"However, humanity has already tried to make contact with the new planet. During Australia's National Science Week in August 2009, Cosmos magazine partnered with the Australian government, NASA and the CSIRO to run a 13-day campaign to collect goodwill messages from the public to be sent to Gliese 581d.
The initiative, known as Hello From Earth, collected 26,000 messages, which were transmitted by NASA's Tidbinbilla facility. The signal is not due to arrive until January 2030."
In January 2050 they will arrive here and humans will cease to exist.
"Now, how could this be applied to Starcraft II? No idea..."
C&C Red Alert had the option to set maximum tech level for the game. Total Annihilation had the option to specify how many of each unit type were constructible. I think those are great ways to allow different fun unit types into a game. Players could even save game setup types as some kind of profile.
I wonder if stuff like that has the potential to change orbits of plants. If the Sun were to push itself enough out of position everything circling it would begin to have irregular orbits around it and things could get really bad.
I wouldn't be so bold as to say Facebook hasn't grown like wildfire, or that huge numbers of the population aren't using it, but 3/4 of Americans on Facebook? Seems like there are large portions of the population who that's simply not possible for, due to age, economic status, work constraints, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if there are 2 fake Facebook accounts for every real one.
Sucks for anyone who's scheduled launch parties or travel plans to view it in person. Though, delays are a shuttle launch staple, so anyone making those kind of plans should be prepared for that sort of thing.
I had hoped that Google would jump in bed with T-Mobile, but clearly that's not going to happen now. If they could snuggle up with Verizon it would be better than nothing. Mostly I just want some dramatic changes to the way cellular service is provided.
This sounds like a good thing to me. Better chances of getting data back from failed hardware. Or getting data from a device that a numbskull disgruntled employee thinks they've intentionally ruined.
If you actually WANT to destroy the data, others here have mentioned the proper methods. I like to rely on the.45 at high velocity, but open flames work well too.
That could be really good! So long as I wasn't required to be connected to the internet in order to play my games. If there was some kind of consolecloud replication and games could function in a completely offline state it would be pretty great. It sucks balls when Blizzard is offline and I can't get my StarCraft 2 injection.
How are people able to accurately point a laser at a dude's eyeball in an aircraft moving over 100 mph from a relevant angle of attack through the aircraft's windshield from an unrestricted vantage point? From BELOW the aircraft?
The bandwidth cost could theoretically be reduced with a P2P system or cache servers stored at ISPs. As for shipping costs, those will only go up. Even if they provide local distribution in every city over 100,000 population the postal rate is about the same no matter how far the disk travels within the US.
Hopefully this will help motivate them to get more content available for streaming.
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"However, humanity has already tried to make contact with the new planet. During Australia's National Science Week in August 2009, Cosmos magazine partnered with the Australian government, NASA and the CSIRO to run a 13-day campaign to collect goodwill messages from the public to be sent to Gliese 581d.
The initiative, known as Hello From Earth, collected 26,000 messages, which were transmitted by NASA's Tidbinbilla facility. The signal is not due to arrive until January 2030."
In January 2050 they will arrive here and humans will cease to exist.
It'd be cool if we weren't burning stuff to make power.
Not to mention the Google netbook seems to include a 3G data plan which would cost more than $20/month all by itself on your ThinkPad.
"Now, how could this be applied to Starcraft II? No idea..."
C&C Red Alert had the option to set maximum tech level for the game. Total Annihilation had the option to specify how many of each unit type were constructible. I think those are great ways to allow different fun unit types into a game. Players could even save game setup types as some kind of profile.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those ...
I hate telecommuting. I am completely unproductive. All I do is surf Slashdot all day.
Wait ...
I wonder if stuff like that has the potential to change orbits of plants. If the Sun were to push itself enough out of position everything circling it would begin to have irregular orbits around it and things could get really bad.
I wouldn't be so bold as to say Facebook hasn't grown like wildfire, or that huge numbers of the population aren't using it, but 3/4 of Americans on Facebook? Seems like there are large portions of the population who that's simply not possible for, due to age, economic status, work constraints, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if there are 2 fake Facebook accounts for every real one.
Mouse is a piece of hardware. Cursor is the pointing device on the screen.
Sucks for anyone who's scheduled launch parties or travel plans to view it in person. Though, delays are a shuttle launch staple, so anyone making those kind of plans should be prepared for that sort of thing.
Anything presented to an audience should have the same characteristics as a woman's skirt.
Long enough to cover all the important details.
Short enough to keep our attention.
I actually heard that the first time from my apparently gay college english teacher. *shrug*
"... notified customers today of a breach of the database that stores its customers' fake names and fake email addresses."
There, fixed it for you.
[quote]W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.[/quote]
What?
I had hoped that Google would jump in bed with T-Mobile, but clearly that's not going to happen now. If they could snuggle up with Verizon it would be better than nothing. Mostly I just want some dramatic changes to the way cellular service is provided.
They had that in Ghost Recon.
http://gamestyle.com/media/images/games/screenshots/large/xbox-ghostrecon-100710-05.jpg
Seemed goofy at the time, but a good solution for a video game. Now it's real? Awesome :)
Clearly they haven't had enough time to give it an Apple branded name. Firewire, Thunderbolt, PayField?
The only thing all this rumor mill and speculation does is generate ad revenue for all the rumor sites.
People were dieing from heat stroke long before greenhouse effect gases came along.
Try Mac Desktops! Their "All" category has over 7800 thumbnail images :)
http://macdesktops.com/?category=0
Happy rolling!
RIM is not long for this world.
This sounds like a good thing to me. Better chances of getting data back from failed hardware. Or getting data from a device that a numbskull disgruntled employee thinks they've intentionally ruined.
If you actually WANT to destroy the data, others here have mentioned the proper methods. I like to rely on the .45 at high velocity, but open flames work well too.
Indeed there are some gaps.
Very very long story short, I've recently gone back to my iphone 4 from an Android device.
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You don't say ...
Wordy person who like to talk about their life experiences on the internet prefers iPhone to Android. Film at 11.
I hope they focus more on quality than quantity. There's no need to duplicate the 379 flashlight apps that are available on iOS.
(I made up that number, but last I looked there were over 100.)
That could be really good! So long as I wasn't required to be connected to the internet in order to play my games. If there was some kind of consolecloud replication and games could function in a completely offline state it would be pretty great. It sucks balls when Blizzard is offline and I can't get my StarCraft 2 injection.
How are people able to accurately point a laser at a dude's eyeball in an aircraft moving over 100 mph from a relevant angle of attack through the aircraft's windshield from an unrestricted vantage point? From BELOW the aircraft?
This sounds like a crap story to me.
The bandwidth cost could theoretically be reduced with a P2P system or cache servers stored at ISPs. As for shipping costs, those will only go up. Even if they provide local distribution in every city over 100,000 population the postal rate is about the same no matter how far the disk travels within the US.
Hopefully this will help motivate them to get more content available for streaming.