First of all, it's slow as hell. I get a timedemo of 30FPS in quake3, and yet I couldn't be getting more then 10-15 in this. And compared to quake2 the game looks like shit. I played some of the first level, and you fight giant mosquitoes that come out of eggs, as well as little frogs. And since the enemies are so small you can't even see them half the time when they are attacking you.
(Although, I have to say the sight of my gibed (but bloodless) body with these two little bullfrogs next to it was pretty funny)
It's to bad I guess, I figured this game would ether suck a whole lot or be awesome. Considering how much Romero stands to loose if this game blows I would have figured he would have made damn sure the game rocked. If this is the best he can do...
What's really strange is that the 'multiplayer' demo that came out a while back was actually pretty damn fast, faster then q2 even back on my pentium200. but on my AMD-k6-2-450, the final game is slow as hell and uglier. Strange.
Of course all the free entertainment I've gotten over these past few years by the drama over there in Dallas makes up for it:P
Actually, from what I've heard most of the coders hated it there, so much that they have had mass exoduses of programmers on more then one occasion. In fact Romero disliked the 'coder centric' Attitude of JohnC at id, and that's one of the reasons that he left to start his own company, where design, not code, would rule.
And look where it's gotten him.
Meanwhile, Carmak and ID continue to dominate the industry. Along with epic mega games, where Tim Sweeny, one of the head coders, gets a lot of say on what goes on.
Well, I hope just for the sake of everything that it's a really good game, on the level of half life or something. The n64 version is supposed to suck ass, though.
By the way, does the Kanji letterin in the logo actualy say 'dai katana', In chinese it would say 'da cha', or "Big Knife", I could see the word being 'dai ka' or 'dai kat', Is Kanji in japanese not sylabalic the way chinese is? (one sylable per character)? or does it just not really say "Dai Katana" on the box?
But what about the remaining 1%? Why isn't there an eighth woman? And what about incest?
The last single % probably comes from several diffrent women, or something. And as far as incest, you wouldn't notice any, since this only traces mitocondrial DNA, witch you only get from your mother. I don't know of any one who was developed in the wombs of two diffrent people
Um, obviously theoretical growth rates only apply in perfect conditions. Remember the bacteria they always talk about in middle-school math classes whose population doubles every 2 hours or whatever? Well, obviously that isn't a sustainable rate, otherwise the world would have been over run with them billions of times over by now.
Clearly it's the same with people. If you were to say that there were only 2 people around 150,000 years ago, your figure of 1.8*10^66 would be only reduced to a seventh, so there would still be 'a lot of people'.
Of course its still wrong anyway, the formula for population growth isn't p = p0*r^t, its something more like p = p0*e^rt, or something like that (something with an 'e' I don't remember exactly)
Also, that number has nothing whatsoever to do with the number of people alive at any particular time, these women could have lived at different times, and probably had peers that were not represented in the European mtDNA pool. (It has nothing to do with the fathers ether)
While you're probably right, you'd never know from this, since it only traces your mother side, and you can only have one linear list of women in that set.
The Internet was very well designed to stop any one entity to do that.
A few years ago 'free DNS' person managed to reroot the entire DNS system. All he did was rename internic.net and netsol.com. But there would have been able to do just about anything to non-IPaddress based communication. Of course IP address based communication can be spoofed very easly. The internet was most certanly not very well designed to stop any one entity to [shutting it down].Infact the internet you could even say that the internet wasn't designed at all, but rather that it grew organicaly, with connections from thousands of people. Some of whome knew more then others.
Um, as far as I knew, We've known that dinosaurs may have been warm blooded for a long time, at least since the book Jurassic Park was written.
We've even known that they were probably warm blooded. This find is certainly cool, but as far as I know it only lends more credence to what people already knew.
Although, this thread should be interesting, at least for the "evolution is a myth" posts, and the inevitable follow-ups.:)
I'm going to buy a copy of this book, and I'm going to read it cover to cover. If I find a single unaccredited, uncompensated use of one of my comments (and I posted a lot during Columbine), I'm going to have my lawyer sue the following:
Do you think that when you submit a comment to slashdot, you do notgive VA implicit permission to republish your work? If there wasn't, then you could sue them when the comment showed up on the site. The information is available on a web page, with advertisements. They made money off your posts before, if you cared why did you post at all?
You know, Seeing this post really makes me lose respect for you. You don't like Jon Katz, you are upset with the fact that your filter didn't protect you from even the faintest glimmer of his exsitance. So what do you do? you come, and read the comments about it. Do you know how lame that makes you? Katz didn't write this post, someone else did. You didn't need to read his writing, only about him. And it wouldn't be that much trouble if you just ignored the post manualy, instaid of spending god only knows how much time bitching about it.
A while ago, they tried to pass laws here making it illigal to post, or link to information about drug production. The catch, the information itself wasn't even illegal. It seems that the US government uses its 'war on drugs' to excuse just about every invasion of our rights that they can think of.
When you settle a lawsuit, you don't make establish anything at all. It just means that it would be cheaper for GT to pay Hasbro then it would be to fight them in court. Nothing whatsoever has been established.
(Think about it, if you could really establish president this way, you could just 'sue' your friend and have him settle. Not a very good idea)
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First of all, it's slow as hell. I get a timedemo of 30FPS in quake3, and yet I couldn't be getting more then 10-15 in this. And compared to quake2 the game looks like shit. I played some of the first level, and you fight giant mosquitoes that come out of eggs, as well as little frogs. And since the enemies are so small you can't even see them half the time when they are attacking you.
:P
(Although, I have to say the sight of my gibed (but bloodless) body with these two little bullfrogs next to it was pretty funny)
It's to bad I guess, I figured this game would ether suck a whole lot or be awesome. Considering how much Romero stands to loose if this game blows I would have figured he would have made damn sure the game rocked. If this is the best he can do...
What's really strange is that the 'multiplayer' demo that came out a while back was actually pretty damn fast, faster then q2 even back on my pentium200. but on my AMD-k6-2-450, the final game is slow as hell and uglier. Strange.
Of course all the free entertainment I've gotten over these past few years by the drama over there in Dallas makes up for it
Actually, from what I've heard most of the coders hated it there, so much that they have had mass exoduses of programmers on more then one occasion. In fact Romero disliked the 'coder centric' Attitude of JohnC at id, and that's one of the reasons that he left to start his own company, where design, not code, would rule.
And look where it's gotten him.
Meanwhile, Carmak and ID continue to dominate the industry. Along with epic mega games, where Tim Sweeny, one of the head coders, gets a lot of say on what goes on.
Well, I hope just for the sake of everything that it's a really good game, on the level of half life or something. The n64 version is supposed to suck ass, though.
By the way, does the Kanji letterin in the logo actualy say 'dai katana', In chinese it would say 'da cha', or "Big Knife", I could see the word being 'dai ka' or 'dai kat', Is Kanji in japanese not sylabalic the way chinese is? (one sylable per character)? or does it just not really say "Dai Katana" on the box?
I assume the other 1% of homo sapians
No, the other 1% of europians
carbon date testing was proven false...
No.
So, then, what about you, yokel, would you marry your cousine
Hrm... I do really like Maruchan Ramen Noodels, witch is about the only thing I can make...
But what about the remaining 1%? Why isn't there an eighth woman? And what about incest?
The last single % probably comes from several diffrent women, or something. And as far as incest, you wouldn't notice any, since this only traces mitocondrial DNA, witch you only get from your mother. I don't know of any one who was developed in the wombs of two diffrent people
Um, obviously theoretical growth rates only apply in perfect conditions. Remember the bacteria they always talk about in middle-school math classes whose population doubles every 2 hours or whatever? Well, obviously that isn't a sustainable rate, otherwise the world would have been over run with them billions of times over by now.
Clearly it's the same with people. If you were to say that there were only 2 people around 150,000 years ago, your figure of 1.8*10^66 would be only reduced to a seventh, so there would still be 'a lot of people'.
Of course its still wrong anyway, the formula for population growth isn't p = p0*r^t, its something more like p = p0*e^rt, or something like that (something with an 'e' I don't remember exactly)
Also, that number has nothing whatsoever to do with the number of people alive at any particular time, these women could have lived at different times, and probably had peers that were not represented in the European mtDNA pool. (It has nothing to do with the fathers ether)
While you're probably right, you'd never know from this, since it only traces your mother side, and you can only have one linear list of women in that set.
well, I found this picture on his website. (I found it pretty quickly), and that should answer any questions as to his over all lameness...
The Internet was very well designed to stop any one entity to do that.
A few years ago 'free DNS' person managed to reroot the entire DNS system. All he did was rename internic.net and netsol.com. But there would have been able to do just about anything to non-IPaddress based communication. Of course IP address based communication can be spoofed very easly. The internet was most certanly not very well designed to stop any one entity to [shutting it down].Infact the internet you could even say that the internet wasn't designed at all, but rather that it grew organicaly, with connections from thousands of people. Some of whome knew more then others.
Have you been moderated up *once* so far as funny, insightful, informative, or even underrated?
Yes
Um, as far as I knew, We've known that dinosaurs may have been warm blooded for a long time, at least since the book Jurassic Park was written.
:)
We've even known that they were probably warm blooded. This find is certainly cool, but as far as I know it only lends more credence to what people already knew.
Although, this thread should be interesting, at least for the "evolution is a myth" posts, and the inevitable follow-ups.
I'm going to buy a copy of this book, and I'm going to read it cover to cover. If I find a single unaccredited, uncompensated use of one of my comments (and I posted a lot during Columbine), I'm going to have my lawyer sue the following:
Do you think that when you submit a comment to slashdot, you do notgive VA implicit permission to republish your work? If there wasn't, then you could sue them when the comment showed up on the site. The information is available on a web page, with advertisements. They made money off your posts before, if you cared why did you post at all?
There are over 100,000 registerd slashdot users, I doubt less then 1% of those people come here regularly.
Next time, try thinking.
You know, Seeing this post really makes me lose respect for you. You don't like Jon Katz, you are upset with the fact that your filter didn't protect you from even the faintest glimmer of his exsitance. So what do you do? you come, and read the comments about it. Do you know how lame that makes you? Katz didn't write this post, someone else did. You didn't need to read his writing, only about him. And it wouldn't be that much trouble if you just ignored the post manualy, instaid of spending god only knows how much time bitching about it.
We may eBook it eventually, but not for the time being - no good clients exist with broad support yet
As many have pointed out, XML, HTML, PDF, or even plain text would do.
Of course those are not 'e-book' formats, I guess hemos has become a braindead marketoid...
It seems to me, that the army can pretty much do whatever it wants here, since they are the ones who ultimatly enforce the laws.
A while ago, they tried to pass laws here making it illigal to post, or link to information about drug production. The catch, the information itself wasn't even illegal. It seems that the US government uses its 'war on drugs' to excuse just about every invasion of our rights that they can think of.
see topic.
really.
When you settle a lawsuit, you don't make establish anything at all. It just means that it would be cheaper for GT to pay Hasbro then it would be to fight them in court. Nothing whatsoever has been established.
(Think about it, if you could really establish president this way, you could just 'sue' your friend and have him settle. Not a very good idea)
You'd only be violating the patent if you used a random number set stored in ROM...
So blinded by hate, and over what? And operating system? Actually, it's kind of funny, when you think about it (you, not windows).
Tetris was first owned by ERLOG(sp?) a division of the communist government of the USSR. The ownership now resides with the Tetris Company.