in the challenge, everytime i get the delta-v low (around the 22-25 mark), i'll end up moving one planet slightly wrong and the game just completely changes the trajectories and i'll have to spend another ten minutes tweaking it down to 25 again...
nice idea and all, but the implementation just annoyes me enough to give up after a few tries
even if you temporarily forget about the whole "space" thing, this still isnt that big of a deal, it is done by high-school students, reaching the same altitudes, and can be done on a budget of a few 100 bucks (and you can get some damn snazzy pics from up there)
Cool DIY project to waste a summer week on? sure.. News for nerds? Stuff that matters... hardly.
And then an intern typed enough 1s and 0s to fill up the available space, trying to make it look random.
Sucky intern if you ask me, if i got that job i most definitely WOULD encode some secret message.
Hell, i tipped a college roommate on how to leave his last name in a city planning design, how awesome is it to, in thirty/foutry years time point that one out to the grand-kids!
i built my GF a new machine early last year, quad core AMD (phenom II), 8gb of ram etc.. this was before 7 launched, and since she had vista on her old machine (shitty laptop), she insisted on having it on the new one. Once i got everything up and running, that vista machine was noticably slower then my own dual core running windows 7 beta..
Sure if you have no frame of reference vista might be OK, but if you have ever seen anything else running on comparable hardware...
a few months back the capps on my aunts Athlon XP machine's mobo just popped, considering the value of the rest of the machine, we ended up spending $350 with dell for a new machine..
Sure i could have re-capped the mobo, or searched for a replacement mobo (which would have to be identical, yay hardware specific restore discs etc..)
considering this is a JAAGGGGG, if it is a saloon, it will be very civilized and quiet and small only of freshly cleaned leather. If it goes into an XK however, no amount of ear-protection will be enough:P
i can just imagine, blitzing across the german autobahn at 120mph in your Britisch Racing Green JJAAAGGGGG with psychedelic orange/green/yellow/pink smoke billowing out the back:P
Why have you been playing at all? You've had to grind for items since the first patch, why does including an option to skip over the grind make the grind (which I reiterate, has already existed) intolerable? Have you thought this through, or is it a hyperbolic reaction to a new feature you don't like?
for a casual player who isnt in it for the items, it is somewhat acceptable that people who play for ages have some advantages (better weapons/items). You can somewhat side-step that by not getting into servers with only the best players (they will own you anyway, regardless of any advantages, they just tend to be more skilled/faster), however this pay-per-gun system wrecks the idea of playing among your peers, since the guy you previously were on equal footing with, will have spent a few bucks on the better gun, gaining an advantage, ruining your experience.
Allowing people to buy better weapons in games quickly gives rise to a prisoners dilemma, either you also spend the money (on top of what you paid for the game), or you will have your lunch eaten by the people that do, the only winning move is not to play...
(i had this experience in BF2 years back, the special forces expansion allowed people to use (better) weapons which they unlocked in SF to be used in the regular maps, giving SF-buyers an edge on the normal maps, in the end i ended up buying the expansion, mostly for the sniper rifle... although i did enjoy the maps as well)
Good point, if i had a mac, and hated it enough to bitch about it on/. regularly, i probably would kick it out (or sell it to some aspiring turtleneck wearer) and get on with my life (and still bitch about it periodicly)
Also bitching about price doesnt require you to own something, in fact, not owning the item makes you more logical in bitching about the price, since buying it would mean the price is acceptable, despite your bitchings...
I just hate it that you guys are german and not dutch (or the other way around, that i am not german), because if you were, my resume would land on your virtual doormat within seconds after reading this post
i wonder about that, if (dont really know) latinum is ever transported on the show that pretty much proves to me it can be created from energy, given a molecular pattern, allowing it to be replicated.
Unless of course the Fed banned replicators from doing that, and imposed a DRM scheme on transporter data streams to prevent them from producing coppies from the same buffer data.
Also I would like to say that I can do wonderful things with vegetables and I am a survival expert that regularly gets people killed. Oh, and everybody loves me. Care to guess who I am?
. At some point in time even the Romulans got involved, with some ambassador yelling at him "It's a FAKE!". But then Garrack made sure his ship exploded
Excellent post! and i actually remember that episode
as for the bank balance, i remember being absolutely pissed about the fact that in battlefield 2, people with the special forces expansion could use a sniper rifle which basically was a combo of the best bits of all others, giving them a noticable edge over me.
i did end up buying the expansion, partially for the improved weapons, but i ended up also really enjoying the extra maps
But microtransaction for better items will be a deal killer for me too
i'm guessing lucas stumbled upon the 2012 stuff when doing research for indiana jones, now he wants to quickly put out his "final this is really the way i wanted to make the movies, i swear" version of star wars before it all ends
never mind the fact he just made it into a self-fulfilling prophecy
Jar-jar in 3D, to shamelessly regurgitate something said earlier in the thread, Our eyeballs cant repell firepower of that magnitude!
While they are at it, they can remove the whole space-soap shit with obi wan and padme right before the finale in Ep 3 as well, just replace it with another epic space battle and everyone will be happy
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Some marketing people over at panasonic where really fanatic about using that Guns 'n Roses license they picked up on a bargain...
I dont mind though, i can't think of any commercial which wouldnt benefit from "Welcome to the jungle" playing...
As for the device itself, i dont really see that working, apparently some netbooks already run WOW well enough..
in the challenge, everytime i get the delta-v low (around the 22-25 mark), i'll end up moving one planet slightly wrong and the game just completely changes the trajectories and i'll have to spend another ten minutes tweaking it down to 25 again...
nice idea and all, but the implementation just annoyes me enough to give up after a few tries
even if you temporarily forget about the whole "space" thing, this still isnt that big of a deal, it is done by high-school students, reaching the same altitudes, and can be done on a budget of a few 100 bucks (and you can get some damn snazzy pics from up there)
Cool DIY project to waste a summer week on? sure.. News for nerds? Stuff that matters... hardly.
well, why dont you take the first 8 bits and calculate the ECC for it?
(i was thinking perhaps 4 bytes + 1 parity bit, but the palindromic nature makes it seem a bit far fetched)
And then an intern typed enough 1s and 0s to fill up the available space, trying to make it look random.
Sucky intern if you ask me, if i got that job i most definitely WOULD encode some secret message.
Hell, i tipped a college roommate on how to leave his last name in a city planning design, how awesome is it to, in thirty/foutry years time point that one out to the grand-kids!
i built my GF a new machine early last year, quad core AMD (phenom II), 8gb of ram etc.. this was before 7 launched, and since she had vista on her old machine (shitty laptop), she insisted on having it on the new one. Once i got everything up and running, that vista machine was noticably slower then my own dual core running windows 7 beta..
Sure if you have no frame of reference vista might be OK, but if you have ever seen anything else running on comparable hardware...
a few months back the capps on my aunts Athlon XP machine's mobo just popped, considering the value of the rest of the machine, we ended up spending $350 with dell for a new machine..
Sure i could have re-capped the mobo, or searched for a replacement mobo (which would have to be identical, yay hardware specific restore discs etc..)
considering this is a JAAGGGGG, if it is a saloon, it will be very civilized and quiet and small only of freshly cleaned leather. If it goes into an XK however, no amount of ear-protection will be enough :P
now where is the +1 awesome mod when i need it?
i can just imagine, blitzing across the german autobahn at 120mph in your Britisch Racing Green JJAAAGGGGG with psychedelic orange/green/yellow/pink smoke billowing out the back :P
yeah, the only exception being the l85a1 in BF2, the medic unlock, which was a CRAP assault rifle, but did well as a pseudo-sniper.
Why have you been playing at all? You've had to grind for items since the first patch, why does including an option to skip over the grind make the grind (which I reiterate, has already existed) intolerable? Have you thought this through, or is it a hyperbolic reaction to a new feature you don't like?
for a casual player who isnt in it for the items, it is somewhat acceptable that people who play for ages have some advantages (better weapons/items). You can somewhat side-step that by not getting into servers with only the best players (they will own you anyway, regardless of any advantages, they just tend to be more skilled/faster), however this pay-per-gun system wrecks the idea of playing among your peers, since the guy you previously were on equal footing with, will have spent a few bucks on the better gun, gaining an advantage, ruining your experience.
Allowing people to buy better weapons in games quickly gives rise to a prisoners dilemma, either you also spend the money (on top of what you paid for the game), or you will have your lunch eaten by the people that do, the only winning move is not to play...
(i had this experience in BF2 years back, the special forces expansion allowed people to use (better) weapons which they unlocked in SF to be used in the regular maps, giving SF-buyers an edge on the normal maps, in the end i ended up buying the expansion, mostly for the sniper rifle... although i did enjoy the maps as well)
Good point, if i had a mac, and hated it enough to bitch about it on /. regularly, i probably would kick it out (or sell it to some aspiring turtleneck wearer) and get on with my life (and still bitch about it periodicly)
Also bitching about price doesnt require you to own something, in fact, not owning the item makes you more logical in bitching about the price, since buying it would mean the price is acceptable, despite your bitchings...
they could make the entire UI LCARS based?
I just hate it that you guys are german and not dutch (or the other way around, that i am not german), because if you were, my resume would land on your virtual doormat within seconds after reading this post
i wonder about that, if (dont really know) latinum is ever transported on the show that pretty much proves to me it can be created from energy, given a molecular pattern, allowing it to be replicated.
Unless of course the Fed banned replicators from doing that, and imposed a DRM scheme on transporter data streams to prevent them from producing coppies from the same buffer data.
Also I would like to say that I can do wonderful things with vegetables and I am a survival expert that regularly gets people killed. Oh, and everybody loves me. Care to guess who I am?
Neelix, is that you?
. At some point in time even the Romulans got involved, with some ambassador yelling at him "It's a FAKE!". But then Garrack made sure his ship exploded
Excellent post! and i actually remember that episode
heh, completely missed that, i'll forget about it right away
i already HATE having to set up ubisoft/ea accounts and that shit, but creating a facebook account is where i draw the line
Sounds good (the tech part)
as for the bank balance, i remember being absolutely pissed about the fact that in battlefield 2, people with the special forces expansion could use a sniper rifle which basically was a combo of the best bits of all others, giving them a noticable edge over me.
i did end up buying the expansion, partially for the improved weapons, but i ended up also really enjoying the extra maps
But microtransaction for better items will be a deal killer for me too
Will i be able to play this in chrome on linux, or will this be some windows only plugin for IE/FF job?
and yeah, DS9, not my choice... (despite the copious involvement of romulans in the later seasons)
ah, that explains, i pictured you walking out on your 8 year old son :P
we have a very good southpark episode to look forward to, second half of 2012
i'm guessing lucas stumbled upon the 2012 stuff when doing research for indiana jones, now he wants to quickly put out his "final this is really the way i wanted to make the movies, i swear" version of star wars before it all ends
never mind the fact he just made it into a self-fulfilling prophecy
Jar-jar in 3D, to shamelessly regurgitate something said earlier in the thread, Our eyeballs cant repell firepower of that magnitude!
your kid must hate you (though i completely understand walking out when seeing jar-jar)
Now there is a selling point if i ever saw one..
While they are at it, they can remove the whole space-soap shit with obi wan and padme right before the finale in Ep 3 as well, just replace it with another epic space battle and everyone will be happy