Why is this concept so hard for the industry to understand, or perhaps it is foolish for those like us to expect that they understand or care. Perhaps we are the minority now? Regardless, this summarizes my thoughts and those of the people I care to play with.
NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO FUCKING PLAY GAMES WITH INTERNET MORONS OKAY?
I certainly don't. Sometimes, I do. Sometimes I will play with friends, in certain games, when my mood fits it. But any game that I'm going to sit down and dedicate hours of effort and planning to, I'm only going to play with about 3 select friends who will NEVER have the time to be online at the same time as me (kids tend to make schedules hard on you). The rest of the Internet is pretty fucking annoying to deal with in those games, I certainly don't want my game to have to deal with how that jack ass sells his commodities and prices which screw my plan or spews his environmental mess at me.
I ALREADY HAVE REAL LIFE, I DON'T WANT IT IN A GAME.
In a game I want to be in control. I don't want to be at some little 'Anonymous' asshole's whim.
It's pretty small to call a bolt. Based on the dimensions of the scoop (provided below from NASA), it's visible size is less than 0.5cm x 0.1cm. Though I did laugh at the idea until i looked at the unadulterated pics.
This image from the right Mast Camera (Mastcam) of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows a scoop full of sand and dust lifted by the rover's first use of the scoop on its robotic arm. In the foreground, near the bottom of the image, a bright object is visible on the ground. The object might be a piece of rover hardware. This image was taken during the mission's 61st Martian day, or sol (Oct. 7, 2012), the same sol as the first scooping. After examining Sol 61 imaging, the rover team decided to refrain from using the arm on Sol 62 (Oct. 8). Instead, the rover was instructed to acquire additional imaging of the bright object, on Sol 62, to aid the team in assessing possible impact, if any, to sampling activities.
For scale, the scoop is 1.8 inches (4.5 centimeters) wide, 2.8 inches (7 centimeters) long.
You password is only as good as the system recording it. You could have a 30 character complex password and if the site can be comprised by a simple SQL injection and stored in plain text then it really doesn't matter now does it? All this shenanigans lately around password hash files and security needs to be put back on the providers.
The odds of my physical books being stolen from my house or lost in a fire are fairly remote, and I don't have to ask permission to use them. Having an e-book removed from my e-device is rather higher, and what happens to said e-books 20 years from now when some e-retailer turns the lights off?
While there are temptations to move to this format, until the draconian restrictions have been removed (I am aware of a few alternatives, but choice is limited) I'll keep my money on the brick and motor shops instead.
It's still possible that kids playing active Wii games burned a few extra calories during their gaming sessions that the movement device didn't pick up on -- for instance, if they were moving their arms a lot in a boxing game, Barkley said.
I cannot think of the Wii game that I have played that I could not do sitting down (with obvious exclusion to Wii Board games), including various dance games. Seeing as you are holding the controller in your hand and it is not attached your waist I'm inclined to think that invalidates this test to some degree as the data capture accelerometer for the testing was on the waist.
I do not recall, and quick search did not return any prior example of, anonymous extorting info/data for money. Why attach this now? To me it reads more like "Anonymous ignores bribes, cop sting failed". Granted there have been threats of various sorts, but I cannot recall there being a money sum attached to any of them.
BTW, I have never visited Hawaii, but it is on my "bucket list"; this passes and I will likely remove it. St. John's will move up the list which is just as good if not better.
.. you hand over all records of your finances, political backing, lobbyist funding, and implant a GPS/Audio/Video unit in your body. So we can microscopically assess your soul we'll let you track our activity over the internet.
I suspect this is just another bait and switch though, push out some extravagant bill that they don't expect 75% of to pass, then whittle it down to something less volatile but still infringe on our privacy.
More accurate journalism based on comments taken out of context.
U.S Senator Bill Nelson, a former astronaut and a congressional expert on NASA, told FoxNews.com the Russian comments were intended mainly to mitigate concerns about the growing issue of space junk.
"All the Russians are saying is that when the time comes to shut the station down -- whenever that is -- it will have to be brought from orbit in a planned 'crash' so there’s no space junk left behind or debris that falls in populated areas."
If it gets to the point of EA exclusives being only through their services, or not on steam, or not all features/DLC on steam, then EA can keep their games. I may be a bit of a Steam/Valve fanboi, but in the 3+ years I've been a customer they've never made me feel like some peasant serf that EA has proven to do so many times in the past. In my book EA is right up there with Sony.
Well I would imagine you are not running your $150 card at 5760 x 1200 (across three 24" monitors) with 4X AA and 16 AF now are you?
There IS are market for this performance, and granted it may not include you, but some people are more than able to bring cards with these specs to their knees.
As for console ports, granted there are quite a few, but I seriously doubt my GeForce 3 Ti500 (2001) could have have run any of today's games.
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NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO FUCKING PLAY GAMES WITH INTERNET MORONS OKAY?
I certainly don't. Sometimes, I do. Sometimes I will play with friends, in certain games, when my mood fits it. But any game that I'm going to sit down and dedicate hours of effort and planning to, I'm only going to play with about 3 select friends who will NEVER have the time to be online at the same time as me (kids tend to make schedules hard on you). The rest of the Internet is pretty fucking annoying to deal with in those games, I certainly don't want my game to have to deal with how that jack ass sells his commodities and prices which screw my plan or spews his environmental mess at me.
I ALREADY HAVE REAL LIFE, I DON'T WANT IT IN A GAME.
In a game I want to be in control. I don't want to be at some little 'Anonymous' asshole's whim.
Reaper drones run about 37 million per unit, it'd be interesting to see simulations of 3 reapers vs an F-35.
225.28 based on the highly inaccurate assumption that the quantitative size of the library of congress is 10 terabytes.
In the event the world ends or the source is /.'ed here's additional linkage
Article links to a NASA video via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QY_Gc1bF8ds
And NASA.gov has much the same information. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/yoemans20091110.html
This image from the right Mast Camera (Mastcam) of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows a scoop full of sand and dust lifted by the rover's first use of the scoop on its robotic arm. In the foreground, near the bottom of the image, a bright object is visible on the ground. The object might be a piece of rover hardware. This image was taken during the mission's 61st Martian day, or sol (Oct. 7, 2012), the same sol as the first scooping. After examining Sol 61 imaging, the rover team decided to refrain from using the arm on Sol 62 (Oct. 8). Instead, the rover was instructed to acquire additional imaging of the bright object, on Sol 62, to aid the team in assessing possible impact, if any, to sampling activities. For scale, the scoop is 1.8 inches (4.5 centimeters) wide, 2.8 inches (7 centimeters) long.
And from the horse's mouth: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/jul/HQ_12-225_Orion_Arrives_KSC.html
Here's an alternative article, the linked one appears to be down or /.'d.
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/07/02/NASAs-Orion-spacecraft-arrives-in-Florida/UPI-87191341254811/?spt=hs&or=sn
You password is only as good as the system recording it. You could have a 30 character complex password and if the site can be comprised by a simple SQL injection and stored in plain text then it really doesn't matter now does it? All this shenanigans lately around password hash files and security needs to be put back on the providers.
I could be crazy but I am fairly sure Perfect Browser http://www.perfectbrowser.com/ isn't a Safari skin.
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($150,000 fine x 73 documents) x 25 copies
Apparently not everyone has seen this review of which VPN providers live up to their marketing hype, so I'll share. HMA is definitely not one to expect much from when push comes to shove with the MAFIAA. http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anonymity-seriously-111007/
The odds of my physical books being stolen from my house or lost in a fire are fairly remote, and I don't have to ask permission to use them. Having an e-book removed from my e-device is rather higher, and what happens to said e-books 20 years from now when some e-retailer turns the lights off? While there are temptations to move to this format, until the draconian restrictions have been removed (I am aware of a few alternatives, but choice is limited) I'll keep my money on the brick and motor shops instead.
It's still possible that kids playing active Wii games burned a few extra calories during their gaming sessions that the movement device didn't pick up on -- for instance, if they were moving their arms a lot in a boxing game, Barkley said.
I cannot think of the Wii game that I have played that I could not do sitting down (with obvious exclusion to Wii Board games), including various dance games. Seeing as you are holding the controller in your hand and it is not attached your waist I'm inclined to think that invalidates this test to some degree as the data capture accelerometer for the testing was on the waist.
I'm not 100% positive but "smeg" smacks of Red Dwarf. http://reddwarf.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Dwarf
I do not recall, and quick search did not return any prior example of, anonymous extorting info/data for money. Why attach this now? To me it reads more like "Anonymous ignores bribes, cop sting failed". Granted there have been threats of various sorts, but I cannot recall there being a money sum attached to any of them.
I was wondering when the obligatory Mission Earth/Tug One reference would surface.
BTW, I have never visited Hawaii, but it is on my "bucket list"; this passes and I will likely remove it. St. John's will move up the list which is just as good if not better.
.. you hand over all records of your finances, political backing, lobbyist funding, and implant a GPS/Audio/Video unit in your body. So we can microscopically assess your soul we'll let you track our activity over the internet.
I suspect this is just another bait and switch though, push out some extravagant bill that they don't expect 75% of to pass, then whittle it down to something less volatile but still infringe on our privacy.
Seems ok here, tried it on 6.0.2 and 9.0.1 with no issues, only using 1 addon, ABP.
More professionally created "reality" TV. I would rather spork my eyes out.
More accurate journalism based on comments taken out of context.
U.S Senator Bill Nelson, a former astronaut and a congressional expert on NASA, told FoxNews.com the Russian comments were intended mainly to mitigate concerns about the growing issue of space junk.
"All the Russians are saying is that when the time comes to shut the station down -- whenever that is -- it will have to be brought from orbit in a planned 'crash' so there’s no space junk left behind or debris that falls in populated areas."
If it gets to the point of EA exclusives being only through their services, or not on steam, or not all features/DLC on steam, then EA can keep their games. I may be a bit of a Steam/Valve fanboi, but in the 3+ years I've been a customer they've never made me feel like some peasant serf that EA has proven to do so many times in the past. In my book EA is right up there with Sony.
It says a lot when the country a company is headquartered in tells them their stuff stinks.
+1 Japan for asking what everyone else lacked the sense to question.
Well I would imagine you are not running your $150 card at 5760 x 1200 (across three 24" monitors) with 4X AA and 16 AF now are you?
There IS are market for this performance, and granted it may not include you, but some people are more than able to bring cards with these specs to their knees.
As for console ports, granted there are quite a few, but I seriously doubt my GeForce 3 Ti500 (2001) could have have run any of today's games.