any color, so this is probably doable today. If memory serves, this kind of display was also in the original Myst game.
I watched it this morning, and right around 1:35, there's a shot of the train passing under a bridge. It was really difficult for me to comprehend just how fast 350MPH is until I saw this particular shot. Man, that thing is fast!
Implement a generic solution to handle the packet loss when the sun is between the Earth and Mars. This solution should not rely on hardcoded values or tables. In addition, it should be easy to alter, in case the client wishes to change the orbital paramaters of either planet.
I like how the first sentence assumes that these aliens have unlimited funding/resources, know what would be an appropriate disguise, and would be interested in studying humans above any other phenomena in our solar system. Any one of those assumptions requires an enormous leap of faith.
If your replace Earth with Mars, and Star System with Planet, you'll see that NASA didn't do any of the above with a single Mars rover or probe. Why we'd expect more from aliens originating outside our star system, I don't know.
OGG Vorbis is used all over the place in the Video Game Industry, since it's free, well documented, sounds great, and has source code available. I think MP3 is only in the forefront of people's minds because the news media coopted the name of that format to encompass all lossy compressed audio schemes, the way "Kleenex" is used by some people to refer to generic facial tissues.
That said, I've used Vorbis playback in an audio library I wrote, and thought it was probably the easiest part of the whole project.
No, it's still working, but your girlfriend has compartmentalized away the pain because it's not her cash she's worried about spending, it's yours. The fact that this causes her no distress means she hasn't unified the two of you into one entity with a common financial sense of well being.
In other words, she's using you, or at least your money, solely for her pleasure, with no foresight into the potential hazards this may cause down the road.
Don't worry though, at least you're not married, in which case if you forced her to stop, and she left you, she'd still get half of whatever you had left.
People can train themselves not to be bystanders, and well they should.
I was heading out to lunch one day a Seattle city street, and I passed a guy on a cellphone lazily gazing in the direction of some crowd of people. A second after passing him, some guy from that crowd got in his face. "Do you know me? Do you know me? Then why are you staring at, nigger?!!" (The guy on the cellphone was white, the yelling man was Asian-American.) Then the yelling guy started shoving the guy on the cellphone, yelling and calling him "niggier" at least twice more.
People, meanwhile, were walking by but watching, without involving themselves. I had stopped, and saw that there was a good chance this guy on the cellphone could get hurt, so I stepped toward the yelling guy and sternly said "Back Off." That's it. The yelling guy looked at me, and then stopped yelling and crossed the street. I asked the cellphone guy if he was all right, and he was shaken, but otherwise okay. I'm pretty sure I gave him my card if he needed a witness or something to press charges, but I never got a call.
The point is, lots of people were bystanders, yes, but all it takes is for a few people to step up and do the right thing to keep a lot of badness from happening. Sure, shoving guy could have had a knife, or a gun. It occured to me that I could have gotten hurt. But my instinct was that acting to prevent injustice was more important than my own safety, at that moment, and that's the attitude that prevents random violence from escalating.
Actually, the area remains underpopulated because everyone who goes to RPI realizes that they don't want to be anywhere near that area when they graduate.
I just bought a house a few months ago, and as one does when one buys a house, the first thing I did was to change all the locks, and throw some padlocks on the gates to the back yard. Then I had a security monitoring system installed (Brinks, recommended for their professionalism), and finally, the wife and I bought a small fireproof safe to store some documents and valuables in.
This whole process sparked off a discussion about security with a coworker who lives in a house valued at approximately four times my own, his house also being located in a gated community. The gist of the discussion was that there's no way to make your house totally secure, all you can do is add enough deterrants to make it less desirable for the common theif to break into your home. If someone really wanted to get into my place, they could, and if they knew exactly where to go and what to grab, they could really screw me and probably get away before the police were notified and showed up.
However, each layer of security, the locks, the security system, and the safe, adds a deterrant. There's the time that has to be invested getting in, the fear of someone hearing the alarm going off and the ticking clock of the authorities being notified and dispatched, not to mention the hassle of locating and gaining access to the inside of the safe. Only someone who invested some serious research time and effort could gain access to my valuables and get away with it. And for what? My passport, some petty cash, and copies of my legal documents?
The level of security has to match the value of what the security is trying to protect, and the common door lock is probably plenty of security for 90% of the people who have one. Only the truly paranoid, or those with something really valuable (or irreplacable), need more, and even in that case, not that much more.
In the end, my wife and I joke every time we set our alarm and lock our door that we hope no one steals our Fabrige Egg or Hope Diamond.
The fact that you mentioned fellatio and not cunnilingus displays how you really could care less about a woman's interest, pleasure, or health, as long as you get what you want.
And the number of women who "use abortion as birth control" is stunningly low. Go read "The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion" (http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html) for the truth of that. For the vast majority of women who chose abortion, it's usually a last resort, and a desperate one at that.
I harken back to the Infocom text adventure "Planetfall", which made me cry during one scene, and still saddens me to this day to think about. (Although the games author, Steve Meretzsky, has apparantly heard this so often that my complimenting him on it at a recent GDC got me a "not again" eyeroll.)
The setup is this (and since the game is decades old, I won't bother with a spoiler warning): You've crash landed on a planet, seemingly abandoned by it's population, and a little childlike robot named Floyd is discovered who helps you solve some puzzles. After going through most of the game with Floyd, he sacrifices himself to help you solve a puzzle, and thus win the game, but his death scene brings on the waterworks.
What makes the death of Floyd particularly effective is that the player has spent so much time learning about Floyd as a character. Sure, anyone could just view him as another object in the game to be prodded and poked as simply another tool in puzzle solving, but Floyd is hardly two-dimensional, and replying to his queries for a game of Hucka-Bucka-Beanstalk, or attempting to hug or kiss him, result in actions that, even for a text adventure, feel real.
Floyd personifies the key to emotional involvement in a game: Involve a player in something so that the player's interaction witht that thing is inately tied to joy or fun, then take that thing away. If said thing is just a thing, the player will be angered. If the thing has a personality, or is somehow anthropomorphized, the player will be saddened, the degree to which is determined by how involved the player was beforehand.
It's not enough to just have a camera angle or a clever shader or a "sadness inducing" plot point. To really make the player cry, they have to be emotionally invested for a while, and then have that investment taken away from them in a manner internally consistant to the game universe. This will bring up the waterworks every time.
Specifically, the "Compare Cards" feature on the left. I just upgraded my ATI 9600XT to a nVidia 6600GT AGP (because I'm not yet ready to drop a grand on an all new PCIe 64-Bit system), and that site helped me decide what was "enough" of an upgrade for how much money I was willing to spend.
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Sure, we may not be able to launch into LEO for a while, but hey, Earth would now have Pretty Rings!
Are these even available yet? I see the BluRay ones on NewEgg, but never any HD-DVD burners.
What I've found with Live is to not be in the Underground community. As soon as I switched to one of the family communities, I found a lot less swearing and offensive trash talk.
What's sad is that I used to do networking and multiplayer development for games, but now, this is the section of code I'm least interested in because I know it will just enable behavior that irritates me. I rarely even play online PC games anymore.
Tall, Left Coffee, Start.
iCup > Towels.
A mildly nightmarish array of pins that extended from hyrdraulic cylinders, connected to a mux and central pump system, would probably work just fine. The naieve implementation would have all pins either extending or receeding at once, but if you had two valves per pin, you could simultaneously raise and lower individual pins. Encoders could check the height of each pin, and then the whole thing would just be a representation of a heightmap.
I don't think the X-Men display features any color, so this is probably doable today. If memory serves, this kind of display was also in the original Myst game.
I watched it this morning, and right around 1:35, there's a shot of the train passing under a bridge. It was really difficult for me to comprehend just how fast 350MPH is until I saw this particular shot. Man, that thing is fast!
So you want a pen, a paper notepad, and a cellphone?
Wonderful. Another potential nobel laureate relegated to being a sheet folder and dish washer.
What was this girl's name? I want to be sure to look her up at the strip clubs in Vegas when she finaly escapes her household.
Implement a generic solution to handle the packet loss when the sun is between the Earth and Mars. This solution should not rely on hardcoded values or tables. In addition, it should be easy to alter, in case the client wishes to change the orbital paramaters of either planet.
I like how the first sentence assumes that these aliens have unlimited funding/resources, know what would be an appropriate disguise, and would be interested in studying humans above any other phenomena in our solar system. Any one of those assumptions requires an enormous leap of faith.
If your replace Earth with Mars, and Star System with Planet, you'll see that NASA didn't do any of the above with a single Mars rover or probe. Why we'd expect more from aliens originating outside our star system, I don't know.
OGG Vorbis is used all over the place in the Video Game Industry, since it's free, well documented, sounds great, and has source code available. I think MP3 is only in the forefront of people's minds because the news media coopted the name of that format to encompass all lossy compressed audio schemes, the way "Kleenex" is used by some people to refer to generic facial tissues.
That said, I've used Vorbis playback in an audio library I wrote, and thought it was probably the easiest part of the whole project.
No, it's still working, but your girlfriend has compartmentalized away the pain because it's not her cash she's worried about spending, it's yours. The fact that this causes her no distress means she hasn't unified the two of you into one entity with a common financial sense of well being.
In other words, she's using you, or at least your money, solely for her pleasure, with no foresight into the potential hazards this may cause down the road.
Don't worry though, at least you're not married, in which case if you forced her to stop, and she left you, she'd still get half of whatever you had left.
People can train themselves not to be bystanders, and well they should.
I was heading out to lunch one day a Seattle city street, and I passed a guy on a cellphone lazily gazing in the direction of some crowd of people. A second after passing him, some guy from that crowd got in his face. "Do you know me? Do you know me? Then why are you staring at, nigger?!!" (The guy on the cellphone was white, the yelling man was Asian-American.) Then the yelling guy started shoving the guy on the cellphone, yelling and calling him "niggier" at least twice more.
People, meanwhile, were walking by but watching, without involving themselves. I had stopped, and saw that there was a good chance this guy on the cellphone could get hurt, so I stepped toward the yelling guy and sternly said "Back Off." That's it. The yelling guy looked at me, and then stopped yelling and crossed the street. I asked the cellphone guy if he was all right, and he was shaken, but otherwise okay. I'm pretty sure I gave him my card if he needed a witness or something to press charges, but I never got a call.
The point is, lots of people were bystanders, yes, but all it takes is for a few people to step up and do the right thing to keep a lot of badness from happening. Sure, shoving guy could have had a knife, or a gun. It occured to me that I could have gotten hurt. But my instinct was that acting to prevent injustice was more important than my own safety, at that moment, and that's the attitude that prevents random violence from escalating.
Actually, the area remains underpopulated because everyone who goes to RPI realizes that they don't want to be anywhere near that area when they graduate.
Doesn't have the cash? Why, they can just print more!
I have to wonder if they factored in the losses over the distribution wires. I mean, you couldn't efficiently power Boston from AZ, now could you?
Mod Parent Up.
I just bought a house a few months ago, and as one does when one buys a house, the first thing I did was to change all the locks, and throw some padlocks on the gates to the back yard. Then I had a security monitoring system installed (Brinks, recommended for their professionalism), and finally, the wife and I bought a small fireproof safe to store some documents and valuables in.
This whole process sparked off a discussion about security with a coworker who lives in a house valued at approximately four times my own, his house also being located in a gated community. The gist of the discussion was that there's no way to make your house totally secure, all you can do is add enough deterrants to make it less desirable for the common theif to break into your home. If someone really wanted to get into my place, they could, and if they knew exactly where to go and what to grab, they could really screw me and probably get away before the police were notified and showed up.
However, each layer of security, the locks, the security system, and the safe, adds a deterrant. There's the time that has to be invested getting in, the fear of someone hearing the alarm going off and the ticking clock of the authorities being notified and dispatched, not to mention the hassle of locating and gaining access to the inside of the safe. Only someone who invested some serious research time and effort could gain access to my valuables and get away with it. And for what? My passport, some petty cash, and copies of my legal documents?
The level of security has to match the value of what the security is trying to protect, and the common door lock is probably plenty of security for 90% of the people who have one. Only the truly paranoid, or those with something really valuable (or irreplacable), need more, and even in that case, not that much more.
In the end, my wife and I joke every time we set our alarm and lock our door that we hope no one steals our Fabrige Egg or Hope Diamond.
The fact that you mentioned fellatio and not cunnilingus displays how you really could care less about a woman's interest, pleasure, or health, as long as you get what you want.
) for the truth of that. For the vast majority of women who chose abortion, it's usually a last resort, and a desperate one at that.
And the number of women who "use abortion as birth control" is stunningly low. Go read "The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion" (http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html
Not if the trigger was a piezo pad attached to a microprocessor. "Hey, why is that guy playing a drum solo on his belly?"
Perhaps they're referring to the Tutor of Achilles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(Iliad)
Thank you, 2010 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/), for otherwise I wouldn't know this bit of trivia.
I harken back to the Infocom text adventure "Planetfall", which made me cry during one scene, and still saddens me to this day to think about. (Although the games author, Steve Meretzsky, has apparantly heard this so often that my complimenting him on it at a recent GDC got me a "not again" eyeroll.)
The setup is this (and since the game is decades old, I won't bother with a spoiler warning): You've crash landed on a planet, seemingly abandoned by it's population, and a little childlike robot named Floyd is discovered who helps you solve some puzzles. After going through most of the game with Floyd, he sacrifices himself to help you solve a puzzle, and thus win the game, but his death scene brings on the waterworks.
What makes the death of Floyd particularly effective is that the player has spent so much time learning about Floyd as a character. Sure, anyone could just view him as another object in the game to be prodded and poked as simply another tool in puzzle solving, but Floyd is hardly two-dimensional, and replying to his queries for a game of Hucka-Bucka-Beanstalk, or attempting to hug or kiss him, result in actions that, even for a text adventure, feel real.
Floyd personifies the key to emotional involvement in a game: Involve a player in something so that the player's interaction witht that thing is inately tied to joy or fun, then take that thing away. If said thing is just a thing, the player will be angered. If the thing has a personality, or is somehow anthropomorphized, the player will be saddened, the degree to which is determined by how involved the player was beforehand.
It's not enough to just have a camera angle or a clever shader or a "sadness inducing" plot point. To really make the player cry, they have to be emotionally invested for a while, and then have that investment taken away from them in a manner internally consistant to the game universe. This will bring up the waterworks every time.
If he turns up living some time after the expungement, can he not be re-tried due to Double Jepardy?
My Xbox 360 works just fine. :)
If you're confused about what to buy, you should check out this site:
http://www.gpureview.com/database.php
Specifically, the "Compare Cards" feature on the left. I just upgraded my ATI 9600XT to a nVidia 6600GT AGP (because I'm not yet ready to drop a grand on an all new PCIe 64-Bit system), and that site helped me decide what was "enough" of an upgrade for how much money I was willing to spend.