No idea if this is even thought about, but since this is a sim-life to civ type of a game, it would be cool if your "spore" evolved to a point where it could interact with other people's spore. Basically, when they have spaceships, you could fight other people's creatures since they should all be dependent on their initial development/evolution. Say your creature was more inteligent or stronger than another.
Maybe a mode where you could play vs. someone else on the same planet for domination from a microbe. That would be cool too.
Come on. Outsourcing the president's job for 1/10th the pay? The man has never worked at a real job at all. I mean, you really want to outsource the job of someone who gets to play on his ranch 50%+ of the time?
Besides, the whole job of the presidency has already been outsourced to whoever has enough money. And i think that would be haliburton at this moment.
This very much seems like a Republican/Democrat stand-off. Are you pro-business or pro-consumer?
When will people learn that pro-consumer means pro-buisness. You do not have a buisness unless you have your clients/consumers happy OR you have a monopoly and force consumers to buy.
Rather than go down that road, Bellsouth is trying to leverage its customer base to get high-profile media providers to "pay" for the delivery of their content, to ensure a continuing revenue stream. Greedy and opportunistic? Sure. But it's also not just imaginary that their traditional customer base is threatened by some of these new technologies. I'm not saying I like what Bellsouth is doing, but see if you can imagine what would happen if Bellsouth lost a third of their telephone customers over the next ten years, and didn't gain anywhere near that in broadband customers. What replaces that revenue?
I know. Instead of trying to compete with VOIP, they're trying to squeeze more money out of a non-existant market by charging twice for the same thing. Damn, i love these new buisness strategies. I wanted to be the one that came up with the "Troll under the bridge" buisness model where we just extort money out of everyone passing through us. Not making enough money? Charge a couple more times for extra profit!
So you played the game for an hour and came up with this crap? There are so many reasons why this game fails as an rpg.
The graphics are alright, the sound is so-so. The worst part? Storyline and no progression of character development. You litterally have to grind for hours trying to enter the first dungeon. Why do you need to go in there? Because you're forced to help some chick in the first town. You don't learn any background into many more hours into the game, you're just doing what you're told to. I wouldn't recommend playing this game at all.
Now can we get the music execs in jail for price fixing too? That would be awesome.
I'm pretty sure that once you start a company all personal responsiblity goes out the window and you're above the law. I mean, come on. Jail time? When are the Sony execs going to jail for installing crap on other people's computers?
Breaking out your old AOL account and going into those looking for love teenager chatrooms. Or... Breaking out the latest posts from blood ninja and laughing it up.
Who cares? Am i the only person who really doesn't give a shit about what format HD-dvds will come in? Just like dvd-r and +r, if the industry can't decide on a single format, dual format players will come out and support both.
Hell, i just want one without the craptastic rights management/copy protection scheme and be able to make backups for myself.
Yes. Blame video games. I mean, it's not like the parents let their children watch violent tv, violent movies, violent news, violent cartoons that all have been around much longer than video games. I'm sure all the old folks that remember playing cops and robbers when they were young weren't imagining shooting other people. Spaghetti westerns aren't violent at all.
Ha. That looks like a cool idea cept there are much more problems involved. Ok, so you get really fast acceleration and speeds, however you have to have a pretty large ship with some major shielding, you have limited fuel supply, very limited ability to change direction and very hard time to stop.
Besides, you'd have to get pretty far out in space before you can use one of then nukes to propel the ship unless you don't mind the fallout being thrown into the atmosphere.
For solar exploration, solar sails would be a nice change with a ion thruster for corrections. Using the "solar system motorway" betwen the planets, we can get anywhere we want to in an efficient and fast manner. The biggest problems are always going to be getting off the earth and surviving in space (radiation, food, entertainment, ect.). A space elevator and some cool fusion reactors could solve most of the problems we have currently.
Seriously, who would come up with that? Why don't they just push it back to 2010, let xbox come out with a 7th generation console then release the ps3 with outdated gear. It's called money grubbing. They know they're going to lose money on the hardware, if the wait a year, they get cheaper components with a more optimized assembly meaning more profit. Who wins? They certainly won't with that attitude.
Every newly-formed life deserves a chance to live.
Sweet! You totally ruined your topic by adding in an absolute truth. I detinately don't care about mosquitos having a right to live nor other pests. I don't care if other humans have a right to live and i don't care who decides to take away that right. All I care about is my rights. When i start to dictate rights to other people that do not affect me, then i am wrong because i am taking away liberty and freedom in the purest sense. Without privacy, freedom does not exist.
The whole idea about "Water likes to flow downhill" does not exist if all the water only existed at sealevel.
They should change the title "Cosmic Rays Could Kill Astronauts Visiting Mars" to "Just about a million things could kill astronauts visiting mars". Or even better "How a million different things can kill you today!".
There are risks with everything. Learn to live with them.
Is that rocket designs that are not reusable are very costly. Something like the delta clipper would reduce costs to an incredible level. Like someone else said, using jets as a launching platform like butan would also reduce costs and get people into space.
I call bullshit on your list of what you could get outta the bandwidth. First i don't care how much you squeze the tv bandwidth down too, you'll still have some bleed over from the megawatts being output. Second, come on. Emergency service so that can handle more than one crisis at a time? Ever heard of IP switching radios that are now on the market? You can take a regular analogue allocated radio and split the same bandwidth to 2 voice and 2 data channels by using time slots and a digital radio.
Please don't get me started on gigabit wireless networking on or near the tv spectrum. Not going to happen (lower frequencies = less data bandwidth, more spread out signal). It's at 54-78 MHZ, not very efficient.
My point is, it'll go to the highest bidder meaning that it will not benifit you or me at all, unless you're a huge communications conglomerate stock holder.
If the government doesn't step in, that huge portion of the spectrum would be tied up in archaic uses forever!
To be used for?
So let me get this straight, the gov't wants to make even more money by reallocating the rf spectrum for TV into a smaller space, obsolete all current TV broadcasts. Ok, I get what you're saying. Now how does that benifit me at all? I gotta shell out money for a new receiver, a new TV, a convertor box... and what do i get out of it? Nothing? Yeah, that's what i call absoultely unnecessary.
The whole DRM thing is going to backfire soon. People are not really going to be happy with these services when their devices start to fail. It's then they realize they have lost hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of music they thought they owned but were in fact renting. They will envious of people who took the time to translate the music they had to free formats on free systems.
So it's kinda like all those people who bought the vhs version of the movie, then years later the dvd version and now the umd version of the same movie? Yeah, people do stupid things with their money. I don't think people on a whole will learn that DRM equates to renting until way later on. When they do, the whole concept of already have purchased the item never hits them, they'll go out and buy some more. This is what consumer driven economies are all about.
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Maybe a mode where you could play vs. someone else on the same planet for domination from a microbe. That would be cool too.
Besides, the whole job of the presidency has already been outsourced to whoever has enough money. And i think that would be haliburton at this moment.
When will people learn that pro-consumer means pro-buisness. You do not have a buisness unless you have your clients/consumers happy OR you have a monopoly and force consumers to buy.
Regional monopolies are still monopolies ya know.
Uhh.. what's the problem with going public with what should be public information?
Which is the version that you don't buy because it sucks?
All 6 flavors suck? K, Thanks for playing.
I know. Instead of trying to compete with VOIP, they're trying to squeeze more money out of a non-existant market by charging twice for the same thing. Damn, i love these new buisness strategies. I wanted to be the one that came up with the "Troll under the bridge" buisness model where we just extort money out of everyone passing through us. Not making enough money? Charge a couple more times for extra profit!
The graphics are alright, the sound is so-so. The worst part? Storyline and no progression of character development. You litterally have to grind for hours trying to enter the first dungeon. Why do you need to go in there? Because you're forced to help some chick in the first town. You don't learn any background into many more hours into the game, you're just doing what you're told to. I wouldn't recommend playing this game at all.
I'm pretty sure that once you start a company all personal responsiblity goes out the window and you're above the law. I mean, come on. Jail time? When are the Sony execs going to jail for installing crap on other people's computers?
The correct way for this sentance should be:
Internet are slowly encroaching on traditional radio's stronghold on advertising.
Entertainment has long since moved on elsewhere, and it shows with radio selections.
Bin laden got away from afghanistan with no problems. Now he's mascarading as Dick Cheney.
Breaking out your old AOL account and going into those looking for love teenager chatrooms. Or...
Breaking out the latest posts from blood ninja and laughing it up.
You forgot to mention that they're out to hurt people who actually buy their cds. Not the ones that download the mp3s off the internet.
So uhh... how about the x-ray machine at the airport? Would that fry a RFID chip?
Hell, i just want one without the craptastic rights management/copy protection scheme and be able to make backups for myself.
Uhhh.
Why can't countries hijack their DNS servers now?
Doesn't China already do something akin to this via the great firewall?
Besides, the UN is a group of politicians. I wouldn't want them to be in charge of their own personal computers.
Anyways, think of the children!
Ha. That looks like a cool idea cept there are much more problems involved. Ok, so you get really fast acceleration and speeds, however you have to have a pretty large ship with some major shielding, you have limited fuel supply, very limited ability to change direction and very hard time to stop.
Besides, you'd have to get pretty far out in space before you can use one of then nukes to propel the ship unless you don't mind the fallout being thrown into the atmosphere.
For solar exploration, solar sails would be a nice change with a ion thruster for corrections. Using the "solar system motorway" betwen the planets, we can get anywhere we want to in an efficient and fast manner. The biggest problems are always going to be getting off the earth and surviving in space (radiation, food, entertainment, ect.). A space elevator and some cool fusion reactors could solve most of the problems we have currently.
Think of the children! It's for fighting terrorists and will never be used otherwise!
Seriously, who would come up with that? Why don't they just push it back to 2010, let xbox come out with a 7th generation console then release the ps3 with outdated gear. It's called money grubbing. They know they're going to lose money on the hardware, if the wait a year, they get cheaper components with a more optimized assembly meaning more profit. Who wins? They certainly won't with that attitude.
Sweet! You totally ruined your topic by adding in an absolute truth. I detinately don't care about mosquitos having a right to live nor other pests. I don't care if other humans have a right to live and i don't care who decides to take away that right. All I care about is my rights. When i start to dictate rights to other people that do not affect me, then i am wrong because i am taking away liberty and freedom in the purest sense. Without privacy, freedom does not exist.
The whole idea about "Water likes to flow downhill" does not exist if all the water only existed at sealevel.
There are risks with everything. Learn to live with them.
Is that rocket designs that are not reusable are very costly. Something like the delta clipper would reduce costs to an incredible level. Like someone else said, using jets as a launching platform like butan would also reduce costs and get people into space.
e) none of the above.
I call bullshit on your list of what you could get outta the bandwidth. First i don't care how much you squeze the tv bandwidth down too, you'll still have some bleed over from the megawatts being output. Second, come on. Emergency service so that can handle more than one crisis at a time? Ever heard of IP switching radios that are now on the market? You can take a regular analogue allocated radio and split the same bandwidth to 2 voice and 2 data channels by using time slots and a digital radio.
Please don't get me started on gigabit wireless networking on or near the tv spectrum. Not going to happen (lower frequencies = less data bandwidth, more spread out signal). It's at 54-78 MHZ, not very efficient.
My point is, it'll go to the highest bidder meaning that it will not benifit you or me at all, unless you're a huge communications conglomerate stock holder.
To be used for?
So let me get this straight, the gov't wants to make even more money by reallocating the rf spectrum for TV into a smaller space, obsolete all current TV broadcasts. Ok, I get what you're saying. Now how does that benifit me at all? I gotta shell out money for a new receiver, a new TV, a convertor box... and what do i get out of it? Nothing? Yeah, that's what i call absoultely unnecessary.