So do what FFXI did where you could play First-Person, 3rd-Person trailing, 3/4 isometric, or fully top-down.
We're living in a world where the entire game-scape is rendered in 3-d anyways (at the very least in wire-frame). How difficult is it to have a movable camera?
They're not talking about making the Red Alert (Earth, historically-based) world into an MMO.
They're talking about making the CnC franchise (the future world after the arrival of the Tiberium ore from space, and the resulting skirmishes between GDI and NOD) into an MMO.
Although I disagree with you, and the storyline from the entire RedAlert franchise was decent, the tiberium storyline was excellent, for an RTS.
Grab a trainer and play through the GDI and NOD campaigns quick to see the storylines.
The difference is that when charging your batteries from mains, when you're done charging, there's always someone down the line who'll be happy to use that power that you're not using.
When that happens in real life, less power is drawn from the wall (barely enough to keep the charge circuit running).
The extra power not used at your wall is then used at your neighbor's wall, and so-on...
If enough people turn off their lights, the power generating companies have to generate less power (as mains power has to be used pretty-much immediately).
If there was noone to use the power generated at those generating stations, and it continued to generate power, it would overload the lines and cause a bigger mess than the 2003 blackout of the eastern NA seaboard.
Assuming they weigh about as much as a penny that's only 340,219.541 lbs (154,320.988 kg) per watt and every 87.4 days the energy level halves. Luckily its all beta radiation so its pretty harmless unless you eat it, inhale it, etc. and you don't need any shielding unless you deal with a sizable amount.
160tonnes/154tons of beta-source isn't sizable enough for you?
Tell me, then, what do you consider sizeable for something that could barely power an iPod?
Even then, you'd run into the problem of what happens when you go away for two weeks on vacation, and forget to plug in your car?
After the first hour or two, your battery is full; you begin to overcharge it (where else is the energy going to go?), and then you have a big mess to clean up when you get home to find an exploded battery.
Gamerscore isn't that hard to accumulate.
I've only had my 360 for about 4 months, and am already over 4000. This is playing mostly RPG-type games (Sacred2, Fable2, Lost Odyssey)
In the case of most games I've played so far, simply finishing the game gets you around 500 GS, once all is said and done.
After that is the hard-to-get achievements.
They email you/notify you when your gold subscription is about to expire (like a month in advance or something)
1-year gold membership cards retail for $60CDN in many online and b&m retailers akin to Future Shop/Bestbuy.
Just buy one when you're in buying the latest game anyways.
People would be more likely to add as a friend someone with a high gamerscore, as that usually correlates with credibility, due to the player having been around long enough to have such a high score.
Someone with a low score could be a new account created for phishing, or just some random n00b that friends everyone he sees.
I'll put it into a different perspective for you:
Why does having a low/. UID make it more valuable? (low-digit/. UIDs have sold on eBay before for a decent amount of money)
How much energy was expended at the big bang when the uranium was formed? Or possibly during the shifting and swelling of the Earth's core, if the unranium was created there.
The point is that although we may not have expended the energy ourselves to create the unranium, plutonium, or whatever we use in any given nuclear weapon, at some point within the history of time there was a great deal of energy expended in the creation of the particular isotope that we're pulling all of the energy from.
Similarly with fossil fuels, there's a lot of energy from the age of the dinosaurs that was used in making the oil and natural gas we use today, from the fusion reaction in our sun causing photosynthesis in prehistoric plants, to the dinosaurs that ate those plants, to the dinosaurs that ate those dinosaurs; All of that is the organic material which was crushed and melted and burned to create the oil that lays dormant in the ground today.
It's not as simple as "Oh look, Uranium... We can make free energy now..."
You know, some of us work at multi-national corporations/firms that have offices in other countries. Should someone had access to the network by some means, they could crash a company's machines from halfway around the world since they are all on the same LAN...
What did it cost you to run cables 50,000 miles between your offices, and how did you get over the latency? Further to that, isn't your IT/Info-Sec group afraid of someone putting a listener on those cables?
Any place I know of with remote/satellite offices (including my own) uses WAN or VPN, where (due to separate subnets and proper routing) one member-LAN can't take down the other member-LAN halfway across the world with a simple ping-flood, netbios, or SMB attack.
Most modern offices these days even go so far as having each floor, or even department, on different physical networks, separate from each other.
I was thinking shiny metal as well...
You don't have to stick with brushed aluminum or plastic, though. Many of the higher end Vaios have a carbon fiber case. I'm sure there are other manufacturers who are starting to use CF composites as well.
Spend the $3-6 at your local discount electronics/parts store and buy a second hdmi cable.
As long as you avoid the Future Shop/Best Buy/Circuit City versions, HDMI cables are relatively inexpensive.
Because Canadian football (also the rules used in the few other places that pigskin football is different from American football.
Two of the major differences are that Canadian football has one less down, and that the field is measured in meters, not yards (as such our football fields are about 110yd, or 100m)
Personally I'm not a fan of football (with a pigskin), but as others have stated above, the armor is to protect a player from a bunch of 350lb guys hurling themselves at him. In rugby it's a lot easier to block/parry incoming kicks/checks, and you don't as often have everyone trying to tackle you to the ground. Football(with a pigskin) is more about trying to get as far as you can before the 350lb guy catches you, which involves more strategy in that you want one guy to run where the other team isn't going to be. Rugby is a lot more like soccer in that you want a bunch of guys to keep trading off the ball to keep it out of the hands of the other players.
Lacrosse is better than all of them anyways, it's like soccer with swords...
Pretty sure StarCraft II won't run on an Apple IIe.
Come on, who networks their 8 computers together for a LAN party but doesn't have basic internet access?
People in university/college-sanctioned lan-partys? where an entire auditorium is provided for the students to come and play, but no internet access is provided.
You got that right. Thinking about a naked Lara screws up my English. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I was 15ish when the game was in fashion:)
Don't you mean "had all fashion removed"?
That would have kept you on-topic (at least in this thread)
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That would be a step-up from the place I work
So do what FFXI did where you could play First-Person, 3rd-Person trailing, 3/4 isometric, or fully top-down.
We're living in a world where the entire game-scape is rendered in 3-d anyways (at the very least in wire-frame). How difficult is it to have a movable camera?
I think it was Command and Conquer: Red Alert...
They're not talking about making the Red Alert (Earth, historically-based) world into an MMO. They're talking about making the CnC franchise (the future world after the arrival of the Tiberium ore from space, and the resulting skirmishes between GDI and NOD) into an MMO. Although I disagree with you, and the storyline from the entire RedAlert franchise was decent, the tiberium storyline was excellent, for an RTS.
Grab a trainer and play through the GDI and NOD campaigns quick to see the storylines.
The difference is that when charging your batteries from mains, when you're done charging, there's always someone down the line who'll be happy to use that power that you're not using.
When that happens in real life, less power is drawn from the wall (barely enough to keep the charge circuit running).
The extra power not used at your wall is then used at your neighbor's wall, and so-on...
If enough people turn off their lights, the power generating companies have to generate less power (as mains power has to be used pretty-much immediately).
If there was noone to use the power generated at those generating stations, and it continued to generate power, it would overload the lines and cause a bigger mess than the 2003 blackout of the eastern NA seaboard.
Assuming they weigh about as much as a penny that's only 340,219.541 lbs (154,320.988 kg) per watt and every 87.4 days the energy level halves. Luckily its all beta radiation so its pretty harmless unless you eat it, inhale it, etc. and you don't need any shielding unless you deal with a sizable amount.
160tonnes/154tons of beta-source isn't sizable enough for you?
Tell me, then, what do you consider sizeable for something that could barely power an iPod?
Even then, you'd run into the problem of what happens when you go away for two weeks on vacation, and forget to plug in your car?
After the first hour or two, your battery is full; you begin to overcharge it (where else is the energy going to go?), and then you have a big mess to clean up when you get home to find an exploded battery.
Gamerscore isn't that hard to accumulate.
I've only had my 360 for about 4 months, and am already over 4000. This is playing mostly RPG-type games (Sacred2, Fable2, Lost Odyssey)
In the case of most games I've played so far, simply finishing the game gets you around 500 GS, once all is said and done.
After that is the hard-to-get achievements.
They email you/notify you when your gold subscription is about to expire (like a month in advance or something)
1-year gold membership cards retail for $60CDN in many online and b&m retailers akin to Future Shop/Bestbuy.
Just buy one when you're in buying the latest game anyways.
People would be more likely to add as a friend someone with a high gamerscore, as that usually correlates with credibility, due to the player having been around long enough to have such a high score.
/. UID make it more valuable? (low-digit /. UIDs have sold on eBay before for a decent amount of money)
Someone with a low score could be a new account created for phishing, or just some random n00b that friends everyone he sees.
I'll put it into a different perspective for you:
Why does having a low
How much energy was expended at the big bang when the uranium was formed? Or possibly during the shifting and swelling of the Earth's core, if the unranium was created there.
The point is that although we may not have expended the energy ourselves to create the unranium, plutonium, or whatever we use in any given nuclear weapon, at some point within the history of time there was a great deal of energy expended in the creation of the particular isotope that we're pulling all of the energy from.
Similarly with fossil fuels, there's a lot of energy from the age of the dinosaurs that was used in making the oil and natural gas we use today, from the fusion reaction in our sun causing photosynthesis in prehistoric plants, to the dinosaurs that ate those plants, to the dinosaurs that ate those dinosaurs; All of that is the organic material which was crushed and melted and burned to create the oil that lays dormant in the ground today.
It's not as simple as "Oh look, Uranium... We can make free energy now..."
now where does ludicrous speed enter the question?
When he has to fight the ticket in court.
I'm not sure what that has to do with the LHC or CLIC, though.
Congratulations, sir.
That's the first time in a long time that a Yakov Smirnov joke has made me do something other than want to slap people.
You get my vote...
You know, some of us work at multi-national corporations/firms that have offices in other countries. Should someone had access to the network by some means, they could crash a company's machines from halfway around the world since they are all on the same LAN...
What did it cost you to run cables 50,000 miles between your offices, and how did you get over the latency? Further to that, isn't your IT/Info-Sec group afraid of someone putting a listener on those cables?
Any place I know of with remote/satellite offices (including my own) uses WAN or VPN, where (due to separate subnets and proper routing) one member-LAN can't take down the other member-LAN halfway across the world with a simple ping-flood, netbios, or SMB attack.
Most modern offices these days even go so far as having each floor, or even department, on different physical networks, separate from each other.
Hey! I never got any royalties from that image, somebody owes me some big bucks!
bah... shove it up your...
I was thinking shiny metal as well...
You don't have to stick with brushed aluminum or plastic, though. Many of the higher end Vaios have a carbon fiber case. I'm sure there are other manufacturers who are starting to use CF composites as well.
Naked, petrified, and covered in hot grits...
Dyslexics Untie!
That said, it lives up to expectations -- everything plus the kitchen sink.
Not only that, the sink comes in 5 or 17 different variations, so you get your choice on which one to use.
(As long as you don't want the gnome sink)
Spend the $3-6 at your local discount electronics/parts store and buy a second hdmi cable.
As long as you avoid the Future Shop/Best Buy/Circuit City versions, HDMI cables are relatively inexpensive.
Or would it be like if I were your friend, and I'd drive you away by always saying "Olympics!" at random times just to inspire your rants?
I find your ideas intriguing, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Why's it even called American Football?
Because Canadian football (also the rules used in the few other places that pigskin football is different from American football.
Two of the major differences are that Canadian football has one less down, and that the field is measured in meters, not yards (as such our football fields are about 110yd, or 100m)
Personally I'm not a fan of football (with a pigskin), but as others have stated above, the armor is to protect a player from a bunch of 350lb guys hurling themselves at him. In rugby it's a lot easier to block/parry incoming kicks/checks, and you don't as often have everyone trying to tackle you to the ground. Football(with a pigskin) is more about trying to get as far as you can before the 350lb guy catches you, which involves more strategy in that you want one guy to run where the other team isn't going to be. Rugby is a lot more like soccer in that you want a bunch of guys to keep trading off the ball to keep it out of the hands of the other players.
Lacrosse is better than all of them anyways, it's like soccer with swords...
How much does it cost to get .85 of a fuck-ton into low earth orbit? How much to get it onto a lunar trajectory?
Getting an ass-load to the moon is a lot easier than putting it in orbit.
Sorry...
Pretty sure StarCraft II won't run on an Apple IIe. Come on, who networks their 8 computers together for a LAN party but doesn't have basic internet access?
People in university/college-sanctioned lan-partys? where an entire auditorium is provided for the students to come and play, but no internet access is provided.
You have yellow fever son, YELLOW FEVER! catch it!
Gotta catch'em all?
You got that right. Thinking about a naked Lara screws up my English. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I was 15ish when the game was in fashion :)
Don't you mean "had all fashion removed"?
That would have kept you on-topic (at least in this thread)