What kind of crap is that? Everyone knows that in the real world when you plow your car into the water, you should just sit in it until it sinks to the bottom of the ocean. You'll just wake up in front of the hospital in a few hours.
Now, if you'll excuse me I have to pop this adrenaline pill and jump on the roof of my house. I think someone left a shotgun there.
Now, to reply seriously, the #1 feature for me in VC was the property buying. I too would like to see it expanded. I would also like to see more use for money in the game - you always finish with millions of dollars you never need.
I have to say, the 80's setting + the real music (which was the only way to make the setting convincing) in Vice City is what made the game for me. The press like to look at GTA as a stupid, ultra-violent shooter - but it's one of the most well put together and balanced game I've played. The production standards at Rockstar are through the roof.
GTA is fabulous in that in manages to blur the distinction between genres, something that many have tried but few have succeeded.
It's interesting, because I've always loved RPGs, but never been a fan of shooters or racing games. I would never call GTA an RPG, but I would call it a shooter/racing game - but I love it!
The weirdest thing for me is that it's actually making me appreciate consoles. I've been a PC game snob, and my first GTA was Vice City on the PC. I was convinced that superior graphics + smaller load time was better, but having just bought a PS2 with GTA 3 + Vice City, I'm starting to understand that some games are just *made* to be played on consoles.
From the paper: Perhaps the most important achievement of Unix is to demonstrate that a powerful operating system for interactive use need not be expensive either in equipment or in human effort: it can run on hardware costing as little as $40,000[...]
a guy called major smedly pulled a piracy job on a competing station
This involves boats and illegal music distribution. Am I the only one who had to read that last paragraphs a few times before understanding in what sense the word piracy was used?
Try Basilisk II - it's an open source Mac emulator. Unfortunately, it only emulates the 68k platform, so while Escape Velocity and Escape Velocity: Override work perfectly, Escape Velocity: Nova (the version just released on the Win32 platform) won't work because it require a PPC chip on the Mac.
If you've ever been a Machead like me, you'll get goosebumps the first time it boots and you hear the chime. I loved my Mac...
Excuse myself while I stab out my eyes for reading something that isn't there. You've been refering to the shrinking kilogram...the...erm...topic, not measurement conversion.
I live in Sudbury, Ontario (about 4 hours North-West of Toronto) and the radio has been announcing special "SARS Vacations" to Toronto. For $125 CAD/person ($80 for children) you get dinner atop the C.N. Tower, swank hotel accomodations, and a baseball game.
A friend of a friend was redialing the phone number for **9 hours** before she was able to get a free line and book a holiday for her family of 4 for ~$400. Tons of people are jumping at the offer!
Me? I have to head to T.O. for 5 days next week for training.
Indeed, I was very careful to check the Older Stuff archive before posting, just to be sure. The closest thing I could find was the call for nominations, to which I provided a link.
Does anyone think we could train the editors to be so thorough?
I don't think we can alter the rates like you mean, unfortunately.
The best we can manage is to tweak the medium with which we want to Neutrinos to react with. Example: I believe the Super-K reactor uses Chlorine (many do, anyway). The SNO uses Heavy Water - one of the key reasons that it can detect the other two neutrino types.
I've been reading Slashdot for month's, but I've never posted. Well, today is important enough, and so to you, gentle reader, I say:
I've been to the SNO! Nyah nyah nyah!! There are no public tours, but I got it!
Heck, I even got a t-shirt (really!)
But, to be serious, the whole project is really quite impressive. It's 6800 feet down in the Creighton Mine, which is an active Nickel mine that extends to about 7200 feet (it's something like the 2nd deepest in the world). Being surrounded by so much dense rock means that very little radiation other than Neutrinos reaches the Heavy Water (s/Hydrogen/Deuterium/) tank.
The ambiant air temperature (outside the air-condition and pressure-sealed lab area) is somewhere aroung 25-30 degrees C (it gets hotter the deeper you dig).
The Heavy Water (1000 tons) is on loan from various Canadian nuclear power plants. I believe that Canada is the world's biggest producer of Heavy Water (Fact: ~.05% of the water you drink is Heavy!)
If you're ever in Sudbury, visit Science North, which has some great displays about SNO.
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What kind of crap is that? Everyone knows that in the real world when you plow your car into the water, you should just sit in it until it sinks to the bottom of the ocean. You'll just wake up in front of the hospital in a few hours.
Now, if you'll excuse me I have to pop this adrenaline pill and jump on the roof of my house. I think someone left a shotgun there.
Now, to reply seriously, the #1 feature for me in VC was the property buying. I too would like to see it expanded. I would also like to see more use for money in the game - you always finish with millions of dollars you never need.
I have to say, the 80's setting + the real music (which was the only way to make the setting convincing) in Vice City is what made the game for me. The press like to look at GTA as a stupid, ultra-violent shooter - but it's one of the most well put together and balanced game I've played. The production standards at Rockstar are through the roof.
No screenshots? Aw man...
GTA is fabulous in that in manages to blur the distinction between genres, something that many have tried but few have succeeded.
It's interesting, because I've always loved RPGs, but never been a fan of shooters or racing games. I would never call GTA an RPG, but I would call it a shooter/racing game - but I love it!
The weirdest thing for me is that it's actually making me appreciate consoles. I've been a PC game snob, and my first GTA was Vice City on the PC. I was convinced that superior graphics + smaller load time was better, but having just bought a PS2 with GTA 3 + Vice City, I'm starting to understand that some games are just *made* to be played on consoles.
From the paper: Perhaps the most important achievement of Unix is to demonstrate that a powerful operating system for interactive use need not be expensive either in equipment or in human effort: it can run on hardware costing as little as $40,000[...]
I love it...
hehehe...mod parent up.
It's a good thing Google already has a "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. A9 would surely patent One-Click Searching.
Wow - the system requirements for this must be through the roof...
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That's an 80 Ghz Xeon processor and 20 GIGS of RAM!
a guy called major smedly pulled a piracy job on a competing station
This involves boats and illegal music distribution. Am I the only one who had to read that last paragraphs a few times before understanding in what sense the word piracy was used?
That's double-plus-ungood.
Try Basilisk II - it's an open source Mac emulator. Unfortunately, it only emulates the 68k platform, so while Escape Velocity and Escape Velocity: Override work perfectly, Escape Velocity: Nova (the version just released on the Win32 platform) won't work because it require a PPC chip on the Mac.
If you've ever been a Machead like me, you'll get goosebumps the first time it boots and you hear the chime. I loved my Mac...
*sniffle*
How long before this project gets shutdown because of copyright or trademark violations?
Same applies to the Fan-Made Sequel.
Mod: +1, Fan Boy.
I know that there was some speculation about tetrachromats, but I wasn't aware that this had been conclusively proven. Do you have a link?
;)
I do, but it's only Slashdot...
Excuse myself while I stab out my eyes for reading something that isn't there. You've been refering to the shrinking kilogram...the...erm...topic, not measurement conversion.
Bzzzt! Wrong, but we do have some lovely parting gifts.
Unlike Litres/Gallons, a Kilogram weighs more than a Pound. (2.2 times more, to be exact.)
Thus, I weigh "less" in kg than in lbs.
I live in Sudbury, Ontario (about 4 hours North-West of Toronto) and the radio has been announcing special "SARS Vacations" to Toronto. For $125 CAD/person ($80 for children) you get dinner atop the C.N. Tower, swank hotel accomodations, and a baseball game.
A friend of a friend was redialing the phone number for **9 hours** before she was able to get a free line and book a holiday for her family of 4 for ~$400. Tons of people are jumping at the offer!
Me? I have to head to T.O. for 5 days next week for training.
PS: Don't bother coming in on Monday.
Woohoo! Three day weekend!
Indeed, I was very careful to check the Older Stuff archive before posting, just to be sure. The closest thing I could find was the call for nominations, to which I provided a link.
Does anyone think we could train the editors to be so thorough?
Could you imagine a...
nevermind.
Canwest Global will be carrying Firefly in Canada. I'll be watching it at 8:00 pm eastern!
I call your strawman analogy.
Apple, Sun, and IBM are not Illegal Monopolies, MSFT is. What is true for the one is not true for the other.
> In the words of Blake, "Do not go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Dylan Thomas, actually, but on a more on-topic point:
I'm confused - hasn't this sort of thing been outed already? How could the initial settlement not take care of this?
To me, this issue seemed to be the plainest example of Microsoft's abusive monopoly, something even the technically unsavvy could understand.
The new chips are being made by TI
Does this mean that I'll be able to run the "Space Rocks" game I programmed on my TI-85 graphing calculator?
Ha! I laugh and that it is all a joke.
The RFC is quite flawed as it requires the server to listen on port 314159, whereas the current TCP ports are limited to 64k.
I don't think we can alter the rates like you mean, unfortunately.
The best we can manage is to tweak the medium with which we want to Neutrinos to react with. Example: I believe the Super-K reactor uses Chlorine (many do, anyway). The SNO uses Heavy Water - one of the key reasons that it can detect the other two neutrino types.
I've been reading Slashdot for month's, but I've never posted. Well, today is important enough, and so to you, gentle reader, I say:
I've been to the SNO! Nyah nyah nyah!! There are no public tours, but I got it!
Heck, I even got a t-shirt (really!)
But, to be serious, the whole project is really quite impressive. It's 6800 feet down in the Creighton Mine, which is an active Nickel mine that extends to about 7200 feet (it's something like the 2nd deepest in the world). Being surrounded by so much dense rock means that very little radiation other than Neutrinos reaches the Heavy Water (s/Hydrogen/Deuterium/) tank.
The ambiant air temperature (outside the air-condition and pressure-sealed lab area) is somewhere aroung 25-30 degrees C (it gets hotter the deeper you dig).
The Heavy Water (1000 tons) is on loan from various Canadian nuclear power plants. I believe that Canada is the world's biggest producer of Heavy Water (Fact: ~.05% of the water you drink is Heavy!)
If you're ever in Sudbury, visit Science North, which has some great displays about SNO.