its been done before, but never on this scale. 20g planes are becoming popular, the problem here was in solving the issue of having so much weight (body, nacelles) devoted to non-lift generating surfaces so far from the center of lift (the center of the saucer)
you didnt say warcraft 3. you said warcraft. 3 sucks, 2 was the best. as to mouse and keyboard, work is being done on that by modders, and the xbox controllers being usb really jump starts the task. C&C sucks anyways, but you never specified multiplayer.
has it occured to anyone else that gmail might save space by not storing individual copies of spam, chain letters, mailing list items, etc? just md5 every message (then check content if theres a match, just in case) and store pointers in people's mailboxes. 50000 people get the same spam, gmail uses 50000*n+1*N space instead of 50000*N (n is a small pointer, N is a big message) space.
I give it a day after the introduction of these ads before there is an Ad Muncher (or Privoxy, for the linux folks, or Proxomitron for the weirdos) filter to block them. Anyone care to make a wager? Ad blocking adapts a hell of a lot faster than the ads themselves do.
this sounds funny, but ive considered something like this for a car for a long time... imagine being able to cheat the mandatory insurance laws by getting $10/mo insurance that required you to carry a black box in your car that called and cancelled your insurance just prior to any accident?
If you know where to get AA batteries with 2Ah of capacity you are soon to be a rich man. The RC Plane community will beat a path to your door. FYI, AAs never hold over 1Ah, and usually far less than that depending on quality.
OK, this is just so cool. Say my brother is on the town council... Who do I tell him to get in touch with to find out prices and such for this kind of software?
Depending on your definition of "recently", which could be construed different ways considering that the subject at hand is hundreds if not thousands of years old, I would also include the Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube as a recent advancement. This simple device produces hot and cold air streams from a stream of compressed air with no electricity and *NO MOVING PARTS* (except those required to compress the air in the first place).
All depends on where you live. over 40 hours per week being overtime is a federal law. over 12 hours per day being overtime is a state law, in what few states have it.
In a future inundated with personal recorders you wouldnt ever turn it off. Imagine your kids (or grandchildren), equipped with such a device from the age of 6. It will be PART of their life, in a way that will dwarf a teenager's cell phone today.
Yes, and if you ever publish those pictures you will be breaking the law. And everyone ELSE's camera's will be able to triangulate your position based on the contents of your photos. Goodbye Mr Aardvark, welcome to Federal Rape You In The Ass Prison.
maybe its a county thing. all my junk mail is from west palm beach and lake worth. i cant cite any law, but i know they all have it, and i cant imagine why they would unless it was a legal requirement.
And yet the logo is still a *GIF*. Ignoring the very nice possibility of making the shadows alpha transparent and doing away with the solid white background color (which looks out of place when I am using a brightness-inversion bookmarklet), there is still the much lamented patented nature of GIFs, as well as a size penalty. What are they thinking?
I think youre in for a rough time convincing anyone who uses the slashdot 'Light' view that the new google is anything but great. I dont WANT colors or nifty layout or anythng like that. Ill take my content as plain text, maybe a little bold here or a little underlining there, and hyperlinks where appropriate.
PS: If you really dont like the new google then make your own custom stylesheet for any search result page on google and tell your browser to load it. Your browser IS capable of that right?
Story is a bonus. I can play through a great story (KOTOR, Giants Citizen Kabuto, etc) maybe 4 or 5 times. An above average story (like WC3) maybe twice before it gets old. What makes or breaks a strategy game is either the AI (which no 'modern' game has ever done well enough to make the CPU not need to 'cheat' by doing things at super-human speeds) or the quality of the *GAMEPLAY* as applies to multiplayer. Any game can last 30 minutes. Most games can last 3 weeks. WC3's story puts it in that second group. But its complete and utter failure as a RTS game keeps it from lasting for years like Total Annihilation, Starcraft, Rise of Nations, etc. These games took the cutting edge and demolished it, in both evolutionary and revolutionary ways.
"There are at least 12 races and factions in WC 3..." "Races such as the Naga and Tauren (and the Panda Brewmeisters)..." "...and fire elves."
*double take* *triple take* uhm... what? Did we play the same game? The one I played only had 4 races. Yes, they were somewhat unique in terms of their mechanics like you said, but I dont think that even measured up to Starcraft's building system (terran normal, protoss with the pylons, zerg with the creep) in terms of diversity.
maybe you dont know what "illegal" means. if it was illegal they would call the cops, not throw you out. counting cards is good for you, bad for them. of course they are going to throw you out if you figure out how to beat the system.
See a reply elsewhere in this thread for your first points. As to the queue. Try queuing this as unit orders: Build a building. Then attack-move across the map. Then destroy two particular buildings. Then start patrolling from point X to point Y. or this for a building: build two of unit A. then research skill B. then start building unit C and continue until I tell you to stop. also lacking is the ability to queue orders for an uncompleted building, or to set the default stance (what few stances are available) for a newly created unit. I can continue to list things, and will do so as long as you continue to reply.
What the parent said with regards to the expansion. My list is accurate as far as my memory of the orignal WC3 goes. I do not consider "how fast can you click each (spellcaster/meleer/otherunit) and then click on the appropriate (spell/enemy/target)" to be a valid skill for a STRATEGY game. Being able to set each unit's behavior is a fundamental aspect of RTS, and standground/patrol/move/attackmove is not even remotely close to sufficient. Look at WBC2. It has all of the above, plus an order to guard another unit or building (attacking whatever is attacking THAT unit), one to retreat after a certain amount of damage, one to never engage in combat, etc etc.
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its been done before, but never on this scale. 20g planes are becoming popular, the problem here was in solving the issue of having so much weight (body, nacelles) devoted to non-lift generating surfaces so far from the center of lift (the center of the saucer)
you didnt say warcraft 3. you said warcraft. 3 sucks, 2 was the best. as to mouse and keyboard, work is being done on that by modders, and the xbox controllers being usb really jump starts the task. C&C sucks anyways, but you never specified multiplayer.
that post might have been funny if you couldnt play all 4 of those games on consoles... need some help getting your foot out of your mouth?
has it occured to anyone else that gmail might save space by not storing individual copies of spam, chain letters, mailing list items, etc? just md5 every message (then check content if theres a match, just in case) and store pointers in people's mailboxes. 50000 people get the same spam, gmail uses 50000*n+1*N space instead of 50000*N (n is a small pointer, N is a big message) space.
the list is probably long by now, but id appreciate a referral if you get enough.
I give it a day after the introduction of these ads before there is an Ad Muncher (or Privoxy, for the linux folks, or Proxomitron for the weirdos) filter to block them. Anyone care to make a wager? Ad blocking adapts a hell of a lot faster than the ads themselves do.
this sounds funny, but ive considered something like this for a car for a long time... imagine being able to cheat the mandatory insurance laws by getting $10/mo insurance that required you to carry a black box in your car that called and cancelled your insurance just prior to any accident?
If you know where to get AA batteries with 2Ah of capacity you are soon to be a rich man. The RC Plane community will beat a path to your door. FYI, AAs never hold over 1Ah, and usually far less than that depending on quality.
OK, this is just so cool. Say my brother is on the town council... Who do I tell him to get in touch with to find out prices and such for this kind of software?
Depending on your definition of "recently", which could be construed different ways considering that the subject at hand is hundreds if not thousands of years old, I would also include the Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube as a recent advancement. This simple device produces hot and cold air streams from a stream of compressed air with no electricity and *NO MOVING PARTS* (except those required to compress the air in the first place).
All depends on where you live. over 40 hours per week being overtime is a federal law. over 12 hours per day being overtime is a state law, in what few states have it.
Sorry, US-ian assumption gone awry :) Over here in the USA its illegal to publish pictures taken in private places like locker rooms.
In a future inundated with personal recorders you wouldnt ever turn it off. Imagine your kids (or grandchildren), equipped with such a device from the age of 6. It will be PART of their life, in a way that will dwarf a teenager's cell phone today.
Yes, and if you ever publish those pictures you will be breaking the law. And everyone ELSE's camera's will be able to triangulate your position based on the contents of your photos. Goodbye Mr Aardvark, welcome to Federal Rape You In The Ass Prison.
I am sorry your honor, I did not press the "SAVE BUFFER" button within 30 minutes after the time in question.
This was not meant to be funny.
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You have never played multiplayer networked Hunt The Wumpus have you? It is exactly as described above.
maybe its a county thing. all my junk mail is from west palm beach and lake worth. i cant cite any law, but i know they all have it, and i cant imagine why they would unless it was a legal requirement.
move to florida. in FL all junk mail has to say 'Advertisement' in red letters on the front.
And yet the logo is still a *GIF*. Ignoring the very nice possibility of making the shadows alpha transparent and doing away with the solid white background color (which looks out of place when I am using a brightness-inversion bookmarklet), there is still the much lamented patented nature of GIFs, as well as a size penalty. What are they thinking?
I think youre in for a rough time convincing anyone who uses the slashdot 'Light' view that the new google is anything but great. I dont WANT colors or nifty layout or anythng like that. Ill take my content as plain text, maybe a little bold here or a little underlining there, and hyperlinks where appropriate.
PS: If you really dont like the new google then make your own custom stylesheet for any search result page on google and tell your browser to load it. Your browser IS capable of that right?
Story is a bonus. I can play through a great story (KOTOR, Giants Citizen Kabuto, etc) maybe 4 or 5 times. An above average story (like WC3) maybe twice before it gets old. What makes or breaks a strategy game is either the AI (which no 'modern' game has ever done well enough to make the CPU not need to 'cheat' by doing things at super-human speeds) or the quality of the *GAMEPLAY* as applies to multiplayer. Any game can last 30 minutes. Most games can last 3 weeks. WC3's story puts it in that second group. But its complete and utter failure as a RTS game keeps it from lasting for years like Total Annihilation, Starcraft, Rise of Nations, etc. These games took the cutting edge and demolished it, in both evolutionary and revolutionary ways.
"There are at least 12 races and factions in WC 3..."
"Races such as the Naga and Tauren (and the Panda Brewmeisters)..."
"...and fire elves."
*double take*
*triple take*
uhm... what? Did we play the same game? The one I played only had 4 races. Yes, they were somewhat unique in terms of their mechanics like you said, but I dont think that even measured up to Starcraft's building system (terran normal, protoss with the pylons, zerg with the creep) in terms of diversity.
maybe you dont know what "illegal" means. if it was illegal they would call the cops, not throw you out. counting cards is good for you, bad for them. of course they are going to throw you out if you figure out how to beat the system.
See a reply elsewhere in this thread for your first points.
As to the queue. Try queuing this as unit orders:
Build a building. Then attack-move across the map. Then destroy two particular buildings. Then start patrolling from point X to point Y.
or this for a building:
build two of unit A. then research skill B. then start building unit C and continue until I tell you to stop.
also lacking is the ability to queue orders for an uncompleted building, or to set the default stance (what few stances are available) for a newly created unit. I can continue to list things, and will do so as long as you continue to reply.
What the parent said with regards to the expansion. My list is accurate as far as my memory of the orignal WC3 goes. I do not consider "how fast can you click each (spellcaster/meleer/otherunit) and then click on the appropriate (spell/enemy/target)" to be a valid skill for a STRATEGY game. Being able to set each unit's behavior is a fundamental aspect of RTS, and standground/patrol/move/attackmove is not even remotely close to sufficient. Look at WBC2. It has all of the above, plus an order to guard another unit or building (attacking whatever is attacking THAT unit), one to retreat after a certain amount of damage, one to never engage in combat, etc etc.