What about if the character gets busted killing someone, they get sent to the public stockades for 24hrs or whatever in real time. The player will have to wait until the time is up before having control of his character again. If he's detained in a public place, passerbys can throw rotten vegtables, which are near the stockades, at the character.
If it becomes difficult to use a plane as a bomb, terrorists are just going to come up with some other way such as a train loaded with explosives or a nuke on a ship at port. It is impossible to prevent suicidal maniacs from taking out people except by removing the root cause of the hatred.
Aparrently lots of people view "They Live" through amber-colored glasses. Try finding a mint cope for under $100. I'm glad I bought it for $5 at Wally-mart several years ago.
The Motorola radios we use to communicate at work are powerful enough to interfere with computer monitor sync signals. I once leaned close to my monitor while talking on the radio and it caused all of the screen position and color settings to revert back to factory specs. Wierd stuff.
What scares me the most about situations like this are the possible precidents. If the kid gets a lesser sentence, more murderers will likely use this as an excuse. The fact that people don't take responsibility for their own actions sickens me almost as much as the lawyers that allow them to do so.
Don't forget that the major difference is that real humans are not being killed in video games. I don't think that games will ever equal the disgust that gladiator games currently do.
The fact that "Sam Hornish Jr. surged ahead at the last minute to win this pre-race simulation" leads me to doubt that this would happen in real life. Computers might be great at computing averages, but when it comes to unexpected occurances they tend not to be as accurate. I would believe the results more if Sam Hornish had consistently led the pack.
Funny. Your first paragraph pretty much sums up our local arcade. There's a couple of semi-new games there, but most of them are old battered machines running the classics. There's no hotdog stand, but the '80 music is the style there. Every time I go past it I only see one or two people inside. Your idea might work in a big town, but with ours having less then 20k it is a worthless cause.
I've always thought that the work visa was necessary to work in a USA job. Why would they need one instead of a tourist visa if they are working for their publisher in Europe?
Another bonus with using LEDs for home lighting is the fact that you can dim them. Try that with fluoresent lighting! I hate changing burnt out bulbs but I've been holding off on buying fluoro stuff since it isn't compatible with my X10 setup. (It would work, but not support dimming) LED fixtures sound like the solution.
My brain must be in Monday mode again...
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I could have sworn that the submitter said that the small choppers weren't for sale, and yet ended the comment with links to where I could buy them? Forget the sugar cube, I need a caffeine IV.
With the large amounts of harddrive space that comes standard with just about every computer why should single DLLs still be referenced by different programs? How about we get back to self contained programs? The slight install size increase would certainaly be worth it.
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Be sure to number them also. It's a pain (no pun please) to figure out which molar goes where. I recommed a fine-point sharpy marker.
Not to mention that he used the phrase "mother fker" in it's full form. Not good for a company man to use casually. Sorry about the job.
What about if the character gets busted killing someone, they get sent to the public stockades for 24hrs or whatever in real time. The player will have to wait until the time is up before having control of his character again. If he's detained in a public place, passerbys can throw rotten vegtables, which are near the stockades, at the character.
Plus they just fired 7 astronauts
If it becomes difficult to use a plane as a bomb, terrorists are just going to come up with some other way such as a train loaded with explosives or a nuke on a ship at port. It is impossible to prevent suicidal maniacs from taking out people except by removing the root cause of the hatred.
"Rectal temperature was recorded at two-minute intervals during each task. "
No wonder their bodies didn't produce as much melatonin. They were probably in Fight or Flight mode!
Aparrently lots of people view "They Live" through amber-colored glasses. Try finding a mint cope for under $100.
I'm glad I bought it for $5 at Wally-mart several years ago.
Such casual insanity. I love it!
>"IIRC"
The Motorola radios we use to communicate at work are powerful enough to interfere with computer monitor sync signals. I once leaned close to my monitor while talking on the radio and it caused all of the screen position and color settings to revert back to factory specs. Wierd stuff.
Better not play a flight sim on a 802.11 equipped laptop or the plane will REALLY be in trouble.
What scares me the most about situations like this are the possible precidents. If the kid gets a lesser sentence, more murderers will likely use this as an excuse. The fact that people don't take responsibility for their own actions sickens me almost as much as the lawyers that allow them to do so.
Don't forget that the major difference is that real humans are not being killed in video games. I don't think that games will ever equal the disgust that gladiator games currently do.
I would hope that humanity has the technology after almost 900 years to be able to stop such a disaster.
Flamebait? You must not have heard the ad campaign for the first game.
That John Romero still wants to make them his b1tch.
The fact that "Sam Hornish Jr. surged ahead at the last minute to win this pre-race simulation" leads me to doubt that this would happen in real life. Computers might be great at computing averages, but when it comes to unexpected occurances they tend not to be as accurate. I would believe the results more if Sam Hornish had consistently led the pack.
Funny. Your first paragraph pretty much sums up our local arcade. There's a couple of semi-new games there, but most of them are old battered machines running the classics. There's no hotdog stand, but the '80 music is the style there. Every time I go past it I only see one or two people inside. Your idea might work in a big town, but with ours having less then 20k it is a worthless cause.
I've always thought that the work visa was necessary to work in a USA job. Why would they need one instead of a tourist visa if they are working for their publisher in Europe?
Especially when you start talking about
>"More hands-on impressions soon.."
Another bonus with using LEDs for home lighting is the fact that you can dim them. Try that with fluoresent lighting! I hate changing burnt out bulbs but I've been holding off on buying fluoro stuff since it isn't compatible with my X10 setup. (It would work, but not support dimming) LED fixtures sound like the solution.
I could have sworn that the submitter said that the small choppers weren't for sale, and yet ended the comment with links to where I could buy them? Forget the sugar cube, I need a caffeine IV.
Someone please mod this up. It's pretty sad how all the cheesy jokes get modded up to +5 while useful posts like this one are ignored.
With the large amounts of harddrive space that comes standard with just about every computer why should single DLLs still be referenced by different programs? How about we get back to self contained programs? The slight install size increase would certainaly be worth it.
Humans already speak enough languages without building a tower of babel.
Wouldn't it have been cheaper just to buy the software? Oops, I'm thinking of Astalavista.com