I agree wholeheartedly.
What I was hoping for was essentially Aion with all of the PVP crap replaced with more PVE quests and storylines. More NMs, Instances (I'd say more, but FFXI didn't have instances until around the time I left with Aht Urghan).
Xeno... same Xeno that used to play on Kujata?
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
Except you're playing an FF, so you can't jump... >.>
There have been a lot of sidequest options in quite a lot of the FF games; Granted, many are pokemon 'gotta catch'em all' style, but they are there.
III, IV, V, VI - Ultimate weapons (Ragnarok, Murasame/Masamune, genji armor), different jobs unlocked, etc.
VII - Casino to gain extra materia, Chocobo racing/breeding as a leadin to the final summons (bahamut, KotR), the Weapon (Ruby, Emerald) additional bosses to gain the most powerful materia in the game, and the quests for the Ultima weapons, Lvl4 Limit Breaks, Weapon/Magic breaks (do more than 9,999/hit)
VIII, IX I didn't play much, but 8 had that stupid card game, a bunch of hidden summons, extra weapons, optional bosses (with decent drops), 9 probably similar.
X - Side quests to get all the ultimate weapons, ultimate weaponskills, extra summons. Pokemon style monster hunting to fight the hardest (NA version) monster in the game in the monster arena (Nemesis), and in the International version there was the entire Dark Anima quest line (refight all the animas, except boosted to do massive amounts of damage and have millions of hitpoints), finally fill the sphere grid (bonus points if you can get everything up to 255 for all characters)
X-2 - Dressphere upgrades, weapons, summons, etc
XII - Summons, weapons, the entire monster-hunt line, etc
XIII - Collection of robot parts, NM hunts/special jobs, etc
There's always been a lot you can do in those games besides the base storyline, and more often than not the talking to NPCs to advance those side-quests (if you're not just running through a walkthrough) open/explain more of the lore and history of each world.
The amount of thrust applied to object X which would be required to negate the gravity that object 1000X exerts on object X would not have to be directed at object 1000X (at least not directly).
Keep in mind that these objects are both travelling at astronomical speeds, and you can use 2 thrusters (instead of a cone) such that the total thrust applied to X is still towards 1000X, without actually affecting 1000X.
Once 1000X's gravity is negated, the only force between the two is now the gravity that X exerts on 1000X. While that's a very small number, over time (years, decades) it adds up to a considerable force.
As long as you keep X moving away from 1000X at the same speed that its gravity is pulling 1000X towards it, you'll shift its path.
Something roughly shaped like a head with something roughly shaped like eyes in roughly the right position (the robot) turned just like other things roughly shaped like heads with markings roughly shaped like eyes in roughly the right position (mommy/daddy/etc), and last time it saw something do that, it was interested in the item in the general direction of where those "eyes" pointed, so it thought it might be this time too...
Hardly an "intelligent" action, not moreso than a pavlovian response, anyways.
If you say "follow my eyes", then turn your head, the baby's not going to be looking because you said eyes, but because the round things on the bigger round thing moved.
At best, they're re-estimating triangulation (by turning their head further and further) until they either see something that interests them, or they get bored and revert their gaze to the less-not-interesting thing that they were originally observing.
Starcraft is only rock-paper-scissors if you don't scout.
It's still RPS even if you do scout, the only difference being that if you scout, you know the player will choose rock, so you know to choose paper.
Essentially the, it's rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock-zergling-zealot-marine-mutalisk-archon-[...]
There has never been more of a need for the -1 obvious flag.
Why is that?
If they did happen to make a black hole at the LHC, it would surely not be large enough to sustain itself.
It would loose its own mass via Hawking radiation much faster than it could absorb the mass around it (which, with it being in a vacuum, is quite a large distance, relative to the size of the bh itself).
Any blackholes created within the LHC shouldn't exist for more than a few femtoseconds.
Ever since Bush, people say mission "complete" instead of "accomplished".
In this case I don't think it has anything to do with Bush. "Complete" simply states that the mission is over, without the context of success or failure. An "accomplished" mission is a mission that is complete and confirmed successful.
The mission (forgive me if I'm way off-base) was to determine the nature of the universe. As we've no other data to compare to, we don't know if what the probe related to us is correct or not.
Because the probe isn't going to send us any more data, its mission is, indeed, complete. It's not necessarily accomplished until we can prove that it is correct/was successful.
As we cannot replicate the theorized causes of the probe's findings, we cannot confirm that our conclusions are correct. Basically, then, for us to determine the mission a success, we need to do one of two things:
1. Observe the same readings through some other form of detection (i.e. don't just send up another WMAP)
2. Create our own Big Bang, and measure its results 13.6 billion years after creation with a same WMAP.
who is out there asking to add ANOTHER device to their living room and explain to everyone how to change the tv input source?
Why explain to everyone how to change the TV input source, when you can just buy a good universal remote that does the switching for you.
I love mine, my friends love theirs, and I've even set my parents up with one.
Hit "Watch TV" to watch TV, "Play DVD" to play a DVD, or "Listen to Radio" if you want to do that.
The remote remembers last-state of your appliances, and turns the appropriate ones on and off so that you only have on what you need. It then resets all of your inputs correctly (TV, Receiver, etc) to pipe your audio/video according to your setup.
The hardest part about using one was teaching my parents not to manually turn on/off the TV anymore, as the remote wouldn't then know the "last state". There's a help-button, though that will step-by-step attempt each operation and ask you to confirm when everythings working, in case you have luddites messing with things.
Life really does imitate XKCD
Perhaps, though, Munroe simply pushed his ideas into our extra-reality psyches (with or without our knowledge or consent), such that the perceived reality we experience is crafted around his notions.
It just might be that he's a virus affecting all of us, or not so much us as super-us.
By super-us, I mean super-me, of course, because as I am to you, so too are you not truly existant to me, but a product of my own imagination.
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Everyone who laughs or giggles as a result of this comment is coming with me to hell
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I mean, let's do some maths. The bulk probably goes into the nubs on the brick. Let's make the cylinder actually a 16 sided prism, which from my experience looks smoothly round even for a gun barrel or polearm shaft you're seeing in first person. That's 32 triangles for the cylinder. The top is 16 triangles (think dividing by lines from the centre to the corners.) Let's round the transition nicely from sides to top, for which actually three steps of increasing slope is more than enough. (Heck, at the size of those even one is enough, but let's be generous.) That's 3x32 more triangles for that. Grand total: 80 triangles.
But wait, we have to do the hole on the other side too, and let's do it at the same level of detail. (Although here that rounded transition is really overkill with 3 segments, but ok.) So it's another 80, for a total of 160 per nub.
A two by eight brick is 16 such nubs, for a total of 16, which needs 2560 triangles. Add a few more for the plate and you're still under 3000.
It doesn't sound like you included the hollow cylinders [ ($length - 1) * ($width - 1) ] times, for a 2x8 brick that's 7 hollow-cylinders. These take a lot more polygons than the solid nubs at the top.
Add in the LEGO logo on each nub, as raised text, and you've added a lot more polygons.
From TFA, though, a lot of this extra is taken out when the finished model is sent to their modelling cluster for general display, as the top nodes used in connections can be removed and the bottom cylinders which are completely hidden can also e removed, as well as those partially hidden can have upwards of half of thier polygons also factored out of the equation, but to show the lego as it would look IRL there's a lot more than just a simple set of 5 planes and a bunch of nubs.
Finally, get into the more complex lego pieces, such as much of the Technic line, and you take the above and add in further complexity to your models.
Again, a lot of that complexity is removed when the finished product is shared with the world, however to be "correct" (and the LEGO people can be rather pendantic), those extra details need to be there in the original build. If it were my property, I'd ensure it was.
German cockroaches. I know, you'd never suspect them right ?
I'm pretty sure that's because specifically the German variety of cockroach was not originally naturally occurring. They were genetically modified from normal cockroaches by the Spanish Inquisition to look and act very similar to garden-variety cockroaches, except with malicious intent.
I can attest to the intelligence of wolf-crosses as well.
Around the time I was 8 or 9 years old, new neighbors moved in next door. They had a sheppard/wolf cross, full grown.
In walking over to meet them, my parents were talking with the new neighbors, and my sister and I were horsing around with each other and the neighbors' son.
All the while, the dog sat quietly on the porch, about 5-10 ft away from all of us.
We decided to start hanging off our dad's arm, trying to pull him down, laughing and screaming as children having fun will do.
Within seconds, thinking that our screams were of distress, that dog ran over and nipped at my dad's leg. Not hard enough to draw blood, but hard enough to say "you don't hurt kids on my watch".
The neighbor of course apologized profusely, but everyone knew exactly what the dog did and why he did it, so the dog didn't get punished any further than a quick scolding and being ordered by his master back to the deck.
He would bark at strangers, and the mailman and meter-readers were deathly afraid of him (simply protecting his "pack-leader"'s home), but if he knew you, he was one of the gentlest dogs I'd ever met.
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The difference is that you only poked it with one stick
You have to poke it with two sticks (or more) to wake it up.
What I was hoping for was essentially Aion with all of the PVP crap replaced with more PVE quests and storylines. More NMs, Instances (I'd say more, but FFXI didn't have instances until around the time I left with Aht Urghan).
Xeno... same Xeno that used to play on Kujata?
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
Except you're playing an FF, so you can't jump... >.>
If it's undead, use the phoenix down first...
8BT brought in some of the 16-bit toons, though, as other parties (many of the characters from FFIV-J/FFII-U made appearances throughout the comic)
There have been a lot of sidequest options in quite a lot of the FF games; Granted, many are pokemon 'gotta catch'em all' style, but they are there.
III, IV, V, VI - Ultimate weapons (Ragnarok, Murasame/Masamune, genji armor), different jobs unlocked, etc.
VII - Casino to gain extra materia, Chocobo racing/breeding as a leadin to the final summons (bahamut, KotR), the Weapon (Ruby, Emerald) additional bosses to gain the most powerful materia in the game, and the quests for the Ultima weapons, Lvl4 Limit Breaks, Weapon/Magic breaks (do more than 9,999/hit)
VIII, IX I didn't play much, but 8 had that stupid card game, a bunch of hidden summons, extra weapons, optional bosses (with decent drops), 9 probably similar.
X - Side quests to get all the ultimate weapons, ultimate weaponskills, extra summons. Pokemon style monster hunting to fight the hardest (NA version) monster in the game in the monster arena (Nemesis), and in the International version there was the entire Dark Anima quest line (refight all the animas, except boosted to do massive amounts of damage and have millions of hitpoints), finally fill the sphere grid (bonus points if you can get everything up to 255 for all characters)
X-2 - Dressphere upgrades, weapons, summons, etc
XII - Summons, weapons, the entire monster-hunt line, etc
XIII - Collection of robot parts, NM hunts/special jobs, etc
There's always been a lot you can do in those games besides the base storyline, and more often than not the talking to NPCs to advance those side-quests (if you're not just running through a walkthrough) open/explain more of the lore and history of each world.
So use the Crytek engine. Aion seemed to use it easily enough.
The amount of thrust applied to object X which would be required to negate the gravity that object 1000X exerts on object X would not have to be directed at object 1000X (at least not directly).
Keep in mind that these objects are both travelling at astronomical speeds, and you can use 2 thrusters (instead of a cone) such that the total thrust applied to X is still towards 1000X, without actually affecting 1000X.
Once 1000X's gravity is negated, the only force between the two is now the gravity that X exerts on 1000X. While that's a very small number, over time (years, decades) it adds up to a considerable force.
As long as you keep X moving away from 1000X at the same speed that its gravity is pulling 1000X towards it, you'll shift its path.
I agree.
Something roughly shaped like a head with something roughly shaped like eyes in roughly the right position (the robot) turned just like other things roughly shaped like heads with markings roughly shaped like eyes in roughly the right position (mommy/daddy/etc), and last time it saw something do that, it was interested in the item in the general direction of where those "eyes" pointed, so it thought it might be this time too...
Hardly an "intelligent" action, not moreso than a pavlovian response, anyways.
If you say "follow my eyes", then turn your head, the baby's not going to be looking because you said eyes, but because the round things on the bigger round thing moved.
At best, they're re-estimating triangulation (by turning their head further and further) until they either see something that interests them, or they get bored and revert their gaze to the less-not-interesting thing that they were originally observing.
Starcraft is only rock-paper-scissors if you don't scout.
It's still RPS even if you do scout, the only difference being that if you scout, you know the player will choose rock, so you know to choose paper.
Essentially the, it's rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock-zergling-zealot-marine-mutalisk-archon-[...]
If they can't learn macro, though, then they won't have an We just have to make sure we don't teach them how to use/build their unit-producers.
5...
There has never been more of a need for the -1 obvious flag.
Why is that?
If they did happen to make a black hole at the LHC, it would surely not be large enough to sustain itself.
It would loose its own mass via Hawking radiation much faster than it could absorb the mass around it (which, with it being in a vacuum, is quite a large distance, relative to the size of the bh itself).
Any blackholes created within the LHC shouldn't exist for more than a few femtoseconds.
What?
The Xbox 360 uses standard dual layer DVDs which only hold about 6.7GB total.
I've seen many (including the FFXIII ISOs) discs use the full 8.4gb available on a dual-layer disc (aka DVD-9)
Ever since Bush, people say mission "complete" instead of "accomplished".
In this case I don't think it has anything to do with Bush.
"Complete" simply states that the mission is over, without the context of success or failure. An "accomplished" mission is a mission that is complete and confirmed successful.
The mission (forgive me if I'm way off-base) was to determine the nature of the universe. As we've no other data to compare to, we don't know if what the probe related to us is correct or not.
Because the probe isn't going to send us any more data, its mission is, indeed, complete. It's not necessarily accomplished until we can prove that it is correct/was successful.
As we cannot replicate the theorized causes of the probe's findings, we cannot confirm that our conclusions are correct. Basically, then, for us to determine the mission a success, we need to do one of two things:
1. Observe the same readings through some other form of detection (i.e. don't just send up another WMAP)
2. Create our own Big Bang, and measure its results 13.6 billion years after creation with a same WMAP.
who is out there asking to add ANOTHER device to their living room and explain to everyone how to change the tv input source?
Why explain to everyone how to change the TV input source, when you can just buy a good universal remote that does the switching for you.
I love mine, my friends love theirs, and I've even set my parents up with one.
Hit "Watch TV" to watch TV, "Play DVD" to play a DVD, or "Listen to Radio" if you want to do that.
The remote remembers last-state of your appliances, and turns the appropriate ones on and off so that you only have on what you need. It then resets all of your inputs correctly (TV, Receiver, etc) to pipe your audio/video according to your setup.
The hardest part about using one was teaching my parents not to manually turn on/off the TV anymore, as the remote wouldn't then know the "last state". There's a help-button, though that will step-by-step attempt each operation and ask you to confirm when everythings working, in case you have luddites messing with things.
Brix were shat
It's definitely dated
Life really does imitate XKCD
Perhaps, though, Munroe simply pushed his ideas into our extra-reality psyches (with or without our knowledge or consent), such that the perceived reality we experience is crafted around his notions.
It just might be that he's a virus affecting all of us, or not so much us as super-us.
By super-us, I mean super-me, of course, because as I am to you, so too are you not truly existant to me, but a product of my own imagination.
If it survives to be a vegetable....
Then they can keep it fresher longer...
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Everyone who laughs or giggles as a result of this comment is coming with me to hell
I mean, let's do some maths. The bulk probably goes into the nubs on the brick. Let's make the cylinder actually a 16 sided prism, which from my experience looks smoothly round even for a gun barrel or polearm shaft you're seeing in first person. That's 32 triangles for the cylinder. The top is 16 triangles (think dividing by lines from the centre to the corners.) Let's round the transition nicely from sides to top, for which actually three steps of increasing slope is more than enough. (Heck, at the size of those even one is enough, but let's be generous.) That's 3x32 more triangles for that. Grand total: 80 triangles.
But wait, we have to do the hole on the other side too, and let's do it at the same level of detail. (Although here that rounded transition is really overkill with 3 segments, but ok.) So it's another 80, for a total of 160 per nub.
A two by eight brick is 16 such nubs, for a total of 16, which needs 2560 triangles. Add a few more for the plate and you're still under 3000.
It doesn't sound like you included the hollow cylinders [ ($length - 1) * ($width - 1) ] times, for a 2x8 brick that's 7 hollow-cylinders. These take a lot more polygons than the solid nubs at the top.
Add in the LEGO logo on each nub, as raised text, and you've added a lot more polygons.
From TFA, though, a lot of this extra is taken out when the finished model is sent to their modelling cluster for general display, as the top nodes used in connections can be removed and the bottom cylinders which are completely hidden can also e removed, as well as those partially hidden can have upwards of half of thier polygons also factored out of the equation, but to show the lego as it would look IRL there's a lot more than just a simple set of 5 planes and a bunch of nubs.
Finally, get into the more complex lego pieces, such as much of the Technic line, and you take the above and add in further complexity to your models.
Again, a lot of that complexity is removed when the finished product is shared with the world, however to be "correct" (and the LEGO people can be rather pendantic), those extra details need to be there in the original build. If it were my property, I'd ensure it was.
Get with the times, my good man.
Bottle up all of that negativity and send it to the positive people. They're much more accepting of it than we are.
German cockroaches. I know, you'd never suspect them right ?
I'm pretty sure that's because specifically the German variety of cockroach was not originally naturally occurring. They were genetically modified from normal cockroaches by the Spanish Inquisition to look and act very similar to garden-variety cockroaches, except with malicious intent.
The 1,000-megawatt Blythe solar power cleared by California state regulators with span 7,000 acres.
They couldn't squeeze an extra 210 megawatts out of it?
How sad
I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe
I can attest to the intelligence of wolf-crosses as well.
Around the time I was 8 or 9 years old, new neighbors moved in next door. They had a sheppard/wolf cross, full grown.
In walking over to meet them, my parents were talking with the new neighbors, and my sister and I were horsing around with each other and the neighbors' son.
All the while, the dog sat quietly on the porch, about 5-10 ft away from all of us.
We decided to start hanging off our dad's arm, trying to pull him down, laughing and screaming as children having fun will do.
Within seconds, thinking that our screams were of distress, that dog ran over and nipped at my dad's leg. Not hard enough to draw blood, but hard enough to say "you don't hurt kids on my watch".
The neighbor of course apologized profusely, but everyone knew exactly what the dog did and why he did it, so the dog didn't get punished any further than a quick scolding and being ordered by his master back to the deck.
He would bark at strangers, and the mailman and meter-readers were deathly afraid of him (simply protecting his "pack-leader"'s home), but if he knew you, he was one of the gentlest dogs I'd ever met.