I'm not proposing a popular vote. It has a lot of problems. But, with elections being close, why wouldn't the people in the states you mention vote? Each single voter would have the same power and every single vote could potentially swing the election.
Granted, the candidates wouldn't step anywhere near Alaska or Hawaii (which they don't do a whole lot of now).
If the popular vote was all that mattered, why would any candidate focus on anything but the 10 largest CITIES in the US. Forget about states...
And if population is so important, doesn't the Senate seem "deprecated". Why should Rhode Island have two seats?
The most obvious good thing about a true popular vote election would be the incredible turnout. For instance, how many Republicans in California and Democrats in Texan would vote if it was a popular vote?
I meant how many combinations of outfits for all the character types:). The number has to be very large (just think about how many colors you can chose for EACH piece and how many symbols you can pick for your chest).
Granted, there's a slider for "muscularity", but other than that, the rest of the choices are discrete numbers. Many of the allowed costume choices depend on your origin though.
There are a lot of challenges to designing a 3D engine with a LOT of customization. Everyone has to be able to dynamically load geometry and textures based upon who is around them. When everyone looks the same, it's easier on resources (even if they only have different colors or textures).
CoH probably has the most flexible system for designing the visual appearance of a character of all the MMORPG's I've played or tried (beta/free trial, etc.). The Star Wars Galaxies character designer is maybe a little more flexible in certain areas (face, age, and weight), but I think CoH's offers more variety. It usually takes an hour just to play around with how your character will look. Due to its flexibility, it's not too hard to make characters that look very close to copyrighted comic book characters etc.
How big of a struggle was the content creation process for costume items. For instance, were certain masks rejected by your legal department because they looked too much like Batman's or perhaps Cyclops' visor. Also, has anyone actually calculated the number of combinations of all 5 archetypes and origins?
While WoW is not live yet, you are correct. It does have a mechanism that slows down power leveling. Basically, when your character is rested (either from being logged out or hanging out in town for a while), you get a lot more XP (can't remember if it was 150% or 200%...I only played a little while in the first beta, the open beta is coming soon though).
With the age verification process of the original Leisure Suit Larry, at least people would learn a lot about US History during the 70's trying to run the thing:).
Do a google search for 5.0 inches and CD's. Then do one for 12cm and CD's. Then measure one with a ruler. I'm not sure what the grand parent's point was, I've always seen them referred to as 12 cm. Maybe I missed something?
I've never seen anything that does what you want, but there's definitely programs that log drive access. FileMon at sysinternals.com (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon. shtml) will do it.
I don't know exactly what API it's using and if it could "reject" those accesses though. It's not a bad idea.
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Ever seen the "cheese rolling" advertisement for the movie "Spinal Tap"? It's on the "collector's edition" DVD. Good stuff.
Just for comparison sake (and I PERSONALLY think C# looks better):
foreach (object o in array) { // Code here... doSomethingWith(o); }
Where the "object" type can be replaced with the type you're getting out and "array" is an instance of any sort of collection (which implements a certain inteface, which all of the builtin ones do).
Also, my officemate claims Java now (1.5) has a cleaner syntax for that, but it's been a while since I did Java. He sent me this snippet of code:
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This was actually discussed on the last episode of "Nova: Science Now". You can check out the segment on this link:
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Looks like 6 years would have ended up being pretty sweet for TF2 :(
I guess it just seems to me that people of the magic origin for instance shouldn't be able to have robotic arms etc. :)
I really thought some of that stuff was in there, but apparently not.
You're right, I just checked (took me a while to patch up...been a while).
I understand this. My point is if population is all that matters, the Senate could be called "deprecated" in the exact same manner.
It definitely makes a difference. For instance, Magic origin has access to hoods that others don't.
I'm not proposing a popular vote. It has a lot of problems. But, with elections being close, why wouldn't the people in the states you mention vote? Each single voter would have the same power and every single vote could potentially swing the election.
Granted, the candidates wouldn't step anywhere near Alaska or Hawaii (which they don't do a whole lot of now).
If the popular vote was all that mattered, why would any candidate focus on anything but the 10 largest CITIES in the US. Forget about states...
And if population is so important, doesn't the Senate seem "deprecated". Why should Rhode Island have two seats?
The most obvious good thing about a true popular vote election would be the incredible turnout. For instance, how many Republicans in California and Democrats in Texan would vote if it was a popular vote?
I meant how many combinations of outfits for all the character types :). The number has to be very large (just think about how many colors you can chose for EACH piece and how many symbols you can pick for your chest).
Granted, there's a slider for "muscularity", but other than that, the rest of the choices are discrete numbers. Many of the allowed costume choices depend on your origin though.
There are a lot of challenges to designing a 3D engine with a LOT of customization. Everyone has to be able to dynamically load geometry and textures based upon who is around them. When everyone looks the same, it's easier on resources (even if they only have different colors or textures).
CoH probably has the most flexible system for designing the visual appearance of a character of all the MMORPG's I've played or tried (beta/free trial, etc.). The Star Wars Galaxies character designer is maybe a little more flexible in certain areas (face, age, and weight), but I think CoH's offers more variety. It usually takes an hour just to play around with how your character will look.
Due to its flexibility, it's not too hard to make characters that look very close to copyrighted comic book characters etc.
How big of a struggle was the content creation process for costume items. For instance, were certain masks rejected by your legal department because they looked too much like Batman's or perhaps Cyclops' visor. Also, has anyone actually calculated the number of combinations of all 5 archetypes and origins?
While WoW is not live yet, you are correct. It does have a mechanism that slows down power leveling. Basically, when your character is rested (either from being logged out or hanging out in town for a while), you get a lot more XP (can't remember if it was 150% or 200%...I only played a little while in the first beta, the open beta is coming soon though).
I played CoH up until about two months ago, and I'm not sure what in game mechanics you're referring to. Is this a fairly recent design change?
I guess my point is...
Why is this just now a story? Did that page just come up today, and that's the story?
I talked to him earlier and confirmed he's had it for 3 weeks.
A coworker here lives in Keller and has had the service for a while now (I want to say 3 weeks, maybe it's just been 2).
Jeez, a Breakout type game like this with sensors for each brick would be insane. The relays would definitely heat the house ;).
With the age verification process of the original Leisure Suit Larry, at least people would learn a lot about US History during the 70's trying to run the thing :).
I remember that game. It made such painful sounds as the gears moved the ball :).
This guy definitely took retro gaming to a new level :).
Do a google search for 5.0 inches and CD's. Then do one for 12cm and CD's. Then measure one with a ruler. I'm not sure what the grand parent's point was, I've always seen them referred to as 12 cm. Maybe I missed something?
Since their creation?
I've never seen anything that does what you want, but there's definitely programs that log drive access. FileMon at sysinternals.com (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon. shtml) will do it.
I don't know exactly what API it's using and if it could "reject" those accesses though. It's not a bad idea.
Ever seen the "cheese rolling" advertisement for the movie "Spinal Tap"? It's on the "collector's edition" DVD. Good stuff.
Was slow to post, r.jimenezz (737542) covered my point about Java 1.5.
Just for comparison sake (and I PERSONALLY think C# looks better):
// Code here...
// Code here...
foreach (object o in array)
{
doSomethingWith(o);
}
Where the "object" type can be replaced with the type you're getting out and "array" is an instance of any sort of collection (which implements a certain inteface, which all of the builtin ones do).
Also, my officemate claims Java now (1.5) has a cleaner syntax for that, but it's been a while since I did Java. He sent me this snippet of code:
for (String s : c)
{
}
c implements a certain inteface as well.
Just to make it clear, I'm posting a quote. I suppose I could have made that more clear :).