Hear, hear! If you're offended by something then it's probably your fault for being a weakling, unprepared for what are perfectly normal occurences in the real world. Shit happens, learn how to build yourself some character and deal with it or you will live and die emotionally immature. Personally, I wish these idiots would all go away. First Janet and now this. Will someone think of the children? More specifically, the harm all these faux moralists are doing to them?
What a load of bull. Are you on crack? You're sitting in a HUGE BALL OF SILICON COMPOUNDS. Every rock on earth is based on silicon, for crying out loud, there is absolutely no shortage of it.
Organic chemistry is basically the chemistry of carbon. No other element can easily form the kind of complex chemical structures and reactions that carbon is capable of. In spite of what your favorite sci-fi shows might tell you, it's highly unlikely that we will ever see any lifeform based on silicon or anything else. Wake me up when we have an entire field of science dedicated to the study of silicon compounds, and I might be more inclined to believe in the existence of non-carbon-based lifeforms.
Intellectual skills and social skills are mostly irrelevant in an evolutionary context, since they are usually environmental traits, not inherited ones. A lot of smart people have really dumb kids etc.
You obviously dont know what youre talking about. As I mentioned in another post, there is a 1:1 mapping of land to servers. The world is divided into a grid of square 256x256 regions, each one allocated to a dedicated server. You cant add land through software. It's as silly a concept as pirating RAM chips off of kazaa to get more memory.
Well heck, 25 is still a pretty small company, especially when compared to a few other MMOGs that are funded by such giants as Sony and Microsoft. I dont know how up-to-date that fact sheet is, but they recently let some people go and revamped their business model to charge real money, instead of game money, for land ownership. This pretty much screamed financial trouble to me and a lot of other players, though Philip and Cory vehemently denied it and stated that they were growing faster than ever. You're right though, I also remember Philip telling me once (back in september or so) that they weren't adding new sims because they wanted to achieve a certain density of players, which is probably why they reactivated all dead accounts. The world is getting pretty busy these days and the new continent is bound to fill up pretty fast.
You can play SL forever with a one time fee of $10, but in order to own land you have to pay a monthly fee as low as $5. You can still build stuff on other peoples land, or join a group and build on group land, or build on company-owned building spaces that are wiped clean every day. If you want to have a permanent space for your content, say set up a shop, or a house, or a club, or whatever, then getting some land is definitely the way to go.
Each 256x256 meter region takes up a whole server. Servers arent cheap, you know, neither is bandwidth, and this is a VERY small company. Having too much empty land would drive them bankrupt. Currently there is a massive shortage of land but a whole new rack/continent is coming on feb 10th. Players need to pay monthly fees proportional to their land usage so while you can theoretically own an entire continent, it would cost you $5000 a month to do so.
You dont need to do any searching. You tell them where you were at the time, and ask the judge to order the release of the CCTV tapes that might prove your innocence. FWIW, I've seen it happen in my country. As for taping over anything, in my country tapes are required by law to be kept for a period of 6 months I think. So do ISP access logs and lots of other stuff.
Widespread surveillance can also be used to prove your innocence. If you are unfairly accused of a crime, it would come in real handy if the police can pull up a video of wherever you were at the time. I, for one, couldn't care less if people film me, have nothing to hide, and nothing to fear. You can put cameras in all the rooms of my house and watch me 24/7, if it turns you on. I barely leave the computer anyway, but I might put on a show just for you:P
Can anyone explain or point me to some URLs about why and how lighting effects induce seizures in certain people? I've known for years that it does happen, but it still boggles my mind that something as inocent as a little bit of flashing light could cause so much harm to a person.
Try playing Second Life one of these days. That thing eats more bandwidth than all the illegal content of this world. It's a full 3D massively multiplayer environment where all the content is streamed to you in real time. Geometry, textures, player's movements and actions, everything you see is constantly being downloaded from the server.
Just how many different apps do you really use on a day to say basis? If you have an icon jungle on your desktop/start menu its your fault. Make folders, taking advantage of the hierarchical filesystem. Put things you use very often on the quicklaunch . I have "Show Desktop", IE, K++ Kazaa, Firebird, and Winamp. On my actual desktop I have the standard windows icons, links to games I'm currently playing, and development tools I'm currently using. I hardly ever even use the Start Menu. Believe it or not, aside from all the eye candy, there isnt anything inherently better about a 3D desktop environment. A lot of people have difficulty reasoning in 3D you know. There's a reason why we've been "stuck" with 2D since forever, it works, and if its not broken, dont fix it. Backwards compatibility is essential for usability, so more often than not "innovation" in the field of user interfaces is actually a no-no.
I can see it now... 1)in soviet russia all your frosty martian goatse piss are belong to natalie portman's naked and petrified hot grits down your pants, found dead at 24 in her maine residence, along with *BSD! 2)??? 3)PROFIT!!!
I agree. I learned BASIC mostly from the user's manual, which contained a great programming tutorial and even some advanced reference material. I did take a BASIC class at my school, but when I got there I already knew how to code. Being able to hack the "source", say, LET lives = 5 instead of LET lives = 3, also greatly contributed to my learning experience. But the raw typing in of code is of little importance. After you've gone through CS 101, you've seen enough code to have a general grasp of programming, assuming of course, that in this age of 14 year old web designers, they hadnt done at least a bit of scripting prior to enrolling. FWIW when I was 14 I was already coding games like those in pascal... but the scarcity of information in the pre-WWW times greatly impeded my progress.
Back in the day, typing in a program from a book was a pretty common way to get a game "installed" and running. I wasnt especially computer literate when I was 10 years old, but I knew how to type stuff into my 99% spectrum-compatible clone that misteriously failed to load games from tapes all the time. Nowadays, I certainly hope any programmer with half a brain should know damn well how to come up with an implementation of tic tac toe, pacman, or any of the crappy old games I used to play in the 80s. And yes, that definitely includes freshmen.
I weigh over 250 pounds, and I'm currently trying to lose weight. I have a crappy old exercise bicycle which is way too small for my height (I think its actually designed for women) and VERY uncomfortable. I try to do 10 miles a day but its a pain in the ass. Literally. The seat is horrible! Aside from that, it's horribly dull. I gained this weight because I spend the whole day sitting on a very comfortable rocking chair, in front of my computer. If only I had some way of hacking my bike to interface with the computer and, say, control the speed in car games, or something like that. If people are to ever lose weight, losing weight needs to be made more easy, cheap and above all FUN, as in more fun than sitting in front of the TV or computer. I wholeheartedly applaud anyone using DDR to lose weight, and look forward to more exercising games. Bring the gym into the arcade!
Give it another shot. I've always been baffled as to why people hated Ultima IX, until someone told me when it had actually come out, and explained that either the engine was too slow or the graphics too ambitious for the time. But, since I started playing it years after it came out, I didnt experience any problems since my PC could very well compensate for the engine inefficiency.
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The man is over 85 years old. Give him a break. I'm surprised he is still alive, let alone coherent.
Hear, hear!
If you're offended by something then it's probably your fault for being a weakling, unprepared for what are perfectly normal occurences in the real world. Shit happens, learn how to build yourself some character and deal with it or you will live and die emotionally immature.
Personally, I wish these idiots would all go away. First Janet and now this. Will someone think of the children? More specifically, the harm all these faux moralists are doing to them?
What a load of bull. Are you on crack? You're sitting in a HUGE BALL OF SILICON COMPOUNDS.
Every rock on earth is based on silicon, for crying out loud, there is absolutely no shortage of it.
Organic chemistry is basically the chemistry of carbon. No other element can easily form the kind of complex chemical structures and reactions that carbon is capable of. In spite of what your favorite sci-fi shows might tell you, it's highly unlikely that we will ever see any lifeform based on silicon or anything else.
Wake me up when we have an entire field of science dedicated to the study of silicon compounds, and I might be more inclined to believe in the existence of non-carbon-based lifeforms.
Intellectual skills and social skills are mostly irrelevant in an evolutionary context, since they are usually environmental traits, not inherited ones. A lot of smart people have really dumb kids etc.
It's easier to say that it has slightly more than the mass of our Sun.
You obviously dont know what youre talking about. As I mentioned in another post, there is a 1:1 mapping of land to servers. The world is divided into a grid of square 256x256 regions, each one allocated to a dedicated server. You cant add land through software. It's as silly a concept as pirating RAM chips off of kazaa to get more memory.
Well heck, 25 is still a pretty small company, especially when compared to a few other MMOGs that are funded by such giants as Sony and Microsoft.
I dont know how up-to-date that fact sheet is, but they recently let some people go and revamped their business model to charge real money, instead of game money, for land ownership.
This pretty much screamed financial trouble to me and a lot of other players, though Philip and Cory vehemently denied it and stated that they were growing faster than ever.
You're right though, I also remember Philip telling me once (back in september or so) that they weren't adding new sims because they wanted to achieve a certain density of players, which is probably why they reactivated all dead accounts.
The world is getting pretty busy these days and the new continent is bound to fill up pretty fast.
You can play SL forever with a one time fee of $10, but in order to own land you have to pay a monthly fee as low as $5.
You can still build stuff on other peoples land, or join a group and build on group land, or build on company-owned building spaces that are wiped clean every day.
If you want to have a permanent space for your content, say set up a shop, or a house, or a club, or whatever, then getting some land is definitely the way to go.
Each 256x256 meter region takes up a whole server. Servers arent cheap, you know, neither is bandwidth, and this is a VERY small company.
Having too much empty land would drive them bankrupt. Currently there is a massive shortage of land but a whole new rack/continent is coming on feb 10th.
Players need to pay monthly fees proportional to their land usage so while you can theoretically own an entire continent, it would cost you $5000 a month to do so.
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You dont need to do any searching. You tell them where you were at the time, and ask the judge to order the release of the CCTV tapes that might prove your innocence.
FWIW, I've seen it happen in my country. As for taping over anything, in my country tapes are required by law to be kept for a period of 6 months I think. So do ISP access logs and lots of other stuff.
Widespread surveillance can also be used to prove your innocence. If you are unfairly accused of a crime, it would come in real handy if the police can pull up a video of wherever you were at the time. :P
I, for one, couldn't care less if people film me, have nothing to hide, and nothing to fear. You can put cameras in all the rooms of my house and watch me 24/7, if it turns you on. I barely leave the computer anyway, but I might put on a show just for you
Can anyone explain or point me to some URLs about why and how lighting effects induce seizures in certain people?
I've known for years that it does happen, but it still boggles my mind that something as inocent as a little bit of flashing light could cause so much harm to a person.
There is a "quicktime alternative" codec that comes in kazaa lite's codec pack. I havent tried it, so YMMV.
Try playing Second Life one of these days. That thing eats more bandwidth than all the illegal content of this world. It's a full 3D massively multiplayer environment where all the content is streamed to you in real time. Geometry, textures, player's movements and actions, everything you see is constantly being downloaded from the server.
I was earning less than $400 a month back in 2001...
You people should start outsourcing to Portugal. Looks like we're even cheaper than the Indians!
Just how many different apps do you really use on a day to say basis? If you have an icon jungle on your desktop/start menu its your fault.
Make folders, taking advantage of the hierarchical filesystem. Put things you use very often on the quicklaunch . I have "Show Desktop", IE, K++ Kazaa, Firebird, and Winamp.
On my actual desktop I have the standard windows icons, links to games I'm currently playing, and development tools I'm currently using. I hardly ever even use the Start Menu.
Believe it or not, aside from all the eye candy, there isnt anything inherently better about a 3D desktop environment. A lot of people have difficulty reasoning in 3D you know.
There's a reason why we've been "stuck" with 2D since forever, it works, and if its not broken, dont fix it. Backwards compatibility is essential for usability, so more often than not "innovation" in the field of user interfaces is actually a no-no.
Speaking of Deja Vu, how on earth is this the world's first singing software, when TEN YEARS AGO my SB16 did the same thing on my 486?
I can see it now...
1)in soviet russia all your frosty martian goatse piss are belong to natalie portman's naked and petrified hot grits down your pants, found dead at 24 in her maine residence, along with *BSD!
2)???
3)PROFIT!!!
But arent crater walls usually a bit more elevated than surrounding terrain?
I agree. I learned BASIC mostly from the user's manual, which contained a great programming tutorial and even some advanced reference material. I did take a BASIC class at my school, but when I got there I already knew how to code.
Being able to hack the "source", say, LET lives = 5 instead of LET lives = 3, also greatly contributed to my learning experience.
But the raw typing in of code is of little importance. After you've gone through CS 101, you've seen enough code to have a general grasp of programming, assuming of course, that in this age of 14 year old web designers, they hadnt done at least a bit of scripting prior to enrolling.
FWIW when I was 14 I was already coding games like those in pascal... but the scarcity of information in the pre-WWW times greatly impeded my progress.
Back in the day, typing in a program from a book was a pretty common way to get a game "installed" and running. I wasnt especially computer literate when I was 10 years old, but I knew how to type stuff into my 99% spectrum-compatible clone that misteriously failed to load games from tapes all the time.
Nowadays, I certainly hope any programmer with half a brain should know damn well how to come up with an implementation of tic tac toe, pacman, or any of the crappy old games I used to play in the 80s. And yes, that definitely includes freshmen.
I weigh over 250 pounds, and I'm currently trying to lose weight. I have a crappy old exercise bicycle which is way too small for my height (I think its actually designed for women) and VERY uncomfortable. I try to do 10 miles a day but its a pain in the ass. Literally. The seat is horrible!
Aside from that, it's horribly dull. I gained this weight because I spend the whole day sitting on a very comfortable rocking chair, in front of my computer. If only I had some way of hacking my bike to interface with the computer and, say, control the speed in car games, or something like that.
If people are to ever lose weight, losing weight needs to be made more easy, cheap and above all FUN, as in more fun than sitting in front of the TV or computer.
I wholeheartedly applaud anyone using DDR to lose weight, and look forward to more exercising games.
Bring the gym into the arcade!
Give it another shot. I've always been baffled as to why people hated Ultima IX, until someone told me when it had actually come out, and explained that either the engine was too slow or the graphics too ambitious for the time. But, since I started playing it years after it came out, I didnt experience any problems since my PC could very well compensate for the engine inefficiency.