So, wait, if I read this correctly, it only seems logical to imagine that radical polar shift could be related to global mass distribution. If the polar ice were to vanish tomorrow, wouldn't the denser mass areas be located on one of the larger continents... potentially leading to polar drift towards that mass as it pulls closer to center (like a dancer or top spinning)?
I wonder if anyone has ever correlated radical polar shifts with global mass distribution?
Seriously, right off the bat when Apple sued Samsung the first thought that crossed my mind was "how is this going to work out", Samgung is simply going to counter sue the crap out of them. Then when it was noted that the iPhone contains Samsung parts, I just shook my head at the stupidity.
I'm sure the person at Apple that was getting pats on the back over this slick move is now picking the shoe parts out of their ass.
You know the extra delicious bit of irony with this new turn is that we have a Korean company suing an American company and filing for injunction to prevent the American company from shipping their products because they've outsource production overseas. HAhahaha. Globalization? How's that working out for you?
Let's just home they get around to fixing bugs instead of shoveling features up until the last minute. I'm fear that clearly since they don't know what beta means (beta means you're done adding features and are now testing and buttoning up your code to prepare to ship) that shipped may be confused with "time to debug". Sigh... There are some seriously major architectural problems with the code and he's currently telling the community that certain single player features will never be implemented in multi-player because the code is two busted to make it work. Grrr...
I've personally run into this before where a seller set up a shill account to run up bids near the close of the auction to force up the final bid. I reported it as fraud and had the account in question shut down. That's one case and I've heard of it happening to other people as well.
Max bid only works if you're willing to risks of paying out the nose for something or you only have a casual interest in getting the item to begin with. The other side is, if you absolutely need to get the item but want to pay the least amount for it, sniping is about the only way to accomplish it.
Let's see... what kind of horrible things to people do to Sims? Put them in a house with no toilet? Strand them in pool without a ladder? etc... I shudder at the abuse we'll see attempted and if this thing learns from it's interactions. Ick.
"but I suspect that there are very few of these at the same point in their technological development as we are"... you forgot the rest of that sentence... "today, only thousands if not millions of years ago."
SETI as designed is incapable of even detecting and decoding something akin to the Arecibo message, so I'm always puzzled at how they think they're actually going to know when they have hot data for real. I applaud the effort but I've always felt it was more of a feel-good activity for people to join in on. Hmm....
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"A ghostwriter is a professional writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwriter
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This sounds like a ghost writing service more than plagiarism. Plagiarism is where you steal someone elses work and take credit for it. Highering someone else to write your academic paper is unethical yes, but plagiarism? If it's an original work... no. It is not plagiarism.
Actually they already had one 3-D goggle product in the market. It was a headset for the Master System. Only a couple of games supported it, so it's possible someone was worried about latent liability lawsuits.
This idea is flawed from the start. As soon as we knew they were thinking this, someone started added redundancy layers to maintain service (let's just include white hat, companies not wanting downtime risks and not even consider the hackers), unless they're talking full on kill where they get every telco in North America to power down their data centers simultaneously, black out every satellite in the sky and shut down the phone systems.
Oh wait... they better block radio communications as well since people have been able to to do IP over HAM radio as well.
Oh... let's kill the pigeons, since people have proven they can use birds like sneaker net...
And speaking of sneakernet, they better come and get our shoes as well.
For instance I had originally written off buying Little Big Planet, Dissidia: Final Fantasy and Half Minute Hero as all I normally use my PSP for is to play Patapon 1 and 2 (I call it my Play Some Patapon system much to the annoyance of my kids). But, on a lark I went ahead and pulled down the demos from PSN and decided that no... really I need to get these other games and they're now on my purchase list as soon as I can find them at the right price. I've bought a number of Xbox 360 games based on the demos as well (both Live Arcade games and retail sold games).
But back to the subject of EA though... I wasn't going to get into this but the more I think about it the more irritated I get... and they've been doing a good job of irritating me over the last few years.
The pinnacle of my irritation came when we tried to get a two player LAN match of Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 running at home between two Xbox 360s. Let's summarize: 1) two Xbox Live accounts required, 2) two unique secondary logins to EA's multi player servers, 3) active/stable Internet access for both Xbox's so that they can get to the Live and EA servers... and 4) since you can rarely get two Xboxs to connect to the Internet simultaneous from a single LAN (without setting up special routing rules) I had to setup a second Internet router with my PC broadband card to give the second Xbox it's own laggy Internet connection... We ended up getting about two gaming sessions out of this nightmare before everyone got fed from jumping through the hoops and now the game is rotting on the shelf. Good job EA... You win, you got the sale and no server load!!!
Seriously? Just to play a two player LAN match? They can really just bite my ass. They truly have become the antithesis of everything Trip Hawkins set out to fight against when he created the company.
The video game itself was tedious, but the that mini game off the main menu where you could hack the terminal was awesome good fun. Without checking YouTube first, I say aloud to no-one that a cut together edit of all of the cinemas would be nice to watch through. Now I just need to care enough this much later to bother looking.
Given how every other video game system camera fails to work correctly in typical home lighting environments, this is the thing I'm most curious about.
For instance in my home, when we want to use the Eye Toy to play something like Kinetic, we have to drag out a shop-light and a couple of reflectors to stage the room and assist the contrast detection. Otherwise, the accuracy is garbage. If this thing can't work in a dark room then this also pretty much kills playing games in a room with the lights out (which is how I generally play racing games and FPS games at night).
My expectations are less than low and I'm just waiting to hear about how ever single player to use the system will need to have a Live account (with your avatar adjusted to R/L body mass).
Free publicity nothing. The publisher had to pay licensing to all of those auto manufactures in order to get the cars into the game. This was why they were hamstrung over the damage issue. If it was a case where the auto company was begging for inclusion to the publisher then the publisher would have leverage to approve damage.
What's ridiculous about this is BMW shocked everyone a few years ago when they ran that series of ads where their cars are in chases and get totally trashed and they played it for all it's worth on how much of a beating their cars can take and still kick ass. BMW actually got positive viewer reaction out of those ads for their product proving that this notion that you can't show your car dinged is extra special ridiculous.
Actually that's not entirely accurate. Many SOHO routers allow for QoS or IP blocking for handling things like blocking your kids from MySpace. I know every Linksys router I recall ever owning has the ability to do this because I've had to block my kids access to one site or another over the years when we were having problems with grades, etc...
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So, wait, if I read this correctly, it only seems logical to imagine that radical polar shift could be related to global mass distribution. If the polar ice were to vanish tomorrow, wouldn't the denser mass areas be located on one of the larger continents... potentially leading to polar drift towards that mass as it pulls closer to center (like a dancer or top spinning)?
I wonder if anyone has ever correlated radical polar shifts with global mass distribution?
All from 1990 through March, 1998, including full text and graphics.
https://store.ddj.com/product/5/BYTE-CD-ROM
I know they also published one for earlier years while still publishing which like a fool I neglected to buy. :(
Seriously, right off the bat when Apple sued Samsung the first thought that crossed my mind was "how is this going to work out", Samgung is simply going to counter sue the crap out of them. Then when it was noted that the iPhone contains Samsung parts, I just shook my head at the stupidity.
I'm sure the person at Apple that was getting pats on the back over this slick move is now picking the shoe parts out of their ass.
You know the extra delicious bit of irony with this new turn is that we have a Korean company suing an American company and filing for injunction to prevent the American company from shipping their products because they've outsource production overseas. HAhahaha. Globalization? How's that working out for you?
and I clearly can't spell to save my life tonight. grr again.
Let's just home they get around to fixing bugs instead of shoveling features up until the last minute. I'm fear that clearly since they don't know what beta means (beta means you're done adding features and are now testing and buttoning up your code to prepare to ship) that shipped may be confused with "time to debug". Sigh... There are some seriously major architectural problems with the code and he's currently telling the community that certain single player features will never be implemented in multi-player because the code is two busted to make it work. Grrr...
I've personally run into this before where a seller set up a shill account to run up bids near the close of the auction to force up the final bid. I reported it as fraud and had the account in question shut down. That's one case and I've heard of it happening to other people as well.
Max bid only works if you're willing to risks of paying out the nose for something or you only have a casual interest in getting the item to begin with. The other side is, if you absolutely need to get the item but want to pay the least amount for it, sniping is about the only way to accomplish it.
Let's see... what kind of horrible things to people do to Sims? Put them in a house with no toilet? Strand them in pool without a ladder? etc... I shudder at the abuse we'll see attempted and if this thing learns from it's interactions. Ick.
"but I suspect that there are very few of these at the same point in their technological development as we are"... you forgot the rest of that sentence ... "today, only thousands if not millions of years ago."
SETI as designed is incapable of even detecting and decoding something akin to the Arecibo message, so I'm always puzzled at how they think they're actually going to know when they have hot data for real. I applaud the effort but I've always felt it was more of a feel-good activity for people to join in on. Hmm....
"A ghostwriter is a professional writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwriter
This sounds like a ghost writing service more than plagiarism. Plagiarism is where you steal someone elses work and take credit for it. Highering someone else to write your academic paper is unethical yes, but plagiarism? If it's an original work... no. It is not plagiarism.
Actually they already had one 3-D goggle product in the market. It was a headset for the Master System. Only a couple of games supported it, so it's possible someone was worried about latent liability lawsuits.
This idea is flawed from the start. As soon as we knew they were thinking this, someone started added redundancy layers to maintain service (let's just include white hat, companies not wanting downtime risks and not even consider the hackers), unless they're talking full on kill where they get every telco in North America to power down their data centers simultaneously, black out every satellite in the sky and shut down the phone systems.
Oh wait... they better block radio communications as well since people have been able to to do IP over HAM radio as well.
Oh... let's kill the pigeons, since people have proven they can use birds like sneaker net...
And speaking of sneakernet, they better come and get our shoes as well.
Yeah, that's going to go over real nice.
These people are idiots.
For instance I had originally written off buying Little Big Planet, Dissidia: Final Fantasy and Half Minute Hero as all I normally use my PSP for is to play Patapon 1 and 2 (I call it my Play Some Patapon system much to the annoyance of my kids). But, on a lark I went ahead and pulled down the demos from PSN and decided that no... really I need to get these other games and they're now on my purchase list as soon as I can find them at the right price. I've bought a number of Xbox 360 games based on the demos as well (both Live Arcade games and retail sold games).
But back to the subject of EA though... I wasn't going to get into this but the more I think about it the more irritated I get... and they've been doing a good job of irritating me over the last few years.
The pinnacle of my irritation came when we tried to get a two player LAN match of Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 running at home between two Xbox 360s.
Let's summarize: 1) two Xbox Live accounts required, 2) two unique secondary logins to EA's multi player servers, 3) active/stable Internet access for both Xbox's so that they can get to the Live and EA servers... and 4) since you can rarely get two Xboxs to connect to the Internet simultaneous from a single LAN (without setting up special routing rules) I had to setup a second Internet router with my PC broadband card to give the second Xbox it's own laggy Internet connection... We ended up getting about two gaming sessions out of this nightmare before everyone got fed from jumping through the hoops and now the game is rotting on the shelf. Good job EA... You win, you got the sale and no server load!!!
Seriously? Just to play a two player LAN match? They can really just bite my ass. They truly have become the antithesis of everything Trip Hawkins set out to fight against when he created the company.
So there you go.
The video game itself was tedious, but the that mini game off the main menu where you could hack the terminal was awesome good fun. Without checking YouTube first, I say aloud to no-one that a cut together edit of all of the cinemas would be nice to watch through. Now I just need to care enough this much later to bother looking.
Oh yes, and I RTFA about them using IR.
Given how every other video game system camera fails to work correctly in typical home lighting environments, this is the thing I'm most curious about.
For instance in my home, when we want to use the Eye Toy to play something like Kinetic, we have to drag out a shop-light and a couple of reflectors to stage the room and assist the contrast detection. Otherwise, the accuracy is garbage. If this thing can't work in a dark room then this also pretty much kills playing games in a room with the lights out (which is how I generally play racing games and FPS games at night).
My expectations are less than low and I'm just waiting to hear about how ever single player to use the system will need to have a Live account (with your avatar adjusted to R/L body mass).
Someone earlier in the thread already called it 22 minutes before you :P
40 minutes to solve this? Seriously... what is this world coming to? ... I keeeed, I keeeed!
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That picture looks an awful lot like CID 6.7
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1919523072/ch0019252
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Free publicity nothing. The publisher had to pay licensing to all of those auto manufactures in order to get the cars into the game. This was why they were hamstrung over the damage issue. If it was a case where the auto company was begging for inclusion to the publisher then the publisher would have leverage to approve damage.
What's ridiculous about this is BMW shocked everyone a few years ago when they ran that series of ads where their cars are in chases and get totally trashed and they played it for all it's worth on how much of a beating their cars can take and still kick ass. BMW actually got positive viewer reaction out of those ads for their product proving that this notion that you can't show your car dinged is extra special ridiculous.
Actually that's not entirely accurate. Many SOHO routers allow for QoS or IP blocking for handling things like blocking your kids from MySpace. I know every Linksys router I recall ever owning has the ability to do this because I've had to block my kids access to one site or another over the years when we were having problems with grades, etc...