Alot of people complain about money spent on military/space research. I remember some outcry when the $125,000,000 (I think) Mars probe was left for dead and abandoned on Mars a while ago, and people bemoaned the waste of tax money. In this instance, $800,000, I don't think it's that big of a waste at all.
Let's see, Alex Rodriguez makes that much in 5 game days?
What's the deal with the event horizon? All the pictures I've seen (admittedly, many from science-fiction) depict a circle, and stuff gets sucked through it like a gate, and funnels downward (so the circle becomes the base of a sort of curvy concave cone shape).
So, why isn't the "event horizon" (a distance from the actual point of the hole) a sphere extending the same radius in all directions?
I think it's possible... an example of a lesser scale of two large masses/grav forces would be Alpha Centauri. IIRC, it has two suns orbiting around eachother (Proximi Centauri, and Beta Centauri, or something?).
But the Matrix did suck...
I heard all this hype about the "blow your mind, make you really think" ideas in it. I'm sure I could have taken the premise and made a much better story. It's problem: It is an action movie.
It's a good action movie, but not the earth shattering film that people led me to believe it was.
They (the rhetorical "The Man") can shut down Napster. They can shut down DeCSS. They can shut down our ISPs. It doesn't matter. Try as they might, they can't stop progress.
Hey! I could use a car to get to work everyday, or I could use it to run someone down on the street, or drive through the front of a 7-11 to rob it... or better yet, a gun! I could use a hunting rifle (and proper licenses) to go kill a deer. Or, I could take my gun to the local elementary school and take a few names... Cars *CAN* be used for something illegal. Guns *CAN* be used for something illegal. DeCSS *CAN* be used for something illegal.
How about a deeper analogy. I could buy some wire cutters and wire, and a crowbar at the local hardware store. Tear open my neighbourhoods cable hub, switch some descramblers, voila, instant cable. Now, the hardware store sold me something that I used illegally (damaging property, theft). So they have committed a crime. But wait! I received an advertisement in the mail/on TV for the products I used! Wait! The cable company didn't adequately secure their stuff. Wait! I went to school to become a cable communications guy (can't think of actual title... "Cable guy")! The school I went to trained me/gave me the technical know-how to steal cable! Wait! The tools were manufactured by some company. Wait! The metal for those tools came from a mine!
Ok, enough ranting, I think y'all see where I'm headed... by this logic, everyone is guilty.
USAF rules... I tried Falcon 4, F/A-18... they didn't do anything for me. But USAF really brought me back into the flight sim world (it adheres slightly less to exact realism and physics, but is slighty more playable).
If my chemistry knowledge serves me correctly, I don't think CO2, in any state, is extremely dangerous (yes, it's dangerous, but it's a natural human by-product that we're exposed to everyday.
Also, I'd assume that the dry ice in this cooling unit would be contained.
I disagree with the sports games comment... while I love Smackdown (about the only game I play on a console)... EA Sports' NHL series, I much prefer to play on my PC, with a joystick (although sometimes I cheat, and bridge the PC-Console gap by using a gamepad)... the reason is largely for the 'more purty pictures'.
The configuration that I've seen popping up alot recently, which I detest, is using W, A, S, and D for the horizontal movement. Albeit, this gives you a great number of keys in the immediate vicinity, but I would much rather use either
a) The arrow keys if the game doesn't have that many binds, due to their isolation; it is difficult to hit the wrong key. Or
b) The numeric keypad. This is, in effect, vary similar to WSAD in the number of nearby keys for other binds, but they keep a grid formation, making it easier to find keys, rather than the misaligned main keybard setup.
All configurations listed, however, use the mouse for aiming.
One last config that I've only ever seen one person use successfully, was two joysticks (one for movement the other for aiming). That would require alot of dexterity.
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Alot of people complain about money spent on military/space research. I remember some outcry when the $125,000,000 (I think) Mars probe was left for dead and abandoned on Mars a while ago, and people bemoaned the waste of tax money. In this instance, $800,000, I don't think it's that big of a waste at all.
Let's see, Alex Rodriguez makes that much in 5 game days?
There's also a London, Canada.
Thanks to these focused atomic beams, all your base are belong to MiG!
All your base are belong to us!!
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Agreed! Cheese is great!
Women are from Venus, men are from Mars.
The Pentium Pro is by far the best processor Intel has ever made.
According to Milo (from Ask Milo), they use a proprietary plugin for 3DSMax, but everything else they use (Maya, etc) is standard.
Really! AC had a cool character system that allowed much more diversity amongst players, but the graphics blew ass in it!
They give you one month free, which is plenty, believe me.
What's the deal with the event horizon? All the pictures I've seen (admittedly, many from science-fiction) depict a circle, and stuff gets sucked through it like a gate, and funnels downward (so the circle becomes the base of a sort of curvy concave cone shape).
So, why isn't the "event horizon" (a distance from the actual point of the hole) a sphere extending the same radius in all directions?
I agree... perhaps the amount of mass intaken by the hole is simply the amount of mass available? Excellent point/theory.
Hate to be a nitpicker, but I'm pretty sure it's 4.7 light years approx.
I think it's possible... an example of a lesser scale of two large masses/grav forces would be Alpha Centauri. IIRC, it has two suns orbiting around eachother (Proximi Centauri, and Beta Centauri, or something?).
But the Matrix did suck... I heard all this hype about the "blow your mind, make you really think" ideas in it. I'm sure I could have taken the premise and made a much better story. It's problem: It is an action movie. It's a good action movie, but not the earth shattering film that people led me to believe it was.
They (the rhetorical "The Man") can shut down Napster. They can shut down DeCSS. They can shut down our ISPs. It doesn't matter. Try as they might, they can't stop progress.
I think I may be the only teenager in my town that isn't a DBZ fanatic.
Hey! I could use a car to get to work everyday, or I could use it to run someone down on the street, or drive through the front of a 7-11 to rob it... or better yet, a gun! I could use a hunting rifle (and proper licenses) to go kill a deer. Or, I could take my gun to the local elementary school and take a few names... Cars *CAN* be used for something illegal. Guns *CAN* be used for something illegal. DeCSS *CAN* be used for something illegal.
How about a deeper analogy. I could buy some wire cutters and wire, and a crowbar at the local hardware store. Tear open my neighbourhoods cable hub, switch some descramblers, voila, instant cable. Now, the hardware store sold me something that I used illegally (damaging property, theft). So they have committed a crime. But wait! I received an advertisement in the mail/on TV for the products I used! Wait! The cable company didn't adequately secure their stuff. Wait! I went to school to become a cable communications guy (can't think of actual title... "Cable guy")! The school I went to trained me/gave me the technical know-how to steal cable! Wait! The tools were manufactured by some company. Wait! The metal for those tools came from a mine!
Ok, enough ranting, I think y'all see where I'm headed... by this logic, everyone is guilty.
I'd rather be pepper-sprayed by a mountie,
I'd rather be pepper-sprayed by a mountie,
I'd rather be pepper-sprayed by a mountie,
a) The arrow keys if the game doesn't have that many binds, due to their isolation; it is difficult to hit the wrong key. Or
b) The numeric keypad. This is, in effect, vary similar to WSAD in the number of nearby keys for other binds, but they keep a grid formation, making it easier to find keys, rather than the misaligned main keybard setup.
All configurations listed, however, use the mouse for aiming.
One last config that I've only ever seen one person use successfully, was two joysticks (one for movement the other for aiming). That would require alot of dexterity.
I'd rather be pepper-sprayed by a mountie,
I'd rather be pepper-sprayed by a mountie,