"Tell me how sending a few men and women to breathe their last breath on Mars with no hope of return to Earth benefits humanity. Tell me why there really is no better way to spend a few hundred billion dollars. Tell me what the scientific value is for having a few humans there versus hundreds of exploring rovers. If you want to participate in the discussion, then please think of something to say."
Mars is a training ground. We need to learn how to live off Earth since as the Sun gets older, Earth won't be such a nice place to live for future generations. Getting to a new continent wasn't without risk, getting to a new planet won't be any easier but it needs to be done.
In a way, it's a chance to start fresh since things are being reworked so much from start to finish in the leveling process with those kind of changes.
The wise Sir Moodemir was the first to join Thrall's Tauren Paladins, but other illustrious names were soon to follow:
Sir Mooselot the Brave; Sir Moolahad the Pure; and Sir Moobin the Not-quite-so-brave-as-Sir-Mooselot who had nearly fought the Dragon Onyxia, who had nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Felwood, and who had personally wet himself at the Battle of Hillsbrad; and the aptly named Sir Not-mooing-in-this-expansion. Together they formed a band whose names and deeds were to be retold throughout the forums, the Moos of the Round Stolen Table From Silvermoon.
When am I going to see zones other then max level zones more populated like I did in vanilla WoW?
When will it actually be more fun and not quick to level alts?
When will I be able to have an easier time finding mid levels in zones for group quests instead of having to rely on higher levels to power me through after a few days of searching for enough people my level to do something only never to find anyone because they're blazing through with heirlooms, RaF, and now BG XP?
When will it not feel as lonely as it did when I was playing Age of Conan in their single player zones and I'm out in the main world of the game leveling alts?
It is important to add the 3d effects to the UI, no matter what anybody says.
I'd rather save the resources for the programs I run even though the hardware can do it for the OS and the programs. The OS should give me the quickest and easiest way to let me do what I want and then get out of my way. Fancy bells and whistles just make the transition to what I want take a little longer.
We have to start somewhere for those pools of green goo that some space marine will have to jump over, around, or wade through once we open an inter-dimensional gateway on Mars to hell. Hope this thing is spec'd to have a small storage box with duct tape and a flash light.
The thing I like about World of Warcraft over any other MMO is the fact that no matter how horrible the art team makes Tier sets look, you can play a character that turns in to a cat/bear and completely hides the nightmare of an armor set you get out of the latest raid instance.
Ribbon customizers are fine if your company allows you to install stuff on your PC. Some users may not have that luxury. Why should I have to go the extra mile to get the old look and feel back though? Sprucing things up is one thing when releasing new versions of software, but totally revamping the look and feel like that can really turn people off to a product if it's not familiar and frustrating to find things out of the box.
That's why I switched from KDE to Gnome after they revamped the look and feel so much. I just did not like the new KDE look and Gnome was suddenly the more familiar looking option. Same thing with Windows because even though XP looked like Windows Tinker Toys, it still retained the same basic feel as 2000, 98 in many ways compared to what Vista and Windows 7 are like.
My one co-worker recently got her new computer. She was upgraded from Office 2003 to 2007. First thing she did was call me after she fired up Word, saw the ribbon, and wondered where everything was. It's almost like they took Windows away from her and gave her Linux. Too much change isn't always good especially when you just want to get work done.
"He also explains how mainstream MMOs have too many players, which basically trivializes accomplishments that have an impact on the entire server."
Is World of Warcraft. Every battleground, arena, or PvE instance is now a waiting line for your raid to get on the ride and come out looking like someone went crazy with a rubber stamp for progression. I swear standing around Org/Ironforge/Shat/Dal is like the scene of a bad photocopier accident some days.
I actually like Open Office more then Office 2007, it doesn't have that rotten ribbon that makes it a pain in the backside to find things. Sadly my job is set around Office 2003 going to Office 2007.
Not just Windows even. Imagine the amount of money that would have been paid if that Green Damn thing actually paid for the code they supposedly stole. One of these days there should be a serious assessment of all the IP they pirate over there and have that total knocked off the debt to them.
.. I don't feel overly bad for her. I graduated with a 3.4 gpa and had to work two years of shit jobs before I landed a job in my field. This was before the economy went to hell in a hand basket. I can see it's much worse then what it was when I was job hunting. The last thing I would do though is sue the university I graduated from, hell if anything I'd go back and see if they have job openings and lucky for me they did!
Clearly you haven't thought this through completely. Humans are making progress towards nano technology. The solution here is to first have the laptop inject the thief with nano-probes and enslave them to be your personal drone. Think of the envy you'll get by having your new drone serve drinks at LAN parties. You'll get to keep all tips that don't fall off the drone from wear and tear. Also if the drone is cute, that's an extra bonus!
They should add some kind of gloves with the goggles that lets students feel around the operating room as well as see it. That would make this really cool. Sadly the article indicates this is more of a point and click type interface. Who knows, the extra demand for touch gloves like that would make them cheap and wide spread more.
That's going to be difficult. Would you want to live on titan? Much better to spend the colossal amount of money on fixing this world.
Manned space flight seems like a waste of money as well. What's the point? It makes everything massively heavier and more expensive for very little return.
We *should* be going to the moon - for Helium3.
All that money spent fixing this world won't be so great when the sun heats up and boils off the oceans. Where would you rather be? Titan or Earth as the sun starts getting older, hotter, and larger?
My experience with SSDs have them being generally faster then regular HDs, much cooler since there are no moving parts, much quieter since you have no moving parts making the peanut in a tin can noise, and much more durable since bouncing around isn't going to endanger data platters with read/write heads like regular HDs.
The other thing is since they've been much cooler there's less cost for cooling fans or HD coolers like regular drives sometimes need. That's potentially less energy used to perform the same task a regular high speed HD would do. Now think about this, if you have an AC unit and your PC is throwing hot air in to the room and your trying to cool that room at the same time, with SSDs that's less work your home AC will have to do since the PC wouldn't be throwing out as much hot air potentially.
Activeworlds has a lot of that on AW world. All those people who built thing there for so many years now just sits there like old relics. It's almost like exploring an ancient pyramid, though a messy and sometimes vulgar one but still it's neat to explore.
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"This is not how a Silicon Valley legend should end."
I don't know about that...
http://astronomyonline.org/Stars/Images/MassiveStarLifecycle.gif
The only difference here is Sun is now orbiting another star called Oracle which should make things interesting.
"Tell me how sending a few men and women to breathe their last breath on Mars with no hope of return to Earth benefits humanity. Tell me why there really is no better way to spend a few hundred billion dollars. Tell me what the scientific value is for having a few humans there versus hundreds of exploring rovers. If you want to participate in the discussion, then please think of something to say."
Mars is a training ground. We need to learn how to live off Earth since as the Sun gets older, Earth won't be such a nice place to live for future generations. Getting to a new continent wasn't without risk, getting to a new planet won't be any easier but it needs to be done.
BYOTT
Bring Your Own Tauntaun.
In a way, it's a chance to start fresh since things are being reworked so much from start to finish in the leveling process with those kind of changes.
The wise Sir Moodemir was the first to join Thrall's Tauren Paladins, but other illustrious names were soon to follow:
Sir Mooselot the Brave; Sir Moolahad the Pure; and Sir Moobin the Not-quite-so-brave-as-Sir-Mooselot who had nearly fought the Dragon Onyxia, who had nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Felwood, and who had personally wet himself at the Battle of Hillsbrad; and the aptly named Sir Not-mooing-in-this-expansion. Together they formed a band whose names and deeds were to be retold throughout the forums, the Moos of the Round Stolen Table From Silvermoon.
When am I going to see zones other then max level zones more populated like I did in vanilla WoW?
When will it actually be more fun and not quick to level alts?
When will I be able to have an easier time finding mid levels in zones for group quests instead of having to rely on higher levels to power me through after a few days of searching for enough people my level to do something only never to find anyone because they're blazing through with heirlooms, RaF, and now BG XP?
When will it not feel as lonely as it did when I was playing Age of Conan in their single player zones and I'm out in the main world of the game leveling alts?
It is important to add the 3d effects to the UI, no matter what anybody says.
I'd rather save the resources for the programs I run even though the hardware can do it for the OS and the programs. The OS should give me the quickest and easiest way to let me do what I want and then get out of my way. Fancy bells and whistles just make the transition to what I want take a little longer.
Classic view all the way.
We have to start somewhere for those pools of green goo that some space marine will have to jump over, around, or wade through once we open an inter-dimensional gateway on Mars to hell. Hope this thing is spec'd to have a small storage box with duct tape and a flash light.
The thing I like about World of Warcraft over any other MMO is the fact that no matter how horrible the art team makes Tier sets look, you can play a character that turns in to a cat/bear and completely hides the nightmare of an armor set you get out of the latest raid instance.
Naxx - Glittery Christmas Druid
Ulduar - Sailor Moo "Mooooooooooo HoT powa!!!!!"
Argent Arena - I'm afraid to look really.
Ribbon customizers are fine if your company allows you to install stuff on your PC. Some users may not have that luxury. Why should I have to go the extra mile to get the old look and feel back though? Sprucing things up is one thing when releasing new versions of software, but totally revamping the look and feel like that can really turn people off to a product if it's not familiar and frustrating to find things out of the box.
That's why I switched from KDE to Gnome after they revamped the look and feel so much. I just did not like the new KDE look and Gnome was suddenly the more familiar looking option. Same thing with Windows because even though XP looked like Windows Tinker Toys, it still retained the same basic feel as 2000, 98 in many ways compared to what Vista and Windows 7 are like.
My one co-worker recently got her new computer. She was upgraded from Office 2003 to 2007. First thing she did was call me after she fired up Word, saw the ribbon, and wondered where everything was. It's almost like they took Windows away from her and gave her Linux. Too much change isn't always good especially when you just want to get work done.
"He also explains how mainstream MMOs have too many players, which basically trivializes accomplishments that have an impact on the entire server."
Is World of Warcraft. Every battleground, arena, or PvE instance is now a waiting line for your raid to get on the ride and come out looking like someone went crazy with a rubber stamp for progression. I swear standing around Org/Ironforge/Shat/Dal is like the scene of a bad photocopier accident some days.
I actually like Open Office more then Office 2007, it doesn't have that rotten ribbon that makes it a pain in the backside to find things. Sadly my job is set around Office 2003 going to Office 2007.
Not just Windows even. Imagine the amount of money that would have been paid if that Green Damn thing actually paid for the code they supposedly stole. One of these days there should be a serious assessment of all the IP they pirate over there and have that total knocked off the debt to them.
.. I don't feel overly bad for her. I graduated with a 3.4 gpa and had to work two years of shit jobs before I landed a job in my field. This was before the economy went to hell in a hand basket. I can see it's much worse then what it was when I was job hunting. The last thing I would do though is sue the university I graduated from, hell if anything I'd go back and see if they have job openings and lucky for me they did!
...and I for one welcome our Female Venusian Overlords.
From Horde Commander: You must stop the Alliance from advancing on our position!
From Horde Hero: Uh.. quest is still red.. LOL! kk.. where?
From Horde Commander: You must journey in to the Barrens and stop their march from Ashenvale!
From Horde Hero: LOL! kk.. I accept.
From Horde Hero Buddy: Ya mon.. share kk?
From Horde Hero: LOL too low of lvl!
From Horde Hero Buddy: LOL mon!
From Horde Hero: All 80s! LOL!
*SPLAT*
Clearly you haven't thought this through completely. Humans are making progress towards nano technology. The solution here is to first have the laptop inject the thief with nano-probes and enslave them to be your personal drone. Think of the envy you'll get by having your new drone serve drinks at LAN parties. You'll get to keep all tips that don't fall off the drone from wear and tear. Also if the drone is cute, that's an extra bonus!
They should add some kind of gloves with the goggles that lets students feel around the operating room as well as see it. That would make this really cool. Sadly the article indicates this is more of a point and click type interface. Who knows, the extra demand for touch gloves like that would make them cheap and wide spread more.
*Tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink*
I know right?
*Tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink*
Oh well, back to work.
*Chissles submit on his stone tablet as the EMP goes off*
*Ka-tink*
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I'd have a great laugh if they included a "Duke Nuke'm Forever (BETA)" game with the new OS.
A native binary to run WoW in on my Linux box as well as one for Vent.
That's going to be difficult. Would you want to live on titan? Much better to spend the colossal amount of money on fixing this world.
Manned space flight seems like a waste of money as well. What's the point? It makes everything massively heavier and more expensive for very little return.
We *should* be going to the moon - for Helium3.
All that money spent fixing this world won't be so great when the sun heats up and boils off the oceans. Where would you rather be? Titan or Earth as the sun starts getting older, hotter, and larger?
I found it interesting that the picture looked like something out of that "Life After People." series I watch now and then.
My experience with SSDs have them being generally faster then regular HDs, much cooler since there are no moving parts, much quieter since you have no moving parts making the peanut in a tin can noise, and much more durable since bouncing around isn't going to endanger data platters with read/write heads like regular HDs.
The other thing is since they've been much cooler there's less cost for cooling fans or HD coolers like regular drives sometimes need. That's potentially less energy used to perform the same task a regular high speed HD would do. Now think about this, if you have an AC unit and your PC is throwing hot air in to the room and your trying to cool that room at the same time, with SSDs that's less work your home AC will have to do since the PC wouldn't be throwing out as much hot air potentially.
Activeworlds has a lot of that on AW world. All those people who built thing there for so many years now just sits there like old relics. It's almost like exploring an ancient pyramid, though a messy and sometimes vulgar one but still it's neat to explore.