I wasn't talking about the reason, just the repetition. Next I landed on a "toxic" planet. I would die if I stayed on the surface. Underground it was less "toxic". You don't think the pattern is a little over used?
But its a fantastic study of how long your perseverance can push past your dwindling curiosity.
I particularly like the non-repetitive realism: You are on a very cold planet and will shortly die, unless you get under some overhanging earth and into the shade, where the planet is *less* cold. You are on a very radioactive planet and will shortly die, unless you get under ground, where the planet is *less* radioactive. I haven't got to my 3rd planet yet, but I expect it will be a very hot planet, where you will shortly die, unless you get underground, where the planet is *less* hot.
And why are there "sentinels" flying around getting pissed at you for mining? Presumably the player is trespassing on pre-claimed land and stealing the mineral resources of another race. So they are promoting theft as adventure?
1) First impressions can determine how much effort people will make to learn a new game interface and take the time to get familiar with game modes and strategies. A basic tutorial mode or introductory single player mode is usually the thing that draws me in and carries me thru to trying the multiplayer modes. 2) After that there needs to be ready access to servers with people on them. This is always difficult before a game has gained popularity. 3) Community feeling and friendliness towards new players is probably the most crucial aspect in determining if first-time triers are going to come back, and whether the game community will survive. I have enjoyed quite a few multiplayer games which for a time had huge numbers of followers, but when "elite" players started to feel that newly joined people should be treated like useless wankers, instead of being encouraged and guided, those communities dried up pretty damned fast.
Still, before any of that matters, marketing and exposure have to get the product into people's awareness, and as you say, the reviews can ruin a good product release.
They must have a trove of credit card data in there.
No, they don't store the whole number. On the purchase page it says Do you want to use the credit card ending in "***77", so they only store the last two digits!
I don't understand the obsession with thinness. Ever since my phone was less than 4cm thick I have been quite happy. What is this need to keeping shaving millimeters off?
Q: How the hell do you screw up making a grilled cheese sandwich?
At this, I question your own critical thinking skills...
I think the key point you are skipping over here is "a cook in a burger franchise". These typically feature a fixed menu and fixed set of ingredients, and usually have a very well defined set of actions to follow between taking an order and handing over the finished product.
You would expect a minimal amount of training was given to new young employees, but usually you will be disappointed when you find yourself being served by a team of sad looking students.
I have to agree with this. It is getting a bit silly, people repeatedly spouting all this bs about win10 etc. In everyday use win10 is not all that much different than 7, and is not too much more unstable. OK it has some disappointing crashes with the start menu and such, but often this seems to occur when it has started doing updates and needs to reboot/complete some changes. Yes it seems poorly managed at times but it doesn't justify the continuous over-reacting and bitching we see here. I am not a huge fan-boy and have been running a Linux box as a secondary PC, and sometimes as my main/only PC, for prolly 20 years at least. If Linux supported all my favor games plus a toolset I was able to use for my software job, sure I wld dump Windows, but enuff with the FUD and complaints - this is Slashdot and most of us can make up our own minds about which OS we like or hate.
I guess my main problem was with the wording. Saying this guy "fixed" an "injured" monkey is all just a little to sugar coated for my liking. Lets just say when we have prepared a specific test-case, so people who don't think things through so well can be made aware of the actual circumstances.
Do you have a constitutional right to be advertised to?
And if so, is it a right that I can renounce?
Exactly what I was thinking. They can exclude me from any advertising they choose to, in fact they could exclude me from all advertising. Would I be outside their office protesting? I don't think so.
I'm just disappointed that nobody has worked out how to make an ultra effective solar panel out of coal. Now that would alter both the demand and competition for coal production.
I think the point is that everything covered by money laundering is covered by other laws that were existing at the time, either the root crime generating the ill gotten gains, or the account fraud that takes place with laundering. The problem is that it's easier just to make up magic new laws than do police work.
I imagine that they got pissed off never catching the perp with his hand in the cookie jar, tho they could catch him later with the cookie in his hand.
That's all well and good. Now explain how it would have prevented a thruster failure. Or a metric-english conversion error on the entry trajectory calculation.
Damn, there's the problem. The Brexit caused the english metre to shrink.
I'm sure there must be a simple way to require an inexperienced new user to load up a phone app and initialize each new device before enabling its network connection. The app could even supply a GUID or something as the password, so said inexperienced new user doesn't even need to be bothered with thinking of one, and all of his IoT devices could share the same unique activation code.
The mythological they should have set a standard and enforced this from the beginning.
Well in TV-land a hacker can just send a huge EMP to the device until smoke starts coming out of it and the screen melts. Not sure what happens after that, it's usually where I choose a different show to watch. Would be cool if the passwords on these devices could be reset to a random value from a remote hack tho.
Just wait til somebody works out how to fire a coherent beam of Higgs bosons. The Higgs MASER will take out anything, once you pump a little extra mass at a concentrated spot.
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I wasn't talking about the reason, just the repetition.
Next I landed on a "toxic" planet. I would die if I stayed on the surface. Underground it was less "toxic". You don't think the pattern is a little over used?
But its a fantastic study of how long your perseverance can push past your dwindling curiosity.
I particularly like the non-repetitive realism:
You are on a very cold planet and will shortly die, unless you get under some overhanging earth and into the shade, where the planet is *less* cold.
You are on a very radioactive planet and will shortly die, unless you get under ground, where the planet is *less* radioactive.
I haven't got to my 3rd planet yet, but I expect it will be a very hot planet, where you will shortly die, unless you get underground, where the planet is *less* hot.
And why are there "sentinels" flying around getting pissed at you for mining? Presumably the player is trespassing on pre-claimed land and stealing the mineral resources of another race. So they are promoting theft as adventure?
I should stop over-analyzing this.
1) First impressions can determine how much effort people will make to learn a new game interface and take the time to get familiar with game modes and strategies. A basic tutorial mode or introductory single player mode is usually the thing that draws me in and carries me thru to trying the multiplayer modes.
2) After that there needs to be ready access to servers with people on them. This is always difficult before a game has gained popularity.
3) Community feeling and friendliness towards new players is probably the most crucial aspect in determining if first-time triers are going to come back, and whether the game community will survive. I have enjoyed quite a few multiplayer games which for a time had huge numbers of followers, but when "elite" players started to feel that newly joined people should be treated like useless wankers, instead of being encouraged and guided, those communities dried up pretty damned fast.
Still, before any of that matters, marketing and exposure have to get the product into people's awareness, and as you say, the reviews can ruin a good product release.
They must have a trove of credit card data in there.
No, they don't store the whole number. On the purchase page it says Do you want to use the credit card ending in "***77", so they only store the last two digits!
heh. settle down, it was a joke.
What new 0day are you talking about? It doesn't seem to exist yet.
You didn't look at the -1day exploit list did you. The Doctor updates it when he returns.
I don't understand the obsession with thinness.
Ever since my phone was less than 4cm thick I have been quite happy. What is this need to keeping shaving millimeters off?
A FreeBSD-user since early 90-ies, I can only chuckle at the problems in the Microsoft world...
Heeey I was tricked into typing
freebsd-update upgrade -r 11.0-RELEASE
And guess what? instead of updating my X-windows it changed my FreeBSD version!!!
Now all my drivers, erm, just work and my UI looks just the same!
Q: How the hell do you screw up making a grilled cheese sandwich?
At this, I question your own critical thinking skills...
I think the key point you are skipping over here is "a cook in a burger franchise". These typically feature a fixed menu and fixed set of ingredients, and usually have a very well defined set of actions to follow between taking an order and handing over the finished product.
You would expect a minimal amount of training was given to new young employees, but usually you will be disappointed when you find yourself being served by a team of sad looking students.
I have to agree with this. It is getting a bit silly, people repeatedly spouting all this bs about win10 etc. In everyday use win10 is not all that much different than 7, and is not too much more unstable. OK it has some disappointing crashes with the start menu and such, but often this seems to occur when it has started doing updates and needs to reboot/complete some changes. Yes it seems poorly managed at times but it doesn't justify the continuous over-reacting and bitching we see here. I am not a huge fan-boy and have been running a Linux box as a secondary PC, and sometimes as my main/only PC, for prolly 20 years at least. If Linux supported all my favor games plus a toolset I was able to use for my software job, sure I wld dump Windows, but enuff with the FUD and complaints - this is Slashdot and most of us can make up our own minds about which OS we like or hate.
I guess my main problem was with the wording. Saying this guy "fixed" an "injured" monkey is all just a little to sugar coated for my liking. Lets just say when we have prepared a specific test-case, so people who don't think things through so well can be made aware of the actual circumstances.
... monkeys with spinal-cord injuries ...
Meaning: monkeys with spinal-cords we have slashed and butchered
Do you have a constitutional right to be advertised to?
And if so, is it a right that I can renounce?
Exactly what I was thinking. They can exclude me from any advertising they choose to, in fact they could exclude me from all advertising. Would I be outside their office protesting? I don't think so.
I'm just disappointed that nobody has worked out how to make an ultra effective solar panel out of coal.
Now that would alter both the demand and competition for coal production.
I think the point is that everything covered by money laundering is covered by other laws that were existing at the time, either the root crime generating the ill gotten gains, or the account fraud that takes place with laundering. The problem is that it's easier just to make up magic new laws than do police work.
I imagine that they got pissed off never catching the perp with his hand in the cookie jar, tho they could catch him later with the cookie in his hand.
This is likely because high-cost phones perform better.
Maybe the people who forked out all that cash are just trying really hard to convince themselves they got something better than the cheaper options?
It's a coping mechanism to hold of the fits of depression when they accept that it's still just a phone with some annoying silly apps on it.
That's all well and good. Now explain how it would have prevented a thruster failure. Or a metric-english conversion error on the entry trajectory calculation.
Damn, there's the problem. The Brexit caused the english metre to shrink.
I think if you put the sender's email address in your contacts then it won't be classed as SPAM again.
Didn't they watch Space 1999? The entire station could suddenly be thrust into an unknown part of the galaxy.
OMG do you even grammar?
I think you meant:
Glad too here, this is happening.
I'm sure there must be a simple way to require an inexperienced new user to load up a phone app and initialize each new device before enabling its network connection. The app could even supply a GUID or something as the password, so said inexperienced new user doesn't even need to be bothered with thinking of one, and all of his IoT devices could share the same unique activation code.
The mythological they should have set a standard and enforced this from the beginning.
Well in TV-land a hacker can just send a huge EMP to the device until smoke starts coming out of it and the screen melts.
Not sure what happens after that, it's usually where I choose a different show to watch.
Would be cool if the passwords on these devices could be reset to a random value from a remote hack tho.
"Startup" ? Why would you ever turn it off. Just let it load on boot, never reboot, and be happy : )
omg, they have already broken sentences. The rest of the internet will soon fall.
Just wait til somebody works out how to fire a coherent beam of Higgs bosons.
The Higgs MASER will take out anything, once you pump a little extra mass at a concentrated spot.
This could, of course, be science fiction.
I have a DEC Alpha cpu on my bookshelf for a decoration. Sadly I don't have the rest of the hardware to plug it into.