I use Linksys at home, and I have no problem upstairs 30 feet away, or down at the end of my driveway, 120 feet away (surfing and listening to a stream while handing out candy.)
In fact, my kids report other kids hog onto our signal from other houses in the neighborhood. We see 3-4 others active in the evening.
> Wouldn't be much of a report if, while trying to make > the heart more resiliant after a heart attack, doctors > injected the heart with anti-survival factors.
Actually, when I read the header, the first thing to pop into my mind was how long until someone invents some self-assembling something-or-other that turns all your blood to goop, or dried flakes, ala that other ancient Sci-Fi movie, The Andromeda Strain.
> and if the ZD guy who posted it thinks it's > the closest we've got to Fantastic Voyage, > he's got a huge stack of medical books and papers to read.
Don't forget stacks of Playboy, in which Raquel Welch has appeared...
It's more akin to them deliberately adding static, dropping packets ("chunks of voice", from the user's point of view), delaying the round trip so it's like talking to someone on the moon, etc.
> content blocking
WTH! So they're gonna block access to some kinds of content because someone else bought them out? If this is the case, then I hope the FCC enforces truth in advertising laws on them.
Warning! This Internet Service Provider does not provide fair access to everything. Specifically, they block web sites X, Y, and Z because corporations A, B, and C are paying them money to block them from you. Furthermore, they are slowing access to sites P, Q, and R because the corporations owning those sites are not paying them "protection" money, as they say in New York.
Just as long as Congress does not let them hide their adherence to the Fehrenghi Rules of Acquisition behind a façade of fair access.
> Warming is not dire enough, so they recently announce > that the gulf stream is shutting down and will put Europe in a deep freeze.
I'm sure the Dutch'll be glad to get back to skating on their canals in winter, like they used to be able to during the Maunder minimum, in all those wonderful paintings of olde.
Within 100 years, probably a lot less, you'll be able to "code up" a bear on your computer and send it to the bio "printer's" to get your life form issued to you.
Not long after that, the singularity will occur, so it'll all be moot anyway.
There is a subtle (or not so subtle) psychological kick one gets from believing one is "onto something big". This is used to support environmentalism, or religious fervor, or other political fervor.
"I know something, and it's so god damned important I'm gonna ram it down your throat whether you want to believe or not."
It's like watching chipmonks fight, except that they drag me down with them.
Wouldn't ice cores from different parts of the world have different rates of liquid water, and thus different CO2 levels? Unless they all get liquid water at some point or another (perhaps several times over) and reach an equilibrium such that 2 "waterings" or 100, all come out to about X.
Ok, so the long and the short of it is that it's only ethical for them to use it on exit ramps where the car needs to slow down anyway. (Note: a non-exit downhill grade also steals energy from the driver since less use of gas on a downhill is a savings owned by the driver. Perhaps a severe downhill where the brake must be applied would be valid, too.)
Anywhere else, it's sucking up gas.
Fast forward 20 years. Ok, so here's the long and the short of the result. Governments ended up spending 17x the amount for energy produced due to the initial costs and maintenance of these things, than they would have had they just bought the power, in spite of the promises by those hawking wares to the government. Nobody could have predicted it!
There is no way in holy Hell that the Hulk can ever stand up even to the weakest, post-John Byrne incarnation.
Very recently, Superman was able to easily support 200 quintillion tons with one arm, no straining. This is roughly 1/30,000th of the mass of the Earth itself. (Hence he could, with effort, actually move the earth, and without taking eons to slowly accelerate it.) Yes, he was over-amped on sun juice, and may be "dying", but his strength was only up by 3x over its normal level according to the poindexter examining him.
Meanwhile, the Hulk's greatest feat, lifting a 150 billion ton mountain, was not even that great. The Secret Wars issue involved clearly states inside he was merely supporting a tiny section of it, under a hollow created by Iron Man after the Molecule Man dropped the mountain range on the heroes.
True story. Quotes my 16 year old daughter to her 15 year old brother, as overheard by me, "That's the fifth person at school I've heard who says the X-Box 360 sucks ass!"
I'd go back if they'd get rid of crafting and trading entirely. Open a server with the old world and that's it, and you either got your loot in the field, or bought the lame stuff from the store, and that's it. Change looting so people got individual loot from a kill, rather than fighting for it (no more wizards rolling for that breastplate so they can sell it at the store -- can't sell it to other players already), and you're golden.
If they had half a brain, they could do this, and re-open new servers every 6 months, Diablo-II "ladder" style, which is still going strong, IIRC.
I never had so much fun as I was standing there on the beaches of Ro in friggin' store-bought chain. Hell, I remember rolling and winning the bronze 2-hander. AND ACTUALLY USED IT.
Yeah, a game where a level 1 newb can waltz to the auction house, beg 10 plat, and walk out with a sword and breastplate better than what dropped off the gods in the initial game, sure seems busted to me.
Why? No excitement whatsoever from "drops" (except the end game) because you will never, ever fight anything that drops something better than what you bought at the store for 5 plat because swords from monsters far too high for you to fight, even in a group, are dirt cheap at the auction.
And the only reason the end game has this excitement is because there are no higher monsters thousands have killed months ago, with tradeable loot flooding the market.
WoW somewhat gets back to that, with the soulbound concept, but even there 9 of 10 items you have on you come from the auction house rather than loot you actually earned.
> It may amaze some people but in MMO land some people LIKE being an entertainer
SWG was my primary MMORPG for about 6 months. It was precisely because I could be a dancer.
The combat portion was completely ludicrous -- you felt very weak, and worse, much of your time was spent killing llama-giraffes to level while "grinding".
To stand there in a group of 8 surrounding a dog thing, with 7 shooting laser blasts at it, and the 8th hosing it continuously with a friggin' flamethrower and this wild animal doggie takes thirty seconds to die?!?!?
Say it with me:
W
T
F!!!!!!!!
That's as far from Star Wars as you can get.
And, it was almost impossible to become a Jedi. While I acknowledge the conceptual problem of a Jedi on every corner when they're supposed to be rare, nevertheless that's the draw to the franchise. Being a "bounty hunter", or a dancer in a fishnet outfit are OK, but they're not the core experience. (This is why the Battlefront game thrilled me not, btw.)
Ooooh! A racing game! Ok, I'll be...the guy who empties the trash cans after the race. Or the guy sitting in the bathroom handing out towels and waiting for tips. But to be a racer, you must grind through emptying, literally, seven million trash cans.
Uhhhh, no thanks.
And I understand the new, easy Jedi is no more powerful than any other melee class. Nice, stupid solution. Like making the above racing game where you can start as a racer, but your car goes no faster than the zamboni or the trash guy's golf cart.
Well, the claws do come out of the back of the hand, but they're sticking out of little boxes on the back of the hand, and don't "come out of the hand" itself, technically.
But yes, if they wanted to do claws without infringing, it should have been literal giant hand claws like a bear's or something.
Although I suppose Marvel will still complain because they duplicate the claws of Hypatia Lee or whoever Wolvie fought in X2.
This kind of thing, though, will only get worse in the future as more and more capabilities are included in character setup. Witness the ultimate, say, a sketchpad. How are you going to stop someone from perfectly sketching Superman?
Or a full, 3D builder? Then you could model anything you want. Of course, that may never be introduced to an MMORPG for obvious, dirtier reasons. You think the new Superman movie is being re-done to reduce the crotch buldge now, you ain't seen nuthin' yet!
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I use Linksys at home, and I have no problem upstairs 30 feet away, or down at the end of my driveway, 120 feet away (surfing and listening to a stream while handing out candy.)
In fact, my kids report other kids hog onto our signal from other houses in the neighborhood. We see 3-4 others active in the evening.
> Wouldn't be much of a report if, while trying to make
> the heart more resiliant after a heart attack, doctors
> injected the heart with anti-survival factors.
Actually, when I read the header, the first thing to pop into my mind was how long until someone invents some self-assembling something-or-other that turns all your blood to goop, or dried flakes, ala that other ancient Sci-Fi movie, The Andromeda Strain.
> and if the ZD guy who posted it thinks it's
> the closest we've got to Fantastic Voyage,
> he's got a huge stack of medical books and papers to read.
Don't forget stacks of Playboy, in which Raquel Welch has appeared...
Hmmmm...if people didn't rampantly copy music to or from friends or over the Internet without paying for it, they wouldn't be doing this bad thing...
Yes, I know you only make backups of CDs for use in your car, and you don't scam music off the Internet. I'm talking about those other bastards.
It's more akin to them deliberately adding static, dropping packets ("chunks of voice", from the user's point of view), delaying the round trip so it's like talking to someone on the moon, etc.
> content blocking
WTH! So they're gonna block access to some kinds of content because someone else bought them out? If this is the case, then I hope the FCC enforces truth in advertising laws on them.
Warning! This Internet Service Provider does not provide fair access to everything. Specifically, they block web sites X, Y, and Z because corporations A, B, and C are paying them money to block them from you. Furthermore, they are slowing access to sites P, Q, and R because the corporations owning those sites are not paying them "protection" money, as they say in New York.
Just as long as Congress does not let them hide their adherence to the Fehrenghi Rules of Acquisition behind a façade of fair access.
We're on the brink of restoring mammoths, for god's sake.
Take a few samples, deep freeze them, and let's get on with life. Idiots!
> Warming is not dire enough, so they recently announce
> that the gulf stream is shutting down and will put Europe in a deep freeze.
I'm sure the Dutch'll be glad to get back to skating on their canals in winter, like they used to be able to during the Maunder minimum, in all those wonderful paintings of olde.
More likely they'll evolve to be more cowardly to go in the water. Same result.
Within 100 years, probably a lot less, you'll be able to "code up" a bear on your computer and send it to the bio "printer's" to get your life form issued to you.
Not long after that, the singularity will occur, so it'll all be moot anyway.
There is a subtle (or not so subtle) psychological kick one gets from believing one is "onto something big". This is used to support environmentalism, or religious fervor, or other political fervor.
"I know something, and it's so god damned important I'm gonna ram it down your throat whether you want to believe or not."
It's like watching chipmonks fight, except that they drag me down with them.
Wouldn't ice cores from different parts of the world have different rates of liquid water, and thus different CO2 levels? Unless they all get liquid water at some point or another (perhaps several times over) and reach an equilibrium such that 2 "waterings" or 100, all come out to about X.
Ok, so the long and the short of it is that it's only ethical for them to use it on exit ramps where the car needs to slow down anyway. (Note: a non-exit downhill grade also steals energy from the driver since less use of gas on a downhill is a savings owned by the driver. Perhaps a severe downhill where the brake must be applied would be valid, too.)
Anywhere else, it's sucking up gas.
Fast forward 20 years. Ok, so here's the long and the short of the result. Governments ended up spending 17x the amount for energy produced due to the initial costs and maintenance of these things, than they would have had they just bought the power, in spite of the promises by those hawking wares to the government. Nobody could have predicted it!
Idiots!
"Nattlefront" is Slashdot, where people constantly rag on everything.
This is funnier than you think it is.
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You're not helping your case any.
And politicians leading the masses on hatefilled cruscades against evil, and purely coincidentally, numerical minorities isn't im moral?
I prefer what I call the "modified Thresh configuration".
E, S, F, and spacebar -- one direction for each thumb, turn and aim with mouse.
So Quake should be outlawed, too?
There is no way in holy Hell that the Hulk can ever stand up even to the weakest, post-John Byrne incarnation.
Very recently, Superman was able to easily support 200 quintillion tons with one arm, no straining. This is roughly 1/30,000th of the mass of the Earth itself. (Hence he could, with effort, actually move the earth, and without taking eons to slowly accelerate it.) Yes, he was over-amped on sun juice, and may be "dying", but his strength was only up by 3x over its normal level according to the poindexter examining him.
Meanwhile, the Hulk's greatest feat, lifting a 150 billion ton mountain, was not even that great. The Secret Wars issue involved clearly states inside he was merely supporting a tiny section of it, under a hollow created by Iron Man after the Molecule Man dropped the mountain range on the heroes.
True story. Quotes my 16 year old daughter to her 15 year old brother, as overheard by me, "That's the fifth person at school I've heard who says the X-Box 360 sucks ass!"
If it weren't Microsoft, I'd be selling my stock.
I'd go back if they'd get rid of crafting and trading entirely. Open a server with the old world and that's it, and you either got your loot in the field, or bought the lame stuff from the store, and that's it. Change looting so people got individual loot from a kill, rather than fighting for it (no more wizards rolling for that breastplate so they can sell it at the store -- can't sell it to other players already), and you're golden.
If they had half a brain, they could do this, and re-open new servers every 6 months, Diablo-II "ladder" style, which is still going strong, IIRC.
I never had so much fun as I was standing there on the beaches of Ro in friggin' store-bought chain. Hell, I remember rolling and winning the bronze 2-hander. AND ACTUALLY USED IT.
Yeah, a game where a level 1 newb can waltz to the auction house, beg 10 plat, and walk out with a sword and breastplate better than what dropped off the gods in the initial game, sure seems busted to me.
Why? No excitement whatsoever from "drops" (except the end game) because you will never, ever fight anything that drops something better than what you bought at the store for 5 plat because swords from monsters far too high for you to fight, even in a group, are dirt cheap at the auction.
And the only reason the end game has this excitement is because there are no higher monsters thousands have killed months ago, with tradeable loot flooding the market.
WoW somewhat gets back to that, with the soulbound concept, but even there 9 of 10 items you have on you come from the auction house rather than loot you actually earned.
> It may amaze some people but in MMO land some people LIKE being an entertainer
SWG was my primary MMORPG for about 6 months. It was precisely because I could be a dancer.
The combat portion was completely ludicrous -- you felt very weak, and worse, much of your time was spent killing llama-giraffes to level while "grinding".
To stand there in a group of 8 surrounding a dog thing, with 7 shooting laser blasts at it, and the 8th hosing it continuously with a friggin' flamethrower and this wild animal doggie takes thirty seconds to die?!?!?
Say it with me:
W
T
F!!!!!!!!
That's as far from Star Wars as you can get.
And, it was almost impossible to become a Jedi. While I acknowledge the conceptual problem of a Jedi on every corner when they're supposed to be rare, nevertheless that's the draw to the franchise. Being a "bounty hunter", or a dancer in a fishnet outfit are OK, but they're not the core experience. (This is why the Battlefront game thrilled me not, btw.)
Ooooh! A racing game! Ok, I'll be...the guy who empties the trash cans after the race. Or the guy sitting in the bathroom handing out towels and waiting for tips. But to be a racer, you must grind through emptying, literally, seven million trash cans.
Uhhhh, no thanks.
And I understand the new, easy Jedi is no more powerful than any other melee class. Nice, stupid solution. Like making the above racing game where you can start as a racer, but your car goes no faster than the zamboni or the trash guy's golf cart.
Nice solution, Smed.
Well, the claws do come out of the back of the hand, but they're sticking out of little boxes on the back of the hand, and don't "come out of the hand" itself, technically.
But yes, if they wanted to do claws without infringing, it should have been literal giant hand claws like a bear's or something.
Although I suppose Marvel will still complain because they duplicate the claws of Hypatia Lee or whoever Wolvie fought in X2.
This kind of thing, though, will only get worse in the future as more and more capabilities are included in character setup. Witness the ultimate, say, a sketchpad. How are you going to stop someone from perfectly sketching Superman?
Or a full, 3D builder? Then you could model anything you want. Of course, that may never be introduced to an MMORPG for obvious, dirtier reasons. You think the new Superman movie is being re-done to reduce the crotch buldge now, you ain't seen nuthin' yet!