I don't really play SC2 multiplayer. Every time I do I get stomped into the floor because the other guy's drilled his build order to a fine art. It just rubs me the wrong way that most games of SC2 (in the minor leagues, anyway) are decided almost entirely upon who has the best build order.
For the record, I did beat the campaign and thought it was a blast, and I'll still play against the AI (on easy and medium) from time to time.
I dunno, I just don't have fun losing (at least, for reasons I perceive as arbitrary). Guess I'm one of those jerks.
I'd heard that the piracy check was based upon SteamID- If your account isn't on the gold-list, it crashes. Not infallible, I suppose, but it's more concrete than many other schemes.
That's not Gmod's only antipiracy measure. You need to link your Steam account and prove you have Garry's Mod in order to download any addons, and Gmod isn't any good without the addons
So far as creativity goes, if you get some addons, you can build all sorts of fun things. A friend and I spent four hours putting together various types of weapons in a fort-wars sort of thing. I had great fun figuring out how to build an effective antimissile system.
I've played more time in Gmod than any other game I have, and I'm not alone. If you have trouble justifying it, wait until one of the sales, it's not hard to find it below $10. For that cheap, as long as you've got another Source game, it's worth it, even if you only spend a few hours.
Riot control. Imagine if even a diluted version of that pepper were to get sprayed at you. You'd be face-down in the dirt, crawling at your eyes in seconds.
Given that a square with edge length of 400 km would take up 75% of Kansas, I think quite a few poeple would miss it. (Not to mention the agricultural impact of removing that much of the bread basket.)
True enough, but my point about the radiaiton doing more damage in stasis is based upon the assumption that cellular repair processes (that would otherwise mitigate radiation exposure) are slowed to a crawl or halted along with the rest of the body.
Think of, say, a spaceship on a 50-year journey experiencing around 19 microsieverts per hour. If those people were awake, that would be a dose that could cause problems, but it would likely be slow enough that the body would repair the damage. If the crew were in stasis, however, it couldn't repair. The total dose for that trip would be >8 sieverts, enough to cause death. When the person woke up, it'd be like they got a full-body one-time dose of 8 Sv.
(If I'm wrong, please tell me- but this makes sense to me. Still not discounting stasis, though, god knows I wouldn't want to be awake for a 50-year space journey)
If the crew member is in a self-contained and largely radiation-proof tank/capsule/etc for the times where they are not in orbit around some planet, then radiation isn't really a major concern.
They have those now, actually. We call them spaceships.
Besides, I don't see how suspended animation technology would mitigate radiation exposure. The DNA damage would still occur. if anything it might be worse- the body doesn't have much chance to repair the damage if you're in hypersleep, so when you wake up all the damage catches up to you at once.
I might be missing something here, but wouldn't that be lethal? 1 Sv results in mild radiation poisoning, and 8 is death no matter what. You'd be sick in 4 hours and dead in 32.
Not observed, but we know something occurs in natural systems that results in the change of species over time, usually to match their environments. That's what our current theory of evolution is based around.
Whereas the intelligent design idea is based around evidence that's either nonexistent, anecdotal, or disproven (from what I've read, anyway).
(Not trying to slam religion, here- I think that if God does exist, he could affect the universe to create life naturally. However, applying Occam's razor shows that the conditions for life forming randomly are much higher than some nebulous, as-yet unobserved entity doing same.)
As I recall, they put Spirit into hibernation for the Martian winter. I suppose they left it off all this time to charge the batteries as much as they could. I assume the issue isn't signal strength- it's a lack of power in the rover to pick up the signal and respond to it.
Also, Wikipedia disagrees with you about the communications.
The rovers also use the low-gain antennas to communicate with spacecraft orbiting Mars, the Mars Odyssey and (before its failure) the Mars Global Surveyor. The orbiters relay data from and to Earth; most data to Earth is relayed through Odyssey. The orbiters are closer to the rovers than the antennas on Earth, and have a view of Earth for much longer than the rovers.
I'm a youngster, and I wear my Droid on a hip-mounted pouch. (Whenever I keep it in my pocket, the media player starts playing unbidden- that and I can get my phone out and ready in a quarter of the time.
Or maybe they're worried that the news will be inflated and twisted. Have you seen the pictures of the reactor post-hydrogen explosion? Looks nasty, right? News companies the world over will read that as "serious damage to the reactor". While that is true, there's a distinction between the reactor and the reactor chamber itself. If the reactor chamber was damaged seriously, we'd all be five kinds of screwed. It's an easy mistake to make, and if that mistake IS made, it causes a media firestorm that takes months (if not years) to cool down.
If they DO release the footage, then Fox/CNN/MSNBC/what-have-you mis-read the serious exterior damage as serious interior damage, which causes panic too. Damned if you do...
I expect you to use simple logic. Think about it. If you were in the army and were told to storm a complex, would you prefer going in with eyes-only intel, or would you like a sat overhead watching the bad guys for you? Even better, what if they have something more dangerous- Chemical weapons, maybe, or guys with RPGs hidden on the rooftops?
It's not difficult to imagine that having an invisible set of eyes in the sky would make ops like this safer. Know about that sniper on the opposite rooftop before he starts firing, for example.
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I don't really play SC2 multiplayer. Every time I do I get stomped into the floor because the other guy's drilled his build order to a fine art. It just rubs me the wrong way that most games of SC2 (in the minor leagues, anyway) are decided almost entirely upon who has the best build order.
For the record, I did beat the campaign and thought it was a blast, and I'll still play against the AI (on easy and medium) from time to time.
I dunno, I just don't have fun losing (at least, for reasons I perceive as arbitrary). Guess I'm one of those jerks.
I'd heard that the piracy check was based upon SteamID- If your account isn't on the gold-list, it crashes. Not infallible, I suppose, but it's more concrete than many other schemes.
That's not Gmod's only antipiracy measure. You need to link your Steam account and prove you have Garry's Mod in order to download any addons, and Gmod isn't any good without the addons
So far as creativity goes, if you get some addons, you can build all sorts of fun things. A friend and I spent four hours putting together various types of weapons in a fort-wars sort of thing. I had great fun figuring out how to build an effective antimissile system.
I've played more time in Gmod than any other game I have, and I'm not alone. If you have trouble justifying it, wait until one of the sales, it's not hard to find it below $10. For that cheap, as long as you've got another Source game, it's worth it, even if you only spend a few hours.
Riot control. Imagine if even a diluted version of that pepper were to get sprayed at you. You'd be face-down in the dirt, crawling at your eyes in seconds.
Given that a square with edge length of 400 km would take up 75% of Kansas, I think quite a few poeple would miss it. (Not to mention the agricultural impact of removing that much of the bread basket.)
True enough, but my point about the radiaiton doing more damage in stasis is based upon the assumption that cellular repair processes (that would otherwise mitigate radiation exposure) are slowed to a crawl or halted along with the rest of the body.
Think of, say, a spaceship on a 50-year journey experiencing around 19 microsieverts per hour. If those people were awake, that would be a dose that could cause problems, but it would likely be slow enough that the body would repair the damage. If the crew were in stasis, however, it couldn't repair. The total dose for that trip would be >8 sieverts, enough to cause death. When the person woke up, it'd be like they got a full-body one-time dose of 8 Sv.
(If I'm wrong, please tell me- but this makes sense to me. Still not discounting stasis, though, god knows I wouldn't want to be awake for a 50-year space journey)
If the crew member is in a self-contained and largely radiation-proof tank/capsule/etc for the times where they are not in orbit around some planet, then radiation isn't really a major concern.
They have those now, actually. We call them spaceships.
Besides, I don't see how suspended animation technology would mitigate radiation exposure. The DNA damage would still occur. if anything it might be worse- the body doesn't have much chance to repair the damage if you're in hypersleep, so when you wake up all the damage catches up to you at once.
I might be missing something here, but wouldn't that be lethal? 1 Sv results in mild radiation poisoning, and 8 is death no matter what. You'd be sick in 4 hours and dead in 32.
Not observed, but we know something occurs in natural systems that results in the change of species over time, usually to match their environments. That's what our current theory of evolution is based around.
Whereas the intelligent design idea is based around evidence that's either nonexistent, anecdotal, or disproven (from what I've read, anyway).
(Not trying to slam religion, here- I think that if God does exist, he could affect the universe to create life naturally. However, applying Occam's razor shows that the conditions for life forming randomly are much higher than some nebulous, as-yet unobserved entity doing same.)
So this campaign not only targeted sites that weren't offending, but was also ineffective against the actual violators?
There we are, I guess.
Why wasn't Webbovation boxed?
As I recall, they put Spirit into hibernation for the Martian winter. I suppose they left it off all this time to charge the batteries as much as they could. I assume the issue isn't signal strength- it's a lack of power in the rover to pick up the signal and respond to it.
Also, Wikipedia disagrees with you about the communications.
The rovers also use the low-gain antennas to communicate with spacecraft orbiting Mars, the Mars Odyssey and (before its failure) the Mars Global Surveyor. The orbiters relay data from and to Earth; most data to Earth is relayed through Odyssey. The orbiters are closer to the rovers than the antennas on Earth, and have a view of Earth for much longer than the rovers.
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Agreed entierly. If you're waiting for something, sure, whip out your phone- but if somebody sees one during a trial...
Tell you what- when I'm allowed to bring my smartphone in for my SAT, then we'll talk about letting the jury have them.
/handsup
I'm a youngster, and I wear my Droid on a hip-mounted pouch. (Whenever I keep it in my pocket, the media player starts playing unbidden- that and I can get my phone out and ready in a quarter of the time.
I've got my Droid on my hip, and while I haven't moved it, the holster suddenly feels rather heavy.
Wow, I was tired when I wrote that. I meant free-as-in-freedom, I really did.
How long has this been around? First time I heard of it was LibreOffice. Anything before that?
So is libre the new free-as-in-beer?
Never say Babylon 5, never watched or read Starship Troopers, but beyond that, with you all the way.
There's different classes of nerd. A movie nerd, I am not.
Or maybe they're worried that the news will be inflated and twisted. Have you seen the pictures of the reactor post-hydrogen explosion? Looks nasty, right? News companies the world over will read that as "serious damage to the reactor". While that is true, there's a distinction between the reactor and the reactor chamber itself. If the reactor chamber was damaged seriously, we'd all be five kinds of screwed. It's an easy mistake to make, and if that mistake IS made, it causes a media firestorm that takes months (if not years) to cool down.
If they DO release the footage, then Fox/CNN/MSNBC/what-have-you mis-read the serious exterior damage as serious interior damage, which causes panic too. Damned if you do...
Works better for an ambush from indigenous forces that don't quite grasp the concept of ironsights.
Tubular, man.
Better, who cares if it's art or not, so long as it's fun and engaging? That's the point of a game (or book, or movie, or TV show), yeah?
I expect you to use simple logic. Think about it. If you were in the army and were told to storm a complex, would you prefer going in with eyes-only intel, or would you like a sat overhead watching the bad guys for you? Even better, what if they have something more dangerous- Chemical weapons, maybe, or guys with RPGs hidden on the rooftops?
It's not difficult to imagine that having an invisible set of eyes in the sky would make ops like this safer. Know about that sniper on the opposite rooftop before he starts firing, for example.