Dungeon Siege 3 is one of the absolutely terrible examples.
The camera view is utterly useless, you need to hit a button to pick up *everything*, in coop mode, your camera flies all over the place in an attempt to keep both characters on screen, the menus are so obviously Console based it's not funny, and I could go on and on.
Simply fucking terrible. I wish I could claim my money back.
I have a 120Mb/s line into my house. Normally, if you're downloading say a patch or a full game install, etc, it'll not get that speed ever.
However there are programs like JDownload, with which you can take a http downloadable file, and it'll make X connections (you can set X), and generally when I set X to 10, it'll download at just about my max download speed (11-12ish MB/s, yes bytes)
As others in this thread have commented: The 'serving' side also matters for highspeed internet, not only what you can theoretically get.
So to answer your question: Yes. I get 10MB+/s easilly, you just have to tweak things a bit.
If you're in an accident that creates the forces needed to make this tank fail catastrophically... I think you have much much worse problems than the tank rupturing.
At -65C you only really have to heat up your vodka, provided it has a high enough alcohol content, which for russian 'vodka' isn't generally a problem:)
Anyone want a cube of vodka in their frozen daquiry?
If we need weapons to protect us from a corrupt government, then nuclear weapons should be available on the open market, since that's ultimately what you're up against.
It's a bit silly to trot this out in the current day and age of automated drone bombers, tactical nukes, etc.
I absolutely agree. Pedantic is also a beautificious portmanteau. Ped (from the Greek for foot), and antic. So you're doing antics with your foot. Foot in mouth!
You must've clicked through to the original article, where that's been modded up quite a bit:)
But yes. It has similarities. The main difference as far as I can see is that this is much more '3D'. I sort of imagine a carpet waving around (funny mental image, do we now need tiny kittens to scratch their nails on that?)
But the option of being able to store multiple bits no a relatively small footprint is of course the most interesting one, although I wonder about the heat dissipation or production of these sort of arrays..
And having sex with a south african (highest aids percentage there) prostitute without a condom is not having real sex either. Wait... Somewhere this analogy went wrong...
Yes, the city is sinking, and yes this land is already below sea level, but it is still a great place to build houses!
That describes 40% of the total landmass of the country I live in, containing about 40% of the population.
Granted we don't get much hurricanes over here (I think the average is 0 over the last 100 years), but being under sealevel is not necessarilly a problem, provided you make sure it doesn't flood disasterously.
We've had our own 'stormflood' disaster in 1953, after which an enormous project was started to avoid this sort of thing from ever happening again.
But yeah. I downloaded PvZ for something like 10 euros on offer, and played it for 2 evenings straight (intermittent work sucks), which saved me more than 10 euros which I'd normally spend on having a beer and dinner at the local pub.
What exactly does that have to do with the sound of the letter R say in 'rice'? The human brain and ears do something utterly different with spoken words than with background sounds.
Although sometimes that leads to funny mixups, and people hearing the voice of the devil in music being played backwards...
A lot of research has been done into sight/hearing/language, and the ideal age to do this is before 8 years old.
At that time the actual structure of your ear (drums, hammer, etc) will have evolved in such a way as to maximize what sounds you need to hear. (The 'joke' of chinese people not being able to pronounce an 'R' is actually not a joke, but the very simple result of there not existing an 'R' sound in the chinese language, so they simply can't hear it, because their hearing has never been attuned to it)
The same goes for vision and focus, although the most accute part of that is before 1.5 years old (If my memory served me right), after which it gets a lot harder to get used to altered vision, lesser vision, loss of colour perception, etc.
So the earlier you can catch people with problems in these areas, the more chance you have of them actually developing 'normal' sensory perception.
For some interesting reading on this and other things, look up the popular science writers Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart, who worked with Terry Pratchett on a book called 'Science of the Discworld'. Funny read to begin with if you like Pratchett's books, with a fair bit of actual science in it (and references to scientific publications)
One caveat that seems to be missing in the summary, is that this was done with people that used to have normal eyesight, which degenerated into blindness.
Obviously the fact that the brain already recognizes shaped, forms, and knows how to 'see' makes a huge difference.
For people having been born blind, this sort of research might eventually help, but this would take all the visual stimulation and training that a small child gets as well, with brains that are not that of a small child, so will take a long time to adapt, unfortunately.
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Dungeon Siege 3 is one of the absolutely terrible examples.
The camera view is utterly useless, you need to hit a button to pick up *everything*, in coop mode, your camera flies all over the place in an attempt to keep both characters on screen, the menus are so obviously Console based it's not funny, and I could go on and on.
Simply fucking terrible. I wish I could claim my money back.
Uhm..
What century are you living in exactly?
If you want to do retarded cutesy dumbass english, do it properly.
It's 'Unpossable'
I have a 120Mb/s line into my house. Normally, if you're downloading say a patch or a full game install, etc, it'll not get that speed ever.
However there are programs like JDownload, with which you can take a http downloadable file, and it'll make X connections (you can set X), and generally when I set X to 10, it'll download at just about my max download speed (11-12ish MB/s, yes bytes)
As others in this thread have commented: The 'serving' side also matters for highspeed internet, not only what you can theoretically get.
So to answer your question: Yes. I get 10MB+/s easilly, you just have to tweak things a bit.
If you're in an accident that creates the forces needed to make this tank fail catastrophically... I think you have much much worse problems than the tank rupturing.
It isn't made really clear whether this is 'availability' as in people have the option, or actual people having the actual connection.
Considering the pricing schemes I've seen in the US, the former option seems to be much more likely than the latter.
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It's called Google Ads. Present advertisement that fits the context of the page.
So no. Not strange, but showing that google-ads really works :)
At -65C you only really have to heat up your vodka, provided it has a high enough alcohol content, which for russian 'vodka' isn't generally a problem :)
Anyone want a cube of vodka in their frozen daquiry?
Well! That's easy. Just sit in front of his monitor, or steal his mouse/joystick/inputdevice.
Easy!
(Or was I the only one who with a sick and tired brain misread that headline?)
If we need weapons to protect us from a corrupt government, then nuclear weapons should be available on the open market, since that's ultimately what you're up against.
It's a bit silly to trot this out in the current day and age of automated drone bombers, tactical nukes, etc.
Well. In this case I probably have the best argument ever for having 'destroyed' the 'evidence'.
Of course I deleted it. It absolutely sucked ballz and I couldn't handle it anymore after the first 10 minutes.
I absolutely agree. Pedantic is also a beautificious portmanteau. Ped (from the Greek for foot), and antic. So you're doing antics with your foot. Foot in mouth!
This is very off topic, but why on earth do I have 15 moderation points??
You must've clicked through to the original article, where that's been modded up quite a bit :)
But yes. It has similarities. The main difference as far as I can see is that this is much more '3D'. I sort of imagine a carpet waving around (funny mental image, do we now need tiny kittens to scratch their nails on that?)
But the option of being able to store multiple bits no a relatively small footprint is of course the most interesting one, although I wonder about the heat dissipation or production of these sort of arrays..
(And yes, it looks like you were a first :)
Not regular browsing.. Right..
And having sex with a south african (highest aids percentage there) prostitute without a condom is not having real sex either. Wait... Somewhere this analogy went wrong...
Yeah. Trolls have credibility in East Texas, but that's only because the bridges there are so damn cheap!
1s/bridges/judges/
That describes 40% of the total landmass of the country I live in, containing about 40% of the population.
Granted we don't get much hurricanes over here (I think the average is 0 over the last 100 years), but being under sealevel is not necessarilly a problem, provided you make sure it doesn't flood disasterously.
We've had our own 'stormflood' disaster in 1953, after which an enormous project was started to avoid this sort of thing from ever happening again.
Check out: http://www.deltawerken.com/English/10.html?setlanguage=en
So it is quite possible to keep people safe. But of course that wasn't a priority in New Orleans..
And also works on your iPhone/iTouch :)
But yeah. I downloaded PvZ for something like 10 euros on offer, and played it for 2 evenings straight (intermittent work sucks), which saved me more than 10 euros which I'd normally spend on having a beer and dinner at the local pub.
So well worth it!
OC3 is unlimited, guaranteed, bidirectional 155Mb/s...
FIOS is... Well... Not.
I don't think "Pay up now, or we remove all your teeth" is considered a dental plan by most people.
But then again, we know all about those dentists being in cahoots with the mafia, don't we!
What exactly does that have to do with the sound of the letter R say in 'rice'? The human brain and ears do something utterly different with spoken words than with background sounds.
Although sometimes that leads to funny mixups, and people hearing the voice of the devil in music being played backwards...
Exactly.
A lot of research has been done into sight/hearing/language, and the ideal age to do this is before 8 years old.
At that time the actual structure of your ear (drums, hammer, etc) will have evolved in such a way as to maximize what sounds you need to hear. (The 'joke' of chinese people not being able to pronounce an 'R' is actually not a joke, but the very simple result of there not existing an 'R' sound in the chinese language, so they simply can't hear it, because their hearing has never been attuned to it)
The same goes for vision and focus, although the most accute part of that is before 1.5 years old (If my memory served me right), after which it gets a lot harder to get used to altered vision, lesser vision, loss of colour perception, etc.
So the earlier you can catch people with problems in these areas, the more chance you have of them actually developing 'normal' sensory perception.
For some interesting reading on this and other things, look up the popular science writers Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart, who worked with Terry Pratchett on a book called 'Science of the Discworld'. Funny read to begin with if you like Pratchett's books, with a fair bit of actual science in it (and references to scientific publications)
One caveat that seems to be missing in the summary, is that this was done with people that used to have normal eyesight, which degenerated into blindness.
Obviously the fact that the brain already recognizes shaped, forms, and knows how to 'see' makes a huge difference.
For people having been born blind, this sort of research might eventually help, but this would take all the visual stimulation and training that a small child gets as well, with brains that are not that of a small child, so will take a long time to adapt, unfortunately.
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