Yes there already was a sequel, Crusader: No regret, but a continuation of the story would be nice. The graphics still look great for a 10 year old game.
Another Master of Orion game would be fun too.
Another privateer closer to the original would be fun.
in most cars nowadays you don't need to actually heel/toe. with proper pedal placement, or by installing pedal covers, you slide the foot halfway between both pedals and simply just rollover the foot.
the mechanics are simple, its rev matching which is far more difficult, otherwise you strain your syncrhos and you get that lurching motion.
I grew up in northern NJ at was at the time the richest county in the nation. I mowed 3-5 different lawns per year from ages 12-18 with weekly income of about 180-250 9 months out of the year from mowing. I also was a caddy on weekends/summers at the local golf course. 3 hours work meant 40-100 bucks for carrying 2 bags. During college I was a paid intern at allied signal (now honeywell) working in a laser lab. Also from 97-2000 the stock market was crazy and I was recieving returns on my mutal funds from 60-80% per year (hooray for the Janus 20 and Merril Lynches aggressive growth funds!). In 2001 when they then dropped 25% in one year, I took most of it out and bought a house.
That house has now doubled in value.
Yes I was fortunate to have made some good money on the stock market, but also have a father who made me save everything I earned.
My father did it, grew up on a farm (family lost the farm), joined the military, got out, went to school became a multimilionare. My maternal grandfather worked in the mines in johnstown, the steelmills, drove a bus in philly but somehow wound up being a med school professor, head of dept of anesthesiology at columbia presbeterian and a multimillionare.
I didn't grow up in nearly as humble beginnings and I am not a multimillionare, but I am halfway there to my first million (none of it inherited), granted I am only in my late 20's though. After recieving my BS i did have move than 120k saved up though due to wise investing and saving nearly everything I had made working my entire life. My older brother is signifigantly ahead of me and did it all through hard work, saving/investing wisely.
My father and grandfather did it all through hard work, taking financial risks and saving like crazy.
Want to know the difference between rich and poor people?
Poor people spend first, save later. Rich people save first, spend later.
Granted things are different outside of america, but if you want to be successful you can be provided you work your ass off, have a bit of luck and dont spend foolishly. Basically have the right additude and don't need to depend on others for your own success. Face it, most people just don't want to work hard, most people are risk adverse.
Education helps, but isn't necesscary if you want to work for yourself. If you want to work for others, or manage other people's money/companys it will be more usefull.
Actually flashing your high beams in some states is recognized by state code. In Va the car in front of the lights is supposed to yield to the faster car.
Patent Examiner's aren't generalists, they look at a specific subset of technologies.
I had a chance a few weeks ago to sit in on a meeting of the IPLA on this exact subject.
The peer review project will be of use to examiner's for prior art, but as I undestand from the implementation, the comments may or may not be visible to the Examiners on the IDS they recieve. Further, how will the legal education of the participants be ensured? For example, who will educate them on the differences between comprising/consisting/consisting essentially of etc and what the legal definition of obviousness really is?
Will references be supplied to reject the claims, or the specification?
Will applicants have a chance to ammend their claims prior to examination after recieving the prior art references?
If the grey market product is cheaper than the offically licensed product it hurts Sony's relationship with their customers, aka the Retail Stores, that sell their products.
Now the percentage of people who buy outside of the regular retail channel is probably pretty small, but given that Europeans pay more for the same product (DVDs, Games etc) it is believeable that the margins hurt Sony and the regular retail chains.
Granted it was a game too early for its time, but you had no classes, you leveled up and got points which you could apply to any skill you wanted. Got sick of having your skill points invested in piloting skills, go to a terminal, wait 24 hours and you can reconfigure your skills to access sniper rifles, repair things etc.
On the side of the JEC which faces the football field has or at least used to have concrete tiles of varying shades. Every year that I was there, every couple weeks a group of students would make a word or two by rearranging the tiles into letters.
In the late 90's somebody arranged them into a big quake symbol.
Also people would put stuff up in the CII windows too. A big RPI bullet was there at the end of the school year.
When I was at campus a few months ago, I was please to see that a few of our JoeMaMa! stickes were still about (which look very similar to the 125 anniversary stickers.
I'm in agreement, what people here seem to neglect is that active safety (that is to say recognizing a situation and knowing how to correct for it), is as imporant as passive safety features which kick in when a driver is way over their head.
Those are skills which should be required for every driver.
passive safety is a great thing, however people need to learn active safety skills (most noteably situtation awareness). That is an element soley lacking in most drivers and could prevent many more accidents than passive driving aides alone.
the current computer control systems have no idea when it is a good idea to lift the throttle (throttle steering), left foot brake (yes they can brake individual wheels, but that inhbits this technique) and when more should be applied (throttle oversteer). All of these are car control techniques which allow a driver to pivot their car to either a) take a corner better or B) get around an object in an emergency situation.
Skills like that are learned on the track, and can not be safely learned on the street. The downside is that stability control programs can prevent a driver with this knowledge from being able to use it. One of my track instructors detailed two experiences. One where he didn't use these techniques and t-boned a car which entered the road without looking to their left, and a second time where he used these techniques to pivot his car and go around a car which had entered the intersection without seeing him.
These are LIFESAVING techniques, that should be required knowledge for ALL drivers.
I agree for the average driver with no track experience, or in inclimate weather that stability control programs are usefull (except when accelerating in a straight line in the snow). However, in the dry things change considerablly.
Go to a highway safety clinic such as www.carguys.com or bsr-inc.com or take a track school and you will realize how little the average driver knows and you will become MORE scared while driving on the road. You will learn invaluable skills from these courses. Even 15 minutes on a skidpad (basically a wet parking lot) or on light snow will allow a driver to recognize oversteer and understeer and how to correct them. Further, understeer is not safer than oversteer, it can cause you to plow into all sorts of objects on the road. Knowing how to correct for it, even in snow is a very usefull skill (shorthand, lift the throttle, or at low speed, turn the wheel and pull the ebrake for a second when in light snow, it is a practiced skill).
When I took my motorcycle license exam, I had to demonstrate threshold braking, being able to exit a corner properly, and emergency lane changes. As a motorcyclist I have to use these same techniques nearly everyday because people do not see me, because things fall off trucks, and because there may be road debris.
Why aren't these elements required in a drivers license test? If they were, I would feel safer with YOU on the road in an automobile as everyday, things fall off trucks or peoples cars, people don't see you when merging, and objects or sand/dirt/oil appear on the road.
actually most people who track their cars know its better to drive aggressively on the track than on the public streets.
why?
you share the track with other people who actually want to drive, and aren't distracted by their coffee, conversations on the phone, radio, kids in the back seat etc.
the track surface is clean and well maintained, if there is an oil patch, coolant patch, or debris, the track shuts down until it is cleaned up for safety (unless perhaps when racing).
however, on the track and through autox you learn car control skills which can improve your driving, and make you a better and safer driver. on the otherhand you could use the same skills to drive more aggressively. on an interesting note, statistically, drivers after their first track day become more dangerous on t
from my own expereinces on the track, i believe that normal driving tests should be more difficult and require a car control element. if my motorcycle exam required emergency lane changes, braking within a short distance without locking the wheels (aka threshold braking) and the like, why shouldn't a automobile license require the same.
Further, if you ever have the opportunity to take a highway safety clinic, you learn the same techniques as you learn on the track, the knowledge may save your life.
that may or may not be true, however, ABS is still not the same as threshold braking.
There was a recent grassroots motorsports article where they attempted to assertain if it was faster to turn of ABS/stability control programs, and they had difficulties after disconnecting the ABS sensor, in that the cars would not brake properly.
With my own vehicle, and 03 M3, the stability programs kick in way to early. Some later models, have a track mode in which the programs kick in at a higher threshold, but apparently still too early.
Suffices to say, with seat time, a skilled driver will recognize when the software will kick in, or when to use proper braking technique and be able to skirt the edge far more than a typical driver.
Note: I am not a skilled driver with only a few trackdays.
ABS is not threshold braking, the ABS kicks in when you start to slip.
Threshold braking is going to the absolute limit before your brakes would lock. This is not the same as the brakes pulsing on and off.
Again, from wikipedia
"As noted above, maximum braking effect is achieved with the wheels on the limit of friction, whereas ABS works by releasing the brakes as the wheels break traction, so a skilled driver should be able to exceed the braking performance of an ABS system. Few drivers, however, have the skill and practice necessary to do this correctly or instinctively, and a common response to an emergency is to under-brake initially and then to over-brake, a situation in which ABS (and brake assist) will work well."
I am a track newbie with only 6 track days, but this is something that you work on, trying to brake at the limit before the ABS kicks in. You can threshold brake with or without ABS. When you are first learning the technique, you often trigger the ABS. I don't have it down, but with more seat time I will.
Further some of the more recent software freaks out if a driver attempts to left foot brake!
Perhaps you are thinking of other traction control programs?
if you track or autox your car, you want to be able to turn of these driving aides, as you want to be able to push your car closer to the edge that software usually allows. driving aides run counter to teaching one how to improve their car control.
for the average driver, or on normal road conditions i leave the various ESP etc programs on.
Once you track and autox, most people realise high performance driving is better suited to the track than typical road conditions, which involve poorly maintained roads, poor visibility, and unaware drivers.
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Yes there already was a sequel, Crusader: No regret, but a continuation of the story would be nice. The graphics still look great for a 10 year old game.
Another Master of Orion game would be fun too.
Another privateer closer to the original would be fun.
Bring back more origin games!
in most cars nowadays you don't need to actually heel/toe. with proper pedal placement, or by installing pedal covers, you slide the foot halfway between both pedals and simply just rollover the foot.
the mechanics are simple, its rev matching which is far more difficult, otherwise you strain your syncrhos and you get that lurching motion.
While more upmarket, they are the only other manufacterur I know of which sell diesel cars in 07
the e320 bluetec
and the r320 crossover, they also have two diesel suv's
I am looking forwards to the new low sulfer diesel fuel standards.
I grew up in northern NJ at was at the time the richest county in the nation.
I mowed 3-5 different lawns per year from ages 12-18 with weekly income of about 180-250 9 months out of the year from mowing. I also was a caddy on weekends/summers at the local golf course. 3 hours work meant 40-100 bucks for carrying 2 bags. During college I was a paid intern at allied signal (now honeywell) working in a laser lab. Also from 97-2000 the stock market was crazy and I was recieving returns on my mutal funds from 60-80% per year (hooray for the Janus 20 and Merril Lynches aggressive growth funds!). In 2001 when they then dropped 25% in one year, I took most of it out and bought a house.
That house has now doubled in value.
Yes I was fortunate to have made some good money on the stock market, but also have a father who made me save everything I earned.
My father did it, grew up on a farm (family lost the farm), joined the military, got out, went to school became a multimilionare.
My maternal grandfather worked in the mines in johnstown, the steelmills, drove a bus in philly but somehow wound up being a med school professor, head of dept of anesthesiology at columbia presbeterian and a multimillionare.
I didn't grow up in nearly as humble beginnings and I am not a multimillionare, but I am halfway there to my first million (none of it inherited), granted I am only in my late 20's though. After recieving my BS i did have move than 120k saved up though due to wise investing and saving nearly everything I had made working my entire life. My older brother is signifigantly ahead of me and did it all through hard work, saving/investing wisely.
My father and grandfather did it all through hard work, taking financial risks and saving like crazy.
Want to know the difference between rich and poor people?
Poor people spend first, save later.
Rich people save first, spend later.
Granted things are different outside of america, but if you want to be successful you can be provided you work your ass off, have a bit of luck and dont spend foolishly. Basically have the right additude and don't need to depend on others for your own success. Face it, most people just don't want to work hard, most people are risk adverse.
Education helps, but isn't necesscary if you want to work for yourself. If you want to work for others, or manage other people's money/companys it will be more usefull.
Actually flashing your high beams in some states is recognized by state code. In Va the car in front of the lights is supposed to yield to the faster car.
Patent Examiner's aren't generalists, they look at a specific subset of technologies.
I had a chance a few weeks ago to sit in on a meeting of the IPLA on this exact subject.
The peer review project will be of use to examiner's for prior art, but as I undestand from the implementation, the comments may or may not be visible to the Examiners on the IDS they recieve. Further, how will the legal education of the participants be ensured? For example, who will educate them on the differences between comprising/consisting/consisting essentially of etc and what the legal definition of obviousness really is?
Will references be supplied to reject the claims, or the specification?
Will applicants have a chance to ammend their claims prior to examination after recieving the prior art references?
Also the government pretty much knows everyone who has aquired one legally who posseses the appropriate fire arms license for an automatic weapon.
The whole reason that boarding passes are checked for a matching name is not for security, it was a move to protect airline revenues.
This stops someone from buying up tickets for cheap and reselling them to others.
This is an issue which has been pointed out for years on the various frequent flyer forums out there.
Medicare is 2.9% plus my own health insurance.
Guess which costs me more? Medicare to the tune of 4X as much.
If the grey market product is cheaper than the offically licensed product it hurts Sony's relationship with their customers, aka the Retail Stores, that sell their products.
Now the percentage of people who buy outside of the regular retail channel is probably pretty small, but given that Europeans pay more for the same product (DVDs, Games etc) it is believeable that the margins hurt Sony and the regular retail chains.
i have a Creative dvd drive with a regional lockout. There is software to reflash the drive though.
Granted it was a game too early for its time, but you had no classes, you leveled up and got points which you could apply to any skill you wanted. Got sick of having your skill points invested in piloting skills, go to a terminal, wait 24 hours and you can reconfigure your skills to access sniper rifles, repair things etc.
You can actually play it for free now.
wow you were the same year as me!
I think one of them was a comment about IEA or bruce carlson.
the letters themseleves don't exist as letters.
On the side of the JEC which faces the football field has or at least used to have concrete tiles of varying shades. Every year that I was there, every couple weeks a group of students would make a word or two by rearranging the tiles into letters.
In the late 90's somebody arranged them into a big quake symbol.
Also people would put stuff up in the CII windows too. A big RPI bullet was there at the end of the school year.
When I was at campus a few months ago, I was please to see that a few of our JoeMaMa! stickes were still about (which look very similar to the 125 anniversary stickers.
yes, i saw it in blockbuster a few weeks ago.
I'm in agreement, what people here seem to neglect is that active safety (that is to say recognizing a situation and knowing how to correct for it), is as imporant as passive safety features which kick in when a driver is way over their head.
Those are skills which should be required for every driver.
passive safety is a great thing, however people need to learn active safety skills (most noteably situtation awareness). That is an element soley lacking in most drivers and could prevent many more accidents than passive driving aides alone.
the current computer control systems have no idea when it is a good idea to lift the throttle (throttle steering), left foot brake (yes they can brake individual wheels, but that inhbits this technique) and when more should be applied (throttle oversteer). All of these are car control techniques which allow a driver to pivot their car to either a) take a corner better or B) get around an object in an emergency situation.
Skills like that are learned on the track, and can not be safely learned on the street. The downside is that stability control programs can prevent a driver with this knowledge from being able to use it. One of my track instructors detailed two experiences. One where he didn't use these techniques and t-boned a car which entered the road without looking to their left, and a second time where he used these techniques to pivot his car and go around a car which had entered the intersection without seeing him.
These are LIFESAVING techniques, that should be required knowledge for ALL drivers.
I agree for the average driver with no track experience, or in inclimate weather that stability control programs are usefull (except when accelerating in a straight line in the snow). However, in the dry things change considerablly.
Go to a highway safety clinic such as www.carguys.com or bsr-inc.com or take a track school and you will realize how little the average driver knows and you will become MORE scared while driving on the road. You will learn invaluable skills from these courses. Even 15 minutes on a skidpad (basically a wet parking lot) or on light snow will allow a driver to recognize oversteer and understeer and how to correct them. Further, understeer is not safer than oversteer, it can cause you to plow into all sorts of objects on the road. Knowing how to correct for it, even in snow is a very usefull skill (shorthand, lift the throttle, or at low speed, turn the wheel and pull the ebrake for a second when in light snow, it is a practiced skill).
When I took my motorcycle license exam, I had to demonstrate threshold braking, being able to exit a corner properly, and emergency lane changes. As a motorcyclist I have to use these same techniques nearly everyday because people do not see me, because things fall off trucks, and because there may be road debris.
Why aren't these elements required in a drivers license test? If they were, I would feel safer with YOU on the road in an automobile as everyday, things fall off trucks or peoples cars, people don't see you when merging, and objects or sand/dirt/oil appear on the road.
actually most people who track their cars know its better to drive aggressively on the track than on the public streets.
why?
you share the track with other people who actually want to drive, and aren't distracted by their coffee, conversations on the phone, radio, kids in the back seat etc.
the track surface is clean and well maintained, if there is an oil patch, coolant patch, or debris, the track shuts down until it is cleaned up for safety (unless perhaps when racing).
however, on the track and through autox you learn car control skills which can improve your driving, and make you a better and safer driver. on the otherhand you could use the same skills to drive more aggressively. on an interesting note, statistically, drivers after their first track day become more dangerous on t
from my own expereinces on the track, i believe that normal driving tests should be more difficult and require a car control element. if my motorcycle exam required emergency lane changes, braking within a short distance without locking the wheels (aka threshold braking) and the like, why shouldn't a automobile license require the same.
Further, if you ever have the opportunity to take a highway safety clinic, you learn the same techniques as you learn on the track, the knowledge may save your life.
that may or may not be true, however, ABS is still not the same as threshold braking.
There was a recent grassroots motorsports article where they attempted to assertain if it was faster to turn of ABS/stability control programs, and they had difficulties after disconnecting the ABS sensor, in that the cars would not brake properly.
With my own vehicle, and 03 M3, the stability programs kick in way to early. Some later models, have a track mode in which the programs kick in at a higher threshold, but apparently still too early.
Suffices to say, with seat time, a skilled driver will recognize when the software will kick in, or when to use proper braking technique and be able to skirt the edge far more than a typical driver.
Note: I am not a skilled driver with only a few trackdays.
ABS is not threshold braking, the ABS kicks in when you start to slip.
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Threshold braking is going to the absolute limit before your brakes would lock. This is not the same as the brakes pulsing on and off.
Again, from wikipedia
"As noted above, maximum braking effect is achieved with the wheels on the limit of friction, whereas ABS works by releasing the brakes as the wheels break traction, so a skilled driver should be able to exceed the braking performance of an ABS system. Few drivers, however, have the skill and practice necessary to do this correctly or instinctively, and a common response to an emergency is to under-brake initially and then to over-brake, a situation in which ABS (and brake assist) will work well."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-lock_braking_sy
I am a track newbie with only 6 track days, but this is something that you work on, trying to brake at the limit before the ABS kicks in. You can threshold brake with or without ABS. When you are first learning the technique, you often trigger the ABS. I don't have it down, but with more seat time I will.
Further some of the more recent software freaks out if a driver attempts to left foot brake!
Perhaps you are thinking of other traction control programs?
if you know how to threshold brake, you will stop in a shorter distance than ABS allows.
The downside is that it is a difficult skill to develop, and can't be safely practiced on the streets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_braking
if you track or autox your car, you want to be able to turn of these driving aides, as you want to be able to push your car closer to the edge that software usually allows. driving aides run counter to teaching one how to improve their car control.
for the average driver, or on normal road conditions i leave the various ESP etc programs on.
Once you track and autox, most people realise high performance driving is better suited to the track than typical road conditions, which involve poorly maintained roads, poor visibility, and unaware drivers.
this is a patent application publication, not an actual patent, rather it is a published copy of a patent application.
these things are great as they provide a much greater source of prior art than merely actual patents themselves.
no need to get so relied up. it is not a patent, yet.
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