After reading about the combat system my fears that FFXI will be another ass-tacular everquest clone have come true.
check out http://www.thegia.com/news/0201/n01a.html for the complete article.
"Rather, as the player wanders the fields of Final Fantasy XI, he or she will see many enemies doing the same. A press of the "target" button will allow the player to enter an "auto-attack" real-time battle with the monster or monsters in question. In this battle, much like in a real-time strategy game, the player character will continually attack the enemy unless told to do otherwise."
Uh, how would you make the energy? You could send something shooting into it, thus it gaining some kinetic energy, but aside from the slingshot effect it wouldn't have much practical purpose. Anything you shoot at it (if your making power) would probably need to be resent, in which case you'd have to draw it back out. Net energy gained = 0.
Only thing I can think of is using it as a giant waste dump. Launch our trash into it and let it approach the center of the blackhole for all eternity.(Gotta love time dilation)
Unfortunately no. It turns out most planets are Jovian, no solid ground means no life (intelligent anyway). Also they've found out that life bearing planets can only thrive within a certain, and very small, strip of the galaxy. If anything over the last few months the chances of finding intelligent life have decreased rather than increased.
They're making huge profits, and are extremely popular in the metro-detroit area (although I'm ignorant about whats its like elsewhere). Everyone here pretty much has cable, I don't they'd just pull the plug -- especially since for the last 4 weeks they've been offering 2 months of free service to new users if they sign up by december.
If @home does disapear its a pretty safe bet Comcast will be switching over to another provider real fast.
The game had its own "internet". The interface was very much like the branching one for about.com. Basically every sub-category has its own little icon, and more branch out from the central hub. Pretty neat idea, first time I've seen something from a game turned into a real life app.
Suprising, that games that don't "take advantage of all the xbox can do" have severe slowdown issues when the action gets a little "rough". The games you see right now are as good as they're gonna get. If it starts dieing under a first-gen game like Halo, it just shows you how powerful the system really is doesn't it?
The game is NOT optimized. The driver simply downgrades the image quality of the game, so it will run faster. The game is not running faster because of optimzations but because it looks worse. Thats what the real issue is, the driver AUTOMATICALLY reduces the image quality, regardless of what the user tells Quake to have it as.
It's like saying
"Quake 3 runs on Geforce 3 at 100 fps at 32 bit 1600x1200 but it runs at 125 fps on a Radeon at 16bit 640x480"
A decent punishment, perhaps not quite harsh enough but as a whole quite decent. Having a panel and some experts running Microsoft will probably do more than breaking them up and creating two monopolistic companies. I wish they had done something about XP though...
Notice that the agreement came just a little bit after XP's launch.
Well pretty much all of science is a "cop out" by your definition. When they observed radiation they had to INVENT something that might cause it BEFORE they actually observed sub-atomic particles directly. When scientists "invent" something it almost always turns out to actually exist.
Yup, just like 1984. When you don't like something in the past simply change it in the picture, only this time you won't have to burn the originals by sending them down a little vent; it'll all be digital.
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Yeah, the iPod is bascially a waste of cash.
5gigs vs 6gigs, for several hundred less, without rights protection. Plus the Arhcos can serve as a USB harddrive, great when you wanna transfer something large from one comp to another. Best of all you can use whatever space is left on the unit, leaving your mp3s intact and listenable.
Actually yes, they do use win2k:)
And indeed they also use Outlook, but the library system has a l33t group of computer geeks who work around the clock to keep them running and virus free.
My city has had internet access in their libraries for years. In fact they recently upgraded all the machines to p4 1.7 gigers. Each machine also has Office, so anyone can type documents or do spreadsheets.
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Oh God yes! One can only hope that within a few years we'll have fully functional Power Armor, instead of just an exoskeleton.
:)
When it does happen, we'll finally annex Canada
After reading about the combat system my fears that FFXI will be another ass-tacular everquest clone have come true.
check out http://www.thegia.com/news/0201/n01a.html for the complete article.
"Rather, as the player wanders the fields of Final Fantasy XI, he or she will see many enemies doing the same. A press of the "target" button will allow the player to enter an "auto-attack" real-time battle with the monster or monsters in question. In this battle, much like in a real-time strategy game, the player character will continually attack the enemy unless told to do otherwise."
*sigh*
Nothing groundbreaking here folks, move along.
Uh, how would you make the energy? You could send something shooting into it, thus it gaining some kinetic energy, but aside from the slingshot effect it wouldn't have much practical purpose. Anything you shoot at it (if your making power) would probably need to be resent, in which case you'd have to draw it back out. Net energy gained = 0.
Only thing I can think of is using it as a giant waste dump. Launch our trash into it and let it approach the center of the blackhole for all eternity.(Gotta love time dilation)
Unfortunately no. It turns out most planets are Jovian, no solid ground means no life (intelligent anyway). Also they've found out that life bearing planets can only thrive within a certain, and very small, strip of the galaxy. If anything over the last few months the chances of finding intelligent life have decreased rather than increased.
They're making huge profits, and are extremely popular in the metro-detroit area (although I'm ignorant about whats its like elsewhere). Everyone here pretty much has cable, I don't they'd just pull the plug -- especially since for the last 4 weeks they've been offering 2 months of free service to new users if they sign up by december.
If @home does disapear its a pretty safe bet Comcast will be switching over to another provider real fast.
The game had its own "internet". The interface was very much like the branching one for about.com. Basically every sub-category has its own little icon, and more branch out from the central hub. Pretty neat idea, first time I've seen something from a game turned into a real life app.
Suprising, that games that don't "take advantage of all the xbox can do" have severe slowdown issues when the action gets a little "rough". The games you see right now are as good as they're gonna get. If it starts dieing under a first-gen game like Halo, it just shows you how powerful the system really is doesn't it?
The game is NOT optimized. The driver simply downgrades the image quality of the game, so it will run faster. The game is not running faster because of optimzations but because it looks worse. Thats what the real issue is, the driver AUTOMATICALLY reduces the image quality, regardless of what the user tells Quake to have it as.
It's like saying
"Quake 3 runs on Geforce 3 at 100 fps at 32 bit 1600x1200 but it runs at 125 fps on a Radeon at 16bit 640x480"
Notice that the agreement came just a little bit after XP's launch.
Well pretty much all of science is a "cop out" by your definition. When they observed radiation they had to INVENT something that might cause it BEFORE they actually observed sub-atomic particles directly. When scientists "invent" something it almost always turns out to actually exist.
Yeah, the iPod is bascially a waste of cash.
5gigs vs 6gigs, for several hundred less, without rights protection. Plus the Arhcos can serve as a USB harddrive, great when you wanna transfer something large from one comp to another. Best of all you can use whatever space is left on the unit, leaving your mp3s intact and listenable.
It's one thing to protect people from terrorists. It's quite another to take away their freedoms.
He was off by almost 18 years!
I for one thought it was very professional in both special effects and actors. A great first episode.
Actually yes, they do use win2k :)
And indeed they also use Outlook, but the library system has a l33t group of computer geeks who work around the clock to keep them running and virus free.
My city has had internet access in their libraries for years. In fact they recently upgraded all the machines to p4 1.7 gigers. Each machine also has Office, so anyone can type documents or do spreadsheets.