Also, someone has managed to stuff a 27L Meteor engine (essentially the non-supercharged version of the Spitfire's Merlin engine) into a Rover SD1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1BnhZsS8a0
Officially, NCSoft tried to sell it but failed - they released a statement on October 2 saying that: "We’ve exhausted all options including the selling of the studio and the rights to the City of Heroes intellectual property, but in the end, efforts to do so were not successful." The #SaveCoH community is profoundly skeptical of this, to put it mildly.
Unofficially, various parties have reported that their attempts to contact NCSoft to discuss the possibility of a sale never got anywhere - their emails, phone calls and letters all went unanswered. Bottom line is, so far there's been no indication that NCSoft want to do anything other than kill off CoH completely. If they let it be known that they'd be willing to sell it for just a few million, there'd be several interested buyers, or at the very least a heavily promoted (and I suspect heavily supported) Kickstarter campaign running right now.
If they had cut the developers to 20 and kept the game going until it slowly died it would be no big deal and we would understand.
And that would've been perfectly feasible to do, too - before NCSoft bought out Cryptic they were able to keep the game running as well as publish occasional new content and updates with as few as 15 staff. If it was just put into a low-maintenance, no-further-updates mode and left to run out its days until it became unprofitable, they could probably have managed it with half that number of people.
Not entirely true. Importation of refused-classification items is restricted, and Customs will confiscate any of those items they find being shipped in. Of course, they have more important things to do than check every package coming in from Hong Kong for a copy of AvP or L4D2, so there's a good chance it'd get through to you without a problem, but that whole "it's not illegal to buy it, it's only illegal to sell it" thing is not true.
You are still perfectly entitled to import a copy or buy it from Ebay. You just cannot ~sell it on the shelves~ in Australia.
Despite what you'll read all over the internet, that is not true. If an item has been refused classification in Australia, its importation is restricted, and Customs will confiscate any of that item they find in incoming packages. Admittedly, looking for banned games being shipped in from Hong Kong or wherever isn't likely to be a particularly high a priority for them, so there's a good chance you wouldn't have a problem, but it's definitely not the case that you are 'perfectly entitled to import a copy'.
If there are any slashdotters out there who somehow missed the 'Blue Crayon' episode of The Simpsons, find it. It's not really philosophical and won't change your life, but I think we've all been there.
Most likely it's just Fox making some noise to try to get the cast to sign on without having to pay them more money than absolutely necessary, and if they were at all serious about replacing anyone they'd be doing it very quietly behind the scenes instead of making public announcements.
I have yet to see any evidence that this translates to a callousness towards real people or events.
Read the article linked to in this comment above. While it's by no means conclusive evidence, it is does suggest there may be some kind of connection worth investigating.
Simple solution to that: get a crap-spec PC, stick a fax/modem card in it, and set it up as a fax server. We've got an old Windows box that just prints incoming faxes to PDF and dumps them on a network drive - was dead simple to set up.
5 - The only view I ever want to use in Explorer is Details. So like every other version of Windows, the first thing I did was to set the view to Details for a folder, go into the Folder Options, and tell Windows not to use unique views for each folder. Despite doing this many times, Vista will still randomly pick other views that it thinks are better (even though they're worse) for some folders some of the time. It also refuses to remember the sort order I choose for my Documents folder, and every time I go into it, it's sorted by Type, not Name.
Oh dear god yes. This has got to be my #1 annoyance with Vista.
the other guy suggested the U: drive which seems intuitive if it's USB. Or maybe R: for removable media?
I usually use B: these days. Since USB drives have pretty much taken over from floppies, it makes sense to have them take over their drive letters as well.
Virgin Mobile in Australia offers a similar service - call them up and they'll blacklist all calls to a given number from your phone until 6am the following morning.
I always ask myself a question whenever I read or hear that line: what surface? Where the heck do you define the "surface" in the case of a star? Obligatory Wikipedia Reference:
"The visible surface of the Sun, the photosphere, is the layer below which the Sun becomes opaque to visible light."
So there you go. Not something I'd ever really thought about either to be honest, but I guess someone at some point has.
Superliminal must be some new marketing-speak term. The Simpsons, episode CABF12:
Lisa: But you have recruiting ads on TV. Why do you need subliminal messages? Lt. Smash: It's a three-pronged attack. Subliminal, liminal, and superliminal. Lisa: Superliminal? Lt. Smash: I'll show you. [opens the window, and shouts at Lenny and Carl, who are standing on the corner] Hey, you! Join the Navy! Carl: Uh, yeah, all right. Lenny: I'm in.
how is talking on a cell phone and driving any different than driving a stick-shift and talking to the person next to you While driving a stick-shift, you only need to take one of your hands off the wheel to change gears, and you don't (or at least you shouldn't) need to take your eyes off the road in order to do it. While talking a cell phone in the car, you've only got one hand on the wheel the whole time, and if you need to actually do anything with the phone (beyond maybe just hitting the 'answer' button) you have to take your eyes off the road and look at the screen of the phone.
Talking to the person next to you is less of an issue, but at least the person sitting next to you in the car can see what's going on around you, so they're going to understand if you stop talking in mid-sentence to avoid the taxi that's just pulled out in front of you.
Yeah, they actually did, and in virtually exactly that manner, too, with also allowing you to "Take this action with all further conflicts". It even lets you select which file to use when overwriting files of the same name in a more logical way (lists both files as clickable selections with their dates, sizes, and other attributes right there) It also gives you the option to Skip or Try Again when one of the files you're trying to overwrite is locked by some other process, rather than just spitting the dummy and stopping, which is really quite nice. To be honest, this feature is probably one of the main reasons why I'm still using Vista on my office PC rather than insisting that I be allowed to move back to XP. (Although admittedly I still have my old XP PC sitting here so I can log on to it when I need to get some actual admin-type work done...)
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Also, someone has managed to stuff a 27L Meteor engine (essentially the non-supercharged version of the Spitfire's Merlin engine) into a Rover SD1 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1BnhZsS8a0
Officially, NCSoft tried to sell it but failed - they released a statement on October 2 saying that: "We’ve exhausted all options including the selling of the studio and the rights to the City of Heroes intellectual property, but in the end, efforts to do so were not successful." The #SaveCoH community is profoundly skeptical of this, to put it mildly.
Unofficially, various parties have reported that their attempts to contact NCSoft to discuss the possibility of a sale never got anywhere - their emails, phone calls and letters all went unanswered. Bottom line is, so far there's been no indication that NCSoft want to do anything other than kill off CoH completely. If they let it be known that they'd be willing to sell it for just a few million, there'd be several interested buyers, or at the very least a heavily promoted (and I suspect heavily supported) Kickstarter campaign running right now.
If they had cut the developers to 20 and kept the game going until it slowly died it would be no big deal and we would understand.
And that would've been perfectly feasible to do, too - before NCSoft bought out Cryptic they were able to keep the game running as well as publish occasional new content and updates with as few as 15 staff. If it was just put into a low-maintenance, no-further-updates mode and left to run out its days until it became unprofitable, they could probably have managed it with half that number of people.
You can measure plate motions with GPS, if you're patient. Most of the deep structure is worked out using seismic imaging.
USBDLM. 'nuff said. :)
Ahh, good ole' democracy, where 51% votes to oppress the other 49%.
Not in this case. From TFA:
SOL senators will ... only vote on Bills if a "clear majority view" is determined by at least 100,000 votes and a 70 percent majority view.
Maybe it was great as in large or immense? Did they use it in the pejorative sense...?
Not entirely true. Importation of refused-classification items is restricted, and Customs will confiscate any of those items they find being shipped in. Of course, they have more important things to do than check every package coming in from Hong Kong for a copy of AvP or L4D2, so there's a good chance it'd get through to you without a problem, but that whole "it's not illegal to buy it, it's only illegal to sell it" thing is not true.
You are still perfectly entitled to import a copy or buy it from Ebay. You just cannot ~sell it on the shelves~ in Australia.
Despite what you'll read all over the internet, that is not true. If an item has been refused classification in Australia, its importation is restricted, and Customs will confiscate any of that item they find in incoming packages. Admittedly, looking for banned games being shipped in from Hong Kong or wherever isn't likely to be a particularly high a priority for them, so there's a good chance you wouldn't have a problem, but it's definitely not the case that you are 'perfectly entitled to import a copy'.
while complicated at first, it becomes remarkably simple to play once you've played for a while.
See, I'd prefer that the other way around - simple at first, then more and more complicated as you play it more and get deeper into it.
If there are any slashdotters out there who somehow missed the 'Blue Crayon' episode of The Simpsons, find it. It's not really philosophical and won't change your life, but I think we've all been there.
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Another comment on the situation that's well worth reading:
http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2009_07_17.html#017446
Most likely it's just Fox making some noise to try to get the cast to sign on without having to pay them more money than absolutely necessary, and if they were at all serious about replacing anyone they'd be doing it very quietly behind the scenes instead of making public announcements.
I have yet to see any evidence that this translates to a callousness towards real people or events.
Read the article linked to in this comment above. While it's by no means conclusive evidence, it is does suggest there may be some kind of connection worth investigating.
Simple solution to that: get a crap-spec PC, stick a fax/modem card in it, and set it up as a fax server. We've got an old Windows box that just prints incoming faxes to PDF and dumps them on a network drive - was dead simple to set up.
http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp
Oh dear god yes. This has got to be my #1 annoyance with Vista.
I usually use B: these days. Since USB drives have pretty much taken over from floppies, it makes sense to have them take over their drive letters as well.
Virgin Mobile in Australia offers a similar service - call them up and they'll blacklist all calls to a given number from your phone until 6am the following morning.
Terry Pratchett ... is ONLY allowed to write Discworld books until he's unable to write or they cure Alzheimer's Disease.
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Posting to undo accidental moderation (hit 'Overrated' instead of 'Underrated').
"The visible surface of the Sun, the photosphere, is the layer below which the Sun becomes opaque to visible light."
So there you go. Not something I'd ever really thought about either to be honest, but I guess someone at some point has.
Lisa: But you have recruiting ads on TV. Why do you need subliminal messages?
Lt. Smash: It's a three-pronged attack. Subliminal, liminal, and superliminal.
Lisa: Superliminal?
Lt. Smash: I'll show you. [opens the window, and shouts at Lenny and Carl, who are standing on the corner] Hey, you! Join the Navy!
Carl: Uh, yeah, all right.
Lenny: I'm in.
Talking to the person next to you is less of an issue, but at least the person sitting next to you in the car can see what's going on around you, so they're going to understand if you stop talking in mid-sentence to avoid the taxi that's just pulled out in front of you.
(Although admittedly I still have my old XP PC sitting here so I can log on to it when I need to get some actual admin-type work done...)
No more than 900, even - UIDs 1 to 99 wouldn't technically be part of the 3-digit crowd...