I absolutely adored the original Crimson Skies on my PC. Couple it with a wireless gamepad and you are ducking and swooping along with your planes.
It did get a little tricky thouigh. Never did managed to complete the Hollywood level so I had to skip it.....
One of the best features I thought was the fact that it didnt use any flashy prerendered cutscenes or cheesy mission introductions. They used something akin to a radio play. Some very well voiceacted scenes with banter between the various characters. It really conjured up the atmosphere.
Thats exactly it. I didnt describe it very well, did I......
I went on to wonder what would happen if you syphoned off water from the side of the pipe that the positive ions were drawn towards. Would you then have a positively charged bottle of water?? I never did try it out though. I gave myself enough electric shocks by forgetting to dry my hands before turning the pump on or off...
For my physics A-level practical some 7-8 years ago now I tried pumping salt water through a tube inside a magnetic field. Two electrodes on opposite sides of the tube measured the voltage across it. You could see that voltage generated was propotional to the speed of the water and the amount of salt it contained.
Barring all the previous comments people have made relating to the infrastructure required jsut to set up a scheme like this there is another far more compelling reason this scheme will not work.
People will not agree to pay for something they previously had for free.
Email has been free to send for a great deal of time now. People just wont agree to pay for it.
This whole story sounds a lot like the Urban Legend along the lines of the US government planning to introduce an email tax for each mail sent.
There is every reason for Trillian to exist. It is a compact aplication that chats to lots of chat services. Just because it isnt open source, does not make it bad (as many people seem to think)
The FREE version to Trilian functions perfectly well, but they save the real whizz-bang stuff for the commercial Pro version. This versions chat mechanism is virtually identical, but what you are paying for is all the enhancements to the client, for example extra event items and interface options.
I like the idea of Trillian being a commercial entity as it forces them to offer a far better client that the network defaults or else people ownt buy it and they go out of business.
The fixed camera view you spend most of the game in is useless for the stealth sections. Its fine when you are running into the screen as you can see the room in front of you and any guards that are there, but when you are trying to sneak out of the screen (if you see what I mean) you cannot see what your character should be able to see. you blindly blunder into troops that would otherwise be completely avoidable. I suppose you can always pop into 1st person for a moment, but that is fiddly and I found it incredibly annoying.
Oh, and also a great deal of the game is taken up with dreaded FMV....
There are lots of products people can buy that have usage restrictions on them. Just because you have bought something doesnt mean you can do whatever the hell you like with it.
If you want to use your xbox online then it should conform to a standard.
That is awful. I'd much rather driver authors spent their time actually improving the drivers, rather than coming up with ways of fooling people into thinking they are improved.
I guess if you need to read/. or pr0n that much fast, it works, tell me if I am wrong, but I am seeing a small market for this much hype
If you are reading a text page large enough to get a good amount of compression then the time it takes to actually READ the webpage makes the time you saved downloading it insignificant.
Its the things that people have to actually sit around and wait to download like program installs an d music that they want speeding up, and that kind of traffic doesnt lend it slef well to further compression
These kind of challenge and response solutions are not really viable. I run a double opt-in email list with over 3000 members. A few of my users did install something like this, and it took a long time to jump through the hoops they required just for them to receive mail they had already asked for (twice)
If everyone did this....?
Say it takes 30 seconds to load in the Challenge website, read the word hidden in the.gif/.jpg type it into the box, click accept and then wait for the server to update its database.
30 * 3000 = 90,000 seconds = 25 hrs!
Granted, I'd only have to do it once for each user. Oh, thats until they decide to change their subscription address or alter a setting on their software....
Even if only 10% of the users did this it would still take 2.5 hours to sort through. Thats assuming that they al used the exact same kind of C&R system so I wouldnt have to spend extra time reading instructions to figure out exactly what I have to do each time.
I agree we need a solution, but Challenge And Response isnt it.
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I absolutely adored the original Crimson Skies on my PC. Couple it with a wireless gamepad and you are ducking and swooping along with your planes.
It did get a little tricky thouigh. Never did managed to complete the Hollywood level so I had to skip it.....
One of the best features I thought was the fact that it didnt use any flashy prerendered cutscenes or cheesy mission introductions. They used something akin to a radio play. Some very well voiceacted scenes with banter between the various characters. It really conjured up the atmosphere.
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Which article were you reading.....?
Thats exactly it. I didnt describe it very well, did I......
I went on to wonder what would happen if you syphoned off water from the side of the pipe that the positive ions were drawn towards. Would you then have a positively charged bottle of water?? I never did try it out though. I gave myself enough electric shocks by forgetting to dry my hands before turning the pump on or off...
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For my physics A-level practical some 7-8 years ago now I tried pumping salt water through a tube inside a magnetic field. Two electrodes on opposite sides of the tube measured the voltage across it. You could see that voltage generated was propotional to the speed of the water and the amount of salt it contained.
Slightly off-topic but I did not realise that US cell-phone users are charged to receive calls as well as place them.
My UK plan only charges me for the calls and texts that I make myself (with the exception of incoming overseas call I think)
I'm also keen to find this out........
Even I couldn't use all 12 million images, but would be interested if there were a subset available for public use.
Barring all the previous comments people have made relating to the infrastructure required jsut to set up a scheme like this there is another far more compelling reason this scheme will not work.
People will not agree to pay for something they previously had for free.
Email has been free to send for a great deal of time now. People just wont agree to pay for it.
This whole story sounds a lot like the Urban Legend along the lines of the US government planning to introduce an email tax for each mail sent.
1: Become God
2: ????
3: Prophet
Plus he spelt Overlords wrong......
Then again, I try not to search on "teen panties" very often. :)
Nor do I. I know exactly where to find them....
My point exactly.
ITS JUST A FILM!!!!!!!
Anyone know how much this magician charges for childrens parties...?
And does anyone know where I can download David Blaine, the popular P2P filesharing program?
There is every reason for Trillian to exist. It is a compact aplication that chats to lots of chat services. Just because it isnt open source, does not make it bad (as many people seem to think)
The FREE version to Trilian functions perfectly well, but they save the real whizz-bang stuff for the commercial Pro version. This versions chat mechanism is virtually identical, but what you are paying for is all the enhancements to the client, for example extra event items and interface options.
I like the idea of Trillian being a commercial entity as it forces them to offer a far better client that the network defaults or else people ownt buy it and they go out of business.
MGS2's gameplay certainly is flawed...
The fixed camera view you spend most of the game in is useless for the stealth sections. Its fine when you are running into the screen as you can see the room in front of you and any guards that are there, but when you are trying to sneak out of the screen (if you see what I mean) you cannot see what your character should be able to see. you blindly blunder into troops that would otherwise be completely avoidable. I suppose you can always pop into 1st person for a moment, but that is fiddly and I found it incredibly annoying.
Oh, and also a great deal of the game is taken up with dreaded FMV....
I agree entirely.
There are lots of products people can buy that have usage restrictions on them. Just because you have bought something doesnt mean you can do whatever the hell you like with it.
If you want to use your xbox online then it should conform to a standard.
Have you never heard the expression Money Talks...?
That is awful. I'd much rather driver authors spent their time actually improving the drivers, rather than coming up with ways of fooling people into thinking they are improved.
I hope the people you bought your second-hand CD's from didnt also rub them all over themselves gleefully.
You might catch something!
I guess if you need to read /. or pr0n that much fast, it works, tell me if I am wrong, but I am seeing a small market for this much hype
If you are reading a text page large enough to get a good amount of compression then the time it takes to actually READ the webpage makes the time you saved downloading it insignificant.
Its the things that people have to actually sit around and wait to download like program installs an d music that they want speeding up, and that kind of traffic doesnt lend it slef well to further compression
Thats because the old version of Opera doesnt even run anymore... :)
Can we give Mikey-boy one of these and set it to correct his voice to 0 volume?
To continue your analogy...
What do you do if this is the only apartment block for miles around, and its either live there or sleep on the streets?
These kind of challenge and response solutions are not really viable. I run a double opt-in email list with over 3000 members. A few of my users did install something like this, and it took a long time to jump through the hoops they required just for them to receive mail they had already asked for (twice)
.gif/.jpg type it into the box, click accept and then wait for the server to update its database.
If everyone did this....?
Say it takes 30 seconds to load in the Challenge website, read the word hidden in the
30 * 3000 = 90,000 seconds = 25 hrs!
Granted, I'd only have to do it once for each user. Oh, thats until they decide to change their subscription address or alter a setting on their software....
Even if only 10% of the users did this it would still take 2.5 hours to sort through. Thats assuming that they al used the exact same kind of C&R system so I wouldnt have to spend extra time reading instructions to figure out exactly what I have to do each time.
I agree we need a solution, but Challenge And Response isnt it.