Yes, it's the most interesting area of space exploration now, and imagine where we'll be if the Kepler mission is successful and don't get further pushed ahead in time by budget cuts.
Simple. God created our "world" 6000 years ago, but God, in His infinite wisdom, has tried to support the human spirit to explore and discover by placing a star long away from us that it seems to be 13.2 billion years old.
One of the largest Invision Power Board installs on the net is Neowin, a Windows user community. And yes, they mostly like the OS. Maybe all aren't fans, but many are. Then you have AeroXP, IEXBeta, and many, many other such sites! The author needs to do his research! Heck, even Digg article comments often have a MS bias.
Who said a standard English encyclopedia had to use "simple" words? But I agree that the articles should sound like scientific papers or essays though. And many are really there. That's when I mark them with the appropriate template in place that says "this reads like an essay".
You heard me, I called it a hoax. Not only has our planet seen amounts of CO2 that make the current amount look silly, but we're coming out of a geological cold phase.
Nope, they've specifically claimed this will definitely not be the case.
Ivan Sulic, community manager at FSS, recently claimed ( exactly because of pessimists like you;-) ) that the differences would be more graphical than statistical.
Why do I need monthly expansion packs? Didn't you make the game rich enough for me?
It's a typical game that have taken perhaps 4 years or so in heavy development. What more do you want? Them to wait for 7-8 years before releasing it to you? Would only that please you? Isn't it good they're trying to make it even better than what went to RTM by continuing to support it with content updates? Sure, the difference here is that you don't purchase frequent expansions, you subscribe instead. But you're entirely free to still skip these expansions if you don't like them and don't feel they're worth your money.
Is this really where we're going? Paying a subscription to ensure we'll get the latest stuff?
The closest game to HGL is Diablo II, and the only free content updates we got there was basically Patch 1.10 and the more minor Patch 1.11. The developers of that game that now works on Hellgate has claimed the want to make more "Patch 1.10"'s, and that's why they're doing this.
I'm all for providing more content, but a monthly price for unreviewed, unguaranteed content seems way off base.
Then don't pay the fees and watch from the sidelines what kind of content appears. You'll still be able to play and finish the campaign, and you can even play together with players who are subscribers just fine. It's the same world. The only limit would be that you can't go to subscriber-only areas, but that's what you were suspicious of would be worth your money anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem until you've decided either way which way would be the best balance between gameplay and RL economy for you.
Yes you do, and the current plan seems to be to have any subscription-only items to be re-locked again too, so you can't just farm for that and then unsubscribe. It should be noted that the subscription items is more about different looks than "better stats".
There's more to the subscription than the content updates though -- more game modes, more kinds of items, 24/7 game support, priority if there would be server queues (although they've states they hope it won't come to server queues in the first place).
Though just waiting for the expansion pack is the only real safe bet.
The thing here is that they plan for content updates about every third month or so. (their own words)
Maybe they'll surprise me and put out regular content updates, but I wouldn't count on it.
Why not? That's in part what they're getting paid for... If they don't do that, people will stop paying.:-p
I hope my 610XXX one is still there.:-( I haven't got over to my home computer to check yet.
I'm not using their crappy client, but ICQ still comes with decent features if using Miranda and Trillian, and all off-line features are of course graat. If that UIN broke and they won't repair it (any statement from AOL?), that means a lot of forums I'm signed up with has an invalid UIN.:-((
It's not too bad unless we'd be unlucky and have a gamma radiation burst from it heading towards us. From here:
The potential danger comes from the fact that explosions of massive stars generally emit jets of intense gamma radiation, among the most powerful and harmful forces in the universe. If Eta Carinae did explode and a jet was pointed in the general direction of the solar system, Livio said, Earth could be endangered. But because the gamma-ray jets tend to be relatively narrow, like the beam of a lighthouse, the odds are that the jet would miss Earth.
So it's not too bad, it would probably just miss us.
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The percentage should be adjusted for the ratio of users that click Adwords in the first place though. Perhaps it's no more than 20% or so.
Unfortunately for them, that won't make the add-on go away though.
They may be trying that, but there's been lots of cases where users are to click an area of a web page. :-p
No, because the Slashdot story moderation system is dead. :-p
Well, actually, it was stillborn.
I'm sure the Slashdot staff may have jobs too. Driving a mostly open source community. Bastards!
Well, we'd better blame the software patents in the first place.
It's time for the US to rid themselves of that law.
Yes, it's the most interesting area of space exploration now, and imagine where we'll be if the Kepler mission is successful and don't get further pushed ahead in time by budget cuts.
Simple. God created our "world" 6000 years ago, but God, in His infinite wisdom, has tried to support the human spirit to explore and discover by placing a star long away from us that it seems to be 13.2 billion years old.
One of the largest Invision Power Board installs on the net is Neowin, a Windows user community. And yes, they mostly like the OS. Maybe all aren't fans, but many are. Then you have AeroXP, IEXBeta, and many, many other such sites! The author needs to do his research! Heck, even Digg article comments often have a MS bias.
Gah... should => shouldn't
Also, there already is the "dumbed down" Wikipedia people speak of... :-p
http://simple.wikipedia.org/
Who said a standard English encyclopedia had to use "simple" words?
But I agree that the articles should sound like scientific papers or essays though. And many are really there. That's when I mark them with the appropriate template in place that says "this reads like an essay".
So it's OK to post a link to a non-porn site that posted a porn link? Like this link?
You heard me, I called it a hoax. Not only has our planet seen amounts of CO2 that make the current amount look silly, but we're coming out of a geological cold phase.
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I'm not really sure the ice age thing is a good explanation, see e.g. this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carbon_Dioxide
We seem to be on significantly more CO2 now than in past cycles.
However, that's not to say you're wrong on the longer scale variations though, where current CO2 looks "silly":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Phanerozoic_Ca
Nope, they've specifically claimed this will definitely not be the case.
;-) ) that the differences would be more graphical than statistical.
Ivan Sulic, community manager at FSS, recently claimed ( exactly because of pessimists like you
Why do I need monthly expansion packs? Didn't you make the game rich enough for me?
It's a typical game that have taken perhaps 4 years or so in heavy development. What more do you want? Them to wait for 7-8 years before releasing it to you? Would only that please you? Isn't it good they're trying to make it even better than what went to RTM by continuing to support it with content updates? Sure, the difference here is that you don't purchase frequent expansions, you subscribe instead. But you're entirely free to still skip these expansions if you don't like them and don't feel they're worth your money.
Is this really where we're going? Paying a subscription to ensure we'll get the latest stuff?
The closest game to HGL is Diablo II, and the only free content updates we got there was basically Patch 1.10 and the more minor Patch 1.11. The developers of that game that now works on Hellgate has claimed the want to make more "Patch 1.10"'s, and that's why they're doing this.
I'm all for providing more content, but a monthly price for unreviewed, unguaranteed content seems way off base.
Then don't pay the fees and watch from the sidelines what kind of content appears. You'll still be able to play and finish the campaign, and you can even play together with players who are subscribers just fine. It's the same world. The only limit would be that you can't go to subscriber-only areas, but that's what you were suspicious of would be worth your money anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem until you've decided either way which way would be the best balance between gameplay and RL economy for you.
Yes you do, and the current plan seems to be to have any subscription-only items to be re-locked again too, so you can't just farm for that and then unsubscribe. It should be noted that the subscription items is more about different looks than "better stats".
There's more to the subscription than the content updates though -- more game modes, more kinds of items, 24/7 game support, priority if there would be server queues (although they've states they hope it won't come to server queues in the first place).
:-p
Though just waiting for the expansion pack is the only real safe bet.
The thing here is that they plan for content updates about every third month or so. (their own words)
Maybe they'll surprise me and put out regular content updates, but I wouldn't count on it.
Why not? That's in part what they're getting paid for... If they don't do that, people will stop paying.
I hope my 610XXX one is still there. :-( I haven't got over to my home computer to check yet.
:-((
I'm not using their crappy client, but ICQ still comes with decent features if using Miranda and Trillian, and all off-line features are of course graat. If that UIN broke and they won't repair it (any statement from AOL?), that means a lot of forums I'm signed up with has an invalid UIN.
They're probably just yet another victim in the FUD spread by AACS, and is now trying to clean up their act with all their numbers in use. ;-)
And MSN isn't bloated? Wow! I recommend something like Miranda... Then you'll have unbloated ICQ too!
In short, you're saying it is the Worst. Idea. Ever?
Wow, I thought I saw a sneak preview of a new villain in those action films, but the undead corpse was just Cate Blanchett... Scary.
Actually, there are a good number of scientists who support ID with actual scientific evidence.
How is that even possible, given religion is a faith?
AACS never tried to claim "copyrights" or "ownership" of this number.
Someone has been misunderstanding the DMCA here, and what's so bad about it.
They don't even need to own the copyrights for the number for it to be protected.
And that is what people should complain about, if anything.
From here:
So it's not too bad, it would probably just miss us.