That kind of raises the question why Steam would even bother having DRM on the products? If it doesn't stop anyone, and it doesn't do much else, isn't it really just a waste of development time, bandwidth, and resources?
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There are different kinds of batteries. You are talking about Lithium-Ion or Nickel Metal Hydride. He is talking about Lead-acid. They are very different things.
There is plenty one would realistically hear in a combat spacecraft, but most of it would be generated by the targeting computer, etc. In a completely silent combat environment, there is a wealth of information that can be conveyed aurally with great effectiveness. Explosions and gunfire sounds certainly wouldn't be my first choice, though I admit the traditional "whooshing" of ships flying nearby might have some small amount of value.
While I'm not going to complain overly about something that plays like Freelancer, which I did greatly enjoy, I do strongly, strongly feel your pain.
I wanted to get back into combat flight sim/space sims, so I went and ill-advisedly bought a Saitek X52 a few months ago only to discover that the entire genre of joystick games seems to be a barren wasteland with the number of games in the last 5 years countable on one or two hands.
It's a truly disappointing state of affairs, and every time a game comes out that should have joystick control and doesn't is just rubbing further salt into the wound. So yeah, I feel your pain.
Play on an official roleplaying server. Most MMOs have at least one. On WoW, they were pretty well policed and people who were actively damaging to other people's roleplay experiences (including people with unrealistic names) were normally quickly dealt with, either through warnings, forced name changes, or server bans. Maybe it's changed in the few years since I stopped playing, I don't know, but it used to be pretty good.
I guarantee there are people out there who are, in fact, willing to spend significantly more time than that on it. There are a lot of people who will do anything for their 5 minutes of fame.
Only to a certain degree of accuracy. There is no such thing as perfect accuracy to begin with, then there are a lot of unknown variables. While it's been up there orbiting, has it been hitting things that are too small for us to detect and pushing it off course? Has it changed it's orientation slightly and now has a minutely different amount of drag from air particles? Were our measurments off to begin with? We don't know, and these things can add up to huge amounts over time.
A 71 in 72 chance of being less than a mile off on our orbital calculations for a satellite that some other nation launched and then self destructed is pretty impressive, I think.
Do you have an example of a cordless phone that works when the power is out? I've never seen one. Keep in mind it's all well and good to have a battery in the phone, but the base station needs power to be able to transmit too.
Care to provide a link that suggests how to do this with Apache? Because I was looking (and experimenting) just a few months ago and came up completely empty with the latest version of Apache.
Yes, you are correct about exceeding critical mass, but keep in mind that simply having a supercritical mass is still a long way from having anything that will do anything spectacular like explode. A supercritical mass would be much happier to simply melt itself (and everything it's in contact with) into a molten and highly radioactive goo. It can take a long time for this to happen if the mass is not far above critical, plenty of time to disassemble or disable it.
Not to say it's particularly safe, either, you'll probably die of radiation poisoning not too long afterwards, like the two scientists who accidentally let the "demon core" go supercritical back in the 40s.
Even if we could blow up the Earth several times over (we can't), doing that requires orders of magnitude less energy than actually changing the Earth's orbit. If you blow up the Earth into millions of tiny little chunks, all those tiny little chunks will keep happily orbiting the sun (See: Asteroid belt) at very nearly the current speed and path that the Earth currently travels.
An object with the mass of the Earth, travelling through space at the speed that it is, has an unbelievable amount of kinetic energy. We can divide it up into smaller pieces, but actually changing the amount of orbital energy in the entire mass is rather far beyond us.
The Wii has sold more units than the XBox 360. The Wii is sold at a higher profit margin than the XBox 360. The Wii was released a year later than the XBox 360. The Wii continues to outsell the XBox 360.
The Wii is the clear winner of this race. The XBox 360 may be quite successful from a consumer point of view, but from a financial point of view, it is not a smashing success. It doesn't hold a candle to the Wii. It has in fact been blown right off the playing field.
Also, a single example, even if it were valid, hardly disputes the grandparent post's point.
There should also be a slashdot article about this astounding hack: Did you know that you can send free messages from ANY phone, even a payphone or to long distance numbers, simply by making a collect call and when it asks for your name, say a short message. Isn't that clever?
We really need to make sure the entire community is informed of such brilliant ideas that no one has ever thought of before.
Do you own a domain? If so, please post it here so we can all start using it in examples from now on. We'll see how you like it, since after all it's not really even a peeve worth discussing.
Only if that's how the prosecutor decides to handle it, usually because they aren't confident that they have convinced the jury of premeditation, for example. Then they get the judge to instruct the jury that they may find the defendant guilty of the lesser charge if they think it is applicable, but the stronger charge is not.
The prosecutor can also decide to only attempt to prove manslaughter, whether as part of a plea bargain or for any other reason.
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Indeed. If you care about performance, you're probably not using Software RAID though, at least not Linux's Software RAID (for the aforementioned, and other, reasons)
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Using RAID 1+0, you get almost 4 times the performance for reads, and 2 times for writes.
Using RAID5, you get maybe 3 times the performance for reads (if you're lucky), and writes can be slower than a single drive due to parity calculations.
Clearly, 1+0 is the preferred choice for performance (and yes, I have used both, for years)
I would still recommend RAID5, as it's worked quite well and been very economical for me, but performance-happy it is not.
I think the idea is that if a period of large impacts is a typical stage in the development of a planetary system, rather than a freak and unpredictable accident, chances are significantly greater that it has happened somewhere else as well.
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I think you might also be underestimating the number of bucks spent on that particular endeavor.
That kind of raises the question why Steam would even bother having DRM on the products? If it doesn't stop anyone, and it doesn't do much else, isn't it really just a waste of development time, bandwidth, and resources?
There are different kinds of batteries. You are talking about Lithium-Ion or Nickel Metal Hydride. He is talking about Lead-acid. They are very different things.
There is plenty one would realistically hear in a combat spacecraft, but most of it would be generated by the targeting computer, etc. In a completely silent combat environment, there is a wealth of information that can be conveyed aurally with great effectiveness. Explosions and gunfire sounds certainly wouldn't be my first choice, though I admit the traditional "whooshing" of ships flying nearby might have some small amount of value.
While I'm not going to complain overly about something that plays like Freelancer, which I did greatly enjoy, I do strongly, strongly feel your pain.
I wanted to get back into combat flight sim/space sims, so I went and ill-advisedly bought a Saitek X52 a few months ago only to discover that the entire genre of joystick games seems to be a barren wasteland with the number of games in the last 5 years countable on one or two hands.
It's a truly disappointing state of affairs, and every time a game comes out that should have joystick control and doesn't is just rubbing further salt into the wound. So yeah, I feel your pain.
Play on an official roleplaying server. Most MMOs have at least one. On WoW, they were pretty well policed and people who were actively damaging to other people's roleplay experiences (including people with unrealistic names) were normally quickly dealt with, either through warnings, forced name changes, or server bans. Maybe it's changed in the few years since I stopped playing, I don't know, but it used to be pretty good.
I guarantee there are people out there who are, in fact, willing to spend significantly more time than that on it. There are a lot of people who will do anything for their 5 minutes of fame.
I'm Canadian and I've always heard those sorts of phrases as "eye" singular. FWIW.
Only to a certain degree of accuracy. There is no such thing as perfect accuracy to begin with, then there are a lot of unknown variables. While it's been up there orbiting, has it been hitting things that are too small for us to detect and pushing it off course? Has it changed it's orientation slightly and now has a minutely different amount of drag from air particles? Were our measurments off to begin with? We don't know, and these things can add up to huge amounts over time.
A 71 in 72 chance of being less than a mile off on our orbital calculations for a satellite that some other nation launched and then self destructed is pretty impressive, I think.
Do you have an example of a cordless phone that works when the power is out? I've never seen one. Keep in mind it's all well and good to have a battery in the phone, but the base station needs power to be able to transmit too.
Mmm, sweet things make me Hungary.
Been there, done that. Visit Pompeii sometime.
But guess what, that's how PHP started out and look where it came.
What it became? A tool for quick and dirty hacks that many people use to create applications that inevitably turn into a quick and dirty hack?
Care to provide a link that suggests how to do this with Apache? Because I was looking (and experimenting) just a few months ago and came up completely empty with the latest version of Apache.
Yes, you are correct about exceeding critical mass, but keep in mind that simply having a supercritical mass is still a long way from having anything that will do anything spectacular like explode. A supercritical mass would be much happier to simply melt itself (and everything it's in contact with) into a molten and highly radioactive goo. It can take a long time for this to happen if the mass is not far above critical, plenty of time to disassemble or disable it.
Not to say it's particularly safe, either, you'll probably die of radiation poisoning not too long afterwards, like the two scientists who accidentally let the "demon core" go supercritical back in the 40s.
What's the point in bringing down the government if the end result is to end up where you started?
Well, some would say principles but we all know there's no room for that in politics.
Even if we could blow up the Earth several times over (we can't), doing that requires orders of magnitude less energy than actually changing the Earth's orbit. If you blow up the Earth into millions of tiny little chunks, all those tiny little chunks will keep happily orbiting the sun (See: Asteroid belt) at very nearly the current speed and path that the Earth currently travels.
An object with the mass of the Earth, travelling through space at the speed that it is, has an unbelievable amount of kinetic energy. We can divide it up into smaller pieces, but actually changing the amount of orbital energy in the entire mass is rather far beyond us.
The Wii has sold more units than the XBox 360. The Wii is sold at a higher profit margin than the XBox 360. The Wii was released a year later than the XBox 360. The Wii continues to outsell the XBox 360.
The Wii is the clear winner of this race. The XBox 360 may be quite successful from a consumer point of view, but from a financial point of view, it is not a smashing success. It doesn't hold a candle to the Wii. It has in fact been blown right off the playing field.
Also, a single example, even if it were valid, hardly disputes the grandparent post's point.
There should also be a slashdot article about this astounding hack: Did you know that you can send free messages from ANY phone, even a payphone or to long distance numbers, simply by making a collect call and when it asks for your name, say a short message. Isn't that clever?
We really need to make sure the entire community is informed of such brilliant ideas that no one has ever thought of before.
Do you own a domain? If so, please post it here so we can all start using it in examples from now on. We'll see how you like it, since after all it's not really even a peeve worth discussing.
Only if that's how the prosecutor decides to handle it, usually because they aren't confident that they have convinced the jury of premeditation, for example. Then they get the judge to instruct the jury that they may find the defendant guilty of the lesser charge if they think it is applicable, but the stronger charge is not.
The prosecutor can also decide to only attempt to prove manslaughter, whether as part of a plea bargain or for any other reason.
Indeed. If you care about performance, you're probably not using Software RAID though, at least not Linux's Software RAID (for the aforementioned, and other, reasons)
Using RAID 1+0, you get almost 4 times the performance for reads, and 2 times for writes.
Using RAID5, you get maybe 3 times the performance for reads (if you're lucky), and writes can be slower than a single drive due to parity calculations.
Clearly, 1+0 is the preferred choice for performance (and yes, I have used both, for years)
I would still recommend RAID5, as it's worked quite well and been very economical for me, but performance-happy it is not.
You have a funny definition of "loyal".
I think the idea is that if a period of large impacts is a typical stage in the development of a planetary system, rather than a freak and unpredictable accident, chances are significantly greater that it has happened somewhere else as well.